Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1925, Page 22

S99, N PLEADS FOR ACTION ON RETIRING LAW Woodrum Says Failure of More Liberal Statute Will Strong plea in behalf of the pend- | ing lcgislation for liberalizing the Clvil Service retirement act at this gession of Congress was made in the CLASS GIVEN SURPRISE. i | Parent-Teacher | Phyllis Wheatley Group. H The midyear Phyllis Wheatley a surprise party Teacher Assoclation last week. the school, made the farewell speech to the graduates and Mrs. “oreman, president of the tion, in a brief talk made aim’ of the association towards School w by the of the s glven schoo clear the Crazed Woman Found in Hall Brandishing Hat Pin at Noted Scientist. flouse late ye rday by Represcnta- tive Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia, when the appropriation for the Civil Service Commission was under dis- cussion. He emphasized that aetion has been long delayed. through pro- astination, on a measure that vi tally affeets the lives of some th four hundred thousand ¢mploy the Government In challenging the Republican lead- ers that they alone will be held re- gponsible for failure to pass this re lief measure at this session, Repre- sentative Woodrum said In the beginning of the 651 sion of Congress the civil se committee, of which T am a member under the very able and eflicient leadership of the gentleman from Now Jersey (Mr. Lehlbach), started series of hearings on a retiren bill. We got the benefit of very claborate and comprehensive reports | from actuaries, and heard many wit- | nesses, and reported out March 24 the bill H. R. 5202, the purpose of which is to liberalize the Federal retirement act. Right away our committee through ts chairman—and | will say that the committee rendered a unanimous report an the biil—went to the rules committe of this House and asked to be permitted | to bring the legislation on the "'”"i of the House { “At that time the attention of the ! House was being directed to the Me- | Nary-Haugen bill. A jam of i ation was looming on the horize nd w uld not get a hearing. The civil service committee has been | standing on the doorstep of the rules | committee since the bill was reported out 10 months ago asking for its con- sideration Letter to Chairman. Now, Mr. Chairman the 26th of the distinguished Secretary | of the Interior wrote a letter to the of the Scnate committee on “I am horized to state that the | memebrs the President’s Cabinet | faver an increase in annuities for | the iment employes and hope | that Congress at the present session | retired Federal ries by increas- | ng their annuities under the present law | the President’s Cobinet and which, of | course, has the sanction of the Presi- | dent. The letter of the Secretary of | the Interior was speaking for the| Cabinet of President Coolidg “Again on anuary 2§ the Secretary of Labor wrote a letter to the Secre- tary of the Interior and concluded it in this way | “‘Now my dear Mr don't | you think, in all fairness, we should | combine to insist that Congress raise the retireme it so that the Government will be able to pay these | retired employes out of the employes’ own money an amount at least equal | in purchasing power to the sums| named in the bill i Reported 10 Months Ago. | “The situation is a peculiar one The bill was reported to the House 10 months ago. The Committee on Civil Service unanimously reported it. Every man on the committee tavored it and wants it enacted into law. The distinguished chairman of the committee has done evervthing here to get it before the House. In a few weeks we will adjourn and the legisiation will not be enacted into law These increased annuities are to be paid out of their own mon The employes have made a fund of over $35- 000,000 plus, and Congress is not called upon to appropriate a nickel. They simply ask you that thes take it out of their own money. The President is for | it. the Cabinet is for it, and it is being | opposed by no one. Yet, it looks to me like the country and these employes are being led to believe that the | administration wants the legislation | passed, but Congress will not do it. | Gentlemen, the responsibility might as | well go where it belo; Whenever the Rules Committee of the House. composed of eight Republicans and four Democrats, under the leadership of the gentleman from New York, will allow us to come on the floor with this bill and give you gentlemen an opportunity to pass upon it, T predict there will be no substantial objection to it. 1 believe t can be passed in an afternoon, and If the President and his Cabinet are honestly, sincerely in favor of liberal- izing the retirement law so that this vast army of workers can be taken care of out of their own funds, then I ask them to knock at the doors of the Rules Committece and speak the magic word that will give us an opportunity to bring the legislation here for your considera- tion. ‘The country might as well know that it is within the power of admini- stration leaders, and they alone, to give the House a chance to do the thing that the President’s Cabinet so eloquent- Iy preclaims is needed.” COAST GUARD NEED MEN. Rum Ship Demands Give Opportu- nity for Officers. The United States Coast Guard is in need of additional officers to as- sist In manning the increase in its fieet, due to the activities against rum ships, and is offering commissions as ensigns on deck and the engine room. Applicants must taken an ex- amination Temporary officers will receive all the pay and allowances of the regu- lar Coast Guard officers, but will not be allowed the retirement privilege. A statement from the Coast Guard says that naval reserve officers may accept commissions in the Coast Guard without prejudice to their naval r © commission, bumsthey will no lowed retainer pay while on active duty with the Coast Guard. FLYERS FIRE AT SHADOWS Target Practice Taken From Plane With Machine Guns. SAN FRANCISCO, January 31. — Army aviators from Crissy Field, at the Presidio of San Francisco, are en- gaging in combat praetice by firing at shadows of planes in the bay. Two planes are used in the instruc- tion. They fly at varying altitudes, and the acrial machine gunner in one fires at the moving shadow of the other. The splash of the bullets shows plainly how well the gunners are shooting. Lewis machine guns, firing rate of 400 to 500 a minute, are used. Temperamental Horse. From the Girls’ Cirele “You remember that you sold me a horse last week?” said a cabman an- grily to the horse dealer. Yes. What about him? fe fell dead vesterday.” Well, L r” said the dealer. “I told you he had some funny little ways, but upon my word 1 mever kpew bim to do-that before, By Cable to The Star and New York World. RERLIN, January 31.—Mrs. Marfe Eugenfeva' Dickson. the Russian widow of @n American citizen. at tempted to Kill Prof. Albert Einstein, hor of the theorv of relativity, wih a long sharp hatpin in his home eve last night. She i insanely confused him with the former police chief of the Czar. Mrs. Dickson is the same woman who recently tried to assasinate Kras sin. the soviet trade commissioner. outside the Russian embassy in Paris. Taken By ‘Pol German policemen hastily sum oned by Frau Eiustein seized the de- ented widow in the hali of the Din tein home, where she stood brandisk ing the hatpin at the professor. She was crying: “Down with Azeff, pe secutor of the Russian people!” in broken German. Azeff was the no- ious head of the Russlan ckrana whom she had evidently mistaken te The would-be murderess was taken struggling to police headquarters and placed under observation. Phy- sicians today said she was subject to insane hallucinations Wife Tells of Scene. Body Entertains graduating class of Parent- Miss Austin, principal of George associa- better understanding between parents THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, 'D. ., FEBRUARY T, 1935—PART T. RATE TO COVER PAY, POSTAL BILL STAND ‘| Longworth Raises Issue as House Also Sees Error in Senate Action. n and teachers for the good of A musical program was siven by the - - SlEss, S llic i aEy IE mittec | With the House scheduled to vote were: Mrs. Snelling, Mrs. Wallett. | tyesday on a resolution to return to »I‘(‘"" l-'““;f:- ,‘:;‘ "‘“G"“‘“‘l‘l'w;-r“"‘_‘|I~- enate the postal pay and rate in- oach, Mrs. Jognson, Mrs. Miller and | cragse i1l on (he grond th ¥ { Mrs. Vietor Kissal. The next meeting rine Mo oh ":‘.fm’:_,"‘“::f sl ing jof the assoclation will be held|yoyse to initiate revenue legislation Thursday-at'2:30 pm, Representative Longworth, the Re- e Soane publican leader, placed another stumbling stone In its path yesterday i by declaring his opposition to pro- visions of the measure as approved by the Senate. Mr. Longworth caleulated that the proposed rate in es would not raise more than half the money need- | ed to absord the salary advances, and | he asserted he was opposed to enact- [ ment of any bUI which did not mateh salary and rate Increases dollar for dollar. it is in line with tire contention of President Coolidge, who was in- formed yesterday by Senator Moses Republican, New Hampshire, that the measure would provide $46.650,000 of the $68,000,000, which It was estl mated it would add to the govern- ment payroll 1 A conference will be held tomorrow by House Republican leaders with a view to determining whether the House post office committee should re- port a bill carrying both salary and rate provisions, thus bringing the proposal to a vote in the House at an early d Passage of the resolution to turn back the Senate bill was predicted by Republicans and Democrats. It was reported unanimously ye. ¥ by TOASOSTATBAL Unique Pageantry Will Be Staged for Benefit of G. W. U. Hospital. 1e mathematician is in bed recov- ering from the shock. His wife gave| For the benetfit of George Wash- the World News Service the ington University Hospital, an elabo- description of the scenc »r the | Fite costume ball is to be given Feb- past six 1 & my husband has re- |TURFY 23 at the new university gym- ceiv two letters bearing a |nasium, 2013 M street northwest, Burisivact with an illegible sig- | Which is to be transformed into & pic- nature, conta 11 sorts of threats | turesque “Mount Vernon.” against him. The envelopes were ad- dressed to him, but the letters in- side seemed to ected to Azeff, ster of t mperial Russian 104 writer had e The occasion will be the first major ocial event to be held in the gym- nasium, which is located on the cam- pus, and is our u to be the sc versity functions. e of numer- ly decided Herr Einstein | The date has been fixed for Mon- Azeff were the sa day, February 2. in commemoration ast evening a woman in tattered | of the 193d birthday of George Wash- I g called at our apartment and |!ngton, for whom the name of the said she had just come from Paris |university some time ago was She asked politely enough to see Herr | changed from Columbian University. Einstein about a scientific matter. | Washington's birthday falling on Something in the she talked | Sunday, it was necessary to change made me think of the letters my hus- | the date for the ball to Monday. The occasion will be known as “The Ball band had received, and 1 secretly sent a gervant for the police. Just as two policemen arrived the professor, who had not learned of the woman's arrival. came out into the hall from his study. The woman immediately asked to talic with him alone. Then she was placed under arrest.” so at Mount Vernon Elaborate plans are afoot for mak- ng the festivity one noteworthy for picturesque setting and historic gnificance. The gymnasium will be transformed by stage settings into a ceness of Mount Vernon and guests attire colonial c 1 firearms, but that she drew her hat-|gion Stage settings are being de- pin from her hat and clutched it in|gigned for the Mount Vernon ‘‘set" her hand " by Norris I Crandall, professor of Einstein is the reciplent of numer-|srchitecture at the university. ous murder threats, which come 3 chiefly from anti-Semitic sources, so Pageant Is Planned. that he was not especially concerned | Among the features of the program about the Paris letters. When she|will be the “historical procession,” was arrested in Paris Mrs. Dickson|which will take the place of the told the French authorities, she want- ed to kill Leonid Krassin. She car- ried a pistol in her muff on that oc- casion. After she had been kept un- der observation for a few weeks, she was released. (Copyright. 1925.) LINCOLN DERANGED, SAYS POLICE CHIEF Tells Court He Is Confident Lawyer-Florist Who Killed Wife Is Insane. By the Associated Press grand march. In this procession will march persons in historic costume to represent the guests who were ac- tually entertained by George and Martha Washington at Mount Ver- non. | One of the truly historical features of the occasion will be the attendance of several lineal descendants of George Washington. Dr. Richard Washington and Dr. Henry Augustine Latane of the Washington family, h their wives, will - present the | uests of the evening at the door of “Mount Vernon” to President Willlam Mather Lewis of the university, Mrs. Lewis and the receiving line. Others of Washingtonian descent at the ball will be Mrs. John Morrison Kerr, Mrs. Eugenia Washington Moncure Brown, Miss Margaret Preston Chew, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker and Mrs. Eleanor Washington. Part of the entertainment to be provided will be a colonlal dance, gavotte, by Miss Natalie Hammond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, and Lieut. De Witt Carr of the Mayflower. Bishop St, George Tucker, whose mother was born at Mount Vernon, GENEVA. 111, January 31.—Chief|will be among those in the receiving of Police Frank Michels of Aurora,|line with President and Mrs. Lewis who after weeks of questloning|and Mrs. George Washington How- finally wormed out of Warren Lin-|ard. coln a confession that he slew his| Walter Tuckerman of this city, a wife and her brother, Byron Shoup, |descendant of Oliver Walcott, former and cast in a cement block their |Sacretary of the Treasury, will im- severed heads, today took the witness stand to say that he “thought the lawyer-florist insane and that could not even tell the difference be- tween right and wrong.” The chief said he first formed the opinion that Lincoln was insane after he had appeared In Chicago in June, 1923, following a disappearance in which he had framed a setting to in- dicate that he had been murdered by his wife and her brother. The story he { personate Secretary Walcott. Walter Wilcox, descendant of John Adam, will impersonate that statesman. Mrs Wallace Hangar will represent Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. Mrs. Frederick Far- rington will represent Mrs. Thomas Law. Mrs. Willoughby Chesley will represent Mrs, George W. Fairfax. Invitations to the ball have been sent out in the name of President Lewis, the trustees of the univer- sity, the faculty, university council that Lincoln told at that time, that|and board of lady managers of the he had been kidnaped by an inter-|hospital. The latter board, together national drug ring, of which his wife | with its two junior auxiliaries, are and brother were members, his ap- | most actvie in making arrangements. pearance and his general bearing|The ball committee is headed by Mrs. satisfied him he was dealing with a[Charles W. Richardson, chairman, deranged person. and consists of: Tt is on Chief Michel's testimony| Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Louls that Lincoln's counsel will base its|Hertle, Mrs. Edward Clifford, Mrs. defense, Attorney D. H. Gunsu of [ Arthur William Dunn, Mrs. Eugene counsel for Lincoln admitted in the [Byrnes, Miss Beatrice McLean, Mrs. course of an argument as to whether | James Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Willlam the chief could give his opinion on|Cline Borden, Mrs. Willlam Mather the defendant’s mental condition. Lewls, Mrs. Robert Bolwell, Mrs. B S Vi R S John Paul Earnest, Mrs. Thomas Mad- den Woley, Mrs. Virgil B. Jackson U. S. GIFT REACHES HAGUE Statue of Justice Is Placed Under Dome in Peace Palace. Correspondence of The Associated Press. Mrs. D. Kerfoot Shute and Mrs. Fred- erick W. True. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge heads the list of patronesses. Mrs. Frederick W, True is pres: dent of the board of lady managers, and the two auxiliaries are headed THI: HAGUE, January 31.—A statue by Mrs. Ord Preston and Mrs. Dan of Justice, the gIft of the United Gordon. States Government, has been received - at the Peace Palace and has been placed under the dome over the ADVICE IS WANTED. grand staircase. The statue is the work of Andrew A formal made shortly American O'Connor of Paxton, Mass. presentation Is to be by Richard M. Tobin, Minister to the Netherlands. . Big London Garages Planned. Correspondence of the Associated Press LONDON, January 31.—Another con- innovation for slow-moving and slow-changing old is a plan to bulld & numbar templated American London of supergarages of several storles and each accommodating from 200 to At present there are and few car awners drive ¢n ta the city,'the-telegram Lhavey-saidGen, Blsck.ioplde .= . 500 motor cars. few large garages in London, By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, 11i, January 31.— Adjt. Gen, Carlos E. Black announced tonight after the receipt of a tele- gram from Sherift George Galligan and A. M. Walker, chief of police at Hegrin, in which they asked that martial law be declared there, that he had detalled three National Guard officers from Carbondale to go to Her- rin and investigate the situation there and then report to him. He also said he has asked Sheriff .| Galligan to come to Springfield for a conference. “I can't act on anything with no ore information than is contained in m 3 | WILL AID BENEFIT BALL Misx Natalie Hammond, debutante daugh: Hammond, and Licut. DeWitt Carr of the Ma. George Washington University Hospital ball, . W L Gymnastum February g Geiagi o ter of Mr. and Mrx. John yflower, who w which will be miven at OLD NASSAU COLD TO UKASE ON WEARING OF Committeemen Flooded With Many Styles as Result| of Coolidge Talk, But Forget Result of Main 1 dance at the the USPENDERS FARM AID HEARING ' DATES ANNOUNCED House Committee to Start Tomorrow—Senate on Tuesday. The House and Senate agriculture committee will start consideration early this week of the agricultural relief recommendations proposed by the President’s agricultural commission. Public hearings will be the first order, with the House committee be- ginning its sitting_tomorrow and the Senate committee Tuesday. Both com- mittees want to hear members of the agricultural commission not only in explanation of the recommenda- tion but also as to whether they think their proposals have covered the whole farm problem There was some talk at each end of the Capitol yesterday of holding Joint sessions, but so far as was made known no direct steps to that end were taken. Both Chalrman Haugen and Norris sald these would be de- sirable to expedite examination of the subject Would Hear Others. Besides the members of the agri- cultural commission the House com- mittee desires to hear representatives of co-operative marketing organiza- tions which have asked for an oppor- tunity to present their side of the question Since the commission's report was transmitted to Congress meveral bills aimed at farm ald have been offered, Senator MeNary, Republican of Ore- gon, introducing vesterday a new farm export bill containing many of the features of the McNary- Haugen measure. Senator McNary said he acted at the request of farm organizatiops and that it was his aim to have the bill before the com- mittee when it reopened the whole subject of farm aid While not professing have reached any conclusions as to the substitutes, a number of members of both the House and Senate {rom agri- cultural States express the view that the isslon’s recommendations fall short of proposing the necessary Opposition on the House side found expression through Representative Jones, Democrat, Texas. a member of the agricultural committee, who ized the commission's re- port as one of hazy generalities which failed to offer a solution of the farmer's problems, Tincher Defends Board. to Mission to W hite House. Representative Tincher of Kansas’ 4 Republican on the committee, de- fended the commission, and declared ; . adoption of the Hoch-Smith resolu- By Consoiidated Pre; | of one to the es another of | tion looking to reduction in freight PRINCETON, N. J., January 31.—lhis visitors, rates on agricultural commodities in There's just one thing that prevents| “Young gentlemen.” he said as St e e Joseph Prendergast of Evanston. Ill.|invitation trailed away into nothing- | paitry” $50,000 the commission cost Richard Sater of Columbus, Ohio, and | ness. perhaps because of embarrass-|the Government. i Lawrence Hunt of Forest Hills. N. Y. | ment—although the committeeman in| Chairman Norris of the Senate com- the three Princeton students whom | question absolutely refuses to admit| mirtee takes the position that the President Coolidge yanked into fame | this—“are the trousers you are wear- | racommendations do not go far by their metaphorical galluses—from |ing cut according to the prevailing|asnough. He declared that all familiar embarking in business as proprietors | collegiate style SEIEH 1o monierat altuntiont wecelin of Ye Snappy Suspender Shoppe. | ““Yes. sir: they are all pretty much | favor of Government stimulation of They've got the suspenders. Dozens | same.” co-operative marketing, but added of pairs of every shade and destgn.| The President smi as though| that the plan suggested could afford including several pairs dome In the relief immediate relief, since it would Tiger's orange and black, have been| “That explains it then,” he said.|pe several years before a widespread showered on them in the last few |“You see, my son came home from |guiutem couid be installdd days by sympathetic manufacturers herst the other day and Dis|was the other “defect,” which he de- And they've certainly got the ad- |trousers were so flappy about the he Nebraska Senator said there vertising. What! purvevor could ask les that I thought they were not|yoribed as fundamental in that there a better slogan than this properly supported. So 1 advised I was no proposal for co-operative “Where are your suspenders, boys? | to 80 out_and buy a pair of sus-|phaniking to furnish the basis of credlt —Calvin Coolidge penders. Now 1 gather that they|for the marketing system.. Without S Do ki Gl must have been supported &ccording | guch basts, he sald, co-operative to the st The one reason the firm of Prender- Ve sy aficied the adlegation gast, Sater and Hunt is not embarked | “he was quite in style.” on lucrative suspenders-for-stu- “Then you have to wear them?” dents’ selling campaign is—that the|asked the President. students at Princeton aren’'t wearing “If we want to be in style we do.’ suspenders. The presidential sugges-| “And I suppose.” smiled the Presi- tion has left Old Nassau cold, It is|dent, “that that Is necessary.” questionable whether even a presi-| It was, agreed the delegation, quite dential ukase could turn the trick If it were a question now of pur- chasing the Prendergast-Sater-Hunt trousers that piqued the President's Mr. curiosity as to how they could be|retary kept up, there would be plenty of | notifs customers. Those much photo- graphed and filmed trousers would be dear to the heart of any Prince- tonlan. But they aren't for sale dtscussion of such floppy trousers. when his necessary thereupon the practical Coolidge as to va, in the appeared doorway Glad to Have Trousers. opened a to the President that an appoint- ment with a large committee of wom- en was overdue. marketing could never be a complete + | success. Bills to meet this view have been introduced, but never have been acted upon by the banking committee. 26 GIVEN DIPLOMAS AT EASTERN HIGH Honors Awarded to Four Stu- dents—Philadelphia School Head Speaks. Messrs. Prendergast, It may have been, thinks the com- | - i e kiomisr T Nlor Al BNt tceman who vouchsafed to your Hextarz SHIEh Sclioolia oz Yany as the eye can tell, still without | Correspondent the details of the presi- | class held its commencement exer- R dentlal- interview. that Mr.-Goolidge:|clses 1n the schiool auditoriip —eiasy. 'The three heroes of the presidential | Was &lad to be confronted by trousers | 1ght. =Diplomas were presente at¥ls. cohference—for they are the|©f Whatever mort ln view eof what (36 Sradustes. Rev. Charles Monroe heroes in Princeton, even if more|aWaited him o in the anteroom. lffi»‘“;f(‘_'_ t "] 13 lr_ws Aden‘\lole pis- congoryative stylsth: incline o, gpive|| AL-all evanta e pfolonzed the dis- SoRy Chpren Geliveres Lo TDNoEE et onoies ta et BIve | cussion until Mr. Slemp again ap- g s b peared Schoal of Philadelphia was the Brins The committeemen thercupon re- [School of Philadelphia was the prin- their return from Washington, where they went to invite Mr. Coolldge to p Sehig| mot outside they in ;‘;5;‘;,. o nene, American WRIE| (o midst of the sartorial discussion : the invitation for the President to Fellow Students Curlous. Their quarters are swamped with | ten. fellow students eager to get exact measurements on the famous baggy pants and to learn exactly what the President said to the boys and vice versa. The story they are getting runs something like this: The President seemed abstracted while the student spokesman was de- Itvering his speech of Invitation and his eyes kept roving from the ankles clined. to vis vogue, for th try. E is weal ceived their dismissal, and when they discovered that speak in Princeton had been forgot- There seems to be uncertainty whether Mr. Coolidge accepted or de- Maybe, if the President will deign his own idea of the proper thing, he may make a little dent in the floppy pants comfort it Princeton and display and provide aid and e struggling suspender But in the meantime, ring them floppier than ever. indus- ARMY REDUGTION OPPOSED N ITALY Man BEATEN FOR REFUSING TO TOW MOTOR CYCLE Assaulted by Two Negroes Afterward Captured by Princeton cipal speaker. The point which Mr. Helton endeav- ored to bring out was the need of ex- ercising the mind. He used the aver- age movie show as one of his ill trations. He explained that the aver- age movie show did not range above the mental abilities of a 12-year-old child. He also went on to tell that most of the magazines now being sold do more toward corrupting the mind than furnishing material to exercise and strengthen it. Following Mr. Helton's adcress, Er- nest Greenwood, vice president of the Board of Education, presenetd schol- arship honors to Stephen Patrick Gerardi and Irving Bernard Yochel- sgon; four-year orchestra honors were awarded Thomas Hazen Keys and class honors to Beatrice Lillian Swain. Mr. Greenwood also presented the following graduates with diplomas: Lillian Grey Bell, Martha Thelma Benton, Mary Frances Dement, Mar- jorie Edith Firor, Ella Mabel Ford, Sadve Furr, Helen Ellsabcth Gray, Police. Mary Rhoda Heslet, Betty Hethering- ton, Eva Elsa Horvath, Margaret Because he refused to tow their | Mary Koontz, Elizabeth Newsom, E 3 motorcycle when it became stalled | Lena Rachel Simon, Beatrice Lillian Senators Say Reorganization | e ety oot | Swain, Michael . Thomas - CodelTa: ¥ 4 2 2 James Rudolph Davis, Lindsay Ople Bill Would Give Govern- |nient. police say, William Birkland, of | Duvall, Stephen Patrick Gerarai, 805 Eleventh street, was attacked by | Thomas Hazen Keys, Charles Freder- ment Unwise Power. before The By the Associated Press. ROME, January 31.—The report of the senatorial committee which has been examining the bill for the re- organization of the army is general- 1y unfavorable to the measure. Its chief objection is the danger to the excitin pedest At t their names as William two colored men and badly beaten up in response to a call put in by spectators. negroes fled when Policeman Fihley of the first precinct appeared, but he captured them at Thirteenth street and New York avenue after an in which a score of police arrived g chase rians joined. he station hous the men gave Nathan and rick Miller, Ernest Shephard Park- ef, John Watkins Rosson, Theodors Tristam Smith, Albert Asbury Thomp- son, Frederick Norman Van Der Lin- den, Irving Bernard Yochelson. Beatrice Swain delivered the vale- dictory and Mrs. Lilllan Y. Herron, member of the Board of Education, presided. Music was furnished by the school orchestra. safety of the country by the grant-|Calley Payne of 1721 I street. They Ing to the government of the power |were charged with assault. Birkland| Of nearly 50,000,000 automobile to reduce the armed forces as con-|told police he refused to tow the | tircs-made in this country last year templated in the bill. motoreycle because he feared he|7,000,000 were balloon or balloon. The report, distributed to the sen- | would weaken the rear of his car. types. ators today, compares the standing armies of the various Furopean coun- tries to show that Italy’s army would be inferfor in case the government exercises the powers conferred by the bill and reduces the military forces. The standing of the Russian army is . given as 600,000 effectives, the French, 450,000; Polish, 250,000; Span- 1sh, 210,000; Rumania, 180,000; Czecho- slovakian 150,000; Turkish, 148.000; Jugosiavian, 182,000; Greek, 85,000. According to the budget of 1924-25, the report says, Italy’s army num- bered 204,000, By the minimum fixed by the proposed law the army ef- fectives could be reduced to 45,000, a figure which the senatorial com- mittee considers would be inimical to the safety of the country. Zero Weather Due in Chicago. CHICAGO, january 31.—Zero weather will follow the Springlike fair-and- warmer wave that visited Chicago and the Middle West today, according to local forecasters. A cold wave from Alaska will overspread the dis- trict, accompanied by some 510w, they - Announcing A Big Reduction in Loose Leaf Books and Supplies This Includes— Ledgers “Transfer Binders Storage Binders Sheet Holders Ring Binders See Our Line Accounting Forms, suitable for merchants, professional men and students. Columnar Pads, all rulings for analysis work. Ine YOUR STATIONER 122 THRTEENTH STRERT) waAsUNOTON, BE CROWDS SEE LIQUOR RAID ‘Winchester, Va., Baker and White ‘Whisky Taken in by Police. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., Janutry 31.— “Main Street” had a thrill this after- noon when police carried through the thopping crowds jugs and jars of moonshine from an upstairs apart- ment occupled by Robert Worra, a baker. Ten gallons of white whisky were loaded into & patrol automobils and taken to police headquarters along with Worra, who was held in $600 bond for the grand jury. Worra was said to have implicated others in liquor deals. Tt was the first day- light rald police had conducted in months, and excited the curiosity of an immense crowd which gathered. WOMEN T0 PRESS EQUAL RIGHTS PLEA Leaders in 18 States to Be Here Wednesday for First Hearing. Leaders in the weman's movement for equal right will gather here Wed- nesday for hearings before commit- tees of the House and Senate on the equal rights amendment Representatives from 18 States zl ready have notifled Mrs. Maude Younger of San Francisco and Wash- ington, congressional chairman of the Woman's Party, that they expect to be present at the hearings The first hearing will be 10 o'clock Wednesday morning before thi: House judiciary committee. Friday morning there will be a hearing before the subjudiclary committee of the Senate On the intervening Thursday night it planned to hold a subscription din- ner under the auspices of the Wom- an's Party and under direction of Mrs. Harvey Wiley Dixcriminations Listed. Legal discriminations against wom- en throughout the various States have been comptled by the legal research department of the Woman's Party under the direction of two lawyers Mrs. Burnita Matthews and Miss Emma Wold, and the results of this extensive research will figure in the argument for the amendment In referring to the coming hearing a statement from the National Wom- an's party quotes Senator Curtis of Kansas, who said that “Since the war seven European republics have writ- ten the principle of equal rights for men and women into their national constitutions, so we cannot’ even claim to be pioneers in this movement.” Among the prominent women who will attend are Mrs. John Winters Brannan of New York, Mrs. Abram Rose, Mrs. Elizabeth Selden Rogers, Mrs. Mary Murray of New York, Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, Miss Mabel | Vernon and Mrs. Carl Hammitt of Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin of Massachusetts, Mrs. Law-| rence Lewis, Mrs. Robert Bradford,| Mrs. Jesste Collet. Mrs. Jennie Dorn-| blum and Miss Ella Riegel of Phil-| adelphta; Mrs. Sophle Meredith of Vir- ginie, Mrs. Donald Hooker and Mrs Dora Ogle jof Baltimore, Miss Sue White of Memphis, Mrs. Ellen Crump | of Nitta Yuma, Miss; Miss Margaret | Whittemore of Santa Barbara, Calif.; Miss Thelma Wiles of St. Louls, Miss Ruby Black of Wisconsin and Mrs.| R. R. Boyer of Miami. The amendment was introduced into the House of Representatives, Decem- ber 13, 1923, by Representative An- thony of Kansas, a nephew of the| late Susan B. Anthony, whose work for woman suffrage and woman's equality was so outstanding. i ALL WITNESSES LIE, SAYS MARYLAND JUDGE Juries Complimented on Fairness in Dealing With Difficult Evidence. Special Dispatch to The St BALTIMORE, January 31.—All wit- nesses test falsely, whether they intend to or not, and American juries deserve great credit for being able to glve a large proportion of fair and just decisions, Judge Joseph N. Ul- man of the supreme bench, told me bers of the City Club in a luncheon talk this week Although witnesses testify falsely, they generally are much closer to the truth in the courtroom than on the street, Judge Ulman declared. The sanctity of the oath they swear means little to other than a religious per- son, he sald. “To the majority of persons” he| explained, “an oath makes no differ- ence. If a man tells lies outside of court he will tell lies inside of| court.” Witnesses, Judge Ulman asserted, can be divided into two classes—in- terested and disinterested. “When interested, persons with| something to gain,” he explained, “ill| remember only those parts of the most advantageous for them story x a person's A judge has to scrutinize testimony very carefully when he knows the man is trying to gain something by it.” Disinterested wit- nesses mean to tell the truth, Judge Ulman said. but they don’'t know what the truth As an illustration he told of how a large number of disinterested bystanders had seen a MAY SHOW HOBBIES ATD. C. EXPOSITION Schools Will Have Numerous Products in Industrial Exhibit of District. A ‘hobby exhibit,” contalning ar« ticles made by pupils in tha District public schools outside of school hours, will be one of the features of the publlc school display at the Chamber of Commerce industrial exe position in the new Washington Auditorium the week of March 21, if the ideas of Stephen Kramer, first assistant superintendent of schools, are carrled out by the come mittea of school officers arranging the exhibit Mr. Kramer pointed out vesterdaw afternoon that many of the school children, especially those In the high &chools, devote a considerable portion of their time after school hours mak< ing articles in which they are espes clally Interested. An exhibit of thesa things, he believes, would be espee clally Interesting to tha visitors af the chamber's industrial exposition Asks Co-operation. Arrangements for the public school exhlbit have been left to Mre. Cecil Norton Sisson, general director of the community ter department of blic schools. She has asked o-operation of a number of other school officers & the school exh interesti at show The £chool exhik of furniture, baske and other work t industrial arts clas and the commur Kramer cluded Alfred L. Stern of for the pub children also w the exposition varied industr depicted in t T. Llovd, presic and also presid Education Children to Take Notes. ern has promised to dc bits childrer ‘Washington school ¢ dren t has been pointed out. have been kept ig norant of ndustrial ties of their own city t e failure of Congress to nds to fur nish them with compiled informatio: Char the el res 2 an gton’s pr ne aug in his opinior the only i trict are t CHRISTIANITY ADVANCE IS LAID TO HELLENISM Greek Minister Praises Part His Nation Played in Early Prog- ress of Religion. The propagation of Christianit would have been a much more diffi- cult task without Hellenism and with- out the advent of Christianity t Greek peopls wquld never have sur- vived, Minister Simopoulos of Greecoce told the Washington Classica « L] in an dress last night nston H “The advent of t - said fourd no oth | well prepared to receive of O Lord as t za tion. Hellenism eachings that a new to ba born and shortly a 1 had spoken, Hellenisni that the teachings of Jesus Christ were des- tined to bring a w wide formation and without i hesitation offered its he The minister reviewed the history of his country to the present tim when, he said, it is trying to absorh within its borders that great a. refugees from Asia Minor certain accident and given different versions of it. e onderful Conlon Electric Washer What woman keeping house would not appreciate this won- derful labor and money saver, which will relieve her of the troubles and worries of wash- day for good? 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