Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1925, Page 20

DRY NET CATCHES HIGH SOCIETY MEN Warrants Accuse Philadel- phians of Champagne Party With Women Present. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Warrants for nine men, whom are lly prominent, were sworn out today as an aftermath of a police investigation of a private party at t enton Hotel on Feb- ruary 13. Three of the men upcn whom warrants were served were Martin V. Ber; a lawyer, who resides at the Racquet Club; Edwin Hance, 57, president of a firm of man- ufacturing chemists, and Robert Page, 54, a resident at the Racquet Club. They were released immediately by @ police magistrate pending a hearing on_ March 2. According to a report filed the day after the party by detectives, who were present while it was in prog- ress. champagne flowed freely. One of the detectives, in his report, said that one of the women present em- braced him and asked him if he wanted a bottle of champagne. Director of Public Safety Butler, to whom the report was made, sent a letter to Gov. Pinchot dr attention to the report an the hotel's license be revol a State Jaw, but the g formed him the State could not act February 21.— MINNESOTA DELEGATION TO HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN Party Coming to Will Arrive March 3—Dinner Planned Here. teh to The Star N POLIS, 31.—A_ special 8 Minnesota the Coolldge Minneapolis nt Inauguration Minn., February train will carry representation to inaugural, ' leaving ary An- made that under the’ di- In Club of Minne- will arrive in and under the will leave 28, recttan of the Lij 2pelis. The tr: Washington March 3, present arr ment March 6 Wiliam F. national com- mitteeman for Minnesota, and Mrs Manily L. Fosseen, national com- mitte¥woman, will head the delega- tion Fifty veservations have been made and repiles ave coming from ail parts of the State. Plans are being made for a Minnesota dinner at which Milinesota representatives in Congress &hd others living in Wash- Ington wil. be guests. Brooks, e R TREASURY OF ARGENTINA TO HAVE BRANCH IN U. S. Significance of Unique Scheme to Have &old Here Is Explained by Btfenos Aires Bankers. By the Assocleted Press. BUENOS AIRES, Argentine government virtually has Buthorized the opening in New York of a branch office of its Caja de Con- version, or treasury, where gold is kept as security for paper currency and which issues currency in ex- change for gold. This, in effect, is the significance, accord of the unique sche mit the Buenos Air gold deposited in marked to the account of the Argen- tine treasury, against which the treasury will issue currency to the banks here to relieve the serious money stringency that has developed in this market 5 The gold will be purchased in New York on behalf of the local banks by their New York correspondents, or. in case of an American branch bank established here. by the American head officer of that branch. HOLLAND OUTBREAKS TAKE MILITANT FORM February 21.—The several of |- rotests Against Militarism At- tended in Instances by Burning of Army Store Sheds. Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. AMSTERDAM, February 4.—Iso- Jated outbreaks of anti-militarism in Holland are occasionally taking & militant form. At Spaarndam and Overveen cently army store sheds were and a number of people of anti-mili- taristic tendencies were arrested as suspects. This led to a big protest meeting of nilitarists at Sant- he authorities were sev y for alleged brytal treatment of the persons arrested. Recently the Marine Weekblad, a service weekly, printed a spe- clal report from Villefranche, France, where the Dutch battleship Tromp was making a visit, that extensive damage was done to delicate parts of the machinery in the ship's engine room, parts of guns were missing, and a red flag wds one morning found floating from the gaff. So far there has been no official confirmation of this report, which re- mains more or less a mystery, and no further details about it have come to hand. ASSERTS JOURNALISM IS “NERVE-WRACKiING” Lord Burnham Sees Attractions in Profession, With “Vast Amount of Wear and Tear.” respondence of the Associated Press. ONDON, February 4—"Journalism racking profession.” Lord Burnham told the guests at a news- paper press fund concert. “Although our profession.” he con- tinued, “has a great deal of attraction superfor to any other, it involves a vast amount of wear and tear. There are very few who do not suffer from it. Somctimes, looking back at the years of the war, I am surprised that We were not broken down by the anxieties and responsibilities we bore. Those anxieties and responsibilities may not be recognized so much in Downing street as we know them in Fleet street. You know the stress and strain we went through in our, different capacities to serve the com- monwealth to the best advantage in 1ts hour of desperation.” Vienna Clothes Still Gay. * Correspondence of the Associgted Press. VIENNA, February 1—Vienna can- not lose its reputation for gayety. Some one in the garment trade has estimated that during 1924 the danc- ing Viennese. women and men, or- dered 10000 new dresses and 3,500 new dress suits in which to go to balls, and that together they called on the shoemakers for 100,000 pairs of dancing slippests TESTIFY TO PROPOSAL FOR “COMMITTEE FIXING” Witnesses Allege Suggestion Was Made by Commander Nolan of Disabled Soldiers’ League. Members of the House committee investigating the National Disabled Soldiers’ League were told today by C. C. Biggs of New York that the possibility of “fixing the committee” U909 F Street—at Ninsie | Store Closed at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. had been mentioned to him by John T. Nolan, national commander of the league. On February 13, Biggs testifed ut today’s committee hearing, Nolan had told him it “would cost $11,000 to fix the committee.” This state- ment, the witness safid, was made in Biggs' office. ‘He is connected with the P. C. Smith Co., which he said had condvcted a mailing campalgn for the league, through which he esti- mated that a return of $60¢ a day was produced. $173,000 FUND ASKED. Deficiency Estimate for Bureau of Standards Sent to House. Deflciency estimates for $173,000 for addifional land for the Bureau of Standards on Connecticut avenue were submitted to the House yesterday by the Budget Bureau. Last week the House passed the bill favorably reported from the committee on public buildings and grounds authorizing the purchase of this land at that price. The estimate submitted today will probably be in- cluded in .the second deficlency bil, which is to be reported to the House Monday and taken up for considera- tion Tuesday. Given Army Commissions. Edward B, Hesse, 506 A street southeast, has been appointed a cap- tain in the Finance Department, and James J. McGuirk, 1301 Massachusetts avenue, a first lleutenant in the Den- tal Corps, both in the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army. C., FEBRUARY 22, 1925—PART T. H. M. DAWES HONORED. Former Controller of Currency Re- membered by Associates. Henry M. Dawes, former controller of the currency, who recently resign- ed to become president of the Pure Oil Company, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio, was presented with & solld silver punch bowl Thursdcy afternoon, in the controller’s office, by the chlef national bank examiner in the fleld and others who were associated with him as’ controller. The presentation speech was madeé by J. W. Pole, chief natlonal bank examiner, who declared the gift was made to Mr. Dawes as a token “of thelr high regard and affection.” Mr. Dawes responded briefly Officer Goes to Alaska. Capt. Richard C. Stickney, U. S. 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