Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1925, Page 4

4 Ed CLEARED BY JURY, STOKES IS ELATED Negro Codefendant Also Ac- quitted on Charge of Plot Against Mrs. Stokes. By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO, March - D% Stokes, millionaire New York _ hotel owner, and Robert F. Lee, Chica negro, were acquitted late yesterda, to defame Mrs. Helen 14—W. E. D. returned a verdict for the nt after deliberating nutes. Two ballots showin 1 for acquittal were Raken before agreement was reached on fthe third one ballot Was necessary Mrs. Stokes was not courtroom to hear the verdict. from the verdict, the last day of ¥ n angry okes and Miss farion L. Brophy, the pri ry vho had been in close” attendance with the aged millionaire throughout the five weeks he had been before the bar. A slight demonstration of hand clap- ping the verdict. Stokes was highly elated. His face was wreathed in smiles he thanked the jurors and posed with them for photographers. > jury old defends ur and five n greeted Prosecutor In Surprised. led the long fight to penitentiary, for, the alleged, ¢ trying to prove that his young nee was a member of the notorious Club, which a decade life of Ch Th e sald it willingly gave t Vindlcation when Mr. Rathbun, at- torney for Stokes, in his summing up, announced that he did not believe Mrs. ever had been an inmate of the h Club, His client, he pleaded, was an old man obsessed by the belief that his young ad done wrong, and was bent stablishing the correctness or incorrectness of that belief by a legal investigation in which he took the lead. “He may have done things to e you think he was a darned old Rathbun pleaded, “but he did Tothing fllegal.” SCHOOL OFFICIALS FIND NEW IDEAS FOR BUILDING PROGRAM (Continued from First Page.) dent. found in an more’s ne ools. Whila pressed with the auditorin new senior and junior hi the trio made care In the schools visi feature 1s empi uditori of Balti- not im- s In the I schools, study of them The community n Baltimore's ¥ are built and exit on the ores of windows. d Lunch Served by Puplls. The other two Mordeca School 3 Junior nate structure, which w as the most inexpensiv erected in Baltimore since the war. The cost was 29 cents per cubic foot. Washington has been paying 29 cents a cuble foot. Pr ng the inspection of the combined junior-senior high school, the committee was entertained at luncheon by Supt. West. The food was prepared and served by the domestic science class of the school. At this luncheon also Were a number of other vol offictals, who in regard fon with the District's school planners. school and guarded by s terest Mr. Harri. wood centered his elementary school furniture in the Chairs and desks were not in any particular system and left the teachers free to arrange the c rooms according to their individual taste. s built in the wall emed to in- . Green- on t primary grades. arranged Criticize Lunchroom Location. One featu new Baltimore schools criticized unanimously by the committee was the location of lunch- top floor, which results nconveniences and the installation of elevators to foodstuffs. Lunch- rooms in Washinzton's schools are located in the basement After viewing the Baltimore schools Dr. Ballou was asked for his out- standing impressions and gave them in the followin; ‘T was part eeing the Junior high ized and operated than as two separate organization as is usually the My impre glon is that there Is no advantage in such a construction and that it should be undertaken only when the num- ber of pupils in the junior and senior high schools combined too few to prarrant two rate schools { “Baltimore recognizes this arrange- fnent only as temporary and contem- plates two s bul s in the immediate future. I was also inter- sted o the separation of he school m the academic work in the Forest Park nior-Junior High School. The only advant this 1s the removal of the noise in the shops from the main structure. fn my judgment, this advantage is Enrfsux by the serious disadvantage of = of the erested in ned senfor- ch s organ as a unit rathe aking It necessary to pass out of oors In all k of weather from the shop instruction to academic In- §truction. I consider the proposed arrangement of the new McKinl echnical High School, which Mr. arris is now developing. to be far uperior. The shops in "Tech’ are. to be in one wing of the building, with fhe academic work in the other, sep- grated by an auditorium. i Praise Washington Schoolx, ! “I have a feeling or satisfaction $nd confidence in what we have been gnm: in Washington. ew ideas and make use of them if it is found that other cities are do- ing something better.” Mr. Greenwood sald he twas partic- nlarly pleased with the “very thor- ough and complete way in which Baltimore has undertaken to give its school children every educational ad- vantage. I was deeply impressed,” he said, “with the incidental equipment for domestic science and other spe- cial classes. I also was interested to learn that while Baltimore's new school auditoriums are beautiful, they don’t have the necessary stage quipment to put on fine productions as are given in Washington. Other things that interested me were the dental and medical suites. And think! In Washington we can't even get a proper medical staff, much less money for that sort of equip- ment.” Mr. Harris sald he found the de- sign of building generally of very high quality, well lighted, ventilated and arranged. 5 “I am satisfied that we must spend more money on our schools to give those added features which will make ur buildings sitractive architectur- ally. I will gather | RALLY FOR TUSKEGEE ENDOWMENT PLANNED Plea for Hampton Funds Also to Be Made at Berean Bap- tist Church. The first colored meeting of a series to be held in behalf of the Hampton- Tuskegee endowment fund will be at the Berean Baptist Church, Eleventh and V streets, at 8 o'clock tonight. Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard Uni- versity, chairman of the committee, to- gether wi M Archibald Hopkins and Miss Nannie Burroughs, principal of the National Training School for ‘Women and Girls, will speak to the alumni of Hampton-Tuskegee Insti- tutes and will ‘organize a campalgn committée for the colored people. e e CHURCH IN DISPUTE CLOSEDBY CALLES Finds Seizure by Separatists Is lllegal—Scores Cath- olic Clergy. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, March 14—The Soledad Church has been closed to worship by orders of President Calles in settlement of the conflict created by the Knights of Guadalupe, fol- lowers of the Mexican Catholic Apos- tolic Church, who recently took over the building by force and ejected the Roman Catholic priest, Father Silva. President Calles found no evidence that Father Silva had willingly handed the bullding over to the knights or was in any way connected with them, as had been charged. Consequently, he declared, Patriarch Perez of the new sect and his fol- lowers had broken the constitution by taking national property under the keeping of the Roman Catholic Church without fulfilling the require- ments of the law On the other hand the president found the Roman Catholic clergy had declared themselves in open rebelilon against the constitution “despising the authorities through their most prominent spokesman.” The Roman Catholic cler, statement continued, ‘“refus recognize state ownership of the church buildings and the govern- ment's right to exerclse control over church worship and practices and were allegedly arousing the people to take justice into their own hands. Desirous of enforcing the laws at whatever cost, the President there- fore ordered the Soledad Church withdrawn from religious practices. the 4 to FOUR CHURCHES FORM UNION FOR CHINESE Sunday Schools Combine Activities Among Orientals—Pay Tribute to Sun Yat-sen. The Chinese Sunday School Union of the District of Columbia was of- ficlally organized at the regular meeting, held at 326 C strect north- west, last night. Four churches were represented. The constitution and by-laws were unanimously adopt- ed. Plans for a conference of Chinese Christian missions from the Eastern United States and Canada, which is to be held here on October 12 and 13, were discussed. Samuel W. Cockrell, vice president of the union, and su- perintendent of the Mount Vernon M E. School was made chairman of the committee arranging for the confer- ence. Election of officers which had been scheduled to take place last night was postponed until the next meeting, which is to be held on Monday, April 6. Dr. Pak Chue Chan, president of the union, discussed the missionary work in China. He spoke of one re- ligious conference which had been held in Shanghl, where 1,000 high school girls and boys had pledged themselves to be missionaries In and around China. Dr. Chan paid tribute to the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who dled in Peking Thursday morning. When Dr. Sun first launched his campalgn for a Chinese republic, he realized the need of modernizing | China before it could even be thought as a republic, the speaker sald | So Dr. Sun, who had studied medical surgery and wished to show the peo- ple that the modern method of cur- ing all {lls was far more efficient than the old method, went to an ancient hospital, where he endeavored to ex- plain the modern method to the doctors_there. He told them that he could cut a man open and sew him up again, then attend him so that in a few days the man would bs able to go home. But the doctors would not belleve him, so he arranged to have them meet him at the hospital on a certain morning, and he would operate on a man suf- fering from appendicitis. The operation was performed and the man, in a few days was able to go back home. From that time the doctors seemed to have the idea that Dr. Sun was a demon of some sort and were his enemies. He told of another occasion which took place after the Emperor of China had offered a reward of $10,000 to any one capturing and killing Dr. Sun. Dr. Sun was in bed asleep when four soldiers came into his room and told him that they were going to kil him and claim the reward. Dr. Sun, he sald, arose and went to a box which was nearby and took from it a copy of the Constitution of the United States, which he had obtained when e visited this country. Dr. Sun read the Constitution in Chinese to the soldlers, and when he finished reading it he explained to them the sections which they did not under- stand. In the end he had the sol- diers so thrilled and so enthusiastic over the thoughts of a republic simi- lar to the United States that they evidently forgot all about the reward which they had set out to procure. These men, said Dr. Chan, turned out to be four of Dr. Sun's most faithful supporters. —_— MISS RICHARDS LECTURES Washington Woman Delivering Talk in Boston Today. Miss Janet Richards, who conducts a course of lectures on problems of the day at the New Masonic Audi- torium, is lecturing in Boston today under the auspices of the Women's Republican Club of Massachusetts. Miss Richards was the guest of the Woman's Club of Northampton Thurs- day night, where she spoke on “Vital Political Issues, Home and Foreign. o In England women own factories, manage them and supervise them. One sudden death occurs among women to eight among men. e BUSINESS BODIES UPHOLD ZONE LAW Three Go on Record as Ap- proving Nature of Com- mission’s Work. General condemnation of any attempt to vold the zoning law in the Diatrict of Columbia has been made in resolu- tions adopted yesterday by the Wash- ington Board of Trade, the Washing- ton Real Estate Board and the Opera- tive Builders' Assoctation. The Board of Trade states, in speak- ing of the zoning commission: “‘To re- tard or destroy the work of this com- mission would indeed be a calamity.” It urges the citizens of the District to continue to render the zoning commis- sion thelr support The board statement continueés: “While the decisions of the zoning commission have not always met with approval, and while they have made mistakes, we do not believe that any zoning commission could have handled the difcult problems of zoning more satisfactorily or have corrected mistakes more readily than our present com- sfon.” he Board of Trade also points out that a special committee of that or- ganization files a written report with recommendations to the commission prior to each hearing and renders all the assistance and co-operation it can The work of the commission is credited with having enhanced the general at- tractiveness of the National Capital The Washington Real Estate Board in a resolution cites that great bene- fits have resulted to the city by the reason of the zoning law. The board also states thet thousands of home owners, investors in real estate and the citizens of the District in gen- eral have been “immeasurably pro- tected by the operation of the zoning law,” and point out that its effictent and effective administration has de- veloped a system of orderly growth In the city. The board states that it is in hearty sympathy with the prin- ciples of zoning as a sclentific ad- vance, and protests against any ef- fort to obstruct its administration. The organization pledges moral support to the zoning officials. The Operative Builders also protest any attempt made to void the zoning law. It states that bullders and de- velopers in Washington would be greatly injured by any obstruction to the zoning law by reason of the large investment in lands and bufldings which would depreciate in value if the law was abolished. It points out that thousands of home owners have purchased their homes understanding that they would enjoy protection from improper and hurtful influen@s. In addition to condemning the attempt to nullify the building law, this or- ganization also pledges its support in retaining the zoning law. SPLIT IN DOUKHOBORS. 500 to Break Away—Displeased With Leader. NELSON, B. C, March 14—Five hundred members of the colony of Doukhobors today announced their intention of breaking off from the matn body. They claim that Peter Veregin, successor of his father as leader of the sect, 1S not a true fol-| lower of his father, and that he eats meat, smok tobacco and drinks liquor. The Intending seceders are negotiating for a share of the com- munity property. They plan to make an entirely new start elsewhere un- der the name of Peter Lordly’s Chris- tian Community of Universial Broth- erhood. 4,000 CARS FOR FRANCE. Germany Proposes Delivery to Rail- roads Under Dawes Plan. PARIS, March 14.—Germany is shortly to furnish the French rall- roads with 4,000 cars, which will form one of the principal payments in kind by Germany under the Dawes plan during the next six months. The railroads only agreed to accept the cars if they were equal to the French product in quality and were listed at prices far below the French. The German builders had no diffi- culty in meeting both conditions. Col. F. C. ;well Relieved. Col. Frank C. Jewell, Coast Artillery Corps, has been relieved from detail as a member of the General Staft Corps and from duty in the office of the chief of staff, G-3, War Depart- ment, to take eff ARGONNE 16th and Col. Rd. Several very at- tractive apartments ranging from two rooms, kitchen, re- ception hall, bath and balcony to four rooms, kitchen, re- ception hall and bath. ARGONNE RESIDENT MANAGER ON PREMISES Gargle Throat With Aspirin Clip This if Subject to Sore Throat or Tonsilitis Trepare a harmless and effective gargle by dissolving two Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in four tablespoonfuls of water. Gargle throat thoroughly. Re peat in two hours if necessary. Be sure you use only the genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, marked with the Bayer Cross, which can be had in tin boxes of twelve tablets for few ®ASpirin ‘Bayer Cross™on Genuine Tablets B T e VR T EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, COURT OF CLAIMS PLANS CLEAN-UP OF WAR CASES Will Name Seven Commissioners to Take Evidence—Move Will Effect Big Saving to U. S. The United States Court of Claims is preparing for rapld disposal of the large accumulation of rclaims filed against the Government under an act passed at the last session of Con- gress authorizing the court to ap- point seven commissioners to exercise the powers of special masters In suits in equity. Court officials said today that the commissioners, for whom & salary. of $5,000 and traveling expenses is pro- vided In the act, thus would be en- abled to take testimony hers and else- where In connection with such suits, and by thelr reports, permit the court to rapidly dispose of claims which otherwlse might Involve large in- terest accounts against the Govern- ment. TAX OFFICES JAMMED. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 14—Hundreds of persons jammed the office of the | Income Tax Bureau today to pay their taxes before the time limit expires on Monday. At a number of desks worried-look- ing clerks attempted to answer the thousands of questions asked them by the persons trying to properly fill out their blanks. At other desks clerks tried to examine the blanks as quick- ly as possible and set the mind of the taxpayer at rest. In another part of the room two stenographers examined blanks to see that the taxpayer had allowed himself all possible deductions. Their sole purpose was to give the person every not have to go through a lot of “red tape” afterward to claim it i D. C, GOLFCOURSEOPENS AT EAST POTONAG 350 Tickets Sold to En- thusiasts—Rock Creek to Start Friday. Public links golfers of Washington came into their own today. Restrained for more than two monthe from using the course in East Potomac Park, confining their play to the short nine-hole course in West Potomac Park, began using the long course in c at 6 o'clock this morning. as a rush to be the first off the first tee at the opening. C. R. Bragg and E. L. Kilby of Takoma Park were the first golfers to tee off. Early comers to the municipal golf course found a course groomed for the opening of the season, two greens hav- ing been remodeled and a general reno- vation of the course having been under- taken since January 1. An additional 9 holes, to serve as an adjunct to the 18-hole course which has been in use for more than two years, will open during the lat- ter part of May, according to 8. G Loefller, concessionaire. The new § holes cost about $12,000 to construct. A. Burns will retain his post as rter at East Potomac Park this year, with David Hardesty as alter- nate. Mr. Loeffler said the municipal golf- ers were all very anxious for the opening of the East Potomac Park course, adding that more than 350 tickets were sold during thé morning. The public course in Rock Creek | possible allowance so he or she would | Park will open next Friday under the | | management of the Government Wel- | fare Board SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1922 POST OFFICE CLERKS BANQUET TO MOSES Representative Kelly Also Honor Guest at Dinner in Celebration of Pay Increase Victory. Washington City post office clerks will give a testimonial and victory banquet tonight at the Arlington Hotel in honor of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire and Rep- resentative Clyde Kelly of Pennsyl- vania, in recognition of the part they played in the recent legislative con- test for pay increases for postal em- ployes. The banquet will be under the auspices of Local 140, Natlonal Fed- eratlon of Post Oficé Clerks, which has Invited delegations of the na- tional organization from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Rich- mond Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary- treasurer of the national federation, will be toastmaster. George E. How ell 18 chairman of the arrangement: committee, other members being ( Suter Reichenbach, J. Sheehy, M. J. | Callaghan, H. M. Lockwood, Robert Patterson, Daniel Johnson, Joseph H Burke, Mrs. E. Whitcomb and Charles P. Maschauer. Sign Placed on Church. A large electric sign, “Seek Ye the Lerd,” has been erected on the Third Paptist Church, Fifth and Q streets. Rev. Dr. George O. Bullock, the pas- tor, will preach tomorrow morning and evening. The Lord's supper will be observed at 3:30 p.m., and the Y. P.C. E. Society will meet at § BUSINESS CARDS 1,000—32 During March, 1025, we will print you 2,000 Queen Quality Business Cards for $4.00. | Single 1.000's, $2.50. Orders must be placed | | durlng arcn. WILL RESTRICT ALIENS. | BACKED FOR ARMY POST. Jamaica to Cut Down Trading Competition: KINGSTON, Jamalca, The government has decided strict alien immigration, keen competition from Chinese and| Mr. Syrian traders. 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