Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 22

T NOTORIOUS KANSAS DUTLAW GAPTURED Wiliam La Trasse,- Train Robber, Taken After Com- panion Is Killed. Br the Assoclated Press. L DORADO, Kans., March 14.— William (Blg Bill) La Trasse, who| has figured In Kansas crime annals a quarter of a century, was cap-| tured in a raid on an abandoned| house near here today and tonight| was safely behind the bars of the Butler County jail Claude Henderson, slain in the raid had a long criminal record, it de- veloped. More than a vear ago La Trasse violated a Christmas parole granted by former Gov. J. M. Davis. At that ne La Trasse, who had nine years in the State penitentlary ahead of him, represented to the governor that he wished to spend Christmas with his mother. He left prison in December, 1923, and never returned Pacing tha floor of the jail tonight as he puffed steadily on a briar pipe, La Trasse told Sheriff McKnight that Miss Hazel Henderson, sister of the man who met his death fn the raid, was his wife. Miss Henderson. how- ever, denied that they were married, but said they had intended to be in a few day La Trasse had been conceded gen- erally to be the State’s most notorious outlaw. Probably the crime that gained him the most notoriety was the robbing of passengers on a Mis- sourt Pacific traln bound from Omaha | Kansas City, on Christmas night, 1910. La Trasse boarded the train at Leavenworth, Kans.. and, forcing a negro porter to walk ahead of him through the sleeping cars, gathered money from the passengers. He shot and wounded one man who demurred. From about a hundred passengers he obtuined about $2.000 fn money and| jewelry, pulled the bell cord, stopped | the train and disappeared in a thicket near Kansas C Federal and State authorities ex- pressed the belief that with the cap- ture of La Trasse they had put an end to the activities of a gang of bank robbers that has been terror- izing central and eastern Kansas. GALLINGER'S HELP 10 POOR S VALUED Municipal Hospital Handles Many More Than Police Commitments. P N SR 1 | Army Regulations 140-15 is now { the hands of the Government printer, and as soon as printed will be dis- | others. With the exception of Army Regu- lations 140-15, the long awaited regu- lations for the Officers’ Reserve Corps were promulgated this week by the War Department under Army Regu- tions 140-5, Army Regulations 140- and Army Regulations 140-20. in 10 tributed by the War Department. Army Regulations 140-5 covers re- serve officers not general officers nor federally recognized members of the tional Guard: Army Regulations 140-10 deals with members of the National Guard below the grade of general officer; Army Regulations 140- 15 apples to general officers, and Army Rezulations 140-20 prescribes the examination for appointment to the grade of general officer. Greater Interest is being evinced by reserve officers perhaps {n section 6. of Army Regulations 140-5, which governs promotion, than in any of the The promotion system em- hodied in .the regulations is based upon the fundamental principle of military efficiency that no persoh should be promoted to a military office until he sha!l have demonstrat- ed under reasonable tests that he Is qualified to perform the duties of such office if called to active service thereln. It is pointed out by the War Department that the creation of the certificate of capacity serves not only a just procedure for peace-time promotion, but it provides an eligible ist from which officers will be se- lected for promotion to fill vacancles lin the event of war. In order to be promoted during peace time, a reserve officer must first hold a certificate of capacity; secondly, there must be an appro- priate vacancy in the grade and sec- tion in the cdrps area, branch or ac- tivity allotment made by the War De- partment under the procurement Ob. jective of the War Department gen eral mobilization plan: and thirdly. he shall have served a minimum time in grade in any component of the Army or in the federally orsanized National Guard, or both, as follows: As second lieutenant, two years; as first lieutenant, three years: as cap- tain, five vears; as maljor, five years, 1nd as lleutenant colonel, three years. Reserve officers coming under the regulations and who are prepared to undergo the written examination re- quired for one or more of the sub. jects prescribed for a certificate of apacity should apply for amination through military channels, to their regimental or independent unit commander, by whom the applt cation will be referred to one of the xaminers designated to act as such for his unit. Upon the successful ompletion of the written examina- tions which are required for a certifi- ate of capacity, reserve officers will be given a practical test for final de- termination of his qualifications for this certificate. In order to take the practical test for certificate of ca- pacity for the next higher grade in the section in which appointment is held, the officer shall have completed a minimum time in grade, as follows: As second licutenant, one year: as first lfeutenant, two years; as captain, thres years; as major, three years; as lieutenant colonel, two years. In computing the minimum time for any The popular conception of Gallinger Hospital as a hospital for police cases | or, in other words, the Bellevue of | Washington, where patients with visions of pink elephants cavorting| about on a lavender sea, 8o to get the | commissioned officers on active duty | whims ironed out of them, is a mis- | conception. 1 Gallinger Hospital. Washington’s | municipal hospital, should be regard ed b residents as a municipal insti- tution, in which medical and surgical assistance to the poor of the city is a primary object, according to Dr.| James A. Gannon chief of the surgical| staff of the hospital 1 He views the inatitutiom wot only as | an opportunity for mem prominent in the medical profession in this city to do worthwhile free work, but also as one of the finest possible training schools for young doctors and for! older ones who desiré to keep in the| forefront of professional d(:\‘Plop-] ments. Physicians on Visit. These views were outlined by Dr. Gannon as he guided a group of visit- & physiclans through the hospital, in connection with the annual con- vention of the American Congress on Tnternal Medicine, which concluded its sessions yesterday Although limited in facilities for treatment of free cases and with| some wards housed in buildings that | are not modern, the teehnique of | treatment at Gallinger is said to em- | body the finest methods known to| medical cience. Sixty-five of the | most prominent physicians and sur- geons of the city are on the visiting staff, are available day or night, and their services are free. Gallinger, however, is but one of the hospitals in Washington glving free medical service, for applicants for free treatment are distributed by the Board of Charities through other hospitals 014 Suggestion Lingers. Gallinger is unfortunate in still living in the minds of many resi- dents of Washington as the old | “Washington Asylum Hospital,” ac- cording to attaches of the hospital Cases of insanity and drunkenness | are taken, but they do not constitute the major part of the work ! Cven though the municipal hos. pital lacks building—in fact, ' is in great need of new ward bulldings to match the adequate central building— the equipment s thoroughly up to date. i A completely equipped operating room, and orthopedic department, a psychlatric department under the di- vection of Dr. D. Percy Hickling, & complete and large maternity ward, | and other adjuncts of a modern hos- pital are part of the equipment at Gallinger. NEW CABLE TO ITALY WILL OPEN TOMORROW By the Associated Pres NEW YORK, March 14—The Com- mercial Cable Co. announced to- day it would open a New York-Rome cable service, via tie Azores, Malaga in Spain and Anzio on the Itallan coast, at 10 o'clock Monday morning. The Commerclal will use ong of its | present pair of cables to the Azores, whence its messages will be relayed by the Western Union Telegraph Co. over a new span laid by the Italian Cable Co. from Anzio to Horta, on the Island of Fayal. Officials said the Itallan company originally considered giving exclusive rights over its underseas wires to the Western Union,, but later arrange- ments had been completed whereby the Commercial would share in these facilities. The cable stations of the two United States companies are about 200 yards apart. Western Union officials, in confirm- ing reports of the arrangement, said Commerclal messages would be handled on equal terms with their | own, 3 onesip Judge B., F. Long Dies. STATESVILLE, N. C., March 14— Judge Benjamin F. Long'for the last 22 years judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, died this afternoon, two hours after he had suffered a stroke of paralysis, at’his home here. He was 71 years of age. He is sald to have never missed a court session during his 22 years on the bench. Funeral services will be held here Monday at 3 p.m. A | missioned | the grade, double credit will be given for active service fn that grade or any higher grade between April 6, 19817, and November 11, 1818, An exception is made to those re- serve officers, however, who served as for at least three months between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, or who have been at any time a com- officer of the Regular Army, Navy or Marine Corps for at least three years. Reserve officers coming under this class may make application for the practical test for a certificate of capacity for the next higher grade in the section In which he holds appointment at any time, regardless of time served in anv grade, after he shall have attained the following ages: As first lieuten- ant, 23 vears: as captain, 26 vears; as ajor, 31 years; as lieutenant colonel, 36 years, and as colonel, 39 years. Shouid an officer be unsuccessful in hiz effort to pass the practical test, he will net be re-examined within one vear, and application must be made for such re-examination. Credit is also given toward qualifi- cation for certificates of capacity for satisfactory equivalent work already done by reserve officers under War Department regulations, including equivalent satisfactory work at serv- ice schools According to information recently received by Lieut. Col. John Scott, Infantry, executive officer of the Organ- ized Reserves in Washington, the candi- dates for the citizens' military train- ing camps, blue course, will not be required to have served enlistment in one of the components of the Army of the United States. However, they will have had to serve at least one vear elther in the Organized Reserves, Natlonal Guard or the Regular Army before they will be commissioned as officers of the Reserve Corps. Announcement was made this week by Lieut. Col. Scott that 39 medical reserve officers in Washington and vicinity will conduct, without charge, physical examinations of the young men residing in this area who will attend the 1925 citizens' military training camps. It is urged by Col. Scott that the young men who ex- pect to take the approaching Summer camp training go to the medical offi- cer nearest their homes for their ex- amination. These examinationg will also be conducted by Capt. F. O. Stone, M. C., in the headquarters, district of | Washington; United States Lieut Col. Frankland, Public Health station, Post Office Building, Twelfth and Pennsylvania avenue northwest; naval recruiting station, 306 Ninth street northwest, and Col. Thomas M. Foley, Farragut Apartments. The list of reserve officers is as follows:. Cols. Joseph M. Heller and Abram B. Hooe, Lieut. Cols. W. H. Littlepage, William J. Mallory and Augustus C. Gray, Majs. Watson W. Eldridge, Stewart M. Grayson, Rowland H. Ford, George B. Jenkins, James W. Lindsay, Thomas A. Poole, Eugene C. Rice, jr., Win- throp A. Risk and Benjamin F. Weems, Capts. Charles B. Campbell, Jerome F. Crowley, Sidney C. Cousins, D. G. Dickerson, F. J. Eichenlaub, Everett M. Ellison, George H. Grove, Frank A. Hornaday, Clapham P. King, Bdward C_Morse and Raymond D. Tompkins, Lieuts. A. S. Constantino- ple, Ethan B. Cudney, Harry F. Davies, Arnett E. Easter, T. C. C. Fong. Ernest E. Hadley, Daniel S. Hatfield, John J. Mattare, John A. Reed, Joseph Stein and Fred Y. Wil- liamson. In Virginia Lieut. Col. Liewellyn Powell, Alexandria; Maj. Thomas F. Dodd, Eplscopal Theological Semi- and Lieut. John Lee Grant, Mid- will conduct the physical ex- aminations. The hours during which the examinatians will be conducted by the above mentioned reserve medi- cal officers can e ascertained by get- ting in touch with Col. Scott at Or- ganized Reserve headquarters, tele- phone Main 7561. land, Approval has been given by the War Department for the unit camp training from August 16 to August 30 of the 3434 Engineers, Col. John Stewart, commanding, the fleld of op- eration of which will include Fort Humphreys, Va.; Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Bull Run battle- field, and return to Fort Humphreys. In preparation for holding this unit camp, which i3 belleved to be the first mobile camp undertaken by an Organ- ized Reserve regiment, arrangements .have been made for a course in traln- ing and nstruction, the first meeting . \ Civilian Army News such ex-| of which will be held at the board room of the District Building, Four- teenth and Pennsylvania avenus northwest, March 18, at 8 o'clock. Lieut. Col. Warren T. Hannum, chief engineer, on duty in the office of the chief of staff, G-3, will address | the meeting on the subject of military organization of the United States. Capt. Eiroy §. J. Irvine, Engineer Re- serves, executlve officer, who has just recently been assigned to the regi- ment, wiil conduct the meeting. It is desired by Col. Stewart that those attending the meeting appear in uni. form, if possible, and he also requests that those who have not as yet se- cured the distinetive insignia of the cegiment. also the 343d Engineers castle, to do &0 at the earliest mo- ment. The insignia and castles can be secured at Col. Stewart's office at headquarters, 1653 Penneylvania ave- nue northwest. The unit will train as an engineer | rogiment in the fleld, involving mo- bilization, preparation of base, han- |d'ing of transport, shelter, sub- sistence, etc.. problems on the march | during the offensive action, defensive actton and retreat. Training will be based on the regi- | ment as part of & division on the| march, covering general area in Vir- ginia, 1. e. Fort Humphreys, Fred- | ericksburg and Chancellorsville. This | phase will cover moblilization, supply |and use of engineer troops as part | of advance guard, use of maps, repair | of roads, bridges, demolitions, stream | crossings, road spaces, etc., and a/ | tour-day tactical problem, during| { which phase (by tactical walks and | | rides) the training will cover duties| |of engineer troops during recon- | naissance, development, deployment, attack and pursuit, ending in with- |drawal, reorganization and retreat | via Culpeper, Manassas (Bul! Run). and Fort Humphrey: According to| he schedule, the regiment is due to |arrive back at Fort Humphreys on | August 28, the balance of the train- ing period being taken up by a re-| view of the work and critique by in- structors. Though War Department | | approval has not as yet been secured, | lit 1s hoped that a Regular Army | engineer unit at Fort Humphreys, to | which an invitation has been ex- | tended, will participate il”rnlching maneuvers. | For the training year 1925, chap |lains of the Reserve Corps may be ordered to 15 days' active duty as fol- |lows: | () With the organized reserve unit to which they are assigned or ttached. These units may be ordered to duty with a corresponding Regu- lar Army unit or civilians' military training camp or at a local or gen- eral unit camp. (b) At special assemblies of chap- lains, convened for training purposes as authorized by last subparagraph of paragraph 5c (1) of letter from the Adjutant's General Office, under date of November 28, 1924 In all cases every available oppor- tunity will be given to permit such trainees to engage in the active prac- tice of their duties under the con- ditfons, actual or simulated. which may exist when caled to active duty in an emergency. Trainees will be required to participate in such parts of the unit's training schedule as may be of general application to the unit's personnel including chaplains. Individual instruction will_in al) probability be conducted by Regular Army chaplains, who will be assisted | when necessary by such reserve chap- lains as by military experience seem | to be capable of performing this duty satisfactorily. The applicatory sys- tem of instruction will be employed whenever the subject-matter wi.l per- mit. The individual instruction will embrace the following subjects: Or- ganization, practical duties of chap- lains and the rules of land warfare. in the ap-| Only three reserve assemblies are scheduled for the coming week, two of which will be held at Organized Reserve headquarters in the Graham Building and the remaining one, that of the 343d Engineers, Col. John Stewart commanding, which will be held March 18 in the board room of the District Building, announcement of which appears elsewhere in this column Under the direction of Maj. 0. K. Sadtier, Signal Corps, who is on duty in the office of the chief signal officer of the Army, signal reserve officers will assembie March 16 for a lecture on meteorology and all appliances pertaining thereto. Everything con- nected with weather forecasting, how the data are obtained, etc, will be covered in detail The quartermaster meeting which was scheduled for March 17 has been postponed to March 27 on account of the many social events which will be glven on St. Patrick’s day and eve- ning. Officers of the 313th Field Artillery, Col. Leroy W. Herron commanding, assisted by Capt. James B. Golden, Field Artillery, executive officer, will meet_in the Graham Building March 19. Maj. Fred A. Carter, commander of the 2d Battalion of this regl- ment, will lecture on thé subject of offensive use of artillery, which will be followed by artillery fire. Capt. James B. Golden, executive officer, 313th Field Artillery, deliv- ered this same lecture before the 1st Battalion of this regiment (Balti- more) March 10. The Baltimore unit is commanded by Maj. Robert Mer- rick, 313th Field Artillery. Maj. R. E. B. McKenney, 320th In- fantry, president of the Washington branch of the Reserve Officers’ Asso- clation, left Washington Thursday for a three-month course of in- struction at the Command and Gen- ;w(ml Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, ans. Talking Yellow Head. Green South American parrots, known as Amazons, include a large number of species, says the Nature Magazine. If secured while young any will learn to talk, but the best und:uh(zdly is the Mexican yellow head. Home of Late Dr. B As if She Were Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14.—The late Dr. Kate Waller Barrett's home, at 408 Duke street, this city, will remain just as she left it before her death, her children have decided. It will be open to the work of the organiza- tions with which she served. “Mother is just out of town,” sald Mrs. Charles H. Pozer, Dr. Barrett youngest daughter. “That's the way’| we want the organizations to feel upon coming ‘here. We know her every wish and we know her ideal and we hope to run the house just as It she were here—just out of town on a visit."” “Silence room,” Dr. Barrett's study and library, richly furnished with odds and ends gathered from many lands, cozily set around a cheery fire- place, will remain just as she left it. On the wall, framed, is the diploma in medicine Dr. Barrett achleved at the Women's Medical College of Georgia in 1892, after her seven chil- dren were bor: Many Quaint Furnishings. Quaint furnishings gathered from everywhere adorn every room of the big house. Gifts from many organi zations to their leader are givem prominent places about the house. Mrs. Rathbone Smith, another of dhe 2 | concluding, | appreciation we are going to POSTAL WORKERS VOIGE GRATITUDE Will Use All Efforts for Better Service, Mooney Tells New at Local Office. The Washington City postal em- ployes are going to show their ap- preciation of the recent salary in- crease granted them by Congress by giving increased service and exercis- ing rigid ecopomy, they told Post- master General New yesterday after- noon through their spokes: Post- master Willlam M. Mooney. The Postmaster General visited the Wash- ington office a few hours after the increased pay granted by Congress had been f{ssued to the 1,500 em- ployes, and, escorted by Mr. Mooney and other officlals of the office, went out on the “floor,” where work was halted for a few minutes. . Mr. Mooney, on behalf of the em- ployes, made a brief address to the Fostmaster General, declaring “we all know that in order to meet these increases in salary and not throw all of the burden upon the tax-laden public, we must all exerclse our ut- most care and stop the leaks and un- necessary extravagance. We are go- ing to show you that we can and will do our part. During the time of expectancy and disappointment, when the bill was vetoed, these em- ployes never faltered.” ‘Approbation of these remarks was | given In a rousing demonstration Mr. Mooney continued: “Now, if the retirement” will. only pass, so a&s to enable these men and women to live not in luxury, but in comfort. after they have reached the age of retire- mient, our cups of happiness will be filled, and we know that you are heartily in favor of that bill. In I want to say that we are all happy that you were forced to aocept a little raise in salary. In show service but economy.” made a brief reply ex- you not only Mi. New | pressing his happiness over the in- crease granted the employes and his ippreciation and knowledge that while the fatc of the bill was at stake no drop in efficiency was noted Get 3300 Raine. The 1400 clerks and carriers in shington each were benefitted by $300 annually undér the bill and the 00 laborers by $150. A vouchér for $315,000 to pay the entire postal force was drawn on the Treasury today. Postmaster Mooney and other ex- scutives at the post office also bene- fited by the bill, which placed Wash- ington seventh on the list of post offices in the country by granting it 75 per cent of the paid mafl matter it handles to make up for the free mail going through the office on Govern- ment account. Heretofore the Wash- ington office was doing a bigger busi- ness than the financial receipts show- ed, because the great bulk of franked mail was not taken into accounts By recognizing this volume which heretofore has been given no credit In the final statements of the | post office, Congress increased the standing of the Washington office and the salaries of its executives in com- parison. The cities now ranking Washington are: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis and Kansas City. Mo, Gauged solely by the amount of paid matter it handled in the past, Washington was ranked with and below citles that did not actually handle half as much mail as passed through the office here. The employes of the city post office yesterday presented Mr. Mooney with a large basket of flowers to which was attached this cord: “To Mr. Mooney: 1In appreciation of his ever kindly thoughtfulness of us and of the fact that through him we learned first of the final approval by the President of the postal salary and reclassification bill. From the City Post Ofice Employes.” TRANSPLANTING OYSTERS TO FURTHER GROWTH Maryland Governor Authorizes Purchase of 350,000 Bushels of Shells for Transfer. Special Dispatch to The Etar. BALTIMORE, March 14.—FPlans to contract for 350,000 bushels of oyster shells jo transfer oyeters from one location to another in the bay, have been authorized by Gov. Ritchie fol- lowing a_conterence this week with State Conservation Commissioner Swepson Earle. Mr. Earle found recently that he could secure only 100.000 bushels of shells Within.the State. The other 250,000 bushels will be bought outside Oysters on bars in Chesapeake Bay areas known as .Parker Moore and Hog Island will be sgread over an area, including Hog Island, of more than 600 acres, according to Mr. Barle. This wiil be done, Mr. Earle ex- plained, because oysters on bars in the Hog Island territory are so thick that they impede their own growth. When the oysters are transplanted they will be distributed in the pro- portion of 250 bushels to the acre. “We also shall start the work of transplanting oysters from Hodges Bar to Hog Island,” he sald. “A re- cent investigation showed that about 60 per cent of the oysters on Hodges Bar etlll are alive, the rest having been killed by the inundation of this area with fresh water from the floods of last year. “These operations may result in the proquetion of 250,000 bushels of oys- terson the Hog Island area for mar- keting next year. Treaty Fixes Lake Level. The Senate yesterday ratified the treaty with Great Britain negotfated last February, regulating the level of Lake-of-the-Woods between Min- nesota and Ontarlo, Canada. arrett Kept Open Temporarily Away daughters, called attention to the fact that Dr. Barrett's girlhood home had remained intact, and that today the old Waller homestead at Aquia, Stafford County, is the same as when Dr. Barrett was a girl. Thousands of letters and telegrams from all parts of the United States were received by the family of Dr. Barrett, the only woman Virginla has honored by lowering “to half-mast the flag on the capitol in Richmond in the 147 years of the Common- wealth. Steady work after three weeks since her death has not been sufficlent to answer half of them. The letters have come from almost every strata of soclety, from people in almost every condition and walk of life. The most touching, however, are from the unfortunate girls Dr. Barrett, through the Florence Crit- tenton Mission, of which she was na- tional president, has helped and from ex-service men. The American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary, of which she was past national president, were J{ér greatest loves. she said, and from the letters it ems the love was re- clprgcated. Dr. Barrett refused to be consid- ered a candidate for the Virginia gov- ernorship. of mail, | At Community Centers Of the Publie Schools. For detailed information of the actlvities of the community centers, apply to the community center de- partment, Franklin School, Main 6036. Thomuon, northwest: Monday—Washington clety; auction bridge class, 8. Tuesday—8panish class, 7:15; ad- vanced class in_Spanish, Gregg dictation class, 7; class in elementary French, 7; Delaware State Society, Kindergarten Assoclation bridge party, Washington Opera Company rehearsal, §. Wednesday—Studio Players, an adult dramatic organization, directed by Mrs. T. A. Renshaw: physical training class for women, 8; rhythmic dancing class, 3:15; piano class, 3:15; theatrical make-up_instruction class for members of the Washington Opera Company, 5. Thureday—Spanish class, 7:15; ad- vanced Spanish class, 8:15; Gregg dictation class, 7: rehearsal of the Washington Opera Company, 8. Friday—Dramatic and dancing classes for children, 7; china painting 7:30; boys' physical training 8:15 to 9:30; Junior Athletic 7 to 8:30; “Spanish Reading Clrele, 8:15 to $:30; mandolin and guitar orchestra rehearsal, ele- mentary French class, Wilson Nermal, Bleventh and Har- Vvard streets northwest: Monday—Royce Athletic Club bas- ket ball game. 7 to 8:30; Northern Athletfe Ascociation basket ball game, 8:30 to 10; the Wilson Players' re- hearsal, the Washingtonlans Opera Company rehearsal, 8. Tuesday—Triangle Athletic Club basket ball game, 7 to 8 women's gymnasium class, 8 to 9; adult rhyth- mic dancing class, the Washingtonia letic Club, Royce Athletic Club busi- ness meeting, 8. Wednesday—Rhythmic class, 3:1 Langley Junior ball girls, 3:30. Twelfth and L streets Choral So- instruction basket Thursday—Games by the Columbia | Midgets and the Columbla Juniors, 7; business meeting of the Columbia Athletic Club, the Wilson Players, meeting and rehearsal; the Washing- tonians Opera Company rehearsal, 8. Friday—Argyle Athletic Club bas- ket ball game, 7 to 8:30; Crescent Athletic Club basket ball game, 8:30 to 10; junior dancing club, ¥:30 to 10; Boy Scouts, No. 41, No. 76, 7:30; gymnasium class for boys and girl: 3:30; Ross Basket ball team, 4:15; community program, 8. Johnwon-Powell, ifiatt Lamont street northwest: Tuesday—French for adults, 2:30; Freneh for children, 3:30; rhythm for place and | cnilaren, 3:30. Wednesday—Violin for children, 3:15 Friday—French for adults, 2:30; French for children, 3:30; expression and dramatics. 3:30: {nstruction in so- cial dancing for children, 3:30; piano classes for children, 3:15; Scout Troop No. 39, 7:30; instruction In social dancing for adults, 7:45. Saturday—O-E Dramatic Club, 7:30; Saturday Night Club, 8:30. Southeast, Hine Junior High School, Seventh and C streets southeast Wednesday-—In the Hine High School: Eastern Preps Athletic Club, 7. Winton Athletic Club, 8:30. Thursday—In the Hine Junior High School: Pollyanne Club business meet- ing and gymnasfum activities, 8:30 to 10:30; parliamentary law class Southeast Community Center basket- ry class; rehearsal by “The Forrest Players.” 8; Washington Prep Re- serves basket ball game, 7 to 5:30 Hine Junlor High Parent-Teacher As- soctation, 8 Friday—In the Hine Junlor High School: Rhythmic expression class, No. 1, 7: rhythmic expression class, No. 2, 7:45; dramatic group, 7 to 8:30; game group, 7:30; the Tourist Club, & children's visual Instruction group, 7 to 8:30; Boy Scouts, 7:30; ’} Athletic Club, 9 to 10:30; Public Speaking Club for adults, platform practice in the auditorfum, 7:30 to $:30, followed by Instruction. Park View, Warder and Newton streets northwest. Tuesday—Public Speaking Club, 7:30 to §; Dramatic Club, 9 to 10:30; adult basketry class, 8; pfano classes, 3:15, 4; Girl Scout Troop, 3:15. Wednesday — Beginners rhythm cla 3:15; advanced rhythm classe, 4. Friday—Children's basketry class, 7:30: Boy Scouts, 7:30; manual instruc- tion for boys, 7:30; woman's health class, %:30; Social Dancing Club, 8. East W Eastern High School, Seventeenth and East Capital streets Tuesday—In the Hine Junior High School: Basketry class, 7:30; the Odd Fellows' Band will assist the Boys' Independent Band with practice, 8:30; Boys' Independent Athletic Club, T7; Community Secial Club, 8:30 Wednesday—In the Eastern High School: Strayer's basket ball team, 7: Eutopia Athletic_Club, 8:30; Aurora Athletic Club, 7; De Molay basket ball team, 8:30; East Washington Com- munity Orchestra, 8; classes in mil- iinery, dressmaking and basketry, 7:30; community program, 8. Saturday—In the Eastern High School: Alpha Athletic Club, 8:30; Sioux Athletic Club, 7; Apache Ath- letic Club, 7; Eastern Athletic Club, 2:30; Community Social Club dance, 8:30. Petworth, Eighth and Shepherd streets northwest. Tuesday — Rhythmic expression class for children, 3:15; piano classes, 3:15 to 4; Public Speaking Club, §; soclal dancing for young people over school age, 8. Friday Basketry group: Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts; Brownles, 7:30. E. V. Brown, Connecticut avenue and McKinley streets northwest. Monday—French for Dbeginners, 3:15; piano instruction, advanced piano class, 4. Tuesday—Open library, 2:30; matic expression group, 3:15. ‘Wednesday—Chevy Chase Citizens’ Assoclation, 8. Thursday — French class, 3:15; rhythmie dancing instruction, for be- ginners, 3:15. Friday—Open library, 7; advanced class in rhythmic dancing, 3:15. dra- Dunbar, First and N streets north- west. Tuesday—Elite Athletic Club, 7:30. Thursday—Basketry and industrial art classes; Simon Commandery; Elks' drill team, No. 85, of the Columbla lodge; Elite Athletic Club; St. Au- gustine Athletlo Club basket ball practice; three troops of Boy Scouts, with the activities of swimming and drilling; La Rovers Athletic Club, 7:30 to 10:30; supervised study period for children, 7 to 9; The Bayard Brothers Social Club, 7:30. Saturday—The Bayard Brothers So- clal Club has issued Invitations for a social evening: West Wanshington, Phillips School, Twenty-seventh and N streets north- west. Tuesday—Home economics classes, 7:30 to 10; Fidelity Art Club, Whist Club, Civies Club, Community Orches- tra, Lincoln Athletic Club, George- town Preps Athletic Club, Women's Community Club, Criterion Social Club, 7:30 to 10:30; supervised study period for children, 7:30 to 8:30. Friday—Children’s story telling group; Progressive Girls, Young Women's Whist Club; Clover Pleasure Club, Trio Pleasure Club, “Reg’lar Fellers,” a small boys' club, Better Boyw’ Club, Boy Scout Troop, No. 10, 7:30. Cleveland-Pheips, streets northwest: Eighth and T expression | Junior | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 15, 1925—PART 1. Tuesday — Amphion lamp-shade Glee Club making and millinery groups, LaSalle Law Class, 7:30 to 10;30; Domestic Art Circle, 8; Stitch and Chatter Club, 7:30. Thursday—Basketry, flower mak- ing, waxwork and beadwork groups, lamp-shade muking, millinary and dressmaking group, saxophone or- chestra, Cleveland music study group, 7:30 to 10:20; Douglas League, §; South Carolina State Club, 8. Friday—Girls' Recreational Club, ~Rhythmic dancing 10 to 11:30 a.m. Birney, Nicholas avenue and How- ard street southeast: Monday—Junior Dramatic Club, 3| to 4:30; Needlecraft Club, 7:30; Birney athletic group, 7:20 to 9; Arablan Athletic and Social Club Potomac Athletic Club Community Orchestra rehearsal, Rialto Athletic Club, No 1, 7:30 to 10:30; Co-operative Associa- tion, 8. The meeting of the Choral Society at §°will be followed by a musical at the Campbell Church. Wednesday—Personal hygiene class, | dressmaking class, Whittling Club 7:30 to 9: Junlor Girls' Athletic Club. 7:30 to 10; Birney atbletic group, 9 to Friday—Lamp-shade making and | reed classes, Rialto Athletic Club (two | teams), 7:30; Junior Girls' Athletic Club, “The Mystics” (an athletic club for older girls), 7:30 to 10. for children, Burrville, Division avenue and Cor- coran street northeast: Monday—Industrial Art Club, with members emploved in needlework. waxwork, basketry, paper-flower making, embroidery, Knitting, milli- nery, crocheting and upholstery; su- pervised study period and game pe- riod for children, 7:30 to 10. Tuesday—Piano classes for children and adults, 3 to 5; plano classes for adults, 6 to §; community chorus of the Clef Club, including sight reading of music for children, 7:30 to 8:30; |for adults, 8:30 to $:30; Community | | Orchestra, game group,” “The Lone- | some Three,” basket ball team -and boxing group, 7:30. FPlday—Literary and game groups Industrial Art Club, Millinery Club. | Young Folks' Social and Literary Club, Mothers’ Club, 7:30 to 10. Lovejoy, Twelfth and northeast: Thursday—Boy Scouts, Gamé and Reading Club, Boys' Community ing Club, gymnaslum groups, v ingtruction program, classes in beauty culture, the Manchester A hletic Club Flying Ace Athletic Club, Exst Wash- ington Citizens’ Assoclation, 7:30 to 10:30; supervised study period for children; medical clinic, 7:30 to 9. Saturday—Whittling Club, Indus- trial groups, including flower making and lampshade making, Basketry Club, visual instruction lecture; Pro- gressive Gles Club, Buffalo Junior {Athietic Club, Manchester Athletic Club: community singing, community | athletics, 7:30 to 10:30. | i | D streets Miner Normal, Georgia avenue and Euclid street northwest Tuesday — Sewing, _ millinery and | embroidery groupe, Red Cross classes, | young men's athletic clubs, basketry and weaving classes, 7:30 to 10:30 | Friday—Red Cross classes, Whit- | tling Club, Young Folks' Soefal Club, | Young People’s Dramatic Ciub, Girls' Embroidery Club, Boy Scouts, No. 508, | No. 512, 7:30 to 10:30; the Miner Nor- mal basket ball team will play the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity basket ball team, 7:30. Deanwood, Whittingham and Lane place northeast: Friday—Wax work and flower mak- ing groups, children's music class, Boys' Club, Athletic Association, choral Society, the mothers of the community will have a spectal meet- ing, 7:30 to 10:30. e NERO, IN 8-MONTH VIGIL, DIES ON MASTER’S GRAVE Dog Was Owned by Ohio Man Shot to Death in Battle With Prohibition Officers. By the Associated Press LANCASTER, Ohio, March 14— Death today ended the long vigil of | Nero, a dog. who died on his mmster's grave in a lonely cemetery near here. His owner, Charles Farmer, was| shot to death last July in a gun fight with prohibition officers. Nero fol- lowed the funeral procession to the cemeter: where he has kept watch daily, leaving the grave at short in- tervals to secure food. All efforts to coax the dog away failed Tonight a boulder marks the grave of Nero. Ministers tomorrow in their ser- mons will refer, just as they have in the past six_months, to the love and devotion of Nero for his master. i RAIL MERGER DATE SET. Soo Line to Take Over Freight Department of Rival. SUPERIOR, Wis, March 14.—The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad freight department here will be absorbed by the Soo Line on April 1, it was announced today by E. H.| Buhlman, superintendent of the Soo! Line. The move means the virtual aban- donment of a South Shore right of way, which has long been a contro- | versial subject due to two dangerou grade crossings over much used thor- | oughfares. "LiVe and Thrive. Feed baby chicks the kind of food that years of ent has proved ex- actly right. I¢ will pay you two hun- dred times what it costs. v~ ing them Pratts and seehow you lose from under- only Pratts Buttermilk Food those first, critical And Pratts Growing Mash when fully feathered—to keep up the good work| Dealers sell Pratts on money-back juarantee. . duarsgRATT FOOD CO. 124 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. oeatts Buttermilk fw | suilivan, CHALIAPIN COMING /10 SING HERE SOON Famous Russian Basso Signs Contract With Washing- ton Opera Company. Feodor Chaliapin, whose first grand opera appearance in Washington in | the Washington Opera Company per- formance of “Fausl” in January pre- cipitated a battle that was finally settled only in the courts, will make his second appearance this season with the company on Kaster Monda. night. Announcement of the engagement of Challupin to sing Basilio in the “Barber of Seville” was made yester- day by rector of the Washington Opera Com- pany. “I come back to you to sing again this season because I want to help in this great movement Mr. Albion has begun,” Chaliapin offered in ex- planation of his latest contract, which he made in the middls of & crowded season “It §s my hope that the people of Washington will let me help pay back to America something of my heart- felt gratitude for her great kindness to me. This great work I see may be different from what many he might see it, because I have come from a country where such a move- ment was bezun and developed so rapidly. Here it must go even so much faster, because that is the way America does things.” IRISH CELEBRATION PLANS COMPLETED Funds Will Be Used for Catholic High School Scholarships Here. Al arrangements have been per- fected for the first annual Irish cele- bration, under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus Tuesday night at the Washington Auditorium After an entertainment program, in which Edna Hillyard Howard, so- no, of St. Patrick’s choir, and Earl . Grimes of the St. Patrick's Play- ers, will sing Irish ballards and solo elections, a dance will be given on the main floor of the Auditorium, with a card party in adjoining halls and rooms. Funds for Scholarships. The proceeds will be devoted to the scholarship fund being raised in shington as planned by Archbishop Curley for sending students from grammar schools to Catholic high schools. The principal committees the arrangements are Executive committee: Cavanagh, J. J. Downey. Feely, T. G. Fitzger: Burns, James B. Flynn, Todden, Hamilton E. Clipper, miral W Benson, J. Leo Kolb, J. Callahan, Francis R. Weller, W. C. W. P. Normoyle, Maj. D. J. Donovan, Adam A. Weschler, David J Barry, Dr .C. 1. Griffith, M D. J. Dunigan. F. Donohue, Charles W L. Moran, James Colliflower, John Zabel, James T. Ryan, Eugene Gallery, Dr. H. J. Crosson, Dr. C. K. Koones, William E. Lahy. Harry 1. Quinn, Michael Heister, Anton A, Auth, M. D. Schaefer, George H. O'Connor, Alfred C. Whitton and " Clyde Powderly icket committee, general chairman F. P. Hanrahan, W. bert J. Berres, ir.: Al Joy, Mrs. Harry Mary Manning, Mrs. William_ A Stewart, Miss May Morgan, Miss Marie McAuliffe, Miss Marie Easby- Smith. handling Alfred Whitton, James Sweeney, W. Amann, Al- James D. Bligh, Bicksler, Miss SEEK CITY FOR MEET. Only Two Places Ask for Pulitzer Air Event. Officials of the National Aeronautic Association are looking for a city which will sponsor the Intermational Pulitzer Trophy landplane speed con- test to be held some time between September 17 and October 3. In a statement deploring the lack of “American sporting pride,” the association said that only two cities, New York and Wichita, Kans., have unofficially tendered requests for the competition. VETERAN LAWYER DIES. St. George R. Fitzhugh Had Dis- tinguished War Record. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., March 14. —St. George R. Fitzhugh, one of the oldest lawyers in Virginia, died at his home here today, aged §4 years. He was a Confederate veteran with a distinguished record. He was for- merly counsel for a number of large corporations and was city attorney of Fredericksburg for a long period. One sister, Miss Nettie Fitzhugh, and other relatives survive him. | Edouard Alblon, general di- | A Keane, | MOCK NAVY BATTLE STILL AT DEADLOCK Battleship and Submarine in Fleets Theoretically Are Destroyed. | By the Associated Press SAN DIEGO, Calif, March 14 Naval maneuvers off the coast of Lower California during the two weeks did not reach a stage where victory or defeat could be assigned to either fleet participating. it was | revealed at North Island Naval Air | Station today in a conference of 14" | admirals and 400 oficers. That a battleship of the Maryland class was | theoretically sunk in the invading Black fleet by a Blue defending sub- | marine, and that the submarine fn turn theoreticaily destroved b the division flagship West Virgin was indicated as the analysis of a tion developed Airplanes and submarines contacted on the scounting lines, a Blue sub- marine spotting a Black airplan | while Black airplanes, likewise, | ported having sighted Blue subma- | There were no engagements the undersea and the air Action In Doubt. | _ The scout cruigers missed the Black fleet lines, but Blue submarines made contact and started the engag. me Whether the Blue defens submarines within the Black fleet lines, however, was a moot poi for while the Blue ports within the 16-mile dest screen of the Black fleet, the fleet reports having contrac line into a 10 mile ra ainst the destroy the submarines ver Black nd engaged submarines & us protective Conditions its secret n divulged caused day w be by naval high command tion of the he critique Robert E. chief of the United welcomed the officers lanttc and Rear Admiral Cole, chief of staff, a the program | Movements Outlined. Vice Admiral | commander of the forces, then of his de ment. He problem at was Coontz, commander- A Wi d then ou 18sial Blu outlined th fensive fleet in the was followed by miral Magruder c . vigions, Rear Admir the destroyers division Taylor of the control forc submarines, and Licut. Boyton. communication offic Blue fleet A general discussion | ports of these office Black fleet to session. Admiral S wander-in-chief of in the role of made the fir ed by ¥ of sta battleship 8. Pratt. z Marvel, and commander of McK t scouting engage- ar Ad scouting d Williams ¢ ar Admir: neludin omdr. | followed r icers of t the afterno Robinson, co the, battle fi nvading He was Bostwick Rear Admira Schofield 3 Mos divisions LOMBARDY FASCISTS THREATEN TROUBLE | Metal o report Admir A divisi gemeier aircraft Workers Warn General Strike Will Be Proclaimed Mon- day Unless Negotiations Start By the Associated ROME, March Fascist metal e agreed their ore Monda egotiate the workers a general metal workers will he with the exception of Emilia region, sented at today's meeting A special commission was ed to point out to t the gravity of the &rowing more seriou the inclination of the sh ers to join the movement thousand of these have gone on strike there is some unrest Genoa. It is believed t metal workers w the same action did the workers today A curious feature the strike s the solidarity betw the Fascist and anti-Fascist unions. The latter body contains radical ele- mente, whose tendencles border on the “red Notwithstanding the of these two branches of labor, the Fascist party is openly supporting the strikers, as evidenced by an of ficlal communique from Fascist head- quarters and by a dispatch to the Cremona Nueva, presumably written by Deputy Farinacci, secretary of the Fascist party. This dispatch sars that the strike no longer is purely economic, but has entered a delicate and complex politi phase. 14 workers striking ombard matu that ready ruggested strike of proclaim d are {to employer. by | | workers at Trie at th the at anti- as Fascis collaboration e Suicide Certificate Issued. Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate of suicide yesterday afternocon in the death of Otis T. Cartwright, Army field clerk, who shot himself in the head as he reclined on his cot at Wal- ter Reed Hospital Friday night. Cart- wright had been a patient at the hos- pital for about a month. 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