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9 SMOOT 10 FIGH FOR BUILDING BILL Declares Proposal to Spend $50,000,000 Here Will Be Pushed Vigorously. bring about thé ap- £50,000,000 to be buildings The fight propriation for needed the District « Smoot of Utah Buildings Cof to Government in f Columbia hairman of the misston, said Pub- today session of Congress “I am confidént that a bill assed making provision baildings 1o vially needed in Wash Senator Smoot. “I only he of the Government's pric ords now stored in in- flammable structures in this city will be destroved by fire bef posed structures can be erected Senator Smoot said that there might he a general public buildings bill, such as the Ellistt bill, h pro- vided $150,000,600 for buildings, understanding that $50,000,000 should be expended In the District of Columbta, and which passed the House during the last sestion of Con- Biliott bill was opposed n the Senate by some of the Demo crate, who did not like the proposal at the esecutive department should jccide where the money was to be ended in thelr States. and for that failed when proposed a to oné of the appropriation will for the \gton, that 1 eless T ex reason rider bill Could Save Much Rent. “But whatever is done about a gen= said Senator Smoot, - “‘there will be a blll to care for the Govern- mént's building needs in the District off Columbia. They are more serious \#fe than in any other part of the Ugited States. The building program, 3f; completed here, would save the Ggvernment thousands upon thou- sahds of dollars in rents and In cdonomy of tme and mreater ef- ficdeney of administration.” Fenator Smoot reiterated his intention ffering a bill at the next session of Cgngress, or of secking to have an ap- prepriation bill carry an item, for the construction of a national gallery of art. The plans for such a building have al- veen prepared through the Smith- soffan T 1, “that the the world should The present gal- + in hagre no gallery of art legy is housed inadequate the National Museum Building. Scores f% fine palntings are stored away or Itdlig in obscure parts of the building. Firthermore, the failure to provide an addquate home for art treasdures is pre- vehting the Government from receiving many donations of patriotic art col- lectors.” STATISTICAL SOCIETY PLANNED IN CAPITAL Inportatice of Statistics Is Out- lined to Local Men by Dr. Willford I. King. 3 use unjversal, and professional statisti- cal work is making increasingly im- portant contributions to national weltare, Dr. Wiliford I. Kiug, author and promineft *statistician, declared in an addfess before a group of Washington statisticians at the Grace Dodge Hotél to consider the guestion of forming the Washington Statisti- cal Society. A committee to make a further study of the matter was ap- pointed and ordered to report later. “StatiSties is at preseint doing for economics and the other social sctences what mathematics did for astronomy, physics and chemistry,” safd Dr.', King. “The physical sciences were far ahead of the social ctences in percelving the importance of: the quantitative method of andlysis, but the surprising develop- mént of statistical technique in re- et years has made it possible for the social sclences to forge ahead at & rate so rapid that it is not im- possible that they will soon be wbreast of the physical sciences in théir ability to formulate precisely the laws upon which the social sciences are based.” Dr. E. Dana Durand of the Depart- ment of Commerce placed before the members the proposal to organize thé Washington Statistical Society as « branch of the.American Statistical Assoclation. I6llowing general dis- ion. of .the plan, Dr. Durand, Dr. Joseph A, HIll, E. Goldenveiser, ¥red G. Tryon and Lewis Meriam were appointed to study the matter and report later, Dr. Hill, senior statistician of the Census - Bureau, presided. Included among ‘the Washington statisticians present were William M. Steuart, J. H. Parmalee, O. C, Stine, M. O. Lor- eng, John Cummings and Dorsey W. Hyqe, ir. AMERICAN DEMAND AIDS ORIENTAL RUG INDUSTRY Mhkers of High Grades in China {z apd Japan Find Trade Augment- { ed, Expert Says. BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. Brfiable to The Star and Chicago Daiiy News. NDON, March 21.—"America’s de- hd for high-grade Oriental rugs 1a gradually bringing about a renais- safice in the rug-making industry of China and India, which in recent aedrs has been in a state of sad de- terioration,” the writer is told by fheodore Hinske, who has just com- plgted for Marshall Fleld & Co. one ofithe most thorough inspections of thé rug market ever undertaken. Minske visited Japan, China, Manila, !ngn, Persla, Turkey and Greece, buy- n stimes m thousands of Oriental rugs— &oi direct from desert-weary catdvans, sometimes in bazaars and océasionally from home factories in wut-of-the-way villages. e traveled by almost every known method of transportation, through warsinfested China, over the moun- taih ranges of Kashmir, and by camel trala through northern Persia (fopyright, 1925, by Chicago Datly News.) 70 BROADCAST LECTURES. Mexican Department of Education Announces Program. he Mexican Department of Educa- %ioh at Mexico City has arranged to Prdadcast concerts and lectures thiough its radio station, the Mexican Enbassy here was informed today. CZE Is the station call, pronounced ay, Say-tah, A The ‘hours will #o from S 10 9:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays for concerts and daily from 8 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. for lectures. No Sunday broadcasting will be ate tempted. A 4b0-meter wave length will be used, with & 866-kilowatts frequency. Thers is more than an hour's differ- ence between Mexican and Eastern standard time, noon in the Bastern time belt being 10:2L-Am, in Mexico Citohy | s i b it ot these pro- | with | in a part of | of statistics has become | used | Senator | Will be pressed vigorously at the next; MABEL WILLEBRANDT. RS, WILLEBRANDT STAYS ON THE 108 Woman in Justice Depart- ment Likely to Remain There Until Bench Calls. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. In all the shiftings, the comings and the goings at the Department of Justice, one figure remains_tranquil, unflurried, imperturbable. Tt is that of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, one of the ablest lawyers her sex has ever produced: a tireless, un- swerving Government official — the Assistant Attorney General in charge lof the enforcement of the prohibi- tion laws. ' 1tis not Mrs {tion to remain alv Willebrandt's ambi- ays in the Depart- ment of Justice, altheugh there are plenty of men in public 1ife today {who regard her as timber of cabinet rank Mrs. Whlebrandt would fice to be {the first woman Federal judge. It seemed a short time ago that she would realize this ambition. Presi- dent Coollidge was consldering her {for a vacancy on the benca in the northern “distrivt of Californin. But Mrk. Willebrafldt hails from southern California; and 42 you have cver been to the Golden State and know what the people of the north think of the {people of the sauth, and vice versa, vou will undérstand why sométhing akin to an avalanche suddenly fell upon the defefiséless heéad of the un- wary occupant of the White House. While political pressure from northern California was being exerted against Mrs. Willebrandt there was plenty of other political pressure in her favor. It came from some of the “wat” Eastern States where Mrs. Willebrandt has been cleaning out some of the federal officials whom she thought too lax in thelr attitude toward the life monument to Mr. | Volsicad. Some of the Eastern poll- [tictans bad “bean up agalhst the Willebrandt o zz Saw and they yearned for h# to take her place on the bench in California or any other dtgtant.cline. The Hawailan of the Philfppine Tdlands would have suited them bhetter, of the supreme bench df Pago Pago best of all. if there is 4 supremé bench at Pagp Pago. _ © Thers Is talk that Mrs. Willebrandt {is again under considerition for the Federal jgdgeship just madé vacant in the southern district of Cadifornia. TFhen the Los Angelan Assistant At- toFfiey Genéral inay come into her awn. When President Coolidge failed to name hér for the northern judge- ship, it ‘'was reported he had reached a decision ageinst womeh fof such Hositions, This the President has denied. He has had Eome thought that perhaps the States ought to lead in the naming of women to the high- er judgeships. Othérwise it might come about that a woman Federal judge might be named to preside in a State which did nof hold women eligible for its State courts. Seeks Sex Equality. Mrs. Willebrandt is not seeking a judgaship because she is a woman, but in spite of it. When she accepted her present positien in the Depart- ment of Justice she did so on the condition that she was not to be set apart for so-called womah's work, but was to bé considered .on a par with the man assistants. Perhaps this is why Attorney General Daugherty gave her the hardest job in the depart- ment—prohibition. Maybe some of the “higher-ups” didn’t think she could swing it. But she did. And she has brooked no interference, lis- téned to no influence. When a cer- tain San Francisco bootlegger King lost his case In ths United States Supréme Court and some friends were attempting to hold up the commit- ment papers until after Christmas, Mrs. Willebrandt heard of the scheme, got the papers, dispatched them by air mail, and had the satis- taction of getting the Jawbreaker in the trenches by the happy Yuletide. Mrs. Willebrandt has one feminine trait strongly developed. She is a great believer in palmistry. “Let me see your hand'” she says when in doubt.” Government officials who have tested her ability in this line have learned much of truth about themselves. To be able to read charactsr, to temper justice with mercy, te be steeped in the law—these are the attributes of the judge. Mabel Wille- brandt may yet be “Mra. Justice Willebrandt.” “And why should the sacred bench even of the Bupreme Court be denied to her? (Copyright, 1920.) o ALIEN PROPERTY POST REMAINS UNDECIDED W. W. Wilson and S. W. Abbott Considered by President to Suc- ceed Thomas W. Miller. President Coolidge, in considering the resignation of Thomas W. Miller as alien property custodian, is can- vassing @ fleld of men proposed for the post, but thus far has made no selection. Mr. Miller first submitted his resig- nation several months ago, when elected president of the Fidac, an in- ternational World War veterans' or- ganization, and renewed it several days ago, when he announced he was leaving ~for Europe to take active charge of the organization's affairs. Instead of accepting the resignation at the time it was first submitted, the President asked him to take a leave of absence. Now, however, ho is considering a 1ist of names for the appointment, in~ cluding W. W, Wilson, general coun- sel to the custodian, and Seawell W. Abbott, managing director of the cus. todian’s offices o b i b S 5 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, HERRIT IS UPHELD N CHURCH DISPUTE {Deputies Vote Confidence in [ Goverriment Policy After ; Riotous Session. ! | By the Associatad Pross PARI h 2L—The French iernment's polley for maintaining in- |tact the separation of church and | state and applying the secularization {laws as paseed by previous pariia- | ments, was Indorsed by a substantial | majority in the Chamber of Deputies | vesterduy at a sitting fllled with d order. Governm 1 nt supporters to the num- i ber of voted confidence in the government. Ninety-five votés weré | recorded against the proposal. Most of these voles were cast by moderate Republicans of the Poinearé and Mil- lerand schools. The members of the right showed their disapproval of the motion of confldence by abstaining from voting. The vote was taken after the premler had made a stubborn defense of his policy. During it he attacked the recent manifesto of the French cardinals and archBlshops. which pro- tested against the government's ef- forts to make the non-denominational laws éffsctive in Alsace, and com- pared the “Christianity of bankers” with the “Christianity of the cata- combs Deputy Heavily Panished. The premier's denlal of any intent presecute Catholics was received with jeers by the opposiiion, which booed, hissed and otherwise inter- rupted him. The marquls de la Fer- ronave's repeated cries of “retract!” finally brought upon the belligerent deputy the most severs penalty that can be imposed—censure and tem- porary exclusion. The pénalty had not been imposed bafore in 15 years it bars the marquis from the mext 15 sittings, imposes & fine of & month's pay and subjects him to arrest and three days’ Imprisonment in the chamber building if he re-enters it auring prescribed period. The premier's speech was inter- fupted at the outset by Abbe Le- mire's admissfon that the manifesto of the cardinals had ‘‘troubled many consclences in profoundly Catholic communities.” To this M. Herriot re- plied: 3 Will Protect All Seets. “We deeply respect all religious convictions. We wlill not allow any injury to their liberty, which we have to safeguard.” Then turning to the opposition, the premicr gaid: “These gentlémen are grieved to hear e pronounce words of tolerance.” The manifesto of the cardinals, as- serted M. Herriot, “was nol the er- ror of a moment or the work of one or two prelates; it was the conclusion of an entire campaign and its appli- eation was one of an entire doetrine The premier sald the French gov- érnment must protect solemnly against the speech of Pops Pius de-! livered February 10 of the present year “reproaching the government for following an ungenerous and un- French policy.” But the tumult came when the premler, reading the cardinal's ex- hortation to bring pressure to bear by bankers and captains of industry asked: “Where in this is the teaching of Jesus, who chased the money ehangers out of the temple2” “The laic school,” the premier went on when the outburst had ceased, “is not against religion. It is designed only to unite poor and rich childre who hitherto have been separated These words were greeted with frantic applause from the majority section of the chamber. “Lalclsm,” said the premier, “does not deny thé collaboration which Christianity has given civilization— Christianity in its forms of primitive purity, when it was not the bankers'| Christianity but that of the cata- combs.” Here bedlam broke looss and many pairs of deputies in the aisles and in | the open space under the rostrum began slugging matches, in which, However, blows seldom landed square- ly. During the meleé Paul Painleve, prasident of the chamber, put on his top hat and left the rostrum, thereby suspending the sitting. to O LENTEN PROGRAM ENLISTS ABLE AID Dean Wilbur and Other Prom- inent Men to Speak at Midday Services. A list of prominent speakers for the midday Lenten services at Keith's Theater for next week has been an- nounced through the Laymen's Serv- ice Association of the Diocese of Washington, under whose auspices the services are being conducted, in co-operation with the Washington Federation of Churchee, Dean Willlam A. Wilbur, of George Washington University will be the speaker at Monday's services, while prayer gerv- ices will be conducted by Rev. Wil- liam B, LaRue and Holcombe G. Johnson will be the presiding layman. The services begin promptly at 12:30 o'clock and end at 1 o'clock each day. The program for the remainder of next week is as follows: Tuesday, Rev. Dr. 2. B, T. Phillips of the Church of the Epiphany, will be the speaker, with Rev. C. M. Kreidler, conducting prayer services and W. W. Byerett, the presiding layman. Wednesday, Prof. Louls D, Bliss, president of the Vaughn Class of Cal- vary Baptist Church, will deliver the address, while prayer services will be onducted by Rev. Godfrey Chobot and William P. Metcalt will preside. Thursday, Rev. Henry Lubeck will deliver the address, while Rev. Kyle Booth will conduct the prayer serv- ices, and Commissioner of Patents Thomas N. Robertson will be the pre- siding layman. Edward C. Bendere, a business man of Philadelphla, is to be the speaker at the final servicgs for the week, Fri. day, while divine blessing will be in- voked by Rev. Charles Abbott, and Willam Compton will be the presid- ing layman. B Services are to be broadcast each day by station WRO, and there is to be special musio Monday, Wednesday and Friday, provided by special sing- ers, members of quartéts and choirs of Washington churches. There is no admiseion charge and no collection taken at the services, which are open to the public. Communicates With New York. Dr. Alexander H. Rice, a New York surgeon and explorer, who is 1,200 miles up the Amazon River in the Braszilian jungles, where he is study- ing tropical diseases, is in touch with his oity every night. He communi- cate with his family through the 50- watt short-wave transmitter owned by Ellison Thompson. In this way he PRESIDENT PLAN SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1925. ce Department; Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, M. 0. wecretary to Commissioners, and Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph. NING VACATION IN NEW ENGLAND COMING SUMMER Date Not Yet Selected, But Has in Mind Brief Sojourn at His Father’s Home—Summer W hite House at Swam. President is going from Washington sometime this com- it Coolidge away ing Summer for a vacation, now baen learred definitely. When he will go, and where, yet remain to be determined. The Presi- dent has Indicated to friends that he will go to New England. He has in mind a 10-day or two-week visit to his father's home at Plymouth, and it has been suggested that he estab- lish a Summer White House during July and August at Swamscott, Mass an attractive spot on the north shore, just 20 minutes out of Boston Frank W. Stearns, the President’s intimate friend, has a Summer home at Swamseott, and it is understood to have leased an éntire estate of six acres adjoining his place to ha ready for the President and his fam- ily when tha former makes a de- 1..D. . HERE PLAN FIGHT UPON OUSTER Both Factions to Go Before General Congress of Society to Ask Reinstatement. The District of Columbia division of the United Daughters of the Con- federacy, whic ational organization following its inability to settle & two-year-old row over the election of officers is looking forward to the next generali congress of the society in November as the most propitious time tc fight for re- instatement. With the first shock of the national executive board's drastic decision over, leaders in both factions here, one led by Mrs. Albion Wilkins Tuck, defacto president general of the Dis- trict, and the other by Mrs. Drury Conway Ludlow, selected for the same office by the insurgent group, began looking around today for a proper method of to bring peace out of chaos. Hope of restoring peace without an- other election, however, seems as dis- tant now as it was when Mrs. Lud- low and six of the leading chapters walked out of the District convention nearly two vears ago, charging Mrs. Tuck’s adherents with illegalities in voting and adopting steam-roller methode, Both sides remain adamant in their belief that the other side is Wrong. A ruggestion has been made that the national officers be invited to comé to Washington soon and pre- eids over a special convention, at which an entirely new set of officers might be selected. It is not thought, however, that the national organiza- tion would be willing to assume such responsibility, even if the Washing- ton chapters agreed to the plan as a possible solution for their dilemma. Term It Vindieation While Mrs. Ludlow declared lead- ers in_her faction were writing to Mrs. Frank Harrold, national presi- dent general, thanking her for the decision on the basis that it was a vin- dication of their views, lieutenants of Mrs. Tuck's forces declared they saw in the edict of suspension noth- ing but 'an indication that the na- tlonal organization expected the Dis- trict members to clean thelr own house. They declared they could find no_vindication Yor any one. In the meantime, (he 13 chapters here will continus to tfunétion as separate units until the coavention meets in Hot Springs, Ark., in the Fall, unless they are informed by Mrs. Harrold that they are not even recoghized as belng part of the so- clety, which they frankly do not éx- pect. But mo far as organization goes, there is none hers now for the United Daughters of the Confeder- acy. It is completely dead. BUSINESS IMPROVING, GRANT TELLS COOLIDGE President Expected to Accept Na- tional Chamber’s Invitation to Speak. President Coolidge was assured to- day by President Grant of the United States Chamber of Commerce that business conditions generally through- out the United States are satisfactory and that prospects for still better conditions are promising. There was a slackening up a month or s0 ago, but reports from all guar- térs are to the effect that basio com- modities are again on the upward tfend, according to Grant. The lat- ter's visit to the White House was primarily for the purpose of inviting the President to address the United States Chamber of Commerce May 20, when it will formally dedicate its home on Connecticut avenue and H street. The President took this in- vitation under advisement, with the intimation that he would be presents apd in all. likelihaod mill engaky has | was ousted from the | scott Suggested. cision about his plans for the S mer. Just when the Coolidges will don Washington depends largel upon the weather here, While d cussing this with friends yesterday afternoon the President is underatoou to have said that if it remaine cool during June and July there is no reason to seek other climates Lefore August. He thinks it is best not to remain hers throughout the heat of the Summer. He is of the opinion that he will be benefited by going to a higher altitude and a cooler cli- mate, The frequently um- ar.- President, however, has very sald that he and Mrs. Coolldge were very comfortable dur. Ing the stay at the White House throughout last Summer, they hav- ing remained here except for the 10 days’ visit to Plymouth 21,000 Acres Added To W hite Mountain National Forest Purchase Increases Gov- ernment-Owned Area to 462,200 Acres Addition 21,000 acres to the White Mountain National Forest in | New Hampshire was announced today {by the National Forest Reservation | Commission. The purchase increased |that Government-owned area within | the forest to 452,200 acres, represent- |Ing an investment of $3,370,000. Ry later acquisitions it is plannéd to jexpand the forest to 960,600 acres. | Purchase of the 21,000 acres added |to the Government timber reserve, | 33,000,000 feet of softwood and more | than 35,000,000 feet of hardwood, and the area is expected to produce an- nually 7,000 cords of softwoed and 2,000,000 feet of hardwood. The total stand of timber in the forest is es- timated to be nearly one billion board feet of merchantable stock, of which more than half is softwood sultable for making print paper. of i { | | i | | the | applications for seats last | plications ORATORY CONTEST SEATS IN DEMAND | Washington Auditorium Ob- tained to Accommodate Big Attendance Expected. To meet the unprecedented demand for seats at tha final 1925 national oratorical contest, May 8, the Wash- ington Auditorium, with a seating capacity of close to 8,000 people, has been obtained For weeks requests for reservations for that evening have been pouring in at contest headquarters, 323 Star Building. Beginning with a few let- ters shortly after the announcement of the second national contest early in February, these requests have been increasing in number until they now show elearly that fully twice as many people will seek accommodations for finals this year as last. Big Demand for Seats. The finals for 1924 were held in Memorial Continental Hall, from which approximately 5,000 people were turned away on the evening of the meeting. The growth in popular interest, even over that of last vear. {s shown in the fact that wheféas vear did not begin coming in until only a few weeks before the meeting itself. this year the demand aiready is as heav. avery day as it was last year on the very eve of thé gathering. Applic tions are being filed in the order in which they are received, and will be taken care of in the same order at the proper time. An interesting featurs of the ap- now coming in is that a number of them are from those high in official and diplomatic circles. In addition there has been a growing stream of applications from various parts of the country. Delegations which came hundreds of miles last year for the meeting are aireads writing in expressing their intention of doing the same thing this year. Expect Brilliant Audience. The audience which will hear the seven bast speakers in ¢the high schools of the Nation contest for honors and $5,000 in prizes will be one of the most brilliant in the his- tory of the National Capltal. Elaborate preparations are being made for broadcasting the program of the meeting, 80 that it will be possible for oratorical “fans” outside of Washington, who are unable to come here for the national finals, to follow the contest word by word PEALS OF BIG BEN STRIKING HOUR IN LONDON HEARD HERE WRC Rebroadcasts Music and Greetings to America From British Station—Signals Span Ocean in Fiftieth of a Second—Will Try Tonight. American jazz music played by an orchestra in the ballroom of the Savoy Hotel in London, 3,000 miles away, again last night unexpectedly en- tertained WRC's audience. It was the sécond successful experiment of its kind in international broadcasting. Just about 6:20 o'clock an abrupt halt was called on WRCs weekly question box period, and a voice with B strange British accent broke in with “Hello, America! This is the Hotel Savoy broadcasting from Lon- don, England, station 2L0.” Then came mome perfectly gond American jazz pieces, such as “June Night,” “All Alone,” “Me and My Boy Friend” and “No Wonder.,” At 6:45 and 7 o'clock the chimes of *Big Ben” pealed its mldnight signal across the seas. Try Again Tonight. The London concert, according to the critical fans and radio engineers, did not come through as clearly as it did during the initial transatiantic broadcast last Saturday night. An- other attempt will be riade tonight to pick up the London program and WRC advises its listeners to stick close to their sets between 6 and 7 o'elock. ) Just how the Londom music was {Drousht 0. ahe Amistéan recsiving s6ts is & noteworthy example of radio. engineering and co-ordination of radio facilities. Indeed, never before huntil the Radio Corporation of Amer- ica started the trafsatlantle radio feats, had & message or music been broadcast from one station to be pleked up by another station and re~ ‘broadeast from thers to be picked up by & third station for rebroadcasting to the radio audience. The signals were sent over land wires from the Hotel Savoy in Lon- don to the high-power station at Chelmsford, Eng., with call letters 5XX. There the sjgnals were trans- ferred to a 20,000-watt radio tele- phone transmitter for transmission of a 1,600smeter wave. On this side of the Atlantic these signals were in- tercepted on a superheterodyne re- ceiver operating In conjunction with a 10-mile wave antenna, located at Belfast, Me., thus spanning the ocean, oF a distance somewhat less than 3,000 miles. The greatly attenuated radio tele.’ phone signals reaching Belfast from Chelmsford had to be amplified al- most countless times befors being fed into a short-wave transmitter for rebrosdoasting. The next link in obain was provided by short wa fast and the laboratory of the Radio Corporation of America, in New York City. Here Belfast's wave was picked up on a modified regenoflex circujt receiver designed espectally for short wave work, and again reinforced by means of special audio frequency amplifiers. Thus far the London signals wers brought down as far as the outakirts of New York City. The next step was to relay the reinforced signals over land wires to the control room of station WJZ in the Aeollan Hall Building, in the heart of New York City. Again the attenuated signals were rejuvenated by the audio fre- quency process before they could be fed into the usual transmitting ap- paratus for retransmission on the usual wave length of 455 meters. With a click of a switchboard key, WRC was cut in on the circult, and London’s audience Was proportionate- Iy enlarged. 8o, by means of land wires, high- power transatlantid radio telephone, super-sensitive transatlantic recep- tion, short wave transmission and r ception, land wires and retransmission by WJZ and WRC, the musical strains of the Hotel Savoy Orchestra in Lon- don set American feet in action at the sameé time that our English cousins were dancing to the music of the same orchestra. Despite the distances spanned and the various links in the chain stretch- ing from the Hotel Savoy to the re- ceiving sets in Washington, it is esti- mated by radio engineers that le than one-fiftieth of a second was consumed In the transmission. The experiments in transatiantic re. ception are part of the extensive re- arch work being conducted by RCA engineers, and has for its ultimate goal the development of international broadcasating. SEES WORLD COURT SOON NEW YORK, March 21.—George W. Wickersham, former Attorney Gen- eral, now one of the American rep- resentatives to tha League of Na- tions commission on the codification of international laws, sailed today on th steamship France to attend a conference of the commission at Ge- ersham, “that thinge are rapidly de- veloping here in America which will 6 | make for a complete adoption of the ‘World Court by the American Déodle awhich spanned the gah between Bel-'not Jater than this coming Winter® | ing, | The Washington Quartet will be Britain Testing Magnetic Bomb To Fight Planes Missile Is Launched From Ground, and Artracted By Metal in Craft. ted Press. March 21—The West minster Gazette repofis that secret experiments are In progress with one of the strongest anti-alrcraft weap- ons ever devieed. Experts belleve that it will be Infinitely more potent in aerial warfare than torpedoes and submarines in naval fighting, the newspaper saye. It consists of a bomb which, when within a certain radius of an airplane, “responds to the magnetic influence set up by the metal parts of the airplane,” which influence gives the bomb increased velocity toward the plane No amount of maneuvering by the pilot, according to the description of the newspaper, will enable him to escape, and the plane is doomed. The bomb {8 launched from the ground, and, if found practicable, will elimi- nate the neéd of alrcraft guns —e INDUSTRIAL SHOW 10 OPEN TONIGHT Exhibit of Washington Prod- ucts Ranges From Art Work to Auto Trucks. Washington's first pretentious in- dustrial exposition, embellished by éxhibits depicting activities in the various Government departments, ri construction wards in the hospitals, public schools and welfare agencies as well as the leading artists in the Capital, will open tonight in the new Auditorium under the auspices of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce. One hundred and seventy-five booths covering a floor area of 50,000 square feet, contain the exhibits of the com- mercial manufacturing industries of the Natlonal Capital. Those repre- sented include the printing and allied industries such as lithograph- photo-engraving, stereotyping, photography, electric plating, steel and copper plate engraving and hookbinding; the making of paper and paper products of different kinds; flour and grist mill products; food. bakery and confectionery products; beverages of great variety; clothing for men, women and childrer jewelry; tollet articles; machinery and devices of varfous kinds; a variety of materials entering into the con- struction of bulldings: articles of fur- nishings for the buildings; ice: ele tric power, gas for illumination and heat: automobile trucks and numerous other things Elaborate arrangements have been made for entertaining the visitors through the week of the exposition one r\f”(hc headliners of the entertainment bill. Amplifiers Throunghont Hall. The three District Commissioners Cuno H. Rudolph, James F. Oyster and Col. J. Franklin Bell—will be on the reception eommittee for the open- ing tonight. Isaac Gans, former president of the chas of the committee. He has made an arrangement for subdividing the ri ception committee, assigning certain members duties for specific nights. The public speech system of ampli- fication has been Installed throughout the auditorium, so that persons any place in the building can hear the entertainment. A vast quantlty of foodstuffs and souvenirs will be given to visitors. The manufacturers of foodstuffs have planned to samples of their products, while the manufacturers of household and other articles wiil distribute minjature replicas of their products. In addition to the booths occupied by the commercial concerns, the public | schools will have exhibits in 10. Booths also have been assigned to the Government Printing Office, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the naval gun factory of the Wash- ington Navy Yard, the hydrographic office of the the Washington Soclety of Artists, the patients at Walter Reed, Mount Alto, tuberculosis and naval hospitals and the municipal playground department. 1s Proud of Exhibit. “These exhibits of our local indus- tries,” said Charles J. Stockman, gen- eral chaifman of the committee in charge of the exhibit, “should leave us with a feeling of pride in the courage of our citizens who have as- sumed and successfully borne the risks of attending the establishment and conduct of their enterprises here, and should foster in us a determina- tion to support them to the end that the interests of our city may be fully promoted; the exhibits of our boys and girls of our public schools should engender'a feeling of security that the industrial interests of Wash- ington may be safely turned over to their care when they are ready to assume them; the Government ex- hibits will be Interesting and educa- tive; the exhibits of our artists will appeal to our csthetic senses and ex- plain our high standing as an art center; and, in. addition to all of these, there will be an exhibit which we should approach with a fecling of reverence and gratitude to Creator for protecting us in the stress of war and to ouf splendid young men who wére the Instruments of that protection and who are now, though their bodles are racked with pain, occupying their time in producing things which add to our comfort and happiness.” 'he reception committee tonight will be composed of the District Commis- siners, Dr. L. G. Battle, Morris Caf- ritz, Daniel J. Callahan, William Dove, William Gude, P. J. Haltigan, Herman A. Schultels, D. A. Skinner and Hoke Smith. 67 Commereial Exhibits. The commerclal exhibitors follow: ‘Washington Gas Light Co., Washing- ton Spring Works, N. Capace & Co., National Wood Working Cé., Inec. Columbla Iron Works, Inc.; Washing- ton Tilo Dealers’ Association, United States Poster Co., Miss M. Bauer, Tol- man Laundrles, Southern Maryland Immigration Commision, Chesapeake Beach Hotel Co., S. & H. Heating Co., Belipse Rug Co., Edmonds Contract- ing Co., Scott Gas Appliance Co., American Ice Co., Penso & Eresa, Far-Well Baking Co., Columbla Orangs Crush Bottling Co., Razo Man- ufacturing Co. Carry Ioe Cream Co., Peoples Drug Stores, Ernest Brothers, Mary P. Mitchell, Frank H. Edmonds, A. G. Herrmann, Langland Auto Seals & Novelty Co., Capitol Bedding Co., Wil- liam Hahn & Co., Wottstatt Radlator and Fender Works, National Cush Reglster Co. Lofer Provision Co., American Dairy Supply Co., Cor- by ‘Baking Co., Witt-Will Co., Inc.; N. Auth Provision Co., Foy Radio Co. Vasco. Products Co., Inc.; Southland Battery Co., W. Stokes Sammons Shade Shop, Portland Cement Asso- ciation, Southern Oxygen Ci u Grape Co., Blossom Inn, Delco Elec tric Co., Connecticut-Copperthite Ple Co., Robert N. Harper Co., Holmes & Sons Baking Co, Chapin-Sacks Cor- Sales Cay immensely | mber, is chairman | give | the | our | 3-YEAR-OLD CHILD, .~ HITBYAUTO, DIES | Declared to Have Run in Front of Policeman’s Car. Other Accidents. Five-vear-old William Lee, ored, 824 Twenty-third street, vic of the seventeenth fatal traffic ace dent since January 1, died at Eme gency Hospital at 11 o'elock night as a result of injuries receive about 4:45 o'clock In the afternoo when knocked down by the auten bile of Policeman Harry C. Blac man of the sixth precinct in front 836 Twenty-third street Blackman was driving slowly alons Twenty-third strest, it is stated when the colored boy ran directly front of his car so suddenly Blackman was unable to prevent t accident. Lee's skull was fractured and bodv bruised. Bla took the injured boy to the and was paroled to appear at ar quest at the morgue today, st whic & verdict given that the death wa accidental Search for a wanted in a th Florence street, the vict Warner Fifth eets, proved unsu Polica told the driver was car that had been taken witho sent of the owner, Joseph Angle, Abell Md., was seriously traffic accident near T B, after 6 vesterday afternoo He was as a result of the overturn 1otor cycla driver by Kenneth Daley, 603 Thirteenti street, when Daley mads an effor to avold a collision with an automo bile Angle, unconscious, was brought to the city and taken to Providence Hos pital. He regained conscious iast night, spent a comfortable night and was reported much better th morning. Others Are Injured. Lawrence Willlams, colored knocked down in front of his at 2500 Georgia avenue last night the automobile of Charles J. Bede 4418 Georgia avenue, and t hurt Frederick Carter, 60, 2 California streat, was knocked dow by an automobile at Connecticut Florida avenues night about o'clock and slightly injured. He gi aid at Emergency Two-year-old Olin 1621 Twentieth street, ran in fror an aute driven by Jesse Thomas, 1 ew Hampshire avenur while playing in front of his hc vesterday afternoon, was stru knocked down. The chjld was treated at Emergency Hospital for injury to his head Daniel Cameron, walked against the Rev, B. Andrew Matzen New York avenue and Nint vesterday afternoon and wa n and slightly bruised his ma oung colored mar hit-and-run _accider Sherr, 35, 1615 Fift Mary Cou Md., short] st injured £ of 2 last ¥ C. Gocheno 66, 440 Park road automobile Rerwyn, Md HINTED IN BRITAIN Waning of Dennistoun Case Brings Rumors of Greater Sensa- tions to Come By the Associated Press. LONDON, March the English public which is i in the more piquant doings of Mayfair already looking forward to the ending of the Dennistoun case ear next week, and is wondering what oming next in the of fashional court proceedings. While the rules of English courts forbid newspaper revelation of the d tails of cases in advance, it has bec |intimated that uniess a settlement is | reached shortly there will be another “society trial”® within the near fu ture, and, while the names are n | mentioned. it is said that persons of higher rank than any of those i volved in recent sensational cases will appear and that titled celebrities will enter the witness box It aiso s Intimated that the persons involved will not be confined to resi- dents of the British Isles | Meanwhile the greatest interest centered in the winding up of t Dennistoun trial, a verdiet being ex- pected from the jury Monday ot Tuesday. The plaintifi’s counsel is expected to sum up on Monday morn |ing, presenting the case of Mrs. Dor othy Muriel Pennistoun, whe is sulr her former husband, Lieut. Col | Onslow Dennistoun, now the h of the Dowagr f narvon, for money claims she loaned diverce. GETS 3-YEAR SENTENCE. tess Car Dennistoun before their Cou Mrs him Married Man Convicted on Charge of Pandering. Justice MeCoy in Crimina Division 2 today sent Hart G. Browr a married man, to the pentitentiary for three years on a pandering charge Attorney E. Russell Kelly ed t court to take into considefation that Brown has an old mother, and not to send him to a prisen where she couid not visit him Theodore Dyer, colored, was given one year at Occoquan for breaking into the warehouse of Paul Maisal December 20. Harty G. Culver, 17 vears old, was placed on probation for three years He had been charged with two cases of joy-riding and one of steallng an automobile. Probation for one year was extended to Bteve Atkins, colored, joy-riding, and Eiizabeth Webster, colored, grand larceny., - I _Chief ELDRIDGE ACCEPTS DIFFICULT POST-AS TRAFFIC DIRECTOR (Continued from First Page.) ministration of the traffic law, and it is expected that a considerable portion of this money will be de- voted to trying out for the first time autematic traffic signal devices in ‘Washington. The Commissioners unexpectedly deelded on Mr. Eldridge late yester- day atternoon. ‘Following a board meeting at the District Bulldine, Commisstoners Rudolph and Bell went to see Commissioner Oyster, who is at home because of iliness, and upon their return they announced the ke- lection. Towel Service Co., Poster Crafts Co Ray Ol Burner Co., Caro Flavoring Co., Zerds Products Co., American Blectrical Co., Wilkins-Rogers Mill- ing Co., Washington Railway & Elec- trie Co., Eagle Beading Co., 8. Cor- bett, Capital Traction Co., the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephons Co, Ad~ dressograph, Ca,and Klpntvates Cos.