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T ALSTEDTOU. S, IN FOREIGN LEGAON Identities in Noted Group Al- ways Doubtful as No Ques- tions Are Asked. Corresponde ra of the Associated Press. Febru Approxi- mately 40 self-st ans are serving in the fumous Forelgn Legion of the French army, scattered in Algeria, Morocco, {« and Tonkin, but how mar that two-score are ™ ¢ the United Stat the F war d ment is un- able t ¥. All it knows is that within the past three vears 40 men deserit themselves Americans 7 reason as for lack of accurate on thes self-exiled or self- Americans is that the French quires absolutely no identity ants for service in its editionary corps. A has never been any than Frankfurt-on-the- present himself before a cer and jo the legion nam Otto Schmidt, born in Hoboken Simi- join up as Stanislas American, born and Provided the ap- physical require- fairly stiff, the authorities make “No questions rule. Offer Refuge.” on KEtrangere Wwas r refug according mini: r of King Louis Phil- who or zed it in 1831, “to who, by reason of state of Europe, have borders and whose \ployed and harassed onstitute a publie 1831 membership was thrown open to From the beginning of of nearly 100 years the rmally been a good 40 German in makeup. cording to the French 1s that high perce slightest difference alty either to is Philippe or the tricolor under which France's armies marched duri the reign of m 111 and the present repub- regime The glowing citations which the polyglot warriors amassed during the late war are ample proofs that the famous song, papers of apy wned ex German who we Main may recruiting ¢ er the Americ: larly a Sicry brec Pole ki in Clevel meet Kkin n the estigation, ked” Is the Founded “to foreig troubled ers Having no fatherland, rance Is our s no mere poe Now Hax The legion's gery 00 Members. &th is now close men. In times of peace its are normally not employed proy t in the colo- regulations provide that legionnajre who enlists for a ear first term of service shall Africa to the Far For the legion command tries to old recruiting promise rmy and see the world.” 20, stre to Fran nies the fiv East and back the French hig live up.to t f a large non-commissio number of Ger- ed officers tends However, show good admitted as er a six- Opportunity French officer: held out to all who show the man it more officers who can records may be second leutenants th training perio attendance at the ng schools i inks of legionn necessa tude Among officers with the legion th are known to be bonafide Americans who joined the force during the late war. One cer- tified American Is serving as a first geant. But of the remainder of | reputed 40 it own in offi- | al quarters, the “refuge, further in- now serving idea of are not to be formed. nxious { SIMPLE DEVICE SAVES LIVES AT CROSSINGS | Bottle-Neck Curb Arrangement Forces Autoists to Use Due Caution. Assaciate TALLAHASS Florida Press, EE, State Fla., road le z pensive to cut down rail- accidents. One &s an experiment rent plans to build ate-wide road con- promise crossing ready o nd th others struction program The device now In use is located on State road No. 1 at Cottondale, where the highway crosses lanta and Andrews Bay r 1t ists of two parkw. either side of the railrc inclosed by a concrete curb which divides the travel, causing the motorist going in one direc on the de of tI while traffic in the opposite direction goes to the left. One tion of curb hegins 70 feet from the end of the railroad ties on of the railroad, and is con- struete & the center line of the highway to the end of the ties. An- other section begins at the same point and is constructed in an arc of a circle on the right of the center of the highway, and intersects the first section of curb 20 feet from the end of the ties. The greatest distance be- tween these curbs is 10 feet, and the curve is sufficient to make it neces- sary to slow down to get through. A sign designating the railroad and a warning to go slow is 1 in the parkways at, the ex- : ends away from the rallway as iwning ‘during the day, and a red lector is placed at the same loca- tion as & warning at night. Flowers and shrubbery may be planted in the parkways to beautify the spots. e Lynchburg College Tutors Resign. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., March 28—Dr. Bruce l. Kershner, for seven years the head of the biblical dep:wrtment of Lynchburg College, has rusigned to chair or New Testament ture in the Butler Religion, Butler College, Indianapolls 1nd. Mrs: Kershner, also a member. of the local faculty, goes to the Butler school. either side crossin Claims Coffee Championship. George Bostick, who is health and building inspector of Bradley Beach, one of the pobpulous Summer resorts between Atlantic City and Asbury rk, N. J. lays claim to being the coffee-drinking = champion of the United St Mr. Bostick says he has averaged 15 cups of coffee daily for vears, and Edward Ostrander of #ewark, N. J. who filed his claim to the coffes-drinking championship with Secretary of Commerce Hoover re- cently, averages only 12 cups daily. | the right | Good Citizenship Held One Effect Of Oratory Contest Will Teach Value of U. S. Constitution, Senator Shortridge Says. “The national oratorical contest on the Constitution is entitled to wide- spread support,” says Senator Short- ridge of California. “Nothing is more important at this time than Intelli- ent and patriotic | citizenship. Thi; 1 3 iovement should | 3 e doubly effective in that it will help thousands of voung people dur- ing their forma tive period to be- come acquainted with and attached to the basic prin- siples of the Amer. ican Government. “For years we this country been too to look abroad for our ideals of perfection, in art, govern- ment, literature, and, in fact, almost every line of human endeavor except business. And yet many of the most acu minds in Kurope realize and have for a decade or more realized that future world leadership rests with the United States. “In addition, the eyes of Europe have long been directed admiringly to- ward our political system with its nice balancing of governmental strength and findividual rights. It is only here at home that we have been ignortant of the value of our chief treasure— sound government—a treasure all the more remarkable in that it multiplies the value of all the other treasures that a people may possess or aspire to. ANTILIQUOR DRIVE OPENED IN BRAZI Prominent Newspaper Backs Prohibition—Lahorers Heavy Drinkers. in have Senator Shortridge, €AEer Correspondence of the Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Reports from Sao Paulo announce the opening of a prohibition campaign, the publicity to be in charge of a prominent newspaper, O Estado de sao Paulo. There are three temperance organ- izations in Brazil, International Order of Good Templars, with three chapters; the National League Against Alcohol, whose president is Dr. Miguel minister of agriculture, and a municipal club in Porto Alegre, Rio Sul, where the medical students have initiated a fight against intoxicating drinks. Drunkenness is not a vice of weal- thy and middle class Brazilians, who prefer light wines, soft drinks and mineral waters. Public saloons in Rio de Janeiro are as respectable and quiet as tea shops, and it is not un- common Brazilian and his wife enter a saloon at midnight for ice cream. Although the cit has more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, there are only three saloons which cater to prosper- ous business, the Brahma, the Na- tional and the American Bar. Thers are four additional public saloons in the city located in the principal ho- tels. All tea and coffee shops serve beer. February 2 the *almon, Grande du to see a Laborers Free Drinkers. Brazil's problem is among the la- borers, who drink large quantities of very strong rum. Scores of beer and rum shops are scattered through Rio de Janeiro in the districts inhabited by the poor people. The drink habit in the rural communities is said to be universal. Students of social conditions claim that a growing problem in Brazil is ncrease of the drug habit, espe- clally cocaine, morphine and hashish, Hyattsville Woman Dies at 92. Special Dispatch to The Star, HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 28 Mrs. Margaret Reed, 92 years old, died late today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. David E. Bell, Ed- monston road, Hyattsville, of compli- cations due to her age. She was a native of Hoeward County, Md. Fun- eral services will be held Monday at the M. E. Church of South Laurel, with burial in Ivy Hiill Cemetery, Laurel. Poland, Suspicious Of Chinese, Recalls Prewar Espionage Visits of 1,000 Orientals To Country Recalls 1914 Spy System. Correspondence of the Assoclated Press, WARSAW, Poland, March 2.—Fear- ing a so-called Chinese invasion be- cause of the visits to this country of nearly 1,000 Orlentals during the last few months, the Polish government has decided that no more Chinese wili be admitted until thelr applications have been passed upon by the War saw forelgn office. The Chinese gov- ernment, it is understood, is awaiting further detafls of the Polish_govern- ment’s action before taking up the question with the Warsaw officials. The invasion began last Fall, when Chinese peddlers began arriving in Warsaw with Chinese wares and cu- rios, most of them coming by way of serlin, where visas had been granted by the Polish consulate. Some weeks later several hundred additionul Chinese applied for permission to come to Warsaw and were granted visas, and early this year there were further applicants, until it is esti- mated that approximately 1,000 ped- ! dlers had visited the country, ail rep- resenting themselves to be trades- men. Recalling the fact that several months prior to the outbreak of-the war Poland, then under Russian rule, was visited by several thousand Chi- nese, all representing themselves to be tradesmen and speaking Russian and German fluently, the Polisn au- thorities have become suspicicus. They have received reports from their agents that some of the Orientals posing as tradesmen are in reality engaged in esplonage, probably for the Bolshevist governmen:z. They Sugar is dried means of warm air . in long cylindrical revolving speak Russlan well a erma and appear to be prosperous whether /60 Iuch- business q-noty SAN BLAS INDIANS A PEOPLE APART Living 400 Years Among Mixed Races, Tribes Boast Purest Racial Strains. The San Blas Indians of Panama, who recently rose against the Pana- man government, are unique among the coastal aborigines of both the Americas in remaining pure racially, according to a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the Na- tional Geographic Society. This s all the more remarkable, the bulletin points out, “because these people inhabit the portion of the mainland first visited by Europeans, and selected for their first attempt at continental colonization; and because control by Europeans has actually been in force all around them for more than 400 years. A Se: sland People. “The part of Panama which is usually spoken of more or 1éss loosely as ‘the San Blas territory’ begins about 60 miles east of the Atlantic end of the canal, and extends on east- ward toward the Colombian border,"” continues the bulletin. “It also ex- tends an indefinite distance inland.| The typical San Blas Indians, how- ever, are a sea-island people, and the center of their activity, on the numer- ous small islands in the Gulf of San Blas, is% sort of New World Venice. Like true Venetians, ‘they seem to ave taken up thelr abode on thesc islands as & measure of defense against their warlike kinsmen of the imterior. The Islands are almost ex- clusively dwelling places, and the Indians that inhabit them cross over to the mainland by day to harvest yams, plantains and other vegetables and frults from their jungle clear- ings, and to gather ivo: nuts and other jungle products. Some of the Indlans also live in villages along the coast of the mainland. “The San Blas Indians are not savages. They are at least semi- civilized, and are an orderly people not glven to encroachment on or aggression toward their neighbors. They have fought much during the past four centurles, but it has been the fighting of a people with their backs to a wall, who believe the wall is theirs, and who mean to defend it. Never Conquered. “The apparent attitude of the San Blas Indians might be described b a phrase borrowed from the ne psychology. They seem to have de- veloped a strong ‘superlority com- plex’ When the Spanlards began settling the Isthmus they could not see why their affairs should be inter- fered with and they set the Spaniards down as their implacable enemies. All efforts to conquer them or to mix With them were unsuccessful. They were pushed farther back, but always managed to hold for thelr own a considerable territory. Finally the Spanish settlers entered into a treaty with the San Blas people agreeing to remove all forts from their tervitory granting them a sort of au- my When the Isthmus passed to Colom- big, the San Blas maintained much the same attitude toward the Colombians | that they had maintained toward the Spanlards, and when Panama became indepegdent in 1903 they held aloof also fPdm the new government. They have had their own chiefs and have had little or nothing to do with the Panaman government. Every effort to bring them any closer under the con- trol of the republic starts an upris- ing like the recent one. “It has been the boast of the San Blas that their race has remained ab- solutely pure—that there is no such thing as a half-breed San Blas. This is the more remarkable because of the marked racial mixture nearby, where a fusion of whites, Indians and negroes is to be found. “The San Blas Indlans have gained a reputation for being inhospitable. Thie is not exactly an accurate estimate, They have learned to be suspicious of strangers and they will take no chances. Those having legitimate errands, such as traders, are treated courteously, but there is an unvarying rule that no stranger ehall remain ashore in their country over night. They look upon their iand as community property, but those who clear a space, have a recog- nized title to it while they use it. If a clearing is abandoned, it again becomes community property. Friit trees planted by an individual become his property. “Living as they do near the water, the San Blas are thoroughly at home in that element, belng excellent swimmers and canoeists. The chll- dren are given tiny canoes as soon as they are large enough to wield a lit- tle paddle, and are accomplished boatmen at an early age. The San Blas are sturdy and strong but of low stature, hargly averaging 5 feet in helght. There is a persistent tra- dition that the Indians not only go into the jungle to gather nuts and fruits, but also to work secret gold mines. They use a considerable amount of gold in personal adorn- ment, but whether their ornaments are chiefly heirlooms or whether fresh gold is constantly nfade into these baubles has not been deter- mined. “An incident occurred during the digging of the canal that well fllus- trates the Independence and the shrewdness of the San Blas. BEngi- neers of the canal commission found in the edge of the San Blas country a huge deposit of sand of a type perfectly fitted to their needs for concrete mixing, and offered to buy it at a good price from the San Blas chief. . 'No,’ was his reply, ‘it is our sand today, it belonged to our fathers before us, and it will be our children’s in the future. We can't sell it. Any- , if your God had meant for you to have it, He would have put it at Colon, not in the land of San Blas.' and to Bnght Future R Some day old plans will bump the bumps, expensive methods go to smash, and when we're buying pups or pumps, we'll ask no tick, we'n all pay cash. - The merchant prince will not remark to his assistant, Clarence Clack, “Smith jumped the village after dark, and much I fear he won't come back. He owed us many pica- yunes, with which he failed to come across; we must advance the price of prunes if we'd avoid a frightful loss.” As things are now we have to pay for all we buy in marts of trade, and also settle for the jay who scoots and leaves his bills unpaid. Behold the merchant prince’s books ; they bear the names of many gents who purchase beeswax, bunks and books, and never pay the helpful cents. And we must pay more for his junk because of this, the prince admits; we often have to pay a plunk for something that is worth 6 bits. He can't afford to lose the scads charged up against a lot of beats, so we, the honest paying lads, are taxed more for our duds ‘and eats. And every time I pay a bill I know I dig an extra crown because some’ beat, with vicious skill, had all things charged and jumped the town. The merehant princes, soon or late, will frown upon the ‘“charge 1 chump; they'll throw away the old- time slatg_andwend their ledgers to llhc dui . Combehtd WALT Masg Past Commander Fred C. Luca. Federal Post, No. 824, Veterans of Foreign Wars and secretary and treasurer of the Department Poppy Campalgn, has for- warded an order to National Head- quarters, Kansas City, Kans, for immediate ship- ment of 100,000 “Buddy Popples” for the District of Columbia, The Federal Post, Veterans of Forelgn Wars met Tuesday, and Commander L. E. Elift is arranging for anappointment to meet the Secre- tary of Agricul- ture for the pur- pose of seeking his approval of the tentative plans of the post for {ts usual memorial service for the men of the Department of Agriculture who lost their lives in the military or naval sery- ice of the United States in the World War. This will also be, in part, a me- morial service in honor of the late Henry C. Wallace, former Secretary of Agriculture, whose memory is held in high esteem by the post. Equality-Walter Reed Posat, No. 284, Veterans of Forelgn Wars, will meet Thursday evening at Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street northwest, at which time a class of new members will be obligated. At the last meeting of the post a resolution was adopted indorsing Capt. Edwin S. Bettelheim, Jr., as the candi- of this post for election to the po- sition of department commander, and the following delegates were elected to represent it in the 1925 department en- campment: Edward S. Bettelheim, jr., Frank M. Baker, William G. Jamieson, E. Edward Donaldson, Thomas W. Jones Patrick J. Clooney, Charles Kohen, James E. Mackley and Myron D. Smith, also the following aiternates were elected: Thomas F. Dyer, Daniel J. Fenton, Herbert A. Church, Arthur L. Millmore, Claude B. Phelps Mitchell P. Walker, Allen Barber, George W. Ryan, James H. Reed, Rolla G. G. Onyun and M. A. Tranham, while Joseph F. Beattie was designated as chairman of the delegation and in- structed to forward to each local Vet- erans of Foreign Wars Post a copy of the resolution of indorsement for the candidate of this vigorous veteran unit. The post has inaugurated an intensive membership campalgn under the leader- ship of H. C. Forney, Sam Berlin, Arthur L. Millmore and James H. Reed, acting as the membership campaign committee. ch member that obtains the applications of filve new members during the month of April will be awarded one of the solld gold Veterans of Foreign Wars booster buttons recent- ly obtained for that purpose, and at the end of the campaign which will be June 30 a special prize will be awarded. During the membership drive additional membership applications may be ob- tained from Mitchell P. Walker, ad- jutant, 319 Metropolitan Bank butiding. The James E. Walker Post, No. 25, American Legion, met at the Twelfth Street Branch of the Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening, with Vice Comdr. L. H. Russell presiding. A report on the efforts of the national legislative committee on behalf of disabled mem- bers into enactment, through amend- ment of liberalizing the Reed-John- son law, was made by Past Vice Comdr. John F. Porter. Reports also were made by D. B. Fauntroy, finance officer, membership, entertainment and hospitalization committees. In resolutions adopted President Coolidge was urged to appoint an ex-service man and leglonnaire to become Commissioner of Pensions. It was voted that w committee repre- senting the Grand Army, Spanish War Veterans, Army and Navy Union, James Reese Europe Post, James E. Walker Post and Kenneth Lewis Post of the American Legion meet to for- mulate plans for the proper observ- ance of Memorial week, in connection with which a mass memorial service would be held in one of the churches the Sunday preceding May 30. Protest was made against any un- necessary reduction in the forces of the Government and that no ex-serv- ice man should be discharged. James B. Lomax presented four ex-service men for admittance to membership, FRED C. LUCAS. _A scholarship in Lincoln Memorial University, serving the mountainous regions of Kentucky and Tennessee, has been endowed by Lincoln Post of the American Legion here. John Wesley Hill, president of the uni- versity, wrote officlals of Lincoln Post: " “The scholarship to which you have subscribed will proyjde for the education of a worthy boy during his entire collegs course. Lincoln would ask no finer memorial than this. It Is an investment that will yield a perpetual patriotic dividend.” Plans are being made for the 1925 national convention of the Military Order of the World War, which will be held September 24, 25 and 26 In New York City. With the indorsement of the Na- tion, through President Coolldge, having been given to the annual na- tional Veterans of Forelgn Wars' “buddy poppy” campaign to be con- ducted Memorial day by the V. F. W. and its auxiliaries, plans are going forward with the program. In indorsing the campaign Presi- dent Coelidge expressed his satisfac- tion that the “buddy poppy,” the na- tional memorial flower of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, is manufac- tured by disabled veterans. President Coolidge wrote a letter to the commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, as fol- lows: “The annual sale of poppies, made by disabled ex-service men, through- out the country under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has seemed to me to reflect a particularly appealing sentiment of ‘regard for and interest in the disabled ex- service men. It is calculated to per- petuate the fine sentiments which have made the poppy so pecullarly symbolical of the services and the sacrifices of the men who gave so much that freedom might survive in the world. “I am glad to comply with your request for a word of indorsement and approval of this campaign.” _The District of Columbia Depart- nent of the Disabled American Veterans has selected April 30 for its second annual Spring dance at the Willard baliroom. The dance committee, consisting of George M. Martin, George Phillips, F. A. Awl, D. J. Hussey and W. S. Clark, is working in co-operation with the women’s auxiliary on the plans. The Army and the Navy Bands will fur- nish the music, Stuart Walcott Post, American Legion of this department, held its reception, dance and initiation ‘at the Mount Pleasant Masonic Lodge rooms Tuesday evening. Many Legionaires witnessed the Initiation ceremonies when 20 new members were instal led by the post. A reception fol- lowed. Honor guests at the cere- monies were Capt. and Mrs. Paul V. Collins, Capt. and Mrs. George E. Pickett, 3d; Mrs. Lewis Werden, president of the Walcott Auxiliary Unit, and Capt. Frederick Stephens. Dancing followed. The next meeting of the post will be held in the board room of the District Building April 8. National Capital Post, No. 137, Vet- srana of Horelsn Wars, &t its mect MARCH 29 ing March 20, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Comdr. Daniel Loahy presided. Plans for the department encampment which will be held next June came before the post, which will be repre- sented by 23 votes, as followe: Dele- gates elected were Comdr. D. Leahy, Senfor Vice A, E. Plerce, Junfor Vice R. C. Muschlitz, Quartermaster Gunnar Statsberg, Post Advocate R. C. Jen- nings, Patriotlo Instructor Charles E. Currler, Chaplain Willlam P. Cava- naugh, OMocer of the Day G. H. Foer ter, Past Comdrs. Val N. Brandon and Joseph B. Gardella, Capt. Joseph B. Much, Jacob Orken, John Weaver, Michael Guiffre, C. J. Willoughby, V. C. Guilimain, A. J. Johnson, J. A. Douglass, A. Grudd and E. M. Jar- boe; alternates, Edward J. Sulllvan, G. H. Kestner, A, J. Cotter, R.' C Richardson, Willlam J. Keeffe, C. W. Stansburg, Eli Lidstine, H. F. Clark, C. R. Neff,'G. Wells, Cherles Ammonn, T. Rossette, H. J. Thiely and E. D. Schieble, Announcerfient was made that Har- old J, Zorman will arrive in Wash- ington at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday to speak on behalf of the Veterans of Forelgn Wars' National Home at Eaton Rap- ids, Mich. Mr. Zorman is touring the country explaining thoroughly the new national home, that is, the ar- rangements adopted by the organiza- tion to carry on and maintain the home for the deceased buddies’ wid- ows and orphans. Hollowing oandidates were mus. tered to membership: Janau Slivi former member from Philippine Post; Wesley C. Stansburg and Thom- as J. Shannon, the latter former member of National Capital Post No. 27, transferring from Cheyenne, Wyo. Post, No. 404, Past Commander Jo- seph B. Gardella, in charge of re- cruiting, announced that plans for the recruiting drive will be submitted at the joint meeting to be called by Ernest Wickstrand, chairman enter- tainment, for celebrating the sixth anniversary of the post. The poppy committee, in charge of Quartermas- ter Statsberg, reported that a favora- ble meeting with National Capital Post Auxiliary representatives had been held, and plans for omdering 25,000 poppies were under w The Ladies' Auxiliary of Natlonal Capital Post will hold a special poppy committes meeting in the near fu- ture, and perfect its schedule for launching a campaign. It was voted to support Dept. Comdr. Willlam H. Carroll in his fight for strict enforce- ment of all veteran preference laws throughout Government departments. At & meeting of the board of gov- ernors of George Washington Post, No. 1, the American Legiop, 1828 I street northwest, several changes were made in the personnel of the board and matters of importance to the post transacted. F. H. Hardy, who has been treasurer of the board for the past three vears, resigned, and his vacancy was filled by the election ot Howard Rappaleye, a charter mem- ber of the post. His resignation was accepted with regret and a vote of thanks was extended for the faithful services he rendered. Ennals Wagga- mann, who departed for Europe a short time ago, in a letter to the board, tendered his resignation, due tothe fact that he will remain there about two years. His vacancy was filled by the election of Henry W. Longfellow, vice commander of the post and manager of the clubhouse, &8 & member of the board. Announcement was made of the re- cent placing of a German 200-minne- weffer gun on the side lawn of the glubhouse. The gun was captured from the Germans in the Meuse-Ar- gonne offensive and is not only the largest gun of its type, but the only one of its kind shipped to this city. The gun rests on a deep concrete foundation, which has just been com- pleted. The meeting was presided over by Past Post and Past Department Com- mander E. Lester Jones, with Past Commander Lew S. Mohler as secre- tary. Others members of the board present Included Past Commanders Howard S. Fisk, Charles B. Hanford, Percy B. McCoy, Commander Wallace Streater, F. H. Hardy, A. L. Gia- comini, Willlam F. Mahony and G. T. Rude. ' A detailed budget was pre- sented for the year 1925 and approved. The next meeting of the post will be held April 6. The Betsy Ross Club (Y. F.) will hold its next meeting at the residence of Mrs. Martha Witcomb, 813 North Cagrolina avenue southeast, Tuesday, a®8 o'clock. Various committees will make reports of the activities for the present month. Plans will also be formulated for Spring and Summer entertainment for club members. Mrs. Reva Darrell will give a talk on “Summer Camps” and Mrs. Mary E. Kolhos will speak on “National Con- ventions.” An interesting program of entertainment will be followed by re- freshments. Elaborate Chinese Rites Mark Close Of‘Year of the Rat’ Ancient Ceremonials Are Brought Out to Quiet Departed Spirits. Correspondence of the Associated Press. FOOCHOW, February 11.—The Chi- nese year just closing being the “year of the raf,” when all evil influences are most potent, recent months have seen the greatest revival of the rites of “puo-do” within the memory of any many now in Foochow. “Puo-do” are special and most elab- orate prayers offered for the outcast dead, who are supposed to return and plague the living when prayers and offerings are not presented for them. Every 5 or 10 years villages and cities in north Fuklen observe these rites for protectlon against angered and injured spirits, but this year, be- ing also the first of a Chinese cycle of 60 years, altars have been set up in scores of places around Foochow and priests are chanting their prayers. Usually from 5 to 20 elaborately decorated altars are erected in tem- ples or private houses, depending upon the population of the village or town Speclal plays descriptive of possible punishment in the hereafter are given, sometimes by use Bf pup- pets In miniature, sometimes by 1ife- size papler-mache Images operated from beneath the stage. Huge mounds of cakes are provided as of- ferings, usually accompanied by feasts for the living. The least ornate of these village celebrations costs some $600 and fre- quently the cost mounts to many thousands. The *‘puo-do™ is said to be a Fukien- ese rite, and the village of Uong- dong, near Foochow, reputed to be the original home of the anclent custom, witnessed a celebration lasting seven days. People from all the region around, including scores of Buddhist and Taojst priests, gathered in the village and the nightly crowds num- bergd thousands. A modern and western note was Injected into the age-old obsefvance by the bright lights furnished by a portable electric plant in place of the customary dim yellow lights of candles or the gleam Srom bullalo-hord ladiarns 1925— PART GIRL INFANTICIDE ASKS 3 LAWYERS Special Session of Grand Jury May Be Called to Speed Rock- ville Trial. Special Dispatch to The Btar, ROCKVILL Md., March 28.—Eliz- abeth M. King, 19 years old. who con- fessed Friday following discovery of the bodies of two bables in the attic of her home in Woodmont, Md., that she was thelfr mother and had amothered them because they were born out of wedlock, asked the court in Rockville yesterday for three lawyers to defend her. Thomas L. Dawson, former State's attorney; Steadman Prescott and P. Kenneth Lyddane were named. The attorneys afterward announced that a request would be made that the grand jury be called in speclal ses- sion to pass upon the case, in order that a spéedy trial be had and the long walt of eight months until the regular grand jury session be avolded. Willlam King, gardener®at the Co- lumbia Country Club, father of the girl, was expected to visit her in the county jail yesterday, but neither he nor her brother, Joseph King of Washington, D. C., nor other rela- tives, calied. A number of names of men were given by the girl to the county police matron. Her attor- neys sald that she would not be al- lowed to talk further. Mrs. C. D. Bradham is & candidate for mayor of New Berne, N. C. “Hobo” to President? ERNST THAEDMANN, the Communist candidate for the Ger- man presidency, Ernst ix xald to have obo” tn America. at one time been a Leather coins were used of Northern Europe in the 1 tury. Usually oblong which silver copper hammered. or in pa EX-WIFE SAYS DUKE DIVORCE IS INVALID Sues Tobacco Magnate for Main- tenance— Tecree Obtai 20 Tears Ago. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 28.—Although divoreed nearly years ago by James B. Duke, “tobacco king." Mrs. Lilllan N. Duke. is suing him for separation and maintenance, main- taining that she is still his wife. This action was disclosed today when former Gov. L. Miller, counsel for Mr. miss the sult. cause order Justice Mullan hearing April § Mr. Duke, who last nated approximately Trinity College which then Duke, He obtal from Supreme and there will December do $46,000,000 to of North Carolina, changed fts name to Duke Un ity tained a divorce from the plaintiff in Jersey in 1906. A year after it w granted he married Mrs. Nanaline Holt In man, of Atlanta, Ga. 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