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2 % WHEELER 10 FACE NEW TRAL HERE Sargent Has No Intention of Trying to Quash Local Indictment. The Department of Justice is pre- paring to go ahead with the trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon- tana in the District of Columbia on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in conncction with ob- taining permits for the exploration of Government-owned oil lands, it was indicated at the department yesterday afternoon. The fact that Senator Wheeler was acquitted Friday in Great Falls, Mont., where he was tried on an indictment charging him with having violated the Federal statute which prohibits a member of Congress from appearing before an executive department as at- torney for a client, has no conclusive bearing on the case brought against him in the District, it was said. The two cases are separate and different witnesses will be called. | Sargent Reserves Comment. Attorney General Sargent, it was maid, was unwilling to comment on the Wheeler case, either in Montana or in the District of Columbia. He regards the case in the District of Coiumbia as being before the courts and a matter for-the courts to deal with. Denial was made that the ment”’ is contemplating court to quash the indict Senator Wheeler. Assistant Attorney . General Dono- van who has had the direction of the case against Semator Wheeler in the District of Columbia, is out of the city and not expected to return until tomorrow. It is expected that whe. he returns he will confere with the Attorney General and a course of pro cedure will be determined upon. The Government is ready to go to trial with the Wheeler case, it is said, and the date of the trial will depend upon the state of the court docket, and in part_on the wishes of the defense As was the case in Montana, it will be a jury trial. Date Is Uncertain. In the ordinary course, the case against Senator Wheeler would come to trial in the District the latter part of the Summer, it was sald at the of- fice of United States Attorney Peyton Gordon. Whether the Government will seek to advance the case or whether Senator Wheeler will do so remains to be seen. Senator Borah of Idaho, Republican, who was chairman of the special Sen ate committee which investigated the charges against Senator Wheeler last year and which exonerated Wheeler, broke his silence regarding the Wheel- er case vesterday, saying that the verdict of the jury in Montana ac- quitting Senator Wheeler “was to be expected.” He said that no reliable evidence had been placed before the court and the jury in that case, which had not been before the Senate inves- tigating committee, and that none of the evidence showed criminality on 1he part of Senator Wheeler. He said he had no information re- garding what the ~Government in- tended fo. do.in regard to the case against Senator Wheeler in the Dis- trict of Columbia. He said, however, that the case here was based on the same state of facts as the case in Montana. A report publiched here to the ef- fect that.Senator Wheeler had de- declared that apparnetly the Depart- ment of Justice was being run by the same men as when former Attorney General Daugherty was in office, was ridiculed at the department yester- day, where it was pointed out that no officials in important positions now in the department were ap- pointed during the Daugherty regime. Attention was called to the fact that two Attorneys’ General have been in office since 'Mr. Daugherty went out. { WILL CONTINUE DEFENSE. Walsh to File Demurrer in Local ‘Wheeler Indictment. | By the Associated Press ! GREAT FALLS, April 25.—Senator | Thomas J. Walsh will carry on in the fight to clear his colleague, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of all charges growing out of the latter's association with Gordon Campbell, Montana oil operator, he announced here tonight. | Senator Walsh said his next step would be to file a demurrer against the indictment returned against Senator | Wheeler in Washington recently. The Washington indictment charges Senator Wheeley conspired with Campbell to defraud the Government tn oll land permits. Senator Walsh sald he would ask that the indict- ment be thrown out of court as soon as he returns to the Capital. Senator Wheeler left here tonight for Hun- ter'’s Hot Springs, Mont., where he will_take a rest before returning to Washington. Senator Wheeler was acquitted by a jury in Federal District Court here last ‘night on a charge of unlawfully using his Influence as a Senator be- fore the Department of the Interior in_connection with legal rendered for Campbell | services he| . WIFE SLAYER GIVES UP AFTER HIDING 24 HOURS Thomas Mannion Tells Police He Was Concealed Near Body of His Victim. By the Associated Prese. PORTSMOUTH, ! N. H; April 2%5.— Themas Mannion, wanted by the police for the murder of his wife Helen on Little Harbor road here terday, .surrendered tonight. He “3d_ Police Chief George H. Ducker “Jat-immediately after slashing his ife's throat with a razor he ran into woods nearby and had been hiding there, behind a stone wall a few rods from-the spot, for the last 28 hours. Search for Mannion had been car- ried- on since his wife’s body was found in Little Harbor road late yes- terday. The walls of her 11-month- old daughter in a baby carriage be- side the body, brought a passing motorist to the place. Mannion, police learned, had been separated 'from his wife for six months and she was to have started divorce proceedings next week. SHIP COOK DIES 'NVCRASHI PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—The maritime exchange reported tonight that the British steamship London Fxchange, outward bound for New York, was in collision today with the harge Thomaston, in the Delaware River, at Listons range. 6 miles below Reedy Island. The barge was sunk in the channel and the cook, whose name is unknown, was thrown overboard and drowned. Special Delivery Stamps Under New Postal Rate Ready 20-Cent Denomination Is- sue Is Offered for Sale Here. Issuance of a new 20-cent spe- cial-delivery stamp for use on par- cels subject to the increased special delivery fees under the new postal rates, is announced by W. In- ving Glover, Third Assistant Post master General. The new stamps were placed on sale yesterday at the post office here and at the Philatelic Agency, Division of Stamps, Post Office Department, on the same date for the benefit of stamp collectors and dealers. The 20-cent special-delivery stamp is the same shape and size as the current 10-cent special-delivery stamp. The central design is a motor truck standing at the post office with a car- rier loading parcel post packages for special delivery. At the top of the stamp, upon a curved ribbon, are the words “Special Delive in dark let ters, with the words “U. S. Postage” directly beneath the ribbon in white letters. Above the motor truck are the words, “At Any United States Post Office,” and at the bottom of the stamp, within a_panel, are the words “Twenty Cents.” In both upper cor- ners, upon ribbon scrolls, are the numerals 20" and in both lower corners, within circles, are the white numerals “20.” The stamp is inclosed with a cross-line border and is printed in black ink. STt BRITAIN PRESSING FOR DEBT PARLEY Wants This Taken Up by France, With Security Is- sue, at Early Date. By Cable to The Star and New York World PARIS, April 25.—An Anglo-French conference to settle the problems of security and debts will be held in London soon. Premier Painleve and Foreign Minister Briand for France will meet Prime Minister Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Chamberlain for Britatn. Ambassador De Fleuriau, who has been In Paris since yesterday, report- ed to Briand the British statesmen want to come to a settlement on the security pact as soon as possible and request that the French, at the same time, be prepared to discuss debts. Another question, however, will be an equally important item in the discus- sions—a common program to meet Soviet activities in Europe and suc- cesstul diplomatic moves in Asia. Briand Wants Alliance. The Britieh and French are not in accord on the security issues, as the present French government is less favorably disposed to the five-power- pact plan than former Premier Her- riot appeared to be. Briand wants first to arange a close alliance with Britain as a basis for security. | The feature of the discussions re- garding the Soviets will be recogni- tion of the re-entry of Russia into the international diplomatic field on a scale of importance equal at least to that of old Russia. The Chinese and Japanese treaties concluded by the Soviets place before'the two prin- cipal European powers an Asiatic problem which opens a new period in diplomatic history. Discussions will enter 3n active stage through the medium of em- bassies, and within a few weeks are expected to be sufficlently advanced for the principals to meet at a con- ference. The conference is expected THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 26, 1925—PART 1. DAWES LALDS FAR STAGEDBY WOME Permanent Power for Good, He Says, of World - Exposition. By the Associated Press. + CHICAGO, April 25.—Vice President Charles G. Dawes was persuaded to break a resolution of silence and de- liver an address at the closing session of the first Women's World Fair to- day. The success of the fair, he said, demonstrated that it would be a per- manent institution, powerful for good. “These ladies,” he added, “have not asked financi assistance. When a woman is only half in earnest in af- Ioirs (-f_ this kind, she is apt to take the easiest way, and after selecting a g00d looking subcommittee, organize @ predatory expedition against the weaker sex. “Together h large cohorts of sus- ceptible, but reluctant *masculinity, 1 have learned to distinguish between the woman who calls at the office simply for a subscription and the woman who calls on what she con- siders real business. Calls Enterprise Fortunate. “In political and social campaigns, no matter what the party or the en: terprise they may be forwarding, when a woman is in earnest and a vital principle _concerned, she is neither after office nor money, but to do good. Happy is the enterprise like this one when women are willing to give their time. means and un- selfish hard work. These ladies who have achieved the success which we see_here solicited no subscriptions, and” the whole fair is self-sustaining and will always be so. “I will not venture in that com- monly used but dangerous field of the praise of women, a course which my experience indicates much more liable to arouse their suspicion than their gratitude. It is for me simply to express the thanks of all good citizens to these women of Chicago who have originated and carried through to success the first women's world fair, an enterprise which, even at this early stage, is an added demon- stration of the professional and busi ness success of women individually, @ demonstration of their success col lectively as expressed through na- tional women’s organizations, and a demonstration of their success co- operatively with men, as evidenced by the exhibits before us, in which are shown the part that women have played in the upbuilding of great business organizations throughout our country."” Good Idea Powerful. Mr. Dawes said he was informed by Mrs. Medill McCormick that Miss Helen M. Bennett of Chicago origi- nated the idea. “There is no force so irresistible, he declared, “‘as that of a good idea. A basket of American Beauties was presented to the Vice President and another to his wife. A group of woman doctors, under the auspices of the Child Welfare Department of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, examined approxi- mately 100 giris between 12 and 15. Some time next week a prize will be awarded for the healthiest. Many of the sirls were disqualified by -bad eeth. 10 PATRIOTIC ORDERS T0 MEET AND DANCE Gathering to Represent Organiza- i ’ tions Based Upon Ancestral Part in History. . Ten patriotic orders, each of which accentuates some important person or period of American history, will unite for a meeting and dance Tuesday to interest the United States on ac- count of the breadth of the discus- sion and on_account of debts. (Copyright, 1925.) BALDWIN IS HOPEFUL. Looks for Security Pact to Ward Off War. By the Associated Press WORCESTER, England, April Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, ad- dressing his constituents here today, spoke hopefully of seeing signs of daylight in the dark European situa- tion. He said the British government was convinced that the attempt to bring the nations of Western Europe into some sort of a security pact or agreement would succeed and thereby avert future wars as far as it was humanly possible to do so. Premier Baldwin spoke strongly against the old idea of trying to main- tain the balance of power in Europe by means of armed alliances, which he said had proved repeatedly to tend almost inevitably toward an ultimate conflict for supremacy. “I believe we have contrived, as far as possible, to extirpate that old idea and to try to bulld on some other foundation something leading to the security of our people from the bloody arbitrage of war,” said Mr. Baldwin. |FIND ANCIENT MAYA RUIN WAS ONCE A GREAT CITY Vast Palace, Five Temples and Art Objects Convince Tulane Exploring Party. | By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, April —Ruins of ancient Maya Indian temples, pyra- mids, human effigies and other dis- coveries show that the City of Comal- calco ranks among the greatest cities of the long dead Maya empire. This was announced here today by Tulane University in a brief cablegram from its expedition, which has been explor- ing in Tehauntepec, Mexico. The cablegram, signed by Drs. Wil- liam Gales, Franz Blom and Oliver Lafarge, members of the expedition, gave only a sketchy outline of their latest discoveries. Their work is now being done near the present town of Comalealco in the Mexican State of Tabasco. On the Rio Seco at the site of the old City of Comalcalco, the sci- entists reported they found enough to rank the city among the greatest of the old Maya empire. Among objects discovered were Oriental plazas, pyr: long, vaulted chambers, 9 stucco re liefs of human figuers, molded stueco glyphs and inscriptions in the Pa- lanque style. Lightning Kills Runner. HAMILTON, N. Y., April 25.—Harry T. Roll of Upper Montclair, N. J., was instantly killed on the Whitnall Field cinder track here this afternoon by a boit of lightning, from an impending The Thomaston, laden with 500 tons of coal for An eastern port, was the fast.ef four barges in.tow. tug Tamaqua. ~The Lisndon proceeded, mids, five temples, a palace 80 maters4 evening at the Washington Club, 1701 K street. The pames of these hodies, are: & Order of Washington—Dr. George Tully Vaughan, commander general; ancestor must have arrived in America before or during the year 1750, and held some official position, and his direct male descendent must have aided the Colonists in attaining their_independence. LaFayette—Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch, president general and grand chancel lor; the ancestor must have held some prominent official position dur- ing colonial days or served as a cap- tain in Revolutionary War or have been with allies in fighting zone for one year. Order of Oglethorpe—Joseph Clay Habersham Colquitt, generalissimo or commander general; this is purely a colonial order. The ancestor must have been here between 1738 and 1742, and either himself or his descendant must have been up to November, 1775, a military officer. Order of Pulaski—Gordon Monges Ash, captain commander general; the ancestor must have been in the Col- onifes as early as 1740, and either he or his descendant have been a cap- tain during the colonial period or dur- ing the Revolutionary War of 1776-83. Secret Pact—Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch, president general; ancestor must have signed the “Secret Pact,” November 9, 1775. Sclons of Colonlal Cavaliers—Daniel Smith Gordon, palatine general; de- scendants of those who were in army of King Charles I, or who were in sympathy with his cause. Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe— Thomas Campbell Washington, presi- dent general: all descendants of that band of gentilemen who accompanied Gov, Spottswood to the mountains and thereby claimed the land for the King: also all those in Virginia or any of the Colonies whose ancestors held some separate official position. Military Society of Frontier Wars— Daniel Smith Gordon, commander general; all descendents of ancestors who took part in any campaign or hostilities against the Indians are eligible to membership in this order. White Crane—Mrs. Robert . James Johnston, first consul or commander general; all descendants of Indian chiefs or of those who settled in the Colonies during or prior to the year 1783. Yellow Rose—Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch, chief regent; all descendants of any royal line of Aryan stock in Europe or America are eligible to membership in this order. MORE DRY MEN DROPPED. Total of 18 Discharged in New York in Week. ‘W YORK, April 25.-—Two more Federal prohibition agents were dropped from the roster of the local dry headquarters today, bringing the total of those dismissed in the past week to 18. Most of the men, R. Q. Merrick, divisional prohibition chief, said, were discharged “for not produc- ing enough valuable resuits,” in their enforcement work. ¥ storm. Roll, a junior in Colgate University, had just completed a 100- of the | yard dash trial heat, and had turned to them. Mr. Merrick refused about to enter-the be was bit, Some of the agents, it was said, were unable to explain irregularties charged ATTENDING PEN WOMEN’S CONVENTION. BACHRACH - Upper—Left to right: Mrs. Caroline Giltinan Harlow of Alexandria, Va Miss Amy E. Blanchard of Washington, D. C. national ¢ author of * irman of poetry; 'he Little Colonel” series. Lower—Left to right: Lizette Reese, famous poet; Mrs. Bernie Babcock, second vice president Navy Officer to Be Court-Martialed On Charge of Not Paying Alimony Secretary Wilbur Departs Action in Domestic Affairs of Lieut. Comdr. Earle P. Huff, Radical departure from the past Navy Department policy of hands off in the domestic relations of its per- sonnel was indicated vesterday when Secretary Wilbur said that he had or- dered a court-martial for Lieut.Comdr. Earle P. Huff, Medical Corps, U. now serving aboard the U. S. S. Chew ink, at the submarine base at New London, Conn. The court-martial papers charge Comdr. Huff, according to Secretary ‘Wilbur, with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The charges grow out of the failure of Comdr. Huff to pay his divorced wife $146 a month alimony in accordance with a decree in a California court. Secretary Wilbur said that this was a radical departure in naval pro- cedure, and gave indications that others might be subjected to the same disciplinary action. So far as it is known at the department, the action is without precedent, and shows a disposition of Secretary Wilbur to as- sist the civil courts in the enforcement of their decrees when the persons are removed from the jurisdiction of the civil courts. As Comdr. Huff now is in Connecticiit, there was said to be no way in which the California courts could enforce the decree. Agreement in 1921. Comdr. Huff, according to a state- ment issued by Secretary Wilbur, on December 22, 1921, in contemplation of a divorce, voluntarily entered into a property agreement with his wife. Besides disposing of the personal be- longings and money, most of which From Precedent in Taking! Medical Corps. went to her, the agreement contained a promise by him to pay her $145 a month. This agreement was executed before a notary public. On December 26, 1922, a final de- cree of divorce was obtained in a Cali- fornia court. This decree contained an order for Huff to pay his divorced wife “the sum of $145 per month, in accordance with written agreement settling all property rights of the re spective parties, made out of court.’ Payments were made by Huff until April, 1924, and since then no pay- ments have been made, it is alleged Considerable correspondence has passed between Huff and the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Depart ment, resulting in a letter of admoni- tion being addressed by the Secretary of the Navy to Huff. In this letter he was advised that the department expected of him a complete fulfillment | and continued until about 4:30 vester- | day | exchange POETS HOLD STAGE AMONG PEN WOMEN Matinee of Verse-Makers Is Principal Feature on Program Today. The League of American Pen Wom- | en, in the second annual congress of the body here, will swing into affairs in earnest today with the poet's mati nee at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon as the principal feature of the program. Six hundred members are in the; Capital for the congress, which will survey the opportunities of the day in the flelds of creative literature, art, musical composition, poetry, sculpture, Journalism and drama, and bring these opportunities to the attention of its roster. Matinee for Poets. Today’s program includes the poets’ matinee, to open at 2:30 6'clock at the Shoreham Hotel; a tea for members, visiting authors, editors and pablish- ers at the home of Mrs. Clarence M Busch, first national vice president, at 3012 Massachusetts avenue; a recep tion and buffet supper to poets, musi clans and speakers on the program at the home of Admiral and Mrs. Luther F. Gregory, 3402 Garfield street. Mrs Gregory is chairman of arrangements The book fair of the congre will be opened by fifty outstanding au thors, men and women, tomorrow at the book department of Woodward & | Lothrop’s department store. The hook | fair is Being. held in conjunction with the congress. The ficst annual festival of music | of the American Women Composers, ! an organization affiliated with the | League of Pen Women, will also open tomorrow. Headquarters of the congress will be maintained at the Shoreham Hotel. The congress opened brilliantly at 12:30 vesterday afternoon with the authors' breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel Attended by 600. The breakfast was attended by | about 600 delegates to the congress | ternoon. It developed into an by noted literati of confi | dences of their art, explanations of the thought underlying their works | and the baring of the inspiration that spurrcd them to write. The address of welcome to the visitors was made by Mrs. Harry At wood Colman, national president of { the league. George Barr Baker acted as_toastmaster. In the first speech on the program, Helen Rowland, Washington woman, a newspaper syndicate feature writer, told of the events which led up to her taking up the topic for which she is famous—men. And she took a fling at the Washington men in the course of her address. She said that Wash- ington, a city of beauty, where the ideal courtships could be carried on, lacks thé romance that is necessary because there are no men between the married stage and the callow vouths. McClure Gives Advice. of his obligations as to supporting his divorced wife and that further neglect would render him Hable to severe dis- ciplinary action. Seeks to Vacate Decree. Huff's only explanation of his fail- ure and refusal to comply with the agreement and the court’s order thereunder, is that he intends taking legal steps in Massachusetts to have the Cali- fornia decree vacated as to monthly payments under advice of legal counsel. Secretary Wilbur said that the Massachusetts courts would not touch the decree of the California court. He said that the recommenda- tion for the court martial, which be had ordered, originated In the Bu- reau of Navigation. ottt Attt S S JAFFE TO BE HONORED FOR AIDING B’NAI B'RITH Will Be Presented With Loving Cup by Peyser at Argo Lodge Banquet. Capt. Julius 1. Peyser, member of the Board of Education and former president of B'nai Brith, will pre- sent a loving cup to Harry R. Jaffe at the annual banquet of Argo Lodge, to be held at the Raleigh Hotel to- morrow night, in honor of the newly- elected national officers of the order. Capt. Peyser is' the donor of the cup, which was won by Jaffe as the captain of the team obtaining the most members in the recent mem- bership drive. Frederic William Wile will speak on his experience as a broadcaster. Others who will make addresses are: Dr. Yakir Behar, secretary, Con- stantinople Lodge, on “B'nal Brith in the Orient”: Henry A. Alexander and Maurice D. Rosenberg, re-elected member of the executive committee of the national body. Sol Herzog will act as toastmaster. Julius Reis is chairman of the ban- quet committee. Other members of the committée are Mr. Rosenberg, Joseph A. Wilner, Sam Gans, Morris Gewirz, Abe Shefferman, Phillip P. Friedlander, Julius L. Peyser, Sol Herzog, Murray Solomon, Harry R. Jaffe, Joseph Mazo and Albert Small. The new women in China‘are giv- ing themselves unsparingly to all sorts of reform movements. SOVIET FIGHTS SINCLAIR IN PERSIA IS INDICATION Former Envoy Quoted as Declaring Opposition to Oil Grants Is Apparent. | Bs_the Associated Press RIGA, Latvia, April 25 —M. Shami- atsky, former Soviet representative at Teheran, Persia, is reported have asserted in an interview at Baku, Persia, that the Soviet govern- ment appears to have started a cam- paign designed to prevent the Sin- clair oil group frem obtaining conces- slons in Persia. M. Shamiatsky is said to have mphasized the “waning influence of Moscow throuhgout Persia.” Describ- ing the government of Riza Khan, (Persian premier) as in a bad posi- tion, he ascribed this to the united front presented by the ever-growing opposition. “The position of the Persian gov- ernment,” M. Shamiatsky is reported to have said, “was made considerably worse by the action of the aristocracy and land owneérs in joining forces with American “expert finaneial advisers, whose influence may be considered responsible for Persia's financial crisis. Moreover, the Mus- sleman clergy is doing its utmost te bring about the overthrow of th¥ gov- ernment.” \ S i e ~ After a fire at Lincoln, England, a grandfather clock was found going al- though the clock case was badly burned. MAY-DAY IS CHILD HEALTH DAY Is Your Child Physically Perfect? Child health agencies of Washington, public and private schools and the Health Department of the District government are to join in_the observance Health Day. The movement is of May 1st as National Child endorsed by President Coolidge, Secretary Hoover and State governors. Health Examination Stressed Periodic health examinations regarded as the starting-point of any by Sombstent shysicians are paw Health Clinics will be open on May-Day, under medical direc- tion, for the examination of school children and pre-school chil- dren to discover defects which can be cared for by family physicians and parents. These clinics are: 1. Children’s Hospital, V Street between 12th and 13th N.W. Doctors in attendance from s N.W. Open 3. Bureai of Health Education, 1 PM. 10 AM. to 5 P.M. Freedmen's H d‘.’cuu Welfare Station, 6th and Bryant 1464 Columbia Road, 10 AM. te 4. A tent clinic on the Ellipse, 4 to 6 P.M. Examinations by Tuberculesis . e pointment with Association. May-Day Festivals at 4 P.M.—The Pubic Invited May-pole dances and other games with band music. making a special program by the children on the Eilipse south of the White House, at 4 P.M.. to which the public is invited. Similar programs on all public playgrounds in eity. A special program at 1 p.m. at the Miner Normal School. This Bulletin is paid for by the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Secretary Wilbur said, | to| McClure, editor of the McClure | | publications, the next speaker, praised | | literature as the only enduring art. | He gave the pen women some pointers | | on publication of their work and urged | | the adoption of .American history as | ia vehicle for inspirational creation. i Ida Vera Simonton told of the birtn of the story, “Hell's Playground,” in the African jungle: Katherine Eggleston Holmes, who { said she writes the “rip-snorter,” said that at present she is chiefly engaged | in being a wife. She advanced the theory that the author is a dra-| matist through the medium of his or her pen, or, in more modern parlance, the keys of her typewriter. I play the characters I write about. 1 pla: ed one of them so well, the part of a little, forsaken old maid, that I got the reputation in New York of being the most proposed-to-woman in the city at the time, receiving 398 pro- | posals of marriage following the pub- lication of the story. I did not marry any of them, having a perfectly good husband, a son about to enter col- lege.” Raps Salacious Plays. Col. Jasper Brady, editor of the Metro-Goldwyn films, the next speaker. | flayed the present tendency of the.| atrical producers to favor the salaci-| | ous in plays for the box office suc- cess that they invariably have. FEu- gene O'Neill's “Desire Under the Elms,” and the Belasco production, “Ladies of the Evening,’ both cur-| rent New York successes, were objects of his tirade. “But,” he said, “it is all the fault of the playgoers. While the really worth-while productions in New York draw houses of 30 or 40 per cent, the plays built to pander to the low tastes of the public put out their “stand:| ing room only” signs and run on and | on for months. Last night at the Shoreham Hotel, Mrs. Colman, the national president, s hostess at a reception for the Pen Women. Receiving with her were Mr. and Mrs. S. S. McClure, Mrs. Clarence M. Busch, Heien Rowland, Mrs. Katherine Eggleston Holmes, Ida Bailey Allen and Miss Jack Wilbur. Will Read Poems. Twenty authors will read from their own works at, the poet's matinee in the ball room of the Shoreham Hotel this afternoon. The program will be conducted by Mrs. Leo P. Harlow, na tional chairman of the poetry section of the league and author of “The Divine Image. Those who will read from theif own works will be: Katherine Hopkins Chapman, State vice president from Alabama; Kath- erine Tift Jones, New. York, profes- Bow-Legs Remedy By U.S.Would Make| Lime ing one in the face on th a7 | day is a pair of living paremiheses em bracing the accusing self-explanation: | cates, is as rife with these minerals as a good-sized chunk of plaster and a handful spinach, dandelion greens, celery, car rots and potatoes have ample quotas also. are suggested as enemies of bow-legs to be found among the fruit family. Baby Eat Spinach | - and Phoapomai Needed, But Wot From Plaster or Marches. e \ Virtually every set of b ! -legs star- | treets to “Insufficient calcium and phosphor- | t i beginning WILL CONFER HERE ON GAPITAL CITIES City Planners of Many Na- tions Will Open Confer- ence Monday. Carrying ~ ional Ca the its message for ital of the United us,” judging from a Depariment of |to the sister republics of this N Agriculture bulletin {ssued in \connec tion with Child Health weeka which | Association begins May 1. n Latin America, the Amerfcar will hold for two tomorrow, its first Children who would avold thid bow- | American conference on capital ¢ The or |t evidenced by ewery as the depaw mbilw drinka | # however, p A pint of milk, the bulletin indi- ff while of live matches, « Oranges and the lowly prune || t e OAHU DEFENDERS RESIST ONSLAUGHT | |t | P ¥ 1z “Major Engagement” ported in “Blue’s” Effort to Capture Island. ¥ Beltra « By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April was expressed unofficially at Harbor naval headquarters this after noon that a ‘“major engagement between attacking naval forces an defending land forces was in prc in the channel between the Islands of | Molokai and Lanal, as one of the mock | battles incident to the maneuvers here of the United States fleet The grand fleet is understood to be | making an effort to land forces the proposed at-| Oahu, centering gigantic air on launch tack on Harbor. This would leave the fleet without! hipjt maps from the Lagin Ame: an air offensive, except such as pro vided by the 32 scouting planes car-| ried by the 11 battleships. Unconfirmed _ reports say the; “epemy” or “blue” submarines are reconnoitering off the southeast coast of Oahu, the “blues ittempting to establish bases on Molokai and Lanai} and also attempting to land from small boats in the vicinity of Hona pou, Molokai. Reports from reported that small boats while ap-| proachi: tlon of landing men were attacked by a fleet of “black” airplanes. The landing force was driven most of the personnel being elther killed by fire from air planes or taking to the water to | escape the destructive effect of ma-| chine gun bullets. | Another rumor located a consider-| able concentration of the “‘enemy” or ‘blue” forces about 5 miles south of Kaunakakai, Molokai. These in- cluded cruisers and destroyers and m] least one dreadnaught. A considerable amount of aerial| activity is apparent, bearing out; rumors that the “enemy" aerial recon-| naissance of Oahu has been in| progress for several da) | There seems to be no evidence of | the defenders having been damaged to any extent by the “blue” forces. CITIZENS LAUNCH SECESSION EFFORT Group Would Leave Central As: ciation to Get Results Through Smaller Body. | | ol New York avenue residents living be- fween North Capitol and First streets | northwest have launched a movement | to organize a new citizens' associa- tion to protect their personal inter- ests and to‘secede from the Central Citizens’ Assoclation, it was learned last night. | Francis De Sales Ryan, former pres. | ident of the Central Citizens’ Assocla-) tion, resigned that position last night | to head the new movement. The | plans are to gather residents living | in the territory extending from New | York avemue to Truxton Circle and | from North Capitol street to New Jer- | sey avenue northwest into the pro- | posed organization. | According to Ryan, those fostering | the plan are of the opinion that the citiens living in the proposed terri tory could obtain more satisfacto legislation through a smaller associa- | tion than through the Central Citi- | zens’ Assoclation, to which they now | are attached. { The residents point out that the | present organization is much too large | sional reader; Mrs. Luther E. Greg- oory of Alaska and Washington, D. C.:. Jeanne Rbbert Foster, American editor of The Trans-Atlantic Review: Virginia Lyne Tunstall, Norfolk, Va.: Minnie Ferrie “Hauéhstein, Buffalo, N. Y.; Clinton Scollard~ef Connect!- cut and California: Roselle Mercier Montgomery of Georgia and New York, winner of the first prize given by the Poetry Society of America in 1923; Mary Staton Leitch, Lynnhav- en, Va.; Lizette Woodworth Reese, Baltimore, Md.; Isabel Fiske Conant, New York: Jessie B. Rittenhouse of Connecticut and California; Sharlot M. Hall of Arizona, Ruth Mason Rice, to care for the individual interests of the group to residents living in the proposed territory. Although the resi- | dents have not yet organized, Ryan | hopes to call a meeting of the citi- | zens about the middle of this week to ' discuss the plans. | | EDW. MACCARTHY DIES. | Veteran Trafic Manager Had Un-| dergone Operation. Edward MacCarthy, 72 years old, New York, editor of Book and Craft; Sallie Bruce Kinsolving, Baltimore, Md.; Blanche Ray of Washington, D. C., editor of The Children of the erican Revolution Magazine; Vir- ginfh McCormick, Norfolk, Va.; edi- tor of The Lyric Magazine; Marga- ret Widdemer, Larchmont-Manor, New York; Grace Hoffman White, New York, and Margaret Ball Dick- son, Redfleld, S. D. PLANE, RISING, HITS ROOF By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 25.—An Army airplane from Luke Field, after drop- ping a message at department head- quarters, Fort Shafter, and attempting to rise again, struck the roof of the office of Col. H. L. Landers and rico- cheted into a tree and was wrecked. Lieut. Raymond, Morrison, Air Service ,pilot, who was piloting the airplane, had his wrist broken and internal injuries. traffic manager of the National Elec: tric Supply Co. for the last 23 years, died at George Washington University Hospital Friday. Mr. MacCarthy un- | derwent an operation at the hospital Easter Monday. Funeral services will be cogducted at the chapel of V. I undertakers, tomorrow efternoon at o'clock. Interment w2 be in' Glen- wood Cemetery, with Masonie serv- ices a¢ the grave. Mr. MacCarthy was a member of Federal JLodge No. 1, F. A. A. M., and was well known in iocal sporting cir- cles, having had many friends among ball piayess of both the present and past genemations. He had been a resident of this city for about 35 years. Although born in New York State, he spent his early life in the West. He is survivad by his widow, Mrs. Wilhelmina MaeCarthy; a daughter, Mrs. James L. Webb, and two sisters, Miss Isabella MacCarthy and Miss Margaret "MacCarthy. The sisters | live in Brooklyn, N, ¥. n:amm:wmm Speare Co., | i Tuesday bow-las | pushed by exposition of world capital | gates to the htion | lunc®eon at | day Vernon Re- | states devoted tob sightsee by the parmAmerican ¢ evening. | the —The belief | Don Francise Pearl | Minister of ton Pavne, chwirn |a on | dowment Molokal and Lanal, while the “black” | { high command is attempting to locate | pan-Ameri the airplane carrier Langley, and put | by the Ar her out of action before the fleet can | noldo Pearl | songs | delegates Molokai| White House to the M for a luncheon ng that island with the inten.|discu 1 O] oft, | mis theoretically | ard, | to the British mi legged feeling should see-that' their | An elaborate program of enter diet_contalns plenty of lime and (phos phorus, it is pointed out. inclination, to gnaw on the plast w matchss, ;::ngsler at one- time er anotiwr. |the plan for the Feder should be discouraged as preventive, ment explains that one may il his calcium and phosphorus by ing milk, eating vegetables and par taking of various fruits. ment for the delegates from more rst |a half-dozen ries will American tomorrow with discussions as to he ral City may tion, a n combine he associ put the two-day ation will hold in the of the e proje: h the org more th meeting, ront meeting he Federal City has joined core other civi, ates from ( Argentina a oauntries will ga oday in prepar nea:, which will art dinner at omerrow night the reception t hite House and P ba, Mexico, Colon sther pan-American Was the in: AT er Hotel rnationa @ the side he vorld Americar Will Visit Mount Vernon Tom o he morii an-Amer nd A slanned by the he distithguished of the ez Speakers James F: missione: Don ador Sanchex nate and n Bar the Ameri Delano, pre As: Leo “hile; Senox Ambas ation, will preside, Rowe, directo American U froi representing the Ca for Internatior the dinner selections from n mmusic wil be pi io Italon Orchestra Guiterrez will response Scott During baritone, nresent First showing ef pictures, an photc extensive phs tries will be made at the I can Union, Tuesday morning. Reception at White House. At 12:45 del ceived by the Presid, idge at the White Hou will dire: the wh fon will be peakers at the rles Moore, ct sion of Fine president Federation Planning and G land; Raymond U wor irman of Arts; I of the Towm and rden Cities win ry Delano, Prof. Augustus B the Institute of Urba Dr. Arie Keppler, dires Amsterdam, Holland Schmidt of the Regional ¥ T eration of the Ruhr and Dr Stockholm, Sweden. George president of the National on City nning, will preside Will Tour € Immediately at the conc the luncheon the delegates taken in automobiles on a ing trip around Washington the Board of Trade is col in securing cars for the The trip will include Arlington, Potomac Pa Grounds, the Anacos mation project, the old the L’Enfant n, R and to the water f Dr. Jacobo Varela wi the conference on Pan-Americ tals to be held as the of the meeting Tuesday Mayflower Hotel. Pan-American cour and music will a the Arsenio Ra the C benezer Countr of Eng archite healt or of Pla y. in whi bound: shown ain be fur d by m Orch CLOUDY AND WARMER WEATHER DUE TODAY Last Night's Cooling Storm Purely Local Affair—Richmond Reg- istered 96 Degrees. Partly cloudy and warmer the result of I night shower, according to the Bureau. The shower was prc strictly local, and it was add wasn't_any rain within a r 100 miles of Washington hundredth of an inch was measurement of the rainfa Yesterday's highest temper was 78, and the lowest was 5 a.m Forecaster Mitchell said perature today probably over $0. Richmond took the highest temperature with a maximum of 96 deg POLICE BREAK UP PARADE OF FACTION WITHIN UNION Radical Members Among New York Cltohing Workers Scattered During Demonstration. today thunder Weather ounced d_there two cjal tate At 6 the would honors for terday, ten By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April Police day broke up a 1 je of 2,000 men's clothing workers Union Sawere when the aders began to maréh on the officers of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America to demand a redress of grievances The parade, organized by a dissi dent faction of the union, consisting mainly of members of W. Z. Foster's Trade Union Educational League, an alleged Communist organization, was planned as a ‘‘demonstration’ against the officers of the union, including Sidney Hillman, president, and Joseph Schlossberg, secretary. Five mounted patrolmen, leading members of the police bomb squad, charged the crowd and scattered them. There were no serious ind juries. The faction’s grievances included protec of the workers in the shops and assuran: of jobs and no reduc- tion in \\'l:lgen or slland;n'ds n‘f produc- tion with unemployment insurance fund to be paid by the employery 2 to- ’ -