Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1925, Page 10

* HARD COAL QUTPUT FORYEAR DWINDLES Production in 1925 Fails to Meet Winter Needs of Consumers. Anthracite production in the 1 States will fall below the S0, n mark during the calendar and will fail by a consider- coal able margin to meet the needs of con- | Winter of 1925-26. the anthracite coal nd Christmas will cause many cities, particularly among those people who' can not buy coal in large quantities and failed to lay in a supply of fuel before the strike began on September 1. Held Result of Strike. wre the immediate results of | they affect consumers | cast today by Govern- in close touch with de industry which ha onomic disturbance of two decad Be- coul strike is to be a \ffair without Gov- | m to bring it to an | into a test of operators and 1ent observers declare begin to feel keenl 1 about Christ strike is protracted ¥s actual suffering duri e of These the strike zenerally velopments in a 1 vast period caus . ernme end, re: self wan hold th will result Pointing to the slack coal market year and a half. and con lessening of production, these d that New England, New and “the Northwestern hich ordinarily depend upon shipments of anthracite coal, will ~ surely begin to feel the ringency by Christmas. Even if the strike is ended late in December production will not have really swung into the normal Winter level and the shortage will come at a time when the Great Lakes are not fit for naviga- tion, while rail lines running North and E: Pennsylvania are Jiable severe storms, such tied coal traffic three Winters ago. nter as up Production Today Practically Nil. Anthra tically n sent out of te production today is prac- All the coal that is being Pennsylvania is that reclaimed from old culm banks and dredged from river bottoms. Product total 13,000 tons two ! weeks Last shipm from 77,247,499 tons production of dull coal vear, than the 1. ar’s anthracite output for mines aggregated lower than the normal anthracite, due to the but still much higher output will be if the rike continues to run on much longer. The miners have now been out for more than eight weeks and there is no indication of a break in the strike. PROTECTWI.-: TARIFF ON FLOORING SOUGHT Canadian Levy Gives Country Ad- vantage Over U. S., Delegation Advises Coolidge. Tariff protection ind of New England was voc: to President Cooll by Senators Hale of Maine and Keyes of New Hampshire and Representa- tive Hersey of Maine, all Republicans. h and maple flooring can be imported duty free. the group advis i the TPresident that Canadian producers were at an tage over Americans because of per cent | ad valorem Canadian tarif tending shut importations from the United States The congressional delegation sald the tariff w either should be amended to provide a duty equal to the Canadian levy or negotiations should be bezun with Canada to have its_duty abolished. Senator Hale and Representative Her irged retention of the prese ibargo against importation of e for the hardwood Arrivals at and New Sail York. ARRIV Rico YESTERDAY. San J as! Oct w. Oct terdam: Oct n. Oct. Minnewask Caronia 5 Tondc Southampton, TODAY Santo Domingo, oct. 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Article VIL Doing away with the small fry that only nibbled on the hook and fed the big fellows that were sought, is a ! chapter in the Federal Trade Com- | mission’s investigation of the motion | picture industry that is replete with { examples of what counsel commission have chosen to term “the unscrupulous methods used to destroy and eliminate competition.” The various alleged coercive meth- ods employed are shown In color, as a result of the your years' fishing in the studios-and theaters. One deal dwelt upon is the case of W. L. Sherry, one of the stockholders in the old Paramount Pictures Cor- poration, which the Famous Players- Lasky Corporation _acquired, —and Whose territory was New York State. The Cardinal Film Company had produced a picture called “Joan the Woman.” featuring Geraldine Farrar, which I'amous Play gave the first show theater. The picture had element fn it which made its succes questionable, and Adolph Zukor, pres ident of Famous Players, it is stated. did not want to handle it. He is said to have approached Sherry and tried to sell him the rights of the picture for the State of New York for §125 000, but to have had his proposition turned down, Sherry feeling the re | ligious element eventually would kill the picture. Sherry Bought Sherry had transferred-his interes in the Paramount Pictures Corpora tion for stock in Famous Players, which represented about §800,000. Zukor, Government counsel assert, persisted in endeavors to sell Sherry this picture and the latter finally bought It, upon agreement that if money were lost Famous Players would make the amount good, or that Zukor would. The consideration is Stated to have been $100,000 cash and a $25,000 note. Sherry, it is related, borrowed $100,000 at a bank and put up his Famous Players stock as se- curity. After the deal was closed, it is stated, Sherry was supplanted as head of the New York Paramount exchange. In the meantime Famous Players dis- continued dividends on its stock, which cut Sherry out of all income. The stock dropped and when it reached between 22 and 30 Sherry had to sell his to pay his note at the bank, so that on ‘Joan the Woman" he lost close to $500,000. Sherry, it is said, later told Zukor he was up against it, and through the Famous Players’ directors a loan of $15,000 was made to him, but with it he was required to sign an agreement waiving all claims against the Cardinal Film Co., Famous Players and Zukor. “Counsel for the respondents refer to a letter from Sherry to the treas- urer of Famous Players which was submitted in evidence. In this let- ter Sherry acknowledged the can- celing of the $25,000 notes, extended his_‘sincere appreciation.’ “He wrote only regret was that the production did not meet with the success hoped for. “It is furthercontended by defense counsel that an endeavor was made to hold Famous Players responsible for the acts of Southern Enterprises, which it did not then own.” Jacksonville Case. L. B. Joel of Jacksonville, Fla., who had been an exhibitor for a number of years, acquired a lease on the Audi- torium Theater in Lakeland, Fla., which seated about 1,700. There was another theater, seating about 450, owned by a man named Garner, who had the Paramount contract. Joel spent $12,000 in equipping his theater, and a few months after it opened he and Garner discussed buying each Each gave the other an Joel ture. option, but no deal was closed. favored reducing the admis: of both theaters to 10 cents. Garner objected, Joel reduced and a price war started. : While this war was on, it is said, Garner and J. W. Sparks, Florida manager for Southern Enterprises, which is said to have been acquired since by Famous Players, went to At- lanta and had a conference with Y. F. Freeman, the general manager, which resulted in Southern Enterprises tak- ing a half interest in Garner's theater and agreeing to furnish Paramount pictures free to the theater for at least two years. Southern Enterprises, which is one of the respondents in the Government action, proceeded, it once take pictures away from Joel. Each side started giving away passes and cash bonuses of from $10 to $25. About 30 merchants gave away tickets i with merchandise. The fight, it s said, was carried on for Garner under the direction of sparks, and Joel could not keep it up. He concluded to go into the vaudeville business and made a deal with the Keith people for one day on the vaudeville jump from Tampa north to Augusta. He deposited $1,200 and dvanced the transportation of acts from Tampa to Lakeland. Also he | equipped his stage for vaudeville at a cost of from $2,000 to $3,000. Big Opening Held. Sparks is said to have been in Lake- land the first night of the vaudeville in Joel's theater and to have counted the ‘house, afterward congratulating el in the big opening. J0 uihern Bnterprises had a number of theaters in the South in which it was using Keith's vaudeville. About two weeks after Joel's opening he re- ceived a notice from Keith, it is Stated, of a cancellation of their con- tract with bim, and no ex vl:n:m(ion Wwas given for the action. Sparks then opened Keith vaudeville in Or- lando and a week later in St. Peters- iparks,” counsel of the commis- clon say, “told Joel he had better sell the Auditorium to Southern Enter- prises; that Joel was butting his head Against a brick wall; that Southern Fnterprises had already lost $15.000 or $20,000 and would lose $100,000 if | Recessary to get Joel out of Lake- Jand.” Altogether, Joel had spent in the neighborhood of $25,000 in equipping the Auditorium for pictures and for vaudeville, and had lost $15.000 to $20,000 in the fight. It is said he Went to Garner and told him he had enough sense to know when he Sbumped his head against a brick wall.” Joel, it is further stated, was compelled to sell; the matter was sub- Tmitted to Sparks and he fixed the Jyrecking price” on Joel's property at $7,500. “It'is set forth on behalf of Famous Players that Joel opened his theater fter Garner did, knowing the town was too small to support two houses, nd that he started a price war, Southgrn Enterprises stepping in to wve Garner, its customer, from an- nihilation. N Tent Show Threat. E. F. Boyd of Adel, Ga., owned the only theater in that town. He opened With Paramount pictures and ran them several months, but they were said to have been old ones and the prints bad. From then on he ran them only occasionally. Southern En- terprises tried to have him buy a po tion of the 1922 product, but Boyd considered the prices so high he could not afford to run them. 1t appears that Southern Enterprises sold Paramount pietures to a lot of lous Methods” Alleged to Have Been Employed for the | n price | stated, to at | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1925. Counsel Calls “Unscrupu- Competition. tent shows that traveled around the country. A man named Watson was operating one of these tent shows, presenting Paramount pictures, but he did not go into any town where the local theater was using Paramount 100 per cent. Watson is sald to have wired Boyd that he was coming to Adel with his tent show and “run Boyd out or close him up.” Boyd wired Atlanta to keep | Watson out, agreeing to give Para- mount pictures one day a week. The next day O. L. Freeman, a salesman, is said to have arrived in Adel and found Boyd “considerably alarmed and upset. Freeman is alleged to have demand- ed that Boyd run Paramount six days a week, but as Boyd was only operat- ing his theater from one to three days a week he could not agree to the proposition. The salesman is said to have told Boyd that if he did not buy the pictures Watson would come to Adel and stay there with his tent show until he “broke” Boyd, and that after this threat Bovd agreed to take three pictures a week, providing Southern | Enterprises would keep Watson away. Remonstrance in Vain. The average price of the pictures was $11, and three a_week made $33. 1t is alleged that high-priced pictures were forced upon him during the hot August in Georgia, when there was no business, entailing heavy financial loss to him. Also that whel the pic- tures arrived there was not the usual advertising matter accompanying them. When Boyd remonstrated, it is re- lated, threats were made to sell the pictures to the Women's Club. Also a postscript of a letter sent to Boyd, which is part of the commission’s e: hibit, reads: “Wonder whether it would meet with your approval for Mr. Watson to return to your town? Please ad- vise us in reference to this.” It is stated the same tactics were pursued in Nashville, Ga., and that the tent show was sent there, the local theater afterward using Paramount plctures. “Defense counsel deny that Southern Enterprises had any connection with a tent show that they merely sold some pictures to be exhibited; that when Boyd sent to buy Paramount pictures they actually paid the owner of the tent show to move away from Adel. They contend that if the alleged threats were made hy the salesman, they were in moment of exasperation after Boyd refused to piay the pictures. They deny Southern Enterprises ever had any thing to do with the se of the tent show to Nashville, Ga. C. L. Hackworth of Huntsville, Ala., owned a large first-class picture house there and a first-run and second houses in Florence, Ala. He had run Paramount pictures 100 per cent for four vears, and Southern Enterprises is said to have doubled the price of them, but he signed the contract. Price Forced Up. Two men, it is stated, went Huntsville to buy his theaters. He understood they were buying for Southern Enterprises. He didn't want to sell, but was alarmed, believing that if he did not sell a rival theater would be bought or a new one built. He went to Atlanta and “begged Lynch to stay out of Hunsville and Flor- ence,” explaining he had lost an arm, gone broke in the lumber business in 1907, and was just getting on his feet. Lynch was Stephen A. Lynch, who was manager of Southern Enterprises. It is stated that after listening to Hackworth's story Lynch told him he would not be bothered, called in a young woman and dictated a letter to his organization that Hackworth w not to be molested for five year Hackworth agreeing to run Para mount pictures 100 per cent. Then, it is stated, Southern Enter- prises demanded from him twice or three times as much for the picture | service as ever before. Also, it is added, Hackworth made the contract | to all in vain, as only a short time after- ward Southern Enterprises bought an interest in a rival theater in Hunts ville, spending more than $30,000 in enlarging and remodeling it. The agreement with Hackworth was can celed, it is said, Paramount pictures were taken away from him, not only in Huntsville, but in Florence, and he lost between $75,000 and $100.000. “Attorneys for Famous Players as- sert Southern Enterprises had no intention of acquiring a_theater in Huntsville until Hackworth joined an exhibitors’ organization, the purpose of which was to boycott Paramount Pictures. Numerous instances of such tactics are woven through the testimony taken in the investigation. A paragraph from an extract of a sales manual, which is a respondent exhibit, reads: “There are also a great many ex- hibitors who are of the belief that our company desires to enter the exhibi tion field in opposition to them. These exhibitors must be informed of our real attitude, which is that we re no desire to enter the exhibition business unless we are forced to do so because of a lack of proper theaters in a particular community, or because of our inability to obtain’ proper repre- sentation of our product. To dis- prove the belief that we desire to en- ter into the exhibition field, you can state to any exhibitor that we are willing to enter into a long-time ar- rangement with him, provided he has the proper theaters of a quality suffi- clent to give our pictures a proper representation in the future, upon any terms that are equitable.” “The contention of Famous Players is that while this was its policy, it right to acquire theafers wherever it chose to, in order to sell its pictures direct to the public. (Copyright. 1925.) HUSBAND BOUND OVER. | Jesse Garner Under $5,000 Bail for Shooting of Wife. Jesse Garner of 901 I, street north- east, charged with an assault to Kill his wife, Lula Garner, was held for the grand jury on a bond of $5,000, fol- lowing a preliminary hearing in Police Court today before Judge John P. Me- Mahon. According to the testimony, Garner shot his wife four times following a domestic quarrel on September 30. She | was wounded seriously, and today | walked with a decided limp, beingz forced to sit down while testifying. The husband was arrested by Head- quarters Detective O'Brien. HELD IN MANN AC'FCASE. i Bennet Fate Nalley Arrested at. Home Here. i Bennet Fate Nalley. of 517 ’l'cn(h“ \ { street southwest, charged with the violation of the Mann act, was held | for the action of the grand jury follow- | ing a .preliminary hearing in Police | Court today before Judge John P. Me. | Mahon. Bond was fixed at $5,000. | Nalley was arrested by Detective | Howard E. Ogle last night at his home. According to the police he took Blanche Rivers, 18 years, of 468 F street southwest, to Norfolk on a promise to marry her. It is alleged by Detective Ogle that Nalley is al ready married. DEPLORES RIDICULE AIMED ATDRY LAW Dr. Abernethy Scores Papers for Levity in Address toW.C. T. U. Dev. of the C Dr. alvary Baptist Church, spoke on_the conditions surrounding the enforcement of the prohibition amendment at the opening session of the fifty-first annual convention of the Women's Christlan Temperance Union, District of Columbia, at the First Congregational Church today. Mrs. Emma Sanford Shelton, presi- dent of the society, will preside over all sessions of the convention, which will last two day Dr. Abernethy volced his disgust with the manner in which some newspapers ridiculed the attempts to the authorities to enforce the pro- hibition law. When a newspaper which is read by a great many peo- ple continually ridicules a movement there is a tendency among the people 1t large to adopt the same point of view, thus making its success doubly difficult, he dec { Raps Those Who Blame Church. The speaker denounced those who are blaming the church for the failure of the prohibition law, saying it s tmpossible for the church to enforce but he urged freer discus- ions of prohibition from the puly Dr. Abernethy praised the for the work it has done to a success of prohibition and urged the members to continue their efforts to_rid the country of the liquor evil. . congratulated the so- ork it has done in se- curing new members, but added that this gain has been nearly offset by an unusual number of deaths among the members of the Union. She add- ed that new organizations have dis tracted the attention of many of the members and urged that they stop joining every society that comes along and devote more of their time to the work of the Temperance Union. Warns of Propaganda. She deplored the removal of some of the revenue vessels from the New York Coast, thus making it casier | for the rum runners to land their cargoes, and also warned the mem- bers against the anti-prohibition prop- aganda that is flooding the countr: “The greatest dunger, however not in unfavorable propaganda,”’ ghe sald, “but in the apathy of the church members themselves.” ~Declaring that @ great number of church members are either sitting back and watching others do the work or else taking no interest whatsoever in it, she express- ed the hope that they will realize the seriousness of the situation and tak in active part in the great task that | is before them. Song service this morning was con- ducted by Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, and Mrs. R. J. Hoage led praver Several reports were heard and the morning session noontide devotions were conducted by Mrs. W. G. Jamison. An address by Mrs. Mary R. Haslup, president of the Maryland W. C. T. U.. was scheduled for this afternoon. Additional reports will be heard and devotional exercises conducted. The annual election of officers will be held tomorrow. CLARK GRIFFITH PREDICTS | ANOTHER PENNANT IN 26 But for Breaks Would Have Won World Series, He Tells Wapiya Club Members. An American _League base pennant for the Washington base ball am in 1926 was predicted by Clark Griffith, president of the Washing- 1on ball club, in an address before the Wapiya Club at a luncheon in the University Club vesterday. That he believed the Washington base ball team was much stronger than the | Pittsburgh team during the last world series was indicated by Mr. Griffith when he said that “but for the bad breaks Washington would have won in four straight games.” The speaker declared _that the ‘“breaks” were against Washington during the whole series, Mr. Griffith said be spent $500,000 for players since the year 1919, and an equal amount for the enlarging of the Griffith ium, while pointing out that a huge wutlay of cash is necessary to provide a “winner.” Yesterday's luncheon was the first one-held this season by the Wapiya Club, and was presided over by Dr. E. M. Ellison, newly elected president. Dr. Eilison also served the club as president year before last. The membership of the club is composed of local physicians. ball | W. & L. ALUMNI MEET. Plan to Attend Foot Ball Game at Lexington in Auto Caravan. Local alumni of Washington and | T.ee University held a get-together luncheon at the University Club at 12:30 today to make arrangements for attending the Washington and Lee-Virginia foot ball game next Sat- urday. It was decided to start an auto- mobile caravan from Washington to Lexington, Va., where the game will be played, going early Saturday morning and returning after the game. A large number of alumni present | at the luncheon signified their in- tentions of going. Elwood H. Seal, chairman of the local alumni group, was placed in charge of arrange- ments. Mourning Blacks Dyed 24-HOUR SERVICE Carmack Dry Cleaning Co. Lincoln 239 KEEP WELL this Winter Avoid colds, influenza, pnevmonia and other diseases. The secret is bowel cleanliness. Keep all the poi- e on the move. Pluto ‘Water quickly and effectively flushes and washes the bowel area —real health insurance. Prescribed by phy- sicians, bottled at French Lick Springs and sold at drug stores. PLUTO PRECEDENT BROKEN INMITCHELL TRIAL Veteran Service Men Amazed at Liberality of Board Trying Air Colonel. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Army and Navy officers stationed in Washington have been amazed at the liberality and tolerance of the martial court which is trying Col. Willlam Mitchell of the Alr Service. They the court is setting extraordinary precedents for the future conduct of military cases. Ordinarily in military law there would be no inquiry whatsoever into the truth or falsity of the statements made by Col. Mitchell. The only ques. tion would be as to whether or not his conduct and attitude were insubordi: nate and his language disrespectful to higher officers and officials of the Gov- ernment. That the court should per- mit the defense at this time to go far afleld and virtually to “try” the War ind Navy Departments, as well as the Department of Agriculture and | the postal service, has shaken m tary tradition In the Capital to the very foundations. Against All Precedent. True or false, the Army and Navy in the pasteRave brooked neither dis respectful conduct nor language. That a_military court now should permit an accused oflicer to go at great | length into the question us to whether or not the United States Government has been in ‘“treasonable” hands is pronounced by the higher officers of the Army as against all stated mili- | {ary practice. The Mitchell court, the: say, is leaning so far backward it m vet fall on the nape of its neck - ‘There is no question but that the Mitchell court has been long-suffering, ind Gen. “Bob” Howze, the president, has stated it is prepared to stand still more. Representative Frank Reid, civillan counsel for Col. Mitchell, has “taken liberties with the court which have caused old military faen in_the ramshackle courtroom to stiffen in their places, ready for the flareback. But the court has not re taliated in kind. Mr. Reid has made : rent after statement which in anguage and in tone have conveyed ks coutempt for the entire proceed- ings. In the pust courts-martial have been quick to resent even the sugges- tion of a slur upon their dignit No Word of Protest. Of course, the proceedings are be- ing held in the shadow of the dome of the Capitol, and Mr. Reid is a member of Cong: Military cers have been so roughly handled at times by congressional committees that perhaps they have come to e pect that sort of thing even when a member of the National Legislature merely is acting as attorney for an accused officer. No word of resent- ment_has come from the court over the obstructive tactics which already have prolonged the trial and which promise to carry it well into the Winter, At the War Department today it was said that the effort to create a “sensation” out of the fact that Pres dent Coolidge has been held up as| both accuser and final judge in the | Mitchell case must fall of its own | weight because nominally the Presi- dent is accuser in all court-martial s and also the reviewing author- | ity in every case involving punisk ment or lack of punishment. Pre dents repeatediy have chided courts martial for returning verdicts of not guilty when it has seemed to them 1 case was truly made against the lefendant. Every important act in the Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps is or authority of the 0 general court-martial led without his consideration and sanction. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are merely the “hands” of the President.” They | express his authority. Slurs cast upon the conduct of the Army and the 'y therefore are in effect slurs upon the President. (Copyright. 1925.) BAY STATERS MEET. Massachusetts Society Members Gather at Washington Club. The Massachusetts Society of Wash- ington held its first meeting of the Fall season last night at the Wash- gton Club, Seventeenth and K streets, with more than 300 members and guests in attendance. Plans for a full social season were made and officers for the ensuing year iwere nominated. The election Will be held at the next meeting, the first Tues day in December. A program of entertainment was given last night by Mrs. Ethel Fast, Miss Mabel Evans, the Colin twins, Miss E. Glynn and Mrs. Lyndon Jeffers. Representative Louis Adams Froth- ingham is president of the soclety, Elliot Wadsworth, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice presi- dent; George A. Hernan, secretary; Miss Harriet Cheney, treasurer, and Frederick Carpenter, chairman of the | executive committee. 3 | | | These are $35 and $45 Suits and Overcoats They cannot be anything different—because that’s what our tailoring shops specialize in. They are hand- tailored; made to measure—and by some mistake some- where, they didn’t fit the individual customers as WE thought they should—so new ones were made. That’s how you get such an advantage. The quality is here—and the style—and the tailoring—and probably your size. Some of the Suits hav pairs of trousers....... Bradford Chandler 502-3 Federal-American Bank Bldg. | don’t care a hang who knows it—are | helpless fodde | —and | teature of the pra | Bishop Tidd. HARD-BOILED COURT-MARTIAL TRADITION IS Judges Yawn as Lawyers Bicker, Faces Drawn Soon Learn to Snicker-—Oh, Past and Gone With War and Liquor Is All the Old Austerity. BY REX COLLIER. This heartless, iron-bound court- martial business isn't all that it has been cracked up to be. When some of us were in uniform | several years back the mere words, | “court-martial,” were sufficient to| send shudders down the spine. The term conjured up pictures of | a stern-faced group of hard-boiled generals licking their chops hungrily in anticipation of a gory feast at the expense of a nice voung tenderfoot from back in the sticks. The words carried with them a certain degree of reverence and awe. One felt they should be whisperd, if slven voice at all. Careless banter- ing about of the term would consti- tute grave sacrilege and more than likely subject the thoughtless one to charges of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline or some thing. And that would mean Court-martiall This One Love Feast. folks, courts-martial Wi nd we not what they used to be, if the Mitchell trial i any sort of criterion. The former halo of fearsome aus- terity that set such tribunals apart from things tangible and human has gone the way of shavetails and war Jread. The greatest court-martial of recent | times has turned out to feast instead of a torture party. It as been exposed as something entir human, instead of a relentl onic military gristmill in search ¢ r from the ranks. The nine supposedly hard-boiled of- ficers composing the Mitchell court seem to have forgotten themselves. They have @ habit of strolling into the courtroom late. They are on speak- ing and bowing terms with the pris aner accused of gross misconduct at | the expense of “Old Mother Hubbard” | —the Ninety-sixth Article of War. They loll back in their chairs and stifle yawns. They laugh now and then at humorous phases of the trial there h been many suc T seem to have had an avated lapse of the very discipline phases. e agg! | very outset they were informed that be a love | s UPSET AT TRIAL they are called upon to uphold. And all but one of them are generals of the most pronounced type, too. When the trial first started the popular conception of court-martial was reflected in the respectful de- meanor of the spectators. At the | they should stand up when the court enters the room and remain stand- ing until the members of the tribunal took thelr seats. They complied | strictly with the rules. There was no murmuring, no disturbance. But as the sessions passed things | took on a different aspect. The court | started it all by letting down the bars | itself. Those among the spectators | who were shocked at the first oul break of laughter on the part of the court gradually ventured to let loose a snicker or two themselves. As the days passed the snickers blossomed out into guffaws. At the rate of this progression it is expected that stamp- ing will be in order before the trial is over. Reid Funny Fellow. Most of the merriment has « over the clashes between cc the prosecution and the defens resentative Frank Reid of Tllinois, spe- cial attorney for the alleged dese- crator of Mother Hubbard, is not only lawyer; but a humorist. He is con- stantly coloring his remarks with | n that tickles the risibilities. | Sherman Moreland, the trial jud, i advocate, often responds to Reid’s s: lies with an equally witty rejoinder. T interchanges between 1 hiave grown so frequent that two occasions the president of court has felt that too much is too much, even though courts-martial really are human, and has admonished the op sing lawyers to their re- marks to the court. But it has been shown that a mili tary court is not a bogey out for the slaughter of innocents, and it is, there fore, possible that the bantering will 50 on and the appreciative respon of the audience continue as of yore. Proving that all is not well with the traditions of the military respecting | their high-and-mighty inals iginated for Rep EMERGENCY HOME OBSERVES BIRTHDAY Bishop Tidd Preaching Special Evangelistic Sermons Every "Day of Week. The Women's 103 Four-and-a-Half ing special imergency Home, street, is hold- services this week in celebration of its first anniversar: Bishop A. F. Tidd of Buffalo, N. Y., in charge of the services, is preach- ing evangelistic sermons each day. The meetings are open to the pub! Yesterday an open house was all day, with an entertainmen fal last night following an addres shop Tidd. Songs were sung Eva Chebithes and Miss T. Ne of this city, and a recitation riven Mies Ruth Baker. am was the read- ing of a poem of her own composition by Mrs. a Long, who is stop- ping here while she is seeking aid in h h for her war veteran son who is believed to be wandering over the country, the victim of shell shock Mrs. Long came here from her home in Flint, Mich. An address also was given by Mrs Alma A. Becker, superintendent of the home, and by her husband, Re: E. G. Becker, who is field secretary of the mission. The special services, which were started last Sunday, will be conclud- ed next Sunday with an address hy A report will be given Molumby, city missionar; by I Mrs. son was by on John the 3 C Designed Artistically and Harmoniously By Thomas Medford, Archt.. and The Bar- ton_ Art Interiors. Ine. Every desired com- venlenee of refned appotntment in a setting of wooded exclusiveness teat is almost im- Possible to dupilcats in this seetion. 6, 7 and 8 rooms, two baths and garage, completely detached. Just East ot Chevy Chase Circle. Consistent Prices and Terms. HOW TO REACH PROPERTY— By motor Coop. ave. to Ofrcle. east on ‘Western ave., follow signs; or Comn. ave. eai to MeKinley ‘street, tranefer to bus. Get of t Broad Branch road, walk thres short ks, “TERRELL & LITTLE, Inc. 1206 18th St. N.W. 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Brown d that this was | by no means final. s the hope that | the suggestion for rounding off the | will be carried out where new | curbing and paving is to be luid in| newly developed sections of the ci The committee also considered the matter of roadways for the Rock Creek | Potomac parkway development, but | 100k no final action. It did. however, | rder a survey of Nebraska avenue from the vicinity of American Uni- versity to the Potomac River with a view to establishing a highway plan for the area affected. niss o Will You Take for Your :) Eyes o | explaining that the legio: | and reso |adjusted ec ,I\N\\! i LD = BUREAU MERGER URGED BY LEGION Universal Draft in Case of War Also Advocated in Legislative Program. Absorption of the United States Bu reau of Efficiency and the United es Personnel Classification Board the Civil Service Commission is ecommended in the legislative pro- n of the American Legion, whi | was personally presented to President Coolidge today by John R. McQuigs. | national commander of the legion. Ac¢ cording to this program, the legion would have the existing laws amended S0 as to make this absorption poss! belfeves erest and ri Government protected b s stated in the progi ild appeal ta al we cha scheme im that this the Pres) line wit economy pr employment Universal Draft Urged. The tment viding for a in the event of poses 1d power d m also re law by univers: B ommends Congress pro- 1 araft, whici the Legion pro- ve the President all the manpow f the country to serve basis, that in the there would to rees o on an equal event of another bhe no sluckers ¢ for all service or none incl nmen produc President was. McQuigg that eves bhulwark o be forced upor Favors Reed-Johnson Bill. 3 also recommends the ment of the Reed-Johnson bill so » provide medical treatment and 1y for certair now excludes n of a medi cterans’ Bure: 000 additional bed ns’ hospitals, wants legislation for disabled emer the 80-c same trea grade t disability battle wounds. Tt is that Secretary of War enactment of this pre is plain that there are 2,000 officers in this grade & on President Coolidge White Ho: Comdr. McQuigs ¢ conferred with Gen. Hines, di Veterans’ Bureau, and latter with the legion's m for the disabled vet classes of disa under the law; the « cal corps in const zarding f Officers Reassigned. A. Hickman, finance Governors Island, N ordered to the Philippine eut. ( ilman Camp- lepartment, now in t been ordered to duty Houston, Tex c ¢ Islands, bell, finance Philippine at Fort One of the strange ed by a woman is that special Mrs. E. 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