Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 23

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON DR LAW RESULTS WILL BE REVIEWED ““Clean Mcvies” and Sabbath Problem to Be Discussed Before Reform Body. bition D * will Rev uesday night thirtieth an International Re 3 litan nd B s will be } William The Crusade fo lohn Ferguson, bath Problem 1, on “Th rtral Euror 1l preside. while stor of the Me 1 pronounce reeting of 1k orm Fe fternc Movies Solving the & Hohen Outlo n and E Vir Re invo . of trustees held i 1 banquet Metropoli he tru tees will ard ting rida, Dr. D. prohibit who United rers; H tendent rgh, gen. N Dr val Prin; iples Church lent of board Presbyter Welch of wcturer; Dr eneral secre- the board of temperance, pro- and_public morals the Church: Rev corg: North Evans, N. pas hurch WILL ROGERS’ HUMOR PLEASES ‘IN CONCERT’ Satirical Blasts at Everything, In- cluding Traffic Light, Please Large Audience. . presic T An of several persons enjoved the first here of Will Rogers in 4 the Washington Auditorium last As Mr. Rogers himself said, ult to classify him in his lience thousand s one of these 1 me high a lecturer, or an the'd say I had a to deliver,” said Mr. Rog- it is, 1t's mighty hard to 1at my job should be call Rogers proceeded to as entertaining in the ex- - he told the clever political 1t have made him famous the end t cinating larfats with ev seemed to posses During the even ched upon the of national tlonal interest, omitting « he Prince of Wales and He told entertainingl ind_only flight n e hell. when | - kept his eves glued on clond in the and f the Washington Monu iipped with handles e encircled it have used them. aughter with his com President, the s h debt commissior student problem. I touched in detail 1 traffic laws was to beach problem t almost hy phic if een eq won storms « nd the the colles, when he Washing 1t Congress municipal b the audienc Mr. Rog of the one nal that Was At New Hampsh eenth street, when he had going to come And give ben raise a suffic ate” for they had wi upon picture ~ avenue and Efght annc -d that open date he was back to Washington fit performance amount to donate a this lone ht, even ff hunt hard for iis shrewd hi chalance W r_and Quite in acts were Reszke * of young agle and N . the this vear as last Howard Kel The other e s are Paty hnson and Erwyn tenors. 1 Floyd Townsley milar ting the De quarte ined by Os; With hasso. the new quartet The same basso is ers Mutch, f last yes , substit for in singing nursery rhyme “Little s a delightful bit ve's Old Sweet In the sec- “Oon Wi of musi Song” w md group of Song,"” @ anged for quartet, W Fubstitutsd for g madr by Wil- Nam Byrd and the encores were Bruno s popular 1 comical ‘His Alexander “Winte: enade by Saint and panish folk song ar- ndelssohn's The Saens vanged In the and 1 it thet eived were ten to de It was certainly a successful though extremely lengthy concert that Wilson-Greene presented H chanties 1els the singers were ilarly well re andoah” and “Lis Alrs, —e Frederick ex-Sheriff Dead. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. FREDERIC November 28. Luther C. Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. ¥, Grove, after a long illn 80 years old. For years of the leaders « of Frederick County. in 1885. ess. he He was was one wic party He was sheriff ‘When labor in the Belgis lustry asked for a wage increase the overnment advised employers to ac- Cede to the demand inasmuch as they had recelved contracts fer fuel for vernment railways recently. one pas- | He | to | place to | sigurd | Hard- | Benjamin ! & i n coal in- Adrienne May years, sokd Christni | Coolidge to_her i S Taft, Wil nceau and oth er, champion Chri of purchasers. 1 Harding, for the Conveni After office cabinet hit the caused tl French éabi fall, whick Chambe of apt_an article Al program lation er will do to only 23 da headed rocks being in * French Deputies e in M. Painleve's financ: zave rise t wed what the French tind a man who can lead it out of the wilderness Sugge ms that coup d'etat would be attempted hav renewed with emphas but Pre dise ing t rumors Governments fall, but the re inds. We still ble to her. Kee mind, ny one belleves h Mo s come. he Is the resignation difficulty was experienced a new one. In the order named, Aris | tide Briand, Senator Paul Doumer and former P Herriot were asked to form a cabinet, and each had to decline for one reason or another. Finally M. Briand toook over the job arnest and announced his selections ‘Thus another crisis has rted for the time being. is in net forming | vesterday been av Following long-established hte Nation paused for a day k to thanks for the ble anoth: p There was little of no in the observance of the President Coolidge leading the X in the gulet enjoyment of rest, attending services the morni and frie a afternoon custom, t week sings of tion n g his fami quiet dinner in Another week of Mitchell court- martial finds the prosecution at the \ing of a l¢ st of witnesses B il he called to Eive the other side of questions on which the de- fense witnesses have been testifyving Las week, Col. Mitchell's counsel an- nounced that they rested their and the prosecution ediately. re- | ponded by announc L list of more 100 Army and Navy and Govern- ment officials who be Thus, the trial prc |over another week last week's trial himself took the stand, gave the his- of his services in the Army and through a gruelling cross-exam- tion the hands of the pros Little developed from his o cupancy of the witne 1 he high-1 when Col. Mit to wer 7 | to John J. a commission - the holding of whether th Aricabelon a problem all his tact t which g: ing to to Chile or nd inai- | opy ending, | he proy yme to an abrupt of the sudden with-[ awal of the Chilean delegates 'rm.‘ tion is made blacker by ill feel- between Peru and C| which | ks out intermittently wives | expression in fights and bloodshed. | Gen is understood to have ven up a planned vacation trip yme in order to devote all his time trying to heal the by Diplomats here in Washinetor ird the ation as seriou but h given up hope « e cor verno: Mirfam Ma (e} w -ouble me presented with a 1 Ly members of the St demanding that she call special se sion of lature by 1 smber 15 to investigate alleged irregularities | in the highway contracts. If the Gov-| ernor fails to call the Legislature speaker of the house will issue the call hi it was said Ferg reports say. now f gs which resuit of her hushand, Tex tion. signed te Legislature, | the the same | 1in the in when he »f Sinm for the k and was s ma VI, King 14 vears, died last we ceeded by his voun Praja Dhipok. He 2 male heir of his and the day ber ter was born tc Another prohibit week it on the present form in this country came the Mod ated body with ew York, which tatement giving the results ey made in every cit the popul more 5,000 and which police records during the last 11 | “Drunkenness generally has inc to virtually the pre-prohibition levels, and certain classes of intoxication ases have increased far beyond thing ever known before in this country,” the statement said.. The Smithsonian Institution s coming to the American people with n appeal for $10,000,000 with which to arry on its activities and embark in | new fields of scientific research. This |was announced last week by the ‘mithsonian, which “made it known that 16 major projects of the insti- tution have been held up because of !lack of funds. This is;the first time |in the 80 years of its ‘existence that | the institution has appegled. divectly to the public for funds. The German Relchstag ratified the Locarno peace treaties last week by a sizable majority and voted for Ger- many to enter the League of Nhtlons Approval of the treaties by the Ger- man legislative body now permits For- ion from i po of last n ook in s seals to the Prine She de- | + | the tax bill passed an % up this pros | win | Ne | result | questionnalires to representative busi In | properly tion | PRESIDENT AIDS CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE tmas seal girl, t the age of 5 of Wales, yesterday added President has also sold Christed s seals to and to Gen. Foch, Gen. Pershing, M. Current News Events Summary of Important National, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged ence of Students. Minister o London, wh rmally rati Minister Stresemann t the tr and signed Stresemann will then apply into the Leagt Nations. the Locarno treat and Ger- proposed entry into the ve been opposed in the ag by jthe nmunists and the German Na i tionalists | | 1 \d buried a beloved qu Alexi 1, her queen n i st roval proc the of London. her eiving a flee Engla 1 week other. sion h s On cots ‘l | walked 1 {and wi family and ves, now | reigning monarchs of Belgium {way and Denmark. In Westmins Abbey & short funeral service was held.” The body lay in state for a few hours and was taken to Windsor for burial in the royal chapel. the Nor- Civics. | As time nears for Congress to con- vene, House leaders are already ma | ing their plans for the formation o the new House. On one item they | move slowly. It is their desire to get out of the way 1 this reason they pre it to take any cha in tying n by launching into stion of organizing the tely after the con The trouble lies and with them. A plan, now tively. is to postpone or- iization of the committees until after the tax bill s passed. In this connection it is expected the regular Republicans will follow the policy | and for qui. the tedious ¢ new House in vening of ¢ with the ee assign: : H. G. Dalton of Cleveland, Ohio, ha completed an_investigation, made at e request of President Coolidge. the nd the rer gency and his find ings have public. He recommends that the Shipping Board be stripped of its exe > and admin tive powers : ned in its fal and it trou Shipping Corporation be authority and provides President is most vexi 1 report prot £ recomn oming session the Shipping Corporation of overlapping ed effort with « form the to Congress w I Board and the expected, duplic & e problems its ¢ fectin, Fleet Education. Experience is he best teacher of English, according to a report made to the Natifonal Council of English achers, meeting in Chicag week he report, drawn up of sending out some men, has showed difficulty in half of ations reports that the av In using English his_business b ecorded as the ustomed to the man Al r mp men became m i f the lang of a hoomerang as the r enactment of the tion sult of its compulsc educa. 'sSs boom rang the qu tion of appointing pages to the House and Senate. Heretofore, boys serving as pages in the houses of Congress and in the Supreme Court have, in man; been 14 years and under Two of them have already been drop {ped from the list of Hou eligibles for the positions the and nate must be exten sively revised because of the new | law requiring children up to 14 to at. tend school. An interesting example of the heights to which a body of college students will rise in celebrating the prowess of its foot ball team wa | shown last week in ton, 1L, | when 3,000 men and women students of Northwestern University went on - which ended only with the of the cold ¢ light of dawn. Starting out to celebrate the triumph of its foot ball ame, the idents burned a fraternity house, | set fife to a_wooden ium, knocked | the mayor of the town senseless, gave | the chief of police a black eve, dam. wed the fire department’s equipment or made off with it, stripped the po lice of theit badges and beat them with * their own nightsticks. Four students were arrested. . Axton, chief of chap- the Army, submits interesting in the annual report made The average for the vear,> he sald, was 13 services per man. The attendance last year ex | cecdeqi by half a million that of the preceding year, although there was no fmcrease in Army personnel. Iic attributed the increase on a growing interest in religious matters on the part of the commanding officers. Economic. A mew figure, $which might be re- garded as an alarming specter, is be- ginning to loom on the horizon,. its shadowy outlines becoming more dis- tinct .as the weather grows colder, in the Army. 1e extreme Nationalists, | Stonewall ! of { with officers and teachers inathe |and Tuesday of last week. is | | i | publie last week on church attendance | | se | Wednesda tan i ng | | pared with 2,077 ar. i D. C, NOVEMBER 29, 1925—PART 1. | AL JOLSON COMING HERE NEXT SUNDAY Will Take Part in Perform- ance for Benefit of Stone Mountain Memorial. Al Jolson, Mme. Aidelle Patterson, the operatic singer, and Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of Washing- ton and Lee sity, to take part in benefit performance ar ranged by the local committee of the Stone Mounta M tion to be held Sunday, in the Washington Auditor miral Cary nounced last night will held at afternoon and will formally open the intensive for bulk Stone Mountain Memorial coins, to be during the 10-day period from December T to 17 rvices of all artists, and speakers have been give sociation free, and the proce go toward defraying expen giant sculptur project lanta, Ga Jolson Given Unive are prial Associa December 6 m, Ad formance e 2:30 o'clock in the drive sales of the conducted S entertainers the as. eds will the At = neai Hour. Al Jolson, the Washir former, has been given ene the program. Short made by Augustus [ Virginia sculptor engaged to exec the Stone ntain Memorial indolph of A ute and oeca it of vson will use the to Senat m tative Mcl ®wo silver ifty-fifth and fifty sixth of the special memorial haif dollar coins minted for the henefit of the project, inasmuch the: duced the bills authorizing William Hard, assoclate chairn the local committee, will int the speakers and entertainers sion to present Utah and f Pennsylv: containing the pla Answers Crif iticism sm. in de in > York the ve i by figures Jucks Memorial Admiral Gr { Mount is entirely correct in that the figure of 1 Jackson, contained i s Lukeman model, i It | his statement | 1 August oper lik tended to be M st i annou 1. Jackson was 1 to she i the central group. If Mr. Winn figure of Gen. Le the Confederate leader erable varia with that of Southern officers & Eener whom the mode s submitt SHAW JUNIOR PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION WEEK with the hceptic is at e N w " | to Discussion and Assemblies Devoted of American Constitution Other Appropriate Topics American educat wer a student, presided Monday sembly devoted to a discu Constitution. _Tuesday health day nd talk large number of teachers, teacher day was held when Dr. A. J. Coope High School was the pi er. Thursday talks made by Mr. Dody and Mr. school bank The boys' and girls’ iaw gave a joint musical prograv A Thanksgivin Thelma V. of the girls’ club president: Frances and the officers Julian Br ris, vice secretary Conferred th ematics d artments of the funior high schoois of Springfield, Mass., Monday Recently, N. M. Quander visited schoois in Philadelphia, observing the Dalton plan in operation in the public schools there FOREST FIRES REDUCED. Maryland Official Says Loss Is $50,- 000 Under Last Fall's. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November ords of the State Departme estry show a marked forest fires with the nouncement by —Rec- nt of For 4, o John R. Curry, assistant te forester. This is due to favorable weather conditions and roused public sentiment show that thus fa <t fires have cost the State and owners $30.000 less than in the Fall of 1924. Then there were fires, involving a total loss of § This season 32 fires have been ported. Last year 22,474 acres forest land we: cer, as com This specter is the possibility of a strike in the soft coal mines. Com ing, as it would. when the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania are now closed, the possibilities would be seri- ous, though not necessarily danger- ous. President Lewis of the United Mine Workers and the general for now engaged in the anthracite strike sounded out the Government's atti- tude last week when he wrote to President Coolidge after stating that some ope re breaking | their wage agreement with the worl ers, asked this question: “If it should occur that the Federal Government | is not disposed to intervene for the | protections of meritorious wage | agreement, might the mine worke helieve that their own efforts in that direction may be considered as jus fiea?” This was taken to mean that if the Government does not interfere in the | soft coal labor controve may be in the making. Coolidge has replied to the letter the reply has not been made public. « Building construction for the first 10 months of this year has exceeded last vear’s total, according to a state- ment last week from the Ameri Construction Council, but the larger volume of residential gonstruction not met the country’s real hou ing need. This need is for sui housing for persons of means, the statement said. average October was a record month for au- tomobile production, the Department ' of Commerce announced last week. | Manufacturers turned out 392,648 passenger cars and 44,129 trucks. The previous high record was in April of this year. { by | cha | Webster, | chatrn LAST HORSE-DRA GOES OUT OF SERVICE TOMORROW Truck to Begin Serving Woodridge Route, But W. S. Crawford Will Still Deliver Letters to People : ;-4 Vicinity of Station. 1 2 o Washington's 1 wagon, which oper horse-drawyn matl tvus in Woodiidge Wl vicinity, has been overtaken by the march of progress and will offi clally pass out of service tomorrow fternorn at 1:15 o'clock, when & Gov. ernment-owned Ford delivery truck will be formally _installed - at the Woodridge station, Rhode Island and Mills avenues northeast, it was'‘an- nounved at the office of City Postmas ter Mouney vesterday The passing of the old wagon, which | Qutlying distriots has been driven for vears by Willlam | ““Liwara W Turn wford and drawn by an-old bay will not be without incident, for «1 with it s ‘both interest. and sentiment. Accordingly, Postmaster Mooney expects to be present at t Woodridge station when the wagon make ud he will have a pic horse he was then driving. driven Fannle since. No more will the people living in the vicinity of Woodridge, Langdon nd other scetions in the fmmediate vicinity. see the familiar sight of the old wagon. However,. Mr. Crawford will cover a route, on foot, in the neighborhood of the Woodridge sta tion, while the motor rtuck is ex pected to speed up deliveries in the He ha: yesterday on the “wonderful memory " of Mr. Crawford—who is said never to have to make a written memo- andum -of the mall he has to deliver its ex ture taken of it 1o be kept In his or ce When told of the from the e-drs tor vehicle, Mr. Crawford, who has been on the route for about 25 years, thought of “Fannie,” his ii plaining that the old marc | ved him faithfully for more | 9® vears, he declared that he | s much of ‘Fannie’ as he | did his r arm,” and expressed a desire that “Fannie” might be taken | care of on some ) where she might rest for the of her life. Mr. Crawford has been in charge of the wagon since it was installed on the route about 13 years ago. He is 63 years old, has been in the employ of the City Post Office since 1882, and has served on the route in Woodridge and vicinity nearly 25 years. having car- ried mail on horsebuck before deliv- from the wagon. Crawford was present at the! of the assassination of President wtield. He was carrying a satchel Mr. Garfleld in the old Baltimore | ind Potoma ilway Station. He | was walking a short distance in front ! of the President when Guiteau fired | the fatal shot P wwford was incapacitated for ronths six years ago when hit by a street car, Our n fiv hought DINNER COMMITTEE Appointed Chairman to Arrange ' Annual Banquet of Washington Board of Trade. 83088 e8s00seeseesstessessesstesssesssessssssssss fur Milton » ard President F. Schwab of the member- | committee of the Washington de has been appolnted Cunningham chair 1 the board’s Midwinter dinner | committee. The annual Midwinter dinner of the organization will be held at the New ard Hotel Saturday, February John Bardroffl was appointed vice man and Willlam R. Ellis secre ary of the committee. The following subcommittee appointed nner, gen r. Br i were Mil Galler: ok r, Amiss, vic ntin; W. Barr quhar, chairman vice chalrinan; itations and ham, J. Murphy Arthur Car H. Klopfer, \tertainment we Mill wan n iairman: | Ber Geore Fred J. White, Luther Linkins. C. Br 5 wh Fisher. Lanter Publictty—Richard chairman. Sale of ticket chairman: - Harry Ridzely ] n; Harry inningham, W = r onner LS TssesTeSassessEesEtesseeseeteses et esasseesasssterssatss ce Combs. ROSA PONSELLE TO SING AT MUSICAL IN CAPITAL American Prima Donna of Metro- | politan Opera to Appear | Here January 13. Announcement was made vesterday by Mrs. Lawrence Rosa Ponselle, the American prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, who sang the leading role fn Gioconda,” *on the opening night of the present sea- son at that house, will appear in Washington in_a morning musical under her management January 13 in a joint program with Jacques Thi- baud, the French violinist. The announcement of Miss Pon selle’s engagement completes the list for the morning musicals at the May- flower Hotel this season Lawrence Ti ett, the young Amer- ican baritone of the Metropolitan, and | Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist, will be the artists for the first program | @& December ¢ Other singers from the Metropolitan who will be included in | the list for the musicals are Elizabeth Rethberg and Maria Mueller, sopranos, and Rudolf Laubanthal,” German | tenor. Miss Ponselle has' not been heard in Washington for a number of colors that wil and goregously lined. Only a limited quantit®. 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