Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1925, Page 2

ELLIS ISLAND END - APPEARS H4:SIGHT European Nations Clamor for American Inspection on - Other Side. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM;WILE. Doom of Ellis Island as @aea ghief port of inspection for immimramt Sel: va RIS Aaropean Eoverr: clamoring for general !nstitution th gyvstem. now successfully on t in the British Isles, for examina of American-hound e s before their departure from E The United States G Tme not averse to the suggestion During the three months of experiment with fransatlantic inspection of would-be American citizens in Great Britain and Ireland unqualifiedly tisfactory results have bean obtained. Vi ually no emigrant examined on the other side has been ejected on arrival here Heartbreaks, old system, hi pense and other personal have heen ohviated From standpoint—from that of the emigrant and from that of U'ncle Sam-—thg new deal is working out br l‘hr!l\"\‘q ~ Law Gives Authority: 7 % No amendment of the 1024 im#niz¥as tlon law s necessary to permit Sec Kellogz and Secretary James cespectively for Depagjmengs. 1o ex tend to othe: untifes. the. svsfem established in the Dritish Isle<” on October 1 Other countries have.al; ready indi thelr desire for-tha American-Bri If 1t iseven tually adopted-—and Washington im wigration authorities are confident it will he—it would meadt the,practical demobilization of Ellis Island. 'Thé historic gateway to “Free Amegica, adjacent to the Statue of ~Isiberty, might still serve as the landing place of immigrants. But it would no Jonger be the important Institution it has been for so many years. The £10.000,000 “plant” that it now ‘com prises could be utilized for other Fed al purposes—perhaps as our prin. cipal afrport on the northern Atlantic 1lis Tsland. as operated today, about $1.000,000 a bulk of that sum it emigrant ¢x in F e Those behind is under iverted hardst every common ve hees the = veta J. Davis State coast costs the Treasury The vast d be unnecessary ion takes plac rather than in America the Coolidge economy prosram are expected to see value and virtue in the scheme for universal emigrant inspection Four Phases of Scru Not the slightest danger moral or political cen fean immigration officials in I future citizens of the Unit passed on in Europe. The English. Seotch. Welch and Irish who have come through under the new svstem during the past three months under went no fewer than four separate phases of scrutiny. These are. (1) ap proval by the American consular au thorities, to whom the first applica tion must he made: (?) examination by the immigration officers of the Tnited States. specially stationed on the other side for that purpose: (3) ex- amination by the European or Amer- iean steamship company's medical officers. and (4) final approval by rep- resentatives of the United States Pub- lig: Health Service on duty In the Brit- {afl Tsles The steamship companies are America's eagle-eved allies in Im- migrant inspection. Thev must pav T'ncle Sam a fine of $1.000 for every fmmigrant brought over who eventu aili has to be sent back, and. in addi- 1ih. the company must.take .him back. and Of tha 12,500 or 15.000 British Irish who have joined us this Autumn and Winter as gogd as none has had to be returned, Inspection on their native sofl waR néarly "100 per cent perfect Tt can be stated on authority that no drastic amendment of the new im- migration laws is at all likely at this mession of Congress, except amend- ments of a socalled “humanizing” nature. These will carry out the recommendations in President Cool- idge’'s message. They will aim prin- cipally at making it possible for the relative of aliens already here to come over and join them. This ap: plies especially to wives and mi children. Parents over 60 years age are also to be specially admitted Persons in none of these categories will be considered as adding to the ting quotas. They will all come under the non-quota category. It is also proposed that the age limit of admissible children of aliens already in America shall-be ra fr, 8 to P rojped g 21 : It has heen estimateq thdt then these “humanizing’” ameéndfents to the law are enacted, it will not mean an addition of more than 10,000 per sons a vear at‘the dlitslide to the grand total of immigrants now allow- ed to come. There wilk be some op- position to the “humanizing” propo. sals, it is expected. It will be raised by socalled immigration = super-pa- triots. who would ke {0 put a stop. once for all, to any more immigra tion of any kind:fromjanvwhere on earth. and build a Chinese wall around all our coasts and frontie But their voices will not prevail, in all probability. Neither » will the voices of radical groupshow agitating for drastic Increase in the quotas of their nationalistic_brethren (Copsright. 1925.) GRIEF-TORN WOMAR FOUND BY POLICE SEARCHE&sim PARK nued from wou -physical by A ing all Sfates (Con Page.) did not know who ceostituted the searching party.t!’ i It was the finding of the freshly cut biinch of flowers by Sesgt. L. A. Lib- bay and Pvts. F. T. Cain and J. N. Bfowning of the park police that in 2 ified the search. tHey thinking it like % i rst she let them™Yall.» + It was shortly after @dvbreak that | they came upon her. = o make certain she had ng harm, Mrs. Klaphaak v to: Georgetown ‘Hospital, \Ecre her zandition was pronounced satisfactory Mrs. Klaphaak's deceasred*hushand, Peter J. Klaphaak. of 1000 East Cap fiml sireet, was an employe of the Agricultur service man. He'*wap “admitted to Whiter Reed Hospitat, Yhere he died, on December 5. sufferifig from an ail- ment believed to have been contracted in_France. g bedside continually! Festerday Aafternoa 1dind her automobile tato the wood: suffered taken park $pofice ad heen arfverd and the search began. SHOP EARLY. And Your Choice of European | Depagtmentsgn® a former | The -wife had been at his | ! Drops Dead in Theater <] o dilitation of the heart 9 r@l;:mrk C KELLBGG RENEWS . ISOLATION PLEDGE fN GOTHAM SPEECH (Contif TTed Yron " Eirst | fare Letween various ‘contending po urninz to debt settlements. said he resented sugzest feyms, had heep- harsh. or led 1o recogaize the vast war los We have gone just possibly leould: i’ racogn eXtrABPdNare - i foms/ “We have not hurried anvhody The Secretary said he believed “the main foreign governments” had come 10 tite’ AMPreAn viewpnint that debt settlements were urgently necessary it EQrene, whs 16_he. rehabilitated™ economically 2 Private Amerfcan loans to forelgn | sovernments or individuals, Mr. Kel logg said. had been “objected to™ in the chse of countries which had not set tled their war debts and when the {money was to be used “for armaments md . the mogopolization of - p onsumed in the United States” At no time. he said. had the Government | undertaken to pass upon the husiness Jor financial merit of any loan Discusses Loans. As to loans to German states angd municipalities. he $lgt “it_was: hes | lieved “these-mkehi RoL be favored by the German zovernment and might raise the question of transfer of funds sufficient to pay_the principal interest on such honds.” American hankers, e sded. should consider “'to wht #Xtent state and munieipal loans showld-he made " since all reparations paid into the Reichshank “must be transferred with the consent of the transfer committee.” and the hankers had- heen- advised they should® con sider “whether such loans were for productive purpeses. which would “did in_procuring funds for transfer.” In reply to critics of his poliey in denying passport visa in certain cases not specified in his remarks. Mr. Kel- logg declared that “the law has speci- fied what classes shall he excluded and until it is changed 1t will he en forced. and it will he enforced without regard fo thelr station in life, for tha law ggplies to prince and peasant allked" 3 I T rtinde 7wt mestrlosng visas is st in-efectiundes priwlsion of the Aiplomatic d Sonsular appro priation bill of «a¥21, tJu# Secretary pointed out, but added that the “most | important statute”™ on the point was | 1 n bill of 1918 as amended ch 1a1@ down lenXthy defl nitions of aliens to be excluded as an. archists or as those who taught, ad- voeatedrorally or in writing, fns or .otherwise . supported violent overthrow of the United States Gov- ernment or of all government or “all forms of law The speakergquoted the complete secttons of the fct and 1d ther made It his duty to exclude | persons falling under it. | Tt those well meaning but mis guided individuals among us who are enagaged in promoting the cause of anarchy and holshevism under the guise of liberty and free speech would take the same manly stand as lahor.” he s=aid, “there would be infinitely lass danger over the dissemination of pernicious doctrines inimical to our Institutions.” Foreizn relations should be free from party politics, Kellogg said in an ex temporaneous preface to his address It partisanship is allowed to enter | into the country's foreizn policy, mis- understanding {s sure to develop, he sald. Because of the growing impor- tance of European relations and the expanding interest in foreign affairs, there will be danger of partisanship | becoming increasingly keen and be- clouding the renl fssues Archibald Cary Coolidge, professor of history at Harvard University and of Foreign Affairs, presided In idition to the speaker and chairman the following were at the speakers’ table Hamilton Fish Arm- strong, Perry Relmont, Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, Isaiah Bowman, Willlam R. Castle, Jr Malecolm W. Davis, Nor- man H. Davis, William R. Shepherd, Paul M. Warburg Henry White, George W. Wickersham and Owen D. Young. OHIO STATE .WOMAN'S DEAN ASKED TO LEAVE Miss Elizabeth Conrad Resigns; Board 'of Trustees Silent on Ay ns had The { as i | | i | Reason for Request. ¢ the Associated Press. | _COLUMBUS, Qhin. December 15 ! Miss FElizabeth Conrad, dean of wom- | en at Ohio State University since 1919, | submitted her resignation to the hoard of trustees of the universitv yester- day. Miss Conrad sald her resigna tion was requested by the hoard. The board declined to give its reason. | An investigation of alleged liquor law violatlons and communistic ac- | tivities are now under way by a com ! mittee appointed by the hoard of trus. | tees and headed by George W. Right mier, acting president of the institu- ‘rlfln Dean Conrad came here from the | University of Wisconsin in 1919, | SEEK MISSING ORIOLE. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., December 15 (). —A reward of $1.000 was offer- ed today by ¥red H. Hirth, owner of a stone cutting company, for the re- turn of “Hamsi,” a Baltimore oriole, that has been a pet at the Hirth home eight vears. . _The bird, taken into the home when it fell from a nest ‘as a fledgling, never a8 been cagédl. “Hamsi” was a con- firmed radio fan, sitting for hours listening to music from the air. #.BANKER-DIES IN CRASH. RIDGE_SPRINGS, S. C., December | 15 (P).—Gerald Watson, 46 vears old, | president of the Farmers and Mer. chants’ Bank of this place and one of the most prominent men of this sec- tion of the State, and Miss Louise Jones, his wife's sister. were killed this morning when Southern passen trajin No. 8 struck and completely olishéd “¥he" automobile 1A~ whi they were riding. {its zovernment &nd e constant war - duets believeds ALIEN PROPERTY HEADIES AT SHOW Frederick C. Hicks Succumbs in Midst of Eerie Act by Magician. Whije Thurston, the magician, was mysteriodsly ralsing the body of af "woman He had seemingly hypnotized, | MFrederick . Hicks, custodian of alien | properiy. slumped down in his seat | in the Belasco Theater last night and | died before medical ald could be sum- | oned. Death was aseribed to acute | The fatal attack struck Mr. Hicks; near the end of the first act. Al | ways interested in the performances ¥of ‘magicians, he had gone to the theater alone and occupled an alsle seat in the seventh row of the orches tra. Mr. Thurston was reaching the climax of one of his most eerie num- bers Having young woman apparently hypnotized a he proceeded to raise her from her couch by sheer force of his own will and commanded her to float in midair ahove the stage. Tt was just at the point where the body seeniingly floated up and down on neshing but alr that Mr. Hicks fel) ritard Yn his seat Dies In Darkness. Lane. the house was calied. A minute later Mr. Hicks dted t the arms of Mr. Lane. while 4he. theater"Was completely darkened in preparation for the magician's next numt ,\nnum assistance of sev- eral ushers-the bad¥ was carried from the auditorium through the orchestra pit to a lounge room below the the- ater. & Nb excitement attended the tragedy and only a few persons near Mr. <Hicks knew. of {1, Those nearest the stricken men merdly believed him il and quietly notified the house officia It is believed that none of the the. ater's patrons learned of Mr. Hick's death. although he succumbed while still in the auditorfum Mr. Hick's wife and his daughter, worgina Hicks, were at their home at 1717 Massachusetts avenue. They were na ed from nergency Hospl- tal, where the bodv had been taken,i 'd were prostrated upon reaching | e hospital. Both. were so deeply | shocked by the tragedy that it was necessary to put them under the care | of physicians Frederick C, old, also survives nim | Arthur manager, A son Hicks, 4 yvears Served in Congress. Rorn ilf Westhury, N. Y., Mr. Hicks was graduated from the public schools and later took his degree at warthmore College. In 1893 he was graduated in law from Harvard Uni- ver: His first attempt to win| A seat In Congress fafled. but he tried agply and sucgeeded two vears later. He then represented the first distrigt of New York for four successive terras, serving for a time on the naval af- falis committee, resigning after the Sixtv-seventh Congress. Mr. Hicks was appointed custodian of alien property by President Cool- {dge last April. succeeding Thomas W. Miller. Prior to that he had been appointed to the diplomatic mission to Peru, In 1924, and in the last po- | litical campalgn had charge of the Eastern headquarters of the Repiib- lican national committiee. He was a member of the Friends' Church Mr. Hick's business interests all| centered around Port Washington, Long Island, which he considered his legai residence. HMe was a director o Wo banks and a trust company there. and also held directo ship In the Glen Cavewlnsurance (o. and the Sea Coast Realty Co He wits s’ member of the New York | Yacht Club, Union League and Re.| publican Club_of New York, the | Chevy Chase, Purning Tree and the Metropolitan Clubs of this city. The funeral probably will be Thurs- day, from the residence. |“BATTLING” SIKI FOUND MURDERED IN GOTHAM STREET (Continued from First Page.) United States and elsewhere when a ringside brawl resulted in his suspen: sion by the French Boxing Federation for three monthas. Subsequently he created another’ sénsation by charging that the fight with Carpentier had been “fixed.” hut that he “double crossed” Georges after undergoing a change of heart during the contest. Carpentler and his manager, Deachamps. vigorously denied the charges and an official in. vestigation falled to substantiate them. although the referee voiced his | Delief that the bout was @ frame.up. | Deprived of Titles. Meanwhile Siki had been deprived 1 by.French authorities of the titles he won from Carpentier and was in_dis. | favor in the United States and Eng- |land. where 'projected matches in | which he was 10 appear were barred. Carpentler’s repeated efforts to obtain a return match failed. Siki started professional boxing i 1913, but engaged in but few cons tests before the outbreak of the World | War, in which he served with French colonial forces. After the war he | hoxed in various parts of Furope, at- tracting attention when he defeated two well known French heavywelghts, Journee and Nilles. His victory over | the latter in June, 1922, resuited in | the match with Carpentie Before his defeat by McTigue his, record showed but 2 defeats in 44 bouts, the hands of one setback at Jean Audouy, in 1914, and the other by Tom Berry, in 1920. He won 18 bouts by knockouts, 23 by decision and earned 1 draw. After coming to the United States Siki engaged in a number of houts, in several of which the decision went against him. He was born in Senegal in 1897. Greece Won’t Pay | Invasion Penalty, Pangalos Asserts By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Greece, December 15, ‘ ‘The Athens papers quote pre. | mier Pangalos as declaring that the | Greek government will not coun- . | tenance the payment of even 1,000,- | 000 leva as penalty for the Grectan | tnvaston of Bulgaria, although it is willing to pay for the damage caused by the Greek troops. The League of Natfons council vesterday decided that Greece must pay reparations of 30,000,000 leva, or about $219,000. The decision was accepted by Greece's representa- . tive. 7 Premfer Pangalos’ statement as outlined above apparently makes a distinction between payment of an tndemnity for invasion as againat _pavment of reparations for dam- nges dneident-10:1he: < tion of Bulgarian sofl, Jetty? asked Mr. Reid. - ISEFATRAULT ed to Clear War Depart- ment of Blame. | | | | | Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, assistant chief of staff, today occupled the | stand the Mitchell court-martial Proceedings and. as the prosecution | explained to the court, gave testimony to show the Alr Service and not the War Department is responsibie for its | own shorteomings ! The testimony of Gen. Drum eon- | sisted in the main, 4p until luncheon recess, of recitations and readings of | regulations governing the - control. ! fon and management of the Afr fce. At only one point did the direct _ examination of +the witness threaten to produce a_sensatl occurred when Gen. Druin sald Gen. | Pershing way responsible for the pr ent system of t»r‘fl_nl/a(linll in the Wyr Depa¥tment as it #ffected the various branches. “Then. in vour opinlon, the crit! clsms against this system is a direct attack on Gen Pershing?” asked Lieut. Col. Joseph 1. McMullen, as sitant trial judge advocate. Reid Objection Upheld. Representative . Frank © R chief civilian defense counsel. ohjected » the question and the court tained him Refore- Gen, in Drum tonk the p('ivlll‘ Maj. .Gen. Frank W. Coe. chief of Coast _Artlllery, was récalled to ex plain his testimony several davs ago. when undér cross-examination” he de clared 10.000 apti-aircraft guns could not protect the city of Washington from an aerlal’ attack. Although he was & prosecution witness. the pro- cedurp adopted by Maj. Francis R Wilby, an asaistant trial judge advo cate. in getting the witness to clarify his_testimony caused Mr. Refd to in- mert many obfectlons. Mr. Reid de- clared Maj. Wilby w: “trying to im- peach his own witness” by having him give an explanation that would break | down his previous statements. When Gen. Coe finally was allowed to ex plain, he said for the past five yvears he had declared a great many times that 2inch antiaircraft guns could not defend a large area-against an alr invasion. “1 haven't added anything by saving 10000 guns could not do is vour idea of.an . efMcient e for a city the ‘size of Wash- Maj. Wilhy asked Need of Air Force. “It is an efficient air force, which must take the offensive and keep the enemy out of the air.” replied the wit- ness. “It is necessary to protect cer- | tain points with antfalreraft guns b@cause a bombing plane will make | certain it can see what those points are. But bombing planes don't to. see the City of Washington amb 1t." son g Maj. Wilby ‘presented Gen. Coe| with his testimdny before the Mor-! row hoard. in which he was quoted as having sald that four antl-aircraft ! RUNS are effective defense againat an attack by a. squadron of planes. “When T used that statement.” ex-| plained Gen. Coe, after it had been | read to hi I had in mind seven planes. T tsed the word squadron with the idea in mind of a single| bdmbing_formation.” { RS Cov” IS whe Asiced - 10 olarild or explain his interpretation prev ously given of the statement last Win- ter by Gen. Drum that 12 antl-aircraft | guns could keep bombers from doing serlous destruction to area In his previous testfigony Gen. Coe said ! it ¥didn't mean aMything.” Today he | explained” he should’have sgid it was “ambiguous.” He added he dign't know whether the statement meant: the guns | could keep anv one bomber out of 100 from reaching objective, or: whether a aingle plane never could | carry afit its mission. v/ Pfoteetion at Night., .. | Finall “codffonted- With the ques. | tion as to whethér 10080 “guhs could | protect the city. Glen." Coe sald they could in clear weather and without | any other opposition. Mr. Reid asked | him if this would apply at night as| well, and the witness said it would | not “Did vou ever hear of a war where ! one homher was sent out to attack a Gen. Coe sald | defer ngton?" he did not. After Gen. Drum had read numer- ous orders and regulations concern- ing the duties of the Alr Service and | also letters from the Secretary of War, | designating him to testify before vari-\ ous committees as a representative of the War Department, the court ques- tioned the object of this line of direct examination. Col. McMullen replied that throughout Col. Mitchell's San Antonio statements for which he is being tried, there was the general charge that the War Department had | not carried out the National Defense | act. “We want to show that the Air Service, and that includes the assistant chief, was responsibla for {ts own ogs ganization,' explained Cpl.. McMullen, and, therefore it i necessary to brigg in the whele story.” Gen. Drum testified that 70 per cent of all Air Service troops are under the direct command of the Chief of Air Service and the other 30 per cent are under corps area commanders. He also stated that there are 13 non-flying officers In the Alr Service, four of whom are captains and the remainder lieutenants. None of these officers, he explained, are in command of flying units, but are on staff duty. Gen. Drum s one of several “high ranking officers” whom the accused has charged appeared before commit- tees of Congress and gave “incom: plete, misleading or false information ibput aeronautics.’” The specific statement under thix characterization as referred to by the accused deals with the 12 anti-alrcraft guns as a defense against alrcraft. Says He Was Misquoted. Gen. Drum testified he had never made a statement that 12 anti-aircraft guns could defend New York City. “T have been misquoted,” he explained “Such a statement has been publish ed in the newspapers, and.is both ab- sutd and foolish.” His original state- ment before the Lampert committee referred to the defense of “‘an area' against “any” bombing plane that came within the range of those guns. > Direct testimony by Col. Mitchel that he commanded both the air forces and the anti-aircraft ground batteries in. France was denled by Gen. Drum who was chief of staff of the lst Army. and in which organization the accused was chief of Alr Service. The ground batteries. he testified. wére commanded in France at all times by the chief of artillery, and that Gen. Pershing tommanded the air forces. Orders were given Col. Mitchell for employment of-air forces in the war and these were carried out. The prosecution offered this testi- mony to prove that no unified air command existed in the American Expeditionary Forces, and to show that ground and air forces co-operat- ed: closely umde’ a tommander-in- chief in prosecuting the war. As a result of the anti-aircraft tests héld during the Summer Gen. Drum sald it was his opinion that 12.inch guns now would hit a bombing plane 18 times during the period it came in and passed out of range. {castle and evervthing around {until we came to a {tered. SANT A’S SHOPS ARE BUSY ON TOYS, ~ ESKIMOLAND EXPLORERS FIND Star Expedition to Old Kris’ Castle Sees How He Keeps Records of Conduct of All Children Here and in Rest of World. BY HOLLY BERRY. Specizl Correapondent of The Star In. Eeki NORTH POLEVILLE, Eskimoland December 15 (By Wireless) —In my message vester( [ told how The Star’s Exploring Expedition had found its way 1o the Yery gates of Santa Claus Castie. - @ue exploring party consists of the captain, Kleinschmlidt, who 18 our moving picture camera man; Mrs Cap, who prepares the meuls and - takes care of things gen erally; and myself, the special corre- spondent of The Star As we came near the castle we saw some huge reindeer. bearing marks of having been harnessed, grazing near the walls. Mrs. Cap exclaimed: “Oh, these must be Santa’s sleigh deer!” We came still nearer, and saw, standing beside two snow-white deer, | '8 |a familiar igure, A man we had known © since we were children You can guess at once who It was Santa, the most beloved man in the world Santa Shakes Hands. Although a moment ago the great it had awed us, we felt guite at ease as =oon s Santa came up with a happy smile on his face, and shook hands ju: he had done o many times at Christ- mas in our own home away South. It was bitter cold, and while three little men called by assistant took care Pat-the ~stelghs, the reindeer .and.the led the wayv up the teps info the castle. The great doors pened and we entered a long, high hall. On each side were great rooms, filled with desks, at which little men were busy writing in big books. Santa stopped at one desk for a moment, and asked, “What has little Josie Walker done today?” Josie is a girl whom I know very well in Wash- ington The little man turned over a couple of pages, and sald, “She helped her mother wash the dishe: Santa smiled, and we walked on, large room that looked like a library. with shelves upon shelves filled with books. These were not story books, but record hooks. Here Santa’s little men keep the records of 25.000.000 chiidren— what they had been doing. and how they had improved from vear to vear. Faliries Serve Tea. Here, too, was a great big chimney and fireplace, and we all sat down before it and made ourselves comfort- able. Then Santa clapped his hands, and a dozen little shining fairies en- In the twinkling of an eve the table was beautifully set with china, and the fairies were pouring tea into dainty little cups. There were little frosted cakes and jellles, candies, and nuts—just the sort of good things we have at Christ- mastime in Washington. When we baggage, Santa had finished, Santa said that he would show us the wonders of the castle, and | led the way. First we went to a room in the hase nent. which was the power house. | filled ‘with great machines. You have all heard of the axis of the earth, on | which the world spins around | has cannected up his machines with | the axts, and‘the great power which | makex the ®arth go around also runs | hig lathes and saws and drills. _For, as vou can lmagine; it takes a lot of { power and machinery to make toys for 000,000 chjldren every vear! The next:room was one sands—Santa’s toy shops {everything was hustle and e hammering and sawing, tugging and pulling. Belts were buzzing, wheels whirring. and knives grindtg. Santa’s little men were busv shaping metal into trains and automobiles, and carpenters were hammering and nail ing boxes and carts and hobby horses All Toys Are Tested. As we went on into another room the captain exclaimed. “Well, I'd like to be a hoy in here®™ For it was a test room, where every toy was tested hefore it went to the outside world Two little men were trying out a pair of boxing gloves. Others were plaving bhase hall A tiny engineer was sitting in the cab of a little train. which ran on.a track placed around the room. One was riding a rocking horse, an- other was chasing toy geess' and ducks, making them flap their wings afd QAWK and screech. {Vhistles. horns, drums and rattl but terrific noise, hear himselt speak. After listening to the clamor for a while, Mrs. Cap was glad to go on to @ murh squieter room. where the beautiful lixle fairies, with butterfly | wings, were flitting to and fro, or sit ting «t tables and sewing machines, making dresses for the dolls. In an other »om sculptors were modeling the figures of dalls and men and ani- mals, and artists were painting pic- tures in baoks, and on toys, dolls and animals. Finall thou Here bust we came to the great candy and bakery rooms, where the bakers and cooks were busy making the lit tle frosted cakes and bright colored candies we all love at Christmas time. The visits to all these rooms took dering where we were to sleep. The castle s full of bedrooms, hut the beds were xo.tiny no human being could sleep in them. Santa is quick to know what people need or want, | however, and in the twinkling of an eve he had a dozen of his little men and fairies set to work to prepare an almost fairy-like bedroom for us. So we slept the first night in Santa’s fairy castle. (Tomorrow: Making Plctures with Jack Frost.) $50,000 IS DONATED TO Y. W. C. A. FUND Memorial Gift From Mrs. Mary Blaine Barker for New Build- ing Features Dinner. Announcement of a $50.000 gift from. Mrs. Mary Blaine Barker in memory of her late husband, Willlam E. Barker, was the climax of the local division of the Y. W. C. A's £700,000 buflding and matntenance campaign, which-closed last night with a dinner .at the Franklin Square Hotel. Other reports*added to the $50,000 ®ift brought the final total of the local division to $375.363 which was 000 in excess of the quota for the of Washington. Natlonally, the campaign will continue until $700,000 is raised. Mrs. Barker specified only that the $50,000 bs used to build the anditortum in_the new Y. W. C. A. headquarters and that itvbe called the Williar E. Barker Memorial Auditorium. A portrait of Mr. Barker will later be presented to the association. The girls of the Elizabeth Somers residence of the Y. W. C. A. reported representing 100 per cent sub- Scriptions. Their gift. the girls said, should be used for the purchase of the K street entrance into the new Y. W. C. A. building. The Amicitia Club of the Y. W. C. A. announced $1,000 for the Seventeenth street entrance. Speakers at last night's function, Mrs. Willlam Hamiiton Bayly, the honorary president of the Y. W. C. A. presiding, were: Commissioner Fred erick Fenning, Willlam C. Deming, president of the Civil Service Commis- sion; Mrs. Lewis Lapham and Miss All Contributions for the: 3 ‘Christmas Church Music Page For Saturday’s Issue, Must Reach The Star by Thursday. Noo: RETIRED MERCHANT DIES AT AGE OF 87 David David, Years, Succumbs After in Business Many Long Illness. David David, 87 years old, formerly in the dry goods business at 1716 Sev- enth street for many years, died at his residence, 2220 Eighteenth street, ves- terday after a long illness. He had been a resident of Washington for 38 years. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in the Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery. Mr. David retired from business about 14 years ago. He is survived by two sons, Max David and Abraham David, and four daughters, Mrs. I. May, Mrs. Fannie Cohen, Miss Hannah David and Miss Ella David. Catharine Lambert, members of the natfonal board of the Y. W. C. A., hers from New York City: Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, president of the local Y. W. C. A, and Miss Ida Winston Sarvay, campalgn director. John B. Larner, general chairman of the | Washington division of the campaign, reported in behalf of the executive committee, During the entire campaign, which began December 2 and closed last night, the teams under Miss Elizabeth Eastman and Mrs. Harold E. Doyle reported $50,165; the business and professional women's division, under Miss Bertha Pabst, $20,921, and the executive committee, $304,270, in large gifts. Totals for the teams are: Mra. Woodbury Pulsifer, $3,147; Mrs. Ray Palmer Teele, $6,0i2; Mrs. Harry E. Hull, $1,899; Mrs. John T. Schaff, $5, 850; Mrs. Albert H. Putney, $1,627; Miss Elsa Peterson, $4,625; Miss Mar- garet R. Fox, $5,695; Mrs. William E. Chamberlin, ' $1,563; Mrs. William Adams Slade, $6,280; Mrs. Cabot | Stevens and Mrs. J. W. Frizzell, with 25 subteams from the churches of the city, $12,835; Miss Lols ‘Hendrick, $4,- 190; Miss Ruth Jeffers, $4.020; Miss Marian Lehrmond, $2,652; Miss Katha- rine Pierce, $2,714; Miss Constance Torry, $1,812; Miss Lillian Zimmer- man, '$3,155; Miss Clairmore Keely, imuijni‘u'wth Salisbury, $1,541. total .of-2,700- subscriptions. was- re- ported. Santa | as | made a jolly | that no one could | a whole day. and Mrs. Cap was won- | HOUSE APPROVES HIGH EXEMPTIONS 2,500,000 Income Taxpay- ers Relieved From Federal Levy as Resut. By the Associated Press. The House today approved of the revenue bill which 2.500,000 income taxpayers from terma Fed eral levies as a result of raising per sonal exemptions The the would the single persons from th $1.500 persons would 2500 to $35 Leaders Press Action | Encouraged by the approva | the income schedules in the t | tion bill sterday by the lo | agers of the measure pressed | today for favorable action | the joss controverstal pot | The new inc ' | widespread slashes in | surtax rates, won over | port in the first real tes partisan bil b means commit Reductle bin exemy section of approv increase tions | | | present § allowance for creased from to The exempti married ramed 3 xable fncome next $4.000 on the rer cepted witha Fight on Surtax | The new surta a cut in the 1 an amendment ois of the comr mum rate 25 per 186 to 117, after sharp debate Representat Ga | see. the minority port to the amendment ity of Democrats and cans supr mend 1. however, w lv and on none o division follow Den: cent reje der | | |ARMIES OF EUROPE LESS BY 1.500,000 THAN BEFORE WAR ‘Two excellent views of Santa's Page.) abode and where he furnishes toys for all his little people. Copsiight, North American Tiance D. C. COMMITTEE IN HOUSE CHANGED BY G. 0. P. LEADERS | from Newspaper Al | number of soldie; excluding officers The armlies, b 60.000 200.000 (Continued First Page.) to put in pesitions of authority those | who had attempted to defeat the Ite. publican party in the last election and therefore are not considered friendly 10 the policies of the present admin istration, has been dropped (v the bottom of the Republican }ist on the District committee. The Republican members as they rank on the new District €ommitiee | are as follows: Representative Fred | M. Zihlman, Maryland, chairman Mr. Keller, Mr. Underhill, Repres entative Clarence J. McLeod. Mich- | ixan: Iepresentative Ernest W. Gib- | son, Vermont: Representative Edward | M. ‘Beers, Pennsylvania; 1lepresent tive Henry R. Rathbone, 111 sentative Gale H. Stalker York: Representative Frank K i lilinois: Representative k' Bowman, West Virginia: Representa tive Henry L. Bowles, Massachuselts Representative Robert G. Houston, Delaware, and Mr. Lampert. 534.000 5119000 494 00 Colantal “forees ropean powers Total Eutropean forces neluding colonials Standing armies of great powers ( cluding colonial forces) Germ £15.000 ) 000 000 4670.000 3285000 together have x men. Adding the: 4,383,000 in 19 It is intere: 2,890,000 in 19 at a large sh armies are color home army numbers 404.0 rench colonial army British home army n and British colonies ces 000 and the 237 The imbe and Nearly 520000 motorcycles are in use in Great Britain, which has more “put-put’’ machines than any country. other & “ Liberty Limited Represents much more than merely a luxurious train travers- ing 684 miles to Detroit in 16X hours, and 836 miles to Chicago in 19 Hours] itk is the highest type of - modern ailroad transportation, bringing Washington, jthe heart of the Nation, into overnight touch with Detroit, America’s foremost automobile center, and Chicago, the great mid-western metropolis—gateway to the West and the Pacific Coast | s 19 Hours to Chicago 1634 Hours to Detroit No Ioss of time is suffered by American progress when the captains of industry use The Liberty Limited on their journeys West and East: | fon, Club, Dining and Sleeping Cars. 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