Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1925, Page 4

SMALL BOY ADMITS SLAYING OF THREE Disposition of Child Despe- rado Puzzles People of Arkansas Community. Br the Associated Press YELLVILLE. Ark., December 16 A small boy sat in the Marion County jail here today brooding over | week of desperate adventure, while residents of Buffalo community, in the remote s east of here thanks for the end of a series of violent deeds. The boy, little Arnold Comer. who says he fs “about 13 or 14." has ad mitted to officers that he is the of session of lawless act minati three per: leep crday whe sheriff's m. Near wders lay 2 ment ¢ ptgun and a peck of £ the vouthful des whose ple countenance s his bloody story. was pu: svities and citizens. Some ling of a special hasten the hers shook their io. heads Arnold’s st i to Sheriff Will gham here. thriller to match | 1y outlaw’s tale. This is the gist of it The bhoy, discontented with home conditions, fled from the Comer home Wednesday night, taking a pistol, with which he was a practiced shot L oon he entered a and took $17.50 and a le the occupants of the \bsent house were Plundered Little Store. at night he plundered a little inc ng his armament. Fri day night, seeking food. he came to 1other mou 1 home to assuage hunger, became afraid when L man opene » door. He fired his sore, t shotgun. wounding the man, his wife and child, and retreated into the darkness. Hungrier still on Sunday, the boy approached the house where Mrs. “Fom Boyd lived with her infant grand daughter, shot beat the aged woman to death—he didn't seem to Xno Tecause it cried. A guarter of a mile away as he ran from this tragic acene he met rles Moore, dealer in pelts, and shot him. He was wearlng Moore's hat shoes when deputes found him. STRICKEN AT CLOSE OF GOSPEL MEETING and Samuel N. Smeltz Dies Soon After| Converting Eight Men at Mission. after having converted men by his forceful preaching at the Gospel Mission, 214 John Mar- <hall pl last night Samuel N. Smeltz vears old, himself a con- vert of recent vears and chaplain of Hope Masonic Lodge, was stricken with apoplexy and died in Sibley Hos- pital Mr. Smeltz was on his way home to 07 M street. accompanied by a friend. N. A. Mason, 104 C street northeast, when he was stricken. Mr. Mason hurried him to the hospital. but_he died soon after arrival th Mr. Smeltz conducted an automobile paint- ing business. ccording to his own life story he had strayed from the “straight and narrow path.” but had “come back’ when converted after he was 64 years ol life's Smeltz short politics and prosperous many ago, but drink and dissipation had made him a tramp. On one occa- sion, he said, a policeman whom he had secured a positlon while prom it in politics had found him in a en stupor, had failed to recog- hin and given him a severe in relating his ize seating with his club. n Smeltz continued to live the life tramp, rding to his own story, until one night while wander- ing through the streets of Philadel- vhia he me upon the Galilee Epis- copal Mission. Here he heard a con and then killed the baby | time ago told how he | | | | i | An appeal to Progr. | disheartened by the d LAFOLLETTE SEES FUTURE FOR PARTY. ! PEVIVER, & ! !In Dinner Address, Urges| Progressives Not to Be Dis- ! heartened by Defeat. ives not to be lefeat of a year | {ago, but to look forward to the next campaign, s sounded by enator Robert M. La Follette of sonsin in an address at the dinner ed him Dby labor leaders at Rauscher's 1128t night. The banquet was ar ed by | Labor, a trade paper of the railroad workers, and was attended by prac ally all of labor's chieftains in ashington Summarizes Fath er's Record. The young Senator from Wisconsin devoted most of his speech to u sum marization of the long carcer of his | father. the late Senatc 1 Jollette, {and the legislation for which he ! worked. He then made this reference | to the present and futu “I have recifed this brief resume of the constructive achievements of the Progressive group | it will stir the deter | within the sound of stirred me, to i ) has | ditch to hold the grous: ready been won anc movement forward he said. ressi hat this 1 answi have alw Congress, bt by | gressive fighting they | this long record of le; ment. I believe th v 1 now with the | determination and wit fidence of ultimate i achlevement which have shown in the the time to surrer been in the saddle be | have tried to crush lother times. The Progre ve cause porters should s are in a hd H r that s been in 1 forw t becor | | { 1ast November, Rober tinue the struggle fo | political justice. in the people enabled truth lose a battl lost a war. If Pro ward the fight now, {land who believe ment will be heartene: | command. “Progressives will the Post Office Clerks seth of the Seamen, & sin, Edward P. Cos! Montana Senator. editor of Labor, acted |ELDRIDGE PR | TO REVOKE E capables When Hi er, He Tells | the bill now pending broaden his powers is |revoke the drivers’ p | legees | operate automobiles. Lacking are nearly 1000 dri bootleggers, whom he Some of these drive: ald tod: March ¥, may be w hen all of t into “Some may say that the Pro-| nothing can be accomp! consistent only His M. O. Eldridge, director of traffic, told the Clvitan Club at luncheon yesterday that as soon definite figures, ridge expressed the belief that there | mits now in use expire and motorls the hope that ination of those my voice, as it ht to the last ad which has al d to carry the the future,” peless minority shed. he Pr ssives the minority in and ag- chieved have ative t we » same h the spirit of me con- vindication and he Progressives This is not Rex on has fore. Majorities the minority in is that its sup- discouraged and give up the fight Cites Appeal to Progressives. “In _the hour of defeat a year {issued a call to Progressives to con- t M. La Follette r economic and undying faith him to see that e but has never fves carry for llions in the the mov. ¥ in d to answer his close ranks for and Mr. Furu- nators Norris, | Shipstead and McKellar, Representa- tive Henry Allen Cooper of Wiscon- tigan, commis- sioner of the Tariff Commission, and Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler, wife of the dward Keating. as toastmaster OMISES PERMITS Will Weed Out Bootleggers and In- e Gets Pow- Club. its week in Congress to enacted he will ermits of boot- s and persons having physical | defects that impair their abllity to Mr. Eld- vers, {including regards as unfit to operate machines in the District. s, Mr. Eldridge eeded out next he drivers’ per- on singing “Where 1Is My {pre % e Wandering Boy Tonights Here, he | 2T® Subjected to re-examination for g T By et stapor ¥ fo | NeW permits. Since 1903 licenses to that' God had startled me right there | pherafe machines in the District have on the pavement.” He stuggered up the stone steps of | the mission, became converted and be. zan to i a Christian life, which made him a man of good standing in the community Mr. Smeltz had t Washington for the ng which time he had preached reg. nlarly the Gospel Mission and had <ucceeded, his friends say, In convert- hundreds. en a resident of t six vears, dur- e He leaves two sons, Cl: vho lives in Philadelphia, and Willlam Smeltz of Miami of New York Funeral completed Ila., and a daughter, His wife died in 1880. ngements have not been pending word from his rel- itives. Interment, however, will be in | Weekly luncheon at the Raleigh Hotel | $2.400, where his wife is|yesterday. Mrs. John G. Caper | dent of the newly formed Quota Club, | Inasmuch as closer Wilmington, T buried, it is stated. YULE SHRUBS SEARCHED FOR DEAD GYPSY MOTH Federal Experts Handle Carloads of Trees Arriving in Baltimore the North. al Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, December From 16. Christmas trees, now arriving in Bal- more by the carload from the New England States and Cana are reing closely inspected by members if the Federal Board of Horticulture for tracy of the gypsy mioth or the hrown-tailed moth. In a few instances evidence of the avergreen pests was found, savs Dr. Charles I. Prince. local superintend ent of the board. but this was quickly rrected before the trees left the railroad yards. The Department of Agriculture has placed a quarantine on all five rendle pines from Oregon, Dr. Prince id. A number of these pines have -ome here to landscape gardeners. The Oregon pines are found to be in angerous plant dis s only the five-needle diseas: ng known as ribicola, or white pine cronartium lister rust Gooseberries and currants also are hanned if they come from that State, these plants are the host plant to the disease. The disease will not spread from one pine to another, Dr. Prince said, hut will spread to the gooseberry and currant plants, from which they are transmitted by birds and wind to other pines. A woman, Mrs. R. B. Zachary of ayeross, was the first (eorgia hunter te bag a deer this season. 4 irence Smeltz. | 354 of which were issued { tion of the Traffic Bure Women's Orga Are Giv, | voiced hope for motorists, 9.930 since the crea- eau last May. HONOR GUESTS OF ZONTA | Pledges of Close Co-operation With nizations en. The presidents of the leading civic | clubs here were the honor guests of the Zonta Club of Washington at its|branch for books last,year was only presi affiliation To | wecom- | should #o | the | |BRANCK LIBRARY THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1925. | i jSANTA INTRODUCES JACK FROST TO EXPLORERS OF STAR PARTY Artist of Eskimoland Shows Arctic Adventurers How He Makes Washington Beautiful at Christmas Time—Mischief Is His Forte. BY HOLLY BERRY, shaking hands with him and introduc- o i svemng Star | INE S formally. “You know, Jack, it Special Correspondent of The Ev s e e U ening Sar i nearly Christmas time, and you NORTH POLEVILLE must soon be off to make the world Decamber. 18 (By. Wireless) beautiful with vour lovely pictures.” Bfae Mnioring. Eapsdition) Jack Frost must have the secret of study of the Santa Claus Christmas | Derpetual youth, for he still seems > u mere boy, although he has been whose | workshops described fn my wire- | li less messige yesterday, spent the next | Working at his trade of Winter art for day on a visit to the studios of Pole- | Many generations ’ Iz 1d’s most celebrated artist It was bright and early in the morn- | ing when Santa Claus said to the cap.| All this time the captain had been & | cranking the camera to make a record ain of our expedition, “get your mov- |ing picture camera, and we'll go to | 0f the meeting visit a very dear friend of mine,” | Frost “Who can it possibly be who lives | ic® palace. Go to Jack's Castle. of Then we went to Jack's crystal Jack had a hard time to palace looked like an immense cave in | & mountain of ice. Wonderful icicles hung down like vines i jungle, and everything shone like diamonds. You have all caught snow flakes on of ice, which shone lfke pure white diamonds or blue and purple gems. seen u coming to meet us. 3 ready,” cried Santa. He pointed to | a_high, jagged iceberg, on which we could see a snow-white figure coming on a run toward us. It was apparently a boy about 12 years old, dressed in pure white fur from the crown of his head to the tips of his toes. On the hood of his fur | jacket, called a parka, wiggled two | {ears of the Arctic hare, and on hks! |feet were fur shoes mmade like the | head of the Arctic hare, with ears, | eyes and nose. | "No doubt by this time my readers | have guessed who it w “This is Jack Frost the delicate little crystals joined to- gether in wonderful patterns. Or you | have looked at the marvelous figures |on the frosty window pane in the | morning, and mother has said, “Look, | Jack Frost has been around an painted the window pane last night Just imagine how happy we were to meet Jack Frost and to see his home. But there was more pleasure to come. Jack left us for a few min- and returned with his magic I am ready to go down South now, anta,” he said. W a minute,” * said Santa, | it said Santa. your glove or coat sleeve, and seen | SANTA INSPECTS PRESENT PACKING—SNAPPED WITH JACK FROST | | | Santa_and Jack | ya | “I | servatory Upper photo shows ta Claus ng his dwarfs prepare Christ mas gifts for Washington children. e | the next battle. We are enlisted for |up here at the North Pole! asked | Keep with us. for the Arctic hare is | | life in the struggle to bring Govern- | Mrs. Cap. | imal in the North, and | want you to show the captain some | ment back to the people. We will| s_imu ,~|1m|v;l| one ]c‘,r lm» !hro:;.l- "::;i:"‘l:r "_T:‘y""l;nlj:a:t)‘ur your work. not quit and we will not compromise! | Smiles, and with a Jjolly laugh told 0 _hare, he coul o | it molss Bt e ot compr) i’j‘ her. “the freatest artist n the|Slow enough. Finally he picked up| Jack Shows His Art. Eelesia g U O L | the camera and tripod, and the load | The camera was set up again, and | the campalgn of 19 g The gnomes hitched up two teams, | Slowed him up enough so that he | the captain turned the crank. There Other speakers included President|and away we sped over hills and |Stayed with the rest of the party. | was a crack in the jce nearby. and Noonan of the electrical workers,|Plains, until we came to the edge of | When we came to Jack’s palac from the water underneath rose a va Frank Morrison of the Americay |the Polar Sea, where a great glacier, | €8Sped in wonder. It didn't seem pos- | por, as you have often seen it rise Federation of Labor, Mr. Fiaherty of | OF Fiver of ice. had piled up mountains | Sible that such beauty could exist. The | from a river on a frosty morning orth, it was so rosettled i Only here, away up 1 very cold that the medlately on the icc Jack waved lis o va por formed ic nto beds of flowers . foot crysunthe. mums, forget-me-nots, lilies 1e val ley. ations—all of the 1 deli cate pattern, entwined with ferns and lacework The captain was pictures he v ting. when sud- denly Jack cried. “Whizz, I am off! Good-bye.” and befor knew it, he was gone. hted with the “He ix hievous Loy,” said Santa. “T Know ; Cap. “He's often nipped 1y fir and toes. (Tomorrow: A Day in Santa’s Ob. SENATOR TO SPEAK. Robinson * SHORT OF BODKS Society. The Indiana State Society will meet at Rauscher’s tonight to hear the trst speech before the society by the new Indiana Senator, Arthur R. Rob |inson, and to hold a reception for the lentire Indiana congressional delega- Lack of Funds Hampers|{in® fierete Sondore, secretary to . | President Coolidge, also will speak. | Postmaster General New, Senator Work in Southeast Watson and each of the 13 Represent, - | atives from the State are to make brief Institution. talks. Representative Fred Purnell, president of the soclety, has an- E | nounced. Members of the staff of the south-| - feature of the meeting will be Mgt .| the showing of a special cartoon of castern branch of the Public Library, | 13§ SN el 2t S0y (bpara, fa- { Seventh street between South Caro-!mous Hoosier cartoonist. The meeting [lina avenue and D strect, are feeling | will be concluded with dancing. | keenly the limitations of the institu.| The meeting was announced in The tion, which, during the three years of | Star vesterday as to have been held its existence, has been able to pur-|at Rauscher’'s last night. ! chase only 10,000 books, Mrs. ]-‘runces\ et 25 Osborne, branch librarian in charge, | i A FAMOUS LONDON BRIDGE to be doubled at the carliest possible | DOOMED BY PROGRESS moment, calline attention to the fact | e | that school children in that ,\m"h-n’\Art Lovers Regret Impending Re- | | books at the are being hampered in their supple- | s 4id that the supply of outheast branch ought | | mentary reading through inability to placement of Waterloo get the volumes they need. : Appropriation for the southeast | Structure By the Asgociated Press. LONDON, December 16.—To the sor- row of all art lovers, London is to lose Ilh‘ famous Waterloo Bridge across the | Thames. The fate of the structure nd during its entire existence }only $10,000 has been spent on books. there is a card registra j tion at the branch of 9,319 readers, it | among the three business and profes. | can be seen that if each one of the |was sealed vesterday by the decision {slonal clubs for women, Soroptimist,| card holders should take out books [of the London county council to build | Quota | the three {much In_civ united efforts. Paul F. Branstedt Clul . W i of the Thi fious featur | activities and pledged ! ot interclub co-operati and Zonta, and predicted that | simultaneously could affaivs through the accompli Cosmopolitan Pimper of the Newcom ers, Frank W. Plerce, president of the | annually | Optimist Club, and Vernon B. Lowr rteen Club, e es of their club cordial suppor on. .| widely the shelves | practically be depleted. The dally average circulation of books at the bLranch is estimated by | | Mrs. Osborne as between 600 and| 700 volumes. The library spends $100 on magazines which are ad by the students for cur. would {a new bridge with not more than five | arches and sufficlent width to take six lines of vehicular traffic. The decision followed three hours of debate on the report of subcommit- tee, which had been unable to agree, but recommended that either the ex- isting structure must be rebuilt or rent events. complete responsibility for a catastro- | Fvery Friday afternoon Miss Lo-| phe must rest on the government. A rena Mondereau, children’s librarian, | new bridge was finally decided upon. conducts a_story-telling hour at Waterloo Bridge was bullt in 1811- | "Other guests were Mrs. Charles! o'clock in the small room in the base- | at a cost of more than £1,000,000 and | Lind newly elected commissioner | ment of the lit Hours at the | has boen described as one of the finest of the Girl Scouts, and Miss Dorothy | branch library are the same as those | in the world. It rests upon nine reen. The meeting was pi Miss Jessie La Salle Farewell Affair Ten A farewell luncheo; Pan-American dor to the United Among those | eon were Secretary o adors of and Ministers of Uruguay, ama, Costa Rica, Bo Honduras. | FIVE DIE IN MI severely burned Monday at the Wilks Co., 41 miles southe: dispatche: ligenee o resided over by | LUNCHEON FOR MATHIEU. |} dered by Pan- American Union. n W tendered today by the governing board of the Union. 0 0 1 Mathicu, retiring Chilean Ambassa. | SToups and are instructed in the use to Beltrau esent at the lunch- f State Kellogg, Mexica, Argen- uba, and _the . Colombia, Pan- livia, Haiti and NE BLAST. SEATTLE, Wash., December 16 (#). Five miners were killed and a sixth in an explosion on Coal & Coke ast of Tacoma, cattle Post-Intel- t the main library nd closed at 3 p.m. nd all day Sunday. -9 a.m. to 9 p.m on Wednesday prating the orary for ine grent | POLICEMEN REPRIMANDED it is rendering despite its —— and for the friendly b o |Had Been Engaged by Stores on and her assistants. P al service | “Days Off.” is rendered the children in the se =y " Jection of books and the cultivation' Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of their tastes. Classes from the dif- | f Dolice, reprimanded three police | ferent schools in the Southeast andPrivates and a sergeant today who Northoastl coins: 1o the Sl in | Were found to be hiring out to de- artment stores on their days off, in violation of a United States statute which forbids members of the Metro- politan Police Force from accepting money other than their salaries doing police dut The officers protested their ignor- jice of the statute and promised to | discontinue the extra employment, to Late Potentate. and in consideration of which Maj. ‘The Shriners charity ball, which | Hesse decided not to prefer charges was to have been held tonight at|against them. Their names also were the Washington Auditorium, has | Withheld. been postponed until January 2, out E of respect to the memory of Henry| After a thorough cleanup of all Lansburgh, late potentate of Almas |mosquito breeding places in Tanga, Temple. lT«'.\n,z.'m,\'ikl. Africa, European settlers of the card index. for Postponed to January 2 as Respect The announcement of the postpone- | continued to be bitten; an investigation ment said the tickets already dis-!showed that the mosquitoes were, tributed for the ball would be honored | breeding in the hollows at the base of on the new date the leaves of cocounut trees. Will Address India.ua} | I | | | | | ! i SEES LARGE 0SS INROAD'S FAILURE Witness Says Missouri Pa- cific Dropped $14,000,000 on Denver and Rio Grande. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. December 16— The collapse of the Denver and Rio Grande resulted in a loss of $14,000.000 to the Missouri Pacific, the principal link in the transcontinental line the late George J. Gould was trying to weld together, Harry Bronner, former dl- rector of the two roads, estimated yesterday at the hearing before Su- preme Court Justice Mullan, in the suit of the minority stockholders in the Denver road against former di- rectors for approximately $200,000,000. Mr. Bronner, who became a director for the two roads a few days after the Equitable Trust Co. obtained a $38,000,000 judgment against the Den- ver road, admitted the directors had done nothing to resist the receivership proceedings brought by the trust com- pany. He testified the flnancial con- dition of the road was such that “noth- ing could be done, and on the advice of counsel nothing was done.” MISSOURIANS MEET. Society Hears Address by Semator Williams. Four hundred members of the Mis- souri State Soclety gathered in the ballroom of the Hotel Washington last night to hear a talk by Senator George H. Williams of Missouri. Following Senator Williams’ speech and a pro- gram of entertainment the Missou- rians held a dance. Representative Cleveland A. Newton of Missourl, president of the associa- tion, presided. Others in the receiv- | ing line were Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and Maj. George M. Tal- bot, who presented the guests of honor. -— G. U. LAW CLASS FETE. Sophomores Hosts at Annual Smoker and Banquet. s The sophomore law class of George- town held its annual smoker and ban- quet at Harvey’s last night. John C. Mullen of Omaha, Nebr., was chair- man; Clergue C. Shilling of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., acted as toastmaster. Assisting__on the committee were Charles McDonough, Buffalo, N. Y. Michael Keogh, Old Forge, Pa.; Peter Tamburo, New Orleans, La., and James Mullally, Grand Forks, N. Dak. Included among the guests of honor were Representative Win Connery of Massachusetts and senior in the Georgetown Law School; Representa- tive McLaughlin of Nebraska, and Prof. O'Donoghue of the Law School faculty, each of whom made addresses. Interspersing the speeches, talent, furnished from the class, entertained w’th songs, dances and recitations. HUSBAND UNDER BOND. | Court Orders F.! W! Jdnes to Re- main Here, Pending Divorce. Frederick W. Joned, operator of u | public garage, was Blaced under bond | | | | SPECULATION CURB INCLEARING HOUSE ASKS FRATERNITES T0 KEEP DRY LAWS Michigan U. Head, Who De- nounced Measure, Demands of $1,000 last night ot 16 leave Wash ington pending the disposition of a suft for an absolute divorce brought by his wife, Garnet C. Jones. Mrs. Jones charges mipconduct and names two coresporidents. She is represent ed by Attorneys Whelan & O'Connell Mrs. Jones startled downtown pa Grain Board to Complete Its Program Soon to Guard Chicago Trading. bite L SRR Dl Students Comply. with her husband in an automobile. The wife then jumped on the running | board of the car Her CHICAGO, December 16 —The reor- | her arrest, it is said ganization program of the Chicago |th: nikht 4t the Hou Board of Trade is now ready to be T 4 was [ rounded out with the establishment o 3 clearing house early in January.| The wife sued about u year ago, but | - o This is the last of the changes in offi. | was persuaded to withdraw the guit | TCent S | ctal supervision of grain trading which | and accept a monthly allowance of | .” me with passage of the grain fu.| $100. THis agreement she claims has | tures ct, the board’s own internal ' not been kept by the husban house cleaning and the suggestions | | of the Secretary of Agriculture. | The clearing house, advocated by many of the members of the board, es- | pecially those out of town, was adont- | | *d on the suggestion of the Secretary Jf Agriculture, and the board’s com- mittee has been working out plans 1or several months. The machinery is now ready to function, starting early in January, beginning with one of the lesser commodities on the board and gradually working up to the corn and ! — wheat transactions. Experience with % o . i et e e e | Y000 Bistwett Wanes of Pogil tn Pan-Americanism in European Tactics. tem for handling trades in wheat By the Associated Press. sband caused | nd she spent | e of Detention. | dismissed Monday in | the Asso; AR iate OR, v it w took B ited the be niversity of Dr. Little cz fraternities on the ca old them that “this is a ersity. and as such part of MONROE DOCTRINE 1S FACING CRISIS <. Called not action prot of the & as Bodies. it clear members « rohibit men president de st holding “t violate the ther campus.” the e ganization” and as such -alled in to consider actio the law. Three plans were pr ted b Little to the fraternity heads f consideration, to insure law ment The plans are First, for the two faculty me |Dean Joseph Bursley 1of student | who would have access to euch f | nity house at all ti ms an we compact were he in enforci which in perfods of great actlvit sometimes run as high as 150,000,000 bushels a day on the books of all the | members of the board. Joseph Stmons, | a former vice president of the board. | |18 the president of the clearing house. | Will Show Position. While the clearing house method | Worning that pan-Americanism and will show at the cloge of each day the | the Monroe doctrine are facing the net position of each clearin _ | Ereatest crisis in their history because long or of the market, « of the “sh tactics of | European comme and political in terests = sounded vesterday by John | Barrett, former United States Minis- | ter to Ar the openin on of tk an Comi ‘ongres propaganda | < broadcast 'y Sovie being used in the fight on the States’ influence in South A he told the representatives of virtu ally every country in the three Amer ic athered for the conference. His harges, he i YORK, December 16.—A | 10! 1y of the members feel that their own busi be Sponsors for Fraternities to ness onduct cominittee will better position to go bel turns to uncover attem | manipulation. | The chief of the three reorganization | measures adopted by the board this | | Fall to stubilize the market and check | frenzied speculation such as set the | wheat pit wild last Winter was the | appointment of a4 business conduet | committee which has been at work for | two months | The business conduct committee has | munieations v unlimited powers to investigate, con- |and on personal trips to Sof trol or discipline members of the board | ica and the capitals of Europe | the thir | and is backed by the new rule vesting | Mr. Barrett asserted that | In the board of directors the power to | trade Letween the United States declare an emergency during which 1 Ame: growing price ranges shall be restricted to a re being de specitied price above or below the last Departments of & sale of the previous day. Commerce and the consuls Pledged Against Speculation. et ] three cmbers of this commit- European tee, ho are pledzed not to speculate influence for themselves, work in close co-oper- is being exerted f itfon with the grain futures adminis nd Cuba south to Argentina tration offeials | ndeavoring to keep lurgely the inspira the mar representative of Russia t supply and demand. The president of the board and the president of the clearing house are ex-officio members of the committee. The privilege of voting by mail given | outof town members of the board is the third of the trio of measures | adopted by the board In the hope of | widening the circle of sound husi iudgment on which the policles might be fo In Yy B n a e re market nd have each frater: appre at ses- | members ceial ersity to appoir who would hate houses at \er there weit ition law. the one of by next 1 be put int nonder h Amer- | plans hiie nd | und closer | el DIET BACKS DISMISSAL OF OPERA DIRECTOR Action of Prussian Cabinet Uphe rels the ons and their handicapped propagandic is of the bolshevik countr: Mex and Ch tion of the FOUR SLIGHTLY INJURED | WHEN STRUCK BY AUTOS | | summ the Th ti +nd sur | om by Vote Upon Party ally he Ass BERLI sian Diet s 15 Schill st Boy on Bicycle Hit on Avenue. oman Knocked Down Near Dupont Circle. thes Gates. former presldent of and chairman of e committee whic Yoveinned tha t) suraes adopted by the exc one \:-r\v'%n whether 1t stop-such a | frenzy of public ation ac- curred last Winter in wheat. Profes slonal speculators ~vere first to recog- | 3282 N street, was knc nize the possibilities of a world wheat | Dupont Circle last night ‘amine and be buving when pricas | mobile of Alfred Lawson, 1627 V street, | were low in Midsummer. Later these |and injured. Sh taken to the developed a public frenzv of specula. | home of friends und given treatment tion, largel by the uninforméd Edith M. Wright vears old. of Comumittee T Active. e o i o - = = in front « fenn ) »-::.m\w conduct committee is | ag¢ night by automobile of k. duletly uctive in co-operation with | (wens, 1736 Webster street, and slight- | the grain futures zdministration 10 |]y fnjured. She was given first aid at | revent ubuses whether by members | Brpergency Hospital i r non-members of the board. “The < Adams, colored The power to declare an emerxen-| of 1127 Sixth street, was slightly hu ;\ when trading must cease for that | vesterday afterncon as a result of be. day, after pri > @ certain fixed | jng knocked down by the munmnhflvi ange. is the second line of defense of Arthur Moore, 53 Myrtle street vested in the board of directors. The o hay 1 | near Florids avenue and Fifth street. | ght to declare such an emergency, it | Hospital treatment was refused ! thought. will not be needed fre- | quently.” It ix not an effort to fix a| HERT e MISSING MAN LOCATED. imit bevond which prices shall not go, | but to curb wild flutuations and steady | the market 4 — The mail votes privilege brings in | i v i 1 e advics of some of the moat ex.|o: O Y Lite, Sallsbury, Md., in New perienced men in the grain trade, mill.-| Orleans Hospital, Leg Broken. {ers, elevator men, export dealers and| _ . 1 Th 0 on. who seldom had a chance to| SPeei’ Dispatch to The Star aka TalwEtior | SALISBURY. Md.. December 16 “We have just experienced a Relatives of J. Cleveland White, prom- | active market in wheat, which | inent business man, who disappeared tested out our own provisions of stab. | nearly two weeks ago. were advised izing the market. A rapid ad\'anr?i"‘ telegraph late vesterday that White d been locatea in hospital at W Orleans, La.. w re he is suffer from a roken Il ion has been offered. of | on almost a domestic basis this year, | his strange disappearance. It is said | so conditions were ail the more try.| his lex was broken in a fall. He had | ing. But the business conduct cor-| been a cripple for many years. | mittee is dofng all that can be done to “ |supply and demand instead of fren I COCKPIT RAID NETS 33. ! make the market reflect the laws of | | zied speculatio: { X v GOVERNOR PAROLES 2]. | Police Also Seize 27 Game Fowls | at Moundsville, W. Va. Maryland Christmas Writs Include | 'yjisp-a MOUNDSVTL! Two for Prison Fire Heroes. | ber vested Special Dispatch to The Star. Sherdff ANNAPOLIS, Md.. December 16— | sweoped down on a modern cock- | Christmas paroles were granted to 1 :Hp:hlim: arena at Dilles BHottom. | Maryland prisoners in an edict issued | All the men posted bond for a hear- ) yesterday by Gov. Ritchie. Two of | in The fight was to have been a | the number had been recommended | huge affair, as accommodaticns for by the warden for their ald in extin- | 4,000 had been provided in the old guishing a prison fire. Relmont Park arena. Men from, Twenty-three paroles were refused | Wheeling, Steubenville, Martins Fer and one was taken under advisement. | ry, Bellaire, Moundsville, Flushing, | Murderers and organized “gangsters” | Lafferty and other towns were amons | were refused parole those arrested. Sol Herzogs for the Man'’s Gift GLOVES — Varied selection and price. Gates’ Buckskin for $3.45 and $4.50. &ur-lined Driving Gloves, Wooldined Driving Gloves, $3.50. 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