Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1925, Page 17

SPECIAL Navy Ro. ment. Pr oTY. PARTY FOR “HELLO GIRLS.” Assistant Secretary of the t was host vesterday of the telephone girls of the depart- a blaze of & A. Photos. WHEN THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE WAS LIGHTED Coolidge touched the button and the tree was ablaze. Carols were sung, Mrs. Cool thousands of Washingtonians joined in the special Christmas eve service. Under Sherwood A. Cheney, the President’s military aide; the President, Mr the President’s naval aid, ter of Representative Fisher of Tennessee, and F | AIR TANK EXPLODES. | | Gasoline Station Partly Wrecked at | “RUSSHA OBSERVES " <= CAVESTCHRISTAS marree: M. Feiker. WA | A portion of the front 1soline tation at Benning road and Minne-| sota avenue northeast was blown out when an air tank exploded there la —————— night, just after Clarence Fogl |and Pinkney Fogle, brothers and at- tendants at the station, had left the| Prosperity and Cheer Repiace | room in which the explosion occurred. | Famine and Civil Strife || The force ot e o emiae f in Country. feet Fire broke out after the ex { plosion, but was put out by the em ployes with fire extinguishers. 500. | Coolidge, Capt. Mrs. Cecil Norton Broy, head of the Community Center work: Mary Fisher, daugh- | Taxation System Is Expected' THE: EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, OLIDGE AIDS IN DISTRIBUTION OF SALVATION ARMY BASKE and the poor children of Washington received toys, candy and food. tribution was conducted at the Sulvation Army headquarters, 606 E street northwest. LAST NIGHT. President idge joining the chorus, and he tree, left to right: Col. Adolphus Andrews. CHRISTMAS PARTY ABOARD LARGEST SHIP. children of New York City were entertained aboard the S. S. Leviathan lust night. The children were taken to the docked ship in ambulances and busses, and thousands of toys, were distributed. Santa Claus dropped all other engagements to be on hand. wood & Underwood. Wide Worla Phiowo. | : i 3 . | !hugone Field, Children’s Poet, Admirers| RM SESS|UN DUEQWHI Rebury His Body in Memorial Tomb| N IAPANESE DET Crippled and blind U By the Assoofated Press CHICAGO. December 5.-—BEugene Field, the children's poet, who for| 30 years since his death has rested amid unpretentious surroundings in Graceland Cemetery, soon will have | poems. Opposite the tomb window to Field's grandson, William C., Englar, ir. ! ““A poet’s corner,” containing a few | of the personal mementoes of Mr. | Could a new resting place within the | Field, which madi been held sacred for | - solemn splendor of an Episcopal|so long by his widow in the hope that | to Be Main Bone of | Church. their home would be preserved as a | Announcement was made memorial to her husband, will also be Contention. i night at the midnight <Christm established at the Chicago Historical | Society. Many of the relics, however, have been scattered as the old home service of the Church of the Holy Comforter, Kenilworth, that the Field DECEMBER Seven hundred of the baskets were prepared b: ch basket contained either a turkey or two J. Crayke SAYSLERISLATORS e NIGHT ASK MONE 25, the Army . The dis- Washington Star Photo. Claim Expenses if Called in Extra Session, Texas Official Rules. COMMEMORATING THE EIGHTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF BENJAMIN RUSH. al tribute was placed at the Rush statue, in the U. S representing the Sons of the Revolution of the District of Columb Ralph Jenkins, chairman; Dr. Adolphus B. Bennett, jr.: W. McDowell, Dr. Charles C. Marbury, Dr. Edward C. Morse, Dr. impson, Dr. John Van Rensselaer and Dr. Walter A. Wells. PAULINA GETS HER TREE. The baby daughter of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Mrs. Longworth enjoyed her first Christma- tree today. The camera man caught Santa delivering the tree to the Longworth home last evening. Copsright by Underwood & Underwood A flor- cal Hospital grounds, vesterday by a committer . Member< of the committee were: Dr. r. Ralph Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Lieut. Com Brown Muncaster, Dr. EMPLOYE HITS WOMAN. Montgomery County Police Seek Negro With Revolver. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December NOTED ENGINEER the head with a revolver by a negro| S the had employed to work whout her| Gagrge Warrington, 68, Was ro| Commissioner of Light- ook AVSheren il houses for Long Period. threw down the money given him, struck Mrs. I her rcom to assailant escaped. When the hour came for a settle- ment, the police were told, the negro d evolver the His description w4 e S o 4 s consented to val | on the North Side is In the hands of glven Policeman Gingell, who expec = 5 1o Aumoctuten | Cause of the explosion has not been | g, te Afociated Press. e ;';‘,fmu:p;'fi-f éf.,dt;"i;fl"fi,,,,_l Wreckers to give way for a new apart- | BY the Assoclated Press. ed late today to make an arrest. | George Warrington, 68 vears old. MOSCOW, December 25.—Ru is | determined | TOKIO, December 25.—The Diet| cially built tomb at the Kenilworth | ment building. l AUSTIN, Tex., December i E L. former engineer commissioner of the eelebrating the brightest Christmas it | s met today but the formal opening by | Church. Fleld’s own room will be reproduced | Texas legislators would have a valid Bureau of Light Houses, Department has h ce the Czarist d. Real | the prince regent will not take place| Only a smali headstone now marks|by the historical soclety.Inthat room,| clalm against the State for salary | $4] 746 055 ls GlVEN of Commerce, and well known marine ¥ 1 zood cheer nave e ADOBE HOUSE BACK i tomorron. The intervening (ime | the grave of the immortal writer of | where he wrote many of his poems,| and traveling expenses if they met | ’ i | engineer al architect, died of placed famine and civil s being devoted to the appointmen: | juvenile verse. Since 1895 he has |were Gladstone's ax, with which the| in special session at the call of the | | apoplex s residence, 3110 Nine » Moscow’s stores, filled with foreign ¢ cominittees, election of officers and | Tested in a simple plot and thousands | ¥nglish statesman tock exercise; the | speaker for impeachment purposes, | P E CHURCH |N YEAR teenth street, 5 < Aot v IN FAVOR IN WEST Cottiie have passed if, not knowing it was |bond that was given for the release | Attorney General Dan Moody ruled | I o ks g on was appointed ywded |""At the formal opening the prince | the grave of the poet they so much | of Jefferson Davis, the president of | vesterday. | £ o | engineer sioner of the Bureau o 50 ch SESe—— e O e Aot Troon e | adinired. | the Confederacy: letters of Char The opinion made no reference to e | of "the Bureau of Light Houses by 5 i S e Phis address is different from | , The Fleld tomb will be in.the close | Lamb and a number of toys and dolls | the question of whether witness fees | Contributions for 1924 Show $2,-| President Roosevelt and served con California Turns to Building Ma-|'hrone. ,d' Tl message, such as is,°f an elaborate cloister, now being | that cluitered the shelves around the | could be legally paid to persons sum- { tinuously from that time through the gald by the million wny of them x L the. Ameriean . Congress, | completed, connecting 'the church | chimney. moned to testify before the Legis- 502,927 Increase Over | irst half of President Wilson's first egme from Germany, terial Once Regarded Good |read before the American ConEress:|with the parish rectory. 1t will he| A collection of toys and letters will | lature. I i term. : The spirit of Chi as extends for Rui L T e e o o ey, | known as the Bugene Fleld Memorial | ko to a soclety in Missouri, Rosewell | A speclal session may be convened | Those for 1923. He'was a natiev of ;nmm-,} ?;ut h; 1 1 to th yns and reformatories, or Kuins. e the ceremonial opening the | Cloister Close. A plain slab will | Field, a son, explained that his mother | by the speaker only for impeachment | been a resident of this city for the TeRibavelibeir re S i | Diet. will adjourn over the New: ¥ear| surmount the tomb and on it will | bad refused tosell any of the Fleld | purposes or for investigation in con- last 22 years. He was a member o ire being given | By the A Bted Press, holiday and will reconvene the latter | = l‘“l-\lrl":g‘lds name and portions | keepsakes. She recently sold the prop- | nection with an actually contem- | By the Associated Press. Kl)ev_-'\lmgl';;{- Tw'lou of Marine and and motion Dic- | oS ANGELES, December 2i.—The | part of Junuary, at which time “real | 2L S2T® 0f Pis hest knnwn children's | oy | plated limpeachment, the opinion| NEW YORK, December 2i.—Contri-| * o leaves his widow, Mers. Minuie | humble “sun-dried brick is coming | fireworks” are expected to start. At| | Sted Miriam A. Ferguson, who has | PUoNS {0tallng $41,746.055 by the | snna Warrington; a son, Chester H Churches Crowded. alifornia as a material for the huild- | matter » crowded. Inling of ranch houses, small homes are burning in|even pretentious dwelling: e ches : holy ikon. Although | 'Abode” was used by F cisean | and Chins Communists do noL TeCOZNIZe | fathers in the building of their mi tion tmas or any other Christian holi- | sjons, and later many homes and | main . all the ernment fac- | commerecial structures were erected | program tories and stores are ¢ r three | with these rudely made bricks. | aues 4y As the vears wore on, 1 ted supplies new 40 per abode became. primarily the stuff of | pected uins were likely ght-seeing tour! n the poor | which s spirit. | The s! kit has oin in fest e = t learned to|the co s of thirsty nus waited | look for the adobe mission and the| The ele will be held under the | 0 e 3 he department = from 6. o'clock Jedtoniey | WHbDo Rontes e ich ot Rt | e i an SIS T under | Faurope. Forelgn police have been in- | Grand Army of the Republic and com-| Demands for the session followed Lo dn e lhh‘m; qa;fi;)fi expected. {0 Sce | which 14,000,000 are eligible to vote. | Sim of the e soatln it fii‘g,fiig,e'{fiz;"‘“P?;;?,“,;j,‘,{bg:;r;‘;;;"f;;;;d"_m""“1 State highway contrasts, and Attor- ttional drink ern homes e ans han 11,000,000 new | v, = D ——— 3 = e 4 i RNy o anae and business blocks long have been | Othe, subjects to be discussed are | public with the {asks and iimitations | . Municipal Council, Roval Arcanum, | pinyiot o TV 2008 S8 CEed ox- the whole of Russia cov-{ popular in southern California, but| ne hudget, naval ‘construction, aid|and successes of the police. An effort | Vil meet tomorrow night, 8§ p.m., at| c“flvegch”ges deep snow. whic an | ordinarily these have been built of | tor the fapmers, foreign financing, im-| will b made Lo ceroimes the paror | 503 Seventh street. ;- bl il P VNI stmas touch e.|brick or frame with a coating °f1 provement of education, civil service, | that the police are part of themselves, 2 TR 'Dalla'.; one of the leading advocates The only sad note to the pict stucco pensions and governmental settlement | tolled off to look after their safety and | o, tig LotBue for the Larger Life will | 75" oiira” session, declared today the long lines of unemployed outside | tely, however, the old custom of | ;¢ japor disputes. not tyrannous outsiders, entertain guests of the Stepping-Stone, | }/¢ e 1jeved the question_of calling the lubor cxchanges und the great|using one's cellar ation as _a| | The exposition will consist of dem.|% home for unemployed ex-service|,, axtra gession of the Legislature | fordes of ragged, homeless and hun- | source of sun-dried bricks for w e S onstratlons of sclentific police methods | TS tomorrow night, § p.n. A Christ | 16,33 "o “Tevived vigorously after childrer the streets has been revived, and everywhere in| it i ' y with tree, presents an s € adopted the | southern California modern small | Matches British Invention. ;fii‘fn ’;‘,’i,'é?ei'ififi, g;\ifiggrt!lfiksc%?m:: dancing. he{Chriafas hollday houses are being In Los Angeles, a and ranch adobe. nis and most | homes s people observe the | huilt of slendar, which is 13 day new one. A majority of | pwners could well afford the most ex- | ojq, celebrate two Christ-| pensive of materials, have been fash and the other | ioned his L adobe. > relig hurch « 1 the Rus but of the humble, The { but Heads Royal Spanish Academy. Quakes Felt in Persia. ack into popular favor in southern | present nd | foreign meas | the Diet w tion does not receive the approval | however | of a majority of the members it is ex- to be made | dissolution of the Diet and appeal to From the Popular Science Magazine. Matches as a household and vest- | number of exelusive residences whose | pocket commodity are just 100 years | the first box of matches early in 1825, oric | placing 84 matches to a box, for which he charged a shilling. the matches { handier than the tinder box that he| no American-Japan | \BERLIN POLICE EXHIBIT | : TO BE NOVEL AFFAIR | will ive o Christmas dance fomorrow, | there r to he considered and the onl ires which may o 1 have to do with Ru In the domestic field the tem is expected to be the | bone of contention, and if the ot the government on this! CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Twentieth and B streets, Mrs. Ger- | Modern Detetcive Methods to Be Displayed Next Year—Seek Final committee. | Many Foreigners. BERLIN, November 25 (By malil).— Berlin’s police ¥xhibition next year fs | supposed to be the first of its kind in | The Legion of Loyal Women 'rllll Premier Kato will ask for the| hold a reception in the cabinet room | untry. the commander of the police in traffic, theater, fire and other problems. Various papers will | be read and there will be outdoor sports for policemen. The Berlin au- thorities hopes for a. large foreign rep- resentation. | sk b Man Eats 43 Flapjacks. "“Rervous Jurywoman Let Off. |, _Judses of the pancake-eating con- 3 test at Groton, S. Dak., awarded the At Norristown, Pa., it was neces-|title to W. P. G. Myers, who at 43 sary for the criminal court judge to Thé Georgetown Citizens’ Associa- | tion will meet Monday, 8 p.m., at Pa~| John Walker of London made tomac Bank hall. price was comparatively high, were so much profited 3AS < cember #).—! MADRID, December 25 (#).—Prof. prospered quickly. — i 5-inch. flapjacks. His appetite unap- B f)';'\I:R:;;H’);::ukEcshr‘wkos were felt| Ramon Menendez Pidal has been se-| The safety match was developed lg excuse Miss Lucy Johnson, one of the | peased after the contest, Myers ate .| “sterday in the region of Bushire, | lected president of the Roval Spanish | 1855, although it was not introduced | members of the jury, because she was | ring and a half of bologna. ey o amios was. caused | Academy in succession to the late An-|into’ the United States untll some |so nervous that she couldn’t give her| C. S. Carter, first announced as win- D e il ahet ‘of “Bushire, | tonio. Maura. The new president is a | vears later. The match industry lon; [attention to the case. The judge|ner, ate 51 pancakes afer thé others where the people were driven from | noted phologist and director of the|interested the State of Maine, thougt |asked her to try and overcome it, but | had finished, but his cakes were 3| gheir houses by the temblors and are | Spanish Are 4y not a match is made on a com- | she ul‘l-sr»n'!‘ could not.. and was!inches In dlameter, so he was disquall- | respond L Rome. 1 basis in that State. ! gxcused, fods Bow Lviug in tesus f the Willard Hotel on New Year | Seéneral's ruling. day from 1 until 5 p.m. in honor of | Said, no session would b of the| convene before February 1. refused to call the Legislature in The Amicitia Club of the Y. W. C. A., | Special session, has asserted that her enemies desire a session in the hope 9 p.m. 3 [*that they may find something which Dt ane pBlue triangle Mut,| ould be used as the basis for im- trude Strong s chairman of program | Peaching her. decision on calling a session | will await develbpments of the next few weeks, Speaker Lee Satterwhite said when advised of the attorney In any event, he e called to Autographed Hats Fad. From the New York World. Autographed hats are a fad in Artists of reputation have | been designing them and signing them | for milliners. the sale. Incidentally, the artists have The name has helped to such an extent that they are actually sprucing up in raiment. To carry dolis dressed exactly as themiselves is a fad that is much in vogue with the young society girls here. The dolls change their gown: three times a day, as do their owners Even the faces have been made to cor- s nearly as possible to those ! os the #¥ls invoived, | CAPITALIST LOSES CASE 1,193,600 communicants of the Episco- pal Church in the United States for | gent of the War all church purposes were recorded in | (o auq a heother. 1925 for the preceding vear, it was | yoo oS TR announced. This was an increase of | ~"Funeral services will be conducted | $2,502,927 over 1023, | at the residence tomorrow afternoon Warrington, of this city, who is presi gton Motor Ca: ames N. Warring In 1919 the.total of gifts to the|at 130 o'clock. Rev. J. J. Dimon, church for all purposes was $24,392, | rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal | 091. said the official statement. Church,%will officlate. Interment will “In 1920, under the impetus of the campaign, there was a sharp increase ‘al-:xrep:allng $10,000,000,”" the state- | ment continues, “the exact figures be- ing $34.873,221. In 1921 the total giv ings went to $3 in 1922 the total was $36,752.520 and in 1923 the total took another leap forward to $39.243,127. With the figures now re- ported, which are the last available, | the annual givings of the church mem: | be private, in Rock Creek Cemetery FILM SERIES ARRANGED. Eig e Holland Hopes to Interest Ameri can Tourists. AMSTERDAM, November 25 (B: bership have been increased in five'! Mail). odesty is one of your na v by approximately $17,500,000, | tional virtues. Dutchmen do not like which church leaders regard as one|to push themselves into the fore of the most remarkable records ever | ground, but there is something whic} established in church annals.” ! the 3" ‘lart de ss faire | valoir, nd safsif may prac s E {"time’ it more,” said Richard M. Tobin | the American Minister in The Hague « |in a short speech at the end of the | arst_ showing of three tourist films it & o |an Amsterdam picture theater in the NEW YORK, December 25 (#).—A | presence of a small number of promi verdict of $25,000 for the plaintiff in | nent bankers, bulb dealers and news the suit for $50,000 brought against | paper men. The films, entitled “Ty Joseph Leiter, Chicago capitalist, by | Tulip Land,” ocoden Shoes™ and Hirsch, Sherman & Limburg, attor-|“Lev’s Go-Iishing,” were made under neys, was returned vesterday by a|the auspices of the Netherlands-Amer Federal court jury before Judge Wins- | can Chamber of Commerce. 1t . low. | hoped by the Netherlands committec Suit was brought for services al-|on trafic propaganda in America that leged to have been rendered by the|the showing In the States of these law firm for Mr. Leiter during 1921,/ educational films of Dutch bulb flelds 1922 and 1923, in the suit for $1,500,000 | gardens, castles and colonial planta brought against Leiter by Joseph H. ! tions will serve largely to promote Hoadley and Alfred H. Hoadley, who American touring in Holland. The sald they had been partners in inter- | number of American tot ts in Hol- ests with him in the International/land this Summer exceofled by 40 per Power Co. e awnber last yow