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- 4 - RELIEF WORK FUN Bssociated Charities Makes Appeal for Balance on 14 Qpportunities.” Christe sought in the sivers of the aid of destituté noaver vealization. 5.000 remained to be col reach the zoal set new vear tributions over brousht the amount A ited Charities {unities offeved the Althouzh mas day by the 11 oppo Washin faraili more on for ynt collected to date of the wsked provide a cominz vea 34 wn-ups, including Rk s Vid fathers and mid The ar home” in the for children and i seven given the L. The enerosity how the fort unite me Hoping for Success the in hristmis <t of the ve: the “14 Contribu Joy Ldson t prompt vhich wknowl were Allotted to No. I stmas ¢ Ch nhilies not The Chevy tadden sted e ¢ 1 n famil € hase sen 1 so1 The be open tributions REALTY FINANCING TOPIC OF SESSIONS Orleans skets also individuals ftice will Ass New Meeting to Discuss City Credit Facilities. Small The credit : egpecialiv bonds ar tion suk conference finance di ing the com New Or lean: uary he Midwinter meetinz is the ant con. ference of the sociation facilities of small to the the s issue of building financ £ construc has been discussion o the chosen as divisional and A s dur ision of Real discussio mal cutive and met form made the the mortzaze has_just in Ci finaiice narional ihe sion 1 eadquaters spec i falizin sctions deve three h vinter mee! Tems st this izes of dvant nteed nged N Ar yart of prozram Mr. Weaver to Speak Weaver nted by John recently Secr of Washington Herbert Hoover as represent o will o Commerce national committee niechanies™ lien we the members echanics’ lien laws, which Mr. Weaver iation vestiz n a special ) <ion ‘The commi ec ot capacity to e ent of Comm the ( 1 ce in 2 The co-oper partment il - problem rece n attendant upon the first mort in 1in the ziven over Fin rzent majority of 4 in the fi transactions n meetinas Plans and ers ive special The nancing over n one se be di problems hefore iness m ancings will opened o 1 estate [ Winz for 1926 to the ques. Research Provided out the the v zned topies tion to men n the financing home buyer the prozram for the committ research and are author- # h field The nein been during t the present zage and by mmittee problem of first morteage for special study An investization of tus of the second mort- loan is to be made wpointed 1o study State legislation with the idea of en- couraging uniform laws on securities Where lezislation is found ad ble. John L. Weaver. of Wash- chairman. resolution committec appointed present matters for the national association’s action within the scope af the division at the coming Mid- winter meetinz is under the direction of J. C. Weeden of Washington. A committee to establish principles ot business ethics that will cover the actvities of the division noet now in ¢luded in the national code has been appointed with B. F. Saul of Wash- Ington as chairman. SPAIN TO ISSUE PAPER. Government Will Have Own Pub- lication on Sunday. MADRID. ste A 1 December 26 (#).-—New. paper men of Spain are rejoicing over the sudden withdrawal by the govern- meén: of its previous demand for the publication of Sunday newspapérs. In- stead, the government will publish an official news sheet containing impor- tant foreign and domestic news. The néws sheet will hé sold. and. as the zovernment ig not permitted to profit kv its sale, any pecuniary gains will #0 to charity The decision of the zovernment was officially madé known after an inter- view between Premicr Primo de Rivéra and 3 commlitise of newspaper men. BELOW GOAL Business | 'NEW DIRECTORY I THE EVENENC OF CONGRESS ‘ T REVISES RECORDS SINCE 1774 Permanent Edition of Most Widely Used Referenee Book, Witk Al Bieg#aphical Sketches From First to Present Session, Will Be Printed Soon. The most used book in Washington | is the Conzressional Directory, which | is of almost indospensable value in ery office of every branch of the vernment, and testimony from all | (he big libravies of the country shows {that it is the most used hook o vef jerence tables patronized by the pu { Tie Just after the Christmas holidayvs Congress is zofnz fo pass. practically unanimensly. an additional appropria jon of $7.500 for completing the pub- lication of a permanent blographical cdition of the Conzressionnl Director which all the libraries of the cc iry have been waitinz impatiently for 14 vears, This new edition will he a omplete record of every one of the fmore than 21,000 individuals, who in the American Congress 74 to 1975, much more ac curate than any compilation ev | printed. It will contain information i not to be found anywhere else, repre: | senting more than 20 yvears of care- ful research, t be hand down 1o posterity. about the men who have made administered s . self-g peaple. Cont Itowil 1 trom 17 L nd verning ental Congress Record. the corrected bio of all those who tinental Congress 1774, October the Congress of the the st to the or from March contain graphic sketches served in the Co from September 3 123, 178 and in United States from sinty-eighth Congress 89, to March 3. 192 This permanent directory, on which (rained force has heen workinz March, under a concurrent is entirely distinet trom | the regular session Congressional i rectory Usually there are about 2 000 copies printed for the full edition \f the rezular session directory. with two editions in short session and nsnally three edirions in the long ses. m each Congress. There were 10,000 copies printed of the prelim nary edition of the Sixtv-ninth Con zvess, which came out thres week and which will be reprinted im tely after the holidivs. permanent biographical rec ne bheen printed since 1911 not been thoroughly revised or many vears. So many errors were ound in it that the joint committee on printing decided it should be thor- nzhly yewritten after a meost careful nvestization et the reco of | each man straizht for posterit As | result of that the name of Senator e 1. Moses, chairman of the | oint commiites on Y ing. has \m-j come known throughout the lensth | | and breadth of this land, for he has Jletters 1o the family and fr ends T man who has ever been in Cong In some es the corr “pondence has run into more than the facts straight about f [ | since last resolution. med The has nd has Geor sent ot every letters o zet one individual Example of Erre A< an example of the gross errors that have heen corrected, it has been found that one man lived for 21 vears the Biozraphical Directory had killed off. and. in fact. went the Civil War with distin | zuished service after the date of his | death as recorded. This was Cvrus . Dunham. The ifter him through old hook said he dred on Valley Farm. Indiana. October 15 The study made under di rection of Senator Moses disclosed that he served as colonel of the 50th In. diana Volunteers durinz the Civil Wa nd died in Jeffersonville. Ind.. Novem her 1877. and ie buried in Walnut Itidge Cemeter: Azain. he oll o the fate of Samuel Florida, who served in the fourth wgress and was s | with Joe Cannon Moses' slenths found the man_ still living at 17 Grant Washington Fhen there was the racord of “Sock Simpson of Indiana. It was | recorded that he died in 1302 The posemaster at Wichita. Kans.. has pro- | Huced evidence to show that the co date of his death was October was silent as A, Purr Forty- woin ator old gentle place in & Uncle se less Jerry : Then in looking up the case of Ed ward W. MeGaugzhey, who came from | Lockville, Ind.. and served in the Twenty-ninth Congress and was re- scted 1o the Thirty-first ZTess, \l] 1< discovered that the Tic hard W McGanghey also recorded for Phirty-ri.i Congress was the same in the Inyard edition through a printer’s ror in picking up a capital R |n‘l<-‘~| 2 capital I, making the copy Rd. d o o A study of the House Jonrnal for that Congress disclosed his mistake Case of John Vance. e mistake was | John Vance | of sort of a made in the case of one 2 n ihe Seventeenth Congress. Tkis will be explained in the new book, which will say that in previous edi tion< the name appeared as John Vance instead of Joseph Vance. It is | Deliaved that this is an error arising throuzh a printer's blunder in the first issne of the Congressional Direc- | tore for the Seventeenth Congress | cansed by the tvpesetter carrving the name of “John.” as it appeared in the | namo of Sloane, just above, down to Vance. The House Journal does net <how that a “John Vance’ ever was 2 tepresentative from Ohio. but in the | <ame directory, under the alphabetical | Jist of boarding houses, with the mem- bers in each, the list of boarders ot Miss Polk’s home inchided Joseph Vance. but not John Vance. | “Amain we have the case of Henry | !'Wilson of Massachusetts, once Vice President, who died November 22, 1875. A footnote for the Forty-fourth { Congress savs that Mr. Wilson died in the preceding Congress. But that Forty-third Congress expired on March 3, 1875, and_the Forty-fourth | Congress began on March 4, 1875. ¥f Mr. Wilson died on November 22, 1875, | he belongs in the record of the Forty- ourth (onsress, and the correction | has been made. As eath of these cases is studied {the records with all correspondence {are put in separate envelopes in alpha- | betical order. so that the rull data on every man who ever sat in Congress is preserved and made available for ref- erence by future zenerations. From all over the country Mbrari ans of the leading libraries are wr ing 1o Senator Moses regarding the forthcoming permanent biographical directory, saying that thé old edition is in constant usé on their reference tables and that no book in the li- braries is used as much. There is a Nation-wide impatience for the pub- lication of the new édition, and mem- hers of Congress expect they will have to print a larger edition than was contemplated last year. The resolu- tion calls for 1,000 coples for the use of the Senate and 3.000 copies for the use of the House. Then there wijl be 1,200 for general use and about 5,000 are to be prinhted for sale in the Gov- ernment book shop te fill orders that are already coming in. First Record in 1820. Ansel Wold, who is Senator Mos Fight-hand man in preparing the new directory, finds that prior to 1809 there was no attempt to keep a his- tory of Congress or a directory of its members. The first publication ap- proaching the dinity of a congres- sional directory was compiled and printed by “Daniel Rapine, agent, 18207 1t is a small volume of somé 20 pages and contains the names of members of Congress, thé names and local addresses of the heads of axécu-| tive departments, an imperfect list of | , | | | rectory | by | apartment house for the | * | for_the corr ministers in foreign countries, and an slphabetical list of Washington board ng houses. With succeeding sessions of Congzress similar publications ap peared from time to time. At the beginning of the second ses- sion of hte Thirty-eighth Congress a resolution was unanimously adopted providing for the compilation and publication of the first Congressional Directory nnder the supervision of the joint committee on public printing. The commitiee held numerous ses- sions, obtained and examined like puh- lications issned in foreign nd finally decided upon a work simi- lar in essentials 1o the House of Con mons, published in London since 183 Biographical _sketches first ap- peared in the directory of the third sexsion of the Kortieth Congress, in 1869 The ishing work a of preparing and pub- permanent biographi di 10 include all the preceding Congresses was first undertaken by Charles Lanman in 1858 It bears the imposing title, “Dictionary of the United > Congress.” There have heen ai lea sequent editions which were ir o mive up-odate and biographical data Since man’s last volume, howeve the suc ceedinz compilers=appear o have done little more than to add to the permanent volume h informatio conld be obtained from the odical Congressional Directories. 1t seems that no effort (o correct, re- Vise or perfect the work of eurlie compilers was made. and thus merons errors were perpetuated. Al Records Verified. present committee has the work of general verification It not d the contents of journals and recor of debates to he searched carefully, but also has engaged a stafl of emploves to consnlt all available bozraphical publications. 11 has made special appeals to Government depositories, public libraries, histori cal associations. postmasters and State, county and municips! officers well as individuals, for specific zeneral information ery biogra phy in this fortheominz volume has been corrected and revise The serviee records of the tive officers of the various adminis trats have heen examined verified from the offi documents file in he St Department cretary of State Frank B. Kel has ziven 100 per 1 seratiol It is unfortunate that some records which doubtless wou d srent va especiall 1pon earlier contested ind their determir the British in journals of the two and the Certificates of election as well, cannot 1< reliable in the spelling 'hey afford little accurate history the resizn and deaths of members, and wh soever as to their home addresses FINDS BALTIMORE six suh ende authenti Mr. Lan The taken and nnder revision only has ¢ bearing we e burned that the 1814 Houses. peri- | nu-| STAR. countries | execn- | nd | | | | | i HOUSING NORMAL| Realtors’ Body Secretary Says Shortage Is Thing of the Past. BALTIMORE. December 26 Hous inz_conditions in Baltimore are azain back to normal. according 1o (. Philip Pitt. secretary of the real estate board, who dsclared that Baltimore's situation ix permanent shortage which existed for vears following the war was of the past. This also applies 1o houses. A number have been erected several a thing and that the ! apartment ! this year and several more are planned | 1926, a new $1,000 University I for including k- way Some sections of Baltimore. real estate brokers say, are now overbuilt, but as regards the city as a whole the tuation at present is normal The valne of bullding permits for the first 11 months this vear in Balti more surpasses by $2.0%0.720. the tc ponding period of 1924 Th with a known volume of permits s ord for the vear. insured Baltimore a new record in construction. The pre: lead. |ent vear will make the 70th consecu- tive vear in which been created here The volume of dwelling construction also has surpassed the highest mark of any previous year by a considerable margin. The 5,804 permits for the a new record has first 11 months of this vear compares| 'Urn to the oldtime one-family house 19244 with 4,979 dwelling permits for which was a record vear. Present indications are that high mark of £.000 homes reached when the December are in. PAINT USE WIDESPREAD. Féw Women in Paris Appear With- out Touches. a will returns PAR painted December 6 ) — has no particular si ¢ day 4 nificance in these days, in the opin- | industri | ion of a trade journal representing the manufacturers of face paint and | he said. powder. At a grand opening of one of the | ourselves. jeading dressmakers in Paris re- cently, out of nearly 200 women only 3 by actual count had not under- gone the beautifying process of rouge, lipstick or crayoned brows. Some had worked with the bold brush, bright colors and wide strokes of the Ruben's school, others in tho more moderate tones of the French school, while a few had made more | timid ‘attempts, and traces and pemcll were just visible. majority glowed with youth. 1,500 GIVEN DINNER. Fight Promoter s;:ges Real Fete for Poor of Toledo. TOLEDO, Ohio. Décember ). One thousand five hundred men, women and children were guests at a Christmas dinner given yesterday hy Ad Thacher, boxing promoter at the Toledo Athletic Club. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning men began com- ing and at 3 o'clock yesterday after- noon they still were straggling in. The boxing ring had been moved to one side of the gymnasium to make room for the long tables, which were loaded down with chicken, pork, cran- berries, potatoes, ice cream, cakes and fruit. i of paint But the the colors of S Reversal of Form. ¥rom the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. ‘The late Willlam Jennings B was, of course, a pacifist ture in Pittsburgh, he once said: “Nearly all wars are wars of spolia- tion, or, rather, of theft. Nearly all great soldiers are great robbers Yet Jook at thé decorations glittering on their breasts! In olden times we hung thieves|are made before the dinner com- on crosses. Now we hang crosses en thieves, | | with the flicient to create a new rec-| new | idnei he| fore the Real Estate Board of Balti- | apartments will be erected.” he s: 1 i | | 1is tooting |attended the annual Christmas day re- WASHINGTON, D, €., SATURDAY, FATEKEPT LENROOT FROM WHITE HOUSE Was to Have Been Nom- inated With Harding. But Plans Went Wrong. | Leading the fight for President Cool- idge’s World Court plan on the Re-; publican side of the Senate chamber a man buffeted hy one of the most turns of fate that ever befell 1 human being. This man L. Lenwoot, Semator from the State of Wisconsin, who. by all the rules| and orders of the G. O. ., should t day be the occupant of the White Houge, formulating his own interna tional plans and policies rather tha Attempting to rry out the 1|lt‘l|lrnr4‘ and dictates of another | Fortunately for Senator Lenroot, he does not appear to he a strongly in- trospective man. He seems to shake thinzs off rather easily, and he sits there in the Senate. dayv ne cannot help but pictu that must go through ch is called by some, one o in the upper house of i cruel head the ablest gress. American memories are not very ng. but there are still plenty who | call that at the Chicago convention { the Republican party in 1920 Sen ator Lenroot was “slated” to be the vice presidential candidute with Sen- | ator Harding of Ohiv. The slate had A1l been arranged. Supposedly it wax opper riveted, as things generally are ! at a Republican convention once the | steam roller” has heen wheeled into | action and the organization whistle ! its siznals to stop and go. | Picked With Harding. Harding had heen ifter a somewhat hectic tween former Gov. den of Ilinois and ard Wood. The den forces virt the convention M ted he Low nomin struzgl Frank O, Maj. Gen Wood and iy had deadlocked and there was no in dication of surrender on either side. Both of these aspirants were given | every opportunity to demonstrate their strenzth and neither had snffi. | cient. Therefore. at the end of th week. the leaders got together and | agreed upon Semator Harding as the compry didute. At the same time it reed that Nenator Len root of Wisconsin, representing a npposediy liberal wing of the party. <hould be the vice presidential eandi date The with hi O Hardir a whe and e nomination . Tired 1-forencon « drifted hall It wae supposed was “ficed” jor Senator here was no need to wa for that part of the pian to be cuted. Vice presidential nominations never receive a geeat deal of consider 1 from the delegates on the floor verybody is anxious te 2o home The honor of nominating enator Lenroot had heen placed in the hands the late Nenator AMedill MctCor mick of Mlinois. Medill, for some rea son unexplained, was quite a few min late in reaching the phatforn nd the delegates were a hit restles Medill made a more or less perfunc. wy speech and then stepped 10 let the voting bezin. Somehow or | other the sitnation was bungled. There | was no spread of Lenroot wildfire | on the floor. | Then eame the memorable incident | when Wallace McCamant. a delegate from Oregon, leaped to chair on the convention floor and placed the name of Calvin Ceolidge in nomina-. tion. U'p to that moment there had been no thought of Coolidze for Vice resident. The Massachusetts deloga- tion had heen hacking him in a more or less desultory manner for the presi- dency, but it never occurred to a single member of the Bay State delega- | tion to propose him for second place | on the ticket | The rest is history. Mr. Coolidge | was nominated. Mr. Harding died in his third vear at the White House. Mr. Coolidge stepped into the Ameri can Hall of the Presidents, Mr. Lenroot might have had all this if something had not gone wronz machine.” Mr. McCamant has been appointed a Federal judge | in California. Mr. Lenroot has the | fizht of his life on his hands to try to come back to the Senate next vear. went their erences out convention everything Lenry aside | a | | | | i | | | RETURN OF ONE-FAMILY DWELLING PREDICTED | Baltimore Realtor Sees No Future for Cheap Apartment Houses. BALTIMORE, December 26. A re- in the next few vears was predicted by James C. Martien, a former pres- thiz week in an address he- me “The day of the converted apari- ment is past” he said. adding that fewer duplex houses will be built. “Mary new. . large and ornate ‘but T can’t see much future for the cheaply constructed and peorly de- signed apartments.’ Martien attacked rent gougers, wh. allow their tenant property to de- teriorate, and advocated expanding s here. “We must look bevond the horizon,’ e have been living too much and trading too much among “We must attract new industries and enterprises. I ook for an| astounding increase in industry and commerca in Baltimore in the next 10 years, comparable to Los Angelas in the past decade.” ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va.. December 26 (Special).—Fifteen men and women were taken to police headquarters yes. terday charged with liquor violations. More than 1,000 men and women ception given vesterday afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. Robert South Barrett at their residence, on Duke street. Jumbo Bryant, city dog catcher, ar- rested Thursday night for an alleged violation of the prohibition law, spent Christmas day in jail. He was unable to raise $19.50 collateral, asked by *hief of Police W. W. Campbell. Members of Old Dominion Command- ery, No. 11, Knights Templar, par- ticipated in the annual Christmas day celebration held at the Masonic Tem- ple yvesterday. ‘With the exception of the banks and the city government business was re. sumed re today after yesterday’s holiday. y a proclamation, issued by Gov. E. Lee Trinkle, today was de- clared a legal holiday. Police had a clue today to th. bandits who held up Abranam 1',25;‘ srocer, Christmas eve night and shot Policeman Charles Stewart in escaping in an automobile. Arrests were ex- pected before night. Levy has reported that no money was taken. SEgum e Wisdom of the East. From the London Humorist. Speeches at public dinners in Japan Irvine |, | since | development | immediate CELEBRATING GOLDEN WEDDING CHARLES R. BROW DECEMBER 26. 1925. ! RECLUSE FOUND DEAD IN REAR STOREROOM Police Seek Relatives of Don Grogan, 72, Discovered Life- less by Boy. Police of the fifth precinct started a for vear-old 1 search today relatives of Don Gro luse. who was found dead vesterday in the rear store room at Eleventn street southeast where he had led a solitary existence for saven vears. Al that salesman be W he was a ts. He could black handbigx ind returning days he would sunshine, apparentiy is known is that of disinfec with a little = on his rounds from them. On warm sit outside in the deep in rovery. Yesterday he was boy who was deliver kets in the neizhborhood Swain and Cole of the fifth notified by the hov, vas not learned. They ym and found the stretched on the floor. his b cigar box. A h attack to have caused death rogan not early Chrisimas It is he lieved was dead for several hours before the body was discovar seen found dead Dy ng Christmas has slicemen precinet vhose name vent ray-haired were man “ud on is helieved was neizhhors ove. 1 'REALTORS BACKING WATERWAYS BILL Middle West States’ Boards Ask Congress’ Action on Measure. Constituent hoards of the wnal Real Estate ards the Mississippi- Missouri takinz an active part in further development of inland avs for cheaper freizhi trans- portation. Appropriation by the pres ent Congress of an amount sufficient to develop the Missouri the Ohio River fs now heing developed is asked bv the realtors of the seven which would be affected hy provement. With statisties volime of freight Assoc throu re: hont n waterw States the im showing thai the in the United States at its present rate of zrowth is don blinz eve vears, representatives of the Kansas City. Mo., Real Estate Board and of the Omaha Real Estate Roard took the caxe for the Missouri before the National Harbors Congress. which D. C... December Rivera met in .10 and Washington Relief Held Needed. transportation conditions now existing in ansas, Missouri, lowa. Nehraska, Oklahoma and other Western States creat a crises in the econcmic devel- opment of both agriculture and indus. try inth ose States. and demand the relief that would be af- forded by inland waterway navigation, especially The economic and gzeneral the Kan 3 tate Roards ions adopted at its nual convention The Nebraska ciation of R Estate Boards. at its annual conven tion, also went on record as indorsing the establishment of an inland deep waterways system for the Western States. Association declares recent in an 1 Others Give Support. The Minneapolis Real Estate Board and the St. Louis Real Estate Board are stronzly supporting the movement for the deep waterways svstem. The Minneapolis board is actively engaged | in 2 campaizn to hring steamboats with their carzoes tn Minneapolis as a new head of navigation on the Mis. sissippi George Miller, vice president of the Kansas City. Mo. Real Estate Board. and W. G. Spain of the Omaha, Nebr.. Real Estate Board. were the realtor representatives at the Rivers and Harbors Congress. BETTEiRistRVICE IS AIM. Unitarian Board to Study Methods of Fellowship Missionaries. NEW YORK. December 26 (#).—Di- rectors of the American Unitarian As- sociation announced yesterday the personnel of a commission of five to study the missionary policies and methods of the Unitarian Fellowship and the recommendations for their improvement. The commission will include three ministers and two laymen, as follows: The Rey. Adelbert L. Hudson of First Parish Church, Dorchester, Mass.; the Rev. Preston’ Bradley of Peoples Church, Chicago: Dr. A. Wakefield Slaten of Westside Unitarian Church, New York: Percy W. dence, I, and Milton T. Garvin, Lancaster, Pa. The commission was appointed in response to a request to the General Unitarian Conference at Cleveland last October. It is expected to meet soon after the holida POLICE PLAY SANTA. Children in Southeast Given Treat at No. 5 Station. Several hundred children of South- east \Washington made merry yester- day at a party given at No. 5 precinct police station, where candy, fruit and toys were dispensed. The police had to keep the struggling youngsters in long lines to await their turns. The gifts were made possible by do- natione from citizens of the South- east and by police. W. P. Als and John O'Connell of the fifth precinct collected the donations. Officials of the Police Department took part in the affair, including Chief of Police Hesse, Inspectors Shelby. Pratt and Evans and Lieut. mences. Now we know what is meant by the wise men of the East, Mina_Van Winkle, head of the Wom- en’s Bureau, \COUPLE FELICITATED the navization of the Mis- | sardner, Provi | ON.GOLDEN WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Brown Recall Early Teaching Days in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Brown are celebrating their golden wedding an niversary today at the home of their | | favor among COMMUNISTS SEEK AVORWITH UNIONS Fearing Labor Reaction, Party Orders “Meddling” Stopped in Workers’ Ranks. Correspondence of The Star and New Yo World. December ~The cen tral committee of the Communist party in Russia. finding that labor reacting adversely to the “party med and “usurpaiion of trade union functions” hy the local organizations of the party, has issued stringent orders for the abandonment the policy of domination and instructed Communist leaders 10 seek to rezain the workers through GENEVA, 10 “penetration. i Reporis received hy the interna tional labor office from sources which are thoroughly reliable indicate tha the workers, npon whom the Commu nist strength depends, have growing increasingly dissatisfied of late and have caused great concern in Moscow * Has Powerful Weapon. After a full review of the situation the central committee has issued a resolution which reminds the local organizations that the Communist party possesses in the trade unic powerful weapon for bringing Communists under the influence | Communism and for pursuing its po litical designs. The trade unions, it points out, cannot serve this purpose well unless they are supported the whole of the Communist Party | | non by daughter, Mrs. F. L. Murray, Eighteenth street. Mr. Brown vears old and Mrs, Brown 71 reside with a son, Arthur €, | $47 Madison street Mr. Brown was born In Ohlo in 1849 Mrs. Brown in Indiana in 1834, families moved 1o Illinois when the children were about 6 vears of age. and they started their edu cation under primitive conditions when plit and hewed logs for wooden legs were used for chairs and desks Greased paper was used as window The spelling book and Bible about their only hooks. Later het attended the same puivate 1and their romance negan which resulted in th ar Mason, m Thev with is Rrown and Their r marriage hoth taught school and it pride that Mr. Brown points to hix record of 36 vears as teacher of which were tanght in the same schoolhouse, in his home district. The school in which he taught was he social. educational and religious center of the community and snerally known as “Charlie Brown s schoolhouse.” It was in house that Representative lams of Dlinois. who was those calling on the couple of their annivers: is s Wil among today in disclosed his ability as an orator in the weekly lebates in the early s, held under the supervision of Mr. Brown Mr. Williams and Mr. Brown enjoved talk n those old dayvs when “Char predicted that “Tom™ would some he in Congress The home of the couple was alwavs apen to preachers and to Repuhliean candidates. Their vounzest child Brown. resides at 740 Ingraham street and their other daughter. Mrs. E. Shade. lives in Havs, Kans. The con. ple |rnsfln the old home in Fdge- wood, 111 24-MILE RANCH FOR HOME SITES Last of 0ld Spanish Tracts in Cal- ifornia, Facing Ocean. to Be Split Up. the Ascociated Prese. SANTA MONICA, [ Passinz of the last southern ¢alifornia hearlded in honor v dav Charles { matter R December frontier in the coast district is the announcement that the Malibu ranch, near here, con | sisting of 18,000 acree, to he suh divided into home sites. The ranch has approximately 24 miles of frontage on the Pacific Ocean and is the only original Spanish land &rant of a centty and a quarter ago to remain intact. Strife marked the history of the Malibu since 1804, when the king of Spain set his seal to the first grant. | At present more than a score of cow- boys ride the range of mountains and beach, caring for 50000 head of cattle roaming the vast tract. Records of 1805. To whom the king of Spain granted the land in 1804 probably will remain a muystery, for the original grant has lorg been ‘lost. but authentic records of 1805 indicate that the ranch was given to Don Jose Dartolone Tapia by the Spanish zovernor of California. Don Tapia ruled his acreaze with | an iron hand. frequently driving oft invaders. Tle died in 1823, leaving the ranch to his widow and two sons. His I. containing one of the strangest paragraphs in California’s history. de- clared indebtedness to the padres of San_ Fernando mission to the extent of 2300 “more or less, or any sum they claim.” Directing the pavment, he also gave the fathers three pounds n‘f sugar, a valuable bequest in those days, The Tapia family held the ranch until 1848, when they sold it to Don Leon Victor Prudhomme for $400 half of which was paid in “metaltc currency.” the rest in “goods at enr- rent prices.” Prudhomme was not satisfled wiin the title and he reduced his fortune In legal tlts with the Unlted States Government until, in 1857, he lost the ranch in settlement of a $1.400 grocery bill 1o on Matio Keller of Los Angeles. Sold for $10 Acre. Tn 1870 Keller's heirs sold the tra. for 810 an acre to Frederick Hast- {ings Rindge, late husband of Mayv K. {Rindge, present owner and director of the property. { Rindge came West n 1570 in search of health. He bought the 18.000 acres (amid the jeers of early settlers. who ibranded his ranch of mountaine and |beaches “Rindge's ridiculous pu | chage 5 Regaining his health, Rindge be- gan pursuing a pet vision, now about jto be realized—that the huge acre- age would become prettily designed home sites—but his struggle to keep the original grant intact forced him to build a $500,000 railway at his own expense to prevent condemnation proceedings by Western railway lines. Recently, after a long court battle, 150 acres were condemned for a mili- tary highway from the North. Mrs Rindge bitterly opposed the high- way, contending that it would de- stroy portions of the beach and would not conform to the proposed landscaping design. 26— ] | | Frederick Physician Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., December 26.— Dr. Thomas .B. Johnson, 57 years old, chief operating surgeon at the Fred- erick City Hospital, and prominent in medical efreles, Aled last eveming at his home of heart disease, They | was | this school- | whose duty it should he to make their task easie ‘It is essential that the great {of the workers should see in the trade unions a_powerful weapon destined 1o defend their interests, party and its local organizations sho act that every non-Comm worker will feel that the trade is his own affair, that he can contro it. that he can alect his own ¢ and that it must account for tions to him then will the trade unions be ahie accomplish true missions of being of Communism. With this end in committee of the has invited all loc neering and to exercise their fut control over trade unions means of Communist groups, sections within the organizations. The important task, the central commit tee points out. is form a body Communist trade wunions to the present hureaucratic offi | the unions In view of the import question of trade unionism tral committee of the Commu has placed upon the ag next Communist Congress. in Moscow December n of means 18 forces of workers political department of the the Communist sections of Council of Trade 1 nions zaged in an sitnation. l Might Be Hindered. ! That deflection of any considerahle number of workers would greatly en {danger the Communist political organ- iaztion is doubted here. bui the Sov iets, embarked upon difficult economic reorganiaztion and industrial rehahilit ation programs, would find themselves greatly hindered by lahor tronbles, i< pointed out. With a reasonable amount of inter. national peace, the Moscow govern. ment is in a position to e: lish itself permanently, it is believed. An face” in fts foreign policy is of time if the other maintain a reasonable solid says observers. and Germany nite ahgnment with FEurope rather than Russia has deprived the Bol sheviks of their most formidable enter ing wedge into Europe ARGENTINA TAKES UP CHARGE OF BAD FAITH Armour Company’s Statement Re- mass says nniar Only to that their schools view the Communist Is 10 ak centra party ndon dom by most | | | ince of replace | the i ist party he held | to the o consolid he e A Central exhanstive study of the ta but a nations front, def flecting on Government's Wheat Reports to Be Probed. | By the Assoriated Press | _BUENOS AIR | The ministry of agric: | today that the inve | situation growing out | ment attributed to | ers, vice president the Armour Grain Co. of Chicago, questioning the good faith of the Argzentine govern-| | ment's wheat reports. has been placed | {in the hands of government attorneys. | The announcement said | | ““Without doubting or accepting the statement of the vice president of the | Armour Packing Co. of La I who | | attributes the source of the Saunders | telegram to M¢Auley (Louis McAuley | secretary of the La Plata Co.). the zov ernment cannot declare itself satisfied The possible existence of accomplices {is to be cleared up In view of the fact that the good faith of members of | the government has heen questioned it is right that the inquiry she ceed along judicial lines =0 as to give | the most complete guarantees of im partiality.” December ture anne ata 1d pro- | {DAWES FETES CHILDREN. | Home Opened Neighborhood. CHICAGO, December 26 (&) | President Charles C. Dawes an: | Dawes yvesterday enjoved their (° {mas with the neighbors, frien: Irelatives. “I'm bhaving a great home folks,” the Vice clared. This evening the Dawes home was open to all neighborhood youngsters friends of their adopted chiidren, Duna and Virginia. A picture show. mu and yuletide festivities were arranged for the gathering. At dinner the Vice | President and his wife were hosts to relatives. LENIN STORY DRAMATIZED | Will Be Presented in Berlin Dur- ing Present Season. BERLIN, December 26.—The story of Lenin has been made into by Alfons Paquet, whose revolutionary drama, “Flags.” had an | unusual success in Berlin last year. | The first presentation of the Lenin drama_will take place at the Rer liner Volksbuehne in the course of the present season to Youngsters of i Vice Mrs, | rist nd | time with President the de e e o S e The High Grade Established 1842 Pianos Sold Direct from the Factory We Invite You to Visit Ot New Warerooms' 1340 G St. N.W. J. C. CONLIFF, Mgr. e or | 1337 14th St. Real Estate Salesmen Wanted \ Tocal builder is openit own the his sales department for sale of his houses, \ splendid oppe be had by several higl house <ale New Medium prices ] tia NASH' Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street Hawkins Nash Motor Co. Sales and Service Main 5780 PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Compounded Semi-Annually Commencing January Assets Over $10,500,000 Surplus $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY, President HUA W. 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