Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 5

CITY FEDERATION ~ GIVES BURLESQUE Delegates Bur'y Hatchet‘ When Momentous Issues Come Before Session. The Federation of Citizens' Asso- ciations met harmonfously last night at the La Favette Hotel. Committee reports subjects which or- dinarily would have s the delegates into bit- ter factions were adopted without a ote. uter, for t on_momentous Dresident, st time since his incumbenc found no use f¢ a vel, or an perplexing e tions of parlia mentary proce- dure to decide. | The meeting | was on the feder i | ation’s _ calendar its fourth et as an- JESSE SUTER. nual ac quainted” affair, and the ook the opportunity to s ~snue on a regular session, tpasting members of Con fict t the District government, president Ar utility companies and newspaper reporters, 4 number of whom were nmong the invited guest Torbert Starts the Fun. e midst of entertainment feall‘:u':»hln legate William 8. Torbert, chairman of the faw and legislation ommittee, arose and insisted on pre- | <enting a report on the Lill to extend | the powers of the District Commis- | ~ioners Despite the objection of | President Suter, Mr. Torbert got| wetion on the re which was re- | jorred to @ committee on engineers | hoecause of its super-power features | sad the pre AT NC “dam: 1 Allan Davis intoned a’ report te mu mmittee, which featured Iyric entitled “Bunk.” dedicated to ir. Suter. while Proctor L. Dough-| ced fun at Trafic Director | ind the new auto- cont lights. Mr. Dough.| report described the adven-| tures of a motorist who became con- | fused by the lights around Scott Circie and drove around it until the polie “shot the poor darned fool.”” ‘'he report of the committee on | education, submitted by Chairman | James ( aden, advocated three eight-hour shift the public schools to reliev in ad dition to_synehy signals for the Board rcation to pre- vent members ling on the toes of their & William G n urged federation to | a proposal a tax on| bhachelors, and W I. Swanton be. | came jocose over the prop tion merger, urginz a merger Public Utilities Commission with the | utility companies, Ricker Produces Reports. | George A. Ricker, made up as Carl Shurz, a Milwaukee inventor, intro duced a machine to extract useful reports from committees of Congress. 1t produced a favorable report by a joint committee of the Semate and House to give the District national representation. Delegate Purdy of Congress Heights read a report from the Southeast Citizens’ Association | recommending the its section witl “‘an extension delegates | 1 n for | i il | M. matic erty’s f the Benning and a new Federal penitentiary The meeting was followed by a! supper, prior to which each .person | present was introduced to the audi- | ence. The entertainment included | impersonations by Florence Adams. garbed in a colonial costume, and songs by George O'Connor, accom-} panied by Matt Horne, RED HUNTING CLOTHES TO BE COUNT’S SHROUD Husband Divorced by Former| Eleanor Patterson. Dies in Vienna at Age of 56. By the Associated Press VIENNA. January 3 who w Eleanor Patte Al v ago, is dead, Published details show that he led the tric. giving up the 1 fect stocrat” for known. He died & virtual recluse, but in the midst of the most lusurious surround. | ings. He always was richly attired, | and was known as a zourmet. It is | id his lib: f wor on the cul- inary art most complete in | the world. At all times an enthusiastic horse- man, he ordered that he be buried in a red hunting suit. S FRISCO’S CHI'NATOWN HAS NO MOVIE HOUSES Gizycki former se ar le of the “per-| which he was | is the Bpoken Drama Keeps Films Out of Colony—Natives Don't Un- derstand Screen Plays. By the Acociated Press SAN FRANCISCO, January 30. The spoken drama nas kept the motion | picture out of San Francisco's China- | town and the reason is that unless a Chinese has lived in the United States many years, he does not understand the silver sheet pl Among _ its _theaters, Chinatown hoasts of two of the legitimate variety that give nightly performances. One hegins at 6 p.m. and continues until 12:15 the next morning. The other starts at 7 p.m. and ends“about mid- night. The plays are the same as are pro- duced in theaters in China, and take from five to six hours to unfold the plot. The prices are the same in both houses, the hjghest being $1.75 for box seats. ir 9 pm left i cents, n.m cents All seats are numher 0 if the | ticket holder leaves his seat even a few minutes after he first occupied it, it will not be resold and no other per- son can occupy it. This rule has pre- vented many a tong war that formerly started becituse a theatergoer occupied a seat that he had: not purchased. patron goes to the theater at the prices fo= the best seat 0 cents, and for the poorest, If the ticket is hought at 10| the highest priced seat is 35 Gypsies Being Sovietized. In Soviet Russia an attempt is being made to tume the gvpsies. Recently, # group of these wanderers, who de- scended from ancestors who came from India and have been roaming over Lurope since the fifteenth cen- tury, banded together and were recog- nized by the Soviet government. An effort will be made to use this group in an effort to win their nomadic | Abdul Hamid of Turk | of Nations | trate | marital relations. | to his brother’s sudden illness. , = iSalvemini’s Murder | HOUSTON IS CHOSEN Is Reported Urged By ltalian Paper By the Associated Pre LONDON, Januar 30.—The Chia Switzerland, correspond- ent, of the Daily Herald, organ of labor, asserts that the Italian censor has allowed the Fascist newspaper Impero to incite openly the murder of the noted Itallan anti-Fascist, Prof, Salvemini. The correspondent quotes the Impero as saying, “For vemini there is only one solution—death. We hope the ble d hand of a divine mad- man will find somewhere abroad a way to shut down this shameful purveyor of treason—cold steel.” Prof. Gaetuno Salvemini, former professor of history at the iver- sity of Florence, was arrested on the charge of conspiracy in 1924, but was released after a month's imprisunment through lack of evi- dence. He resigned the professor- ship in 1925, and since then has been lecturing in Paris and London. The Herald says he now Is lectur- ing at London University LADY DOUGLAS'SUIT NOW OUT OF COURT €harge That Husband, Prince Burhan, Obtained Money by Fraud, Is-Dropped. . By the Associated Press VIENNA, January 30.—The suit brouzht by the former Lady Sholto- Douszlas against her present husband, Prince Burhan, son of the late Sultan v, for the re- turn of £500 and 500,000 francs alleged to have been obtained by the prince throush fraud when he married her, has been settled out of court The attorney for Lady Douzlas said she had got hack a goodly part of the money In questfon, although in mak- inz the settlements he had to take into ount that the action of the League in giving Great Britain the mandate over Mosul had ruined the prince whose estates are there. The law lded that he expected an annulment of the marriage of Lady Douglas and the prince will be an- nounced shortly by the Austrian court. The annulment is asked on the ground that the union was illegal because it s not registered by the civil magis- at Marienbad, where the wed ding took place. After the divorce of Lady Douglas and Lord Douglas, who is a son of the cighth Marquis of Queensherry, Lady Douglas met the prince on the Riv! She charges that she unknowin went through an illegal marriage with him in May of last vear, and when the prince spent the money that she had given him he told her to go and bring more. prince in August, three months after the marriage ceremony acy |W’CORMICK SILENT ON MARITAL AFFAIRS Arrives in France, But Refuses to Say Whether He Will Join Wife. By the Associated Press. CHERBOURG, France, January 30. | —Harold F. McCormick, when he ar- rived here vesterday from New York on board the steamer Deutschiand, declined to answer when he was asked whether he was going to join his wife, Ganna Walska, in Paris. of his party toid newspaper men that the Chicago millionaire already had denied rumors that he intended to di- vorce Mme. Walska. The presence beside Mr. McCormick of an attorney. Bradley Goodyear, however, caused some speculation. Mr. McCormick gave the address to which he is proceeding in Paris as 14 Rue de Lubeck, where his wife is al- ready installed. Ganna Walska, operatic singer and | wife of Harold F. McCormick, arrived at Havre from New York on the liner Paris several days ago and proceeded to Paris. She refused to discuss her Passengcrs on the liner saild Mme. Walska explained to them that Mr. McCormick’s failure to sail with her after he had reserved accommodations on the Paris was due She expressed no surprise when she was informed that Mr. McCormick was aboard the Deutschland bound for Europe. AUTO “ROUGH RIDER” RELATES ADVENTURES Maj. Forbes-Leith Describes Trip From London to India Before Geographic Society. Riding in an auto from London to India involves 400 miles of bumping along raiflroad ties, being towed by mules, horses and human beings out of sands and mud holes, dri through sand storms. ploughi places where landslides have blocked the road. and many stretches of track- less dese there are no roads at all. Such was the description by Maj. F. A. C. Forbes-Leith who took an mile tour in a 16-horsepower English car, and told the story of his adventures to members of the National Geographic Society last evening at the New. Masonic Temple. Maj. Forbes-Leith and his companion obtained some remarkable motion pictures, including those of Arab horsemen in actlon, of village life in the -tiny towns of southeast Europe, of the market places and narrow, busy streets of Teheran, and of a polo game played at the place where the game was.-invented, Ispahan. The speaker had slides of the river, which Cleopatra sailed when she had a rendezvous with Antony; and he showed his auto traversing a road that Alexander built—a road which, he said, apparently had not been repaired since. Ome of the most arduous parts of his trip was across roadless Asia Minor where a speed average of two miles an hour was considered sood time. e WILL BUILD FOUR SEWERS Contracts for four sewers will be awarded soon by the Commissioners, it was learned today at the District Building. Blds for the projects were opened vesterday. The low bidders and their prices follow: Warren F. Brenizer Co., Ivy City trunk sewer in the vicinity of Kendall and Gallaudet streets northeast, $15,- 075.50; George B. Mullin, South Brook- land sanitary sewer in the vicinity of Fourteenth and Ribde Tsland avenue northeat, $8,422.508 and a service sew- er in E street between Twenty-fourth brethren away from their wandering habits, give up fortune telling and horse trading and settle down as regu- jor faPmers. A similar effort, made fn | and Twenty-fifth streets, $1,094; W. A. Pate, jr., a replacement sewer in Four- teenth street between S and T streets, | tional She left the Turkish | A member | t and rough country where | THE EVENING FOR NEWMAN POST Dunbar Teacher to Be Made | Principal of Armstrong High School. G. David Houston, head of the de- partment of business practice at Duq- | bar High School, will be promoted to | the position of principal of Armstrong Technical High._School, succeeding Capt. Arthur C. Newman, it was an. | nounced at the Franklin School todav by Assist. Supt. of Schools Garnet C. Wilkinson. Mr. Houston and Mr. Wil-! kinson are today going over the vari- ous administration matters essential to the opening of the February term on Monday. Has Long Experience. Mr. Houston was decided upon for the post on account of his 20 administrative and supervisory perience In public school work, He has been head of the department of business practice at Dunbar for seven year Prior to this he spent three years as head of the depart- ment of Ei . Tuskegzee Institute: «hree years head of the department of English and history, Douglass High School, Baltimore, and seven years professor and head of the department ot English, Howard University. The new Armstrong High School principal was born on May 6, 1850, at Cambridge, Muss. He has had 22 vears of cli experience in clementary, secondary, normal. col- lege and university work. He is dited with preparinz candidates for State board examinations, collexe en- trance examinations and teacherships, without ever havinz a candidate fail Author of Several Books. He is the author of a number of text books as w ‘Weaknesses of smmercial Edu om Houston i Harvard Teachers’ BEducation Associa Club _of Washington, Sigmi Iraternity and Omega Psi ternity. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT | PROBE IS REQUESTED| New York Attorney’s Telegram to | ‘Walsh Flays Anti-Trust Law Violations. Pi Phi An independent Investigation of the Federal Trade Commision and the De- | partment of Justice with relation to| anti-trust law violations was urged by Samuel Untermyer, New York attor- ney. in a telegram read to the Senate yesterday by Senator Walsh, Demo- | Montana. | Exposure of Justice Department’s | unbelievable 1ecklessness and white- | washing prosecutions on deliberately faked defective records in cases like the General Electric, Cement and | Window Glass trusts and innumer- | able criminal combinations masquerad- | ing as trude associations { the country.” Untermy are in the grip of these combinations | in almost every branch of industr. and as never before in the country’s | ecretary Hoover IS largely respon- sible for this situation, as I publicly charged about four years ago for rea- sons then stated. There is no more pressing patriotic duty than to exter- minate these cancers that are mainly responsible for swollen profits and our | mounting living costs.” COAST GUARD CAPTURES LIQUOR WORTH $220,000 Three Boats Seized and Brought to | Galveston, Crews of Two Ves- sels Arrested. | | By the Amsoriated Pres SAVANNAH. G January Three boats loaded with liquors hav- | ling an estimated value of $220,000 were brought into port here yesterday by the United States Coast Guard cutter Yamacraw. i The boats included the three-masted | Honduran auxiliary schooner Roatan, ! the 100-foot prawn boat Fide, and a 45-foot launch, No. 118,203. The two latter were American boats. Officers reported finding 2,500 cases of whisky aboard the Roatan, 400 on | the Fide and 45 cases on the launch. The Roatan and its crew are being held only on suspicion. The crews of the other boats, however, have been arrested. Two men were aboard the Fide, | John Willlamson and Jullan Gus- |tavson. John Lindblah, a Swede, |was the only person on the launch. The Roatan carried a crew of 10 and was captained by a Bahama negro. | The Roatan was picked up 30 miles off St. Augustine and the Fide near Jacksonville. | | I | Earth's Doubtful Age. ! A scientist of Princeton University | believes that recent discoveries in radio-activity have given us means of |estimating the age of the earth. { Uranfum loses one-half of its radiating | power in 5,000,000 years, and the pres. ence of this element in the earth’s crust would indicate that it is not less than 1,000,000,000 years old. % PAID ON " SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 3408 H ST. N. W. The New Bordeaux Apartment A modern, fireproof building, directly opposite the main en- trance of Walter Reed Hospital AT 6921 Georgia Ave. 2 rooms, Kitehenctte @49 5() $67.50 3 rooms, kitchenette 713 14th St Main 2345 | | STAR, WASHINGTON, By the Associated Press. PARIS, January especially American women, are the subject of many more or less sar- castic comments in the French press. Here are two from daily papers of good standing, quoted merely as| specimens of what is printed, without Zuarantee of their having any other foundation than the imagination of the writers: “Wet America! A fine Dblonde | American woman. wrapped in_costli- est furs, enters a fashionable grocery store in'the Etoile district ang orders a well known pick-me-up of high al- coholic strength. ‘Yes, madam, a bot- tle? ‘No, 25 bottles.’ °‘Ah, then it is 30. — Americans, | D. €, SATURDAY. [American Women Target for Many ‘ | for a bar? am going month.’ The scene of much-frequented ‘Oh, no! for For myself. 1 days this | the second was a Russian. cabaret in | Mont Martre. One of Paris’ most ad- mired matinee idols was there with | some woman friends, said the news: | paper, when an unknown lady with | n accent that showed her transat-| antie origin came over and asked him to dance with her. - When he refused she took out a 500-franc bill and thrust it on the young actor. This annoyed the girls with him, the story goes, and It was not merely the bil that was thrown into the undiscern- ing American face. JAIL TERMS PASSED ON NINE OFFENDERS Justice Bailey in Criminal Division | 1 yesterday afternoon sent Leonurd H H. Medley, colored; to the penitentiary for 10 years. Medley attempted a criminal assault on a colored girl. Albert Matthews, colored, was given | seven years for housebreaking. There | were three cases against him and the court made the sentence seven vears in each case, but allowed thefn to run concurrently wford will serve five| vears for larceny and Charles Brown Bot three years for housebreakin: 30.—¢ One-year terms at Occoquan were | imposed on Leon Wilson, housebreak- | n and Hiawatha Sum- Hazel Cropper, colored. larceny 4nd George S. Thornton tealing an automobile. | Accommodating. 1 From the Pittsburkh Chronicle Telegraph. | don’t_suppose you keep anything | so civilized as dog biscuits in this one. horse, run-down Juy town, do you the tourist snarled. i few ¢ the thing the: or eat ‘em h gh from m to h; ever Have ‘em in a b JANUARY Quite o | impulses 30, 1926. on princivles which to Anglo-Saxon ears sound like platitudes. He told them his purpose was to do his plain WILL AID LASSITER ence or intimidation and called atten- tion to the fact that patriotism im- plies fair and honest dealing. “To many, such a declaration must sound strange and rather absurd. The HE ardent patriot of the neo-Latin per- suasion is seldom honest even with himself. “Hle would never concede a patriot of the other side might be right. Pershing found atavistic impulses at ult to deal with. year-old ulcer, still ready to break out at the slightest provocation, will suffice to set the Pacific slope in a blaze, fitful but fierce while it burns. It is the first time in his long and rilliant _career that Pershing has been called on to do a thing his | talents were incapable of molish- ing. But he has done much to fucili- tate the work of getting the problem out of the mo (Covyright, 102 Buenos Aires Paper Says His Experience Points Way to His Successor. BY C DE 0. PIKE. By Cable to The Star and unicago Daily BUENOS AIRE; y Standard. editorially Gen. Pershing's resignation In con- nection with the Tacna-Arica boun- dary dispuie, calls attention to the fact that had predicted Pershing would find his task very uncongenia to his soldier spirit. The paper also suggests that his successor will have a_belter chance of carrying on the nlebiscite successfully by profiting by Pershing's experfence, The Standard sugzests that it Pershing made a mistake, his error wus one of appre- ciation rather than of judgment. It ural for gentlemen to sup- pose those with whom he deals are animated by the same motives and peculiur to that status,'” sayx the Standard “Pershing's manifesto on the eve | of leavinz, referred to influences ai work In the district. He had to insist | News. 5. by Ch . Rubens Inspired by Wife. Rubens the great painter was so in- spired by his second wife that the genius flashed a according to art | eriti M: that her likeness | and mytholo; | afterwards. nished the § | forth in “Dido. | spair,” and in ako Dails News Co.) ntings for years id to bave fur- n that blossomed “Andromeda in De- Susanna.’ 1 aret H. Rorke has been made | secretary-treasurer of the Textile Col- | r C clation. | Faeric FasHioNs For Spring Specially Displayed by Models Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 11 AM. to 1 P.M. 4 to 5:30 P.M. Salut au Regne de la Couleur the Spring brings to Nature a reign of color. so Fashion for the new Season has brought a mode of brilliant hues in modernis designs. Consummate masters of the iextile arts—French and American—have daubed with abandon. dariug and glorious color schemes. or fused the colors into soft pastels. or mellowed them to the tones of old tapestries. SILKS—Lovely. daring or demure—printed with designs inspired by the lost Inca Art, sweet nose- gays, geometric figures, stained glass windows, sky- scrapers and jazz—in futuristic and conventional styles. Plain erepes in ‘delightiul tones—crepe satins—sheer crepes and chiffons—smart little striped tub silks and revived Shantung: WOOLENS—Smarter than ever—patterned in broken plaids and checks and borders. Basket weaves, reps, wool crepes, jersey. Tashian—are miracles of lovelines: COTTONS—The new ones—exquisitely colored. beautifully embroidered. mingled with brilliant rayon—are delightful in delicate high-keved de- ns or striking motif: These new Spring fabrics, draped by an ex- pert on models, will form a pageantry of col- ors and designs of rare beauty—giving to you advance knowledge of the new mode in textiles and styles. Fabric Sections. Second floor. —~e 1[ | | Woodmard X Lothrop 10th, 11th, F and G Streets ® 5 WOULD OPERATE SHIPS. The Shipping Board would 1o authorized to use $15,000,000 of its construction loan fund for the opera- tlon of ship lines which may be taken back from private purchasers as the result of foreign competition, if a bill introduced by Senator Jones of Wash- ington becomes law. Senator Jones, who is chairman of the commerce committee, said the measure would make known to foreign shipowners that the United States Government would continue operation of lines even if private operators were forced to relinquish the; Hotel Inn Phone Main $108-8160 604-610 9th St. N.W. $7 rooms. $6 weekly: $10.50 rooms. $ 1% ‘with toilet. shower and lavatory. $10: % ‘more. Rooms like 'emmrfimj Studehaker, tradeforone today | /Z~ Try the New i+ Cuticura \—2"{ Shaving Stick Freely Lathering Medicinal and Emellient