Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1926, Page 26

o) 6 » SIMPLIFIED STOCKS MAY ASSIST TRADE Commerce Department to Advise-Elimination of Un- profitable Lines. Merchants who face the dilema of supplying their customers with qual ity merchandise without increase in price, or even at a lower price, may find a way to accomplish. the near miracle, and at the same time escape both nervous prostration and bank- ruptey, by adapting to distribution a lesson which has been sweeping through producfbn industries. At least there has come to be a strong belief among groups of busi- ness men that distribution may be improved vastly by simplification of stocks, and the effort is about to be made. Plans were laid at the Department of Commerce last week to carry the story to retail dealers. The depart- ment agents will act as messengers only; what comes after must be on the fnitiative of those who receive the message, although the Government will lend its expert advice if re- quested. The consumer stands to be the ben- eficiary of all of this, In reduced prices of what he buys, or in halting an upward tendency of prices, and in improved services. Brands Are Selected, Concentration on brands which are found to be in greatest demand is the germ of this idea. This does not mean necessarily selection of trade- marked goods; it may mean the eliml- nation of some trade-marked mer- chandise if experience has proved it ‘moves slowly, although in many lines jdentified merchandise moves more rapidly than unbranded wares. Simplified practice has been adopted by 45 lines of industry co-operating with the Department since the first of 1922. Eleven others have approved programs which are in process of acceptance by individual members of the industries. More than 160 other industries have such programs under consideration. Industries belonging to 686 trade assoclations have accepted simplified practices; in addition, 2,775 companies of similar activities, but which for one reason or another do not havg membership in a trade association, have adopted the programs in their respective fields. Manufacturing industry is saving more than $300,000,000 a year because it has adopted simplified programs. In manufacture, simplification has been defined briefly as “concentration on sizes in greatest demand.” It gen- erally has been found, when a survey was made, that 80 per cent of the business is tled in 20 per cent of the varieties, leaving 20 per cent of the business to be divided among the re- maining 80 per cent of the varieties. Simplification I ited in elimina- tion of most of this unprofitable 80 per cent. ol For months, the division of simpli- fied practice of the Department of Commerce, which maintains a staff of men trained in helping busines vey itself and adopt a prog elfmination of wasteful varieties, has been giving study to a_simpler plan for the distributors. Ray M. Hud- son, chief of the division, will leave Monday on a_six-week trip, in course of which he will make a num- ber of addresses, telling retailers and wholesalei's the possibilities of simpli- fication. Not a New Idei This is not an entirely new idea, this concentration of stocks by tailers, but the surprising thing Is that it has not been more widely fol- lowed. At least one large department store of national reputation has fol- lowed this course for some years. A chain of shoe s0 openly that its yles and sizes ure displayed on Ils of its showrooms. One merchant, some months ago. decided to survey his hosiery depart- ment, where he was keeping a stock of §. 00 with sales of §§. discovered 6 brands being carried, with four-fifths of the sales in five brands. He eliminated all but the five rapidly selling brands, reduced “Mis monthly stock Investment to less than $£30,000 and increased his sales to $188.000. It is belleved that if the merchants of the country will take count of their busin closely and concen- trate on the brands which are mov- rapidly, and eliminate those where the sale is slow, they can rea h rewards in increased turnover ed capital requirements, de- creased overhead and improved serv- | ice ss to effect savings which will weni moneyv in their own til's enable them also to zive better ) in some lines ut least, to their cus- tomenr: (Covyright. 1926 ) FOREIGN DENTISTS HERE. Delegation of Stop Over in Capital. 160 From Europe More than 160 from parts of Europe. ve been tending the International Dentist Con- gress, arrived i hington ve: tay and spe visiting the rious Government buildings and also Mount V d Arlington Cemete The visitors, who came from . _England, in, Czechoslov wud other European countries, staved at the Willard while here. The dentists came ington from congress Nus just closed, and the party left last night for bursh, where they will inspect various st tries. Others will leave today Pittsburgh they will go to_ Chi and later will visit Detroit. Nia Falls, Boston. and then New whence they will sail for home. - . Mule Show Is Success. Special In h to The Star. HARRINGTON. Wash., August —One of the unique live stock events in the West was the annual mule show here last week. Mules of ever) size and temperament were exhibited, but the chief attraction was the driv ing contest by old-time skinners. J. M. Cobb won the 20-mule team event. J. W. Phillips did some fancy stunts with his 12-mule team divect to Wash- F - B Air Services to Be Extended. BERLIN, August 2% (P).—The ternational Air Traffic. Assoclation has decided that the air services will be yontinued throughout the Winter, It planned to put on sale through ickets for international service simi- lar to such rail tickets, which will be luded. Skyrocket Firer Fined. Special Dispatch to The Star. SNOQUALMIE, Wash., August 28. A skyrocket sent up off the peak of Mount Si, near here, cost Clyde Rob- erts $25 under the fire law of the Vorestry Service. Roberts climbed laboriously to the top of the rugged veak on Fourth of July morning in order to be there that night to shoot off the big fireworks. As was expect- the skyrocket was seen for 50 miles. and Roberts won so much re- nown that the five rangers heard o(,é« of Commerce | the | re- | Philadelphia. where the | ome of | Pitts. | the | works and other indus- | In-| T RUMANIAN WOMAN EDUCATORS HERE REPRESENT MODERN ERA Feminism Has Big Influence in Own Country Despite Withheld Ballot. Visitors Here to Study U. S. Schools Represent Highest Learning and Talent. Rumanian women may not yet vote, nor be elected to public offices, but they are fully awake to their social responsibilities, and are exercising considerable influence in the course of the nation’s progress. The question of suffrage has been agitated since before the war; now an amendment to the constitution has been promulgated, and is only waiting the popular vote to become law. Women may speak for measures at | legislative committee hearings; they may sit as members of town councils, by appointment, and they are admit- ted to the various schools and uni- versities on a basis of equality with men. Most hopeful of all is the fact that many men of prestige are now | attending the suffrage meetings and lending their voices to the argument of the women’s cause. Such is the statement of the 10 women who are in the United States as a part of the group of educators investigating American educational methods. It is an interesting little group, not only because it is com- posed of individually distinguished persons, but because of its composite spirit. The present visit is a very brief one, the result of an invitation extended by Georgetown University. These women have not come for help on their feminist problems, but with the desire to ald in solving their country’s vital problem, a desire that is back of, the finest sort of women's work everywhere. The history of this miniature Odyssey began during Dr. William S. Culbertson’s term as Minister to Ru- mania. He was a professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Serv- ice and, being still-a member of the executive faculty and after George- town students had gone on a four of European universities last year, he concelved the idea of the leading edu- cators of Rumania visiting the United States. But, like nearly all the na- tions of post-war Europe, Rumania is struggling with a depleted treasury and a currency below par. It would have been an embarrassment to the government to refuse officially t« finance such a trip and an equal em barrassment to the educators not to ia;cnepl the opportunity offered. So, | despite the very real sacrifice, one by one the professors volunteered to pay their own expenses from their own sorely tried pockets. One Speaks English. One of the best known women of the party, one who has a peculiarly close affiliation with us here, is Mme. Severa Sihleanu. She speaks perfect English and is a member of the American Red Cross. Her public ®ervice goes back to 1906, when she founded and gave to her government a mountain school on her own estate that could accommodate 500 children. | For this she received King Carol's medal. That school had been her chiei delight, but when the war came sh. offered her services with the rest of i | ! sanitarfum, where the American Red Cross nurses and doctors went for their rest periods, and herself became a lalson officer through whom they might work. She was their chief in- terpreter for two and a half yeas She discovered one especially wretch- ed district and brought it to thelr at- tention for assistance, and when £her | task was done she reccived from them la decoration for her unflagging ef- {forts and her invaluable knowledge and support. She also received Queen Marle's war cross, and friend of both the picturesque royal ladles, Marie and “Carmen Sylva | She was the first Rumantan woman |to be appointed to the town council and thus the first to hold such a public office. As a representative of the increas- Ing_number of women entering the medical profession—and some 30 per cent of Rumanian medical students now are girls—is Dr. Lucle Jean | | s MME. CELINE MARCOVICIL Borcea, wife of a former minister of state and member of the academy, who himself is here with the party. Dr. Borcea is the head physician of the only maternity hospital in Jassy. She has 50 beds under her care and the direction of the training of the midwives who come to the hospital school for instruction. Because of her family connections, as daughter of Prof. Leon of the University of Jassy, and wife of its professor of zoology, she is in a unique position to under- stand both medical and educational problems. She is a graduate of both Jassy and the Sorbonne. In this connection it is interesting to note that there are at present only two women who are professors in the Rumanian uniyersities and colleges. Another Is Sculptress. The wife of Dr. Alexander Marco- viel, Mme. Celine Emilian Marcovici, is a sculptress of some renown. She had recelved a business education, but it was not until after her mariiage that she found herself turning to modeling and with a mounting desire for the use of the artist tools. Her untrained efforts were o excellent that the state took notice, and she was sent on a scholarship to Paris, to study in the personal studio of the great Boudelle for three years. She has exhibited two different seasons in the Tuileries the nation, turned her home into a | is a close | in Paris and at the official salon in Bucharest, her best ltked work being a portrait bust of Vincent d'Ludy, gpera. director at the Rumanian cap: Musical education is represented by two graduates of the National Conservatory—Florica Ionescu-Braila, singer and actress, who has gone to it relatives in Texas, and Mme. Celine Maniel Spiegler, pianist. Mme. Splegler received first prize in cham. ber music at the time of her gradua- tion and has given many concerts at home, including one before Queen “Carmen Sylva.” Constanza Zamfir is a teacher of French in a state scaool for young girls, and_during the war was an ardent worker with the Rumanian Red Cross. She, too, wears royel decorations, with the added distinc- tion of a medal from France. Then there are Mme. Mateescu and Mme. Serban, accompanving their distinguished husbands, and, lastly, a woman whose efforts have been con- | tinuous in helping to make this trip a reality—Rea Ipcar, the writer, who holds the degree of doctor of letters from the Sorbonne. The visit in Washington ended Fri- day night when the delegates went to Philadelphia. for the Sesquicentennial. Some of them sail September 4 for home, a brief Odyssey, indeed, after so much sacrifice.” The others will go to Detroit for the Rumanian Con- gress to be held there from the b6th to the 7th, and they emphasize with pride that there are some 250,000 of their countrymen who are living here as_good American citizens. It is impossible to meet these wom- en from other lands, who are playing | a vital part in national and inte national welfare, without realizing that | when the tumult and the shouting dies,” the so-called “woman’s move- ment,” wherever found, will have re- solved itself. into another instance ot a new consciousness of the greatest good for the greatest number, and therein, of courre, for the truest in- dividual happiness. These women who count are too strong and too much in earnest to do otherwise. (Copyright, 1026, by Alice Rogers Hager.) Installment Plan Divorces Are Now Offered in Paris PARL August 20 (Correspond- ence)—In this mecca of divorce: seekers it is now possible to ob- taln a divorce on the installment plan. Preliminary arrangements are advertised on the boulevards and in the subways for as little as 75 cents down and the balance in insallments after the divorce. One of the most unusual grounds for divorce in Paris, which few women know. is based on law 150 3 and still n force. This ! v &4 that whoever snares an unsuspecting _Frenchman into matrimony by the means of rouge, tumes or high heels, shall be summoned forsorcery and the mar- ze shall be declared null and uch affectations are quaint- the French law as of merchan- HELD ON GAMING CHARGE. samuel Rappaport. 1030 Four-and ahalf street southwest, was booked {at first precinct station on a charge | of permitting gaming and bookmaking vesterday afternoon following a raid ! on the second floor of the Maryland | Bullding, 1410 H street. Police say they found eleven men | on the premises when they gained en- trance. They were booked as Gov- | ernment witnesses. It is said that the | frequent visits of the patrons of the | establishment aroused the suspicions of the police. They allege they found a private switchboard and five tele- phones accommodating horse-racing | | devotees. MRS. S. C. MYERS DIES. Services Will Be Tomorrow at Ver- mont Avenue Christian Church. Mrs. Sarah Collins Myers, 73 years old, died suddenly yesterday at ghe home of her daughter, Mrs. Lee R. Conwell, Jackson Heights, New York City. She was the widow of (. J. Myers, Civil War veteran and chief clerk of the Army Medical Mu- seum. Mrs. Myers had resided in Washington for the past 40 years. She was a member of the D. A. R. survived by two daughters, Mrs. Conwell and Mrs. A. L. Williams | of Washington, and a son, Henry B.| vers of 3306 Rittenhouse street, | Chevy Chase, manager of the Lehigh| Structural Steel Co. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery. 20 TAKEN IN RAID. | Alleged “Crap” Game, With $118 in Sight, Broken Up by Police. A week ond “crap” game was in- terrupted last night at 711 D street. when police of the first preeinct raided the second floor of the premises, con- fiscated $118 in circulation, and con- veyed 20 participants in two patrol wagons to the police station. Willlam B. Davis, 28 vears old, of 310 C street, Joseph A. Kalser, 26 vears old, of the same address, and Charles MeNally, 27 years old, of 1210 | Trinidad avenue northeast were held ! |on a charge of setting up a gaming | | table. The latter posted a cash bond of $1,000, and the others caught in the rald were released as Government witnesses. | Argues If one must argue about who has right of way at a street intersection, one should be careful whom one arguds with, for if it should turn out to be a judge of the Traffic Court, one may live to rue the day. Harry James of Clarendon has | been asked to appear in Traffic Court Tuesday to explain his side of an incident sald to have occurred last week at a street intersection. Judge George H. Macdonald gave his side of the affair to a reporter last night, substantially as follows: He was proceeding home, and when half- way across a street intersection he became aware of a car approaching from the right. Judge Macdonald said he believed he had the right of way because he was nearly across the street inter- His Right of Way in Clash With Driver Who Is Traffic Judge | section, but he decigd then and there if there was to bevan accident his car was going to be standing still when the accident happened. So he jammed on the brakes. The other car did likewise, but swooped past the judge's car without hitting it. The driver of the other car did not say—"Pardon, old dear, my error. toot, toot, see vou later,” for he did not know whose car he had missed. Instead, he is said to have leaned out and uftered words not designed to appease, the wrath of a traffic court judge. The judge in question gave chase, got the number of the auto- mobile and turned it over to a po- liceman. HE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, LAFAYETTE SQUARE TOLOSE 2 SHRINES Hay and Adams Houses, to Yield to Hotel, Belong to - Historic Group. Despite the widespread building operations "of recent years, Lafay-! ette Square, opposite the White| House, is certain to continue for many | vears, one of the shrines of American history. In ‘the past few years the old square, a center of American state- craft a century ago., has seen some of its most treasured buildings disap- pear under the hammers of demolish- ing crews and new structures rise in their places. Soon another step in this progress will be taken, when the twin houses of John Hay, former Secretary of State and Henry Adams, the histor- fan, will be torn down to make room | for an apartment hotel to be huilt by Harry Wardman. The old residence of Daniel Web- ster and the house nearby, where lived Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secre- tary of the Navy, were torn down a few yvears ago te provide a site,for the palatial home for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Dur- | ing the war, the old Arlington Hotel, long the rendezvous of statesmen, soldiers and scholars and the house where Charles Sumner lived were re- oL T e fn build ng. The Belasco Theater occupies the site of the home of Willam H. Seward, Lincoln’s Secretary of State, where an attempt to assassinate Seward was made by John Wilkes Booth. James F. Blaine had died in the same bulld- ng. But the square was so rich in his- tory that it could afford to spare some of its possessions. The house where Dolly Madison lived after the death of her husband’ is still standing, occupied by the Cos- mos Club. On an opposite corner is the house of Stephen Decatur, where the hero of the War with Tripoli died after his duel with Capt. James Barron at Bladensburg. It is now occupied by Truxton Beale, former Minister to Persia. The Cosmos Club also has incor- porated the Cameron house, which once was the home of Senator Cam- eron of Pennsylvania and Senator Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio. There is also the brownstone house which formerly was the British lega- tion and where, it is believed, Owen Meredith composed “Lucille” while he was a legation attache. Another famous building still stand- ing is St. John's Church, known “The Church' of the Presidents,” which was built in 1816, However, the loss of the Hay and Adams houses will detract from the square’s historic interest. John Hay and Henry Adams were close friends. They buiit their houses together and of such similar material that it is difficult to detect one from the other. The Hay house has been occupled by the former Secretary’s daughter and sondn-law, Senator and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr., of New D. C. AUGUST 29 Sixteenth The John Hay Nouse at It is anothe be replaced by a new hotel. Lafayette Square which yield to progress 1926— PART 1 and H streets, which will be razed to er famous old mansion of thase facing d modern structures. LUDENDORFF RATED HOHENZOLLERNS’ FOE T | German Paper Declares Former Army Leader Considers Them Unfit as Monarchs. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 28.—Gen. Erich Ludendorff, former first quartermas- ter general, considers the Hohenzol- lerns unfit to become monarchs in Germany, ir the event of a change of government, according to_the U m- paper formerly supported Luden- dorff, but is now bitterly opposed to the paper bit of post- It sting history. cl B “In well inform ed Bavarian cir- cles it is known that it was none other thgn Luden- dorff who offered to Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria to launch h_ls candidacy as emperor of Germany in place of the incapable Hohenzollerns. And it was Crown Prince Rupprecht who declined and reminded the Pru: sian general of his obligations toward the house of Hohen: ollern.” The paper C that dorff’s. “political made a tragic figure of a once famous man. To understand the paper’s anger it must be recalled that TLudendorff re. cently published a broadside a inst his former com e in arms, in which he stated that rown Prince Rup- precht will never become King of of Germany his Jewish DENDORFF. Luden- Bavaria nor emperor despite the efforts of York. friend: American Tourists C For U. S. by Modest American tourists in Europe fall generally into three classes, accord- ing to Willlam Knowles Cooper, gen- eral secretary of the Washington Y. M. C. A., who returned recently from attending the international Y. M. C. A. conference at Helsingfors, Finland. There is the blatant tourist who flashes his so-called “Americanism” wherever he goes, boastful and arro- gant, and there is the servile traveler who, sensitive to the feeling apparent in Europe against the United States, desires to dispel it by discrediting his homeland and fulsomely praising the nations he visits. Both of these tour- ists are generally despised, according to Mr. Cooper. But the real ambassador of good will, who minds his own business and who conducts himself modestly, who accepts praise for his country graciously, but honestly admits there may be some of it that is undeserved, and who refrains from emphasizing the difference between the dollar and the franc, the lira, the mark or the zloty, is the tourist who wins hearts and friendship wherever he goes. Mr. Cooper states that in Helsing- fors, where delegates came to attend the Y. M. C. A. convention from some an Create Good Willl Deportment Abroad 48 countries, one could not help from being impressed with the dislike for the United States manifest on the part of many Europeans. But the dislike arises in many from pure misunderstanding, and the right sort of Americans could do much to dis- pel it if they conducted themselves propert id. The offenses against tradition and zood manne at thoughtless tour- s commit in urope are also com- | mitted in the Far East, Mr. Cooper said. An American standing on a railway platform abroad, for instance, might point to an approaching train with the declaration—"Do they call that thing a train? We wouldn't us that to haul coal in Kansas City! And the trouble is that too many of the Japanese understand his re- marks, and take offense at them. Tourlsts visiting art galleries, say Mr. Cooper, shout at one anothe across wide rooms to point out ob- jects which catch their eyes, and persons, to whom these objects have a vital meaning, listen heartsick. 1t is within the travelers’ power to make America understood, respected and loved, abroad, says Mr. Cooper, but many of them are doing the op- posite thing. Telepathic Communi By Watson, Aide to Alexandgr Bell By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 28.—A future wherein man will speak to man by mental telepathy was predicted by Thomas A. Watson of Boston, asso- clate of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell in the manufacture of the first tele- phone instrument. Watson, 72 vears old, made his pre- diction at the annual convention of telephone ploneers of America. Lying on a table before him as®he spoke was a reproduction of the first telephone. Gazing at it, he said: “When that little acorn sprouted half a century ago no one believed that it would grow into the great tree cation Predicted of the telephone system that now spreads its branches—17,000,000 in- struments—all over the country. Nor can any one predict its future. There is no limit to what science may achieve. Much can be achieved b; concentration, and the mind of ma: co-ordinated with mechanical invei tions, may vet lead to a spiritual com- munication such as mental telepathy.” The radio and the vitaphone were characterized by Watson as out- growths of the telephone. Increasing inventions have made concentration more difficult, he said. would ad- vise every one to learn to concentrate, because all that is good results from concentration.” St. John Ervine Says U. S. Engineer | Spilled His Dinner By the Associate! Press. LONDON, August 28.—St. John Ervine, Irish dramatist, thus ex- presses his opinion of American railroads: “I crossed the Atlantic in a gale that lasted five days and not a single dish fell off the dining- room table. On my first railway journey in America the engine driver was so clumsy that he was unable to start his train without throwing my dinner in my lap. “There is not one engine driver in America who is fit to serve as an oiler and greaser to a British engine driver. And that's not an extravagant boast; it's a plain statement of fact. HEEDS NOT OWN WARNING Health Commissioners Harken to Sad Fate of Dr. Bundeson. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, August 28.— The melan- choly case of Dr. Bundeson, city health commissioner, is attracting much pub- lic attention. All Summer Dr. Bunde- son has been issuing bulletins and pamphlets on conservation of health No charges have been flled against Mr. James, but he has been asked to appear in Traffic Court Tuesday. He will face Judge Hitt. during warm weather. He has thun- derd in the public ear the comparative qualities of Summer foods. He has dwelt on public carclessness In this Held Cabinet Post Only 36 Hours, But Got Free Rail Pass By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 28 minister, if only for 36 hours, as was the case for the late Herriot ministry, apparently brings its con- solations when those few hours are over for some ministers. Andre Hesse, former minister of public works, indicated this to newspaper men who offered their sympathy as he passed through the lobby. “Well, I really don’t know that I ought to acept your sympathy,’ the two-day minister replied, “T didn't entirely lose my time. Look at this.” And he held out a perma- nent free pass, good on every French railroad. <5 “This document in these days of dear traveling has its value,” M. Hesse added. “It is a little per- quisite of former ministers of pub- lic works which reached me this morning.” ! | ! !matter. Yet he went out last night, stuffed himself full vof tainted food ‘and was dragged to a hospital where eliminate ptomaine poison from his system. three brother doctors are trying to| Mitchell Favors Market on River As Airdrome Base Col. William Mitchell has entered the controversy surrounding the location of the Center Market. The fighting airman has his mind set on locating a new building along the water front, for which stand he should receive the support of the Southwest citizens. He has long been an advocate of centralizing shipping, railroading and marketing, under one roof and evecting an airdrome on top of the building. “There is no reason why the new Center Market could not be built on the water front.” he declared. “on top of which an irport could be built. In a short time it wouid pay for itself. THOUSANDS WITNESS BELTSVILLE TILTING Mrs. James Furr of Berwyn First Among Women, and B. Gosnell Is Winning Knight. Special Dispatch to The Star. BELTSVILLE, Md., August 28— Thirty knights participated in the tournament tilting contest held this afternoon under auspices and for the benefit of St. John’s Kpiscopal Church. Candidates for political offices in Prince George County were out in force and the crowd numbered thou- Furr, Berwyn, was - riders, receiving ss Lillian Robey, second, with a prize of < Downes of Spencerville, was third, prize 3 . nell of Reisterstown, Md.. » winning knight. crowned his wife, Mrs. Ivy May Gosnell, Queen of Love and Beauty. W. L, Herron of Wash- ington Avas.second. He transferred the rown to another knight, who named Miss Florence Marlow, Beltsville, first maid of honor. ordon Hobbs, Mun- son Hill, was third, and crowned his daughter, M teneva Hobb third maid of honor. Thomas Head was fourth. State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer was orator of the day, and Leroy Pumphrey delivered the coronation ad- dress, The judges were Robert Aitche- son, George Sellers, Charles Miller, Le- page Cronmiller and Albert Sansbury. Two Held Under Mann Act. Special Dispateh to The Star. SRLAND, Md., August 2 . Messmann and Raymond yvoung married men, held today b United States joner Thomas J. Anderson in $5,000 bail for the action of the Fed- eral grand jury in September for al- leged violation of the Mann act in transporting two Cumberland girls, about 14 years old, to Pittsburgh last Sunday, returning Tuesday. Floods In western Australia recent- ly did great damage. Refresh Plans for eletrification of the Cen- tral of Brazil Raflway are under con- sideration. $1,180,Saved by Man With $8¢ Monthly Income, Is Missing Loss of $1,180. accumuated sav- ings of several years which he had kept in a trunk in his room w reported to the police yesterday by Charles Brown, 60 years, roomer at 726 Third street southeast. After investigating, the police sted another roomer at the house and he is being detained at the fifth pre cinct. Brown confided to the police that while he receives but $80 a month he has cconomized and made it possible to put away $20 bills at frequent perlods. He is employed at 1223 F street. He informs police whoever took the money had a duplicate key. RELIGIOUS DEADLOCK | UNBROKEN IN MEXICO ! | Catholics, Meanwhile, Are At-| tempting to Make Buyers' Strike | More Effective. By the Associated Press. | MEXICO CITY. August 28—-The! Calles government and the Catholic | episcopate are still deadlocked over the question of the church laws and | meanwhile business languishes more | and more. The Catholic party is en- deavoring to make the economic boy cott, or buyers' strike, more severe, | for there is a distinct increase in the | number and varietv of the propu-| ganda_leaflets being distributed in | support of the boycott. The ggvernment continues to all men and women caught distribut- ing these leaflets, distribution continues spread. Upon the surface everything seems tranquil, but what is under the sur- face—if anything—only time can tell. | TOURNAMENT TUESDAY AT OXON HILL, MD. Be | | hut nevertheless the | quite wide- | s State’s Attorney Bowie to. Orator When St. Barnabaes’ Church Benefit Is Given. OXON HILL. Md.. Augu State's Attorney lan Bowle o Georges County has been chosen orator to charge the knights at the seventeenth annual dress tournament for the benefit of St. Barnabas® Church here Tuesday at 2 p.m Owen Moere will be marshal of the | tournament and general chairman, | Frank Small, jr., will be assistant | marshal and aides will be Misses Flor- ence Small and Dorothy Miller. To the four knights spearing the highest number of rings prizes of $20, $15, $10 and $5 will be awarded. T. M. Jones, chief judge, will s his ¢ K. Shreve, Ber Imin Havenner, James R. Edelen, John M. Roberts, W. Harry Moore Arthur B. Richardson, Charles Ma den, Henry Owens and James W. Pumphre LeRoy Pumphrey of the county will deliver the address in_ the eve- ning, when triumphant knights will crown the queen of “love and beauty and her three maids. Other features will include a base ball game hetween the Clinton and Croom teams and a chicken dinner. On the general committec are George F. Von Ostermann, assistant chairman; Miss K. V. Grimes, secre- { tary; Mrs. Owen Moore and Mrs. A. B. Richardson. Other committees are Fancy table, Mrs. Jessie Swann, chalr- man; Mrs. Owen Swann, Miss Theo- dora’ Middleton: ice cream, cakes, et Mrs. Elbert Pyles, chairman; Mrs. H. L. Beall, Mrs. J. S. Revell: soft drink: clgars, ete., Guy Trueman, chairman: Arthur Wood, A. B. Richardson: ad- mission, William Marden, George Havenner, Elbert Pyles, G. W. Moore, Frank Small, jr.; hall decoration, Miss Theodora Middleton, chairman; Miss Grace Brookbank, Miss Juanita Beall. A | | Rainier's Conquerer Dies. 1 Special Diepatch to The Star. SEATTLE, Wash., August 28.—The first to conquer Mount Rainfer’s sum- mit, Maj. Edward S. Ingraham, pioneer and authority on the mountains of the Northwest, died here this week at 75. He arrived in Seattle 51 years ago, when but a straggling village existed. I near this city, are | I took them ov |1t s | other phase of fur- LADY ASTOR HAPPY . INVIRGINIA HOME ! | Spends Restful Holiday Amid Scenes of Childhood at Mirador Estate. Va., * to her heart childhood- . the Viscount 3 me home to rest what a delightful rest it my old Virginia,” exclaimed the first woman member of the British Parlia ment today. “1 am so happy to be home v August where sha of her girlhood Lord Astor and four of their children. They are vis- iting Mrs. Ronald Tree, Lady Astor's niece, who owns the famous old Vir- gin estat The Viscountess -om Maine, where her sister Charles Dana Gibson, a place. She brought Phyllis, Michae), David and John with her. Lord Astor, who has been touring the West, joined her there. Children’s First Visit. “It is the pleasantest vacation all of us, you know,” she said, spe ing the sort Southe ingl has failed to take is thes first time the child have seen Mirador. They are so happy. We g horseback riding and we play tcunis and we do what we please. One night - to Charlottesville t rican circus, like those 1 used to enjo 1 have shown them all over the University of Virginiu and Monticello, the home of Thomis Jefferson. “And, oh yes, 1 take them ot and show them the negroes. The children find them very delightful.” This is Lady Astor's first visit home since ) She is spending most of her time at Mirador, where the mous “beautiful Langhorne gir lived. It was here that Charles Dani Gibson wooed and won Irenc horne, here that Richard Harding 1 vis used to loll in the shade of Albe marle elms and devour Albemarle pip pins, and here that Robert Shaw wooed Naney Langhorne. who mar ried and later divorced him. The old Langhorne home, bowght by Col. Chiswell D. Langhorne, tobacco man and railroad contractos as large brick house, magnificent stables and other outbuildings and several hundred h acres. “It is the first real rest T have had in a long time,” the viscountess de- clared. “It has been a hard Winter and Spring. Here we are relaxing.” The family motors into Charlottes- ville every afternoon or so to shop and have ice cream sodas and sight see. Lady Astor called at a store where articles made by blind people were on sale. She bought them up in whole sale lots, praising the blind the while for “a universal evenness of temper and disposition despite their misfortune.” Stay in Virginia Indefinite. The length of their stay in Virginia is indefinite. They do not know whether they will go to Richmond, where Col. Langhorne had a year- round home in addition to the Summer home at Mirador. The last time Lady Astor came to America she was given a public reception in Richmond. She made an address “But I am not doing anything like that this tims she asserted. “I am resting and playing with my children. their Summer holiday. They have six weeks at Easter and six weeks in the Summer and T never do any public work when they are on va- cation. If I were in England 1 would be with them playing.” th her at Mirador, spent the Summers me here Mrs. Astor ¢ tor see a real Ame Fur Trappers Using Motors. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEATTLE, Wash., August 28.—A\n rapping romance is passing. For the first time Indian trappers in the broad vallevs of Hrit- ish Columbia and Alaska have aban- doned the snowshoe trail and canoe route. They are now at work in au- tomobiles planning open roadways, cacheing supplies and scattering traps at likable spots in proximity to the route covered by the flivver. 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