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4 RAIL RATE CREATES BAR T0 SOME COAL West Virginia Fuel Value Wiped Out as Competitor in New England Field. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October #.—Coal from West Virginia, if ziven gratis to New England consumers, could not com pete in price with that from the Pe sylvania fields, due to present frel rates, the Intersiate Commerce Com mission, investignting Ituminous freight rates. was told today 1. D. Heffernan, director of for the Sooville Manufacturing Co. ! of Waterbury, Conn., testified that | rates from southern West Virginia %0 points on the Boston and Railroad are least 10 than rates from the Clear district 10 the samepoints. ferential. he explained. being 35 cents higher than the f.o.b. mine | selling price the most valuable low-volatile. run-of mine coal produced in_Pennsylvania He urged the rates for the al traic | Maine | higher t commission ail shipment of un prepared coal from West Virginia to New England. At present the rates cover only three kinds of prepared | coal from southern West Virginia Mr. Heffernan was called as a wit ness by V. J. Larkin. who is repre- senting the public utilities of the State of Connecticut at the hearing. Other witnesses heard today were Benjamin « bell, vice president of the York, N Haven and Hart ford o T L. Dempse general freizht agent of the Cent Vermont Ratlvoad. who opposed an reduction of the all ruil rates from the Pennsylvania fields, SOLDIER IS SGUGHT IN MILLER DEATH T0 SOLVE MYSTERY (Coniinued from First Page.) to fix | where shell wera 1 and in 1A, nt “ime imoginary crossed the spo la. wointed the second | other three v three paces apart, at showed how the i had retreated. The line. carried further, where Miller's body linc Theory Is Advanced. rt were at a tand wh trousers _ove) hes. They 1t was recalle bung about his nner that might | was suggest- | 1 looking for | night, dis- | could. but | the wrong om compinte o wore regular found v o beer Monday best he nce on ~d that h an_eneiy Kuised spent couple This theory, it was said, might find | e credence in the fact that after | shot was fired #t Johnson | the man with the gur ted im- | mediately, fi cision every Miller may have discovered his n take and endeavored to get Johnson followed him, however, co pelling him to s in_ self-defense. Johnson admitted that all of the bul- lets were aimed low though the man with the gun wished to prevent hitting a mortal spot | The search the letter found s cating that an might do him some hor vesterd vut withot girl wi believed the le is well kno thoritic She formerly Clarendon, but more re pied a room in Washington. The au- | thorities ever, t it the | : is expected to be tay last nmselt’ a Lis venge pre- | three steps he went. | Mi writer of the | pocket, indi- | enemy who | ontinued The | written | the au-| lived in | entiy oceu- | in he is to have to 2,000,000 PERSONS ADDED | TO GERMAN LABOR CLASS | More People W Before Is From Berlin. By the Associated Press BERLIN. October 9.—The Ger- man people are working today as never hefore. Approximately 2.000,000 more persons rning thelr living than before the war, notwithstanding the fact that 10,000 unemployed ire supported doles and despite the tremendou reduction in the standing army Where 50 per cent of population was employved in 1913, king Than Ever Latest Report by the entire in gainful government reports 72 per cent so e \-‘ Yet the per capita in- | )0 a year. The great hose income from in- d it to live comfort- vorking before the war, 1 ed out by the infla: the mark. Daughters and rmy officers, owners of ates and others who beneath thelr dignity to vé nmow been forced to help ir families. But even now men for every new job open to men and 124 women for every b in which women are wanted o DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PASSES TO MOVIE STAGE | Anneliese Ullhorn of Wiesbaden, Feminine Devotee of Art, Now Under Screen Name. Assoclated Press RLIN. October 9.—From doctor | 'sophy. with her major thesis | rt. to a movie stage | - of Anneliese Ullhorn of | Her screen name fs nioved today come is only middle o tlon of sbaden Christa Tordy Christa’s cousin is a popular film | acted as Mady's secretary while ha | was a student at Berlin University Christa, aiter leaving Berlin Univer attended Breslau University, | ere she pussed her doctor's degree | ago at the age of 2. | she returned Berlin | wrough the efforts of Mady was starred in “His Big Case de- | tective s the fim of which was| released in connection with the inter- | n now going on in v's father i3 a_wealth chemicals. Her Christians, was one of | Mady Christians actress. Chris! ufacturer of uncle, the lead Willia FALSE ALARMS ANNOY. | BERLIN. October (@) —Fooling | the iire Department by turning in false alarms has become such a sport In Beriin that the police have been vake nights thinking up some of stopping the nuisance. schwaiger has constructed a fevice by which the fiinger-prints of | the person turning the knob in the| slarm box will be taken automatically. | The invention has been tried out in several smaller cities with success. and will Besiin. eater | | a | | | Arctic | Mackenzie | pr | territoriality and custe UNDAY Many Vacancies In Armay Air Corps: Shifts Are Planned By serated i ne A Vacan of the Arm stoned personr el pr ioas t partn N fvers tn other applicaiivns for Service he ered The department also has to put inio immediate ef plan. ity wpproved zress, which permits tem. porary detzil fo the Air Scrvice of offl to uther branches etall of personnel it is planned to familiar ize Infantry illery and speclal service officers with air prohiems. CANADIAN VESSEL o5 in all g \ ommis. swelled to tive War Dr 1 1o notife of hes that the er to the favorably consid tecided the con BACK FROM ARCTIC Veteran Captain Makes An- nual Pilgrimagas to Far- Away Police Posts. N Special Dispatch tn The Star. TORONTO Ontario, October 4 most unheralded. the unnual « expedition, under George P. the depazriment of in terfor, has returned from its 1926 round of duty. The expedition estab lished on Ba sula the most northerly poli hment in the world. Previously established posts of the Royal Canadian mounted were visited with supplies and relief. Al The new post on Bache Peninsula is | in latitude 79 degrees 4 minutes north. To the ordinary reader this may con vey only a vague idea of its location. Reference to s map shows Bache Peninsula to be in the same longitude | as Boston and, as the crow flies, about 500 miles due north. The signifi- ance of this distance is indicated by the fact that Boston is only some 800 miles farther north than New Orleans. Bache is about 900 miles beyond the Arctic Circle, 1,300 miles north of Hadson Strait and only 700 miles from the Pole itself. Is in Ellesmere Land. Bache Peninsula is part of Elles. mere Land, the most northerly land in* America, Iy Only the tips of Ellesmere and of Greenland lie between Bache and the Polar S Few vessels have ever penetrated as far as Bache, and the new Canadian police post was onl establi after four efforts made successive years. Last and supplies for the new post had to be left raim Haven, a few miles south of the desired ohjective. This continu ity on the part »f the Canadinn g the seriousness of its e tain by actual occupatio sovereignty over the gr svered by the Arctic A in this Canada is looking (o future possi bilities which aerial routes and radio may open up. At the same time she is secking present profit. For exam- ple, Eilesmere Land is rich in blue fox and other valuable furs which have already suffered trom the d-predations of pouchers. For 20 years the veteran Capt. B nier and his good ship Arctic e been making pilgrimages into these far northern waters. Bernier and the retic are now superannuated, but any one of his routine trips or of the Beothic, which is now on the job, rival in adventure and achievement most of the so«called Arctic explora- tion trips. Trip “Ordinary Routine.” The Montreal Star says: description published in New York apers of how the Putnam expedition ved and searched for seven weeks and finally shot xu polar bear makes strange reading for Canadians, i much as Bernier, who ha trading for a score of years in the Are- tle, has brought out several hundred polar bear skins and in his home at Levis are many magnificent speci- mens, while the Hudson Bay Co. has brought out hundreds of walrus hides. The Arctic expeditions by United States citizens have only been following the route taken year after vear by C. G. S. Aretic in its ordinary routine. Canadian posts visited this year by Mr. Mackenzie included those at. Pond Buffin Island; Dundas Harbor, Devon Island; Craig Harbor, Elle: mere Land, and C. D. Pangnirtun, Baffin Islands, points within the Ar tic Circle, and very much farther north than any American expedition has been, except McMillan, who flew irom Etah, on the Danish coast, across to Ellesmere Land. . Ship Is Sealing Vessel. The st vessel of larger and mship Beothic, a sealing 700 tons capacity, which is speedier thun the Arctic, was reconstructed last November at Newcastle-on-Tyne for the seal fish- eries. On her initial trip she returned with a record catch of 48.420 skins | before being chartered for the govern- ment’s expedition. She is under com- mand of Capt. Falk. police personnel, the Beothic took north a geological party. which will explore the interior of Baffin Land. returning next year. The statement that a record for two- way radio communication had been made by the latest American expedi- | tion in Baflin Bay is disputed here, for in October, 1925, a two-hour two- way conversation by voice and code was carried on with the C. G. S. Arc- tic from KDKA, Pittsburgh, while the boat was off northeast Bafin Land, which is considerably north of the location of the Putnamn expedition at the time of its feat. There are quite |a number of short-wave receiving sets in the Arctic regions, as wel of standard broadcast receivers, they receive government and person: messages from Canada on a regular schedule during the Winter months. as scores and CHINESE TROUBLES END TERRITORIAL PARLEY Negotiations Off, Due to Inability to Determine Who's Who, Strawn Explains. By the A mated Press. CHIC October 9.—Silas Strawn, American representative to the extra conferences his return home negotiations are in China. declared on today that further the difficuity of knowing who and what the Chinese government is and here it has its seat customs conference he said. Eleven “‘petered nations were expected to be represented: eight ar- 2. but left immediately. ctually met, but they ad- hing any rived in Pel Only three s journed without accomplis thing, he explained. M rawn will report to the Presl- dent Washingt on the extraterriteriality confere . There must be some mystery. some. thing too deep for the average man to solve, connected with the wearing probably be introduced in|of furs in extremely hot weather, says | Monroe H the Toledo Bladc. t nadian | police | ng adjacent to Greenland. | materials | The vivid | 2 | In addition to | UGE CUP SHOWN | 10 YOUNG ORATORS ?6-Inch Trophy to Be Pre-;1 sented to Winner of Inter- | national Finals Oct. 15. The international finalists who are already fn Washington, !ler! ovan of Canada. Jose Munoz of Mexico and Willlam Meed's New- | \ of England, vesterday saw for the time tha ZGdnch leving cup for | | which tha representatives of the five participating natlons wili compete in ithe final meeting of the [nternational Oratorical Contest for 1926, to be held in the \Vashington Auditorium on October 15 ! The cup, which reached contest headguarters yesterday, was shown to the finalists by Miss Myitle Posey, who represented The Washington Star In the contest this yvear and who, be- eaur of the fact thut she won second place i the national finals last June, i« the alternate 1o Herbert Wenig. national champibn. In case Mr Wenig should for any reason be un |able to speak In the international {finals next week, Miss Posey would eprosent the United States. There is no doubt. however. that the Hollywood orator, who won the | national championship last June, will be here and in fine condition for the |tinal competition. He has been rest. {ing at his aunt's home at Great Neck, | Lo - the last week, hav- ing > after the luncheon of the party return- from ico bv prominent citi- zens of Chicago week before last. M. | Wenig will return to Washington to | morrow afternoon. | nalists to Occupy Box. The French spokesman, Maxime Raymond Puel of Naney, France, will {veach Washington on Wednesday. He will be the only contestant who will not have had a consideruble rest in Washington prior to the strenuous | competition for international honors. The national finalists of 1926 in the contest in the United States will be | well represented at the contest and | will occupy a special box together. Those who will be in the box will be Miss Myrtle Posey, United States alternate; Thomas Cleary of Philadel- | phia, Joseph Mullarky of Augusta, Ga., Ann’ Hardin of Louisville, Ky., and Miss Ruth Newburn, who represented The Washington Star area in the 1924 contest and tied for first place on the | first ballot, that year. Coast Enthusiast Coming. Among prominent out-of-town visi- tors who are coming a considerable | distance to attend the international | finals will be Benjamin Franklin Af- fleck, chairman of the citizens’ com- mittee, which gave the elaborate luncheon to the international finalists in Chicago recently. He will be accom- panied by his wife. Mr. Affleck is the president of the Universal Portland { Cement Co., and one of the most influ- anital business men in Chicago. Mr. Jo S. Joplin, manager of the Better American Federation of Cali- fornia, which has taken a lively Inter- |est in the contest from its beginning, | is making a special trip for the pur- | pose of attending the meeting. He will | reach Washington on Thursday PUBLIC SENTIMENT SOUGHT ON CHANGE IN SCHOOL HOURS st zone the n in honor (Continued from Fi Page.) operate the boy patrol system. Boy Scouts are scattered throughout Wash- ington schools. They have been given | special instruction already in safety | measures respecting traffic. When the boy patrol idea spreads to the other { schools, it is expected that the ranks of the patrolmen will be swelled with |Boy Scout- volunteers already ac- {quainted with the essentials of the | duties to be performed. Another of the interlocking safety measures is the city-wide survey and checking up of Maj. E. B. Hesse, chief of police, who has tabulatede 43 “danger spots” in Washington affect- ing school children traffic, which were annotinced in yesterday's Star. Dur- ing the coming week the police will | give special attention to these points. | Maj. Hesse will make peresonal ob- ervations at many of them. Remedial | measures developed during the model experiment at the Thomson |School will be adopted wherever practical and wherever police work is concerned at these points, Maj. Hesse stated. Interest tomorrow will center on the developments at the Thomson School, where already Traffic Director Eldridge, upon recommendation of | Maj. Hesse, has put into effect & park- |ing ban on the west side of Twelfth | street, Massachusetts avenue to L | street, because of the danger of such parked cars to children. The ban ap- plies during school days. This step was recommended because cars swing- |ing across the signal light intersec- tion at Massachusetts avenue and | picking up after the stop caused by |the lights were in such position that |all possible visibility for approaching schood children was deemed needed, |and also because parked cars obscured the warning “School” sign at the curbing. . BLAST ENTOMBS 154. Bodies of 11 Victims Taken From Natal Mine. | DUNDEE, Natal, South Africa, Oc- tober 9 UP).—A terrible explosion, thought to have been due to a short circuit, occurred last night in shaft 2 of the Durban Navigation Colliery at Dannhauser, entombing 4 Europeans and 150 natives. \ Flames which followed the explo- | sion were visible for miles, and rescue | work was greatly impeded by gas fumes. The men had to wear gas helmets, and after all-night efforts only 11 bodies had been brought out, {all of them natives. There is small hope of recovering |the bodies of the remainder of the entombeed men. | | | | | \ | BERLIN’S CHOICE OF ROSE. | Empress Auguste Victoria Bloom | Easily Wins First Place. ; BERLIN, October 9 (#).—Berliners | prefer Empress Auguste Victorfa |roses. Their second and choices are {the Aspirant Marcel Rouyer and | Mme. Edouard Herriot, a rose named | fore the wife of the French statesman n former Empercr | jmpossible for the present because of |and former premier. The preferences | of the Berliners have been expressed at a rose beauty contest. The spec named ™M honor of the last German | Empress, first wife of the former Emn- peror William, easily won first place |in the viewin | & Lyon Village Citizens Called. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ! _LYON VILLAGE, Va., October 9.— { The Lyon Village Citizens’ Assoclation will hold its regular monthly meeting in the office of Lyon & Fitch, Inc., on | the Lee Highway Wednesday night at |8 o'clock. Plans for the Winter pro- |gram of activities will be discussed. Stockett, president, will preside. STAR, WASHINGTON, l CUP FOR WHICH ORATORS WILL COMPETE Myrtle Posey of Washington Oratorical Contest, is shown with the 26-inch loving cu Friday night to the winner of the International Oratoric: OCTOBER _10. 1926—PART 1. “SECRECY"INTRUS CASES IS ATTACKED i Thompson Says Coolidge Men Have Ended Efficiency cf Trade Board. D. C. Huston Thompson, former member {of the Federal Trade Commission, de nounced what he termed “the Re publican party's government-b: crecy policy” with regard to enforce ment of the anti-trust laws, fn a_radio address last night fr TR® commission functioned efficient 1y, Mr. Thompson declared. “‘until con trol passed into the hands of the ap- pointees of Mr. Coolidge,” since which time ‘greater and greater accumu- lations of capital have gone Scot free.” Many Dismissed, He Says. Denying any imputation of “moral turpitude toward the other members of the commission.” Mr. Thompson charged that under the alleged secrecy rules “hundreds of cases have been dismissed without any public knowl of them. 3 “These rules,” he said, “permit a person who has been charged with breaking the law against unfair methods of competition, when in- formed of the complaint against him, to sign a stipulation agreeing to de sist from the practice and thereafter go Scot free without any whatsoever. Such could be the case going on for a number of years, great damage suffered by the wrong-doer’s competitors and the public grossly de- cefved and defrauded either through false advertising or misrepresentation of an article.” Cites Alleged Cases. Mr. Tompson mentioned the Larrow Milling Co., the Continental Baking Corporation and the Aluminum Cq. of Americe. as concerns whose cases he who won second place in the National to be presentedi Contest. “EXCUSE IT, PLEE-UZ,” MOLLIFIES IRATE PHONE PATRON AS RULE Girl Opcrator Has “Conversational Tech-| nique to Meet Most Situations, But Sometimes Calls Supervisor. Ever notice how operators always have a smooth and ready answer for any question you may put? How the Voice with the Smile will warble “Excuse it, plee-uz” when vou ask, exasperatingly, why the deuce she rang the wrong number. Or will say, “I-yam trying to com- plete your call” when you ask her where'n blazes she’s been for the last half hour. It comes easy for the girls with the smiling voices, this business of turning away wrath with soft an- swers—thanks to a clever assortment of *canned” conversation provided for them by telephone officials. Trained to Be Courteous. “Conversational technique” they call it, and each operator is thorough- ly trained in it before being permit- ted to preside at a switchboard. The technique, designed to promote speed, accuracy und courtesy, is car- ried to such a fine point that the operator, taught to adhere strictly to the cut-and-dried tvpe of response, will turn a persistent inquirer over to a special operatar when she finds that her array of ‘‘canned” answers won't fit the “poser” in question. “Conversational technique™” is not the only te of a trained operator. tion is one of the prime qualifications of applicants for positions. They must articulate their vowels, “May-un,” “fo-wer,” “fy-uf” and “ny-un.” Gum chewing and stut- tering candidates are disbarred. Jangling and entangling bracelets are also taboo. They may, however, hang their vaity cases on hooks under their stools, for reference during the recess periods. Each operator carries her own headgear, receiver and mouthplece, which is sterilized daily How does the operator react to her enviroment? How does she cope with the vagaries and importunities of the person at the other end of the wire? Num-ber, plee-uz!” she warbles. You mumble the desired number. “What num-ber, plee-uz,” she plead: You repeat the number, for wHich she those telephone | When the operator exhausts her pre- thanks you in honeyed: tones. Or, failing again to understand, she par- ries, “One moment, plee-uz.” Then another voice, the supervisor's, un- ravels the tongue-tied lines. Routine Phrases Employed. Routine phrases have been perfect- ed to fit most every eventuality. 500 IN PERIL AS TWO LINERS CRASH IN GALE British Steamer Aurania and Cale- donia Collide at Greenock, Scotland. By the Ascociated Press. GLASGOW, Scotland, October 9.— Swept by a 70-mile gale and angry seas, the British steamer Aurania to- day was in cdllision with the outward bound Caledonia, at Greenock. Both liners were damaged above the water line, but were able to proceed. The Aurania was calling at Green- ock for Scottish passengers bound for Canada when the collision occurred. | The 500 passencers on the Caledonia | were bidding farewell to their friends on the pier at the time. The Caledonia took an alarming list, but there was no panic, and the vessels separated. A rapid examination showed that the ships were not damaged below the water line. The Aurania's port bow was dented, and 40 feet of the upper deck of the Caledonia was ripped away. The damage, however. was not judged serious enough to detain the liners. FLICKERLESS SCREEN PROJECTION A REALITY By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 9.—Flicker- less screen projection is an established fact at the Capitol Theater. The Mechau projectors are respon- sible. Other projection machines are of the intermittent type of movement. They have a revolving shutter, which means that the screen is illuminated actually only one-half of the time. The || Mechau projector is shutterless. There is no flickering of light because the screen is constantly illuminated. In additibn 'to giving more brilliance to the screen, it produces an almost ster- eoscopio effect in the picture. Of further significance to the spec- tator is the removal of the complaint of sitting too close to the screen. With the elimination of the flickering the picture can be observed at close range without experi comfort to the eyes eing any dis- | sald were dismissed by the commis- sion over the protests of the Demo- cratic members. The case against the Larrowe com- pany, he added, was dismissed shortly after it became known that Charles B. Warren, who had been nominated v the President as Attorney General, was interested in the Michigan Beet ar Co., which, he said, exchanged vrice information with the Larrowe organization. McCARTER AND BRIDE ARE FOUND IN RETREAT Former Baroness Robert langer Living in Seclusion of New York Hotel. By the Associated Pr NEW YORK, October 9.—George W. C. McCarter of Newark and Redbank, N. J.. and his wife. the former Baron- ess Robert D'Erlanger, are living in séclusion at a hotel here after their marriage at the municipal building August 17 by City Clerk Michael J. Crulse, it was learned tonight. McCarter s the fifth husband of the former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt. Mrs. Dorothy Parker McCarter of New Brunswick, N. his_wife, re- cently obtained 1 Paris divorce on the ground of abandonment. He is the son of Robert H. McCarter, former attorney general of New Jersey and chief in the New Jersey Hall-Mills murder case. Members of the family refused to confirm existence of the marriage when it was first reported today. scribed vocabulary she appeals to a supervisor or the chief operator for assistance. Her work is simplified by the limitations which are imposed upon her duties. Information regard- ing matters other than of making a telephone connection is politely re- fused. _An operator has no time for flirta- tion or argument, and is natural forbidden to indulge in irrelevant conversation. The supervisors and chief operators, older and more ex- perienced girls, deal gently but firmly with obdurate ‘subscribers. The public is becoming daily more educated in the use of the telephone, according to the company officials. People begin to realize that telephone operators are human like themselves, The exchanges are not stormed on every sort of trivial subject as they were in the past. Common questions still, despite their ban, are the time of the day, the base ball score, and the subjects of national calamity or rejoicing. i S| m Station WRC. | publicity | although the practice might have been | D'Er-| 10dd Effect Caused i By Crossed Swords { In Floral Design | | | By th Associated Press LONDON, October 9.—The little patch of a flower garden in St. i's churchyard in which a flowered text, chosen each vear by the dean, is grown, has taken on added interest to Londoners and visitors. In this year's floral de- sign there are two crossed swords over a shield. Several persous as- sert that at nightfall they have seen one of the swords rise and stand upright as they pas: The beadle who looks after the garden says a possible explana tion of the illusion is that as the ground slopes away from the road, the sword. composed of silver- leafed Alpine plant, appears to lift and meet a fast approaching ob- server, such as a bus passenger. The silver-leafed Alpine plants are particularly conspicucus late at night because of the glistening of the leaves wet with de: . GREAT GAMBLING RESORT PLANNED Frank Jay-Gould and French Hote! Man to Build Ex- clusive Casino. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 9.—Representatives of Frank Jay Gould, the American | capitalist. and M. Aletti, French hotel proprietor, have startled Europe with the announcement that they are plan- ning to build Europe’s most' luxurious and most exclusive gaming palace on the 9,000,000-franc_site they recently purchased on the Promenade des An- gles, Nice. The original plans calling for the erection of a_de luxe hotel have been discarded. Mr. Gould is at present a_heavy stockholder in the Casino of Juan les Pins. The new casino will be unique on the Riviera, as it will be practically a closed club, catering only to the very wealthy. Application has been made | limit baccarat play license. The structure will be furnished as a luxurious American private club, with swimming pools and a garage in the basement, a. subterranean passage to the beach, private salons, gaming rooms and a private hotel for the use of members on the upper two floors. Although Mr. Gould is the only American actively interested in such a Riviera, it 18 reported that a group of British financiers are planning to bufld a rival Monte Carlo on the out- skirts of Monaco. WILL ELECT OFFICERS. Montgomery County Civic Federa- tion Meets Tomorrow Night. The Montgomery County Civic Fed- eration will hold its annual meeting at Rockville, Md.. tomorrow night. The federation will be the guest of the Chamber of Commerce of Rock- ville, the meeting marking the begin- ning of the new federation year. Offi- cers will be elected. eral important committee reports will be heard, among these being the report on the Interfederation Conference and its proposed activities. The question of affiliation with the District of Colum- bla Federation in a membership drive likewise will be acted upon, DEAN INGE DENIES ETERNAL TORMENT Christians Well Rid of Such Teaching, Says British Theologian’s Article. By the Aseociated Press. LONDON, October 9-—Dean Inge, the “gloomy dean,” has contributed an article to the Sunday express {n which he supports the recent declaration of the Bishop of Liverpool at the church congress at Southport that Christians no_longer believe, as their grand fathers did, in eternal punishment Dean Inge says this obviously is true and is one of the greatest changes that Christianity has ever undergone In the last 75 years the tradition of |18 centuries has been broken: Chri tianity had been secularized as it never was before and was becoming & world- 1y religion. Among the many reasons for the change amounting almost to a revolu tion, Dean Inge helieves the first is that “we are shocked by the crudit of the old pictures of bliss and tor ." He thinks that the old ideas le eternal punishment and tor - ment were encouraged by the morbid visions of monks, which were sup- posed to be revelations, but are now- adays “not only unbelievable, but in- comprehensible.” “We shall almost all agree.” ha says, “that we are well rid of this teaching. It is indeed strange that for 80 many centuries the belief should have lasted that God, wh Christ came to reveal, is an implacable tor threr” The dean is of the opinion that astronomy and general scientific dis- coveries are responsible in a measurs for the abandonment of the old ideas of eternal punishment, and he takes the ground that on the actual question of eternal punishment we know noth ing. FRENCH 0AK ANDMWALNUT SUPPLIES ARE DEPLETED Exports Rise to Enormous Figures and Manufacturers Are Alarmed. By the Associatsd Press. PARIS, October 9.—So great is the demand of foreign manufacturers for French oak and walnut that the do- mestic supply is being rapldly de- pleted through exports. The French Furniture Makers’ Guild has asked the government to do something to remedy the situation. Exports of oak and walnut have risen this year to tremendous figures, the guild declares, and French manu- facturers, unable to get supplies within Frdnce, have been forced to buy outside the country at foreign prices. This has resulted In increased cost of production and considerable export of capital. Another danger, it is pointed out, is in the rapid deforestation of estates. which are being denuded of trees to swell the total of exports. Furniture manufacturers are not the only ones protesting, for walhut s used in the manufacture of stoc for guns, and arms makers are fe. ing the shortage. Another woman was sure to swim the Channel, the Atchison Globe says Well, one woman can't bu. [ without some one copying it, Office Boy. Nineteen Is Best Age. Embryo telephone operators are ex- amined before schooling for their physical and mental fitness. Natural- ly. they must have good hearing and vision and the equivalent of a high school education. Statistics show that 19 is the most adaptable age for learning the work. The employment of bachelor girls is encouraged, al- though the older and more stable mar- ried women are usually employed on the night shifts. The major operating errors are wrong numbers, cutoffs, double con- nections, and false no answer or busy reports. Contindal supervision and coaching tend to minimize the hu- man equation and margin of error. Upon acceptance by the telephone company, the girls undergo a two week’'s schooling on dummy switch- boards and at the classroom black- || boards, then an additional fortnightly | probation in an exchange beside older | girls. During their apprenticeship, the girls are allowed to handle only one call at a time untll they acquire the | necessary confidence. | The finished product, therefore, is a model of propriety, tact, agility, graciousness, and solicitude, or tries hard to be. It behooves the houses wife and executive to smile over the telephone. The operator will react more expeditiously to your cheery de- mands. “Num-ber plee-uz.” “T00 OLD FOR PRISON,” WOMAN DRINKS POISON Tricks Prohibition Agents After They Raid Her Home and Seize Beer. By the Associated Pre DENVER, Colo., October 9.—Faced with the prospect of a jail term, Mrs. Thelma Cook, 74, drank poison when prohibition officers raided her home here and died within a few hours. Officers said that when she was con- fronted with a small quantity of beer found in her home last night, she sobbed: “I'm getting old. I can't goto jail. I'd die there.” | She then was granted permission to take some medicine to aid a headache. Instead, she drank poison. i It was her second arrest on charges of manufacturing liquor. She was re- leased the. first time after promising not to violate the law again. —_— Few men realize that a well dressed woman is an advertisement for her|! husband’'s_goodness. A NEW FURNACE Have a new your home' more heatin; less fuel. A home more First Mortgage Investments Improved Real Estate in the Nation's Capital secures each one 1f_vour house it done at onee. a lot more {o an investment sou_save all! your house. Annual Return 612 % SHARNON. & LUCHY 713, 715 and 717 14th St. Main 2345 Th improved_scientl comfort. ouse 18 not a home un less it is properiy heated: home is not_adequately heated vour family deserves a new furnace. than “a _modern. equipped bathroom. could be mo more practical improve- ment to your home than new bath. room fxtures. If ‘ovémenis and haven't the consult us. making a bie mistake serve your house and make it worth Making and repaying a loan by the Morris Plan pecially glad to make loans for improvements to homes or property. Investigate the Morris Plan method. We will be glad, in a friendly way, to talk it over with you at any time. THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Your Home NO W just the way you want it—for the greatest comfort and convenience. will gladly lend you the money to make any desired improvement or addition to your home. Thou- sands of substantial, worth-while Washington people have taken advantage of the Morris Plan me(:h]qd. b’ll'hey have installed modern comforts and conveniences to make their homes more pleasant and liveable. There is no use in delaying longer you can rn_zke that improvement to your home that vou have long been contemplating .the Morris Plan way! in having your home fixed up The Morris Plan Bank There is no red tape or difficulty in arranging to have the work done AT ONCE—and paying for it in easy weekly payments. You can have the pl easure and use of whatever improvement your home needs while you are paying for it in such a way that you won't even miss the money. YOUR OWN GARAGE furnace s 2. instailed in A garare latest furnaces of construction give and _require 1o gmlr place. aobile it e ze often ren Qermont.-and is'a ‘on can arrangs I your a_big_convenience At the same tima 3dds langible Talue 1f ‘you have an au indispengable with funds to build one any time. and A good for $10 ‘to 815 good inveatment us for the A COMFORTABLE PORCH -e sou ever noti markable improveme: makes in the appear A new porch. built cost. may ereatly in of your, house. vou and fret our plan. a well Certainly thers ou desire to make needs paint you ars y not having w paint will pre- refurnish_or add_to eir homes. ey to us—and ~rel as a home and as ents. ave the surface and Our plan will save is a simple, confid of Washington Tt certainly ‘will our family added com! ced what a re. nt a new porch ance of a houss at_a reasonable crease the value fort. We are always glad to help people the furnishings You can borrow the better equip yonr home it in_ emall se while paying 3 cs have been refurnished by the Morris Plan method. ential transaction. We are es- Under Supervision of United States Treasury