Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1926, Page 19

MEXICO REBELLIO DENIED BY CHURCH Episcopate Brands as False Calles’ Charges of Arm- ed Uprising. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, November 2.—The Roman Catholic episcopate never has authorized any rebellion or attempt &t rebellion In Mexico, the episcopate declares in a statement {ssued in reply to a pronouncement from the presidential office that the eplscopate was involved in revolutionary activity. The controversy has arisen in con- nection with the extermination of a band of rebels in Durango headed by Gen. Rodolfo Gallegos, when, accord- dng to the presidential statement, “one flag and other insignia were cap- tured, furnishing evidence that a This is false and calumnious,” says the Episcopate’s statement, which re- viewed its repeated instructions peainst revolution, counseling only awful and pacific conduct on the part ‘atholics in the present religious ulties. “There are cases in which Cath- olic divines authorize not rebellion, but armed defense against unjust sggression an such time has ved. Any in dual Catholics who that such a time has arrived without the episcopate’s in- jons or _authori* either of- ficially or unofficially Federal Civilian Personnel Drops Below 60,000 Here For the first time since the war the civilian personnel of the Gov- ernment in the District of Golumbia. has dropped below the 60,000 mark. The total of employes in the Fed- eral service on September 30, the Civil Service Commission an- nounced today, was 59,849, against 60,270 at the end of August. The decrease came in reductions in practically every executive de- partment, the Treasury leading the list with a net loss during Septem- ber of 119 employes. September saw 845 additions to the Government civilian personnel and 1,266 separations, a net loss of 421! CiviL SERVIC.E VACANCIES. Commission Announces Tests to Fill Various Government Posts. The United States Civil Service Com- mission has announced open competi- tive examinations to fill vacancies in the following positions: Minor laboratory apprentice, Bureau of Standards, Department of Com- merce, and other branches of the de- partmental service, at $900 a year. Assoclate metallurgist at $3,000 a ar, assistant metallurgist at $2.400 a year, Bureau of Mines, Department of Commerce, for du:; in Washington, D. C., or in the fleld Chief plant engineer, Quartermaster Corps, Fort Mills, Philippine Islands, at $3,600 a year und quarters. Assistant educationist (school legis- lation), Bureau of Education, Depart- ment of the Interior, at $2,400 a year. Elevator ccndgetor, _departmental service, at $900 a year. This examina- tion is open to men only. Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the office of the Civil Service Commission, 1724 LEAGUE OF STORY TELLERS TO CONVENE Eastern Division to Open Three- Day Session Here Thursday. tlonal Story Tellers’ League, organ- fzed to further methods of story tell- fng in the schools, will open its ninth annual conference Thursday, at the Mayflower Hotel, and will remain in gexsion throuszh Saturday. Delegates will be here from New York, Pennsyl- | e lorida and the Dis- | 't of Columbia | Mis, G cott Rafter, president the of Columbia Parent on. will deliver the welcoming addr t'the opening ses- ion, which will convene at 2 o'clock Practical examples of e art of tea through story- telling will be given night. ipeakers the busing sesslons on Friday will include Mrs. Laura de Walde Kuhnle of Philadeiphia, who will speak on Teller; Her nd _Carolyn : York, editor of afternoon. ailey of 1n Childhood of Amer folk lore will he at night, with Miss Helen Nevi Philadelphia, < in_Indlan cos- s Daphne Ca Ay of . narrator of southern principal participants. Wilson Reeses! forming the hest work in munity, and the Pres be the main events : t Dr. Anne speak on “The at the morn- at the ng < and the spenker mard of Chica resident of Al . m Phila Mr Rafter, 5 Walde Kuhnle, Herbert Roby, and ‘Oldenbersg. Retire After 30 Years. Technical Sergt. John H. Keating, ched enlisted men's list, at head- district of Washington, and 3 Henry Kunzmann, at Fort Monroe, A on the retired pplications, 30 years in " "WE PRAISE It Our work becauss our cust do_ it. them that make m do it. sion will be Mrs, Bdward | F street northwest. N. W. Burchell Fine Groceries 817-819 Fourteenth St. N.W. We have a wonderful Coffee Bouquet, 38c Ib. 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SOCIETY (Contirued from Eighteenth Page.) followed by a reception ower Hotel, at 10:30 tional League of Amer- men yesterday evening ason of 1926-27. tinental Haj, at the M: o’clock, the ican Pen officially opened its The reception was in honor of Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, natfonal president, who has just returned from i four months' travel in South Ameri- ca, as a.member of the Field Mu- seum expedition to that country. In the receiving line with Mrs. Seton were Mr. Seton, who came on to Washington for the week end, and M. Maurice Dumesnil, the artist. The reception was given in_the palm garden of the Mayflower Hotel, and a brilliant scene was presented as the assembled guests paid their re- spects to those in fine. Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Lewis were centers of ain- mated groups throughout the evening, and a number of persons prominent in official and residential society in Washington were 3 A buffet supper was served, many of the guests being seated at small tables, scattered about the room, and music and dancing added to the en- Joyment of the occasion. Mrs. Seton is leaving Washington today for Philadelphia, where she will lecture on India tomorrow before the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. She will be the gue of honor at a dinner given by Mi Laura Bell, who has asked a d tingulshed company to meet Mrs. Seton. i Mrs. Wiley Hostess to Twentieth Century Club. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley entertained the international outlook section of the Twentieth Century Club yester- ay at her residence on Ashmead I 943 Eye St. NW. Jelleff evening | $2. 2. R 3 6 x9 Bring Sizes of Your Rooms Superior Linoleum Co. STAR, WASHINGTON, place. The guests of honor were and Mrs. R. R. Kuczymskl. 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