Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1926, Page 2

CHANGES ARE DUE IND. . COMMITTEE Defeat of M’Kinley and Har- reld Leaves 2 Vacancies in Senate Group. Several changes in the personnel of the Senate District committee in 1927 @re in prospect as a result of the pri- wmaries and elections of this year. Senator McKinley of Lilinois, a Re- Publican member of the committee, falled of renomination in the pri- maries last Summer, and Senator Harreld, Republican of Oklahoma, was defeated in yvesterday’s election. These two vacancles on the commit- tee after the close of the coming short ®mession are definite. Senator Wefller, Republican, of Maryland also is a member of the District committee and was trailing his Democratie opponent, Representa- tive Millard E. Twvdings, on incom- plete returns this morning. This leaves the possibility of a third change on the committee handling District @ffairs in the upper branch of Con- gress. Jones to Keep Post. Senator Wesley L. Jones, Nean of Warshington, and an active member of the Senate District Com- mittee, was vieto s In his race for re-election vesterda: Senator Jones has been on t t committee for a number of vears and has shown @n unusual interest in the welfare of the National Chpital It = probable that it Tvdines is elacted to the Senate on the final re- turns from Marvland he would he con- eidered for assignment to the District ecommittee when a Democratic va- eancy ocrurs because of the proximity pforemost of his ®tate to the District of Co- lumbla. The re-election Emoot, Republican of Utah, also is of interest to the Distriet of Columbia because of his vposition as chairman of the Public ‘Buildings Commission, which has charge of earrying out the ,000,000 Federal building vprogram the National Canit scently rized by Congress. None of the prospective changes tlie Senate District committee will fect the personnel of the comm the fortheoming short session. Senator Arthur Capper of F chairman of Senate Distri mittee, was not un for election vester- ving been reelected for six ars in 1924, Senator Capper, who was iIn the West during the recent campaign, is expected to return to TWashington within a few Fernald Chairmanship Open. The death last Summer of Senator Fernald of Maine will necessitate the welection of a new chairman for the Senate committee on public buildines and grounds as soon as Congress reconvenes and this selection also is of interest to Washington, hecanse that committee frequently handles legislation that tends to beautify and improve the city That committee, for example. arge of the act to complete th ase of the Union Station plaza at the last session and will also pass on proposed legislatlon to provide for the elearing of the tract and its embel- lishment as a narkway between the depot and the Capitol Bullding. Senator Warren of Wrvoming is ranking Republican member of the eommittee on huildings and grounds, but in view of his important position 28 head of the appropriations commit- tea it is highly imvrobable that he conld take over bulldings and grounds. Next in line for the chairmanship are Senat Lenroot of Wisconsin and Keves of New Hampshire. Al- thotigh Senator Lenroot was not re- inated in Wisconsin last Summer will he a member of the Senate til next March. had pur- PRESIDENT IS CALM DESPITE REVERSES IN ELECTION FIGHT (Continued from F st Page.) Associated Press were brought aboard the Prestdent’s train During his stay in his office last night the President did not waste h's time. During intervals between the delivery of eclection news, Mr. Coolidge busied himself with Govern: ment business. There was an ac cumulation of routine papers on_ his desk and he practically disposed of the entire pile in this manner. Also, he autographed a score or more photo. graphs of himself, requests for which Le found on his desk. It is known it the President entertained no 1ulse hopes about the outcome, egpe- liy in Massachusetts, aftér an | hour's reading of these eurlier re- | A few minutes after 11 he | eived @ long-distance telephone eall trom the Butler headquarters in Bos- ton, and fustantly upon hanging up the receiver the P ident saud to Mr. k. who was beside him, that he retire. He made no mention ture of the news he had just i scefved, but it is understood it he was certaln that his intimate i had gone down to defeat at e hands of former Senator Walsh. President Coolidge was up and about morning earlier than is his cus- om. Without sending for any news. papers or late telegrams, he went for w long wa about the streets of the downtown soction and apparently en- Joved fully this exercise in the brisk, ning air. He ate a h(".n'f)'! breakfast upon his return and then went to his of of the n Reads Papers Carefully, his desk large eas drew one of the in his room close to tepub- | CHARLES W. DARR. DARR 0 ADVOCATE SUFFRAGE FORD.C. Local Attorney to Address City Club in Behalf of Na- tional Representation. Charles W. Darr, well known local attorney and considered one of the exponents for remedying the voteless conditions in Washington, will speak in behalf of the Clty of Senator Reed | Club, all trade bodies and other civic organizations favoring suffrage for the District at a special meeting of the City Club in the interest of na- tional representation for the District, in the club’s large dining room, the evening of November 13 at 7 o'clock. Mr. Darr has spoken many times in favor of lo residents having the same privileges—through the vote— that are enjoyed by citizens In announcing the choi Darr as the speaker, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, club*president and chairman of the club's national representation commlittee, issued a special invitation for all local organizations and in- dividuals interested to attend the meeting. He sald it was at first in- tended to have only national organiza- tions represented, but that there has been a special demand that local in- terests be represented. Due to this demand, 1t is stated, the tme for broadcasting on the radio has been extended. Gen. Stephan, in continuing his ap- peal to the pubic to attend the meet- ing, states that it furnishes a splendid unity for persons to see and nationally famous speakers and t acquainted with the work being done by the City Club and other or- ganizations in the Interest of the Capital City Special music will be furnished at the meeting by the United States Army Band, under the direction of Capt. W. J. Stannard. PRETTIEST RED-HEAD WILL BE SELECTED Contest Among Girls at the Food Show Tonight. Red-headed girls will reign supreme tonight at the Food Show, held at Washington Auditorium by the Retail Grocers' Association, for the principal | event of the evening will be a contest to determine the prettiest red-headed girl. The winner will he announced from the stage at 9:30 o’clock and will be awarded an assortment of choice foods. A sewing cabinet will be given to- night to the first person succeeding in making “the smileless man” smile. R. Payne, 1312 North Capitol street, was the first to make him smile last night and won a bridge lamp for doing so. D. E, Potter, 1 First street, won a prize of foodstuffs awarded the “bald- headed” man The following were awarded prizes of food for winning smiles from the “smileless man”: Miss Eva Cunning- ham. G -street southws ; . . Mosimann, 908 Fourth street south- west; V. L. White, 17 Towa .circle; J. 1908 Eighteenth street; McNeil, 447 Luray place; J. . Cochrane, 1741 A street southeas Mrs. Mary Mooney, 4582 Conduit road; e ake, 164 Thirteenth street southeast; Mrs. H. B. Berryhill, 408 Sixteenth street southeast: Louis Perna, jr., 4137 River road: Lucie M. Witshire, 1330 I, street; Mrs. S. G. Ordwein, Hyattsville, Md.: E. M. Bemis, 1220 North Carolina avenue northeast; G. C. Robinson, 1258 Co- lumbia road; Mrs. E. C. Ladd, 515 A street southea: Gaines, 923 Sixth street rmond Baun, 1332 G _street southeast; Eliza- beth Heicht, 1018 Quebec place; Miss Edith Moran, 7063 Twentieth street southeast; S. J. Hume, Alexandria, Va. Nettle Darcey, 3020 Jay street north: east; M. Zangg, 1416 R street; Prud- ence Slifer, 2136 G street; L. nan, 921 Nineteenth street; Mr Wright, 1324 South Carolina avi outh Thomas, 1214 da aven . Seroggin R. northeas! | street northeast; Linda Weakie: I street northeast; Fifteenth street so John D. Lattimore, 1336 Eleventh street; Miss Erma Ford, 409 Sixteenth street south- east; Mrs. Samuel Tarner, 1249 Wis- Tucker, and with the n upon him, | s, calmly and | warm sun carefully i comfortably. ¥ @ messenger and depusit a telegram or wther paper upon his desk There W > bit of taken to the Fresident thi that those who were nware of its contents were sure called for some comment from the President. It was 'y, in cold figures, of the out. President’s home town to which he and Mrs. Coolidge made the long journey to per thetr ballots in the box dent's face never changed expression when he read that Northampton had | gone 1,100 for Gov. Fulle Repub- | Yican candidate for governor, but had glven the President's close friend, Senator Butler, the small mapority of only 53 votes. | The President had few callers to- day. He conferred briefly with Brig. Gen. Lord regarding matters of the pudget and later talked with Williara Randolph Hearst, newspaper’ pub- lisher, whom he invited to be a guest at luncheon. Mr. Hearst said called to suggest to the President that he choose some spot in California for his next Summer’s vacation. He said that politics and the outcome of yes- | terday's electic was not tol ed | upon during their conve Preaident’s only other ¢ lection news gorning come in the | | Emerson_ street; consin avenue; W. T. Poe, 201 E street; Mrs. F. McCarthy, 509 E street northe: : Mrs. M. B. Hazard, 319 Holmead place; Mrs. C. D, Swope, 2812 Thirty-fourth place; Mrs. W, F. Meggers, 04 Brandywine street southeast: Miss Pattie McAnamie, 1412 Massachusetts avenue; Mrs. M. A. Rab- kin, 1315 Belmont street; Mrs. Ada R. Hetrick, 436 H reet; Mrs. K. Leth- bridge. 37 Baker street, Brentwood, Md.; Miss Elizabeth Gorman, 1500 R. T. Donovan, 5524 Eighth street; Mrs. M. D. De Mary, 627 F street northeast; Mrs. Bertha Harners, 1421 Monroe street; Mrs, V. M. Brown. §815 Blair road; Miss S. E Stinson, 805 H street southwest; B. M. MceGearchen, 219 E street southeast. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have bgen issued 10 ths tollowing of this city and Ray. Va. orze B. Thompson of this city gnd Auna V. Rissmiller of Phillipsburg. N. Cfuart Cuthberson. jr. of Bunker Hill, I, and Helena D. Murray of this city. Panl H._Catheart of Baliston, Va.. and Marion P, Hastings of this city int Branpum and Gladys E. Matthews. W. Conrad. jr. and Coretta V. Cavanaugh Dora F. _Glen, Va.. and a noas "Clarence J and RR%in Carneal of Ruther Georgia_ Cornell of McDuff, Tater ind Mary Payne Buncombe and McLaughlin and Julia A. Cua- anor B. Johnson John C Mam P. McCullough of Pittsburgh, representing the National Apple Week _shssociation, ninghat arold W. put and %nom. . Hurwits kiya, N Y., atla Aveinsioin a4, Prize to Be Awarded to Winner of THE IVOTELESS CITIZENS SORROW AS REST OF NATION BALLOTS 1Advisory Council Adjourns Sadly as Mark of Respect to Day That Has No Significance for Washington. While thousands of franchised American citizens were still journey- ing to the polls to cast ballots in the congressional ‘elections, the Citizens’ Advisory Council, in session last eve- ning in the District Building, again deplored the voteless condition of the people of the District and adjourned as a -mark of respect to a day that has no special significance for them. A resolution adopted by the coun- cil protested the denial of the funda- mental rights of representation to ;h? people of the District. Its text o “Whereas this 2d day of Novem- ber, 1926, is duly ordained by law as the time for the choosing of members of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate; and “Whereas the people of the District of Columbia are most unjustly de- prived of the right and privilege of participation as free-born Americans in the sacred duties of election day and consequent representation in the Congress; therefore be it “Resolved, by the Citizens’ Advisory Councll that we record on our journal our solemn protest at the denial of our fundamental rights of represen- tatton, our firm belief that ‘govern- ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed’ and that ‘there cannot be free government without elections,’ and be it further “Resolved, That this meeting do now adjourn as a mark of respect for this day, which s not for us, and with sincere sorrow that the people of the District of Columbia are com- pelled to ‘abdicate their sovereign right of self-government’ at this elec- tion.” Prior to adopting the resolution, the counci! approved the pending new code of insurance laws for the Dis- trict, the bill to create a_commission to select a flag for the District and the proposed exchange by the Federal and District governments of property in the vicinity of the Naval Observ- atory. The council recommitted to a com- mittee for amendment a bill permit- ting the District to sell at auction tax- delinquent property which it acquires because no one will purchase it at tax sales. “The modified measure will forbid tax sales to individuals and pass all tax titles to the District. SCRIVENERS' BODY NOT TOBE EXHUMED Police Drop Consideration of Examination to Obtain Fingerprints. Police have dropped consideration of plans for exhuming the body of Detective Sergt. Arthur B. Scrivener, who was found dead October 13, shot through the heart, with a pistol bears ing a blurred finger or thumb print ear the body, it became known to- day. The reason for so doing is the con- clusion by the police that even though the body were exhumed to take finger- prints of vener, which are not now in possession of the police, there would be little if any value from matching the prints with the - print on the pistol, so far as probative force in sustaining either a murder or a suicide theory is concerned. After considering the matter, police decided that even though the print on the pistol might match a finger print from the hand of Scrivener, i would demonstrate simply that Scriv ener had touched the pistol before he met defth—which might have occur red elther in a suicide or in a murder Only the prints of two thumbs were taken by Fred Sandberg, fingerprint expert of the Police Department, he stated today, at the time the body was at the Morgue. He explained that he failed to take prints of the fingers at that time for the reason that the blurred print on the pistol appeared more like a thumbprint than a finger- print, although, he added, it was bare- ly possible it might be part of the print of a finger. The only way in which these fingerprints might now he obtained would be by exhuming the body. New developments in the case were lacking today. Speculative theorles concerning suicide and murder con- tinue to be advanced, supported by only the facts tl ve been well known for st Mrs, Emma Scrivener, mother of the slain detective, motored here to- day on her first visit since the death of her son, and visited at the home of Matthew Walsh, 3128 N street, where Scrivener roomed the past 12 years. ‘Accompanying Mrs. Scrivener was her husband, Turner A. Scrivener, and Dale Baker, their son-in-law, The father said he came to look after his son’s cffects. Mr. Scrivener has been appointed administrator of his son's estate by the Winchester, Va., courts. He ap- peared at police headquarters, where he saw Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, chief of police; Inspe: +. Pratt, tor Henry G. chief of detectives, and other offictals. Maj. Hesse turned over to Mr. Scrivener a check for $1,500, repre- senting the police insurance; a_check for $95.06, salary due at the time of the tragedy, and $75 funeral allow- ance. Mr. Scrivener reiterated that the family cannot belleve Detective Scriv- ener committed sulcide. e spoke of the visit of his son and Miss Parker to Winchester some weeks before the tragedy and commented upon the ap- parent happiness of them at that time. CITIZENS PRESENT BIG CHRISTMAS TREE Permanent Community Yule Ceie- bration Center Dedicated to Government. A Christmas tree about 12 feet tall, planted in Montrose Park, was form- ally dedicated to the Governmeht by the Georgetown Garden Club, to serve permanently for community Christ- mas celebrations, at special services in the park today. The dedication was formally made by Miss Emily C. Matthews, president of the club, and was accepted on be- half of the Government by Maj. U. S. Grant, 8d., superintendent of public buildings and public parks of the Na- tional Capital. Miss Matthews in mak; ing the dedication pointed out that there was a need for a permanent Christmas tree for the annual celebra- tions held in the Georgetown com- munity. In accepting the tree Maj. Grant sald that parks should become more and more an element in com- munity life and that the tree will be- come a nucleus to community life in Georgetown, adding that the Govern- ment was aocepting the tree with that understanding. The tree, « fir, was planted in the park several days ago. Additional dirt s thrown around the tree at today’s celebration by Mrs. Herman H. Hollerith, founder of the George- | town Garden Club. J. B. Wyckoff, chairman of the Georgetown Citizens' Association com- munity Christmas tree committee, stated that his committee would decorate the tree and make other ap- propriate preparations for a commun- ity Christmas celebration this Chris mas, prgpably to take place Christ- mas eve. The Georgetown committee has been especially invited to make such use of the tree by the George- town Garden Club. Arrangements for today's dedica- tion ceremony were made by Mrs. Charles G. Warden, chairman of the civic committee of the Garden Club, g iw Vancouver, British Columbia, have a $5,000,000 hotel. will W. R. & E. TO FIGHT MERGER UNLESS IT GETS FAIR RETURN (Continued from First Page.) mit the establishment of any number of competing bus lines in an attempt to force merger. He added, however, that he hoped that extremity would not prove necessary. Under questioning, Mr. Ham ad- mitted he belleved merger of the car- riers would in the future prove eco- ngmical and'to the benefit of the rid- ing public. He insisted, however, that there would be no saving of some $2,- 000,000 in operation costs, as some pro- ponents of the merger have declarad. Mr. Ham also pointed out that since 1919 the board of directors of the W. R. & E. have been on record favoring a merger if that consolidation would guarantee ‘‘reasonable return upon fair valuation.” The general opinion among speak- ers was that a unified operation would result in quicker and better service through a rerouting of the existing lines, universal transfers and a possi- bie reduction in fares. Outstanding among the suggestions offered for torcing "a consolidation were unre- stricted bus competition, with bus routes paralleling car lines, if neces- sary, and a rerouting of the cars of “ne company over the tracks of the ther. ‘The opinfon seemed to prevail that his could be done by the commission without congressional sanction. In other words, it was felt that the act reating the Utilitles Commission car- rled the authority for such action. Fear was expressed that if Congress becomes involved in any plan of mer- ger, litigation most naturally would follow and the consolidation would be delayed further for many years in the courts. Maj. W. E. R. Covell, senior Assist- nt Engineer Commission and Utilities Commission attache, read at the out- set of the hearing a number of sug- gestions previously received by the commission as 'possible ways for bringing about a unifled operation. These were classed in two distinct groups. One group proposed varlous penalties to inflict on the companies it they fafled to consolidate. The other contalned different privileges that could be granted the carrlers if they do merge voluntarily. Many Suggestions Received. The suggestions in the first group were: Revoke charters, increase gross revenue tax, impose a franchise tax, allow unlimited bus competition, and appropriate money for the employ- ment of a nationally known traffic en- gineer to study the rerouting of cars, etc., and then have the commission give the necessary orders for running cars of both companies indiscrimi- nately over tracks of other companies. 4n the other group the following re- wards were proposed: Repeal of the crossing police tax, a repeal or reduc- tion in the paving tax, a guarantee against bus competition, modification of the present taxation, and a repeal (;r modification of the bridge repair ax. Those who spoke in favor of the merger were: Lieut. Col. W. G. Caples of the St. Alban's Council of Citizens® Associations; Rose P. Andrews, presi- dent of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association; Alton B. Carty of the Columbia Heights Citizens As- sociation; John S. Cole of the Park- view Citizens' Association; Jesse C. Duke, also of St. Alban’s Council of Citizens’ Associations; J. L. Gammell of the Lincoln Park Citizens’ Associa- tion; George W. Avers of the West End Citizens' Association; Jesse C. Suter, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Assoclations and chairman ex-officio of the Citizens' Advisory uncil; David Babp; O. H. Brinkman, clerk of the Senate District Commit- tee; K. P. Armstrong of the Rhode Island Citizens’ Assoclation; Ernest H. Pullman of the Manor Park Citi- zens' Assoclation; Hugh M. Framton of the Cathedral Heights Citizens’ As- sociation, and Willlam G. Henderson of the North Capltol Citizens' Asso- ciation. Mr. Brinkman was most emphatic in his bellef that unlimited motor bus competition with the car lines would bring about a merger. Any attempt to force such action by law, he de- clared, would throw the matter into the courts, where it probably would rest for many years. “The merger has been discussed for a long time,” he sald. “‘Citizens’ asgo- clations resolute about it, the com- mission discusses it, and the merger is no closer than it was then. If the railway companles are doing a good business there is no incentive for them to merge.” Mr. Armstrong did not agree with Mr., Brinkman_as to unlimited bus conmipetition. He told the commis- sion that such a condition probably would disrupt the car companies and that Washington is in no condition to dispense with these carriers. Mr. Suter pointed out that few propositions have ever received so unanimous approval as the one for a merger. “The merger,” he said, “has been agitated for years. I be- lieve that the public will be best served by a consolidated company and 1 know of no more reason for the existence of two competing car companies in Washington than for two competing gas companies.” Norton Ahead in Nebraska. OMAHA, November 3 (#).—J. N. Norton, Democrat, was steadily forg- ing ahead of Representative M. O. McLaughlin, Republican, in the fourth district. With only 49 of the district’s 234 precincts missing the vote stood: Norton, 22,617; McLaughlin, 21,240. The vote on the governship race, 1, precincts out of 1.968: McMul- len, 151,359; Bryan, 147,345. Bryan fol- v believe he has a good chance to overcome Gov. McMullen's lead when the remaining precincts, mostly rural, are recelved. REGAL TRAINNEARS MARYHILL MUSEUM Queen Marie Proceeds Today to. Dedicate Rumanian Room—Boy Gets Treat. By the Associated Prei SPOKANE, Wash., Noven\her 3. Queen Marfe was on her way to Mary: hill, Wash., early today to dedicate | the Rumamian room of ‘the Marvhill | Museum there. Samuel Hill, president | and builder of the museum, joined the official Rumanian party here last | night, and will be a leading figure when Queen Marie accomplishes her offical mission to this country. After the ceremonies the royal party will visit Portland, Oreg., and then turn back to Washington State, with stops at large cities scheduled. The Queen visited the offices of the Spokane Chronicle and the Assoclated Press last night to see how election returns are completed. After a recep- tlon she left for Maryhill on her spe- clal train, Small Boy’s Experience. A small boy may look at a queen— be carried away from his home for it. Lester Brown, 10, was found aboard Queen Marie's special train a few minutes after it had left Sand Point, Idaho, vesterday. He was in tears. He had slipped aboard the train as it slowed down for Sand Point, and had been unable to hop off as it passed the station because of the press of the crowd. Queenly armg comforted him and the royal candy was brought into play. e was the Queen’s guest until Spokane was reached. Marie herself telegraphed the boy’s parents. Queen Is Hostess. It read: “Please have no anxiety about Les- ter. He is dining with myself and my children, and I assure he will be returned to you at the earliest pos® sible moment and be taken care of until he is put in your hands by a representative of mine. We are happy to have him with us.” After playing bean bag with Prince Nicolas and Princess Ileana Lester dined with the royal famil: WOMEN OF VIRGINIA T0 PROTECT PLANTS Campaign Planned to Save Dog- wood and Evergreens From Depredations. P Backed by an enagtment of the Gen. eral Agsembly of the State, the Vir. nia Federation of Women's Clubs is king an intensive effort to protect dogwood and evergreens from the in roads of persons who cut shrubs from land without permission of the ow; Tn an appeal to the people of Wi ington to co-operate in the preserva- tion movement, Miss Katherine H. Stuart, chairman of the conservation department of the federation, declared rare plants are cut down In Vireinla and brought to the District of Colum bla for sale on the streets and mar- kets. The damage has heen great be- tween Alexandria and Mount Vernon, she said, and the depredations are ex tending southward. “The people of Washington." she said, “‘should help us in our effort to stem the tide.” The law enacted by the Virginia As- sembly to prevent this practice pro- vides, as follows: “That it shall be unlawful for any person to pick, pull, pull up, tear up, dig up, cut, break. injure, burn or destroy any tree, shrub. vine or turf growing or being upoi the land of an- other, or upon any land reserved. set aside or maintained by this State as a publio park or as a refuge or sanctu- ary for wild animals, birds or fish without having previously obtained permission in writing of such owner, his agent, tenant or lesses, or of the superintendent or custodian of such park, refuge or sanctuary so to do, unless the same be done under the personal direction of such owner, his agent, tenant or lessee, or superin- tendent or custodian of such park, refuge or sanctuary. “Any person violating this act shall be gullty of a misdemeanor, provided, however, that the approval of the owner, his agent, tenant or lessee, or the superintendent or custodian of such park or sanctuary afterwards glven in writing or in open court shall be a bar to further prosecution or suit.” o e s ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. Association of Oldest Inhabitants will meet, 7:30 o'clock, at Union En- gine House, Nineteenth and H streets. West Virginia Soclety will meet, § o'clock, at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets. Members in good standing will recelve tickets to the annual clder party to be held in Pythian Temple December 8. District of Columbia Public School Association will meet, 8 o’clock. boardroom of "the District Building. Subject: “What Are the Suffrage Needs of the District of Columbia?" The United Lodge of Theosophists at the Hill Building, Seventeenth and I streets, will hold a class meeting to continue the study of “The Ocean of Theosophy.” Public welcome. The Washingtort Society of Engi- neers, together with the American So- clety of Military Engineers, will meet, 8:15 o'clock, in assembly hall of the Cosmos Club. Gen. George L. A. Dumont, military attache of the French embassy, will speak. Buffet supper. The Congress Heights Citizens’ As- sociation will hold a rally meeting, 8 o'clock, at Congress Heights Method- ist Church. Addresses will be made by Commissioner Rudolph, Commis- sioner Bell and Commissioner Dough- erty. Every citizen of Comgress Heights invited. Municipal Council, Royal Arcanum, will meet at 503 Sevenht street. District Council, Royal Arcanum, will meet, 8 o'clock, in Pythian Temple to complete arrangements for the class jubilee, November 17. Lineal Society of the Spanish War will have a 500 card pazy in Pythian Temple, 8:30 o’clock. Kenneth H. Nash Post, o B American Legion, will hold a rally night at the Gavel Club headquarters, 718 Thirteenth street at 8 o'clock. Gen. Amos A. Fries, department com- mander of the American Legion, will be the honor guest. Comdr. Elliott A. Hunt urges all members of the post to be present. K. of C. Aids Cuban Storm Victims. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 3 (#).—The Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus yesterday for- warded a check for §5,000 to Enrique Hernandez Castaya, president of the storm relief committee at Havana, Cuba, it is announced here. , ' 'DUCE AND ASSAILANT STARED AS GUN JAMMED ON 2d SHOT Belated Graphic Dispatch Tells of Dramatic Hush That Fell on Throng. Boy Attacker, But 15, Wore Dark Shirt Bedecked With Military Honors. The following graphic. description of the ‘attempred assassination of Premier Mussolini - Sunday evening. written in Bo'oana _eary Monday by a siaff corre. spondent of ihe Associated Press, did not reach “this country until “yesterdan, apparentiy deiayed by the Iialian censor: ship. WBOLOGNA, Ttaly, November 1. (). —Premier Mussolinl escaped death twice within the space of several econds Sunday evening when the second attempt to assassinate him within six weeks failed. After a bullet fired at a distance of less than 20 inches miraculously missed the mark, ripping his coat sash, but harmlessly grazing his body, Premier Mussolini bodily whip- ped around toward the sound of the detonation, his piercing eyes trans- fixing his youthful assailant. Mussolini Deathly Pale. For a space of seconds the Premier, | with jaws tightly set and deathly pale, and the youth, with a smoking revolver in his right hand, remained staring in each other’s eyes, while a tomblike hush of astonishment fell upon the massed multitude, which a moment before had been screaming itself hoarse. Then the youth pull- ed the trigger the second time. His automatic pistol ed fire and it was torn from his hands by Dr. Italo Balbo and Deputy Ricel, who, recovering from a momentary paral- ysis of emazement, hurled themselve: at_him. 11 Duce arose from his seat and shouted, “'S*op, look, I am untouched.” But the boy—he was 15 years old —already had been punished. The triple,line of soldiers along the street broke under the pressure of the mob, impelled by a rage such as only an emotional Itallan assembly can feel. Each man seemed to want to be sure actually to paticipate in the destruc- n of him who dared to flaunt the Fascist battle cr; Woe to him who touches 11 Duce. Assailant Sees Failure. The assailant lived only long enough to realize that his attempt had failed. Three persons were seri- ously stabbed, one probably fatally, during the melee, while scores of others were brulsed. The bullet, after passing through Mussolini’s coat sash and the sleeve of the mayor of Bologna, struck a column in a nearby building. During the evening a rude placard with a commemorativeinscription was placed above the Spot. ‘A number of suspicious-looking per- sons were arrested on the theory that ccomplices had aided the premier’s assailant who later identified ‘Anteo Zamboni. The boy wo: a gray suit and a dark gray, black, shirt with a bronze military medal and other military decorations. The pistol he used was of the auto- matic Berretta tvpe widely used dur- ing the World W4 Woman Aids Police. young woman told the police that outh had annoyed her with his remarks until she was forced to give up her place on the edge of the crowd, almost within arm’s length of the premier’s automobile. Police consider it probable that the vouth originally intended to make an attack on the premier during the ter's recent visit to Genoa. In a conversation with a Fascist officer concerning the demonstration in Bologna before the arrival of the premier’s automobile, the youth re- vealed that he had witnessed the Genoese demonstration. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Park w Parent-Teacher As- )n will meet tomorrow, 2 p.m., hool. James Stewart will speak. The Sojourners’ Club, Chapter 3, will meet November 10, at 8 p.m., at the Colonial. This has been desig- nated “Leglon night,” in honor of Armistice day. Dr. William Wilbur of George Washington University, will give a Shakespeare evening, entitled “The Loneliness of Tragedy in Shake- speare,” tomorrow, 8:15 p.m., at the City Club. He will be assisted by Mrs. ‘Helen Corbin Henil, pianist, and Mrs. Dwight M. Young, contralto. The Quota Club will meeet at lunch- eon tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., at the Women's University Club, 1634 I street. Members of the National Story Tellers’ League, now holding its ninth annual conference at the May- flower, will be guests of the club. Stephen H. Talks, secretary of Retail Credit Men's Association, will be the principal speaker. Mrs. John G. Capers, is president of the organiza- tion. Chaumont Unit, American Women's Legion, will give its annual benefit card party tomorrow, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., at the Washington Club. The Phi Phi fraternity will give a dance Friday evening at the Cairo. The Cornell Club of Washington will hold a men's luncheon meeting tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., at the Harring- ton Hotel. Dr. Walter Porter White of Washington Geoph: al Labora- tory, will speak on “The Mechanics of Golf.” The Wasl meet Frida ub. ngton Round Table will 12:30 p.m., at the Uni- versity William M. Aitchison and Homer J. Councillor, members, will give their autobiographies. Esperanto class will meet tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., at Thomson School. Alpha Xi Deltas will meet Monday, at the home of Mrs. Luther 2210 Pennsylvania avenue. The District’ of Columbia Society, | Dames of the Loyal Legion, will meet tomorrow, 3:30 p.m., at the residence of its senfor vice president, Mrs. Wil- lard Holbrook, 1870 Wyoming avenue. Joseph H. Milans Lodge Chapter, No. 41, 0. E. S, will have its first visitation tomorrow evening at Ma- sonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast. President’s Own Garrison, No. 104/ Army and Navy Union, will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., in the board room of the District Building. faj. W. L. Peak, commander, anticipates a large muster-in cla The annual banquet and dance of the Theta Alpha Chi Sorority will be given November 15 at the La Fayette Hotel. Alpha Chi Sorority will have a subscription dance No- vember 24 at the Willard Hotel. The Wild Flower Preservation Society, which will hike Sunday from Point of Rocks to Leesburg, wil leave by bus Twelfth and Penns vania avenue at $:30 a.m. instead of b train, as'previously announced. Non ;nembcrs invited(.n‘lluke reservation rom secretary, veland §73-W, b Friday evening. 7 1 I €| 10 BENITO MUSSOLINL DUNMORE’S NIECE IS BAILED IN ITALY; ACCUSED AS “RED” _(Continued from First Page.) Lavoro were damaged, as also were the offices of the Gazzetino in Venice. By decree issued by the prefect of police in Rome, 12 opposition newspa- pers and two magazines have been re- fused permission to publish and the li- censes of several other organs were revoked. Ten persons have heen arrested and a large number of manifestos seized in connection with an alleged plot against the government. At Stenna 17 communists have been taken into custody. Stringent measures are being pre- pared for enforcement to discourase any further attempt on the life of Premler Mussolini or criticisms against his policies. Telegrams of congratulation for the premier's escape continue to arrive from all parts of Italy and from xn_countries. The number of the dispatches is without precedent. In view of the impossibility of answering them all, the premier today asked the press to acknowledge their receipt and_express his profound gratitude to the senders. 40,000 at Fascist Rites. SLIARI, Sardinia, November 3 (P)—Forty thousand persons today followed the bier of Fascist Porra, who was killed by an anti- t while ad- dressing a_crowd on the subject of the attempted assassination of Mussolini The fune: as made the occasion the greatest Fascist demonstration in the history of Sardinia. Milan Rioters Beat Two. MILAN, Italy, November 3 (#).—-In the disorders which broke out here after the attempt against Mussolini, two anti-Fascist journalists were taken to the hospital injured, the homes of well known anti-Fascists were wrecked and the headquarters of the General Confederafjion of Labor was set afire. The police made many ar- rests. POLIGE GO AFTER GIRL AND HUSBAND Man Who Married Bride, 12, Accused of Abduction by Her Father. Armed with a warrant charging ab- duction, Curtis Campbell, detectiv and Policewoman Juanita. C. Whitne of the Women’s Bureau left Washin ton today for Cumberland, Md., in an cffort to bring back Edward Martin, railroad brakeman, bride, the former abeth Nowlin, sixth grade Peyton Nowlin, father of the girl, swore out a_warrant charging abduc- tion of his daughter by Martin. He had been informed Monday night by telegram that Katherine and Martin had been marrfed that aiternoon in Cumberland. ,The girl left home Mon- day morning, ,ostensibly to go to school. By 4:30 that afternoon, she had been married to Martin, the Star correspondent at Cumberland report- ing that her age was given as 18 in the application for the marriage lic- ense. To Probe Marriage. Cumberland _authorities. were requested by the local police women’s bureau to investigats the circumstances surroundins the mam riage. Mr. Nowlin told police that he would speedily move to have the mar- riage annulled. Special Dispatch to The Star. ar-old Katherine Elizabeth k Washington and Charles Martin, 31, to whom she was mag: lnnl here Mon v, will be turned joose if Washington alithorities do not appear and make a charge against them, Chief of Police Oscar A. Eyer- man said. Eyerman Insisted he had nothing to hold them for.- He sald that they have been very well behaved while in custody and kave shown the greatest affection for each other. | The disparity in ages does not ap- pear In looking at the couple. The zirl weighs 10 pounds more than her husband. The marriage license clerk said that she looked to be at least 18 when the couple applied for a permit to marry. Planning for Home. Martin today told of meeting the igirl by appointment at Massachusetts ,avenue and Tweifth street, and taking the train to Cumberland, where they secured a license at once and went to the home of Rev. C. Roscoe Stra burg, pastor of the First Methodi: Protestant Church, ivho performed the ceremony. They spent Monday night in the rooming house where the police found them. Katherine’s father is expected here today. Meantime the police have | been trying to make things comfort- ) able for the couple at police head- quarters in Clty Hall, rather than take them to cells in the police sta- tion. The girl insists she wants to stay {with her husband. He is a dapper- looking young man, slightly deaf, who has been a brakeman on the B. & O. Railroad for six years. They intend fo set up housekeeping here, if the law does not interfere. Attorney J. Philip Roman, attorney for Martin, says he will fizht extra- dition, if Katherine really wants to stay with her husband. The girl herself, of stocky {and with bobbed blond hair. talks |like a mature woman. “We have | been in love for some time, and de. cided to get married.” she said. “It was all _planned, and I came with him to Cumberland because I wanted to, and I want to remain here, where we can have a home.” build and | INGTON SEEKS CHANGE OF RULE Civic Body Creates Commis- sion to Study Govern- ment Plan. m l Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., November 3. Favoring a change in the form of county government and providing for creation of a_commission to study the | governmental requirements “of & community that has long since lost | its_character as a rural community and is fast becoming a city,” a reso- ! lution was unanimously adopted by the Arlington County Civic Federation | at_its monthly meeting last night. The form of government, the resolution citles, is no longer ade- quate to meet the | prosperity and characte: ¥ which is to be” is being dafly im periled by the I ., on the part of ex isting agencles of government, of ade quate and proper governmental pow- ers to direct and control the physical growth and development of the com munity. The commission is directed by the resolution to take under consideration three plans for effecting change. “First, incorporation as a city under the present laws of the ; second, enlargement, through legis the powers of the present agen county government; third, the secur- ing from the Genernl Assembly of a special charter form of government desfgned to carry the county throush its present stage of transition fron the rural to an urban community.” Commission Given Name. “The Arlington County Better Loca Government Commission' is the name given the new body by the resolution It will consist of seven members from each the Arlington County, Civl Federation and the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce; the State Senator from the district and the member of the House of Delegates from Arlington County. The resolution turther provides that “the delegates from the Civic Federa- tion shall consist of the president and six others to be appointed by him within one week.” The chairman is instructed to promptly call the dele gation 1t her and take necessary steps to secure concurre in the resolution of the other parties con- cerned. The resolution W offered by Arthur Orr. 3 Primarily for the purpose of stimu lating interest in the “orgapized ci zenship” drive to be inaugurated simuitaneously in Arlington and Montzomery Counties and Washing ton. D. C., November 13 to 20, Jesse C. Suter, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations of the Dis triet of Columbia, and Edwin 8. Hege, a member, addressed the meet. ing. The movement is a creature of the Interfederation conference, of which both Mr. Suter and Mr. Hege are members. Great Results Seen. A wonderful organization has been perfected for the drive, Mr. Suter stated, and great results are assured. Leaders in the movement, he said, are determined that all communities in the greater metropolitan nrea of Washington shall have real live citl zens' assoclations, whose activities will be reflected in the various elvie federations. ‘“Every citizen 21 years of age or over will be our prey,” Mr. Suter declared, d it is my firm bellef that when this drive is over those who have not joined will be looked upon as curiosities. Speaking of the interfederation conference, Mr. Suter said that the interchange of id nade possible by formation of the nization will serve to eliminate any chance of mis understanding hetween localitles in greater Washington and create har- monious relations that will be of great benefit to all. Col. James G. Pepper was appointed to the local federation's membership drive clearing house committee, tak- ing the place of Mrs. Catharine M. Rogers, who resigned. Other members are Charles F. Kincheloe, Mrs. Clauda S. Semones and John McGrath. Resolution on Signboards. Following a claim that the Civic Federation has been blocked in its fight to rid the county of advertising gnboards by o n officials, who have appeared as counsel for sign- hoard companies to fight ordinances designed to check the so-called nuf sance, the meeting adopted the fol- lowing resolution: “Resolved that the federation reaf- firm its determination to get rid of signboards_in Arlington County, and to accomplish such end will oppose n of any candidate not in with the federation's views in the matter” Walter U. Varney was appointed chairman of the sign- hoard committee to succeed Frank G. Campbell, who resigned. Mrs. Florence E. Cannon was added to the com- mittee. Mr. Campbell, J. Cloyd Byars and Maj. E. W. Cushing were named to represent the federation at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at which Maj. Carey Brown of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis ston will speak, to be held in_ the chamber’s offices in Clarendon, Mon- day afternoon at 4:3 3 Juries of Virgin lled on to impose the maximum punishment for highway robbery by a resolution of- fered by Mr. Camphell and adopted. CAPT. HAYES RETIRED. Former Capital Resident Suffers | Disability From War. Capt. Henry J. Hayes, Army Medi cal Corps, recently stationed in Rich | mond, Va. has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of disabllity following service in the | World War. He is from Virginia and was in the Medical Corps. Organized Reserves, from July, 1917, until February. 1918, when he was promoted major Medical Corps in the National Army. He was transferred to the regular es tablishment and was made a captain In August, 1920. -He was a resident of this city for many years. Serves as Guide 50 Years. LONDON, November 3 (#).—Wil liam Skinger, head verger of St. Paul's Cathedral, who has been on the job 50 vears showing sightseers about, es timates he has answered more than 500,000 Guestions, one-fifth of which perhaps were asked by Americans. Mr. Skinner is better known to visltors than to Londoners, as comparatively |few in the city ever visit the Cathe dral for sightseeing purposes. ol . , Taxi Driver Reports Hold-Up. Zdward Smith, taxicab driver, of 1103 New Hampshire nue, reported | to police today that he had been held up and robbed early this morning by an unidentified passenger, who re lieved him of $7.80 and then forced him to drive about the city, ending up at the scene of the hold-up, at Neal place and Orren street northeast. - BAND CONCERT TOMORROW. By the United States Soldiers Home Band Orchestra at Stanley Hall, 545 o'clock, John S. M. Zim- mermann, leader; Emil A. Fenstad, second leader §