Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. A HONOR UNKNOWN A. Fries, commander of the Americg known Soldier at Arlin, annual pilgri R S THEY ARE NOT ALL by name. not only is admitted to Fenno Flliott of Hyannis, Mas: image to the tomb a! n Legion Depart gton National Ceme tery yesterd: fter their exercises at Keith's Theate: his pet skunk, Che-Che the family circle of Mr. and Mrs. but_has earned a strong claim on their affections since he was picked up by mistake for a kitten when he was only a tiny bit of fur. Wide World Photos, SOLDIER ON ARMISTICE DAY. Maj. Gen. "Amos t, placing a wreath on the tomb The Legion members made their Wide World: {Photos. LA PLATA PERFORMS LAST toically tur r-old La Vega Martin, one of ed to the sorrowful task of b on the little schoolhouse, taking the liv NO PLACING PRI DENTIAL Allen, military aide to President C: Ci RITES FOR ITS 0 DEAD, of f the school victims, many pupils. WREATH ON wreath- on_the tomb of fhe Unknown ' Sol ) ahsence from the Capital to dedicate the Liberty Memorial in Kansas TOMES. Capt. kheven € ldze, placing the Chief Executive’ Soldier yesterday durin Copyr t by P. & A. The little Maryiand town yester ng the victims of Tuesday's tornado which centered its The shown being borne from the ket - containing_the hody of ed Heart Church. Washington & RADIOS TO CARRY PLEA FOR CAPITAL WIJZ of New York to Join With| WRC in Broadcasting for D. C. Representation. powerful WJZ radin station v York will be linked with WRC o'clock tomorrow night in hroad- casting to the country Washington's plea for national representation. | Through these two stations the | City Club. 1320 eet. hopes to send | its program on behalf of the votelees District of Columbia inta the homes of | thousands of voting American citizens in_the States Undoubtedly a large those outside Washington who tune in on this program will learn for the first time that there is in the United States a city of 500,000 people de- prived of representatives in the Na tional Legislature and with no voice | in the election of President and \° ce | President Public's Attendance ght., With the event onlv one day off, of ficers of the City Clubh emphasized again that it i< not exclusively a broadcasting occasion, hut a mass meeting to which the public generally i invited. It i the hope of the com. mittee on arrengements that the andi torium of the ciub will be crowded with Washingtonians, giving inspira number of tion by their presence to the speakers | who are prepared to show the country the justice of the District’s claim to National representation. Those who will make the appeals are Edwin C. Brandenburg. Charles W. Darr. Mrs. Anna E. Hendlev, Ed ward F. McGrady and John J. Dev- iny. Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan. pres- ident of the City Club, will make a brief introductory address. Beginning at 7 o'clock there will be a 15minute concert by the Army Band. The speaking will start prompily at 713 and the entire pro- gram Is expected to be over by 8:30. M. A. Leese. president of the Cham- ber of Commerce, today added another word of commendation to offi- cials of the City Club for' conceiving the plan for the meeting with ar- rangements to broadcast it across the land by radio. Mr. Leese emphasized the value of arousing the country to the disfranchised condition of the Dis. trict in order that the millions of vot- ing Americans may help Washington in its fight. People's Support Needed. Familiarizing the Nation with the sitnation alto is important for the reason that the constitutional amend- ment by which Congress would be empowered to extend representation to the District would go before the States Legislatures for ratification. Mr. Leese stressed the point that if Washington had its own represen- tatives in the Senate and House, they could be assigned to the Distriet com- mittees of Congress to keep watch on | the purely local legislation that Con- gress must enact for the 300,000 resi- dents of the clty The action of Congress in depart- ing, & few vears ago. from the time ono nnciyle of ma aning the honored p RlsAining the st Gov loee as L for direct Connecticut Man Holds $30 U. S. Bill Put Out in 1778 Br the Associated Prese. NEW BRITAIN, Conn.. Novem- ber 12.—A bona fide $30 bill is held by Bernard L. Hoppe of this city. Locgl banking houses pronounce it authentic, and Hoppe has re- fused many times its face value. The note, dated September 26, 1778, and signed by “A. Lawrence, Secretary of the TUnited States Treasury,” is numbered 217305. It is about one-fourth the size of a modern dollar bill. Bankers .say it is still legal tender. FOREIGN SCHOOLS HIT BY CANTONESE ORDER Native Chinese Put in Responsible Positions and Other Drastic Changes Decreed. By the Associated Press. CANTON, November 12.—Drastic changes In the management and op- eration of missionary and other for- | eign schools are contemplated in an order issued by the Nationalist, or Cantonese, government. This govern | ment controls affairs in the provinces of Kwangtung and Kwansi, and ex- i a somewhat shaky dominion veral others. Whether it will be able to enforce its regulations for | foreign schools remains to be seen. The government's order directs that A board of trustees shall he responsi- ble for the maintenance of any pri. vate school and that the board shali be composed entirely of Chine: ex- cept that In special cases foreigners may act as advisers. Foreigners mayv not he principals or presidents of private schools, but under certain conditions a foreigner | may act as adviser. Teachers shall | be engaged and dismissed by the | principal. | Pupils cannot he required to study | religious subjects, states the order, nor will religious propaganda be al. lowed during a lesson in a required subject. Religlous propaganda, how- ever. in an elective subject or aside {from the curriculum s not object |able to the government. Private {schools must not compel students to |attend or participate in religious services. All private schools are ordered to register with the government | of his brotherinlaw, Everett Heath | Sues to Annal Marraige. ‘ Suit to annul his marriage has been filed by Ralph McCulloch against | Grace L. McCulloch, te whem he was | married February 20, 1920. The plain- tff says he learned his wife had not been divorced from Raymond Stone at the time of the marriage. He left her July, 1921, he states. Attorney Bertrand Emerson appears for the | petitioner. representation for the District in the law-making body. “The City Club’s endeavor has opened the way to keep up the driv for national representation.” said Mr. y Leese. “It will come, and the day is net far distant when Washington, as a voteless city, will.be found only in history. T n | DEDICATING THE NEW BAR NARD SCHOOL ¥ ' TERDAY AFTER NOON. Ceremonies at the dedication of the new public school at Fifth and Decatur streets, with A. L. Harris, municipal architect, presenting the key of the school to Miss Abbie Hopkins, principal VEMBER 12, 1926. British embassy placing a_wrea! naval attache at the embass; Oren Coleman, World War vete and college duate, who, as the new sheriff, shouldered the Job of ridding Williamson County and Herri of their bloody World Photos GREAT BRITAIN PAYS TRIBUTE TO AMERICA tet opkinson, represent ing the British Aml # IN THE Louise H at the third anni School, under the UNKNOWN SOLDIER. A delegation from the In the group, left to and Capt. A. Stopford, t by Harris & Ewing. vesterday bassador, Copyr HARVEST F nter, in the costume of the Chinese d give il harvest festival tomorrow night at Central High pices of the Community Center Departmen Washington Star Photo, Washington Star Phato, INDIAN OPERA, “WINONA,” ACCLAIMED IN OREGON Story Voices Spirit of Red Man, But Aveids Tom-Tom Suggestion. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., November 12.— The premiere of the opera “Winona™ | was acclaimed by a_crowded house at | the Municipal Auditorium here last | night. It was written by Perry S. Willlams of Minneapolis and set to music by Alberto Bimbini. The story of the Indian maid, Wi- t | i | | score that voiced the spirit of the In- {dians, but avoided any suggestion of a tom-tom offect. The opera was elaborately produced by the American Grand Opera Co. of Portland. Scenery depicting the shores of Lake Pepin, formed by the widening of the Mississippl River between Wis- consin and Minnesota, and the fa- mous Maiden Rock, from which Winona leaped to a tragic end, formed the background. i FREE SHAVES OFFERED. | Barbers Decide to "Stage ‘“Look, Your-Best” Week. DES MOINES, Iowa, November 12 UP).—A “look-your-best week.” with free service to those who lack the funds, is planned by the Master Bar- bers' Association as a means of im- pressing men with the thought’ that proper grooming pavs big dividends The date for the free halrcuts, shaves, shampoos and massages will be an nounced by a special committee, The master - barbers have also frowned upon tipping, byt left the action of eliminating- hénorafiums to the journeyman barbers.” Detroit was aamad-aa the 1921 convention city, {nona, was embellished hy a melodious | {Houdini Wills Magic By the Ascociated Py NEW YORK, November 12.—Harry Houdini willed his magic secrets and fllusions to his brother. Dr. Theodore Franz Weiss, known to the stage as Hardeen, with the proviso that the apparatus for performing them be de- stroved upon the brother's death. ‘The bequest is made in a will filed vesterday. The will gives the bullg of the stage magician's $500,000 collec- tion of books to the Library of Con- gress in Washington, provided the | gift is credited to the donor. The ma- gician, known as an exposer of fraudu- Secrets to Brother; Apparatus Must Be Destroyed at Death lent mediums, left his hooks on spir- ftualism and occultism to the Ameri- can Society for Psychical Research, The size of Houdini's estate is not indicated, but his widow, brothers and His widow, Mrs, Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini, is executrix and heir to his dramatic library. Houdini, formerly FErnest Weiss, stipulated that none of his. estate should “ever directly or indirectly go to Sadie Glantz Weiss, the divorced wife of my brother, Joseph Nathan Weiss, ané the present wife of my | brother, Dr. Leopold Nathan Weiss. $200,000 LOVE SUIT ENDS Case of Montana Farmer Settled Out of Court. BILLINGS, Mont., November 12 (®).—The $200,000 damage suit of Frank Gottlob, farmer. against Walter Hill of St. Paul, Chicago and the Ballatin Valley, Mont., based on alle- gations of alienating the affections of Mrs. Gottlob several vears ago, has been settled out of court and dis- missed with prejudice, according to word received by counsel for Gottlob here. ) The dismissal was entered on the District Court. records at this week. As dismissed, the case can- not be renewed by Gottlob. Ordered to Fort Hayes. Lieut. Col. Shelby C. Leasure, U. §. Infantry, has been relieved from duty ; at Boston and ordered to Fort Haye Ohio, fer duty with Organized R B 1 Livingston | New York Woman to Address Jew- ish Community Center Forum. The Jewish Community Center w N2 its second meeting in the Na {tonal Fofum Monday night, with Mrs. Irma Lindheim of New York, na- tional president of Haddasah, as chief speaker. A s by Leroy Lewis. Mrs. Lindheim is the newly elected president of the Woman's Zionist Or- ganization of America, which main tains a series of hospitals, clinics and infant welfare stations in Palestine, and which administers to the entire population of the Holy Land without regard to race or creed. Mrs. Lindheim is the only woman |ever admitied as a regular |to the Jewish Institute of Religion | with the right to qualify as rabbi. s Life seema to be largely divided be. tween worry over two tubes—inner and radio, says the Howard Couranty 1 sister are the principal beneficiaries. | iMRS. LINDHEIM TO SPEAK. rt recital will be given \ student | o 2 ks i BISHOP OF LONDON PLAYS| WITH U. S. TENNIS STARS | Loses Two Games, Paired First With Helen Wills and Then William Johnston. | By the Associated Press. | OAKLAND. Calif., November 12 Discarding the ecclesiastical raiment for a suit of white flannels, Right Hon. and Right Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Lord Bishop of | | London, crossed racquets on the ten- I nis court with two foremost American | stars—Helen Wills and William John- ston. Paired with Miss Wills, bishop was on the Johnston and Dr. | former champion, 4 After that match he played with ! | Johnston against Miss = Wills and Hardy, and again was on the losing side, 46, “I think this the longest session of tennis I ever had on hard courts,” he said. “I'll know better tomorrow | how T liked it.” | The lora bishop is 68 years old. the lora | losing end to Sumner Hardy, a 6, 2—6. | | Church to Hold Bazaar. The annual bazaar and turkey din- ner of the Rhode Island Avenue M. P. Church, First street and Rhode | Island avenue, will be held Thursday |and Friday, under_the chairmanship of Mrs. Arthur J. Richards, who has | appointed the following committee: Mrs. Harry L. Strang. dinner; Mrs Robert M. Yost, fancy work: Mrs. John Ditzler. candy: Mrfs. Charles A. Fenner, cake: Mrs. R. L. Pile, ice cream; Miss Elizabeth Hyde, aprons, and Mrs. Mary A. Foltz, fish pond. 1Deaths From Autos {CONSULS’ DUTIES DEFINED | In 20-Year Period Exceed War’s Toll By the Associated Presa. In a study of the increasing death rate due to ahtomobile oper- ation in the United States, a com- mittee of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety es- timated yvesterday that deaths from this cause had excecded American Army I ps in the “orld War. Approximately 163,000 persons have lost their lives in this man- ner in the la: 20 vears, and it was estimated that if the present rate should continue for the next 20 years the death losses from au tomobile operation will be 110,000 persons. SUSPECTED IN DEATH | OF BROTHER-IN-LAW | Cincinnati Man Arrested Following Discovery of Body in River of Supposed Bootleg Victim. X rio, November 12.— arrested Edward Lovelace of Cineinnati for questioning in the death | of his brother-in-law, Everett Heath, | of Wavnesburg, Kyv.. whose body, weighed down by a heavy stone, was | found in the Ohin River here. | On the theory that Heath was slain | by moonshiners operating by across the river from Kentucky, an thorities are looking for his associates. The police were informed that the sheriff at Wayneshurg holds a war- | rant for the arrest of Lovelace on a | liquor charge. Lovelace denied that he was wanted, but he admitted to | authorities his brother-inlaw had | been involved in liquor law violations. | Lovelace identified Heath's body to- day. Work of Handling Estates Abroad Outlined in Order. ; Specific duties of United States | consular officers in*handling the per- | sonal effects of Americafl citizens | dving in foreign countries are defined {in an executive order issued by 'hnl President so as to avoid conflict with | the laws of foreign countries. Under the new’ regulations, in the absence of legal representatives, the consular officers will take full posses- and make an inventory of such make such settlements as are and sell the residue at the tion of one yvear from the date The balance of the estate, v, is to be held in trust by the Treasury for the legal claimant. All deaths of Americans abroad are to he gazetted in the consular district in which they occur and reported to the Sfate Department, together with a complete inventory of the estate. According to_the ‘executive order, the function of the consul in such cases is auxiliary to that of the domiciliary administrator and his aue thority relates only to the property and debts in the foreign country where the decedent died. The Christian Endeavor Society booth will be in charge of Miss Pauline Shnemaker. Dinner will be uz;adkgmémxim- Many a man who {sn't & coward i§ atraid of wnqunmg‘ TAX RELIEF GETS SETBACK N HOUSE Ways and Means Committee to Take Un Alien Property Bill First, Says Green. The House ways and means com- mittee, meeting next Monday, will take up first the bill providing for m. mediate return of all alien propebty still held by the Government before { it _considers the Coolidge-Mellon ptro- posal for tax relief. % i This was indicated hy Chairman Green of the committee, who re. turned to Washington vesterday from Towa, and conferred with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Mr. Green ap- peared none too optimistic because of the prospect of a tax battle at the approaching session, and it was un derstood he painted a rather gloomy picture to Secretary Mellon of the ob tax legislation may face in airman indicated he would study the administration’s plan to re turn this fiscal year's surplus by means of a tax credit, and may have a statement to make shortly. During his visit he obtained information on the condition of the Treasury which had led Secretary Mellon to prediet a credit of 25 per cent could bs made in the income tax payments due next | March and June. Mr. Green, however, held brighter views concerning the alien property hill, and_he invited Secretary Mellon and Wndersecretary Winston to ap. pear hefore his committes next week and outline the stand of the adminis- tration on the proposal Consideration of the ‘alien property bill may delay committee action on the tax credit proposal until December and probably would not permit final action by the House before January, which wonld leave only twe months for the Senate to fight over the prab. lem and for the two houses to work out their differences. Like the Treasury, Mr. lieves it is not Gireen bhe. feasible to go ahead now on a program for permanent downward revision of the tax rates, and he will insist that this go over until next session. S Marine Corps Changes. Lieut. Col. F. J. Schwable, at Parris Teland. 8. C.. has been ordered to duty with the Marine detachment at the United States legation, Peking, China, and will sail from San Franciseo Jan. uary 15 s Maj. E. A. Osterman has heen trans- ferred from the battleship Wyoming to the battleship Texas; First Lient. H. M. H. Fleming, from Quantico, Va., to the cruiger Antares, and First Lieut. F. L. Buchanan, from Charles. ton. W. Va.. to Quantico. First Lieut. L. F. Knorr was s missed November 3, according to the published orders. Hodge's Cafeteria Burxitmpt Hodge's, Inc., cafeteria, 1510 Four- teenth street. and George €. Hodge, individually, have filed separate peti tions in voluntary bankruptey. The debts of the corporation are given am 94, with assets of $35537. THe individual schedule shows debts of $46,940.19, with assets of $17,000. At torney R. B. Dickey filed the pgpers.