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L “ERANCE’S STAND ON CHINA THE E NG STAR, WASHINGTO D. 0, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1927 ATTACHE'S VERSION OF ROW IS GIVEN Serbian Says Eldridge Tried. to Prevent Him From Get- ting Parking Space. Dushan S. Sekulitch, chief clerk of the Serbian legation, whose arzument with Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge on Christmas eve over parking space on Thirteenth street resulted in the filing of a formal complaint against him with the State Depart- ment, gave his version of the affair today. Mr. Eldridge charged that the diplomat used abusive language and struck at him, and the diplomat re- taliated with the statement that the traffic director used unfair and un- generous tactics. The story of the dispute as told by the diplomat follows: “I was proceeding along Thirteenth street between F and G streets on De-) cember 24 about 9 o'clock in the morning. Perceiving a parking space for my automobile I attempted to enter it, but was prevented because of another machine close behind me “T courteously asked the driver of this car to move back a foot or so in order to enable me to park, but he refused to do so. He apparently wished the place himself and was un- reven generous enough to wish to pr Instead of assisting. his horn loudly and 1 then my securing it. he kept honking shouting for me to move on. endeavored to park. 5 “It was at this point that Mr. Eld- ridge, although I had not the remotest idea of his identity, leaped from his machine and rushed up to me, plac ing his hand on my arm. When I made a movement and he saw 1 was getting angry he jumped back. T do Tot recall using any language which any other man would not have used in similar circumstances. Spectators of the affair agreed that I was entirely in the right “When I returned to my legation I of course, made a complete report of | the trouble, several persons having in the meantime informed me of Mr. Eldridge’s identity. Had I known who | he was I would have shown him my | rmit, but he sald nothing about his ing traffic director and displayed no badge of authority. I consider that T was entirely justified in my actions | _ and I believe all fair-minded persons S vaens NELHERIS NANED ro s i opera Hee. EPUTY FIRE CHIEF Samossond Will Present “Madame | Butterfly,” With Metropoli- | Succeeds Andrew J. Sullivan fann in Engineer’s Post—Retired Veteran Had Long Service. livan, who retired yesterday. Below: James Keliher, whose promo- | to deputy chief was announce terday. Thalia Sabineva, soprano; Mario Chamiee, tenor, and Clarence White- hill, basso, all leading singers of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will sing the | principal roles in the production of | grew J. Sullivan has heen filled in | appointment of a lon Chief n- B e o [Eeaue e o for 3 past four vears, has ed the position ductor, until recently, conductor of | of acting deputy chief engineer. th:l:Vush.l;fir;“(;pe:m%}md i ln1n lv':ter to Chief Sullivan, ap- : roving his request Kiaht- kst the chorkis of the produc- | ts Gioar isslones: calt tion and smaller roles in it would be | “It i ywith a feeling of deep regret sung by )‘n\:l;l -lr}xeir- of “uhmg- that the Commissioners have ap- g.':en:”vv :mwmu-ahc;:“eda‘ o:l!l:fl&cfi Frove«[ih yv;_\;r P&quut for retirement ; rom the Fire Department for some time have been developing R operatic material here. ez ped o Tepmty: The earlier plan of Mr. Samoussoud Your. honorable service of more 1o open his independent activities with | than 47 years, with its history of & concert by a symphony orchestra |SPlendid Achievements, constitutes a early ihis month was postponed for | Wonderful ‘record of faithfuiness, Soveral reasoms. According to An.|lovalty and efficiency that will not thony Celfo, vice president of the Mu- | 800N be equaled. z siclans’ Union, Mr. Semoussoud has a | _“On behalf of the citizens of Wash- Drior Tight o the men that make up | InSton, the Commissioners express to e “locsl symphony and opera. or.|You their thanks and appreciation, chestra for rehearsals, but, and trust that you may enjoy for due to S h the conflict between rehearsals for the | Many years the peace, comfort and rest you have so nobly earned. concert of Russian music as planned i Sl Tehedreals “for the omr‘: “La| Chief George 8. Watson said: “He Boheme,” to be sung by the Wash- has been a steady, able fireman of ington Opera Co. January 10, Mr, | sturdy courage and skill in fire-fight- Samouseoud withdrew his prior rights | D€, born of long experience—one of wnd il rehearse his orchestra and | the last of the old-time firemen. For give his symphony concert program | the past four years he has done noth- shortly after the production of -But. | ing but respond to extra-alarm fires, terfly” instead of early in the month, | holding himeelf in reserve to help me \ @s previously announced. Mr. Celfo | in hard fights. also denied rumors that there had New Deputy's Record. been any discussion of the orchestra " men giving a number of free re- mmz‘ '01:; h‘:"-\f""csm' < oh. | 8RS, becoming assistant foreman ni Mr. Samoussoud said, | two years later and foreman in 1893. when discussing the practical aspocts | In 1302 he became acting assistant ¢ his plan for the production of Puc- | chief engineer, obtaining full rank in “eini's popular opera, that all costumes | that capacity a year later. and scenery will be loaned the local | ‘company by the Metropolitan Opera | battalion chief engineer. He was 2 Co. in New York City. | awarded a ribbon decoration for work The vacancy made hy the retire- ment of Deputy Chief Engineer An- retirement, The old. He joined the Fire Department | roof @t the Knickerbocker Theater, and in 1925 was commended by the fire. - IS APPROVED BY JAPAN SRR ‘Ahtention From Any Interference } PRES'DENT STR‘KES in Internal Affairs Indorsed, fix. Briand Is Assured. By ssociated Press. | 5 S, January 1.—France's pol- | (Continued from First Page.) fey ‘abstention from any interfer. is not at all unlikely that some of 2 . the volunteer diplomats may have #mce in the internal affairs of China | {16 FOUTIEC T ohecives” to open As approved by Japan, Ambassador | Ishil is understod to have informed M. “Brind, the foreign minister, yesterday. M. Briand considered his conference Uwith the Japanese envoy o important that he falled to attend the session of the cabinet. Instructions recently French_diplomatic that the such a step. Executive Directs Policy. The President further pointed out sent to the representatives at Government is different the various capitals set forth France's pean governments, which, he is in intention of keeping her hands off Chi- |clined to think, is why European nese affairs. The policy of the French | countries, even officials, are so fre- foreign office was definitely stated in the instructions that “it’ would be wiser to wait untll the present crisis is over in order to be able to negotiate With authorities really representative of the Chinese people.” CAPT. H. C. LYONS DEAD. Capt. Harold C. Lyon: old, Engincer Corps, U. & served as a first lieutenant in the| 20th Engineers, which trained at American University in 1917, died at ‘Walter Reed Hospital Thursday after +a long illness. lie later served with the same outhit overseas, being pro- moted to captain August 10, 1918. Capt. Lyons was made a captain in the Engineer Corps of the Regular Army July 1, 1920. His last station Was at the Carnegie Institute of Tech- nology, Pittsburgh, Pa.. where he was | Da Ay Tith the Beserve, Oflcee' | MONEREIAL, Waniary ol 0P He is sur\'t\'e‘d by his widow, Mrs. | John J. Tigert, United States Com. R oy » Mrs. | iesioner of Education, The bodys was taken vesterday to | Dresident of the Fhi Yonkers, N. Y., for interment. American nection. He called attention of with recognition garding rests solely countries gress has with matters of this kind. 43 years A.. who who heard the President that h earnest appeal to the press is unmis policy of protecting American and property ragua. TIGERT IS del;fiED. | sion of the thirty-eighth biennial con vention yesterday Vanderbilt University, at Strictly One-Horse Town. auto. The village is up in the Cas- | 1928. The fraternity agreed West Virginia, at Morgantown. roads and would, therefore, be prop erly shunned by motorists. The only of one of the mountain streams. There 18 one buggy in the town, but | Allentown, Pa.. it is seldom used general -council. Upper: Deputy Chief Andrew J. Sul- tion from acting deputy chief engineer yes- new deputy chief is 69 years In 1908 he was promoted to first | in connection with the collapse of the Commissioners for work at Kann's LOOSE TALK ABROAD —— | negotiations, or at least to have ex- pressed themselves in such a manner as to give some cause for the belief nited States was considering that the organization of the American from Furo- quently misled by statements made by citizens of no official con- to the fact that the diplomatic relations’ of the United States are entirely in the hands of the executive branch of the Government and that all matters re- foreign the ex- ecutives, and that the American Con- nothing whatever to do The impression was gained by those takable evidence of the determination of his administration to carry out its lives in Mexico and Nica- was elected Delta Theta National Fraternity at the closing ses- Nashville, Tenn., from which the new president There is a town In Washington | was graduated, was selected as the State that has never yet seen an | next meeting place, in December lnr to in- cade Mountains and has virtually no |stall a chapter at the University. of Henry K. Urfon of Chicago, Henry (southeast, $78.06; Mamie E. B. Helder, Ford the citizens know is in the bed |H. Davis of Toronto, George Banta, jr. | 2945 Upton, $4.50; Jullet L. Harrison, | of Menasha, Wis.,, and R. E. Haas of were elected to the 571,551 TAX REFUND FOR RAINEY ESTATE {Other Claims Allowed in D. C. | Scale Down to Less Than 1 One Dollar. The estata of Paul I. Rainey, who gained Nation-wide fame through his motion pictures of wild life taken on | his 1910 and 1914 expeditions into the Arctic region, Africa and India, re-' celved $71,551.98 as a result of the | income tax refunds made during the fiscal year ended last June, it was re- vealed at the House Office Building ysterday, where the records have been piaced at the disposal of the public. Tho refund was obtalned for Mrs. Grace Ralney Rogers, executrix of the estate, by Walter A. Staub and Marvin Haynes, local attorneys. This is one of the largest claims obtained by local lawyers, who, it is estimated, have been instrumental in the return of more than $5.000,000 for their clients. most of whom live out side of the city. Following is a list of additional re. funds made to Washingtonians and | local business firms: List of Refunds. Avie M. Allen, 914 Longfellow street, $2.23: 1. B. Allison. 2128 Cali- nia street, $101.59; Charles B. Aus- $1 060 Q street, Anna L. A. M. Hannay, Hazel V. e stretched several blocks. Jones and Troy J. Butler, who headed the line street, $1.48: Ruth Mae Hansford, The Olvmpia, $1.65: C. R. Hugino, 26 Jack Harry Lee Brown, 132 East Capitol S0n place. $7.32; Maj. Gen. J. L. street, $107.17: Lotise H. Barher, 10 Hines, chief of staff, $144; Harrls and Tenth street southeast. $3.56; Frances | EWing, Inc, 1311 F street, $175.97. 23 Seventeenth street, $184 | P. Blair, Colorado Building 40; Dr 1; Henry E. Blake, 3112 O street, $2.10: De e 54 Forest Ballou, jr., 1208 nnl‘l, treet, dellefl’s Getn §14,182.21, Helen Bell, 1801 K street, Harry W. Hahn, 2812 Twenty- Herbert G. Bruncken, 2127 (i seventh street, §144.86; Harry Hahn, $4.97; Charles W. Bohannon, 2812 Twenty-seventh street, $155.65; 323 Twelfth street southwest. $14.28: S Halle Sons, Inc., credit John Byrd, George W. Burdette, 233 Twelfth |attorney, $1,701.12; Charles B. Howry, street northeast, $6.26: J. W. Bowman. | 633 Woodward Building, $474.44: Clifton Terrace, $1.17; Cesarino del | Comdr. Andrew S. Hickey, Navy De- Blanco, 134.F street, $3.59; William | partment, $100.53; Gen. Mark L. Her- Briggs. * 237 Ninth street northeast, |sey, 2714 Cathedral avenue, $107.43 $2.17; George F. Baker, Washington |Charles T. Harris, jr., 1814 3elmont Lofn and Trust Building, cents; | road, $120.61; Col. Guy V. Henry, War Mary St. Blackburn, 3313 Seven-|Department, $100.44; Peter C. Harris, teenth street, § Mr. and Mrs. Al |the Highlands, $114.71; Hausler & Co., den F. Brewster, 3410 Quebec street, 903 F street, $350.21; Sallie R. Hitt, $69.55 11501 New Hampshire avenue, Sibert D. Boak, American Security §1.596.7 and Trust Co., $164.04; Harry L. Black. | J. Carey Jones, 624 Lexington street 52 Adams street, $14: Waiter F. northeast, $35.89; Comdr. John N. Brenizer Co., Incorporated, 101 New ! jorqan, $79.9%; Comdr. Randall Jacobs, York avenue northeast, $17 Wal-| 3998 McKinley street, $73.57; Col. ter Brownley, $2,163.87; Col. Randolph | Tohn “Warren Joyes, 2027 Belmont C. Berkeley, 3719 R street, $11343: \0.4 $49.58; Emma L. C. Johnson Leopold Behrends, 1868 Columbia road, | go00"a varicen i street. $13.58: Frank $868.71; Melvin Behrends, 1868 Colum bla road, $655.47; Lieut. Col. William | ! Teleff, Inc.. 1216 ¥ street, $14,132.21. ‘William H. Keith, §11 B street G. Ball, A Cios il Albemarle | Apurtments: | woutheast, $59.77; Selden B. Kennedy, Bant Capitol straet. $118.10 Rens Ad.| 3904 Thirteenth street, $36.50; Charles miral Bengamin ¢ Brown. 1857 Bilt.|A. Kraus, 3015 Porter street, $35.89; Tore street, $109.69; Maj. Gen. T.an. Lieut. Col. George E. Kumpe, 2022 Co- sing H. Beach, War Department, lumbia Road, $81.19; Ralph F. Keyser, $208.51. 809 Seventh street, $16.90; Nells G : | Keasel, 1107 Ninth street, §5.60; Abra- Theater Comipany Gets $370. | ham Krupsaw, 4409 Fifteenth street. Marie Claveloux, 2000 North Capitol | $9; William L. Kurtz, 49 Rhode Island street, $6.36; Jennie W. Cushing, Ho. Avenue. $2.23; Frank Kidwell, 628 tel Roosevelt, $78.80: Willlam 8. Pennsylvania avenue, $1,770.62; Clar- Campbell, 1120 Vermont avenue, ence A. and Mary Kenyon, 1511 Rhode $76.26; Cosmos Theater Co., 91§ Penn. Island avenue, $654.49; Lieut. Col. Wil- sylvania avenue, $370; Everett D.|liam L. Kellar, Walter' Reed Hospital, Capehart, 2004 O street, $21.60; Alice | $142.82. F. Lassiter, 2410 Twentieth George W. Lee, Kresge Dr. Louis C. Lehr, Herbert C. street, $35. Building, $44.11: 1737 H street, $821.26; Frank Livigni, Cad; y, 4120 Eighth street, $3.70, ys Coulter, 65 New York avenu northeast, $2.29; Percy L. Crel 716 Fifteenth street southe: James M. Crandall, 1217 ennedy | McGiM Building, $107.81; Colin H. street, $3.10; D. ¥. Colburn, 1623 ‘Vhl--‘ Livingston, 1249 Kenyon street, consin avenue, $1.58; Eveline A.|$104.30; Mrs. Wilton J. Lambert, 1028 Clarke, Cathedral School for Girle,| Vermont avenue, $345.59: David R. $6.49; Chex Corporation, 1218 Ingra-| Léhman, 923 H street, $145.84. ham ‘street, $20.71; William R. Castle. | 1818 R street, $31.36; Am:nd‘a R. National Tribune Gets $115. Copeland, 2709 Woodley road, $15.12; ; ! William Bowie Clark, 1624 F street,| lucian B. Moody, 3215 Macomb 15100 "Pear " Conner, 1343 Clifton, | Street, $66.55: Henry J. McKenney, $2.60. 7 Costa, 1126 T street, $18.29;| 1831 California street, §83.59; Patrick 8. Madigan, 1233 Massachusetts ave- nue, £40.12; Miss Sayres L. Milliken, Capt. Walter 8. Crosley, hydrographic - ¥ : D e, H. Curran, 1618 | 005 “Sixteenth street, $34.99; Maj. Capt. Edward H. Campbell, Navy | Joseph O. Mauborgne, 3003 Porter Department, $110.55; Maj. Gen. Frank | Street, $10787; Anna R. Mohun, 3752 W Coo 'War Department. $355.93; |Jocelyn street, $5.97; Thomas B. Mc- Capt_ B, T "Consteln, Navy Depart. | Cormick, 616 Tenth street northeast, ment, $280.97; Columbia Hotel Co,,|3$8.68; F. Ellot Middleton, 1334 H ¢ street, $1,58 ‘Walter Martin, 1231 Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave nue, $14,551.38:- Lieut. Comdr. Glen- more Ford Clark, Navy Department, $220.53; Col. Willlant H. Chambers, War Department, $119.03; Corby Bak- ing Co., 2301 Georgla avenue, $4,264.40; estate of John M. Culp, 1765 Q street, $229.76; E. O. Cragg, 1868 Columbia road, $105.9¢. $2,561.95 Ordered Returned. Irene N. Dunham, 415 Fourth street northeast, $11.01; Grover C. Dismukes, 606 F street, $9.04; O. J. De Moll, Twelfth and G streets, $412.21; Hattie 8. Delarue, 1525 East Capitol street, $4.95; Dorothy E. Dement, 1348 Park- wood place, $5.30; Walter S. Diehl, Madison street, $1.80: Rosa H. Ma- honey, 2400 Sixteenth street, $7.36; James M. McCarron, Sulpician Sem- inary, $7.23; Anna M. Miller, 1437 Rhode Isiand avenue, $7.22; Daniel Millen, 3627 T street, $3 John B. Marr, 1354 Otis place, $10.75; Pearl E. Mallory, 23 V street Mortheast, $3.85; 1. C. McGougal, marine head- quarters, $132.37; Lieut. Douglas C. McDougal, 2601 Thirty-sixth street, $156.03; Capt. Roscoe M. Moody, Navy Department, 149.41. D. J. Noone, 516 A street northeast, |$471; Henry Nassung, 1513 Buch- |anan, $3.09; Frank G. Nolte, 1229 Franklin street northeast, $15.94 New Ebbitt Co. $3,889.59; Nationa 11725 Lanier street, $30.33; John G.|Tribune Co. $115.33; Nannie . Donovan, 1210 Farragut street, $46.21: | Noble, 1710 M street, $287.32; Na- Mrs. Susan Whitney Dimock, 1301 |(ional Cafe, Inc, 1 Thomas circle, Sixteenth street, $10.95 $122.30. . Maury Dove, jr., 1408 H street, $501 for Rauscher's. $70 P. A. Davis, 4510 H street, $234.48; Leo K. Drury, Twenty-fifth| e G SO v nld Dutch Realty Development Co., and G streets, $357.08 Capt. William | 0,0 il bivania. “avenue, $152.713 G. Du Bose, Navy Department, $142.29: | ;o S0 6oy 1338 Thirt Rear Admiral Charles W. Dyson, 1840 Lamont street, $187.10. A. L. Evans, 4808 Fourteenth street, street, $39.4 C.street southeast, $6.75; Catherine C. $10.9 | 0'Connor, 3340 Prospect avenue, $2.45; Gertdude W. Fause, 2020 Connecti. | $5tate of “;:x",trfl"g)"g:r'im«’;mr;:; lcut avenue, $18.72; R. L. Faris, 1346 | 361730 Capt, = - o O Bear, | Harvard street, $62.37; D. B. Fawcett, | Partment, T aing L . 1624 Allison street, $4.58; Victor R.|822 Southern TuICRE, Vo Cren, the Finer, 413 Third street, $1.63; Florence | Leut: Cob Samiee W iin Taylor Courts, $2,561.95; Mrs. Mabel Blanche | Cordova, $98.98; Capt. oy T, O orodi Baér & Baker r¢,|Eollock,” Naval:.Observatory, 39401 rave 8 | Parsons, 3414 Newark, o 23047 g | Charles L. ormeye, L e Winenasioung 1ce| 51.73; Joseph Paul, 204 Colorado Bulld- ing, $720.18; Maj. Trving J. Philipson, i | 175" Twenty-first street. $107.69; Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, 3010 Albe- c Gen. Hines Gets $144. | marle street, $100.50. Willlam Bruce Garner, 1500 Poto-| Edwina Ruffner, 1114 Vermont ave. mac avenue southeast, $4.20; M. A.| pue. $4.33; Ellen H. Rosenberz, 1330 Gibson, 1420 Twentieth street, $3; 1, street, $6.49; Susan V. Richmond, Denis Guiney, 310 Fourteenth street.| 3957 N 'street, $11.05 Sara J. Ren- $1.80; Emma Gusihewsky, 1329 Long: | frew, 1317 Rhode Lsland avenue. $4.36; fellow street, $2.08; Mary T. Garzoier, | Eima Glennie Ross, 1339 Columbia 1014 Fourth street, $2.71; ‘Alfred B.|road, $6; Dr. Charles W. Richardson, awler, 1730 Pennsylvania avenue 1337 Connecticut avenue, ~$583.20; $638.14; Walter Gawler, 1730 Pennsyl- | Rauscher's, Inc., 1032 Connecticut vania_avenue, $645.40; Gude Bros.|avenue northwest, $501.02, Edmund 1214 F strect, $79.81; Mrs. 8. M. Green: | Spence Root, Navy Department, baum, 3131 M street, $22.56; Alonzo | $100.1 H. L. Rust, 918 Fifteenth Gray, 4131 Harrison street, $24.86; R. | gtreet, $145.32. . 1. Grayson, 3805 Fulton street, $26.35; | ° Klorence ~Skadding, 721 Quiney Martha Goebel, 941 M street, $1; Alice E. Griffith, 1846 Ontario place, $8.97. | street, $1,10; Esther G. Struthers, 2828 Nineteenth street, $1.65; George Shaw, Mary E. Griffith, 1543 Franklin street | 355 Ordway street, $3.94;. Joseph northeast, $5.07; Annie B. Gotta, 1860 | Sirauss, 2208 Massachusetts avenue, Columbla’ road, $5.69: Nettie Griffith, ggegs. Faward R. Stitf, 1708 R 413 Fourth_ street, $2.54; Morris G. | Si00r ¢0o'ol cammas Motor Co., 614 Goldstein, 2704 Woodley place, $16.42; | &t gireat. $75.20: Lillian B. Sparks, Robert M. Ginter, Post Building, 'g,:" 1, ireet, $2.30; Rosamond K. $19.00; Maj. Ernest Robert Gentry,|gijoiney, 1443 Chapin street, $5.12; Walter Reed, $74.73; G. W. Grimes, | o CCLl 3™ gparpe, 5302 Eighth 1869 Mintwood place, $122.44. Greenbaum’s, Inc., 3131 M street, $165.59; Samuel J. Graham, 1869 Co- lumbia road, $626.96; Leonard W. Groomes, 1416 F street, $355.18; Col. street, $6.81; Anna Schanninger, 2008 C street, $3.4 . P. Schreiner, 1620 R street, $1.10; F. G. Sigman, 2600 Mozart strest, $1i7; Ella L. Stine. sray. | metz, 1531 P street, $1.50; Laura D. B e {1 o iatter | Stoddard, 114 Fifteenth sireet north- Reed Hospital, $119.93; Mrs. Sadm’;ané;‘a; rm;-dnfi S"wr;eu, 1;:: ;{ :::::: 3 . 28 G e y | $9: ney . Belinger, , oM, 10090, Rear " Admival |$9.10; Robert Strong, 217 I street, $4; Albert Gleaves, avy Department, | (‘harles"\v\; 3f‘sll’n‘l.;l:l)ll. 7!‘6‘ Fiqf[l;en'i:’l 148.93. | street, $268.35; Thomas W. Sidwell, ' H. H. Hulbirt, 25 ‘1!(11 T street, $179.0%; Seaboard Se- $1.9. Joseph Hainen, curity Co., District National Bank, $524.31 estate of Susan Saville, $155.67; Charles G. Stott & Co., Inc. 1821 1Irving street, $4.36; Jane EAl'll‘O New York l\'Onl.\G, $505.56; Herrmann, 2700 Connecticut avenue, Eleanor M. Sowers, 1707 Massachu- $0.20; Esther H. Hart, 1628 ('olumb‘l'p{;_u lvqnue.‘w.fl : C » Wne Woik sMones Seaton place, 404 A street Week of Prayer 78 FKleventh street, $3.73. Scott B. Appleby, § District National | Bank Building, 9.20; estate of | Joseph Dexter Adams, $165.13; Rev. Left to right: Miss A. K. Hannay, Mr: ohn R Axton, 1916 Seventeenth at 9:30 o'clock this morning. By noon the i reet, $184.78%; Rose Cochran Allen, - 2 — = er. John E. Taylor, Woodward Build: | = | ing, £206.19 {road, $12.26; Willlam T. Hedlund, 2047 R Bty Seventh street, §2.80; Park road, $11.41; Lieut. Charles W Mrs. Juli Bodfish, the Congres. | Hutton, U. 8. Navy, $6.86; Germa K sional, $87: Wilhelmina Beha, 619 N | Hibbs, lighth street northeast, street. $3.12: Mrs. Viola P. Burnside, $3.30: Vinnie L. Harrington. 1111 B James J. O'Donfiell, 324 I b January 2 to 9 Is Churches’ Aim By the Associated Press. A call for a week of prayer, from January 2 to 9, to the churches of the United States and 50 ather coun- tries wa ued yesterday by the Federal Council of Churches and the World’s Evangelical Alllance. The Federal Council of Churches will conduct the week's observance in this country through its Commis- sion on Evangelism, headed by Dr. Willlam H. Day of Bridgeport, Conn. Young people, nations and gov- ernments, decrease in crime, inter- national relation, and the universal church will be among subjects for which the prayers will be offered, the call said. Young people will he asked to join churche, the council’s statement said, and read the Bible, while parents will be called upon to real ize_ their responsibilities. In deal- ing with internatignal affairs, the “success of the League of Nations"” and world peace are prayer topics. POISONED ALCOHOL CHARGE IS DENIED Too Much Drinking, Rather Than Denatured Product, Blamed by W. B. Wheeler. By the Associated Press. Wayne B. Wheeler of the Saloon League in a statement t 3 said reliable information from New York, “where the prohibition agents are reported off duty,” indicated that most of the deaths from drinking re- cently were due to an overindulgence in ordinary alcohol rather than from denatured alcohol. The situation in Detroit and San Francisco *is also reported bad,” Mr. ‘Wheeler added. As to the Government's mew formula. for making alcohol unfit for heverage use, he said the use of 4 per cent of wood alcohol instead of 2 per cent, as formerly, does not mean that it is twice as deadly. “In fact, it is less dangerous,” he said. “The other ingredients in it, aldohol or pyridine, make it less drink- able and neutralize in part the poison effect. It tastes like the seepage of a garbage®can flavored with over- heatedt oil. One drink will turn a normal stomach inside out. “If the Government ever adopts an alcohol formula that provides a safe, palatable alcohol to drink prohibition enforcement will be destroyed. This problem can and will be solved with- out such a result. Spaulding, 2038 Allen place,. Dr. Aurelius R. Shand: i street, $110.10; Mrs. Mary 2200 Massachusetts avenue, William T. Shea, 1438 street, $116.98; ton, Navy Department, $135.14; Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, $138,76; Scottish Union and National Insurance Co., 1422 F street northwest, $344.45; Ed- ward S. Stitt, 1708 R street, $237. estate of Edwin H. Snyder, $1,536. Maj. Brehon Somervill, 1812 Wyoming avenue, $120.98. $6,010.70 for Rallroad. Texas-Pacific Rallway Co., 1300 Pennsylvania avenue, $6070.70; Mat- thew F. Tighe, 1309 Irving street, 47 cents; Ida M. Tomlinson, 3412 Lowell street, $8.35; John W. Thomp- son, 1614 Eye street, $1,435.35; C. 1. $517.8 Fairmont Terrell, 1433 L street, $3. Jerry F. Turner, 106 Tenth street, $1.50; T. A. Scott Throp, 1717 Ninth street, $522.68; Lleut. Col. Georges P. 'yner, 3607 Thirty-fifth street, $100.68; Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor, War Department, $100.63; Col. Harry H. Tebbets, 917 Eighteenth street, $112.20; Takoma Park Bank, Takoma Park, D. C., $400.01; Terminal Taxicab | Co., $6,879.15, Blance S. Van Dusen, 1302 Eight- eenth street, $100.76. ‘Washington-Colonial Beach -Steam- boat’ Co., $688.81; Wallis Co., 617 Twelfth street, $2: ties 'Corporation, 1514 H' $284.41; Washington Loan and Trust Co., $600; Burr G. Willlams, 608 North | Carolina avenue southeast, $8.80, rie B. Willson, 815 M street, $3. Maj. Townsend Whelen, 3231 G: fleld street, $120.15; Dr. 3 ‘Warner, 1103 Sixteenth street, §124.15; Lieut. Col. Joseph M. Wheeler, War | Department, $277.85; Col. Edwin P. Wolfe, 1851 Columbia road, $262.75; Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, 2808 N street, $479.77; Helen Wardman, 2640 Connecticut avenue, $107.91; Lil- Han K. Wardman, 2640 Connecticut avenue, $114.93; 1. Joseph Wheeler, jr., 2400 Sixteenth street, $131.16; Comdr, Kenneth Whiting, Navy De- partment, -$129.61; Washington Gas Light Co., $1,633.76; Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, Navy Department, $131.43; Lileut. Col. Charles I. Willard, 2810 Thirty-sixth place northwest, $103.90; P. A. Welker, 1801 Sixteenth street, $123.09; George R. Wells, 5726 Conduit road, $225.97. V‘Illllm Woung, 58 Channing street, .03,.5, Comdr. Adolphus Sta- kept as a pet for his fam 5.33; C. ‘W. ‘Wood, | tamed. 8121 Warden, $6.20; Wilkins -Securi- | a street, | * soon as reception was completed with.-the pre- sentation of under officials of the Gov- ernment and patriotic, military or civie associations in the following order Others Received In Order. The chief executive assistants of members of the cabinet, the regents and secretary of the Smithsonian In- stitution, the civil service commis- oners, . the interstate commerce commissioners, the members of the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal trade commissioners, the United tates tariff commissioners, the com- missioners of the United States Ship- g Board, the trustees of the United hipping Board Emergency rporati.:, the United States employes’ compensation commission- ers, the members of the Federal Board of Vocational Education, the directors of the War Finance Cor- poration, the Federal Farm Loan Board, the United States Board of Tax Appeals, the Controller Gen eral of the United States, the di rector of the United States Veterans' Bureau, the Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia, the chairman of the American Red Cross, the Treasurer of | the United States, the United States Bureau the director general States Railroad Ad alien property cust printer, the heads of several departments, the president of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. The Society of the Cincinnati, the Aztec Club of 1847, the Associated Veterans of the War of 1846-47, the Mil- itary Order of the Loyal Legjon of the United States, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Medal of Honor Legion, the Union Veteran Legion, the Union Veterans' Union, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Society of the Army of the Santiago, the Spanish War Veterans, '\!m American Legion, the Army and Navy ciety of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution. For more than an hour the Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge had stood re- ceiving the best wishes of their offi- cial guests, and their severest test was still before them—the reception to the general public. Somewhat fatigued by the morning reception, they hurried back to their rooms for a few minutes’ rest and a hurriedly eaten lunch, to give them added strength for the two or possibly three hours more of hand- | Broadway Wet With Rum and | way gave the New Year a wet PAYS ANNUAL VISIT 10 WHITE HOUSE Association of Oldest Inhabsf itants Takes Part.in:New Year Reception. DRY AGENTS SCARCE ASU.S. GREETS 1927 Rain—Chicago Gay, But “Well Behaved.” | Members of the Assoctation of Ol | est Inhabitants of the District of C | limbia today observed the custo: they have followed annually for man: years of joining in a piigrimage to th White House to shake the hand of] the President at his New Year receps By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, January 1.-~Broad wel come. There was a steady rain outside and prohibition agents had orders not to disturb cabarets, night clubs and| hotels. 1 | owing o brief business meeting | The celebration was of a familiar|at the Unfon Engine House, Nines character, but the prices were with-|teenth and 11 streets, at whicl Presi- out precedent. The many deaths from | dent Theodore W. Nayes presided, the liquor since Christmas seemed to have | organization marched down Pernsyle been forgotten. vania avenue to the White Iouse & When the Oldest Inhabitants arrived It was a hilarfous crowd that wend- | | o ite | &t the east gate, about noon, the Pres- ed its way through the great white |,y "0y AgiAbed recsivine orEenisk. { way to recleve the New Year with the | 0 “ong (hev were advi they din of horns and rattlers. el e recereeds through the weat The rain seemed to have no effect | zate 4t 1 o'clock on the celebrators and from early | Included with those who attended ay were Maj. 8. Wik lard Saxton. 97 vears of age, and Nolse Peddlers Arrested. | ganization Hawkers who had been vending| The featurs of the nolse-making devicés along the street | ing was the reading since early evening were atrested by | of events 1 by evening until long after 1927 had ar-| the gathering to: rived men and women continued thefr business mee of the chronic John « police shortly before 1 o'clock. By |Proctor, chronicler of the nsso that time, however, they had disposed | kSvery event of Interest to Washings of most of thelr wares and took theilr | ton during the past yesr was res arrests in good nature. Fifteen were | counted briefly by Mr. Proetor found gutity in Night Court of selling| The following new members wers without lMcenses and were given sus-|elected @t the business meetin pended sentences George \Washington Webber, D Every available place of amusement | Charles V. Pettys. Charles H. Hurdle, or entertainment was filled to capacity. | Robert M. Morrison. Fulton Lewis, Reservations in night clubs had been | Merritt 0. Chance and George Parris exhausted weeks before, - and the | Jackson. theaters early were sold out. Cover| The association adopted resolutions charges ranging from $15 to $40 pre-fof thanks to George O'Connor and vailed in night clubs. ger ale was | Matt Horne for enfertainment which | they furnished at the annual hanquet {of the association several weeks ago. Before starting for the White House the memhers were served with refresh- ments in the hasement of the engine house under the supervision of Dr. Benjamin W. Summy. | TWO WOMEN ARE ROBBED. as high as $3 a bottle. Some of the theaters made no secret of the fact that $ ticketa were $11 for the night. and at that the demand was greater than the supply. Two sisters were wounded by a ¢ bullet fired by a celebrant as leaned from a window of thelr home in Brooklyn. Scores of extra police, many of them mounted, kept the throngs moving In Roaring Forties. Churches were crowded as weil as | Thief Grabs Dropped Purses and night clubs. More than 2,000 persons | Crowded into old Trinity, at_Broad-| Runs—Man Is Slugged. way and Wall street, and Cardinal| Mrs. Edith Bobbinger, 3923 Tilinois Hayes personally conducted services avenue, and Miss Oneida Kennedy, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Many | 314 Buchanan street, were robbed last churches gave special musical pro-| night by an unidentified colored man, grams, which were broadcast, and | 1jiss Kennedy was at New Hamy chimes in some instances were played | ghire avenue and Allison street about until dawn. 9:40 o'clock when the man stopped The 3 a.m. curfew for night clubs|yil 14" acked to be directed to was suspended for the night. and the | Goorcia avenue. Before she had time ooy permitted\fo remain open |, reqpond to his inquiry, however, until 8 am. ey e x . q e "5, Mills, Federal prohfbi.|he struck her on the arm, causing o dministrator, who had an.|her to drop her pocketbook, contain- ¢ |ing about $12. Her assailant picked nounced that no spectacular rads|in€ Shotr SIS AT FOSEOE were planned, left the city for his|UP the Do h'_{ "“ o 8 3 home in. Connecticut for the week | Ten minutes before Miss Kennedy end: : | was attacked, Mrs. Bobbinger, carry- Dry Agents Take it Easy. | bundles, dropped her Agents, however, were sald to have |ing~ several | pocketbook, containing $25, keys and patronied” Broadway in & perfunctory | Other articles, at Illinois avenue and manner during the night, gathering obvious evidence. but generally ignor- ing the night clubs. The excessive expense, with no money available for the purpose, was given as the reason. | | Upshur street, and a colored man | picked it up and disappeared. Frank Norman, colored, 27 years, 717 Rhode Island avenue, reported to | the police that he was aséaulted and Union, the Minute Men, the So-, Fear of poisoned liquor apparently | robbed of $37.50 at Flordia avenue had little effect on the drinkers, and Eighth street, not far from No. Alcoholic cases treated at Bellevue | 8 police station, about 3 o'clock this Hospital alone in the last week reach-| morning. His assailant struck him ed 169 patients, while the total of lon the head. deaths from liquor for the vear'in New York City was 750, of which 47 | Were since Christmas. i The city's unfortunate were remem- | | PRESIDENT GREETS GREAT AND LOWLY AT OPEN RECEPTION (Continued_from First Page.) bered at the Knickerbocker grill in West Forty-second street, where dur- ing the evening 200 persons were given coffee, rolls, bread, fruit and cigarettes. While capacity crowds greeted the New Year at_the night clubs, a gen- eral exodus began shortly after 1y, 5 ding he o'clock, and by 3 only a sprinkling of | ,“;;;‘;,g‘,::“"' g TOrtuE Imcire guests remained to celebrate the | ‘Norway, Denmark, Urugua advent of 1937, Switzerland, China, Hungary, Fin This unexpected slump in business | janq, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, shaking. i was attributed by night club owners s ) Ceokin g5 51 to the widespread publicity given to | ‘ng ".;‘,,f\',:.';":“"'ff_l‘l’f Rfi;”“‘”,,{,‘fl 5 Crowds Wait Two Hours. the dangers of drinking “poison | Tty nin' Lithuania, the Irish Free },-,,; r;,""ip than two hours the |lauor” and the high cover charges. gsm,‘. Greece, Haiti, Hondura crowds had heen gathering for the , ; | Austria, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, P public reception. The first person to | CHICAGO BEHAVES ITSELF. |1and, Bulgaria, Nicaragua, Swede reach the gate at the northwest cor- e Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Al- ner of the White House grounds,|Quietest Eve Since Prohibition, Says bania, Siam, Rumania, Pe sal which has always been used to admit » fef. | vador, FEcuador, Paragu: and the the visitors, was Miss A. K. Hannay ry Chief. | Netherlands, followed in the orde and her mother, Mrs. A. M. Hannay.| (HICAGO, January 1 (®).—Chicago | named. I““"‘f‘“‘ street. They 100k Up|celebrated “the quietest, best behaved | The passage of the diplomatic their position at 10 o'clock, a feW |New Year's eve since prohibition,” E.| corps down the receiving line occu- minutes ahead of a score of others. | From then on the line increased con- ! stantly until it stretched down to Seventeenth street and began to wrap itself solidly’ around the block oe- | cupied by the State, War and Navy | Building. | The day was an ideal one for the visitors. Although there was a threat of rain early, the sun began to break | tempered | the atmosphere so that no one suf-| through before noon, and fexed seriously from the cold. Last vear 3,257 persons greeted President and Mrs. Coolidge at their New Year veception. Police. predicted that from the way the people were arriving the figur would not fall far short of this num- | ber this vear. The line approached the White House entrance two abreast and then passed In in single file. the President and hand to protect Mre, Coolidge from possible miischief | makers. Mr. and Mrs, Coolidge were assisted in receiving the visitors hy the military and naval aides. The line passed out of the White House by the door opposite the Treasury. R e WILD CHEETAH AT LARGE HUNTED BY CITY POLICE By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., January 1.— A young cheetah, a wild African beast, roaming the streets of this city, hunted by motor with ready revolve Dr. Audley D. Stewart, who recently cycle police returned with George Eastman, manu- facturer, from an African hunt, re- ported fo police that the animal, a member of the cat family, had es- caped from his home. The cheetah, .which Dr. Stewart is sald comparatively harmless when Fears were expressed that the nimal might become furious when to be cornered or would succumb to the se. vere cold. Hungry New Year Begins on Island Off Scotch Coa By the Assoctated Press. PETERHEAD, Scotland, Jan- uary 1.—Several hundred 'inhabi- tants of the lonely Isiand of St. Kilda, in the -outer Hebrides, passed a hungry New Year eve. Many days ago the islanders holsted signals of a food shortage. Because of rough weather boat- men have refused to try to make the lan, in_the surf which dashes against St. Kilda's precip- itous shores. Government officials plan to sénd a- rellef expedition as e sea moderaf t The usual | corps of secret service men was on | C. Yellow prohibition adminis- | pied only 20 minutes. The President trator, said today after he had re.| and Mrs. Coolidge received and re- ceived reports from the 120 agents he | turned expressions of felicitation and had sent into the haunts of merry-| good wishes for the new year. As makers. the last of the diplomats disappeared Hotel and cafe proprietors recently | Chief Justice Taft and the associate made a pledge to Mr. Yellowley that| justices of the Court of Common Ap- they would not tolerate drinking at | peals, the chief justice and associate their tables, and the prohibition ad-! justices of the Court of Appeals of ministrator found the pledges gener- | the District of Columbia, the chiet ally unbroken. justice and assoclate justices of the But if the Loop was not giddy it| Court of Clalms and the chief justice was gay enough, theaters, hotels, |and associate justices of the Supreme restaurants and cafes catering to| Court of the District. thousands who welcomed the baby xt in precedence with the mem- vear with the usual ceremonies. | bers of the Senate and House of Tt was estimated that probably | Representatives, the delegates to Con- haif a million dollars was spent dur- | gress and the librarian of Congress ing the night on cover charges and | In the meantime, officers of the Army, table accessories at the downtown ! Navy and Marine Corps, down to and hotels and cafes. More than 18,000 | including the grade of lieutenant col guests paid $145,000 for places in| onel and commander had been as seven leading hotels alone, embling outside and they followed he- The dryness and orderliness of the| hind the Congressional delegations. celebration was attested by hotel pro-; The more or less official aspect of the prietors. 2 = A “We warned the visitors as they ” made their reservations that no arini., “W. BIRD” GOES ON VIEW. ing would be tolerated,” sald the| SN Maitre D'Hotel at the Congress, which | 3 8 . . \g1ees, LONDON, January 1 (#).—"“W.Bird, f_mermm-dl more than 2,000 guests. | o Ll 1T gt strolled through The results were apparent. It was jiayfair the other day, with his hands the dryest New Year party I ever saw. I didn’t see a single instance of what Mr. Yellowley calls open drinking, and we had the biggest New Year patronage in our history. Huge placards at the Morrison, the clasped behind his back, his head in the air and a_pince-nez depending from a band of black silk attached to his buttonhole. Not. many persons know that *W. 5 Bird"” is Senator W. B. Yeats of the world's tallest hotel, warned 4,500 | friah Free State, whom posterity will celebrants that prohibition officials | ramember not so much as an artist or would he at work and no drinkimg|, statesman, but as one of the most would be allowed. “This vear there | delightful poets of the twentieth cen- seems to be less drinking and less|qur- noise,” came from the Drake, while the ... Salle Maitre added, “The driest butich I ever saw on a New Year eve; and it didn’t seem to stop the fun.” Several raids and arrests were made during the evening, but under in- structions from the prohibition head, only the most flagrant cases were in’ volved, the agents concentrating their attention on gathering evidence for| Few hea anticipated for use later in padlock proceedings. Kansay Citians today followiug an After Big Violators parently dry New Year eve celebru tion. “The people my men seized are not| Although one death was attributed the drinkers,” Mr. Yellowley said. “We!to alcohol, prohibition agents who were after the distributors and owners | mingled with the thousands of cele of establishments which permit the|brants reported comparatively few open flouting of the prohibition law." | violations of the Volstead act. Some In instructing his agents Mr. Yel Commissioner Yellowley rushed a squad of agents to the place, and county highway police were enlisted in quieting the unruly patrons. Kansas City Orderly. ed. January 1 (®).— flasks were confiscated and the con- lowley spoke of the pledges that had | tents emptied In streets. been made, adding: “If these pledges are broken, we expect you to bring in Pittsburgh Is Quiet. the evidence and in all substantiated| PITTSBURGH, Pa., January 1 (®). cases the Government will institute| —No outstanding case of liquor law injunction proceedings immediate! violation was docketed today for ac A few accidents were reported over | tion by police or dry officials after a the night. A 6-vear-old boy was prob- | New Vear eve celebration here that ably fatally wounded by pistol shots, | was curbed by no special restrictions. a man was struck and killed by a taxi- | Dry agents raided one small ciub, cab and a stabbing affray over the [seized a rectifying plant in Stowe division of a bottle of liquor resulted | Township and called it u day. Police, in_the wounding of a celebrant after muking the usual number of u The only fracas of any moment oc- | resgs for intoxication, seemed con curred at a roadhouse kmown as the Four Seasons, in Glenview, a suburb. Three prohibition agents who entered the place were recognized by some of the 400 celebrants, and fn a melee nt to take the word of hotel and cabaret owners that the law would be obeyed in_those places. Despite high cover charges, night clubs and hotel dining rooms were which followed the visitors were eject- ' thronged.