Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1927, Page 5

FIND FOUR SKULL } HIDDEN IN TRUNK Detroit Police Work on Clues . of Grave Robbing and B Murder of Women. } My the Associated Press DETROIT, February 12.—Doubtful Whether four skulls and two braids of ir, one blood-clotted, found in an doned trunk in a house in Royal were those of slain women or bad been stolen from graves, police foday enlisted ail of authorities in Illinols, Pennsylvania and Ohio in an ort to locate James N. Coyn Grayton, believed to be owner the trunk. ¥ i The skulls wera found by children a negro family which ntly woved into the house, the last previ- ous accupant of which was Coyner, Who left Roval Oak about a year a Detroit detectives assisting Royai ©Oak officials today uncovered a ciue Which they believe might assist ma- terlally in finding Coyner. Mrs. Sally Smith, owner of the house where the trunk was found, said she saw a clip- ing in a Chicago paper several onths ago describing the arrest and conviction of a man under the name of Ed Grayton in Palestine, 1L, for Srave robbery. Known by Different Name. She declared Coyner had been known under the nams of Ed Grayton here and that when he left Roval Oak he went to Palestine to take work in & pottery concern. The article said the man had been sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. The woman qid not recall the prison, but she ex: ressed the opinion he now is in an llinols institution. The chief of police of Palestine said early today that he recalled no such name or case, but planned a check of records at the request of Michigan wuthorities. Police said that Mrs. Smith’s story, §f authenticated, would make more plausible the theory that the skulls and brains were obtained by robbing graves. They pointed out, however, that such a theory did not explain the blood clot on one braid of hair. Names of Society Women. In the trunk were found letters ®nd a note book filled with the names of soclety women of Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, as well as a number of newspaper clippings re- garding prominent woman social lead- ers. Police declined to reveal the names found in the note book, but in one of the newspapers, with which a skull_was wrapped, a 1921 issue of the Pittsburgh Post, the names of four women had been underscored, with notations nearby. These were a Mrs. Joseph Scribner, with the nota- tion “Hazel 4148 written over it; Mrs. Arthur Little, with the notation “Mar. 5, 1925"; Mrs. ‘A. B. Frampton, near which was marked “The Bar- rington,” and a Mrs. Willlam Porter Witherow, with the inscription “Hazel £2634.” Police dispatched this information to Pittsburgh authorities and asked that they check the persons if pos- sible. They scouted the possibility that the four persons named were those whose skulls were found in the trunk, but were of the opinion that gw may have been marked for harm the writer. From Detroit detectives, the names of two Detroit women, which ap- in the notebock were learned. hey were Mrs. Harold Wardell, club woman, and Mrs. Horace lystyn, but neither could shed any Ezl!u on the case, At the home of h it was said nothing was _known of the negro, Coyner. Mr. Wardell mnd Mr. Esslystyn, husbands of the women, said they had employed negro servants at various times, but did not gecall the man as being among them. COYNER SERVING TERM. Donvicted at Hammond, Ind., of Steal- ing Body From Grave. CHICAGO, February 12 (®.—A glant negro named James Coyner was convicted of grave robbing at Ham- mond, Ind., last November and sen- tenced to 3 to 10 years in the Michi- City Penitentiary. He was found guilty of stealing the body of a white | woman from Oak Hill Cemetery in that city. Coyner confessed that he had plan- ed to take the body to Berenice, Il e could offer no other explanation. The body was found in a manner flar to the discovery of four skulis n a house in” Royal Oak, Mich,, be- feved to have been occupied by Coy- ner. Boys came upon the body in an empty house a day after the grave was robbed. Police watched the house and ar- rested Coyner when heé returned. WOMEN NAMED IDENTIFIED. Pittsburgh Police Get No Clues, How- ever, About Coyner. PITTSBURGH, February 12 (P).— Pittsburgh police today sought to aid Michigan authorities to establish the gdentity of the negro in whose former house at Royal Oak, Mich., was found four skulls, supposedly those of wom- en, onc of which was wrapped in a Pittsburgh newspaper. The police lo- cated two of the four well known Pittsburgh women whose names were found underscored in the paper. These two women, prominent fig- wres in society, failed to throw any light on the identity of the negro, who was known In Michigan as James N. Coyner, alias 2d Crayton. Mrs. Williamn Porter Witherow, wife of a steel magnate, and Mrs. 3:. Frampton, wife of a lumber man, coutd recall no such person at Coyner or Grayton. The notation scribbled on the paper besides Mrs. Witherow's hame, “Hazel 2542 proved to be her telephone number. Commenting on the notation, “the Barrington,” written Mrs. Frampton’s name, she said he knew a prominent family here amed Barringto: The name of Mrs. Arthur R. Little, t‘” underscored in the newspaper, ras located in a city directory, but there was no response when she was ¢alled by telephone. All efforts to lo- fate & Mrs, Joseph Scribner failed. PRESIDENT IS HONORED. Wermont Senate Advances Plan to Christen Coolidge Range. MONTPELIER, 'Vt., February 12 §#).—The Vermont Sendte vesterday gent to a third reading a bill which provides for the naming of a certain ortion of the Green Mountain chain fter President Coolidge. If the meas- ure Is passed the three peaks now Jknown as Killington, Pico and Shrews- bury, near Rutland, will be christened the Coolldge Rgnge. The House of Representatives ‘this week killed a bill which proposed that he name of Bald Mountain, between waltsfield thfield, be changed to Coolid, n. . Bibesco to Go to Spain. BUCHAREST, February 12 (P). . »-Prince Bibesco, former Rumanian Minister to the United States, will be the new Rumanian Minister to Fpain. ointment orelgn office. > Avenue paid homage to a fadeless memory. By the Associated Press, LINCOLN CITY, Ind., Febru ~—A national shrine is to be the Indiana scene where Abraham Lincoln spent his formative years and where his mother lies buried. At the age of 7 Lincoln came with his parents from Kentucky into the wilderness just north of the Ohio River where this village now stands. All the schooling he had was obtained here, and in the adjacent hills and woodlands he learned the ploneer art of rail splitting. He was 9 when he helped his father hew the rude coffin in which Nancy Hanks Lincoln, his mother, was buried under the elms and oaks. Today two tombstones stand where the Lincolns could put only a humble wooden marker, and a modest stone behind the village schoolhouse desig- nates the site of one of the two log cabins in which the Lincolns lived un- til Abe was 21. : The first of the stones now standing at Nancy Hanks' grave was not erected until after Lincoln's death. Its inscription tells that it honors “Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Mother of President Lincoln, Died October 5, A. D., 1818, Aged 35 Years.” The other stone, erected later outside the iron fence which incloses the grave, is head-high and broader. THE EVEN INDIANA PLANS LINCOLN SHRINE AT SCENE OF HIS BOYHOOD HOME Top—Grave of Nunc{ Hanks Lincoln, mother of Emancipator, at Lincoln City, Ind. Lower left—Marker on site of Lincoln cabin. Right— Richard Lieber, chairman of the Indiana Lincoln Union. About this unimposing scene Indi- ana purposes to build a nobler symbol of Lincoln’s Hoosfer years. Richard Lieber, director of the State Depart- ment of Conservation, heads the com- mittee of 125 dppointed by Gov. Ed Jackson to comprise the Indiana Lincoln Union, directing the enter- prise. A host of native Indianans of note are alied in the effort, among them being Will H. Hays, George Ade, Kent Cooper, Albert J. Beveridge, Booth Tarkington and Thomas Tag- gart. The State now owns 70 acres sur- rounding: the grave of Lincoln’s mother. It intends to acquire 20 acres more, encompassing the sites of the two Lincoln cabins. GRAND ARMY MEN ASSEMBLE IN LINCOLN BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Civil War Vets Who Walked with Great Emancipator Gather in Homage at Place Where He Worshiped. Men who walked with Lincoln gathered last night at the place where he once worshiped—the New York Presbyterian Church—and The hosts of the spirit were present in the church last night, filling the ranks guarded now by the pitiful few ‘who remain of the Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Repub- lic, who thrilled as of yore to the mar- tial tunes which once resounded by a thousand campfires and to words which eulogized the life and ideals of the Great Emancipator. Old forms stood erect as a Navy band played the airs to which men once fought and died, and old eyes gleamed with pride and now again a tear as Dr. Joseph Sizoo, pastor of the church and a member of a younger generation, told of the influ- ence and simple faith of Lincoln, and assailed those of these modern times who seek to find fault with the hefoes of yesterday. Condemns Slanderers. ~“There are those who are attempt- ing to slander the heroes of the past,” Dr. Sizoo declared, “and it is well to remember that a man is as great as the heroes he worships. When you take away a man’s ideal you take away his soul. A nation is interpreted through its great men.” After telling of the romance of the life of Lincoln and explaining that his true greatness lay in his willingness to do what nobody else would do, Dr. Sizoo said that the world today needs that conception of greatness. Refuting charges that Lincoln was an agnostic, Dr. Sizoc told of his re- CAPITAL OBSERVES LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY WITH RITES AT SHRINE (Continued from First Page.) fis{c will be furnished by the United States Navy Band. T. Lincoln Townsend will deliver the principal address at the meeting of the League of Republican Organi- zations this evening. Heretofore, the anniversary of Lincoln's birth has been an occasion for prophetic politi cal meetings, at which the leaders of the Republican party have laid down the principles of their party faiths anew. In a slight measure, the meeting tonight will follow that idea. Other Speakers on Program. Other speakers will include William Tyler Page, Mrs. Bessie P. Bruegge- man, chairm ¢ the United States Employes’ rensation Commission: Mrs. Virgin hite Speel, president of the District League of Republican Women, and Bdward ¥. Colladay, Di trict Republican national committee- man. Edgar C. yder, chairi the Republican Speakers’ Bureau of the District, will call the meeting to order. Other celebrations today intluded a Lincoln day breakfast at the New Willard at noon by the Dames of the Loyal Legilon and an address before the students of George Washington University by Dr. Green of the Red Cross on Lincoln at the same hour, Tonight the Military Order of the World War will hold a military ball and reception at the Mayflower Hotel. Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach, commander of the local chapter staff, will be in charge. The Washington and Vicinity Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will observe Lincoln's rthday tomorrow afternoon at Zion Baptist Church, Four-and-a-Half and ¥ streets southwest. Schools Study Life. Many of the e i The press states that his ap- was requested by the vate schools dev a closer study of Lincoln's life yester- day. Mrs. Fred Dubois, wife of for- mer Senator Dubois, addressed the pu- pils of Johnson School. She told them stories of the Lincoln family as they were related tc her by her hushand, who ltved in the same block with the ~ an of | ligious life, and revealed that a few days before his assassination he had made arrangements to make a public confession of faith before the very pulpit where were ranged the Grand Army veterans last night. Not ‘“only did he sttend Sunday services at the church, Dr. Sizoo de- clared, but worshiped quietly in the pastor’s study during the Thursday night prayer services. Gives Reminiscences. Capt. O. H. Oldroyd, who officiated also as a member of the committee on arrangements, gave detailed reminis- cences of Lincoln, and Dr. A. A. Tay- lor of the Sons of Veterans read ex- cerpts from his inaugural addresses. Lemuel Warner recited the famous Gettysburg address. Dr. Charles V. Petteys, department commander, called the meeting to or- der and presented as chairman John McElroy, chairman of the committee on arrangements. Rev. R. E. Mec- Bride gave the invocation and Rev. Franklin 1. Winter the benediction. Sons of veterans served as ushers. TFormalities incident to the presenta- tion of the department colors were participated in by color guards of the Ladies’ Auxillary and directed by S. G. Mawson, chief mustering officer, ::d Hazard Wheeler, officer of the . - As the colors were borne slowly up the aisle the veterans fell in behind the flag they once bore to triumph and ranged themselves in the front pews, where old ears could hear words expressing the thoughts long held in old hearts. Lincoln family as & boy, in Spring- field, 111 Boys in those days were as given to pranks, she said, as they are now, and ‘Mr. Lincoln's “stovepipe” hat was too frequently the object of their mischievousness. They would rig up a string and patiently wait for him to pass by, the string never failing to topple off his high hat. Mr. Lincoln always joined in the laugh, she said, and usually wound up by taking the whole gang to the cor- ner grocery store and treating them to candy. Mrs. Dubois also told a story of how the great emancipator, after he became President and was burdened with the cares of a terrible war, sat an hour a day for five months for Vinnie Rheems, a then. unknown sculptress, because she had set her heart on making a cast of Mr. Lin- coln. This same Vinnle Rheem was later appointed to execute the famous Lincoln statue in the Capitol. o TILE MEN END MEETING. St. Petersburg Is Chosen for Next Convention City. Clarence W. McCaulley of ‘Wilming- ton, Del, was re-elected to serve his second term as president ot and Mantel Contractors’ ?xszglc.in;‘;:;l: of America at the convention closed yesterday in the Mayflower Hotel. St. Petersburg, Fla., was chosen as the convention city for next year. Other officers clected wer A. H. Siemon of Baltimore, treasurer; M. Elizabeth Bennett of ‘Wilmington, recording secretary; executive comrhit- tee, Mr. McCaulley, J. T. Flower of Akron, Ohlo, vice president; James R. McClamroch of Greensboro, N. C., vice president. Directors chosen were: Robert Ducros of New Orleans, J. R. Rice of Stubenville, Ohio; E. Ellett of Washington. . e Held in Pockethook Swindle. Charged with participation in the well known *“pockethook windle”” upon Elizabeth Campbell, colored, 1719 Willard street, several weeks ago, Jerry Garner, colored, 39 years old, 2 Lenox aveue, New York City, was located in that city by Detectives Jones and Jackson. They had him arrested by the New York police, and last night he was returned to this ecity. A charge of grand larceny was preferred against him. NG . STAR, WASHINGTO:. LLINOS HONT NGNS NAME Capt. Nelson Thomasson Re- calls Incidents in Life of Emancipator. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 12.--As to a | Shrine. pligrims went today to_ the Chicago Historical Society to view the bed in which Abraham Lincoln died of wounds inflicted by an assas- sin; to see the shawl he wore while Tresident and other mementoes of the great man Illinos and Kentucky gave to the Nation. Many other Chicagoans helped swell the throngs moving into Springfleld for the meeting of the Lincoln Cen- tennial Association at the tomb of the emancipator. Among the Springfleld visitors was Galus Paddock, 91, of St. Louis, who witnessed the marriage of Lincoin to Mary Todd in the Illinois capital in 1842. On the 118th anniversary of Lin- coln’s birth in a log cabin in Ken- tucky men who knew him recalled today his many-sided nature as inci- dents of his life were told and retold. Noted Document Burned. The burning of the original copy of the emancipation proclamation, by which Lincoln freed the slaves, when the great fire of 1871, virtually destroyed Chicago, was recalled by Capt. Nelson Thomasson, commander of the military order of the Loyal Legion in Illinois. That document was destroyed with the building of the historical society. “The first time I ever saw Lincoln,” sald Capt. Thomasson, ‘“‘was about the year 1858. My father and I were sit- ting on a little balcony over the northcast corner of Clark and Ran- dolph streets (now the site of a sky- scraper in which the Associated Press has its Chicago offices). My father, looking east on Randolph, suddenly cried out “There’s old Abe Lincoln.' He sald to me: ‘Put on your hat and we will go and see him if he stops at the Sherman House," which he did, across the street.' But, of course, Mr. Lincoln had hardly stepped down the several steps leading to the Sherman when he was surrounded by quite a number of admirers who seemed to spring from the ground and the planked sidewalks. Then I saw him daily for three weeks in 1860.” Friend of Hay. The captain recalled the stirring Re- publican national convention of 1860, in “the Wigwam'"—a hall that long since has vanished—in Chicago, when Lincoln was nominated for the Presi- dency. Afterward Lincoln wanted the Attorney General to appoint the cap- tain’s father, W. P. Thomasson, a for- mer member of Congress from Louls- ville, Ky., to a Federal office in Ken- tucky. _ . John Hay, who was private secre- tary to President Lincoln, was a warm friend of Capt. Thomasson. Thelr mothers were sisters, and Thomasson was often at the Executive Mansion in Washington. One morning Lincoln dropped into the basement of the old War Depart- ment Building, used as a telegraph of- fice, where Thomasson and some friends were whiling time away. The President started to write on a tele- graph blank. Popularized Crisp Bacon. “‘Young gentlemen, when do you use a semli-colon?" he asked them. “Villard (who afterward became president of the Northern Pacific Rail- road) and Hitt were our ‘literary cuss- es’ ‘and they quickly said a lot,” the captain remembered. ‘‘But Lincoln, after taking the pen from his mouth, said, ‘I never use it much, but when T am in doubt what to use, I generally employ the ‘little fellow.’" “John Hay always said,” the captain recalled, “that Lincoln popularized the crisp bacon that we now have at our daily breakfast.” MUSIC CONGRESSIONAL CLUB CONCERT. At the weekly mudical given yester- day afternoon at the Congressional Club an interesting program was of- fered by the following artist: Dor- othy Miller Duckwitz, pianist; Leslie Frick, soprano, of Baltimore, and Katherine L. Whitelock, violinist, also of Baltimore. Miss Duckwitz, who plays with good style and expression, opened the pro- gram with Scavlatti's “Pastorale,” fol- lowed by “Soeur Monique,” by Couper- in, the latter played in comparison with her own recording on a well known reproducing piano. Miss Frick followed with a group of negro songs, including ‘“Hard Trials,” “Bye and Bye” and “I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerden,” all by Burleigh, and “Mah Lindy Lou,” by Strickland, which were received with enthusiasm. Miss Frick's voice has the peculiar sweet, haunting quality which inter- prets this type of music so sympathet- ically. She graciously responded to the applause with “Swing Low, Sweet Charfot.” “Traumerei and Romance,” by Schu- mann, was chosen by Miss Whitelock for the opening number in her group, which included “Le Cygne,” Saint- Saens, and “Minuet, G Major,” Bee- thoven, all of which were graciously received, the Saint-Saens number be- ing particularly well interpreted. Miss Duckwitz closed the recital with a group of numbers, including works by Chopin and Debussy, when she again gave an interesting com- parison with her own recording on the reproducing instrument. FRIDAY MORNING MUSICALE. Evelyn Scott, a young violinist, who i3 still in her 'teens, and is the youngest member of the Friday Morning Music Club, was the out- standing feature of the musical pro- gram at the club meeting yesterday. Miss Scott plays with an amazingly authoritative style and a sure, warm stroke in her bowing. Especially in- teresting among her numbers were the Couperin “Chanson e Pavane” and the Handel-Hubay “Larghetto.” Gardner's “From the Canebrake” was one of her most popular lighter num- bers. Her efforts won emphatic ad- miration from her audience and many expressed the opinion that she would go far in a violinistic career in time. The vocalist of the morning was Ruby Smith Stahl, well known so- prano and choir leader. She sang groups of works by the moderns in Itallan, French, German, Russian and English. It was exceedingly inter- esting to have illustrations of what the modernists are doing. Songs that aroused special interest were Staub’s “IL’'Heure Deliceuse,” Tilton-Turbey's «“If June were Mine” and John T. Ferry's “The Battlefield”” The ac- companist, who came from New York, was_excellent. Mary Ware Goldman, amused her audience very much with the “Golderg Variations” by Bach. She also played a_“Moment Musical,” by Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin’s “Ftude in G Sharp Minor.” On its way to a slaughter house a sow broke away from the herd in London and entering a tobacco store made a meal on cigarettes before it was captured. panist, | b/ D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1927 WAKEFIELD ASSOCIATION PAYS TRIBUTE Mem TO WASHINGTON orial Body Eulggizes Statesman as Father of World Liberty at Birthday Dinner Here. ieorge Washington was honorgd last night as a statesman, soldier, dutiful son and father of liberty for the world at a brilliant dinner given by the Wakefleld National Memorial Association at the Mayflower Hotel in celebration of his 195th birthday an niversary yesterday, according to the old calendar. Tive hundred guests attended the dinner, and these included persons high in legislative, military and soclal life of the Natlon. Several speakers paid tribute to Washington, and took occasion to denounce the modern his. torians and blographers who tend to dim the traditional glory which has surrounded the name of Waskington since his death. The dinner was marked by the first donation for the restoratioh of Washington’s birth- place, at Wakefleld, Westmoreland County, Va., which the memorial as- sociation hopes to complete by 1932 in the gift of $1,000 by the Citizens’ Guild of Fredericksburg, Va. Reed Reviews Principles. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, the first speaker, reviewing the bill of rights of the Constitution as Wash- ington’s principles of government, de- clared that they are as sound today as they were in 1776 “There are some,” he said, “who will call Washington an ‘old fogy' and a back number, and they'll say he never even rode in an automobile, but, then, remember another who never rode in one—Christ rode into Jerusalem on an ass, and yet his Ser- mon on the Mount will live forever. “And so it seems to me that Wash- ington’s great principles of govern- ment will live forever also. They were built upon Washington's sound judg- ment, and they are as sound today as they were in 1776." Senator, Reed said there was more statesmariship and patriotism in the Revolutionary period than there is to- day, and he said: “We have not had the chance to study patriotism as had they who smelled the smoke of despot- ism of the Old World.” Warns of Foreign Policy. Senator Reed sounded a warning in threatening laws, Mrs. Brousseau sug- gested. Mrs. John W. Sherman, president of the Federation of Women's Clubs, declared that the preservation ef Washington's birthplaca “is not only a rare privilege but a plain duty. True patriotism, like true religion, she sald, “is a personal thing and should have a part in our daily life.” An ac- tive display of true patriotism, she suggested, might be the contribution toward the restoration of Wakefield. « Praises Washington as Soldier. ien. Charles P. Summerall, chief of . S. A., paid tribute to Wash- ington as a soldier and he, too, de- clared that the preservation of Wake- fleld as a national memorial was a duty that confronted every Ameri- an in all the States. Mrs, Anthony Wayne Cook also spoke briefly on the restoration of Waishington’s birthplace, declaring that it 1s hoped that the work can be completed by 1932, when the bi- centennary of Washington’s birth will be celebrated throughout the nation. The check for $1,000 which consti- tut:s the first contribution to the fund for the restoration of Wakefleld was presented to the Wakefleld Memorial Association, of which Mrs. L. H. Rust, sr., is president, by Judge Alvin Em- brey, for the Citizens' Guild of Fred- ericksburg. Ogden Mills, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was toastmaster of the dinner. Right Rev. St. George Tucker, whose mother, Marla Washington, was born at Mount Vernon, pro- nounced the invocation preceding the dinner, and following the speeches at the end of the meeting William Tyler Page recited the American's Creed. Mrs. Ogden Mills was chairman of the dinner committee of the associa- tion. In Australia, the land of cattle, shoes that may be bought in London for $5.80 a pair and in the United States for $7.80 are retailed for as high as $12.15. his reference to Washington’s attitude | on foreign felations when he said: “Washington knew that foreign en- tanglements would draw us into the vortex of catastrophe, and that once we were in that vortex ours would be the fate of other great nations that had gone before us.” o ‘Washington advocated “isolation,’ the Senator sald, and he declared that by “isolation” he did not mean a self- ish holding aloof from the affairs of the world or the refusal of this coun- try to deal commercially with other countries, but of the United States avoidance of (hle “political bedevil- ment of intoleration. Senator Reed hr;evi:w;d tl-n‘;ep:‘g:l;}g t monarchies during ncand ho declared all this began with'the signing of the Declaration of Independence in America., The poli- cles of Washington have made the United States the star by which all the other nations steer today.. This Washington whom we honor as the father of our country and who is the father of liberty for the world has done more for the human race than any other man, so let's consecrate this memorial—his birthplace—as n‘yerpet- ual reminder of his greatness.’ Scores “Garbage Historiane.” James M. Beck, andther spealker, de- red: clq"nw weakness of our national character lies in our failure to revere our ancestor: ‘With this as a_pref- ace, he said: ‘“When we honor Wash- ington it is not so much a tribute to George Washington as it is to George Washington's mother, who—notwith- standing the garbage historians who would have her a rather gay lady who danced too much and who smoked pipe and who was, in short, a burden for her fllustrious son to bear—must have had the character of a woman and mother so eminent a man as her son would love and respect, as is shown by the letters he wrote her.” Reviewing the honors in history, art and tradition that have been paid to the Virgin Mary, mother of Christ, and the more recent tributes to Wash- ington’s mother and the scandalization of both by modern blographers, Mr. Beck declared that he favored a reg- ulation in the fleld of biographers that “would keep dogs out of the ceme- teries.” In passing, Mr. Beck said that in his opinion the supreme disaster of the 50 years he has been observing affairs in public life is not the great wars but “the disintegration of the home and the waning respect of parents for children and children for their par- ents.” Pleads for Home, “We can rebuild a nation,” Mr. Beck contended, “and we might even rebuild our Constitution—though I am at a loss to know where the states- manship material could be found for such a task—but when you destroy the home, you destroy the source of all good and you cannot rebuild with- out those assets which come from a home.” Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, delivéred an address in which she recited an imaginary ad- dress by Washington if he had been present at the dinner. In that imaginary talk Mrs. Brous- seau contended that Washington would warn against the prevailing lack of interest in governmental wel- fare and conduct. He would denounce the criticism that is heaped upon the President, the reduction of armaments to a danger point and the endangering of State rights by the adoption of .Jhe Inp LW, Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 weekly: $10.50 rooms, $8: shower_and lat ‘more. _ Rooms L other's. N - For Lease 1227 G St. NW. i‘ Store, 18 by 90, and Upper Floors Millinery and Dress Fixtures Furnished Long Lease Low Rental WEYERSROS 809 15th St. N.W. OOOOOoOonoon ITALIAN ATTACHE BEATEN BY POLICE Authorities Say Count di Cel- lere Started Trouble at Florida Fair Grounds. By the Associated Preas. TAMPA, Fla., February 12.—Count Macchi di Cellere, attache of the Italian embassy at Washington, taken to police headquarters yesterday after an altercation with three policemen at the South Florida Kair Grounds, was released a few minutes later after the Italian consul had identified him. Policeman John Carter. who inves- tigated the occurrence, said Count di Cellere appeared at the fair grounds and offered a- traveler’s check in pay- ment for admission. Clerk Calls Police. The clerk at the box office window summoned the police, who questioned the count and suggested that he ac- company them to the police booth at the grounds in order to estublish his identity. At this point, said Carter, Count ai Cellere kicked one of the policemen, and a freeforall fight ensued, in which the Italian nobleman was knocked down and suffered a black eye. He was then taken to police headquarters, where the local Italian consul identified him. Liout. Carter told the consul he re- gretted the incident, but saw no rea- son why he should censure the police- men. Count di Cellere said he would not make any representations to the embassy at Washington and would consider the matter closed if the offi- cer who struck him would apologize. On Vacation Trip. ‘The count stated he came here from Cuba, having included Tampa in the itinerary of ‘a vacation trip. An official of the Italian embassy today expressed entire ignorance of the affair involving Count dl Cellere, but ventured the surmise that an ex- planatory message from the Italian consul at Tampa might be received later in the day. 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We also make brick fce eream with & special design running through it, so th hen sliced, the design will appear on esch cut. We have such designs as Shamrock, Hatchet, Spade, Dia- mond, Heart, Club, Eastern Star. Carry Ice Cream Company, Inc. Telephone Lincoln 5900 IR AHN AR A H R SR AR R R For 500 & Bridge Parties, All Special Occasions MAGISTRATE PLAN URGED BY CITIZENS Advisory Council Is Opposed to Consolidation of Police and Municipal Courts. Establishment of the magistrate system in lieu of the proposed con- solidation of the Police and Munci- of relieving tribunal * Advisory adopted at its last night in congestion in was urged by the Council in a report semi-weekly meating the District Building The council a mended the magistr still insists that this | complish the purpose of the merger of the Police and Municipal Courts In disapproving the consolidation of the two courts. the council disagreed with the District Comm who indorsed and transm Congress the bill providing for the merger. The bill to authorize amateur box - ing or sparring matches where ad- mission fecs are charged and th pointment of a boxing also was opposed b It did approve bills authort five-year extension Public Library: a compromise for $30,000 of the District's 24-vear-old suit against the Washington Termi- nal Co. and two railroads for the expense of repairing tween R street southwe an street morthwest, following sinking after the construction of the railroad tunnel: providing for the submi to the Fine Arts Commission of y for bulldings over 40 feet in hi gredled close lo Government buiid. ings or parks, and the Juvenile Court bill drafted by the commission on public welfare legislation. Reconditioned Repainted Guaranteed Used Car Dept,, 3110 M St. W. 163 Under CARTER Management OOOOO OO o OOH B RO D0 OO S A B R DR SO A 0 A0 0 A A SR A O b Or Lincoln 5900 . [s{sjaReialaleialuiajuinlaiai=iaiaialsiajaiuial=)=la|=lajaia]ais]