Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1927, Page 7

Seécretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg Will - Spend Easter at Homestead, Hot Spring HE Secretary of State and Mrs Kellogg will go to Hot Springs for Easter and expect to leave the end of next week. m, , entertained at dinner evening in celebration of the fifty- | wecond anpiversary of the birthday of | XKing Albert of the Belgians. The| guests were the Secretary of State,| Mr. Frank B. Kellogz: the Speaker of the House, Mr Long- | worth; Senator Claude A, Swanson * Senator Carter G senat ames | E. Watson, fenator James Couzens, | @enator David A. Reed, the Under-| secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Osden | Mills; the Assistant Secretary of| State, Mr. William R. Castle; Mr. | Willlam Green, president of the Am- epican Federation of Labor: Mr Frank B. Noyes, president of the As moclated Press: Dr. John C. Merriam president of the Carn Founda- tlon of Washington, and Mr. James | M. Beck. The New ¥Frank Lyon Davis, Mr. were Mr Polk, Mr. Norman H.| Thomas ¥. Ryan Mr. . Mills, Mr. Bernard Baruch, | g‘?e(gh{:rles H, Sabin, Mr. Clarence | “Mackay and Mr. Louis Wilev. Other guests were Mr. Edgar Rickard, Dr. Vernon Kellogg, Mzr. Stillemans and Mr. Gustavus Town Kirby of the Friends of Belgium; Mr, Jean Cattier, Mr, Robert Silvercruys, counselor of the Belgian embassy, and Viscount | Theophilo Lantsheere, first secretary | of the Belgian emb York guests Ahe Ambassador of Chile, Senor Pon Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, will be host at dinner this evening. The Ambas! Senora de Fer dinner this evening and ain at Cuba ent ador ara of will Count and Countess Szechenyi Hosts to Mr. and Mrs. Wright. The Minister of Hungary ‘aml | Countess Szechenyi will entertain eompany of 24 at dinner this evening | jn compliment to the newly appointed | "United States Minister to Hungary and Mrs. J. Butler Wright. nd M Belmont tughad to the shington house | today after spending a short time in New York and at Newport. Mr. and Mrs. Belmont will occupy Belcourt, at Newport, this season, and will go there in July. Mr. Willtam Walker Smith was host %o a company of 16 at luncheon yes- | terday at the Metropolitan Club, en- tertaining in compliment to S]vr'ak!x'l Nicholas Longworth. The other guests jncluded the British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard; the Minister of Switz- erland, Mr. Peter; Mr. Joseph C. Grew, Undersecretary of State; Mr. Robert E. Olds, Assistant Secretary of State: Dr. Leo Rowe, director general “of the Pan-American Union; Col. James H. Reeves, 1. 8. A.; Mr. Rob- former *Secretary of E. Margetts, 8. A Ellis, ut. Col. J. Miller Kenyon, Mr. Frank Simonds, Mr. Cleveland Perkins, Mr. Frederick . McReynolds and Mr. Howard T. Oliver. re- The newly appointed . financial eounselor of the Rumanian legation, Mr. George Bomcescu, came fo Wash- ington last evening from New York, where he arrived yesterday from ¥ng- land. Mrs. Joseph B. Kafbfus has' cards out for bridge and tea Easter Mohday in compliment to Mrs. Barrett Conner of Philadelphia. Mrs. Edward Everett Robbins will be hostess to a company of 50 at din- ner this evening at the Chevy Chase Club. ks Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kilpatrick an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Edna F. Kilpatrick, to Nr. Walter T. Bovard, son o Mr. and Mrs. - Grier Bovard of Ann Arbor, Mich. The wedding will take place in the fall. Mrs. Wilbur Emmons Forbes of Massachusetts, who, with her chil- dren, has been the guest of her par- ents, Mr. and Mre Arthur Newton Hacker, on Lamont street, will be joined here by Mr. Forbes, who will make a short visit. Mre. Charles F. Consaul has re- turned to her home at 1651 Harvard Terrace after a two months' trip to South America, Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico. Bridge Players Hear News of Guest’s Engagement. Miss Grace Harris is entertaining at bridge this afternoon in her home, at 1500 Decatur place, in compliment to Miss Edna Kilpatrick, whose engage- ment to Mr. Walter Bovard, will be announced this afternoon. The other guests include Miss Helen Gregg, Miss Marguerite Smith, Miss Ellen Little- page, Miss Virginia Ludl , Miss Joan | Collins, Miss Helen Hanford, Miss | Eleanor Haddox, Miss Dorothy Had- dox, Miss Ruth Newburn, Miss Doro- | thy Latimer, Miss Frances Foster, | Mis& Ruth Fo: fiss Martha Mc- Gehee, Miss Anna Waring, Miss Adele Nallon, Miss Ruth Moorehead, M Phoebe Moorhead. Miss Katharine Shoemaker, Miss Marcelle Le Meneger, Miss Mary Louise Lemon, Miss Janet | Smith, - Miss Man haaff, Miss Gladys Hugh See 3830 Garrison ¢ Sunday —the outstanding new-house value in Chevy Chase, D. C. Tt's tonians Special for Churches, Clubs, etc.. on large quantities. Rates good Crean o flavor | which | cousin 7 ; , Virginia. Miss Ellen Buell, Miss Ann Jones, Mrs. Norman Hammett, Mrs. Rogers Fred, Mrs Ree Thoma. Mrs. PFrancis { Brown, Mrs, Ober, Mrs. Elmer ser and Mrs. Ralph Hudson. Harris will be as: zame by Mrs. Mrs, W, W, Fulton Harrri T Scott and Mrs, D George W, Coggeshall place northwest an: e of their eldest to Mr. John cinnati, Ohio, M of 2315 nounce and Mrs, Tracy the marri daughter, Elizabeth rawford West of Tuesday, April 5. The ceremony, took place at the house at noon, was performed by Dr. Ulysses G. B. Pierce in the presense of the immediate family and a few intimate and was followed by a recep. bride was -attended sister, Miss Molly Cozgeshall, of honor; Mrs. B Brown, matron of honor, and three bridesmaids, Miss Dorothy Coggeshall. younger sister the bride: Miss Alice H. West Beirut, Syria, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Lucy “Vorthington of Ded- Mass, Mr. Frank W. West of Beirut . acted as his brother, and the ushers were Mr. Brown and Mr. Donald L. ain of Washington, Mr. Robert B, Atkins and Mr. S. Banks Wilkinson of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mr. Paul 8. Shizlds of Harrisonburg, Va. ., i by her s maid M. Jayne has been ie Louise Hilles in Balt more for a week. Miss Jayne will o to New York the last of April to be hridesmaid at the wedding of her Miss Adams of San Francisco, to My. Theodore Wei James Barrett and daughters, Misses Lillian and Helen Barrett, are at the Willard for a few days, having arrived there today from the home in New Yor Miss Ann ing Miss ) M Miss Gertrude Richardson Brigham has gone to New York to attend the wedding of her sister, Miss Harriet 1. Drigham, to Mr. Charles L. Looker of Elizabeth, N. J., which takes place today. neral M. A. Diskin of arrived in Washington for a short stay and is at the Willard. Mr. James A. Mars, jr., of Harvard University will arrive in Washington April 17 to spend a week at the Brighton with his parents, Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Jaies A. Ma Mrs, William Cleveland ,Hicks and her daughter, Miss Margaret de For- est Hicks, are continuing their in- formal at homes on Sunday after- noons throughout April. Mr. Ralph Van Horn, well known way yeteran pianist, was heard in a recital at the Women's City Club yes- terday afternoon, presenting a varied program of Bach and Beethoven com- positions to an audience that taxed the capacity of the ballroom and the drawing r00m of the club. Mrs, Charles Demonet, as president of the George Baldwin McCoy Unit. which sponsored the recital, réceived the guests, assisted by Mrs: Aitchison Hagsan. § The patroncsses were Mrs. Dwizht F. Davis, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Charles P. Summerall, Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, Mrs. Samuel Rocken- Attorney G Nevada has A bachy Migs Mabel T. Boardman, Miw, | Sydney F. Taliaferro, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, - Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Miss Mary Donnelly and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth. Miss Frances Weaver, Miss Elizabeth Edmunds and Miss Aline Purcell acted as ush- ers. Among others present were Miss Agnes Brophy, Mr. Cyrus D. Thom: Miss Ruth Rhodier and Capt. Charles C. Williams. Biblical Lecture and Music Tomorrow in Character -Dress. Mrs. Lillian_Hendrick will appear as Ruth, wife of Boaz, in_the second lecture recital of Mrs. Nanette B. Paul, at the Mayflower Hotel tomor- row evening at 815 o'clock. Other characters in biblical costume will be Carolyn Norton Bost. who will sing, by request. “Consider the Lilies,” and Myra McCathran Marks, accompanied James Ru sell Barr, will sing, “Open the Door of the Temple” and *Jerusalem.” Mrs. Leland Stanford Conness will ap- pear as the woman of Neapolis, Mre. Leon Arnold as the woman of a priestly i M Mahel Wilcox as the Queen of . Dr. Wilcox_as If I* Swims Buy It At . Center Market DANCING EVERY NITE Ten:iz cnd Tomorrow Nite SAM GAITHER Know Him—? Well, he’s the champion Dix- ieland er of Philadelphia and Washington. you should meet him. Talk about fiy- ing feet—wow! — Music just ever by Syncopa- torz, Directed by Al Kamons. as good as Swanee ~ . 2t Spring Again OTHER Spring! The iftieth in which Washing- have enjoved the BUDD'S Ice Order your favorite ed cream by phone today ! 18th and Columbia Road COL. 707 EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. | the e Bost | as the h' Miss Louise Reynolds and her sis ter, Miss Agnes Reynolds, will be hostesses at the Art Promoter: tomorrow afternoon, assisted by Mr. { William Elderkin Huntington, at tea from 4 to 6 p.m., in the Oriental | Studio, 2009 I street northwest. 5 o'clock there will be an informal program with music. are patrons and lovers of music as well are taking a great interest in the song recital which is to be given Tuesday afternoon of next week, April [two voung concert arti: i tional Capital, and Miss Char whom are here becaus ance at private recitals in the homes s of the Na n Howison particularly welk known -| of prominent hostesses, | Recent subscribers to the recital are | the statement | Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Miss M. R. Ball, { Mr=. William Belden Noble, Mrs. Wal ter R. Tuckerman, Miss Helen Nico- lay, Mrs. Richard Dean, Mrs. Charles { Warren, M Ze Barney Phillips, Mrs. Rees McDuffie, Mrs. John H. Gib- bons, Mrs. Joseph Washington, Mus Adolph Casper Miller and Mr. Elmar H. Roberts. Mrs. J. Francis A. Cla taken a residential suite at riton Hotel for several weeks, been joined by M week end. Mr. and Mrs Grand Rapids, Mich.,, are spending several days at the Carlton Hotel Blodgett was for many years a mem ber of the Republican national com- mittee. At the-afternoon tea of the Ameri can Association of University Women Monday there will be a Lenten pro- gram of music. The contributing artists will be Mrs. William E. Cham- berlin, reader; Miss Marion McCoy, contralto soloist, and Miss Mary Isabel Kelly, pianist. Two of Long- fellow’s poems. with musical settings, will be recited by Mrs. Chamberlin— The Legend Beautiful,” with piano accompaniment compo by Alex- Henneman, and “King Robert i to the music written by . Cole. Mrs. Chamberlin will recite also, with musical ‘settings for the piano. two poems by James Whitcomb Riley. The hostess for the afternoon, Mrs. Robert F. Griggs. will be assisted by Mrs. E. Dana Durand, Mrs. William C. Van Vieck, Miss Isabel L. Towner, Mrs. Enoch G. Johnson, Miss Margaret McMahon and Mrs. Selden M. Ely. Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch, who is the in- spiring head of a number of local patriotic orders, which include the Order of Washington, the Order of the Red Rose, the Crusaders and sun- dry orders of historical significance, announces that there will be a joint annual reunion held at the Hotel La Fayette the evening of April 18, for which invitations are being sent out. There will be an interesting pro- gram embracing addresses, historical portrayals, music and dancing. The cions of Colonjal Cavaliers will also join in the observance of this annual reunion, with'Mr. Daniel Smith Gor- don as the master of ceremonies. Mrs. Robert Griggs will be guest of honor and speaker at the dinner given by the business and professional sec- tion of the Women's City Club next Wednesday. COMMUNION SERVICE. At St. Mark's Church, Third and A streets southeast, the rector. Rev, William Henry Pettus, will celebr holy communion- tomérrow at am. and at 11 aim., and will preac atdl'a.m, and 8 p.m. Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday holy communion will be celebrated at 11 a.m., and Maundy Thursday, both at 7:30 a.m. and at 11 am. The rector will préach edch evening next week -at 8 o'clock, from Monday to Good Friday, inclusive. Good Fri- day, 12 m. to 3 p.m,, there will he mns, prayers and meditations on ‘The Seven Last Words From the Cross,” in 20-minute periods. Holy baptism will be administered Satur- day. Conflrmation classes for girls, men and women are held every Sun. day at 7 p.m., and for boys every Thursday at 4:30 p.m., preparatory to Bishop Freeman's visitation, May 1, protection. Made b; Whole l Club | At Social leaders in Washington who | SUPPressed Document | | 12, at 4:30 o'clock at the Mayflower by | of their frequent appear- | e k of New York | Barton the | now she | that . Clark for the | getting the Democratic nomination, in John W. Blodgett of | defeat Coolidze or any ath Mr. | quoted | executive DRYS HIT COOLIDGE, STAYTON CHARGES of League Attacked President, He Contends. otte Harriman, both of By the Associated Press William H. Stayton, chairman ot Association Against prohibi tion Amendment, declared today that by Arthur J. Barton, chaivman of the Anti-Saloon Le committee, that a number of southern States would vote the Republican ticket it the Democrats nominated Gov. Smith of New York, for the presidency, “illustrates per- fectly the double standard of camou flage” of the league. He said that in December, had written Roy A. Ha ting prohibition commissioner, “it Al Smith should succeed in the he will n that He also ynes: to York makes of the present confused situation the Republicans may nam Barton as urging article in the that month as very clear the growing Al Smith in the South.” rew From Attack. The letter from Barton to grew out of co Anti-Saloon League officials as a_re. sult_of an attack by former Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania. on the ad- ministration’s enforcement methods, Stayton said. This attack was made at the league's crisis convention in Chicago in 1925, he continued, and at that time the executive committee of the league prepared a press release Ha New 1t strength read an Times of Haynes attacking -President. Coolidge for mis- { feasance or malfeasance in office on account of the administration failing to enforce the prohibition law to the satisfaction of the league. “By a vote of. 5 to 4 this press re- ase was not issued,” Stayton added, but a rather curt letter was sent to President Coolidge in which they toid him it would not tolerate evasion or ineffici ney in the matter of prohibi- tion."” Cites “Suppressed Docume He said the action of the league's committee W taken in a i hotel, Sunday, November 8, 1 quoted what he said was the text of essed document. It read in Constitntion of the United States specifically places the duty of enforcing the laws upon the President of the United States. He is the only officer so charged in the ¥ederal Con- stitution with responsibility for -en- forcement, and it is impossible for him to shift this responsibility to any cabi- net member or departmental official. “The Anti-Saloon League cannot do less than the Constitution does in the recognition of law enforcement re- sponsibility, and it therefore calls upon Calvin Coolidge, the President of the United States, publicly to declare that past and present conditions, which amount to a hindrance to the cause of enforcement, do not represent the pol- icy of his administration. And the Anti-Saloon League further calls upon the President to indicate his accept- ance of enforcement of the law, e triumph of the Government over the bootlegger and his affiliated outlaws.” i % Duty Is Changéd. Col. Frank H. 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APRIL 9, 1927.° SACCO SENTENCED, w'TH VANZETTL To ‘g’l‘hx;\'(;r finished. The men were sen- D_I_E"{ 3 MONTHS} .\l.\.N\' PLEAD FOR PARDON. (Continued from First Page) above the judge, “The same words were pronéunced two years ago.” No attention was paid to him. Judge _ | Messages acco, | notes, he said, “I have | Says He Could Enter Business. who have been with me these seven | Favoring Radicals. BOSTON, April 9 (®.—Pleas for Vanzetti addressed the court at some ttl addressed the courtatisome || Gov. Fuller today—the day for length and accused Judge Thaver of | ;.nouncement of the death sentence him. He spoke in somewhat ' better | 7etti, socialists convicted of murdering English than ¢ but occasionally |# Paymaster and his guard in a Through six years of bitterly con- but for the most part disre-|tested litization and world-wide pro- | sarded them. 18 sought to escape the sentence. g In the peaceful town of Dedham, never stolen and never killed. struggled all my life to eliminate |guilty of murder in the first degree, extreme precautions were taken to | knows these two hands knows T have | you e ) 00 00O yrier Thayer, never had to go out and steal and |trial justice, was obligated to send {living with these two hands. 1 ham“hmr in S(a[.e Prison. o Iheen able to live a higher life than | 100 Policemen Added. signed to the building in addition to | those already guarding riembers of e in Italy were in good circum-|ler in the week refused a new trial. ‘L'!”n::ww"rnul had offered him positions | _Authorities, although disclaiming % K 4 at by no possible <hance should I could have gone back,” he con-|that possih h ! tinued, “and not have had to work | there be any repetition in this State SVE hA & SostionIn DUSTRERE | four continents have marked progress - gt B |of the trial and subsequent appeals. or all my life, but 1 have | d : ity cabled protests from Kngland, Swit- se s o commodity, to | °* Eainen yiel o Do oo zerland and Germany, while at Buenos want to say that I am not only - : v co Y | strike called by the Regional Federa- Innocent—1 have committed some | ;o "%y ahor had tied up port opera- gled to eliminate crime and. the | Hons cai hostas exploitation and oppression of men, | Stopped taxicab service. Has Not Seen Evidence. me it is this reason and none else.” At this point his voice broke and he | iy the Sacco.-Van ke, Tl s heen pre nted to me, Consequent! 1zetti then referted to the many people throughout the world who had | The cablegrams included one bea ing the signatures of 21 Labor mem Sacco, including “the flower of man kind in Europe.” | which were collected by an organiza- seven vears,” he went on. “no man| War Prisoners’ Aid.” 1t asked Go: can say. Yet you see us hefore you | Fuller for immediate release of both ashamed.” Possibility that the British protest | might lead to an exchange of diplo. Looking directly at Judge Thayer, | when the embassy at Washington he said: | nointed out that the members of Par- more prejudiced than you. Yet they | 5 S refused us a new trial. We know, | Celler Asks Stay. 3 A communication from Zurich sign- from the heginning. You knew we 5 2 were radicals, underdogs. You spoke | the political prisoners’ committee of the Labor and Socialist Internationale friends in the University Club in Waorcester.” Deutschland, understood to be a radi- cal workers’ organization in Germany, given a longer ter - in the State Prison for attempted |®rs were innocen F It was considered certain that at- many ‘men who had confessed their guilt of armed robbery. He declared | €'l courts as well as an appeal to the governor for an executive review From Four Countries years. | clemency from three countries were {always having been prejudiced against | on Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van . ; hold-up. broke into Ttalian. He had a pile of test the two admitted radicals havs “In all my life," 1 have | where in 1921 a jury found both man o1 e eaxth. Every one that crire from the eautll; - & protect the Norfolk County court- 1kill to get money. I can earn my|Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric {by crim | More than 100 policemen were as- Vanzetti said that his father and|the State Supreme Court, which ear- | Ehen fear of disturbance, wera determined by the sweat of my brow. I could|of violent demonstrations which on v have I not tried to steal [Of t y nt : Wil Gov. Fuller today was studing ifice my: oz ssition. Hice ymet Juc. 8 wood posi Aires the second d a 4S-hour sins, but no crime—but 1 have strug- ons used a shortage of bread and If there is any reason you can doom The governor “The evidence ged the court’s pardon. I have not formed any opinion of it expressed sympathy for him and for bers of the British House of Commons, “What we have suffered in the iast | tion called “The International Class- not blushing not changing color, not | prisoners. | Accuses Judge of Prejutice. | matic ecorrespondence was minimized “There could not be another judge |liament had acted as private citizens, vou know, you have been against us ed by Senator Louis de Brouckere of of your despisement of us with your b and a message from the Rote Hilfe anzetti asserted that he had been & expressed conviction that the prisol robbery than had heen imposed on L tempts to obtain intervention of Fed- he was innocent of the attempted rob. bery for which he had been sent to { prison. The one interruption to the orderly procedure came at the moment of sen- tence, when both prisoners interrupted l.!ud:e Thayer. + Sa had accepted his standing, with set, pale face. Judge Thayer then began the legal formula which would pronounce a a like fate on Vanzetti, anzetti jumped to his feet “Wait a minute, pleass Judge Thayer stopped and inquired | if counsel knew what the prisoner in. tended. Counsel did not and Judge Thayer said he thought he should | proceed with the sentence. | Half way through the brief pro-| nouncement, Sacco was on his feet and said loudly. enough to be heard | 250 in Prizes Our Descriptive Contest Is Open to All See Papers for Further Announcements W, B, Moses & Sons Established 1861 ! F Street & Eleventh I sentence with 100 Dres would be part of the program of coun- sel for the defense. The Sacco-Vanzetti defense commit- tee, which has been chiefly responsible for the long fight, announced that the fight would be continued, “as long as life remains.” Representative Emanual Celler of New York, wrote the governor urging a stay until he could ask Congress to the attorney general to sub- mit certain information to the State courts, FRENCHMEN SEND APPEAL. Caillaux Among Signers of Plea for Saceo and Vanzetti. PARIS, April 9 (P).—An appeal for pardon in behalf of Sacco and Van- zettl has been sent to the Washington Government under the signatures of former ~Premier Caillaux, Mme. Dorian, president of the International League for the Rights of Man; Vic- tor Basch, president of the French League for the Rights of Man, and Leon Jouhaux, secretary of the labor federation. A protest meeting last night organ- ized by Paris Communists was at- tended by about 2,000 persons, but there were no prominent speakers and the proceedings passed without incident. A similar meeting was held at Havre. ONE-HOUR STRIKE PLANNED. Italian Paper Announces Proposal for New York Protest. NEW YORK, April 9 (#).—Plans for a one-hour strike of all New York City trades within the next two weeks, as a protest against the sen- tencing of Nicola Sacco and Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti, were announced today by editors of 11 Nuove Mundo, Italian newspaper. A meeting of representatives of all the trades has been called for Thurs- day of next week to set a date for the strike and arrange other details, it was said. PLAN TO RENAME ELDRIDGE AS CHIEF OF TRAFFIC DENIED ___(Continued from First Page) _ ington Board of Trade at a luncheon held at the Raleigh Hotel. Declaring that the recent investiga tion of the office of the traffic director, while vesulting in the resignation of Col. I. C. Moller, assistant director. had not involved the Director of Traffic, Mr. Blanton voiced the hope that the District Commissioners would | | | restore Mr. Eldridge to his former post. Should the Commissioners decline to take such action ‘on behalf of Mr. EI ridge, who has been demoted to as sistant traffic director, Mr. Blanton asserted he would bring the matter before Congress and employ every legal means to again make Mr. Eld- ridge the Director of Traffic. The meeting was attended by a number of prominent Government and civic leaders, and brief talks were made by several on varfous phases of the work of the District gavernment. No taint of graft of any sort has been found in any department of the municipal government by the special committee of the House which is mak- ing a close study of all local govern- mental activities, Representative Gib- son of Vermont, a guest of honor at the Juncheon, told the gathering. Not Inquiry Group. In describing the work of the com- mittee, of which he is chairman, Mr. Gibson emphasized the point that it is not an “investigating” committee, but rather one that is making a survey of the needs and problems of the Dis- trict government, with the hope and intention of being helpful in every possible way. District Commissioner Taliaferro, Acting Engineer Commissioner Covell, Col. U. S. Grant, 3d: Inspector Albert E. Headley and E. C. Graham, presi- dent of the Board of Trade, also briefly addressed the meeting, which was attended by about 75 persons. E. Swan, John E. McClure and W. H. Callahan were appointed as a special committee to investigate the law of the District regulating the sale and possession of deadly weapons and the penalties for violation of the law. 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