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" AUTO KNOCKS TRIO TO DEATH N CORGE Niagara Falls Police Hunt Car That Shoved Man, Wife i and Child Over Precipice. By the Associated Press, NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Septem- ber 3.—Police today were bending every effort to locate a touring car which, Witnesses say, shoved three persons to their death in the Niagara Gorge, wiping out an entire family. The victims of the 120-foot drop yes- terday were Prof. Roy Desmond Hux- ley, his wife and their 7-year-old daughter Ruth, all of Cleveland, Ohio. Huxley was assoclate professor of electrical engineering at Case School of Applied Science. He was a native of Northampton, Mass. Mrs. Huxley, until her marriage, was Miss Luci Himes of Providence, R. I. License Only Clue. Search for the car which is blamed for the tragedy extended to garages in iagara Falls, Buffalo and interme- diate and adjacent points. The auto- mobile bore an Illinois license and was driven, witnesses said, by a stout man. The car did not stop after striking the smaller machine, sending it hurt- ling_through an iron fence and down the Niagara Gorge precipice, to smash it in two parts and drop flaming into the water. Huxley and his wife died instantly. The little girl suceumbed a few hours later in a Niagara Falls hospital. \ The girl and her parents’ bodies were | brought up from a ledge, where they had caught, a block and tackle being rigged to a firemen's ladder extended horizontal over the edge of the cliff. CAR BELIEVED IDENTIFIED. Belleville, T, Police Asked to Watch for Suspected Party. BELLEVILLE, Til, September 3 (P).—Niagara Fails, Ontario, police, in a telegram to local police, said they believed the automobile that struck that of Prof. Roy Huxley, killing him and his wife and their daughter, was driven by people from Belleville. . The message said it was reported by witnesses that the automobile bore an Illinois license and was from Belle- ville. The police here were asked to be on the lookout for the automobile, which was said to have a damaged right fender. It was said to have been occupied by two women and two men, and the driver was described as stocky and florid. 1,800 UNDESIRABLES EXPELLED BY FRANCE 250 Alien Communists Il;clnded in Number Deported Dur- ing August. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 3.— Eighteen hundred undesirables were expelled from France during August, Minister of the Interior Sarraut announced yes- terday. Of those expelled 250 were foreigners—Italians, Russians, Poles, Germans, Spaniards and Hungarians— charged with having engaged in dis- seminating Communist propaganda in France. Fourteen Communist leaders, in- cluding: three members of the French Parliament — Argel Cachin, Jacques Doriot and Andre Marty—were lodged in La Sante Prison under sentences of from six to eight months’ imprison- ment. Nineteen Communist publica- tions have been suppressed since Jan- 1. These figures are given by the min- istry_of the interior as emphasizing the French effort to combat Commu- nist propaganda. DANCER REPORTED . Borah Secures Virginia Horse As New Mount Senator Borah of Idaho, a well- known figure on the National Cap- ital's bridle paths, will ride a new horse during his daily outings next Fall and Winter in Rock Creek Park, his favorite riding route. He has purchased a 3-year- old thoroughbred from a Virginia horseman and will pension his old mount Jester, which he has ridden for the last seven years. GOLD RUSH PASTOR DEAD OF INJURIES Dr. S. Hall Young, Missionary and Author, Succumbs in Clarksburg, W. Va. By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va,, Sep(emhgr 3.—Rev. Dr. S. Hall Youns, 80, mis- sionary and author, of Seattle, Wash., died in a hospital here this afternoon from injuries received when he walked in front of an interurban car. At the time of his injury he was on his way to a ploneer celebration to be held Sunday at French Creek, near Buckhannon. Dr. Young was the first m! in the territory of Alaska, where he remained for more than 30 years. He W the author of several books on religious and missionary work. Dr. Young was often described as a ving history of the northland,” be- cause he had carried the Gospel dog team over snow trails and I canoe on Summer streams to all se tions of Alaska, including the Arctic coast settlements and even across to Siberia. Companion of Muir. A companion years ago of John Muir on Alaska vovages, who “mushed” with his pack in every big gold rush, including the stampede to the Klondike in 1898, and a veteran church worker, who organized the first Protestant church in Alaska, Dr. Hall lived to write and lecture on his experiences. Among his books were “Alaska Days With John Muir,” “The Klondike Clan” and “Adventures in Alaska,” and on the Presbyterian lec- ture platform in the States he was known for his intimate knowledge of the golden north. Dr. Young was born in Butler, Pa., September 12, 1847, the son of a min- ister. He attended the University of ‘Wooster, Princeton Theological Semi- nary and the Western Theological Seminary and taught school in Michi- gan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania before he was ordained in 1878. As soon as he was ordained, Dr. Young went to Wrangell, Alaska, as a missionary and explorer and spent 10 years on the southeast coast work- ing among the natives, even before the white man’s law had been taken to the country. In 1879 and 1880 Dr. Young and John Muir camped on the site of Juneau, the present capital, before Joe Juneau made the gold strike that established the city. With Muir he explored the glacier that now bears the latter's name. In 1884 he established a missionary paper, the Glacier, at Wrangell. Held Many Pastorates. Leaving Alaska in 1888, Dr. Young held pastorates in Long Beach, Calif.; Cedar Falls, Towa; Caberty, Ill., and Wooster, Ohlo. For 10 years he re- mained away and then joined the stampede across the Chilcott Pass to the Klondike and established the first Presbyterian church at Dawson when that city was “wide open.” Going down the Yukon River the next year, he established -missions at Eagle and Rampart and then joined the rush to Nome, where he continued his work. In 1901 he was named superintendent of all Presbyterian missions in Alaska and in the several years following lived in Skagway, Cordova and Fairbanks after follow- BETROTHED TO KAHN Young Orchestra Leader and Vir- ginia Franck May Delay Announcement. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—The New York Daily News, in a copyright- ed story today, says Roger Wolfe Kahn, 21-year-old jazz orchestra leader and son of Otto H. Kahn, banker, and Miss Virginia Franck, 19-year-old stage dancer, whose home is in Lynbrook, Long Island, have been engaged for six months and that the formal an- nouncement is not expected until next year. The pair quarreled last Spring when Miss Franck insisted on visiting Paris ‘mgainst the wishes of her flance, the \News says, but patched up their differ- ences when the young jazz musician followed the girl to Paris. Kahn met Miss Franck three years #go at a New York theater, the news- 's, and is now continuing his via the air. Kahn recently finished an aviator's training course, “Only the other afternoon,” Miss Franck is quoted by the News, “Roger soared and dipped over my home in his airplane. He is not an accomplished fiyer as yet, but he can plot a plane alone MAKES SOCIAL BLUNDER. LONDON, September 3 (#).—The Rev. A. Cuming, vicar of Addleston Parish, is in hot water becafise he cannot recognize the woman members of his congregation. He has issued an appeal through the parish mag- azine, “Not long ago T called upon one of my parishioners in the afternoon and visited with her for about 15 min- utes,” the viear says. “An hour later I passed her in the road and did not know her. A woman indoors with her hat oft 18 to me an entirely different person from what she is out of doors with her hat on. It is the same with girls. The instant they leave school they #eem to me to be completely trans. mogrified, and 1 can recognize them no more.” — Marriage Licenses. F. West of Birminchom, Ala. and of C; City, _Turner and Mary F. Titus « W._ Smith of this city and Nell L. _Plains, Va 1se and Rose Cupn. thel Edwards. and Mabel Eckloff a T. Padilla ate A. Boden- Elsie G. Bosle, vernors lsland. N. Y., n Louise Young of this city MWilson and Mary ¥.'S fiivan atross of Penola.’ Va.. an Young of Milford Va o W Forcusen and Myrils R Brewster e A Marehall ertha. Kijlian ensington, Md., and of this ity est Conn... and M.V v ie 0. Webh and Ruby B. Johuson Klitch and Rose E. Harrison. Bonnet and Mary H. Stine 7, Bartlett of this city ‘and Helen Aauasco. Md Harry A Gehrmann, jr.. and Elizabeth and Mary Smigh. Bawaske William B. Stevens, s ‘Church. Va., and ty. and Pearl E. Grier. den N. J Crabill of this city and Helen L. . Va. f Falls Church, Va., and nna. Va. ing the rush to the beach gold discov- eries at Nome. Dr. Young left Alaska in 1913 and went to New- York to become special representative for Alaska on the Pres- byterian Board of Home Missions, Eight years later he went north again to_gather material for a book. Dr. Young married Miss Fanpie E. Kellogg in Sitka, Alaska, in 1878, In 1899 he received the degree of doctor of divinity by Wooster. FOUR BATHS EACH YEAR SATISFY FRENCH FOLK Town of Bedarieux, Near Southern Coast, Lacks Patronage for House of Tubs. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 3.—The scarcit of bathtubs in most of Frarce is often the subject of jokes, but sarcastic critics have a new fact to give sub- stance to their humor. In the town of Bedarieux, near the southern coast, there are 7,000 people Wwith very few tubs. A forward-look- ing: gentleman transformed a villa into a public bathhouse, in a spirit of civic pride, relying upon promises of a good subscription list. He set out to get the wealthy to buy season tickets good for a bath a week. He finally got 36 to agree to take a bath a month for a year. After the first few weeks, according to reports of the enterprise, the subscribers re- verted to primitive ideas of hygiene and demanded part of their tickets to be taken up. “A bath a month is too often; once every three months is enough,” they are quoted as saying. The bathhouse “finally closed its doors, unable to make a go of the bathing business, although there was no competition. pr— e Polite People Th PeERE ereé are men who act litel: while they are upon their l’o(l*):), m.’a' they think it most unsightly rude ex- pression to repeat. They are bowing, they are smiling, as' we meet them here and there; they have manners most beguiling, they are smooth and debonair. And we think of them with ple re as on errands vain we chase; wae shall never cease to treasure recol- lections of their grace. But we see them when they'r tooling cars for Wwhich they’'v gone in debt; they've forgotten all the schooling they've received in etiquette. Their polite- ne: seems to shrivel when they climb inside a car; the: husive and uncivil, and their cusswords jolt and jar. Once they hawg their motors chooing, once behind the steering wheel, they are fuming, they are stewing, and their kindly thoughts congeal. They are brutal, they are yellow, hatred seethes in every tone, and they roast the other fellow for the faults that are their own. They're no longer mild and tender, courteous to gent and dame, and while tearing off your fender they insist you are to blame. - It is rather hard recalling sunny smiles they have bestowed, when you hear them ranting, bawling, when they run you off the road. It is strange so many voters are polite while on their feet, yet when driving choo-choo motors they would hog the whole biamed street. WALT MASON. (Coprrigbt, 1927.) B THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, CHEVY CHASE FEUD OVER TAXES RAGES Records in- D. C., Political Ross Objects and I_\sses- sor May Lose Job. Shall higher assessments and higher taxes be levied upon the residents of Chevy Chase, Md., because a village political boss is purported to dislike the owner of an office in which one of the county assessors took space to do his work? Is the local political boss afraid to sponsor increased assessments in Chevy Chase and maneuvering through the dismissal of the unfortunate as- sessor to gain an ajudication of the case and higher rates of assessment through the activity of the Maryland State Tax Commission, thereby escap- ing the onus of such action? These are questions that are being asked and arousing the thickly-popu- lated area skirting the District of Co- lumbia, and there is a pretty howdy- do over the whole proposition. Chevy Chase has been stirred, but never as now, and charges are flying as thick as the leaves on the beautiful trees lining its shady thoroughfares, And here's how the equanimity of the Maryland village has been dis- turbed, according to those who are fearful of the results of the split in the Democratic, or controlling, ele- ment in Chevy Chase: Gets Office in District. William Lyles Offutt was appointed assessor for the district by the Mont- gomery commissioners. He began his work. As suitable office space is lack- ing in the village proper, Offutt, as was the case five years ago when as- sessments were made, took an office in a real estate office near Chevy Chase Circle but within the District of Columbia. The village political boss, so called, objected to this, his objections being attributed to enmity to the real es- tate man. He firmly demanded that Mr. Offutt move his offices and records. After bickering back and forth, Offutt agreed to do so, but the political boss is declared to have gone further and demanded Offutt’s resignation when the removal was not accomplished on the day the boss thought best. On August 13, and on strong recom- mendations of the village political boss, the county supervisor of assess- ments, L. A. Chiswell, addressed a letter demanding Offutt’s resignation. Mr. Offutt agreed, providing the word- ing of the letter was changed. Mr. Offutt later reconsidered this, it is said, and on August 24 the supervisor of assessments again wrote to Mr. Offutt, ordering the latter's resigna- tion on the ground that the keeping of the Montgomery assessment cards in the District of Columbia was a vio- lation of law. Procedure Not a New One. Mr. Offutt now pointe out that five years ago the same procedure was followed, and nefther the village politi- cal boss nor the County Commission- ers raised objections then. Offutt, charged with insubordination in not returning the cards as requested, chal- lenged the county supervisor's au- thority in the case. In his letter to Offutt the supervisor charges that in 34 out of 100 cases the cards of Mr. Offutt show a reduc- tion in assessments instead of ex- pected increase. Mr. Offutt charges that in the cases of reduction the as- sessments there were the same as on property along Connecticut avenue, though the property involved was far less valuable. The supervisor insists that values along the District area are greater now than ever and do not warrant reductions in any case. In asking again for the resignation of Mr. Offutt, the supervisor declares that unless the resignation is received the whole matter will be turned over to the State Tax Commission. This suggestion is ucclaimed by Mr. Offutt. ‘What Offutt Charges. In replying to the last demand for his resignation because his assess- ments were too low in a few cases, Mr. Offutt denies that he had refused to resign, merely asking that the matter be handled in the proper way. Offutt charges that the supervisor admitted to him that he had exceeded his authority, and that the first letter demanding the resignation was dic- tated by George P. Hoover of Chevy Chase and a county commis- sioner. Furthermore, Mr, Offutt de- clares that the supervisor himself de- clared he did not blame Offutt for not giving up the cards merely because they were housed in the District of Columbia. Furthermore, he charges, the emissary of the political boss and the County Commissioners did not have a receipt for the cards when instructed to get them, which instruc- tion was ignored by the assessor who faces ouster. The friends of Offutt now charge that the political authorities, particu- larly the village boss of Chevy Chase, Md., want the assessments increased and want the State-Tax Commission to intercede in the case and fix higher taxation rates, they thereby escaping the usual political penalty for such local action. In the meantime the assessor has not resigned. And the power of the State Tax Commission looms. And Chevy Chase, Md., faces higher taxes. And there's a fine kettle of fish brewing— As the war goes merrily on, And all because a few records were housed in an office in the District of Columbia. BIG AQUARIUM OPENS. Helgoland Institution Houses Big Denizens of Deep. BERLIN, September 3 (#).—The great North Sea aquarium of the State Blological Institute on the Island of Helgoland, just opened to the pub- lic, has a tank for the big inhabit. ants of the ocean. Among them are sharks, rays, big turbots and stur- geons. The aquarium, with some 50 great tanks, shows the complete fauna and flora of the North Sea. There is even a bank for seals. The pipes that sup- ply the tanks with sea water are of transparent cellulold, which is not subject to_corrosion. RENT AN APARTMENT From L W. Groomes, 1416 ¢ 8t Telephone Mai 5 Al Slzen Low " Renpal Repair Parts Hot Water Boilers Fries, Beall & Sharp 734 10th St. N.W. ENTERPRISE SERIAL Building Association 7th St. & La. Ave. N.W. 58th Issue of Stock Now Open for Subscription Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments James E. Counelly James F. Shea President Secretary Plane Afire, Mexican Flies Into Cloud And Saves Sfi Drinks Toast With Water. By the Associated Press, EL PASO, Tex., September 3.—Two uses for water—unusual under the cir- cumstances—have been demonstrated by Lieut. Emillo Carranza, nephew of the late Venustiano Carranza, former President of Mexico, who yesterday made the first nonstop flight from Mexico City to Juarez. ‘While flying over an isolated section after he had covered about half of the 1,200 miles from Mexico City, a wing of his plane in which 400 liters of gasoline was stored, caught fire. As Lieut. Carranza prepared to use his parachute, he noticed a black cloud [IONIST CONGRESS LESSENS ACTIVITY {Week End Program Marked by Plea of Jews for Recog- nition in Palestine. By the Associated Press. BASEL, Switzerland, September 3.— The activities of the fifteenth Zionist congress being held here, have slack- ened somewhat over the week end. No general sessions were scheduled today in deference to the Jewish Sabbath, and no meetings were set for Sunday. There was to be a single session after sunset tonight. This session was called to elect a new executive, but it was not thought likely thé task would not be accomplished, as the committee on committees, charged with the preparation of the list of proposed executive members, could not reach a decision, and declared it would postpone its deliberations until early next week. The respite given the delegates be- fore next week'’s sessions is being used by party leaders to secure alliances | Ui and attempt to create voting blocs for the various proposals which are being advocated. Most active of the groups is the American delegation, which forms the mainstay of the Weizmann policy, and was responsible for the reelection of Dr. Weizmann at the fourteenth con- gress. The chairmanship of the committee on committees, held at recent con- gresses by Americans, was awarded this year to a representative of the German Zionists, Kirt Blumenfeld. Dr. A. Coralnik of New York, Dr. H. Farbstein of Warsaw, and Dr. Chaim Arlasaroff, were elected vice chairmen. Samuel J. Rosensohn, New York at- torney, was selected to head the finance committee. The charge that the Zionist execu- tive had failed to fulfill the decision of the fourteenth congress concerning the creation of Yemenite settlements in Palestine was made yesterday by Delegate Gluska, representing the Yemenite Jews in Palestine. Delegate Gluska demanded that a special immigration commission be sent to Yemen to facilitate the migra- tlon of Yemenite Jews to Palestine. He also demanded that the Jewish national fund grant land to the Yem- enite Jews. The session of the congress was in- terrupted in order that the delegates might attend the funeral of Jacob Wassermann, delegate from Kishineff and Zionist leader of Bessarabia. Mr. Wassermann died after an operation ]here. M. M. Ussishkin delivered a eu- ogy. DOG RACING FAD HOLDS BRITISH SPORT LOVERS Large Audiences Attend Track Meets—Social Habits Changed by New Diversion. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 3.—Greyhound racing, all the go in London just now, has completely altered the night life of the city. Since the sport became S0 popular at the White City, where an evening’s contest is often wit- nessed by 80,000 or 100,000, London may be said to dine four times at night. First, there are the theatergoers, who take their meals at 6:30 or there- abouts so as to have time before going to the play. Immediately afterward appear the leisurely dancers, who dine trom 8:30 on. After the dancers come the “dog dinners,” as they are called, these coming after the evening races are over and just before the after- theater crowds begin to arrive for supper. Cafe managers say there has not been such a definitely new meal time since theater suppers were introduced in London years ago. o 13 KILLED IN BLAST. Two Others Serlously Wounded in Fireworks Plant Explosion. BUENOS AIRES, September 3 (#). —Thirteen young persons were killed and two seriously wounded in an ex- plosion vesterday at the San Martin Fireworks plant. The bodies are so badly mutilated that it is almost im- possible to identify them. All the victims were minors, being mostly young women and children. indicating a rainstorm a short distance off his course. He headed for the ;loud and the rain extinguished the re. Honored at a banquet in Juarez last night with the creation of a new drink named after Col. Charles A. Lndbergh and himself, Carranza called for ice water to drink a toast to the American fiyer. “Lindbergh is not only America's hero, but mine also,” said the Mexican aviator as he drank the ice water. He then tested the new drink, so prepared as to retain the colors of the Mexican fla; hite and gre: RICE GRASS AIDS COAST. Sea Walls of England Being Pro- tected by Plants. LONDON, September 3.—Sea walls of England are being protected and acres of land reclaimed from the sea through the planting of rice grass. Rice grass was discovered at South- ampton in 1870. It is not only of high value for pasturage, but it col- lects the mud, and thus raises the foreshore inch by inch. It spreads rapidly both by seeding and by growth of roots. Plants are being exported to all parts of the world. A recent con- signment was sent to Tasmania. The Dutch are using the grass on the coast of Holland. THEATER MUSICIANS AVERT STRIKE MOVE Amicable Settlement Reached on Salary Question, but Details Are Withheld. An amicable settlement, details of which are not yet ready to be made public, was reached yesterday between local theater musicians and managers and owners and a memorandum agreed n for a three-year contract, which will avert the possibility of any the- atrical musiclans’ strike here during that period. A. C. Hayden, president of the Musi- clans Protective Union, characterized the new arrangement as “highly satis- factory” and stated that it would prove to be mutally advantageous. The agreement was reached at a meeting of the joint wage scale committee at the Earle Building. The musicians asked originally for an increase in the maximum wage scale from $67.50 to $85 a week, with proportionate increases in the smaller theaters. PROBE OF INSTRUCTOR’S DROWNING TO BE ASKED Brother-in-Law of Man Who Was Lost Overboard From Liner to Seek Investigation. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Tenn., September 3.— L. L. Fonville said yesterday that he pected to ask an investigation by w York authorities of the recent death at sea of hig brother-in-law, Oscar Petty, Columbia University in- structor. He made public a telegram from Petty’s sister, Mrs. S. A. Boles, who was with him at the time, saying: “Oscar lost overboard last Friday in some unaccountable way. New York newspapers today gave exaggerated and sensational stories. Please cor- rect sulcide story.” Mr. Fonville sald he would hold- up plans for requesting a New York attorney to start an_investigation until he heard from Mrs. Fonville, who had gone to New York before word came of Petty’'s death. Reports earlier in the week had said that Petty leaped to his death from the French liner Paris while returning from studying in France. GETS RARE BOOK CHEAP. Stage Hand Pays 6 Cents for An- cient Work on Magic. LONDON, September 3 (#).—A copy of “Hocus Pocus,” the oldest book of magic in English, was found recently by a stage hand on a second- hand bookstall and bought for 6 cents. The book is nearly 200 years old. Only six copies of “Hocus Pocus™ are in existence, three in this country and three in America. Of the other two copies in England, one is in the strong box of the Magic Circle, and the other in Jasper Maskelyne's li- brary of 63 volumes of magical litera- ture. RADIO FREN&H LESSONS. Miss Waller, Director of Station WMAG, Announces Program. CHICAGO, September 3 (#).— French lessons by radio, authorized and approved by the French govern- ment, were announced today by Miss Judith C. Waller, director of station WMAQ. Louis Marchand, professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, will conduct the course from Chicago for three months, beginning September 13.) It will be continued by Prof. Leon Barreau of Tours. Don’t forget to order The Star before you leave ‘While you are on your vacation you will still want to know what is going on in Washington and if you arrange to have The Star —Evening and Sunday— mailed to you regularly you will get ALL the news. The address may be changed as often as neces- sary. Rates by Mail—Postage Paid Payable in Advance Maryland a}d Virginia— LY : One month .................. 75¢ One week .....ocosssinsianies 256 All other States— One month o-uv'fnk. BT emine Sunday 50c 15¢ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927. MARYLAND GRANTS POWER EXTENSIONS Potomac Electric to Con- struct Lines to Additional Nearby Communities. The Potomac Electric Power Co. was given authority yesterday by the Maryland Public Service Commission to extend light and power facilities to many additional communities in the neighboring State, the work to be completed in nine months at a cost of approximately $90,000. The commission at the same time approved other extensions to be made in Prince Georges and Montgomer Counties by the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Co. of Bal- timore. The application of the Potomac Elegtric Power (». calls for the ex- tensfon of its lines from the present terminus in Montgomery County, half way between Rockville and Nor- beck, thence along said pike to Nor- beck: thence along the Brookeville road (Union Turnpike) to Oakdale. Olney and Brookeville, and in the corporate limits of the town of Brookeville, and from Olney along the Sandy Spring road to a point between Sandy Spring and Ashton, and also | along the Laytonsville pike from Washington Grove to Rozelle, Emery Grove and Laytonsville, and in_the corparate limits of the town of Lay- tonsville and in territory adjacent to said proposed lines. Thg l::onmlidnled Gas, Electric Light and Power Co. will extend its lines from the present terminus at Laurel, Prince Georges County, along the Sandy Spring road through Bur- tonsville, Spencerville, Ednor, As! ton, Sandy Spring, Olney and Clay ville to Laytonsville, Montgomery County, and along the Union T\}rnblkc\ in Montgomery County from Norbeek through Olney to Brookeville and in territory adjacent to the said proposed lines. @ The company is given four months in which to complete con- THETA CHI TO SEEK ENDOWMENT FUND Fraternity Plans to Finance Chap- ter Houses and Erect National Headquarters Building. A national endowment fund.to be formed by contributions from candi- dates at the time of their initiation and for which they will receive a life subscription to the Theta Chi maga- zine, today was the goal of Theta Chi, national college fraternity, holding its seventy-first convention at the May- flower Hotel. It is estimated that the campaign will net at least $10,000 a year. It was decided upon yesterday afternoon. The purpose of the endowment is to help finance the building of chapter houses, to provide a student loan fund and to erect a national memorial headquarters building. The site of the headquarters has not been de- termined, but it was intimated that Washington was the most probable choice. Frank H. Schrenk, national president, presided at the meeting. The business meeting today took up routine work and was to end with the election of national officers. This afternoon the Theta Chi men are going on a_sightseeing tour of this city and Arlington, and will lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Capt. Francis M. Van Natter, national vice president and the first Theta Chl man with American troops in France during the World War, was delegated to conduct the ceremonies. The convention will close tonight with an anniversary banquet. The speakers will include the toastmaster, Mr. Schrenk: Albert C. Dieffenbach, John J. Tigert, commissioner of education; Capt. Van Vatter, Wirt P. Marks, national chaplain, and Judge Willlam R. Bayes, chairman of the Natipnal Interfraternity Conferenca. . City Officials Re-Elected. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Septem- ber 3.—At the annual meeting of the city ecouncil Thursday night A. G. Billingsley was re-elected collector and clerk of council, Dr. J. N. Barney. city health officer; R. E. Beckham, sanitary officer and sealer of weights and measures; S. B. Perry, chief of police, and J. P. Smith, E. Mussel- man, John Kennedy, J. . Stone, Catlett Jenkins, policemen. The city health board was continued with the same _members. . We Pay 5% Interest Compounded Semi-Annually Columbia Permanent Building Association 733 12th St. N.W. Main 352-353 3 GERMAN ARTISTS - NOW MODERNISTS Italians TonsoriaL BARIORS ATET LN, & ANERICAN B065 ) S TTES G 508ER BARBERS S Prob'ly Tilford Moots is as well in- | country recently. formed as any one in this country He remarked t'day that if somebuddy don’t git up a new high-powered camel * catterpiller’s goin’ t’ git all th’ Sa- hara desert busine: (Covyright. 19 . ORYOFFCEPROE REPORTED BISED Doran Is Teld Agents Investi- gating Lyle Were Accused of Improper Actions. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., September 3.— An investigation was decided by the ‘Washington State Anti-Saloon League yesterday of the agents whose activi- ties brought about a summons to Washington, D. C., of Roy C. Lyle, district probibition administrator, to explain alleged demoralized condi- tions in his district. The Treasury Department is inquiring into the reports of a cial intelligence unit that Lyle was “weak” in supervision of his pe sonnel. Exchange of money between rum runners and prohibition agents also was charged. B. E. Hicks, State superintendent of the league here, sent a telegram yesterday to J. M. Doran, commis- sioner of prohibition, declaring there had been reports of improper actions on the part of the investigators. An “unblased and complete” probe of the whole enforcement situation was need- ed, the telegram said, adding that Lyle should be retained until “the results of such investigation show he should be removed.” Several charges have been made as to the perspnal action and methods of the investigators, which, if true, the telegram said, should discredit them personally and officially and any report they make. The league’s telegram also said the investigation ‘“should be made by some Government agency other than the Treasury Department.” now spe- | Show Least Ad- vance, Saint Gaudens Says After Tour of Europe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—Homer Saint Gaudens, director of fine arts at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, re- turned from Europe on the Maure- tania yesterday after a f~ -month search for paintings to be exhibited at the twenty-sixth Carnegie Institute in- ternational exhibition of paintings, which opens in Pittsburgh October 13. Germany, he said, presents the most interesting development that has taken place in the art world of any “In Germany art has become com- pletely modernist,” Mr nt Gaudens said. s a matter of fact, advanced art is the only art that the German government and leaders in German art circles acknowledged. They have made it quite clear that if they are not represented by the pictures which they gave us for the international, they would prefer not to be repre- sented at all.” Many Youthful Exhibitors. On the other hand, he added, Italy's artists are not achieving very great success in the modernist manner, with the exception of a few young men. Both countries showed considerable official interest in the forthcoming ex- hibition. Youth will be recognized in this vear’s exhibition as never before, Mr. Saint Gaudens asserted, for nearly half of the exhibitors have not yet turned 40. “There are about 14 countries repre- sented,” he said. “On the assump- tion that each land splits itself into five cliques, there are probably about 70 aspects of art shown by about 300 paintings, or four or five paintings to an aspect.” Will Be Shown on Coast. Tnstead of exhibiting one example of each painter’s work, as in former exhibitions, three to five examples will be shown this vear. This plan allows only about one-third of the lead- ing men of the various countries to be represented, but those net included this year will have their turn at fu- ture shows. After the close of the show in Pitts- burgh it will be brought to the Brook- Iyn Museum and then sent to San Francisco, the first showing of the yearly exhibition west of the Rocky Mountains. Those selected to compose the jury of award are Karl Hofer, Germany; Felice Caborati, Italy; Maurice Gri fenhagen, England; Maurice Deni France, and Eugene Speicher, Eugens Savage, Horatio Walker and Abram Poole, United States. Epworth Institute Adjourns. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., September 3.— ‘Washington District Epworth League Institute closed a meeting at Trinity M. E. Church South yesterday. Lacy M. Smith, Bethesda, district secretary, arranged the program and about 100 delegates attended. LanSburgh & Bro. 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