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FARM BODIES SEEK ™= | her 9.-—The picture of a nun rescuing 68 children, carrying some as they Bureau Federalion, Grange o ana leading others to satety, and Union Parleying Be- {from a building transformed into a {roaring furnace rose yesterday above hind Closed Doors, {the confusion and hardship whi came after fire destroyed a dormitos of an orphanage conducted at Pe Naza v the Baptistine Sisters of the A : ene, taking the lives of three ittle inmates. An effort by thres major farm or-| The nun ganizations, the American Farm Bu- One oi the ¢ n me confused reau Federation, the National (:mnup‘-’l"““‘v Yandered back into the dormi- and the Farmers® Union, to reach an | 'ir @1d died in the flames atter the S r set him down at the door. Sis- agreement on farm relief legislation X Novem- Sister dr 'y Gabriel. T KV K o p— !Nun Defies Death to Lead 68 Children Safety From Burning Orphanage hoys occupying the dormitory, rescued nine before the fire drove her back. The dead children were Joseph Mul- izia, Raymond de Mauro and Joseph Milino, aged 4, 4, and 6, respectively, all of New York. The ruins of the large dormitory tonight were tumbled upon 75 tons of coal, which had burned itself into a moltenmass and was ex- pected to prevent efforts to recover the bodies for at least a.week. The fire was discovered shortly be- for 2 a.m., and was belleved to have been caused by a defective furnace. Again and again the nuns groped their way to the cribs of the children, anging in age from 3 to 10 years, ister Gabriel collapsing three times. he last few boys were handed to the male attendants, who rushed to the main entrance of the building. Mark, in charge of 11 other was under way ‘today, behind closed | doors, at the ofices of the National | AMUS_E:I_V[EN S Grange. The National Grange has sponsored & so-called debenture plan of farm re lief, while the ‘Amer F reau Federation and ¢ A virile, booming, ) ave been pa ;"‘!\ _h‘aflxm mn‘ whose scarlet cloak became a curling Thers have been reports that the | bullwhip that whistled through the most lkely cnmprsnl\w‘“‘j*!!ltlr‘l";"l\"i‘j‘ chill air to, sting animation out of features of the debenture and M¢ ! opapecpeare's aged lines is the these | Nary-Haugen proposals. but )}:\? e i by representatives | Macbeth which Fritz Leiber gave of the Farm Bureau, who have de-|Washington from the stage of the ol red that that organization expects | Auditorium last night. to stand behind the equ ion fee| Possessed naturally of a tremendous pro ision of the McNary-Haugen bill. | voice, Leiber used it with some aban- in spite of President Coolidge’s disap:|don to thunder his way through proval. phrases, clauses and sentences that ‘Successive visits to the White House | seem, perhaps, to warrant more inflec- by C. S. Barrett, president of the|tion than Mr. Leiber was willipg to Fa mers’ Union, and one of the farm | give them in his interpretation. A Jeaders who are close to Mr. Coolidze. | lithe actor with muscles where mu marked today's session. Barrett de-| cles are meant. to be, Leiber impr clined to discuss his visit and the de-|ed one with his overwhelming power liberations of the farm meeting. ex-in his Macbeth, and it may have been cept to ¢ that he saw no Teason |, power lacking a little in the refine- why the President would be expec it which has marked the Macbeths to oppose a farm proposal built around | Washington has had from others in the debenture plan. the Auditorium. —_———e — Irby Marshall in her Lady Macbeth SPORTSMEN HA". OPENING seemed to have some difficulty with _ OF FALL HUNTING SEASON her voeal accouterments in the ear Hundreds From D. C. at Points in rm_Bu AUDITORIU Farmers' | | to the n the n an aets of the play, but as the interpre tation progres supposed as the players accustomed | themselves to the distracting chill ness of the theater which certainly ied_the audience siderably- : . wor Maryland in Readiness for Busi- | \i\ipan rode on in improving gait | ness Tomorrow Morning. to achieve admirable heights in her nes, there were both good and poor from the standpoint of the sets | themselves as well as from the stand- point of performance. Those in which Hundreds of local sportsmen today are en route te numerous section of Maryland to be on hand at day- eak tomorrow, opening of the Fall| ¥ ::l;(ing season. (Hhexi will motor | Leiber appeared at his best were the Sta uring the late hours murder scene and that in the banquet {?fil;catamllnena?'l_v hours tomorrow | hall, and in these where the actor did morning, all wanting to get a shot |his best work the desizner seems to at the birds before they are made |have accomplished his in the making wild by the shooting or the stock |of the sets. A ia depleted by gunners. Impressions of last night's “Mac- The seasort’ opening tomorrow closes | beth” would not be complete unless December 31. Under the provisions |they contained complimentary note of of the State and Federal laws the |Robert Strauss’ work as a porter. shooting of quail, pheasants, grouse, rabbits and wild turkeys is permitted in all counties of the State, the only exception being that turkeys are not to be killed in Garrett County until November 10, 1930. In order that both residents and non-residents of the State might fully acquaint themselves with the pro- visions of the game law before par- ticipating in the sport, Swepson Earle, commissioner of the State conserva- tion department, and E. Lee Le- Compte, State game warden, distrib- uted thousands of copies of the laws effective this season. Bag limits of upland game include: Quail, 10; rabbits, 6; squirrels, 10; Pheasants and grouse, 2; Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, 20; turkey, 1, and mot Judge Il1; Court Postponed. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., November 9.— Due to the iliness of Judge R. Carter | Scott of the Circuit Court, all cases in that tribunal have been postponcd. Judge Willlam A. Moncure. ~f the Chancery Court sat on the opening day. Judge Scott came to this city from Warrenton many years ago. Sterling, Va.,, Woman Buried. Special Dispatch to The Star. STERLING, Va., November 9.—Fu- neral services were held today for Mrs. Lula Smith, 50 years old, who died’ late Saturday at' Garfield Hos- more than 4 during season. pital, Washington, after three weeks’ Licenses ate required and consent | fllness of kidney trouble. She leaves of property owners is necessary for | nine children besides her husband, Lee Eupners to shoot game on property fimnh‘ot Sterling. Burial was in Ster- ©f others. 1 sed—and it is to be | RAMOS AND BRIDE | $500,000 Gift From Father of Heiress. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 9.—The New York Daily News says today that the $500,000 gift of Col. Henry H. Rogers to his daughter, Millicent, when she married Arturo Peralto Ramos Monday, was in the form of a trust fund from which only interest of $30,000 annually will go to the young couple. For the $500,000 gift, the News said, |in support of previous reports, Ra- mos, reputedly a wealthy Argentine, and his bride nust sign waivers to all future claims to the Rogers family fortune, estimated to total $40,000,000. ‘The reports of the waiver clause were ! circulated in connection with the re. | vived rumor that Count Salm von | Hoogstraeten had received $300,000 |after withdrawing his suit for separa- tion from Millicent &everal months previous to the successful divorce ac- |tion brought by the heiress in Paris. Ramos and his wife are scheduled to | sail for Chile on their honeymoon to- {morrow. They will take with them Il‘fier alm, the bride’'s son by her | former marriage. Although reports said Ramos on his return would be- came associated with a Wall Street brokerage firm, the News, quoting an Argentine newspaper correspondent who was said to have interviewed Ramos, says he has announced he and his bride would. probably settle in | Paris, MISS ANNA ). GOULD DIES ON EVE OF BIRTHDAY Miss Anna J. Gould, daughter of the late Brig. Gen. Jacobs Gould and Sara Seward Gould, died at her resi- idence. 1424 K street, today after a long illness. She would have been 83 years old tomorrow. Miss Gould had been a resident of this city for the past 18 vears. She was a member of the Church of the Covenant. Her father, ‘who was a prominent banker of Rochester, N. Y., served as a general in the Civil War. Funeral Rochester. She is survived by three nieces, Mrs Henry K. Browning of Irvington, N Y.; Mrs. Charles Henry Hamilton of Lakewood, N. Y., and Miss Elizabeth Gould of Rochester, N. and two nephews, Fred Gould of Rochester and Edward de Forest Simmons of New York Clt services will be held in NING STAR GIVEN TRUST FUND|; Couple Will Get Only Interest on | : w $10,000 SUIT LOST BY RETIRED PASTOR Howard County Case, Involving Charge of Soliciting Marriages, Settled at Frederick. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., November 9.— A jury in less than 30 minutes’ delib- eration late yesterday returned a verdict in favor of Rev. Edward N. Parrish, pastor of Emory M. E. Church South of Ellicott City, Md., for $10,000 damages brought Anderson, retired E. Church South, , alleging Rev. Mr. charged him with e business.” The here from Howard also of Ellicott Cil Parrish had falsel soliciting *‘m case was moved County. Six witnesses testified Mr. Anderson had arr that n; Among the defense witne: al members of the Ellicott church board, who testified that ¥ had passed a resolution critic ing Rev. Mr. Ande for soliciting marriages, SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF. | Maryland Woman Dead, Husband Her Second to Wield Pistol. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., November 9 Mrs. Bessie Werner Naugle, 30 ars old, is dead from a pistol wound | inflicted by her husband, Willlam ' Naugle, 55, who shot himself last! night and is thousht to be dying at | Community Hospital, Somerset. The couple lived apart, with a_non-sup- port suit pending, financial difficulties | and children in sanitarium and insti-| tution: Naugle, a lumber operator, who had been living at a hotel at Somerset, sought his wife at her home and the tragedy was enacted when there were | no witniesses. Mr augle was tw | married, the time to a man | named Yost. who shot himself. Her | hody was found by her daughter { Dorothy of the first marriage, upon her return from school. PROBLEMS DISCUSSED. Feature of Woman's Missionary In- stitute at Session Today. Discussions of problems to the teaching of the Christian re- | ligion featured the opening of the | second day's session of the annual | missionary institute, conducted by the | | woman's department of the Washing- | | ton Federation of Churches, in Cal- | | vary Baptist Church this afternoon. | nder the direction of Mrs. E. H erthorn a study was made of a chapter of a book entitled “A | | Straight Way Toward Tomorrow.” | Later this afternoon a chapter of the book, “The Adventure of the Church,” | will be studied under the direction of | Mrs, Dan Everett Waid. Mrs. W. S. | Abernethy and Miss Mabel Thurston are to deliver addresses. Work among young people of this country and foreign nations is v b studied tonight. The institute will b | held again tomorrow afternoon and ! night. Mrs. Abernethy last night empha - "lzed the importance of teachin { Christlanity in foreign nations, w |out laying special emphasis on | particular church denomination. The institute is conducted primarily | for teaching methods of instruction to persons engaged in Sunday school iand mission | i f 1§l i i ASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1927. $22,584.73 IN HAND FORY.W. C. A. FUND, Total of Contributions Will Be Re- ported by Workers at Luncheon Meeting This Evening. The results of a week's campaign to raise a $60,000 maintenance fund for the Young Women's Christian As; ociation will be tabulated tonight at dinner meeting of campaign work: ers representing 20 teams. A partial list of contributions, announced at a luncheon meeting yesterday, aggre- | rted $22,584.73. The meeting yesterday was desig- nated as “Y. M. C. A. day” and Wil- liam Knowles Cooper was the pres ing officer, introducing as speakers Mrs, William Hamilton Bayly, former president of the Y. W. C. A., and Dr. | William J. Showalter. Mrs. Bayly spoke of the new headquarters of the assoclation as “a dream come true,” adding that “the work of all the past years has culminated in a splendid present and the assurance of an even more wonderful future.” Dr. Showalter and Mr. Cooper spoke of the close relationship of the two asso- ciations. Members of the committee of four who have had charge of the work of obtaining new subseriptions said great interest was shown by business men in the drive. Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown will pre- side tonight, when the various cap- | tains and chairmen will pool their | itk | | | | | i bt |BEAGLE CLUB TO HOLD FIELD TRIALS AT ALD'E: ] Thirty-Eighth Annual Events of National Organization lnvolve Cash Prizes and Trophies. week's experlences and their subscrip- tion totals to date. Rev. J. Hillman Holllster, pastor of Chevy Chase Pres- byterian Church, will give the invoca- tinon. District Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty and Rev. Fred B. Har- | ris, president of the Washington Fed- eration of Churches and pastor of Foundry Methodist Church, will be the speakers, | - Killed While Hunting. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., November 9 —Milo Curry, ars old, of Fred. | psm at. ericksburg, Va., is dead from a wound | ¢ running of pack supposed to have been accidentally in- | 'l SUGh oraer as the flicted while hunting. He qut (e driceaiie with_his brother, Clio, who, hearing | HINgle class the report of the gun. ran to Milo to | {olowing order: €, 15 heah s find him wounded in the hip. He was | 13inch derby: A 15-fuch dogs: AA removed to Hoffman Hospital, Keyser. | 13-inch females: B. 13inch dozs |‘ iwhidreiNel ABMMIENIEHE: (Citey) with| 18 11Ch femalen© Flie eyents will he his wife, was visiting his parents at| oPen. derby and ‘I'"‘ Lo o Bayard. prizes will be awarded in_ the while both cash and speeial t wili be competed for by the packs | Ribbons will be awarded the winners lin the regular ciasse Hounds that have | Special Di PURCE 9.—The | triais of the N | begin at Aldi Va. November | annual ow, stakes, E, F. trial committee ma. | will be run in the . 15-inch derby: CC. Supreme Court Term Opens. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., November 9.—The Winter term of the Supreme Court » Appeals began today, with all judges on hand, Judge Robert R. Prentis pre- siding. ~ This is the long se ¢ the court. aid will sit to the midd of next March, having brief rec from time to time, to dispose of the | cases as fast as they can be decided and the opinions written. No de:| s will come down before Novem- | ber 17. i placed od fie 10 trial for the purpose of this | show the regular or unentered class | will be composed of hounds whelped after January 1, 1 Baby Digests Safety Pin. BALTIMO November 9 (&) | Fra ceks old, v {terday, ted an open Apples, 1,800 years old, that were | «ifety pin pronounced out discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, |of danger. were served at a banquet in Brussels | The infant swallowed the pin recently. Ivember 2 while b ing dressed R e e 1T and No 1$2,000 BOMBING REWARD. Hammond, Ind., Chamber Offers . Fund for Plotters’ Arrest. HAMMOND, Ind November 9 () —A reward of $2,000 for information which would lead to the arrest of those guilty of the bombing of the ate Theater Building here, which | resulted in nearly $1.000.000 damage, was offered today by the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. Business men here bought approx | mately $1,000,000 homb Insurance fol lowing the explosion vesterday. Cousin of Ritchie Buried. Special Dispatch to The Star. ’ JERICK, Md., ovember 9 services for Mrs. V lam rd. a cousin of Gov. Al Ritchie, who died in Wavh Monday. were held here this oon at 1l Saints’ Protestary Fpisce ChurcN. Burial was m. in Mount Olivet Cemetery, this cit Mrs. Sicard was a native of this city but had resided in Washington fo many years \fter Newport News Plans Library. Dispateh to The Star. NEWPORT NEWS, November 9 The hoard of the public library of this is considering the erection of a building. The present rented ling is declared inadequate and fe for the large and growing col lection of books. The City Council pro poses an appropriation of $30,000 for the building. city Demand and Supply 1s the great'law of business HEN we planned and organized this busi- ness it wasn't just to open “another store™ . in Washington—but to supply a demand By N L SERVICE#/ QUALITY ««- GULF PUMPS~anywhere~dealer or service station are beacon lights of service and quality =~ Courteous at- tendants, prompt and efficient, make it a pleasure to products ~ That Good Gulf Gasoline Gulf No-Nox Motor Supreme Motor QOil Combined with Supreme Motor Oil filolines your and note the improvement either of these and mileage = your oil in your motor, At the Sign of the Orange Disc purchase Gulf Fuel insure power tank, change we saw manifested and occupy a d_ifferent field—in a different way. Quality was our foundation. Liberal business methods the magnet we emp]oyed to win friend- ship and preference. In extending credit we expanded the buying possibilities. But our ideas of credit then were un~ usual. They have since become universal. We be- lieved in credit as a convenience—and so offered it. The opening of a charge account with us imposed no penalties; occasioned no embarrassments. The same policy, with the same sincerity of purpose and the same liberality of service, prevails here today. We began by selling only what we could guaran- tee—and there has never been an instance or an instant since when we have shirked that responsi- bility. We endeavored to mark our prices equitably and fairly—always for money’s worth; always T h e Bedroom Suite illustrated above is of walnut veneer—four pieces of new and pleas- ing. design — with choice of cither the Chest of Drawers or Chifforobe. $225 the most for the money. That's our method today. And we are keeping right on—faithful to our conceptions of good business methods; and true to our traditions.