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INDIAN BUREAD " HELD INEFFGENT Witnesses Tell Senatorial Committee Methods Are 25 Years Behind Time. r By the Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif., November 24— Witnesscs before the sonatorial com- miftee investigating Indian affairs yes- lerday branded the United States Indian Bureau as inefficient and a quarter of a century behind the times. Mrs. H. A. Atwood of Riverside, for | many years chairman of Indian welfare for the General Federation of Women's | Clubs, testified to alleged instances of criminal misappropriation of Indian | funds and unauthorized sale of Indian ' property. She also chargad a complete lack of co-operation from the Indian | Burcau in efforts to right asserted mis- | management and obtain the discharge of ‘employes described as cruel and dis- honest. She cited many alleged cascs | of Indians arrested without warrant | and held in jail without trial. ' Dr. George P. Clements, Los Angeles, | declared that conditions in the Indian | Bureau are “impossible,” adding that | “the only hope for the Indians is to | make them full fledged citizens of the | United States.” | Thomas L. Sloane, a member of the Omaha tribe of Nebraska and a prac- tiging attorney, testified to alleged cruelties practiced on children in the Gtnoa School in Nebraska. He charged that boys and girls are whipped with | blacksnake whips, cat o' nine tails and | harness tugs. Dr. Allen F. Gillihan of San Luis Obispo, Calif., toid the committee that housing conditions among the Indians are “terrible.” The red men, he said, “are given as much care against epidemics as wild rabbits.” The committce, which is headed by | United States Senators Frazier of North Dakota and Pine of Oklahoma, went to f:lm Springs to continue the hearing oday. BILLFOLD WITH $150 IS REPORTED LOST Disappearance From Pocket On or Near Street Car Reported to Police by James W. Ricker. James W. Ricker, 3311 Q street, lost @ billfold containing $150. which dis- appeared from his poeket vesterday afternoon while he was boarding a street car at Ninth and P streets or while he was on the car between that oitit and Seventeenth and H streets, e 'eported to police. Keport of the loss of & handbag con~ taining a gold ring and watch valued et €120 and $12 in cash was made by Mrs. M. M. Fitzgerald, 723 Eleventh strett northeast. The handbag was left in 7. theater last night and Mrs. Fitz- gerald thinks it was picked up by boys. Bssie Randall, apartment 45, 1415 Chapin street, told of an intruder hav- ing been in her apartment yesterday. Twa: coats valued at $125 were stolen. Simuel Tyler, 228 N street, reported the taking of a gold watch, two suits of clothes and a quantity of bedding. The property was taken from his he yes'lerday._during his absence. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and_Sailings From New York. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. mis—Pars ... November § ‘esident Harding—Bremerhiaven. November 14 DUE TODAY. Baracoa—Puerto_Colombia Grasse—Havre . Lexico—Vera Cruz DUE TOMORROW. stores—Port Limon. . November 17 lumbus—Bremerhaven November 15 DUE MONDAY. NOVEMBER 26. tschland—Hamburg . ..November 16 Fancenia—Scuthempton tin at November 18 . November 16 ripsholm—Gothenburg - . November 18 | newaska—London November 17 ria—Marseille November 6 ennland—Antwerp November 16 November 13 . November 17 November 21 November 20 November 7 olonia—Danzig smaria—Liverpool . ‘orto Rico—San Juan . .. San Lorenzo -Santo Domi Santa Teresa—Valparaiso ort, Victoria—Bermuda. . November 24 | oro—Kingstcn ... November 20 DUE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27. ‘aris—Havre November 24 - ‘November 17 layaro—Trin 5 Alunia—Soutkampton Pennland—Antwerp . Ceitic—Liverpool ... November 17 DUE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28. Falcon—La Guayra .. Hemeric—Southampton Byron—Piraeus Transylvania—Glasgow DUE THURSDAY, November 17 | NOVEMBER 29. Leviathan—Southampton November 23 | Cristobal Colon—Gijon Bermuda_Bermuda ... ol November 15 DUE_FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 30. H Aauitsnia—Southempton ‘November 24 | Conte Biancamano—Genoa November 20 President Roosevelt—Bremerhaven November 21 Deminica—Trinidad +..November 20 DUE SATURDAY. DECEMBER 1 | Prederik VIII—Copenhagen.....November 20 OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. Nieuw Amsterdam—Plymouth, Boulogne and dam York—Cherbours, Southampten and istiansand, Oslo and Copen- hagen. ottningholm—Guthenture. ismares—Havana, Cristobsl and Port | imon Tivives—Santiago. Kingston, Puerto Castilla, Tela and Belize. Siboney—Havana Adriatic—Cobh and Liverp Minnekahds—London and Lempira—Puerto Cortez. Nerissa—St. John's and Halifax Bermuda—Bern.uda. Manaqui—Santiage, Kingston and Puerto Golombia. Voltaire—Barbados. Rio de Janeiro, Monte- videa and Buenos Aires Tela—Puerto Castilla and Tela SAILING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 126. Madison—Norfolk. SAILING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27. Marques_de Comillias—Barcelona. Ancon—Port, su_Prince and Cristob: Mayaro—Grenada, Trinidad and 00l Boulogne. al. George- own. Columbus—Bremerhaven, via Plymouth and Cherbours. SAILING WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, De Grasse—Havre President Hardnig—Plymouth, Cherbours nd Bremerhaven ‘o—Kin Progreso and Vera Cruz ermuda a—San Juan. La Guayra, Puerto Cabello, Curacao and’ Maracaibo. Metapan—Kingston, Cristobal, Cartagens, Puerto Colombia and Sants Marta. SAILING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29. Ebro—Cristobal, Callao and Valparaiso. Ban Lorenzo—San Juan and Santo Domingo. SAILING PRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 0a_—Puerto Colombis. —Plymouth and Havre. ric—Cherbourg and Southampton Plymouth, ~Cherbourg Ba Pa Home: Pennlund—Halifax, and Antwerp SAILING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1. Alaunia—Plymouth, Havre and London. Fianconia—West Indies cruise. Transylvania—Moville and Giasgow. Thuringaria—Cobh and Hamburg. Pan- . Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo Parto Rico—San Juan | expert organizer of Philadelphia, who | o mania. The Prince drives his own car. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. PRINCE IS MOTOR ENTHUSIAST Recent photograph of Prince Nicholas and his sister, Princess Ileana of Ru- | By the Associated Press George lay ill at Buckingham Palace Thursday night, George Bernard Shaw, in a particularly iconoclasic mood. specu- lated as to kings and kingly possibilitic: in his annual address before the Fabian Society. Shaw touchad upon the future of western. civilization, the future of the British throne, the future of Parlia- ment, the future of science, of religion, and of everything els2 that popped into his_active mind. Outside Kingsway Hall police were | called to control crowds who could not gain_entrance; inside the Irish play- wright pictured the future of Great Britain, when, he said, cabinets would consist largely of men like Jim Thomas (minister of colonies in the MacDonald Labor government), who would “slap the King on the back and call him George.” Future governments, then, he said, would b2come more and more laborite, and the tendency would be to make | the King “more of a puppet than ever.” | “A crisis intellectual King came to the throne— | | LONDON, November 24.—While King | Fords SHAW RAILS ABOUT BRITISH FUTURE WHILE KING LIES ILL Irish Playwright, in lconoclastic Mood.,, Envisages Laborites Running Governments of World. you know said Shaw. | "The future of Britain really would |lle in such a monarch’s hands, he said, for any time the King could not hring | the Labor government and the capiital- istic industrialists to terms he could the thing has happenked,” | threaten to abdicate his throne and|run | for Parliament, and in two vears cir so become prime minister and really jrun the country. Long before this iera, Shaw asserted, the ege of titles would have passed. ‘Priends of mine like Oswald Mos'ky,” he said, “would drop theirs because they |are expensive luxuries, and also bo- cause they will realize that the thing that will count is ability and ;not | idolatry. Titlex will not produce power. | They are supposed to, but they will be | like titles in France at the present time, where to call a man a duke indicat: |that he is a rather subnormal in. | dividual. Shaw said that whon the Laborites |run the future governments the Henry and Lord Melchetts probably would take over all industry on. the Jasis of being able to give better/ pay and more comfort to workers. This sort of socialism, in his opinion, Karl might come when a really | Marx never dreamed of, although! it is | the present tendency. SHITHPLAYSHOST TO DA THRONES Shakes Hands With Cheering Thousands in Mississippi. Starts North Tonight. By the Associated Press, EDGEWATER GULF HOTEL, Miss., November 24 —Alfred E. Smith came out of his vacation seclusion yesterday whan he entertained 2,000 people on the lawn of his gulf coast hotel at a public reception. After it was through the New York Governor needed a rest all over again as his right hand was white and his arm lame from shaking hands. It was a noisy, enthusiastic, Democra- tic pathering of the high and the low, business men, cotton farmers, creoles. cajuns, boatmen, laborers, children and women with babies in their arms. Police Stop Throngs. At the sight of the defeated Demo- cratic standard bearer, they surged for- ward whooping and yelling to the band tunes of “Sidewalks of New York.” Po- 8 | licemen and county officers rescued the Governor by surrounding him with lipked hands until order. Harrison, who eonducted the vacation party to the coast. Gov. Smith replied with a few words. Accompanied by the Senator and John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, he then started through the crowd shaking hands. On enthusiastic woman kiss>d -the governor and he laughed heartily. In his talk, he explained that his va- cation place had been picked with some care, because since the election people had sought to reach him and tell him just what happened and why. He came to the gulf coast, he said, at the invita- tion of Senator Harrison and he thanked the people of the community for per- mitting him to rest. Leaving for Home Tonight. “I am now feeling fine,” he added. “I promise to come again as often as I can, consistent with the necessity of my golng to work after January 1.” Later it was reported that he and his party plannsd to leave the coast tonight on the return trip to New York. ARLINGTON C. C. DRIVE PLANS ARE FURTHERED Directors and Business Men of County Confer With Booster Campaign Expert. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., November 24.— Plans for th Arlingion County Cham- ber of Commerce membership drive and | county booster eampaign, to be held one week beginning December 2, were fur- thered when directors of the organiza- tion and leading business men con- | ferred Thursday evening with Samuel | Johns, representative of Daniel Weigle, | has been engaged to direct the cam- | paign. 1t was decided to open the drive with a mass meeting the evening of Decem- ber 2, to be followed the next night with & banquet at Washington-Lee High School. A committee consisting of Keith A. Brumback (chairman), Ashton C. Jones and Frank L. Ball was named by President C. R. Ahalt to confer with ministers of the county on arrange- ments for the mass meeting. William 8. Hoge, jr.; A. K. Stratton and A. N. Dawson will constitute the dinner com- mittee, A resolution offered by Mr. Brumback increasing the membership of the board Jhey could rrswre’ He was introduced by Senator Pat | “Specs” 30 Years In Use by Virginia Assessment Man Speeial Dispaten to The Star. LURAY, Va, November 24.—A pair of spectacles, purchased at a country store 30 years ago for 25 cents, still serves W. Stage Modesitt, 83-year-old citizen of this city, first public school teacher in this county and for 40 years maker of property assessment books in the county commissioner of revenue'’s office. Mr. Modesitt, an expert account- ant, father-in-law of County Clerk Grover C. Miller, takes pride in be- ing the owner of the glasses. The work he has been doing.throughout the years has been of a most in- tricate kind, where accuracy was the prime demand. Clarke County Farmer Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., November 24.— John A. T. Grigsby, prominent farmer of Clarke County, died at his home near Berryville this morning of heart disease. He was a native of Lynchburg, Va. and was a son of the late John Randolph and Bettie Morgan Grigsby. He is sur- vived by his widow, one daughter, Bettie | E. Grigsby, and a brother, J. Ralph | Grigsby of Berryville. Funeral services | will be held Monday afternoon. Inter- | ment will be at Green Hill Cemetery. New York City is planning to set | aside another $1,000,000 to be used for additic. 1 playground and recreation sites. HATGHE SLAVER SUSPELT I LD | Doubt Expressed, However, That Ex-Convict Is Man Wanted. | By the Associated Press. | OMAHA, Ncbr., November 24.—While | Jake Bird, colored, ex-convict from Utah, was held at the State Penitentiary | |at Lincoln as a hatchet slayer suspect | police | patrol over the city. maintained another all-night After a conference took Bird to Lincoln, Police Inspector B. F. Danbaum said. “There is nothing new.” According to Deputy Sheriff John Dunn, Mrs. Harold Stribling latest victim of the maniac, screamed, hat's sterday. wife of Stribling's physician, say that” what Mrs. “Take him away and that she re- fused to say whether he was the man. Bird stoutly denled any connection with the hatchet killings and attacks and maintained he was being “rafl- roaded.” Inspector Danbaum said he must have more evidence to convince him that Bird is the man wanted. RHEUMATISM BAROMETER . 0'd-Time- Belief That Pains Fore- cast Weather Conditions Is Given Credence. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, ~ November —~Three physicians of Rochester, Minn., lent credence yesterday to the age-oid be- lief that rheumatism is a barometer capable of forecasting weather severai hours in advance. Drs. E. B. Rentschler, Frances Van- zant and L. G. Rowntree told the Cen- they had observed a correlation be- tween pain in rheumatism and the presence of a storm in 90 per cent of their cases over a period of years. They also said they found the sunshine af- fects rheumatic pains and that a sur- was recorded. Dr. C. A. Millis of Cincinnati re- ported that patients suffering from adrenal malfunctioning also were af- fected by weather. |KINDERGARTEN FAVORED IN ROCKVILLE SCHOOL Association Ap- points Committee to Take Up Mat- ter With Board of Education. Special Correspondence of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, November 24— Establishment of a kindergarten in con- nection with the Rockville Public School was one of the principal matters con- sidered at the monthly meeting of the Rockville Parent-Teacher Association, held lest night in the high school audi- torium Following a discussion, and after Miss Huldah Brust, county supervisor of primary schools, had explained the meaning of the kindergarten of today, a resolution was unanimously passed favoring a kindergarten for the Rock- ville school. The president, Mrs. J. Somervell Dawson, who conducted the meeting, was authorized to name a committee to take the matter up with the county board of education. It was stated that five kindrrgartens— at Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Takoma \Park, Woodside and Kensington—are ‘already functioning in the county with 'fine results. A proposition that the !vln_vmunds and athletic field for use | Parent-Teacher iand the county generally, made possible Iby the interest of F. Barnard Welsh of 'the Rockville bar, who inaugurated the movement and almost single-handed (pushed it to virtual completion, should tbe named the Barnard Welsh Athletic Field, met with unanimous favor, and a resolution was adopted recommendin, to the county board of education that ithe fleld be 50 named. The need of a modern primary school ‘building for Rockville was also given |consideration. The old Rockville |Academy Building, which has for sev- leral years been used by the first and tsecond grades, was characterized as iantiquated. A committee, consisting of |F. Bache Abert, chairman; Mrs. J. !Somer\'ell Dawson, Mrs, Carey Kingdon, (Mrs. May Fisher and Miss Irene !S(‘hwlru. was named to interview the |trustees of the Rockville Academy, who permit the use of the academy building Ifor public school purposes, and ascertain \whether they would be willing to have {the building reconstructed into a mod- jern primary school building and to later 'walt upon the county board of education ‘in the interest of the movement, Because « the high cost of flax, on! about one-fourth of the 300,000 spinning mills in Czechoslovakia are overating. Homeyness is the Heart 0{ Evcry Housc in BPesley BHeights with Sheriff Charles McDonald, who | the man!” when Bird was taken before | Nurses and Mrs. E. C. | Stribling sald was, | SUPPORTED BY DOCTORS | tral Society for Clinical Research that prising accuracy of weather prediction | of the children of the Rockville school | BARRYMORE PLANS PRIVATE WEDDING | Prospective Quiet Marriage | With Dolores Costello To- day Stirs Hollywood. | By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 24.—De- spite uncertainty regarding the status | of the reported divorce of John Barry- | more and his second wife, mysterious : preparations in Screenland were be- lieved to indicate that wedding bells would ring quietly for the actor and | Dolores Costello at a private ceremony n_Hollywood today. | Mystery surrounding the proposed nuptials of the stage and screen star and his film-actress fiancee was height- ened last night when a huge wedding cake, said by a downtown catering es- tablishment to have been ordered by Barrymore, was delivered to an unre- vealed address. The destination of the wedding cake had not been disclosed this morning. i Reporters and cameramen hoped to pick up Barrymore's trail at the mar- riage license bureau when he calls for the license which he applied for three days ago. ‘The actor declined again yesterday to state when and where his second wife, Blanch Oelrich, who is known un- der the pen name of Michael Strange, | obtained a divorce from him. 1 ‘Woman Advises Caution. | After it was reported he had applied for the license to wed, an unknown | woman telephoned the marriage bureau and voiced caution in issuing Barry- | more a license. “He is not yet divorced from his second wife,” said the wom- | an, who refused to give her name, and who abruptly terminated the conver- sation at that point. | Both Barrymore and Miss Costello | have taken precautions to keep the | time and place of their marriage a com- plete mystery even to friends and studio executive: Neither has ampli- fied Barrymore's brief written state- | ment that he and the 22-year-old screen star were to wed, and that his second wife had obtained a divorce. Bride's Father Agitated. Maurice Costello, film actor and producer and father of the prospec- tive bride. was reported to be still agitated over the question of Barry- more’s last divorce and his daughter’s plan to marry under the circumstances. His first statement after the an- nouncement was: “I think he ought to clear up the situation. As 1nn§ as it ended up in a_wedding it was all right with me, but I certainly don't like the looks of things now." When he applied for the license Bar- | rymore gave his age as 41. “Who's| Who" records the date of his birth as February, 1882, and a Barrymore bio- graphy at the United Artists Studio uses that daté as a basis, fixing his | age al 46. FOUR KILLED, 2 HURT 'WHEN PLANE CRASHES | | Pilot Loses Bearings in Fog Over| Spokane After Trip to Air Circus, By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., November 24— When the pilot apparently lost his bearings in a heavy fog a giant tri- motored Ford plsungr airplane crash- ed near the Palouse Highway just out- side of Spokane yesterday, killing four persons and seriously injuring two otn- ers. The dead: Lieut. William R. Williams, Spokane, | pilot and an officer of the Washington | National Guard flying unit stationed | here. Lieut. Louis Dee Burger, co-pilot and ! mechanic, former mechanic for the Ford Airplane Factories, Detroit, residence, Indianapolis. Kenneth I. Dunlop, Spokame bank employe and sergeant in the 116th Ob- servation Squadron, Washington Na- tional Guard. Arthur G. Enorson, office manager for the Mamer Flying Service in Spokane. The injured: Rex Heath, business manager of Spo- kane Airways, Inc. David R. Mitchell, Standard Oil em- ploye, Spokane. The big monoplane was returning to Spokane from an air carnival at Col- fax, Wash., when it encountered fog. Details of the accident were told by Heath, who is business manager for the Spokane Airways, Inc., who gave his broken account from a hospital cot. “Nearing Spokane, the fog loomed up. We circled for a long time, hoping that a hole would open up in the fog. * * *" Pilot Jack Rose of the Mamer Flying Service, Spokane, had left Colfax in a Stearman plane. Heath continued* “All at once the Stearman passed ns and dove through a hole. Bill said that he could get through and we started down. Just as we started through the hole it closed up in front of us. Our left wing struck a tree and was entirely torn away. T 457, < ATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1978 The wedding gift of Prince Bernadotte of Sweden to his American bride, Estelle Manville, both of whom are shown above, is a bridal crown of platinum It will become the family wedding crown of the and precious stones, (inset). Bernadottes. FAKE ART LOSSES | - SETAT 1000 ‘Copies Made by Obscure ’Halian Said to Occupy Hon- | ored Places in U. S. NEW YORK, November 24 —The New York Times today said it was estimated in art circles that modern sculpture masquerading as the work of four- teenth and fifteenth century masters lhad cost American collectors and museums $1.500,000 ‘The Times’ article followed revelations in Rome by an obscure Italian that his 42 STUDENTS JAILED IN RIOT; SCORE HURT Clash Marks Foot Ball Parade of Baltimore Polytechnic and City College Rivals. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 24.—Five youths wera sent to hospitals for treat- nent, more than a score of others slight- ly injured, and 42 placed in jail last night following a riot between adherents ot Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Baltimore City College. The riot took place when parades of the rival students, prior to their annual foot ball game today, met in a downtown street. Police were powerless to stem the rush of the students as the lines con- verged and the battle was on. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, November (Special).—Edward F. Fowler of the civic development department of the United States Chamber of Commerce, | will make an address Monday at 8 pm. | before the civic bureau of the Alex- andria Chamber of Commerce in the | local organization's headquarters, in George Mason Hotel. L. E. Remington, chairman; H. E. Arnold, N. R. Davis, J. A. Gore, W. C. Cunningham, J. . Hudson, A. J. Butcher and W. L. Scott have been named members of a committee to ar- range plans for the annual banquet of Potomac Lodge, No. 38, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, January 11, in Odd Fellows’ Temple. At a meeting of the lodge last night the first degree of the order was conferred upon a class of candidates. Present progress in construction of the new public school building in Rose- mont indicates that the structure will be ready for occupancy by February 1 planned. The building is a one- story brick and concrete structure with six classrooms and a room for the prin- cipal, library and auditorium. George W. Smott, a city employe, ex- pired Thursday night at his residence, at 521 North Alfred street. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. t the Cunningham, Kennedy & Watkins funeral parlors, at 809 Cam- eron street. He is survived by three daughters and three sons. Dr. Gilbert T. Pearson of New York City and Mrs. J. W. Bodine of Balti- more will give illustrated lectures and addresses before the Alexandria Audu- bon Association in January. No definite date for the event has been settled upon Mrs. Robert M. Reese, chair- man; Mrs. Albert D, Brockett and Mrs. Clarence C. Leadbeater comprise the planning committee. Troop 34, Boy Scouts, celebrated the second anniversary of its organization last night with a special program in the“ Christ Episcopal Church Parish Hall. Frank R. Cockrell, fire inspector of the Alexandria Pire Department, is rapidly progressing with his work of Wo Wy 24| ODWARD ALBANY PRINTERS GO OUT ON STRIKE One Newspaper Published on Type- writers When Composing Room Forces Quit. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y. November 24.—Al- ¥ bany received its news in high con-| densed form this morning from a type- written, six-sheet newspaper. | Across the regulation size front page of the Morning Knickerbocker-Press the streamer, “Printers Strike on Four Al- bany Newspapers,” told the story. Last night all members of the com- g room forces of the four local newspapers walked out. Artists. photo engravers, stereotypers and pressmen got cut the Knickerbocker-Press. ‘The Evening News, the Evening Times- Union, and the Sunday. Telegral planned to follow the Knickerbocker's methods of publication. Copy for the Knickerbocker's first edi- tion was typewritten in two-column widths and pasted on cardboard of newspaper page size, photo engravers made a one-page plate of each of four pages and it was stereotyped. The three-year-old contract betweer Albany Typographical Union No. 4 and, the publishers of all papers in the city] expired on May 31. Since that time| negotiations have been under way. H MUSIC CLUBS CONVENE. . Virginia Federation President Adj dresses Fourth District Body. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., November 24.— Clubs of the fourth district of the Vir- ginia State Federation of Music Cluus held their annual convention here yes- terday, with nearly all the counties of) the Shenandoah Valley and severalj from sections east of the Blue Ridg Mountains represented. A welcoming, address by Supt. H. S. Duffey of Hand- ley Schools was responded to by Mrs.: William Van Blarcom of Woodstock. Mrs. John P. Buchanan of Marion, president of the State federation, spokel on the advantages of federating musical organizations. She outlined seven main departments of club work, the most im- portant of which was the educational department. Others speaking included the Rev. Arthur Wake, Strasburg. and Rev. Prancis A. Brown, Woodstock. Winners in a piano memory contest were M Loulse Glass, Miss Mildred Jones and Miss Arlene Marston. inspecting structures in this city tc eliminate fire hazards. He has been engaged in a survey more than a month and, has caused many fire traps to be cleaned up. Supt. R. C Bowton of the Alexandria public schools spoke this morning be- fore the public school teachers of Oak- ton School. in Fairfax County, on tests and measurements in the elementary and high schools. of Renaissance sculpture had 1d to collectors as original. te owners, who thus far have their identities secret, have iready demanded restitution from the Ttalian dealer who introduced the fakes into the country, the Times says. Artist Says He Was Duped. The fakes were first discovered in this country. according to the Times, by agents for Miss Helen Frick in their investigation of a piece of sculpture of which they were suspicious. Aiceo Dossena, the Italian sculptor, whose copies of old masters allegedly Ighave been sold as originals, disclaimed tions, blaming his agents for any mis- representations that might have been Smade. He said that he evidently had nof lonly been duped on that score but that he ‘also had been tricked out of some of the money that had been promised him. Copies Held Remarkable. He said he only discovered that his copies were being sold as originals & few months ago when a Venetian anti- lquary showed him a picture of an alleged Donatello masterpiece, which he recognized as a copy he had made. Two or three of his statues were said to be occupying places of honor in a museum in Berlin, where they were displayed along with originals of the Renaissanee period. The agents were said to have sold his copies for sums totaling $2,500,000. One expert in this country who has seen some of the pieces called them remarkable copies, almost indistinguish= ble from the originals. ORI S IGS ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 24 (Spe- ). —William H. O'Brien, 23 years old, f Washington, who recently pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court here to two lindictments charging housebreaking and ceny and two other indictments harging larceny only, was sentenced y Judge Robert B. Peter yesterday to three years in the Maryland House of Correction. Sentence was imposed in nly one of the housebreaking cases, ut Judge Peter stated that he would pend sentence in the other case so s to be in a position to sentence him fin that case too should he misbehave fter serving the three-year term. Th-~ ‘two larceny cases were indefinitel: postponed. O'Brien also was known a McHenry. A licensé has been issued by the cler: of the Circuit Court here for the mar- riage of George Franklin Ballenger, 2! of Alexandria, Va., and Miss Beatric Arline Nelson, 19, of Washington. The Poolesville Auction Pitch Cluh known :s the Ground Hog Club, com posed of 12 of the leading pitch player of Poolesville and vicinity, visited Rock- ville last evening and in contests with the Rockville or Pole Cat Club, wiped out a recent defeat at the hands of the Rockville players by winning 57 out of 111 games played. The games werc staged at the Montgomery Country Club and were witnessed by a large gallery. At the last meeting of the Glenmon Parent-Teacher Association, Dr. R. D. Brown was made president in place of Capt. Don E. Clark, who declined re- election, and other officers were chosen as follows: Vice president, Mrs. Adam Walden; secretary, Miss Ocie Dodd, 21l treasurer, Mrs. Arthur Smith. Potomac Woman Buried. Special Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC, Va. November 24.—Fil- neral services for Mrs. Grace D. Doug- las, wife of A. S. Douglas, sr., who died Thursday in the Alexandria Hospuai, were held this afternoon from the resi- dence on West Bellefonte avenue. In- terment was in Bethel Cemetery, Alex- andria. Besides her husband the de- ceased is survived by three sons, Emerle. Maxwell and Howell Douglas. Service~ over the body were held last night b Jessica Callahan Chapter, No. 91, Orde: Eastern Star. ‘The Agricultural Club of Oregon State Agricultural College declares that agricultural students as a grcup have “held the reputation of being the strongest backers of the honor system™ n examinations. & LoTi —The Christmas Store e The fountain ‘Room Has Doubled in Size and Opened a Children’s Corner The Fountain Room has proven such a popular luncheon place that it has been doubled in size, in order to serve the of directors from 15 to 25 was indorsed Tasteres " Cristohal and Port Limon. Aba_Havera —Cherbourg_and London, and Liverpook by the meeting and will be submitted to the annual meeting of the chamber dor ratification, No matter how pretentious the architecture: or elaborate the plan underlying all is the fundamental upon which the Garden Spot of Washington has been founded—Homeyness. Wesley Heights has become famous not as a community of houses—but of HOMES—in- comparable in their attractive- ness; suferior in their construc- tion = surrounded by nature's own adorning beauty. The houses nearing comple- tion are at that point where your taste may prevail in the selec- tion of decorations and fixtures: and your preference be consult- ed in the choice of heating facili- ties. For Wesley Heights Houses are “custom tailored.” You are invited to make inspection at your convenience—any day or evening, in- cluding Sunday, from 10 AM. to 9 P.M. W. C. and A. N. Miller Ouwners and Buwlders 1119 Seventeenth Street Decatur 610 g 7 fis7. constantly increasing number of patrons. The Children’s Corner is a Delightful Place For the little folk, where the things children like best will be served, and the adults accompanying them may be served, too. A bright little menu all their own is furnished from which they make their selections, and the pictures, rhymes and song will prove good reasons for taking it away as a souvenir. . Fountain Room Service, 9:15 to 6 Daily FouNtAIN RoOM, ADJOINING DOWN STAIRS STORE.