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2 ¥ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTOXN, D. DECEMBER 2, 1928—PART 1.° COLIDGE HAS POOR LUCK WITH QUAL First Covey Too Far Away. Gets Five Other Chances, but Misses Them All. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. SWANNANOA CLUB, BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS. Va., December 1.—Pres- ident Coolidge's quail hunt this after- noon was not at all successful. He had lots of fun and no end of exercise in the open, but he returned home empty- | handed Worst of all, Mrs. Coolidge | was out in front of the clubhouse to greet him with a shower of high com- pliments when he arrived back with his sad story. It was =with a crost- falicn expression and disconsolate tone that he told briefly of how they all got away from him, But Mrs. Coolidge only smilea all the | maorc proudly as she assurea him, at ths conclusion of his gloomy report, that she knew he had shot beautifully, ang, nesides, he had had a good time. He only mumbled something as he walked toward the docrway to the ef- foct that he had several good chances |’ and missed. It was apparent that he was not casting about for any alibi for -fortune. Nor did his expression give any hint that he considered the moment approprate for glee or laughs ter. He soon turned the subject by an- nouncing that he was going to lic down a while before preparing for supper. First Covey Too Far Away. A box score of the President’s first experience with Virgina quail reads something like this: The first covey flushed by the dogs was too far away, at least that his | excuse when he did not fire. During the remainder of the n: e than an hour he was tramplig about, he had five chances, and he missed each time. By that time the light of the after- noon was beginning to fade and the air was getting brisk and raw, and he decided to call it a day and return to the clubhouse. The place selected for the President’s first try at Virginia quail was in a re- mote section of the estate of Dr. W. B. Dodge, near Mountain Lake, about 7 miles from Swannanoa. There had been no gunning in that' immediaté section for a number of years, and quail are known to be most plentiful there. The President was accompanied by Clyde Moorehead, reputed to be one of the best gunners in this part of Virginia: Wirt Hatcher of Richmond, another lever of the sport; Col. E. W. Starling of the Secret Service, who has an_enviable reputation with the gun, and Harvey Ingley of the Secret Serv- jce. The President, however, was the cnly one in this little company who did any shooting. Wears 10-Gallon Hat. The President’s attire on this shoot- ing expedition was not only highly. colorful but suggestive of the sports- man. As might be guessed, he wore his Black Hills 10-gallon hat, - He had on the green mackinaw coat presented to him up in Wisconsin last Summer, be- neath which he wore a hunters fleeced-lined leather jacket, The re- smainder of his garb consisted of riding breeches, lace boots, a high .lay-down starched collar and a very gaudy yellow necktie. Clyde Moorehead said rwards that the 10-gallon hat had thing to do with the President’s blank - cording to him the big headpiece was in the way, not only interfering with| the President’s aim but his movements through the thickets and the tall broom sage. Mr. Moorehead was reminded of how President Coolidge,: prized that broad hat, and he discreetly lowered his tone. Wirt Hatcher was represented as blaming the President’s gun for the poor showing. Mr. Coolidge used one of the two 12-gauge guns brought by him from Washington, but, n&cfirdinz to Mr. Hatcher, the barrel was long. The gun was described as beirg all right for. clay pigeon shooting but ot for quail. To this the President was heard ‘to remark that he guessed he hatl better 'stick to clay pigeons. He can hit them in fine style. Uses Pedigreed Setters. During this gunning experience the President had the _services of four pedigreed, highly trained Tdewellyn set- ters, three of them belonging to Mr. Moorehead and - the .gther :to Mr. Hatcher. One of - Moorehead’s dogs, “Folly,” is considered the best bird dog in this part of the ‘rountry. The President derived -a -great -deal of filusure watching the#e trained dogs unt, He took anether fling at the traps yesterday morning pnfi:rnwry to his| going after quatl and popped them off wi at .h eseHe posed for pictures, too, during his trap shooting. Nearly & \dozen camera -motion picture men wefe grouped on either side of him as he fired away at the clay objects. Mrs. Coolidge, who has taken a keen interest in his acquired liking for shooting, was in the group of photographers with her little motion picture camera. She said afterwards that she wanted to make a reel of Mr. Coolidge shooting while be- ing photographed and she hoped her film would show up well ‘when -de~ veloped. Mrs. Coolidge demonstrated last night at the clubhouse that her musical talent is not confined to piano playing but that she has a sweet singing voice. During the showing of talking pictures at the temporary White House after supper, one of th epictures included the singing of “Angelo Mio,” a tune of which Mrs. Coolidge is especially fond, She hummed a little before the reel was finished but when it was all over she sung the song through, unaccom- panied. She did it in a most pleasing fashion. As she left the room she was humming the tune, - A little later the strains of her singing of this song could be heard coming from her living suite on the second floor. Hosts at Clubhouse. The President and Mrs. Coolidge were hosts tonight at the cubhouse to about 30 men and women, from this section, who have been identified with their reception to the Blue Ridge Moun- tains. e company was entertained with motion pictures and talking pic- tures and the radio and later were | served refreshments. Tomorrow morning the President and Mrs. Coolidge will go to the First Pres byterian Church at Staunton, about 14 | miles from the Swannanoa Club, to, attend services. It was at this church that Woodrow Wilson's father was pas- tor for a number of years and where the late President first attended Sunday school and religious services as a boy. ‘This church is only a stone’s throw from the handsome old home where Mr. ‘Wilson was born and which is still the parsonage of the First Presbyterian Church. It was not at the church where the President and Mrs. Coolidge will worship tomorrow where Mr, Wilson's father was preaching at the time of Woodrow Wil- son’s birth and where he was christened, That old church is directly across the street from the present one. It is now a part of the building used for a girls’ seminary. Rev. A. M. Frazier, the regu- lar pastor of the church, was recently colled out of the city on account of a death in his family and the puipit to- morrow morning will be occupied by Rev. Thornton Whaling, one of the in- structors of the Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. California Masons have £150,000 for a Masonic clubho dos Angeles, University of Califo) dogated at Ac=| jonny 4s perched—inviting all the world | holidays. MRS. COOLiDGE RECORDS PROWESS OF PRESIDENT AS MARKSMAN With her camera, Mrs. Coolidge takes a few pictures of the President shooting clay pigeons at the Swannanoa | Country Club in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where the President and Mrs. Coolidge spent the Thanksgiving | —Associated Press Photo. METROPOLITAN on Stage, Sensa By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 1.—An opera | which calls for a jazz band on the stage, and whose hero is a colored man in love with a white girl, is to be pro- duced by the Metropolitan Opera Co. late in January—thereby. stirring up what the critics predict is to be the biggest musical sensation on this side | of the ‘Atlantic in years. The opera is “Jonny Spielt Auf,” by Ernest Krenek, a young Austro-Czechish composer. During 1927 it traveled over | Central Europe, following its sensa- tional world premiere in the staid Old Neues Theater In Leipzig, and where- ever it went it created a furore. The hero is Jonny, a young American colored man, who has conquered Europe with his jazz band. He has not been long in Europe before he discovers that white people over there have entirely different ideas about inter-racial con- tacts than they have in America. He courts a beautiful white opera singer, having ‘as his rivals a composer and a celebrated violin. virtuoso, both white. Clock Becomes Big Globe.' In the last act. which takes place in | a large continental railroad station, Jonny talls under an express train and 1s killed. Aboard the train, it devdlops, are the opera singer and the compgpser, eloping to America. Suddenlyf the illuminated statiof’clock becomes frans- | formed into an immense globe, on which | to join in an outpouring of jazz, while he leads the band. Musically, “Jonny Spielt Auf.” is said to be as sensational as is its plot. In it_there are all sorts of sounds which have heretofore been regarded with horror by devotees of the opera. The roar and clatter of a_railway sta- | broa: | lobby—dominated by TO GIVE OPERA| WITH COLORED MAN AS HERO “Jonny Spielt Auf,” Calling for Jazz Band tion in Europe Wherever It Appeared. tion, for instance, a locomotive, the din and bustle of a hotel lobby, a motor car—and always, banging and crashing through the entire score, jazz, jazz, | jazz, jazz. Drums, trumpets—saxo- phones! Playing “blues!” One of the most startling innova- tions, crities say, is a radio loud speaker, right there on the stage in plain view. deasting Jonny's jazz band. Fresh (In the slangy sense), “inso- | leni,” and “abominable” are some of the expressions that critics who have | seen—and—heard- Spielt Auf” in Europe use in describing it. Loud Speaker Is Used. In addition to the railroad station set, there are scemes in a big hotel the crash and bang of Jonny's jazz band—and in a fashionable méuntain resort. . The radio loud speaker appears in this | scene. “Jonny Spielt Auf’ had its world premiere in Leipzig February 11, 1927. Thereafter it was produced in Berlin, where the entire diplomatic corps and the principal members of the German government,” headed by - Chancellor Marx and Dr. Stresemann, attended POSS. the opening performance! in Dresden and in Vienna. The young composer has been a pupil of Franz Schreker and has lived in | Vienna, Berlin and Paris. L “My musical development goes hand-"| in-hand with the peregrinations of my physical being,” he said in Vienna, just before his opera had.its premier there. “From Vienna I derived a naturally happy nature, in Berlin I learned the | meaning of earnest study, but in Paris | 1 discovered that art isn’t all-important as the German makes it out to be.” HOOVER RECEIVES ROUSING WELCOME IN ECUADOR PORT President Ayora and Mr. Hoover re- viewed them, Vs President Ayora gave Mr. Hoover the “abrazo,” " thé embrace customary in Latin America, The President-elect re- turned it ,and they exchanged cordial words in informal greeting and express- ing their warm mutual pleasure in the | occasion. About 50 American residents of the republic had come to Guayaquil to meet Mr. Hoover. At the reception by the foreign colony in the United States con- sulate Mr. Hoover also met about 50 British subjects residing in Ecuador. President Ayora in welcoming Mr. Hoover in the name-of the Ecuadorean people,” said: “We welcome you with fraternal rejoicing and enthusiastic friendship, because we know that your foreign policy will be founded on scru- pulous respect of the rights of all coun- tries, on the acknowledgment of an absolute juridical equality between all states and the effective proclamation of unrestrained sovereignty of justice and right.” = Mr. Hoover's pleasure in his recep- tion to Ecuador was apparent. It was not only for itself, but because he was told that it indicated something of the sentiment of other great South Ameri- can republics which he is to visit and the accceptance to any people of prof- ered friendship, understanding and peace for their mutual benefit. West Pointer Is First Greeter. ‘The first official of Ecuador to meet Mr. Hoover was Colon Eloy Alfaro, the son of a former president and a gradu- ate of the United States Military Acad- emy at West Point. He had boarded the Cleveland at Panama, where he is the Ecuadorean Minister, and so. was able to give Mr. Hoover intimate de- tails ‘of the affairs of his country dur- ing the long trip from the Maryland to the shore. . The foremost local newspaper, El Telegrafo, today issued a special section in the English language with pictures and features of Mr. Hoover. All news- papers here, and also in Quito, praised the visit and predicted happy resuits. Mrs. Ayora, upon meeting Mrs. Hoover, presented her with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. The hospitality of the Ecuadorean government was mani- fested lavishly. The government presented the Hoovers with a number of art treasures of colonial times and with a gold| hero and liberator of South America. | rage disappeared. framed autograph of Bolivar, the great | some connection witl The guests were given also souvenirs made from the hides of alligators, which infest the Guayas River up which they had come. Mr. Hoover, was to return to the cruiser . Cleveland late tonight and | early tomorrow morning the vessel will start for the battleship Maryland, anchored 60 miles off shore. The battleship is expected to resume Iits voyage in the afternoon for Calao, Peru. President Ayora tonight was invited by Mr. Hoover to accompany him on the Cleveland to be his guest at lunch- eon on the Maryland tomorrow. He would be brought back to Guayaquil on } the cruiser after the departure of the battleship. Hears of Nation’s Progress. Mr. Hoover today received a first- hand account of many changes brought about in recent years in the government of Ecuador, and the narrative was filled with phrases which had a familiar ring such as a federal reserve system, farm loan banks, debt liquidation and the setting up of a gold standard. The review of the administrative re- forms in ‘the republic was given by Ger- hart A. Bading, American Minister to Ecuador, and Senor Tejada, finance minister of that country. The three conferred at some length on the Cleveland. Bading told Mr. Hoover the confidence of the people of | Ecuador in President Ayora was “ab- solutely remarkable.” . The fiscal reforms were carried out. he said, under the direction of Edwin Kemmerer, an American, who was em- ployed in 1926 by the Ecuadorean gov- ernment to rehabilitate its financial structure following a military coup which resulted in banishment for a number of prominent politicians. Ayora was named dictator by the military group and subsequently elected presi- dent “The people of Ecuador know Ayora is honest, sincere and working night and day for the Republic,” Bading sald. “He is the most popuiar chief execu- tive Ecuador has had during my long period service in Quito &s minister. By the end of his t™un improvements in the country, notably in the roads about Santiago, will be so remarkable that Ecuadoreans themselves will not recog- nize their own country.” Melbourne Club Bombed. MELBOURNE, Australia, December 1 (®).—Three bombs thrown into the | Greek Club opposite the Melbourne Hospital today injured 15 foreigners | four of whom were sent to a hospital. | The three men concerned in the out- It is believed here b throwing may have had h the recent ex- that the boml tensive dock strike. ions for Negotiat By the Adsociated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, December 1. ~—Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia are en- gaged in- a bitter “pig war” which threatens even to nullify negotiations for a treaty of commerce between the two countries. Both governments, as well as Hungary, have erected high tariff ‘walls against the importation of | porkers. Jugoslavia produces more hogs than all the other Balkan states combined. It has been able to undersell its com- petitors throughout Europe. Czechoslovakian farmers have de- thanded protection from the invasion of fat Serblan pigs. This government, Bitter “Pig War" Threatens to Nullify Slav Trade Treaty however, has insisted- upon “most favored nation treatment” for its pigs in return for similar privileges on the industrial products of the Czechs. The Serbian pig always has played a great part in the history of Central Europe. It was feared by Hungarian land owners in the old days and the “pig war” between those two sections of the old Austro-Hungarian empire was waged with almost as much inten- sity as the World War which followed. It has even been suggested that the desire of the Hungarian agriculturists to crush out this Serbian competition 351 CHICAGO POLIGE HIT BY SHAKE-UP Entire Station Cleaned Out as New State’s Attorney Takes Oath of Office. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 1.—A drastic shake-up of the Police Department af- fecting 351 patrolmen and officers, most of them by transfers from one of Chi- cago’s most flagrant vice and “flop house” districts, was ordered today by Commissioner Willlam F. Russell, The realignment coincided with the induc- tion into office of the new State's attor- ney, John A. $wanson, and followed closely the recommendation of a special grand jury yesterday that a sweeping investigation of Police Department con- duct -~ under former commissioner Michael Hughes be instituted. Six captains were ordered transferred and two acting captains were reduced to their regular rank of lieutenant. Twenty-one licutenants, 32 sergeants and 290 patrolmen ‘were sent to fiew Station Cleaned Out. The Chicago Avenue police station, lately under the scrutiny of the spectal nd jury, was swept clean of its ce and a new. company installed. en the telephone 'operators were ordered to evacuate the station. ,The wholesale transfer was the fourth of its kind decreed by the new commissioner in his clean-up program, altering the complexion of perhaps one- fifth of the department with a per- onnel of 5000, which the grand jury termed totally inadequate for a metro- politan force. The roster of icur entire stations has been substituted. FEach had been the center of sections notor- ious for wide open gambling and vice, and the home of hundreds of “floaters” contributing to the illegal voting at re- cent elections. < Frank J. Loesch, prosecutor before the grand jury, which ended its in- quiry yesterday, said he would discuss with State's Attorney Swanson the question of turning over to Commis- sioner Russell the evidence uncovered by the grand jury of vice, gambling and beer concessions protecicd by the police. Will Begin at Once. Swanson was sworn in today and will begin Monday to fulfill his pledge to rid Chicago of crime and criminally allied politics. Edwin J. Raber, who prosecuted the 15 ward political workers convicted of election conspiracy, expressed .ear to- day that Gov. Smail might use his par- don power to free the men from paying the fines assessed. His remarks were made during arguments for a new trial before Judge John M. O'Connor. Defense attorneys branded his fears as ridiculous. They sald they were convinced the Supreme Court would throw out the trial on ihe ground that the grand jury, which indicted them, was illegal GROCERY CLERK ROBBED. Although held up and robbed of $175 about 6 o'clock last night at Eighteenth and California streets, Ralph Green, 18-year-old clerk employed at the Sani- tary Grocery Store at 1824 Eighteenth street, told police he did not see the bandit. He said he felt what he thinks was a gun pressed against his back as he was walking up Eighteenth street and heard a voice tell him to hand over the money and walk away without look- ing back. He said he complied with the crder, Green, who lives at 1135 Eighteenth street was intrusted with the day’s rec=ipts- to take to the Riggs Bank at Eighteenth street and Columbia road. 20th % The Meeting wi Christmas SAVE THE ll y You cawre ‘cord was one of the contributing factors to the situation which ultimately caused the world confligs. iy Telephone Main 6883 vaid for the above bullgtin. (e Washington Tuberculosis Association 17th and K Streets Monday Evening, Dec. 3, at 8 O'clock Dr. H. E. Kleinschmidt of the National Tuberculosis Association will address the meeting on ~ CHILDHOOD TUBERCULOSIS Its Discove for financing our Health Work during 1929 CHILDREN Asscciation for the Prevention of Tuberculosis BOY ACCDENTALLY WOUNDED BY CHUM Elmer Bowers May Die of Bullet Fired From “Un- loaded” Gun. A bullet from an “unloaded” gun may result in the death of Elmer Bowers, 14, ' of 806 Tenth street, it was said last! night by Casualty Hospital officials. The | boy was shot through the abdomen, yesterday afternoon by a chum, Pierre Pollet, 15, of 1214 Twelfth street. The boys had been spending the day at the farm of the Pollet's mother in | Greater Capitol Heights, Md., wherg | the shooting occurred. Bowers was rushed to the hospital by | Pollet and John Appick, who lives on | the farm. Drs. Joseph D. Rogers and A. M. MacDonald, after an operation last night, were doubtful as to the out- come. 1 Pollet, who has been attending a military school, Wednesday returned to his home for the holidays. Yesterday ' he and Bowers went to the farm for | target practice with a .22 rifle, Tiring of target shooting, they went to the stable, where Pollet says he pointed the gun at Bowers in play. He then fired the weapon out of the stable window until all of the cartridges ap- peared to have been discharged. After snapping the gun several times, Pollet says he again turned it on Bowers, who said: “AW, 1| know it isn't loaded.” i Pollet pulled the trigger. A report was followed by Bowers' cries. | Upon arrival here, Pollet was lodged In the House of Detention until arrival of Prince Georges County Policeman Frank P. Prince, who took him to Marlboro. His release was ordered and he was turned over to his mother, Mrs. Helene Pollet. The gun was one Pollet obtained from Mrs. Bowers two years ago while the boys were attending Thomson School together. It was the first time he had ever used it, Pollet said. Mrs. Ruby Bowers, mother of the in- jured boy, last night expressed sym- | pathy for Mrs. Pollet, who, she said, was deeply moved. SEVEN STILL HELD IN BITNER SLAYING | Police Non-Committal About Sus- pects in Death at Filling Station. I'm not afraid of it now! | Seven suspects are still held in the murder Thursday night of Philbert Bit- | ner, 29 years old, 817 Sheridan street, | shot and killed by a gang of colored | men at the Lord Baltimore filling sta- | tion, Sixth street and Rhode Island | avenue. Bitner was manager of the station. Under direction of Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, the homicide squad arrested five imen early yesterday morning. Later | in the day Headquarters Detective Paul | Jones arrested a sixth suspect, and a { zeventh was taken into custody by po- lice of the second precinct. Police were noncommittal on the ar- rests other than to say that the men were seized in a “round up” and will not be released until they have satis- fied the investigators of their innacence. ‘The men who fled after shooting Bit- net are members, police believe, of the gang which held up and robbed Julius Goode, a tailor, and his assistan?, ‘Walter Fields, in the former's shop ai 251 Florida avenue, Wednesday night. The bandits made away with $305. Police plan to have the suspects now hflg viewed by the two hold-up vietims. {ROBERTS REMOVAL ROW FLARES ANEW IN FEDERATION RANKS (Continued From Firs utility matters and concluded with a prediction that the utilities committee as now constituted, of which he is cmir- man, would accomplish much the com- ing year. ‘The federation at the very outset of the meeting adopted a resolution in- troduced by James G. Yaden, former president, authorizing the appointment of a special committee of five members to study and report at the next meet- ing upon the business methods and practices of the organization with a view to improving, if possible, its “effi- ciency, effectiveness and prestige.” B. A. Bowles ‘was named chairman of the committee. The other members are Joseph L. Gammell, E. J. Brennan, Ed- win S. Hege and Yaden. The federation also indorsed the establishment in the District of a school for crippled chiiaren, after a motion to defer consideration until the next meeting had been defented. Aec- tion was taken on the recommendation of the committee on charities and cor- rections of which Mrs. J. Jerome Light- foot is chairman. Another resolution prepared by a special committee headed by Alton B. Carty, paying tribute to Yaden for his service as president for two terms, was adopted unanimously. The new Washington Community Chest was explained to the federation by Elwood Street, its director, who ap- pealed for the active co-operation of all citizens' associations. to make the chest “‘the greatest possible factor in the hlpfiine&s and the wellbeing of the lives of the citizens of Washington.” Location of a new fire engine house on Government-owned property on the northwest corner of Sixteenth street and Colorado avenue was opposed. The resolution was introduced by Yaden. It pointed out that the residents in that vicinity did not desire the addi- tional fire protection. Annual Meeting . W. C. A.’Building, ry and Cure 1l jnaugurate the Seal Sale lially invited 1022 11th Street N.W. 1 nom,' PRINCIPALS IN $750,000 WEDDING Count Falke Bernadotte, nephew of the King of Sweden, and Miss Estelle costing $750,000. $750,000 IS SPENT ON MARRIAGE OF MISS ESTELLE MANVILLE (Continued From First Page.) party, guests began to arrive at the home. Among them were some of the most notable figures in American so- ciety. At 3:19 a special train arrived from | New York bringing some of the guests. Some of these went directly to the church, where space limitations had kept the guest list down to 250; other guests arrived on a later train, Outside both the church and the Manville home crowds that had come from nearby Westchester villages and from New York formed behind police lines. The wedding party left the Manville home at 3:30 o'clock, the bride and bridegroom following 10 minutes later. The party, occupying 25 automobiles, was escorted by State and motor cycle police. While the wedding guests assembled, a musical program was ‘played by Archer Gibson, private organist for Mr. Manville. The program included Sod erman’s wedish Wedding March, Elgar's D'Amour:” Gounod’s “Hymne a Sainte Cecile,” and a Swed- ish folk song by Ole Bull.: Dr. Tertius Noble’s boy choir from St. Thoma: Church in_ New York and the chol from the Central Presbyterian Church also sang several numbers During the playing of the “Lohengrin Wedding March,” the bride made -her appearance and walked down the aisle to the altar. Countess Bernadotte ‘is tall and dark and attractive. As they left the church the bride and bridegroom passed under an arch of crossed sabers. After .. the reception Count and Countess Bernadotte left on an Ameri- can honeymoon trip. They will ar- rive at their home in Stockholm about January 1. The military aspect was givemr to the wedding by Count Bernadotte's rank as a lieutenant of the Royal Swedish Horseguards. In_his application for a marrlage license he gave his occupa- tion as army officer. The history of the bridegroom'’s fam- ily is an interesting chapter in the his- tory of Europe in the past century. Na- poleon, at the height of his power, lifted the count’s ancestor, the first Berna- dotte, who married a woman who had rejected Napoleon in his younger days, to the throne of Sweden. The bridegroom’s father, a brother of King Gustav of Sweden, renounced his rights to the Swedish throne when he | married Miss Ebba Munck, lady in wait- ing to Queen Sophia, and a woman of noble but not royal blood. Miss Manville is the daughter of the H. E. Manville, chairman of the board of Johns-Manville, Inc., of New York. She is a descendant of Jeoffrey de Mag- navil, an adherent of William the Con- queror and of Jeoffrey de Mandeville, first Earl of Essex. She made her debut in New York a few years ago and is | known as an enthusiastic sportswoman. Attendants Listed. Miss Manville’s bridesmaids were Miss Ethel Schniewind, who is engaged to H. Edward Manville, jr.; Miss Lydia E. Dadmun, Miss Elizabeth Kountz and Miss Renee Baruch. Count Bernadotte’s ushers w Prince Sigvard, son of the Crow Prince of Sweden; Baron Siegfried Ra- lams, Baron Carl Ertic Von Platen, Count Pehr Sparre, Lieuts. Johan En- hoerning, Carl Lagercrantz and Goesta Pauli, fellow officers of Count Berna- dotte in the Royal Swedish Bodyguard, and H. Edward Manville, jr. brother of the bride. Members of the royal Swedish party who came to America for the wedding included Count Carl Bernadotte, broth- er of the bridegroom, and his wife, Countess Marianne - Bernadotte; the Countess Elsa Bernadotte and Baron- ess Sophie Fleetwood, sisters of the bridegroom; Count Carl Bonde, master of the King's horse, and his wife, the Countess Ebba Bonde: Count Nils Wachtmeister, the Countess Bernadotte, Countess Gunhild, Von Platen and Count Eric Von Rosen. § The party attended a theater in New York tonight, later -returning to Hi- Esmaro, the Manville country home, for a midnight supper party. They expect to return to Sweden for Christmas. Count Bernadotte's wedding Jl(t to his bride was a tlara of diamonds. The diamonds, graduated in size, are set in a leaf pattern in a tiara designed to fit closely to the head. The new Countess Bernadotte will wear it when she Is presented soon at the court of King Gustav of Sweden. King Gustav's gift to Miss Manville was a brooch containing 11 diamonds, 4 large and 7 smaller stones. set around 2 large pearls. Mrs. Man- ville gave her daughter an onyx cig- arette case, heavily embossed in gold. Other gifts included a mother-of- earl fan, a brooch centered with a arge topaz surrounded by amethysts, rubles and emeralds; a Greek vase of iridescent pottery, ting 200 B. C.; tables of silver candelabra. nests of platters, vases and urns, table linen ornamented with heavy lace, tables of tooled leather books, vases and bricea- brac, requiring two rooms for display. | Manville, who became his bride today in ceremonies at Pleasantville, N. Y., POSTAL EMPLOYES TO HOLD SESSIONS | Executive Board of Clerks to Begin Biennial Event Here Tomorrow. The executive committee of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, representing 50,000 employes of first and . second class post offices throughout the country, will open the biennial session here tomorrow to dis- cuss proposed postal legislation and to confer with Postmaster General New and other departmental officials over problems pertaining to the service, The convention will last until Saturday. The 12 committeemen will make Washington headquarters at the American Federa- | tion of Labor Building, 901 Massa- chusetts avenue. Legislation Desired. According to Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary-treasurer and legislative repre- sentative of the organization, members are primarily concerned with early action by the House on the Dale- | Lehlbach liberalized retirement measure | and the La Follette-Mead bill for Satur- day half holidays—or a 4d-hour week in the postal service. “Some postal empioyes are now given time off on Saturday afternoon when they can be spared, under a permissive regulation of Postmaster General New, . Flaherty, “but this privilege is rarely granted to mail distributors, whose work is too urgent to permit of cessation. We want specific legislation, such is provided in the La Follette- Mead bill, so that employes who must work on Saturday afternoon shall be glven equivalent time off at a subse- quent period. creased output of the employes. Today each postal employe is producing more service at lower cost to the public than any time in our Nation's history. It-is therefore - fitting that these workers given the privilege of shorter working hours weekly. “Furthermore, the Government now grants many of its departmental em- ployes a seven-hour day. In the postal service the eight-hour day is the rule, together with Sunday and holiday work requirements. These facts will be im- pressed upon members of the House in support of pending legislation, which already has been passed by the Senate.” Committee Members. Members of the committee are: Leo E. George, president, Washington; Mr. Flaherty, secretary-treasurer, Washing- ton; Willlam Otte, assistant secretary- treasurer, Washington; Harry C. Wein- stock, first yice president, Philadelphia; John M. Torka, second vice president, New York City; John D. Murphy, third vice president, Boston: John H. Mitcham. fourth vice president, Spo- kane, Wash.; Karl L. Stimpson, fifth vice president, Indianapolis; Carl ‘T. Frisvold, sixtn vice president, San Prancisco; Willlam Brown, seventh vice president, Birmingham, Al Charles U. Sentilles, eighth vice president, New MAN TAKEN IN RAID WINS IN HEARING Evidence Against G. A. Felder Held Insufficient After Officer Is Accused. Although charged with permitting gaming and illegal possession of liquor at the third precinct following his ar- rest in a raid lead by Police Capt. William G. Stott, no papers were issued against G. A. Felder, 30 years old, when his case was presented for preliminary Hearing in the assistant United States attorney’s office in Police Court yes- terday, on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Policeman James Gawen of the third precinct, taken in the same raid. has. been - suspended and cited for the action of the trial board. Assistant United States Attorney R. F. Camalier sald the enly liquor con- fiscated was taken from a drawer of a table in the rear of 1118 Twentieth street, where the men were arrested. Although the premises were entered on a warrant for gaming issued on No- vember 23, no game was in progress at the {ime of the raid, Camalier said. The rald was made Friday after a warning issued by Capt. Stott in a speech at roll call last. Wednesday, when he cautioned his men to keep away from gambling places. Veritable Mine of Silver and Gold Coins Agitates Historic Florida Settlement By the Assoclated Prc:- FERNANDINA, 1 ., December 1.— This historic town, founded by the Spaniards nearly 300 years ago during their gold rush to the Americas, is agog over the discovery by W. H. Schreck of a veritable mine of ancient silver and copper coins in his backyard. Schreck, placer mining the property, has removed nearly a bushel of coins from the sofl. A few days ago, mud pies-in the yard, brought | Wilhelmina, his 4-year-old daughter, naking to her father a coin. Latér she appear- ed with a small can of coins. Schreck investigated, found a few pieces of money himself and decided to wash the soil for additional treasure. Monday and Tuesday of this week, 512 coins were reclaimed, most of them old silver Spanish pieces, believed to be half crowns and worth about 62 cents each at the present exchange. Most of the coins are of English or Spanish mintage, and bear dates from 1683 to 11" et “Labor costs in the postal service have gone steadily downward, due to in- share in the general prosperity by being | Orleans, and Willlam H. Jackson, ninth | COURTISINVORED TOOBTAN RECORDS Desired by Trade Commission for Probe of Financing of Power Utilities. By the Astociated Press. The Federal Trade Commission went into the courts yesterday in an attempt to obtain authority to compel officers and employes of the Electric Bond & Share Co., to produce records desired by the commission in carrying out its inquiry into the financing of power utilities. The commission filed an application in the Southern District Court of New York for authority to obtain the rece ords which officials of the company re- fuse to produce at a hearing early in the Fall. At the time they refused to submit the records, the officials announced that they wanted a judicial determination as to whether their constitutional rights vere being violated in the trade com- mission inquiry. Monopoly Claimed. The petition placed with the- court | took the position that the company through its connections “possesses & virtual monopoly of the sale and trans- mission of electrical energy in Inter- state Commerce,” constituting a bur- den on such commerce. It maintained that the records re- fused by the cmopany “are necessary to determine whether such a burden has in fact been created in violation of the anti-trust law ‘The petition outlined the argument { of the company's legal counsel which questioned, = first, the commission’s power to issue Subpoenas under the Senate investigation order; second, whether the company is engaged in Interstate Commerce, and third, wheth- er the attempt to examine the records subpoenaed is a violation of the con- stitutional prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. The brief argued that the company came within the terms of the Senate's resolution, that it “is engaged in or has a substantial control over interstate commerce in electrical energy or gas, that it occupies directly or indirectly a monopolistic position in various sese tions of the country, and that it 1s the dominating force and influence in large numbers of companies which it doss not directly own.” Cites Holding Companies. In support of its contention that the company had monopolistic control, the commission cited “the organization of a number of holding companies to which it has transferred the stock owned by it of;operating public utility companies.” “Among these holding companies, the brief said, “are the American Gas & Electric Co.. American Power & Light Co., Carolina Power & Light Co., Electric Power & Light Corpora= tion, and National Power & Light Co.” tion and National Power and Light Co. Each of these holding companies, the petition continued, owns a majority of voting stock In a number of operating public utilities companies selling elec- tric energy or gas to purchasers in other States. The establishment of interlocking boards of directors between the Electric Bond & Share Co. and various pub- lic utilities companies also was cited, as well as contracts by which “impor= tant features of management of such companies becomes vested in the Elec- tric Bond & Shares Co.” “Fees amounting to more than $8,- 000,000, equivalent to over 43 per cent of the Electric Bond & Shares Co. gross profits during 19 the peftitie read, “were paid by controlled and affiliated companies under said super~ vision contracts for management, super. vision, engineering and construction service: More than half these fees were for general supervision as dis- tinguished from engineering and con- stuction services. Compensation Claimed. “In some instances the Electric Bond & Share Co. and in some instances its officers personally, have received special compensation for services given’in the promotion, formation. financing and consolidation of saild operating and holding companies, in the form of fees and bonuses consisting of stock, securis ties, or options to purchase stock or ses curities of said company. In conclusion the petition affirmed that “by reason of the absence of sub- stantial diversity of interest between the individuals and corporations involva ed in such transactions, the Electrie Bond & Share Co., and its officers and directors, are in a position to creats, impose and enhance, through collusion and combination, a burden upon inte: state commerce in electrical energy which may be undue, unreasonable and | detrimental to the public.” The commission yesterday also sent to the Senate its eighth interim re« port on its public utilities investiga- tion, outlining details of the Electrie Bond & Share Co. case and the action taken in applying to the New York court for enforcement of the commis= sion’s subpoenas The report said this company had been the only ope of the holding and operating companles investigated to res fuse access to its books, although it had submitted for examination state- ments of fees and commisions received| and various other information. It added that commission examiners were still-at work in the company’s offices and had experienced no hindrance be-| yond the refusal to produce the op=rat-| ing expense ledger and vouchers of dis-| bursements for publicity. Michigan Season Closes With 4,000 Bucks Killed. SAULT STE MARIE, Mich, De cember 1 (P —The Michigan deel hunting season closed today with eigh known fatalities in the upper ‘¢ ninsul and approximately 4.000 slain buck deeq being transported across the Straits of Mackinac into the lower peninsul Up to this morning, 3998 deer had crossed on the State ferries, compared with 2,877 last year. Greece Signs Kellogg Pact. ATHENS, December 1 (#).—President} Kondouriotis today signed the Kellogg: Briand pact for the outlawry of war. 23 Days to Christmas MAMA wAS TusT TELLIN' Me ABDUT ALL THE GooD THINGS LXMAS SEALS Christmas seals Prc’~=t the Health of All