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MERICAN U. WINS RINCETON DEBATE asket Ball Team Victor Over Catholic University. | THE -EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, -D--C; SATURDAY. MARCH 2. 1929. Artist Didn’t Know Getting Drunk Was Against the Law Percy N. Moore, a commercial artist of New York, did not know that it was a violation of the law to become intoxicated, according to testimony in Police Court yes- terday. Officer A. E. Fredette of the second precinct testified that when apprehended Moore pro- fessed ignorance of the law Taking the artist’s personal Fete Planned. | American University defeated Prince- n University in debate last night at | rinceton by decision of the audience. | While the local college, which is only | vears old this year, has met a number | f large schools, including New York which it also defeated | b last night was the first time | merican University had entered the | ists against one of the “big three he combination of a double victo At basket ball over Catholic Universil nd in debate over Princeton—last night rought about a spontancous celebra- | tion on the campus by the students. A | big welcome for the team was planned today. i The debating team which defeated | [Princeton consisted of Roland Rice, W. | (Willis Delaplain _and Blake Espey. | They took the affirmative side of the | question, “Resolved, That American civilization cannot advance under de- | " The vote of the audience | is known as the “shift | of opinion” system. When the audi- ence arrived, ‘every one voted on his| the question. After | ame perso; ther they od by either side to change their According to the record. Ameri- Princeton will send a debating team ere on a Teturn engagement next | nonth to debate at Hurst Hall at the v. Two members of | scheduled to come here were | trio which this year represented | on in the debate against Oxford | Iniversity of England. Arthur S. Flemming, debate coach, who remained in Washington, wa: howered with congratulations last nigh linon receipt of the news of victory for | [bis team by telephone from Dr. George | [B. Woods, dean of the College of Lib. eral Arts. who accompanied the stu jents on their trip to New York an Tinceton The next debate for American Uni- | persity men will be Wednesday with | stern Reserve University of Cleveland urst. Hal POSITION ACCEPTED BY EDWARD T. CLARK Personal Secretary to President toi Be Officer of Liggett Hold- | ing Company. | sealskins and dressed otter skins. The bond not to repeat the offense, Judge Gus A. Schuldt enlight- ened him regarding the misde- meanor. ALEUTIAN MUMmY LINKED WITH KOREA Amber Beads Held to Show% | Prehistoric Contact of America and Asia. Beads of Korean amber. found on | 2 mummy in the Aleutian Islands near | the American end of the chain, con- | stitute one of the valuable bits of evi- dence that America and Asia had their contacts during the prehistoric Stone | Age, members of the National Geo- graphic Society were fold last night | by Harold McCracken in an address at the Washington Auditorium. Mr. | McCracken was leader of the Stoll-Mc- | Craken Expedition which spent several months last Summer in the neIghbor-' hood of the Aleutian Islands, in Bering Sea, and in the Arctic Ocean, north of | Alaska. | Discovery Held Important. r The discovery of the Aleutian mum- mies was the most important accom- | lishment of the expedition. It has been | § reported for years that the early in-| habitants of the islands mummified | me of their dead, but never befor?i ave the mummies been found by scien. sts equipped to properly remoye th preserved bodies and bring them bacl to civilization. Four mummies were found in an elaborate sarcophagus con- | structed of logs. Within this structure the bodies were protected by many thicknesses of grass matting, tanned group, in Mr. McCracken’s opinion, con- sisted of a mighty chieftain and three | attendants, killed and buried with him: | a young seamstress, a hunter and a| small” child. On its trip north of Bering Strait the party obtained fine specimens of walrus for museum purposes. The two bull | walruses bagged were each 11 feet long and weighed a ton and a half. Interesting Points Visited. The expedition cruised in the Mor- | risey under the guidance of Capt. “Bob” Bartlett. Among the interesting places Edward T. Clark, personal secretary | visited were the Pribilof Islands in | o President Coolidge, has accepted a| Bering Sea and the Diomede Isles in | position as a vice president of the hold- | Bering Strait. On the Pribilofs the g company which controls all the| party found hundreds of thousands of bsidiaries of the Liggett interests, in- | fur seals protected by the United States | luding the chain of Liggett drug stores, | Government. Motion pictures exhibited t was announced yesterday. Mr. Clark's | by Mr. McCracken showed the rocky eadquarters will be in Washington. beaches teeming with the creatures. Mr. Clark has been secretary to Presi- | The Diomede Islands lle midway be- dent Coolidge since 1921. Prior to that | tween Alaska and Asia and from them jhe was secretary to the late Senator JLodge of Massachusetts. ‘Well founded reports say that Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President, is to practice law in Chicago after [March 4. It is understood Mr. Sanders, who is @ former member of Congress from Indiana, will become a partner in the Chicago law firm of which James W. Good, who is slated to become Secretary of War in the Hoover cabinet, has been a member since his retirement from Congress. Mr. Sanders returned this morning from a trip to Chicago, but when asked about his plans after March 4 said he could not give them out at this time. ‘Two other members of the President’s Jpersonal staff at the White House have ;' epted positions. One of them, Erwin Geisser, private stenographer to the President, will become examiner for th Jpersonnel Classification Board. F. Stewart Crawford, in charge.of | search at the White House, will be- | ome an editorial writer on the New ‘ork Herald Tribune. Before his duties | ere Mr. Crawford had served for a | pumber of years on the staff of the [Cribune. EW “0. HENRY” LEAVES PENITENTIARY IN OHIO ohn L. Murphy Goes to New York | to Confer With His Publishers. B+ the Associated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Mareh 1.—John | L. Murphy, who has gained the title of | [Ohio’s second “O. Henry,” left the Ohio Penitentiary yesterday on parole. Murphy ~earned more than $7,000 writing short stories in the penitentiary | [while serving 5 years of a 10 to 15 year sentence for burglary of a store at| [Maricn. A typewriter, purchased from the | second check received for short stories, | [and a battered suit case were the only | possessions Murphy took from the ' penitentiary. | Delightful Murphy is required to report to the [parole board once every month. Prison_ authorities reported that Murphy left for New York immediately 1o confer with his publishers on a book he has compiled and which he | expects to publish within a few | months. \ | Given Additional Duty. Capt. Charles J. Deahl, jr., United States Infantry, attached to the Bureau | of Militia Affairs, War Department, has gned to additional duty with th Division, National Guard, of Cor) | Churchill in a notable by-election at | the two continents can be seen. Little Diomede belongs to the United States, while the larger isle three miles away is a lon of Soviet Russia. In the Winter when the strait is frozen inhab- | itants of the isles walk from American territory to Russian territory or the re- verse in less than an hour. BALDWIN HAS 21 YEARS' PARLIAMENT SERVICE! Congratulations From All Sides| Received by British Premier on Anniversary. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 2.—Premier Stanley aldwin yesterday was receiving con- gratulations from all sides on his par- liamentary “coming of age.” Twenty-one years ago he was elected to represent Bewdley, Worcestershire, by acclama- | tion, in a by-clection after the death | of his father. Bewdley has remained faithful to him ever since. Of 24 men who entered the House of in the same year, only three others now remain—Sir William son-Hicks, who defeated Wins Manchester: G. R. Thorne, veteran Lib- | eral of Northampton, and Fitzroy Hope, deputy speaker. Only ONE Left Of One Hundred! In one of Washington's most desirable Apartment Buildings, on Connecti- cut Avenue, set in spa- cious landscaped grounds, aloof from dust and din of traffic; conveni o bus and street cars; ga- rage space available . . . APARTMENT For Rent Foyer, Living Room, Sun Room, THRE Bed- rooms, Two Baths, Din- ing Room, Kitchen— oo HGTIO0 | 5 Only by inspection can this” charming Home"be b- Apt. 301, In 3041 Seds- wick Street’ (Just south of U.'S. Bureau of Standards). AUCTION SALE Gold Seal Guaranteed Used Cars Easy Terms Tonight, March I Sale Continues Daily All Cars Sold. Sterrett & Fleming, Inc. 1711 14th St. N.W. 2d, 7:30 P. M. at Same Hour Until This sale f& made necessary by the fact that due to the demand for new Whippets and Willys-Knights we have taken In more used cars | during the past few months than ever before. ake room for this business those to be sold, many are nent includes Fords, Dodges, sh. Hupmobiles, Chevrolets, v, Willys-Knights, Whippets, | ptiacs, Oldsmabiles and thers, 'Cnn on Display Until Time of Sale GUS EICHBERG Official Auctioneer for U. S. 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