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THE EVENING S TAR, WASHINGTON, D C ROCKVLLE PARENTS + HEARTALK ON CHILD Also Told of Proper Dress for High School Girl—Beau- tify Grounds. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star ROCKVILLE, Md., November 23.— Dr. D:xter M. Bullard of the Rockville Sanitarium was the principal speaker at the monthly meeting of the Rockville Parent-Teacher Association, held in the Rockville .High School gymnasium and largely attended. His subject was what makes a child problem and he made gome interesting observations relative to child psychology. Mrs. J. Somervell Dawson, formerly epresident of the association, gave a talk on the proper dress for high school girls, giving and illustrating her ideas as to what constitutes appropriate ap- parel for such girls and what is in bad taste. Grounds Report Made. ' At the preceding business season, conducted by the president, F. Bache Abert, the grounds committee, consist- ing of W. Frank Ricketts, Adolph Gude and Mrs. Frank Karn, reported recom- mendations for improving the school grounds, suggesting, however, that the portion south of the building be left undisturbed until Spring. The recom: mendations will, it was stated, be ferred to the County Board of Educt tion with a request for early action. Leonard L. Nicholson, jr., reported that the Rockville Chamber of Com- merce, of which he is president, had appropriated $25 for the Rockville Gar- den Club and that the amount v\o\lld‘ be used in beautifying the school grounds. L. Fletcher Schott, principal of the Rockville High School, stated that he had requested the pupils not to reach the school before 8:45 each morning, at which time all teachers are on hand, and requested the co-operation of the members of the association. Committees Named. President Abert stated that Mrs. J. Darby Bowman had been made chair- man of the ways and means commit- tee, in the place and at the request of J. Brawner Nicholson, and also an- nounced the appointment of these com- mittees: Membership, Mrs. Thomas Barnsley, chairman; Mrs, Fern Schnei- der and L. Fletcher Schott; program, L. Fletcher Schott, chairman; Mrs. Harold | C. Smith and Mrs. J. Somervell D.W‘I son: publicity, Mrs. Carey Kingdon, cha! n; Mrs. Adolph Gude and Leon- ard L. Nicholson, jr.; hospitality, Miss Barker, chairman; Mrs. Albert M. Bouic, Mrs. Carter Clagett and Mrs. ‘Walter A. Williams. SOCIETY TO RESTORE | GEN. LEE’S OLD HOME | T. D. C. Votes to Pay Off Remain- ing $50,000 on Memorial to Southern Leader. By the Associated Press. BILOXI, Miss, November 23.—The United Daughters of the Confederacy vesterday agreed to complete restora- tion of the birthplace of Gen. Robert E. Lece, at Stratford, Va., and distributed £nnual awards for the year's best work. The convention voted to pay off the remaining $50,000 for the memorial to Lee, restoring the old home to the exact curroundings of his boyhood days, and to ask,each division and chapter to as- sume its responsibility in the campaign, . Reports will be made to the 1930 con- vention on the progress made by each division. Mrs. Albert S. Porter of Cleve- land, Ohio, division president, was awarded first place among the 42'divi- sion reports for the most constructive and impressive report offered. During & discussion of ‘the aid ren- dered the old Confederate soldiers by the Daughters and the gathering of data for lssembllnfi a complete historic record of the individual exploits, the James . McKinsey award for the most meritorious work among the veterans 'was given to the Ohio division. ‘The membership of the U. D. C. has grown to 63,000, it was shown in the report of Mrs. J. P. Higgins of St. Louis, in charge of the department of records. During the past year members added numbered 4,559. SENTENCED 10 YEARS - FOR ATTACKING GIRL Charles Smith Goes to Jail in As- sault on Alexandria Minor. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, November 23— Charles Smith of Syracuse, N. Y., was yesterday sentenced in the Fairfax County Circuit Court to 10 years in the State penitentiary for an attack on 16- year-old Alice Young of New Alexan- dris November 10. The trial was held behind closed doors, Michael Caetto of Alexandria, who has been hei in the Fairfax jail since his surrender earlier in the week fol- lowing the death of Raymond Grover of Mount Vernon district in a shooting {fracus, was yesterday released on $5,000 bond for appearance before the Janu- ary grand jury. The bond of George W. Rouss of Charles Town, W. Va., found gullty of violating the prohibition law on twe counts and fined $1,000, with two six- month jail sentences, was declared for- feited yesterday. Rouss has not ap- peared for either the grand jury hearing or the trial. MASONIC HOME TO BE BUILT NEAR LYNCHBURG Construction to Be Begun Next Spring, Grand Master Announces. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va, November 23.— Construction of the first unit of the Masonic Home for Indigent and Aged Members will begin, it is expected, during the coming Spring, John T. Cochran, grand master, of The Plains announced to 200 Magons here Thurs- day night at his official visit to Mar- shall Lodge. The home is designed to cost $500,000 and $175,000 is now in hand with subscriptions available for an_additional $100,000, he said. By a popular subscription the city has purehased and donated a.site for the home on the Natural Bridge High- way. & short distance outside the city. ‘The water system of the city has been made available for the home by a main extension. KILLED BY AUTO. James B. WoMord Run Down on Highway Near Hagerstown. HAGERSTOWN, Md., November 23— Struck by an automobile driven by Samuel D. Boyd while walking on the National Highway west of Hagerstown t evening while returning from work at a camp, James B. Wolford, 72, of ) Downsville, was instanly killed. His eyesight d hearing were defective, tured, . ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 23 (Spe- cial) —Following a long iliness, George M. Kephart, 53, a_well known farmer of the vicinity of Redland, this county. died on Thursday at the Montgomery County General Hospital, Sandy Spring. of a complication of diseases. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Irvin Fulks of Gaithersburg and Miss Eleanor Kephart of Redland, and four sons, Ver- non R., Denny, George T. and Fenton J. Kephart of this county, He also leaves four brothers, Reginald Kephart of Chicago and John, Paul and Rich- ard Kephart of Washington. The funeral took place early this afternoon from _Gartner's chapel, Gaithersburg, Rev. Philip A. Dales, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Olney, officiating. Burial was in Forrest Oak Cemetery, Gaithersburg. Mrs. Ellen F. Ford, 82, widow of | James Ford, died on Thursday at her home at Beallsville, this county. Her death was due to a complication of diseases and followed a long illness. She is survived by three sons and three daughters. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Ford, who was before her marriage a Miss Carter, was & native of Virginia. She had been a resident of the Bealls- ville neighborhood many years. Upon being found guilty in the Cir- cuit Court here on two larceny charges, Russell J. Jackson, colored, was sen- tenced to the Maryland Penitentiary for three years by Judge Robert B. Peter. James Gross and John R. Taylor, also charged with larceny, both of whom pleaded guilty, were sentenced by Judge Peter to 1 year and 15 months, re- spectively, to the Maryland House of Correction, and Benjamin Parker, col- ored, who admitted stealing a child's bicycle from the home of Mrs. E. Morse at Edgemoor, was rejeased, Judge Peter holding that as he had been in jail since early Spring he had beenr punished sufficiently. Announcement has been made by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Lowden, that special ‘Thanksgiving services will be held in the Presbyterian Church, at Darnes- town, Sunday morning and that the music program will be more elaborate than usual. John F. Boose, charged by his wife, Eliza E. Boose, with desertion and non-support of her and the couple's young child, was ordered by Judge Robert B. Peter, in the Circuit Court here, to furnish bond in the amount of $500 to insure payment to his wife of $12 a week for a period of one year. The congregations of the Baptist, Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches of Rockville will, it has been announced, hold their usual union Thanksgiving day services in the Pres- byterian Church Thursday morning, the sermon to be by Rev. George A.Minor of the Christian Church. Miss Hermine Bedenhoop, county health nurse, has announced that a { END OF ROSSLYN ' SEEN BY CITIZEN Zoning Commission Asked to Prepare for Future Indus- trial Section. BY LESTER N. SKEEP, Staff Correspondence of The Star. CHERRYDALE, Va.,, November 23— In requesting that the Zoning Com- mission extend the light industrial area along the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad tracks to their ln'ursection | with Spout Run, Frank Lyon, veteran Arlington County subdivider, last night expressed the opinion that Rosslyn will eventually be wiped out and that an- other industrial section must be de- veloped as a feeder for supplies for the citizens. k In their tentative zoning, the com- mission has_ established a light indus- trial area along both sides of the rail- ‘| road from Cedar street eastward to a i point just short of Waverly Hills. In case the area is carried to the point requested by Lyon it would cross the Lee Highway. See Spur Track Removed. Lyon stated that he believed that A. | Rosslyn is doomed by the proposed de- velopments of the Federal Government las a result of their park and boule- vard programs and that the area desig- nated by the commission will not be sufficient to serve the needs of the community. Lyon, as well as many other persons in the county, believes that the spur track of the Pennsylvania Railroad that now serves the Rosslyn section, coming through the Govern ment Experimental Farm, eventually will be removed, in which case the Washington & Old Dominion is the only railrod having sufficient rights of way to furnish the necessary trans- portation for industry in this section. Since an extension of the industrial area would bring it close to Thrifton Village, P. E. Shaub, K. A, Affieck, H. G. Roberts and P. V. Roundy of the Thrif- ton Village Improvement League voiced their oppositicn, claiming that an in- dustrial section would be detrimental to their property. Both proponents and opponents were informed that since this is an undeveloped area the commission has not yet zoned it, but will give care- ful consideration to both arguments be- fore submitting the ordinance to the child health conference will be held in the Health Center, Rockville High School Building, from 10 am. to 12 children up to 7 years of age, and that from 1:30 to 3 pm. the same day a similar conference will be held in the colored public school at Stewardtown for colored infants and children of pre- sehool age. COL. JOSEPH H. DENT DIES AT OAKLEY, MD. Long a Leading Merchant and Cot- ton Planters, eH Passes Away at Age of 86 Years. Col. Joseph H. Dent, 86 years old, for many years a leading merchant and cotton planter of the South, died sud- denly yesterday morning with a stroke of apoplexy at his home, “Burlington,” near Oakley, Md. * The deceased formerly lived at New- man and Atlanta, Ga., retiring about 0 years ago and moving to Southern Maryland. He was a member of the Dent family, which was long prominent in the civil and military affairs of the South, a Confederate Veteran and a Mason. Col. Dent was the son of the late William B. W. Dent, a native of Bryan- town, Md., who went South as a young man, and for many years served as a member of Congress from Georgia. He was the great-great-grandson of John Dent, who sat in the first Maryland convention. He is survived by his wife and four children, Mrs. Elliott Burch of Cleve- land, Misses Fannie Jo and Lettie Marshall Dent and John F. Dent of Oakley. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, - near Oakley. RUM POSSESSORS FINED $200 EACH AT MARLBORO| Two Capital Men Face Police Court in Prince Georges County. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., November 23.—Two Washi) n_men, arrested, by Prince Georges County police for illégal possession of liquor on the Southern Maryland pike last week, were each fined $200 by Police Court Judge J. Chew Sheriff yesterday. ‘The men described themselves as Benjamin Abrams and Raymond Pierce. | ‘They were taken into custody by county Officers Nichols and Robinson. Effige Faggie, colored, of Fairmont Heights was fined $50 for possession of liquor, following his arrest by Deputy Sheriff Daniel Jones. Lewis Pollard, also colored, arrested board of county supervisors for adop- tion. Cherbydale Zoning Explained. lage and a part of Park Lane, was ex- plained in detail at last night's meeting. The tentative zonipg provides for a gen- eral business section along the Lee High- way, in Cherrydale proper, local busi- ness on both sides of the Lee Highwa: at Spout Run, local business on bot) sides of the Lee Highway west of Locum Lane, and local business the inter- section of the Lee Highway and Glebe road. The last sectional hearing will take place Monday night at the Jefferson District Community Hall in the form of a rehearing. The commission decided yesterday at an executive meeting to hold a final general hearing on Decem- ber 13 at e Washington-Lee High School. It is believed that the ordinance will be presented to the board of super- visors at their regular meeting the fol- DISTRICT MEN NAMED FOR WELFARE DRIVE Yale President Announces Appoint- ments to Advisory Committee of Human Relations Institute. Several men prominent here have been appointed to the advisory com- mittee for human welfare, organized in connection with the Yale Institute of Human Relations, according to an- nouncement made yesterday at New Haven, Conn., by Dr. James Rowland Angell, president of the university. ‘The list includes Dr. Hugh 8. Cum- ming, surgeon general of the Public Health Service; Bishop James E. Free- man of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Jullus Klein, Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce; David Lawrence, editor of the United States Daily; John Barton Payne, chairman -of the Ameri- can Red Cross, and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur. ‘The committee, composed of prom- inent Americans in all walks of life, has been created, Dr. Angell declared, to aid the university in its attempts to apply effectively the arts and sciences to the problems of human life. Its membership includes scientists, educa- tors, lawyers, philosophers, engineers and representatives of the different in- dustrial classes and flelds. Many of the activities of the institute are al- ready under way and the committee wigxl begin to function as soon as pos- sible. Noises Sap Our Lives. The investigation of noises is coming in for a great deal of attention at the present time. Persons who live in the by the same officer for operating a motor vehicle with a smoke screen attached, ‘was convicted and given a fine of $50. Edward Briggs of Allentown was as- sessed $5 for disorderly conduct. Mrs. Edward Graney, also of Allentown, was the complainant. The arrest was made by Constable Thampson. BYRD PLANES TIED UP BY SNOW AT AIRPORT Governor's Inspection Trip Expect- ed to Be Halted at Martins- ville Field. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSVILLE, Va., November 23— Abandonment for the time being of Gov. Harry Flood Byrd's air tour of the State was in prospect here this morning with two_tri-motored planes and 10 others snowed down on the local flying field, which is too short to attempt a take- off. Three inches of snow were on Laniers Field, and sleet during the night had given it & fine crust. It is still snowing. The executive was in Roanoke, hav- ing motored there yesterday evening to fulfill a speaking engagement there. ‘The bellef is that the planes will re- main here until the field permits a take- off, whereupon the governor will com- plete his -itinerary as scheduled. MANY AT ART SHOW. Inclement Weather Fails to Mar Attendance at Arlington Exhibit. cities become somewhat immune, but they are not entirely so, for the inves- tigations of the neurologist indicate that noises have their effect even upon them. There are persons who think that the noises of the night do not affect them, but such is not the case, for recording instruments show that the heart re- sponds to moises, although the sleep’s rest is apparently undisturbed. The noises of the city have a very serious effect upon the nervous systems of those who are unused to them. The stranger responds to the unusual clamor with a reaction which has a direct ef- fect upon the rate of respiration and burns up body energy one-fifth more rapidly than under quieter circum- stances. THE = AMBASSAIDOR> WASHINGTON'S NEWESTI 500 ROOMS HAND BALL COURT - SWIMMING PooL Complimentary to Guests Heautd Clus RADIO IN EVERY ROOM RATES FrOM $300 Special Rates to Permanent Guests F———— YN PILES Reetal Irritations and Iteh By a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, November 22.— Despite the inclement weather, a large number of persons last night visited the first annual exhibit of the Arlingten County Crestive Arts Club, being held in the Cl ber of mmerce rooms. The exhibit will continue this afternoon and evening, closing at 10 o'clock. In the exhibit are paintings, drawings. sculpture, hand-painted china, weaving and many other arts, present- ing a colorful displag. Those attend- m the exhibit last night were enter- on the piano by Mrs/ Sadle Cath . COmBoseTs Torb Suppositories are uncon- ditonally guaranteed to give relief or your money funded. r Ssle at all Peoples Drus ul this guarantee ot Torb, Incorporated, Allentown, Pa, TORB SUPPOSITORIES HUMAN RACE NOW IN EARLIEST * last for 1,000,000,000,000 years in a celestial swans which already has lasted, Such is the tgl report of the Smif secretary of the R time with the astonishing statement: “The picture it sees may be merely a creation of its own mind, in which noth- ing really exists except itself. The uni- may be a dream, and we brain cells in the mind of the dreamer.” Man, he declares, has existed at the most about 300,000 years on a planet about 2,000.000,000 years old, with every likelthood that conditions still will be suitable for human life a million million years hence, although the years will be longer and the climate colder. A very gloomy view of the future, he says, would give man a life span of 2,000,000,000 years, Looks Through Giant Telescopes. From this cradle, he saye, the infant race looks out through its newly discov- ered giant telescopes for approximately 26,000,000,000,000,000 miles, which has been calculated, according to the Ein- stein theory, as about a 1,000th part of the total depth of space, beyond which there is neither space nor time. ‘The sun, he points out, is equal to a million earths, but itself is probably only one of approximately 30,000,000,000 larger and smaller stars in its own im- mediate family, to say nothing of other millions of such families—the recently discovered so-called “island universes.” The largest star, Betelgeuse, he says, is so great that 25,000,000 suns could be packed inside of it: the brightest, S. Doradus, emits 300,000 times as much light, and the faintest, Van Maanen's l(nl;,,ll only about the size of the earth itself. Comparing the progress of groups of bright stars like the Great Bear and the Pleiades to the flight of swans through a confused crowd of rooks and starlings, Jeans deduces from the degree in which the orderly arrangement has been ‘broken up the enormous age of the uni- verse, Sun Has Lost Most of Mass. ‘The sun, he says. is pouring forth every 24 hours 360,000,000,000 tons of its substance into space in the form of light, so that it already has lost most of the mass it had at its birth, 5,00 000,000,000 years ago. “Our position,” he says, “is that of polar bears on an iceberg that has broken loose from the ice pack surrounding the Pole and is inexorably melting away as it drifts to ultimate extinction.” From this annihilation of matter, he deduces, come the recently discovered cosmic rays bombardin:: the earth, which penetrate 5 yards of lead and correspond to about 940,000,000 volts. “In a sense,” he continues, “this radia- tion is the most fundamental physical phenomenon of the whole universe, Our bodies_are traversed by it night and day. Short of going down into & mine or in a submarine, we cannot escape it. It is so intense that it breaks up several million atoms in each of our bodies every second. 14 may be essential to life or it may be killing us.” Are there any other planets in the vast universe where life similar to that on earth is likely to exist? Proceeding on the theory that for a planetary sys- tem to be born two stars must approach each other close enough to tear out some of the substance of the other, Jeans says: “Calculation shows that even after their long lives of millions of millions of years only about one star in 100,000 can be surrounded by planets born in this way. In the 1,000,000,000 stars surrounding our sun there are, at a moderate computation, not more than 10,000 planetary systems, because there has not been time for more than this number to be born. Calculation sug- gests a birth rate of about one per 1,000,~ 000,000 years. Thus we should have to visit thousands of millions of stars be- fore finding a planetary system of as recent creation as.our own, and we should have to visit millions of millions of stars before finding a planet upon which efvillzation and interest in the outer universe were as recent a growth as were our own. Lived More Eventful Past. “So far as we can judge, our part of the universe has lived the more eventful part of its life already. We are witness- ing the burning out of the candle ends on an empty stage on which the drama BY THOMAS R. HE) The human race now is in the earliest infancy of an e 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in a flight cture of man's place in creation presents onian Institution by al Soclety of Great Britain. Jeans pictures man as just beginning | ple. to peer over the edge of his cradle, and | one of the most care! concludes his picture of life, space and | an example, verse which we study with such care | INFANCY, ASTRONOMER CLAIMS tJ. H. *Jeans of Smithsonian Institution Declares “Universe May Be Dream and We Brain Cells.” RY. xistence that may universe made up of approximately t like that of a great flock of close to 10,000.000,000.000 years. ed in the annual d astronomer and roughly, J. H. Jeans, celebrate a in Andromeda, fully studied, as he pictures "a mass nearly 2,000,000,000 times the mass of an aver- age star like our sun—a thousand mil- lion stars and much uncondensed gas, all forming a giant spiral nebula travel- ing through space at least. 300 kilo- meters per second and, as it travels, slowly expanding and unwinding its spiral arms, whilg as a whole it is turn- ing around with solemn, majestic de- liberation. ‘Then, proceeding on calculations from the Einstein theory, which gives the radius of curvature of space-time which makes up the structure of the universe, Douglas calculates the breath-taking figure of 10 followed by 51 eciphers, about 10 septrillion eoctrillion tone of matter in the whole universe. This is about . 10 septrillion octrillion tons of matter as is contained in the sun, or 35,000,000,000,000,000 times as much matter as is contained in a normal galaxy of stars. Science Stands Helpless. Before such an_ enormous universe science as yet stands helpless, he points out, for “if the distance of a galaxy exceed only one six-hundredth of the radius of curvature mentioned above, no telescope yet constructed can detect it. But the astronomer, with reliable knowledge of hundreds of stars and as many nebulae, and glimpses of thoue sands yet more distant, will not refrain I'from speculation regarding the vast regions as yet beyond his ken—the ocean of space-time studded with B 00,000,000,000 glorious island uni- verse: ‘The nature of the mysterious, invisi- ble cosmic rays perpetually bombardin, the earth from outer space, some o which are so powerful that they wil penetrate 18 feet of lead, is close to a solution, their discoverer, Prof. Robert A. Millikkan of the California Institute of Technology, reveals in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution. They are, he believes, the birth strug- gles of matter itself being created in the form of atoms in the vast spaces be- t:;een the stars, later to become new stars. While many still believe that they are the result of forces let loose in the disintegration of matter, it is pointed out by Millikan and his associate, G. H. Cameron, they are so much more pow- erful than the strongest rays produced by radfoactive processes, the gamma rays of radium, that another explana- tion is necessary. The rays, it is pointed out, strike the earth with equal inténsity from all di- rections, night and day. Thus it is obvious that their principle source is not the sun, as probably would be the case if they were due to the disintegra- tion of matter. On the other hand, he points out, evidence obtained with the 8pectroscope shows that free positive and negative electrons exist in great quantities, but very loosely diffused, in space itself where there i8 complete absence of temperature. In some manner not un- derstood they are pushed together into hydrogen atoms, which in turn com- bine into such elements as helium, oxy- gen, silicon and iron. In this process the electrons loose some of their masses, thus releasing the cosmic ray energy. The force of gravity, Dr. Millikan says, then pulls the atoms together into stars, where, under enormous tempera- tures and pressures, some of them are disintegrated again, providing the source of the star's heat. But this line of reasoning, Dr. Milli- kan says, forces one to complete the cycle of the birth, death and rebirth of matter, the radiant heat sent forth from the star forming in some way into mux; dlnd mnenuve electrons again ergoing once more the e birth process ln".o atoms. e Citing the nebul R 22 i N Y. W. C.A."17th and K Short Courses now 0p¢|m'n; Cooking—Sewing—Cur- rent Events—Dictation N N N N N N N N N N N E N is already over. There is not time for many more planets to be born.” Another picture of the vastness of space and time is presented in the same report by Prof. A. Vibert Douglas of McGill University in his description of the island universes of which all the visible d invisible billions of stars centering in the Milky Way, one of | which is the sun, form a single exam- | —and then, more than ever, you can appreciate just what ‘“‘organized responsibility” means as applied to taxicab comfort and dependability. inclement weather places the peak load on taxicab operation—but there’s n who— BLACK and WHITE CABS NATIONAL 0051 Insist on using “BLACK & WHITE” and “YELLOW?” taxicabs BECAUSE The “Black and White” and “Yellow” Taxicabs are operated by a financially responsible Washington organization. Organized Responsibili Owned and Operated by Brown Bros. Winter’s o disappointment to those YELLOW CABS . METROPOLITAN 1212 ‘SATURDAY, "NOVEMBER 23, 1929. PAYMASTER'S PLEA MAY BE INSANITY Lieut. Musil Will Be Tried Be- fore General Court Prob- ably Next Month. The contention that Lieut. Charles Musil, U. S. Navy paymaster, accused of having taken $54,651.21 in Govern- ment funds when he was disbursing officer of Division 40, Destroyer Squad- rons of the Scouting Fleet, is of un- sound mind is being considered as a defense to be brought forward at his forthcoming general court-martial, to be held at the Washington Navy Yard. The Navy Department has, after ex- haustive “investigation, drawn up the accusations against him, and Lieut. Musil has been served with the papers, prepared in the office of Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, the judge advocate general of the Navy. While no information as to the date of the general court-martial is available indications are that it will be held as & public trial at the Washington Navy Yard in December, before the spe- cial general court-martial board, or- ganized last April. It is considered probable that Capt. W. McDowell, the captain of the Washington Navy Yard. and assistant superintendent of the Naval gun factory, will be the presi- dent of the general court-martial. Lieut. Arthur P. Spencer, U. S. N, has been assigned to defend Lieut. Musil in the case, and friends also plan to engage civilian counsel. The judge advocate of the court. as the prosecutor is known, will be First Lieut. Miller V. Parsons, U. S. Marine Corps, case on behalf of the Government. Unofficially, it was learned that Lieut. Musil is deemed to be in no phys- ical condition to stand trial at this time and an examination—particularly with reference to his mental condition— has been asked of the Bureau of Medi- cine and Surgery, Navy Department. Lieut. Musil faces a maximum sen- tence of 11 years if found gulity of the charges against him, Naval officers ex: plained today, 10 years for alleged em- bezzlement, and one year on the charge of desertion. Although some $40.000 were subse- quently recovered, when Lieut. Musil took naval authorities to a point near dig up this sum, the Navy Department is charging him with the taking of the whole $54,651.21. Licut. Musil, who is a member of the Supply Corps ,of the Navy, was serving aboard the U.'S. S. Gilmer at Charles- ton, S. C., when the alleged shortage in his funds was discovered by naval authorities, after he had left his post without ~ permission, ~ naval oficials said. : The who will conduct the | the District poor farm and had them | {DANVILLE HAS FIRST | 'CASUALTY FROM SNOW Mrs. Laura Davis Slips on Ice and Falls to Death From Porch. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., November 23.—The first casualty from the early snow oc- curred here yesterday evening when Mrs. Laura Davis, 61, while shaking a rug on her back porch slipped on the ice and fell over a railing. A small boy saw her fall and called help. Mrs. | Davis was dead when aid reached her, The coroner was unable to say whether | she struck her head or if the shock caused heart trouble. Chinese Game Grips Europe. By Christmas, it is predicted, Wei- Chi, a 4,000-year-old Chinese me, will be the rage in Europe. The same | prophet declares that by next Summer it will be as forgotten as Put-and-Take. Just now lovers of thrills are busy with the pastime invented by the Chinese | Emperor Yao about 2350 B.C. Wei-Chi parties have aiready become the vogue {in society and gllyers are burning | after-midnight light capturing territory e object of the game. Velvet Kind ICE CREAM CALENDAR (o] (<3 NOVEMBER 22 TO DECEMBER 5. The Velvet Kind Dealers—Your Best Caterers—Offer as an Opening Special on the Season’s Calendar FROZEN PLUM PUDDING in the Famous De Luxe Pint Package Could there be any pleasanter thought, any finer taste to tempt your appetite these days and evenings hovering about the Thanksgiv- ing period? 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