Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1929, Page 4

SHOPPING HELPED BYTACTINMEXICO l I ! | Displays on Sidewalk or in Handsome Store Offer Great Varieties. ‘The new Mexico. the Mexico of Calles. Portes Gil and President-elect Rubio and United “States Ambassador Morrow. is playing an important role and will play written especially for The Star and asso- €iated newspapers of the North American Newspaper Alliance. This is the Afth of the series. BY HUBERT W. KELLEY. MEXICO CITY, December 24 (N.A. N.A)—What would you have, senor, now that you wish to go shopping here in the sun-bleached capital of the sky? An antigue blade from Toledo, a bunch of radishes, a kilo of charcoal, a <arburetor, an original Van Dyke or a Puund of tripe? No matter. If you desire fashionable goods at American prices, fixed prices, go to El Centro, the great department store, where half the potential floor space has been sacrificed for the inclusion of a patio, a courtyard within, covered, in this case, with a vast canopy of stained glass, the five stories, cut through, rising in a tier of balconies, over the banisters of which beautiful rugs are displayed. But American prices are rather too much in Mexico. One can get the goods cheaper if he hiws where and how to bargain. In El Centro, perhaps, one must help pay for that patio and sky- light, both conventional necessities. Ex- travagant, swmor? What, with such beautiful glass, such subtly tinted sun- shine, such a vista of hazy air? No, no senor. Close your mouth, wrap your topcoat tightly around you to protect your clothes and purse, and dive into vhe of the swarming streets that lead % the city market. Only six or seven blocks i | :lnnnuntfll by the political group today. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, CAPITAL REPUBLICANS PURCHASE HEADQUARTERS The structure at Sixteenth street and Scott Circle, now occupied by the Japanese hancery, whose acquisition was | —Star Staff Photo. THREE MORE LOST st ahes s (N SIBERIAN FLIGHT gested £nd odorous center of it. Retall stores line the street. But they are almost concealed by rows of porta- ble booths set down at the edges of the sidewalks. And smaller merchants carry or set their trays between stores and booths. Displays on Sidewalas. Some of them spread goods in the streets, when motor cars are not pass: ing, so that the shopper must play hop- scotch to escape stepping on house dresses, bolts of cloth, little plles of new peas and ancient beans, sprinklings of peppers, infants' garments, second- hand monkey wrenches and pottery dishes of things steaming with ruddy charcoal and red with spice. ‘What jostling hordes of dark humans, some almost naked, some in filthy bur- lap and ragged cotton, some in silk and { ‘broadcloth. One rubs shoulders with the professor and the burden bearer, the sad-faced senora with somber and expensive dress, the toothless beggar ‘woman crying for pennies. ‘Tiny children, who knew a bath only at birth, tug at the coattails of the well dressed shopper. Won't you buy & beautiful little Christmas ball, senor, glistening with tinsel, bright with col- ored glass thin as tissue? In the intersection stands the ever- present patrolman, mounted on his Jootstool, head above the crowd. Other- | 5t wise, one would never see him, so dense s the throng. At times it seems that every member of the crowd is a merchant. What would you? A pair of cheap socks or a good substantial coffin for only 5 ? An alarm clock, the second m of which wiggles the trunk of a black elephant standing among green palms on the face? Or would you pre- fer the clock with the kicking donkey and the somersaulting peon? They ‘both make the time of day very attrac- tive. Potatoes 3 Cents a Pound. re are potatoes, 3 American cents ’u'!'h.e wund.p‘;aued up like the stones of an Astec pyramid. Radishes, a vast bunch for a few pennies! ty firing your charcoal, charcoal | the ‘brought down on burro back from the Green Mountains to sell at 31, cents a pound? Then buy this tiny bundle of Pitch faggots, ofly yellow and redolent. Only the price of an American postage stamp. 'l'h‘; volces rise. Sugared brown bread, senor, in bizarre shapes to please | the eyes. It is cheap, my friend. From . this gigantic basket sample these | oranges, big as the head of an infant.| A handful of withered peppers, purple | and red. Chiles of many colors. Fine fish that advertise themselves. Drink from the great glass coolers filled with {ce cold liquids the colors of the rain- bow. Exquisite. Come, senor. It is of a price so cheap as to embarrass you. You never can sleep nights having passed up such a delightful beverage at so debased a price. o What? 1s the crowd abandoning the booth where the ridiculously cheap fri- Joles are for sale? Indeed. because he.rP is a sight more wonderful than the twin volcanoes, Popo and Ixxy, mountains of strange and marvelously beautiful woleanoes which the sun sets over the bone-colored city of the anclent Aztecs. Behold the little boy with the intel- fectual dogs. which, at his command, Jeap through colored hoops. stand on their hind feet and pyramid themselves. Bravo! Here, my exceedingly interest- ing friend, are 5 centavos for your skill and patience with those five yellow curs. As marvelous, senor, as those dogs is the bearded Indian with the shrewd, twinkling eyes, who, through some oc- cult means, evidently has conveyed shuman ideas to the minute brain of & ageful of canaries. ® "':70“]‘;&" says he, “and tell the lovely ‘woman's fortune.” A canary flutters from the cage, flies to the tray on the tripod, and from it eelects a tiny envelope, which it conveys in its bill to the woman beautiful by virtue of her 5 centavos. She is to be wealthly and well married. Bravo, canary! ‘The canary, stimulated by applause, return to the tray, picks up a black celluloid doll and deposits it in a bathtub, a rare sight in miniature or otherwise lo; hulndreds of persons in the vast market place. There, in Xron‘; of the booths where innumerable varieties of spices are soid, sits the accomplished beggar, he of use- less hands and legs. He is spinning the toplike cogwheels of a watch, spin- ning them with his tongue. He presses his face to the flagstone, mouths the top, sits up and ejects it with his tongue. It spins for s minute. He can wind a real top with his teeth and his lips and cast it as cleverly as a schoolboy on a playground. Surely, ‘senor, such a high achievement deserves the gratuity of a dime. Ci.t;muu‘ roasting in a tin skillet over a charcoal stove? Or would you prefer a bundle of old notes, issued by a provisional government, forgotten ex- cept for a monument somewhere in the maze of monuments in the City of Mexico? A basket of rusty nails? Here is the place to buy them. Nails or old bolts, used saws or Aztec idols. Pass gently, lest you shove the man cairying the great basket of caramels on his head. What is this fragrance in the midst of the great smell? ers made of the skin of eggs and per- fumed with attar of roses. One peso, senor, for a flower that will be dewy ‘and sweet for six months. Wear this !semi-eternal flower in your buttonhole. ‘The senoritas will Jook upon you with palpitating heart. Beaut!Zul and dirty market place! Zarapes and tomatoes, wicker bird cages { 2nd lasses, opals and cabbages, green and p silks, short sections of green sugar cane, armor ice cream ones! Merchandise spread out over an blocks, merchandise trodden under foot, ‘What would you, in’ caria! ‘enor? Cheap, very cheap. (Next: Street scenc.) —— 1 59 Pilot and Two Passengers Not Heard From Since December 17. By the Associated Press. NOME, Alaska, December 24.—The names of three more men were added today to the list of flyers missing in the frozen wastes of Siberia, across Bering Strait from here. Already busy with preparations for an aerial search for Carl Ben Eielson, noted Arctic pilot, and his mechanic, Earl Borland, the group of aviators at ‘Teller yesterday diverted some of their efforts to & hunt for Phil Graham, a pllot, and his two passengers, R. B. Julian and W. B. Miller, who left the Alaska mainland December 17 on a flight to Elephant Point, Siberia. Nothing has been heard from them who have been participating in the at- tempts to fly to Eielson’s rescue, took off from Teller yesterday to search for Graham, Julian and Miller. Heavy fog over most of the region | forced Pilot Ed Houng to return to Tel- ler yesterday after making a second at- tempt to carry gasoline supplies to two fiyers who are operating from the ice- bound ship Nanuk on the Siberian coast in the hunt for Eielson and Borland. Harold Gillam and Joe Crosson, who are making the Nanuk their base, were re, to have taken off from the ship yesterday and to have returned without finding a trace of either Eielson or Borland or their plane. With five men now missing, pilots here are facing the worst conditions of year under which to carry on a search. Daylight lasts only a few hours, limited gasoline supplies curtail the use of ?lln s on long flights and the work of radio stations which depend upon that form of fuel to génerate pow- er. Unfavorable weather has handi- capped the rescue attempts. Efforts will be continued however, to establish a base on the Siberian coast. Rallroad officials at Seward were re- ported to have made arrangements to start three big cabin planes on their way to Fairbanks, within two hours | after their arrival at Seward tonight or tomorrow. The planes are being moved from Seattle to Seward aboard the Coast Guard cutter Chelan. A squad of Canadian airmen on the relief expedi- tion aboard the Chelan thén will fly the planes from Fairbanks to Teller and join the search for the missing men. Flyers here now lack closed cabin planes such as those coming on the Chelan. U. 8. APPEALS TO SOVIET. ‘The American Government has ap- pealed unofficially but directly to the Soviet government of Russia to res- cue two American aviators, Lieut. Ben Elelson and Earl Borland, who disap- peared off the bleak Siberian coast six weeks ago while flying to the ice-boynd fur ship the Nanook. ‘The Soviet, whose icebreakers smashed their way through the Arctic ice to res- cue members of the crew of the Italia two years ago in one of the thrilling chapters of the heroic history of the northland, was asked by Secretary Wil- bur through the Soviet News Agency to | send rescue parties from two ships it | has in the vicinity. | ‘The Interior Department head, whose action followed an urgent appeal from Vilhjalmar Stefansson, famous Arctic | explorer, also instructed Gov. Parks o(i Alaska to appeal directly to the ice- | breakers Lipke and Stavropol, the two | ships in the vicinity where Eielson and his mechanic were last seen. | The State Department, informed of | the proposal to appeal directly to the | two ships, made no objections nor did it make a decision on the message sent | directly to Moscow, since Secretary Wilbur did not submit it for a ruling. “We had made every effort to rescue the men from United States territory,” Secretary Wilbur said. “Bad weather and the lack of craft adapted for use in the Far North frustrated our efforts. | ‘With human life at stake, especially the | lives of brave men, we have asked the | Russians to assist us.” Eielson and Borland had a month's PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS Compounded Semi-Annually Assets Over $20,000,000 Surplus $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. N.W. | ship, but it never landed near the ves- BERRY, President W. CARR, JAMES JOSHUA Ice on Windshield? Just Salt It Down And Vision Clears Motorists who have been an- noyed by ice on the windshields of their cars in the past few days may be interested in the follow- ing tip from George E. Kenelpp, manager of the District division of the American Automobile As- sociation: “Sprinkle & little salt on your windshield wiper and your vision will be made perfect. The salt causes the formation of a saline solution which eliminates ice.” rations apiece when they took off from Fairbanks for the North Cape, where the Nanook is held in the ice. The plane was reported from two Russian villages 60 or 70 miles east of the fur sel. Three planes equipped for such flights were one by one smashed up as they attempted to go to the rescue, due to heavy cargoes of gasoline and unusually heavy weather. In his appeal to Secretary Wilbur, Stefansson said hope for rescue from the American side of the Bering Straits was dim. BOLIVIAN V\;‘RITER HELD. Detained in Mexico When Seeking to Interview Alleged Terrorists. MEXICO CITY, December 24 (). — Tristan Maroff, Bolivian writer, ws: detalned in federal district military headquarters last night when he went there to interview alleged anarchists arrested last week on a charge of plot- ting & terrorist campaign. The reason for Maroff's detention was not revealed. Thirteen of the alleged terrorists have been turned over by the military authorities to the department of the interior, while seven others are reported to have been sent to Vera Cruz for de- portation, Cubans. Four of the latter were 430WOMAN DRIVERS WIN CERTIFICATES Prizes Awarded and Honors Bestowed Following A.A.A. Lecture Course. Four hundred and eighty woman | drivers received graduation certificates, 530 received certificates of attendance and prizes totaling $100 were dis- tributed to 9 who passed the final examination of the American Automo- bile Association's lecture course on au- tomobile mechanism with the highest grades, at a luncheon given yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel. The lecture course was started on October 25 to ch the woman drivers of the District hat makes the wheels go 'round.” Miss Hazel V. Reynolds of 503 River road, Bethesda, Md., won the first prize of $35 in gold; Mrs. Mary E. Richara- son, 3525 Thirteenth street, whose ex- amination grade was but a decimal point lower than that of the first prize winner, was accorded second honors and $25 in_gold; the third prize or $15 went to Mrs. Arthur Beach, 4535 Thirtieth street; the fourth of $10 to Mrs. Rebecca W. Faesch, 3602 Albe- marle_street; the fifth of $5 to Miss Sara D. Kemmerer, 5330 Colorado ave- nue, and the four sixth prizes of $2.50 each were awarded to Mrs. Carrie Lusner, 2034 O street; Miss Gladys Gordon, 1418 Buchanan street; Miss Madge L. Cooke, 1870 Wyoming ave- nue, and Mrs. Walter R. Metz, 1727 Taylor street. At the speakers’ table were: Ernest Smith, executive vice president of the A. A. A; Charles P. Clark, general manager of the A. A. A.; Howard Star- line, director of safety; Dr. F. V. Co- ville, Stanley Horner, Edward M. Bra- shears and A. M. Loomis, members of the advisory boar D, €, REPUBLICAN CLUB RECEIVES CHARTER Organization Fulfills Hopes Long Fostered by Local Party Leaders. A National Republican Club, which | has been the dream for years of local Republican leaders, existence today. The efforts to form such an organi- zation, which have been under way for several weeks, were crowned with suc- cess when certificates of incorporation for a “National Capital Republican Club, Inc.,"” were recorded and a charter al- lowed. As set forth in the certificate of in- corporation the objects of this club are to support the Constitution and laws of the United States and to advocate, pro- mote and maintain the principles of Republicanism as enunciated by the Republican party, and to co-operate with the Republican national commit- tee, the Republican congressional com- mittees and the various Republican State committees. ‘Those who have figured in the move- ment for such a club have moved slowly and deliberately in the prelimi- nary work, and as a result, the enter- prise is now launched upon a substan- came into actual | tial foundation and with every promise of future success. Identified with this club are some of the best known and most influential citizens of the Capital Its membership, however, will not be confined to men and women living in ‘Washington, but will be open to persons in the States who are otherwise eligible. Clubhouse to Be Renovated. ‘The club will make its home in the clubhouse, at the southwest corner of Sixteenth street and Scott circle, which ‘was recently purchased in the name of the Republican State committee in and for the District of Columbia at a price in excess of $125,000. This residence, which is now leased to the Japanese embassy for its chancery, will not be available before July 1. As soon as alterations and improvements are made to the interior the club will take it over. This event will be the occasion of a big celebration in_the form of a house- warming and Republican rally. This house was originally built as a home for the late Col. O. G. Staples. It has a frontage on Scott circle of 100 feet and 41 feet on Sixteenth street. It cially handsome and commodious inside. The house was designed for extensive entertaining, therefore the first-floor rooms are large and the ceilings high. It will be necessary, however, to make alterations sufficient to afford one large roorh to be used as an assembly room, in which large gatherings may be ac- commodated. On the floors above rooms will be set aside for reading and committee meetings, as well as quarters for the State committee and the several other Republican organizations func- tioning under the State committee in the District. ‘The personnel of the board of trustees of the club, which will have the active management of the club is such as to inspire the greatest confidence in this enterprise. The members of this board, each one of whom signed the charter are: Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the Republican State committee, and chair- man of the League of Republican Or- ganizations in the District; Charles G. Glover, jr., vice chairman of the State committee; John Joy Edson, banker, treasurer of the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Natlonal Geo- graphic Society; Cuno H. Rudolph, re- tired merchant and banker and former District Commissioner; Edward F. Col- laday, lawyer, and Republican national committeeman; Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Republican national committee- woman; Robert V. Fleming, banker, and treasurer of the Congressional Club; ‘William Tyler Page, clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and president of the Republican State Vot~ ers’ Association; Edgar C. Snyder, U. S. The judges were Rudolph Jose, H. H. Allen and E. M. Cornell, Be marshal for the District, and president of the League of Republican State Vot- The Merriest Christmas LANSBURGH & BRO. 7th, 8th and E Sts,.—~FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—National 9800 — No;e is of attractive architecture and espe- | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1929. . ONUMENT STIRS CONTROVERSY | M b G men with a shotgun barricade.” for the Capitol. A This monument will go on the grounds of West Virginia's new $15,000,000 Capitol if H. S. White, 91-year-old Civil War veteran, has to “surround the work- The defi was hurled by the fiery mountaineer statesman at Cass Gilbert, eminent New York architect, who is completing plans Controversy over the appropriateness of the monument has raged since Gilbert disapproved the design some weeks ago. of the West Virginia Union Soldiers’ Monument Commission. tions to the proposed memorial were based on esthetic grounds. ‘White is chairman Gilbert’s objec- —Assoclated Press Photo. ers; John Lewis Smith, lawyer, and president of the Hoover and Curtis Club; Mrs. E. A. Harriman, president League of Republican Women of the District; Joshua Evans, jr., banker, and secretary of the State committee; Meyer Cohen, lawyer and banker; Thomas P. Lmle‘page, lawyer, and president of the Alfalfa Club, and Alvery E. Chaffee of Kansas, reading clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives. With the exception of Mrs. Harri- man, Mr. Littlepage, Mr, Page and Mr. Chaffee, all of the members of this board are members of the executive committee of the State committee. The officers of the club have not yet been decided upon. An election will be held shortly. The general impression is that Mr. Prescott, because of his famil- iarity with the management of the Re- publican activities in this city in his capacity as chalrman of the State com- mittee and campaign director and his personal efforts in the formation of this club, will be chosen as the first presi- dent. It has not been determined just what the initiation fee and dues for member- ship in the club will be. The founders are desirous of bringing the club within the reach of every Republican and therefore the fees and dues will be made as moderate as possible, There will be several different kinds of mem- berships, which will answer the aims of the organization, but there will be no life memberships, nor will there be em- ployed any professional membership salesmen or club promoters. This work | will be done by a committee of well known citizens. Large Membership Seen. While the founders do not wish to ex- press themselves too optimistically re- garding the future of the club, they feel certain that before the club moves into its Scott Circle home it will have a membership of more than 1,000. There are now five Republican organizations, including the State committee, with a combined membership of more than 2,000 functioning in Washington, and this fact furnishes the basis for the predictions as to the possible member- ship of the National Capital Republican Glub, Incorporated. Since the founding of the Repub- lican party, nearly three-quarters of a century ago, there have been Repub- lican_clubs of one kind or another in the District of Columbia. As a rule their individual life was short. Some were organized during the heat of a campaign, and after the excitement was over the interest in a party club lagged to such extent that the club closed. BRI B 500 O BV B, z IN very - appreciation of your patronage for the past year, A &P Managers and Clerks extend to wishes for Adjustment representative will be at the 8th street entrance ® Christmas morning 9 A.M. to noon to take care of any service @ or delivery adjustment that may aris Phone National 5544, But none had a home such as will be occupled by the National Capital Re- ublican Club, the founders of which ave been able to work out a plan that is expected to make possible its survival and at the same time serve the cause of Republicanism, TRIP TO INJURED SON PROVES T0O STRENUOUS By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, December 24—An 83-year-old woman who traveled from her home in Philadelphia to spend Christmas at the bedside of her son, seriously injured in the, crash of the T. A. T. plane here on Sunday, today occupled a hospital bed in a room ad- Joining his. Mrs. G. M. Kline found the exertion of the journey and the shock of the accident to her son, C. Mahlon Kline, too much for her, and on the advice of hospital physicians took to bed imme- diately upon her arrival. Special ar- rangements were made to give her the room adjoining that of her son. - CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. FUTURE. o liam P Hunt Chapter, D. A R., ave open' installation of Thursday, December 26, i Meeting of the Columbia Union, W. C. T. U, which was set for Friday at the home of Mrs. Alice Livingston, Copley Courts, has been postponed on account of illness, Organized RespoEibility | Use Yellow Cabs and Black and White Cabs Owned and Operated by Brown Bros. grateful you and yours their sincere a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. OFFICIALS DEFEND - LIQUOR LICENSES Testify in Court That Mulldn Idaho, Has Always Been “Wide-Open Town.” By the Assoclated Press. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, December 2¢—More defendants in the liquor conspiracy trial involving the city of Mullan, Idaho, prepared to take the stand in Federgl Court here today in a short session preceding adjournmenc for the Christmas holiday. Mayor Arthur Harwood and mem- bers of the city council, who are ac- cused by the Government of collecting “license fees” from bootleggers, gam- blers and keepers of disorderly houses in order to pay the expenses of run- ning the municipality, occupled the stand yesterday. Mayor Harwood and Councilmen Henry Foss and Charles Ristan testified yesterday that Mullan had been a “wide-open” town as long as they could remember. Harwood defended the right of the ccuncil to collect license fees in order to save the town from a financial emergency. Harwood also admitted that hs property, including a drug store, a hotel and a house, which he had rent- ed, may have been used by bootleggers, gamblers and disorderly persons. “I had heard that they were being used for these purposes,” he said, “buc 1 d never seen it with my own eyes. Harwood sald hé had not checked very closely into the practice of col- lecting “license fees,” as they were “just a custom carried eut e chief of police.” He asserted that the fees were collected solely for the wei- fare of Mullan. — PARK GIVEN TIMBER. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., December 24 (@) —Timber rights on an eight-mile strip of forest land, some 650 feet wide, have been deeded to the Tennessee Great Smokey Mountain Park Commis- sion by the Little River Lumber Co, and the long dugute regarding the Little River tracts has been ended, the com- mission announced today. Col. D, C. commission chairman, said the c n soon will be ready to turn the park lands over to the Federal Government, —— Civil War Veteran Dies. SAN FRANCISCO, December 24 (#). —Willlam C. Herbert, Civil War vet- eran and one time pony express rider, died here yesterday at the age of 83. Born in New York, he came here in 1870. During the Civil War he served with the 103d New York Regiment and was wounded at Gettysburg, Accommodations For Business People Near Union Station and Capitol The New Bellevue Hotel A5{E Street N.W. Rooms with private bath available at month- ly rates of $30.00 to .50, Corner - suites $77.50 to $87.00.