Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1930, Page 6

MAGICANS HOLD TRKY ELECTION Ballot Box Yields Rabbit, Candle and Other Mate- rial Before Count. By the Assccinted Press. CHICAGO, June 2.—The way magi- clans, in national eonvention, elect of- ficers is, as might be guessed, tricky. The election of the Soclety of Amer- fean Magicians was held yesterday. Bach voter was obliged to roll up his . sleeves, remove his hat, and mark his ballot with the same pencil on an es- pecially prxl’ed plece of paper cut into 350 ple each numbered. Each voter likewis s compelled to take a strange oath not to tamper with the elbematic_ballot box. Theo Hardeen, retiring president, reached for the first ballot. He drew out a rabbit. In went his hand again, and out came a lighted candle. Then & pair of handcuffs, a glass of water, a Japanese lantern, s canary, s petunis pot, yards of ribbon and finally a stein of an amber fluld. This might have gone on indefinitely, but others wanted to vote. Finally John Mulholland called to the tellers to cease the count. “I can read he said, “and they show the convention unanimously in favor of James Wobensmith, Philadel- phia, for president; Eugene Laurant, Chicago, and C. Elliott Smith, Detroit, vice presidents; Royal L. Vilas, New York, for secretary; Harry Rouclere, New York, treasurer, and Leo Rullman for editor of the M. U. M.” Someone shouted for a recount, but the ballot box had disappeared. Miss- ing, also, was the treasurer's report, & circumstance which Treasurer Rouclere remoned because, he said, that for the first time in the history of the so- clety, the books had balanced. The convention closed last night. BIBLE CLASS GROUP TO HOLD CONVENTION Seventh Annual Session of Na- tonal Federaton to Open Saturday. The seventh annual convention of the National Federation of Men's Bible Classes will be held at the Washing- ton Auditorium next Saturday and Sun- day, the opening sessions commencing at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Out-of-town delegates and Washing- ton members will parade in review from the Peace Monument to the Eillipse, leaving the monument at 2:15 p.m. ‘The parade will be in charge of Maj. Gen. William J. Everson, chief of the Militia Bureau and a prominent Baptist clergyman, with Maj. Frank A. Frost, Lieut. Col. Charles R. Stark, jr, and YTdeut. Forest F. Bartl as aides. A banguet will be heid at the Mayflower Hotel at 5:15 o'clock Saturday. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxiliary, United Spanish War Vet~ erans, Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast, 8 pm. Meeting, Daughters of Union Vet- erans, Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, m!n Hall, 1502 Fourteenth street, to- Meeting, Manor Park Citizens’ Asso- ciation, Whittier School, Fifth and Sheridan streets, 7:45 pm. Card party, Washington Review, No. 4, Women's Benefit Association, 1750 Massachusetts avenue, 8:15 p.m. Meeting and buffet supper, Wash- ington Tal Mumbly.%flh De- gree, Knights of Columbis, fnln of the Mayflower Hotel, tonigh Meeting, Florists’ Club, Kallipolis @rotto room, 1212 G street, 8 pm. FUTURE. Astrology class, Rosicrucian Fellow- ship Study Center, 907 Fifteenth street, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Luncheon meeting, Civitan Club, Neighborhood -House, soythwest, tomorrow, Card party, Phil Sheridan Woman' Relief Corps, Grand Army Hall, tomor- sow, 8 pm. Meeting, Business Women's Oouncil, Church of the Covenant, tomorrow evening. Speaker, Clarence A. Phillips, on “A Thouland Miles of Scenic and Historical Charm in the Glories of Old Virginia.” Tlustrated. Meeting, Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Grand Army Hall, to- morrow, 2 p.m. Oard party, S3dality of Holy Name Church, parish hall, 916 Eleventh street northeast, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. Luncheon meeting, Washington Round "Pable, University Club, tomorrow, 12:30 pm. Bpeaker, James W. West, grand master of Masons of the District of Columbis. e Price of Tobacco Rises. VATICAN CITY, May 31 ().—Dwl ers in Vatican City, who previously ha enjoyed comparstively cheap tobacco, 1 smoke at dearer rates, beginning The new Vatican City cus- , effective this week, in- creased the price of tobacco 175 per cent. inthe MOONLIGHT on the river In the evening at 8:30 a big Wilson Liner moves slowly out into the Potomac. On board lights are glowing, the orchestra is piaying and all is gy and merry. For those who don’t care to dance there are eomfortable chairs and special popular and semi-classical con- certs. Go tonight or any nighty you'll enjoy it. 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