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- TOSTATES IS URGED Garfield Committee Reports on Investigation of Public Property. With a few exceptions public lands now held by the United States should be transferred to the States, according to recommendations made by James R. Garfield, former Secretary of the In- terior and head of a special committee, reporting to President Hoover. This conclusion was reached by the Garfield Committee after months of study of the situation throughout the country. The report was made public by the White House, Mineral Rights to States. Areas important for national defenss, national parks, forests, reclamation projects, reservoir sites and bird refuges would be reserved for Federal control under the recommendations: The committee urged that States which subscribed to uniform Federal laws regarding conservation of mineral resources also should have mineral rights transferred to them. Unless a_program of uniform State and Federal legislation and administra- tion is adopted, the report said, mineral resources should be retained by the Fed- eral Government. At present there are 178,979,446 acres of public land, principally in the West. Originally the United States owned 1,441,436,160 acres. . | Effect of Law Doubted. | ‘The effectiveness of the homestead | act was questioned in the report. There has been, it was said, a gradual decline in the number of 640-acre stock-raising entries since 1922, due largely to failure of the settler. “Ruined fences and abandoned homes dot the landscape for many miles, piti- ful evidence of human hoj buried be- neath the economic insufficiency of 640 acres in a semi-arid section as a stock- raiging unit to support a family, the report said. Little of the remaining land holds any hope of economic sufficiency, the committee added, unless there is a large section of public grazing land nearby. “The Federal Government should cease to be a party to the inducement of settlers to enter such land,” the re- port contended. ANNIVERSARY HELD AT LINCOLN TEMPLE Community Services Are Planned Tonight, With Three Churches Participating. ‘The fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln Congregational Temple is being observed with special exercises this week. The observance started yesterday, when Dr. R. W. Brooks preached an anniversary ‘morning service and Miss Nanine Helen Bur- hs of the National Training School delivered an address at the evening service. There will be a community program tonight in which the members of the Vermont Avenue, M litan and Shiloh Baptist Churches par- ticipate. Rev. L. W. Harrison, pastor of the Shiloh Church, will preach. egational churches of the be delivered by Dr. Russell J. Clinchy, pastor of Mount Pleasant Congregation- al Church. On Wednesday evening members of Howard University will have charge of program. Dr. George W. Cook and Dean Kelly Miller will speak. A musical program will be rendered Thursday night. A flower pageant will be held Fri- day night, conducted by Mrs. Lelia L. Thomas and Mrs. Wilheimina Wallace. | PRI et KENWORTHY, M. P., URGES ‘FREEDOM OF THE SEAS’ Demands That World Adopt Ameri- ean Doctrine in Address Broad- cast From London. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 9—A demand that the world adopt the traditional | American doctrine of freedom of the seas was told yesterday by Lieut, Comdr. | Joseph M. Kenworthy, M. P, in a Lon- | don address broadcast in the United States over the Columbia system. He contrasted the American principle Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Trader Horn” The Latest African Spectacle. popularity and appeal of the great metherland of Af- rica was clearly illustrated at the opening of “Trader Horn” last medt at '.1!;2 Na- tional. Strong-arm policemen were on hand to help stem the tide of humanity that came to see just what goes on down there in_the heart o‘ the crocodile kingdom. Half of the crowd was left on the out- side, ‘Those who got in watched breathlessly the most recent exhibi- tion of animalism and romanticism in the roughest of the kingdoms. ‘The net _result was mot hard to fathom. The real heroes are the creepm!nmd crawling things. Man comes in only as a sort of prop to the theatric story. There is a white lady, whose skin seems to have de- fied the broiling African sun success- fully all of her lifetime, and there is Harry Carey and Duncan Rey- naldo, who do most of the shooting with camera and fin They seem, however, the least important part of what goes on. The photographer of the saga of ol' man Trader Horn—which is & distinet saga from the book—has caught much beauty with his camera. He supplied a glamorous assort- ment of backgrounds. The scenery is the most lavish that nature could poss] supply. The makers of the picturé have molded it to their uses with incredibly beautiful results. Giant falls, long sl\fifllh rivers, with trees bending half across them, sweeps of cumulus clouds and the tangled brushwood of the jungle, all have been captured effectively by the camera and turned into a series of highly impressive film sequences. What is lacking is a firm founda- tion for a- story. The heroine has no particular reason for loving the hero, especially since she can't un- derstand him, and the hero should have known that when he gets his blonde African lady home the fam- fl{ tree may give more than a grunt of dissatisfaction. However, it seems evident that some one had to be on hand to walk around the jungle and take these pictures. So they have given Harry Carey an old hat, and a traveling companion, and to satisfy the greedy public have turned the lovely Edwina Booth loose in the midst of the dusky natives and sup- plied her eventually with a “Man.” The real reason for going to see “Trader Horn” is for the excitement of the animal scenes, which are really exciting. s have never seemed more venomous, tigers more tigerish, or giraffes more long- necked than in the many pictures made of them. Some of them tear each other limb from limb, some merely run across the horizon, but all of them contribute to a wealth of wonderful pictures in which the story makes little difference whether it is there or not. As a prominent member of the audience remarked last night—"“An exciting evening in an ican 200.” Chevy Chase Glee Club ‘Takes a Hand in Political Satire. SINA’IOR.!, Representatives, cabi- net officers and Presidents all received their share of criticism in as prescaued by e Ohevy Ohase was presen y the School Glee Club before a large au- dience Saturday evening in the school theater, ‘The Democratic donkey and the G. O. P. elephant dufl‘ demonstrated what was accomplished when the two worked her. And, of course, to complete , there was the lame duck with many of his friends, including the Unemployed Alley Cat, Mrs. Wall Street Bear, Mr. Wall Street Bull and gheir son, Economics, who, with the ers, took the Gov- ernment at large, turned it inside out, ripped it open, joked and played with it in general. At times the laughter and n?- phudmfrl was demonstrated with such spirit that it was necessary to pause in the program until the ap- preciative audience subsided. ‘When the beasts had roamed awa the political items came to pla: And so they did. Among them were Miss Mussel, Mr. Shoals, Mr. Bonus, Miss Hoax, Judge Sham, Ruth Hanna, Senator Pep, Mr. Mellon, Mrs. Astorbilt and our dear friend, Carrie Cawzenkur, propably of War, who, instead of roasting peanuts or popcorn, chose such subjects as Sen- ate confirmations, the Wickersham Commission, Presidential administr: tions, the Republican and Demo cratic parties and also brutally at- tacked the poor lame ducks. Senator Borah's double added to the mirth by a demonstration of the Senator addressing Congress, in which, with many gesticulations, he demands, “Where am I? I ask you, where am I? And if you don’t know, how should I?” The “alias” Senator Borah was played Dorothy Sylvester. A tap-dance routine by Dorothy Bryde, Anita Loeb and Loriel Carr was exceptionally well performed. Anita Loeb also gave a soft-shoe routine, Dorothy Bryde a buck dance and the Misses ‘Bryde and Carr a SMITHS MOVES&STORES FURNITURE OF ALLKINDS 1313 YOU STRI PHONE NO.S!Q‘ZEI' 8’% Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate E. de 8. MELCHER. of 1% cents days and 5 cents Sunday. o ‘Woopwarp & LOTHROP TrEE: ilton and Winifred Pike. ‘Those of the fid.la‘-‘tldevidnn num- bers amg special mention_are the Animal Wise Crackers, the Vol- stead Boat Song by the Ll‘::lnhlm Chorus, Borah’s , Rul in “Romance” and Amos 'n’ A song “entitled “Washington,” which was dedicated o the Glee C‘l‘:‘h director, when not director, of ap- proximately all features of the pro- gram. The radio bouncers, “Plague” and “Mildew,” were by Mar- ‘u:]mg Boas and Molly Grill very well. Birthday cakes weére presented to Gideon Lyon, associate editor of The Eveni Star; United States Senator King of Utah, Marie Manning Gasch, Charles Moore, commissioner of fine arts; Edward Bryde, Herman Hage- dorn and to President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington Uni-® versity as a gift from the Glee Club. Miss Dorothy Bryde, Ethel Claire Randall and Isabelle Scudder Far- rington received flowers. The stage setting, under the di- rection of Jean Hamilton and Jariet ‘Turner, was arranged to imitate al- most to perfection a scene over a radio-television sets Priscilla Good- man and Gertrude Mills directed the costume making and Ruth Wil- liams the posters. P.N.J. Gayety Has a Good Revue. OP music it has beenssaid that it has charm to soothe, but this in no way applies to music one hears at the Gayety this week, where Eve- lyn Whitney is starring in a fast D). O revue, entitled “Step Lively Girls” The presentation is & musical eon- coction of song and dance, inter- spersed with fun and laughter, and in nowise can it be called soothing. Interest rather is at fever height. Assisting Miss Whitney are two funsters of well known abilities— Harry Bentley and Charles (Bimbo) Davis. Of a certainty, it is Miss ‘Whitney who comes in for the volume of the use, which is wel deserved. She & sweet voice and one of the nimblest dancing toes of the ‘Harry Bentley, who stick method, assisted in by Jess Levy,~provides only a fair brand of fun. “Bimbo” Davis, whose wit_seems more natural, is great. Paul Catrell and his dainty danci rtner register one of the hits ol he show, and Jack aster, in an eccentric dance number, is good. It may be of interest to add at this point that in the past two weeks several of the feature artists used at the Gayety have been seen on the stage of various other Washington theaters that su) vaudeville. ‘The casts of the ety shows are unquestionably on the rise. B. W. BOYS HELD IN CAR THEFT Half an hour before an automobile was reported stolen, Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle yesterday arrested three boys in connection with the theft of the machine. william Alcorn, 15, 500 block of SixXth street southeast; Nathan Sond- heimer, 18, 700 block of Ninth street southeast, and James Handley, 15, of the 400 block of L street southeast were arrested by Ogle as they stopped to measure gasoline in the machine’s tank. Charges of unauthorized use of an automobile were placed against them. The arrest took place at Four-and-a- Half street and Pennsylvania avenue when Ogle drove his machine along- side of the allegedly stolen automobile. The three boys ran, but when Ogle threatened to shoot they stopped. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1931 TWO MEN ACCUSED IN LIQUOR SEIZURES 92 Gallons of Intoxicants Taken From Auto and Vacant House Near. empty house near streets by sixth precinct police iqu-rflny revealed 47 gallons of liquor. No arrest was made. The first seizure and arrest was made by Policemen J. W. Casey and O. D. Fisher, and the second seisure was made by Policemen George E. Cooper and A. C. Poulsen. WORLD BANK MEETS BASEL, Switzerland, March 9 (P)— The March session of the Bank for International Settlements began today, with Gates W. M - n"on a8 _one Among that the bank should prolong medium, term loans up to five . S ed “consideration of the stabilization of the Rumanian lel and announced that Lithuania, having fulfilled the required conditions, is to :e admitted as & shareholder in the ank, WoobpwARD & LOTHROP DOWN STAIRS STORE The Lingerie Touch on NEW SPRING FROCKS Shown Here in Many Smart Ways & | $ 15 ~ Smart Dull Black DRESSES The patrician styling, superb quality and sensibly moderate prices of this group of frocks invariably appeal to women who want something dignified, yet smart. Frocks with sur- plice closing, fagotting, eye- let embroidery and cowl neck- lines of crepe de jour, flat crepe and crepe faille. Some with a discreet touch of white. $|6.50 to 535 A charming trimming on a sur- plice, revers, deep cuffs, jabots, vests, yokes, cowl necklines— and even separate blouses. Then, there are jackets—with “Boleros, box jackets—and the Redingote, Spring’s smartest en- semble. In fact, this group in- cludes all the smart fashions for Spring—striking color contrasts, prints, stripes, new necklines and intricate cuffs. Sizes 14 to 20, 36 to 48 and 16 to 24%4. Also, a new collection of Evening Frocks and Wraps, $15 THE_DOWN STAIRS STORE WooDpwARD-& LoTHROP " U F awn & Srarers ’ Copies of . . . rench hats- continue to show much of the coiffure From the leading Parisian ateliers of Rose Descat, Marie Alphonsine, Suzanne Talbot, Agnes and Jean Patou come these smart mil- linery fashions, that greet the Spring in a most open-faced fashion. The copies are here . . , \ SUZANNE TAL- BOT’S Tricorne of soft panamalaque shows much hair under the little veil. 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