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A4 wss THE EVENING STAR. SPECIAL GIFTS UNIT FAILS T0 GET GOAL Group Raises $759,988.51 in Drive for Total of $924,561.90. The special gifts unit of unity Chest Campaign Com ported at last scheduled today that $750.988.51 has been raised which falls $164,573.39 short of the unit's goal, and Clarence A. Aspinwall chairman, announced that the unit wil continue its work through next weck if necessary to reach its quota Reports team chairmen at the Juncheon in the Willard Hotel showed s total of $62,122 raised since yester day. ‘This amount resented 87 pledges. The goal that had been set For the special gifts unit wos $924.561.90 Estimates of team captains showed that approximate 0,000 reasonably can be expected from persons Wwho already have been contacted or who contributed last vear and have been out of the city during the present ca paign only or bold Noyes, of its quota committee Was the total raised ported today, was $12 Will Report Monday The special gifts unit will next at the Monday luncheon \\h‘.t.-‘ tes the general campaign of | Aspinwall admon to make intensive efforts between now and Monday to reach all who are likely to subscribe, so as to | report as large a sum as possible at the beginning of next week Edward F. Colladay, chairman of the | General Campaign Committee. spoke of detrimental rumors concerning ex- | penses of Chest workers and urged all} present disseminate the information that none but members of the Chest staff receives compensation The number persons passing through the transient bureau of the Salvation Army during December in-| creased almost three times the total for | Pecember of last vear, Maj. James| Asher, local head of the Salvation | ‘Army, related at the meeting. He said | that 50 per cent more family cases are being handled monthly this year than last George W. Offutt, president of the Board of Trade, and Harry King, presi- gent of the Chamber of Ccommerce. urged support of the Chest in letters | to every member of their organizations. Resolutions proclaiming Sunday as | Community Chest day were adopted vesterday by the Washington Federa- tion of Churches Mr. Offutt warned the everybody who lives here greatest peace-time task Washington has ever known—the task of assuring our indispensable welfare agencies that the Community Chest will be placed in 2 position to see them through the year shead. It Tequires a full one-third more than was contributed last year. The need is that much greater: it would be still greater without the Chest.” The members were urged to use their influence in business and social circles to encourage Chest contributions. ‘Would Improve Busines “Help to build up a solid basis of sympathetic understanding upon which the Community Chest, adequately sup- ported, may rest in the year ahead.” Mr_-Offutt urged. “It can be made a Detter year for business in Washington by assuring the contentment and se- curity of the people cared for by the Community Chest organizations, whose services can turn people Who otherwise would be community labilitles into community assets. “The Community Chest campaign glogan is to be,-‘Now, more fhan ever, gve!’ 1 would add to it for all Board of Trade members, ‘And now, more than ever, induce others to sup- port the Community Chest.’ Mr. King likewise informed cham- | ber members the service rendered to people of all races and creeds in all kinds of need by the 65 member or- ganizations of the Community Chest is of the utmost value in promoting the prosperity of the community. “These organizations,” Mr. King | e team, that headed by N reported a_total in exce The goal of Mr. Noyes set at §121,120. wh including the sum re- 85 workers | members faces ‘“the | aborigines of the island. Nearly all of “KING OF LA GONAVE" Tells of Lost Tribes " FOUND BURIAL CAVE. 1 BY GRETCHEN SMITH. OME months ago, a lone white man, guided by a band of Haitian natives, who had accorded him the honor of electing him thcir King, cut through the underbrush of a hill overlooking the plains of La Gonave and pushing back the weeds and bushes which covered the cliffside | above a rushing stream, uncovered the entrance 10 & cave Entering, he found himself standing in what was evidently the mausoleum of a forgotten race, for the headless skeletons of approximately 75 men lay {in gruesome array far back into the re- cesses of the cave Bringing to W | shington interesting | reports of archce al findings during his 15-year residence in Haili, Sergt Faustin Wirkus, who during his service in the United States Marine Corps was ! elected by the natives as King Faustin IT while stationed on La Gonave Island 14 miles from the mainland, will tell | some of his expericnces this evening | before the National Geographic Societ) in the Washington Additorium, illu. trating his talk with the first moving | pictures ever made of voodoo cere- | monies, Ruled Three Years. For three years Sergt. W ing his duties as the Marine guar of the primitive people of the Haitian | island. ruled as King of the nativ { who still hold tenaciously to the tril customs brought from Africa 400 years ago. As the American official in charge of the La Gonave district, Wirkus, was | called one day to adjudicate the aflairs { of the old colored woman who ruled over the natives as “queen.” Grateful for the manner in which the Marine handled the affairs of their queen, the natives rewarded him with the highest honor ever accorded a white man—he was elected “king.” and as such grarted the privilege of settling dis- putes, legislating domestic and com- munity affairs and wielding a power that never would have been possible merely as the Marine official placed in charge by the United States Govern- ment As the “white king of La Gonave" Wirkus was & spectator of the voodoo dances and rites, rarely seen by white men. . fulfill- Sought Key to Past. Interested in the history of the is- land and its people, Sergt. Wirkus, cer- tain that the remains of another race lay buried beneath the tropical under- growth of the country, or perhaps in caves penetrating the hillsides, in- quired of “his people” as to the pos- sibilities of buried relics. He was told that an ancient “cemetery” rested on the hillside above La Gonav “We found a cave,” he said, “with the skeletons of men, probably the Indian SERGT. FAUSTIN WIRKUS. —Underwood Photo. them were headiess, the skulls having been carried away by the Negro natives at a later day to be used in the v0odoo temples. “It was unfortunate I did not arrive sooner,” he added, “as next to the burfal cave was another cave which showed it had been looted, and I am sure it con- tained relics which must have been of value I nave found innumerable mementos left by the aborigines, the Arawac In- dians, who were later exterminated by the warlike Caribs, who swept over the islands from the south Found Picture Writings, “Some of these were highly polished stones which the natives of today think fell from heaven. Some stone idols which we found, and which are now in the Natural History Museum in New York, were believed by the natives to have come from Africa, but authorities believe they were Indian idols similar to those used by the tribes of South America.” On the Haitian mainland Sergt Wirkus found innumerable “picture writings” scratched upon the walls of caves, mute testimonials of the feeble cultural attempts of a race and tribe long extinct “1 am certain,” concluded the former King of La Gonave, “that the island has many buried and hidden relics which, if excavated, would throw interesting light upon the aborigines of the coun- try. It is my plan to return next Sum- mer and continue my search. as I feel sure there are buried in Haiti many relics which would be of value and in- terest to science and history.” museum | |Rabbit Dog Finds ACENCIES NAMED tWoods Near Home Returns From Ex]u-:lilion /ith Sack Full of Sterling Plates. 24 Organizations Are Desig- nated to Get Total of $61,341.94. | appear from police reports, only hunts Walter Hayhoe's rabbit dog, it would | Twenty-four designated agencies in nearby Maryland and Virginia will share in the money collected from Federal and District workers in connection with the forthcoming drive of the Washing- ton Community Chest, it was announced today from the office of Thomas E. Campbell, president of the Civil Service Commission, who is chairman of the General Departmental Committee in charge of the fund-raising movement. These 24 organizations will divide $61,341.94 out of a total of $73,616.96 contributed by residents of those localities employed here. The remaining pledges, of approxi- mately $12,300, were earmarked by the givers for other than the so-called “ap- proved” agencies, and in these cases, the rabbits among other things Yesterday, while scouring the woods near Hayhoe's home, 2606 Monroe street northeast, he bagged a fine silver service set | And so a dearth of rabbits that day did not prevent Hayhog's trtumphant return with a canvas sack full of sterl- ing plates and such 4 The dog nosed a bag from the leaves and, investigating, Hayhoe uncovered the somewhal, tarnished but none the | less genuine silver, marked with the old English lettering of “L, H. W.” Just who left the sack there was a | Tor out-of-town chexitles | mystery, since a search of reported thefts failed to find the service listed Hayhoe turned the prize over to police of No. 5 precinct, ‘Who are en- deavoring to locate the owner. CIGARETTE TAXES SCORED AS COSTLY |Proposed Increase in Levy Might Lessen fle\{enues, Parker Tells Hearing. By the Associated Press. A warning that an increase in Fed- eral taxes upon cigarettes might bring the Government less instead of rhore money was put today before the House | Ways and Means Committee. Junius Parker, representing the To- bacco Merchants' Association, testified that during the last six months there | has been a steady decline in cigarette consumption, as compared with the same months of the preceding year. An additional tax burden, he added. necessarily would be passed on to the consumer and might cause further decreases in sales. Half of Price Is Paid to U. S. Parker sald cigarette manufacturers already pay half of the money they collect for their finished product to the Federal Government. Out of the remaining half are paid all expenses, including other general, local and in- come taxes Tracing the graph of cigarette con- sumption over the last several years, Parker said it climbed steadily upward until the end of 1929 at the rate of about 10 per cent a year. Through 1930 and for the first half of 1931 it was stationary. The downward trend started in Oc- tober, when sales fell 18 per cent un- der those for the preceding October. | During the remaining five months of | the year, Parker said, the average sales were 10 per cent under those for the | same month of the preceding vear, cutting the average sales for 1931 to 5 per cent below those of 1930. Warns of Possible Discontent. “Boiled down, I would say that an increased tax on cigarettes means, in- evitably, one of two things” he said. He named these as “The continued and unabated con- sumption of cigarettes by the consumer, in which event you have added to his taxation precisely as if you had reduced | the income tax brackets to include the 20,000,000 consumers, or had imposéd 2 tax on coffee or food or raiment, or; “The consumer will, on account of enforced economy and the enforced ad- vance in cost, cease or diminish his enjoyment of smoking. Let there be, no mistake, gentlemen, in this last way lie discontent and bitternes TOBACCO MEN TO PLAN PROTEST. RICHMOND, Va., January 22 (A).— | The board of governors of the Tobacco | Association of the United States will | meet here tonight to consider plans for fighting the proposed Federal tax in- crease on cigarettes and manufactured tobacco except cigars. The association will send a delega- tion before the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington on Monday to make its protest, based on the de- cision to be made at the meeting here. GUN MANIAC FOUND GUILTY OF SLAYING Zihlman Miner Is Recommended for Mercy on Killing of Friend on Christmas. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md. January 22— Harry Shriver, 30, divorced miner, of Zihlman, near Frostburg, was found guilty of murder in the second degree, with mercy recommended, by a jury in court here late yesterday on an in- dictment charging him with slaying Aloysius Cullen on the highway at Zihl- man Christmas day. The testimony showed that Shriver had been on a drinking rampage and in the morning had flourished a loaded revolver, which was taken from him. He had been intimidating a group in the house where he boarded and had WASHINGTON, | back and just how D. €., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, .1932. BUSINESS GAINS FROM ADS SHOWN 1931 Statistics Cited in Plea to Merchants on Stimu- lating Demand. Special Dispatch to The Star. | feet high and 5 feet in diameter and | weighing between 700 and 800 pounds, | made according to a recipe used when George Washington visited Baltimore, will be an important item in the cele- | bration of the two-hundredth anni-| versary of his birth by the Baltimore | City George Washington Bicentennial | Commission here in February. The recipe used for the Washington cake is one which was employed by the | | Misses Angelica and Sophonisba Peale | when Washington visited Baltimore as Healthier financial days are coming fast recovery is speeded depends to a large degree upon how business organizations act in stim- ulating consumer demand, the Adver- tising Club of Washington was told vesterday by Howard W. Berry of Lans- | the Nation's fvet Bresident | burgh & Bro. | The Misses Peale were daughters of A most important economic develop- ‘Chflflfl Wilson Peale, the ‘fll'xsl ll:{;::l‘ to int Was ¥ ait, e | ment that already has taken place is iramy d":;;‘[“g“?;‘ ®upply . approxi- | that the country’s credit structure has ' mately 1,000 persons who will attend grown stronger, sald Mr. Berry, who is the dinner to be held on February 11 president of the club. i d SR Citing reasons for expecting gradual 9 | revival of business activities, he said: | “Individuals who postponed purchasing articles which they could afford to buy ‘ are about at the end of their rope. | | Their old clothing has become thread- U bare, their automoblles are beginning to | rattle, their radios are out of date and | their furniture is getting too shabby | = = to be used any longer. Many people : . . » Who. posmess pivehasing power are now | Police Killer Is “Wise Guy at the extremity where they must buy | Supplies Now Low. to End as He Pays | "S\(l’pphes of dealers, manufacturers | Death P it | and distributors are likewise lov. with | . the result that factories will s o ed ena y to speed up to turn oui the s Lt quired. But this recovery will even- wate slowly unless busines exerts ag- | “'GgSINING, N, Y., January 22.—The gressive efforts on its own behalf.” g0 e Mr. Berry reported the findings of | case of society versus Francis (Two-| the Bureau of Research and Bduca |gun) Crowley was offclally closed to- on of the Advertising Federation of “offici = Amerien, showing how_numeraus con: TR g G R cerns had maintained or even ircreased " = . | D e One Fast yasr oy | Police killer to relatives for burial | stimulating demand by aggressive ad- yertising programs, corpled with adop- tion of manufacturing programs par- fioulasly ulted So. the demands ss | he sUSDpng of the clectrade (o bia dicated iby seneralieconomioicandiuons ldied inithe eléctric chair for the mur- | ol e past year. | The speaker cited as an tnstance.the | 4T Of one of the policemen whoms D2 soap industry, in which figures on 49 Prorested to bate companies, producing anout 90 per cent of the soap In the United States, show By the Associated Press. | pistol strapped to each leg, supervised | parked automobile outside the prison the halealict thie’ paati Lo} Sieara: wese|| | P Ua8 L Helen SWalah, Touging her | even better than ever bofore. Half of | LpS. She was the girl who sab fan the teparting companiss incrensed thett | (NS DAsKedTautomepiie Ui & sl TSRS eIt aIPSCr” thel romataing | (and lane roniichel Flght Iest SACRV| firma kept_ production at former levels | hen Crowley shot and killed Bl In addition, more than 91 per cent of ™g} 'Y ek R mit twol ' ater| the soap companies maintained or in- | She w4 ¥ ot creased employment during the period | N1eR ox Tpeel Ralice, armed with| of ‘general business stress, it was re-| 2ulomatic rifies and tear o opart| s swarmed over an upper West Side apart. | The soap manufacturers’ association, men uliagh ah ragge: EOwiey au clation, | wounded and with two empty pistols in a recent statement, said that “inten- still strapped to his legs. sive advertising and sales effort is the Keynote of our industry's effort to main- tain stabilized production and empl ment. This effort is increased when general depressions come.” He refused to see her yesterday when | she went to the prison to say good-by, because, he said, he had heard she| was “going with a cop.” | His last few minutes in his death | 700-POUND CAKE WILL BE BAKED FOR BALTIMORE BICENTENNIAL Recipe of Washington’s Hostesses on Visit to Mm'ylandi1 SM”.H HE[;[.ARES City to Be Used—Will Feed 1,000. at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in cele- BALTIMORE, January 22.—A cake 6 | bration of the two-hundredth anni- | versary of Washington's birth. The ingredients to be used in the cdke include 49 pounds of flour. 49 pounds of brown sugar, 21 pounds of butter, 224 eggs. 28 pounds of raisins, 28 pounds of currants, 12 quarts of milk. 1 pint of rosewater. 9 ounces of peariash and 200 pounds of confec- tioners’ sugar The top will be crowned with the Washington crest and will be lighted with 200 candles. Dinner will be an- nounced by a bell which was used to call Washington to his meals when he was a surveyor for Lord Fairfax. The bell has been brought to Baltimore by Henry P. Bridges, representing the Woodmont Rod and Gun Club. It will be passed about at the dinner for in- spection grin_on his face and his fists clenched “Hello, Sarge,” he said in greeting to one of the officers. As the head electrode was fitted, he mumbled, “My last wish is to send my love to my mother.” He referred to his foster mother, Mrs Anna Crowley, who had given him the only name he ever had and to whom the body was turned over today. BOWMAN TO PRESS “WELFARE” HEARING West Virginian Would Give All Complaints Opportunity Before Committee. ‘The “welfare” hearing before a sub- committee of the House District Com- A “wise guy” to the end, the youth |mittee, of which Representative Pal- | who won his nickname by Wwearing & misano of Maryland is chairman, will not_be closed if Representative Frank L. Bowman of West Virginia, who in- troduced the resolution calling for the investigation, can prevent it. Chairman Palmisano. announced last night that he has been “unable to dis- In the drizzling rain, seated in &/ cover any evidence of neglect on the| | part_of the Welfare Board” and will | ot hold further hearings unless Rep resentative Bowman insists. Mr. Pal- misano said: “I havé no desire to shut off the in- quiry if Mr. Bowman thinks it will do anybody any good to go ahead.” Representative Bowman said today in reply to this that he will immediately confer with Representative Palmisano, and feels that he must insist upon con- tinuing the hearings because of the number and insistence of complaints brought to him. In duty to those who have brought him information regard- ing conditions in child welfare work in the District, he feels that he should do his utmost' to have these complaints heard. His attitude is that complaints Other instances of maintaining or in- 5 cell were spent eating ice cream and | should be heard first and th - creasing business activity by stimulating | o qmiring a picfure he had drawn of | cials called in to explain igem;ml::fll customer demand by a combination of advertising appeal and adjusted manu- facturing or merchandfsing plans were cited by Mr. Berry. Speed Depends on Traders. “Even under the most favorable con- ditions,” he concluded, “a speedy gen- eral business recovery can come only if business itself will act to make the wheels turn faster. “Just contemplate what a change there would be in the employment situ- the electrocution chamber. He entered the death roam with a ——— | with the energy and enthusiasm to ac- | complish the same results. “If we leave the initiative to the few | far-sighted individuals the general re- | covery will be slow. But if thousands strive intelligently and fearlessly for in- dividual success through rising sales volume in 1932 the united effect on em- { l their feet, making them assets tnstead | {icad of having them handled by the | e e ones i alvisional chalementUEoEED uhich the e e | ihe | TesticithomoneymIle St o0 wise destitute m purchase clothing | Confer on Distribution. | sy o ~e | after e General 0! - themselves are important purchasers of | forred with county officials in nearby | wrote. “help destitute people back on ! EOOVEL for Wil make payments direct, WRECK ENDS CHASE Climbs Rum Car and Escapes. | fired a shotgun, the load penetrating the side of the house. of | Shriver took stand at a car parked in front of the house belonging to a | man’ named Harden, and defied any- body to move it. Cullen, the testimony An unidentified man escaped last | showed, declared: “If it were my car, night by climbing through the top of | I'd move it.” Cullen went out to talk his rum-laden automobile when it |to Shriver, who suddenly pushed him Driver Through Top commodities sold by Washington mer- chants. Not only the $2,601,000 con- tributed to the Community Chest, but also the approximately $3,000,000 addi- tional received from earnings and en- dowments by the member organizations is spent almost entirely in Washington Vital Factor for Well-being. “Working for independence and good citizenship, these agencies are a vital factor in the well-being of our commu- nity. Moreover, no element in the life of our community has been so valuable 4n uniting people of all races, all creeds and all classes in service to the commu- ity as the Community Chest has beer To fill to overflowing the Commu Chest smporta nity. Work! Give! Proclaim the facts of Chest need and service whenever you | £an | The federation voted to “earnestly puggest that pastors of all churches which are members of the Washington Federation of Churches urge upo congregations the fullest possible con- tribution to the Community Chest in | order to carry the burden whi unempl &u Org this a the ior ton, cha Committee Reichelderfer Senator Hatti and Edward F. paign chairman RITCHIE IS INDORSED FOR PRESIDENT POST Bpecial Dispatch to The RIVERDALE. Md Democratic Club of Maryland district last night unani- mously adopted a resolution indorsing Gov. Albert C. Ritchie for President “The resolution was introduced by Judge Harry K. Clare, Riverdale The meeting. attended by prominent Democrats, among Wwhom were Mrs Mary Browning. party leader in Prince Georges County, and Brice Bowie, county treasurer, was held in Stephens’ Hall in East Riverdale and was pre- sided over by Mark Moran, president Xent Mullikin, Laurel, county delegate spoke on plans for the Bicentennial Celebration in Washington, and a com- mittee of three members of the club was appointed to attend the opening ceremonies on Washington's birthday. | | | this year of need is the most | single project of our com to take a disti n tour of izatior the Chest fternoon, ‘Those expected to make ip included Secretary Representative Mary n of the House Di oners 1 Herbert B. away of Arkansas Colladay, Chest cam- anuary 22—The the nineteenth HUMPHREY APPROVED Renomination of Federal Trade Commissioner Given 0. K. President Hoover’s renomination of | Brentwood Crosby. | Maryland and Virginia, at the time those communities asked for the funds that would be given in the departmental campaign by their residents, the com- mittes desiring that channels in which | to turn the money be specified. Some givers, however, it was ex-| plained, had other charities which they wished to receive the benefit of their contributions and this was left up to them. While most of this class of gifts is going to nearby points, it was said that in some instances the pledges were | made for as far away as Missouri and | Agencies Selected. The 24 designated agencies, distrib- uted through Montgomery and Prince Georges, Md.; Arlington, Fairfax and Prince William, Va. and the City of Alexandria, are as follows Ar County Board of Public arendon. Va County Board of fax. Va n County Chapter. the Red Cross, Manas- United Charities, Alex- Va e League of Monigom- y. Rockville, Md Rainier Welfare Association, Rainier. Md.. Chapter ~of ~ Prince ounty, Collese Park. Md bloyment Committee, River- Md Service Worker, Board Commissioners, M 5.303.51 22,689.36 2.401.03 | 1.453.36 1,588.68 weitare " Association. Md \ Nolinteer Fire and welfare Association. pleasant, Md s Family welfare Asso- ‘Cottage City. Md. 2 Chuiren . Community Relief | Fimmittee. Palls Ghurch, Va | verly, Md ty Welfare Organization. Heights, Md . tee of Public Welfare. va Brentwood. Pleasant 4887 847.03 203.44 . 256.06 | Hern- eltare Organization, Lau- Charities, Hyattsviile. 3,307.28 43.00 Relief " Association. Maryland *Park " Commitice Maryland ‘Association, k. Md Colmar Manor Welfare Associatio [¢ Manor, Md ‘Arlington County, Vi Montgomery ~Coun- 115.83 22272 11020 20.00 | Boy “Seouts . Md Boy Bcou . M Total . i 36134194 The drive netted the Washington Chest $1,007,000. Prince Georges Coun- NURSERYMEN FAVOR SIGNS’ RESTRICTION Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. January 22 —The Virginia Nurserymen’s Association, in session here, approved the bill to regu- late the placing of billboards along the State highways. Provisions of the measure were ex- plained to the members of the associa- tion by Mrs, Janet Stuart Durham, ‘William E. Humphrey of Washington to the Federal Trade Commissicn was ap- proved today by the Senate Interstate , Commerce Committee without a record xele. o State chairman of the National Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty, and also cha‘rizan on roadside beaut of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs. 19140 106.00 | | 38637 22862 | turncd over at Sixth amd K streets southwest while being chased by officers of the third inspection district vice squad. Twenty cases of alleged corn whiskv were in the car. A quantity of it was thrown in the street as the machine overturned. Pvts. R. A. Williams and C. P. Flynn of the District vice squad were in close pursuit as the machine upset A BANK for th | £14,716.92 Public 3,662.51 when he got the opportunity. 1If Morris P - UP ON THE Many a man’s upward rise has come want to go, tken c]own - - - into your pQCLtt - - it where you have to go to get started up. A bank loan here may | }Je your upwsr(l Pu‘]’l to t}le poim you want to reach. Make it a point to come in and see us about a bank loan of $120 up to $2,500. Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street Northwest | away, stepped aside, raised the gun and | fired " the shot inio Cullen’s abdomen. | Testimony showecd that Cullen had been drinking Shriver, on the stand, declared he had no recollection of anything that occurred during the day He did, not recall having handled a weapon at | any time, he said. He said Cullen was his friend. He admitted having been | drinking | e INDIVIDUAL up AND money to seize an “up” is where you lan Bank Capitgl & Surplus, $250,000 ation if, instead of the comparatively | ployment and business will be like food few aggressive companies which have |to a starving army. In pulling our ail- mainsained sales volume through cour- | ing patient out of his sick bed, adver- ageous merchandising, there would now | tising judiciously used can be made one step forth say a hundred thousand in- | of the strongest forces for the recupera- | dividual enterprises in the United States ' tion of American business.” EISEMAN’S SEVENTH AND F STS OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT Pay in convenient weekly or monthly amounts 200 atl-wool suits—excellently styled All sizes, all models. In and tailored. smart greys, browns, taus, blues. The ' reductions are just as stated—$25 and $30 suits reduced to $19.75. action that occasioned the complaints. ARLINGTON, Va., January 22 (Spe- cial) —The Ladles’ Auxiliary of the Arlington Volunteer Fire Department will give a benefit card party in the Barcroft Community House tomorrow night. Mrs. George Cook, president, is chairman of the committee in charge. In DRY LAWT0 STAND, Repeal Is Impossible, He Tells Hotel Men, Voicing Hope ‘\ for State Control. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 22.—The pro- hibition amendment, Alfred E. Smith— one of its most severe critics—believes, l“' in the Constitutior to stay. | He told a meeting of the Hotel Asso- clation of New York last night that in Ris opinion repeal of tne amendment was impossible “I believe, however, amendment can be added which wili provide that any State may, with the approval of the peopls, take control of such matters itself.” he said. “When the eighteenth amendment was Rdopvr‘vd the people thought that all you had to do was to forbid some- thing and that no one would do it We have been at it 12 years. and the President’s own commission says pro- hibition is unenforceable because it lacks public support “There has been no organized plan | to defeat the prohibition law. We )}1’;\\» an opposition without a plap—we are just ‘against’ something.” ‘The former Governor and 1928 Demo~ cratic presidential candidate said pro hibition is a political question. “They even elect county clerks on it,” he said. He suggested, however, that it should be (:\_kel! from politics and left to the American people themselves to decide A decision on this question, one way | or another, he said. would ‘greatly benefit business in this country A “Liquor is flowing freely throughout the country,” he added. “If you don't | know it any other way, then vou'll dis- cover it by reading the report of the Wickersham Committee " that another |DOUBLE SUICIDE LAID TO FATHER’S THEFTS | e e | Danish Authorities Reveal Sup- posed Motive in Death of Judge and His Son. | By the Assoctated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark, January | 22.—Shame and remorse over dis- | honesty were revealed yesterday as the | causes for the double suicide of a father and his son. Holger Hansen, alternate judge at Odense, ended his life several days after | his son had taken a similar way out and both were deeply mourned because they were trusted and highly respected in_this community. ‘ But police found a letter among the elder Hansen's effects, in which the n told his father he had discovered that the latter had embezzled about | 300,000 kroner ($57,000) and that of | two alternatives—informing the police | or killing himself—he was choosing death. ~ | "Atter verifying Hansen's defalcations, ‘ authorities expressed the belief that the judge had become conscience stricken | and ended his own life Danzig has placed a tax on new busi- esses. ®*GROSNER’S ® 1325 F STREET*® Reduced Group of Kuppenheimer and Grosner Suits & O’Coats $2475 Were $40 & $45 Choice of the House Any HAT Formerly $5 Formerly $7 to $15 Any $3.50 to $5 SHIRT The Shirts are imported madras and designs, plain and demi-bosoms, tached, 2 separate collars to match and neck- I The Ties are the ient construction, in distinc- band styles. 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