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Evening star., 1913-12-06
District Men on Committee
to Give Congress Petition
for Nationwide Prohibition

Fifty Washingtonians are to be on the
committee of 900 which will present to
Congress next "Wednesday the resolution
adopted recently by the Anti-Saloon
League of America providing for national
prohibition. Consisting of representatives
of every state the committee, which was
authorized, to be appointed at the recent
biennial convention of the Anti-Saloon
League of America at Columbus Ohio,
will meet at the Raleigh Hotel Wednes-
day morning and march to the capital.
Senator Morris Sheppard will receive the
resolution on behalf of the Senate. it is
announced. and Representative Richmond
Pearson Hobson on behalf of the House.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
ASKS FOR A RECEIVER.
Stakeholder in Elite Laundry Com
pany Goes Into Court,

Application for receiver for the Elite
Laundry Company. a Virginia corpora
ton with branches in this city, Baltimore
and Philadelphia. was made today in the
District Supreme Court by John W. Lowe,
who states that he owns eighty-sx shares
of the preferred stock and nineteen shares
of the common stock, valued at $4,000.
He alleges that the officers of the COM
pany have received excessive salaries and
that they have wrongfully appropriated
its assets to their own use. Lowe asks
the court to require them TO render an ac-
counting and to grant him an equitable
lien on the assets of the corporation to
the value OF his preferred stock and over
due and unpaid dividends and earnings.
amounting, he alleges, to S1,614 on July
/ last.
The officers of the company. George A.
Klinefelter, president; Frank P. Wilcox,
treasurer: A. William Field, secretary.
and Frank p Avalear, treasurer are
named as defendants.
attorneys Frank ]. Hogan and Julius T.
Peyser represent Mr.. Lowe.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
AT the Source. +"

From the 81. Louis Republic.
In their efforts to break up the illegal
sale Of cocaine in New York the police
iaboriousiy traced the source of a part of
the supply back to st. Louis in trying To
UnraSel the mystery surrounding the men
who We're the distributors of the drug and
TO apprehend all of them. In the existing
state OF the law that was the only method
they could follow. but in this day. when
beginning Eat the source is popular. the
idea might be applied To the restriction OF
the sale OF habit-forming drugs. If every
manufacturer and wholesaler Of NOR
phine cocaine and allied products were
Obliged to keep an open record of sales
OF such articles and to report them to
proper authorities the task of runnins
down the dope peddlers would be consid-
erably simplified
Evening star., 1913-12-06
MARINE BAND TO HEAD
PROCESSION TO THEATER
Men to March to the w. c.
7. U. Meeting Tomorrow
Afternoon.
Anti-Saloon League Petition for Ma
ti0nal Prohibition to Be Presented
to Congress Wednesday.

Permission has been given 10 the United
States Marine Band to head the process
sion of men who will march to the Co
lumbia Theater W. C. T. L. mass meeting
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. p.
ii. Bristow. grand marshal of the pa
rade, will give the signal to advance at
2:35 o'clock. The meeting at Columbia
Theater will be held at the same time as
the W. c. T. [. meeting in the First
Congregational Church. The regular Sun
day afternoon meeting at the Y NJ. C. A.
will be adjourned by the general secre-
tary, William Knowles Cooper. in time
for the Columbia TheateT meeting. and
members of the class will march 10 the
theater.
At the mass meetings the campaign for
a constitutional amendment providing for
nationwide prohibition by 1920 Will be
explained by the leaders of the move
ment, who will be heard at the Capitol
next Wednesday before the rules COM
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Disposing of the Washers.

rom ine Nes 1ork 1riUNnt.
In rounding up. gang of loafers
charged with annoying and insulting
young girls using an uptown subway sta
ton the police depa rtnent has furnished
4 lifting sequel TO its arrest of the pro-
curcrs who made a meeting place Of a
department store-uutil they were shifted
10 the workhouse. II is 10 be hoped the
evidence against the subway mashers'
Is as good as that in tho first case and
,hat the second gang will soon join the
arsJ. New York is no worse than other
Big cities in respect OF insults to women
"a public places: indeed, il is not so bad
a. some. But il is beyond endurance
tnat any gang or collection of individuals
should exist with more or less recognized
headquarters and system, TO solicit young
Eiris and women. Fortunately the pub
lIc does not have 10 endure having such
tonditions Haunted in its face. The
police department has done excellent
Hork IN these cases. III should continue
and have the backing OF the courts until
q mashers arrest means a certain
workhouse sentence.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
CONFER ON ANTITRUST BILLS.
Administration Leaders Discuss Pro-
posed Legislation.

Antitrust legislation conferences be-
tween administration leaders have start
ed in earnest. One held yesterday in
cluded Representative Clayton. chairman
Of the House committee on the judiciary,
who will have the duty of shaping the
proposed bills for introduction in Con-
gress; Representative Henry, chairman Of
the rules committee, who has radical
ideas on the trust question: Joseph f.
Davies. commissioner of corporations;
Louis Brandeis of Boston and Samuel E.
Untermyer. the attorney in the Pujo
money trust hearing.
The latter two attended the conference
yesterday merely to present their own in
dividual views. it /. is said. and not be-
cause they represent the administration.
House leaders believe that the anti
trust program win be fashioned strictly
in accord with the Presidents message.
which declared that the Sherman act Is
perfectly good, except that it leaves an
area of debatable ground. which should
be reduced.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
LOBBY COMMITTEE MEETS.
House Investigators Have Not
Agreed on Form of Report.

The Garrett committee of inquiry into
charges OF obbyism in connection with
The House held 4 session today. Ii did not
arrive at any final decision as To recon-
Eendations to be made as To anti-iobby-
Ing legislation or To the disposition
q tie charges made by Col. Mulhall in
his testimony that Representative Nc
Dernott OF Illinois was under pay from
the National Association of Manufac-
turers for legislative services.
The committee will reach an agree
ment within the next day or two. but
there We're Indications today of posi-
ble dissenting report from members oi
the committee.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Automobile Slaughter.
e Chicago Record-Herald.

From The Chicago ecord-Herald.
Ten times as many people are annually
killed by automobiles in New York as
in London. TIE population of London IS
half again as large and its activities are
as great widespread and incessant. Lon
don cries out constantly acainst the dan
gers from motor buses and taXicabs. yet
in twelve months ii witnessed but twen-
ty-one fatalities During the same time
New York saw 234. Why the difference {?
London's police commissioner tells US.
In London he says. I'VE hold a man
accountable when he kills Influence. I"
he adds, does not take precedence over
public welfare. In American cities pull.
indulgence, privilege and misplaced sym
pathy all unite to favor the terrible de-
Nelopment OF recklessness and irresponsi-
bihty. One law for all, and that law well
enforced-such is the remedy for this
great and growing evil
Evening star., 1913-12-06

John Francis Moran. twelve years old,
street northwest and nephew of DR.. ]. F.
Moran of 1926 Pennsylvania avenue north
west, was struck by an automobile owned
and operated by DR.. Robert Scott Lamb
of the Cecil apartments last night and
almost instantly killed. He died while be-
ing hurried to Emergency Hospital.
The accident happened at Connecticut
and Rhode Island avenues northwest
about $50 o'clock. Richard and Emil
Greenwall were with young Moran at the
time. The boys started to cross Connec-
ticut avenue in front of the physician S
automobile. which was moving south.
Moran's companions succeeded in get
ting out of the way of the car, but Moran
was struck and thrown to the pavement
with force enough to fracture his skull.
DIR. Paul Zinkhan, inferno at Emergency
Hospital. happened to be nearby, and he
took charge of the dying boy.
The injured boy was put in the ambu-
lance with another patient and hurried to
the hospital, but ne was dead when the
hospital was reached DIR. Lamb went to
the hospital, and when Informed that the
boy was dead he reported to the police at
the third precinct station.
Coroner hewitt made an investigation
and directed that DR.. Lamb be paroled to
appear at the inquest held at police head
quarters at noon today.
1t was testified al the inquest that the
victim of the accident and his several
companions members of the choir of St.
Matthew'S Church, went out during the
service last night and were playing tag
when Moran ran into the street One
witness declared that the boy was struck
by street car and thrown against the
automobile.
DIR. Lamb. who was represented by
Henry P. Blair, president of the board
of education. made no statement to the
jury. 4 verdict blaming the boy for his
carelessnesS in running in the street was
reached. Coroner hewitt suggested that
the police make an investigation to de-
termine if the street car actually struck
the boy
Evening star., 1913-12-06
KILLED BY VICIOUS HORSE.
Riding Master Kicked to Death by
an Untamed Mustang.

NEW YORK, December 6.-Smilingly de-
caring that he could master a vicious
mustang that had successfully resisted
every effort to subdpe it in the severa.
months it had been in an uptown riding
academy Ernest Furst. the chief riding
master, entered the horses stall last
night.
He stroked the beasts side. and it re-
mained quiet for time. Then. as he
turned to the admiring crowd of visitors
and again assured them that he had no
fear of the result the mustang whirled
and kicked him. His body crashed through
the side of the stall from the impact of
the horses hoofs. and he fell dying at the
feet of the onlookers.
Furst was dead before an ambulance
surgeon, who was summoned, could reach
the stable.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Reading Advertisements.

From the Portland (Ore.) Telegram.
1t is not alone the people who are in
terested in trade who read advertise
ments Few people nowadays buy either
newspapers or magazines who do not read
these cJeverly worded and we'll illustrated
bids for business. If you should ask the
average person just why he or she is in
the habit of looking over the advertise
ments, the chances are that you would
get no direct and satisfactory answer:
but the real fact is that SubconSciously
the public has come to regard what ap-
pears in the advertising columns as in
terestng reading matter.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Increase in immigration.

There We're admitted to the United
States total of 134, 140 immigrant aliens
in October this year, according to the
immigration statistics just issued by the
bureau of immigration of the Depart
ment of Labor. This is an increase Of
25,SiO over the same month last year,
when 10S, 800 were admitted. The num-
ber admitted last October however, was
nearly double that of October, 1911, when
69,4lS immigrant aliens entered this
country. OF the number admitted last
October, s2,903 were males and 81. .237
We're females.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE.
Inventors and Promoters to Stop
Trains Automatically Heard.

Inventors and promoters of devices to
stop trains automatically in emergencies
appeared today before the House inter
state commerce committee. which is con-
sidering bills to require the installation
of such devices. il successful ones can
be found.
L. G. Buckland. vice president of the
New Haven. offered 10 cooperate with
the committee His suggestion was based.
he said. upon an extended investigation
his road had made of such devices fol-
lowing the Westport wreck. He said that
in response to a ten-thousand-dollar re-
ward offered by his road 800 offers or
such devices were received. Of these 800
had been investigated. one installed and
another will be installed next week. lie
invited the committee to inspect their op-
Grafton.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
TO BUILD RESIDENCES.
Thomas A. Jameson to Erect Four
Structures in Northeast Section.

The erection of four six-room dwellings
at $685. 4th street northeast by Thomas
\. Jameson. owner and builder is TO
start Monday. They will have pressed
brick fronts and will be Of the colonial
type. There will be large porches at the
front and rear.
The houses will adjoin four OF like de-
sign recently completed by Mr.. Jane
son and sold through the III. Z. Howen-
stein Company. real estate brokers, TO
the following purchasers:
No. 611 4th street southeast, TO John
Hohmann: No. 615 4th street southeast. to
c. T. Muffiey: No. 6I3 4th street south
east, to W. G. Ellis. and No. Gil 4th
street southeast to {. III. O'Brien.
The consider alton in each instance was
Si1JO
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Some of the Speakers.

Many distinguished anti-linuor fighters
will be present at the meetings. Mrs.
Lillian nj. ". Stevens, president of the
National W. C.. T. L.. will preside at the
Columbia Theater, and Mrs. Anna Cor
don, vice president, at the Congregational
Church. In addition to women already
scheduled 1t is announced that the speak
ers will also include Mr.. Ella George,
president of the Pennsylvania W. G. f..
u; Miss Amy Swanke-Cameron of Lon
don, England worlds general secretary
of the Young Women's Christian Temper
ance Union: Miss Anna 4. Gordon of
Evanston, H., vice president of the Ma
tional w. G.. L. L.: Mrs. Frances p
Parks. corresponding secretary of the
National w. G. T. L: Mrs. Elizabeth
p. Hutchinson president of the w. C..
T. L. of Kansas until recently, and now
national treasurer: Mrs Sarah II. Hoge
assistant recording secretary of the w.
c. T. L.; Mrs. Silena NJ. Holman. pres-
dent of the w. &. T. L. in Tennessee: Mrs.
Ella A. Boole. president Of the Empire
state W. G. T. L.. Mrs Frances z.
Beauchamp, president of the Kentucky
Evening star., 1913-12-06
RAILROADS TO BE NOTIFIED.
Time EXCURSIONS on I. C. C. Ruling
Must Be Asked by March /.

The Interstate commerce commission Is
about to notify railroads that applica-
tions for an extension of time beyond
July /. 1914. in which to divest them
selves of ownership or control of water
lines must be made TO the commission
not later than March l, 1914.
The Panama canal act prohibits own
ership or interest by railroad in any
competing water carrier. Such competi-
tion is question of fact which may be
determined by the commission and, IL
certain circumstances, il may grant an
extension of time beyond July | for de-
yelOpment of facts.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
BUILDING SUMNER HOME.
Frank P. Milburn Improving Tract
in Bradley Hills.

Frank r. Milburn. who recently pur-
chased 13i acres in Bradley Hills, is
making extensive improvements prepara-
tory to occupying the place next spring
as summer residence.
Mr.. Milburn is building a residence.
tenant house. garage. and is putting i'll
a water system. sewerage and electric
lights. He also is setting out new
three-acre orchard.
Evening star., 1913-12-06

$. Fraser Edward p Taft. Jesse c.
Suter, l.. Cabell Williamson. Rev. Ed
ward E. Kicks. owen p Kellar. Rob
eTt l.. l.. Smith. W. W. MILAN, Judge
James L. Pugh. Walter A. Johnston
William Fl. Ramsey. DR.. W. l. McKenny,
Lee d. Latimer, Rev. w. r. Wedder-
spoon, Rev. f. c. Gallaher, William
Navarro Cromwell. DR.. NJ. F. Thompson.
Rev. j. \. Campbell, Rexford J.. Holmes,
Trimble. Matthew j.. O'Brien. c. Clinton
James Percy S. Foster, Rev. George
F. Dudley, Prof. c. w. Skinner. Rev.
Eugene A. Hannan. Rev. Charles Wood,
Fred L. Fshback. Charles S. Muir,
Jacob H. I.ichliter. William H. Har-
ris. Anson S. Taylor. William Knowles
Cooper and J. #. Petty.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
No Defenses Provided.
Trade Mark Clauses.

Mr. Ewing also declares that the Kahn
act, 50 far as it relates 10 trade marks, is
unconstitutional also.
The only act. says Mr.. Ewing. in con
clGsion. passed with reference to the ex-
position al Chicago and st. Louis, granted
immunity TO exhibitors from prosecution
for infringement This was omitted III
the Kahn act, but think it should be re-
enacted.
Senator Simmons said today that he woulc
give Mr.. Ewing's argument careful con
sideration, and probably would take uT
The matter of amending the Kahn act
with his committee.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
A School for Servants.
20 the Columbia Is. c. State

From the Columbia Is. C.} state.
Columbia women are to be congratu-
lated on the start of a movement to solve
the servant problem by educating the
servants in the practical matters of cook
ing and service. At, the newly opened
school not only may housewives enroll
their own servants, but those desiring to
become servants can obtain free instruc-
ton. with an open door TO quick employ
! ment If cooperation can be obtained
this modest beginning may mean eventu-
ally, a revolution in the domestic econ
omy Of the city '.'.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
STATE FAILS TO FINISH
CASE IN CRAIG'S TRIAL
Adjournment Taken Until Monday
Miss Augusta Knabe Identifies
Kimono as Gift.

SHELBYVILLE. Ind. December e.
Court adjourned at noon today until
Monday without the state completing
its side in the trial of DR.. William B.
Craig. charged with the murder of DR..
Helene knabe. Miss Augusta Knabe,
cousin of DIR. Knabe. was being queS-
toned on direct examination when the
state asked that the court adjourn until
Monday. 1t had been expected the state
would rest before adjournment today.
Miss Knabe wept softly when handed a
kinono, which she identified as one she
had given DR.. Knabe d Christmas
present, and which DR.. knabe is said
TO have worn when answering profess
sional calls in her apartment.
The witness said the kimono when
she gave il to the doctor was a beauti-
ful navy blue. with red poppy flowers,
but that now it looked like a faded
rag She said she saw it hanging in a
closet in the fiat short time before
the tragedy, and the next time she saw
it it was IN the possession OF Alonzo
NJ. Ragsdale undertaken, and admin
istrator of the Knabe estate. Ragsdale
was indicted with Craig as an accessory
after the fact
The state contends that the klmono
was put through chemical process TO
remove blood stains.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Harbor Survey Proposed.

An examination and survey of the Nor
folk and Portsmouth, Va, harbor, and OF
the entrance thereto from the Virginia
capes was asked for today in bill in
troduced I'm the Senate by Senator Swan
SON The purpose of the survey is TO
bring about a deepening of the channel
to forty feet from the Norfolk navy
yard to the Virginia capes.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Churches Social Work.
From the Omaha Bee.

rUm Inc Umapa Bee.
People talk of the need for social work
by the church as il it were something
new. when in the beginning of it's history
the church was hidden to minister to the
wants of the widow and orphan. If the
lately aroused zeal comes of the lack Of
such effort then it must be that the
church has simply failed of sufficient re-
sponse to the original command.
Evening star., 1913-12-06

Local representatives on the committee
will include the following: Andrew Will
son, James l.. Ewin, Rev. Charles II. But
Ter. Rev. George \. Miller, Rev. J. Mil
ton Waldron. Rev. a. W. Spooner George
W. Callahan. ii. V. Easterling. Edward
Tarring, A. E. Shoemaker. Rev. D. L.
Wiseman, Rev. W. 4. Haggerty, Henry
Z. Williams, Francis NJ Bradley James
Evening star., 1913-12-06
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To. Subscribers:

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by telephone or by mail, any
negligence on the part OF the
route boys.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
FINAL RITES MONDAY
FOR 1t. COL. GA|LLARD
Services at st. Johns P. E.
Church to Precede Inter-
ment in Arlington.

Arrangements for the funeral of Lieut..
Col. David dub. Gaillard. Corps of En-
giners. L. s. A, who died in Baltimore
yesterday. are being made by Col. Harry
Taylor and other engineer officers on
duty at the War Department. The body
will be brought to this city Monday aft
ernoon and taken to st. Johns p. l..
church. at the corner OF 10Th and III
streets, where services will be held at
$50 clock. Mrs. Gaillard and her son,
Lieut.. David p. Gaillard, will accompany
the body from Baltimore. At the con-
clusion of the services at the church the
funeral party will be escorted by the
1st Battalion of Engineers. from Wash
ington barracks, to the Arlington ma
tonal cemetery. where the burial of Col.
Gafllard will take place. The usual mill
tary ceremonies will be observed at the
grave. including the firing of musketry
and the sounding of Taps
ed as follows: Coils. William NJ. Black
Edward Burr. W. c. Langfitt, Harry
Taylor, Joseph T.. Kuhn and Chester
Harding. all of the Corps of Engineers;
Col. S. NJ. Foote of the Coast Artillery
Corps and Lieut. Col. Edgar \. Mearns,
Medical Corps, retired.
House Pays Tribute.
AS a recognition of the notable serv-
ice of Col Galliard in the construction
of the Panama canal. the House today
unanimously adopted a resolution of re-
gret at his death in Baltimore yester-
day The resolution was presented by
Representative Austin of Tennessee.
In view of his conspicuous service, L
will not object to this unusual proceed
ing" said Minority Leader Mann "heh
ri,
Garrison Expresses Sympathy.
Secretary Garrison has sent the follow
ing telegram to Mrs. Gaillard:
'Mrs. Garrison and I tender our heart
felt sympathv in this sad hour. 1t
grieves us very much to learn OF your
great loss"
The Secretary has a keen sense of
of the services which Col.
Gaillard rendered the government not
only in connection with the excavation
of the Panama canal. but in many i'm
portant engineering projects IN the
and river and harbor improvement
work of great technical value in con-
nection with the survey of the MeXi-
can boundary.
Leave Had Been Extended.
An order had been issued extending
an indefinite leave of absence to Col.
Gaillard in order to afford him an op-
portunity by complete rest to recover
from his illness. Secretary Garrison
wrote personally to the colonel: Il do
not wish you to return to your work
until you are so completely recovered
that there is no danger of a recur
of your existing trouble. l can
not let this occasion pass without say
ing to you that there is the fullest ap
probation of your most valuable
services"
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Bill Provides 75-Cent Gas.

Representative Madden of Illinois rein
troduced yesterday afternoon his bill
providing for seventy-1ve-cent gas III
the District of Columbia. He said he
would ask for hearings on the bill at an
early day.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Linnen to Investigate Frauds.

Inspector Z. b. Linnen of the Indian
service mas been appointed as the per-
sonal representative of Secretary Lane
of the Interior Department in the in
vestigation of frauds in Indian affairs.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
To Ask Verdict of Acquittal.

The defense has announced that as soon
az the state finished its case the defense
would ask that the court instruct the
Jury to bring in a verdict of acquittal on
the ground that the state has failed to
connect DR.. Craig with the death of Dr.
Knabe Failing of success In this DR.
Craig and his daughter Marion will
testify
Miss Mcpherson testified that she had
seen DR. Craig in DR.. Knabe,s apartments
twice and had seen the former bring her
emplover home III his automobile several
times.
The witness said that when she en-
tered the room in which DR.. knahe had
met death the window curtain was raised
about "a foot
Joseph Carr. on cross examination De
cared that when he passed the house on
the night of DIR. knabe's death he heard
screams but saw no light i'll any of the
rooms The state contends that the mur-
derer had pulled down the curtain and
was cutting DR.. knabe's throat when
Carr passed Later. it is contended. the
slayer raised the curtain and turned on
the electric lights.
Evening star., 1913-12-06
Commission Government.

From ne Philadelphia Ledger
'ommission government i'm America has
demonstrated that where a hundred meu
could not rule q city. five could