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Evening star., 1919-03-23
FRIENDS OF DR.. ISHIDA
PREPARE FOR AN APPEAL
Family Of Convicted japanese Con-
denim Murder and Extend Sym
pathy to Rereaved.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
{: BALTIMORE, March, 22.-while he
has been assigned to making
trousers. and Is now known as con-
vict No. 23.181, Japanese friends of
DR.. Norbu Ishida, who was convicted
of first degree murder at Towson
Thursday and sentenced to a life
term in the Maryland penitentiary
for the killing of DR.. George b.
Wolff at the Sheppard and Enoch
Pratt Institution, are planning to
take the case to the court Of appeals.
Five Japanese physicians. sent here
by their government to study mental
diseases, and who testified for DR..
Ishida, visited him at the penitentiary
and assured him they will do all in
their power to get him new trial
That the killing of DR.. Wolff de-
served heavy punishment. not only
from the standpoint of law, but from
that of morality as well, was the
view expressed in a letter sent to
DR.. E. n. Brush. superintendent of
the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt
Japan, a brother of the convicted
murderer.
In the letter DR.. Brush is asked to
extend the sympathy and coincidence
Of the Ishida brothers and sisters to
the family of the late physician. The
Ishida family also sent a cable to DR..
Brush to forward to Rev. David u
Wolff. father of the murdered
doctor.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
PROTEST SUSPENSION
OF MISS WOOD, TEACHER
Organizations Investigating Rea-
sons-Board's Resolution Did Not
Charge Indiscreet Words.

Protests against the suspension
from school for one week of Miss
Alice Wood, teacher of English
at Western High School, last Thurs
day by the board of education, on a
charge of making ndiscreet ut
terances while in class. have been
sent to the board by three school
organizations and by teachers and
pupils of Western High School.
Communications have been ad-
dressed to the board within the past
two days by the High School Teach
ers'' Association. the High School
Teachers Union and the Grade School
Teachers Union. Meetings of the
two former organizations have been
held with a view to finding out the
true facts of the case, according to
Miss Alice Deal. president of the High
School Teachers Union.
Miss Deal said last night that as
far as she knew none of the organiza-
tions is attempting to make an issue
of Miss Woods case, but that efforts
are being made to find out why Miss
Wood was suspended The resolu-
ton adopted by the board. based upon
the report of a special committee ap-
pointed to inquire into charges made
by parents of children in Miss Woods
classes at the school, did not specify
why she was suspended, although a
school official said, following her sus-
pension, that the action was taken
because of findiscreet and unpatriotic
utterances While in class"
Evening star., 1919-03-23
MANY FIRES IN THE CITY;
SMALL LOSS REPORTED
Alarms for Minor Happenings
Keep the Department Engines
on the Run.

Members of the fire department
made responses to numerous alarms
yesterday afternoon and last night.
No. 81 engine company went on call
to a shed at Quarry road and Lanier
place. the property of Karl Smith.
1921 Biltmore. street, where fire re-
suited in $50 damage.
Sparks from a stove started a blaze
in bed in the house of Nettie Ray,
416 l street. shortly after o'clock
yesterday afternoon. causing loss of
s25. -zes.s
A pile of shinglea stored at 3oth
and Franklin streets northeast, the
from sparks from a railroad engine,
resulting in $500 damage.
Hot ashes thrown in a shed on the
premises of Carl Jansen. 1012-14 o
street, started a fire. Damage amount
ed to SIS.
Firemen went to 22d and o streets
and found pile of trash burning.
A small fire occurred. on the prem
ises of Thomas Gibbons. 1906 r street.
yesterday afternoon. Damage was
small
Fire companies in Northeast. Wash
ington responded to an alarm for a
fire in an Army automobile. No dam
age reported: T.
Damage to the amount of @S25 was
done by a fire that started in brush
and reached the fence on the prop
erty of James W. Barber, 400 5Sth
street northeast, yesterday afternoon.
No. 9 engine company. extinguished
a fire in a pile of trash in rear Of 1853
Florida avenue. No damage was done,
A small fire in vacant house at
1912 I'd street southwest last night was
extinguished by firernen before any
damage had been done.
Burning brush in Anacostia last
night made SO bright a blaze that neigh
boring residents summoned fire com
panies.
Joseph Franklin. roomer in the house
OF Barney Lewis. 333 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., was overcome by smoke when a
small fire occurred in the house last
evening. He was taken to Emergency
Hospital. where physicians said he
was not dangerously affected. The
fire is thought to have been caused by
a cigarette
Evening star., 1919-03-23
BLAKESLEE BURIAL AT
+. ARLINGTON TOMORROW
Military Honors Will Be Accorded
Lieutenant Commander, Who
/ Died in London.

Military honors will mark the
burial in the Arlington national ceme-
terry tomorrow afternoon of the body
of Lieut. Commander Edward G.
Blaleslee, United States Navy, who
died of pneumonia in London, Eng
land. February 26.
Members of his class-the class Of
1908, United States Naval Academy
will act as pallbearers. and members
OF the class on duty in Washington
and Annapolis will attend in a body
At the time of death Commander
Blakeslee was attached to the staff
of Admiral Sims in London as force
communication officer, and Admiral
Sims paid him an unusual tribute in
a dispatch to his father at Cambridge,
Mass.
Lieut. Commander Blakeslee was
born in Illinois February q. 1888. and
entered the Naval Academy July Z.
1904. appointed from his native state.
He graduated in the class of 1908.
His father Is f. ]. Blakeslee of rs
Fayerweather street Cambridge,
Mass.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
WILLIAM F. REYNOLDS DEAD.
q. S. Employe in Charge Of Heat
ing Construction Work.

William F. Reynolds, in charge OF
steam heating and pipe construction
work at the Capitol, died Wednesday
at his home, at the Lurgan, 919 L street
northwest. Funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon at 1914 Massachu-
setts avenue. under auspices Of Benja-
min B. French Lodge, No. Is. F. A A
NJ Interment was private.
Mr.. Reynolds had been in the gov
ernment service since 1878. He was
born May 18, 1856, and came to Wash
ington from Cleveland. Ohio. Among the
buildings in which he had supervision
Of the steam heating and other pipe
construction work are the War College,
government printing Office and the Sen
ate and House Office buildings He was
Just finishing the work at the new Dis
trict courthouse at the time. or his
death.
Johnston Reynolds. the following sur
vive him: A daughter, Miss Efie
Reynolds: two brothers, Andley w.
Reynolds OF this city and Dan F. Reyn-
olds Of Los Angeles, and two sisters.
Mrs. Joseph Sharp of Cleveland and
Mrs. Lewis Brown Of Norwalk, Ohio
Evening star., 1919-03-23
,HOW 27TH DIVISION TOOK
f., THE HiNDENBURG LINE

NEW YORK. March 22-The day
Che 9th (New York; Division cracked
the Hindenburg line, it received or
Hers to rest from the British general
commanding the sector, but instead
sent back word ITO hell with rest
give US a barrage," declared Rev
Francis Kelly Of Albany. Fighting
Chaplain of the 27th,' in an address
here tonight. The division family
rested. he said. when. after an entire
~ spent moppins up s German ma
British airplane. circling overhead. a
0ote which read.
Ehe Germans have evacuated And
kVHlndsnhurx Nne Is yoluA'.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
MISS LATHRoP TO SPEAK.
Child in the Reconstruction" to Be
Her Theme.

Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the
childrens bureau of the Department
of Labor. is to speak on The Child
in the Reconstruction" at o'clock
Wednesday night. at the Public Lii
brary. Miss Lathrop recently return
ed from France On Thursday after
noon at o'clock Dr. Dorothy Reed
Mendenhal1 will speak on the impor-
tance of milk in the diet Of the young
child.
The exhibit will continue through
out the week. At 2:30 o'clock every
day there will be a demonstration on
the proper feeding and care of chill
dren. From to o'clock there will
be weighing and measuring Of chill
dren, and mothers are invited to bring
children under six years. r
A talk on the health crusade being
carried IN among the children of the
schools will be given at the library
on Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
Children Of the schools are invited.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
LECTURE PROGRAM GIVEN.
Experts From Department Of Agri-
culture to Speak at Old Museum.

Tho weekly program Of lectures
under the auspices Of the Department
of Agriculture at the household con-
sultation center. in room so, the old
museum, 9th and B streets southwest,
follows:
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
Mr.. Kelly of the department, on
milk; Its Nutrition and Use"; tomor-
row at 4:45 o'clock, demonstration
on Meat and Meat Substitutes" by
Miss Chinn; Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
markets, on 'Housekeepers' Use Of
the Market Schedules: Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Miss Miller,
on Clothing; Thursday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock, Miss chfnn, on Meals for
Family on 81 Day" and Providing
the Meat"
Evening star., 1919-03-23
$14,eOO FOR ORCHARD LANDS,
Remaining Tracts at Green Ridge
Sold to Continental Trust Co.

CUMBERLAND. Nd. March az
Henry Shriver. trustee for F.. Mertens
Sons, Washington and Cumberland. to-
day sold the remaining tracts OF Green
Ridge orchard lands, planted and un-
planted. that had not been disposed of
at previous sale. to Charles w. War
den of the Continental Trust Com
pany. Washington. for $14,600. The
Continental Trust Company held a half
of todays sale becomes full owner.
The property sold consists of about
200 lots of ten acres each and addi-
tional strips and parcels Of farm lands
containing about 200 acres. including
about a dozen wooden camp structures
and barns and otheeHmau buildings.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Tell Pupils of War Experiences.

Lieut.! George F. Seamon. 36Sth In
fantry, and Lieut.. clifton Hardy, 367th
Infantry, both of whom saw over
seas service. addressed the pJpils of
Lovejoy School Thursday. They told
Of their service abroad, showed the
children a German machine gun and
explained German, French and Amer
lean gas masks, which they had with
them Lieut.. Seamon has been twen-
ty-si1 years in service, having been
in the Spanish-American war and
later in Porto Rico and Cuba. Lieut..
Hardy is a Washington boy and a
graduate of Dunbar High School, ~
Evening star., 1919-03-23
OHIOANS ATTEND DANCE.
Cards and Other Games Added Fea
lures at Wilson Normal School.

More than $50 natives of Ohio at
tended the dance given by the Ohio
Girls Club at the Wilson Normal
f5chool last night. Cards and other
games were indulged in.
Miss Kate Moore, president of the
Ohio Girls Club, issues a call for
more persons who do not dance, but
like card playing, to attend the
dances Of the organization.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Arrested With LIQUOR.

Charged with violating the Reed
bone dry" law, Charles w. Powell,
colored. of 1221s Benning road was
arrested last night on his return from
Baltimore with a quart of whisky and
a pint of gin by Detective Strobel of
the 9th police precinct. POWELL was
aboard a car of the Washington, Bal
timore and Annapolis Company when
arrested.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Addressed Biological Society.

Bernadin de Sanite Pierre. a famous
French scientist of the nineteenth
century, who travelled all over the
world and wrote Of his observations
on plant life. was eulogized by Prof.
r. H. True in an address on Sanite
Pierre's works last night at q meeting
of the Biological Society at the Co.'S
mos Club. Prof. True said that Sanite
Pierre's observations were remark
ably true to life. A. c. Baker spoke
on Intermediates in the Aphididae
and Their Relation to Alternate
Hosts" and J. w. Gidley also gave an
address.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Men in Uniform Entertained,

Men in uniform were entertained by
the Junior Red Cross Society of the
Rockville Colored School in Galilean
Hall the evening of March II. Miss
Ada NJ. Henderson, principal of the
school. and Harriet Gray, assistant
teacher. were in charge. Approximate
ly 500 were present. Addresses were
delivered by F. D. McCracken of the
Department of Labor, G. e. Cohran Of
the z H. c. A. and willis Smith Of
kockvaIle. who has JHst stunned. .fnom
T1anca, =
Evening star., 1919-03-23
WILL. HELP BRING
INDUSTRIES HERE
Committee Appointed by
Local Association to Man
age Publicity Campaign.

The men who are to advertise
Washington throughout the country
as a light manufacturing city were
named yesterday afternoon by Lester
Lansburgh, in charge of publicity in
the campaign of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association to build
up the commercial side of the District.
They are Clifford X. Bergman of
The Star, E. c. Rogers of the Times.
Ernest Johnson Of the Post. l.. NJ.
Bell of the Herald and John L. Shoe
maker of the Thomas Cusack Bill
Posting Company
Evening star., 1919-03-23
ALL LAUD CHILD
HEALTH CRUSADE
Teachers in Washington
Praise Improvement in
Pupils Development.

| Letters received from the District
of Columbia modern health crusaders
from teachers in the Washington
schools heartily indorse the health
crusade being carried on among
| thousands OF children in the scnoois.
The crusade has taken the form OF
contest among the pupils In all grades
from the fourth to the seventh. IN
elusive, and has been In operation tor
several weeks. '~ -
Although the contest when first
started, was confined only to pupils
in the grades mentioned, health chore
folders and certificates have oeen
furnished to several eighth srade
classes at the request of the teachers
and pupils. One teacher. in a letter
to headquarters. requested that ma
terial be furnished for her pupls III
the second and third grades.
4 fifth grade teacher, Wrltlhs u
ter experiences with the crusade
said:
Il am more than pleased with the
improvement I am daily finding IN my
children as a result of the health cru
sade It is proving of untold value to
them"
Develops the Will.
..This movement" writes Mrs j: A.
Griffith, superintendent of the Ma
tional Training School for Girls
must be of tremendous assistance 10
wise parents. and We have heard OF
the excellent results already ach1eved.
Simple though the requirements are,
all the elements of honor. patience:
alertness. : punctuality. fidelity ana
persistency--in fact, the Development
of the will---may be found through
cooperation. =. se
Under the direction of Miss Anne NJ.
Goding. chairman of the Junior Red
Cross. the children of the Wilson Nor
NAL School presented a playlet. enti-
tied 1.-The Health Crusaders" at the
school on last Friday morning. The
pIaylet was written by Miss Alberta
Walker, a teacher at the school. 1t
will be repeated for parents and visi-
tors next Wednesday afternoon at the
school at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
A talk on the work of the health
! crusade will be given Tuesday after
noon at o'clock at the Public Li-
! brary. in connection with the child
welfare exhibit in progress there un-
der auspices of the local children's
year committee. Children of the
schools are invited.
On March 81 pupils who have done
three-fourths of the health chores sue
cessfully for the preceding fye weeks
| will be enrolled as squires and will
| be given a pin indicating their rank.
Already Is, 900 children have won the
| rank of page for two weeks perform
ance of chores in the contest under
! the direction of the Junior Red Cross
and the District tuberculosis Asso-
cfation.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
AqlpIsTS VIOLATE
! STREET CAR RULE
Head of Chauffeurs' Associa-
i ton Says Members viii
Help Enforce Code.
SCORES REcKLEssNEss

That there are operators Of auto
mobiles who do not observe the traf-
fic regulation that prohibits them
from passing a street car coming to
a stop. anr which makes it mandatory
upon themsto stop their machines not
less than fifteen feet away from the
street car. is evidence by the num-
Der of arrests for that cause that have
recently been on the Police Court
dockets.
The regulation. section MI. article 16.
says:
mo vehicle shall pass or ap-
proach within fifteen feet of
any street car while the same
l.. is stopping or stopped for the
! purpose of taking on or letting
. off a passenger. nor within such
j distance of the place where
] passenger shall nave left said
! car until the passenger shall
. have reached a place of safety"
Evening star., 1919-03-23
INFLUENZA DEATHS
IN 80 CITIES, 72,OO9
Victims of Epidemic in Wash
ington Estimated at
2.294.

Statistics made public by the pubiir
health service yesterday show that In
thirty cities having combined pop
ulation of 1e.503. $50. influenza proved
fatal to 72.o0e. Washington's death
toll was 2.2sl. he survey covers a
period of iwent. five weeks from
September IS Of last year until
March l.
Add deaths from all other forms Of
pneumonia and the total Is swclled
to 121,se1. of which WashIngton con
tributed 3.1l6. The mortality directly
traceable to influenza and pneumonia
in other forms was about two and
one-half times as great a. WAS sui
fered by the American Army for the
whole period that IL was abroad.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES
TODAY.

TODAY.
at 3 o'clock at Liberty Hut, Union
station plaza, under auspices OF the
Y. NJ c. A and the Billy Sunday
tabernacle workers.
Address by James A. Edgerton at
4 o'clock before the New Thought AS
sociation, meeting at Rauscher's, Con
necticut avenue and l. street north
west.
Address by Representative Hehfn
of Alabama on the league of nations
at 1880 o'clock at the Eighth Street
Temple, under auspices of the jewish
Welfare Board
Community sing at 4 o'clock at the
Church of Our Father, 18th and L
streets northwest, under auspices OF
the War Camp Community Service
Children especially invited.
Hike of wanderlusters at 40 and
. o'clock from 18th street and Penn
sylvania avenue.
Hike of Red Triangle Club members
at 3 o'clock from Chain Bridge sta
tion on the Cabin John car line.
Address by c. L. Johnson at $3.50
of the Central Y. M c. A.
Community sing at $3.50 o'clock at
War Camp Community Club No. 3,
POLL Georgia avenue northwest.
Discussion of religion and science
at 3 o'clock by the Washington
Secular League at Pythian Temple.
Meeting of the Herzl Club at 4
o'clock at the Y. NJ. II. A. headquar-
ters, 11th street and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest. The Social Work
ers Club is to meet at the headquar-
terS at $50 o'clock.
Meeting of the Young Friends Club
at o'clock at Washington Alliance
House, 72S Az street southwest.
TONIGHT.
Address by David J. Lewis at s
O'clock at Community Service Club
No. s, 91S 10th street northwest.
Debate by members of the Philodemic
Society at SIS o'clock in CASTOR Hall.
Georgetown University
TOMORROW.
Address by John Temple Graves at
5 o'clock at the Mason House, 1906
Goth street northwest.
Evening star., 1919-03-23

Address by Rev. Nehemiah Boynton
at o'clock at Liberty Hut, Union
station plaza, under auspices of the
Y. NJ. C. A. and the Billy Sunday
tabernacle workers.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Will Map Out Program.

This subcommittee will meet with
Mr.. Lansbursh in the rooms of the
merchants. association in The Star
building at 2 O'Clock Tuesday after
noon and map out a program of ad-
vertising
They will present their plans to
the committee for promotion of manu-
featuring interests, of which r. p.
Andrews is chairman, before the end
of the week, and if it is approved they
will start to work on it Immediately.
The first object to be sought in the
advertising will be to let the people in
other cities know about the things that
are now being manufactured in Wash
ington. The theory of the committee
is that if business men in the state/ are
prospering in the District they will not
need urging to establish plants here.
Advance Another Theory.
Another theory Of the committee is
that if it can succeed in increasing the
output of manufacturing concerns al
ready located in Washington by boost
ing their products in other cities Wash
ington will derive the same benefits as
If new firms were brought here.
Referring to this phase of the cam
paign. Joseph A. Berberich, president
of the merchants association, said:
THE more that Washington people
buy of Washington-made goods the
bigger they will make Washington pay
rolls, and every one in the District has
a. definite interest in this. 1t is emf
aently proper that this committee should
look first to the development of the
plants that are already here"
Evening star., 1919-03-23

Address by James A. Edgerton al
4 o'clock before the New Thought AS
sociation, meeting at Rauscher's, Con
necticut avenue and l. street nortn-
west
Evening star., 1919-03-23

Eastern states report a large in
crease in the number Of woman life
underwriters
Evening star., 1919-03-23

Address by Representative Hehfn
of Alabama on the league of nations
at 1880 o'clock at the Eighth Street
Temple. under auspices of the jewish
Welfare Board
Evening star., 1919-03-23

"Trelawney Of the Wells" fs to be
presented by the Post Office Depart
ment Dramatic Club on the night of
March 29s at Carroll Hall. Proceeds
Of the entertainment viii go toward
the expenses Of the club and for war
camp community purposes.
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Street Car Rule Discussed.

At recent meeting of the Profess
sional Chauffeurs' Association. made
up of trained drivers of private cars.
this matter was under discussion. 1t
was pointed out by many of those
present, from personal experiences,
that there are many drivers of pleas
ure cars and commercial trucks that
disregard this regulation. President
Milton D. Smith of the association. an
authority on traffic regulations. said
in this connection:
Very often an autoist following q
street car will stop in rear of the
same fifteen feet only to be passed by
two or three careless drivers, who will
approach to within one or two feet
of the standing car. The instant there
is sign that the street car is NOV
ing these reckless drivers rush pell
nell past the street car before it has
really started, or before, as the regu-
1ation directs, the passenger or pas
sengers leaving the car shall have
reached a place of saftey.' 1t is un-
fair to the law-abiding driver that
such practices are permitted. This
regulation should be rigidly enforced.
Its violation has resulted in fatalities
and many serious injuries. Members
of this organization will not only OBJ
serve the regulation, but report vio-
lators'
Evening star., 1919-03-23

Capt. r. Edward Jones. formerly of
the Freedmen's Hospital staff is to
lecture on '"The Worlds Great War"
at o'clock tomorrow night. at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church, r street
between 18th and 18th streets north
west
Evening star., 1919-03-23
Children Injured in Runaway.

MrsS Maud Mulligan, Forestville
Prince Georges county, Md. and her
two children. Earl and Curtis. the
former nine months and the latter
four years old, were occupants of a
buggy at Pennsylvania avenue and
18th street northeast yesterday after
noon when the horse became
frightened and ran away. The
children were thrown from the vel1i-
Gle and injured. The older child's
face was cut. while the younger child
received a fracture Of the skull Both
children were taken to Casualty
Hospital. Z.
Howard ouantreil. sos L street. ran
IN the way OF q moving automobile at
New York avenue and 5th street last
night, was knocked down and his leg
broken. He was taken to Emergency
Hospital.
James Natalie. s2o Sd street north
east. riding a motor cycle near Sd and
x streets mast night, was injured as
. result OF an automobile striking
the motor cycle and throwing him to
the roadway. He reported to police
of the second precinct that the driver
OF the automobile failed to stop.
Harold Davis, colored, 419 Columbia
street. Alexandria, Va, ran against
q street. car at Pennsylvania avenue
and 18th street last night. He was
taken to Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1919-03-23

Community sing at o'clock at the
Church of Our Father. 18th and L.
streets northwest, under auspices or
the War Camp Community Service.
Children especially invited.