Evening star., 1920-12-22
Massachusetts, Wom-
en- Eligible to Hold
Public office.
SPLRIfTSM PLAYS
PART IN DEA TIL
Beach Victim, Melan-
chol,-Gen. Barry
Dead-Fire Losses.

NEW YORK, December IA 0e'
tailed description OF the plans of the
international Womens Suffrage Alll-
ance was given here by Mrs. Carrie
| Chapman Gait. She has just returned
from London. where she spent sew
sral weeks discussing the woman suf-
frage problem with representatives
of a number of nations.
Among the matters deciddD by the
| board of directors Of the alliance, OF
which Mrs. Gait is member. she
! named the following:
! To aid the cause in countries where
women are unenfranchiSed, man
dates" were assigned to the enfran-
chised countries represented in Lon
don, and others will be assigned
by correspondence to those not SO rep
/ resented.
Great Britain will assume response
bility for furthering suffrage work in
South Africa, India, Egypt and other
British dependencies. Canada will be
asked to take mandatory for New
tfoundland. which has neither votes for
women or q known suffrage assocla-
| ton.
The United States is requested to
assume responsibility for assisting
! Cuba, the Philippines. Porto Rico. Pan
anna, Hawaii. Jamaica (although Brit
l 1SuJ 11Iu Tic SOul1l <Aiuci ACai SOuH-
tries. The British Catholic Suffrage
| Society will assist in Portugal
\ A letter of appeal for early suffrage
| action was sent to the premiers Of
| France and Italy, and consent was
! asked of auxiliaries in unenfranchised
their respective governments.
| The date OF the next congress will
be May, 1922, at Paris, while the board
| will meet next In Milan or Rome in
November 1921. Four standing COM
mittees were named to report to the
Nationality of married women" :"
| "Women's right to work. and to equal
pay" Maintenance Of motherhood
and treatment of illegitimate children"
| and Equal moral standard and social
hygiene"
I Make Women Eligible to ONCE.
BOSTON-A constitutional amend
ment making women eligible to mold
| public Office was adopted at a joint
| session Of the house and senate today.
The vote was unanimous
Spirits Fan, Kills Herself.
LONG BEACH. N. Y.-Melancholy,
| which fostered attempts to communi-
cate with her dead husband through
spirituali1m, was advanced by friends
as supporting q theory Of suicide In
1 LH0 CA80 Oh 01I6 Ooiiu ~ 4<COS WIUOW
Of a Brooklyn physician, whose body
| was found on tho beach here. It WAS
| announced an examination OF the
l contents Of the stomach would be
made for evidences Of poison.
Gen. Patrick Barry; Dead.
sAWTELLE, CalH.-Gen.2 Pa*riel
| Henry Barry. governor Of the United
| States SoldierS Home here, and
known as a leader Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, died at his
residence on the home grounds to.
day after a brief illness. Il
s7eo,ooo Cotto. Fire.
WAGRAM. N. Gloss estimated at
between S17s.00o and 100000 result.
cd from fire hero which destroyed
thirteen buildings and $50 bales OF
cotton.
vreeA IN Death Of Actresses.
CHICAGO, Decmeber a. The
grand jury has exonerated Michael
]. Coz, Lawrence and Harry Jorgen-
son and Marcus Blumberg, who were
Marie Ramey and Lillian Thompson.
actresses, whose bodies were found
In Grant Park November IA.
The four men had been on a Joy
ride, which ended when the women
were left in Grant Park. A coroner's
jury found that the women died from
alcohism and exposure.
Blast Destroys OIL Plant.
NEW ORIIEANS-F1re caused by
explosion Of q gasoline pump At the
National OIL Works yesterday de-
stroyed ten storage tanks of gasoline
other tanks, one containing $4,000
gallons were saved.
Aloohol Thefts C0nfessed.
NEW ORLEANS.-Prohibi en-
Iorcement agents have submitted to