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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11
RIVERDALE.

RIvERDALE, Md, December II
{SpeciaD.-A resolution indorsing the
Shepherd-Towner bill for the protec-
ton of maternity was adopted at a
Topics Club. held at the residence of
Mrs. Jesse L. Lane. The club will urge
Senator France and Representative
Mudd. representing this section in
Congress, to support the bill. The
club will hold its next meeting De-
cember 81 at the home Of Mrs. Lane.
The town council of Riverdale has
finally found two persons willing to
accept appointments as town bailiffs.
They are H. W. Lawton and Mr..
Claire. who have just entered upon
consist Of fees on arrests. Riverdaie
has no Jail, but it is thought that
Hyattsville will perform the neigh
borly act when occasion arises and
allow persons arrested here to be put
in the new Hyattsville Jail.
The town has just received $500 in
road rebate money. It is not expected,
however, that any extensive road
work will be undertake1~Qntil spring,
owing to bad weather conditions. The
road situation will be discussed at q
meeting Of the council Monday night
The proposition to install electric
lights in the town also will be dis
cussed. The light committee OF the
council has made a survey. and about
decided where lights will be located.
Between seventy-five and ninety viii
be installed. it IL planned. The propo-
sition has been laid before the Light
company. and the council is awaiting
word as to whether 1t Is willing to
install the lights: 1t is hoped that
the work may be done by January 1.
The council has adopted Revolutions
requiring local milk dealers to get
permits from the town clerk and to
produce certificates showing that their
herds are free from tuberculosis and
their dairies in q sanitary condition:
sidewalks and In q number Of routine
matters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11
WARNS OF MENACE
IN INFLUX OF ALIENS
Continued from First Pase.)

the bill. "if an Irishman seeks to .escane
from the drastic measures adopted by
the British government and succeeds in
getting vessel which will carry him
from his own shores and land him IN
America. he will be returned by us to
the British government to be tried and
convicted Of treason and perhaps to be
hung"
Representative Knutson of Minnesota.
republican whip of the House, provided
one of the sensations Of the days dis
cussions with the statement that he was
willing to state on my reputation as q
member Of the House that foreign xoy.
ernments are financing the moven1ss1t OF
radicals from several countries in Eu-
rope. moving them over here. He added
that while before the war 'fnamigration
from Spain was practically unknown"
on recent visit to Ellis Island he had
found 1000 immigrants from Spain who
had arrived in one day.
Spain is seething mass Of anarchy
he declared. land that government In
gathering these anarchists up and dump
ing them on to us
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ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. December IL
Andrew jackson Lodge OF Masons,
No. 100. will Tuesday night celebrate
its sixty-sixth anniversary with an
elaborate program, in the auditorium
of the Elks' Home. A feature Of the
program will be the musical Smiths.
who made such a hit at the Wash
ington flower show. Members OF this
lodge invite all Masons in this section
to be present, and each one is asked
to bring lady. Following the en-
tertainment will be dancing.
Acca Temple. Mystic Shriners, will
hold ceremonial session tonight at 8
o'clock. in the auditorium of the
Elks' Home. Afterward q buffet sup
per will be served. More than 18o
candidates will cross the hot sands
this afternoon and will give a parade
and a band concert.
Potomac Lodge. No. IS. Independent,
Order of Odd Fellows. last night
elected the following officers to serve
for the year: Elmore Mudd. noble
grand: James Haynes. vice grand
n: L. Williamson. recording secretary
w. E. Latham. ST.. financial secretary
G.. w. Bontz. ST., treasurer: This
degree. last rhe Sn newls elected o,,cer,
will be installed January Il.
Mrs. Eva G. Mushback has sold Z
Howard w: Smith and william P
Woolls. the Mushback building. &
three-story Office and apartment
building, on the east side Of Fairfa,
street, between King and Commerce
streets. This firm now occupies ofIice'
on the first floor OF that building.
deed of transfer was recorded today
The funeral Of william southerlan,
took place this afternoon from Wheat
ley's mortuary chapel. Services wer
! conducted by Rev. DIR. E. v. REGISTER
pastor Of the NJ. e. Church South. an,
burial was in Bethel cemetery.
! Fire supposed to have been Of in
cendiary origin shortly after
O'Clock last night partially destroye
| a one-story frame building on tn
north side of Franklin street, betweel
Pitt and Royal streets. The fire de
partment was called out yesterda
! afternoon to extinguish chime
! fire in a house on Pendleton betwee
Patrick and Henry streets.
! The retail merchants bureau OF tn
chamber of commerce is considerin
! the ACCESSIBILITY of organising
| branch of the retail credit mems ma
tional association and has appointe
committee composed of r. F. Down
ham. J. William May, c. Page VALE
| and ]. F. Peterson to consider tn
matter. It is announced that seventy
two signs to advertise the city to
placed on roads leading to Alexan
dria have been received.
A number of women from this cit
! today are attending the meeting
| the Federated Clubs Of Northern Wiz
einia being held in the Baptis
Church at Clarendon. Va
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11
POLICE sUBDUE MARINES.
One Arrested in Riot Charged With
Carving a Pistol.

Elmer n. Sells of the Marine Corps
appeared in the United States brancn
or Police Court today charged win
carrying a pistol. Policeman Ru-
dolph f. Schonfeld. who made the
arrest, stated that Sells was par
ticipant in a riot last. night at the
Y. w. G. A. Hall, goth and E streets.
where fully 200 marines were en-
gagged in combat with about twenty
young men. About thirty reserves
were called out to quell the riot
from first. third. seventh and eighth
police precincts.
Twelve marines were arrested BY
the officers of the third precinct,
eleven of whom were turned over to
the military authorities. Sells re-
fused to be turned over and demand
ed a civil trial. He stated that the
pistol was given to him by another
marine
Judge Hardison. after hearing the
evidence. placed Sells upon proba.
ton and directed that he be turned
over to the military authorities.
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INDICTED MEN GET.
ACCESS TO RECORD
More Than 80 New Bills Are
Returned in Investigation
of Building Trust"
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 1l.-John A.
Philbrick and Joseph Penny. officers
Of the builders supply bureau. today
obtained from Supreme Court Justice
AcAvoy permission to inspect. the
minutes Of the grand jury which re-
Gently indicted them on a charge of
refusing to testify before the joint
legislative committee Investigating
the alleged building trust"
Their counsel stated dismissal of
the indictments later would be asked.
New York's anti building trust"
machine went into high speed yester-
day, when more than thirty indict-
ments. bringing the total above sixty,
and the disbanding of two contractors
associations were announced as di
rect results OF grand jury and joint
legislative committee Investigations
Accuses Financial Powers.
Another development included
charges by Samuel Untermyer. com
mittee counsel. that great financial
and Industrial powers" OF the country.
D thIGsfn ah n.rss PprOpagandists and
selves into the fight to block the in
vestigation just as it lis about to en-
ter upon its most crucial stage"
Meantime. witnesses informed the
So1uAktIee lu1I marble contractors in
New York and elsewhere exercised a
virtual monopoly on their line of
business, through city and national
marble industry employers associa-
tons having reciprocal agreements in
effect with the Building Trades En-
ployers' Association and the Building
Trades Council, by which competi.
ton was virtually annihilated and
union labor put on and taken off jobs
almost at will.
Payments to Union Men.
Payments mounting into the thou
sands of dollars by the Marble Indus
try Employers Association to w. J.
Bowen. president; T. C. Preece, and
william Dobson. secretary, of the
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers'
international Union. for 'textraordi-
nary and special counsel and advice"
amounting practically to gratuities."
featured testimony before the com
mtttee late in the day.
. OF the indictments, twenty-nine
named members Of the Cut Stone Con-
tractors Association, and charged
them with violating the Donneily
antitrust laws OF the state. Each de-
fendant was arraigned and held in
$4,000 bail, after pleading not gully.
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81 CENTS FOR A SHEEP.
That's All a Producer Got After
Paving CHARGES. ~

A shipment Of 1916 head of sheen
from wyoming to Chicago Melted the
producer Just 50 cents a head. accort :
by Senator Kendrick Of Wyoming.
THAT Is less than you pay for a
lamb chop in a hotel here" suggested
Senator Kendrick. and another sena.
tor suggested that the producers had
better bring their sheep here and
swap them for lamb chops.
Senator Kendrick said his telegram
was from a big commission house.
and that the sheep were sold to one OF
the big packers for a total Of S3.S01.
but that the railroad charges and
other charges reduced the amount re :
ceived by the producer to SO cents q
head.
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HIGH SCHOOL SPACE
PRESENTS PROBLEM
1000 Grade Pupils to Be
Sent On, While But ga
Graduate.

Figures complied by the public
school officials today indicate that
possibly 1000 new students will en-
ter the high schools at the beginning
of the next semester, in February.
while only a maximum of 2S4 can
graduate. Therefore they admit
that they are confronted with an al
most insoluble problem of how to
prepare accomm odations for the
freshmen in the high schools. which
already are either carrying maxi
mum enrollments or operating on
two-shift system, in order to care
FOR the overflow.
IN response to queries from admin
istrative officers. principals of the
various high schools today forwarded
TO the Franklin School lists showing
the maximum number of students to
leave their respective institutions at
the mid-year ordinations. The lists
| also stipulate the maximum number
Oh students to graduate in June.
Size OF Originating Class.
They indicate that Central High
school will graduate a maximum of
95 students in February and $50 in
June; Mckinley Manual Training
School will graduate 40 in February
| and IS in June; Eastern win grad
\ AdlS Az AL anu ia june .
Business High School will graduate
IS In February and 200 in June; West
ern High School will graduate 10 in
February and so in June: Dunbar
High School will graduate % in Feb
| ruary and AS in June, while Arm
strong Manual Training School will
not graduate any in FEBRUARY. but SO
| in June.
Six students at the Wilson Normal
School will graduate in February and
SO in June. Miner Normal School will
not graduate any in February. but
So in June.
| Two-Shift system.
! Extension of the two-shift system
OF operation in the schools where il
has not been instituted appears at
| the present as the only method to ac-
commodate the new students In fact.
school officials have tentatively de-
cided to inaugurate this system in
| February at Mckinley Manual Train
| ing School Institution of the two
shift system at this institution in
| September was obviated by sending
| all first-year students to the Junior
High School at eth and o streets.
| Officials are confident that IL plans
can be devised to accommodate the
l new high school students in Febru-
airy the freshmen entering the senior
institutions in September can be
properly cared for. They point out
that the midyear graduation classes
usually are small, and, on the con-
| trary, the number of pupils promoted
4 from the elementary schols are usu-
unfortunate condition. This is borne
out by the fact that 234 students
leave the high schools in February
and 1893 in June.
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ARTIST DENIES CLAIM.
Never Promised to Pay for Sitting
by Presidents Wife. He Saws.

Denial that he ever promised to pay
$1,000 for the privilege Of having Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson sit for portrait to
be painted by him is contained In the
plea filed by Seymour NJ. Stone. por-
trait painter, to the suit to recover
$4,000 damages filed against him
some weeks ago by Grover W. Ayres.
publicity agent. M. Stone says he
never promised in manner and form
as alleged" and that he is not in
debted to Ayres as claimed.
Ayres claimed that he entered the
employ Of Stone as secretary and
publicity man March Is, 1919, and
that Stone promised to pay him $1,000
if he was successful in securing Mrs.
Wilson to pose. Ayres claims that he
was instrumental in securing the
commission for Stone to paint the por-
trait of the first lady of the land, but
that Stone refused to settle. He also
claims that he was to have 20 per
cent of all the business Of the artist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11
BIG FOREIGN TRADE
BODY T0BE PUSHED
Conference at Chicago Re-
solves to Form $1,000
600 Corporation.

CHICAGO, December 1.-THE for:
eign trade conference in session here
voted today to proceed at once with
the organization of foreign trade
corporation capitalized at 100000
600 under the provisions Of the Edge
act.
A committee of thirty, headed by
John McHugh of New York. was
named to proceed with the work, and
subscription list was Immediately
started to finance the underwriting
The proposed corporation would be
available to, American producers as
cash payment for their goods on
which foreign buyers would be UNI
able to pay cash. This foreign trade,
speakers said, was necessary to the
States. and some method of financing
foreign trade must be worked out to
enable American manufacturers to
take their place in world trade.
Herbert Hoover Lauds Plan.
Herbert Hoover declared that, if
the project were successful, the con-
ference would have been the most
momentous since the armistice.
You are. gathered here for the
thing practical in the solution of q
means" Mr.. Hoover said. YOU have
a great problem. for our farmers are
suffering great losses and our work.
men great unemployment. This is due.
to q considerable degree. to the stag
nation in orders for our export sur
plus. From this stagnation the con-
Stunning power of our own home mar
ket is reduced and the effects are
accumulating upon US.
Must Face the Issue.
I'VE must face the issue that these
economic Ills arise from the vicious
economic circles that can be broken
in one way only. and that by the
establishment of credits abroad, not
the dangerous short-time credits
which have already become over ex-
tended. but the longtime investment
In reproductive enterprise"
Mr.. Hoover declared that present
problems should be solved by the
processes of business and the individ-
ual initiative, Of men, rather than by
motion. he said, would lead to vicious
ends and would be subject to every
pressure that desperate foreign states
men can invoke"
W. c. RedAeld's SUGGESTION.
William c. Redfield. former Secre-
tary of Commerce, urged a world
wide trade development, declaring
that America was yet in the infancy
Of her export trade. He asserted that
the tremendous pull Of English cap
ital is operating abroad in favor of
English industry
The farmers viewpoint was ex-
planned by J. r. Howard. president of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, who said that if the proposed
corporation would provide a market
for farmers products, it would have
their backing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11
ALLEGED BANDIT GIVES
$4,000 BAiL FOR RELEASE
Rosenberg Also Wanted by Prince
Georges Constable In Hold-Up
Of Two Others.

+ Constable Thomas n. Garrison of
Prince Georges county. Nd. and MEM
bers Of Maj. Gessford's automobile
SQUAD feel confident they. will succeed
in capturing most Of the highway
men who have operated on the road
between the District line and sBalti-
more the past few weeks.
Harry T. Rosenberg. arrested and
taken to Ellicott City on = charge Of
Odien Of Buffalo, n. Y. in Howard
county. Nd. Wednesday night, has
furnished q bond Of $4,000 at Ellicott
City. He Is now being detained there
for Constable Garrison, the latter hav-
ing asked for his detention until he
cation in the hold-up Of ]. Harry Bean
and Harry A. Bayly nearly three
Bean. Bayly and two colored help.
ers were on motor truck OF mer-
chandise on their way here from Bal
they reported. when thirteen men. In
three automobiles, stopped them.
Armed men surrounded the truck
while search was made for liquor, they
reported, the hold-up men flashing
badges and claiming they were rev.
have made the statement that he also
was a policeman.
Constable Garrison also has asked
the Philadelphia police to detain
George Wintner, under arrest in that
city for an alleged traffic law violation,
until he can more fully investigate
his alleged connection with the hold
up of Bean and Bayly. Wintner already
is under bond in Prince Georges county
to answer q charge Of participation in
the hold-up and shooting of Raymond
NcClelland sometime ago.
A. ri
procured warrants from Magistrate
Robert e. Joyce for Rosenberg and
Wintner. Two warrants were issued
for each man under arrest, two alleg-
ing assault with intent to rob Bean
and the others charging a similar Of
tense against Bayly. The constable ar
ranged to go to Philadelphia tonight,
and ask for the surrender of Wintner.
while the Ellicott City authorities will
be asked for Rosenberg.
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CITIZENS SOCIETY ELECTS
Charles Z. Hill Heads Deanwood
Association:

At 4 recent meeting of Deanwoo
Cttizens Association. in Deanwood
School, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Charles
q. Hill. president: Arthur Jessup, vice
president; William Toliver, secretary;
BENJAMIN e. Can't, assistant secre-
tary; Howard w. Kirby, treasurer;
Samuel Holcomb. chaplain. and Will
liam N. Thomas. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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CONFESS HOUSEKEEPING.

Ford Muse and Osborne Sprisgs.
both colored appeared in court be-
core Judge Hardison today and plead :
ed guilty to charges Of house break
ing. They were held on a bond Of
81, 900 each, pending action of the
grand jury. Spriggs also was charg-
ed with carrying a blackjack, to
which charge he also pleaded guilty,
year. Policeman J. n. Fowler made
the arrests.
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D'ANNUNz|0 CLAIMS
DISCOVERY Of PLOT
Plan to Force His Warships
From Fiume Harbor in,
His Hands.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
FIUME. December 1O--Coincident with
the arrival here OF the destroyer Espero,
which deserted the Italian blockading
squadron and Joined the d'Annunzio
forces Thursday. d'Annunzio claims
that plan for forcing his warships
out of the harbor of Fiume has fallen
into his hands He gave out the plan
today.
Details of Plan Given.
The plan aimed. first, at the evacu-
alton of the poets navy; second, at
the blockade of Fiume. veglia and
Arbe, and, third. at the evacuation of
Fiume. 1t included. d'Annunzio
claimed, orders to the commanders of
the Pola fleet, outlined their posi-
tions in the movement and divulged
that d'Annunzio's dreadnaught Dante
Alighier: was unable to leave Fiume
under her own steam. because she
lacked q sufficient crew. and that the
destroyers Mfrabello and-Abba were,
likewise, unable to leave for the same
reason.
The order for the movements was
signed by Admiral Simonetti. COM
mander of the. Pola feet. according to
d'Annunzio. and stated that no shots
were to be fred unless the poet 8
DICTIONARIES opened fire. In no case
l. az the civil population to be fixed on
or any destruction practiced on Fiume.
DAnnunxio Makes Comment.
l. sD,Annunzio. in giving out the plan.
sale: From this document II appears
how boundiess and base1ess is the i'm
becility of the government which
would dishonor Italy. During the war
the royal navy never had orders to
display so much force before Austrian
Pola. Again I affirm that if fraternal
blood has not been shed the merit for
it goes to the commander of Fiume
and his legionnaires.
Deseftien Disturha Rene. e
ROME, December s--The desertion
Of another destroyer, the Espero, to
the DAnnunzio to command has caused
deep feeling Of regret here. AZ ap-
parently il confirms the belief Of a
majority Of the people that many
members OF the navy do not realize
the gravity of the situation and,
therefore, do not. refrain from the
worst acts OF indiscipline which they
do not consider a. desertion, but a
admission of patriotisms
The fear IL expressed that as such
actions are Contagious the example
OF the crew Of the Espero will be fol-
lowed by others, although the min.
lister of marine and high naval on.
Gals are taking the most stringent
measures to enforce the strictest dis.
cipline.
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WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE.

Mrs. Edna B. Claim today filed suit
in the District Supreme Court for an
absolute divorce from Roy c. Claim.
president of the Columbia School of
Drafting. Justice Hitz cited the nus.
band to show cause Friday why he
should not pay alimony. They were
married September s, 1908. and have
two children - ..17.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11
SHAFT FOR HERO DEAD

An obelisks Of granite seventy feet
high is to be erected in Denmark as
memorial to the many thousands Of
American and allied soldiers of Danish
descent who died in the world war. It
men Of Danish blood fought in the
American armies in France and that
about 10000 Danes fought in the Cana ;
dian. Australian, British and French
armies.
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EVANSVILLE.

HYATTsvILLE. Nd, December II
Especially .-Stirred by the discovery
that the dog which last week bit five
Hyattsville boys was suffering from
rabies, Mayor Welsh has issued an
running at large. within the town
limits for period Of one month be
shot on sight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11
SEEKS MARINE RISK CODE,

Senator Jones of Washington today
introduced marine insurance code
bill for the District of Columbia The
bill is similar to one introduced in
the House recently and provides
model code for marine insurance.
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L. c. GARRETT NOMINATED.

President Wilson today sent to the
Senate the recess appointment Of Les.
lie c. Garnett Of Virginia as assist.
ant attorney general
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11

Miss Luella Bates. q young woman
In Wisconsin, has travelled over .
large section of the United States in
the employ of n prominent motor frm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-11

The salary and allowances of the
president of the French republic
amount to about $4,000 year.