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Evening star., 1921-05-19
|AM|TY OF RACES
| WILL Be UPHELD
Convention to Open Tonight
With List of Prominent
Speakers on Program.

In an effort to promote the work
of bringing about greater racial un-
derstanding. the convention for amity
between the colored and white races
will open here at $50 tonight, at the
First Congregational Church. 10th and
& streets northwest. Many promi-
nent speakers are on the program for
the several sessions. The convention
will close Saturday night.
All inhabitants of the United States
are parties to this engagement. point
out those who are arranging the con-
vention. and the field of action is in
the hearts of the citizens.
William H. Randall of Boston. will
preside at the opening session. and
the invocation will be pronounced by
Or. Jason Noble Pierce Senator Short
ridge of California and Albert Vail
Of Chicago will be the speakers.
There will be music and singing.
Charles Lee Cook of Louisville: KY.
Representative Theodore Burton and
Louis G Gregory will speak at the
session tomorrow morning. and at the
evening session Alfred Martin of New
Madden will talk
William H. Randall of Boston. and
Admad Sohrab of California will
speak at the session Saturday morn
Ing. while at the closing session Sat
urday night Mrs. Coralie Franklin
COOK of this city. and Jenabe Fazel
Mazandarani Of Persia will talk.
An elaborate musical program has
been arranged for all Of the sessions
Evening star., 1921-05-19

Citizens associations. indorsing the or
iginal $5,0O0.0t,0 school building program.
and urging that this amount in full be
appropriated by Congress. was acknowl-
edged by the board. and referred to
DR.. Ballou.
in the boards chambers during the
meeting was taken when school aurhori-
ties stationed eight janitors about the
room. Capt Colin L. Flathers of the
first precinct also was on duty in the
boardroom. while uniformed officer
patrolled the outside of the Franklin
School building. where Parents League
members were picketing.
Changes in Personnel.
Changes in personnel approved by
the board are as follows:
Terminations-F. Il. Lucas. principal
Business High Night School; Ferdi-
nand Erickson. temporary teacher.
class ga. Mckinley; William Nc
Closkey. janitor Business High Night;
F. S. Vermillion. assistant janitor
Business High Night; J. l.. Collins
following temporary teachers OF
Business High, Night: p. L. Shore
c. l.. Smith. w. A. Smith. Nellie Stack
c. A. Blume. Harry Mills. Celest.
Mosher. F. L. McCrum. r. b. Parker
c. NJ. Ray. NJ A. Reagan. Rene Sam
oOH. ". w aims, l.. y. w CSlOAs -
L. Yoder. George Jones. l.. V. Keath,
ley. E. b. Lucas, NJ. NJ. Gleason. c
NJ. Guyon. A. II. Hammond. L. o
Harmed. A. S. Heartsill. I. NJ. Hunt
H. N. Dorman, G. L. Eaton, c. r. Far
rington. Estelle Fenno. A. d. Figue-
roa. l.. NJ. Foss, E. c. Garretsson, H
b. Bell. Dorothy L. Albaugh. b. +
Bozman, Bertha Christman, F. r. Gull
bertson. N. c. Curtis. c. H. Davidson
and l.. NJ. Denit.
Transfer-B. A. Dove, teacher grade
6. Tenley, to teacher class 4. school
gardens.
Leave Of absence-B. p. Thomas
teacher grade 2. Congress Heights
School; b: s. Moore, teacher class l
lexington, and NJ. J. Bayles, teacher
grade 3. Peabody.
Appointments-M.H H. Bluhm. perma.
nent teacher. grade 2, lexington; NJ
A. Chemery, permanent. grade 3
grade S, Brent: v. B. Hoge. perma
nent, grade 4, Petworth; A. B. Kene.
fick. permanent. grade I, Blair; Re
becca Smith. permanent, grade 4, Pow.
ell: H. c. Kiernan temporary. Amt\
canization. old Central High; K. u
Brady, probationary teacher. grade 3
Hilton; A. p. Faber. temporary teach.
er. grade 3, Peabody; C. z. Waddey
temporary, grade b, Tenley; f. L
Niswonger probationary teacher
grade 4, Lenox; H. w. Schwertner
probationary. grade 2. Congress
Heights: J. P. Thorne, temporary
clerk. office Of assistant superintend.
ent. and L. K. Trigg, temporary teach
er. grade 2. Bowen.
Evening star., 1921-05-19
GERMAN RESTORED
FOR D. c. SCHOOLS
Board of Education Approves
Place in Curriculum as
Elective Subject.

Restoration Of the German language
course to the curriculum of Washing
ton high schools at the beginning Of
the new term in September. was ap-
proved by the board of education upon
the recommendation Of Supt. Frank w.
Ballou. at its meeting yesterday after
noon at the Franklin School. The sub
jest will be an elective among the for
eign language subjects. g.,
Teaching of German was dropped
from the high school course in 1917.
The District appropriation bill of that
year stipulated that the funds for
school financing were appropriated on
ccl%liticA that they would not be used
for the teaching of the language
spoken by the people with whom the
United States was then at war. AS
later bills did not contain this stipu-
no ban any longer against the teaching
of German.
Approves NOn-Resident Fee.
The board approved another recon-
mendation of the superintendent, pro-
resident children who take the .::::.-week
intensive course in the SUNNI coach
ing schools. These schools will open
July 5.
A petition framed by the Parent
Teacher Association Of the M Street
Junior High School, urging the purchase
of several lots adjoining the institution
for a play space for the students. was
read to the board by z. F. Ramsaur. 1t
was referred to the superintendent.
Receipt Of resolutions from the Park
View and Sixteenth Street Highlands
Evening star., 1921-05-19
Knitting of Socks
Soothed Late M. p,
Bored bv DEFINES

LONDON, May 10-The death
Of j. Cathcnrt WnSOn, member
Of parliament for the Orkney
and shetland Islands, removes
one Of the most original char.
acterx in the house. MIR. W'asou
wax seventy-eiEht ycarx old and
stood six feet six inches in
height.
He developed the curious hnbit
some years. ago of knitting
socks during slack times in the
commons, not actually in the
house, hut in the tearoom or
one Of the whips rooms. while
uninteresting debates were go-
ing on in the chamber.
He said his original purpose
in learning to knit was to COM
mend himself to the vomcnfolk
Of Orkney and Shetland during
his electoral campaigns. hut he
found nftervard that 1t was a
soothing occupation for dull
hours.
Evening star., 1921-05-19
ISSUE ELECTION CALL.
League of Women Voters to Meet
With Mrs. Pinchot.

A call for a meeting to elect per-
manent officers Of the District League
Of Women Voters, which was or
ganized last April, was issued to-
day. inviting members and those de-
sirous of membership to the gather
ing on next Wednesday at the home
of Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, 1915 Rhode
Island avenue.
According to a statement issued
in connection with the coming meet
ing. the National League of Women
league. added to those which have
been organized in every state, will
greatly. aid the national legislative
committee in its efforts to secure the
enactment Of the program which the
National League indorsed at its re-
cent convention in Cleveland. The
fact that the District League men,
bers do not have a vote does not in
terfere with their ability to work
with and for the National Leagues
object, which, from the inception of
the leagues organization, has been
ito foster education for citizenship
and to secure improved legislation"
Mrs. Julian B. Salley of Aiken.
s. c., will preside at the District
League meeting. Among the speak
ers of the evening will be Judge
Katherine Sellers Of the District Ju-
venile Court. Mrs. Annette Adams.
assistant United States attorney gen.
eral; Miss Katharine Ludington, Miss
Elizabeth Hauser. Mrs. Solon Jacobs
and Mrs. Julian B. Salley.
Evening star., 1921-05-19
FAVOR STATE BUILDINGS.
Twelve Governors Support Project
Launched Here.

Erection of a building for every
state in the Union in this city has re-
ceived the approval OF governors of
WE'VE states to date. according to
citizens committee who presided last
night at a meeting of those interested
in the Chamber of Commerce rooms
in the Homer building.
Letters have been sent to the gov
ernor OF every state. asking his opin-
ion of the matter of the forty-eight
state house group in the National
Capital. All of the replies have been
favorable, many of the governors, it
is understood. being enthusia stic
about the plan. Replies were read
from Texas. Massachusetts, South
Carolina, Mississippi. Colorado. Idaho.
Kansas. Montana. New Hampshire,
Rhode Island. Utah and Washington.
Evening star., 1921-05-19

Louis Seeger. and his wife, Constance
Edison Seeger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seeger are travelling
the country with their three children
music along their route from village
to concert hall.
Prof Seeger is a composer, a writer
about music and a lecturer. and was
one time head of the music depart
ment of the University of California.
Mrs. Seeger was educatde at the Paris
Conservatoire of Music and also is
graduate of the New York Institute of
Musical Art. She has appeared at the
White House.
Evening star., 1921-05-19
HOSTS TO HENDRICK.
City Firefghters Banquet Him in
Appreciation.

]. Thilman Hendirck, former Dis
trict Commissioner, was guest Of
honor at a meeting of the City Fire
fighters Association at a banquet at
the Ebbitt Hotel last night. The
banquet was rendered in appreciation
of what the guest did for the hre-
men when he was Commissioner.
The speakers included Representa-
tives O'Brien of New Jersey. Woods
of Virginia and Walters of Pennsyl-
vania: DR.. Abram Simon, Isaac Cans
and Odell S. Smith.
Evening star., 1921-05-19
CENSUS OF TWO STATES.
of Louisiana and South
Carolina in 1920 Report.

The white population of Louisiana
in 1920 numbered 1.096.611, an in
crease Of 16.5 per cent over 1910, the
census bureau has announced. The
colored population of the state in
1920 was 7o0.257. a decrease of 10 per
cent. There were 44.S71 foreign-born
whites in the state in 1920.
lima show a colored population in
1920 Of 864.719. an increase of 3.5 per
cent for the ten-year period. The
white population was S1S.53s. an in
crease Of 2O.5 per cent. South Caro-
lina's foreign-born white population
was placed at 6.401.
In Louisiana there were 9O3,335
males and S65.174 females. or a ratio
Of 1909 males to 100 females. while
in South Carolina there were s3S,293
males and S45,431 females, a ratio of
9s.2 males to 100 females.
Evening star., 1921-05-19
RARE MUSIC TO FEATURE.
National Strollers Are to Entertain
With Unique Program.

A lecture on The Trend of Modern
Music" illustrated by the playing of
rare classical masterpieces, as well
as modern works. will feature the
entertainment to be given at the
Arts Club of Washington, at $50
Saturday evening by Prof. Charles
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10

New York, Sept .s.-One of the moJt spectacular drug raids New York has known ended today with the mSvster- ious suicide of the chief raider.
 Frank J. Fitzpatrick. head narcotic investigator, led 1S agents in a gallant charge up the gangplank of the Greek stempship King Alexander and engage in hand to hand fight in which vol leys of shots were fired, five seamcn wounded s10O,0OO worth of drugs and whiskey seized. and nearly S25 men aboard the vessel rounded up for exam ination.
 The raid over, Fitzpatrick stepped in- to wdshroom on the Brooklyn dock where the King Alexander was tied up Two shots rang out. Fitzpatrick wa1 found dead. both bullets in his heart.
 The suicide completely mystified the raiding party. Their only theory wa. that their chief. ho the said had been worryingz over his health, suddenly had become demented in the excitement oi the fight Tonight they were awaiting the arrival from Washington of Colo nel O. G. Forrer, executive assistant tC the chief of the narcotic division of tn, internal revenue bureau ordered 10 New York to make a thorough investigation The raid had been elaboratel planned by Fitzpatrick ever since tn King Alexander raced into port on Sep tember 1 with a quota of Greek i'm migrants which her captain feare, would exceed the months mark. Through stool pigeons he had ar ranged for purchase of s20.o00 wort of whskey and drugs. These were | i be delivered through a porthole Pre-
 liminary payments of s1.3oo to a ship
 officer and $500 to a watchman was al
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
Bidders for Labor
 at Auction Block
Twelve Men Were Promised Work Yesterday-Malnutri ton Causes Collapse of a World War Veteran.

Boston, Sept 9.-The collapse of Ed ward Dion, of Philadelphia apparently from malnutrition, just after his ser vices had been sold to the higest bid- der brought the second day of the auc- tion block for unemployed men on the Common to a close after 12 men had been promised work.
 Dion, world war veteran, had pTe- pared an appeal which Urbain Ledoux. leader of the unemployed group, read to the thousands of persons gathered around the bandstand. As Ledoux was reading an account of the death of DiXon's father in the war which left the young man alone Dixon swayed ana collapsed. One meal a day and some times not that, had been his portion, ne said Physicians said tonight that this experience and exposure from sleeping on the Common made his condition ser. ious.
 Bidders were more plentiful today yesterday and many pledges of food anC clothing for the men in addition to pay ment of wages, were forthcoming Women acted as auctioneers and pu the men, stripped to the waist. througi exercises to show their capabilities. Ledoux said that the auction would be continued tomorrow in an endeavo ' to find work for all the men in hi care, as the best he could do for then
 now was to feed them once day.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
AUTO SALESMAN WAS
 MURDERED NEAR CHICAGO

Chicago. Sept. s.-The body of Der hard T. Dougherty. an automobile sales man. was found manacled and m1ngled in the De Splaines river near Chicago this morning Carl Ausmus, fellow salesman of Dougherty's with the Pack ard Motor Car Company, is missing. and H W Curch. 2n year old youth to whom Dougherty delivered an exren- sive motor car yesterday. is held tonight at Adams. Wis, in connection with the death of Dougherty.
 A pair of handcuffs were attached to one of Doughertys wrists. 9 snaU rope was twisted about his throat and tte head had been almost severed from the body. In addition bruises about his head and shoulders seemed to indicate that ha had been beaten and kicked.
 Dougherty had been emn;cyeI hv the Packard Company for several years. Three weeks ago he came frcm Boston to join the sales forces here. Yes terday he undertook 10 deliver an au- tomobile to Church. who said he waF buying it for his father. He asked to be driven to bank so that h. ocrld obtain a certified check to pay for the machine. Dougherty acrompanieT by Ausmus. a driver and followed hy ar other car which was to return them tr
 
 been completed, started out with | Church
 The two machines beca- mo senerat ef and the second drove alone 70 tha ba-l and waited The driver finally trcam, | impatient and entered the bank 10 ,onl ] for Dougherty When he returned hl 1 found a nots. tied 10 the steering whee telling him to return 10 the shoD ana signed with Doueherty'- name. hccor6 ing to officials of the company. this not was not in Dougherty's handwritin-.
 Neighbors told of seeing Churc' drive un to his home in the car. accom- panied by two men. The three wcr said to have entered the house. which i a two-story apartment building. th lower floor being occupied by Lhurc
 and his mother. No one has been foun who could remember seeing the two ai
 tomobile men leave but several hour
 later Church took the car to dfiva hi
 mother and another woman 10 Indian
 Harbor. Early this morning Churcl
 and his mother again took the cal
 telling neighbors they were going I
 Adams. Wis. to visit at their tn-rae
 home where Church's father had Jus bought a farm Young Church was ai rested as he entered the tow nil sh machine tonight. hut denied all know edge of Dougherty's death.
 Following the identification If DoTgf
 erty's hody this morning, the Tolic
 searched the Church home, finding blood-stained hat with the initials ( A. A. Ausmus' initials-a brow hat later Identified as having been w7r by Dougherty. blood soaked quilt. ar
 au ax and a baseball hat stained wii
 blood. Dougherty's salesman's manU:
 was found in the bottom of box
 junk The entire eel ar bore rvilen' f of terrific struggle. the walls heir s stained with blood.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
CHINA WANTS VOICE IN
 LIMITING APARTMENTS

Washington. Sent. s.-yo-mal decls- ration of the Canton government os China that it will refuse to reco-n.ze any decision relating 10 China reached by the Washington conference for tl-e limitation of armament unless a dele gation of this government attends md takes part in the work of the confer ence" was made in a letter handed 70 Secretary Hughes today by NJ A Soo. official representative of the Canton ad- ministration.
 The communication signed by Sun Yat-Sen. as president. and wu Ting Fang. as minister of foreign affairs. ot the Canton government declared that no settlement of Pacific and Far East ern problems lis possibe as ions az China is not freed from nolicses -grs-n are defined and elaborated in tho | -er- ty-one demands and treaties. ani f--- , thef worked out in the ssrie= of se-ret agreements. loans concesstors conc.us- ed and granted by Hsu-Shill-chan-'s administration in favor of Japan
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
RAILROAD EARNINGS SHOW
 INCREASE DURING JULY

Washington. Sept s-Rai.roads of the country had a net operating Income in July of sss,ls5. 900, the largest sircs last October, and i7,oo0.0oo more than in June, the association of rail- way executives announced tonight cn the basis of reports filed with .he h. terstate commerce commission The earnings. a statement by the associa- ton said. were at the -rnuai rate Uf 1-2 per cent. on the tentative vaiu1t.on fixed by the commission for rate nlsk- ing purposes. The compilations Wei e based or reports from 2o2 class one railroads having a. total mileage of 2s5.- e41.
 Roads failing 10 earn their oneraf,r- 7 expenses and taxes for iha month nm hered 57 as compared with 7s h .rre. In the easteT- jistrict the operating revenues reported decrease Of IS.s re-
 cent. while the expenses deereased .9 z
 per cent. Their net operating Incomes
 was s27.55s.ooo as compared with de- | fcit last year.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
Irish Parliament is
 to Meet Wednesday
Consensus of Opinion is That Plenipotentiaries Will be Appointed to Meet British Cabinet.

Dublin, Sept g By the A. P.).-Con- vocation of a private meeting of the Irish republican parliament for next Wednesday to consider the British cabi- nets invitation to a conference on the Irish question at Inverness on Sept. 20 was decided upon this afternoon by a meeting of the Dail Eireann cabinet over which Eamon De Valera presided
 If plenipotentiaries to the conference are to be appointed, as was suggested in Premier Lloyd Georges letter, delivered to MT De Valera last night, it is under stood that in order to give them greater authority their names should be submit ted to a full meeting of the Dali Eireann. Consequently, members of that body have been remaining in Dublin expecting the summons to attend the parliament meet ing.
 Optlmists over the status of the nego- nations tonight drew the inference that a decision had been taken to recommend the appointment of plenipotentiaries while some pointed out that final brea cr of negotiations also would require 4 fuI meeting of the Dail. The optimists. how. ever, appeared to constitute a large ma. jority.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
TO RESUME REFORMATION
 OF OIL FROM MEXICO

Greenwich. Conn, Sept. s.-Ame-.car oil companies expect to resume sheir exportations of oil from Mexico ,u1ue. diately. said Walter c. Eagle. 7-esi- dent of the Standard Oil Companv of New Jersey, at his home here tonight. Mir. TeagIe arrived home from Mexico this afternoon. He was one of the five American oil magnates who went to Mexco to see President Obregon In re- gard to the Mexican governments atti- tude toward American development of oil properties in that county
 President Obregon and Secretary De La Huerta received us cordially" said Mir. Teagle. The companies represent ed at the conferences expect to resume Immediately the axportation Of oil from Mexico and it Is hoped they may bs able to continue the development of tte industry in Mexico to the advantage ot all concerned. including the Mexican government and people. We sec no req son to doubt that the personal contact now established with Mexican officials will result in better understanding and mutual benefit"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
DELEGATES SELECTED FOR
 THE ARMAMENT CONEFp[n'.e'.-.. T !:.'

President Harding Appointment of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes Former Secretary of State Elhu Root Senators Lodge and Underwood Confer Proper Will Consist of Twenty Members Each of the Five Major Powers to be Represented by Big Fou-Advisory Bodies Are to be Selected to Represent American Womanhood Labor and Other American Inter- ests-Representatives From Other Nations Will Sit With the Twenty Delegates Only When Their Far Eastern h. terests Are Affected
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-10
MATTERS BEFORE ASSEMBLY,
 OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Geneva, Sept. g By the A. P1-The time is not ripe for definite under standing of the methods for applying the economic blockade against offend ing members of the League of Nations. and this provision should not be inter- preted until the authority fthe league is recognized by all nations and the press, was the conclusion reached by the leagues commission on disarma- ment at a public session held this afternoon.
 Sarlcs Schanzer, the Italian delegates, who repeatedly has urged an active dis armament program for the league, was the only member of the commission who refused to accept the conclusion. He urged that article 16 of the coven- ant of the League of Nations. which deals with the economic weapon. should | be interpreted immediately so that the 1 league would know exactly how to pro- ceed against an offending member. The difficulty of enforcing an econ- omic blockade against a nation not a member of the League of Nations was admitted by Lord Robert Cecil, repre- sentingf South Africa, ard other dele gates, It was suggested that an under.
 standing must be reached with non-