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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01
To Give Dance

The Jewish Community Club, one
of the Greater Alexandria's live
organizations, will hold another of
its very popular dances at Elks'
Hall. on Tuesday, April Is.
The dance held by this club early
last fall attracted the largest crowd
seen at the Elks' Hall this season.
The same committee, composed of
Miss Rose Shapiro. Miss Libby Ber,
man. Sam Cohen and Morris Levin
son. are in charge and have secured
Thomas Jardn Orchestra, of Wash
ington, to furnish the music
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01
Four Directors Reelected at Annual Meet
ing Held Last Night-To Hold
Four Meetings Year
WILLIAM ALBERT SMOOT PRESIDES
Plans of Activities For Coming Year Are Outlined-
Question of Securing Modern Hotel and Home FOR
Chamber Referred to Committee OF DirectOrs-Out-
ing Planned For Next June.

The annual meeting of the chamber
Of commerce was held last night IN
the rooms Of that organization preSid-
ed over by w. A. Smoot, president.
REPORTS were submitted by President
". A. Smoot, Business Manager Geo.
n. Evans and Secretary j. I. Pres
ton as treasurer also submitted an ac-
count of the finances during the year
All of the reDOrts were most graft
fying showing the progress made dur
ing the past year by the organization;
a rising vote of thanks was rendered
the officers 70" their splendid reports
The chamber re-electeS the follow
ing four directors to serve Eor terms
of two years each Julian \. Williams,
A. ID. Brockett, Carroll Pierce ana
Charles w. King.
II was decided by the chamber TO
hold meetings of that organization
every three months, in addition TO the
regular bureau meetings. lhe queS-
ton of obtaining a modern Motel Tor
Alexandria was discussed and the
question was left I'm the hands Of a
committee of the board of directors
10 report at a subsequent meeting.
The question of obtaining nome OF
it's own for the chamber also was left
in the hands of committee. II was de-
cided to give an outing in June.
Attorney James X. Cation announc-
cd that ne would present free OF
charge to the chamber survey To-
gether with bound volume of the
maps and records in the case decided
several months ago by the United
States Supreme Court of the river
front property. This decision he said
settles the question forever. These
records he said are complete history
of this property a rising vote OF
thanks was rendered Mr.. Cation for his
offer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01

The Girls Sunday School Class
and the Junior Holy Name Society
will plav two games of basket ball
for the benefit of the Athletic Asso-
ciation of st. Mary's Church. The
games will be PLAYED in the Armory
Hall on next Tuesday evening at 7:30
sharp.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01

John H. Thomas and others have
sold to Max Sperling houses and
lots known as Nos. 623. 625, 627 and
629 South Patrick street. = deed OF
transfer was recorded today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01
ESTABLISHED 1TsA

Oldest Daily Newspaper In the
United States and Best Advert!s-
ing Medium in Northern Virginia
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-01

Fer this sectiOn-ClOudy TO part
ly cloudy today; tomorrow fair;
not much change in temperature.
High tide tomorrow: 1928 a. m
and 1900 p. m.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
COUNT TOLNA MAY LOSE
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
Suit to Annul Naturalization
Papers Filed Yesterday by
United States.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 13.-The
federal government has begun suit
against Count Rudolphe Festetics de
Tolna of Hollis, Long Island. seek
ing to annual citizenship which he
claims was granted him in San
Francisco in 1906. The government
contends he is a citizen of Austria
Hungary.
The suit followed an investigation
made by the government when me
count charged France had seized a
yacht and chateau belonging to him
during the war, on the ground he
was an enemy alien. According to
government reports, the count S
yacht when seized was flying the
Hungarian flag.
Questioned by the government. the
charges say, the count claimed be
had lost his citizenship records in
France and had applied to San Fran
cisco courts for restoration papers.
They were given him. the govern
ment claims he said, because it was
ascertained that all records were
lost in the San Francisco earthquake.
The government charges that the
count, who Is married to an Ame:i-
can girl, had not been a resident OF
the country five years before the
time he says he got his papers, and
had not lived in California a year
previous to the granting of the docu-
ments.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
JURY OF CENSORS
TO GUST NAUGHTY
STACE OFFERINGS

NEW YORK. September 13.-Naughty
plays produced on neutrality-suspicious.
they be French farces resplendent with
lingerie. German psychological studies
or Russian muzhiks-will face the
American plan Of "trial by jury" under
system adopted yesterday by the city
at a meeting in the office of John F.
Gilchrist, commissioner of licenses.
Managers, actors. authors and re-
formers are pledged to abide by the
decision of the jury before which the
play will be brought to trial upon the
complaint Of any theatergoer. panel
of 800, made up Of actors. lawyers.
churchmen, writer's. teachers, city Of
ficials. welfare workers and others has
been listed, from which, in the event
of a play offending some ones taste. a
jury of twelve will be drawn by Com
missioner Gilchrist
Should the decision of the jury be ad-
verse, the play must either be with
drawn or revised. A vote of 8 to 3 is
required before a play Is condemned.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
This Queen Anne
chiforobe. S29.

The roomy clothes compart-
ment is equipped with hangers
to accommodate great many
garments. Five roomy drawers
for other apparel. Dull rubbed
American walnut finish.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
lOUBAT SHORT STORY
AWARDS TO BE MADE
Columbia to Decide Best in Five
Years on North American His
tory or Archaeology.
BY the Associa ted Press.

NEW YORK, September 13.-The
awards of $1,000 and s400 will be
made by Columbia University this
year for the best stories published
in the English language. here or
abroad during the last five years.
on the history, geography, archae-
ology. ethnology. philology or nu-
rnismatics of North America, it has
been announced at the university
These awards are known as the
Loubat prizes, in recognition of
their donor. Joseph F. Loubat
William Milligan Sloane. Seth Low
professor of history. will serve as
chairman of this years jury of award
and his associates will be Alfred L.
Kroeber. professor of anthropology
of the University of California and
st. George Leakin Soussat, professor
of American history at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
Simmons couch
Sl2.75

Adds another bedroom with no sug-
gestion of bed. Double bed size with
valance as shown; easily opens to double
bed size for two persons.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
BILL
MEETS HARD GOING
Borah Offers Amendment in
Senate Providing Recla-
NATION Funds.

The administration bill granting a
loan of s5.O0O.000 to Liberia made little
progress in the Senate yesterday. Sem
ator Borah of Idaho. republican, op-
ponent of the measure. who offered an
amendment which would provide funds
for reclamation work on arid and
swamp lands in the west and south,
declared that the republican leadership
had decided to kill western reclamation
projects.
Senator Curtis OF Kansas, acting re-
the Borah amendment was not ger
name. He charged that settlers on
western reclamation projects had been
neglectful of their payments to the
government. This charge was quickly
resented by senators from the reclama-
tion states.
Laid to Politics.
Politics in bringing forth the LII
berian loan bill and the Dyer anti
lynching measures was suggested by
Senator King, democrat, Utah, who
said the republican steering commit
tee had taken account of the pres
ent campaign and desired the negro
vote. Senator Curtis replied, with a
comment on the Maine election yes
terday. that there was no political
consideration in the Legislative pro-
gram. 1T appears that the senator
has not read the returns from Maine
said Senator Curtis. They indicate
that the northern states are going
republican, as they always have done,
and these bills have nothing to do
with the situation"
Scored by Senator Glass.
Senator Glass, democrat, Virginia,
renewed his attack on the Liberian
measure. declaring that Liberia had
contributed little during the war. "A
couple of Washington policemen
could have done more" said he. Sem
ator Watson. democrat. Georgia. also
opposed the Liberian loan. criticising
the foreign loans already made and
declaring against further extensions.
Evening star., 1922-09-13
HELD By GRAND JURY.
Staunton Man Charged With
Shooting Brother-in-Law.

Shooting Brother-in-Law.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON. Va. September 10
Powell E. Parker was indicted by the
corporation court grand jury here
on a charge Of having shot his brother
in-law, DR.. Berkeley Pemberton. in his
office here last spring. His trial will
start at once.
Pemberton's mother and father and
several sisters and brothers reside In
Washington. A brother, STAFFORD
classic and modern dancing on Colum-
bia road. The charge Is malicious
manning
Evening star., 1922-09-13
CHARLES L. PERRIN WEEDS
MRS. GEORGEF SCOFIELD
Ceremony Performed in Paris.
Bride Former Daughter-in-Law
of Standard Oil Founder.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PARIS, September 13.-The mar
riage was announced today of Mrs
George Fawcett Scofield of Cleveland,
New York and Palm Beach to Charles
Lansing Perrin of New York The
bride, who before her first marriage
was Miss Nettie Short of Cleveland,
was formerly the daughter-in-law of
William c. Scofleld, one of the found
ers of the Standard Oil Company.
The wedding took place before a
few witnesses In the city hall of the
eighth ward OF Paris yesterday
Seventy-five years ago fthe foreign
commerce of New York and of New
Orleans was practically the same.
Evening star., 1922-09-13

The International chamber of COM
merce Is to hold it's second meeting
In Rome next March
Evening star., 1922-09-13
Bed cots, $l.95

Bed cots, $l.95
These folding steel cots are
E feet 6 inches long and 80
inches wide. When trimmed
with cretonne they make at
tractive day beds. Finished in
gray.
Equip these cots with
plain cotton pad to fit. .Sz.95
box cotton pad to fit. $3.50
heavy cotton mattress to
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
Rent Troubles Are
Just Like The u. s.

Rio De Janeiro by mail to Unit
ed Press) Its just like being home" "
said one, visiting American, rent
war" now being fought in the daily
papers of this city.
The housing question is just as Sc
rious here today rs it was in the States
year ago. A landlord is Just as pop
ular here as he is in Chicago or Kan
sas City.
MANY dailies are devoting, space to
the "tenants' law" Letters from ten
ants all over the city TO editors tell
about their landlords having ordered
them to move before December 81.
And the property owners are also us
ing space to justify their demands.
It's fine fight.
On December %. 1921, Congress
passed the tenants law" One of the
clauses of that law recognizes the
verbal" lease. Roughly translated.
the clause reads: an the absence, OF
q written document outlining the rights
and obligations of both the tenant and
the owner, it is understood that the
rental term is one year, which Will
always be extended for like period
unless the owner serves notice on the
tenant in writing, at least three
months before the end Of the year,
that new conditions are to prevail or
that he wishes tenant to vacate."
The question now is: when does
the wear end" The landlords say the
wear began on the day the law was
passed. Tenants claim the year began
on the day they first occupied houses.
One of the most popular of the
morning papers printed copy of the
disposess notice sent TO tenants OF
thirty-one houses on street two
blocks long. Some of the tenants have
twelve wears and claim that fifty. per
cent increase of rent is demanded.
Congress has been called on for re-
medal action and it is expected by the
tenants that something will be done
to modify the law before moving day
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
CASE TO JURY

Richmond, Va, Nov. S.-The case
of Col. H. Gordon Blundon, charged
with Incorporating funds of the
Commonwealth National Bank Of
Reedyille while president of the in
stitution, which mas been on trial in
Federal Court since October %, went
to the jury shortly before 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon after Judge
Charles A Woods had delivered his
charge at the conclusion of argument
At G p, m, the jury asked for fur
Their instructions on certain points,
and it was indicated that a. verdict
might be reached.
Judge Woods agreed to give them
the desired instructions at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning, and discharged
them until that hour.
This is the second trial of the case,
a divided jury having resulted at the
trial last winter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
TURKEY TROT BIG EVENT
IN TEAS TOWN
dBy United Press.)

Cuero, Texas, Nov. 4.-Cuero's BIZ
ennial Turkey Trot"-in which thou
sands of strutting, fussing turkeys
from the largest turkey raising and
marketing section of the world
march to the tune Of band through
the strets of this little Texas town to
the Thanksgiving dinner tables OF
America, will open here Thursday,
Nov. 9.
The "Trots." which are held every
two years and formally usher in the
turkey marketing season, attract
thousands of persons from all over
the country.
The idea of the "Trots" originated
in 1912 and were the outgrowth of the
fact that this part of the country Is
the largest turkey raising and market
ing section in the world. Localooffl-
cials, desiring to advertise, hit upon
this method and the unique celebra-
ton has been held every second year
since.
Great hocks of turkeys are driven in
from all over the countryside for sew
eral days before the day of the parade,
and by the time the day of the celebra-
ton rolls around, there are several
thousand turkeys quartered in the lit
tie town.
Early in the morning on the day OF
the parade men are sent ahead along
the line of march to scatter grains Of
corn to lure the fowls along.
Then through the main streets OF
the city several thousand, strutting,
fussing turkeys their brilliant plum
age, fluffy white, dull red, coal black,
and shiny bronze, glistening in the
sunlight, march to the tune of band,
through the main streets of the city
into huge coops, situated at the end
of the march.
Here an army of several hundred
packers, slaughter, pick and pack the
birds to be shippued all over the Unit
ed States for Thanksgiving dinners.
This year, congress, recognizing the
Importance of the celebration, agreed
to the issuance of a special series oil
postage stamps to advertise the event.
And series of stamps, bearing the
imprint of bronze turkey, were rum
here to be used by the local postoflicc,
off the government press and shipped
During the war the "Trots," like
many other events were discontinued,
and the one tomorrow viii be the Sec
ond since the signing of the Armistice,
Governor Pat NJ. Neff, will formally
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04

discriminating group Of thinkers;
The idea, or the conception, winch
is espoused by the "Unanlmlsts., Is
that of the "group! will2 They be
llieve that the most fruitful study Tor
the artist of the present day IS the
tpsyehologyl of crowds or the group
SOUL TIE Unanimists claim that, In
this Democratic age the will of the
Individual is constantly becoming su-
'bordinate to, the will or instinct of
masses of men. "These men who can
today pet in touch with the soul of
groups may enjoy the presentlment
Of what the future has in store
says Jules Ronaine. The Unanimists,
inspired by their leader, have intro
duced new point of view in the
"The Death of Nobody" is hard
ly novel but it is study in fiction
al form of how the death of an in
dividual who is nobody in himself may
influence the lives of those who sur
vive, and how the life of man after
he ceases to live becomes absorbed in
to the life of the people and contin-
ued in them. This conception of i'm
mortality is subtly gaining accept
ance. It is significant that H. L.
Mencken, the arch-skeptic, is emit
thusiastic over this book.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
Gambling Is Popular
With South Americans
(By United Press.J

Rio De Janeiro-0ne of the most
popular pastimes Of foreign visitors to
Brazil's centennial exposition is gambl-
ing.
Some of the visitors confine their
efforts to the purchase of lottery tick
cts, others try the "bicho," but the
majority WOO the tickle goddess at
one or the other of the recorded clubs.
There is a lottery drawing every
weekday, and the prizes range all the
way from twenty contoS to two hum
sdred contos, Special drawings of vari-
Gus centennial" lotteries have even
greater prizes 900 and 5000 contOs.
a conto at today's exchange is nearly
$120 American money.
In the Rio telephone book there are
80 lottery agencies listed AT least
five times that number of booths,
stands and small stores all ever the
CITY are devoted solely to sale of lot
terry tickets. Peddlers sell them on
the street cars, in cafes and restaur-
ants and on the streets. Small boys
and girls who ought to be in school,
crippies and defromed persons old
men and women, and young girls OF
fifteen and sixteen, and the young loaf
or who doesn't want to work, they all
sell them. The tickets cost all the
way from s cents to $27, depending on
the amount of the main prize and
the number of tickets sold.
"Bicho" is played on the terminal
numbers of the daily lottery-the last
two figures of the winning number.
There are % "bichos." "Bichos, by
the way, are birds, snakes and animals.
Each bicho number corresponds 10
GROUP of four terminatins' For m
Stance. No. l is the ostrich and Its
yroon is OF, O3 and Oh. No. % is the
cow with examinations 81 SO, SO and
M The odds against the player are
o. 70 / If he wins he gets " to l.
The game is illegal, but it is so popular
and universally played that the ponce
will have a hard time to stop IT, many
,members of the permanent American
colony are regular players.
Americans Want Action.
Tho American visitor, however, de-
r,ands something ne can see and get
n"t;nn" nj the same time. There are
Zen afternoon clubs where action
con he had and where "bank rolf Is
The ONLY invitation required Roulette
bocarat. chemen-de-fer, "camplsta =
wbich is simply faro-stud and draw
noker games are all ready and wait
inc. IL, h;o+
omen only after midnight and run un-
M dawn. These clubs offer near-ca-
baret shows and dancing as added at
fractions. The main reason for their
existence is gambling. One American
won $4,000 in a little over an hour S
play the other night. He left for bue-
nos Aires the next day, so the house
had no chance to get it back.
Except in specially erected buildings
at seaside resorts, roulette is prohlblr-
ed vet any foreigner who has spe-
cial yearning to try out his system or
his guessing ability will find no diff
Guilty in locating place where the
{ ball is spinning merily.
One of the most prominent clubs m
the city has an American dealing stud
poker. So far this has not been a pay
ing proposition, mostly because the
American visitor prefers to buck the
other games.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
HUNT SPECTRE DEER
(By United l,resSN

Saranac Lake, n. Y, Nov. 3.-A
"spook deer" was hunted by dozen
parties near Ampersand Mountain to-
day.
The deer, it was explained by hunt
ers who have seen its spectre-like
form fitting through the shadows, is
an albino, the first Of its kind to be
seen in the Adriondacks for a couple
Of years.
It's hair is pure white.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04

granted the WOODEN manufacturer.
If the farmer can be cured of his
temporary tariff delusien by a de-
tached study of the law he forced
through Congress last year the
whole country will be the gamer;
it will bring nearer the day of re-
peal OF the present archaic act.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
GERMAN LADS COWBOYS
ny United Press.)

Berlin,-German youth is turning
cowboy. Filled with Wild west ideas
by the recent American cowboy films
shown here, German schoolboys have
turned to the task of building block
houses, wearing homemade chaps and
painting their faces like Indians.
German parents declare the pastime IS
much less harmmfuL than. the old mill
tary play, once, German boys. OH
ly idea of fun. ...
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
THE EMERGENCY TARIFF
ACT IN RETROSPECT

Neither the traditional high
protectionist nor the farmer. for
Whose benefit the law was framed
will derive much comfort from
: the Tariff Commission 5 report ON
!: the results of the Emergency Tar
eff law. recently superseded BY the
SMcCumber-Fordney act. High
5 duties on foodStuffS were imposed
: because the farmers, facing their
: SevereSt depression of genera
5 ton, graSped at any straw in the
: desperate effort to reverse the
. market trend and to get higher
: prices for their prductS, The COM
mission finds it impossible to re-
port that the tariff was a success
in this respect. 1t does, however,
say.
The duties in the emergency
law did not substantially raise the
price of farm products, but rather
tended to prevent in certain cases
50 great fall of prices as took
place in competing countries Tor
similar articles.
The Tariff Commission finds it
impossible to assert that the en-
Urgency tariff accomplished any
definite or constructive purpose;
certainly it accomplished none OF
the things predicted OF it when i
was forced through Congress
eighteen months ago. The COM
mission says: "In the summer
and fall of 1927 there was re-
covery of agricultural prices, but
that this was not due entirely to
the tariff is indicated by the fact
that the prices OF both dutiable
s and free farm products shared in
the rise. ltwnght he added, also,
that since that time there has been
a decline in the prices OF farm pro-
duties for the most part, although
the tariff has been continuously
in effect.
), SO far as Welding any subStan-
I. tial relief for the farmer, the wool
!. grower or the sugar producer, the
Tariff Commission is forced to
admit that the emergency act was
ineffective. This conclusion is 50
entirely in accord with the opin-
ions of economists and business
men generally, who knew that the
f. real cruX OF the farmers troubles
: was his temporary loss OF an eN-
port market, that it constitutes 4
significant contribution to tariff
history. 1t is indicated, also, that
Just as the improved tariff wall
worked little benefit to the prOduc-
. err, so also it worked little injury TO
the consumer. for the forces which
were operating to lower prices
were Worldwide, and were beyond
Sthe power Of any tariff to nulify,
: Our first major experiment in
@placng high duties on raw mate
srials. particularly foodstuttS,
therefore. can hardly he called 4
success. Even in the case OF wool,
traditionally subject to tariff treat
a1uent, there IS evidence that the
=real nubbin in the tariff does not
Srelate 50 much to the wool pro-
~duce- is to compensatory duties
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04
KAMANsKI IS CLEARED

Wellsburg, ". Va, Nov. 1.-The
Jury returned verdict of not guilty
in the case of John Kaminski, 10
vear-old union miner. charged with
first degree murder on indictments
growing out of the Cliftonville mine
July II.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-04

open the "Trot and Secretary of Ag-
riculture Henry Wallace, will make On
addres. if he. is able to, come The
celebrations vii last through Armis-
ice Day, November 11.si4stP