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Evening star., 1923-04-18


concerns and about the same time
formed the Aircraft Pictures Cor
poratton, to compete with the Para
mount as a distributor. Thereupon,
il is alleged. in further pursuit OF
,hA conspiracy charged, Zukor. Lasky
and the Playcrs-Lasky Corporation
acquired the capital of the Paramount
and Aircraft corporations. which
we're dissolved and ceased dong ousi =
ness The Players-Lasky CORPORA
ton then, in addition to produclnS
aims engaged in releasing and dis
trihuting them directly to exhibitors
and extensively ADVERTISED all PIC
lures distributed by it as Paramount
or Aircraft pictures
Following these operations. other
absorptions. amalgamations ana m
corporations ensued, constituting. &C
cording to the Federal Trade Com :
mission, "a progressive program or
occurring or controlling frst-run
theaters and compelling s1hibitors 70 20
their films from the Players-Lasky y
Corporation AS a result, 1t Is maj IN
tanned, competitors are unduiy MN nm
dered, in that rival producers or dls.
tributors are unable to procure the
essential to the financially successful
motion picture producer. BY and
through their various aGIiHl.ies'
Zmkor. Lasky and their Players
Iuh' cnrnoration are said to have
"hIilt up and now possess ana eAer
Else a. dominating control over the
,notion picture industry shat mas
dangerous tendency 60 =
complete monopoly therein.
Largest Theater Owners.
Tho Trade Commissions complaint
o;tes that the Famous Players-Las-
kew CORPORATION is the largest thea-
for owner in the world; that in one
week in 1920 more than 5000 thea
ters-or approximately a third of all
the picture houses in the United
Sts+esNshowed nothing but Para
mount. pictures, and that about %
cents of every dollar that was pald
TO enter picture theaterS went Tor
entry to those theaters which dlS-
played Paramount pictures
Some of the more serious charges
leyeled against the defendants, ror
the alleged purpose of throttlins
competition. are:
(a) Threatening to build. lease OF
operate theaters in competition with
exhibitors who refused to sell OF
lease their houses;
(b) Threatening to cut off or inter
fere with the film service of such
exhibitors who refused to so sell OF
lease their theaterS;
(c) Secretly Offering higher rentals
effective upon expiration of leases
held by exhibitors who refused to sell
or lease such theaters;
(d) Temporarily reducing the price
Of admission charged by theaters
owned or controlled by the respond
ents below that charged by exhibitors
who refused to sell or lease their
theaters.
Similar methods of coercion and
intimidation" are alleged to have beer
used to compel Independent exhibitors
to book and exhibit films produced oil
distributed by the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation.
Through Joheph w. Folk, former
Governor of Missouri. their counsel
at Washington. the principal defend
| ants enter a sweeping denial of the
Federal Trade Commissions con,
spiracy charges. They contend thai
Wholesale purchase of theaters ant
other activities were undertaken ir
pursuance of legitimate self-de-
fensive measures and in no spirit o,
attempted monopoly.
rnnv10ht
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PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK
AT BOOTH TESTIMONIAL
100 Clergymen and Governors of
Twenty-Five States to Take Part
in Great Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS
NEW YORK. April 1s.-President
Harding has accepted an invitation
to speak in the Metropolitan Opera
House May 10. at testimonial to be
given in honor Of Gen. and Mrs. Bal
lington Booth and the Volunteers of
America. it was announced today by
the Rev. DR.. Alton NJ Young. secre-
tary OF the committee on arrange
ments.
In his letter of acceptance the Pres
ident wrote:
Il do think, perhaps. you are over
emphasizing the Importance of my at
tendance. I should prefer to come
and pay my tribute to Gen. and Mrs.
Booth. rather than share in the con-
sderations. all of which are more
properly bestowed upon them"
All the testimonial certificates.
signed by the President, Gen. Perish
Ing and John w. Davis, chairman OF
the celebration committee, will be
presented to Gen. aud Mrs Booth for
their distinguished service to country
and humanity.
More than one hundred clergymen
and governors of twenty-five states
will take part in the testimonial.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
'.P|CK MRS. M0NDELL
!: FOR SOCIETY HEAD
. Wife of Former Representa-.
Il tive Elected President, Ma
! tionaI Society, c. A. R.

- Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, wife of
: former Representative Mondell of
Wyoming, was elected president OF
the National Society, Children of the
American Revolution, at a meeting OF
: she organization held at headquarters
OF the American Red Cross Yesterday.
The following were also elected
y, ,officers of the society: Mrs. Eleanor
: Washington Howard, national vice
=" president; Mrs. Frank S. Ray. record
Ing secretary; Miss Amy Howard, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Charles D
Groves. organizir secretary: Mrs
Charles W. Allen. registrar; Mrs.
lawrence II. Qurollo. national treas
ji1rer, and Mrs. Francis washington
Kerr. historian.
i.FNAyice presidents were elected as fol-
bows: Mrs Violet Blair Janin, Mrs.
Harris NJ Towner, Mics Ann Cum- Nm
Belinda Rogers. Mrs. Robinson Dow
Irley. Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs. Amos
"A. Fries, Mrs. Frederic l.. Menges and
mrs. l.. J. Dickinson. so,;.
fAHBrig. Gen Amos A. Fries denuncia.
..tion of anti-military societies ana
spacifst bodies, supported by Secre-
AIary of War Weeks, found new out
SJet yesterday during his address be-
E3ore the society. =.
i Gen. Fries scored the efforts of anti
military societies and quoted the
words Of George Washington that
to be prepared for war is the best as
eurance of peace.
Speaks on Washington.
Z Gen. Fries gave brief outline OF
the career of Washington Then the
shead of the chemical warfare depart.
mont declared: I'm these times OF
ND
the loud arguments of the antl-miil-
eary organizations are heard calling
upon America to lower its Army and
Navy and do away with everything
pertaining to the military; Remem,
ber the doctrine of Washington and
stand for preparedness. Then the fu-
lure of our country Is safe. indeed"
The session was opened this morn
'. ing at 10 o'clock with an Invocation
by Rev. DR.. James Z. Freeman, rector
of Epiphany Church. Cen. Fries adj
dress followed. and in turn was fol,
lowed by greeting by Mrs Frank W
sMondell. national president of the
C. A. r., who presided. Mrs. Mondel
urged true patriotism and stalwart
AmericaniSm." The national founder
of the society was then introduced
Mrs. Daniel Lothrop. who praised the
work during the past year.
Ode to Flag
An Ode to the Flag" written BY
Millicent Wood
II was announced that during the
past year more than 1000 new mem
bers had Joined the society, and sixty
new societies organized in the various
states.
The reports OF the following Off
GERS and committees preceded the
luncheon recess: Committee on ere
dentials. by Mrs. Charles :. Groves
recording secretary, by Mrs. Frank
s. Ray: corresponding secretary, BY
Miss Aimee r. Powell; organizing sec
retary, by Mrs. Clayton f. Emig; reg
istrar, by Mrs. Charles ". Allen; aud
iting committee, by Mrs. L. S. W
Howard; treasurer, by Mrs. V. Blair
Jann; editor of magazine. by Mrs
Frank S. Ray; business manager Of
magazine, by Mrs. Charles ). Groves
finance committee, by Mrs. Lawrence
Quirollo; printing committee, by Miss
uorinda Rogers. and nominating com.
mittee. by Mrs. Daniel Lothrop.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
Wears No Tight.Fit Clothing.
n the Adventure Magazine.

From the Adventure Magazine.
The Eskimo makes q point of wear
ing the loosest garments imagina bl e.
and no tight-fitting underclothes
Authorities agree that IL is largely
because Of this that the Eskimos are
the hardest race in the world. AS
babies they go unclothed. being car
rfed about in the hoods of their
mothers furs
The Eskimos feet also receive great
care Their women are credited with
making the only absolutely water
proof boot in existence. 1t is made
of sealskin. without the fur tanned
and kept pliable by chewing. The
parts are sewn together with deer
sinews in a lockstitch which no other
race seems to understand. Within
this boot of "chewed" Sealskin a
deerskin sock is worn. the hair being
next TO the foot. Sock and boo.
come off together, and every night
they are dried on a framework rugged
above an igloo oil lamp, which is
kept burning constantly for this pur-
pose, and for the melting of snow for
drinking water.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
PLAN FIRM STAND
ON ALLEY HOMES
Emergency Housing Associa-
tion to Fight Any Attempt
at Approving Some.

Efforts Of the Emergency Housing
Association of the District of Colum-
bia TO remedy the alley-dwellin prob
lem in Washington will be pursued re-
lentlessly until every Inhabited ALLEY
mas been either cleared OF its resi-
dents or brought up to the standard
of at least a minor street, it was an
nounced today by William V. Maho-
ney. executive secretary, in express
ing profound disappointment and
surprise" at the opinion of Corpora.
tion Counsel Stephens that only few
alleys will come under the scope o.
the alley closing law.
Characterizing Washington ALLEYS
as probably the worst slums in
America, Mr.. Mahoney stated THAI
makeShift compromises and insig-
nificant palIiatives. such as are en-
bodied in Mr. stephens opinion, Will
never meet this critical condition, ard
would apparently indicate the most
ueplorable indifference to the proper
solution OF this question. In fact in
stead Of solving the alley problem. it
only tends to still further complicate
it"
Sees Much Work In Vain.
Mr Mahoney added:
Ihe work of fifteen years will have
I 10 be started all over again If, by arv
unlocked for possibility, the court
should take the same view as NJ
stephens Of the legislation adopted b.
! unanimous vote Of both houses or
1914
After several careful readings cf
the alley closing act above referee
70, am positive that the intention ~
congress was to close all alleys which
could not meet with three conditions
which apply to minor streets
In other words. all alleys that 10
not possess not one or two but all
three of the requirements for minor
street simultaneously must be closed
! under any reasonable construction OF
| this act.
VIII Seek 3-Ycar Period.
! II trust that the litigation nov
! pending may receive the benevolent
consideration of the court and that by
mutual consent on both sides Of the
F., case consideration Cor at least de-
! cision) may be postponed until after
! Congress reconvenes
I'm Immediately on the converting Of
the next Congress our association
with allied organizations will doubt
| less reintroduce a bill by our attor-
neys and known in the last session
| as senate bill 44l4. This bill pro-
vided for all the alleys of the District
| or Columbia to be zoned by the Com
missioners into three zones. one-third
to be closed on June l. 1923, one
! third on June l, 1924, and the remain
! ing one-third on June /, 1925.
The only change that we would
| to close the first zone June 1. 1927.
! with the remaining two zones closes
in one and two years thereafter, on
June l of each year"
Evening star., 1923-04-18
NOTED HERE AND THERE
AT THE d. A. r.
Cossn News and Views Heard Seen Among Delegates
at Conventions Meeting Place.

Rice. war regent Of the chapter and
now state president for Georgia.
are staying at the New Willard Hotel,
and will remain here next week for
American Colonists. of which both
are members. The Atlanta Chapter Is
one of the largest in the south and
the second oldest Of the organization.
it is said. Mrs. Rice also will attend
the meeting OF the Daughters OF 1912
at the New willard next week, while
Mrs. Joseph Madison High, vice presi-
dent general for Georgia, Is at the
Hotel Washington.
Mrs. Richard Jackson Barker of
Rhode Island is candidate for
honorary vice president general for
life. She was vice president general
In 1906. The decision was made by
the Rhode Island delegation at it's
meeting to enter Mrs. Barker as the
state candidate for that office. 1t was
voted unanimously that her chapter
regent, Mrs. Charles Fl. Reming.
should make the nomination and the
secondins speech be made by the
state regent, Mrs. Samuel H. Davis.
1t is interesting to note that Mrs.
Barker is the owner Of a unique col
lection of historic gavels. These
gaVels are made from wood with a
history. One of these is made from
the root of a sycamore tree found In
the historic church at Jamestown, Va.
1t was presented to Mrs. Barker by
Miss Mary Desha, one OF the founders
of the d. A. r. Another is made
from wood Of pear tree. dating back
to 1895.
Mrs. George Johnstone delegate
10 the congress. is the guest of her
brother-in-law and sister, DIR. and
Mrs. Everard Blackshear, at their
home in klingle road.
Hundreds of those attending the
congress gathered at the Willard
yesterday afternoon to attend a tea
given in honor OF Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook. candidate for preside nj
general. and other candidates on the
same ticket. by the Pennsylvania
state delegation.
In the receiving line were Mrs
Edwin Erie Sparks. state regent;
Mrs Anthony Wayne Cook; Mrs
Rhetta Goode of Alabama can
didate for, chaplain general: Mrs
dtdate for recording secretary gen
eral Mrs. William Sherman Walker
of Washington state, candidate fol-
Organizing secretary general: Mrs
Alfred j. Brosseau of Michigan. can
didate for treasurer general; Mrs
George deBolt of West Virginia, can
didate for historian general; Mrs
Larz Anderson of this citv. candidate
for librarian general: Mrs. Alvin Fl
Connolly of Missouri. candidate for
reporter general to Smithsonian In
stitution; Mrs. Charles Seymour
Whitman Of New York, candidate for
curator general. and Mrs. James
Howard Stansfield of Illinois, candi-
date for registrar general.
Assisting at the tea were Mrs
Alexander Ennis Patton. Mrs. Daniel
Fl. Hastings. Mrs. George p. White
Mrs. Allen p. .Perley. Mrs. Wilbur F
| Reeder and Mrs. John Brown Heron
state regent-elect. all of the Penn.
sylvania delegation.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
HAT state of suspended anima-

|"HAT state of suspended anima-
ton Of the elements previous
to a storm. so well known IN
nature, is having it's prototype
evidenced at the Memorial Continent
al Hall today. There is q sort or
hushed waiting for the break of the
storm in the election campaign. Can
didates are evidencing it by the
general suppression of excitement
visible through that very suppress
sion. Tonights the night and
tomorrow's the day. Nominations
will be made at this evenings ses-
sion and the single word voting on
the program for tomorrow looms up
more Importantly to those attending
the congress than any other an
nouncement on the list.
Who will it be: Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Hope Of Pennsylvania or Mrs.
G. Wallace w. Hanger Of Washing
ton, d. c., or Mrs. William Cumming
Story, or some dark horse" as yet
being groomed for the office OF pres
ident general behind veil OF secrecy?
These are the questions antmatlng
the delegates. Tomorrow Will bring
the answer.
Quietly and unostentatiously. state
delegations have been holding meet
ings for the past few days. at which
delegates talked of many things. .
These state meetings in the past-and
in every probability in the present
have been scenes for the discussion
, Of voting on candidates for national
Offices. They resemble political eau
Gus meetings at which plans are laid
e 4 ~ lll =
along certain lines. Yesterday the
delegations from Vermont. Georgia.
California, Texas. North Carolina, Ar
kansas and Kentucky gathered.
Among the well known members OF
Mary Sawyer Foote-Thomas, a dele
gate from Saranac Chapter. D. A. r.
of New York. Mrs. Eoote-Thomas at
tended the first congress held in this
city during the early SOS as char
ter member Of the organization. She
will be recalled by many OF the pio-
neer members Of the d. a. r. as for
mer vice president general during the
adninistra ton Of the late President
| General Mrs. A. F. Stephenson. when
f: she served on the revolutionary relics
| committee and the committee on Sc
| lection of medals to the founders Of
| the order. Mrs. Foote-Thomas also
was the first corresponding secretary
/ of the Children OF the American ReEo-
| luton, appointed by its founder. Mrs.
| Daniel Lothrop of Concord. Mass.
[ Her number in the organization is
1852" and at present the member
| numbers run we'll above the 10000
mark. In the Order of Founders and
| Patriots she is also a charter mem
! ber, with her organization number
being "4." Her great-grandfather was
! Lieut. Col. Eph. Sawyer OF Lancaster.
who fought with five sons during the
revolution, from Lexington to York
| town.
Mrs. Bun Wylie. regent of the At
! lauta Chapter, and Mrs. Charles +.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
d. A. r. Program Tomorrow

MORNING SESsON-10 O'Clock
Congress Called President General Mrs George Maynard
General selden
General John
Livingston l. Hunter chairman
Of
Mississippi Virginia. Maine vermont and South
Recess o'clock,
AFTERNOON SESSION. O'Clock.
Island Missouri, Arkansas and South Dakota
Music Mrs William H. McCervey,-
benjamin
Maryvie College Miss Clemmie J: Henry
Schauhier Training school Mrs Mary Wooster Mills"
A. r r. NJ. Grafton.
SESSIONS O'Clock
A.
Gifts
Washington District
amesM NJ. Beck, tor
Repor IT'S Of II.
Evening star., 1923-04-18

iLOnllnU6u from + lTSl f6Re.p
for them to make a nonstop flight
from New York to San Diego, Calf.
Commenting on their record at San
Diego last night, he said the flight
would be made 80 that you can give
your home boys the home welcome
they deserve"
4 OF 735 gallons of gasoline in the TT
When the flight started, but ten gal
Ions remained when the ship landed.
The low-compre Ssion Liberty motor
functioned perfectly throughout the
Test. both flyers declared in conversa-
lions with officials last night.
Clyde Reitz. mechanic at McCook
Field, who groomed the To for the
hight, in another plane Yesterday flew
alongside the tt for several laps lis
tening for, any possible break in the
constant droning OF the motor. When
Reitz landed he said that MacReady
had stood up in the cockpit of the
Ahip and signaled that the motor was
working fine
=: Both Old Flyers
Both Lieuts. Kelly and MacReady
are flyers of long experience. During
tho past year Kelly has flown more
than 10000 miles in cross-country
trips. and during his service with the
aviation branch he has instructed
of flight.
He is al present chief test pilot at
McCook Field. He was born in Grove
City. Pa. and attended college in his
native state. Lieut.. Kelly enlisted in
the air service during the time of the
Lieut.. MacReady was born in San
Diego, Calf, thirty-four years ago
He is graduate Of Stanford Univer-
.Sity. and. like Lieut.. Kelly. entered
The air service during the war
-: Was Prizefghter.
He has been at different times a
cattle man and miner in Arizona He
IS a boxer OF note. having held the
lightweight championship of the Pa
cific coast for three years. He is the
holder of the world altitude record,
having reached height of $4,000 feet
in 1921.
Lieut.. MacReady is now attending
the engineering school at McCook
Field. He was formerly in charge of
the fight section at the post.
The first ENDURANCE trip made by
October S and 6 Of last year. ex-
Geeded all forrn<r records The flight
lasted thirty-five hours and eighteen
minutes. but was not classed as an
official record because no representa-
tive of the Federated Aeronautique
Internationale witnessed it.
The cross-country flight made by
the same two fiiers November and
4 last, established a new record. when
2.o18 miles were covered without a
stop, although the goal in New York
was not reached. The start was made
at San Diego and the landing made
at Schoenf1eld, Ind, where they were
forced down because Of a cracked
water jacket, which exhausted the
water supply and caused the motor
to become oyerheated.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
CHURCHMAN URGES
WAR AGAINST REDS
Cardinal Mercier, Heroic Bel.
gian PreIate, Asks League
to Take Action.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1s.-Cardinal
Mercier of Belgium, heroic prelate of
the world war, has written Columbia
the official magazine of the knights
of Columbus, suggesting that the
league Of nations start an interna-
tional crusade against the Russian
soviets to wipe out barbarism and
safeguard civilization.
In four years" wrote Cardinal
Mercier, the world war moved down
l believe, ten millions of human lives
In little more than that time boil
shevist socialism has sacrificed from
twenty to thirty millions.
Suggests No Means.
TT is not for me to suggest the
means whereby the red bands shall
be disal med and the legion of honor
recruited which shall undertake the
magnificent task Of pacifying Russia
and 1 surmise that If such a bold
suggestion should reach the ears of
the civil or military heads some OF
them would find it inopportune OF
unstrategic.
"Assuredly it is very beautiful to
assemble in a pacific convention the
means of preventing future violations
OF right and eventually to suppress
them. but while awaiting the posi-
bllittes of the future would it not be
wise to be concerned with the reality
OF the present? Would not the league
or nations win universal confidence al
one stroke IL 1t succeeded in opening
an international crusade against tht
barbartsm OF the soviets for the safe
guarding of our age-old civilization?
Threatens Europe.
THE war exhausted the finances
and perhaps also the reserve energies
Of the great nations Of Europe an6
the new world. otherwise it would ht
inexplicable that our heroic Belgium
France and Poland. Italy, Great Brit
In and the United States of Amer
lea, both peoples and governments
should look on without an GU AIrs1
OF Indignation and action at the i'm,
notation of their generous ally o,
yesterday and allow hordes of bri.
gands. led by an international band
to experiment in blood, pillage anc
sacrifice with their mad dream OF
communism, and to agree to impose
1t on the world by means of cannon
and rifles. to threaten Poland and Ru.
| mania for tomorrow and for the da,
after, perhaps, European civilization.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
Minor, quieted the delegates In mo-

Minor, quieted the delegates In mo-
ment
One woman in the gallery became
i'll as a result of the incident, but she
was revived and later left without as
distance. Most of the delegates on
the floor did not know she had been
i'll and there never was any danger
of a. panic
Last night Mrs. Minor and the in
cumbent officers generally received IN
Memorial Continental Hall. More
than 5000 persons are estimated to
have been in the line that passed be-
fore the receiving party and it took
three hours for them to pass the
president general. 1t was the social
eyent Of the congress and Memorial
Continental Hall was blaze of lights
until after midnight.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
Popular Prescriptions.
From the Cincinnati Ennnirer

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
do you still have as much trouble
in deciphering doctors prescriptions
as you used tor" asked the friend.
"Oh. no." replied the druggist, I'VE
hardly look at them any more. Most
all Of them now call for the same
thing"
Evening star., 1923-04-18

A new Silesian building material is
made from turf, which Is cut into
strips, fitted into a wooden frame and
given hardening and retaining coat
ing of cement and chalk The wall
produced is said to give greater re-
sistance than concrete to heat and
dampness.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
Diplomacy.

From the New York Sun.
THE boss has invited me to play
! golf with him next Saturday.
I rs he a good player"
Hes going to think he is before
! the day is over"
Evening star., 1923-04-18
Excited by Smoke.

One untoward incident occurred
during the course Of the service, when
| smoke from a fiashlight picture in the
basement Of Memorial Continental
Hall seeped into tho auditorium.
When several women rose anxiousIy
from their seats fireman at the
front door laughingly told the dele
gates what had happened. This, to-
gether with the assurance OF Mrs.
Evening star., 1923-04-18
MOVIE MONOPOLY
is CHARGED BY U. S,

,e,ontinued from First Pagel
Evening star., 1923-04-18
TWO FLYERS BREAK
{: SIX WORLD RECORDS

tContinued from First PageD
Evening star., 1923-04-18

Mrs. Bun Wylie. regent Of the At
lanta Chapter, and Mrs. Charles +.