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Evening star., 1923-12-27
Childhood Hope to Be Diplomat
Wood Flyer Basis, Says Brother

holidays and play around with folks
in the diplomatic service"
1t was then. no doubt. that Os-
borne decided definitely that he want
ed to enter the diplomatic service.
But there was the money problem to
be considered. A private fortune is
absolutely necessary to keep up the
social obligations attendant upon
such post. And Gen. Wood, having
devoted his life to the Army. didn't
have the money to stake his son in
kis chosen field
So while Leonard, jr., was incoming
over poetry in college Osborne was
studying the stock market-for he
had already decided how to get the
money. At last--ten thousand miles
from Wall street. serving on his fa-
Tiers staff in Manila-0sborne Wood
saw his chance. He cabled an order
to New York broker. Then another.
And another. His fortune grew until
the size of the money transfers be-
tween Manila and New York began
to excite attention.
The War Department investigated.
II found nothing to censure. Lieut..
Wood was merely exercising his in
alienabie right to make money. Sec
retary Weeks. however. communicated ID
with Gen. Wood and the latter advis-
ed his son to quit. He was glad to
for he had piled up between 100000
and 100000.
He plans to resign from the Army
shortly and will come to Washington
in February to study the arts Of di-
plomacy.
II think he will make good in his
chosen field" says Leonard. jr. "Os-
borne has a very pleasing personality
and is liked by older men as well as
young fellows. During fathers cam
paign for the presidency Osborne act
ed as his secretary. and made manv
friends by the tactful way he handled
visitors to headquarters"
This supremely lucky young man
married the daughter of ii. b. Thomp-
son of Delaware. and has one son,
Leonard, Sd. ,one year old.
Evening star., 1923-12-27
ENGAGEMENT OF PRINCE
TO U. S. GIRL ANNOUNCED
Danish King Consents to Publica-
tion of Betrothal of Son
and New Yorker.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, December 27.-
King Christian today consented to
public announcement of the engage
ment of his young kinsman, Prince
Liggo and Miss Eleanor Margaret
Green, daughter of DR.. j. o. Green
Of New York city.
Miss Green, who is a granddaurhter
of the late Mr.. and Mrs Abram s.
Hewitt, and a great granddaughter of
Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper I'm
ion, spent several months in Copen-
hagen last year as the guest of the
American minister and his wife.
Prince Viggo, the fourth son of
Prince valdemar. uncle of King Chris
tian and count Of Rosenberg, cele-
brated his thirtieth birthday on
Christmas day. 1t is learned that
prior to the public announcement Of
his engagement Viggo relinQuished
all possible claims of succession to
the throne and will no longer be ad-
dressed as his royal highness; from
today he will he officially known as
Prince Viggo, Count of Rosenberg.
His bride will be styled Princess Wig
GO, Countess of Rosenberg, and any
Issue from the union will be known
as counts or. countesses of Rosenberg
without the prefix of prince and prin-
cess.
Evening star., 1923-12-27

ward the stamping out of the menace
which the knights of the Ku KluN
Khan has become through the prosti-
tuition of it's high purposes, ideals
and principles by those who are
either undesirous or incapable OF
controlling the situation from inside
the Klan.
Il purpose to Immediately issue
proclamation to RlanSmen calling
the better element of the Klan to
take heed of the situation and recog
nize it's seriousness and TO either
take hold and remedy the existing
evils and remove from the nation the
menacing aspect of the Klan or else
to meet in national assemblage and
disband the organization.
Most respectfully yours,
edward YOUNG CLARKE.
80 Imperial Giant.
knights of the Ku Klux Khan
A statement by Mr.. Clarke that
leaders of the khan were here in
Washington preparing to fight his
actions was emphatically denied by
the local klan ,chieftain, w. o. Jones.
Mr.. Jones stated that he had heard
nothing about the rumored visit OF
H. w. Evans and other national lead
ers of the order, and If it were SO
he would have been notified.
Investigating a rumor from an
other source that the Klan leaders
were holding a meeting at one OF the
city's large hotels, it was found that
none of the names of the gentlemen
from Atlanta was on the hotels peEs
lister.
Evening star., 1923-12-27
FEDERALs CAPTURE TOWN.
Rebels Reported in Retreat After
Severe Losses.
By the Associated Press.
Moo Ec r-i-


NOGALES. Ariz., December 21.-
Two thousand federal soldiers under
Gen Lxazaro Carenes, marching from
the interior of Mexico to the rebel
stronghold at Guadalajara- capital
of Jalisco, made their first contact
with the rebel army yesterday at
Tamaoula, capturing the town after
|repelling the enemy with severe
losses, according to official govern
ment a,1vices received here tonight
The defeated rebel troops were
part of the army under the command
of Gen. Enriquez Estrada
Capture 200 Prisoners.
The victorious government forces
captured 200 prisoners and are pur-
suing the rebels toward Guadalaja jara.
according to the advices which were
receiyed from President Obregon. who
is commanding the Jalisco offensive.
There We're many casualties the ad-
vices added
While the Obregon army marches
on Guadalajara from the southeast.
federal troops from Tepic, Nayarit,
are intrenched at the Jalisco-Nayarit
frontier in half-moon form. BY this
means the government hopes to halt
| a. retreat of the insurrectionists to-
ward the west coast if the Obregon
army succeeds in driving them from
| Guadalajara.
President Obregon is making head
quarters at Irapuato, in Guana1uato
during the campaign. 1t was stated
. in the advices.
Evening star., 1923-12-27
SC|ENCE-REL|G|ON
CONFLICT DENIED
Smithsonian Official Tells
Fellow Scientists Their
Work EnricheS Life.

nv the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. December 21.-There
is no conflict between science and re-
ligion. DR.. Charles y. Walcott. presi-
dent of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, declared
here today. Although believer in
the theory of evolution, DR.. Walcott,
here for the convention of his or
ganization. says that scientific dis
coveries may well be reconciled with
religious beliefs.
Dr.. Walcott. member of Pres
byterian church at Washington, d. C..
as one of a group of scientists who
signed a declaration that there need
lie no disbelief of religion because or
the discoveries OF scientists.
Science enriches and ennobleS
human life rather than detracts from
IT. beauty. the scientist believes.
lit discloseS the beauties of nature,
of man and of art. and adds TO the
JOY of existence" he declares.
The theory of evolution is borne
out strongly by the :tudE of fossils.
according to pr. Walcott. "One of
the best illustrations is the progres
sive development Of skeletons of
vertebrates through millions Of
years, from lower to higher forms.
eliminating in the nan-lihe ANIMALS.
the chmpanZee and gorilla. anu
finally in primitive man. as disclosed
by remains found in ancient caves
OF central Europe" he declared.
Scientists OF the United States and
Canada were in Cincinnati today for
the opening of the seventy fifth ami
>ersary meeting of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science.
DIR. WalCott. secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution. presided. DR..
Walcott's term as president will con-
tinue until the next meeting in 1928.
when he will be succeeded by mem
her of the association to be elected
during the present convention.
Evening star., 1923-12-27
ASSASSIN'S BAD AIM
SAVES JAPAN'S REGENT

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and conflicting reports which are ex-
tant. police have threatened to sup
press newspapers publishing news of
the incident until an official state
ment has been issued.
The attack occurred while the prince
regent was on his way to a session of
the diet. The assailant used a cane
gun in firing at the automobile. The
windows of the machine were smashed
and the bullet narrowly missed the head
of the prince regent. He continued on
his way to the meeting of the diet, but
took refuge in the upper house of the
diet, composed Of peers. Later, he con-
vened the diet in ordinary session, with
customary ceremonies, after which he
returned to the imperial palace under
heavy guard.
Authorities Scent Plot
Authorities are conducting a rigid in
vestigation of the attempt on the prince
regents life They are of the opinion
that others may be implicated fin a
plot to assassinate Hirohito.
Viscount Tamemori Iriye. member of
the house of peers and chief chamber
lain to the prince regent, who was ac-
cOUlpdllylIlS MIN III the dulOHlODlle, was
slightly injured when he was cut by a
fragment of broken glass.
When Hirohito appeared in the
upper house Of the diet there was no
indication apparent that anything un-
toward had occurred. The prince re-
gent read a speech to the members of
the house in 4 calm voice and then
retired.
Visitors. at the session were not al
lowed to leave the building until the
regent had departed on his way back
to the imperial palace. None of those
present at the session which he ad-
dressed were aware of the shooting,
and when news of the attempted as
sassination became known they ex-
pressed the highest admiration for
the manner in which. he had con-
Quoted himself.
The Prince Regent Hirohito has
been in the public eye in Japan con-
siderable during recent months as a
result of his work in directing re-
lconstruction after the earthquake and
plans for his wedding, on February 6,
to Princess Masako Kuni-No-M Miya,
which was sanctioned formally in
June, 1922.
Hirohito. eldest son of Emperor
Yoshihito, was proclaimed crown
prince in 1912. and was appointed re-
gent in November. 1921, on account
of the illness of the emperor.
Evening star., 1923-12-27
oBREGoN TROOPS RETIRE.
Move at Vera Cruz Laid to Fear
of Flank Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AsSoclaHeu fItSs-
VERA CRUZ, December 21.-The
federal troops have withdrawn to
Apizaco, on the Mexican railway line,
about seventy miles east of the CAPT.
tai, according to information received
at revolutionary headquarters here.
This fact, it was asserted. changes the
situation radically on the Vera Cruz
front.
A correspondent with the column
of Gen. Villanueva on the Inter
oceanic railway, with headquarters
at Oriental, in a dispatch says. the
Obregon advance posts at San Mar
cos began to withdraw after slight
skirmishes with the pursuing rebel
forces.
After this message had been re-
ceived, news was received at revolu-
tionary headquarters of the with
drawai of the whole of the Obregon
force to Apizaco, leaving the road
free. 1t is believed, however. that
the retreating troops cut the rail-
way line at some places.
The withdrawal of the federal
troops is believed here to have been
due to the danger of the flank move
ment startd three days ago by Gen
Maycotte, with forces coming from
the state of Oaxaca+
Evening star., 1923-12-27
DR.. H0LLER MAKES BOND
TO APPEAR FOR TRIAL

DR.. Helmuth p. HoIler. president of
the Oriental University, against whom
warrant was issued two weeks ago
by the District Commissioners charg-
ing him with operating a university
without authority of law and confer
ring degrees of doctor of medicine and
dental surgeon, voluntarily appeared
today in the Office of Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Frank w. Madigan
and gave a hood of $500 for his ap-
pearance in court when wanted.
After the warrant had been placed
in the hands of the police. they were
unable 10 locate DIR. Holler, and no ar
rest was made. DR.. Holler is repre-
sented by Attorneys O'Brien & O'Brien.
Evening star., 1923-12-27

ffadiway fay system which hauls no
freight and transports passengers
principally from street to street,
within the city of Washington" the
commission said. I'VE believe this
Transportation system falls within
the class of street railways excluded
from the act under the decision in
the Omaha case
Osborne 1. Yellott, John S. Bar
bour and s. r. Bowen appeared for
stephens and Conrad H Syme ap-
peared for the Public Utilities of the
District. The American Electric
Railway Association and the National
Association of Railway and Utilities
commissioners intervened and were
represented by Charles L. Henry and
John E. Benton and Carl D. jackson.
Points in Authority Law.
Under the acts Of Congress author
izing the Washington Railway and
Electric Company to operate. the COM
missions decision said, the company
was authorized to operate by cleo
tricity lines of railway along certain
named streets, avenues and roads
from points in Washington, D. c.. to
points in Maryland, and was given
the power Of eminent domain and
the right to contract with and ae-
quire control of certain other electric
lines in the District of Columbia and
Maryland.
In these acts, the commission added,
this company, while generally refer
red to merely as a railway, is with
the other lines referred to as Street
railway companies" and it is provided
that no steam cars, locomotives or
passenger or other cars for steam
railways shall ever be run over the
tracks of the railway within the Dis
trict of Columbia"
or the total revenues of-the system
99.3 per cent is from the transporta-
tion of passengers, while only 81 per
cent of the total revenues is from
Transportation outside Of the District.
salaries carry SnOs freight, although
there is trackage arrangement be-
tween the company and the Washing
ton, Baltimore and Annapolis for
transportation of freight in cars Of
tia lattes COMPANY A..
Evening star., 1923-12-27
NOT TO WE'D MISS KING.

CINCINNATI. Ohio, December 27.-
Carl wiedemann of Newport, KY.
owner of the Sterling race horse In
Memoriam, has denied that he and
Miss Allyn King, former star Of
Ziegfield Follies, would wed.
81 am neither married nor engaged
to be married. I am still a member
of the Bachelors Club
reports that he and Miss King would
BE- margied, ....,sss.s.a-..-..-.- !. !.
Evening star., 1923-12-27

Fall said. and comprised at least 40
separate parcels of land. The vari-
ed composition of the whole area was
causes Of his troubles regarding
taxes y : ~,
The, officials, of Otero county. he
satd,, attempted tos assess him on the
full value of the whole tract as I'm
proved land" as well as upon the
value of the improvements. 5s
His opposition to this assessment,
he continued, was finally upheld in
the courts. The legal fight over taxes
began in 1912. according to Mr.. FalFs
statement, and was finally settled in
1922, when he paid all back taxes on
the basis for which he had been con-
tending 49,
Evening star., 1923-12-27
VILLAS SLAYER JAILED.
Court Upholds Twenty-Year Sem
tence for Assassination.

JUAREZ, Mexico, December II
The twenty-year sentence of Con-
gressman Jesus Salas b, confessed
slayer of Francisco Villa, has been
sustained by the supreme court OF
tGhihuahua City according to infor-
nation received by former Villistas in
Juarez. Congressman Salas E was
tried and sentenced in the court at
Parral, where Villa was assassinated.
Gov. Raynaldo Talavara will be
asked to pardon the congressman
Evening star., 1923-12-27
TUCKER'S BRIDE ILL.
Trial of 17-Year-old Husband and
. Wife, 4s, to Be Deferred.

RIDGEF1ELD PARK, N. J.. Decem-
Der 27.-Mrs. Burton s. Tucker. forty
eight-year-old birdie, is reported i'll
at the home OF friends.
Her trial and that Of her seventeen
year-old husband on charges of per-
jury in connection with their first
marriage last October will probably
be deferred until after New Years,
1t is said.
They were remarked last week
at Carthage N c.
Evening star., 1923-12-27
|. c. c. DENIES 1T CAN
FIX RULES FOR CAR
LINE DEPRECIATION

Continued from First Pare
Evening star., 1923-12-27
INJUSTICE OF PROPERTY
TAX ON AUTOS SHOWN
IN A. A. A. Statement

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new MOVE FOR PEACE
IN MEXICAN UPRISING
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clauses are amended. Another attempt
at holding a regular meeting will be
made tomorrow.
Evening star., 1923-12-27
HATRED OF AMERICA
FLAMES IN CHINA,
BOYCOTT LOOMING

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Evening star., 1923-12-27

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Street improvements l9060o 2335O0
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II BURNED TO DEATH
AS FIRE RAZES INSANE
ASYLUM IN ILLINOIS

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Evening star., 1923-12-27
FALL DECLARES MCLEAN
LENT HIM 100000;
SINCLAIR MAY TESTIFY

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Table e..

number
to
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Evening star., 1923-12-27
Motor Vehicle Receipts
Of d. C.. in 1923 Tabulated

vehicle registrations and
Evening star., 1923-12-27

Returns GO FlSnt.
1T is after an absence of six or
eight months, made necessary by or
ders of my physician to rebuild my
health. that / return to- find that the
active membership of the Klan has
changed. certainly in some states if
not in all, from men OF the type who
listened to and applauded the sentl-
ments expressed above in Pennsyl-
troll. whose energies apparently are
directed to participation in whipping
na rites. threats and character ASSIST
nation and the formation of political
machines.
I'm the face Of this condition and
as an American citizen and having
taken a solemn oath as a hansman,
and as the builder Of the Khan and
the leader Of the former controlling
element in the Khan, whose aims and
ideaIs were and still are the same as
outIired above in this communica-
tion 7 feel that / can do no less than
come to YOU as the supreme head of
our government and, speaking for
mvseIf and the hundreds of thousands
of magnificent men who followed my
lead and who came into the organiZa- :
ticn because of the proclamation of
its high ideals and principles and
purposes, and tender to you any
assistance in my power toward fore
ing the laawless element out of the
Klan, TINS permitting it to, function
as intended as a high-tone charac-
ter-building active fraternal organi-
cation. or, this being impossib1es to-
The Washington times., 1923-05-02
ELKToN MARRYING PARSoN
MAY SET NUPTlAL RECORD

ELKTON, Md, May AT the
rate he has been going this year
the Rev: Daniel F. Lockerbie, Elk
toms marrying parson, will. have
tied the knot for $500 couples at
the end of the year and shattered
all known marrying records, resi-
dents here believe.
The Rev. Mr.. Lockerbie, who de-
scribes himself as a free lance
clergyman. is eighty-three years old
and formerly was a Presbyterian
minister, Last week he married
most of the 104 couples from Mary
land, Pennsylvania, New York, Della
ware, Virginia, and elsewhere, who
came here for the ceremony.
The businesslike way in which the
Rev. Mr.. Lockerbie conducts his
profession is believed to have some
thing to do with his record
1t is said that he has come to
an agreement with the bus drivers
in whose hands the would-be newly
weds first fall.
The Washington times., 1923-05-02
THEATER TRUST
BEFORE HIGH
COURT
Monopoly in Two-a-DayAIleged
10 Suit by New York vaude-
vile Agent.
international News Service.

Vaudeville shows were on the
carpet before the United States
Supreme Court today to determine
if an alleged monopoly exists in
the two-a-day theater world.
The case before the nations
highest tribunal arose from suit
brought in the New York Federal
District Court, and subsequently
dismissed, by Max Hart, represent
ing vaudeville acts, against various
play exchanges, charging them with
conspiracy to unlawfully restrict
competition. The parties named
were the B. f. Keith Vaudeville
Exchange, Orpheum Circuit, Excel
sior Collection Agency, Maurice
Goodman and Harry w. Gugler,
Edward F.. Albee and Fred F..
Proctor.
Judge j. w. Mack of the New
York Federal District Court, dis
missed Harris complaint on the
ground that it did not come under
the antitrust laws. Hart then APP
pealed to the United States Su.
preme Court.
Hart charged the respondents
with agreeing among themselves
and with others to control bookings
for theaters, to refuse bookings to
theaters not booking through them.
blacklisting theaters and personal
representatives of theater owners
or act owners swho failed or re-
fused to book through them.
The suit brought an array Of
legal talent for the arguments be-
fore the Supreme Court. Hart was
represented bY Louis d. Eppstein,
Lawrence III. Axman, Ira w. Hirsh.
field and Martin w. Littleton, all
of New York. The case of the de-
PENDANT respondents was stated by
United States Senator George
Wharton Pepper of. Pennsylvania,
Maurice Goodman, Edward e. Nc
Call, Charles H. Studin, J. Henry
Walters and William r. s. Hart of
New York.
The Washington times., 1923-05-02
NO MAN s LAND
Of NEVADA
REAL
State Has $500 Square Miles
So Barren Even Rabbits Can
not Live on Them.
BY international News Service.

TONOPAH, New, May 2. mo
Mans Land has been found in
Southeastern Nevada.
Twenty-Five hundred square miles
of territory of area greater than
the entire State of Delaware, with
the District of Columbia thrown in
to plug up the corners, contains
not a road, trail or a track. No
person is known to have crossed
this barren waste of lava beds and
only a few prospectors and geolo-
gists have skirted it's edges.
One of these few is Frank w.
Rapp, who recently returned from a
ten-weeks' geological expedition into
Forty-Mile Canyon, just north of
the desolate area in Nye county.
THE country is without vegeta.
ton of any sort and completely de-
void of water" Rapp said. mot
The Washington times., 1923-05-02
&c RMAN CLAIM
FOR RADIO
II" "H"
BUNK
Impossible to Force Planes
Down by wireless, Navy
Experts Declare.

The claim of German scientists
that they have discovered a method
of forcing down airplanes by WIRE
less was today termed pure bunk"
by RADIO experts of the Navy De-
partment.
During the war. it was said, an
American inventor laid before the
Government similar plan. With a
motor generator and transformer
hooked up, to a radio aerial at the
Bureau of Standards the aerial was
charged with 100000 volts of cleo
trical energy.
The inventor claimed when air.
planes passed over the aerial suffi-
ficient electrical waves would be set
in motion that the magnetic of the
airplane could not Withstand the
electrical bombardment and the
motor would Ego dead."s The ex-
pertinent failed.
The Washington times., 1923-05-02
MATADoR TRIES SUICIDE
AS CROWD CHEERS BULL

MExICALI, Lower CAL, May o.
Francis Peres Barcelona, matador
of Mexico City and Barcelona,
Spain. was badly gored by wild
bull imported from Sonora at bull
fight here Sunday.
Chagrined by his failure to defeat
the animal. Rivera, it was said, at
tempted to commit suicide in the
ring, according to reputed matador
custom, but was prevented by plea.
.dores. They diverted the attacks
of the bull from Rivera.
Spectators wildly cheered the sue.
cess of the bull. Riveras condi.
ton is said to be serious.
The Washington times., 1923-05-02
Climbs In Wild Lion
Den, Pets Beast, And
Paws $40 Fine

History almost repeated it.
self at the Ringing Brothers,
Barnum & Bailey circus Mon
day when Walter Fletcher,
a spectator, sought to Guido
the Daniel in the Lions Den
episode.
Climbing over the ropes that
separate the wary public from
the widest African animals"
Fletcher is alleged to have
sprinted to the lions cage and
lavished his caresses upon that
beast.
Astonished at the impromptu
performance, the animal lay in
its cage and blinked every time
Fletcher stroked it's head.
In Police Court yesterday it
was found that the pseudo
Daniel had INDUCED in too
much ''high spirits" Judge
Mcmahon took $40 for the act.
The Washington times., 1923-05-02

even a sagebrush jackrabbit can
live there"
One hundred miles from Tonopah
and thirty miles from Beatty, the
nearest town, the closest approach
is by way of Indian, Springs over
seventy-five' miles of rough roads
that end in nowhere. The unex-
plored region is inclosed by the
Shoshone range on the east, Timber
mountains on the west and south,
and the Belted range and the
Pahute Mesa to the north.
1t is known as the widest spo'
in Nevada.