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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
Huerta Commission Is
En- Route to Capital
to Tell Rebel Cause

VERA CRUZ, Dec. ga revoIu-
tionary commission, appointed by
Adolfo de Ia Huerta, leader Of the
Mexican revolt, is en- route to WASH
ington to present the cause OF the
rebels, it was announced today.
The commission, headed by Juan
Lopez, sailed yesterday for New Or
leans on the steamship Nicaroa and
Virginia. 1t will proceed to Wash.
ington Immediately upon arrival at
New Orleans.
Revolutionary headquarters here
announced two important victories
over the federals and declared that
Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez, rebel
generalissimo, ''is so encouraged
over the situation" that he has
ordered an immediate offensive on
the Esperanza and Oriental fronts.
Oregon forces suffered defeat in
an attempt to recapture PueblaY
according to revolutionary head
quarters. General Alor commanded
the Huerta forces.
Capture of a provision train at
Laguna, a small town between San
Luis Potosi and Saltillo, is also
claimed by the rebels who say
officials of the train and the fed
eral guard were also taken prisoner.
General Sanchez has issued a
proclamation against private per-
sons possessing arms or anmunt'
ton in the occupied areas" thus
minimizing the danger OF capture
Of the arms by enemies.
Revolutionary advices also report
the defeat of the federals in an at
tempt to recapture ManZanilla un-
der protection of cruisers. They
met complete defeat at the. hands
Of General Estrada, it is claimed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
L'AIGLON CAFE OPENS
HERE NEW YEAR EVE

Washington's metropolitan night
life will gain impetus when with a
New Year Eve entertainment Mon
day night when the L'Aiglon Cafe,
at Eighteenth street and Columbia
road opens it's doors.
Many novel features have en-
tered into the policy of the estab.
lishment, notable among them be-.
Ing the designation of three nights
each week in which the public at
large is invited to dance as guests
OF the management without being
under obligation to dine. Another
novelty Is the elimination after the
New Year party Of all cover charges.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
81 MOROS DIE IN
BATTLE WITH
POLICE
Situation in Provinces Grows
Very Serious Upon
Deaths
Bx international News servlce

MANILA. Dec. 30. - Thirty-one
Moros were reported killed in a bat
tie with Filipino constabulary at
Malandu in Lanao today.
According to a report received here
a detachment of sixty constabulary
men attacked the Moros under Chief
Data, whose men had cut the tele-
phone wire between Malandu and
Camp Keithley. The Moros were
armed with spears and bolos and
were surrounded in an abandoned
Gotta.
No casualties were reported among
the constabulary. The fight has
famed the fires of enmity to greater
heights between the Moros and Fill
pinos and caused grave situation in
the Moro provinces.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
Worm Steals and Uses
"Stinging Threads" of
Hydras It Consumes

CINCINNATI, Dec. 29-Even the
1OWl1est insect, a worm known to
science as the "microstoma," has
implanted in it the instinct for self
preservation, and natural weapon
of defense against attack, according
to A. N. Caudell, of the National
Museum at Washington. He ad,
dressed the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, IN
session today.
He described the microstoma as
lacking complete alimentary canal,
and containing only two nerve CEN
tiers. Notwithstanding it's simple or
ganization, when this animal en-
counters a hydra, q small fresh
water polyp that possesses ''stinging
threads" like the sea nettle, the mi
crostoma discharges from its mouth
secretions that paalyze the hydra
before 1t can use it's singing
threads
The hydra, then swallowed within
the stomach of the microstoma, IS
digested except for the threads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
LIT TIE ACTORS
To PRESENT
Santa and the Fairy Queen"
Will Be Given by Johnson
Powell Children Tonight.
NEWS REEL
By SYLVIA SEDGEWICK.

THE Mask Club" Centrals stu
dent alumni dramatic association,
has been in existence only since last
spring. Those Centralites who OBJ
tanned dramatic diplomas are per-
mitted to join automatically, and
those who were left out may go
and prove their Thespian worth.
The titles of the officers form a
pleasing diversion. They are
Czarina (president) Mary Crowley,
Devils Disciple (vice president)
Marceline Gray, Servant in the
House (secretary- treasurer) Dorothy
Laterner, Betty Clark.
There are thirty-two members,
twenty of whom are alumni and
who took part in the reunion pro.
gram in December.
The expression and dancing class
of johnson Powell community will
entertain Santa and the Queen Of
the Fairies in the community house
tonight. The play, called Santa
and the Fairy Queen" was written
by Mrs. A. F. Bogue.
The children who are to take part
In the play and entertainment are
Marguerite Bogue, Wilton Baker,
Priscilla Bogue, Laura Marley,
Marion and Dorothy Wynell, Joe
Eileen Rudrick, Sarah Jane Oar
nell, Alvina Roessler, Bertha Mon
tame, Regina Gutenberg, Leonore
Rosenthal, LinwoOd and Robert
Walters, Ernest Sout, Jimmie May
nard, Joseph Bendheim, Herbert
Rich, Paul Ward, Dalton Hall,
Charles Clagett.
Miss A. E. Ready will have
charge Of New Year dance to be
held in the recreation hall Of the
community house tonight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
Y. w. c. A. HAS 50, POI, 900
IN NEW YORK CITY REALTY

NEW YORK. Dec. 29.-The Young
Women's Christian Association of
New York is planning to build a
modern dormitory for young colored
women in Harlem, it was made
known in the supreme court, when
the association got permission from
Justice Burr to sell a building now
used as living quarters for colored
women for $4,000, and to apply
the proceeds to a modern structure.
The association states that it's
remaining real estate is worth $4,
1876, 900 and it's personal property is
valued at 1913. The associa-
ton has debts OF $500, 943, of which
$413,S00 is in mortgages on it's prop
ertV
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
MEETING
URGEDFOR
1924
Howard University Secretary
Urges Conference to Unity
Conflicting Organizations.

Plea that a negro Sanhedrin or
all-race conference be held at Chi.
cago during the week of February
IL, attended by representative
negroes from all over the country
and representatives of all organiza
tons was made here today by Kelly
Miller, secretary of the Howard
University.
Miller also recalled that he made
this same suggestion at the outset
Of 1923 and that the lack of such
gathering during this year has
resulted IN negro affairs becoming
''entangled' and brought on an
"ominous time
He recalls the Ku Klux Khan,
the negro migration northwards.
the defeat of the Dyer bill and the
agitation growing out Of the Gar.
Vey movement and the Tuskegee
tangle as disquieting Developments
to the negro during 1923.
Urges Thought On PROPOSAL.
THE plans of the Sanhedrin," he
continues, ARE more fundamental
and far reaching than anv project
set forth since the reco a truction
enactments. Let us not indulge in
vain promises and wild prophesies
which are apt to characterize new
movements, but rather let us in
vite a careful consideration of the
aims, object and method of the
Sanhedrin proposal. and let each
one reach his own deliberate con.
clusion."
Six civil rights organizations have
Joined in the issuance Of the cali
for the negro Sanhedrin, the ar,
rangements being placed in the
hands Of a committee whose plans
and details are shortly to be an.
nnMnced
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
SURVIVORS Of
D|XMUDEA ARE
SOUGHT
IsIets of Mediterranean Scour-
| ed-No Trace Of DirigibIe
Found.
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Lieut.. Comdr. Duplessis de Creme
dan, commander of the lost French
on a warship to Toulon, France, for
burial.
Fishermen living on the south
western coast Of Sicily, where the
commanders body was picked up
from the Mediterranean yesterday,
are searching for other bodies.
Search Of the clothing OF the
dead air officer failed to reveal any
documents which would throw light
upon the tragic loss of the great
dirigible
Face Was Mutilated.
The body was fully clothed except
for the cap. The face was mu.
tilated, which may have resulted
from impact with the water. There
were no bruises upon the body,
which discredits the belief reported
from Paris that the crew may have
mutinied, seized the commander
and thrown his body overheard.
Fishermen living at Sciacca, OIL
which port the body was picked up,
said the storm over the Mediterran-
can last Friday and Saturday was
one of extreme violence. They be-
lieve the airship could not have
weathered such q gale.
Search for wreckage and bodies
by fishermen has been intensified
by hope of reward. Fishing nets
are being drawn through the water
in hope of picking up corpses.
French seaplanes are cruising
over the sea in hope of sighting
Wreckage or bodies.
French and Italian wireless sta
lions are asking ships in the Medi-
terranean to keep sharp lookout
and to report Immediately If any
survivors are found
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
ORIGIN
THEORY|S
CHANGED
Mans Whole Conception Has
Been Wrong, DR.. Chamber
lin Tells Scientists.
Continued from First Page.)

(COntlnueC from First PaSe)
blotted out at any stage in the
earth's history, but that life
thereon was continuous process
even though scientists averred not
q single specimen was known to
have passed from the Paleozoic to
the MesoZoic age which gave q
basis for the old belief.
1.-THE evolution of the much
branched tree of life implies con-
tinuity in the conditions not only
hospitable to life in general, but to
each Independent branch of life after
it left its parent branch" he as
serted.
The new hypothesis, DIR. Chamber
lin said, assumed the earth never
passed through first the gaseous,
then the liquid and finally the solid
state, as biologists believed for a
long time.
Theory as to Heat.
"The theory is" said DR.. Chamber
lin, that the earth never passed
through gaseous and liquid states
and need not be built up of a series
of concentric shells of substances of
different weight. ALI attempts of
NHO S06lS|9 ~ CAPAdAA TIC AAdhAAS
OF the mountains and the ocean
basins are placed on a new basis by
this new theory
The internal heat of the earth, DIR.
Chamberlin declared, may be found
to be due to radioactive changes
taking place in sub-stratas Of the
worlds surface. The older geologic
theory held it was due to inheritance
from the days when the earth was d
fiery star.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
PRESIDENT AND PARTY
ON POTOMAC SAIL TO-DAY

President Coolidge's desire for
yachting trips down the Potomac
river was not dampened by the
fog week ago which held the
Mayflower in her slip at the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
Another cruise was planned for
this afternoon.
In addition to the President and
Mrs. Coolidge and their sons. John
and Calvin. jr., the guests were
Secretary Of the Navy and Mrs.
DENLY, the Assistant Postmaster
General and Mrs. Bartlett, former
Senator and Mrs. McCumber OF
North Dakota, Congressman and
Mrs. Kahn of California, Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, Director of
the Budget and Mrs. Lord and Mr..
and Mrs. Frank w. Stearns of
Boston.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
S1,893 IS Still
NEEDED FOR
CHARITIES
Opportunities Remaining Open
Total Six-Other Dona-
tons Listed.

Another OF the opportunities was
closed this morning. The fortunate
one is No. 10. This leaves but six
still open with amounts needed to
close ranging from $57.75 for No. Z
to $505 for No. 13. The other op-
portunities still open are 6, 9, II
and II. which need less than $400
each to provide their budgets for
the coming year.
Total receipts within the last
twenty-four hours for the Oppor-
tunity Fund amounted to $579 thus
reducing the balances needed to
$1,S93.14
One check for $500 was received
with permission to use it as the
Associated Charities thought best.
OF this sum 500 was applied for
the renewal of the annual gift Of
the donor to the general work OF
the Associated Charities, and the
balance $500 was divided evenly
among the opportunities still open
A check for 500 was received
from contributor who had already
given a similar sum for the general
work of the society.
The social service committee OF
the Mt. Pleasant Congregational
Church sent in a contribution OF
1921, Of which $50 was to redeem a
pledge already made and credited to
Opportunity No. IL. The balance
was in payment of Christmas din
ners and other features Of the So
ciety's work.
The situation up to noon today
was:
n
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
ALEXANDRIA 7 D
HAVE FA|RFOR
IS DAYS
FraternaI Orders Open Bazaar
in EIks' Hall on Janu-
airy 10.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec 90
The second annual fraternal fair
will be held in Alexandria for a
period of thirteen days, beginning
January IS, it was announced to-
day.
A large number Of the fraternal
organizations of this city partici-
pated in the last fair and it is ex-
pected a still larger number will
be represented this year. The fair
will be held in the Ek's Hall, and
the first night will be known as
''Elk's night" The band from the
Washington lodge of Elks will come
to Alexandria on that night.
Each fraternity participating will
have a booth decorted to show the
progress and the standards of its
own particular organization. Baby
contests, beauty contests, popularity
contests, and a music program for
each night will be the principal fea-
lures of the fair.
VIII Wilson, colored, was SEN
fenced to serve fifteen days in Jail
by Judge Duvall yesterday on the
charge of stealing a pair Of pants
from Thomas Rhecche. Following
his sentence, Wilson stated, it is
said, that he bought several bottles
OF liquor from Rhecche. A war.
rant was sworn out and Rhecche
was arraigned before Judge Duvall
this morning, who ordered him held
for the action of the grand jury
on charge of selling alcoholic
sp rits in violation of the State
prohibition law
J. Franklin Dyson, seventy-four
years old, one of Alexandria, oldest
merchants. who died at his home 2
O'Clock Thursday morning, was
buried this afternoon. The burial
took place from his home at 1OO4
Pr nee street. Interment was in
the Ivy Hill cemetery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
SHILOH CHURCH TO HOLD
WATCH NIGHT SERVICES

For the fifty-ninth consecutive
year Shiloh Baptist Church.
Strangers Home. will hold watch.
night services The founders of this
church brought the custom with
them from Fredericksburg, Va.
Beginning at 9 o'clock the services
will continue unit! fifteen minutes
after the beginning of the new year.
Music will consist of jubilee and
Isaac Watts hymns, testimonies of
Gods goodness and care during the
year just closing and q special ser.
mon by the pastor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
FATHER AND 2 CHILDREN
DROWN IN AUTO WRECK

WAYLAND, Mass, Dec. 29.-At
least three persons lost their lives
when an automobile, after collidinR
with two other cars on the State
highway here, plunged into the Sud.
bury river
The bodies Of Arthur Beaudeau.
OF Cambridge. owner Of the car,
and Of his SON had been recovered
from the river. A third victim
was believed to be Beaudeau's
daughter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
MEXICO REBELS
To SOCALRE
INDUSTRY
Jorge Prieto Eaurens, Chief OF
de la Huerta Party, Cables
Purpose Here.
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coed. 1t is practically certain that
Laurens would be made provisional
president of the Republic, pending
the holding of an election for the
elevation Of de "a HueFta to the
office.
Text Of Cablegram.
The text Of Senior Laurens' cable.t
gram, bearing. the imprint OF the
Provisional Government at Vera,
Cruz. IL translated as follows:
1.-THE present revolutionary move.
ment headed by AdoIfo de ii
Huerta, the true and tried friend
of the worker and champion OF
the socialist ideals, is directed
tempt to violate the popular xete
with the object of continuing their
spoliation of the rich vein which
has converted them into proprietors
OF large tracts of land, real estate
holdings and banking houses, as,
for instance, Rafael Nisto, the
pseudo socialist who a few years
ago was an obscure commercial
employee and now possesses a large
fortune acquired under the shadow
Of the revolutionary banner.
"The present Mexican movement
Of liberation is already taking steps
to distribute among the proletariat
the land holdings Of Gales, sObre-
gon, Nieto, and other Mexican land.
owners and bankers, as the object
of the revolution is the specialization
Of land and Instruments of produces
ton. The red workers are support.
ing our movement. -
Jorge Prieto Laurens, Chief of
the Bureau for Publicity and Social
Action"
Laurens Back Of Revolt.
The reference above to the viola
ton Of the popular vote" il to
Obregon's invalidation, on the
ground Of fraud, Of Laurens' cleo
ton to the governorship Of the
State of San Luis Potosi. It was
over this action Of the executive
that de Ia Huerta and Oregon
first split, the former rendering
his resignation as Secretary Of the
Treasury and later announcing
himself as the candidate for the
presidency Of Laurens' Coopera-
tfsta party. Laurens is generally
credited with having organized the
instruction, ready for de Ia
Huerta's purpose when they deemed
the declaration Of "A revolution
necessary He Is 40 young man..
about thirty, and recognized IN the
southern portion Of the Republic
and at the capital as shrewu
and ferceful politician.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29

The State Department received to-
day a copy Of resolutions recently
adopted by the American Chamber
of Commerce, in Mexico, urging
American business firms to resume
trade relations with Mexico. T.
The revolution in that country
according to the communication.
has temporarily congested freight
movements TO a certain extent, but
otherwise shipping facilities nave
not been seriously impaired.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
ARRESTS IN BIC
COUNTERFEIT
PLOT NEAR
East Is Flooded With Nearly
100000 in Spurious
$40 Notes.
BY International News Service.

CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-Im-
portant arrests, which will clear
up a counterfeiting plot held re-
sponsible for the placing of be-
tween 100000 and a million in
spurious $40 Federal Reserve
Bank notes, were expected today
by a picked squad of Federal
secret service men in Chicago.
Notes Spread In East.
The notes have been scattered
between the Eastern seaboard and
the Rocky mountains. Five arrests
already have been made, including
two here and one each in st. Paul,
MIMI, st. Louis, and Peoria, ILL.,,
though the names of but two of
the alleged conspirators have been
made public.
One Woman Caught.
The names of fourteen of the
note distributors have been learned.
The five under arrest include one
woman.
Mrs. Mae Sweeney was arrested
in st. Louis after a frantic taxi
cab shopping tour in which she
was said to have passed 200 of the
bad bills. Operatives said she still
had 1876 of them when arrested.
Under grilling she revealed that
her husband, Homer Sweeney, gave
her the bills. He was arrested in
Peoria, ILL.,, more Of the bills We're
recovered and the hiding place Of
another cache, buried near Chi
cago road house, was revealed.
Puzzled Three Months.
For three months operatives of
the Federal Secret Service from
Washington have been bewildered
by a flood of bad money reported
between New York and Omaha,
from Boston to Galveston, Federal
reserve notes, series 7-G, with the
portrait of Andrew Jackson.
The limitations are readily detect.
ed by a currency expert, but are
close enough, even to the silk
threads, to fool the inexperienced.
The sanity district board of Chi
cago was one of the victims, re-
ce.ving a whole packet of the noted,
whose character was not suspected
until the bogus bills were returned
by the bank.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
Fox Runs 80 Miles in Chase.

POTTSTOWN, Pa, Dec. 29.-Fif-
teen hunters and twenty-five hounds
participated yesterday in the first
fox hunt OF the season staged by
the Bellwood Hunt. A large, full
grown red fox was dropped on the
farm of Joseph Smith in North
Coventry. The fox ran thirty Inilaa
and was holed at Warwick,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
SHOES WITH INITIALS
is NEW LONDON FAD

LONDON. Dec. 29.-Initialed shoes
are women's latest fashion fad.
The initials are so designed that
they form the buckle Of the shoe.
They are made in gold and silver
tor wear during the day and IN
Jewels and enamel for evening
wear.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29
No SHIFTS,
GORDON
SAYS
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scarborough, Lamson an6 Morris
were linked up with the others.
These three are chosen because
they are said by the Government
agents to have been the ring lead
ers in the conspiracy.
United States Commissioner Mac
donald scoffed at the question "ls
there a list of customers in tho
papers seized in the raids?" He
said that to the best of his knowl-
edge there was q ne kind Of a list,
but that 1t COINED only about
fifteen or twenty names. You can
take my word for it. that there is
no such list as the papers have
been speaking about" he declared.
Oyster Answers Newton.
Commissioner James F. Oyster
today replied to the request of
Congressman Walter H. Newton of
Minnesota, who wrote him asking
for information on the conspiracy.
After pointing out that all the
evidence seized has been turned
over to the Treasury Department
officials, Commissioner Oyster wrote:
I'm this, and in all similar cases
where prosecutions are liable, 1t Is
the policy of the police department.
and in fact, its duty, to present all
facts within its knowledge to the
District Attorney through the
proper channel, and allow the Off
cial to be the judge as to what
Information should be made public.
cit is for that official to deter
mine whether or not evidence in
the hands of the enforcement Off
GERS should be disclosed, and, while
1t is always my desire to give you
any information that 1 may possess
about any given subject, this being
q criminal case l must be guided
by the instructions of the United
States Attorney for the District of
Columbia
''Silence Order Is Out"
That an order has gone out from
some high official forbidding discus
sion of the case with reporters was
learned emphatically today
In ali instances where a subordi-
nate was questioned he invariably
replied: ''See the chief" Assistant
District Attorney Presmont indicat-
ed that he had received a hint that
there was too much publicity" and
IN all his answers he either said that
he could not say, or he referred the
question to Major Gordon.
Previous to yesterday Presmont
was willing to talk freely VI h re-
porters about the case. He showed
no reluctance whatever in denounc-
ing anyone who said that he would
not prosecute those found guilty 10
the fullest extent.
Now, however, he steadfastly
sticks to the "order" to "say MOTH
Ing, and say little of that" The
an-powerful prominent officials and
high Government officers who are
said to have been customers have
been diligently at work in an effort
TO stop publication of the list Of
customers has succeeded in at least
stopping up all sources OF informa-
ton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-29

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