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Evening star., 1923-03-15
EXTRA RENT CHARGE
UNDER AMUSEMENT
Woman Guests at Govern
ment Hotels May Pay
"Under Protest"
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE
Increased Rates Of $3.50 a Month
Announced by Housing Corpora
tion, Effective Tomorrow.

Woman guests at the Government
Hotels may be instructed to pay the
increased rental charge of $3.50 per
month "under protest" when the new
charges become effective tomorrow, ii
was learned today. The Plaza Council
the organization of guests in the
hotels, met last night and appointed
committee of four, headed by Miss
1mogene Van Dalen, to Investigate
the increased charges and report
hack to a meeting of the council to be
held tonight or tomorrow. Robert
Watson, director of the United States
Housing Corporation, the holding
company operating the hotels, had not
been advised of the action of the
council today.
Says Action Is Expected.
Miss Martha Taylor. president of
the plaza council, said today that
while definite action on the sugges-
tion that the guests pay the increas-
ed charges under protest had not yet
been taken. action was expected to
be taken before the increase becomes
effective Friday. Miss Taylor said
the council represents a majority of
the guests at the hotels
The housing corporatio following
conference with officials of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. owner of
the property on which part of the
hotel project is located, announced an
increase in rates of $3.50 per month,
effective March 16.
Date of HnIf-Month Payment.
On that date advance rent tor the
last half of March is due. The in
creased rental charge. according to
Mr.. Watson. will be levied to raise
money 10 pay back charges on the
railroad property on which some of
the buildings are located and to
cover interest charges.
Some of the guests have declared
that the increase would mean a hard
ship to them.
Evening star., 1923-03-15
TODAY'S WINNER.
HOME, JAMES

We must pay more for sugar
because the Department of COM
merce. said, by mistake, that it
was going up. How much better
Off we'd be If the Department Of
Labor had made the same mis-
take about wages!
JOSEPH T. CREAMER,
I27 p street northwest.
lAH order for fre dollars totH
today be mailed to this cOntribu-
tOr)
Evening star., 1923-03-15
REV. ]. R. HEFFERNAN DIES
Priest Was Formerly Connected
With d. C.. Church.

Members Of the Catholic clergy in
this city have been notified Of the
death in Orange. y. j., yesterday of
Rev. Joseph r Heffernan. o. p. who
for a number of years was connected
with St. Dominic's Church of this
city. He died in st. Marys Hospital
from an attack of pneumonia. Father
Heffernan was f1fty-two years old,
and was prior of st. Benedictine
Church Of st. Antonius. Newark, N j.
He was ordained at Columbus, Ohio,
March Z, 1899. and came to st. Domi-
MICS seventeen years ago
Before going to Newark he served
a parish for twelve years in Mem
phiS, Tenn.
Evening star., 1923-03-15
Renoyate the Furniture

Don't discard-however, because most
of those pieces Of furniture that are now
a little the worse for wear can
very probably be restored to service
if you'll let some one who makes
a specially Of such work have them.
If you want to know where to send
them refer to the Recommended
Service Column in the Classified Sec
tion. Every advertiser in the Recon-
mended Service column-covering all
manner of personal and domestic
service-guarantees satisfaction to Star
readers.--Advertiseme
Evening star., 1923-03-15
SUBJECT TO CENSORSHIP.
Mail for Anatolia, Turkey in Asia,
Under Supervision.

All mail for Anatolia, Turkey in Asia.
is subject to Turkish censorship, and
cepted only at the senders risk, the
Post Office Department has announced.
The New York post office has report
ed the receipt Of $500 letters returned
from Anatolia. One Of the conditions
of the Turkish examiners. according to
information reaching the department.. is
that the communications must be writ
ten in Turkish, French, Italian or Eng
liSh.
Evening star., 1923-03-15
Reserve Seats Passion Play. Main 667.
-AdvertiSeme

One of the most unique schools in
this country has recently been estab-
lished by the Pullmans in Mime
auolis, where embryo sleeping car
porters are taught the fine points OF
making beds. welding the whisk-
broom and of looking after the COM
Evening star., 1923-03-15
NEW RESERVE OFFICERS.
District Residents Are Awarded
Commissions in Army.

Commissions in the Officers Reserve
Corps of the Army have been issued
by the War Department to the follow
ing named residents of this city:
William T. Chantland, 1869 Mint
wood place, as colonel of infantry:
John r. Wheeler. eth and K streets.
as major in the judge advocate gem
erals department; Lester +. Stewart,
Rutland Courts. as captain in the
finance departm ent; William D. Chase.
726 Shepherd street northeast, as Sec
ond lieutenant of engineers; Leo T..
Farrell. 1880 11th street. as second
lieutenant in the Quartermaster
Corps, and Henry II. Buck, 1905 H
street. as second lieutenant in the
field artillery.
Ivey W. Cashatt Of g. East Walnut
street, North Rosemont, Alexandria.
Va. also has been commissioned as
second lieutenant in the Reserve
Corps Finance Department.
Evening star., 1923-03-15
COLORED BAND CONCERT.

Simon +. w. Drew. president Of the
White Cross Free Labor Bureau of
America and pastor of the National
Cosmopolitan Institutional Church, an
nounced today that the colored Odd
Fellows Brass Band will give the first
of series Of concerts in his church at
) O'Clock tomorrow evening. The occa-
sion will be a get-together meeting Of
the colored churches, religious and Sc
cret societies of Washington to arrange
FOR the national negro racial confer
ence and the sixtieth anniversary Of
the former slaves convention. which will
convene here the week of April IS.
Bishop Cornelius v. Hooper of Balti-
more and Bishop Isaiah p. Brooks Of
Washington will be the principal speak
ers Friday evening
Evening star., 1923-03-15
BACKS "GET TOGETHER"
Postmaster General New Approves
Dr.. Works Plan.

Postmaster General New today has
set his seal of approval upon the get
together meetings. of postal employees
begun during the regime of DR.. Work.
now Secretary of the Interior.
West Virginia postal workers will
meet at Charleston March 20. and
Maryland employees at Baltimore. March
%. Postmaster General New plans to
attend both conferences.
Every effort will be made TO extend
the scope of the conference conventions,
as they are formally called. and to
make them successful in bringing about
a better understanding and closer CO.
operation between business men, postai
employees and administrative officials
here, Mr.. New said
Evening star., 1923-03-15
PRINDLE WILL Is FILED.
Retired Admiral Leaves Bulk of
Estate to His Widow.

The will of Rear Admiral Franklin
G. Prindle. L. S. N. retired. dated
probate. He leaves to his grandson,
Franklin p. Prindle, his civil war
sword and certain regalia. A son.
Roscoe S. Prindle. is to have $4,000
and the remaining estate is devised to
his wife, F'idelia E. Prindle. during
her life. At her death the estate is
10 go to his son, Harry A. Prindle, and
a daughter, Gertrude e. Gilbert Mrs.
Prindle is named as eXecutrix.
A motorman employed by the street
railway company of Green Bay, Wis,
has record of having operated his
car through the streets Of the city
for $4,000 miles without one accident.
without one report and without one
complaint.
Evening star., 1923-03-15
MRS. PARK AT TEMPLE.
President of League Addresses
Women OH Politics.

Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president of
the National League of Women Vot-
ers, addressed the Council of Jewish
Women yesterday in The Temple, Sth
street near H Street. At present only
a handful OF women have the ability
to deal with individuals and with
groups of men as well as they deal
with women singly or in the mass, the
speaker declared. She expressed a
belief, however. that enfranchisement
of the women had opened the way
for them to learn the technique of
politics.
Evening star., 1923-03-15
ADMITS DRUG VIOLATION.
Case of Pretty Widow Referred to
Probation Officer.

Mrs. Anna Catherine Reed, a pretty
widow, pleaded guilty today before
Justice Stafford, in Criminal Division
to an indictment charging a viola
tion of the ant!-narcotic law. The
case was referred to Probation Of
fcer Steele for investigation. The
Young woman is said to have pur-
chased the drug from a colored man
on Pennsylvania avenue. Detective
Carroll of the fourth precinct fol-
lowed her to her home on 9Th street
northeast, where she was arrested,
Evening star., 1923-03-15

Reserve Seats Passion Play. Main SO.
advertisement
Evening star., 1923-03-15

Reserve Seats Passion Play. Main 687.
advertisement.
Evening star., 1923-03-15

Spring Flowers.
P2tted plants, unique bouquets,
Gude's, 1912 F.-Advertisement.
Evening star., 1923-03-15

Reserve Seats Passion Play. Main G87.
--AdvertiSemen
Evening star., 1923-03-15

Reserve seats Passion Play. Main 68s
advertisement.
Evening star., 1923-03-15

Reserve Seats Passion Play. Main 665
advertisement.
The Chilkoot post., 1923-05-11
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The Washington times., 1923-01-11
TENNESSEE HAS
FAT FEDERAL
! JOBS
Latest Demand on c. o. P. Is
for Ex-Gov. Taylor to Head I
interior Department.
BY Universal Service.

There's nothing, it appears, that
Tennessee Republicans will hesitate
to ask of the Harding Admintstra-
ton as a reward for their upsetting
Democratic precedent and turning
the-State into the G. o. p. column in
1920.
They asked and got the chairman
ship Of the Railroad Labor Board for
former Gov. Ben, w. Hooper.
They asked the Secretaryship of
Commerce for c. H. Huston and
landed him as Assistant Secretary.
They asked a diplomatic berth for
Jesse s. Cottrell, former Republican
floor leader in the Tennessee legisla-
ture and he wenNa minister to Bo-
l;vin.
They asked an additional Federal
judgeship for Tennessee and Con-
gress created 1t last summer.
More recently they have asked the
appointment Of Judge Z. T. Sanford,
a Tennessee Republican. to the SUI
preme Court and are in fair way
Of getting 1t.
Now che Republicans in the Ten
nessee legislature have come to bat
with telegram to President Hard
ing asking him to appoint former
Gov. ALI Taylor, the seventy-four-
year-old fox hunter as Secretary of
Interior to succeed Secretary Fall.
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
LABOR
BOARD ACTION
APPEALED
Pennsylvania Road Takes Al.
legged Interference to
Highest Court.

The Pennsylvania railroad today
appealed to the United States SUI
preme Court to restrain the Rail-
road Labor Board from interfering
with an election OF employee repre-
sentatives and frem publishing an
opinion that the company had vio-
lated decisions of the board.
The case reached the Supreme
Court on an appeal by the road
from a decision of the Circuit
Court Of Appeals, which reversed q
decision Of the District Court sus.
tanning the company and granting
1t q permanent Injunction against
the board.
The road contended that IL the
Labor Boards decision was not
authorized under the transportation
act, the Labor Board sis without
power or discretion to publish the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
refusing to conform thereto to the
irreparable injury to its property
which the bill alleges would in
evitably follow. such publication. ;.
The carrier also contended that
If the transportation act authorized
the Labor Boards decision, 1T vio-
lates the due process clause of the
Constitution. of the United States
and is void"
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
ST REV0L Il
on ARM BILL
BY 'n Dc
Lenroot Precipitates Fight BY
Directing % lncrease n
Agricultural Funds.

The farm bloc backed 81 the
Agriculture COMMITTEES, WAS a.:
open revolt ii the Senate today
against the attempt of the Al.
preparations Committee. sontrOIled
BY Administration Senators. %
dictate the provisions Of the pend.
ing agriculture supply BIN.
summoned 81 Senator McNary
Rep.1 Of Oregon, its acting chan.
man, the Agriculture COMMITTEES
held special meeting to inslat
upon the adoption 81 amendments
70 the bill offered BY 'bloc'' mem:
bers which the Appropriations Com.
mittee refused 10 consider because
they were hot incorporated ia the
budget estimates.
e was the plan 81 Mc1yary ana
his bloc associates 10 report The
amendments ana. whether Or not
the Appropriations Ccrnmittes
agreed to them, force action upon
them by the Senate.
The fight between the ssbl0cu ana
the Administrative forces was
peecfpitased By Senator Leuruot
kRep.1 Of Wisconsin, the Adminfetra.
ton chairman cf the agriculture
subcommittee Of the Appropriate
Committee, serving notice he would:
raise q point Of order against any
proposed increases ii agricultural
apprOpriat ions which were not "a.
cluded In the budget estimates
Senators Broussard ard Ransdel1
DeTn.l Of louisiana Smith (pen19
OF south Carolina. Oveffnan fDsu1:)
OF North Carolina Willis Repl 81
Ohio, Helm (Dena.l OF Alabama ana
Fletcher DENY Of Florida Wer6
among those affected BY Leurottss
uItimatun.
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
EXPORTS IN Y
DECREASED,
j. s. FINDS
First Eleven Months Of Year
Showed Less Than
II 1921.

Exports Of merchandise from the
United States in the first eleven
months Of last year amounted in
valuation to $3.487. 400, 1923. it was
announced today by the Department
Of Commerce. This is decrease as
compared with the same period I'm
the previous year, when the total
amount was $4,188, 1925
The latter part Of the year wit.
messed strong revival in exports,
the department stated. Exports OF
merchandise for November amounted
to $380,$52 ,24S, as compared with
$294,O92,219 in the previous Novem-
Der.
The United Kingdom received the
largest quota OF the merchandise
products sent abroad last year, with
the total for eleven months amount
ing to $775,257 900, while Canada re-
cefved $52S,S45, 900 in addition. Ger
many was the third largest pur.
chaser, taking 1921, 81, 900 for the
first eleven months. The exports to
france in the same period amounted
to $4,000, 900.
Exports to Mexico fell off more
tnan 5O per cent during the. year,
amounting to 100000, 900, as com.
pared with $4,000, 600 the year. be.
fore. Cuba imported $4,000, 900.
as compared with SIS, 600, 900 during
the same time in 1921
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
BY FAY KING.
| believe in applause!

When I 60 to vaudeville
show I don't. SIC on my hands.
II / like something. wOt,s new
pair Of white gloves In my lief
I split 'em right across the back
liz they're tight, but I give 3
GOOD HAND when / give one.
None Of this semi-invalid stuff
that don't make any more noise
than d goose feather faIIin' ON q
thick rug.
lie T. like turn and want 'eln
to know / like Il / can make as
much noise as q trap drum.
An The fact that an act opens
the bill an never heard Of 'eTn
before don't make any difference
to me. / get in early and miss
nothing, and WOt,s good I like
and amt afraid to let 'em know
/ like it..
Some people don't think any
thing is any good until it's head
lined, and IL IT'S D headIiner they
think IL must be good even IL
they don't like it, and so they
cheer for all they're worth for
fear the guy sitting next to 'em
WAA1 kAAAlAkA B9ACI AOAh y 1AtAOW eeAA1
thing II they don't show they
like 1t.
Well, there's some headIiners
wOn'f ever get any hand work
from me, till they do something
better than they are dOin, when
saw 'eIn last.
DOESN'T LIKE BEGGARS.
/ amt q bad audience, either.
Many time I've dropped into =
small time house and got just as
much if not more or . kick outta
the show than at the swell joints.
nc makes llle sore when sit I'm
= show and the fellow next to me
enjoys the turn just rs much as
do. but he won't exert himself
giving the actors q hand.
But also get sore when an
act forces itself on me and ex.
poets me to applaud. You know
what / mean when they s'beg
bows.
That's supposed to Be good
shOWulanship, but Is looks like
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
When Act is Good Her Palms Make /
Noise Like the Trap Drummer. !.

) bad shOwmansEaip to me. / quit
applamdfng when it gets to the
place where they are timing
their bows to hold back the next
act, and duck back Just when the
sspOIite applause Is dying down.
I've seen lots Of acts sgtOp the
show" They had to come all the
way up from downstairs to talxc
another bow or say D little some.
thing more before the house
would shut up. There aiEF any
doubt about that. hut these acts
that stop the show forcing
bows get my goat.
believe I'm appIauding some
thing worth while even u you
amt particularly keen about IL
yourself. III It's good In It's line
its worthy Of appreciat ton.
KISSING MIGHT DO GOOD.
Audiences have become too re-
fined. think : little. Kissing
now and then would Be- good Tor.
some actors. The sectors have
got the audience gyped and. the
audience Is afraid 70 show its dis
approval. III you started kissing,
the usher would come down the
aisle and take You out, !, guess.
Well, anyway, il you can't hiss
,eTn when yOu don't approve Of
'eIl. at least You DON'T have ID
applaud 'enl. 49,
never applaud an actor who
gets fresh with the audience. IA
mlOnOlOguist came out on B stage
once and because the audience
didn't shrek with laughter &C
some Of his sKnutty stuff he
stepped up3tO the fOOtIigfts and
asked 'em II they were dead from
the neck up, and was he too
quick for sem. I was wishing 3
I COupla husIxfe1 from out front
would have walked M on the
stage and wiped IL up with him.
never applaud q nlOnOIOglIist
who insults and belittIes mother.
in-laWs, wives or women II gem
eraI.
That's . mighty poor way for ;
man to make his living, and III
not encourages IL.
Don't LET tIle movies get you
n1itt-bOund!
APPLAUSE means . much 10
actors as salary!
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
By RoBERT ). THORNBURGH.
CosmOpoIItan News servlcl

Cosmopolitan News service.
France, invading single handed
the Rhur basin, besides r1sklng tne
alienation OF her allies, the pnited
States and Gneat Britain, IL furnish.
ing a. motive Tor mass uprising oL
the German people. IN the opinion
of Col. James a. Moss. Mailitary
scientist !.
when the whole population Of
Germany realizes that the Unite1
States and England have deserted
France III IT come to that-tne
psychological effect upon the PEG.
pie viii be tremendo uss Coionel
Moss said. The morale Of gne
Germans VIII be immeas bly, ele-
waited. Should such an uprising
come, In the face OF American ana
English aloofness, think France
would face one Of the most critical
situations Of her history.
Clashes Held Likely.
EFT France occupies the Rhur
district clashes with the German
population and soldiers are not
unlikely. Germans and French
will be killed !.
And should there be trouble ana
loss OF life British and American
soldiers IN the Rl1ineland could
hardly avoid getting mixed up.
There Is the critical situation.
for England and America. Our
soldiers might kill German soldiers.
Britons might be slain by the Ger
mans. Populations Of more than
one nation might be fired to hatred
and the firebrands of & world war
might blaze forth once more In al
their horror.
There Is some question az TO
frances objective In occupying
Rhinelahd. 1T Is possible she is not
going there to collect repara tons
Seeks Buffer state.
What France seeks Is to es-
tabIish q buffer state along the
Rhine between Germany and
France. A future war is only q
question Of time not ia this genera
ton, but it's coming.
If France con establish buffer
state she will have a breathing
spell Tor preparation in case Of q
new fCern1ansa greSsion.
France could well employ the
same methods as did Germany In
Alsace-L after the Franco
Prussian war. Occupying the Rhine
land; an effort to convert public
opinion to- the French way OF think
ing would ait once be started. Ger
many made b success OF that after
1870. france can do It now.
Again, Germany pushing through
.the buffer state would have pllysi-
cal obstacles to delay her and in
yasiOn Of such q state, probably
maintained as a neutral, would
force public opinion Or the world
against the invaders.
Fears Population Increase.
France Is scared out of her
boots OF Germany With the Ger
man nation increasing rapidly,
France faces depOpulation from race
suicide.
"The French, realizing. the gath
ering strength OF Germany and Of
greater population, are striking at
Germany in her present weakness,
anticipating that one day it viii be
f00 late -
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
NEW SCIENCE WORK
FOR DISTRICT SCHOOLS

Expansion Of nature study work
IN the seventh and. eighth grades ~
District public schools to include
certain phases of general science
was announced by Assistant Super
intendent Stephen e. Kramer today.
The pupils will be educated in the
rudiments Of electricity and Its prac-
teal uses.
One feature OF the work will be
the explanation OF the telephones
operation bv employees of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany. A demonstration board,
showing how call is put through,
will be set I'D in the schoolrooms.
This viii be a regular part Of the
course.
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
JERSEY HORSE TUMBLES
INTO SEWER MANI1OLE

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 11.-Police
and firemen are searching for q
horse that fell into a sewer man
hole at Market and Alltng streets.
: 1T was one of team driven by
Charles Jackson and attached to q
snow-removal truck. The manhoie
was open to permit the snow to be
dumped, An automobile backed in
to the team, one horse fell into the
hole and the other hung half over
the edge. Firen1en lifted the Sec
ondE horse with a derrick.
The Washington times., 1923-01-11
COURT TRIES sPEEDERS
IN COUNTY MoRG'yE

CHICAGO, Jan. 11.-Stirred by
many automobile killings, Judge
Francis Borreli, Of Chicago Speed
ers' Court, announced yesterday
that he would hold court in the
county morgue. where speeders could
see the victims.
1.-THE most impressive ana solemn
surroundings are needed to teach
Chicago's speeders an object les
son." said the judge.
Judge Borrelli also said that II
he found q speeder guilty OF trav-
cling forty miles an hour he would
fine him $4O; If thirty miles. $50
and so on. re fifty miles or over
the fine viii be doubled. In liquor
cases Jail sentences Of sixty days
will be imposed.