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Evening star., 1923-05-23
DINNER TO ARCHITECTS
rendered BY ARTS CLUB
Addresses and Dances Feature Pro-
gram Given During
Evening.

At the dinner given last night at
the Arts Club of Washington in honor
of officials of the American Institute
of Architects and the officers of the
local chapter, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. M.
Leisenring were hosts for the Arts
Club. The speakers were Leo Wheat.
regional director, A. L. A, who de-
scribed the functions of the institute: !:
4. C.. Kemper. executive secretary,
A. /. A, who spoke of the relation of
the institute to the various chapters;
Delos Smith. president of the Wash
ington Chapter, who told of the work
of the local organization; Harry Cum
ningham, secretary of the local chap
ter, who spoke briefly of the recon-
struction work in France, and Capt.
+. Charles Starr. representing the
engineering profession, who spoke on
the relation of architecture and engi-
neering.
Betty Thornberry. soprano, was
heard in a group of songs, accom-
later directed choral singing.
A feature of the evening was a
program of Greek dances given in the
garden by the Caroline Mckinley
dancers, presented by the Association
of Theater Arts, in corporation with
the dramatic committee of the Arts
Club, Marie Moore Forrest chairman.
The lighting of the dances, was by
Harold Snyder, of the Association of
Theater Arts.
The dances. all of which were
created and directed by Miss Caroline
Mckinley, were given by Marion
Chace, Evelyn Davis, Judy Lyeth and
Florence Thompson.
Evening star., 1923-05-23

Nine-tenths of the ocean is more
than mile deep. and two thirds of it
is more than two miles
Evening star., 1923-05-23

tionarv oorsoio TO r inc revolu-
abolish money and the better to-do
SO they Cancelled all state debts
closed banks. stopped exchanges and
appreciated currency. They abolish
ed private ownership
cannot even call my coat my
own, man after man complained to
ne during my first DAYS in Russia
every one had to work both men
and women, but the amount of real
work done was pitifully small. One
gentiewoman of my acquaintance
was given the task of laundress
The PROSPEROUS business man of yes-
terday became-if he was wise
caoman or carpenter. The state was
70 be everything and to do every
thlng-to supply the people with
rood. clothing and lodging. educate
the children, give free transit and
rree amusement and nurse the sick.
cut ha1r and even, in the case of
men, to give them shaves.
Promises Stay Promises,
So. far as | have been able to learn
manicure and the marcel wave were
not included in the state program.
out the ballet certainly was The
hold linen. the expectant mother a
layette and the corpse a coffin and
a corteSe. But often the brides
household linen was only a dream,
the q baby had to be wrapped in rags.
II there was no clothing left from
former days. and the corpse was
trundled along in hand barrow.
roughly boxed in unplaned boards
or wrapped in sacking.
One powerful group even advo-
Gated that in order to effect complete
equality all children should be taken
from their parents at the age Of two
or three and trained bv the state
Many children's homes were opened
f-ar, ta+ +o1
thronged by orphans and the chill
dren Of parents who wished to get
rid of them that there was never.
so far as I could learn. any COM
pulsory taking of children from
their parents.
Enforced by Penalties.
All these things were not merely
theory. They were enforced by the
most severe penalties. The man who
traded in small way was put in
prison-often enough to die there
for the condition of prisons was then
very bad-while he who was discov-
cred trying to trade in bigger way
were made wholesale, often without
the formality of charges, and the
victims were kept in prison for
months and even years. untried, un-
heard. unreported. forgotten. In
Odessa alone, after the worst was
communist to examine the prisons
In a fortnight he released 1000
persons against whom there were no
charges.
The blockade by the powers added
to a fresh horror. Civil. war swept
over the land. The soviet govern
ment. fighting for its life. adopted
and enforced terror. started by fear
and intensified by fanaticism. Manu-
featuring. except for the making of
war material ceased. Foremen and
managers had gone-driven away or
killed. Houses crumbled, machinery
rusted- goods wore out and there was
nothing to replace them. One could
not buy new clothes because there
were none to buy. and even If there
had been no one had any way to pay
for the
These re times when rats were so
Evening star., 1923-05-23
COMMANDER OF MAINE
NOW SICK IN HOSPITAL
Rear Admiral Sigsbee Has Heroic
Record in Service of
Country.

Rear Admiral Charles ID. Sigsbee.
United States Navy, retired, who
commanded the battleship Maine
when that vessel was blown up in
Havana harbor in 1898, is in the
naval hospital. Brooklyn, N. Y, suf-
fering from concer. He is not con-
fined to his bed and 1t is said his
condition is not alarming
Admiral Sigsbee is seyen-eight
years old. He served with Admiral
Farragut at Mobile bay in the civil
war and was, advanced three num-
bers for extraordinary heroism in the
Spanish war. After the sinking of
the Maine he was transferred to the
command of the scout cruiser, St.
Paul. He was retired for age in 1907.
Evening star., 1923-05-23

It is the Lamborn idea that
wholesale purchases of sugar
should be made only on care
fully established fact, not on
theory or rumor. In line with this
policy we have secured direct
private wire to the American
Wholesale Grocers' Convention
in Washington connecting
Evening star., 1923-05-23
BAPTISTS CROWDED OUT.
Church Session, Scheduled Here,
Opens at Atlantic City.

The northern Baptist convention,
which was to have opened today in
this city. is being held at Atlantic
City. Unable to secure suitable
meeting place for the convention in
Washington at this time, it was de-
cided to hold the meetings at the
seashore resort. 1t will continue
through next Tuesday.
The majority of the Baptist min
listers of this city. with many laymen,
went to Atlantic City last night to
attend the meetings.
Ring around the-rosy. the harm
less childhood dance. is survival
of a terrible religious rite of primitive
times.
Evening star., 1923-05-23

abolished, in a
series of DEGREES.
all the old bases
of civilized So
ciety. They swept
away old courts
Of la w, substitut-
ing for [ h e m
workers. courts.
w i t h ju d & e S
C h o s e n by the
workers from the
worker where.
in the absence of
definite DEGREES,
j u d 6 m e n t was
rassed and sen :
tenceS were in
f1icted according
TO the "reyOl,y-
Evening star., 1923-05-23
BY r. A. MACKENZIE.

Following il the second of a series of
articles by Mr.. Mackenzie. staff corre-
spondent of The Star and Chicago Daily
News in Moscow. dealing with conditions
in Russia and changes In the last three
years.
MOSCOW, May 23.-It is difficult
even now, to realize how tremendou!
Is the change the communists hav,
tried to enforce in Russia They
Evening star., 1923-05-23

Theirs allus some ketch t a
cult, or anything else, where hair
an whiskers are allowed too
much freedom. .
Copyright National Newspaper Service.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02

6 LONDON, Nov. 2.-Severe earth
quake shocks were felt in Mougan
Desert, south of Azerbaijan pro-
vince, said dispatch from Teheran,
Persia, today. ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
w. II. Meyer win Filed.

The will of William H. Meyer.
former superintendent Of the Dis
trict prison, leaving his entire estate
to his wife, Mrs. Katrine Fl. Meyer,
who is also named executrix, was
today filed for Drobate,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
ON
RET|NA CURES
BLIND
French Surgeons Are First to
Succeed in Feat Long
Held Impossible.

PARIS, Nov. 2-The miracle of
blindness being cured by surgical
operation on the retina itself was
reported to the Academy of Medi-
cine by DR.. Bonnefon, of Bordeaux.
The patients clinical card OF adj
mission to the hospital read:
"Wunded by shell splinters; par
tial destructin Of the left eye; hole
through the right eye with torn
retina."
Hitherto such symptoms have
been pathologically recognized as
incurable blindness. Six years
after he received his wounds the
soldier was examined by DIR. Bonnie
fon, who observed that, while the
retina reflex was virtually non
existent, certain nerves leading to
the optical center Of the ertina
were intact, setting up luminous
excitation.
DIR. Bonnefon decided to operate
to further assist these nerves by
liberating the pupil from a cataract.
AT first the operation seemed to
be a failure, but six months later
the doctor received a letter from
the patient saying he was able to
read and write.
Today the patients sight is nor
NAL, the doctor stated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
NORFOLK LoNCSHoREMEN
WIN STRIKE AFTER MONTH

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 2.--With the
recognition Of their union and the
closed shop won. more than 1000
International Longshoremen's Union
laborers were back on their jobs this
morning after strike which lasted
a month. Efforts to break the strike
proved unsuccessful and, after sew
eraI conferences this week, the en-
ploying stevedores and steamship
companies finally reached an agree
ment with union leaders. The men
will receive Is cents an hour straight
time and SLOT an hour overtime.
According to union leaders and
stevedores, the employers were able
to recruit more than sufficient nom
union laborers to load and unload
ships, but the men were never able
to do more than 40 per cent of the
amount that the old union employees
had accomplished.
The strike has been conducted or
derby and there has been no trouble,
strikebreakers having passed along
the streets to and from the docks
without molestation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
handle HEIGHT
OBTAINS new
BUS Line
Utilities Commission Gives
Capital Traction Co. Permis-
sion to Establish It.

The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday gave the Capital Traction
Company permission to operate
buses from the end of its Avenue
line, Seventeenth and Pennsylvania
southeast, to Randle Highlands.
The action Of the commission re.
suited from the failure of Col.
Arthur E. Randle, of the East
Washington Heights Traction Com
pany, to take advantage OF recent
order Of the commission authoriz-
ing him to operate bus line over
the same route. Mr.. Randle wants
to start through bus service from
Randle Highlands to downtown
Washington.
The busses of the Capital Traction
Company will issue free transfers to
the cars Of the company.
A request Of Colonel RandIe for
permission to operate buses on
streets on which street cars run
was denied by the commission.
John II. Hanna, vice president and
general manager of the Capital Trac-
ton Company. said today the new
bus line to Randle Highlands would
begin as "soon as possible
IF only one bus is necessary to
supply adequate service, we will
start in several days." Mr.. Hanna
said. IF we need more than one, it
will take several weeks to get
started"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
French Press Urges
Paris to Hesitate in
Signing u. s. Invitation

PARIS, Nov. 2.-The famous
French political expert 'Pertinax."
writing in the Echo de Paris, today
demanded that the French govern
nnent insist that the inter-allied
PREPARATIONS commission limit the
powers Of the international commits
sion OF reparations experts. MAX
ing it impossible to question the
total amount OF the German in
demnity debt before signing ssny
Invitation to the United States to
participate.
Pertinax" demanded that, If the
French government considers the
separations commissions interpre-
tations dangerous, Premier Poin-
care shall say to Washington:
You have announced that you
would not intervene in the repara-
tons issue until the French and
British agree. Franco British &C
cord does not exist. Consequently
the omission to invite United
States is simply respecting the
SS--AASAOAAS AAAAPO9CA W yOuI6SA.
French newspapers in comment
ing upon Premier Poincare's speech
at Nevers said he had emphasized
the keystone of French policy when
he said France would not make
concessions to the Inagnates who
are ''the real sovereigns of Ger
many" and enable the Germans to
become rich and powerful in a few
years to the humiliation and danger
of France.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
RUSSIAN SABLE
MAY Be DYED
RABBIT
Millions MuIcted Yearly From
Unsuspecting Public by
Fur swindIers.
By WILLIAM PARKER.
Caamonolitnn NeWs Service.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. Mill
lions Of dollars worth of spurious
furs are being sold yearly in Amer
lea to unsuspecting persons.
. And the easiest mark Of all is
the gullible husband who buys q
surprise" set Of furs for his wife.
Dyed rabbit skins worth $25 are
sold for as high as $3.50 as Rus
sian sable
Goat skins, electrically treated,
worth SIS, are sold as Genuine
White Fox for 5000.
These assertions were made by
trade experts today.
Mindful of the ever increasing
frauds by inscriptions dealers In
the fur trade, reputable and stable
dealers have organized nation
wide body and viii launch an ex-
tensive advertising campaign in
various cities to expose the tricks
of the trade.
This cooperative body is the Ma
tional Association Of the Fur In
dustry, with headquarters in New
York City. The United States is
divided into ten districts with ten
governors for each district. In
Los Angeles the local body is the
Southern California Retail Fur Mer-
chants Association, of which Albert
E. Colburn is president.
1.-THE aim of the organized fur
dealers is to protect the public and
to conserve the fur-bearing ami
NAL" said Colburn today.
''The greatest evil Of the fur
trade now is the 'parvie,' or ped
der Of furs. In Los Angeles alone
there are forty 'parvies,' controlled
furnishes them with furs and uni-
forms. These 'parvies' usually
masquerade in sailor suits and
travel in pairs. They are just off
the ship and talk about me and
my shipmate' as they pull furs
from 'duffle bag which sailors
use.
'"These .'parvies' find husbands
business men-their easiest prey.
They enter q mans office and
spread on his desk real Russian
sable me and my shipmate brought
in from Russia It is, In fact,
rabbit skin which has been dyed.
They ask $3.50 for the fur, reduc-
ing the price gradually, sometimes
with tears, to 500. Any business
man of average success will take
a chance at 500. But he is get
ting furs he could buy in any
store for $50.
Another common fraud of the
fur schemers is the actress leav-
ing city must sacrifice furs.' Next
week it is widow in distress must
sell furs.'"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
STAGE FAIL URES
COST SP|EGEL
100000
Theatrical Producer Tells 81
Deals With shuberts IN
Bankruptcy Case.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-1Gax Spie-
gel. theatrical producer and real
estate operator, who has been con-
fined to a Connecticut sanitarium
as insane" since his bankruptcy
year ago, has returned to New
York today and told before Referee
Harold r. Coffin, a dramatic story
of frenzied finance wherein he CO.
starred the Shuberts with himself
SpiegeI told Of theatrical ana
vaudeville ventures with Lee and
Jake Shubert. Enterprises that had
cost him almost $25O,OOO in dozen
cities. Then he failed, was adj
judged insane in Stamford, and was
committed to the sanitarium. Al
though technically sane in New York
State, bankruptcy officials have
tried in vain to get him here to
testify. Today, without notice, he
appeared voluntarily.
He said his failure was due 20
the losses of almost $3.50 900 IN nine
of the fourteen or fifteen enter
prises he was handling. He testi-
fled he lost $50 900 alone in shows
he financed in association with the
Shuberts. One Of them ran two
weeks on the road and four weeks
In New York, costing him more
than $50, 900. Two other Shubert
shows in which he was interested
cost him $4,000 each, he said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
Farley Invitation to
u. s. Is Being Drafted;
To Be Dispatched Soon
BY LUTHER A. HUSTON,
international News Service.

LONDON, Nov. Am invitation
to the United States to send rep
resentatives to the International
conference OF reparations experts
is being drafted and probably will
be dispatched within a few days to
Washington, it was learned at the
foreign office this afternoon.
The invitation will follow the lines
of the original British note propos-
ing the creation Of an international
committee Of experts to examine the
reparatiOns question.
The terms for the conference will
not be specified. This will be left
to the inter-allied reparations COM
mission under whose auspices the
investigation into Germanys capac-
ity for payment will be conducted.
British officials regard Premier
Poincare's Nevers speech milder
than his previous pronouncements,
indicating that American opinion
has had some effect upon him. Of
ficials declare that Washington's
criticism is ''educative." They now
believe 1t is unlikely that the United
States will refuse to join because Of
the restrictions imposed by France.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
GAIN
IN BRITISH
ELECTION
Tories Hold Own, Creating
Surprise Losses by
Liberals Heavy.
BY F. A. WRAY,
international News Service.

LONDON, Nov. 2.--AvaiabIe re-
turns today from yesterdays
borough council elections through
out England and Wales showed APP
preciabie gains for the Labor party,
although they failed to make the
clean sweep they had hoped for.
Liberal losses were heavy.
The conservative (Tories) broke
even, which caused surprise in some
quarters In view OF the forthcoming
general election which is now ex-
pected in January or February with
Premier BaldWin's protection policy
as the chief issue.
Labor to Fight Protection.
The results are being closely
scrutinized by political leaders to get
q line on public opinion and to make
comparisons Of party strength.
Labor's strength will be the most
important factor in the general cleo.
ton. Laborites are making plans
for vigorous campaign against the
protection issue and is the first
party to open q political offensive. .
Baldwin to Speak.
Leaders Of the labor party are ac-
tive in all parts OF England, Scotland
and Wales.
Premier Baldwin will make q
speech at Manchester tonight, when
he is expected to renew his argu-
ments for protection. It is probable
that he will refer to the status Of
foreign affairs also, possibly touch
ing upon the proposed PREPARATIONS
conference.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02

today, is not abandoning its aloof-
ness at this time to mix up In any
aifnless. political conferences.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
MATCH At "CAS" TANK,
BRINGS SUIT FOR $25, 900

YORK, Pa, Nov. 2.-William Nc
Gee, garage employee. has sued
Carson Danner for $25,0oO damages.
MCGEE was general utility man at
Frank Nickerson's garage, and Dan
ner drove up and asked to have his
automobile tank filled. While Nc
Gee was holding the gasoline hose
in the tank Danner is alleged to
have struck a match and held 1t
close to the opening Of the tank.
An explosion followed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
Seek Divorce and Children.

Alleging misconduct and naming
a correspondent. Mrs. Sadie Stevens
Beach today filed suit In the Dis
trict Supreme Court against Jerry
4. Beach for absolute divorce, ali
mony, and the custody OF their
two children The couple were mar
ried at BaI1ston, Va, August 3.
1909, and plaintiff is represented by
Attorney III. M. WEIGH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-02
j. S. APPRAISED
BYPAR|SNOTE
To LONDON
French Believed to Be Letting
Up on Demands for
ShackIed Farley.
By GEORGE r. HOLMES,
international News Service.

American irritation over the
French threat to limit the scope OF
the experts inquiry into the repair
atoms controversy was appreciably
lessened today.
A copy of the French note to
Great Britain, accepting the invita-
ton to the conference was received
at the State Department, and while
it was not made public 1t is under
stood that it Is not nearly so bonn
bastic as the public utterances Of
Premier Poincare and the French
Foreign Office have indicated.
France To Play Ball.
In any event? it was apparent
today that the sudden tension in the
conference arrangements has been
just as suddenly 1essened. Whether
this was caused by the conciliatory
tone of the French communication,
or whether it was caused by outside
assurances from Paris that France
will play BALI is not known, but
the belief prevailed that differences
in the French and British-American
viewpoints will be smoothed out.
It has been the Coolidge-H Hughes
idea that the conference should be
composed OF competent business ana
financial experts twho. disregard
ing politics entirely, should pro-
coed to q careful examination OF
Germany's assets and render an
opinion as to ~ how much she is
capable Of paying, and l2) financial
plan by which payments could be
made.
To Be Nothing Binding.
There was to be nothing binding
on any government to accept the
conclusions Of the experts. and II
France did not care to accept their
verdict, rendered after careful
investigation, then that was con-
sidered her affair. It was recognized
she had the right to not commit
herself in advance.
Premier Poincare's brtstling
speeches to the effect that France
would not tolerate deviating one
fota from the Treaty or Versailles
and that she could not accept any
reduction in German PREPARATIONS
have always been taken in WASH
ington with the proverbial grain OF
salt. They have been regarded az
largely designed for home political
consumption and consequently were
not taken too seriously.
Interpretation OF Speech.
The Poincare speech at Hevers
was no exception to this general
rule. But when the French For
eign Office designed to place off
cial interpretations on the speech
and cast around it the mantle of
finality in governmental utterance,
it caused the State Department
keen irritation.
Unless the experts can have e.
free hand to examine the whole
reparations problem and not just
part of 1t, the State Department
takes the view the conference will
prove ''abortive and useless" And
this Government, it was said with
great emphasis in official quarters
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-09-11
Red Cross Quota is
Set at High Figure

Caldwells Red Cross chapter has
been asked to raise Slo50 for Japanese
relief. according to kilograms received
by Ross Madden. chairman OF the To-
cal hoard. Believing that this amount
is too high and that some mistake
was made when such quota was set,
no effort has been made as yet to
obtain the funds but the entire mat
ter was laid before the Red Cross
board Monday evening. Boises quo
Ia. II is pointed out. was only $1,000
while Nampa was asked fer less than
$1,000.
No organized effort to obtain funds
for this relief has been made as yet
here. Some program was expected
to be worked out at the board meet
ing Monday evening for conducting
the campaign.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-09-11
DCR0SS MAY
GET QUARTERS
Commercial Club Tend
ers Part of Room to
Organization

Red Cross officers were formally
rendered the rear rooms OF the Com
mercial club for use as Red Cross
headquarters. as city rest room and
as a salvage shop at meeting OF the
Commercial club board OF directors
held last Friday. Details OF this pro-
jeci, including its cost, were discussed.
Frank Mumford. representing the Ma
sonic lodge. owners OF the CONNER
cial club building, gave assurance that
if this program should finally be
adopted, minor alterations would be
made to fit these rooms for Red Cross
purposes.
The question OF overhead in Com
mercial club operation came up when
DIR. +. NJ. Cole expressed the opinion
that the proper place for both the
Commercial club and the Red Cross
was at the city hall Following the
meeting. the entire board adjourned
to the city hall to investigate the feasi-
bility OF rcmodeling that building
slightly to accommodate both organi-
cations. 1t was found upon investi-
aat