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Evening star., 1924-03-01
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Substitute for gas tax measure pro-
posed by Senator Ball. Park Com
mission buys Rock Creek tract at
$4,000. City heads favor park COM
mission. Justice Van Orsdel heads
Sons of American Revolution in Dis
trict. Man, afraid of food, starveS to
death. District bankers testify be-
fore Senate oil probe. Extension Of
iauto reciprocity asked. ID. y. r.,
committee indorses District flag.
profits in radio. Personnel board
ignored Congress. charges Lehlbach.
Board of Trade hits gas tax bill DR..
Pan-American Union dies. Ten bu-
ireau of engraving chiefs back in posi-
tions. Fund of Ss65,000 voted for
Howard University. Ball is unmoved
by citizens veto of auto tax bill.
Welfare director for District asked.
Cut in phone rate hangs in balance.
Senator's request mass meeting on gas
tax measure. District of Columbia
surplus revenue bill ordered reported.
George Washington University fund
near half million. Declaration of In
dependence and Constitution of the
United States put in sanctuary at
Congressional Library. Senator Rob-
inson declares combine controls rents
in Capital. Auto reciprocity extend
ed thirty days by Gov. Ritchie. Scien-
lists favor national gallery. Ball
rent probe voted by Senate. $4,000
park site purchase urged. Limit on
parking raised to one hour in busi-
ness area
Evening star., 1924-03-01
PROBE OF JUSTICE
BUREAU PROPOSED
Representative Watkins Offers
Resolution for Searching
Investigation.

Investigation by Congress into the
operations, policies and affairs of the
bureau of investigation of the De-
partment of Justice. is proposed in a
resolution introduced in the House
yesterday by Representative Elton Wat
kins and referred to the rules COM
mittee.
This proposes a select committee of
seven members to be appointed by
the Speaker. The proposed inquiry
would include an investigation of the
names of all agents. all expenditures,
all cases investigated from March 4,
1921, and into such other pertinent
matters as the committee may deem
fit.
This committee would be authorized
to appoint such subcommittee as it
might deem advisable. 1t is given
authority to hold hearings in any
place it may determine to subpoena
witnesses, and to sit during the ses-
sions of the House. The Speaker
would be authorized to issue SUBJ
poenaes for witnesses and the ser
geant-at-arms to serve. such proc
esses. The select committee would
be given the right at any time to
report to the House in one or more
reports the result of its inquiries and
such recommendations as it may
deem advisable.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
The Magnificent Adventure
A Stirring Story of the Northwest.
BY EMERSON HOUGH.
Copyright. by D 4
BY EMERSON HOUGH.
A Stirring Story of the Northwest.
Copyright. 1898. by D. Appleton 4 CO..

UP the Missouri river since the re-
pulse of his convoy by the SIOUX.
TELL the Great Father that he must
send me soldiers to take me back
home to my people. My heart is
poor"
an artificial limb of some sort while
you are in the east
1t was young George Shannon who
said this. leaning on his crutch;
Shannon had not long ago returned
from another trip up the river, where
in an encounter with the Sioux he had
received a wound which cost him Il
leg and almost cost him his life
though later, as has already been
said, he was to become n noted figure
at the bar Of the state of Kentucky.
YES! Yes. and yes Their leader.
punctilious as he was kind, agreed to
all these commissions-prizin them,
indeed, as proof OF the confidence OF
his people.
He was ready to depart, but stood
still, looking about for the tall figure
which presently he saw advancing
through the throng-a tall man with
wide mouth and sunny hair, with blue
eye and stalwart frame-William
Clark-the friend whom he loved so
much and whom he was now to see
for the last time.
Gen. Clark carried upon his arm
the baby which had been named after
the governor of the new territory.
Lewis took him from his fathers s
arms and pressed the child's cool face
to his own, suddenly trembling Il lit
tie about his own lips as he felt the
of his own might he ever hold thus.
He gave him back with a last look
into the face of his friend.
"Good-by, Will" said he.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
only Injured Toe
Greets Doctor on
City Club Call

Receiving a telephone message
last midnight that led them to be-
lieve that tragedy stalked the
dance hall of the City Club, the
Emergency Hospital ambulance,
with siren shrieking, streaked it's
way to the G. street clubhouse,
carrying DR.. John Mccarthy,
breathless from haste and ready
to ameliorate the suffering vic
tins.
Skidding to a stop, the physi-
clan hoped out and was rushed
posthaste to the ballroom. Apparent
ly news of the accident had been
kept from the merry throhg, for gay
ETY. reigned to the tune of jazz mu-
sic. Attendants, however, awaiting
the doctor, ushered him into a room
where patient, an attractive
young lady, sat suffering. Blood
was flowing, quite a few drops,
from a pretty pink toe of the
dancer, and the guilty person, her
brother, stood distressed beside
:.He did it with his left heel.
Now I'll have to stay off the dance
floor" lamented the girl, as the
orchestra struck up Sitting
Pretty"
Failing to record the names Of
his patient and her brother in the
excitement and flood of sympathy
of the moment, the doctor wended
his way back to the ambulance
and was whisked back to the hos
pital, prepared to respond just as
quickly to the next call for aid.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
MORALITY 81 LAWS
HELD IMPRACTICAL
National American Club Director
Declares Greater Reverence
for Ideals Needed.
BY WEBSTER.

There is abundant evidence that
national and individual morality can
not be elevated by legislation" de-
clared Maj. V. E. Grant, national di-
rector Of the National American Club,
in an address before the members of
the Washington branch at a dinner
at Continental Hotel Thursday night.
Maj. Grant declared the purpose of
the organization was to stimulate
greater reverance for American ideals
by federation. mutual good fellow
ship and moral example,
He appealed for a disregard of the
wild and fantastic isms." which, he
said. are binding the people of
America to the splendid principles
laid down by the founders OF the
country. while we must not become
mentally lethargetic or indifferent to
our country's welfare, We must guard
stitutional progress along sane lines
based upon true American principles
is the only real advancement. The
National American Club is endeavor-
ing in IN a multitude OF ways to
t the h, ~ nobiest national M and pea.Hi patriotie
ideals for the help Of the present
generation and the benefit of pos
terity. They make no loud proclama-
tions or bombastic preliminary noises
action and not words is their idea,
he declared.
The members of the National Amer
lean Club Of Washington are: Presi-
dent, former REPRESENTATIVE l. S.
Echols from West Virginia; vice
president. ]. w, Fenton: jr.: secre-
tary apd treasurer. Frank J. Ehlers:
P. w. Armstrong, G. F. Bailey, Worth
ington Bean. c. Brewton. Walter
NJ. Brown, Wisdom u. Brown. f. l.
Browning, S E. Burgess. II. T. Cha
conas. Arthur T.. Cook. D. " CHS
holm. Homer F. Crawford. D. C. Dill
ger, F. j. Duncan, Frank j. Dunn.
John Dunn. Senator Davis Elkins of
West Virginia, James r. Ellis. H. W.
Farrar. H. H. Fink. w. l.. Cary, Leo
I. Grady, v. B. Grant, Charles c.
Grey. Clyde H. Hancock, Percy E.
Harding. Robert A. Humphrfes. l..
NJ. Hynson, Vincent Kelly, John A.
Herman.
Henry Lansburgh. Ernest c. Lee.
H. N. Link, Howard Linton, Robert
G, Mattingly. Nicholas Miles. jr.; J.
Parker. Charles H. Phillips. Frank
J. Pickett. Col. o. c. Pierce, c. c. Rob
ertson, William ]. Rogers, Gen. w.
w. Scott, NJ. R. Shafer. George c.
Shaffer, A. ]. Simons. c. +: Snyder,
Fred A. Spicer, Louis NJ. Stallings,
Guy T. Stewart, A. K. Stratton. DR..
Henry ". Tobias, DR.. John T. Vivian.
w. J. Waller and William M. Webb.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
CONCLUDE HEARINGS
ON COMPENSATION
Final Arguments Are Heard Before
Fitzgerald Subcommittee
in House.

The hearings before the Fitzgerald
subcommittee of the House District
committee on workmen's compensa-
ton for the District of Columbia
were practically closed yesterday after
f. Robertson Jones, representing the
mutual insurance companies in a
two-hour statement completed the
opposition of the organized insurance
companies to the Fitzgerald plan for
an exclusive state fund for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Chairman Fitzgerald said after the
meeting that as far as he knows the
hearings will be closed but that if
today he lears of any other persons who
would like to be heard he will call an
other meeting.
Mr.. Jones statement today developed
more in detail the arguments in op-
position to the Fitzgerald bill, which
have previously been reported in The
Star in more concise form.
Representative Fitzgerald questioned
Mr.. Jones regarding the activity of
the Chamber of Commerce Of Cali
fornia in opposition to the Ohio state
fund plan, which was the basis for
the Fitzgerald bill. He asked Mr..
5ones if this business organization
had not been a tool of the insurance
companies. Mr.. Jones replied that
that us avery grave charge"
Evening star., 1924-03-01
SENTENCES IMPOSED
ON FOUR BY COURT
Negro Gets Four Years in Peni.
tertiary for Shooting Man in
July 4 Celebration.

Justice Hitz in Criminal Division l
yesterday sentenced James Turner, col
ored, to serve four years in the peni-
tentiary. Turner admitted he shot
William Evans. also colored, July 4
last. The testimony disclosed that
the shooting was reckless and that
Turner had threatened a number of
bystanders.
Joseph l. Matthews, colored. was
given two years in the penitentiary.
He was accused of stealing 500 from
Nick Mitchell December IL last.
One year and one day in the peni-
tertiary was the sentence imposed on
Lloyd f. johnson. colored. He was
convicted of stealing an automobile
December 1 last.
Mary Franklin, Colored, Will serve
one year in Jail. She stole a coat
from Marie A. Munro May "a last.
The coat was valued at $500.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE WILDERNESS

The governors barge swept down
the rolling flood of the Mississippi
impelled by the blades of ten sturdy
oarsmen. Little by little the blue
smoke of St. Louis town faded beyond
the level Of the forest. The stone
tower of the old Spanish stockade.
where foated the American flag, dis
appeared finally
Meriwether Lewis sat staring back
but seeming not to note what passed
He did not even notice n long hateau
which left the wharf just before his
now loafing along aimlessly, some
times ahead, sometimes behind that
of the governor and his party. In time
he turned to his lapdesk and began
his endless task of writing. eXamin-
ing. revising. Now and again he
muttered to himself. The fever was
indeed in his blood,
They proceeded thus. after the usual
fashion of boat travel in those days,
down the great river. until they had
reached what was known as the
Chickasaw Bluffs, below the contiu-
ence of the two streams. Here was
a little post of the Army, arranged
for the commander, Maj Neely. In
dian agent at that point.
up here, and the governors craft
moored at the foot of the bluff It's chief
passenger was so weak that he hardly
could walk up the steep steps cut in
the muddy front of the bank
"Gov. Lewis" exclaimed Maj Neely,
as he met him. ''You are i'll! You are
in an ague"'
Perhaps, perhaps Give me rest
here for a day or two. If you please.
Then 1 fancy I shall be strong enough
to travel east. See if you can get
horses for myself and my party-I am
resolved not to go. by sea-. I have. not
time
The Governor of Louisiana, haggard,
flushed with fever, staggered as he fol-
lowed his friend into the apartment
assigned to him in one of the cabins of
the little post. He wore his usual
travelling garb; but now, for some
strange reason, he seemed to lack his
usual immaculate neatness. Instead Of
the formal dress Of his office. he wore
an old, stained, faded uniform coat, its
pocket bulging with papers. This he
kept at the head of his bed when at
length he flung himself down, almost in
the delirium Of fever.
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Evening star., 1924-03-01
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mental Gentleman Much Younger Than
Herself - Young Man Whose Fancee
Insists on Strict Church Attendance

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Evening star., 1924-03-01
DENTTNEE CTnDTEC BY THORNTON
DILL Il llvlG OlOlllLO W BURGESS

Then he carefully searched the whole
of the dear Old Briar Patch. He hop
ped along every one of their private
little paths. He looked into every
Peter did he find. 1t was hard to be-
lieve. but at last he had to believe
that little Mrs. Peter was not in the
dear Old Briar Patch.
Now, Peter had been so we'll fed
when he had been a prisoner up in
Farmer Browns barn that he had
quite forgotten how hard 1t was to
get enough to eat in the dear Old
Briar Patch. He remembered 1t now.
1T must be that Fuzzy" tfor that is
name was Miss FuzzytaiI before she
became Mrs. Peter) has been driven
by hunger to leave the dear Old Briar
Patch" thought he. II wonder where
she has gone? She may have gone up
to the Old Pasture. She may have
dear, l wish l knew which way she
has gone. She so seldom leaves the
dear Old Briar Patch that am afraid
something will happen to her. She
had no business to leave it, even IL
she was hungry. She ought to have
known better. She might have known
how worried 1 would be"
How that would have tfckled little
Mrs. Peter if she could have heard 1t.
Time and time and time again she
naQ pleduen Win refer 10 stay III the
dear Old Briar Patch and Peter had
laughed at her. Time and time and
time again she had worried because
Peter did not return. Now Peter was
learning how little Mrs. Peter felt.
My, how lonesome the dear Old
Briar Patch seemed. Peter tried to
take a nap and forget 1t. But he was
too uneasy to sleep. He kept hop
ping around through those private
little paths all through the dear Old
Briar Patch. hoping and hoping that
Unexpectedly little Mrs. Peter would
pop up from somewhere. But little
Mrs. Peter didn't pop up. Peter imag-
ined all kinds of dreadful things. He
remembered how it was from around
the end of the dear Old Briar Patch
that Reddy Fox had appeared. Could
it be that Reddy had caught Mrs.
Peter?
Copyright, 1924. by T. W. Burgess)
The next story: THE Strange End
inp pefar Ia hhif'S Worries
Evening star., 1924-03-01
DIVORCE REPLY HITS
WIFE'S MODERNISM
Lawyer Says "Divine Right
Seems Her Vital Principle, as
With Royal Ancestor. .

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1.-The divine
right of wives" fundamentalism and
modernism figure in the divorce suit
brought against William H. Griffin,
a lawyer.
In an answer to his wife's COM
plaint, filed in the supreme court
yesterday, Griffin denies her accusa-
tions that he misconducted himself
with a woman at Atlantic City ana
AYERS:
with her divine right of wives is
as vital and insistent principle Oh
life as the divine right of kings was
with her illustrious ancestor, King
Charles I of England.
"The plaintiff favors the school OF
thought of which the Rev. Percy
Stickney Grant is the most conspicu-
Gus exponent at the present time,
and his fourteen-year-old daughter,
through her mothers influence, mas
reached a state Of mind In which she
refuses to accompany her father, an
orthodox Episcopalian and member
of the diocesan organizations, to
church, declaring that she does not
believe in the divinity OF christ, the
miracles, and numerous other artl-
cles of Christian faith"
Mrs. Griffin has asked the courts to
award her the custody Of their two
children. The Griffins were married
in New Orleans in 1906.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
SPRING BUSINESS
OPENING ARRANGED
March "a to Mark Event With
Simultaneous Lighting of
|. Windows.

The spring business season for
Washington will be formally opened
Monday night, March "a, at 8 o'clock.
under plans announced today by the
Merchants and NIanufacturers' Asso-
citation, which is arranging for the
celebration.
From closing time on the evening of
March "a. to o'clock, Washington
merchants are requested to keep their
windows dark and at the appointed
time, turn on the lights showing the
very latest in spring goods of every
description.
Five prizes will be given for pre-
eminence in window displays, the an
nouncement today continued, and will
be awarded to the display men or
women themselves, together with a
certificate of recognition to the firm
whose displays capture the prizes.
Women employees may volunteer to
participate in store receptions Incl
dent to the review, provided no goods
are sold or orders taken. This step
is taken to comply with the eight
hour law.
The association has asked merchants
to use live models or the operation
Of mechanical devices wherever pos
sibie and to fly flags from their busi-
ness fronts during the week.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
Horseshoes Sold for Gaming.

Hardware dealers throughout the
country are finding a ready sale for
new horseshoes owing to the revival
Of the good old game of pitching
horseshoes. Since the automobile
came into such popular use fewer
old horseshoes were available for this
popular pastime, and the result has
been that the demand for shoes
caused hardware and sporting goods
dealers to stock new ones. A new
magazine, the Horseshoes World,
has nothing whatever to do with
sLoeing horses, and is devoted ex-
clusiyely to the game
Evening star., 1924-03-01
Asks Dry Plebiscite,

REGINA, Saskatchewan, March l.
Notice of a bill ITO provide for a
plebiscite on questions relating to the
Control and suppression of traffic in
alcoholic liquors" was given in the
Saskatchewan legislative assembly
yesterday by ]. A. Crop, attorney gen.
eral. He fntimated he would move for
day
Evening star., 1924-03-01
EARTHQUAKE IN BAGUI0.
Slight Shock Felt in Philippine
City.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, February 29.-An earth
quake of slight Intensity was expert
enced at Baguio, "the summer capital
of the Philippines, Thursday night.
according to advices to the weather
bureau.
Other reports to the bureau told Of
a fall of ashes over a wide area in
the Batanes Islands, group in
Cayagan province. 1t was added that
supposedly these ashes came from a
volcanic eruption in or near the
Loochoo Islands, off the southern end
of Japan.