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The Coconino sun., 1924-02-15
Mrs. Kester Entertains

Mrs. Jack Kester gave a bridge
party last Thursday to which were
invited: Mrs. Ike Smith, Mrs. Fred
Jones, Mrs. Grover Jones, Mrs. E. A.
Mcnamara, Mrs. G. E. Kelsey, Mrs.
Robert Caring, Mrs. Dean Eidridge,
Mrs. E. C. Mills, Mrs. Ed O'Farrell,
Mrs. John Cooney, Miss Rebecca
Spear, Mrs. Pete Lindemann, Mrs.
Fred Paul, Mrs. J. R. Cooper and Mrs.
w. A. Campbell Mrs. Mills won the
prize for highest score.
The Coconino sun., 1924-02-15
Harvey Gets Surprise

A surprise party was given to Har-
vey Cooper, Friday night, at the home
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R.
Cooper, with dancing and refresh
ments. And such refreshments they
were! Cake, sandwiches, olives, dates
and coffee! Just the sort that one
Graves after the arduosities of an eve
ning's dancing. Among those present
were: Miss Helen Runke, Miss Ruth
Mcdonald, Hazel Alsup, Miss Flor
ence Cooper, Miss Anneta Mech, Miss
Carol Reed, Miss Alberta Kinsey, Miss
Violet Raudebaugh, Miss Mary Lam
port, Miss Florence Meyer, Clifton
Williams, Joe Mcclure, Glenn Ray,
Joe LaScala, Frank Whitehouse,
Frank Harrison, Jr., Earl Thomas and
Paul LaRue.
The Coconino sun., 1924-02-15
Recent Visitors

Mrs. H. K. Behn, Mrs. C. E. How
ard, ]. E. Brolsma, VIM. r. Maude,
j. F. Boylan, B. Bauer, Donald Hultz,
j. H. O'Boyle, Charles N. Miller, Jr.
F. B. Baptist, Phoenix; F. C. Groves,
Tucson; Jack Carter, Bellemont; Ed
die Takenchi, Grand Canyon; ID. S.
Hibbens, Glendale; J. G. Templeton
and wife, Leupp; S. L. Finley, Oak
Creek; Mr.. and Mrs. Haydee Lane,
Mrs. James Page, Jerome; George f..
Short, Prescott; 1. Collins, Winslow.
Evening star., 1924-12-19
Christmas Rush at White House
Begins With Gifts for Euery One
Small Family Circle WiU Gather for Holiday Season
in Simple Observance With President and
Mrs. COOLIDGE.

Is a novelty on the White House gift
list. The sight Of the holly set every
body inquiring where's the mistle-
toe?" Not a sprig of mistletoe in
sight to date.
Within the family group Christmas,
1924, with It's sadly -wistful remem-
brance, will be observed with even
more than the customary simplicity
by the President and Mrs. Coolidge
and their son. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Stearns will be Of the household dur
ing the holidays, ais they always are
on all purely intimate and family oc-
casions. There will be no Christmas
tree, no young peoples dance, as
there was last year, when John and
his brother Calvin gave an afternoon
party" and the first lady made a
great hit by dancing with every boy
in the company.
Outwardly Christmas will pass in
the usual fashion. The Christmas
wreaths are going up at all the big
windows, and the great punches of
holly render colorful the great state
salons. There will be a simple dinner
with the board spread for the family
group. During the Christmastide, II
the weather is favorable, the May
flower may be boarded for a cruise
on the river.
Carols Christmas Eve.
At 9 pm on Christmas eve the en-
tire White House household will as
semble to. take part in the program of
Christmas carols which the massed
choir of the First Congregational
Church. to which the President and
Mrs. Coolidge belong, will give. This
Evening star., 1924-12-19
TAX REFUND FRAUD
RUMOR EXPLAINED
Grows Out of Curb on Un-
necessary Service, Of
fiCiaI Says.

Occasionally we do find an auditor
or an employe who has gone wrong.
and he is properly taken care Of" Mr..
Nash said. 'Jt probably is true that
some ex-employes have made some
money in apparently securing adjust
ments for taxpayers" He thought
the taxpayers were largely to blame
for giving their cases to these peo-
pie, because they would get their
money back from the audit of their
returns, whether they were repre-
sented here by an ex-employe or an
attorney. The public is a little bit
gullible in this respect" he said.
Asks Change in Text.
Mr. Nash pointed out, however, that
a change is desired in the language
of the act so that attorneys and
agents who apply to practice before
the Treasury Department may be in
vestigated. I'VE want to learn what
their previous business has been.
what the people who know them
think about them, etc, before they
are given permission to practice be-
fore the Treasury Department"
Mr.. Nash told the committee that
his office had under investigation
here in Washington for more than
a year a firm of accountants who
lief section and other sections of
the act. These accounts have spe
cialized on cases where many tax
payers are entitled to relief, and
his office was informed that this firm
of accountants made nearly half a
million dollars last year.
The intelligence agents of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau have been
working for over a year, but find
nothing criminal regarding this firm
of accountants, Mr.. Nash said. 1--WE
are still watching them, and the pub
lie continues to give them cases, al
though we have tried to warn the
taxpayers where and whenever we
could do so.
Charles R. Nash, assistant commits
sioner of internal revenue, during his
testimony before the House appro-
priations committee hearing on the
Treasury appropriation bill, was
asked to explain reports that persons
had profited from helping secure. re-
funds to taxpayers
When Mr.. Nash laid before the COM
mittee long list of fraud cases
among bureau employees Representa-
tive Byrns of Tennessee, ranking
Democrat on the committee, said he
had heard many rumors that few
men here in Washington were getting
rich over these refunds. The intima-
ton was that they had somebody in
the bureau helping them out.
Mr.. Nash said there were any num-
ber of such rumors, and that a force
of "a Intelligence agents spent a
great portion of their time running
them down. Ninety nine per cent of
the rumors are groundless, he testi-
fed.
Evening star., 1924-12-19
MOTHERS PLEA WINS
RELEASE OF 2 SONS
Norfolk Judge Grants Habeas Writ
to Make Home Happy at
Christmas Time.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NORFOLK, Va, December 19.-
Mrs. Eta Ayres. whose husband was
killed on a rum vessel at Hampton
Roads two years ago, won her fight
for release of her two sons, Don and
Hartley Ayres, from the State In
dustrial School, at Covington, Va,
when Judge w. Sergeant here yester-
day granted a writ of habeas corpus.
The woman, left destitute and forced
to send the boys to the institution, re-
Gently inherited $4,000. She said
her 5-year-old daughter cried for her
little brothers, and she wanted them
returned as a Christmas surprise. She
said their release was objected to by
the superintendent of the institution
upon the ground that the boys were
under penalties for infractions of the
institutions rules. The mothers suit
named the superintendent defendant.
Judge Sergeant ordered the boys
released, saying, Boys will be boys"
and home could be made happy
with their return to their mother and
sister.
Evening star., 1924-12-19
TELLS OF S1OO,O)D
BLACkMA|L CASE
Girl, Lure of Boston Gang,
Says a "John Mccormick"
Paid Huge Sum.
BY the Associat ted Press.

BY the Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. December 49,
Victor Albert Searles, Boston artist
paid William J. Corcoran $4,000 and
said that he had fixed it up" after
raid on the Searles apartment, Mrs
Abraham Levy, formerly Eleanor
Barnes, testified yesterday in the trial
of Corcoran, former disSict attorney
of Middlesex County, and five code
PENDANTS on charges of conspiring to
extort $50, 900 from Searles. a con-
versation overheard by Mrs. Levy in
a Boston law Office, stating that
John Mccormick was made to pay
500, 900 to avoid publicity, was read
into the record in the form of an Off
davit introduced by the defense.
There was nothing in the affidavit
to indicate the residence of the Mr..
Mccormick mentioned or to show
his line of business or profession.
Mrs, Blanche Paul and Mrs. Levy,
alleged lures of a Boston blackmail
ring, pleaded guilty when indicted in
the SearleS case. According to the
charge, the alleged conspiracy to ex-
tort was based upon raid by sup
posed police officers on a Back Bay
apartment in August. 1920. Searles,
a nephew of the late Edward S.
Searles, multimillionaire, inherited a
portion of his estate. William j. Kelly,
William J. ett, J. Warren Kane,
Michael Lyons and Thomas Devine
were indicted with Corcoran.
Overheard Conversation.
Mrs. Levy was being questioned by
Prosecutor Schatz of Hartford when
she made the affidavit introduced in
yesterdays session of court. She told
of being in the law office of Attorney
William J. Kelly at a time when he
she knew about the "Gwendolyn Sears
affair."" she said:
Il overheard a conversation between
Thomas Zinitti, Devine and Mr.. Hart
nett about how she (Gwendolyn Sears)
tricked them into the lobby of the
Copley-Plaza and hurt her foot and
John Mccormick escorted her to a
room, and she had but a few clothes
on. All she had to do was to throw
off her coat before the detectives came
in, and they were talking about how
soft Coakley and Pelletier got 100000
off John Mccormick. Mr.. Hartnett, 1
know, does know this Gwendolyn
Sears and she writes to him and is
in touch with him."
The conversation, the affidavit con-
tinues, was in "Mr. Kellys office, but
Mr.. Kelly was not present"
Asked About Money.
In questioning Mrs. Levy in relation
to the amount of money she said had
been promised her. counsel for the de-
fense asked whether she had been
promised $500 and a fur coat as she
had testified, $1,000 as she swore in
an affidavit or $1,500 as the district
attorney claimed in his opening.
She replied that she had been
promised $500 and a fur coat
The testimony turned to Searles.
He told u.s. Mrs, Levy said, that
he had paid $4,000 to Corcoran and
showed us his check book. He showed
us paper and said he had fixed it up
and for us not to worry"
Evening star., 1924-12-19
HAMPTON AND TUSKEGEE
TOGET $1,000, 900 GIFT
Negro Institutions Qualify for Gen
eral Education Board Fund by
Matching Amount.
1y the Associated Press


NEW YORK, December 1s.-The
e1,0O0,o00 gift of the General Educa-
tion Board toward a s5,000,000 en-
dowment for Hampton and Tuskegee
Institutes, made contingent upon the
institutions raising a second million
by June 80, 1927, has been made. it
was announced yesterday at the
headquarters of the Hampton-Tus-
kegee endowment fund here. The
first public appeal for funds was
made by the trustees for this pur-
pose two months ago, and the re-
sponse has been so generous that the
necessary fund has been subscribed
for ahead of time. ..,.-.......
With the gift of the education
board thus obtained, officials of the
endowment fund announced that
their next effort would be extended
toward obtaining the recently Of
sered gifht of George Eastman, Roch-
ester camera manufacturer, condi-
1ionaI upon the negro institutes rails
fng their $5,00o.0o0 endowment fund
Sby the end of 1925.
Evening star., 1924-12-19
HOUSE APPROVES
$1,000 MEN IN NAVY
Bill Also Provides Funds for
$685. 0fficers-Other Items
Given Support.

Maintenance of the Navy at its
present strength of $4,000 enlisted
men, rs provided for in the annual
appropriation bill now under con-
sideration in the House, was apprtv-
ed by the House late yesterday.
slight increase in the numbef. of
line and staff officers over the present
number was also approved so that
the bill now carries appropriations
for 6,S95 of the officers.
Anxious to send the bill to the SEN
ate before the Christmas recess,
which begins tomorrow, the House
set fast pace as it completed gen.
Fral debate on the measure. Before
adjournment, reading of more than
half the bill had been completed and
Representative French, Republican,
idaho, in charge of the proposal, was
confident 1t would be put to a vote
today.
Larger Items I'm Bill.
Among the items in the bill given
House approval were those appro-
fpriating $3.50. 900 for the Naval
Training Station at San Diego, Calf ;
:250.000 for the Newport, r. l., train
ing station: s250,000 for the training
station at Great Lakes, Ill, and $780,
300 for the Hampton Roads, Va, sta
Tion; S3,900,000 for the naval reserve
force, 100000 for the Naval War Co.
1ege, Rhode Island; s175,000 for the
engineering experiment station at
Annapolis, Md; S17,000,000 for con-
ktruction and repair of naval ves-
sells, S11, $4,000 for the Bureau of
Ordnance, and S315,35o for temporary
government for the West Indian
Islands, acquired by the United States
from Denmark.
To provide pay for sc, 200 men dur
ang the coming fiscal year, the bill
carries $117,000,00O
Evening star., 1924-12-19
HINES GOES TO INQUIRY
AT VETERANS HOSPITAL
Congressional Committee Inspects
Sanatorium in North
Carolina.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE, N. c., December 10
Gen. Frank T. Hines, accompanied by
Representative Gibson of Vermont,
will arrive here today to join three
members of a congressional subcom-
mittee for an inspection of the Vet
erans' Bureau hospital at Oteen.
A partial inspection of the insti-
tuition, which cares for more than
1,100 former soldiers, was made yes
terday by Representatives Bulwinkle,
North Carolina; Browning, Tennessee,
and Simmons, Nebraska. Gen. Hines
comes for the purpose of -co-operat-
ing with the committee in its in
vestigation of conditions at the in
stitution. -
Complains made a few weeks ago
resulted in the removal ER Col James
e. Miller as Commanding officer Of
the hospital and Col H. E.. Whit
ledge was subsequently placed in
command. eEsa
Evening star., 1924-12-19

picturesque ceremony will be stageo
in the great front portico of the
White House, and for an hour ancient
carols will peal The program over,
the singers will have an impromptu
greeting within the White House por-
tails.
On Christmas day there will be an
exchange Of gifts across the break
fast table, and possibly attendance at
the Christmas service. A day of quiet
reunion and of Renaissance, Christ
mas will be the opposite of January
1, when representatives. from the
world at large will throng the White
House to offer the New Year salu-
tations to the Nations Chief Execu-
tive.
tcspyrfsht. is74.)
Evening star., 1924-12-19
THREE OFFICERS SENT
AFTER JACK HART
Chicago to Surrender Murderer
Who Escaped Maryland Peni-
tentiary Year Ago.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, December 1s.-Assist-
ant States Attorney Eugene A.
Edgett and two detectives left here
last night for Chicago with extradition
papers for James ]. Connolly, alias
Jack Hart. Hart, who escaped from
the Maryland penitentiary here last
January while serving life sentence
for murder, was arrested by the
Chicago authorities yesterday on a
burglary charge.
The local police department an
nounced receipt of a telegram stat
ing that the Chicago authorities
would not hold Hart on the burglary
charge, but would deliver him to the
AUTHORITIES now en- route to Chicago
for return to this city.
Evening star., 1924-12-19

Twenty fat road hedgehogs were
served at supper at Harrington, Eng
land, recently.
Evening star., 1924-12-19
SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF.

NEW YORK, December 19.-Mrs.
Bertha Gold, S3, was shot down in
her home here last night by her
estranged husband, Sol Gold, who
then turned the revolver on himself.
Mrs. Gold may recover, but the man
is not expected to live.
The Colds had been married five
years and separated a month ago.
Evening star., 1924-12-19
MAJ. GEN. SMITH MOVED.

Maj. Gen. William r. Smith, now
commanding the Coast Artillery School,
Fort Monroe, Va, will surrender that
command tomorrow, under orders made
public today, and proceed to New York
to sail January % for the Hawaiian Is,
lands to take command of the Army
division there.
Evening star., 1924-12-19

BY Consolidated Press.
Christmas hur1y-burly has broken
loose at the White House, where a
thousand bundles, boxes, barrels,
crates, packages and "pokes" are
bearing down gayly upon the staff in
relentlessly steady stream.
Everybody in the White House house
hold has something coming. The Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge, and their son
John, soon to arrive for his first visit
since entering Amherst, are on the list.
So also is Col. John Coolidge, the Presi
dents father, although he now is not
expected. to be a White House Christ
mastide guest. Tagging along In
idge's pets, the white collies, Rob Roy
and Peter Pan, and the Presidents
prime favorite, Blackie, the cat that
stayed put"
So far, oddly enough, no Christmas
turkey has been promised. There
still Is time aplenty for turkey or
two to come winging its way, al
though nobody wonders much at no
turkey when casting an appraising
eye over the vast assortment of prov
ender gifts. which range from bits of
hand made honey stuff to splendidly
boxed fruits and nuts showing the
choicest things from the Winter har-
vests.
Holly Brings Queries.
Flowers from everywhere show up
against gorgeous consignment of
holly which Arizona admirers of the
Coolidge family have forwarded. The
White House registers a lot of ex-
cftement because of the holly. which
Evening star., 1924-12-19
CHILDREN TO HEAR
THEATER SERMON
viii Attend Services Tomor-
row at Keith's-Bishop
Today's Speaker.

THE Living Christ" was the sub
iect of an address by Bishop William
T. Mcdowell of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church at the Christmas sery-
ices today at keith's Theater, which
are being held under the auspices OF
the Federation of Women's Clubs
Mrs. Ruth Hansford Snodgrass sang
a solo and Mrs. H. F. Erwin presided.
Arrangements are being made un-
der the direction of Mrs. H. Moffett
Bradley, executive director of the
Washington Association of Bible
Schools, to have all children attend
ing the Saturday morning matinee q.
CrandalPs Tivoh Theater taken to
keith's for the services there tomor-
row, which include singing of Christ
mas carols under the supervision OF
Edwin W. c. Barnes, director of music
of the public schools, and Madge
Beck will tell them "the Christmas
story" It is hoped that all parents
having automobiles will use them in
carrying the children to Keith's
Theater.
Christ as Reformer.
'Tn one sense Christ was not a So
cial reformer," said Rev. Thomas F.
Burke of the Catholic University yes
terday in his sermon at the MONDAY
meeting.
''In another sense he was the great
est of social reformers." continued
Rev. Mr.. Burke. THE social reformer
in our accepted sense of the term
teaches and breaches in view of the
special social conditions of his own
time, and, in general, much of what
he teaches passes with the passing Of
these conditions. He influences US for
the moment"
The music at the meeting YESTERDAY
was by the quartet of the Sacred
Heart Church. DR.. Frances A. Foye,
president of the Women's City Club.
presided
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-13
After Fiue Years

Five years ago the convention of the Interna-
tional Furriers Union met in Chicago united
organization, militant in spirit, proud of its
achievements, and with enthusiasm for the future.
This week another convention of the Furrers'
Union is being held in Chicago Unity has been
mutilated under the blows of the fascist club of
the yellow socialist regime that maintains with
force its seat in the administration saddle The
militant spirit has been put in a straight Jacket
insofar as this has been possible while the out
look for the future is married by the prospect of
new struggles with the reactionary oficialdom in
stead of united assault against the BOSSES
The international Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, at Boston, has its Sigman, and the Fur
riers' Union has its Kaufman. Both of these are a
blight upon progressive action of the workers in
the needle trades.
In spite of all the efforts of Kaufman's dictator
ship, to exclude all sembance of opposition in this
years convention there will be dissenters to face
reaction and sound the appeal of progress
1t is time that Mussolini rule in the Furriers'
Union, as in the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, came to an end. Let the dele
gates to the convention realize that this year is
good time to end ii.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-13

The DAILY WORKER warmly greets the Peoria
Convention of the Illinois Mine Workers, and thru
it the 100000 organized coal miners of the entire
state. The gathering that assemblies today has
problems before it, just as large in scope those
that confront many international unions. In fact,
the number of organized mine workers in Illinois
outstrips by far the total membership of the ma
jority of international unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
The United Mine Workers of Illinois constitutes
the largest district unit within the miners inter
national union What the Illinois miners decide,
therefore, has tremendous influence on the ac-
tivities of the whole international.
Big issues are up for decision this week. The
appointive power of the Harrington administra-
ton will be under fire. The rank and file wants
to elect its spokesman Illinois miners will again
be called upon to take action the reinstatement
of Alex Howat, expelled president of the Kansas
District The coal miners of this state can be
depended on to stand 100 per cent with Alex
Howat against the boss rule of International
President John L. Lewis. In fact Lewis himself
will be on trial for his refusal to give Howat a
hearing at this years convention of the interna-
tional at Indianapolis And the alliance of Presi-
dent Frank Harrington with the Lewis machine
against Howat will also go on the grill. nsfact,
the Peoria gathering ought to be such another rank
and file demonstration as the Kansas coal miners
staged recently in their state, at Pittsburgh, at
their district convention, when the Lewis spokes-
men, repeatedly defeated, left in disgust allowing
"the men from the picks" to carry on their, own
business. And they did.
Action will also be taken against the Ku Klux
Khan. 1t is hoped that this will be decisive, re-
sounding reputation of the Irritation with the
Khan carried on by international President Lewis.
There is unemployment rampant, not only in
the coal industry of Illinois, but turnout the ma
ton. This is another problem, out of which grows
the wage cutting efforts of the BOSSES
Unemployment and wage cutting are two issues
that link up the coal miners with the workers in
all other industries. But the Illinois miners
should, and to a very great extent they do, con
slider all their problems from the standpoint of the
welfare of the whole labor movement.
1t is, therefore, to be expected that the Illinois
miners will take definite action, not only on the
gathering at PEORIA next Sunday, of the class
FarmerLabor forces of the state, but also on the
mass National Farmer-Labor Convention to be
held in st. Paul. Mimi, June 18th.
We greet the delegates to the Peoria Miners
Convention as militant warriors of the workers
against the whole capitalist class. The decisions
of the convention will show how well they have
learned to fight