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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30
Progressives Hold
Mass Meet Monday

The Ia Follette-wheeisr cam.
2aign will Be officially closed ir
Seattle Monday night With mon.
ster mass meeting at the Hippo.
drorne NJ s o'clock. Il was an.
nounced Thursday Entertainment
features win b provided for IN,
meeting.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30
Escape Flames Via
Single Phone Wire

NEW Y>rK. oct c9-IIand over
hand On a swinging telephone wire
20 feet above a concrete court, Rob
80 Brsbe and EHslie sebn made
their escape from o burning building
here yesterday
Bsebs and Mlss stern. who is his
secretary. wsrc rui or from escape
bY The upii spread - the flames
and the only way out NaE by way
n tho wire. umeu Led from above
the window ~ thsir office 20 The
roof Uf an Adjoining building
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30
Another Far East
Education Mission

VICTORIA. H. G. Oct 80 - Or,
Paul Monroe, Of Columbia university.
who arranged In Pcdn for the al.
niluistption % the Boxer indemnity
funds returned 10 China by conKrcas
Inst May. returned 10 America on
the steamer Empress Of Australia 70
prepare for another educational mis-.
sion In the Far East.
Ito viii Organize a group OF sdu.
eational experts In tho United States
and viii return with them IN Janu.
airy 70 make n scientific study Of tho
educational system in he Philippines
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30
STORM WARNING POSTEb

Storm wamlnE 'Frrr posted
Thursday morning on thr Oregon
and Washington coasts According
40 the weather bureau ths storm b
approaching the Washington coast
and mild gale mHy hlt Seattle
THURSDAY uiEht
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30
Author of 1ord
Fauntleroy" Dies

NEW YORK Oct 30 TruHcrr
Hotgaon Hurhstt, author ana play.
wright and famous Tor Der Little
,Iord Fauntlfroy, died yesterday a,
Her home here
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30
Labor Is Urged to
Back Butter Bill"

tatur waH urged % set t7lHlhl
referendum ~. the Butter bil
by J A scolIard. president o. the
state pairymrn's HasDelation. Do q
speech before the Central iab1f
council Wednesday night
The bin seollard said. dosE n1'
prohibit the sale ~ oleo Or ug.
margarine n prohibits the mixing
o. milk iu the product 20 give d
o. the flavor o. butter
Tracks n a railroad On Peru climb
20 "a height u 1885 feet iu 100 miles.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30

peared In a boulevard cafe here wear
INK fun evening dress except Tor
wide ranch hats on their heads and
red bandanna handkerchlcfs around
their nccks. Performers on the stage
we're unable to attract any attention.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-30
COWBOYS IN PARIS

PARIs.--Two American COWBOYS
stopped tho show when they ap.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
BALLSTON FIRE
COMPANY HAS
BANQUET
Woodrum Makes Principal Ad-
dress of Evening in New
Engine House.

CLARENDON. Va, Jan. 49,
More than $50 citizens of Ballston
attended the second annual ban.
Quet of the Ballston Volunteer Fire
Department last night in the new
engine house. Chief E. j. Plarr in
his address of welcome. outlined
the development of the department
during the past four years.
The principal address Of the eve.
ming was made by Congressman
c. A. Woodrum Of 1rginia. He
congratulated the citizens of Ball.
ston on having a loyal set Of men
who banded together to form q
volunteer fire department.
H. K. Green, commissioner of
revenue of Arlington county, en-
dorsed the laying Of a special levy
in April by the board of super.
visors for the upkeep of the fire
department Of the county.
A feature Of the program was the
banjo solo by Russell KidwelI, four.
year-old son of +. Kidwell of Clar-
endOn. The program included duets
by Miller and Gobel Of the Montross
quartet of Washington, recitatiOns
by Miss Ruth Hooper of Cherry.
dale, Miss A.. Kicker, Of Clarendon,
and Miss Grace Smith, of Ballston,
Music was furnished during the
evening by the Montross Orchestra.
The banquet was served and pre-
pared by the ladies auxiliary Of the
fire department. The committee on
arrangements were, F. Mcpherson,
chairman; w. Uphold, L. Golden,
G. Gesford, C. Crump and ]. w.
Rogers.
Due to the breaking of the
fourteen inch gas main Of the
Rosslyn Gas Company yesterday
at the Key Bridge, the citizens of
Arlington county were without gas
until a late hour last night.
The stockholders of the Arling.
ton Trust Company, meeting in the
board room at the bank yesterday
elected the following officers for
the year 1924: w. w. Douglas.
reelected president; first vice pres.
ident and cashier, C. T. Merchant:
second vice president, DR.. M. r.
Church; assistant cashier, Allan
Prosise; secretary, Harry r.
Thomas: counsel, william C. Cloth.
Members of the board Of direc.
tors are. w. w. Douglas, M. e.
Church, DR.. George B. Fadley, T.
Morgan johnson, William Cloth. 70.
Wade Ball, Col Robert N. Harper.
Paul Hinmelford, c. r. Merchant,
Allan Prosise, H. X. Green, A. d,
Torryson.
A dividend Of 8 per cent has been
paid by the bank during the past
year, the deposits Of the bank are
now about $3S0,OOO, and the total
resources of the bank, as stated by
an officer Of the bank today, are
$4,000.
At meeting Of the congregation
Of st. Georges Episcopal Church
last night, 1t was decided to enlarge
the present parish hall. A. T.
Stone was elected chairman of the
building committee.
Constable A. d. Langley, of Ar
lington county, escaped injury last
night when his car was ditched
while pursuing what he believes
was boot1egger auto.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

turn President Harding's veto and
twenty-four who voted to sustain
it.
OF. the twenty-five new Senators,
eighteen are reckoned as favorable
to the bonus and four either opposed
or doubtful. The four include
Green, Of Vermont. Boyard, of Della.
ware, Bruce, of Maryland, a Demo-
crat, who voted with the Republican
regulars on the Cummins-Smith
chairminship fight, and Edwards,
of New Jersey, who campaigned on
an adjusted compensation platform
but who is said to have got the
chaff mixed up with the wheat in
the pro tax-cut, anti-bonus propa-
ganda.
The legion officers include in
their estimates only those who are
dead certain" For example, their
total for the bonus does not include
Senator Edge of New Jersey, who
voted to sustain the Harding veto,
but who, 1t is said, declared for the
bonus in the last campaign, and
Cameron of Arizona.
He voted for the bonus but, after
visit at the White House, decided
to sustain the veto. He is not re-
garded by the legionnaires as
hopeless"
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
BOY dies UNDER
WHEELS OF
TRUCK
Ten-Year-old Son Of Patent
Office Clerk Killed Seeking
Lift" Home.

Ten-year-old John Haywood was
killed and three others suffered in
jury in automobile accidents yes.
terday.
The boy, who is the son of John
NJ. Haywood, clerk in the Patent
Office, heading for his home in Seat
Pleasant, Md, yesterday, it is said,
leaped on coal truck owned by
Frederick L. Watkins, coal dealer.
He slipped, according to the police,
and fell under the rear wheel. The
accident happened a short distance
beyond the District line.
Congressman Clarence Cannon Of
Missouri, escaped injury last night.
when his motor car was in a col
lision with one operated. by Frank
Dietz, 1916 East Capitol street
Dietz's car turned over, brilising his
daughter, Dorothy Dietz, and shock
ing his mother, Mrs. c. F. Dietz.
who were riding with him.
Struck by an automobile, while
crossing at Fourth and G streets
northwest, John T. Toninn, fifty
six, Of Cuba, received cuts on the
legs. He was attended at Casualty
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
Oklahoma "Cas" Raised.

NEW YORK, Jan. 18.-The Mag
nolia Petroleum Company and the
Texas Company today advanced the
price of gasoline and kerosene one
cent a gallon in Oklahoma.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
TREE
HIDDEN away
|NDESERT
Found by American Scientist.
Breathing Through BristIes.
Has No Limbs Nor Leaves.

Meet Americas newly discovered
freak tree, the Idria Columnaris. It
rises branchless from the sands Of
the Mexican desert, like a single
short hair on a bald head. And like
such hairs, it shuns clusters, each
tree being quite apart from its
neighbots.
d. T. MacDougal, Of Tucson
Ariz., director Of the Desert Lab
oratory Of the Carnegie Institution.
and an exploring party found the
tree not long ago-it probably was
Che first time civilized man had
ever seen it-tucked away in an
almost inaccessible nook Of bald
granite mountains, far out in the
dun deserts of Sonora, Lower Cali
fornia. '"rhe most singular tree In
America lis the way Mr..
MacDougal describes it in the brief
notes sent to the main offices of
the Institution.
Mr.. MacDougal gave the new tree
it's name. The latter half Of the
name refers, Of course, to the col
umn-like appearance Of the tree as
Al IOWGES dUOVS t1AC CS1CIL 0AAu uOS5"
ert thorns. 1t is a tree without
branches, except for the little.
wire-like spines bristling out from
the trunk. 1t has no leaves. It
is, however, an evergreen with little
bristles through which it breathes
as most trees do through their
leaves. The trunk is large and
very soft with large pith at the
center.
During the past year, Mr.. Mac
Dougal led two expeditions into the
Mexican deserts to gather informa-
ton on the extent and condition of
desert vegetation. He has reported
many queer things, the queerest
Of which is this tree.
Trees somewhat similar have been
found on one or two Of the islands
of Hawaii but nothing approaching
them has been seen before on the
mainland Of the Americas.
(CopyriRht, 1924, William Pickett Helm
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
maryland BAR
To HONOR
JUDGES
Incoming and Retiring Jurists
Of Seventh Circuit to Be
Dined Here.

HYATTSVILLE, Nd. Jan. 49,
Under direction of a committee
composed Of T. Howard Duckett. of
Bladensburg; M. Hampton Ma
gruder, Of Upper Marlboro. and S.
Marvin Peach of Hyattsvflle, q
dinner will be given tomorrow
evening at 8 o'clock at the City
Club, Washington, by the Southern
Maryland bar in honor Of the re-
firing judges Of the seventh judicial
circuit, Chief Judge John p. Bris-
coe, Of Prince Frederick, Calvert
county; Associate Judge Fillmore
Beal1, Of Beltsville, Prince Georges
county, and Associate Judge B. Har-
ris Camalier, Of Leonardtown, St
Mary's county.
Among the guests will be the
incoming judges, Chief Judge w.
Mitchell Digges, of La Plata,
Charles county; Associate Judge
Joseph C. Mattingly, Of Oxon Inn
district, Prince Georges county,
and Associate Judge William M.
Loker, of Leonardtown.
Under the auspices Of Snyder
Farmer Post No. 8, American
Legion, Of Hyattsville, a commur,.
ity meeting Is to be held in the
armory of Company F., local unit
Of the Maryland National Guard.
Wednesday night, January 80. The
principal speaker will be Senator
Magnus Johnson, of Minnesota.
The meeting Is being arranged
by the executive committe Of Sny-
der-Farmer Post, comprising Alan
H. Pettinger, chairman; John N.
Brooks. C. L. Aiello, Henry Hiser.
Robert G. MacCartee and J. Moses
Edlavitch.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
MELLON WILL SPEAK At
PHILADELPHIA DINNER

Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
will be the guest of honor Of the
Philadelphia Manufacturers Club at
a dinner in the Quaker City Saturday
night, it was announced at the
Treasury today.
The Secretary, accompanied by
several Treasury officials, will leave
for Philadelphia at noon. It was
stated the affair is purely social.
Mellon will not make a formal ad-
dress.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
NEW DIRECTOR CLEANS
UP CITIES IN SPAIN

MADRID. Jan. 1S.-The directory
Issued a memorandum today giving
the result of municipal clean-ups:
Listed are Irregularities discovered
In documents in $40 cities halls; lO9
councillors tried; 263 municipal en-.
plOyeS dismissed.'
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

Dorsey W. Williams. of this county;
DR.. Roger Williams, of Lynchburg,
Va, and Charles M. Williams, jr.,
Of Atlantic City. Mr.. Williams was
a lifelong resident Of Poolesville
district.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

Constable A. d. Langley, of Ar.
lington county, escaped injury last
night when his car was ditched
while pursuing what he believes
was a boot1egger auto.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
MEANS To
DEFEAT
VETO
Needed Votes Obtained, Say
Leaders - Attack "OId
Boys" and ''oId Show"
By JOHN T. LAMBERT.
Cosmopolitan News Service.

SVCAHOuOAASSs1B
The American Legion today
made a vigorous smash at the
foes Of adjusted compensation for
the men who fought the war.
Show is it," they were asked,
shat 100000 young men, nearly
all of them voters, are unable to
get what they want from their
country?
Answers Its Questions.
This answer was made at the
legion headquarters:
1T is today no longer fight to
obtain a few millions year. We
are ready today for the first time
to demand show down on who is
running this Government. Is it
going to be run as in the past by
the same old boys who run the
same old show for the same old
purposes? Or is a hand going to
be taken in the Government of
their country by 100000 men, all
of them potential voters, and their
friends, families and dependents,
numbering millions more, who make
. claim to the country SO just that
to argue over it is absurd?
"The old gang were anxious for
the war. They made millions at
home while we risked our lives un-
der cannon fire in the mud-filled,
vermin-ridden, front-line trenches,
with our dead, dying or injured
buddies about us.
Menace to Selfish Grip.
1--WE now feel that the old gang
70 making a vicious, nasty fight
against us for the reason that they
feel the young veterans of the war
constitute a rising power in public
life that is a menace to the selfish
grip they have upon the Govern-
ment"
1t is on that theory that the legion
Is expected from now on to wage the
fight for adjusted pay. National
Commander John r. Quinn has al
ready called upon legion posts
throughout the country to begin a
nationwide demonstration for the
bill. Other officers of the legion,
including Aaron Shapiro and Col.
John Thomas Taylor, of the national
legislative committee, are now con-
terring with the California cowboy
leader at Indianapolis.
For the first time since the legion
was organized, those officials are
thinking Of putting it into politics
on the basis of Help those who help
us; repay those who mistreat us. :
The specific criticism of the legion
!s that it had not adopted that policy
In the past.
No Doubt of Passage.
Legion officers entertain no doubt
that the adjusted pay bill will pass
both House and Senate. The only
doubt Is as to what will happen after
President Coolidge vetoes it.
They, by the way, are proceeding
entirely on the theory that Mr.. Cool.
Idge will veto it although few hope.
tul friends like Congressman A,
Piatt Andrews of Massachusetts see
In his inaugural statement, ct do
not favor the bonus," negative at
titude which will permit him to act
Tor or against it when the time
comes.
The Legion officers figure there
are sixty-eight Senators, two more
than the number necessary to over
ride veto, who will stand by the
bonus from beginning to end, resist.
ing Whatever pressure may be made
upon them for business, Mellon or
Administration quarters.
More Votes Claimed.
There are fifty Senators in the
present body who voted to over.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
SIGMA EPSILON TO JOIN
RAPHAEL CLUB IN DANCE

Sigma Epsilon sorority will give
oint dance with the Raphael
Club tonight at the City Club. The
Sangamo Orchestra has been sc.
cured for the evening.
Entertainers from New York city
have been engaged to sing at the
dance. Special solo dances will be
given.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

Due to the breaking of the
fourteen inch gas main Of the
Rosslyn Gas Company yesterday
at the Key Bridge, the citizens of
Arlington county were without gas
until a late hour last night.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

At meeting Of the congregation
Of st. Georges Episcopal Church
last night, 1t was decided to enlarge
the present parish hall A. T.
Stone was elected chairman of the
building committee.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

aged seventy-one years.
He was stricken by apoplexy at
his home and died almost instantly.
He is survived by the following
children: Mrs. George Brewer. Mrs.
Henry Allnutt, Mrs. Edward All.
mutt, Miss Emily Williams, and
New Britain herald., 1924-10-21
ODD FELLOWS HOLD
 GRAND CONVENTION
iS9 New Members Added to
 Roster in State

Brideport, Oct. 21.-Delegates rep rcsenting 36 subordinate bodies at tended the annual session of the grand encampment, I. o. O. r. of Connecticut here today and listened to reports showing a net increase in membership for the year of 12s with q total membership of 7,941 at the end of the fiscal year. June 30, 1924.
 Grand Patriarch Orville Rector of thls city, who submitted his annual report and presided at the session, remarked in noting the membership increase that 22 encampments had shown a gain in membership for the year, eleven showed a loss while three marked time. Attention was called to the loss of members by suspension which the grand patri- arch recommended be considered by a conrmitte on the state of the order. The report gave detail Of the official acts of the grand patriarch.
 Grand Scribe w. S. Hutchinson of New Haven reported details of the membership gain and loss and noted that there are 7,S76 contributing and 65 non-contributing membership in all the bodies.
 Total assets of subordinate en- campments July l. 1925 was $1l2,- 43l.36 net gain of s2,S06.SS in as- sets for the year. Total funds were s93,472.92 investments in regalia, paraphernalia, etc.. $1S,95S.44. Re- ceipts of the grand encampment for the year ending October 1. 1924 were $S.663.92.
 Grand Treasurer William J. Ber- ges reported total receipts and dis bursements for the year of $9,242.S1, which included a cash balance or $4446.09 in the last report increased of $5,606.4S on October l..
 Other reports were by Grand High Priest A, M. Randall, Grand Senior Wardens J. Austin. Grand Junior Warden Harry w. Futile, and Grand Representatives Frank M. Garfield and William J. Berges.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-21
SMITHS THROAT
 GETTING SORE
Can't Get Roosevelt to Debate
 Water Power

Rochester, N, Y, Oct. 2i,-Mov. ing today to Syracuse, the city in which he was nominated by the re. cent democratic state convention Governor Alfred E. Smith was nursing husky throat, the result of the long speeches he has been giving his audiences in his campaign tour of the state.
 Referring to the remark of Col onel Theodore Roosevelt, his repub- lican opponent that after a week or so of campaigning the colonels voice was 50 per cent better, the governor said:
 Well mines worse. The differ ence is that. made a speech"
 Its hard to campaign if you cant have an argument. he added. It's hard to pick out something new to tell the people every night. Two years ago was contesting with man, Governor MiIler) who said something and who gave me an op- portunity to debate with him"
 Rochester gave Governor Smith a rousing welcome.
 The governor spoke on water power conservation. After quoting from a speech on the. subject made by President Theodore Roosevelt at Watertown ten years ago, he de- clared that the present republican candidate for governor had not men, tioned water power in his recent ad- dress in the same city.
 He devoted his entire time to inquiries about friends and neigh bors along the line" the governor said.
 Governor Smith accused the re- publieans Of keeping to their bourbon principle of making some- body present of public property, and with favoring the water power boys, who are on the job. all the time" The republican assembly, he said. had defeated the administra- ton proposal for a state water pow CT authority that would have placed the development of the resource ex- clusiveiy in the hands Of the state.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-21
FAILURE OF POWER
 TIES UP BOSTON TRAFFIC
Elevated Lines in City Suspend Operations During Early Morn-
 ing Rush

Boston, Oct, 21.-The most seri, ous tieup in the history of the city with the exception of two carmen's strikes, one in 1910 and the other several years later, occurred early today when tow voltage in it's South Boston power house caused com- plete suspension of traffic on the lines of the Boston elevated railway for several hours.
 Cars came to standstill shortly after z o'clock during the early morning rush hour. Crowded cars and trains were stalled on surface lines, in subways and on the elevated structures and police were called 10 maintain order at the large transfer points where thousands of persons on their way to business milled about impatiently Special trains were made up by the N. Y., N. H. X H. railroad and other steam lines, but this auxiliary with every avail able automobile failed to take care of the stranded multitudesand many thousands walked from outlying su- burban points.
 The tieup Of traffic on the ele- vated brought about g partial sus- pension Of business in downtown Boston for some time. In some in- stances the "early man" whose duty it was to open stores and other places of business failed to arrive and hundreds of employees stood on the streets waiting for the doors to be opened, At 9:30 o'clock the Elevated company reported that service had been restored to nor nal throughout the system.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-21
Thrice Decorated War Veteran
 to Claim Bride Now on Ocean

When the Anchor line steamer Cameronia arrives in New York from Glasgow Saturday. one pas senger whose eyes have been strain ing towards the beacon light on the statue of Liberty for many months, will receive u welcome which will far surpass that usually accorded the average passenger, and Miss Jessie c, Davidson will greet the man who a year before sailed from his native highlands to mako her a home in the Hand of oppor- tunity"
 D, M, CoghiIl, known to his New Britain friends as "Scotty," will be waiting at the WharNes tho boat docks, and "Scotty's' heart will beat with far more intensity than when he faced the German, Aus trian and Turkish guns in the
New Britain herald., 1924-10-21

Ing which time he was wounded, accumulated three medals and never once in that period saw his home,
 Came Here Last Year
 So when he encountered dialeul- ties in bringing his sweetheart 10 America he recognized the obstacle only as something else 10 he over come. He came to the United states landing here singularly enough on July 4~ 1923, He came directly to New Britain entered the employ of the Stanley Works and now is connected with the New Britain Sheet Metal Works and plays a violin in Everyman's Bible class orchestra.
 But in all of the time "Scotty" was travelling about the world; when he joined the British in their famous retreat from the Turkish