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Evening star., 1924-03-23
Raphael.

Today. Kenneth Harlan. in The
Virginian"; tomorrow. Lowell Sher-
man and Doris Kenyon. in Bright
Lights of Broadway; Tuesday Gas
ton Glass and Ruth Clifford, in
Mother Law: Wednesday. Earle
Williams, in Jealous Husbands:
Thursday, Guy Bates Post. in Gold
Madness: Friday, Marie Provost. in
The Wanters": Saturday. Colleen
Moore, in April Showers"
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Princess.

Today and tomorrow. Anna Q. Nils
son and James kirkwood. in Pom
jola": Tuesday and Wedne sdav. owen
Moore and sylvia Dreamer, in Her
Temporary Husband: Thursday.
House Peters. in Held to Answer" !:
Friday, Huntley Gordon, in pleasure
Mad: Saturday, Lloyd Hughes, in
Judgment of the Storm
Evening star., 1924-03-23

studio and gave him pointers on the
making Of The Confidence Man"
Maj. I.awes and Mr.. Meighan are old
friends.
Aiaskans are said to he eIated over
the picture "Cheethaka," produced by
Capt. A. T.. Iathrop. president of the
Alaska Motion Picture Corporation
and head of the Empress circuit 1t
is credited with being a great all
Alaska picture, and has been financed
and filmed by Alaskans with Alaska
scenery. In Portland, it is claimed, it
filled houses to capacity playing
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Empire.

Today and tomorrow. Tom Mix in
Eyes of the Forest" and AL st. John
in SLOW and Sure; Tuesday. Ruth
Clifford in The Whispered Name
and Baby Peggy in Peg o the Mount
ed; Wednesday and Thursday, Rich
ard Dix, Lois Wilson and Marjorie
Daw in Call of the Canyon and
comedy, "A Very Bad Man; Friday
Gladys Walton in The Near LADY,
and Ben Turpin in Where Is NV
Wandering Boy This Evening2,: Sat
Evening star., 1924-03-23

ure Mad Buster Keaton in Scare
Crow; Thursday, Priscilla Dean in
White Tiger" also kinograms and
comedy; Friday, white Tiger" kino-
grams, Aesop's Fables and Fighting
Blood; Saturday matinee, Soul of
the Beast" also Aesop's Fables and
comedy and Santa Fe Trail" chapter
Z; Saturday evening, Colleen Moore
in Through the Dark" also Aesops
Fables and comedy and santa Fe
Trail" chapter 4.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Dumbarton.

To-day. Held To Answer: tomorrow
and Tuesday. Corlnnc Griffith in
Black Oxen: Wednesday and Thurs
day. The Silent Command". Saturday.
Dustin Farnum in "kentucky DAYS"
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Takoma.

Today and tomorrow, Alice Terry
in prisoner of Zenda." also Pathe
News and Pathe Topics; Tuesday and
Wednesday, Huntley Gordon in Pleas
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Photo Plays This Week

urday, Hoot Gibson in "The Thrill
Chaser" and comedy. Monkey Farm"
Fox News and steel Trail No. IL
(matinee onlyD
Evening star., 1924-03-23

THE Cat and the Canary. the ia
nous melodrama, written by John
Willard and said to be the creepiest
and most exciting of all the mystery
plays, is announced by the Shubert-
Belasco Theater for the week Of
April s. 1t was first produced in
New York, and had a run covering
nearly two years. Almost all the
original cast will be seen in the per-
formance here.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

against such pictures as FLAMING
YOUTH starring Colleen Moore;
"Rosita," starring Mary Pickford, and
"A Woman of Paris" written and
directed by Charley Chaplin.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

Kenneth Harlan has donned his
cowboy outfit to make a series OF
personal appearances in large cities
where The Virginian" is being
shown for the first time.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
KILLS 2 IN ALLEGED
BLACKMAIL SCHEME
Woman Shoots as Gang Comes to
: Collect Money, She Tells
Police.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 25.-
Two men are dead and two other per-
sons were being questioned by police
early today, the result of a pistol bat
tie late last night which is said to
have been the elimination of a black
mail plot.
The dead are Rattle Transo. thirty
six. and Mike MarinO, thirty-five, who
with Il third man are said to have
gone to the home of Mrs. Nettie An
nelli. twenty-one. last night to see il
demands they are alleged to have
made Thursday night would be car
ried out. The third member of the
alleged gang, giving his name as
Tony Savajd, was arrested early to-
day. The other person being held is
Mrs. Annelli.
Police this morning are searching
for the husband of Mrs. Annelli, who
she says. left home after receiving the
threats.
Mrs. Annelli. armed with three re-
|rolverS. fired 4 dozen shots at the
three men after they had fired a shot
through the window of her, home, she
told police. More than a score shots
were exchanged.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
HIGHER ESTATE TAX
BRINGS new DELAY
Amendment to Revenue Bill Rails.
ing Brackets Causes Fur
ther Debate.

Revision of the estate tax rates pro-
posed by Representative Ramseyer,
republican, Iowa, subjected the reve-
nue. bill to another delay today while
the House debated the question.
Mr.. Raniseyer's amendment pro-
along the lines to a maximum of 40
per cent on the amount by which net
estates exceeds s10,o0o,0Oo, The
present rate is 25 per cent. The
present law would be retained and
the minimum rate of l per cent on
the amount of an estate not in excess
Of $4,000 also retained undisturbed.
Representative Strong, republican,
Kansas, announces he would offer an
amendment to propose an additional
tax ON the tax free securities in es-
tates.
Mr.. Ramseyer argued that accept
ance of the increased rates would
permit further reduction on income
taxes as well as the repeal of more
nuisance taxes. 1t also would aid in
preventing concentration of wealth
in the hands of a few. he said.
New York. in opposition. insisted the
Increase in rates would work to make
the tax a permanent form of federal
taxation, land this soon will deprive
states of this vital source of revenue"
In reply to Representative Rankin,
democrat, Mississippi, Mr.. Mills de-
clared the additional revenue expect
ed by increasing the rates would not
be sufficient to pay soldier bonus.
Adoption of the Ramseyer amend
ment was urged by Representative
Garner, Texas, ranking democrat on
the ways and means committee, who
declared revenue from increased
estate taxes, together with an -ad-
ditional levy Of 81 per 1000 on cigar
cites, would net s110,000,000 annually.
or more than enough to pay the SOL
diers' bonus.
Unless such taxes are authorized,
Mr.. Garner said, he would oppose any
effort to increase the scope of nui-
sance tax repeal.
'I won't support any amendment
|cutting down revenue further unless
provisions are made for. making up
the amount in other ways" said Mr..
Garner. reiterating that he was de-
|termined not to give President Cool
idge any opportunity or excuse" to
veto the bill.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
| MEMEL ISSUE TESTS
NORMAN DAVIS SKILL
Former U. S. Undersecretary of
State Tours Polish-Lith-
uanian Frontier.
BY GEORGE WITTE.
BY Radio 10 The Star and the Chicago Da
News Copyright. 1924.

by RADIO 10 The Star and the Chica 90 Daily
News. Copyright, 1924.
ON BOARD MEMEL COMMISSION
SPECIAL TRAIN ON POLISH
LITHUANIAN FRONTIER, February
{ 20.-His State Department job may
have had many puzzles. and the peace
conference may have been q skein of
Gordian knots, but the hardest prob
lem Norman II. Davis, former under
secretary of state, ever tackled is the
Mernel question. which he is investi-
eating as president Of the commission
appointed by the league of nations.
The commission left Warsaw Fri
day night for DanZig to circle COM
pletely around the territory; of the
countries directly interested in the
question, before proceeding to Gen
eva, where the formal hearing on
this subject will open Tuesday.
The Lithuanian parliament has in
terpellated Foreign Minister Ernstag
Galvanauskas on the sAfemel question
accusing him of having made too
many concessions in an attempt to
settle the problem amica bly,. Cal
ranauskas promised to make no more
concessions but it is generally ad-
mitted that if the Davis commissions
thereby causing parliament to refuse
it's ratification, not only the Lithuan-
ian cabinet but perhaps even the
president will fall.
In Warsaw Davis was given to
understand that the Poles would ac-
cept any decision giving them the
right to use Memel territory, espe-
cially the Niemen river. for free
transit of trade and a free harbor.
Several German delegations boarded
. I,;c fra har y,
East Prussia. in order to impress
upon the commission the economic
Importance for all eastern Germany
of MemeIs remaining a German port
or being internatfonalized, like Dam
zig
Davis. in one of his talks with
representatives of interested coun-
tries, said: Small nations must re-
alize that they must be more intelli-
gent than big powers. If they make
stupid blunders or are stubborn, then.
of course. the bigger nations can
oyerrun them whenever they wish"
Evening star., 1924-02-25
EDUCATOR SCORES
g. AMERICAN ISOLATION
Faunce Says Practical Politics Is
Smothering Voice Of
Christianity.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 25.-Questions
of practical politics have suffocated
and smothered the voice of Christian
America. preventing II from express
ing itself in favor of participating in
an international brotherhood of ma
tions," President W. II. p. Faunce of
Brown University declared last night
in an address before the Chicago Sun
day Evening Club.
The people OF this country, he said
will find way to help the other ma
tions of the world In peace as in war,
despite the present isolation. Our
present international policy. Presi-
dent Faunce said, might be described
as millions Of men for war, but not
one man for consultation"
Religious teachings of world broth
erhood, the speaker declared, alone
will serve to bring universal peace
and betterment of civilization.
which today lis broken up more than
at any time i'll the last two millen-
NUNS"
Evening star., 1924-02-25
TAKES UP CLASSIFYING.
President Confers With Efficiency
Board Chairman.

In order that he might be better in
formed as TO the progress being made
by the personnel classification board
in it's task of properly classifying
the employees of the federal govern
ment President Coolidge today con-
ferred with Herbert Brown, chairna n
of the United States bureau of ef-
ficiency. The latter said afterward
that he went over as briefly as pos
sible the work already done by the
board and outlined what it will do
in the future.
Mr.. Brown admitted that numerous
complaints have been lodged at the
White House against the methods
adopted by the board in making al
locations in regards to certain classes
Of employees, and that the President
was desirous of determining whether
there was any foundation for these
protests and to the charges. and that
the board has not carried out the in
tent of the law providing for this re-
classification OF government en-
ployes.
Mr.. Brown made it very plain that
the board has been fair in its work
and has complied with the law in
every particular.
Mr.. Brown made it very plain that
he is opposed to the proposition on
the part of some employees organiza-
tions to place the classification work
under the United States Civil Service
Commission.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
U. S. SALvATI0NISTS
TALK OF SECESSION
Gen. Booths Ban on Membership
in Secret Societies Stirs Feel
ing Against London.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 2J.-Seces-
sion of the American branch of the
Salvation Army from the parent Or
ganization in England today was
seen by officers of the army as a
possible result of the recent action in
London of Gen. Bramwell Booth, in
approving orders calling upon Off
GERS to quit secret societies and pro-
hibiting them from making such
affiliations in the future.
1t was declared by some officers
that a large number of their COM
radeS in this country were members
of secret organizations and that COM
pliance with the orders from London
eventually would lead to secession or
complete paralysis OF the American
branch.
1t was pointed out that the Saliva
tion Army frequently had accepted
the assistance of secret societies in
raising money.
An article in a recent issue of the
Staff Review, the international Off
cial army organ, which was said to
have been approved by Gen. Booth,
speaks of secret societies as openly
worldly" 1t mentions alleged free
use of intoXicantS in them and secret
functions, to attend which was to
"condone habits too often at variance
with our teaching and standard"
Evening star., 1924-02-25
ACTRESS WILL PLEAD
FOR ALLEGED EXTORTER
Barbara La MARI Says She Fears
Jail Will Mean Death
for Attorney.
RH the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, February 20.
When Herman L. Roth, Hollywood
attorney convicted Of attempting to
extort hush money from Arthur H.
Sawyer, business manager for Bar
bara La Mari, motion picture actress,
appears in superior court for sentence
today Miss La Marr will be there to
ask clemency for him, according TO
the Los Angeles Examiner.
''Mr. Roth Is a very sick man." the
Examiner quotes Miss La Marr as
saying. I'm fully convinced that IL
he goes to Jail 1t will mean his death.
can't bear to carry the thought in
my soul that / sent man to his
death. 1 am going into court and per-
sonally plead for probation for him :
Witnesses at Roth's trial testified
he had threatened to file an amended
divorce complaint against Miss La
Marr, naming several prominent film
players as correspondents. but had ex-
pressed willingness to drop the mat
ter IL well paid for his silence.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
MRS. S. RUSSELL BOWEN
is CLAIMED BY DEATH
Wife of Vice President Of w. r.
& E. Co. Active in Many Women's
Clubs-Native Of N. 7. State.

Mrs. S. Russell Bowen, forty-six
years old, wife of the vice president
of the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company and of the Potomac
Electric Power Company. died at her
residence. 1915 Delaf1eld street north
west, yesterday.
Funeral services were conducted at
Spears undertaking parlors, 1908
H street northwest, this afternoon.
Rev. DR.. Harry Evaul, pastor of the
Iowa Avenue NJ. f. Church. officiated.
The body will be sent to Whitesboro,
N. z. Mrs. Bowen's old home, for
burial.
Mrs. Bowen, who before her mar
riage was Miss Mabel Park, was a
descendant of an old New York fam
lily. She was the daughter of Elijah
Park who attended Hamilton College
with Grover Cleveland. She had been
resident of this city for the last
thirty years and was active in many
women's clubs. She formerly served
as regent of the John. Lindsey Chap
ter, d. A. r., was a vice president OF
the Excelsior Club. and of the Column
bia Heights Art Club and was a lead
ing member of the ThiIo Classics So
ciety. The. latter organization made
extensive studies of Shakespeare g
works. Mrs. Bowen had also done ex-
tensive historic research work in con-
nection with the D. A. r..
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by two sons. Robert and Russell
Bowen.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
M'CRAY is INDICTED
IN MAIL FRAUD CASE
Violation of National Banking
Laws Also Charged Against
Governor of Indiana.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. February 25.-The
myriad financial difficulties Of War
renAT. McCray, Governor of Indiana
have been further augmented by his
indictment by a federal grand jury on
charges of using the mails in a
scheme to. defraud. and violation Of
the national banking laws. The
charges were included in report
made by the grand jury last Satur-
day. but were not made public until
today. when tho governor surrender
ed to the United States marshal, who
held capiases for his arrest,
The indictment followed a week Of
investigation. during which time a
number OF Indiana and Chicago bank
ers appeared before the grand jury.
In addition to the latest charges
brought against him the governors
financial transactions have led to his
Indictment In the Marion county
Element. larceny and false pretense.
Bankruptcy proceedings against him
in federal court and assignment OF
all his assestS to creditors commit
tee.
The governors bond was fixed at
$4,000 on the two indictments. He
will be arraigned March IL before
Judge Anderson. Another man was
indicted jointly with McCray. but his
name will not be made public until
he has been arrested.
The Indictment charging use OF the
mails in furtherance of a scheme to
defraud was in connection with al
legged representations made by Nc
Cray to obtain loans and contained
thirteen counts.
The second indictment, charging
violation of the national banking
laws. was In connection with the Dis
count and Deposit State Bank OF
Kentland, Ind, a member of the fed
eral reserve system, and OF which
McCray formerly was president. 1t
contains eighteen counts.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
MILLIONAIRE KILLS SELF.
Scotch Magnate Found Dead at
Tallahassee.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE. Fla, February
"a coroner's jury here yesterday
rendered a verdict of suicide on the
death of DR.. Tennett Ronalds. sixty
five, Scottish millionaire of Edin
burgh. Scotland. who died at his
winter home near this place from
a pistol shot wound in the temple.
He had been in extremely i'll health
for several months and this is sup
posed to have been the cause of his
act Of Self-destruction. He came
to Tallahassee in 1898 and has main
tanned a home here and another in
Edinburgh, living six months of the
year at each place.
He owned several thousand acres
of land upon which is located an
elegant home four miles from the
city. In Scotland DR.. Ronalds was
an extensive land owner and agricul-
turiSt. He was an. ardent sports
man. During the world war he
worked as common laborer in an
English ammunition factory.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
EXTRA TROOPS GUARD
TRIAL OF LUDENDORFF
Block Off Streets and Set Up Ma
chine Guns as Hitler and
Others Arrive.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MUNICH, February 70. -- Extra
troops from northern Bavaria arrived
in Munich today to reinforce the
local ,reichswehr guarding the mill
tary academy. where the trial of
Gen. Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler for
their part, in the November "putsch"
is to begin tomorrow. All the streets
and. grounds surrounding the acad-
emy have been blocked OF by the
soldiers, who have established them
selves in temporary camps and set
up. machine guns at points of van
tage. -
Hitler and nine other persons ac-
cused with him arrived this morning
from Landsberg under a strong mil
itary guard in a special car. Gen.
Ludendorff is already here.
A total of 150 witnesses has been
summoned. It is expected the trial
will last three weeks.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
FIRE SWEEPS SALEM, OHIO

SALEM, Ohio, February 25.-Fire
which for time threatened the de-
struction of the entire business Sec
tfon here early yesterday destroyed
two three-story brick business blocks
and caused damage estimated at nearly
100000. 1t took the combined ef-
forts OF f1re companies from three
cities to get the blaze under control.
A double fire wall also prevented
further spread of the flames.
The Speidel block and the Henry
Mon block adjoining were Quilted.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
RECLASSIFYING BOARD
IGNORED CONGRESS WISH,
SAYS representative
CONTINUED from First Page.)

classification" said Mr.. Wittner in
his letter. we hold that the facts we
have at hand are so pertinent and
necessary to the logical treatment of
the whole problem that the pres
ent moment we are in a position to
place before your committee informa
tion which would reveal much you
could not possibly learn from an in
vestigation of the personnel classi-
fication board members or ex officio
members.
Mr.. Wittner cited numerous in
stances of alleged unfairness in clas-
sification and proposed several ques-
tions to be asked of Herbert d.
Brown of the bureau of efficiency,
Chairman Bailey of the classification
board and Director Lord of the bu-
reau of the budget.
Cites 'IrreguIarities.'
Among charges Of irregular classi-
fication Mr. Wittner lists the follow
ing:
In the Department of Agriculture
three men doing very similar work as
heads of the hay. feed and seed mar
keting in the bureau of markets are
placed, two in the clerical, admins
tratiye and fiscal, while the other is
allocated to the professional and sci
entific services.
THE bureau Of the census was al
located once according to the cIassi-
fication schedule. but now the bureau
of efficiency acknowledges that such
a classification was impossible and
has attempted to rewrite a classifi-
cation for that bureau.
There is wide range Of pay in
the professional and scientific serv-
ices, were a difference of say $500
is common between the departments.
"Some employees working under
lump-Sum appropriations are paid
and will be paid around $1,000 more
than those on the statutory rolls"
Evening star., 1924-02-25
SECOND DEATH IN FIGHT,
North Carolina Cousins Victims
Father of One May Recover.

HIGH POINT, N. c., February 25.-
Butler Myers, twenty-five years old,
wounded in a gun battle, in which his
cousin, William Ward, twenty-seven
years old, was shot to death near
Thomasville Saturday, died at local
hospital today.
Young Myers father, Albert Myers,
sixty years old, also was wounded in
the battle, and is patient at the hos
pital here. He is expected to recover,
physicians said today. The fight is
said by the police to have resulted
from a quarrel between the two cou-
sins over liquor distiuery captured
on Myers farm last Wednesday,.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
OPERATE ON STETTINIUS.
Surgeons in Second Effort to Re.
1ieve Abdominal Trouble.

NEW YORK. February 25.-Edward
r. Stettinius, banker. and member of
j. p. Morgan & Co., last night went to
Roosevelt Hospital to undergo an
operation. the nature of which was
not revealed.
He underwent an operation for alb
dominal trouble last year, it was said,
and the forthcoming one is similar.
but less serious.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
COAL VESSEL RESCUED.

PROvINCETOWN, Mass, Feb. 25.-
The coast guard cutter Acushnet picked
up the barkentine Marsetta of Orleans
last night and towed her to an anchor
age in the bay of Race Point. The
vessel, bound from Norfolk for Boston
with coal, lost her sails in gales last
week. and her windlass was damaged.
She ran short Of provisions and an
chQred five miles southeast OF, Orleans,
where she asked for help from the coast
guard.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
Fire Damage, 100000.

ELDORADO. Ark, February 25--Ffre
which started In a restaurant in the
Shuler building, in the business district
here. late yesterday caused an estf-
Western Union Telegraph Company,
Chamber of Commerce and restaurant
were burned out. The origin of the
fire has not been determined.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
NAVAL EXPERT STRICKEN.
Sir Percy Scott Reaches England
Seriously Ill.

PLYMOUTH. England, February %.
Admiral Sir Percy Scott. noted
naval authority, returning home from
Malta aboard the steamer Mashobra,
arrived here i'll a critical condition.
The ship found after sailing that
there was no oxygen aboard, and re-
turned to Ciibralter. where she OBJ
tanned supply. More oxygen was
taken aboard here last night.
The admiral is attended by his
daughter. who said that her father
had improved since leaving Malta.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
. Two Gagged, Safe Blown.

NEW ORLEANS, February 25.-
Bandits entered the Trianon Theater
here yesterday and, after binding and
gagging two night watchmen, blew
open the safe and ESCAPED. with
$2,200, representing the week end re-
cipts. The theater is the Saenger
Amusement Company's largest Canal
street motion picture house.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
FALLS FATAL TO TWO.
Nurse Saved From Poisoning Top
ples Off Elevated Station.

NEW YORK, February 25.-Twen-
ty-four hours after she had been re-
vived from accidental gas poisoning,
Miss Leonitine Briscoe, graduate
nurse, fell from an elevated station
and died three hours later in st.
Luke's Hospital.
Walter kaufman, a musician, was
fatally injured when he fell six
stories from his apartment window to
n courtyard. Physicians attribute
both accidents to dizziness.
Evening star., 1924-02-25
FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE
Is OPPOSED BY WEEKS
Declares External Aggression, In
terna1 Dissension and Other
Issues Involved.

Opposition to the granting of Phil
ippine independence was voiced to-
day by Secretary Weeks before the
House insular affairs committee.
The danger to an Independent
Philippine government, Mr.. Weeks
said, would arise from external ag-
gression, internal dissension, the lack
OF Filipino participation in the COM
merce and Industries of the islands
and from the financial condition of
the government"