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Evening star., 1924-04-26

tary and treasurer will be appointed
by the new administration.
Gift Presented Marks.
Preceding the election the report
Of the retiring president was accept
ed, after which William Knowles
Cooper, on behalf Of the club. pre-
sented Mr.. Marks with a token Of the
clubs appreciation of his services as
president. II was a Rotary wheel in
the club colors and set with dia-
mond in center and each spoke filled
with diamonds.
Roland Whitehurst, secretary, and
q. Fenton F'adeley, treasurer, read
their annual reports. Mr.. Whitehurst
was presented by Arthur May for the
club with a set of cuff links and studs
as a token OF appreciation for his
services. His report as secretary
showed the club to have member
ship of 154 and 10 be in splendid
financial condition.
Ideals of RotariAHs.
Mr.. Clabaugh. in his speech OF ac-
ceptance, said that the best ideals TO
which Rotarians attain can best be
served through "A continuation of the
spirit of cooperation which has been
displayed during Mr.. Marks admins
tration. Mr.. Radcliffe made a similar
plea for the support Of the member
ship.
Membership certificates were issued
TO Walter Shipley, w. II. Rittenhouse.
Sidney Strauss. Frank Lowe and
Clyde Asher. President Marks ex-
tended birthday greetings to T. g.
Dulin and w. w. Bowie. The te1lers
of the election were Henry CastenS,
Paul Lum and Proctor Dougherty.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
ASK REAPPOINTMENT
OF JUDGE SELLERS
Delegation of District Women Calls
on President to Urge
Retention.
HER POPULARITY STRESSED
Coolidge Told Her Work Has
Pleased Citizens.

President Coolidge today received a
delegation representing the District
Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teacher Associations, who urged the
reappointment of Miss Kathryn Sell
ers as judge of the Juvenile Court.
The deputatiOn pointed out to the
President that Judge Sellers has
served with satisfaction to the ma
jority of the citizens of the city and
that she is eminently qualified to con-
tinue in her present post.
As an evidence of the appreciation
of Judge Sellers, a petition contain
ing 1900 names of women in the Dis
trict, most of them mothers, was pre-
sented to the President for his con-
Sideration.
Mrs. SpeeI Spokesman.
Mrs. Virginia White Speel. presi-
dent of the League of Republican
Woman Voters and chairman of the
legislative committee of the Congress
OF Mothers, was spokesman for the
delegation.
The others in the delegation were:
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of
the Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teachers Association; Mrs. r. r.
kalmbach, Mrs. j. W. Byler and Mrs,
l.. d. Smoot.
Completes Speeches.
President Coolidge has complete d
the next public speech he is to make
Monday morning at the dedication
of the new building for the National
Academy of Sciences and the National
Research Council. Now that the
weather is warmer the President
expects to lengthen his mornin 9
strollS, or "constitutionals," as he
refers to them. They are his only
means of exercise, and through this
means he hopes to keep himself ply
sically fit while in the White House
Workings of the Permanent Court
OF international Justice, adherence to
which by the United States has been
recommended by Presidents Harding
and Coolidge. was discussed at a
which President Coolidge had as his
guests Senator'S Lodge of Massachu-
setts and Pepper of Pennsylvania, Re-
publican members OF the Senate for
eisn relations committee, and James
Brown Scott, secretary of the Car
negle Endowment for International
Peace.
Inquiry at the White House yester-
day for comment from President
Coolidge on the death of Charles F.
Murphy, chief of Tammany Hall,
brought the statement that Mr.. Cool
ldge had not been personally ac-
quainted with Mr.. Murphy, but that
he had regarded the Tammany lead
er as man with. a good deal of
force of character, who had i'm
pressed himself on a great city and
e1erted great influence on that CITY,
Evening star., 1924-04-26
CHARGE $4,000 PAID
FOR LIQUOR PERMIT
2
Witnesses in Langley Case Declare
Paper Secured in
Philadelphia.
GET WHISKY IN KENTUCKY
Conference Held With Representa-
tive, Says Owner of Money.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April &c. - Divi-
sion of $4,000 among four men in
November, 1921, in a hotel here, for
having obtained a permit for the
withdrawal of 1.400 cases Of whisky
in an alleged transaction in which
Representative John w. Langley and
several others have been indicted,
was related yesterday by witnesses at
habeas corpus proceedings in the fed
eral court, to prevent extradition of
three men to covington, KY, in con-
neCtion with the case.
The men the government seeks to
remove to Kentucky are: Milton Lip
schultz, son of local liquor dealer:
Albert +. Slater, secretary to Will
liam G. Mcconnell. when the latter
was federal prohibition director for
Pennsylvania, and Hiram w. Benner,
chief of the permit bureau of the
prohibition office here during McCon-
nells regime.
1t is charged that Slater and Ben
ner issued the permit here while they
were in office: that LipschutZ took II
to kentucky, where he turned it over
to others and was given $4,000. 1t
was charged that the liquor was with
drawn on the permit to be delivered
to the Lewis Drug Company" Phila-
firm exists.
Jacob Eisenberger. Mount Vernon.
y. Y, former liquor dealer, and
Gus SchwartZk OPT, an Atlantic City
real estate dealer, testified that they.
with Elias II. Mortimer, who has fig
ured in government Investigations in
Washington, received approximately
s.. 900 each in the hotel here, and that I
the remainder OF the $4,000 went to
Milton LfpschutZ.
1t was testified at previous hear
ings in the case that Thomas j. Finn.
Columbia Ohio, furnished the money
for the permits.
In testimony following his nara
ton of the payment of the $4,000 to
Lipschutz for the permits, Finn de-
clared he paid the money after con-
ference Of seven men. including him
self and Representative Langley, had
been held in a hotel in Louisville, con-
corning permits.
Although the indictment mentions
Eisenberger, Schwartzkopf and Finn,
they have not been indicted and coun-
sci emphasized this during the hear
ing.
The hearings will be resumed to-
day.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
INTERNATIONAL LAW
BODY ELECTS HUGHES
Secretary of State Succeeds Elihu
Root as President of
Society.
OTHER OFFICERS CHOSEN
Tribute Given for Services of
James Brown Scott.

Secretary Of State Hughes was elect
ed president of the American Society
of International Law, succeeding for
mer Secretary of State E1ihu Root,
who was made honorary president, at
the elections of the organization held
at the Willard Hotel today. This is
the first change Of officers that has
taken place in the society for a num-
ber Of years
Charles Henry Butler. Frederic r.
Coudert and James Brown Scott were
elected vice presidents to fill the
three vacancies on the board Of eight
cen vice presidents due TO the death
of the late Justice William r. Day.
and the acquisition of the presidency
or the organization by Secretary
Hughes.
Other Vice Presidents.
Other vice presidents reelected
were Chandler p. Anderson, Simeon Z.
BALDWIN. Jacob NJ. Dickinson, George
Gray, Charles Noble Gregory, David
Jayne Hill. Robert Lansing. Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge John BaSSett Moore,
William w. Morrow. Oscar S. Straus,
George Sutherland. Chief Justice Will
liam II. Taft, George Grafton Wilson
and Theodore ). Woolsey
The following were elected to serve. on
the executive committee until 1927 {:
Lester II. Woolsey, w. c. Dennis. Prof
Manley o. Hudson, +. l.. Polk, Prof. c.
ID. Allin, Prof T. c. Minot. Prof. John
ii. Latane and Henry w. Temple They
were elected to replace the members due
TO retire from the executive committee
this year, who are John w. Davis, Prof
Amos :. Hershey, A J. Montague, Fred
x Nielsen, James J.. Slayden. Admiral
Charles II. Stockton, Charles b. Warren
and Prof. Marshall Philip Brown.
Tribute to DIR. scott.
\ tribute to DR.. James Brown Scott,
one of the founders of the society
and retiring editor-in- chief of the or
ganization's publication, was paid by
the members in appreciation for his
eighteen years service in that capac-
ity. He was made honorary editor
in-chief.
Prof. Manley o. Hudson of Harvard
tnive rslty addre ssed the gathering
on The Distinction Between Legal
and Political Questions prior to the
business meeting.
At the meeting OF the society last
night Edward A. Hartman, lecturer
on inter national law. George Wash
ington University law school in
speaking of soviet Russia declared
that the United States could not as
yet place implicit confidence in the
assurances given by that country.
Others who spoke We're DR.. Allen w.
Dulles, division of near eastern af-
fairs, state Department, who spoke
on Greece. and Prof. John II. Logan,
Rutgers College and State UNIVERSITY
OF New Jersey, who spoke on Mexico
Evening star., 1924-04-26
CHILDREN'S DANCING
FESTIVAL is SUCCESS
Shubert. .Belasco Crowded for Per.
formance by Pupils of Miss
Minnie Hawke.

The Shubert Belasco Theater was
crowded yesterday afternoon for a
children's spring dancing festival in
the form of a fairy play. Jack and
the Bean Stalk" dramatized by Mrs.
Goring Bliss. and a dancing program
of pupils of Miss Minnie Hawke.
The role of Jack in the play was
taken by Catherine Prichard: the
giant, by L. Manly Saxton. Among
others who showed special talent in
the dancing program were Marion
Mccarthy, Jacqueline Churchill. Lucia
Ellis, Long Ellis. Louise Turner. Mar
ber.
Other children participating were:
Jeannette Poole Tolford. Alton
Brown, Wilson Tolford. Ruth Shaugh-
messy. yalette Schmidt, Mary Clark.
Margaret Van Horn, Bernadette
Crouch, Frank Burkart, Elizabeth Re
gan, Elizabeth Mears. Edna Lee Tn
ruh, Louise Turner. Adelaide Flana
gan. Marian Woodruff. Kathryn Wal
do, Marian Rittenour. Frank Burkart
Mary Borzi. Gertrude Borzi. Margaret
Scott. Frank, Herbert and Robert
Travis. Helen Dick, Herbert Burkart.
Evelyn Behrens. Gene Kinchelow.
Valette Schmidt. Margaret Scott. Car
roll Morrison Smith. Wilson ToIford.
nadettc Crouch. Marian Rittenour
Adelaide Flanagan, Betty Smaltz.
Charles Travis. Marjorie Stein, Jane
Culbertson. Alicia Jones' Mary Borzi.
Clara Smith. Marigay Fuller, Anna
Sherman, Mary Clark. Jane Louise
Stein. Junia Culbertson. Janet Nun
nally. Ruth Ann Sommers. Dorothy
Whittlesey, Helen Mulcahy. Catherine
Mulcahy. Marietta Eckman. Frances
Eleanor Rands. Evelyn May Lancas-
ter. Elaine Bush. katherine Cronen
berg. Elizabeth Keys, Margaret
Thornton, Betty Lloyd Hutchinson.
Betty Simpson. Frances Hunter. Anne
Marie Burke, Louis Edmunds. Kathe-
rine Bennett. Larnia Payne, Marjory
Stein, Jean Messner, Barbara Baker,
Frederick Hunt, Lamong SaAton, Will
son Tolford. James Thornton, Ben
wood Hunter.
Anna White, Jean Fly, Mary Fran
ces Beckman, Eileen Dunnigan. Edith
Sim psou, Lucia Booth, Barbara Baker,
Lairinia Payne, Polly Ann Chesum,
Lois Edmunds, Katherine Bennett,
Edwerta Boyer. Jean Mitchell, Bever-
ly Marshall. Lucia Ellis, Dorothy
Whittlessy, Bernadette Crouch, Ruth
Ann Sommers, Elizabeth Reed. Mary
Katherine Simpson. Evelyn May Lam
caster, Catherine Cronenberg, Helen
Mulcahy, Catherine Mulcahy, ANIME
Marie Burke, Francis Eleanor Rands,
Elaine Bush, Betty Lloyd Hutchinson,
Margaret Thornton, Joan Doyle,
Francis Hunter, Alice Fleming, Dor
othy Townsend, Betty Chandler. Amy
Chandler, Carol Drum, Emily Moore,
Frances Simpson, Sidney Thompson.
Barry Townsend. Algernon Gardner,
Harry Kite, Hayne Ellis. IT. Jerry
phinns Francis keyes, Frederick
Hunt. Lamont Saxton, Wlmbert
Gardiner, Alfred Thom. Conway Thorn,
RiIly Titus, Bernardine HUNT, Sid
ney Thompson, Anna White, Virginia
Dorsey and Margaret Hammond.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
SECRETARY QUITS
OVER SCHOOL DEBATE
Walks Out During Meeting of
Brightwood Citizens
Association.

In a spirited meeting of the Bright
wood Citizens Association last night
during which the secretary walk ed
out" in the midst of heated debate,
the association went on record to ask
the appropriations committee of the
House to restore the item of 100000
for the purchase of a school site in
the vicinity of Sd and Rttenhouse
streets northwest.
THE debate broke over the report of
the school committee by Mrs. Gladys G.
Parsons in which Congress was criti-
cized for eliminating estimates for
school need. and her resolution was pre-
3ntei to ask Congress to restore the
$50 900 item. William Mex. Clayton S
resolution that the association indorse a
special tax on real estate for school
building for primary grades, to be de-
rived from property in the neighbor-
hood was voted down and Mrs. Par
sons resolution adopted. In the midst
of discussion between Charles c. Lam
aster and l.. +. Randolph, secretary,
Of the association, the latter wake
out of the meeting.
The committee, which will carry
the resolution to Congress. will con-
sist of Mrs. Parsons, c. c. Lancaster,
Il. F. Randolph, John A. Saul, A. W.
Foster and John G. Proctor. Mr.. Clay
ton refused TO serve.
The resolution also urged that
budget bureau recommendations pro-
yiding for purchase of additional
fext books, to replace the present
obsolete books" and all other
similar items, similarly recommended,
be adopted for the next fiscal year.
John c. Proctor offered a resolution
urging that a police station be erect
ed at Brightwood, but objection was
made by Mr.. Clayton, who offered a
resolution that until the imperative
need for more schools had been COM
piled with that no request be made
for an additional police station. This
resolution was also voted down and
the one offered by Mr.. Proctor
adopted
The association adopted a resolu-
ton by Elmer F. johnson for con-
struction of viaduct under the
tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at Rittenhouse street to the
Sligo Mill road.
Efforts will be made through a reso-
luton of John G. Proctor that arrears
in taxes be included in all tax bills
sent out in the future by the District
government.
Opposition was expressed in a reso-
luton offered by A. w. Foster TO
penalizing overdue bills by the Wash
ington Gas Light Company and the
Potomac Electric Power. Company.
The matter will be presented to the
Public Utilities Commission.
Harry F. Ruth was elected a mem
hsgAaf the assoctatsan
Evening star., 1924-04-26
BALLOON RACE PUTS
3 IN WORLD Event
Van 0rman, Honeywell and Peek
to Represent U. s. at Brus-
sells in June.
WINNER SCARS 1,1O0 MILES
Two Leading Elimination Contest
ants Land in Minnesota.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. April 26.-W
t. Van Orman, Capt. II. T.. Honeywell
and Mai. Norman w. Peek, will repre-
sent America in the Gordon Bennett
International balloon race at Brussels
in June as result of their having
won the first three places in the ma
tional elimination race, which started
from Kelly Field here Wednesday
and ended yesterday in Minnesota.
Van Orman, plotting the Goodyear
Ill.," entry of the Goodyear Tire anl
Rubber Company, with his aide, c. h
Wollan, won the race when they re-
manned in the air forty-three hours
and twenty-four minutes and travel
ed an estimated distance of 1,1Ut
miles. They landed at Rochester
MINI.
Honeywell Second.
Capt. Honeywell, plotting the entry
of the Kansas City cooperative Club
with Capt. 7. +. Boudinot of Kelly
Field as his aide, came second, landing
at Sanborn. Mimi. after travelling APP
proXimately 1850 miles; Maj
Peek. pilot. and Lieut.. William GRAY
aide. in their Army balloon S-14. made
an airline flight estimated at 1,O2'
miles, landing at ST. Ansgar, Iowa
and won third place.
Herbert Won Thaden and Svend A
r. Rasmussen, pilot and aide, respec-
lively of the Detroit" entry of the
Detroit Aviation Society, were fourth
They landed at Dubuque, Iowa, a dis
tance estimated at 1000 miles.
The other entries were forced OUT ol
the race Thursday. The distances of
the flight as announced by Lieut.. {. {
Culver, air service officer of the Sth
Corps Area and race executive. are
estimated. Exact measurements OF tht
distances will be made within rev
days by the United States Geological
Society.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
A. A. CHAPLIN WILL FILED.

The will of A A Chaplin, former
president Of the Chapin-Sacks Manu-
featuring Company. was offered today
for probate. The document, dated
October 6, 1892, is written on a note
head of the business then conducted
by Mr.. Chaplin in Center Market. The
testament is comprised in a single
sentence, which heads '"To whom II
may concern: I hereby bequeath all
my real and personal property to my
wife, Rehecca Francis Chaplin, and
appoint her sole executrix, without
bond" The value of the estate Is not
rStated<
Evening star., 1924-04-26
ORDER ALL OFFICERS
ON BANDIT CHASE
Another Seriously Wounded in
Man Hunt, After Killing
of Prohibition Agent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April Go Every
available state prohibition enforce
ment agent has been ordered TO ALI
leghany County to assist in the search
for Jesse Scott. Attorney General John
r. Saunders announced last night,
Many of the officers already havd
reached the scene and others are go1
ing by the most direct route, Mr.
Saunders said.
Gov. Z. Lee Trinkle. through Adjtl
Gen. W. w. Sale, has requested CapuS
A. B. Land. commander of the ma !
tional Euardsmen who partook in the
hunt for Scott and Ram Palmer, 10
furnish complete details Of the ba
tie and to report on the general situa
tion in Allegheny and Bath Counties. |
Evening star., 1924-04-26
Lutherans Here for Meeting.

Delega tes representing the Lutheran
churches of eastern Maryland are ar
irving in Washington today to attend
the thirty fourth annual meeting of
the Woman's Missionary Society of
the eastern conference of the Mary
land Synod of the United Lutheran
Church. which will convene at KeIlar
Memorial Luthern Church, on Maryland
avenue northeast, tomroroN,
Evening star., 1924-04-26
NEWSPAPER SOLD.
Warren, Ohio, Daily Chronicle
Changes Hands.

President William c. Deming Of
the Civil Service Commission has
purchased the Warren (Ohio) Daily
Chronicle for the Daily Tribune Com
pany, of which he is one of the pro-
prietors. Commissioner Deming is
publisher of the Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Tribune Leader.
The Chronicle was established in
1872 and has been published as a daily
for ferty-three years Tho paper was
purcha sed from Col. Frank M. Rite5el
and his son, william Ritezel. 1t will
:Mifh kho- Tribune Monday.
Evening star., 1924-04-26

ceeding Arthur ID.
Marks, d u r j n g
whose a d m mis-
tration he served
as vice president.
William l.. Rad :
cliffe was elected
vice president.
George NJ. Whit
well, Frank r.
Weller and Rob :
ert NJ. Hicks were
elected to [ n G
board Of govern :
ors for t h r e e
years, succeeding
j. H. Cunnin CHAM,
w. T. Weaver and
Fred S. w. Lin :
onln I'M, uAorn-
Evening star., 1924-04-26
APPROPRIATION BILL
ACTION IS HALTED
Representative Davis, However,
Plans to Bring Measure Before
House for Vote Tuesday.

The District appropriation bill for
the year beginning July 1 next VIII
not come up in the House today as was
expected. because the vote on the child
labor bill cannot be taken before hate
this afternoon.
Representative Charles r. Davis, Re-
publican, of Minnesota, chairman of
the subcommittee which drafted the
District appropriation bill, announced
TODAY that he would call it up in the
House for action on Tuesday. He is
hopeful consideration of this measure
can be finished within two days.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
SHOT BY MILITIAMAN.
BY the Associated P~ss.

CLIFTON FORGE, Va, ArriI Go,
Mckinley Smith was shot and prohJ
ably fatally wounded late yesterday y
by a Virginia national guardsnap
who was engag ged in the search fou
Jesse Scott, wanted in connection
Inspector l.. s. McManaway.
The militiaman is said to have coma
upon Smith while he was engaged iIi
operating a still, and when he rat}
and refused to halt at the soldiers !
command was shot through the body.
Although the national guardsmeu, u,
ordered out soon after the gun battle
between Scott and Sam Palmer, were
permitted to disband and return TO
their homes late yesterday, many Of
them remain in the hills as member rs
of the civilian posses that continued
the search.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
Blind MAJ, Pushes
Cripple in Chair
For 3I-Day Hike
By tho Associated Press,

BY tho Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2s.-
Thomas N. Hamel, who furnished
the eyes, and James Sterling, who
provided the legs for the trip of
the two Spanish war
veterans from the Sawtelle SOL
diers' Home, near Los Angeles, to
San Francisco, have arrived here
after thirty-one days of hiking.
Hamel, who is crippled. guided the
two as he rode in his wheel chair
pushed by Sterling, who is blind.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
STATE MAY CLOSE
M'CRAY CASE TODAY
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April e6-
The prosecution planned to close it's
case today in the trial of Gov. McCray
in federal court on a charge of using
the mails in furtherance of a scheme
to defraud. Only about twenty of the
more than IT'S witnesses summoned
by the government remained to be
examined.
Among the witnesses yesterday
were several men whose names were
signed to cattle notes made out to
McCray and discounted by him. The
witnesses testified the defendant had
forged their names ON the notes.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
French POstn.e1,
To Enforce La,U;
May Lose Jobs
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. April 26,-The wholesale
reading of post cards is proposed
during May-day strike by French
postal employees in an effort to OBJ
tain an increase of wages.
The clerks plan to weigh all let
ters, examine every stamp and
read all post cards, because the
regulations prescribe that insults
and threats to the recipients must
not. be written on the cards.
This zeal would paralyze the
service. The authorities plan to
discharge any overanxious letter
WeiSherS or card perusers.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
BANDIT MAY DIE.
By the Associated Press.

BY the AssocIAteu FrcSS-
COVINGTON. Va- April 26.-Sam
Palmer, seriously wounded, was in
Jail here today charged with murder
in connection with the death of State
Prohibition Inspector l. 8 McMan-
away and sheriffs' posses continued
the search for Jesse Scott, Palmers >
companion in the gun battle which
followed an attempt to arrest Scott
and Palmer on charges of violating
the state prohibition and other laws.
Scott is believed to be headed toward
his home in Greenbrier, w. Va, and
West Virginia state troopers and
county officers are thought to he
ecInse On his tracks.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
ACTORS WIFE DIES.
Mrs. Frank Keenan, Expires While
Watching Husband Act.

LOS ANGELES, April 26. Mrs
FRANK Keenan,. wife of the actor. died
suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage as
she watched her husband playing in
fame' a sketch, at the Writers
club in Hollywood last night
Mr. Keenan, did not know his wife
was dead until after the final curtain.
Besides her husband, two daughters
survive, Hilda, the wife of Ed Wynn,
an Army officer.
Evening star., 1924-04-26
CLABAUGH ELECTED
ROTARY CLUB HEAD
Succeeds Arthur D. Marks at Helm
of Business Mems Organi-
zation.
NEW GOVERNORS CHOSEN
Retiring President Presented Jew
eled Insignia.

William Clabaugh was elected
president of the Rotary Club of Wash
ington at its annual election and din
ner at the Willard last night, sue