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Evening star., 1924-03-23
WOMEN PLAN PAGEANT.
Will Be Given in Connection Witt
Convention Here.

Liberty in Law is to be the til.
Of pageant TO be given April 10 il
connection with the women's ma
ti"nal convention on Law enforcement
mere The pageant. p0rtraying the
life Of tho nation. viii he given twice
at the Washington Hotel, whore ths
convention is To bc held. and at tn.
south side Of the Treasury.
Mrs Marie Moore Forrest is to be
in charge of the production, aided By
more than a hundred women
On April 10 there will be a conveu-
ton luncreon. presided over by Mrs
Herbert Hoover. and on April II q
conference luncheon, which will in
clude the different state groups.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
CITES FRENCH DRAMA.
George N. Henning Delivers Ad-
dress at Cosmos Club.

Origin and development of the
French drama, dating from the
twelfth century down to the sent
time, were described by George y
Henning, dean of the graduate school
and head of the romance languages
department of George Washington
University. in an address at the Cos
mos Club Friday night The address was
one OF Il series of educational lectures
which have been given at the club
under the auspices Of the university.
Dean Henning was introduced by
DR.. William Mather Lewis, president
Of the university. DR.. Hermann
Schoenfeld will deliver an address on
German Drama in the Cosmos Club
next Friday night at S:1j O'CLOCK, 1t
was announced
Evening star., 1924-03-23
78 WIN DIPLOMAS,
Graduate From Lewis Hotel Train
ing Schools.

Seventy-eight students of the Lewis
Hotel Training Schools were grad
uated at exercises in the Willard
Hotel Wednesday night. 1t was the
largest c ass ever graduated from the
institution. The diplomas were pre-
sented by Clifford Lewis. president.
who also spoke on your Professional
Attitude"
Representative Treadway of Massa-
chusetts, hotel operator. delivered
the commencement address Others
who spoke were II. J. Staiey. Capt.
Stephen n. Bobo, vice president of the
American Hotels Corporation, and
Mary Catherine Lewis, vice president
of the school. Henry Angelica sang.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Autoist Sued for $4,000.

Suit to revover $4,000 damages has
been filed in the District Supreme
Court by Hazel Colburn against
Charles +. Burns, for alleged personal
injuries. She says an automobile of
the defendant collided with her De-
CenIber last as She was crossing
the intersection of eth and G streets
southeast Attorney Paul V. Rogers
appears for the plaintiff.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Will Address Study Club.

The Womens National Political
Study Club will be addressed this
afternoon by Mrs. Harriette Histon
King of the national women's par
ty. on Impressions from a Recent
Trip Abroad and by Mrs. NJ MosselI
Griffin of Philadelphia Pa, president
of the New England Women's Repub-
lican Club. at the Phyllis Wheatley
Y. W. c. A, at pm.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

She is the daugh-
ter of a senator,
as we'll as the
wife of one of
the Senate's lead
ing members. Her
father, William
E. Connell, had
been an outstand-
ing figure in
Idaho's fight for
statehood, and at
the time of its
admission he was
it's governor.
Elected for tn
short term II
tho Senate, MI.
Connell preferred
Evening star., 1924-03-23
FOLKS

Mrs. William A. Borah is accounted
by those who know her well one of
the wittiest women in Washington
and one of the cleverest at repartcc
Evening star., 1924-03-23

The unpaid interest on the debts Of
Europe to the United States amounts
to more than s1.500,000,0 900.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

4 radio set will he built soon in
the home of Leslie Lambert of Alton.
y. j., with pieces Of tool chest cast
from the Shenandoah to tighten the
dirigIble IN its flight in the storm.
While observing the course OF the
ship over his home. a tool chest
crashed to the ground not more than
twenty feet from where Mir. Lambert
and his family were standing.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Breaks speed Record.

The world speed record for copying
of radio telegraph code signals was
shattered recently when \. T. Ger
hard received straight copy at the
astounding speed Of 59l2 words u
minute at contest. in New York.
Gerhard is an operator in the employ
of the Radio Corporation of America,
and his remarkable feat OF raising
the former world speed record of St
words Il minute has given him the
plaudits of the entire radio world.
What remarkable accomplish
ment this is can be best appreciated,
perhaps. when one figures that his
record is three times as fast as the
usual speed used i'll ship radio com
munication.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
POLICE LONG BAFFLED.
Specialized in Drug and Grocery
Stores.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 21.--Activities
Of the bobbed hair bandit, who, it
is believed has been captured in the
person of Celia Cooney, at Jackson
Vile, baffied the police for three months.
The gun girl first made her ap-
pearance in Brooklyn early in jan
uary, when she held up a shop with
the aid of a male companion. Before
the end of Mach the list of holdups
in which the pair participated had
mounted to sixteen.
The girl specialized in drug stores
and in chain grocery stores. She
would enter nonchalantly, apparently
for some merchandise, and when the
clerk faced her, would point pistol
at him and order him to give her the
contents of the cash register.
Then she would back slowly out,
keeping the clerk covered and warn
ing him not to call for aid until she
was out of sight. During the first
few weeks of her activities she left
taunting notes for the police. She
robbed one place twice within about
week.
Most of the time she would carry
out her holdup while male COM
panion waited outside at the wheel
of a motorcar.
While bobbed- haired bandits ac-
lyn and then from Manhattan and
the Bronx, police arrested several
young women on suspicion, but were
unable to establish that any one of
them was the real Brooklyn celeb
'rity.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Orders Action Brought by
ChastIeton Corporation
Back to Lower Court.
OPINION INDICATES
FURTHER INQUIRY NEED
Decision Without Actual Bearing
on Constitutionality of Ball
Measure.

The case brought by the Chastleton
Coropration and others to test the
constitutionality of the District of CO.
lumbia rent law was sent back today
by the Supreme Court for trial on its
merits in the District of Columbia
courts. The Supreme Court held that
it was necessary TO develop the facts
as to the emergency existing in the
rent situation before it could act on
the question OF constitutionality.
The Supreme Court reversed the de-
cision of the Court of Appeals OF the
District of Columbia in the case
brought by the Chastleton Apartments
against the Rent Commission OF the
District to enforce the order regulating
rates. While the conStitutionallty OF
the rent act was not decided, the court
said that IF the question were only
whether the statute is in force today
upon the facts that we judicially know,
we should be compelled to say that
the law has ceased TO operate. Here
however, it is mate rial TO know the
conditions of Washington at different
dates in the past.
obviously the facts should be ac-
curateIy ascertained nd carefully
weighed, and this can De done more
conveniently in the Supreme Court
of the District than here. The evil
dence should be preserved SO that if
necessary it can be considered by
this court"
This would seem to indicate sug-
gestion of a further inquiry into the
actual housing conditions in Wash
ngton by the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia.
The decision was rendered by Mr..
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column ID
Evening star., 1924-04-21
D. C. REPUBLICANS
TO MEET TOMORROW
State Committee to Lay Plans for
Organization and Campaign
Activities.

To perfect it's organization and to
map out its activities for the coming
political campaign the Republican
state committee of the District of
Columbia will meet tomorrow night
in its headquarters, 1924 New York
avenue.
1t will be at this meeting that plans
will be perfected for the organizing
of the forty-five election districts in
this city, and at which the dates for
the electing of delegates from these
districts to the state convention, to be
held here in May, will be decided
upon. At this state convention, be-
sides the adoption of 4 platform for
the local Republican organization,
there will be elected officers of the
committee and an executive commit
tee and two delegates and alternates
to attend the Republican national
convention in Cleveland and the cleo
ton of a Republican national COM
mitteeman. -
Samuel J. Prescott. president of the
state committee, who will be in
charge of the campaign in this oity
for the Republican committee, will
r
the brief speech of welcome he will
give an outline of what is eX-
pected of the committee and it's sup
porters during the coming months.
He will tell also of the preliminary
work that has been done with view
to perfecting the Republican organi-
Zation in the District.
The Republican state committee of
the District already has gone on rec
ord indorsing the administration of
President Coolidge and urging his
nomination as the Republican stand
ardbearer for 1924. When the COM
mittee, several months ago, formally
notified the President of this action,
it assured him that the two delegates
and the like number of alternates to
be elected to the Cleveland conven-
tion will be instructed to vote for him
first, last and all the time.
Besides Mr. Prescott the officers of
the committee are Ralph Lee. vice
president; Cuno Rudolph, treasurer; F.
A. Fenning, secretary. 1t is understood
to be very likely that these officers and
Edward F. Colladay, the Republican
national committeeman for the District,
will be reelected for the next four
years when the state convention is held
next month.
Evening star., 1924-04-21

for a brief time in the presence Of
the unrestrained joy of kiddom. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge,
and she found much more time to
enjoy watching the little ones have
the time of their lives.
The kiddies also found the Zoo
Park an ideal playground. The hills
there are steep and the eggs executed
many side-splitting twists and turns
before they met the the a1thorob fate OF 3ha tba
President was not there to smile his
approval, King Leo, monarch of the
jungles, and Mrs. Tiger with her
frolicking cubs, not to mention all
of the other animals, watched the
event with dignified interest.
Fashion Parade suffers.
Stern old Mother Nature and tickle
young Dame Fashion failed to get
along well together yesterday and
as result Washington's annual
Easter parade was far from the spec
tacular carnival of color and blush
ing femininity it usually is. After
threatening all morning to sprinkle
the city with cool showers, rather
at fifty-three- mile an no ur
gale and ruined Dame Fashions out
ing almost as completely as the rain
could have done it.
Although the National Capital is
usually "A serene sort of a town. yes
terday about noon it was the windiest
place in the country, according to
gathered by the weather bu-
reau. Despite the gale, however.
thousands were coaxed to church and
later for strong along 10th street,
Connecticut avenue, + street or
Pennsylvania avenue. The parks
also had their quota of both pc
deStrianS and motorists.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
SURPLUS BILL AGAIN
SKIPPED BY SENATE
Phipps Told Only Uncontested
Measures Will Receive At
tention on Calendar.

Senator Phipps OF Colorado sought
again to have the Senate consider his
bill making effective the findings OF
the joint congressional committee on
surplus revenues of the District dur
ing considera ton of the Senate cal
endar today.
The joint committee held that ap-
proxImately S4,500,000 surplus reve-
nues in the Treasury should be made
available for appropriation for the
District.
Objection was made on the ground
that only uncontested bills were to
be considered today. Senator Phipps
called attention to the fact that the
bill had been reached on the calendar
a number of times before, and that
ample oppor rtunity had been given
those who desired any information
regarding it and he gave notice that
when the bill was next reached on
the calendar he would move to take
IL up.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Children at Annual Egg Rolling
Jam White House La,Un and Zoo
President and Mrs. Coolidge Onlookers at Frolic.
FrOiUning Skies Fail to Sare Thousands of
Eggs From, Complete Obliteration.

Several thousand Humpty Dumpties
met their ultimate fate on the grassy
slopes of the White House grounds
and the Zoo Park today. The occa-
sion was the annual cgg-rolling pic
mic of Washington kiddom, and de-
spite skies that threatened to end the
celebration, the little ones frolick ed
to their hearts delight
1T was the day of days for the
children. and they were not long in
discovering that, for Il few hours at
least. they might rule supreme as
boss" without fear Of the fiat side of
the hairbrush or early bedtime with
out supper.
When the White House grounds
were thrown open stern-faced guards
stood at each entrance. and nary an
adult might pass within those por-
tails unless he or she was in charge
of child. The entire place was
turned over to the children, and the
ban was clamped down on the grown
ups so the tots could enjoy their an
nual outing without interference.
Marine Band Plays.
All morning n constant stream of
little ones, some accompanied by elder
folks and some not, passed into the
White House grounds with their pre-
ciouS packages of Easter eggs, left
only yesterday by the NEUROLOGICAL
bunny" The entire south grounds,
where there is a goodly slope. was
devoted to the egg rolling and the
day was crowned in glory by spe-
cial concert by the United States
Marine Band.
The only exceptions to the rule
of no adults were President and
Mrs Coolidge. The President took
time from his busy office to relax
Evening star., 1924-04-21
PRESIDENT TO ASK
BRIDGE FUND SOON
Anxious to See Work on National
Memorial to Arlington
Started at Once.

President Coolidge is anxious to see
the proposed Arlington memorial
bridge to connect the Lincoln Memo
rial with the National cemetery at
Arlington get under way without un-
necessary delay, and he soon will
urge Congress to expedite the neces-
sary legislation.
Various features of the project were
discussed at conference at the
White House this morning between
the President, who is chairman of the
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commits
sion, and Col. Clarence o. Sheriff..
United States Engineer Corps, execu-
tive officer of the commission.
The bill as prepared by the commits
sion two weeks ago authorizes the
building of the bridge, improvement
OF streets and highways leading to
il. and the improvement of adjacent
parks at a cost of Sl4 4,75O,0O0. How
ever. this amount is intended over a
period of ten years. The bridge
proper is estimated to cost Sl,25O,0O0,
and is to be ready in five years.
Ask S5OOOOO to Start.
The commissions bill asks for only
100000 to be made Immediately
available and it is with the view of
obtaining this appropriation before
Congress adjourns that the President
will make a special request for action.
This initial sum is to be used in or
ganizing the engineering forces, in
buying equipment, erecting plant,
the preparation OF working dIawings.
and the letting of the contract Tor
actual construction.
Is 1t is figured that the first two years
work will be devoted to drilling
through rock at the bed of the river,
and the construction of the river piers
and the arches. Work on the bridge
superstructure will start during the
end of the third year and by that
time more than S6,006,000 Will have
been expended.
Draw to Be Installed.
The superstructure will be complet-
ed during the fourth year and during
the same year the draw to the bridge
will he installed and the plaza and
water gate at Lincoln Memorial, the
avenue across Columbia Island, the
twin bridge over the boundary chan
mel between Columbia Island and the
Virginia shore, the parkway to the
cemetery and driveways TO the ceme-
terry will have been half finished. Next
will follow the ornamentation of the
main bridge and the twin bridge over
the boundary channel.
Unless something unforeseen hap
pens the bridge will be in shape to
permit access across it the following
year. BY this time nearly $4,000, 900
will have been spent.
When this has been done the COM
mission will then ask for the re-
mainder of the original authorization
of s14,750,000 with which to formally
treat Columbia Island and transform
it into a beautiful park, the erection
of handsome memorial entrance to
the national cemetery near the Vir-
ginia end of the bridge and the max
ing of extensive improvements on B
street from the Capitol grounds to the
Lincoln Memorial and 23d street from
Washington Circle to THE Lincoln
Memorial.
Both Senator Fernald and Rep
resentative Langley, chairmen, re-
spectively, of the Senate and House
public buildings committee, and MEM
bers of the bridge commission, have
informed the President that they look
for no opposition to the legislation.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
WALSH SCORES PLAN
TO DECEIVE PUBLIC
Declares Campaign on to Mislead
on Oil Lease Royalty
Returns.

a campaign to deceive the public
as to the royalty returns from leases
in naval reserves under the republi-
can regime as compared with leases
made prior to March 4, 1921, was
charged in the Senate today by Sena-
tor Walsh, democrat, Montana, prose-
cutor for the oil committee. He cited
as an example of such a campaign
a recent speech by Leslie NJ. Shaw,
Secretary of the Treasury under
Roosevelt.
In order that this argument may
not be further imposed on the pub
lie" Senator Walsh proceeded to an
alyze the various leases and their re-
turns to the government. He drew
TIE conclusion that the majority were
on a sliding scale of from 16 to As
per cent. adding that mo one can
tell what the average will be in Tea
pot Dome until test wells have been
sunk throughout the structure"
The Doheny leases average 81 per
ce mt. Senator Walsh continued, but
the tanks in Honolulu will cost three
barrels of royalty oil for each bar
rel in storage, so the royalty will be
about 10 per cent"
Evening star., 1924-04-21
RELIEF WORK TO END.

NEW YORK, April 21.-Relief work
in behalf of the destitute children of
Russia, carried on for the past three
years by the American committee for
nate on June 80, Capt. Paxton Hibben,
head of the organization, announced
today Inability to raise funds in the
United States is the reason for the
cessation of the work, Capt. Hibben
said.
Unless the $4,000 pledged by the
committee is raised by June so "a lot
of Russian babies will just have to
die" he declared.
Since it's founding on May 81, 1921,
the American committee for relief of
Russian children has collected $780,
900 annually for it's young proteges.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Dubious
About Labor Party's
Retention of Office
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
YORK, England, April 21.-Prime
Minister Macdonald told the inde-
pendent labor party conference
here today that the labor govern
ment was doing it's best, but
would not necessarily always come
up to the expectations Of the party
he was addressing.
Mr.. Macdonald said he did not
know how long the labor cabinet
was going to be in office.
And don't very much care" he
added, so long as we do good
work. We are helping. the worlt
to new frame of mind and get.
ting people to see that a different
viewpoint may be to their bene-
fit, and so long as we do that we
are perfectly willing to go on"
Evening star., 1924-04-21
WROBLEWSKY TO SAIL
FOR POLAND IN MAY
Will Return to Warsaw ION
Leave" But May Be Assigned
to Foreign Office There.

By the Assoca ted Press.
WARSAW, April 2l.-Ladislaw
Wroblewsky, the Polish minister to
the United States, is returning to
Warsaw the middle of next month,
it is announced The official ex-
PLANTATION is that he is returning
on leave, but it is unoff1cially de-
cIared ne is to be transferred to
another post or assigned to the for
eign office
Two men prominently mentioned
for the Washington place are Prince
Eugene Sapieha, former foreign
minister, and John Dombski, neeo-
tiator and signer of the treaty of
Riga.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
BOB-HAIRED BANDIT
TRAPPED IN FLORIDA
New York Girl Said to Have Con-
fessed All to Detec-
tives.
BECAME MOTHER APRIL II
She and Husband Taken Without
Struggle.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa. cd Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 2l.-
Preparing to return to New York
this afternoon. in custody of two New
York detectives, Edward Cooney,
%, and his wife, Celia Cooney, 30,
pretty bobbed-haired hold-up woman
according to detective F. S. Gray of
New York.
The man is said to have confessed
to the majority of the charges filed
against the pair and his wife freely
talked of the most recent affair, the
robbery of the National Biscuit Com
pany's plant in Brooklyn, in which
one man was seriously injured. The
couple waived extradition and told
the detectives they would be glad to
return to New York and were ready
to stand trial.
Admits She Shot Man.
According to the detective the girl
admitted her identity and declared
she was the person who shot and
seriously wounded Nathan Mezzio. an
employe of the, National Biscuit Com
panys Offices in Brooklyn, on April
during hold-up by a young
woman and a male companion.
1T was all through me that my
Ed went wrong" the detective quoted
her as saying. MY husband did not
do any shooting"
The young woman refused to tell
of her parentage beyond to say she
was born twenty years ago on the
East Side of Manhattan.
Two New York detectives broke
down the door of their room in a
lodging house only to be confronted
with n pistol in the woman's hand
and two held by the man. but the
girl shouted that they would not fire
unless the officers shot and the cou-
pie was taken without further trou-
BILE.
Girls Hair Dyed.
The girls hair. naturally blonde,
had been dyed brunette, the officers
said.
The couple was traced. said the
detectives. through the birth here
April II to Mrs. Cooney of a baby,
which died. The New York bandit
woman had been identified as a pros
pective mother. Cooney from here is
said to have wired his mother for
money and the telegram was inter-
cepted at New York.
Wanted to Kill Self.
The girl, according to the officers,
said Cooney had wanted to shoot her
and commit suicide when they were
gaining entrance, but that she told
him not to fire unless the officers fired.
The couple had booked passage on
a steamer leaving Wednesday for
New York. The officers said they
would start with their prisoners for
New York tonight.