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Evening star., 1924-11-08
JOINS
F0RCET-ME-NOTS
Little Girl Pins Flower on
Executives Lapel to Start
Disabled Veteran Drive.

President Coolidge. like thousands
of others in Washington TODAY. is
wearing a little forget-me-not in the
buttonhole of his coat in honor of
Forget-me-not day. This was placed
on the Presidents coat by Dorothy
Gould Fowler. 10-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Fowler of
Washington, who at the same time
received a contribution from the
Executive.
With the little girl during the
ceremony were Mrs. Rose Gouverneur
Hoes, president of the Society of the
Descendants of James Monroe, and W.
S. Clark, general chairman of the
forget t-me-not drive in the District of
Columbia; Mrs. Forest Vrooman, su-
pervisor of the District No. 4, forget
me-not drive, and Mrs John E. Fow-
ler, her mother, chairman of the Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs of the Dis
trict of Columbia
Throughout the city groups of girls
took their stations to sell the flowers
and see that Washington did not lag
IN the annual observance of the dis
abled American Veterans day.
Under the direction of Mrs John
Lorentz Steele, representative of the
District Federation of Women's Clubs
the distribution of punches continued
at the campaign headquarters in the
Munsey Building, while girls were on
post in the banks, theaters, clubs and
other public buildings and at the en-
frances of all Government depart
ments.
Through an order of Maj Sullivan
every policeman was allowed to wear
the flowers over the shield while on
duty, the sales taking place at the
station houses at the morning roll
call.
Mrs. Steele pointed out this morning
that no professional statesmen Were
permitted in the affair. and, based
lief that today's Forget-Me-Not day
it's two predecessors.
The list of patronesses follows:
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, MRS.
Curtis ID. Wilbur, Mrs. John Lorentz
Steele, chairman womens organiza-
ton of the drive; Mrs. John T..
Fowler, chairman Women's Fedora
tion committees; Mrs. John D. Sher-
man, national president General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Vir-
ginia White Speel, president District
of Columbia Federation of Women s
Clubs: Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook
president general Daughters of the
American Revolution; Mrs. Samuel
Preston Davis, national president
United States Daughters of 1872;
Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, District OF
Columbia president United States
Daughters of 1912: Mrs. George Sci
bold. District of Columbia president
Evening star., 1924-11-08
SEES GREAT LOSS
TO GOULD HEIRS
Attorney for Frank ]. Gould
Declares Mismanagement
Will Cost S34,635,7 ,722.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the AsSocis ted Press.
NEW YORK November Con-
cluding argument yesterday in behalf
of Frank J. Gould, principal objector
in the $4,000. 900 accounting suit of
the Jay Gould estate, which was
opened Is months ago today, Walter
3. Walker charged that principals of
the residuary trust estate stood to
lose $34, ,635, 1926 through the man
agement of the estate by the trustees.
He announced that he will ask the
court to compel the trustees to reim-
burse the estate to that amount. plus
interest at per cent, since 1892.
The trustees are Edwin Gould, How
ard Gould, Mrs. Finley Shepard and
the estate of the late George J. Gould.
During his argument yesterday
Walker charged that George Gould,
besides other losses he had caused by
alleged mismanagement and improper
investments, owed his fathers es-
tate S1.065,6 $50, as the result of
transaction in 1900 shares of Wa
bash Railroad common stock, which
he turned over to the estate as pay
ment of an Indebtedness of s546, $50.
1t was charged that this stock had
not paid any dividends since 1892,
never paid any after it was turned
over to the estate, and was subse
quently wiped out by q reorganiza-
ton of the road. The sum of $1.O65,
$50 was arrived at, he said, by adding
interest to S546,650.
Clashes between counsel during the
hearing revealed. that the children of
the late George J. Gould, managing
executor and trustee under his ia
theirs will, are in need of money
pending the outcome of the account
ing suit, which has been under way
off and on, for a year and a half 1t
also developed that of the six trust
funds into which the original estate
was divided two years ago, there was
less coming to the heirs of George
Gould than to any of the others.
Counsel for the Equitable Trust
Co., guardians of Marjorie Drexel and
Lady Decies, the former Vivian Gould
charged that Walker was throwing
up a legal smoke screen in an effort
to tie UP the George j. Gould estate.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
CHILDREN'S BOOK
WEEK PLANS MADE
Library to Observe Period With
Special Effort to Arouse
Reading Interest.

Children's Book Week, beginning
tomorrow and concluding next Satur-
day, will be observed by the Public
Library, which will extend special
privileges to the children of Wash
ington and their parents during this
period, Miss Louise P. Latimer. direc-
tor of children's work of the library,
announced today During the week
children whose cards are held at the
library because of fines for books
kept overtime may obtain them with
out payment of such fines and may
use them at once. This privilege will
obtain in the children's room at the
main library and the Takoma Park
and Southeastern branches.
The purpose of charging fines. Miss
Latimer explains, is to keep readers
from forgetting to return their books
promptly, thus depriving other read
crs of the opportunity of securing
the books. 1t has been found that
without such a penalty borrowers be-
come careless and books are often
lost.
The children's department offers to
assist parents and other adults in Sc
lecting books for Christmas gifts for
children.
Lists are ready for distribution
Adults are invited to ask for advice
children of various ages and tastes
and to spend time in the department
looking over the books. The library IS
juvenile collection consists of books
ranging from nursery rhymes and pic
ture books for very little children to
new editions of adult books so inter-
csting in form that they appeal to
children. Fairy tales, poetry, tales of
adventure and stories of great men in
Inn C;x
all included in the collection.
Special attention is called to the
library's exhibit of fine editions of
children's books, many of which are
beautifully illustrated by such well
known artists as Dulac, Boutet de
Monvel, Leslie Brooke, Randolph Cal
decott and N. c. Wyeth.
This is the best time, Miss Latimer
said, for examination and purchase OF
books, for later, when the stores be-
come crowded, such shopping is diff
ficult.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
CHOSEN AS PRESIDENT
4TH CONSECUTIVE TERM

Rev. DR.. L. Z. Richardson. for the
fourth successive time, was chosen
president of the Congress Heights
Citizens Association last night at
a meeting in the Congress Heights
Baptist Church.
J. A Marceron, who has been secre-
tary for Is years, asked to be re-
lieved of that position and d. E
Libbey was elected as his successor
Gustave Bender was reelected treas
urer for the thirty-ffrst successive time
Other officers elected were George
8 Stevens first vice president: D
y. Gultgren, second vice president
E. c. Purdy and F. NJ. Cannon, dele.
gates to the Federation of Citizens
Associations, and DR.. Richardson, Mr.
Stevens and c. II. Houser, trustees.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
TRIBE KILLS BOY
TOLAY EVIL SPIRIT
Mounted Police Uncover
GhastIy Tale in Isolated
Arctic Region.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

correspondence OF tNe AsS0rldCeN lEFSS.
WRANGELL, Alaska. October 15.-
Killing and torturins members of the
tribe having failed to drive away evil
disease. an Indian in the Lizard district
of Canada, 500 miles east of here,
hanged a dog daily until he had put
to death his whole sled team.
This was one of the tales. that
trickled through to Wrangell by
means of gold prospectors after a
party of Canadian royal mounted
police passed through here recently
bound for Vancouver British Colum-
torturing to death Mocassin, a lad of
II. The boy was said to have been
buried while he still breathed.
Old Legends Revived.
Legends that the Indians OF the
wilds of northern British Columbia
and southern Yukon commonly tor
tured and slew fellow tribcsmen for
being friends and companions of in
furious spirits have long been common
among prospectors.
Five months ago Frank Bass, factor
for the Hudson's Bay Company at
Fort Lizard. Yukon territory, reported
to Canadian authorities that Big
Aleck, a Cree Indian living on the
Mackenzie River, had told him that
Nomad Indians from the Nelson River,
in British Columbia, had murdered a
boy accused of witchcraft. The crime
was placed at 40 miles south of Fort
Lizard.
supt. knight of the royal police,
stationed at Vancouver, sent a patrol
to Investigate. The Lizard district
was reached after travelling hundreds
of mjlpS fnnt with rl
navigating the swift lower Lizard
River by canoe. Big Aleck, when
found, repudiated the story. The
party of three policemen, commanded
by Inspector 7. V. Sandws- Wunsch,
camped near the suspected Indians.
Patiently studying the territory,
the investigators came on a hole in
which they found the body of a boy
with his hands tied behind him.
After that confessions from the
Indians came easily. These were to
suspended Mocassin head downward
from a sapling to drive away evil
spirits, after Big Aleck had dreamed
that the lad was a sorcerer. A girl
Lucy, found Mocassin hanging there
and begged that he be cut down.
Lucy said that the lad was alive
when put into the hole, but other
Indians asserted that he was killed
first by hitting him on the head with
a rock.
The police arrested Edy, her three
brothers, Dan, Jimmy and Glenn, and
Big Aleck and took them to Fort
Lizard. At hearing there the in
spector, a magistrate, decided that
the prisoners should go to Vancouver
for trial.
The three policemen brought the
prisoners out to Wrangell, travelling
1000 miles on foot and by canoe.
No police had been in the Lizard dis
trict since 1892.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
jUNTA IN CHILE
' CALLS ELECTION
General Vote for President
and Congress to Be Taken
on May 10 Next.

The extra constitutional junta now
in control of the Chilean government
has completed plans for a general
election May 10 next, at which
President and Congress will be Sc
lected by direct vote of the people,
according to advices made public yes
terday by the Chilean embassy and
the State Department.
The project, it was explained. con-
templates early restoration of the
constitutional regime in Chile. A
telegram from Carlos Aldonate, for
eign minister in the junta cabinet,
stated that the government manifesto,
dated November 5, and setting out the
laws which are to control registration
of voters, the election and the procla-
NATION of the new President by the
Congress thus to be elected, has been
received with approval by the press"
The present Chilean junta overthrew
the administration of President Ales-
sandri last September. 1t is wholly
outside the constitution, and govern
ment has since been proceeding by
decree.
L. s. Omcials Silent.
While State Department officials
have been unwilling to comment on
the situation in Chile, the fact that
informal diplomatic relations have
been maintained with the de facto au-
thorities lends color to the presump-
tion that they are hopeful that the
junta in power will find some way
of restoring a constitutional regime
which it will be possible, under ad-
ministration policy, to recognize in
the regular diplomatic way.
There is no desire to embarrass the
de facto government in its effort to
find solution for its problems, the
fact that the revolution which over
threw the Alessandri administration
was a bloodiesS one evidently having
been taken into consideration here.
The provisions taken by the junta
to re-establish constitutional govern
ment provide for compulsory regis
tration\ of all voters and a general
assembly on July 25 of all the sena-
tors and deputies elected on May 10
for the purpose of ratifying or re-
jecting any constitutional amend
ments proposed by the present junta.
The assembly would take up it's duties
as the constitutional Congress of the
country in accordance with the old
constitution and such reforms as may
be approved.
Assembly Session Set.
The General Assembly would meet
again on August 25 and would pro-
claim President the candidate who re-
ceived an absolute majority in the
elections, or would elect President
| in case of no such majority by any
candidate.
A special court "to avoid abuses" in
the elections would be constituted,
composed of the presidents of the
| supreme court and of the courts of
/ appeals and of retired members of
such bodies. The function of this
| court would be to anprOye the cleo
| tion of at least half the senators and
i deputies, without which approval the
Congress would not be considered legally
constituted.
The constitutional regime" the
dispatch to the Chilean embassy said,
| will be fully re-established the 18th
of September. and the government
| junta will turn over it's office to the
| President elect"
Evening star., 1924-11-08

His means are limited, but not so
his ambitions.
Bessie, colored lives in one of
Washington's a1leys-one of the poor
est and most disreputable of them all
Bessie has ambition and is not happy
in her grandmother's home. This
grandmother and step-grandfathe
are her only relatives, and she con-
tinually runs away. She wants a
home; some one to look after her.
She wants your interest.
Changes of the nature wrought In
the cases of the following boy and
girl can be effected in the foregoing
James was IL years old. His father
was tubercular, his mother discour-
aged, his brother in jail. He was
suffering from neglect. defective vi
sion, poor physique and bad sur
roundinGs. He was smoking, lying
playing truant, cursing and learning
all manner of immortality from his
bad associates. Expert medical ad-
vice was obtained and proper glasses
made it possible for him to do better
school work. The family moved into
a better neighborhood and the father
was given the treatment he needed
The active interest of James Church
was secured. He was provided with
the proper recreation. which included
the formation of a. Boy Scout Troor
in the neighborhood in which he lived
and a big brother to give him sym
pathetic companionship. He is now
in fine physical condition, making an
excellent record in school and attend
ing Sunday school regularly He is
industrious, trustworthy, has become
leader among his associates and is
facing in the right direction towards
good citizenship and a useful life.
Girl Was Chronic Truant.
Helen was, Is years old She was
tired of school and had become a
chronic truant. Her parents, them
selves educated and ambitious for
their children, decided to let her stol
school and go to work without fur
ther training. An older girl encour-
aged her to defy her parents and stay
out until all hours of the night with
older men of questionable reputation
Arrangements were made for Helen
to enter an excellent boarding school
During the years she was there close
touch was maintained with her par.
ents and advice frequently asked and
given. A Big Sister helped out at va.
cation to<keep Helen from drifting
| back to her old associates. She has
HO" anu is COL
lege, fitting herself for professional
career.
The courts do not always want, tc
send off to jail a young boy or gir.
charged with violation of the law, be.
cause they know in most cases they
are laying the foundation for a ca.
reer that will not be of use to So
ciety. Therefore they call on the
Juvenile Protective Association to
| show the delinquent the right path
and prevent a criminal record being
listed opposite their names. These
boys and girls need your services. II
you cannot give them, but can con.
! tribute a small sum to the budget o,
the association, which is expended
| for maintenance of a clerical force
stationery, stamps, telephone calls
ETC., but does not include contribu
tions or donations to those in need
| the association will be grateful.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
CLUB TO CONTINUE,
Mrs. Moran Announces Further
Plans for Organization.

Mrs. JEANNE Blackburn Moran,
founder and president of the Nc
Donald -Washingto Dem
ocratic Club, which was organized
last August for campaign work for
the election of John w. Davis and
Charles w. Bryan, announces that the
organization will continue in exist
ence.
1t is a club for both men and wom-
en- and will hold meetings once a
month during the Winter and early
Spring seasons, devoting it's atten-
tion to political. civic and national
problems of the times.
The first meeting will be held at
the home OF Mrs. Moran about the
first of December, according to pres
snt plans.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
33,359,576,787 FRANC
BUDGET ASKED IN PARIS
Government Discloses Huge Total
Sought-More Than Half Goes
as Loan Interest.
by the Associated Press.


PARIS, November 8.-The budget
proposed by the government, 1t was
brought out at yesterdays session of
the Cha of Deputies amounts to
33,359, ,576,7S7 francs. This included
623,000,000 for the occupation of
foreign countries, which is given as
separate item.
More than half the French receipts.
or 1854, 4,593.338 francs, will go to
pay the interest on loans and debts
The interest payments include PA,
100000 francs on the American 1920
loan; 249,000,000 francs on the Amer
lean 1921 loan: 367,000,000 francs on
the bonds given for American stocks 8
and 3,575,000,000 francs on the floating
debt.
The war budget total 3,693, ,796, 900
francs and that for the navy 1,313,-
900 francs.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
Warns of Spurious $40 Bill.

Chief Moran of the Secret Service
has warned all banks and others in
terested of new counterfeit $40 Fed
eral Reserve note on the Federal Re
serve Bank of Cleveland.
The counterfeit is described in part
as follows:
Check letter 3D." face plate No. 149,
A. W. Mellon, Secretary. of Treasury;
Frank White, Treasurer of the United
States; portrait of Jackson.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
PARTIES FOOT Up
CAMPAIGN OUTLAY
G. O. P. Committee Shows
Small SurpIus-Democratic
Managers 100000 Short.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. November S.-The Re
publican national committee came
through the campaign which ended
last Tuesday without a deficit and
with a probable small surplus after
outstanding bills are paid, officers of
the committee will report to National
Chairman William NJ Butler within
a few days, it was learned last night.
A meeting was held yesterday at Demo-
cratic campaign headquarters be-
tween John w. Davis, defeated presi-
Dental candidate; Glenn l.. Shaver,
national chairman, and Director of
Finances jesse II. Jones, to discuss
means of meeting the national COM
mittee's deficit, which is reported to
be about 100000. In past campaigns
it has been the custom to meet such
deficits by levying a pro-rata assess
ment on the Democratic organiza-
tions of the various States.
Republicans to Make Report.
The report concerning Republican
finances will be made to Mr.. Butler
by Guy Emerson, chairman, and J.
c. Clarke, executive secretary of the
national contributors committee,
which had charge of the collection
of distributions.
1t is understood the surplus will be
used in keeping alive the organiza =
ton for the collection of contribu-
ttons in the next national campaign.
First Campaign Without Deficit.
Officials at Republican headauarte
said that this is the first time that a
national committee wound up its af-
fairs without a deficit. Four years
ago, 1T was said, the Republican COM
mittee shouldered a deficit of $780,
600, which it took them nearly four
years to wipe out.
All told, more than $4,000 contribu-
tors from all over the country gave
about S4,000,000 to the Republican
campaign this year, the largest num-
ber of contributions ever made to- a
presidential campaign, according to
Mr.. Emerson
Evening star., 1924-11-08
Schurman Going Back to China.

Jacob G. Schurman, United States
Minister to China. who has been in
this country for the past two months
on leave of absence, will leave here
next week for his post of duty at
Peking. He has received full instruc-
tions from the President and Secre-
tary Hughes for his guidance in the
treatment of international questions
growing out of recent political trou-
bles in China
Evening star., 1924-11-08

War Mothers; Miss Mamie r Ma
comb, District of Columbia president
American Women's Legion; Mrs. Wal
ter I. Mccoy, president George I. Nc
Coy Unit, American Women's Legion;
Mrs Leon Arnold. president Woman's 5
Auxiliary, American Legion: Mrs
Fred l.. Harries, District of Columbia
president Women's Auxiliary, Vet
Grams Foreign Wars; Mrs, Elizabeth
d. Shaw, District of Columbia presi-
dent Women's Veterans Relief Corps,
e. A. r.; Mrs. Forrest Vrooman.
Daughters of Confederacy; Miss Lena
Hitchcock, president Women's Over
seas League; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
and Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, 3r.
Evening star., 1924-11-08
Pershing on Way Home.

Gen. John J. Pershing went to
Switzerland following his transfer to
the retired list to establish his SON
in a preparatory school. He is now
on his way back to New York and
is expected to arrive in this city
next week. 1t is understood he has
nearly completed the preparation of
his memoirs
Evening star., 1924-11-08
BALLFOR ORPHANS.
Catholic Knights to Aid st. 10
Seph's Asy1um.

The annual ball for the benefit OF
St Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum will
be held in Convention Hall Wednes
day evening, November 26. This event
is staged by the Catholic Knights OF
America.
Arran gements are in the hands OF
an executive committee composed of
P. A. Tobin, l. GvTyn Gardiner, +,
Gwynn Gardiner ana John Shugfrue.
There will be a rrfreshment booth
under the supervision of the board
of lady managers, of which Mrs. M /.
Weller is president. =
Evening star., 1924-11-08
Des Moines Papers Consolidate.

DES MONIES, Iowa, November s.
Consolidation of the Des Moines
News with the Des Moines Evening
Tribune, effective Monday, was an
nounced today by Gardner. Cowles,
president of the Register and Tribune
Co. The Des Moines News, established
A years ago, was owned by the Scripps-
Howard Co.
Evening star., 1924-11-13

October %, 1918, had been for CEN
turies the home of successive cardi-
nal-archbishops whenever the
churchman happened to be a Haps-
burg. 1t was built before the discov-
cry Of America and still has attached
to it seven acres of beautiful rolling
lawns and gardens, in the midst of
which is an ancient tower overlook
ing the Moldau, beyond which rise
the red roofs of Prague.
It could have been purchased for the
proverbial song when Minister Crane
was assigned to 1t by the new Czecho-
slovakia government in 1919 and from
whom he purchased it less than two
years later. At that time the British
French and japanese governments
cheaply purchased palaces for their
legations in the same vicinity, but all
are further away from the river and
considerably less desirable than the
Schoenborn.
Among the treasures of the palace
when Minister Crane first took possess
sion was a set of priceless Gobelin
tapestries, representing aboriginal life
in America. They had originally been
ordered for the Empress Maria
Theresa. But when they arrived with
c. o. d. bill at the Imperial Palace
in Prague the price staggered her
ajesty, so the cardinal archbishop
of her time. being a man of vast
private means, paid the bill and took
them to the Archepiscopal Palace,
where they were hung In the recep
tion room.