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, 1924-07-23
LOCAL

The 5. S. "Paria" from New York via
ST. Thomas arrived at F~rederIkSted at 2
o'clock p. m. yesterday, bringing g bags
of mail which was received and deliver
ed to box hold, rs in the even n.
The u. s. S. "Grebe" arrived here at
noon yesterday from St. irhomas with
the following passengers:
Lieutenant +. A. Foote, U. S. Navy,
Lieutenant G.. r.. Johnson [CECl, u S.
N. Lieut.. Allen Hoar LCECl, u. S. N.
Lieut.. Col. I. H. Brown. u. S. NJ c..
LIST Lieut.. F. w. Bennett, u S. NJ. G..
Mrs. @. {. Matjison, Judge Curry, n s.
Mildred Williamson Amer. Red Cross
judge Nolan, 4. Franklin LprIsooerl
z CJrporais and / Private. u. $. NJ. q.
, 1924-07-23
PROCEEDING S
OF THE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
20 & ST. CROIX

Continued from yesterdays AUjS.)
LIST Member for Frederiksted Town(Jack-
som remarked Mr.. Chairman. | agree
with the Honorable End Member for Chris
t.ansted Town that the salaries of some
teachers are too low while some are paid
too high. ! would like to ask the Chair
man of the Municipal Committee Cane
gata) what are the reasons given for IN
creasing the special teachers, and what
are special teachers ? What kind Of
teachers are specified as special teach
ers, and how many natives are employed
as special teachers?
End Member for Christiansted Town
TCnnegdtG in rep y to the last speaker
said, Mr.. Chairman. Sewing teachers,
music teachers and domestic science
teachers, teachers in administration are
special teachers, Principal Teachers sal
aries are fixed by Ordinance and Special
Teachers salaries are fixed by the Dl-
rector Of Education.
4th Member for FrederikStel Country
District (Aud .rseH) remarked: Mr.. Chair
man. While The idea Of the Council in
fixing the salaries for Principal and
Graded Teachers was in line with the
requirements Of The island, it seems that
there is no lin t to Special teachers.
That's ore thing | want to have on re-
cord as needing a change.
Government Secretary lane remark
ed: Mr.. Chairman. / might state in
that connection speaking for myself, |
am 30 more satisfied with the method of
fixing szlarles Tor teachers than the gen
tleman who has just spoken and If any
scheme can be proposed which would
tend TO better the situation, Government
would be very glad to seriously consider
it.
1st Member for Frederiksted Town
[Jackson remarked: Mr.. Chairman.
Why | am keen on the question Of teach
er's salaries is because the School Dlrec-
Tor is empo Nered to fix salaries. know
some instances where some special teach
ers have been discharged without a hear
ing: without having been previously &C
quainted with any violation of the regu-
%lations, and other more favored ones TAX
en- on. This certainly gives the Director
of Education leeWay to favOcitism.
End Member for C~hristiansted Town
[CuRegut1J: Mr.. Chairman. Since that
is the case we should ask the Honorable
Member Of the Council who is on the Ed
ucational Board to give US his experience.
2nd Member for Frederiksted Country
District Curryl: ] think the Chairman
of the Council is better able Ito give
the necessary calculations. Mr.. Chair
man. We started to inspect the schools
, 1924-07-23
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2ad Member Cbrjstjdnsted
I'0Un & Suburbs.

End Member for Christiansled Town
(Caneglta) in iatr. ducjng his amend
mant said, -Nr. CT airman. Honorable
Members will notice what has happened
is, that the subsidies for the Native
Brass Band Of Cnristiansled and the
Century, Brass Band of Frederiksted
have been reduced. | think in order to
cJme to some understanding Honorable
Members should know why those sub
sides were given. Formerly the only
band that was given a subsidy was the
Industrial Brass Ban1; when it was first
given the subsidy il never appeared on
the budget as an item; it was paid out
of the Military Music Fund. Later, when
most of the original Industrial Ban1 be-
came the Navy Band in 1917 and was
transferred 10 St. Thomas, to encourage
public music and keep the local organi-
cations running it was decided TO give the
Native an Century Bands $500 each
per month as a subsidy and the an)Int
buigetted. at the same time the $40 %
given to the Industrial Band was trans
ferred from the Music Fund to the Bull
get. | do not know the reason why that
was d)n2. Tle two Bands which were
receiving Frcs. 125 per month each,
then asked that that amount De increased;
Evening star., 1924-12-08
ELKS HOLD SERVICE
IN MEMORY Of DEAD
Impressive Exercises Include
Address by Rev. Dr.. Cooke
of Ascension Church.

Memorial services for their dead
were held last night at Central High
School by Washington Lodge, No. Is
E. p. o. Elks. simultaneously with
services of a like nature all over the
Nation.
The principal address was delivered
by Rev. DR.. Thomas w. Cooke, rector
OF the Church of the Ascension, and
music was by the choir of that
church, Arthur S. Witcomb cornetist
II, Fl. Freeman, organist, and the
Elks' Band
Officers in Charge.
Opening and closing exercises were
conducted by the officers of the lodge.
who arc: James a. Balderson, exalted
ruler: William A. Finllle, esteemed
leading knight; Frank Baum, esteem
ed loyal knight; Earle l.. Keller. es-
teemed lecruring knight; William s.
Shelby, secretary; Michael G. McCor-
mick, treasurer; Thomas ]. King. P.
r. r., tiler; John J. O'Connell, inner
I guard; Lemuel Robey, esquire; viii
liam G. Neumeyer, chaplain; John II.
Morville, organist.
The executive committee in charge
OF the memorial were John ]. O'Con-
nell, chairman: John II. Ontrich, vice
chairman, and William S. Shelby. sec
TsIaTE- Inc names OF the departed
were read by Secretary Shelby.
List of Dead of Past Year.
Members of the lodge who have
died within the past year were
Richard c. Grant. George A. Tracy
John P. O'Neill, Charles II. Morris. +.
e. Longstreet, Peter f. Cough, Robert
NJ. McWade, Conrad Rutland, Peter F.
Eeeney, David Wolf, John H. Peters
Frank II. Walker. Louis Berman
.Tulius Sander, James E. Thomas
Edw. p. Schwartz. Charles NJ. Daw-
son. Frank e. Murray. Peter White
V. S. Thomasson, Robert B. Johnson
E.dw. J. Cantwell. Benjamin Einstein
r, T. Warwick, William G. Widmayer
+. H. Neumeyer, Rudolph F. Riegel
Benjamin F. Hobbs.
Decorations for the occasion were
impressive, with large illuminated
cross, carrying 375 white electric
lights for those who had died before
the service last year. Within the
large cross was a smaller purple cross
containing lights for those deceased
during the past year.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
NEW ENGLAND STATES
THRIFTlEST IN COUNTRY
Per Capita Savings of Section,
$443-South Makes Greatest
Proportionate Gain.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December S.-New
England is the thriftiest section of
the country, the Middle Atlantic
group of States is it's closest COM
petftor, and the South has made the
greatest relative advance in savings, a
report covering the last IL years made
public yesterday by the American
Bankers Association reveals.
The data show that per capita
savings deposit in New England this
year was SAB, and that the section
held the lead by a wide margin in
each of the years considered. Per
capita savings in the other State
groups follow: Middle Atlantic, s3O5;
Pacific, s240; East Central $1SS;
West Central, sS7, and Southern. $50.
Although the South, where savings
banks development was tardy, is
shown to have the lowest per capita
rate, in the IL years considered in
the report the section has advanced
1SS per cent; it's per. capita savings
in 1919 was only SIS.
The advance in other sections was:
New England, from $245 to $44s:
Middle Atlantic, from S151 to 1905;
Pacific, from s101 to s240; East Cen
tral, from $50 to $685., and the West
Central from $40 to sS7.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
7Q6,8S ADMITTED
TOU. S. LAST YEAR
200, 900 Gain in Immigrant
Arrivals Recorded Up to
Last June 80.

An increase of nearly 100000 aliens
admitted into the United States for
the fiscal year ended June so, 1924,
over the preceding fiscal year was
noted by Commissioner General of
Immigration Husband in his annual
report made public today. A total of
706,S96 immigrant aliens were ad-
mitted during the past fiscal year,
compared with 522,919 in the previous
fiscal year. A total of 76,7S9 emf
grant aliens and 1895 non emf
grant aliens departed from the
country during the year, the increase
in our alien population being 662, ,557
The revived increase in immigrat tion
after the close of the war was traced
in the report.
Mr.. Husband referred to the
monthly steamship race for immigra-
tion ports, which, he said. results in
much distress and many deportations.
Smuggling or "bootfegging" of
aliens into the United States illegally
has been promoted by the per centum
limit law of 1921, Mr.. Husband said,
adding that this method of getting
sorted to by great numbers of deter
mined Europeans who failed to find,
or were delayed in finding, places
under the quotas. A total of 6,409
persons were deported from the
United States during the year for va
rious causes.
Reviewing the financial condition
of the immigration Bureau, Mr.. Hus-
band pointed out that the immigra-
ton service was not only self sup
porting, but, in addition, produced a
revenue of $2.5S7.7S7.36, with a total
collection of S6,334,756.74.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
Commerce Department Finds Jam
In Glass b Radio BrOUdcUsting O.
Officials Seeking Method Accomm odate A pIicants
for Ne,U Stations While Auoiding Interference
Assigned Ware Bands.

are As applications for permits to
operate new stations before the de-
partment The problem is to find
a channel for their operation.
Three avenues of solution present
themselves, according to w. d. Ter
rell. chief radio inspector. One is
to decrease the difference between
wave bands, another to divided sta
tions in the same. sending zone into
time allotments and the other is to
assign Eastern and Western stations
to the same wave band. This would
work out in fairly satisfactory
manner. with a small receiving set
considering the difference of three
hours in time between the two sea-
coasts.
An Exception Noted.
But II Fort Worth, Tex, were as
signed the same wave band as Bos-
ton, the man in Chicago would get
a. jumb mbled-up program when he
tuned into the two stations.
Just at present the department
frankly admits its inability to i'm
prove the situation unless one of
the three alternatives is used. 1t is
hoped one of them may work out
satisfactorily
Evening star., 1924-12-08
YOUNG WIDOW HELD
IN DEATH OF SPOUSE
With ''FamiIy Friend'' Is
Jailed Following Discov-
cry of Skeleton.
By the Associated Press.

bt the Associated Bress-
WINSTON-SA y. c., December
S.-Mrs. Annie Snipes. youthful
widow of Bruce Snipes, who disap-
peared four years ago, and Pete
Phillips, a family friend. were held
in the Forsyth County jail here to-
day without bond, pending an in
vestigation into the death of Snipes,
whose skeleton was found in an old
well on a farm near here several days
ago. Officers are searching for
Moody O'Neal, who was reared in the
Snipes home.
The arrests were made on recon-
mendation Of County Coroner Dal-
ton, who filed a report of his find
ings with the clerk of the court late
Saturday night. The verdict was
that Snipes came to his death from
a blow on the head inflicted by some
heavy blunt instrument
The coroner recommended also that
Mrs. Snipes, Phillips and O'Neal be
taken into custody pending a full in
vestigation.
Silence as to Evidence.
Officials today We're silent as to the
evidence they llaWe uncovered re-
garding the circumstances surround
ing the death of Snipes, who was 81
few months -hen he disappeared
O'Neal has been seen only a few
times since Snipes disappeared.
Neither Mrs. Snipes nor Phillips
would talk.
Bruce Snipes disappeared in No
vember, 1920. The last time he was
seen, according to officers, he was
talking with his young wife Two
days later his automobile was found
standing near Norfolk and Western
trestle in this city.
Workmen Reveal Skeleton.
This was the last known of him
until few days ago, when workmen
found a skeleton in an old well on
the old Bedenhamer farm. near here.
The skeleton was identified as that
of Snipes by a shoe, a chain and
locket and fragments of clothing.
While declining to make public
their evidence, officers let it be known
that they were working on the the
ory that Snipes was Iured to the farm
slain and his body thrown into the
we'll
Evening star., 1924-12-08

With the air already jammed to ca
pacity between the wave lengths al
located to class b radio broadcasting
stations, and new applications for 46
stations already before it, the De-
partment of Commerce is casting
about to find some way to accommo-
date the new stations and at the same
time keep the present stations in
violate from interference on their as
signed wave bands as far as possible.
Tests were made last week from
six stations in reducing the kilocycle
difference between stations and will
be continued this week. Broadcast
ing stations usually send out their
signals on a difference of 10 kilo-
cycles. This difference was cut last
week to five kilocycles and this week
will be raised again to seven kilo-
cycles. as the results of last weeks
test were not considered entirely sat
isfactory.
Use 50-wave Bands.
Sixty-four radio broadcasting sta
tions now use the less than 50-wave
bands assigned to Class B stations,
between $50 and 545 meters. The air
is jammed already. and still there
Evening star., 1924-12-08
Observer to Use
Sis-POund Prism.
Left by Langle,
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, December s.
A prism weighing pounds with
surfaces measuring 4 by 6 inch
es. found among the many in
strufnents OF the late Samuel p
Langley, scientist astronomer, Will
he used for the first time in so
years in making a study of the
eclipse of the sun on January "a
it is announced.
DIR. Heber d. Curtis, director of
the Allegheny Observatory of the
University of Pittsburgh, who dis
covered the prism in the room at
the observatory where the Langley
instruments are kept, will take it
with him to New Haven, next
month. where a party of scientists
will observe the eclipse at the
Yale Observatory.
The eclipse will be the seventh
to be observed by DR. Curtis. He
has studied two others in the
United States. and others in Su-
matra, Labrador, Mexico and Rus
sia, travelling a distance of nearly
twice around the world for 10
minutes of observation.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
PHYSICIAN REVEALS
MOTHERHOOD HOAX
Claim Wife of Wealthy Law
yer Substituted Baby to
Affect Husband.
By the Associated Press.

L
MEMPHIS, Tenn, December S.
Two Memphis physicians have made
affidavits as to knowledge of the al
legged plot of Mrs. Charlotte Patton
Sherman to deceive her husband,
Robert S. Sherman, wealthy attorney
of Tulsa, Okla. into believing that
she had become a mother. in the hope
of effecting a reconciliation with him,
the Memphis Commercial Appeal says.
One physician is said to have ad-
mitted that he procured the child,
within half hour after it was born
to an unmarried Arkansas woman.
Another, it Is stated, admitted that he
was the attending physician for Mrs.
Sherman, and claims he did not know
of the hoax until the following day,
when he took steps to have the birth
certificate revoked.
Sherman has filed an application
for a divorce, and it is said that the
affidavits will be used in his case.
Taken to Hospital
An ambulance was summoned to a
local hotel on the night of July %
of this year. At the same time a
physician was called. When the ply
sician arrived, Mrs. Sherman, accord
ing to the Commercial Appeal, was
placed in the ambulance with the
newborn baby and was taken to a
local hospital Mrs. Sherman's de-
sire to leave the hospital on the af-
ternoon after her arrival there is
said to have aroused the suspicious
of the attending physician.
Mrs. Sherman. who is here now lis
quoted in the Commercial Appeal as
declaring that she intends to adopt
the baby, which is now with her rela-
tives in Kansas City
Evening star., 1924-12-08
CURBS CHRISTMAS
FOLIAGE PIRATES
Order Issued Prohibiting
Stolen Trees From Local
Markets.

Steps were taken today by George
NJ. Roberts, superintendent of weights
and measures, to prevent the cutting
of Christmas trees and other greens
from private property in the surround
ing country without the consent of the
owners of the land.
Supt. Roberts approached the ques
tion by instructing the market mas
ters of all municipal markets that deal
ers will not be permitted to sell trees.
holly or misfletoe at municipal mar
kets without first showing that they
obtained the Christmas shrubs from
their own property or that they had
the permission of the farmers from
whose land the trees were taken.
Applies mt Markets.
The order will apply to the farmers
produce market at Twelfth and +
streets: the District reservation i'm
front of the Center market. at Louis-
ana and Pennsylvania avenues: the
Eastern Market, Seventh and { streets
southeast. and the Western Market.
Twenty-first and X streets.
Supt. Roberts order TO the market
masters follows:
in making assignments of spa =
for the sale of Christmas trees. holly,
mistletoe or other similar products
markets owned by the District, il is
directed that you require each pereon
desiring space to sign a prescribed
application, which shall state whether
or not the products he desires to sell
were obtained from land owned or
controlled by him. If obtained from
land belonging 10 another person, the
name and address of the owner of the
land shall be indicated, together with
a statement of whether or not the
products were removed with the
knowledge and consent of the owner
of the land.
Mote on each application the
license number of each motor vehicle
used for conveying the aforemen-
toned products to the market.
Issue no permit for occupying
space at the market to any person
who is unable to give the information
requested or who has obtained his
products from the land of another
without the consent of the owner
1T is Illegal to remove Christmas
trees, holly, etc, from the land of an
other without the consent of the own
er, and the District markets must not
be used for the sale of products which
have been illegally obtained"
Evening star., 1924-12-08
INCREASE IN FUND
FOR HEALTH OFFICE
Budget Bureau 0mits Con-
tagious Disease Hospital.
Other AII0tmentS Liberal.

Although the Health Department
failed to get provision in the new es-
Inmates for the erection of a hospital
conta gious disease cases, the Budget
Bureau granted several increases in
other items for the health office.
The largest of these increases was
in raising the annual allotment for
sending contagious cases to private
hospitals from S16.500 in the, current
law to $4,000 for next year. This
money is used to maintain isolation
wards at Providence and Gallinger
hospitals.
In the past few years the appro-
priation for this purpose has proved
inadequate. Whether the increase
granted will meet the needs is un-
certain, depending largely on the
amount of contagious sickness that
may occur next year. At any rate,
the increase in this appropriation is
gratifying to health officials.
Provision for Special Clinic.
The Budget Bureau also allowed
an increase of $4,000 in the fund for
operation of the tuberculosis and the
venereal disease clinics. making the
total for the next year S14,500.
The fund for maintenance of the
public crematory was increased by
$500, bringing it up to $4,000 for
next year.
The only reduction in the new esti-
mates of the Health Department, as
compared with the current law, was
the cutting of $500 from the lump
sum for the prevention of the spread
of contagious diseases. The current
law allows $4,000 for this service,
while the new estimates Gerry S39,-
500
Item in Supplemental List.
Health Officer FowIers recommen-
dation that an appropriation be
sought to build the Health Depart
ment a contagious disease hospital
of its own was placed on the sup
Elemental list of estimates by the
Commissioners, and the Budget Bu-
reau apparently did not find it pos
sible to insert it in the regular es-
Inmates.
The new estimate for operation of
the child hygiene service is $4,000.
The Health Department sought an
increase of $4,000 in this item, which
was not granted.
THE new estimates will permit the
Health Department to function about
on the same basis as the present
year." DR.. Fowler said today.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
MAYORS ORDER UPSETS
"SANTA CLAUS" PROGRAM
Money Collected at Homes for Pay
of Impersonator in Creston,
Iowa, Refunded
By the Associated Press.


CRESTON, Iowa, December s.
Santa Claus will not make a personal
visit to the children of Creston, by
order of Mayor Ed Keith, who this
afternoon ordered George E. German
of Maryville, Mo, self-appointed Saint
Nicholas, to refund the money which
his solicitors had collected from local
residents in return for which German
was "to play Santa Claus"
Local women, acting as solicitors
for German, today had made house
to house canvass, collecting 80 cents
from each home that wished German
to call a week before Christmas, dis
guised as Santa Claus. On Christmas
eve, he was to appear at each home a
second time, distributing presents, in
return for which he was to be paid 25
cents in advance.
German claims he visited I 400
homes in Omaha last Christmas.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
Ontario Farmers
Organize Posse
To Pursue W0Iues
Rvtbe Associated press

By the Associated Press
SAULT STE. MARIE. Ontario, De-
cember S.-A party of 100 men will
start Tuesday in pursuit of
wolves which are reported to have
killed live stock at korah, few
miles from here. and sheep in Syl-
van Valley Saturday, it was an
nounced last night. The wolves
have been unusually bold this
year, frequently raiding live stock,
causing large loss to farmers.
Frank H. Keefer, X. c., NJ. l.. A.
announced at Port Arthur that he
will urge on the Department of Agri-
culture the necessity of a. confer
ence between the State of Mime
sofa, the province of Manitoba. and
the province of Ontario to formu-
late a. plan for the destruction of
wolves.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
RECORD COTTON CROP.
Oklahoma to Produce laos, 900
Bales This Year.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Decem-
ber S.-A cotton crop of 100000
bales, the largest in the history of
Oklahom oma, is forecast for this year
by the statistical division of the State
board of agriculture, in the final pro-
duction estimate issued yesterday.
This stands as the largest cotton
crop ever produced in the State, ex-
ceeding the bumper year of 1920 by
$4,000 bales, the estimate said.
The total value of this years crop,
including the seed, is estimated to
be s16S. $780, 600; 80 per cent of the
crop had been ginned by December
l, the board reported.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
Magistrate Defines Parking.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

4
BALTIMORE, December .S.-When
an automobile has been driven to the
curbing and the driver has left the
wheel for any purpose other than to
discharge passengers the machine is
liable to the parking rules" Magis-
trate Alva A. Lamkin, In the Traffic
Court, has ruled. Although the motor
is running and a passenger is in
charge, 1t Is unlawful for the auto
mobile to be left standing.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
u. S. WORKERS TO MEET.
Mass Meeting to Discuss Reclassi-
fcation Called.

The District of Columbia Fedora :
tion of Federal Employees Union will
hold a mass meeting in the Masonic
Temple, Auditorium Tuesday evening
at o'clock. The subject of reclas-
sifcation and how it should be ad-
nlInistered will be discussed
The principal speakers will be Rep
resentatiye Frederick r. Lehiback OF
New Jersey and Luther c. Steward,
prssident of the National Federation
Of Federal Employees. In addition to
the speakers subject the program will
include number of pieces of enter
tainment given by members of the
''Uncie Sans Follies.' The general
public Is invited.
Evening star., 1924-12-08
TILL YIELDS THIEF DIME.
Sarcastic Note Left in Lynchburg
Store by Intruder.

LYNCHBURG, Va, December S.
Apparently expecting a rather lu-
crative haul, thief who broke into
one of the stores of the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Co. here left note tell
ing the manager that if more money
could be left in the register he would
return again.
The thief found a dime in the cash
register after breaking into the store