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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

1t is hoped that the count will
reveal Just where the busy spots
in pedestrian traffic In the down.
town section are. There have
been several vehicuIar counts, but
no attempt has heretofore been
made to find out which are the
busy downtown blocks. Those in
charge expect to show many inter-
esting facts that will help to solve
the safety problem for pedes-
trfans. 1t is also probable that
the count will show the need for a
arrangement of the present
parking space.
In order to get accurate figures,
the Boy Scouts, who will give
their services, and other counters
will be stationed in the middle of
each block rather than at the in
tersections of the streets. Each
counter will be equipped with a
hand numbering machine and
chart.
The entire downtown section of
the city and Connecticut avenue as
far as Dupont Circle will be d.
vided into eight sections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
RADIO ENCOURAGES
MUSICIANS IN JAIL
Performances of Men ir
Missouri Prison Became Fa-
nous Throughout Land.
BY 8. r., WINTERS.

II John Bunyan had been confined
in the State prison OF Missouri in the
twentieth century, instead of being
thrown into a dungeon in England in
the seventeenth century, he could not
have pictured the Slough OF De-
spond" Instead, he might have told
of the influence of radio upon lives
whose Nl-advised acts had brought
them within prison walls.
If you are ever in jefferson City,
No. and should observe a motor truck
conveying a large group of prisoners
along the streets. do not mistake the
significance of the scene. Offhand.
you are likely to conclude that these
convicts are being transferred to
other places or quarters to complete
their tenure of prison service. The
mistake is q natural one. since the
procedure has been reversed. A few
moments before. the big iron gates
at the State prison had swung open
and then closed. to permit the depar-
ture Of 80 inmates of the prison, with
the State capital, strange to say, as
their destination.
The distance between the State
prison and the radio broadcasting sta
ton, WOS, Is only seven blocks. The
occupants OF this motor truck com
prise the Missouri State Prison Band
OF missouri Sldl6 fElSOn oECHeSlGa-
In both instances the members are
Convicts serving sentences ranging
from two years to life terms. They
are musicians, and although their
liberties are restricted for having
committed crimes. their latent talents
have been permitted free expression
The privilege Of broadcasting music
fortnightly from radio station oper-
ated by the Missouri State Marketing
Bureau is in furtherance of the human
itarian policy of State to redeem
to lives of usefulness persons who
have committed ill-advised acts.
A complete transformation of
scenery and environment is that of a
prison and the studio of radio
denial of all that mankind Graves;
the studio Of a radio broadcasting
station, on the other hand Is an
outlet to all Civiliza tion-a universal
medium of contact with the mansion
and hovel. Among the cards and let
tiers. kilograms and long distance tele-
phone messages that pour in. COM
plimentary of the fortnightly pro-
grams of the Missouri State Prison
Band, are such expressions Take
the band out of jail--they ought to
be In Heaven" and, "if / we've gov
.ernor of the State / would open the
gates Of the prison to them tonight
after their wonderful and inspiring
concert"
(Copyright 1924 by populsr p.aio IT,,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
Downtown Count of Pedestrians
Tomorrow, to Be aided by Scouts

If you walk along the streets OF
downtown Washington tomorrow
and find that in every block q Boy
Scout or some other person looks
hard at you and registers you
with a click on q little machine,
don't be alarmed. You are not
being trailed by secret service
agents, but merely being register
ed as a pedestrian by the official
counters placed on all the DOWN
town blocks by the Washington
Association OF Building Owners
and Managers in an effort to find
out the busy spots in the city's
business section.
Approximately 125 persons will
be used in making this pedestrian
traffic count. Every means will
be taken to make the count at a
time when pedestrian traffic is
normal. AS the trend during the
period that workers are going to
and from their Offices Is well
known, the count will be made in
the morning at an hour after en-
ployes are at work and in the
afternoon for an hour before the
Government departments let out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
MARYLAND OFFICER
INJURED IN CHASE
Motor Cycle Policeman Runs
Into Pole After Alleged
Liquor Car.

Leroy Smith Of the Maryland State
police force, was injured near Hyatts-
vile last night when his motor cycle
crashed into a telephone pole after a
spectacular chase Of two alleged whisky
laden cars during which twelve shots
were exchanged through a smoke screen
set up by the fugttives.
Prior to the arrest Smith arrested
one OF trio OF cars on charge of
reckless driving that had crashed into
another vehicle. Examination Of the car
showed that 1t contained 81 gallons OF
corn whisky. After handcuffing the
negro driver Of the car that was taken
into custody to a white man who volun-
teered to look after him Smith with
Officers Garrett started In pursuit The
officers gave chase to the other cars,
which Immediately gave forth a dense
smoke screen and The occupants began
to fire upon the officers, the policemen
returned fire.
Crowded Into Pole.
The fugitive drivers ran up a dirt
road and crowded Smiths motor cycle
into a telephone pole as he came along
side. Garrett stopped to assist Smith
and then gave up the chase notifying
the Washington and Maryland police.
Upon their return they found that the
white man and the colored prisoner
to whom he was handccuffed had dis
appeared.
At late hour last night, Maryland
and District police on the lookout, re-
ported no trace had been found OF any
OF the fugitives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
RED PANIC FAILS
TO IMPRESS PARIS
Average Frenchman Not as
Frightened as Herriot
Would Have Believed.
By the Associated Press.

q
PARIS, December 27.-That near.
panic over Communism, which Pre-
mier Herriot told the newspaper men
gathered at his bedside had seized
upon the country. seemingly has not
been strikingly apparent to the
average Frenchman," as NJ. Herriot
has christened the man in the street
If this man has acquaintance
among the Russian colony. which
seems to be composed of repre-
sentative section Of the pre-war st.
Petersburg aristocracy, headed by
grand dukes. grand duchesses and
princes, he certainly will have heard
tales Of woe from some OF them who
had miraculous escapes from the Rus
sian revolution, and succeeded In reach
ing Berlin just as the revolutionary
troubles broke out there, and, perhaps
excusably, now cannot be convinced that
a similar experience is not awaiting
them in France.
He will have found the theaters
and music halls just as crowded and
the restaurants just as full as ever,
but at the same time he will have
met representatives of those Paris
bourgeois who always are ready to
take fright, and who, for instance.
always are sure that each May day
will see the end of law and order and
who formerly dreaded the Socialists
exactly as today they dread the
Communists.
In these circles he will have been
told stories Of military preparations
by the government; of machine guns
secretly placed at commanding points
in Paris and how a certain hotel
o. torht had mt O
empty now has 500 rooms vacant.
There are not many hotels in Paris
containing 500 rooms, but had the
man needed to look for room he
would have found some difficulty in
locating this particular hotel.
The man in the street also VIII
have heard the story Of the American
woman, extremely rich, as most
American women seem to be in the
belief of the French, who called at a
jewelers. in the Rue de la Paix. She
wished to buy something choice for
Christmas, whereupon the salesman
told her how sorry he was, but that
he had nothing interesting to show
her, because all the finest things in
the shop had been sent to London as
q precaution against the coming rev.
olution.
Perhaps the highest fight of imag-
ination has been reached in q story
in circulation, not connected with
Communism. but with Premier Her
riot himself, who must have enjoyed
a good laugh when it reached him.
The story has as ingredients the pre-
mier's lame leg, a wondrously beau
tiful Russian princess, whose &C
quaintance NJ. Herriot made during
his visit to Russia; a revolver, and
then a bullet to replace the mysteri-
Gus microbe which is reported to have
infected the premier's leg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
BETTER CLASS GIRLS
FLOCKING TO STAGE
Berlin Choruses No Longer Made
Up of Maids of Low
Degree.
Correspondence Of the Associated Press

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
e r L N. November 2s-The
daughter of a German admiral promi-
nent in the world war daughters Of
school principals. physicians, lawyers
ana musical conductors, and wives of
thoroughly respectable bookkeepers
and offce employees figure among the
chorus girls of the musical comedies
and revues now running in Berlin.
Ihey bear evidence to the fact thai
the day is past when the chorus girl
was looked upon as preson of doubt
fui morals on whom adventurou g
cavaliers could lavish their atten-
lions.
So marked has become the change
That German ushers who are caught
answering questions as to the home
addresses of chorus girls or who ac-
cept the mission of carrying notes or
moral offerings from theater-going
men to members of the chorus are
dismissed without further ado.
Advertisements for positions in the
chorus nowadays bring out a large
number of responses from the edu-
Gated middle class. Economic dis
tress compels many young women
who would formerly have remained
at home waiting for a husband to
engage In some calling. To some
girls the idea of spending their lives
penind a typewriter does not appeal
IL they have a good figure and are
graceful in their movements they see
no reason why they should not make
capital out of these attributes and
accomplishments.
Given a graceful figure and agility,
Berlin theater directors find that the
girl of education usually advances
much more quickly than does the girl
whose only qualification is good
looks. Many young women who were
driven to the stage chorus for pure
ly economic reasons have developed
into f1rst-class stars who now would
not think of giving up their profess
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
ART|STFOUNDDEAD
SUICIDE SUSPECTED
Lotave Said to Have Had Gas
Tube In Mouth-Left
Notes of Despair.
by the Associated PresA.

by the Associated PrsnA
NEW YORK. December 27-Carl
Lotave, internationally known as Q
portrait painter. was found dead In
his bed In his studio here today A
gas tube was In the artists mouth,
a hospital orderly, who had attend
ed Mr.. Lotave since July 80, when
lie underwent a serious operation,
told the police.
Because of circumstances sur
rounding the finding of the body and
4 report that a physician had certi-
fed cancer as the cause Of death
Assistant Medical Examiner DR..
Thomas A. Gonzales ordered the
body taken to the morgue for an
autopsy.
Notes Found ON Table.
On a table several notes were
found. In one Lotave asked that
Harold S. Archer, an undertaken, be
notified, and also that word be sent
to DR.. Francis T. Miller, historian and
writer, whom he had long known.
TO his friend Mr.. Lotave wrote:
From where 1 lay at the bottom
of the abyss fighting the devilfish, in
whose strange grip I am held, hope
less, hopeless, alone, I can almost
see you on the hilltop. I can almost
hear your excellent advice as to how
TO look the monster in the eye and
thus conquer"
Found Door Locked.
The letter was signed with the in
itial l. and was dated Christmas
DAY"
Tho orderly found the studio door
locked when he arrived at the house.
After knocking for some time he
notified the policeman on post They
broke open the door and found the
artist dead in bed. The police and
DIR. Gonzales were notified
When DR.. Gonzales arrived at the
studio In the late afternoon he found
no one in charge of the body. He
telephoned the police and lack of in
formation from them, he said caused
him to investigate the death. The
situation was further complicated
DR.. Gonzales said, when he learned
that some person had issued a GER
tif1cate Of death attributing cancer as
the cause.
DR.. Gonzales said he had heard that
the health department had acted upon
this certificate by issuing permit
Tor the removal of the body. Be
cause of this, he said, he had ordered
the body removed to the morgue and
countermanded the removal permit
The phases of the case, he said, was
u matter Tor investigation by the
health department.
Born in Sweden.
Mr.. Lotave was born in Sweden, and
according to the police report was
IS years old. In his youth he was
friend of Anders Zorn, the famous
swedish painter, and studied under
him. lie came to this country to
paint the portraits of Americans who
won fame in the war. 1t was said
that he had done portraits of Cen
Joffre, King Albert, Premier Venezelos,
Gen. Pershing and Gen. Hindenburg
He did the mural paintings in the
state house in New Mexico, and he
was friend of Gov. Otero of New
Mexico. He was a special painter of
the American Indians for the Bureau
OF Ethnology of the Smithsonian In
stituuon at Washington, and his
work for the bureau took him to the
Indian reservations of the West and
the old Aztec regions. According to
his friends, he leaves no relatives.
The friends say that after the OPERA
ton on his throat, last July, Mr..
lotave improved for only a short
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
BOY HIT BY AUTO.
Probably Fatally Injured When
Knocked From Bicycle.

p. Wharton, messenger boy, Of 71J
Sixth street, was probably fatally in
jured when an automobile operated by
William F. Downey Of 1913 Seventeenth
street, collided with his bicycle late last
night at Connecticut avenue and r
street.
Downey picked up the boy and rushed
him to Emergency Hospital, where II
was found his skull had been fractured,
several ribs crushed and he was suffer
ing from internal injuries. At the hos
pital, early this morning, it was said
that young Wharton was dying. Down
ey was taken into custody by police OF
the third precinct and later released on
his personal recognizance, pending the
outcome of the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
WRC Is Sile7,ced
Whe1, SOS Signal
Is Sent From Shin

sos calls flashed through the
ether last evening by a ship in
distress off the Irish coast, 81
fenced WRC n we'll as other
radio stations along the Atlantic
seaboard.
Operators at wRC heard the
distress signal through the Radio
Corporation of Americas transat-
lantic station WIN at Chatham,
Mass. about $40 o'clock, Just as
the Washington broadcaster was
preparing to go on tho air with its
evening program. The station re-
manned silent until about 1920
o'clock, and was forced to cancel
several of Its program features as
q result.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
FOUR KILLED BY GAS,
Fifth Member of Family Overcome
by Fumes.

NEW YORK, December 27.-Four
persons Were found dead from gas
ana NTH was overcome today In
the Brooklyn home of John Harrick
The dead are Harrick's wife, Anna.
%: their two children, Catherine. Q,
and James. Z, and Mrs. Harrick' 8
brother. Allen Berkshire, 40. Mrs.
Harrick and the children were found
on the floor of one of the rooms.
Berkshire was in bed in a nearby
ROOM Harrick. unconscious, was re-
moved to a hospital.
Gas was pouring from a fixture in
the kitchen when nieghbors entered
the fiat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
FIREWORKS SALES GROW.

Correspondence of The Associated Press
LONDON, N m b. r o. Guy
Fawkes, the man who attempted to
blow up the Houses OF Parliament,
was heartily condemned when his
plot was discovered. but he has since
grown into something of a patron
saint for English small boys and
makers of : fireworks. Estimates of
the. value of fireworks con SUM ed gin
celebrating his special day, November
s, this year ran as high as $1,000, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
TO PROMOTE SINGLE TAX,

NEW YORK. December 27.-Robert
Schalkenbach, head of printing firm,
who died here November 10, and
whose will was filed in the surrogate's
Office Monday. placed the bulk of
his estate in a $225.oo0 trust fund for
the eventual purpose OF disseminat-
ing the single tax ideas of Henry
George. author of Progress and
Poverty"
During their lives the income of
$4,000 OF this fund will go to the
.testators widow and the income OF
the other $4,000 to two brothers and
three sisters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
Girl Bandit Aids Hold Up.

KANSAS CITY, Kan, December 81.
A bobbed haired young woman aided
man companion in holding up and
robbing James Butter, Commercial Ma
tional Bank messenger, of 1909 today.
He was taking the-money to the -bdiik
from the Cudahy Packing Company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
RUM RUNNERSPAY
DEAR FOR PROFITS
Energy OF u. S. Coast Guard
and Guns of Pirates Put
Crews in Danger.
by Cable to The Star and New York World.

by Cable to The Star and New York World.
LONDON, December 27.-The Joys
ana perils of bootlegging in Rum
Row" are elequently described by the
crew Of the British steamer Browton,
which has just returned to the
Thames after turning an honest
penny" by contravening the liquor
laws of the United States, the profit
being then $2.100,O00.
The BroWton left Newcastle some
three months ago with a cargo of
$4,000 cases of liquor, which had cost
IN Britain roughly $1,250OOO. and the
proceeds of the sale totaled over 81
100000. ~
The crew confess, however, it was
not all honey. or just the raking in
OF dollars, as there were many perils.
causing weary weeks of anxiety.
Careful In Dealings.
According to several of the officers
VINO for obvious reasons, do not
wish their names given too great
publicity, United States Government
agents tried to entrap them into SELL
ing liquor over the rail- in order to
render the ship liable to seizure. The
BroWton's force refused to have any
thing to do with anybody but re-
spectacle rum-runners and escaped
search or seizure.
One terrifying experience they had
was a hre at sea, which took them
a week to subdue. A dozen times the
vessel with its inf1ammable cargo
looked like being lost. but by Her
culean efforts the crew got the flames
under. Traces of incendiaries were
alleged to have been discovered In
the form Of oil-soaked beams which
caught fire hidden underneath the
coal and distributed among the liquor
cases.
Armed to Fight Pirates.
While in rum row the crew were
heavily armed to defeat the ATTEMPT
of hi-jackers to pirate their cago, and
although details are not easy to OBJ
tain, 1t is apparent that more than
one brisk encounter with the latest
disciples of Capt. Kidd occurred be-
fore they were left to trade in peace.
once connection was established with
the proper consignees business pro-
ceeded briskly. though there were
many Interruptions owing to the en-
erEy of the United States preventive
service
Once a revenue cutter bore down
on the Browton during unloading
proceedings and the bootleggers' yes
sells promptly cast off and made for
home. The revenue cutter went in
pursuit and captured the largest
after seven shots, which holed her
badly.
Altogether the Browton had to stay
in rum row two months and 10 days
before her holds were cleared. Dur
ing that time they saw many excit-
ing encounters between hijackrs and
less well protected bootleggers and
sllirmishes with the revenue officers.
one ship nearby, a Norwegian, was
tempted to sell liquor over the rail
to preventative agents and was
: promptly seized by the United States
officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

Since her arrest she has been pre-
tending to have had a relapse, OF
paralysis, though she has offered the
prison authorities to heat to red
glow a bar of iron by the mere act
Of sitting upon IT. The authorities de-
clined the Offer. But. she@fs being kept
in the closest observation by the
most famous Belgian specialist of
criminal pathology, DR.. Vervaeck.
whose report Is expected in a week
or so.
Ever since her detention in the
Brussels prison inflrnary the "apos-
tie" of Forest has kept up the same
attitude. Her speech continues full
of mystical Inspiration. she insists
on prociaiming herself the apostle of
Christ, as the chosen subject of divine
miracles and as a, miraculous healer
Her state of paralysis into which she
has fallen since her arrest is like
wise unchanged.
In these circumstances 1t Is con-
sidered. quite possible that the medi-
oal report, which Is shortly expected,
may declare her not to be in pos
session Of her full mental faculties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-20
Interesting Features
at M. F.. Church Meet

The chief of the many interesting
features at the measuring social held
at the Randolph NJ. E. church last eve
ming was the manner in which the
price Of admission was determined
This was a case where the slim per-
sons won out over their more obese
brothers. for If one was slim they got
into the party at moderate cost,
while the others paid more according
to their various measures. While the
exact range of prices was not given
out, 1t is rumored that the measurers
were bribed not to tell all they knew.
The chief entertainment was the pre-
sentation of a short humorous farce,
kid Boots" the parts being taken by
Hugh r. Pcttee, Elsie Bailey. Mrs
Hugh r. Pettee and Rachel Carleton.
The next number on the program was
tableau and song by Mrs. Lettie Garlic
ton and Hugh Pettee. Mrs. Pearle
Pottle gave a beautiful solo, "In the
Long, Long Ago" Several readings
were given by Mrs. A. F. Leigh. The
solo Down by the Old Swimming
Hole" was pleasingly rendered by Miss
Elsie Bailey and Mrs. Hugh Pattee.
The solo Granny" was sung by Mrs.
Pattee. and the program ended with
the rendition of wouldn't you Laugh"
by the chorus. The affair was very
enjoyable and was given under the
auspices of the Marthas. one of the
several live wire ORGANIZATIONS OF the
church. Mrs. Fred Carleton, Mrs. ABB
ner Harris and Mrs. George White were
the efficient members Of the refresh
ment committee and served hot choco-
late, sandwiches and fancy cookies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-20
Emma Marion Dunn Tarbox

Word was received Tuesday in this
city of the death of Emma Marion
Dunn TarboX at Der late residence,
East Orange, n. J. She was the
sister of Sherman w. Dunn of this
city. Her early days were passed in
Hallowell. She attended the public
schools here, later going to Bidde-
ford, where she also attended school,
and became a milliner. She was a
beautiful young woman of CHEEKY
much beloved by family
and friends. She later married Char
les w. Tarbox of the firm of Tarbox
and Schope of Newark. N. J. In her
early married life she studied art. in
which she became very proficient.
Like her namesake, the late Emma
Marion Dunn, who was teacher in
Maria Clark School, she possessed
many talents, and was brilliant
woman. She was member Of the
Baptist Church and also of the Order
of the Eastern Star. She made
frequent trips to Maine with her
family. 1t gave her much pleasure
to visit the home of her girlhood
days. She also passed many sum-
mers at her brothers summer home
at Lake CobbosSeecOntee. She is
survived by her husband. Charles w.
TarboX: three sons. Sherman w.
Dunn TarboX, Charles w. Tarbox,
Jr., and Earle F. TarboX, all Of East
Orange. n. j.; brother, Sherman
w. Dunn of Hallowell; sister,
Ella Dunn Catlin of Manchester, N.
H., a niece. Mrs. Clarence II. Catlid
of this city. and two nephevs, Clar-
ence Fl. Catlin of Hallowell and Sher-
man w. Dunn. Jr., of Auburn.