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Evening star., 1924-03-01
PROTEST HOLIDAY.
Coolidge Told of Opposition to Set
ting Good Friday Apart.

Protest against the issuance Of an
executive order making Good Friday
a legal holiday has been made to
President Coolidge by the Religious
Liberty Association. located at TAX
ma Park. ID. G. in a letter signed by
{. =. Loneacre. general secretary OF
the organization.
Ii is set forth in resolutions adopt
cd and forwarded 10 the President
that such step would he the es-
tabIiShmcnt Of a dangerous prece-
dent" 1t is pointed out that Good
Friday was originally set apart as a
fast day. by the Catholic Church and
as such il purely a religious instltu-
ton and the civil government as such
ought not TO give legal sanction and
support to the propagation or re-
ligious functions and institutions
which have no other foundation than
in a church ritual.
"Al Protestants are not agreed as
TO which day Of the week Christ was
crucified upon. Some argue that II
was Friday. and others Wedne esday
and the civil government ought not
to be placed in the embarrassing sit
uaticn Of settling Il religious con-
troversy by civil law and authority
ITO recognize Good Friday bs
legal sanction would imply. and most
certainly nourish, the erroneous idea
that our government had a national
! eligion. Our government is COM
posed of citizens of divergent sects
and religions and it. in justice TO all
has thus far refused to recognize in
n civil capacity the religion OF any
so all might stand upon the same
equality before the law
Evening star., 1924-03-01
FOUR MORE RESTORED
AT ENGRAVING BUREAU
Ruth, Chappell, Wilson and Far
rell Return to Former
Positions.

Acting Director Kirby of III hti-
reau OF engraving and printing this
morning welcomed back to their old
places four more Of the group dis
missed in March, 1922, along with
former Director James l.. Wilmeth-
The four-Adam p. Ruth, Ralph II.
Chappell, Henry !. Wilson, jr., and
Patrick j. tarrell-sathered III the
acting directors Office. were sworn III
and went out into the plant to as
sumo their old duties. Their old as
SoCiateS gave them q rOuSinE demon
stration and presented each WIKI
desk bouquet of flowers.
\ feature of the restoration pro
gram was the stepping out b. reSiG-
nation OF Edward p. Gender as chict
Of the engine and ma chine division,
with a number Of gifts from the mef
of his division, showing their esteem
and affection.
Gender said he was glad to make
way for his successor. Ralph II. Chap
Dell in order that justice might b..
done. Mr.. Gender was Said oy stEeraA
connected with the bureau 10 nav"
nothing TO do with the changes ct
fected when Wilmcth went out and
Louis A. Hill came in as director,
The morale at the bureau was re
ported by Acting Director Kirby to
have greatly improved SINCE the .,, re-
Storation program has been carried
out. Harmony reigns throughout
the bureau. he said. and things are
now generally on a more effectivt:
basis on account Of quieting Of the
unrest and disturbance which has
been more or less prevalent at the
bureau for some time.
Only one more man Of the ouSted
group has indicated he will confer
/ with the director concerning his old
position-W-illiam Dean. former as
! sistant foreman Of the surface div
sion, who is now in Chicago.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
CONVICTED OF THEFT,
MUST SERVE 6 YEARS
Negro Accused Of Holding Man Up
and Taking Revolver
Valued at S22.

Justice Hoehling, In Criminal bl-
vision ., today sentenced wilson
Owens. colored. to serve six years in
the penitentiary for robbery. Owens
is said to have held up Morris Ber-
man November 10 iast anu 70 nave
taken from him a pistol worth S22.
lanes Grillo will serve four years
in the penitentiary for two charges
of house breaking last December.
The court imposed four-year terms
In each case, but allowed them 70
run concurrently.
Daniel Dyson, colored, was given
eighteen months in the penitentiary for
assaulting Daisy Stewart with knife
Sentember 5 last, and like sentence
was imposed on Otha Rhodes, colored.
for Snatching a pocketbook and 500
from Charles w. Hanson November ~
last. A term of two years in the peni-
tentiary was the penalty given Ellen
Hanson. colored, who robbed Dave
washington of s62 December 2 last.
William Johnson. colored, will serve
one wear and one day in the peniten-
tiary for stealing an automobile belong
ing to Earl H. Hayden October y last.
Terms Of imprisonment at Occoquan
were given four other prisoners. Robert
Forrest, colored- will serve one year LOT
an assault. Eugene Gross, colored,- one
YEAR for assault; Maggie Coursey, col
ored. six months. and John Thomas
colored. three months, both for VIOLA
tions of the anti-narcotic law.
Justice Hoehling revoked the prooa-
tion of William ]. Wells, colored, con-
y-;cted of larceny of twenty-four pairs
" shoes. and required him to serve the
sentence of two years imposed on him.
The court changed the sentence OF James
I.eary. who snatched pocketbook, from
seven to six years in the penitentiary.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
WILL DONATE PAY |
To KEEP MISSION
Philippine Legislators to Give
Months Salary Each for
Work in Washington.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Assoca ted Press.
MANILA, March 1.-The Philippine
independence commission, whose
membership includes a number Of
members of the insular legislature
have decided that each senator and
representative should donate q.
months salary to finance the inde-
pendence mission now in the United
States and the present worH of the
press bureau the commission main
tains at Washington
Both activities have been left with
out monetary support as a result Of
the decision of JnSuiar Auditor Wright
TO cash no more vouchers drawn on
the independence fund until its con
StitutiOnality is affirmed. Wright has
sought an opinion on the fund from
the Attorney General Of the United
States. The fund is based on con
tnuing appropriation by the Philip
pine Legislature.
Leaders Of the commission said they
would not consider themselves bound
by a decision from the United States
Attorney General and asserted am
question in Slr. "right'S mind as to
legality of the appropriations COntiu
uance shoul1 have been settled by an
opinion from the attorney general o,
the inSular government or by an ap-
peal to the courts here.
\ committee was named by the
commission to take charge OF plans for
collecting popular subscription to
finance the trip OF a new mission soon
to be sent 10 the United States ana
also for continuing the work for
Philippine independence abroad.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
SESSION ADVANCED
BY RACE CONGRESS
Annual Meeting to Be Opened
April 90 Instead of May 2
as Planned.

The executive committee Of III"
National Race Congress. in executive
session here yesterday At the Mount
Carmel Baptist Church, advanced the
aata of the next annual session one
week. from May : to April -. The
session will be held at the Mount
Carmel Baptist Church. Sd and L
streets northwest. April - to May ,.
Inclusive.
i general demand on the part of
officials in the states made necessary
tha change, reports the president.
Dr. W. II. J,rnagin. who has just re-
turned from d trip through parts OF
the south. DR.. JernaGin further re-
ports that he organized units of the
congress at Tampa and Jacksonville,
Fla: addressed the business league
AZ Orlando and Il business and civic
league at Raleigh. y. c.. all of which
organizations promised to send large
delegations to the annual session.
The committee voted to devote the
! deliberations of this session to the
enforcement Of the amendments To
. the Constitution and interracial re
1atibnship. inviting prominent mem
bers of both races engaged in this
work to deliver addresses.
Tpon adjournment 4 special com
mittee consisting of the Rev. DIR. Jer-
nagin, George Howard Mack, L. G. Lu
! Vale, DR. w. J. Howard of this city,
! DR.. ]. F. Robinson. Cambridge, Mass,
| and Dr. Wilcher, Newark, y. J., con
! ferred with Representative Tinkham,
! Massachusetts, in regard TO his bill
! TO reduce the representation in Con-
! eress of several southern states al
legged to deny colored people the right
A nationwide membership drive,
! under the direction of DR.. Robinson.
! Nassa chusetts, will be launched tho
| first week in April. DIR. +. d. w.
Jones will have charge OF the drive
! in this city, while DR.. Wilcher viii
/ supervise the movement in Newat =
/ and New York.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
MT. kATMAI ERUPTION
DESCRIBED BY GR!GGS
6. W. U. Professor Tells of Vast
Magnitude of Breaking
Forth of Volcano.

An illustrated lecture describing the
magnitude of the eruption of Mount
katmai, in Alaska, in the years 1911
Griggs. professor of botany AT George
Washington University. at the Cos
mos Club last night. He showed pic
lures taken by members of his party
while he was on expeditions in the
vicinity of Mount katmai. under the
auspices of the National Geographic
Society, in the years 1912 and 1919.
The lecture was one of a series of
educational lectures under the aus
pices of George Washington Univer-
sity. DR.. Griggs was introduced by
DIR. William Mather Lewis. president
OF the university.
DR.. Griggs told the audience that if
such an eruption were to occur in
New York city all of the skyscrapers rs
of that giant metropolis would be
covered with ashes and lava. except
possible the top of the Woolworth
building. The fumes he said.
would reach all of the states east of
the Rocky mountains. Brass in
Colorado would be tarnished and sui
phur fumes as far away as Pitts
burgh would be almost unbearably
strong" he said.
DR.. Griggs showed pictures of the
huSC CRATER VI -hOuHI hdtIHdi anu VI
the valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
He showed pictures of the methods
OF living adopted by his party while
they were making a study Of that
great volcano and the surrounding
country. He showed how food was
cooked by merely placing utensils.
containg food, in the hot earth and
letting natures steam do the cook
ing. He also showed "fumaroles" in
the ground, through which steam
shot out with sufficient heat to set
wood ShavingS on fire.
Pictures also We're shown of a
pond where hot streams of water
from the volcanoes and cold streams
from snow-clad mountains run to-
gether. One may take a bath and
have the water at any temperature
he desires, he explained, merely by
getting in the water in different parts
of the stream.
The only drinking water in this
part of the country was melted snow,
he said. He would obtain the snow
by first scraping off the ashes.
The next of the series of lectures
under the auspices of the university,
will be on. Dramatic Origins" by
Robert D. Bolwell, professor of Eng
lish at George Washington.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
OBREGON's FORCES
AGAIN HOLD JALAPA
Ten locomotives and Seventy-Five
Cars Abandoned by Rebels
in Flight.
PUERTO L0BOs DRIVE ON
Federals to Continue Advance to
Take Entire Oil Zone.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VERA CRUZ, March 1.--JaIa pa
capital of Vera Cruz state, is again in
the hands of the Obregon government
forces under Gen. Almazan. having
taken over the city without resist
ance.
The rebels retired on the federals'
approach, abandoning ten locomotives
and seventy-five cars. The balance of
their rolling stock was left at Rim
conada, forty miles from Vera Cruz
Guadalupe Sanchez, rebel leader,
withdrew his men in the direction Of
Agostadero.
Americans arriving overland from
Cudtotolapam, sugar center in south
ern Vera Cruz, report meeting few
rebels on the road. The Americans
closed their mills, lacking fuel and
provisions 6
Evening star., 1924-03-01
PROBING CHARGES
OF THEFTS OF COAL
Inquiry Into Alleged infringement
by Private Parties. Totaling
Millions on U. S. Reserves.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSON. Miss. March Am
investigation by the federal govern
ment through the southern division
of the general land office here of
alleged usurpation and infringement
upon government coal reserves in
northern Alabama was begun at
Jasper. Ala, yesterday. according TO
james w. Neal. head OF the land office
here
Nr. Neal. who will have supervision
Of the investigation stated that the
government would investigate charges
that millions OF dollars worth OF
coal had been mined and sold from
government property by private mine
owners during the last few years.
The area controlled by the govern
,rcnt is said to be 100000 acres. con-
tanning some of the richest fuel de-
posits in the country.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
RARE TRIBUTE PAID
TO GABRILOWITSCH
Audience at Central High En-.
Enthusiastically Greets Pianist's
Artistry.

a rare tribute was paid by d highly
enthusiastic audience to Ossip Gabrilo-
witsch, the noted pianist, at Central
High School last night, at the con-
clusion of one of the finest perform
ances Of the season.
After the last selection programmed.
the audience remained seated and called
again and again for the performer until
be returned for an encore. Still un-
satisfied, the audience demanded more,
and, finally, Gabrilowitsch responded
audiences are so insistent after two
hours of a regular program. 1t was
a great and truly earned tribute.
Gabrilowitsch has that highest at
tainment of the musicians art, the
ability to play the most difficult pas
sages with an ease that makes them
seem simple. One rarely hears more
night His pianissimo work was per-
fection. Passages so soft as to be
hardly audible were carried along at
volume so evenly sustained that
no unduly stressed note broke the spell.
Runs, arpeggios and chromatic
phrases at lively tempos flowed along
with all the smoothness of a well OIL
ed machine.
The program opened with 'tChro-
matte Fantasie and Fugue" of Bach.
1t was a typical Bach composition,
rambling all over the keyboard and
finally winding up with a chord or
two that seemed comparatively thin
after the great volume of tone that
had gone before. Beethoven's Sonata,
f Minor, Opus 2, No. l." was played
with the highly cultured interpreta-
tion for which Gabrilowitsch is ia
nous. The forte passages were given
with sufficient emphasis yet they
the bombastic., A Chopin group
turne. E Major; "Mazurka, c Sharp
Minor" and "Ballade, G Minor" fol-
lowed the sonata and won generous
applause.
Two of Gabrilowitsch's own works,
MELODY in e Minor" and Caprice
Burlesque, Opus g." the latter almost
a tocatta in the intricacy. of its tech.
niQue;- "Gavotte'. Of Glazounow, and
Granigers Shepherds Hey complet-
ed the program.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
MARINE DEAD, PAL
OVERCOME BY GAS
Pair Found in Gas-Filled
Room in Local HOteI-Jet
Turned On.

~ week end liberty i'll Washington
for two United States marines at
! tached to the Quantico base-the
ended tragically today in the Saliva
ton Army Hotel Reliance, at ll9
Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
where one was found dead in bed and
the other lying unconscious next to
him. both victims of Illuminating gas.
Harvey II. Fletcher nineteen years
old. OF Little Rock. Ark, is the dead
marine. Carroll, w. May. twenty years
old. Of Center. Tex. his comradc is in
Emergency Hospital. suffering from
, ing. Although May had not rtgained
consciousness early this afternoon.
physicians at the hospital expect him
I to recover.
When j. &. Selby, Il clerk al the
! hotel. and two marines failed to get
a response when they knocked on the
door of the room occupied by
Fletcher and Mays about $50 O'Clock
this morning they forced it open and
discovered the devil dogs" lying
across the bed. The room was filled
with gas and the only winaow in it
was closed. Mays was breathing
, heavily. The gas jet was turned on.
Sclby said that Fletcher and May
registered at the hotel about 10
O'Clock last night and left soon
i; afteiward. They returned about
o'clock this morning. The police be
, lieve that in some way they acci-
IDENTITY turned the gas on.
Fletcher and May were attached to
the Searchlight unit of the anti-air-
craft section of the Marine Corps.
and had just returned to Quantico
from Porto Rico where the marines
had participated in the winter man
euverS with the fleet
Capt Brooks in command of the
anti-airurlft section of the Marine
Corps at Quantico has been notified
of the tragedy.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
CUBANS PLAN HONOR
TO DR.. C. J. FINLAY
Physician Said to Be Originator Of
Theory Mosquitoes Garry
Fever.
BY TIE Associated Press.

by fhc Associated PreSs.
HAVANA. February 26.-Plans for
erection of monument at the en-
trance to Havana harbor. and pos
sibly another at Panama. in memory
of DR.. Carlos J. Finlay. held by Cuban
medical authorities to have been the
originator of the theory that mos
quitoes transmit yellow fever. are be-
ing made by "A committee of leading
Havana physicians.
Newspapers recently have publish
ed statements that the Rockefeller
Foundation in it's 1923 report men
toned Dr. ". e. Gorgas of the Cnited
States Army and the members of the
Tnfted States military commission
which in 1900 proved the mosquito
theory and paved the way for eradi-
cation of. the disease. but failed to
give mention OF DT. Finlay. IA Cuban
physician.
&, Definite Proposal Asked.
Or. j. a, Lopez del Vale. director
of the Cuban department of SANTA
'tion; DIR. Aristides Agramonte a Gu
ban physician who was "a member of
the military commission. and other
leading physicians recently appeared
before the Havana Rotary Club and
asked its aid. and were requested to
proposal for memorial. Dr.. Lopez
del Vale stated later that the com
mittee Of physicians would work out
Il plan and would present it to the
public and to all Rotary clubs in
CUBA. He declared he and his col
laborators had no criticism to make
Of the Rockefeller Foundation. but
simply sought to give DR.. Finlay his
due.
Educated in Europe.
Dr. FinIay. who was born in 1888
at Camaguey. capital of the Cuban
province of that name. of Scotch
fathe.' and a French mother. was edu-
Gated in Europe, and in 1855 was
graduated from jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia.
Medical journals on file in DIR. Lo-
peZ del Wales office credit DR.. Finlay
with having first propounded the mos
quito theory before an international
sanitary conference in Washington
in 1881. He called the mosquito the
'CuteX," but later it became known
as the "Stegomyia fasciata." He died
in Havana in 1915.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
s DEAD, 100 HURT
In BIG EXPLOSION
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March /. -
Eight people are known to have been
killed and twelve more are believed to
be dead while about 100 persons We're
injured. in an explosion which destroyed
the storage building of the Aminite
Company on the property of the Nixon
nitration works at Raritan, near here,
today.
The known dead are: Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Dumas and their three chill
dren.
John Meseroll. blacksmith, en-
ployed by the company.
. Joseph Adams, who died In the
Middlesex General Hospital.
An unidentified woman.
Twenty-Five small buildings at one
time used by employees of the Nixon
works, but which were unoccupied
today, Were destroyed Fire which
followed attacked two other build
ings and fire departments from sur.
rounding towns We're rushed to tue
scene.
Blazing sections of the cxF ioded
building were scattered to ali paris
of the Nixon property, SO thft hre
soon became general
Evening star., 1924-03-01
ASK HALF HOLIDAY
ON GOOD FRIDAY
Churchmen and Civic Lead.
ers Request President to
Issue Order.

President Coolidge was formally
requested today by a delegation Of
churchmen and civic leaders to issue
an executive order closing the federal
and District government departments
on the afternoon Of Good Friday. April
Is. for the purpose of giving the
workers an opportunity TO go to their
respective churches to worship and
to otherwise observe the solemnity
of the day.
The delegation which was selected
as a result of meeting held several
days ago in the board room of the
District building of Representatives OF
local churches. civic and other bodies,
was headed by DIR. l.. w. GlaZebrook.
president of the Laymen's Service As
sociation Of this city. The President
was represented by those who We're
in the delegation. as not committing
himself on the question.
President Averse to Proposal
While the President Is understood
to have been deeply impressed by this
request. it is understood that he does
not look with favor, on issuing cX-
ecutive orders declaring holidays eX-
Cept upon very rare occasions ana IN
the face of the utmost necessity, such
as Christmas eve and ArmiStice day.
II is thought therefore, that he Will
not favor stopping the machinery OF
the government on the occasion OF the
afternoon of Good Friday by the rs
suance of an order. 1t is gathered
from what he has said regarding such
orders that he would prefer the enact
ment of appropriate legislation pro-
viding such holidays.
DIR. GlaZebrook in presenting the
resolution to the President. submit =
ted letters from Bishop Freeman OF
the Episcopal diocese, and Bishop
Mcdowell Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. and Il score of other prominent
individuals in the District, indorsing the
proposition.
Members of Delegation.
With Mr. Glaze zebrook in the delega-
tfon were: Rev. Earl Whitley. pastor
of the Vermont Avenue Christia Il
Church: Rev. H. B. Smith, pastor of
the Columbia Heights Christian
, church: Rev. Diffenderfer. president
of the Federation Of Churches: Rev. II.
L. Pick erill. religious work director
of the Vermont Avenue Cnurchr ana
Rev. Warner
The Religious Liberty Association
has submitted to the Pr@Sidtnt n pro-
test against the granting of this re-
quest regarding the Good FRIDAY nan
holiday G. >. Longare. secretary Oh
this association, in the protest QueS.
toned the wisdom of such an action
by the government on "A purely reIi-
gious subject
Evening star., 1924-03-01
TEACHER OF DEAF
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Miss Ida Montgomery Dies After
Short Illness at Age of
Eighty-Four.
RITES AT KENDALL GREEN
Services to Be Interpreted Into
Sign Language.

Miss Ida Montgomery, eighty-four
wears old, 4 teacher in the New York
institution for the Deaf for forty
years and resident Of Washington
for the last twenty-five years, died
at her residence. 1901 18th street
northwest, yesterday, following an
Illness of a few days.
Funeral services will be held at the
chapel of Gallaudet College, Kendall
Green. tomorrow afternoon at 3
O'Clock. Rev. Thomas Shearman will
officiate \ special feature of the
services will be the singing of the
hymn Just as l Am" in the sign
language by Miss Emma Sandherg.
student at Gallaudet. VINO was
taught the hymn by Miss Montgom-
cry.
The whole funeral services Will be
interpreted into the sign Language
by Or. Charles L. Ely. vice president
Of the college. Interment Will be at
Miss Montgomery summer home at
Nantucket. Mass.
Miss Montgomery at the age OF
ten wears had entirely lost her hear
ing and had almost lost the faculty
of speech consequently she attended
the New York Institute for the Deaf
Upon graduation she enlisted in the
service TO teach others who had been
afflicted with the same handicap that
she had known.
While Miss Montgomery was teach
ing at the institute DR.. Isaac Lewis
Peet was then principal He in turn
had succeeded his father, DR.. Harvey
Peet as principal. Miss Montgom-
cry and Miss Elizabeth Peet, now a
member of the faculty OF Gallaudet
College. became intimate friends. The
latter was the daughter of DR.. Isaac
Lewis Peet. Consequently when Miss
Montgomery retired about twenty
five years ago. she came to Washington
TO live with Miss Pett at her residence
at 1901 10th street and while with
Miss Peet she made many friends
with the students at Gallaudet,
where she often visited. Miss Mont
Gomcry was the aunt of Mrs. Ivy 5.
Raker, wife of Representative Rake
of California.
Evening star., 1924-03-01
JOHN KEPPLER DIES.
Retired Jeweler Expires After
Long Illness.

John keppler, sixty-eight years old.
Il retired jeweler and a resident of
this city for about forty-tive years,
died at his residence. 131 Florida ave-
nue. northwest, Tuesday. following a
long illness.
at his late residence yesterday after
noon at o'clock. fnterment was in
the Prospect Hill cemetery.
Mr.. keppler had been engaged in
the jewelry business for thirty i've
years and during that time made
many friends through his courteous
treatment of his customers He is
survived by his widow, Clara B.
Keppler; a sister, Mrs. Felix Iardella
Of Virginia, and two brothers, William
of this city and Charles of Richmond,
Va: