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Evening star., 1924-03-26
FOUR SCHOOL ITEMS
BACKED BY CITIZENS
Teachers Pay, Compulsory Attend
ance. Free Books and Langley
Addition Endorsed.

Four items Of vital interest to the
public schools of the District and to
the school teachers were indorsed by
the North Capitol and lexington Citi-
zens' Association last night at the
Emery School. DR.. T. w. Stanton,
chairman of tho school committee,
recommended Endorsement of the fol-
lowing proposals:
= Inclusion in the District budget next
B. year of an appropriation of about
100000 for construction of an as
sembIy hall for Langley Junior High
School.
The Keller and Cappcr teachers pay
bills. introduced in the House by Rep
resentativc Keller Of Minnesota and
in the Senate by Senator Capper of
Kansas.
The Capper bill providing for COM
pulsory school attendance of boys and
girls between seven and sixteen years
of age, and school census.
Free text books in the first grade
of the junior high schools.
Backs Free Text Books.
All met with the favor of the asso-
citation. Selden NJ. Ely, president OF
the organization, speaking on the
free text book issue, declared that we
don't really have free schools until
we have free text books" Increased
pay for postal employees was indorsed
on recommendation of the committee
on postal facilities.
MIR. Ely called attention to ten
dencv among school children using
school Fairgrounds after school hours
to mutilatc school property, in break
ing windows and doing other dam
age. He said this spirit must be
curbed. He also called attention to
the care that should be taken this
spring and summer to prevent litter
ing Of the public parks with paper
and to keep them beautiful instead
. of becoming eyesores. The associa-
ton voted to send a letter of com
mendation to the chief of the fire de-
partment on the work of the depart
ment in subduing a fire several days
ago at the plant of the American
Waste Paper Company, 9Th and V
streets northeast.
h 4 short talk on cancer control was
given by DIR. James Cannon, and Miss
\ l2ula Thomas gave recitation.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
ASK S6()D,0DO HERE
FOR c. v. i. DRIVE
Special Committee of 25 to
Push Campaign-S485,768
Already on Hand.

Under the leadership of Joshua Evans.
jr.. a special committee of thirty-five
expects to increase the local contribution
TO George Washington University's en-
downent fund to at least 100000.
Additional gifts and subscriptions
turned in by the committee yesterday at
a meeting at the University Club totaled
sS.349.5O, making the grand total for
the District S4S5, 1856 TO date.
An anonymous gift of $4,000, an addi-
tional $1,000 from Charles /. Cor5y, a
member of the board of trustees and
one of the team captains in the recent
endowment campaign, and $500 from
Senator Key Pittman were included in
the latest report.
The total for the week was as fol-
lows: DIR. Edgar Sterden, 500; c. i.
Chapman. s25; l.. l.. Neuhauser. $50;
L. .. Bliss, 500: +. V. killian, 500;
George c. Altemus. $3.50: c. c. Cal
houn, 500; \. w. Neiru. S100: Will
liam Montgomery. $500; Q. Evans. $50;
+. u. Runyan. 500; ]. Edgar Hiatt,
S25; Miss Agnes Parsons, $50; j. II.
Dellinger. $25; Robert c. Daniels,
slOG; Ora L. Haines, S5; Ella ]. Kirk.
50; Mrs. a. j.. Galliher. $40; Miss Es-
tello Norman, So; William a. john
ston, $40; Electric Sanitary Laundry.
s250: Mrs + l.. Wagner, So; Portia
". Wagner. So; c. K. Marshall. $40;
Mrs. Agnes Shands, S25; Charles l.
Corby. $1,000 additional; DR.. +. l..
Whitman, 500; s. NJ Sacks, $50: +. +.
Colliday. s1OO; George B. Heiniche,
$40; W. T.. Cairo. s25; Henry Il. Arms.
$50; L, T.. Brooks Company, 800; Is.
X McClosky, $40; Raymond Hart
800; William +. Hail, $500: ]. 5. Cru
Der, 500; William T. Peake, $25;
Moncure Burke, s25; Edmund Har-
rington. $35; David K. Myers, $50: ID.
F. Kaufman, s25: II. Barrett Learned,
$50; Anna l.. Ericsson. $40; Frank
blair Hanson, 500; T. o. Jones, $50
Nellie Grace Leeby, 500: DIR. VIII
liam +. Lewis, $50; Phi Chi Frater-
nifty, $500; Key Pittman, $500; Perry
Is. Turpin. 500; Anna Laurie Webb,
81: William Il. Baum. $40; anony-
nous, $4,000: 5. l.. Braggins, $40; Mrs.
J. IT. Day, So; Mildred Earnest, Sl3:
II. L. Howenstein. S25; Margaret L.
Lawson. So; National Electric Supply
Company. $3.50. and Walter J. Won
drack. $50.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
2 EX-ENEMY POWERS
FAVOR CLAIMS BODY

. The Austrian and Hungarian gov
/, ernments have approved ''in princi-
!; pie" an agreement proposed by the
United States for the creation Of
mixed commissions to settle claims
with the United States arising out
of the world war.
The governments are considering
questions of procedure involved in
the appointment of their respective
commissions, and final approval of
the plants expected soon.
The arrangement will follow close
ly the lines of that on which the
American and German mixed claims
commission now is acting on war
cases between those two govern
ments and their nationals. The total
amount of claims involved between
the american, Austrian and Hun
garfaL governments, however, is rel
atively small.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
IOWA CIRCLE GROUP
BACKS CITY HEADS
Citizens Association Resolves to
Indorse Commissioners Oyster
and Rudolph.

Endorsement of Capt James f.
oyster and Cuno II. Rudolph as Dis
trict Commissioners was contained in
resolution adopted by the Iowa
Circle Citizens Association ut a
meeting in Northminster Presbyterian
Church last night
The resolution will be forwarded
to President Coolidge by the organ
ization. Attention is called to the
satisfaction attendant upon their ad-
ministration of District governmental
affairs during the last three years.
Routine business occupied the re-
mainder of time at the meeting MIR.
and Mrs. Frank NJ. Thompson, who
just returned from trip from
Evening star., 1924-03-26
BALTIMORE HAS ANNIVERSARY
OF MUNICIPAL FLAG ADOPTION

of the composition of "The Star Span
gled Banner"
The Baltimore banner contains one
of the four panels of the Maryland
state flag, and one composed of alter
nate spaces of black and gold, colors
of Lord Baltimore. Upon these colors
is superimposed shield containing
representation in silver of the bat
tie monument erected in memory of
the defenders of the city during the
war of 1912
Evening star., 1924-03-26

Apropos of the fact that bills have
been. introduced in both houses OF
Congress authorizing a distinctive
flag for the District of Columbia, 1T
may. be mentioned that yesterday was
Baltimore's Municipal Flag day. The
metropolis of Maryland and Wash
ingtons nearest great neighbor, has
special banner of it's own, adopted
ten years ago, during the centenary
Evening star., 1924-03-26

Florida. gave a description of st.
Petersburg as winter resort.
At the conclusion of the meeting
members were urged to maintain the
same high standards of beautification
of lawns during the coming season
that has characterized the section in
the past.
Evening star., 1924-03-26
Saws He Is Rankrupt.

Leith W. sThompson today filed a
petition in voluntary bankruptcy. He
lists his debts at $1,646.01 and says
he has no assets. Attorney ~. Morris
Wampier appears &o- the ba akrupt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
STEINER DONATES
 BANNER TO LEGION
Will Be Offered As Prize In
 Membership Drive
(State CapitaI Bureau)


 f' MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. 27.- Announcement was made today by J. Fred Johnson, Jr., department com mander of the American Legion, that the generosity of Gen. R. II. Steiner, a beautiful banner to cost from $60 to $75, will be awarded to the post of the legion in Alabama that turns into de- ,partment headquarters by Dec. 31 the largest percentage of renewals of its 1924 membership for 1925.
 General Steiner, who is donating the banner. is a member of Montgomery post, No. ?, American Legion; mem- Der of the department executive com mittee. and a past department com mander.
 '"The legion is getting all set for the big membership campaign" Commander Johnson stated. Tt looks like we are going to have the biggest year ever. We are going to re-enlist the old mem bers in December, and then, with them as a nucleus, we will go over the top at the zero hour, 10 a. m., Monday, January 19, in a concerted drive to get all our buddies in this organization where they belong."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
LEAGUE PLACES
 PROTEST m m N0IMInH
 UT IU UUUNUlL
British Take Drastic Steps To Suppress Plots
 In Cairo
.(By Associated Press.)

GENEVA. Nov. 27.-Now that the league of nations has decided, after reflection, to bring the Egyptian par liaments protest against Great Britain to the attention of the council of the league, interest centered tonight in the probable attitude of the council when 1t incest in Rome early in December.
 The prevailing opinion in the secre- tariat seemed to be that Egypts protest would not be officially discussed in Rome because the members of the council would find it difficult to give official importance to a communica- tion from parliament. All depends, 1t was declared, on whether any mem- Der of the council inaugurates debate on the matter.
 The mystery. growing out of the vari- ous versions of the Egyptian appeal sent to the league of nations appeared to have been cleared up tonight when the Marseilles telegraph office notified the Geneva central office that some words apparently had been dropped from the dispatch when the Cairo tele- gram was repeated at Marseilles for Geneva. Cairo sent and Marseilles re- ceived 561 words in the telegram of protest, but only 545 words actually came to Geneva. It is presumed the missing words referred to the request for league intervention, which appears in the text given out in Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
DRASTIC STEPS TAKEN
British Arrest Prominent Egyptians tC
 FOreStalI Plots

LONDON,-Nov. 27.-The British au- thorities in Cairo have taken into their own hands drastic measures to suppress possible nationalistic plottings by the arrest of four prominent mem- bers of the party organization, headed by former Premier Zagloul Pasha.
 Those arrested were Nekrashy Boy, a secretary in the ministry of the interior in Zaglouls cabinet Abdul Rahman Fanny, one of Zagloul's closest politi- cal assistants; William Makram Obeid, a prominent Coptic member of the nationalist delegation, and Barakat Pasha, who was former minister of the interior
 According to statements in official quarters in London tonight, the men arrested were leaders in an underground conspiracy against British interests, which probably was partly responsible for the murder of Sirdar Stack and which might, if left unhampered in it's activities, result in further unfortunate incidents.
 Nothing is known in London of an alleged plot against the life of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, the British high commissioner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
THANKSGIVING DAY
 QUIET AT CAPITAL
fState CapitaI Bureau.)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. 27.- Montgomery spent the Thanksgiving Day entirely as holiday having all places of business closed and services in many churches attended by large congregations of worshipers.
 At a union service in Dexter Avenue Methodist church four of the large downtown churches participated, the ser mon being delivered by Dr. o. r. Speigle, pastor of the Central Chris tian church, and Dr. Charles A. Stake ly, pastor of the First Baptist church, conducting the exercises. Court Street Methodist church also united with this group.
 Trinity Presbyterian, Southside Bap- tist and Perry Street Methodist churches united in service held in the Perry Street church. The First Presby- terian church heard sermon by the pastor, Dr. John R. McMahon. Temple Beth-Or had the regular service from the praper book and a sermon by Dr.. William B. Schwartz. rabbi.
 Both Saint Peters with Rev. Pat rick Turner, past,r, and Saint An drew's Catholic church, with Rev. F. s. English, pastor, had special services with high mass and sermons by the pastors.
 Saint Johns Episcopal church con- gregatiOn heard sermon by Dr. Rich ard Wilkinson, rector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
FOUR ARRESTED
 INrAUTO THEFT
Transferred From Biloxi Bal
 To Baltimore, Md.

BILOXI, Miss, Nov. 27.-SergeaE B. J. T. Busky and Charles Burnha Baltimore police forcs. reached Bile. today and left several hours afterwarS in company with Prank Bloom, Jose1 Lewatowski, A. J. Mysz Towski al Henry Kitowski, four prisoners want in the Maryland city on charge burglary in having stolen an Appcrsi sedan automobile which they drove far as Richmond, Va, and ditche| later taking Ford which also becarl| damaged, after which they stole Ford, which also became damage| after which they stole Chevrolet tod ing car belonging to Alabama partid driving to Biloxi, where they were aa| rested. The men, the Baltimore poliI stated, were also implicated in q robbery of a jewelry store in th| city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
PRISONERS ENJOY
 TURKEY DINNER
BeSSemer Jail Warden Is Host At Thanksgiving
 Day Treat
lRessanar Ruraaul

BESSEMER, Ala, Nov. 2.--Besse- mer people Thursday entered joyfully into the Thanksgiving holiday, and the entire city laid aside business and worry and made a joyous occasion out of the day. Many of the stores closed in the morning. In the forenoon a record crowd attended the Bessemer-Hueytown football game, and saw Bessemer come home with a 13 to 0 score in her pocket. Even the boarders at the city bastile profited by the spirit of the day, for the warden fed them royalty on turkey meat, dressing, cranberry sauce and other Thanksgiving trimmings. The as sociated charities distributed over 100 well-filled baskets, part of the cost of
 which was contributed by the school children of the city. On Wednesday evening a great Thanksgiving service was held at the First Baptist church. All in all, the city had a great day, and the spirit of rejoicing and Thanksgiving was quite indicative of the good year enjoyed and the fine prospects ahead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
GIVEN IN DAMAGE SUIT Sumter Man Seeks $150,- 900 For His
 Injuries

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Nov. 27.- The supreme court in q decision today on rehearing reversed and remanded Tor new trial the case of Howard Thomas vs. Salisbury and company ct als. ap- pealed from the Sumter circuit court.
 In this case, Thomas sued for $l5o,- GOO damages for personal lnJurles sus- tained, it was stated, by coming in con- tact with an obstruction placed across a highway unders construction between Livingston and Gainesville. It was claimed that two strands of barDed wire were stretched across the road and that Thomas, who was in an automobile, came into collision with the wire, and was fearfully mutilated and disfigured. He brought suit against the contractors, claiming that they had negligently failed to give sufficient warning of the pres ence of the wire. The jury in the lower court returned a verdict for the defend- ant, but this decision was reversed by the supreme court today and case re- manded for new trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
PERSONALS

Mrs. Arthur McvGarry of Norwood is the guest of MT. and Mrs. w. T. War lick, Jr.
 Miss Margaret Campbell of Selma is the house guest of Miss Louise Under wood.
 Mrs. J. l.. Nichols has returned to her home in Livingston, Ala, after a few days visit to Mrs. E. l.. Huey.
 Miss Gladys Sapp, who teaches at Cordova, is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sapp.
 Mrs. c. S. Tinker, who has been i'll for several weeks, is improving at her home in Brighton.
 Mrs. Paul Lee and son, Paul, Jr., re- turned this week to their home in Chat tanooga, Tenn, after a visit with rela- tives.'
 Stanton McCollum, Charles Ray. Lacey Edmondson and other Bessemer boys. attending the University of Ala bama and other Alabama schools, are spending the holidays with their par ents and relatives here.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Coburn of New York are visiting Mir. Coburn's parents, MT. and Mrs. J. '. Coburn' of this city.
 Tom Hall Mitchell of Mobile, who is attending school at Tuscaloosa, is the guest of Mrs. W. T. Warlick.
 Mrs. J. R. Vaughn will leave Friday morning for a visit to relatives in At lanta, Ga.
 Miss Mila Word, Miss Frances Dougherty and E. E. Word are guests of Mrs. Wood Price.
 Mrs. J. F. Bailey and family have re- turned from visit to Nashville, Tenn, where they were called recently by the illness of MT. Bailey's mother, who is improving nicely.
 Miss Repta Joe Nichols of Florence,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
New Way to Stop
 Night Coughing

Those who have suffered the tor lures of sleeplessness due to con- tinual coughing at night, and who as a result often feel utterly worn- out and useless during the day, need no longer permit their systems to be weakened and their vitality sapped by this distressing ailment. For through a very simple treat ment the trouble can be stopped al- most at once, and people often get their full nights rest undisturbed after the very first trial.
 Here is the method: Simply get bot tie of the prescription known as Dr. Kings New Discovery from any good drug store. Then tonight before re- tiring take one teaspoonful and hold It in your throat for 15 or 20 seconds before swallowing it. This prescription has 3 double action. It not only soothes and heals the soreness and Irritation. but 1t quickly loosens and removes the phiegm and congestion which is the real cause of the cough. So your throat is left wonderfully soothed and cleared of irri- tating gatherings. you can sleep soundly and restfully. and the cough is usually gone in very short time.
 Dr. Kings New Discovery is remarks able remedy for coughs. chest colds, hoarBeness, sore throat. spesmodio croup, bronchitis, laryngitis and bronchial asths ma. At ell good druggists. Ask for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
RelatiUes Plan To Deceiue
 Blind Father Of Slayer

plantation pfa Ita tioi that that James Hrhe was brakeman in Sandusky, had been killed in a train wreck. Relatives knew that the old man would grieve at the loss of his son, but they knew also that he would grieve far more if he knew that his son had been electrocuted in the electric chair for wife murder. So they planned to do the charitable thing hoping that be- cause the father was blind and could not read that he would never know his sons true fate.
 But now that James Brady's death sentence has been changed to one of life imprisonment, his relatives are facing an even more difficult task. The blind father must be given some explanation of the failure of James, for whom he often asks, to come home and pay him a visit. At all cost, Michael Brady will be kept from learning that his boy is in the peni- tentiary. say relatives who came here expecting to see the condemned man for the last time.
 q will write to father often," said James. I'll tell him that l am working in Columbus and am too busy to come home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28

S0hG 5, c., fSOv. 2f.-Gver in Connellsville, Pa., an aged man, totally blind for years, has been spared one great disillusionment only to be plunged into another equally as great but much less cutting.
 The man is Michael Brady, father of James Brady, >Sandusky, O., wife slayer, whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on Thanksgiving day by Governor Vic Donahey of Ohio. Brady was to have gone to the electric chair on Thanksgiving night for hacking his wife to death with a meat cleaver.
 But the governor saved him, re- spending promptly to the plea of Brady's attorneys that a ''nagging wife will make man do anything" and thus Michael Brady, the aged father, who is blind, has been spared the great disillusionment which his relatives had planned "just to keep his heart from breaking"
 Story Concocted
 After the electrocution Brady's brothers had intended to take the body back to the old fathers home in Connelsville for burial with the ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
SUDAN IS QUIET
Fuad Instructs Egyptian Officers to Withdraw Forces.
 
(By Associated Press.)

KHARTUM, Sudan, Nov. 27.-The general situation in the Sudan is quiet, according to a communique issued here. With reference to the requirement of the British note regarding the evacu- ation of the Egyptian army from the Sudan, King Fuad, through the minis ter of war, has instructed the officers and men of the Egyptian army in the Sudan to obey the orders of the acting governor-general to withdraw from hte Sudan. The remaining Egyptian troops probably will leave the Sudan Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
UNION SERVICE

All Bessemer churches came together Wednesday evening in {. union Thanks giving service at the First Baptist church. Probably the largest congrega- tion that has ever gathered in Thanks giving service enjoyed a splendid pro- gram and sermon by Rev. H. M. Hurst, a new pastor of the Jonesboro Meth odist church. Rev. Hurst used as his subject, "All Things Work Together for Good to Them That Love the Lord. /" George Houston rendered a solo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
RALLY HELD

A school rally, which was featured by Thanksgiving exercises by pupils and talks by the trustees of the school and other visitors, was held at the Brighton school auditorium Tuesday evening.
 A splendid attendance witnessed the following program: Reading, When I'm a Man. by E. B.. Jones, song by Miss Margaret Riley, piano duet by Mrs. Farr and Mrs. Kinnett, song by Miss Lillian Haflacre; reading, "Nebuchard nezzar" by l.. NJ. Hall;> dance '"The Highland Fling" Miss Margaret Riley; Ford automobile by seven boys; song, Bring Back Turkey" by school group; piano duet, Mrs. Farr and Mrs. Ben nett; dance by Miss Margaret Riley.
 The principal, R. S. Baird, gave talk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
DISSIPATION CHARGED
Hattiesburg Man Arrested In Alen-
 hurst, Ga.

HATTIESBRUG, Miss, Nov. 27. Especial. )-F. S. Noble, Hattiesburg man, for whom warrant was issued 10 days ago, landed back in Hatties- burg this morning and is now in the Forrest county jail on a charge of family desertion. Noble left the city several months ago. Several pleas were made by his family to enlist his aid in the support of the wife and six children, but they reported to Sheriff Noteworthy 10 days ago that nothing had been heard of him. The sheriff started the use of telegraph and tele- phone. Noble was traced to Allen hurst, Ga, Friday and the sheriff went to the Georgia city where Noble had been arrested and placed him in jail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
CONFERENCE WELCOMED

At the evening service of the North Alabama conference in session at St. Pauls church in Bessemer, a welcome was extended by Mayor R. P. McTyiere and A. E. Ausman, secretary of the Bessemer Chamber of Comwerce. Among the visitors at the conference was Bishop R. T. Brown of the Third district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
JUDGE ARNOLD DIES

LAUREL, Miss, Nov. 27.-(Special) Funeral services were held Thursday at 10 o'clock for Judge J. M Arnold, who died suddenly Wednesday follow ing an attack of acute indigestion. In- terment was in Ellisvil1e cemetery, Key. George s. Austin officiating, assisted by Rev. J. B. Cain. pastor of the Meth odist church, and Rev. D. P. Mcintosh, pastor of the Presbyterian church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
ENSLEY PLANS TRADE SCHOOL.
n1A DI Ao.A- = RcdILy DUdIu hPpVihGS Committee To Investi-
 gate Situation
(Ensley Bureau.)

The establishment of trade school, discussed in Ensley for some months has been revived again with the appoint ment of a committee from the Realty board to investigate the situation. Rob- ert Davis, widely known contractor in the Ensley district, has given out a statement to the effect that there are less than 15 apprentice brick masons in this district and it is almost impos- sible to obtain that kind of workmen. This is also true of other lines of the building trade and contractors are find
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28

Ala, is visiting Mrs. W. T. Warlick and other relatives here.
 c. s. Tinker and sole Basil, and At wood Blevins, and Montford Blenvins are on a hunting trip in Georgia.
 Elizabeth, the little daughter of MT. and Mrs. Joe Pickens, is ill with diph- theria at the home of her parents on Second avenue.