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Evening star., 1924-12-31
URGE WORLD COURT
ON SENATOR BORAH
Prominent Republicans Join
in Plea for International
Justice Tribunal.
BY the Associated Press.

by tue Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 31.-Asking
him to urge action upon the Senate
committee on foreign relations in sup
port of the Permanent Court of In
ternational Justice, % prominent Re-
publicans have written a joint letter
made public here yesterday to Sem
ator William Borah of Idaho, chair
man of the committee
The letter says that failure of the
Senate to act in this matter would
repudiate President Coolidge and op-
pose the viii of the Republican party.
Signatures Attached to Letter.
Those who signed the letter are
George w. Wickersham, former Attor-
ney General in the cabinet of President t
Taft; Gov. Percival P. Baxter of Maine.
Representative Frederick w. Dallin-
ger of Massachusetts, former Gov.
Henry ]. Allen of Kansas, for
mer Gov. Herbert s. Hadley of Mis-
souri,, now chancellor of Washing gton
University, St. Louis; A. Lawrence
Lowell, president of Harvard Uni
versity; Rt. Rev. William Lawrence,
Bishop of Massachusetts,, Protestant
Episcopal Church; Mrs. Andrew Car
negie, New York: Gilbert Betteman
of Cincinnati, former commander of
the American Legion of Ohio and
former vice mayor; Leonard s. Hor-
ner of New Haven, former chief of
staff, Bureau Aircraft Production, dur
ing the World War; Mrs. Everett
Colby, delega te- -at-large to the Re-
publican national convention from
New Jersey; V. Everit Macy of New
York, former chairman Shipbuilding
Adjustment Board and umpire of
Washington Labor Board during the
World War; John T. Pratt of New
York, chairman National Budget
Commission.
Acting Mayor John C. Lodge of De-
troit, William Jay Schieffelin Of New
York, president Serbian. Children's
Welfare Society of America; Adelbert
Moot. Buffalo, former president of
New York State Bar Association.
George A. Plimpton, New York, for
mer president of the board of trus-
tees of Amherst College,: Oscar S.
Straus of New York, former Ambas-
sador to Turkey; Henry Goddard
Leach. editor, New York; Rush C.
Butler. Chicago, former counsel, In
terstate Commerce Commission
Thomas G. Day, Indianapolis; Isaac
Ullman of New Haven, Daniel VIII
lard, railroad president; Edward w.
Decker. banker, Minneapolis; Samuel
Mather, Cleveland, Ohio; Edwin q.
Merrill, banker. New York; Mrs.
Henry .Phipps, New York: Edwin S.
Webster, Boston, engineer.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
Compass Needed to Find Friend
In Woodridge-Langdon Suburbs

to find his own home. The Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Associa-
tion, bewildered by the lack of
uniformity in the laying out of
streets and consecutive numbering,
has enlisted it's forces in an effort
to have the Post Office Department
and the District Government CO.
operate in an effort to secure uni
formity of numbering. The post
man, according to residents of the
suburb, has to be somewhat of a
jig-saw puzzle expert to find his
way about and a new postnlan is
a total loss as far as timely de-
livery of the mails is concerned.
Here is the way it works out. A
house standing on the corner of
Jackson and Twenty-seconds streets
may be numbered 1900. The house
just across the street may be num-
bered 2400, which should be two
blocks farther away. Or a house
in the middle of the block may
be numbered 1904, while the next
house may be 1906. The house
numbers, according to members of
the association, all residents of the
section, were apparently selected
at random. And while the situa-
tion continues residents of Wood
ridge and Langdon go into 1925
with a puzzled air.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
CONTRACT ILLEGAL,
CHAL|AP|N ASSERTS
Quoted as Saying Manager
Exceeded Authority in Chi
cago Opera Pact.

THE contract between Herbert
Johnson, manager of the Chicago
Opera Co., and l. Hurok, personal
manager of Feodor Chaliapin's con-
cert engagements. stating that Chali-
apin cannot be advertised to appear
in opera in Washington prior to his
appearance with the Chicago forces
in February is Illegal" according to
Jacques Samoussoud, musical director
of the Washington Opera Co, in
statement this morning. Mr.. Samas-
soud has just returned from Chicago,
where he has been in conference with
Mr.. Johnson and the great Russian
basso. Chaliapin told Mr.. Samoussoud
the above. and added:
This contract is invalid, because
Hurok had no right to sign such a
contract without first consulting me,
and any such paper should also have
my signature on it as well as his"
Mr.. Samoussoud quotes the follow
ing as a conversation between Chal-
iapin and Mr.. Johnson, regarding the
matter:
Sees No Obstacle.
81 see no reason why cannot sing
with the Washington company on
January 26,' said Chaliapin.
To which Mr.. Johnson responded
According to my contract Win
Hurok. 1 forbid you to advertise
yourself as singing in opera in Wash
ington prior to your appearance in
Boris Godonouv'' with the Chicago
company"
"I do not know of this contract,
Chaliapin is said to have answered.
'Hurok has no right to sign any such
paper without first consulting me ana
getting my signature. IL you can ar
range with Mr.. Albion, director of
the Washington company, to release
me, all right. Otherwise. I must re-
spect my contract with the washing
ton Opera Company"
Mr.. Johnson told both Mr.. Chaliapin
and Mr.. Samoussoud that he would
write Mrs. Wilson-Greene, manager
of the local performances of the Chi
cago company, suggesting she release
the entire season of Chicago opera
here to the Washington Opera Com
pany Mrs. Greene does not acknowl-
edge any such word being received,
and says relations between her and
the Chicago forces are the same as
before the controversy opened.
In the meantime Mr.. Chaliapin has
seen Enrica Clay Dillon, stage direc-
tor for the local performance OF
:'Faust," and is going ahead with his
plans to sing Mephistopheles here
January 26. Mr.. Samoussoud has
called the first orchestra rehearsal
for Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Albion
says that Chaliapin is especially en-
thusiastic over the efforts of the
Washington company to establish a
national movement in opera here.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
BIOLOGISTS ELECT
SOC|ETy'S HEADS
w. B. Scott. Princeton, Pres.
Observation-Disclosures
Among Officers.
By the Associated Press.


ITHACA, N ", December S1-Prof.
William B. Scott of Princeton Univer-
sity has been elected president of the
Geological Society OF America, it was
announced yesterday at sessions of
the thirty-seventh annual convention,
now being held at Cornell University.
He succeeds DIR. Waldemar Lfndgren
of Brookline, Mass
Other elections were announced as
follows:
First vice president, Reginald w.
Brock, Vancouver, b. c.; second vice
president, Marius r. Campbell, Wash
ington, d. c.; vice president to repre-
sent the archaeological Society. r.
S. Lull. New Haven, Conn: vice presi-
dent to represent the Neurological
Society, Arthur S. Eakle, Berkeley,
Calf; secretary, Charles H. Berkey,
New York; treasurer. Edward b. Mat
thews, Baltimore, Md. editor, Joseph
Stanley Brown, New York; counsellor
0s23-1925)s to fill unexpired term,
Charles Camsell, Ottawa, Ontario; coun-
sellors G924-1926). u. S. Grant, Chi
cago; Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr,
Pa; representatives on the National
Research Council (July 1, 1925, to June
80. 1899, Clarence N. Fenner. WASH
ington, D. c.; L. c. Grafton, Cambridge,
Mass.
To Aid Industry.
Biologists are destined to play an
increasingly vital part in determin-
ing the Industrial development of
American cities. said Charles H.
Behre. jr. of Cincinnati, who dis
cussed the relation of science to
modern business at today's sessions.
He outlined the valuable work now
being done by the Cincinnati resource
survey in Informing manufacturer ers
what particular industries should be
encouraged to settle in that city
Other speakers of the second days
meeting were David White of Wash
ington, formerly of the United States
Geological Survey, who treated
briefly the projected oceanographic
investigation; Frank b. Wayne of
Fort Wayne, Ind; Prof Douglas
Johnson of Columbia University, Prof
Chester K. Wentworth, University of
Iowa; II. s. Palmer, United States
Geological Survey; DR.. Maurice G..
Mehl, University of Missouri; DIR.
Homer p. Little, Worcester, Mass
Hugh d. Miser, United States Geo
logical Survey; Malcolm H. Bissel,
Bryn Mawr; Harold D. Wanless, Uni
versity of Illinois. and Robin Willis
of Princeton, N. j.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
WOULD AID RECORDER.
Senate Bill Seeks to Increase STAFF
of District Official.

Two bills covering the work of the
Recorder of Deeds Office were intro
duced in the House yesterday by
Chairman Reed of the House District
committee. They are identical with
bills introduced nearly year ago by
Senator Ball. One provides for the
employment of second deputy re-
corder at a salary of $4,000, to be paid
out of fees and collections of the
recorders office. The other would
amend the code of laws of the Dis
rtet reiativs to tus recording Of
deeds Of chatteIs.
Evening star., 1924-12-31

Next time you go out Woodbridge
way or over into the neighboring
community of Langdon, if you are
not familiar with the territory or
do not know by some landmark
the exact location of the house
you want to visit, take a compass
and a yardstick with you. That,
according to residents OF the Wood
fidge-Langdon section, is one of
the few ways you can find your
exact location in the territory
along Rhode Island avenue north
east, between Twelfth street and
the District line. And a real estate
plat of that section of the city will
be helpful.
When Washington was laid out
and the plan made for consecutive
numbering of the houses on streets,
somebody forgot to lay out a plan
for the Woodridge-L e-Langdon Sec
tion. The result is that streets
are marked where streets ought
not to be and the numbers of
houses are jumbled about so that
a crossword puzzle expert would
find himself at loss in the attrac-
tive suburb.
Sometimes, rumor has it, a resi-
dent of the section has to stop and
identify his location by landmarks
Evening star., 1924-12-31
Pledged to Marry,
Chooses Ne,U Bride
When One De1nurs
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 31-Wil-
liam Schoenfeld, a carpenter of
Winfield, N Y, who two weeks ago
promised Justice George J. O'Keefe
in the Jamaica Children's Court
that he would be married before
the end of the year in order to
provide adult care for his five
small children, produced a mar
riage certificate in court yester-
day and announced that he had be-
come a benedict for the fourth
time.
But my new wife is not the
one l said 1 was going to marry"
he explained. THAT one didn't
want to get married until after
New Year, but | wanted to be mar
ried before today to show the
court that l had kept my prom
ise"
He said that his new wife was
employed as chief cook in the
household of Harry Payne Whit
ney.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
ASK MORE POLICEMEN.
D. c. Officials Hope Appropriation
Bill Will Provide Increase.

District officials are hopeful Of hav-
Ing the District appropria ton bill
carry provision for a substantial in
crease in the number of policemen,
Nespite the fact that this has not
seemed likely up to this time
1t was learned today that there is
a Possibility of having from so to loo
men added to the present strength of
the force to meet the growing de-
mand for better regulation of traffic
rs well as the patrolling of the new
residential sections being built up.
The Commissioners are gratified
over the consideration they have re-
ceived during the past several days
at the hearings before the subcommit
tee of the House appropriations COM
mittee.
Items Considered Yesterday.
After the afternoon session yester-
day much progress was made, in
Guiding consideration of the items
for, the police. sewer, street cleaning
and electrical departments.
officials at the District Building
also are optimistic over the prospect
Of obtaining larger amount for in
stallation of new street lights than
was allowed for the current fiscal
year.
The city heads feel that adequate
street lighting should be an integral
part of any program for the reduc-
tion of accidents on the street. They
have prepared a comprehensive
scheme of improved lighting, to be
carried out over a period of years.
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Evening star., 1924-12-31
John D. Brennan Dead.

John d. Brennan, 46 years old, well
known in this city, died in Richmond,
Va. Friday. Funeral services were
conducted at st. Peters Catholic
Church yesterday. Interment was in
Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mr.. Brennan
leaves a widow, Mrs. Catherine Con-
cannon Brennan: brother. L. j.
brennan, and sister. AIRS. -AnI-
brennan Muzzy.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
War on Trachoma Among Indians.

+ An intensive campaign to stamp out
trachoma an eye disease prevalent
among Indians and often resulting
in blindness. will be inaugurated by
a clinic to open at Albuquerque, N.
NJ, January 10 under the direction of
DR.. L. Webster Fox, professor of
opthalmology of the University of
Pennsylvania. Establishment of SIM
liar clinics for instructing Indian
Service physicians in the treatment
of the malady viii follow in other
seetiens OF indian population under
the suye. .itn OF the intei i9r De-
partmsnt.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
Art Critic L'Alliance Speaker

M. Louis Reau, famous French art
critic and author and director of the
Gazette des Beaux Arts, win address
the Federation de EAlliance Fran
caise at meeting Monday afternoon
at o'clock, at the Cosmos Club.
NJ. Reau is now on his way to the
United States for lecture tour.
Evening star., 1924-12-31

ments are still going on to determine
whether a separation Of 5, z, 3 or 10
kilocycles is necessary to prevent in
terference between stations.
Whatever action is taken by the
department will cause no inconven-
fence to Washington listeners-in, bus
when the tests start here, within q
week. the two local stations will not
lie found AT the same spot on the
diais.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
Shoes in Gotham
Easter Parade to
Bear W0rd Blocks
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SptcIaI DIbpaIVH 10 I NE StdT
LYNN, Mass, December 81
Shoes bearing the square of the
crossword puzzle probably Will
be seen on Fifth avenue, New
York, before the Spring style pa
rade on Easter Sunday. Two Lynn
manufacturers have begun work
on oXfords on which a crossword
puzzle design will be featured
Colored squares alternating white
and red or white and green are
used to embellish the vamps, tips
or heels. The new style is ex-
pected to be popular at late sup
per parties. ..
Evening star., 1924-12-31
Phi Mu Delta Session Ends.

ORONO. Me-, December 31.-The
National Conclave of the Phi Mu
Delta Fraternity. which had been in
session at the University of Maine,
closed lest night after 1t he'd baen
voted to hold the next annual &C.
claye At the Uniysrsity~of Illinois.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
Admiral Ziegemeier Transferred.

Rear Admiral Henry ]. Ziegemeier
has been ordered detached from COM
mand of the Norfolk navy yard and as
signed to command battieship division
tnrec IN :i,u . ael,i". = isl.:s ZeiEe-
n5eIer's sucoes.o. al MOI foln is,&s not
been named.
Evening star., 1924-12-31
MAY CHANGE WAVE
OF WCAP AND WRC
Commerce Department
Seeks Enlargement of
Broadcasting Channels.

A change in the wave length of the
stations, WCAP gand WRC, is con-
templated by the Department of Com
merce.
In line with it's general investiga-
the channels for additional broad
casting stations, which has been in
progress for a month or more, the
Commerce Department will undertake
an inquiry next week into the possi-
hility of assigning other wave lengths
to the two big stations in Washing
ton, That the wave length will not
remain at 469 meters Is predicted by
the radio division of the departm ent
WCAP and WRC will remain on the
same wave band, however, and will
broadcast successive nights. The
probability is that the wave band as
signed the two local stations, after
investigation, will be higher than the
469-meter channel now provided
which is exactly the same as that of
station KFI of Los Angeles.
The proposed change will not in
terfere with radio reception by users
of crystal or small tube sets in Wash
ington, nor will 1t probably cause any
inter ference with owners of multi
tube sets.
New Channels Problem.
The Department of Commerce has
been faced with the Increasingly diff
ficult problem of providing suitable
channels for a number of new and
projected broadcasting stations. With
but 81 available wave lengths all
used, and only few meters apart,
the problem was where to find new
channels. Forty-six applications for
now wave longths in addition to the
81 in use prompted the department
to investigate whether the present
broadcasting stations could not be
pushed closer together as to their
wave lengths without too much in
reference. Experiments have been in
progress now for a month in reduc-
ing the kilocycle difference between
many stations and have resulted. in
many changes, New wave lengths,
in many cases with only slight
4 t1arc,es; have bcon assigned to Is
stations. In the meantime. expert
Evening star., 1924-12-31

II you need work, read the want
columns Of The StaEs s..---..-.------E
Evening star., 1924-07-29
District Viii Wipe
Out Indebtedness
In Full OF, Friday

The District government will be
out of debt Friday, August l.
On that date the 50-year issue of
3.65 per cent bonds, the only form
of Indebtedness the District has,
will expire and there are ample
assets available to retire the bonds
as they are presented.
Mai. Daniel ]. Donovan, auditor,
has not yet made a report on the
condition of the debt account at
the close Of the last fiscal year,
but on June 80, 1923, the net debt,
after allowing for sinking fund as
sets, was $165,609.
The current appropriation act
makes available a sufficient appro-
priation to close out the issue.
The sinking fund is invested in
other securities and will be sold as
needed to take up the outstanding
municipal bonds.
This debt was incurred prior to
1874 when extensive improvements
were being made in the old Ciyt Of
Washington, under the board Of
public works.
Evening star., 1924-07-29
Mother Wins Si1teen-Year Battle
For Son; Gains Hatfields Freedom

that the coin belonged to him. hut the
jury rejected this claim and conv,cted
him on circumstantial evidence.
Immediately after the sentence was
passed on her son the mother began
her battle for his freedom. She sold
her little farm and during the last
Is years she has made at least 50
trips to the penitentiary to present
her plea to the authorities and to see
her son.
At last she obtained from both the
trial judge and the prosecuting at
torney requests that Lon Hatfield be
pardoned.' These requests were join
ed by the widow Of the slain minister.
Today Mrs. Hatfield was told By
Gov. Peay that he would make her .
Christmas present Of her son.
Evening star., 1924-07-29

and during their conversation
flashed" a big roll of bills. A little
while after they went out together.
Police believe he may have been
Worcester's companion in their wild
ride.
The car had been sighted as merely
a "speeder' by police on Riggs road,
had been chased at breakneck speed
through the city and had headed out
Sixteenth street in the direction of
Maryland and immunity from the pur-
suers. et
"As we came down the hill near
the bridge" said Officer G. c. Devoe.
my speedometer was registering 65
miles an hour, and 1 know he in
creased his speed going down that
hill. 1 was almost up to him. 1 had
tried to crowd him to the curb two or
three times before. but he had pushed
me of to one side. Once he fired
into my face when only a few feet
away. SO the flame of the fire felt
hot, but the bullet just missed me.
Going down that little HILL" he
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Evening star., 1924-07-29
BRAz| |L|AN REBELS
FLEE TO INTERIOR
Capture of Lopez and Men
Believed Near After Evacu-
alton of Sac PauIo.
DAMAGE RUNS HIGH
Some of City's Finest Structures
Reduced to Ruins,
Hundreds Killed.
DAMAGE RUNS HIGH
By the Associa ted Press.

oy tHe hsSoCldteQ ffeSS.
BUENOS AIRES, July 29.-While
the remnants of the military forces
which revolted at Sac Paulo July 5
were being pursued today into the
interior of Brazil by federal troops,
Gov. Da Campos. once more installed
IN his state capital, was taking ac-
count OF the damage it suffered from
the three weeks of bombardment. fire
and pillage and at Rio Janeiro, Presi-
problem of effecting a solid restora-
tion OF the nations disturbed unity.
1T is up to US to reorganize Bra
I'll In manner So that it will be able
TO repress once for all the possibiIi-
ties Of such rebeliions through revi-
sion of our constitution, or confess
the failure of our form Of govern
ment." President Bernardss is quoted
as declaring last night in replying to
a committee of Brazilian senators
who waited upon him with congratu-
lations for the governmental victory.
Weakness of Laws.
The president said he looked upon
the Sac Paulo movement, coming aft
er the revolt at Rio a year ago. as
evidence of the weakness of the laws
of Brazil regarding the repression Of
sedition. The thirty millions of free
thinking Brazilians, he declared.
| could not be left a prey to a hand
full of discontented adventurers such
as had tried to stab the nation in the
oack' surprising the government
while it was intensely bending its ef-
forts to the reconstruction of the
| country.
| The president has also to consider
the question of dealing with foreign
governments with reference to the
damage suffered by the property of
| their nationals as we'll as the killing
OF foreigners during the revolt. AL
though estimates of the total dam
age are not yet available from official
quarters, 1t is believed it will run into
| many millions of dollars and that the
number of soldiers and civilians killed
or owunded will reach many hundreds.
| According to reports not officially
| verified as yet, some of Sac Paulo's
finest structures were reduced to
| ruins.
The greatest interest centers in the
fate of Gen. Isidoro Lopez. leader of
the revolt, who fed to the interior
with his troops yesterday morning.
For three weeks he ruled Sac Paulo,
as head of the provisional govern
ment of the United States of Brazil"
which, with the assistance, the rebels
hoped, of the states of Parana, Santa
Catalina, Rio Grande do Sui, Matto
Crosse and Minas Gerass, was to have
overthrown the Bernardes govern
ment in accordance with a plot con-
ceived many months ago.
The rebel troops fed the city in
two small columns, according to Of
fetal reports, and news of their cap
ture or dispersal by the government
troops, which are in front as well "a
behind them, is expected soon. 1t is
thought Lopez may try to find refuge
in his home state of Rio Grande
where in 1S93-95 he was one Of the
ringleaders in the revolt against
President Peixoto.
The censorship in Brazil Is expected
| CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 2.)
Evening star., 1924-07-29
BEATEN NBYP0L|CE,
2PR|S0NERS AVER
Complain in Court When
Tried, Respectively, for
Larceny and Disorder.

There were two cases in the Police
Court today in which the defendants
charged they had been assaulted with
out provocation by policemen.
Henry Ross, colored, charged with
stealing a clock from a drug store,
appeared in the United States Branch
Of Police Court with his head COW
cred with bandages, asserting that
he was taken to the second police
precinct station and given the third de-
gree because he would not confess the
theft. Three young policemen at the
station assaulted him with their fists
and clubs, he declared.
Ross was convicted Of the petty
larceny charge by Judge John P. Nc
Mahon and sentenced to pay fine OF
S25 and in default to serve Is days.
Judge Mcmahon took judicial no
tice of the alleged assault by making
notes of the incident, and it Is be-
lieyed that he will officially call it to
the attention of the police authori-
ties.
The other case was in the District
Of Columbia branch of Police Court
before Judge Gus A. Schuldt. George
Oliveri, charged with disorderiy con-
duct in a restaurant at Ninth and d
streets, when tried, charged that when
Policeman C. H. Schreyer of the first
precinct arrested him the officer
roughly handled him without cause
and struck him in the back of the
neck and later, while taking him to
the patrol box, hit him three times
Three witnesses for the defense gave
similar testimony. The court took
Oliveris personal bond.