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Evening star., 1924-01-30
MISS MOORE WINS
IN STARS CONTEST
Columbia Junior School Stu
dent Awarded First Prize
for News Story.
CHECK FOR $40 SENT HER
Second Best Essay Will Be An
nounced Tomorrow.
CHECK FOR $40 SENT HER

Miss Elma Mcdowell Moore. pupil
In the SB class of the Columbia Junior
High School, won the first prize in
The Stars best news story contest"'
for the initial contest week, it was
announced today by the committee of
judges composed of editors of The
Star. A check for $50 has been sent
10 Miss Moore, who is confined to her
bed with grip, with the compliments
of the managing editor of The Star.
The essay which won for Miss
Moore the leading prize for the first
contest week was based on a story on
the bureau of engraving and printing
scandal which appeared on the first
page of The Star January 26. Miss
Moore is seventeen years old and
lives at 1915 35th street northwest.
school Principal Elated.
Miss Alice Deal. principal of the
Columbia Junior High School, was
elated today when informed that one
of her pupils had captured the prize
Tor which students in the public,
private and parochial schools in the
District, Maryland and Virginia had
competed. Miss Moore, it was pointed
out by Miss Deal, is one of her most
brilliant pupils.
The winner of the second prize
of SIS will he announced tomorrow
and the essay published. The third
prize winner will be announced
Saturday.
Essays submitted by the contest
ants during the first contest week
which did not win prizes will not
be returned unless called for by the
writers. They will be held for a
ar'S
seventh floor of The Star building.
Second Contest Essays Submitted.
A number of essays for the second
contest week already have been sub
inltted by contestants. 1t is under
stood between The Star and the con-
testants: as matter of honor, that
,each letter entered in the contest
snail be the personal product of the
hoy or girl submitting it When it
IS OBVIOUS to the judges that an
essay shows more advanced educa-
tion than child between the ages
OF fourteen and twenty has had, it
VIII not be considered.
FAMILIES of the employees of the
editorial department of The Star are
barred from competing in the contest.
The Washington high schools had
the largest rer resentation among the
contestants during the first contest
week. Many essays we~a submitted
by students of Central. Eastern, West
trn and Mckinley high schools. Dun
bar and rmstrong high schools also
had a few contestants. OF the paro-
chial schools in the District Sacred
Heart and Notre Dame had the larg-
est number of contestants
Many to Try Again.
Although conditions in the schools
this week are somewhat unsettled
due to the midyear commencements.
reports from school officials indicate
that virtually all of the pupils who
competed last week in addition to a
number of new contestants. are pre-
pairing to write essays for the second
contest week, which is now under
way. -Four prizes. aggregating $50.
VIII be awarded weekly to the writers
Cf essays on What Was the Best
News Story of the Week-and Whyo"
Evening star., 1924-01-30
HARDING FUND GROWS,
Contributions for Day Range From
Dime to $3.50.

Contributions of 10 cents from Joe
Choynski. New York city, and $50
from j. Morton Howell, American
iIinlSter to Egypt. were received to-
cay by the Harding Memorial Asso-
citation. These We're announced as the
low and high contributions in one
day s mail at the headquarters. 1414
J. street.
Warren, Ohio, continued the an
I.ouncement, was the only town in
President Harding's native state TO
forward a group subscriptions The
money was contributed by the Ro-
tarlans OF Warren. Other contribu-
Mall, Greenwich, Conn; 81 from two
garage hands at Stamford, Conn, and
500, Assistant Secretary of the
treasury and Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth.
Evening star., 1924-01-30
SUES FOR ACCOUNTING.
Dissolution of Partnership Asked
by William L. Morrison.

William L. Morrison today asked
solve a partnership between him and
Benjamin Il. Ennis. jr.. and Herbert
G. Hare and to require the defend
ants to make accounting to him. The
partnership has been engaged in
building the Chain Bridge Public
School and the Pathological building
at F'reedmen's Hospital and in re-
pairing the customhouse and post
office at Philadelphia. Misunder-
standing has arisen, the court is told,
which prevents completion of the
work in hand. Attorneys Villa m
Henry White and L. z. Morey appear
for the plaintiff.
Evening star., 1924-01-30
SURVEY DIRECTOR
RAPS PROPAGANDA
Col. Jones Alleges Attempts
to Discredit Present
Organization.
FILES COPY OF REPORT
Memorandum Filed by Capt. Bas-
sett of Navy photographic
FILES COPY OF REPORT

Charges of Wholesale propa ganda'
against the coast and geodetic survey
were made today by Col. +. Lester
Jones, director, before the joint con-
:;ressional committee holding hearings
on the reorganization of the govern
ment departments.
Col. Jones filed with the committee
a mimeographed copy of a "memoran-
dunn for the Secretary of the Navy"
dated October -. 1923, and signed BY
Capt. +. b. Bassett, head of the hydro
graphic office of the Navy Department,
which document, Col Jones said. had
been printed in quantities.
He said the sheet was filled witt.
lgnortant or malicious statements"
Subject of Sheet.
The sheet bore the title: Subject
proposed transfer of the hydrographfc
office from the Navy Department to
the Department of Commerce." and
stated: Transfer proposed in inter
est of efficiency and economy. Neither
will be served by such transfer"
The document further stated that
efficiency and economy would bc
served better by transfer of the hy-
geographic work of the coast and
geodetic survey to the Navy Depart
ment photographic oftice) and the
geodetic work to the Interior Depart
ment geological survey. The hy-
Geographic office is more efficient and
more economical than the coast sur
vey.'
Charges Propaganda.
Charging wholesale and improper
propaganda for three years, Col
Jones declared that "at no time have
l or any of my associates had any
thing to do with this plan"
Col. Jones said that the $4gJ, 600
office does not include the invisible
expense" Of the Navy when il uses
such vessels as the L. S. s. Hannibal
for survey expeditions, and he esti-
mated the cost Of this vessels work
d year at S250.o00.
Director Hess Testifies.
Representative Gilbert Of Ken
lucky introduced to the committee
Director George w. Hess of the Bo-
tanic Garden, who said that the gar
den comes under Congress, and l
thought it a matter for Congress to
decide Director Hess said he would
like to see the garden transferred II
a site in Rock Creek Park, but not
on Bladensburg road.
Col. Thomas W. Miller. alien prop
erty custodian. spoke against the
transfer of that office to the Depart
ment of Justice, telling the commit
tee that nothing would be gained, a.
this wartime office in all likelihood
would be terminated in five years or
less.
Capt. Edwin T. Pollock. superin
tendent of the Naval Observatory.
said that to transfer any Of the
functions of the observatory from
the Navy would seriously cripple the
efficiency of that service.
Capt. Pollock said that considering
the purposes for which the Naval OBJ
servatory was founded, he did not see
how it could be more economically or
better administered elsewhere.
Walter F. Brown, chairman of the
joint committee, expressed the hope that
the committee would be able to wind
up its hearings tomorrow. This last
session viii begin at $50 am, in
the public lands committee room, in
the Senate office building.
Evening star., 1924-01-30
MASONIC CLUBS TO MEET.
Officers to Be Installed at Gather
ing Tonight.

Brig. Gen. Amos a. Fries. president
of the advisory board of the District
National League of Masonic Clubs
Will install the officers of the various
Masonic clubs tonight at S o'clock,
at the City Club.
Rt Rev. James f. Freeman. Bishop
of Episcopal Diocese of Washington;
Charles +. Roberts. grand master Of
Masons of the District of Columbia ;
Representative Treadway of Massa-
chusetts, Will be the principal speak
ers.
A musical program will be present
ed by the Washington Quartet, fol-
lowed by dancing.
Evening star., 1924-01-30
REED ABSENT, BOX
PROBE CONTINUED
Miss Lape Questions Authority of
Committee to Delve Into
Jury''s Methods.

Because Of the absence of Senator
Reed. democrat, Missouri. the senate
committee Investigating the Box
peace award held no session today.
1t is planned to resume hearings to-
morrow.
Miss Esther Everett Lape in charge
of the policy committee of the award
has questioned the authority of the
committee to delve into the process
by which the winning peace plan was
selected.
Evening star., 1924-01-30
JOSEPH HOWARD DIES,
Funeral to Be Held Friday-Was
D. C. Native.

Joseph Howard. seventy-ffve wears
old. lifelong resident Of Washing
ton. died at his residence, 1341 Mon
tague street, yesterday.
Funeral services will be held at the
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Friday
morning at . o'clock. Rev +. c.
Gavan will officiate. Burial will be
in Mount Olivet cemetery
Mr.. Howard retired from business
several years ago. He is survived by
two sons, John q. Howard of Arizona
and Francis J. Howard of this city,
and four daughters. Miss Eda G.
Howard, Mrs. John j. Shea, Mrs
Thomas +. Keane and Mrs. J. Ernest
Smith. all of this city. He is also
survived by three grandchildren.
Evening star., 1924-01-30
IS TO BE GRADUATED
IN WESTERN CLASS
Diplomas to Be Awarded Tomor-
row to Midyear Graduates
by E. C. Graham.

The mid-year graduating class of fif-
teen members of Western High School
will receive diplomas at the commence
ment exercises in the school auditorium
tomorrow morning at II o'clock. The
commencement oration will be delivered
by William Mather Lewis, president of
George Washington University.
Ernest Greenwood, vice president of
the board of education will preside. In
vocation will be by Rev. James L.
McLain. pastor of the United Methodist
Episcopal Church. Diplomas will be
presented by Edwin c. Graham, mem
Der of the school board.
An elaborate musical program has
been arranged by the graduation
committee consisting OF selections by
the school orchestra under the direc-
ton of Miss Lucy C. Lynch. vocal selec-
tionS by David Wnelchel and violin Sc
lections by Miss Evelyn Scott. Dr.
Elmer S. Newton. principal of Western,
will make the scholarship announce
npnfS-
Evening star., 1924-01-30
PLANE FIT FOR FLIGHT.
Curtiss Machine Found Satisfac
tory for Polar Adventure.

mitchell FIELD, N. Y, January 80.
The Curtiss Airplane CS-2 has been
officially passed as fit to accompany
the Shenandoah in its proposed north
polar flight. The test was made by
Lieut.. Commander Charles Mason Of
the Navy
A Wright plane for the trip was
tested and declared satisfactory ten
days ago.
Evening star., 1924-01-30

Leven Gorsuch McLain. jr.; Salustiano
Benetez Santella, Charles Fox UrGu-
hart and James Henry Webb.
Girls-Evelyn Baum, Eleanor Hen
rietta Furr, Julia Royal Harnsberger.
Anne Wallace Turner and Elizabeth
McCalmont Wilson.
Evening star., 1924-01-30
The Irish of It.

From the New Haven Register.
Kelly-4If yez force me to nav that
note now, I can't pay it,
O'Brien-"But If | wait till vez nav
81. I'll niver get it.'
Evening star., 1924-01-30
Fifteen Get Diplomas.

The graduates are: Boys-Frank
Howard Armstrong. Robert Fournier
Devener. John Wingfield jackson,
Ashley Louis Hawken. James Gross
Jester John Swope Mckee, James
Evening star., 1924-01-30
Missed a Lot.

From London Tit-Bits.
"He never completed his education,
did he?"
mo; he died a bachelor"
Evening star., 1924-01-30
First Prize Winner
In The Stars ssBest News Story Contest
By Elma Mcdowell Moore.

Aged IL Years, Columbia Junior High School. Home
Address, 16l5 35th Street Northwest.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-11-28
YOUTH CHANGES
| IN FURNACE CASE
Note Sent Prosecutor Says Fire
Door Was Open
PASTOR SEES SELF Staying
Reiterates View Opposite To That
Held BY Investigator Of Wierd
Enigma-Probe centers
At Canton.
PASTOR SEES SELF Staying

Canton, Ohio.-C. " Sheatsley, pas
tor of Christ's Church in Bexley, q
Columbus (Ohio) suburb, who found
the charred body of his wife in the
furnace at the Sheatsley home, reiter
ated his theory that his wife com
mitted suicide by casting herself into
the furnace in a note sent to Prose
cutor John R. King, which was signed
by Mr.. Sheatsley and his twenty-year
old son, Milton.
The note said the son was the first
person to examine the furnace and
commits him to a statement opposite
those previously made-that he found
furnace door open.
The striking feature of the note
delivered to Prosecutor King by Rev
G. M. Schumacher, of Canton, a friend
Of Mr.. Sheatsley's, was its evident in
tent to provide a means to justify the
theory that Mrs. Sheatsley swung her
self into the furnace according to Of
ficials
Mr.. King regarded the note as OF
particular Importance because Mr.
Sheatsley failed in an attempt to con
vince Prosecutor King through his
daughter, Alice, ten, that she had told
him the door was open. mo, Daddy
the little girl replied to question
by her father. Ii the door was NOT
open "it was closed"
The investigation will center here
for several days, Prosecutor King an
nounced when it was learned that Mr.
Sheatsley and his family will remain
at the Paris home near here until the
first of the week.
Mr.. Sheatsley again reiterated that
his wife committed suicide, first ex
pressed in statement to the prose
cutor after originally declaring he be
lieved there had been foul play.
In conference with Mrs. Lydia
Sponseller, aged mother Of the victim
Prosecutor King said the mother ex
pressed the opinion that her daughter
OiAiAuOu AAto tAC Au1 udCS. WI. hlue
said Mrs. Sponseller told of the annie
able relations of the minister's family
She resided with them for more than
Is years and left last June to go te
her sons home at Paris, near here.
"Addie was good and kind to- me
and Rev Mr.. Sheatsley was excep
tionally kind" Mrs. Sponseller said.
Prosecutor King declared that, view
ing the case from all angles, it is as
battling as it was the day the in
vestigation opened. Nothing he has
learned or failed to learn, he said
has served to weaken his conviction
that Mrs. Sheatsley did not volun
tarily enter the furnace"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-11-28
". Il. ANDERSON
WINS PAROLE
N. Y. Anti-SaIoon League Man
to Leave Sing Sing
YEAR AS MINIMUM REVOKED
October Ruling Reversed BY Board
i That includes TWO Whitman Men
-Pecora Did Not Oppose
Parole.

New York.--William H. Anderson,
former State superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League, convicted OF third.
degree forgery and sentenced to Sing
Sing Prison, will eat Christmas dinner
with his family in Yonkers, N. Y. The
State Board Of Parole reversed its
ruling of a month ago that prisoners
must serve at least one year and or
dered him paroled on December "a.
The change Of front by the parole
commissioners on the question of re-
leasing prisoner for good behavior
after he has served nine months oc-
casioned great surprise and led to
considerable discussion.
According to prison officials, James
L. Long, Superintendent of Prisons,
who is a member of the Parole Board
by virtue of his position as head of
the prison department, was opposed
to the one-year rule when it was pro-
mulgated last month.
The two other members of the Pa
role Board, Commissioners George
Benham, of Auburn, and Elmer Larkin,
Of Plattsburg, were appointed by
former Governor Whitman, who was
Mr.. Andersons counsel during his
trial and the appeals from the verdict
of guilty.
Assistant District Attorney Pecora,
who prosecuted Anderson, denied a
report he had advised against Ander-
sons release
II received regular form letter
from the warden Of Sing Sing notify
ing me that Anderson had applied for
parole and asking me for state
ment of the facts connected with his
prosecution" he said. II did not make
any recommendation regarding his pa
role one way or the other ! did
point out, however, that ever since
Anderson was indicted and up to the
time, month or so ago, when the
Court Of Appeals upheld his convic-
ton Anderson had been issuing state
ments attacking not only the integrity
OF the grand jury which indicted, but
also of almost every officer who had
anything to do with his case"
The parole commissioners evidently
had this in mind when they asked
Anderson. Have you any feeling
against the courts?"
Il believe that under a constitu.
tional form of government the courts
must be supreme" was his reported
reply.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-11-28
FARM RELIEF
STUDY RUSHED
Group to Give Priority to Co.
operative Marketing
REPORT TO CONGRESS SOON
Action Follows Presidents Wish To
Dispose OF Emergency Prob
lens Quickly-To Assem-
BILE Data.

iWashington.-Afte sdeciding to give
cooperative marketing and conditions
in the cattle industry priority in their
study of agricultural problems with a
view to having definite conclusions as
to these ready for legislative action
during the session Of Congress. which
convenes next month, the Presidents
agricultural commission recessed after
its third session, probably until Jam
uary.
While the inquiry in other fields
also may have progressed sufficiently
before March 4, when the present Con-
gress expires. to permit further con-
illusions to be presented for possible
legislation, Chairman Carey of the
commission told President Coolidge
the body could not hope to work out
its entire program by that time. The
recess, Mr.. Carey explained, was neces-
sary to permit tie assembling Of the
comprehensive data on all Government
activities relating to agriculture which
the commission has requested as an
essential basis for its work.
The reports asked for, relating to
financial, statistical and regulatory ac-
tivities having to do with agriculture
as well as tariff, reclamation and other
problems, will be made available to
members of the commission as soon as
possible, it was said. The commits
sion, it was explained, can then pro-
coed with the work Of building up a
comprehensive program Of agricul-
tural rehabilitation with the cattle in
dustry and the cooperative market
ing studies the first to be reduced to
conclusions.
The action of the commission in
adopting a priority program as to
these two fields of inquiry is in accord
ance with the expressed wish OF Presi-
dent Coolidge that emergency problems
be disposed of as quickly as possible
in order that the converting short SEES
sion of, Congress might have the bene-
fit Of the commissions conclusions.
The commission took up the ques-
ton of Government financial aid to
agriculture in calling before it Eu-
gene Meyer, Jr.. managing director
of the War Finance Corporation. The
present freight rate structure as affect
ing agricultural profits, one of the
major problems before the commission,
was discussed with Chairman Hall of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and waterpower policies of the Govern
ment were taken up with officials of
the Federal power commission.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-11-28
MRS. HARD|NG'S
END PEACEFUL
Widow Of President Victim OF
Nephritis
soDY RESTS BESIDE HUSBAND
Her Courage In Sorrow Stirred Ad.
nniratIon OF Entire Nation
Her Brother At
Bedside.

Marion, Ohio.-Mrs. Florence Killing
Harding, widow of the late President
died at the home of Mrs. Charles e
Sawyer, White Oaks Farm.
X Weakened by the shock of her hus
bands death and the ordeal of his pub
lie funeral year and half ago, Mrs
Harding was unable to throw of the
recurrence of malady which had
brought her to the very gates of death
in 1922 at the White House.
She became seriously i'll late in DC
tober, Save for brief intervals of i'm
provement, her strength ebbed gradu.
ally until the end
Mrs. Harding died at S.55 A. M
With her when death came were her
brother, Clifford Killing, Of Florida
Mrs. Charles e. Sawyer, widow OF
President Harding's personal physi
clan; DR.. Carl w. Sawyer and George
B. Christian, former secretary to the
late President
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-11-28
REVENUE BUREAU PROBE.
Senate Committee To Sit During Short
Session.

Observation-Disclosures to make a
thorough probe of the Bureau of In.
ternal Revenue throughout the short
session Of Congress was reached by
the Couzens committee Of the Senate
in its first meeting since its recess last
spring. Meetings will be held almost
daily until Congress convenes Deem
Der 1 and will be continued at in
tervals from then to March 4. Most
Of them will be in executive session.
Reports on various phases of the in
vestigation will be made to the Senate
from time to time.
Senator Couzens, author Of the reso-
luton which brought about the in.
vestigation, outlined his program to
the committee and it is understood
that practically all of it was approved.
1t calls for a continuation of the in
vestigation into the income-tax unit,
begun last spring, to be followed by a
probe Of the prohibition unit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-11-28

She was i'll two weeks before the
gravity of her condition became
known outside White Oaks, the sana.
torium and country estate Of the
Sawyers.
Then, on the morning of November
8, DR.. Carl w. Sawyer, after consul
tation with DIR. j. c. Wood, Cleveland,
abdominal specialist, issued bulletin
describing her condition as alarm.
ing"
Immediately messages of sympathy
and hope for rapid recovery began
pouring in from all parts of the coun-
try
The nation, which so admired the
fortitude with which Mrs. Harding
bore up under the MANY dramatic
chapters in her career as First Lady
of the Land, was quick to send words
of good cheer to her bedside.
Probably NO other woman in the
history of American national life ever
held so securely the admiration of the
country as did Mrs. Harding.
Reports of her last illness drew al
most the same universal interest as
those during the attack which she suf-
fered two years ago in Washington.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at Epworth Methodist Epis-
copal Church. Mrs. Harding had been
member of that church since gir.-
hood. The Rev. DR.. Jesse Swank
pastor of Epworth Church, and the
Rev. DIR. George M. Lands, pastor of
Trinity Baptist Church, of which the
late President was a member, off
ciated.
The body of Mrs. Harding was
placed beside that of her husband, the
late President Harding, in the receiv-
ing vault at Marion Cemetery.