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Evening star., 1924-09-21

spent across the valley in the Massa-
nutten Mountain region, where a
small reservation already exists for
the preservation of forests and plants
after which Col. Smith and Mai.
Walsh returned to Washington. From
the Capital Maj. Walsh continued on
to New York City.
Opportunities Vast.
Should Stony Man Mountain and its
vicinity be selected as the site of the
new national park it would give
Washington a great natural play
ground, carefully preserved and kept
up by the Government, only so miles
over a perfect automobile road from
the White House. 1t would be second
to none in the country from the stand
point of beauty, accessibility and rec
reational opportunities.
There is available there a tract 10
miles wide and 100 miles long. In it
trout brooks abound by the score
camp sites seem almost as numerous
as the streams that gush down it's
mighty slopes; a modern Summer
camp already exists on the summit of
Stony Man, which the Government
would acquire and operate at mod
crate cost, as it now operates the
hotels and camps in the Yellowstone
National Park.
Pasture Well Stocked.
It's pasture lands would be well
stocked with buffalo, deer and elk.
which would roam the confines of
the park in their wild state. AL
ready 1t is a sanctuary for birds, and
species native to that section is found
in abundance. Wild flowers crowd
one another for room in the open
spaces, and in the forests are all of
the trees that are typical of the
mountain South from the now rare
mountain laurel to the hardy fir bal
sam that can thrive only in the rare
fed atmosphere well up in the
clouds-Skyland.
At present Skyland and its natural
wonders can be reached by q rather
circuitous automobile route through
New Market, to Luray. a distance of
165 miles from Washington. Next
Summer, however, Luray will be
brought to within so miles of the
White House, with the opening of
the new Lee Highway as far as that
point, and should the park be created
perfect roads would be built through
its area
Skyland and the Stony Man region,
it was pointed out, hold many ad-
vantages as a site for the proposed
park aside from it's natural advan-
tages. In the first place, besides be-
ing typical of the South in every re-
spect, 1t is within easy automobile
distance of Washington, which itself
is a mecca for tourists every year.
Every one who visited Washington
would be able to take in the park.
In addition four caverns among the
greatest in the world are directly on
the frinEes Of the Stony Man site
the Lur1y Caverns, the Endless Cav
erns, the Shenandoah CavArns and the
Grotto Of the Gods.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
WOMEN'S SUPPORT
OF LABOR URGED
Resolution Adopted by Work.
ers Calls for Organization
for Protection.
Special Dispatch to The Star aud The New

Special Dispatch 10 The Star aud The New
York World
LONDON, September 20.-A women
workers demonstration was held a
few nights ago in Hull. A. a. Pur-
cell, NJ. p, president OF the Trades
Union Congress. who presided said
there was greater need today for the
organization of women in trade
unions than ever before. Their
wages were extremely low and their
hours long. In his opinion the con-
dittons under which they were en-
ployed were a serious danger to so
clety. Low wages among women
were greater temptation TO i'm
morality than among men.
Miss Margaret Bondfield, parlia
mentary secretary to the ministry of
labor. moved a resolution expressing
grave concern at the present indus
trial situation, especially as it affects
woman wage earners, and calling
upon all woman workers to join their
appropriate trade union for their own
protection and for the furthering of
measures required for the adequate
treatment of unemployment and a
raising of the standar rds of living of
the workers generally.
Miss Bondfeld said there was no
reason why women should not do any
fitted. The only thing labor asked
was that women should not sell their
labor more cheaply than the recog-
nized rate for the job. Women had
every right to say that the trade
union organization should take any
steps it could to shut out that unfair
kind of competition. Trade unions
should not shut out womens labor
simply because it was women's labor.
but 1t was perfectly right to say that
women coming into a trade must be
asked to take their share OF the re-
sponsibility for maintaining the
standard of living in that trade.
Women should not be allowed to de-
grade the standard which others had
spent their lives in building up. 1t
was in those trades in which women
were mainly employed that they had
the greatest difficulty to contend with
in relation to the degradation of the
standard of life.
After several other speakers were
heard the resolution was adopted
Evening star., 1924-09-21
UNIVERSITY WOMEN
CREATE FELLOWSHIP
Scandinavian Prize Is Offered in
Recognition of Conference
Held at Christiania.

The American Association of Univer-
sity Women. which sent 66 dele
gates to the meeting of the 1nterna-
tional Federation of University Women
in Christania this Summer, is offering
a fellowship in celebration of the con-
ference Two of the delegates, Mrs
Raymond 3. Morgan and Dr. Nina
Kerr, are from Washington.
Tnis fellowship, which is given in
rec eoocnition of the hospitality of the
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swed-
ish federations, is to be known as the
Scandinavian fellowship, and will
have value of $1,000, its object being
to enable the holder to undertake a
years research in some country other
than her own.
The association also is undertaking.
Nith the aid of the Laura Spelman
Rockefeller fund, study of the pre-
school child and elementary education.
The work will be under the direction Of
Miss Lois H. Meek, a new member of
the Washington staff, who is organizing
groups of mothers and other women in
terested in child study, both in Wash
ington and throughout the 2S7 branches
of the A. A. L. W.
Miss Katherine S. Arnold, who has
just returned from three years work
in ConStantinope, where she was pro-
fessor of mathematics at the Women's
College, is another new member of the
staff, and as assistant to the executive
secretary will work on various COM
nittees. including those on the recog-
milton of colleges, publicity and the
journal.
Miss Florence A. Angel is now sec
retary to the committee on international
relations. with headquarters in New
York with the Institute of international
Education.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
ORDNANCE CORPS
TO SHOW PRODUCTS
Modern War Machinery Will
Be Demonstrated by Of
fiCers at Aberdeen.

An exhibition of the Armys most
modern patterns of war machinery,
including ordnance creations, big and
small. and types perfected but never
used in actual warfare, will be given
october ) by the Aberdeen, Md, prov
ing ground officers to limited num-
Der of civilians and brother officers.
The demonstration of these weapons
is intended primarily to show the
state of preparedness of the ordnance
branch of the Nations defense.
Due to the limited "accommoda-
tions" at Aberdeen. the exhibition
Will be open only to members of the
American Institute of Chemical Engi-
neers. the National Defense Section
of the American Society of Mechani-
cal Engineers. the Institute of Makers
of Explosives, the Army Ordnance
Association and local sections of the
American Chemical Society.
Among the features of the demon
stration scheduled for the occasion
will be the firing of l6-inch rifles on
barbette mounts. shifting of 14-inch
guns from railway travelling posi-
tions to land emplacements, laying
smoke screens by aircraft and can
dies, machine gun fire played upon
toy balloons loosed in the air, SUBJ
caliber firing against tank plates, and
velopments in tanks, tractors, motor
carriages and cross-country vehicles.
as well as bombing tests by aircraft.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
WHEELER ATTACKS
DAWES IN CHICAGO
Candidate Charges Opponent
With Questionable Bank
Transactions.
By the Associa ted Press.

CHICAGO, September 20-An as
sault on the public and private rec
ord of Gen. Dawes, Republican vice
presidential candidate, was launched
tonight by Senator Wheeler OF Mon
tana, nominee for the same Office on
the independent ticket.
A capacity crowd&at a night mass
meeting heard Senator La Follette's $
running mate unloose his oratoFicaI |
guns. The address was the third of
series delivered in the city during
the day. His night audience hailed
Senator Wheeler's declaration that he
came to tell something about
Dawes first with tears, and then
with sympathetic cooling. He went
straight to quotations from pre-caru-
paign speeches made by Gen. DaWaS
which showed the Republican reprp-
sentative to be, he said, an opponent
of "a free Democracy" He proceed /
thereafter to an alleged descripti,a
of banking transactions, involving Il
tailed Chicago bank, organized IT,
former Senator Lorimer of Illinois fN
which, he said, Gen. Dawes had par
ticipated
Departing from written text. Son
ator Wheeler said that John Burtau
Payne, attorney for Mr. Dawes ban
in litigation over the transa ction, h4@
hAo7dch a Stdlti1Nut QbCtdTDl~ In +f
there was no wrong doing in tn
steps.
But that's where Judge Payne y
opinion differs from that of tn
courts which have passed upon it, !"
Senator Wheeler said.
I'm reminded of the story of ar
airplane driver, who took a passenger
over the dome of the National Capitol
just after the Teapot Dome scandal
came out" Senator Wheeler added
The passenger wanted to know
what the building was, and the
aviator jocularly said it was the
greatest steel mill in the United
States. No wonder Gen. Dawes
wants to get down there now"
I've told you at some length about
Gen. Dawes earnest constitutional
defending" he broke away again,
Whose Constitution? His own, ! SUP
pose. because all his connections
show he means the kind of consti-
tuition he wants to use. He may fool
some of the people in the East, but
he cannot do anything with the peo-
pie of the West and Northwest when
ne tells them Senator La Toilette
and myself want to tear down the
Constitution and the country merely
because we are trying to give the
people a square deal. They've been
FOOLED out here too much. It can't
be done again"
Evening star., 1924-09-21
WOMAN TO TESTIFY
AT HOGAN INQUEST
Admits Presence in Office of
/ Man Found Dead in
Basement.

Mrs. Ruth Christensen, 2S, who
was with William J. Hogan. repre-
sentative of the National Liberal ALI
ance, shortly before his death at the
foot of staircase in the Ames Build
ing late Thursday night, will be the
principal witness at the inquest at
the morEue tomorrow, it was an
nounced last night after Detectives
Fowler and Flaherty had Interviewed
her.
Mrs. Christianson's story confirmed
the theory held by the detective office
that the death was accidental She
was not detained.
She said that there had been drink
ing IN the office of Hogan at about 9
O'Clock Thursday evening and that
Hogan went out, intending to return
later. When he had not returned 40
minutes later, she said, she decided to
leave and on her way out saw moth
ing to attract attention.
Detectives Fowler and Flaherty To-
Gated Mrs. Christianson through a
slip of paper found in the pocket of
.Hogan'S coat. They already had
CLEANED an inkling of what she had
seen from friends of hers earlier yes
cooperation.
1t is believed by the detectives that
after Hogan left his Office, while Mrs.
Christlans0n was sitting in it, he fell
over the stair railing to the basement,
causing a fracture of the skull, which
proved fatal.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
PRIZES ARE AWARDED
IN ESSAY CONTESTS
Rev. Peter Ireton, Baltimore, Wins
$500 on Subject of Building
Up Society.

Prizes were awarded at the Holy
Name convention session last night
TO the winners of the Holy Name
Journal essay contest, covering the
entire United States.
The first prize of $500 on the sub
ject How to Build Up and Maintain
a Successful Holy Name Society" was
won by Rev. Peter Ireton, Baltimore.
spiritual director of the Baltimore
section of the Archdioces san Union.
The second prize of $3.50 was won
by Rev. Thomas F. Coakley, Pitts
.burgh, Pa; the third prize of $50 by
Rev. Anthony NJ. Benedict, Latrobe
Pa, and the fourth prize Of 500 BY
Rev. John F. Fogarty. Philadelphia
In the contest on the subject The
Holy Name Society as a Builder of
American Citizens" the first prize of
$50 was won by Daniel L. Dougherty,
Pittsburgh. Pa, and the second by
Louis F. Borstelmann. Greensburgh.
Pa, president of the Most Holy Sacra-
ment Holy Name Society.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
MISS TODD TO WE'D
S. P. GILBERT OCT. 8
Nuptials to Be Solemnized at
Brides Home, Louisville.
Sail for France.

The marriage of S. Parker Gilbert.
former Undersecretary of the United
States Treasury and now agent gem
eral for the Dawes reparations plan,
to Miss Louise Ross Todd. whose en-
gagement was announced in Louis
vile, Ky. last week, will take place
a the Warren Memorial Presbyterian
Church. Louisville, on the afternoon
of October s. The wedding will be
followed by a reception in the home
of the bride-to-be's parents, in
Cherokee Park, Louisville, according
to dispatches received here last
night.
Miss Todd, who is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ross Todd, has
spent several Winters here with her
aunt. Nine. Hauge, widow of the
former Minister of Norway, Chris
tian Hauge, who presented her to
Washington society after her debut
in Louisville. Through the past two
Winters Miss Todd has been NOV
ing spirit and has done finished act
ing here in the amateur theatricals
in which Mrs. Richard Porter David
son, formerly Miss Elizabeth Hanna,
is so active. Miss Todd attended
Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Conn.,,
for three years, entering in 1871.
She has spent many Summers abroad,
more recently being with her par
ents at Hot Springs through the Sum-
mer season, where the mountain
trails give her opportunity to show
her ability as a skilled horsewoman.
Mr.. Gilbert and his bride expect to
sail Saturday, October IL, for Paris.
later going to Brussels. Mr.. Gilbert
resigned as Undersecretary of the
Treasury some months ago and went
to New York, where he. resumed the
practice of law. He then was named
for the new post,
Miss Todd and Mr.. Gilbert first met
at a dinner party given here in 1922
by Maj. Gen. Bethel, then military
attache of the British embassy, in
honor of Miss Muriel Vanderbilt. The
engagement was to have been an
nounced in November and the we'd
ding was planned for early January,
but the departure of Mr.. Gilbert for
Europe sooner than was expected
changed these plans.
Nine. Hauge, with whom Miss
Todd spends the greater part of each
Winter, is still abroad, but is expect
ed to return in time for the wedding,
after which she will open her home,
on Massachusetts avenue.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
STATE MAY SEIZE
KA|SER'S HOLDINGS
Plans to Give HohenzoIIerns
$40O, 900 Annually for
Living Expenses.

Special Gable to the Star and New York World.
BERLIN, September 20.-Moderates
in the Prussian state legislature are
the Hollenzollerns over former i'm
perial estates and funds. by confisca-
tory legislation.
After the state takes over all this
property, the proposal is to give the
former reigning family an allowance
which Prussia deems sufficient for
it's needs, about 100000 a year, for
all the members of the family. Es-
tates sufficient to provide this sum
would be set aside.
At present the state holds the prop
critics but the HohenZollerns. with
the exception of the former kaiser,
live on them and legally no one owns
them.
During the last four years, various
members of the family have instituted
civil suits against the state. They
always appeared before reactionary,
monarchist judges, and als'ays won.
Now the modera tes fear that by a
series of such suits. all the Hohenzol-
lern property gradually Will slip
away from the state.
Settlement Is Rejected
The family has rejected the states
offer of a settlement which would
have given them Is castles, villas and
palaces in Pottsdam, enormous
estates in the country and 10 royal
funds, total estimated value of
$500. 100000. The Hohenzollerns
claim the priceless collection of paint
ings in the Friedrich Museum, which
includes IL Rembrandts. They
threaten to withdraw all these works
If their demands for triple what the
state offered them are not granted.
The moderateS have been lobbying
for a two-thirds majority necessary to
pass the condscatory legislation they
seek. The arrogant demands OF the
Hohenzollerns, both in form and in
content, have so enraged all but the
most extreme reactionaries, that it
is believed this majority will be
forthcoming.
Then the Hohenzollerns will have
to accept what the state sees fit to
offer them.
tCopyri 1924, by New York WORLDLY
Evening star., 1924-09-21
MANY VAR THRILLS BURIED
IN FILES OF DEPARTMENT
Human Interest Stories That Remain Un,Urtten Be.
cause Persons Most Interested, Who KnoU
the Facts, Cannot Be Found

should-be owners among the nearest
of kin" cannot be found.
All wars are represented. There
are even trifies taken from the bodies
of soldiers of Revolutionary days and
of the War of 1872. Mementos of
the Civil, Spanish American and
World Wars are most numerous,
however.
Only a few days ago. "a medal of
honor was delivered to the mother
of one lad who was killed in action
with the aviation service. She had
been traced through four States and
was finally found in Paris. conducting z
a futile search for her boys grave.
The medal, she said, almost compen-
stated for not knowing where to lay
flowers on his grave.
Watch Battered by Shrapnel.
A battered watch, which had done
service for many years and was in
dented with marks of shrapnel was
recently sent to the fiance of the boy
who carried it when he died 1t was
all she had, save memories, of the
lover to whom she had not said
goodbye because she was in Cuba
when he sailed.
mother, comparatively young six
years ago, now aged and. grayed with
locating the grave of her boy. He
had worn ring baering the family
coat of arms, she said. After four
years the boy was traced to a name
less grave in France
A young lieutenant wore a sorority
pin over his heart when che died. With
only the name of the sorority, search
was started, and inquiry at college
after college finally located the girl
to whom he had been engaged. and
made possible the marking of his
grave.
Civil War Widow Gets Ring.
Only few weeks ago a family ring
worn by soldier of the Civil War
was returned to the widow who for
all these years had thought it lost.
or the thousands of soldiers wo
have died in service of this country,
the effects of more than three-fourths
have been returned to those who have
the right to them. But 5000 still are
waiting distribution.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1924-09-21
SulliUap Cautions
Police to Enforce
Flag-HOnOrs Lau

Maj. Daniel Sullivan. superinten-
dent of police. has issued an order
to precinct captains calling their
attention to the law to prevent
desecration or improper use of the
American flag in the District of
Columbia.
He issued this reminder to his
men following receipt Of a lettsr
from Henry w. Samson, former
chairman of a special committee
of the Board of Trade and a mem
ber of the American Flag Asso-
citation. Mr.. Samson suggested
that a copy Of the flag law be
posted in all station houses.
The display of ragged, fat<d
American flags dishonors instead
of honors our flag" wrote Mr..
Samson, and those displaying
same should be urged to cooperate
in honoring our flag by replac-
ing such flags by new ones"
Mr. Samson called attention in
his letter to the recent action of
Police Commissioner Enright of
New York, who issued an order
to his patrolmen to report i'm
proper display or disrespect of
the flag.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
BERRYMAN'S ART
WINS HIGH PRAISE
Display of Drawings at Corcoran
Gallery So Popular Exhibit
Is Continued.

The drawings of Clifford K. Berry
man, cartoonist and head of the art
department of The Star, which have
been on exhibition at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art since June IS, have
become so popular with visitors at
the Gallery that their display will
be extended for about two weeks.
When the drawings were first placed
on view it was understood they
would be allowed to occupy their
place In the gallery until about the
middle of September, but the enthu-
siasm they have created has caused
officials of the institution to prolong
this exhibit.
TO date 1886 free visitors and
s,o43 paid visitors have seen Mr..
Berryman's work. making a total of
46,939. BY the time the exhibition is
brought to a close it Is expected more
than $4,000 persons will have seen
the drawings.
Altogether there are PIT drawings
on the wall, covering q variety of
subjects--politics. patriotism, local
affairs and topics of the day. From
comments of visitors officials of the
gallery declare it to be one of the
most popular exhibitions ever con-
Quoted there. The drawings possess
charm, cieveruess- and are timely.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
STORE MORE COAL,
ADVICE TO DISTRICT
Engineering Council Experts
Decide 19 Per Cent of Fuel
Should Be So Handled.

Washington should store 10 per
cent of it's annual coal consumption,
1t Is asserted in the report of the
coal storage comittee of the American
Engineering Council, rs Jackson
place, by which a nationwide survey
has been conducted in cooperation
with the Department of Commerce
and other agencies. 4
Peculiar conditions exist in the Dis
trict of Columbia, says the report,
which discfoses the results of a study
of II typical consumers. diversified
enough, it was said, to represent a
cross section of conditions in the
District.
Three Classes Found.
1.-THE users Of all the coal consumed
in the District" the report continues.
.can be grouped into three general
classes, namely:
"U) The Federal and Municipal
Governments, using approximately
16 per cent OF the total for heating
all public buildings and generating
electricity in isolated plants.
"(2) The public utility corpora
tions consisting of one electric CEN
tral station. one street railway cleo
trio generating station and one gas
manufacturing planD using approx
consumed.
"(3) The local coal dealers. ap-
proximately 100 in number, who re-
ceive the remaining 60 per cent of
the total and supply all householders.
business houses and local industries.
From available information 1t ap-
pears that but two industries obtain
coal direct from the mlnes-one, the
Washington Abattoir Co, using ap-
81, nf
coal per week, and the Fleischmann
Yeast Co, whose normal requirements
are approximately so tons of bituminous
coal per day.
Small Amount Stored.
'Outside of the coal stored during
the Summer in the bins of house
holders Gncluding apartment houses),
for Winter requirements, practically
no coal is stored in the District with
in the meaning of that term as de-
fined in the instructions of the main
coal committee of the American En-
gineering Council
"The public utility corporations at
tempt to carry reserve STOCK OF
coal for emergency needs. As to the
storage capacity of the local dealers
the committee finds that it Is their
practice during normal years to use
approximately 50 per cent OF their
anthracite coal storage capacity for
holding coal received during the Sum
mer months, the remaining so per
cent being needed for the proper
handling of daily receipts and de-
liveries through hoppers"
The firms studied in Washington,
it was said, follow no systematic
method of storing coal. The largest
accumulation of stocks occurred in
the months of October and January,
whereas there was a net loss in
stocks during the storage period"
For the District of Columbia a plan
of uniform monthly coal shipment
was recommended. and, according to
the engineers, would result in:
Monthly shipments of 43,391 tons to
the II consumers; seasonal storage
of 60,750 tons; seasonal storage of
11.6 per cent of annual consumption;
reserve storage of IA per cent of
annual consumption; total storage of
19 per cent of annual consumption.