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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-16
THE OPPOSITE
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BY Mary Steele.

IT + will take considerable pub
licity to make women believe
that washing clothes beautl.,
fies the arms.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-16

a goif widow has the advan-
tage over the radio widow. At
any rate her husband is out Of
the house.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-16

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Evening star., 1924-11-17
10 HELD IN MURDER
OF PASTORS WIFE
Woman Who Died to Save
Circuit Rider Husband
Buried as Heroine.
By the Associated Press.


ATLANTA, Ga. November 17.-Ten
men are in Jail at Buchanan, Ga,
Haralson County, today, on charges
of having been members of the gang
which on Thursday night shot and
fatally wounded Mrs. Robert Sewart
at Draketown, Ga, when she went
to the rescue of her husband who
was being abducted. Mr. Stewart is
member OF the North Carolina Meth
odist Conference. and has been active
in the fight on bootleggers and moon
sinners. It is planned to give them
a preliminary hearing tomorrow be-
fore a justice of the peace at Bu-
channan.
Search for other members of the
gang was in progress today. Mr..
Stewart, who assisted in the round
up of the ten men in Jail. was not a
member Of the posse today, having
temporarily abandoned the hunt to
attend funeral services for his
wife, which were held in the noun
tain community in North Georgia,
from which she departed several
years ago as the wife of a Circuit
rider"
Simple exercises marked the burial.
Tributes were paid to her memory,
and her last act, the sacrifice of her
life to save her husband, was euIo-
gized.
Similar eulogies were heard in
many churches of the North Georgia
conference yesterday, in which she
was referred to as heroine.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
DIES BEFORE MYSTERY
OF MURDER is SOLVED
Diamond Connoisseur, Who Was
Shot by Unidentified Assassin,
Carries Secret to Grave.

LOS ANGELES. November IT,
Harry I. Katz, diamond connoisseur
musician and real estate operator
who was shot down at the door of
his luxurious apartment last Monday
evening, yesterday carried the mys-
terry of death and the identity of his
slayer to his grave.
He was buried at Mount Zion
Cemetery at Belvedere, near here,
without the display of wealth that
had marked his life. A modest casket
covered with flowers offered by many
of the 200 friends and relatives who
attended the ceremony, held the re-
mains Of the slain man who had ex-
pressed a pleasure in expensive au-
tomobiles, sparkling gems and an
tiqte art objects.
The cortage was escorted by a
picked squad of detectives, requested
by brother, Morris Katz, who feared
a demonstration from some quarter
which he could not explain. There
was no disturbance.
By his death, Katz left an appar-
emily unsolvable murder mystery to
city and county detectives, which they
virtually admit will be added to Los
Angeles list of unsolved homicides.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
TRIBUTE BY TAFT.
Chief Justice Mourns Loss Of Vet
eran Writer.

Chief Justice Taft of the, United
States Supreme Court today paid a
beautiful tribute to the veteran news
paper writer.
Il mourn the death OF Gus Karger
as a warm and very intimate friend.
He was a man of exceptional quail
ties. Born 5S years ago in Berlin
and brought up in German spe aking
home, he was educated in the schools
of Ohio. He was American to his
finger tips. He made himself. He
began as a reporter on a German
Democratic newspaper called the
Volksfreund of Cincinnati, doing
police court work and practically all
of the city news there was to do.
Then he became a reporter. on the
Cincinnati Post. finally city editor.
and then the Columbus correspondent
of that newspaper. His ability, his
fidelity and his industry widened his
field into work at Washington, where
he has been for a full 20-odd years,
at one time doing congressional work
for the United Press. Then he be-
came the correspondent Of the Gin
cinnati Times-Star, for which for
near score of years he has been
the sole Washington correspondent.
He had very wide experience in
the great political center of this
Evening star., 1924-11-17
HOOVER OUTLINES
ADVANCES OF YEAR
Better Farm Prices, Sound
Reparations Policy and
Business Advance Cited.

Advance in agricultural prices, the
beginning of sound policies in Ger
man reparations and the recovery
of agriculture were characterized as
the three outstanding features of the
past fiscal yaer in a review of busi-
ness conditions made public today
by Secretary of Commerce Hoover.
Although there was some slacken-
ing in activity in some lines during
the latter part of the fiscal year. the
report said. there has since been a
complete recovery.
Stability Of Agriculture.
1.-THE increasing stability in agri-
culture" the Secretary said. fs fur
ther marked by the fact that whole
sale prices Of food products show a
continuing decrease in spread as
compared to farm prices. The rise
in agriculture prices, while in a large
part due to general world economic
readjustment and to settlement of
European economic conflicts, has been
favored to some degree by local and
special causes, such as the decrease
in corn crop and the fact that the
abnormal world wheat crop of 1923
swung over 70 a slightly subnormal
crop Of 1924"
Transportation facilities for the
past year were declared by Secretary
Hoover to be adequate in every way
for the first time since long before
the war He pointed to the greater
stability Of foreign currency as an
other factor in the economic better
ment of the country and declared
conditions In general have been aided
by ratification of the Dawes plan.
Better Foreign Trade.
Foreign trade Of the Nation so i'm
proved during the fiscal year, the
Secretary said. that Americas ia
vorable trade balance increased from
s176. 100000 In 1929 to $4,000, 900
In 1923-24. This was due principally.
he said, to the increase in trade with
Oceania. South America and Asia.
Notwithstanding lower prices than
in 1919, the value of sales of retail
stores was greater in 1924 than in
that year, Mr.. Hoover added Pro-
duction slackened at the end Of the
fiscal year, he said, and recovered
slightly during the last month of the
Summer.
OF the Dawes plan, Mr.. Hoover
said: European sterilization, which
this plan may be expected to achieve
will bring about a revival in world
trade and increased consumption of
commodities. in which the United
States is bound TO have it's share
This trade revival and increased con-
sumption power should outweigh any
increased competitive power which
might be expected from execution of
the plan. 1t is not too much to say
that this settlement of the vexed
reparation problem, coming at the
time 1T did, prevented another Euro
pean collapse, with its inevitable re-
percussion on world trade and on the
business of the United States. The
Dawes plan is the first effort TO solve
the reparations question purely on a
and economic basis"
Evening star., 1924-11-17
PRESIDENT GREETS
FARM COMMISSION
Puts Problem of StabiIizing
Agriculture Up to Spe-
ciaI Body.

President Coolidge today put up to
the commission of representative
farm leaders he has appointed the
problem of mapping out a program
for the permanent stabilization OF ag-
riculture.
Briefly welcoming the commission,
which met In the cabinet room at the
White House for Its first session, Mr..
Coolidge told the members of his pur-
pose in naming the organization and
placed entirely in their hands the
formulating OF a workable plan of
farm relief.
No statement was forthcoming
from the White House after the
meeting. Robert d. Carey OF Wyo-
ming, chairman Of the commission, said
the Investigating body would meet
this afternoon at the Department of
Agriculture to organize and discuss
a plan of procedure.
Eight of the nine commissioners
We're presented to the President
Charles S. Barrett, chairman of the
National Board OF Farm Organiza-
tions, OF Union City, Pa. the only
absentee. was expected to reach
Washington in time to attend the or
ganization meeting.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
ALBION AND WIFE ASK
FINAL CITIZEN PAPERS
Director Of Opera Company and
Radio Bedtime Story Teller
Apply to Local Court.

Application for final citizenship
papers was made today in the office
OF the clerk of the District Supreme
Court by Harold Meek and his wife,
Mrs. Marietta Stockard Meek, who are
better known as Edouard Albion,
director of the Washington Opera
Company. and as Peggy Albion, tell
er of bedtime stories over the radio
The applicants made their declara-
tion of intention November 80, 1917,
and hearing on their final papers will
be held after the expiration of three
months.
Mr.. Meek will discard the name
Harold and will be known as Edouard
Albion Meek, while Mrs. Meek will
make no change in her given name.
Meek was born at Port Stanley, On
tario. Canada, March "a, 1884. and
came to the United States August
S, la,6 Mrs. Meek is a native of
Rea, aville, n. c.. but lost her cit
'zenship by marriage to a foreigner.
Meek is described in the petition as
concert singer, while the wife's
occupation Is given as a writer. They re-
side at 1914 G street
Evening star., 1924-11-17
GOVERN MENT NEAR END
OF CONSPIRACY CASE
Officials of Mortgage Company on
Trial for Using Mails to
Defraud.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated tEtss.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November II
United States District Attorney
Homer Elliott plans to bring the Gov
ernment's case against Is officials OF
the Hawkins Mortgage Co. charged
with conspiracy to use the mails to
defraud. to a close by the middle of
the week, he disclosed yesterday.
About 40 witnesses for the prosecu-
ton remain TO testify, he said, many
of the original $50 subpoenaed having
been excused.
Mr.. Elliott indicated that the testi-
mony of the remaining witnesses
would center about the alleged In
dividual illegal acts of the defendant
officials of the company.
Attornys for the defense. who are
expected to begin presentation OF
their case about Thursday, have in
dicated they will make a plea that
their clients, as underltngs in the
Hawkins concern, had no knowledge
Of postal law violations as charged.
Although a. report was current that
Morton S. Hawkins, head of the con-
Germ, whose opera tions are said to
have run into the millions, was nego-
tiating for a surrender last week, he
had not given himself up as yet,
federal officials said today.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
President Sends
Condolences UpOn
Death of Karger

President Coolidge today sent
the following letter of coincidence
to Mrs. Gus J. karger:
THE news of your husbands
death has brought to me a sense
of sorrow and of real loss HIS
long service as leading figure
in the corps of newspaper corre-
spondents, which Is so important a
factor in the life of the Capitol.
had made him the trusted friend
and the helpful counselor Of many
public men. Like most of the men
OF his profession. he lived a pub
lie life while enjoying little Of
the recognition 1t brings to those
who devote themselves to 1t in
other capacities. I want to make
recognition Of the part he played
in this community and in the Ma
tion, to tell you of my own grief
in his going, and to extend all
sympathy and coincidence in your
great loss"
Evening star., 1924-11-17
z EVANS SLAYERS]
TO DIE IN MEXICO
Bandits Sentenced for Muir
der of British Subject
Last August.
BY the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, November II
Alejo Garcia and Francisco Ruiz yes
terday were sentenced to death for
the murder OF Mrs. Rosalie Evans,
the American-born widow Of a Brit
ish subject, who was killed last Au-
gust near her hacienda In the state
OF Puebla.
The trial Of the two men had been
In progress for several days in the
town of Puebla. The verdict was
reached at midnight Saturday night.
after day spent by Garcia and his
counsel in an endeavor to establish
the fact that the bullet which caused
the death OF Mrs. Evans was fired by
John Strauss, superintendent OF the
Evans hacienda, in moment Of ner-
Vousness while endeavoring to Tepel
an attack made by bandits on Mrs.
Evans.
Death VIII Occur This Week.
The sentence was passed, notwith-
standing the protest of Cosme Zaf-
ras, recently deposed as attorney
general. who charged that the trial
was illegal because OF hts absence
from the court. The execution of tho
assassins is expected to take place
during the present week.
Many times during the trial Garcia
insisted on talking at length and
denying his guilt. Counsel for de-
fense insisted that Mrs. Evans death
wound was made by an expansive
bullet, which could not have been
fred from the rifles of either of the
men on trial.
Mrs Evans was shot dead near
Texmelucan, state of Puebla, early
last August while on the road to her
hacienda. She was shot through the
left side and, falling from the buggy,
which she was driving. her hair
caught in the wheels and the body
was dragged some distance. Her
face was badly mutllated.
Mrs. Evans, whose homo was
Brownsville, Tex, was the widow OF
a British subject, a former president
of the Bank Of London in Mexico.
Prior to her assassination she had
been one of the central figures in
controversy In connection with the
seizure of her property near Pueola-
Her fight was taken up by H S. c.
Cummins, the British charge d'archives
in Mexico City. and the acrimonious
dispute between Cummins and the
Mexican authorities on behalf OF Mrs.
Evans resulted in the Mexican gov
ernments demanding that he be with
drawn from his post.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
$4,000 MINERS STRIKE
CLOSING II COLLIERIES
Hudson Coal Company Failed to
Adjust Long Pending Griev-
ances, Claim of Men.

By the Associated Press.
SCRANTON, Pa, November IT,
Eleven Of the twenty collieries of the
Hudson Coal Company between For
est City and Nanticoke, Pa, were
idle today because Of a strike of A.
600 mine workers. who charge the
company has failed to adjust long
pending grievances.
A survey showed that 5000 miners
in different parts Of the company's
district had needed the advice of
union leaders and remained at work
The strike order was issued by the
general grievance committee at a
session attended by delegates from
22 local mine unions.
A telegram was received at head
quarters of the miners union here
today from International President
John l. Lewis. He advised local lead
ers to exert every influence to get
the strikers back to work and have
their grievances adjusted through
the proper channels.
Evening star., 1924-11-17

country and came to know we'll every
public man. He was close to a num-
ber Of the Presidents. They trusted
him, as well they might. While he
was q Republican, he had more than
most correspondents a real judicial
mind and a very great sense of re-
sponsibility in what he said through
the columns of his paper. I have
watched him grow in his power of
description and statement and sound
ness of conclusion. He made bis
signed letters most Interesting and
a great feature of the Times-Star and
welded a wide personal influence in
Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and
Indiana that was noteworthy His
personal qualities Of loyalty, frank
ness, sense of humor, courage and
lovable companionship made him a
friend one rejoiced to have. Pros
perity or disappointment, success or
failure made no difference with Gus.
He was bound to his friends with
hooks of steel. He had been so long
in the. Capital of the country, was SO
experienced and so wise through that
experience that he was valued great
tic profession.
"They recognized his worth and
leadership by making him president
of the National Press Club and one
of its active managers. He was one
of the deans of the Washington cor
respondents. With him journalism
was a profession. He did not permit
himself to be diverted from it by
temptations of Office or business. He
was at the height of his power and
usefulness. The position he had won
for himself enabled him to write the
telling truth and to draw fair and
useful conclusions from 1t. He never
made his contributions to his journal
the vehicle of personal dislike or
prejudiced attack. He was broad and
generous and liberal. He was a
strong man physically and mentally
and it is a real loss that we are not
to have for many more years the az.
sistance that. he could render to the
cause of publishing the truth from
Washington to the large community
which he reached, without fear or IA
vor. One needs almost a lifetime to
secure such a pulpit. And now in
full strength he is taken from US
His home life was brimming with
sweetness. It is sad to think of the
bereavement of the loving wife and
the void his death makes in his happy
family"
Evening star., 1924-11-17
SUPREME COURT RULES
ON VETERANS RATINGS

Compensation ratings made by the
United States Veterans Bureau are
not renewable by the courts. the Su-
preme Court held today, except only
when it is shown that they are wholly
unsupported by the facts and are Ca
PRECIOUS" or arbitrary.
In all other cases, the court held
the compensation ratings fixed by the
director of the Veterans Bureau are
final
The decision was handed down In
the case of Sam Silberschein, who had
sought unsuccessfully to have the
Federal Court for the Eastern District
of Michigan set aside ruling by the
director.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
RUSSIAN PAPER DEMANDS
ACTION ON JAPANESE PACT
Declares Excessive Demands OF
Latter Are Dragging Out Nego-
tiations Interminably.
Ry the Assncia ted Press.

BY the AssOcia ted Press.
MOSCOW, November .17.-Under the
caption AIt Is high time to finish,"
the Izvestia says today that treaty
negotiations with Japan are dragging
on interminably because of excessive
demands by Japan.
The paper says Japan has insisted
upon having so per cent of the North
Sakhalin oil fields and has attempt
ed to exact .Russia's promise that If
she should decide to lease the other
40 per cent to foreigners 1t would be
given to Japanese interests.
The editorial warns Japan that an
international situation may arise
under which she might lose even the
advantages offered her by the Soviet
government now. The Soviet gov
ernment offered 40 per cent.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
CHALIAPIN FREE TO SING
IN WASHINGTON JAN. 26

"Chaliapin is free to sing with the
Washington Opera Company in their
production of Gounod's Faust on
January 26," according to a statement
made this morning by Edward Albion.
director of the local company, and
based upon word received in a tele-
gram from Jacques Samossoud, direc-
tor of the orchestra with the COM
pany, who went to New York to see
Chaliapin personally about the mat
ter. Copy of the Chicago Opera
Company contract is not necessary"
says the telegram. The singers con-
tract with the Washington company
is absolutely valid, and he will sing
with them in the January production.
Mr.. Chaliapin received his release
for that date direct from Herbert M
Johnson Of the Chicago Opera Com
pany," added Mr.. Albion.
Evening star., 1924-11-17
LABOR RANKS DROP
FAST IN FOUR YEARS
Loss of About 80 Per Cent
Since 1920 Peak, Official
Figures Reveal.

Ranks of the American Federation
of Labor dropped 80 per cent last year
from the membership peak in 1920.
Figures revealed today in the official
report of the executive council of the
American Federation Of Labor, made
public in El Paso, Tex, scene of the
annual convention. show that where
there were 4,o7s,740 paid up members
in 1920, the year 1924 listed only
The Federation Of Labor figures
support figures supplied in Associated
Press dispatches from New York
quoting the National Bureau of Eco
nomic Research as authority for the
statement that membership in all
unions throughout the country had
dwindled from 5,110, 500 in 1920 to 3,779,-
600 In 1923.
Lose Most of Gains.
This report stated, In part: Those
which had been most heavily repre-
sented in war industries and which
had experienced the most substantial
gains were In the period Of defla-
tion the heaviest losers. The metal
and transportation unions alone con-
tributed about 60 per cent of the
total loss In this period. The textile
and packing house unions lost about
The figures in the official report Of
the executive council, supplemented
by figures showing the voting
strength of the unions, disclose the
following facts:
Gains Made by Some.
Gains were made by mine workers,
electrical workers, railway employees
(of the amalgamated association) and
Wit
Losses, extremely heavy. were sus-
tained by machinists, boiler makers
and textile workers: less heavy by
ladies' garment workers, railway car
men, carpenters and teamsters and
Chauffeurs.
1t must be remembered, however, in
comparing these figures, that they
represent defation from a peak, which
was reached in 1920. after a rise from
1918, which was greater in the two
years thereafter than the loss In the
four years succeeding 1920. Experts
point out, however, that the fedora
tion has failed to hold its gains,
made during the high tension indus
trial era superinduced by the war.
Decline Begun in 1921.
The year 1921 marked the first tend
ency toward a downward slope,
when the federation lost 71,942 mem
bers. But the most serious blow came
during 1922 when 710 903 were drop
ped from the 1921 figures, giving
total then of 3,195,635.
In 1923 there was a further decrease
which brought the federation's ranks
to 2.926,4GS, a loss of more than $685.
600. This year has noted a check in
membership loss to some extent, only
60.4S9 dropping from the total figure
during 1924.
The following tabulation of the
yoting strength of these organiza-
tions is appended. the voting strength
ratio on the general average being
l vote to every 100 members
Figures for the larger organiza-
tions follow:
Evening star., 1924-11-17

what better and probably out of dan
ger.
Carroll Suther, so7 Quincy street.
stopped his automobile on the $500
block of Park place yesterday after
noon after the car had injured Rose
mary Entler, 4, 72s Quebec street,
who was hurt while running across
the street. Suther took the child
homo, where an examination showed
she had not been seriously hurt
! Another pedestrian injured by an
automobile yesterday was George A.
Pugh, IL, Bethesda. Md, who was
knocked down by the automobile of
l.. NJ. Leach, 1909 Thirty-ffth street,
while crossing at Thirty-third and N
streets. He was treated at home for
a broken bone Of his left cheek
John voolfolk, colored, As, 1923
Sixth street, was knocked down last
night at Florida avenue and Sixth
street by an automobile driven by
William L. Barksdale. 3046 Newark
street, Cleveland Park, and bruised
and shocked. He was given first aid
at Freedmen's Hospital.
Harold Nebel, 8, and Marie Jen-
kins, 40 x street northeast, were in
jured yesterday afternoon as result
of a collision between the car in
which they were riding and another
machine at Fourth and NJ streets
northeast. They were treated at Sib-
ley Hospital by DR.. Einstein for cuts
and bruises.
Hurt I'm Collision.
A collision between the automo-
biles of John L. James, 1892 v street,
Anacostia, and George NJ. Martin, 1927
Warder place, occurred on Nichols
avenue. Anacostia, about 1:30 o'clock
yesterday morning. Mrs. Emma
James, occupant of the former car,
was cut about the face by broken
glass. She was given first aid at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital.
An automobile driven by Goodman
Haves, 124S c street northeast, col
lided with another car at Seventh and
streets northeast yesterday after
noon. Haves' left leg was injured and
he received a cut over his left eye.
His machine was badly damaged. Po-
lice reported the failure Of the driver
Evening star., 1924-11-17
SENATOR CURTIS SEES
COOLIDGE ON FARM POST
Kansan to Ask State Delegation to
Agree on a Candidate for Sec
retary Of Agriculture.

The post of Secretary of Agricul-
ture was the subject of another dis
cussion today between President
Coolidge and Senator Curtis, Repub-
lican, of Kansas, in which the names
Of J. G. Mohler, secrtary of the Kan
sas State Board of Agriculture, and
William NJ. Jardine, president of Kan
sas Agriculture College, were put
forward by the Senator.
Mr.. Curtis said he would call a
meeting of the Kansas congressional
delegation after the opening of Con-
gress and ask for an agreement on
one of the two candidates from that
State.