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Evening star., 1924-06-19
OPTIMISTS ACCEPT
CLUBS HOSPITALITY
Annual Outing Will Be Held at
Congressional Country Course
on July 8.
CARAVAN IS BEING PLANNED
Party of $50 Members and Guests
to Go Out in Autos.

Plans for the annual outing were
initiated on an elaborate scale at the
meeting of the Optimist Club yester-
day when it was decided to accept the
hospitality of the Congressional Club
for the afternoon and evening of
July 9.
Joseph A Burkart, chairman Of the
outing committee, announced that ar
rangements already had reached more
than a preliminary stage. 1t is ex-
pected that upward of $50 members
of the luncheon club will be in at
tendance and that most of these will
be accompanied by friends.
Among the tentative ARRANGEMENTS
is a proposal for an Optimist Cara
van, to meet in the center of the city
and proceed as an automobile fleet to
the country club. Harry Angelica
the "glee gang which will be sung
the caravan winds it way through
the city and into the country. A
large orchestra will be divided into
the members as they proceed on the
caravansary.
satiricaI sHt Planned.
A number of novelties will serve to
entertain guests during the after
noon. One is skit which is being
prepared by the dramatic committee
of the organization headed by Frank
Peirce. He promises to have a
satire ready which will make GER
tain highlights in the District laugh
at themselves.
Dinner will be served in the main
dining hall at the country club, and
dancing will follow.
Chairman Burkart of the arrange
port yesterday, pointed out that the
outing would give members who
have not yet had the privilege an
opportunity of viewing the elaborate
country club facilities which have
recently been thrown open by the
Congressional Country Club.
Members will bring wives. or
sweethearts or sisters or daughters
on the outing, as is customary.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
DUTY OF TEACHERS
EXPLAINED CLASS
Howard University Professor Ad.
dresses Graduates of Myrtilla
Miner Normal School.

1t is the duty of teachers. through
THEFT pupils to achieve the better
things of life. This was the message
conveyed to the graduating class OF
the Myrtilla Miner Normal School, by
Charles H. Wesley, professor of his
tory at Howard University. at exer-
cises held in the auditorium Of the
Dun bar High School last night.
Mrs. Betty G. Francis, a former
member of the board of education,
presided at the exercises and a brief
address was delivered by Garnet c.
wilkinson, assistant superintendent mt
of schools. Diplomas were presented
by DR.. J. Hayden Johnson of the board
Of education.
The remainder of the program in
cluded: class grafton by Miriam
Gwendolyn and an invocation and
benediction by Rev. F. /. A. Bennett.
Among the honor students were Lii
liam Duckett, in the primary grade
course; Katherine Belle johnson, in
the kindergarten course, and Edith
Elizabeth Welch, in the home eco
nomicS course.
Louise Acshah Alexander. Pearl Flo
retta Alexander, Lucille Marietta AL
len, Catherine Elizabeth Beaubian,
Elizabeth Leonora Bennett, Lettie
Gertrude Louise Blackwell, Malcina
A. Blackwell, Rosa Elizabeth Bostic,
Brooks. Corrinne Inez Brooks, Mabel
Elizabeth Brown, Portia Cadette Bull
lock, Vermele Yvette Campbell, Ber-
nice Lillian Carter, Ellen Frances
Chavis, Lucy Belelmagne Chiles, Alice
Forester Christopher, Gladys Marie
Aida Combs, Ethel Alleen Cowan,
Edith Yvonne Davis, Lillian Alois
Duckett, Bernice Jessie Ellis.
Blandina Smith Ellis, Florence
Elizabeth Ford, Alma Louise Forrest.
Murial Agatha Fortune. Euretta Minta
Elizabeth Cant, Ruth Louise Cant
Essie Brooks Gaskins, Mary Ellen Gill
lard, Ada Beatrice Gray, Minnie Juan
ita Hall. Helen Williams Hall, Anita
Gloria Haskins, Marzelia Rocks Hill,
Christopher Phillips Hilman, Amelia
Amanda Holland, Ruth Graham Hud-
nell, Miriam Gwendolyn Hughes, Alice
Calls Hunter, Ellen Gertrude Jackson.
Mayme Drewry Jackson, Una Mae
Jackson, Margarite letter, Matte Vir-
ginia Jonathan, Albertine Strother
johnson, Aloncita Miranda johnson.
Annie Walter Wright Jones.
Bernice Beatrice Jones, Dorothy
Augustine Jones, Pauline Bernice
Jones, Reba Cameron Jones, Vivian
allegro Jones, Vesta C1ementine Ken
ney, Eudora Theresa Keyes. Cora Au-
gustus King, Corrine Scott Landers,
Marguerite Virginia Lennon anita Anita
Harriet Lewis, Eunice Viola Mack,
Pauline Ruth Madden. Nellie Mae Nc
Kinney, Phoebe Sutherland Miles, Alta
Dorothea Milton, Lillian Estelle Mont,
Louise Fflicia Sneed Moorhead, Maudie
Lee Montgomery, Eleanor Mae Nor
ris, Errolise Esther Evangeline My
rick, Alise Elizabeth Nash, Leonia
Katherine Nash. Martha Beulah Ca
thello Overton. Gladys Clemenza over,
Marie Palmer, Charles
johnson Quander. George Kealen
Quander. Edna Martyr Redmond, Har-
riet Robinson. Antoinette Josephine
Sampson, Gladys Alice Scott.
Lenora Kyle Scott, Phyllis Wheatley
Shipper, Ruth Elizabeth Shipper, Mis-
souri, Edith Silas, Dorothy Belle Sim
gleton, Edna May Smallwood. Ulrica
Agnes Scott Smith, Eliza Bernice
Maude Gadstine Stratton
Ruth Augusta Sutton, Leona Althea
Esther Shackeiford Tay-
Evening star., 1924-06-19

of luck. Those getting hair cuts give
the BARRIERS lots of trouble. They use
their eyes and rest their vocal chords
One of the f1appers gets chair
and sits down to watch Elaine have
her shingles cropped. And sooner OF
later the new chatter starts while
BARRIERS and male patients tune in
my dear. / want to give you that
pudding recipe. It's too delicious for
words. Tess and Jennie were over to
the house last week and I made II
for them and-although you know
they really don't know much about
good cooking-still they have sense
enough to know how good some
things can be-they were really sweet
in telling me about tt,
"Ch huh
Latest From Paris.
by the bye. did you hear of the
latest from Paris" Lace negliges
Adorable. | was looking at ocher
one up in Millingsborgn's today and
1T was perfectly darling"
And the patients and tonsorial sur
geons stay tuned in
Thus for an hour. "The big cheese
dies and darling frocks" supplants
it. THAT old ham, ha-ha" turns up
his toes and adorable" steps into the
breach.
The Pink Gazette and Racing Form
may soon find the Ladies' Home CON-
panion and the Fashion and Figure
Magazine beside them. Already the
pretty pictures have been taken from
barber shop windows.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
ALL STAR NEWSBOYS
TO BE THEATER GUESTS
Will See Opening Chapters of New
Film by Courtesy of Leader
House

Star carriers and newsboys have
treat in store for next Saturday.
starting at 9 am, when they will be
the guests of Sidney Lust, proprietor
Of the Leader Theater, at the opening
chapters of the new chapter play,
The Fortieth Door" Arrangements
for the boys to attend the showing of
this picture have been made by Gait
Burns, circulation manager of The
Star, and Mr.. Lust. Each boy at
tending will receive a 'Beerro waf-
fle," something new in ice cream.
"The. Fortieth Door," featuring AL
lene Ray and Bruce Gordon, and
with ,winsome Anna May Wong.
Chinese star, In an important role, is
a thriller from start to finish. The
scene Is laid in the Valley. of the
Kings in Egypt, where an American
discovers a rich tomb and falls in
love with what he believes to be a
Mohammedan girl.
Efforts to dispossess the American
of his treasure and to steal the girl.
who turns out to be the daughter of
French explorer, keep the action at
fever pitch.
A Tom Mix picture also will be
shown.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
CHILDREN GIVE RECITAL,
Large Group Appear at Petworth
Methodist Church.

Daisy Ffckenscher presented a
large group of Washington children in
violin and piano recital at the Pet
worth Methodist Episcopal Church,
Grant Circle and New Hampshire
avenue nrtohwest, last night.
Children participating included:
kathryne Barker, Byron Sedgwick,
Kathryn Hale, Georgia Hopkins. Ber-
nice Drissel, Lucca Collins, Harry
Wiley, Harry Shoub, Gertrude Bailey.
Arthur Palsgrove, Robert Henley,
Grace Wiley, Hermon Hill. Ellsworth
Everett, Homer Drissel, Robert Bo-
dell, Theodore Grissinger, Jack Kas-
san, Joseph Barker, Iantha Smith,
Katharine Murphy, Virginia Hitch
cock. Garth Beaver, Gerald Whit
taker, Foster Lipphard, Eva Davis.
Ruth Hays and Dorothy Seamans.
The program was an interesting
combination of simpler compositions
and more difficult work by such
masters as Schumann, Saint-SAena
Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Couperin,
Chopin and Secar Cui.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
YOUR BONUS
Questions That Bother You
Will Be Answered in
This Column.
Address: Room 722, News De.
partment, The Evening Star,
Washington, ID. c.

Q. My mother was my sole depen-
dent during the war. 1 have since
married, but am separated from my
wife, for good. I am in a quandry
just whom to name as my beneficiary.
Can I lawfully name my mother as
my beneficiary even though 1 have a
wife?-W. L. E.
A. You can name any person as the
BENEFICIARY Of your adjusted compen-
sation certificate.
Q. My brother was a second lieu
tenant and died while in the service
just after the armistice was signed.
His mother during her life received
the war risk insurance he carried,
her children are receiving it now.
Will they receive any bonus?-Mrs. L..
S. B.
A. Adjusted compensation is pay
able first to the widow if unmarried,
then to the children share and share
alike, If no widow, or children then
to the mother; If no widow, no chill
dren, no mother, then to the father
A mother or father must submit un-
der oath statement of dependency
IT your brother left no widow. no
children, and his mother is dead, and
pensation Is payable. In other words
brothers and sisters of soldiers now
deceased, are not entitled to the
benefits of the act. Had your brother
lived to sign an application blank he
could have named any person as his
beneficiary.
Q. l served $50 days on this side,
and 502 days in France, which in,
cludes dates of sailing and return,
what is my factor number; L am now
fifty years old, and what will be the
amount of my adjusted service GER
ificate?-E.. P.
A. You are entitled to the maxi
mum benefits of the adjusted compen-
sation act for both service on this
and the other side, which is $625, pro-
vided that all this service was rem
dered before July 1, 1919. Your fac
tor number is 1924. Multiply your
credit Of $625 by year factor number
and you find that, your policy will be
worth about $1,452.
Q. 1 served on this side sixty-three
days. 1 served overseas 275 days.
What am 1 entitled to receive?-J.
.. W.
A. Your total credit is $346. You
should multiply this credit Of $346
by your factor number to ascertain
the amount of your certificate.
@. I enlisted June 1s. 1918, dis
charged June 4, 1919. What is my
policy worth at the age of %? had
no overseas service.-A. H.
A. The face value of your policy
will be about $733.
c. f. F. Your total credit for both
service on this and the other side is
5000. thus making the face value of
your policy about $771.
Q. 1 enlisted January 1, 1918, and
went at once to an officers training
camp. On June 1, 1918, I was COM
missioned, and sailed for France Oc-
tober 20, 1918. I returned to the states
July 10. 1919. How much cash bonus
will l receive. How much would the
insurance amount to?-G. E. NJ, La
Plata.
A The bonus is not payable in
cash. Your adjusted service credit
will be about s455. To compute the
Evening star., 1924-06-19
SWINDLING SCHEMES
DETECTED IN CAPITAL
n. M. Cool Tells Rotarians of
Cleanup" Work by Better
Business Bureau.

Explaining efforts "to eliminate un-
truthful statements in advertising
in Washington. H. NJ. Cool, director
of the Better Business Bureau, told
the Rotary Club yesterday at the
New Willard Hotel that the bureau
had been able to uncover great
many interesting and spectacular
frauds" o., ..
Mr.. Cool told of an agent in Wash
lngton recently selling stock in a
soid mine under a guarantee to for
feit stock in a certain railroad If the
gold mine did not make 33I-3 per
cent in the first year. The agent
wanted $1,000. for his gold mine
STOCK, 1t was explained, while he
could purchase the railroad stock,
wnIcn was to be the guarantee, for
something over $500.
Another salesman recentlv orerad
1or sale, and was selling to the in
credulous in Washington, Mr.. Cool
said, stock in certain concern at S12
snare, when in reality it was worth
only a few cents.
Two Ends In View.
elimination of "vultures which are
preying on the incredulous." was de-
of activity of the Better Business Bu-
reau. Efforts to get retail advertisers
TO use only truthful statements cap
apie or only one true Interpretation,
Mr.. Cool said, was the other prin-
cipal ideal of the bureau
Business men and newspapers have
gotten behind this movement for
truth in advertising" Mr.. Cool said.
to build up public confidence and
understanding. BY such cooperation,
We are accomplishing great deal
which business cannot accomplish for
itself" Better business bureaus, he
said, were established in forty-four
cities.
The club accepted an invitation
from Gus Forsberg to hold it's week
ly luncheon, Wednesday. July 16, on
the steamer st. Johns.
William C1abaugh, president of the
Rotary Club, presided.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
TRUE BILLS Returned.
Grand Jury Finds Indictment TO,
Mayhem-Other Charges.

The grand jury. today indicted
Grant A. Thomas. alias John Blue,
colored, for mayhem. 1t is alleged
that he kicked Anthony Perry in the
right eye December 20 last during a
fight on G street between Sd and AZ
streets southwest. Perry's eye had
to be removed at the hospital.
The grand jurors ignored nine
cases in which were included charges
of grand larceny against Maurice
Redding, Bessie Show and Harry B.
Barr; violating white slave act
against William F. Riley; robbery
against Raymond Harris; carnal
knowledge against George Snowden;
Albert Madison, assault with danger
Gus weapon; seduction against Frank
White, and assault to rape against
Leroy Dennis.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are: James A. Lemon,
grand larceny; Louis H. Williams.
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny: Charles
Smith and Charles Williams. robbery;
Charles E. Jones, housebreaking;
William Wineberger, alias Charles
Hamilton, forgery; Charles H.
Bready, larceny after trust; William
T. King, arson; Moses jackson and
Erwin c. Bowen, non-support of mi
nor children.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
REUNION AT GALLAUDET,
200 Alumni Expected at Session
Starting Tomorrow.

About 200 graduates from all parts
of the country are expected to attend
the sfxtieth anniversary reunion of
the Alumni Association of Gallaud ct
College, on Kendall Green, beginning
Among the features will be the
launching of a campaign to raise
funds for memorial hall in honor of
Edward Miner Gallaudet, founder of
the college.
Tuesday afternoon, the delegates,
after an auto tour of the city, will be
received at the White House.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
RoDEHEAvER TO SING.
Associate Of Billy Sunday to Be at
First Congregational.

Homer Rodeheaver. noted chorister
and associate of Rsv. Billy Sunday,
is to give concert Monday niRht at
the First Congregational Church, 10th
and G streets, at o'clock. He will
have with him his famous golden
trombone.
Mr.. Rodeheaver has just been on
concert lecture Monday night will
tell stories of China. Japan, Australia,
Tasmania, Egypt and Europe.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
Girls Held as Runaways.

Virginia Shaw Grubbs, eighteen, and
married. and Mamie Gertrude Lynch,
sixteen. and single, reported missing
from their homes in Charlotte, N. c.,
since last week, were arrested by
Detectives Mullen and Murphy yester-
day and booked at headquarters as
fugitives from parents.
The girls reached here Saturday
and visited at the home of friends
Of their families in Northeast Wash
ington. When a message asking their
arrest was received, the police were
told that the pair had started home
ward Sunday night and the Char
lotte authorities were so informed.
Learning the girls had returned to
the home of friends yesterday, the de-
tectivss arrested them. Their rela
tives are expected here soon to take
them home.
Evening star., 1924-06-19

lor, Lillian Ethel Turner, Bertha
Blanche Wade, Helen Constance
Wade, Maude Virginia Walker, Flor
ence Boyd Williams. Louise Redd
williams, Evelyn Luvinia Young,
Pearl Beatrice Williams. Edith Mer-
cier Wilson, Victoria Ruth Conrad,
Kathryne Belle Johnson, Edwina AL
inc Simpkins. Carrie Lucille Adams,
Dorothy Madison Doram, wilmer
Madalene Harvey, Edna Louise Jones,
Harriet Elizabeth Lewis, Fleta Ethel
Rambeau, Gertrude Della Ross, Ruth
Buchanan Scott, Edith Elizabeth
Welch.
Evening star., 1924-06-19
University Club Field Day

The third annual field day of the
University Club will be held at the
Columbia Country Club June 80. The
program for the afternoon includes
golf, tennis matches, indoor base ball
"out of DOORS" putting contest, tug
of war, horseshoes and duck on rock
Diner will be served at $3.50 O'Clock,
to be followed by bridge and other
Evening star., 1924-06-19

amount of your policy increase your
credit by 25 per cent and add COM
pound interest for twenty years The
quick way to compute it is to multi
ply your credit by your factor num-
Der.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
Is RUM BOATS BRING
/ $5,982 AT AUCTION
Two Women Among Bidders at
d Picturesque Sale of Cap
Y tured Vessels.
FLYING DUTCHMAN WITH LOT
Fast Smuggler Again Goes Out Of
"Dead Mans Basin"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, January 3.-"Dead
mans basin" at the Battery. the
governments internment place for
captured rum craft, was -emptied yes
terday during an auction, attended
by 500 men and two women, in which
sixteen bullet SCARED smugglers of
holiday liquor were knocked down
for $3.50.
The auctioned craft were a motley
fleet Some were former pleasure
cruisers, trim and stanch, buy cry
ing for paint. Others were wide
waisted fish boats converted into
rum carriers by the installation Of
powerful engines. There were a few
OF the tx" type of speed craft built
especially for running the rum pa
troll blockade, with hydroplane keels
and twin airplane motors.
Federal men estimated the vessels
had cost upward of $4,000 to build.
The Flying Dutchman, alias Susie,
one of the fastest smugglers in the
business and yet one of the most fire.
quent occupants of Dead Mans ba-
SIM carried off honors, bringing
S1,175 under the hammer. She was
a 40-foot cabin speeder with a capac-
tty of zoo cases.
One Vessel for 800.
Among those of the captured fleet
which once cost somebody $4,000 or
more to build and which recently
have gathered several coats of bar
nacles in the basin, the Porpoise,
alias K-991, brought $3.50; the K-6101,
$500; the Modesty. $500: the Texas.
alias K-4560. S275; the Unnamed and
Unknown. 800; and the Catherine S.,
alias K-150, $3.50.
Bidders came from all the nearby
coast towns known as landing points
for rum row liquor; from Philadel-
phia, Newark, Jersey City and Hobo
ken. A few were there from Atlantic
Highlands, Keyport and Waterwitch
on the Jersey coast.
Weatherbeaten young men, most of
them Were: roughly garbed, jovial
fellows who openly admitted they ran
liquor and were looking for new
craft for the trade. Detectives were
among the bidders, too. as well as a
declared they wished to acquire the
craft fog, legitimate uses.
Women Slow Bidders.
The two women, middle-aged and
plainly dressed, leaped from boat to
boat, comparing catalogs and in
specting hulls and engines. They did
little bidding and their limit was
auctioneer as she was outbid for the
Flying Dutchman, she's nothing but
an old mud scow any way-too slow
for me-.
Sales were for cash. When customs
officials declined to accept liberty
her purchaser waved the bonds over
head, shouting Who'll buy 'em?"
yellow-backed currency was flung to-
ward him from all directions.
Evening star., 1924-01-03

made public letter to President
Coolidge voicing opposition on behalf
of the veterans Organization against
the sale of arms and ammunition to
the Obregon government in Mexico
for suppressing the de ia Huerta re-
bellion.
.rThese arms. ammunition and i'm
plements of war were produced, to be
used in the name OF and for the en-
forcement Of liberty" states the let
ter, "and not to be turned over to a
foreign government to be used in the
slaughter OF men who have taken
up arms for what they consider their
political liberty"
Evening star., 1924-01-03

DR.. Caroline Spurgeon- is the out
standing figure among college women
being president of the international
Federation of University Women and
dean of women of the University oil
London.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
UNITED AMERICAN VETS
PROTEST U. S. ARMS SALE
Coolidge Gets Letter Saying Rebels
In Mexico Are Fighting
for Liberty.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 3.-Warren
Shaw Fisher, national commander of
the United American War Veterans,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-04-05
A ROYAL PRINCESS IN
REGIMENTAL ATTIRE

A very recent photograph of the
beautiful Crown Princess Helene Of
Roumania, in her regimental uni
form.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-04-05

London-Members Of the Mddesex Ladies A. c. partl-
cpatng in the recent country he cross country
race was difficult one barbed wire fences and sharp thons
adding to the difficulties One of the girl athletes shown
torn by barbed wire
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-04-05

GOVERNMENT COUNSEL IN OIL FIGHT.
Chicago-Atse Pomerene Mrs. Pomerene and Owen J.
Roberts, hey arrived in Chicago enroute to Wyoming
Pomeene and Roberts appointed by President Coolidge
and approved by Congress to begin suit in the Federal Court
Cheyenne Wyo cancel the existing leases the Teapot
Dome Naval Oil Reserve.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-04-05

BONUS MEASURE PASSES LOWER HOUSE.
Washngtor-Rep. r. r. Green of Iowa is holding the
bonus BILL VIII h has passed the House by 355 to 81 This
measure calls chiefly for paid up 20year endowment policies
for war veterans certainty that President Coolidge
will veto the measure and Congress likely to override it.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-04-05

WILBUR APPOINTMENT Is CONFIRMED
San Francisco Calf-Jusice Curtis Wilbur Of the Cali
fornia Supreme Court with Mrs Wilbur outside their home
here His appointment Secretary Of the Navy has been
confirmed by Congress and President Coolidge has instructed
him to proceed at once the Capital his duties
Evening star., 1924-04-24
5 Operations years suffering with consti-
pation-Kellogg's Bran restores health

sour any more and my. bowels move reg
ulariy morning and evening.
YOirS sincerely