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however, will be the arrival there
today of the American world filters
who have been speeding up their
schedule over southeastern Europe
in order to reach Paris today.
The French army, the Aero Club
of France, many famous airmen,
the whole of the American Olympic
team and practically the entire
American colony are joining in the
reception being given them.
4 X X
Home from Europe, Mrs. Marye
Stars West For Daughters Debut.
Fresh from three or four months
in Europe, Mrs. George T.. Marye
and her pretty daughter. Miss
Helen Marye, spent Sunday in
Washington, but are leaving today
for California. Mr.. Marye, who re-
manned in this country while they
were travelling in Europe, went
West a little while ago and has
made ready for them their home
at Burlingame. Calf, where they
will spend the summer. Miss Flora
Doyle, sister of Mrs. Marye, has
been awaiting their arrival here and
Miss Callie Doyle, another sister,
is at present in London, having
gone over several weeks ago to
join Mrs. Marye, and will not, re-
turn to this country until Sep.
TENDER.
Dame Rumor had persisted that
Count Lamberto Negri Arnold,
whose engagement to Miss Marye
uyoo lyV
was to come home with his fiancee
and her mother. However, it was
thought best for him to postpone
his visit to this country until the
MaryeS were safely established at
Burlingame and until matters had
been talked over with Miss Marye's
father, who deprecates any talk of
an engagement because of his
daughters extreme youth. In a few
weeks, then, the count is expected
and after Mr.. Marye has looked him
over the engagement may be made
Official although it is not ex.
pected that there will be an i'm.
mediate wedding.
Mrs. Marye is exceedingly fond
Of the brilliant young Italian, a
soldier and a diplomat, a man of
wealth and distinguished lineage,
who has wooed and won her daugh.
ter. But she, too, feels that Miss
Marye, who is but seventeen and
just out of school, is much too
young to contemplate matrimony
Immediately. Besides she has other
plans for her daughter. She wants
to present her to society in San
Francisco in the autumn, giving a
ball for her at the beautiful Bur.
lingame Club, and then to bring
her on to Washington in December
for a taste of official society here.
And in the spring, as a climax to a
gay first season, she has arranged
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-14
MIR. AND MRS. GRAVES
MOTOR TO CAPE COD.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph A. Graves
and Mrs. Graves mother, Mrs. W.
P. Evans, left yesterday by motor
for Cape Cod, Mass. They will stop
at numerous points on the way.
They will be gone two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Graves recently re.
turned from Philadelphia. where
they passed the weekend of the
Fourth with Mr.. Graves mother
Mrs. Agnes D. Graves, and her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs,
Ernest Graves.
Mrs. r. G. Dickerson. delegate
from Georgia to the Democratic ne
tional convention. and her son.
James Barclay Dickerson, are the
guests of Mrs. Dckerson's sister,
Mrs. Frances Moon Butts, at the
Toronto apartments.
Mrs. Dickerson will leave this
week for a trip through Virginia
before returning to her home in
bonneville, Ga.
Miss Mary M. Vandelip is at the
DeSoto Hotel in Savannah, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. j. H. .Lttlehales. Of
5l3S Highland place. are at Haddon
Hail. in Atlantic City.
n X
Mrs. Charles P. Taft I'd and her
children are at their cottage AZ
Narragansett Pier and later in the
summer will go to Murray Bay.
Canada, to visit Chief Justice and
Mrs. William Howard Taft.
X
Mrs. Robert w. Fleming will
leave this week for Charlottesville
Va, to visit Lieutenant Fleming's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. n. w. Elem.
ing, who have taken a house there
While their younger son attends
the university summer school. She
Will return in a week to stay with
her parents, Surgeon General and
Mrs. Stitt, until Lieutenant Elem.
ing returns from Europe.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley P. Wilson
have returned to their country
place, Holm Hall, near Alexandria,
Va, after visiting in New York.
X X x
Stereoptican views of Hawaii.
THE Isle of Tranquil Delight" will
be shown in the grill room of the
Wardman Park Hotel tomorrow
evening at $3.50 o'clock by Chaplain
Fealy. 0. r. c.. u. S. A.
Father Fealy has lived for more
than four years in the Crossroads
of the Pacific" and will give several
selections of Kanaka melody on the
ukulele. The public is invited
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MRS. ELSIE COBB WILSON
WEEDS MARINE OFFICER.

Mrs. Edmund Monroe Cobb has
announced the marriage of her
daughter, Mrs. Elsie Cobb Wilson,
to Colonel Louis McCarty Little,
which took place on June II.
The wedding was a quiet one with
only members of the family present,
owing to the fact that Colonel Little
was on the eve of his departure for
China. Mrs. Little could not accom-.
pany Colonel Little to China, but
will follow him there at later date.
She will, however, make her Gus
tomary trip to Europe, returning to
Washington in the winter.
X
Mr.. and Mrs. c. William Wattles,
of Alexandria, Va, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Caro-
line Clagett, to William w. Horner,
son of Mr.. and Mrs ]. Richey
Horner, of Cleveland Mr.. Horner is
graduate of Cornell; during the
war he served in France as a lieu
tenant in the naval aviation corps.
lie is now statistician of the Cleve-
land Trust Company. The wedding
will take place in the autumn.
X
The Counselor of the Hungarian
Legation and Mrs. Pelenyi will re-
turn to Washington today from
Cleveland, where they were guests
Of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. S. l.. Mather.
X
Mrs, John Hervey Young; accom-.
panied by her nephew, DR.. Samuel
Shelfabarger, sailed Saturday from
New York for Europe. Mrs. Young
will spend the summer in Brittany,
and DR.. Shellabarger will join his
family in Switzerland.
Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard sailed
on Saturday on the Berengaria to
join her son, Wilbur Ross Hubbard,
in London. They expect to visit
several countries on the continent,
returning in the fall, and will be at
Wardman Park Hotel for the win.
ter.
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JOHNSTONS IN ATLANTIC
CITY FOR BRIEF STAY.

Brigadier General and Mrs. John
A. Johnston, of Washington, are
spending several days at the Am
bassador Hotel in Atlantic City.
+
Mrs. Monte Griffith will close her
apartment at StOnleigh Court to.
morrow and will go to Atlantic City
for the remainder of the summer.
Mrs. Frederick Halter, who has
returned to this country after spend
ing two years in France and Ger.
many, will reach Washington this
week and will be the guest of Mrs
Edward Robinson at 1915 Calvert
street. Mr.. Halter remained in
France, where he is completing
special course Of study, but will join
his wife in Washington later in the
summer. Mrs. Halter, who was
formerly Miss Ellen Thomas. was
for long time director of athletics
at Central High School.
4
Mrs. Hamilton Wright. who has
been at her summer home in Maine
until recently, sailed on Saturday on
the steamship Homeric to attend the
meeting of the League of Nations in
Geneva Mrs. Wright is one of the
American representatives on the in.
ternational committee on narcotics.
She will return to this country the
last of August.
n 4
DIR. Charles C. Marbury has re.
turned from Europe where he has
been since spring. Mrs. Marbury,
who was with him, remained to visit
her son, Andrew Messick. in Havre,
France. She expects to return in
October.
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to have her daughter presented at
the Court of st. James and after.
ward to take part in the gayeties
OF the London season.
Mrs. Marye herself was presented
at the last drawing room at Buck.
lngham Palace on June 81 when
she and her daughter were spending
three busy weeks in London. But
II was deemed best for Miss Marye
TO put off this experience for an.
other year. Before going to London
they made long visit in Paris and
carrier in the winter they visited
Egypt and spent some time on the
Riviera.
Count Negri is described as a
handsome lad and one of the most
eligible bachelors in Roman society,
Miss Marye Is vivacious and in.
tehlgent, an accomplished horse.
woman and one of the most popular
girls In the little coterie with which
she has been affiliated.
secretary of the Interior Work
who is the guest of Mrs. II. +. D.
mock, at Elsinore, Bar Harbor, was
the guest OF honor at the tea given
saturday by Mrs. Harold Peabody
at her home there. Mrs. Dimock
gave a dinner in his honor that eve.
ming. The Secretary will return to
Washington this evening. He made
a hurried inspection of LAFAYETTE
Park, near Bar Hafbor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-14
FOUR ON TRIAL.
IN KILLING Of
POLICEMAN
Men Slew John w. Purcell
During Alley Gun Fight,
Authorities Charge

Ernest August Brown, Lloyd Mon
roe, William Ludley and Joseph P.
Slaughter, all colored, were today
placmed ntrial before a Jury in
Criminal Court No. Q, Chief Justice
Mccoy, presiding, on charges of
murder in the first degree in con.
nection with the death, October II,
Of John w. Purcell, Of TAP Harvard
street northwest, a policeman.
Officers Purcell and H. r. Craw.
ford, in plain clothes, went into an
alley in the rear of the Bell school,
First street and Virginia avenue
southwest, October Is to quell a
disturbance.
Purcell used a flashlight, it being
night, and the accused are said to
have begun shooting without warn
ing. Purcell fired one shot but be-
fore he could shoot again both he
and Crawford had been wounded.
Purcell fell in his tracks, but
Crawford craw!ed out of the alley
and around the corner to the patrol
box, where he collapsed.
Purcell was shot twice in the
abdomen and once in the right arm
and Crawford was shot in the
abdomen. Purcell had been on the
force twenty years and Crawford
four years.
In selecting d jury, one IF the
questions asked by counsel for the
accused is: Are you in sympathy
with the prohibition act?"
The accused are represented by
Attorneys T. Morris Wampler, Rob
ert E. Lynch, Foster Wood, Abner
Siegal and John II Wilson.
The Government is represented BY
District Attorneys O'Leary, Pres
mont and Burnett.
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TOLD.
GOLDISCURSE
TO AMERICA
Daily Express Declares Money
Is Running Prosperity
Wales Speaks
BY LUTHER A. HUSTON,
international News Service.

LONDON, July 14.-"America
must give up her gold.''
This admonition, hammered in the
Daily Express, greeted the Ameri-
can delegates when they arose to-
day to resume sessions of the con-
vention of the Associated Adver-
Using Clubs of the World.
The newspaper, in lengthy
article addressed to the delegates,
declared the FLOOD of gold, pouring
into America, was wrecking her
prosperity"
Shadows of disaster are ahead
for America" the article continued.
THE cause is her policy of isola.
tion-the remedy is the rehabilita-
ton of Europe"
The, Prince of Wales in address
ing the ad men this morning ex-
pressed the hope that the conven-
ton would lead to many lasting
friendships which would perma.
nently increase international ac-
cord.
The Prince was roundly cheered
when he was presented by Viscount
Rurnham as the greatest friend
OF America in Britain
Your presence here is the record
of the good results that must fol-
low the concerted advance toward
efficiency in the science and art of
advertising" the Prince said. The
aim of good advertising is better
distribution and lower prices. If
you succeed in that aim you will
solve many pressing economic prob
lens which confront the world to-
day. | hope the convention will
lead to many lasting friendships
which will permanently increase
international accord
Ambassador Kellogg, who followed
the Prince, referred to the allied
conference. which will meet in Lon
don Wednesday, to devise a plan for
carrying out the Dawes report.
Another convention will meet in
London the day after tomorrow. 4"
Ambassador Kellogg said. Il be.
lieee it will solve the greatest eco.
nomic problem in the history of the
world
Lou Holland of Kansas City,
president of the Associated Adver.
Using Clubs of the World, read a
message To the convention from
President Coolidge.
AS truth is essential between
buyers and Sellers" the message
said, $50 in a larger sense is it es.
sential in the wider relationships
between nation and nation"
j. Fl. Thomas, secretary of state
for the colonies. was another
speaker. He urged better under.
standing between people" as
means of solving world problems
gJohn Robert Clyne. lord priVy seal
and leader of the House of Com,
mons, made dramatic plea for
Shirt of cooperation between the
United States and England in meet.
ing the problems of the day.
Europe and America must pur.
sue more closely the common bust.
ness of making peace enduring" he
declared
His was but one OF a series of
addresses of like tenor from the
British speakers, who urged espe.
cially that America take a ma ior
part in the allied conference which
opens here Wednesday to draw up
plan for execution of the Dawes
report.
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WASHINGTONIANS IN
WEDDING PARTY.

Miss Elizabeth Hit. daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. s. Reynolds Hit,
will be one of the bridesmaids at
the marriage of Miss Constance
Banks, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
David Banks, Of New York, and
Jean jacques Bertschman, which
will take place tomorrow and sew.
eral Washingtonians will be ushers,
the group including Chester Lock.
wood, Horace Luttrell, Lieutenant
William Thomas and Lieutenant
Benjamin Holcombe. Miss Banks
has been a frequent visitor in
Washington as the guest of Miss
Hit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Banks will give a
dinner tonight for their daughter
and her wedding party and on
Saturday night Mr. Luttrell enter
tanned at Sherry's, giving a dance
in their honor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B. Mclean
have arrived in Bar Harbor. They
have been in New York and in Sara
toga since closing their home here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-14
COAST STIRRED
BY 'BABBITT'
Staying
Double Killing Results From
Business Row Between
Staid Citizens
BY COPELAND G. BURG,
International News Service.

LONG BEACH, July 14.-Witn
the entire country looking askance
at higher education and the so-caiie1
''intelligentsia. because of the NOR
der of Robert Franks In Chicago by
two unprecedented university stu
dents, California has been plunged
into a fever of excitement by this
city's Rabbit" murders.
Charles william Doris, typical
American business man, lodge r1em-
Der, community club member real
estate dealer, and general booster, is
held here charged with the murder
of his millionaire business associate.
Henry D. Meyer, Pasadena mer.
chant, and his wife, Mrs. Theresa
Doris, mother of Charles and Yves
ley Ruggles. stage and screen stars.
The bodies of Mrs. Doris and the
merchant prince, both riddled with
bullets, were found in the Doris
apartment where Doris himself was
discovered by police mumbling dis.
connected phrases.
Result From Business.
According to Doris. the "Baobitt"
killings resulted from a business
deal.
The two typical business men"
had quarreled over a note.
Doris contends that Mrs. Doris
rushed to his defense, following the
business" argument, and that the
millionaire shot her. Then, he says,
Meyer struggled with him and was
killed by a bullet from a gun held
in his own hands.
Mrs. Meyer, widow of the mer-
chant king, claims her husband
was lured to the Doris apartment
and murdered, and she demands the
moose for the wealthy Doris.
Meyer threatened to kill me"
Doris told police. II begged him to
let me get my mothers prayer
book to kiss before l died. /
could not find it. Then he shot
my wife, and when we struggled
for the gun he shot himself"
Detectives and reporters who
hurried to the Doris suite in a big
white apartment house. owned by
the accused man. found the typical
Rabbit" touches.
Rabbit" Pictures on Wall.
The two bodies We're prone be-
side a purple couch. heavily laden
with embroidered pillows. On the
walls were typical Rabbit" pic
tures-waterfalls and other scenic
bits.
On the center table were four
books" Preservation of the Her.
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j. R. Drexel, Jr., Hurt
By Falling Iron
Bar in N. Y.
BY International News Service.

NEW YORK, July 14.-John
r. Drexel, jr., of the famous
Drexel family of Philadelphia,
was injured early today when
an iron bar fell on him from a
canopy in front of a florist
store on Madison avenue. The
bar had become displaced. Drexel
was standing directly under the
canopy.
At Reception Hospital, where
Drexel was taken, it was said
his condition is favorable, al
though he suffered liberation
of the scalp and possible frac-
ture of the skull.
Drexel had been stopping at
the Allerton House. He gave
his age as thirty-two,
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mitage," an account of the efforts
to reconstruct Andrew Jackson's
birthplace; Miss Lulu Bett," by
IONA Gale; Famous Americans Of
Recent Times" and Practical
Methods Of Self Development" by
Elizabeth Towne, high priestess Of
the New Thought cult.
Inside Mrs. Doris spectacle case
was found the following, written on
small cards:
my mind is becoming empty of
myself and l vibrate you, My
Father, through every cell. My
eyes see only You, and in every
thing 1 inhale a perfume of Your
love. l hear Your voice calling me.
Peace, be still. My blood, saturated
with Your love, is purifying me en-
tirely. l feel Your healing power
through all the organs of my body,
down through my legs to my feet,
which are now standing on the
Rock of Ages
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ceremony will take place at 8 y hal

ceremony will take place at 8 p. M,
Doctor Julius T. Loeb, of the Che.
Vosholm Congregation, officiating.
Doctor Cafritz will be attended
by his brother, Morris Cafritz, and
Miss Baturin will have her sister,
Miss Miriam Baturin, as her maid
Of honor
After the ceremony the couple
will go to New York, Asbury Park
and Toronto on a three weeks
honeymoon. Upon their return they
Will be at home in the Argonne
apartment.
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TO SPEND SUMMER
VISITING IN COLORADO

Miss Olyve Graef, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Campbell Graef
VIII leave Washington tomorrow for
the West and will spend the rest
OF the summer visiting in Colorado.
Mr.. and Mrs. Graef are starting
shortly on a motor trip through
Virginia and will be accompanied by
Foxhau Daingerfield and Winant
Johnston.
Mrs. j. Low Hartman. who has
been staying in Philadelphia, has ar.
rived in New York by motor and is
staying at the Ambassador Hotel.
X X
Miss Flora Wilson, who has been
lingering at her apartment at Ward.
man Park Hotel through the early
summer, expects to leave town in
August to spend some weeks at her
old home in Iowa
Former Senator and Mrs. Gilbert
NJ. Hitchcock and Miss Ruth Hitch.
cock, who have been motoring in
the Berkshires. have leased Aspin.
wall cottage No. 2 at Lenox for the
rest of the summer
r
Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney. of
Washington. entertained eighteen
guests at dinner preceding the Sat.
urday night dance at Bar HarbOr.
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PITTSBURGH GIRL TO
WED DISTRICT DOCTOR

Doctor E. A. Cafritz, connected
with the staffs of the Providence
Sibley and Casualty Hospitals. and
Miss Mildred Baturin, formerly Of
Pittsburgh. but now residing in
Washington, will be married tomor.
row at the residence of her sister.
in-law Mrs. Henry A. Hirsh. No.
1907 Woodley road. The marriage
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-14
HOLIDAY CUT SHORT
BY TRAGEDY IN EGYPT

The Minister Of Egypt and Nine.
Yousry returned last evening from
Niagara Falls, N. Y, accompanied
by their daughter, Miss Lutfia
Housry. They had planned to be
away several weeks but were called
home because of the shooting of the
Egyptian premier.
The former Minister of Persia,
Hussein 'Alai, who spent several
weeks in Paris, is now touring
Switzerland.
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SWEDISH MINISTER
TO VISIT IN NEWPORT.

The Minister of Sweden, Captain
Axel Wallenberg, is spending a few
days in New York en- route to
Newport, r. l., where he will re.
main until the end of the month.
He will sail in August to Join
Nine. .Wallenberg, who has been
at their home in Sweden for some
time.
X =
The Minister of the Netherlands.
Jonkheer Doctor A. G. D. de Graeff
has Joined his wife at Sherwood
Forest, Md, after spending a few
days in Washington.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-09-19

cd to pay out of their pockets If we
had not won. But suppose we had
been running the city's business
like it is run today.
l charge that the Public Utility
Companies have robbed the city in
years gone by of enough taxes to
have paved every street in lBev-
erly with the most modern pave
ment; sidewalks and curbs COM
bined. But we lost all this because
you sent incompetent men to City
Hall to represent you and spend
your taxes You surely would not
permit this in your own business SO
why do you permit it in the City
when you have to pay the Bill in
the end.
Thomas Lee
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SEWER COMMITTED REpoRT-Inlv Z 1921

71
TO the President and Members Beverly City Council
condition of the Disposal Plant
filtration which
2,
IN
which 1920
bed filter and the time has when something
must
, pumped 1915 the
matter.
Inspector
condition disposed
of
making bed pumped weeks
pump
way out
Plant, he
and
$4,000
in
The
stalled
included
e+termo of the
would
appropriations making total $4,000 the
The
at
stopped possible
Holloway
from whom due
the
DII1LWYN S, STEVENSON
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on the river front which not only
provided an isolated conner for the
disposal plant but a place for a
City dump. This in the future,
when filed in, will give the resi-
dents of Beverly a park" location.
We purchased from the property
owners plots of ground along old
Railroad Ave. east of Cooper Street
which enabled us to make 40
foot uniform street. We had City
Hall repaired and made fit occu-
pancy to. -
We successfully fought the State
Board of Taxation from raising our
taxes above the Level of those paid
by our neighboring towns.
We had the Water Company's as
sessed valuation raised from $4,000
to S125,o0O.
We had the assessed valuation of
the Public Service Gas Company,
raised from $1,000 to $4,000.
We raised the assessed valuation
of the Public Service Electric Conn
pany from $1,000 to $1,000.
We also raised the assessed vslua-
ton of the Public Service Railway
Company from $4,000 to $4,000.
We raised that of the Telephone
Company from $4,000 to $4,000.
We also combated the Water Co.
SUCCESSFULLY and stopped them from
raising you water rates. What has
happened since? Two raises.
While the above figures may not
be exact in dollars and cents, they
are practically correct. We did
things and we had real solicitor
to guide and assist US. We fought
for the City's rights with the larg-
est Public Utility Corporations in
the State: But we won every case
and brought home the bacon" to
the city, thus fattening up the City,
Treasure to the tune of thousands
of dollars a year; which money the
taxpayers would have been coanpeli-
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-09-19
CAMPBELL SOUP PRESIDENT
INSPECTS TOMATO CROPS

John T. Dorrance. President of
the Campbell Soup Company, of
Camden, early this week accompan-
led H. F. Hall. Tomato Purchasing
Agent, ON tour of the Company's
receiving points in this section,
Mr.. Dorrance was very much inn
pressed with the condition 81 the
crop and said it was gratifying to
see the effort which farmers are
making to deliver only first class
quality tomatoes.
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JOSEPH C. HAINES, Proctor.
Dated September IL, 1924.

FOR RENT Furnished dwelling
at Beverly, fine location and well
equipped. $4,000 per month. C. H.
Haines, Burlington, N, j.
DRESSMAKING for women and
children at home or out. A. Lore,
corner Broad street and Cliff aven-
ue! Edgewater Park.