davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-10-30
FIRE HALTS LUNCHEON
AT COUNTRY RESIDENCE
81 900 Damage to Handsome
Home and Furniture of Edwin
B. Morris, Near Alta Vista.
Special Dispatch TO The Star

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, October 30
The handsome home and furniture
of Edwin Bateman Morris, the novel
list. at the transformer station on the
Washington and Rockville Electric
Railway. about mile north Of Alta
Vista, this county, were DANA ged to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-10-30
AIR TRAFFIC ORDINANCE
Is DRAFTED FOR CITY
Long Beach, Calf, Expected to
Adopt Rules for Planes
and Balloons

BY the Associated Press
LONG BEACH. Calf, October go
Draft of an ordinance to regulate
operation of aircraft within municipal
boundaries was ready for presentation
to the city council today
The ordinance provides regulations
for the opera ton OF aircraft while flv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-10-30

To appreciate Bonds
Tailored Clothes to
knoW hoW UeU they
ft-you must actually
slide into a Bond gar
71erf.
Let Bonds Clothes tell
their cum story-then
you'll agree that never
before hoUe clothes SO
moderately priced dis
played such sotisfac-
tory results from every
angle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-10-30


o
garment tb tailor
ftone sand otnract whose
the t
edyonEpa
hfce Bndqu
ever Bone garment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25

for attention. However, their cd
vice is to wait two months. If it
has not been placed, write again.
DEAR MIR. ITIXIT: The street in
front of this address, 2015 e.
Eighteenth st. brooklyn, N. " is
simply impossible. A baby cab is
stuck in front ofour house. Now
please have something done for us
or to us.
THOMAS E. NEWSOM.
Any man that near Broadway
shouldn't mind the streets.
TO TIMES READER: The places
you mentioned on r. Eleventh St.
will be visited by board of health
inspectors at once.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25
Do You Know?

Prevention measures reduced
the fire loss in Indianapolis
$335,S93 over last year, up to
the end of August, according to
the report of Fire Chief John j.
O'Brien.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25

stands for weeks at time, making
it very unhealthy. Would you please
see if the city would not remedy
this in some way.
\TAXPAYER.
w. p. Hargon, clerk of the street
commissioner office will send in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25

spectors to the location within the
next few days, he promised Mr..
FiXit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25
H0NKING AUTOS
DRAW PROTEST
FROM NEIGH Dor
Mr.. FMit Receives Com
plant on Curb Serv-
ice Drug Store.

If the municipal improvement boat
rocks call for Mr. FiXit's pull at the
oars. He is The Times representative at
the city hall. Write him at The Times
"Honkl Honkr' may elate the
sportsman as he awaits in Doggy
marsh for wild ducks, but it fails
to arouse enthusiasm with neighbors
living near curb-service drug stores,
Mr. FiXit's mail revealed today.
DEAR MIR. FIXIT-On Thirty
Fourth ST. you will find a drug
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25

There may be bad streets in In
dianapolis, but Thomas e. Newsom,
assistant street commissioner, who
has aided many Times readers, cities
the prize-winning mire from Brook
lyn, N. Y, where he is vacationing.
DEAR MR.. NFIXIT: We as neigh
bors and taxpayers have spent con-
siderable time and money on the
alley between Spruce and Draper.
south Of Minnesota. AS 1t is now,
the place is filthy. Dirty water
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25

store that gives curb service, and
the horn blowing is just terrible
from p. m. until midnight and
sometimes later. Last night no one
in the neighborhood could sleep I'M
til about 1 o'clock, and they are
getting worse all the time. There
seems to be no law in this part of
town. 1 will sign my name as a
Times reader, but it, names are re-
quired / will send a dozen or more.
TIMES READER.
Cant. Fred Drinkut will en-
deavor to terminate the nuisance,
he told Mr.. FiXit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25
EMIL SIOLL,
2134 Ransdell st.

Installation of lights is being de-
layed because of the strike of cleo
trical workers, the board Of works
informed Mr.. FiXit. Board men,
bers say your light is on the list
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-25

DEAR MR.. FIXIT: 1 reside at
2134 Ransdell st. We have no lights
on our street, which makes it very
dark and dreary at night. Two years
ago We sent a petition to the board
and the light was granted. We have
never seen anything of it.
EMIL STOLL,
Evening star., 1925-08-13

way. After breakfast in Fort
Humphreys Saturday morning, one of
the light convoy automobiles viii be
detached, and in command of Lieut..
Heale, with a camp detail, will speed
ahead and report to the commanding
officer at Fort Monroe, Va. to prepare
the barracks there for the artillery
men.
The speed of the light convoy has
been fixed at % miles an hour and
that of the heavy convoy at 16 miles
an hour, with a 10-minute halt in each
212 hours of travel.
This motor caravan will stop the
second night in the armory of the
Richmond Blues, and will make Fort
Monroe about noon Sunday, where 1t
will prepare to begin the intensive
training schedule early Monday morn
ing.
The 121st Engineers and 29th Military
Police Company, in command of Col.
John W. Oehmann, aboard the South
land, will arrive in Berkeley, Va, at
10 o'clock Saturday morning, docking
at the Norfolk and Southern Railroad d
piers, where special trains will be
waiting to take the troops to the rifle
range of the Virginia National Guard
at Virginia Beach, Va, where they
plan to arrive about noon.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
ANTON LERCH, DEAD In BADEN,
HAD COLORFUL CAREER HERE
Founded Business With
Money Received for
Fighting in War.
Returned to Germany
After French Wife's
Death i'm 1912.

With the transatlantic mails today
there came from Germany a brief mes
sage announcing the death of Anton
Lerch, one of Washington pioneer
business men, who founded, back in
the halcyon days after the Civil War,
dyeing and cleaning establishment
which still bears his name. Mr.. Lerch
died in Baden, the place of his birth.
where he returned prior to the World
War to spend in retirement the re-
naming days of his life.
The career of Mr.. Lerch unfolds q
story absorbing and romantic. Com
ing to the United States in 1863 to
seek fame and fortune in 1.-The land of
opportunity" Mr.. Lerch, then a poor
immigrant boy, wandered wearily
through the streets of New York, de-
pending on luck and charity for his
next meal. Fate led to his acquaint-
ance with a man more fortunate in
his possession of worldly goods, who
sat on a park bench, lamenting the
circumstances that had drawn his
name as draftee for the Union Army
III the Civil War. A transaction fol-
lowed in which the poor German boy
sold himself as a target for the guns
of the enemy for $3.50, and took the
strangers place in the ranks of the
Union forces.
Unscathed, MIR. Lerch came out or
the conflict. and married Caroline
Burklin, a French maid from Alsace-
Lorraine. who, too, had come to this
country in search of fortune Mrs.
Lerch had run a small cleaning and
dyeing shop on the outskirts Of Paris,
and was familiar with details of the
work. She foresaw their cherished
desires in that business in the Ma
tion's Capital, and the couple founded
on New York avenue. between Twelfth
Evening star., 1925-08-13
D. C. JEWS AID "BACk-
TO-LAND" MOVEMENT
Will Help Launch Drive for $l5,-
100000 in America in Rus
sian Project.

Emile Berliner, Simon Lyon, Maurice
D. Rosenberg and Rabbi Abram Simon
of Washington are aiding in making
ARRANGEMENTS for the launching of
campaign for S15,o00,000 among the
Jews of America to be used In ex'
panding and intensifying the back
to-the-land movement" by Russlan n
Hebrews and for reconstructive and
welfare work among their people In
other foreign lands.
The campaign is to be launched at
a nationwide conference to be held
in Philadelphia September IL and 10;
The call to the conference was signed
by David A. Brown of Detroit, who
led the campaign in 1922 in which
more than S14 900. 900 was raised for
relief of war-stricken Jews, and by
more than zoo leading Jews from
over the United States and Canada.
Nearly 5000 individual invitations
have been sent out for the conference,
Evening star., 1925-08-13
CATHOLIC BODY TO MEET.
Committee on Charity Conference
to Lay Plans Tonight.

The local committee arranging for
the eleventh annual session of the
National Conference of Catholic Char.
tiles will meet tonight at the City
Club to further plans
Arthur j. May, president of the
Catholic Charities of Washington, will
preside, and will call for reports from
the following committees: Reception,
John H. Pellen. president of the st.
Vincent de Paul Society; information,
Miss Mary c. Mattingly, president of
the Sodality Union: registration. Miss
Mary {. Boland, grand regent of the
Catholic Daughters of America: mem.
bership, Francis r. Weller, vice presi.
dent of the Catholic Charities of Wash.
ington, and Mrs. James f. Hartnett
president of the District Chapter of
the International Federation of Cath.
oiic Alumnae.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
Christian Endeavorers Meet.

The Intermediate Christian En-
deavor Union of Washington will meet
tomorrow at 7:45 pm. at the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church, when Capt.
Irwin B. Todd will deliver an address
on Opium" There will also be a
play presented by the senior depart
ment of Vermont Avenune Church
and a talk by Richard RiedeI. presi-
dent of the union, on "A Tribute to
William Jennings Bryan, Defender of
the Faith -
Evening star., 1925-08-13

and Thirteenth streets, the cleaning
and dyeing firm which soon became a
landmark. Success crowned their ef-
forts, and the establishment soon out
grew its original home and was moved
into larger quarters nearby.
Death took from Mr.. Lerch. in 1912,
his wife and business partner. and he
retired and went back to his birth
place in Baden. The business was
taken over by Mrs. Lerch's stepson,
Achille f. Burklin, who ran II until
his death two years ago.
In Germany Mr.. Lerch took another
mate, and she and her daughter fell
heirs to his fair-sized estate. said to
amount to approximately $15O.O0O.
During his business career in Wash
ington Mr. Lerch was active in Ger
man club and Masonic circles. He was
a member of the old Sangerbund Club,
which dissolved at the outbreak OF
the World War, and a number of other
German societies, as well as Arminlus
Lodge, No. 25, +. A. A. NJ.
When death summoned Mr.. Lerch in
Baden. on July %, he had passed the
80th milestone in life. lnfirmitles are
said to have been the cause.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
MILITIA ADVANCE
PARTY LEAVES D. c.
Goes to Prepare Camp at
Virginia Beach-Troops
Il Move Tomorrow.

Preparations for the arrival of the
main body of the National Guard of
the District of Columbia at camp at
advance guard which left last night
by steamer. This party will map out
camp site and have everything in
readiness to begin training as soon as
the main body of troops arrive.
i The advance party was in command
of Capt. Edward II. Grove. plans and
training officer of the National Guard;
Master Sergt. sydney G. HUNT. Tech
ntcal Sergt. Henry b. Cockrell,
Pvts. John B. Coffman, jr.. and
NRudyard I. Hesse. all of the Head
: quarters and Service Company. which
is the unit charged with the duty of
looking after the movement of troops.
Troops Move Tomorrow.
8 Another and larger contingent will
leave tomorrow morning at 3 O'Clock,
and will consist of the motor trans
port, which will carry much of the
gcamp equipment. 1t is expected to
arrive in camp Saturday morning in
advance of the arrival of the troops
which will leave tomorrow night on
the Norfolk and Washington liner
Southland, which has been turned into
a troop transport.
supply officer, will be in command of
the motor transport, which will con
SiSt of % men: two each from the
seven companies, and Il from the
Headquarters and Service Company.
The men from the latter company
who have been directed to proceed
with this motor train are Master
Sergt. Fletcher F. Bernsdorff, Mas
ter Sergt. Henry H. Meares. 1st Sergt.
F1u,ar6 w ireland Mess Sergt
y Thomas J. Dawson, Corp. Henry j.
Krumm and Pvts. Crispolo G.. Donate,
Patrick G. Bradley, Tom B. Bowman,
Percy Cumberland, Whiting p. Light
foot, Robert B. Lothrop, Joseph F.
~'Padgett, Arthur G. Sands and Allan
e. Wyatt.
The advance guard of the 260th
Coast Artillery also will move out by
way of Water street southwest and
the Highway Bridge tomorrow morn
ing at 8 o'clock. Maj. w. W. Burns.
commanding this unit, issued his final
instructions today. The advance guard
will be in comman of First Lieut.. Shep-
herd, with the mess sergeants and
kitchen details. This part of the train
will consist of two trucks and two
rolling kitchens. The kitchens will be
.sleft. at Fort Humphreys, Va, where
the artillerymen will camp their first
night on the road, and will have the
evening meal ready by the time the
main body arrives.
Goes in Two Conveys.
The main body will be divided into
light and heavy conveys, the former
consisting of the heavy trucks and
the latter the staff and reconnaissance
cars. This outfit will leave the armory
at the foot of Water and o streets
southwest at $50 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. proceeding to Virginia by
way of Water street and the Highway
= Bridge. The heavy convoy will be COM
manded by Second Lieut.. Lloyd B.
Gosorn and the light convoy by Capt.
Louis NJ. Gosorn.
Capt. James D. Eggleston has been
designated reconnaissance officer, and
will proceed ahead of the train, mark
ing changes in direction and posting
guards where necessary, SO that the
main body will not be delayed in any
Evening star., 1925-08-13
Drug Case Continued.

George Nelson Hill, colored, %,
Fairmont Heights, Md. arrested by
Detectives Sanders and Warfield of the
police narcotic squad, was arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Trunage yesterday after
noon on a charge of illegal possession
of narcotics. He is alleged to have
possessed a quantity of narcotics OBJ
tained from persons alleged to have
stolen them from Peoples Drug Store
at Park road and Fourteenth street.
The case was continued for a week,
bond being filed at $4,000.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
MRS. C.. G. SMITH DIES.
Widow of Well Known Banker
Was Long Active in D. A. R.

Mrs Caroline Gatchell Smith. rs
years old. widow of Thomas w. Smith,
who was a prominent banker and
merchant here, died last evening at
her home. 1867 Columbia road.
Mrs. Smith was born in oxford. Pa,
in 1847, and came to Washington i'm
mediately after her marriage. She
was a member of the Methodist
Church and of the d. a. r.
She is survived by four daughters.
Mrs. Charles r. Sanderson and Miss
Maud Smith of this city. Mrs. E. w.
Martin of Warrenton, Va, and Mrs.
H. +. Mitchell of Minneapolis. Flu
neral arrangements have not been
completed yet.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
OVERAWED RIFFS
WARN AbD-EL-KR|M
Refuse to Leave Own Terri
tory to Fight French and
Spanish Forces.
By the Associated Press.

Ds thc AsbOclAteO PreEs.
FEZ. French Morocco, August "a
Information reaching the intelligence
department of French Headquarters
here shows that the first results of the
Junction Of Spanish and French forces
IN the northwestern part of the fight
ing front, for combined action against
the rebellious tribesmen. are highly
satisfactory. A profound impression
has been made on the dissident tribes,
who have made it clear to their leader,
Abd-el-hrim, that they either will not
nght any more or that they will not
fight outside their own territory
Among these are the important Chez
Zaoua and Benz Mestara tribes. Many
groups Of tribesmen have opened ne
gotiations for submission to the
French
A Riffian tribeSman on the defen-
sive is a very different man from a
Riffian on the offensive. and the
Franco-Spanish troops. now solidly
joined, are preparing to push their ad-
vance farther and keep the initiative
they now hold.
French troops moving up from the
QueZZan sector, northwest of Fez, and
Spanish forces descending from Ell
Aralsh are soon to be in complete
contact, when joint offensive will
be started for the purpose of relieving
the pressure on Ouezzan and roll up
the Moors' right wing toward Che
Chaouene.
French TO Strike Soon.
The French troops also will begin
a simultaneous offensive in the Taxa
sector. on their extreme right wing,
the plan being understood as intended
TO stabilize the fast-moving Moors in
the region of Benz Ouriaguel tribes
men, who have been most active
among the dissidents. 1t is believed
that a forced concentration in one
spot of the elusive Moors may compel
them to accept pitched battle. which
may be the means of deciding the fate
of Morocco.
In the center of the line the Sheriff.
fan cavalry is clearing the country,
meeting with little opposition.
AS word spreads of the arrival of
French reinforcements. there is a
general movement of dissdent tribes
northward all along the line.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
MARRIEs AT SEVENTY.
Babbi 70, to Wed Woman, 81,
Here Tonight.

Rabbi Simon Paltrovich, 20 years
old, of New York, will be married 70
Mrs. Regina Lieberman. 81 years old'
of 32o8 Warder street, at 8 o'clock to-
night by Rabbi George Silverman, at
his home, 1911 Lamont street.
Rabbi Paltrovich, who was at one
time the youngest rabbi in this coun-
try. is now engaged in translating
Hebrew and English works Mrs
Lieberman, whose husband died seven
years ago. is the mother or seven
children.
After the ceremony The couple VIII
remain here for 10 day 9, when they
will go to New York.
Evening star., 1925-08-13

which has been given the support of
orthodox and Reform Jewry, Zionists
and Jewish labor organizations. The
conference is to be held under the
auspices of the American Jewish joint
dlstrfbution committee, the American
JeWlsh relief committee, the central
relief committee and the peoples relief
committee.
Evening star., 1925-08-13

Mrs. w. Desmond Humphreys. re-
cent visitor to America, is one of the
most prolific of modern English novel
lists. For more than 80 years Mrs.
Humphreys, who is best known under
her pen name of Rita" has published
at least one novel every year.
Evening star., 1925-08-13

Danzig. Poland, is now operating
tne DahZis-i iorun telegraph cable con-
sisting of nine overland telegram and
six telephone lines. which once were
the property of the German imperial
government
Evening star., 1925-08-13
MONAMI CLUB ELECTS.
Temporary Officers to Serve While
Organization Is Developed.

A gettogether meeting of the
Monami Club was held last night at
the Lee House.
The following temporary officers
were elected to serve pending develop
ment of the club: Russell A. Conn
president; Charles NJ. Small, vice pres
ident; Frank B. Hoffman, treasurer
r. w. Stork, secretary; Karl o. Some
man, sergeant-at-arms, and DR.. E. r.
Young. national secretary of the
Monami Clubs, presided
Weekly luncheon meetings will be
held in the near future, and the club
members will be duly notified by the
secretary.
Evening star., 1925-08-13

The motor fire engine given by the
city of London to Verdun may also be
used as a street SWeeDer
Evening star., 1925-08-13
MANHATTAN
SHIRTS

Neck b an d or collar
attached styles. A conf
plete assortment to select
from. Buy now
Evening star., 1925-08-13
WORSTED
One-Piece Bathing Suit.

For ladies and men. V@ y
SO to So values. Store ~ ~
wide Clearance price.
Evening star., 1925-08-13
PALM BEACH SUITS

All Shades and models-includ-
ing YOURS; these suits formerly
sold for SIS and S1650. Store-wide
Clearance price .................
Evening star., 1925-04-05
LIBERTY BONDS GAIN.
Other High-Grade Issues Also Dis
play Firmer Tone

NEW YORK, April AFTER
period of hesitation the bond market
ended the week with a firmer tone,
attributed partly TO the easier money
conditions which prevailed over the
week end and the recuperative power
shown by the French obligations.
Despite the uncertainty over the
French financial situation and the
threats of a capital levy, the govern
ment and municipal bonds scored ir-
regular recovery in response to indi-
cations that serious attempts were
being made to restore French finances
to sound basis. Today's gain aver
aged about a point for the three re-
public issues. and the Seine IS, Bor-
deaux 6s and Paris Lyon -Mediter
ranean IS.
Trading in railroad liens was en-
livened by a squirt of more than 3
points in Delaware and Hudson con-
vertible 5s following announcement
of the railroads plans to segregate
its coal properties. Amoderate de-
mand developed for other rail issues
and popular oil, motor and sugar
company bonds.
Relief over the easier tendency of
money and the maintenance of the
Federal Reserve rediscount rate at
3i5 per cent Was reflected in the es-
tablishment of new 1925 top prices
bp several Liberty bonds.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
BALTIMORE LIVE STOCK.

BALTIMORE, Md, April 4 (Sre-
ciaD.-The general live cattle mar
ket rules easy, as is to be expected
at this season of the year, and will
continue quiet all next week. De-
mand easily satisfied, and centered
entirely on top-grade stock. Com
mon to ordinary cattle slow sale,
even at the lower values quoted.
Wharf receipts continue light and
mostly of under grades, which move
slow even at sharp discounts. Quota
tions today al Light Street Wharf:
Beef cattle, first quality pound. 9
TO 10: medium, to S; bulls. as to
quality, to ): cows, choice to fancy,
4 to s; common to fair, = TO 3. Oxen,
as to- quality. 4 to s: milk cows.
choice TO fancy, head. 5000 to 1900;
common to fair. 5000 TO 5000. Calves.
veal, choice, pound. 1919; ordinary to
medium, 10 to IL; rough and COM
mon. to 8; small culls. I to 8.
Sheep, choice, to I; old bucks. to
s: common, to T. Lambs, Fall.
choice, l6 10 Il; fair to good, 13 to
10; common, thin. TO 10; Spring, as
to size and quality. IS to p.
Hogs, straight, u to 12l2; sows,
s 10 10; stays and boars, ) TO S. live
pigs. IA to IS; shoats, 10 to Il.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
DUTCH SOCIALISTS
URGE SMALLER ARMY
Project for Disarmament Intro
duced in Chamber, Operative !,
From January |, 1925. III

correspondence of the Associated TresS 3.
THE HAGUE, March ia project
for disarmament, to be operative as
from January ]. 1926. has been in
troduced in tho Dutch chamber by
the Social Democratic party.
Its main provisions are TO cut down
the standing army from 327. 900 men
i'm the active force and organized re-
serves 10 a Security" force Of 25,000
and to reduce the navy to about
dozen guardships and as many sea-
planes. The annual cost is computed
al some 17.5O0.000 forms. compared
with 100. 600. 600 forms allOcated for
defense purposes in the 1923 budget.
The scheme is based upon the Dan
ish disarmament plan, which is close
ly followed as far as the navy is
concerned, while allowance is made
for greater land force owing 10
Hollands longer land frontiers
The proposal is accompanied by a
lengthy memorial declaring that.
owing TO modern war methods, Hol-
land, like other small states. is con
fronted with the impossibility of de
Tending her territory adequately
against aggression by powerful for
efgn nations or maintaining neu-
trality by force of arms alone Either
contingency may have To be faced
the promoters say, owing to the prev
alence of international hatred. ths.
desire for revenge on the part of the
vanquished and the fear Of revenge
on the part of the Nictors i'm III.
World War