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Evening star., 1925-04-28
RE-R0UTING BUSES
PLAN TO RELIEVE JAM
Traffic Director Would Divert
Rapid Transit Company Coaches
From Congested Quarter.

Rerouting of northbound busses OF
the Washington Rapid Transit Co. so
as to get them away from congestion
at Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue has been proposed by
Traffic Director Eldridge and prob
ably will be approved.
At present the single-deck busses go
north on Seventeenth to Pennsylvania
avenue, east to Madison place, north
to II and west to Sixteenth street.
With the opening of Jackson place as
a two-way thoroughfare next week,
il will be possible TO reroute these
busses as follows: East on State place
from Seventeenth, north on West Ex-
ecutive avenue and Jackson place,
east on H street to Sixteenth street.
The double-deck busses, which now
go north on East Executive avenue
and Madison place, will not be dis
turbed.
Col. 1. c. MolIer, engineer in the
traffic office, said today that J. G. Nc
Kay, chief of the Division of Highway
Economics of the Bureau of Public
Roads, is now engaged in making
maps to show the lanes through which
traffic flows to and from the center of
the city. These maps are being made
from the information collected by the
Boy Scouts in the recent counts and
will serve as guides to the traffic di-
rector in making future regulations.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
JAPAN FUND GOES
OVER $4,000 TODAY
Bishop Henry st. George
Tucker Addresses Workers
at Epiphany Luncheon.

More than $50 persons attended the
second luncheon meeting of the drive
chairmen and workers of the Japan
reconstruction campaign of the Epis-
copal Church. Washington diocese, at
Epiphany Church today, and reported
subscriptions of S6.022.69, bringing the
grand total for the campaign to date
to S21 .6ST.19. The next luncheon meet
ings will be held Thursday and Fri
day at Ascension Church at 1890
o'clock.
Bishop Henry st. George Tucker,
former Bishop of Japan, addressed the
gathering and said the object of the
campaign was more to help the Chris
tian Church in Japan than for the
country itself. He said the one thing
that is holding thoughtful Japanese
from accepting Christianity is the
doubt that Occidental Christians are
sincere in their religion" What TCkio
does, all Japan will do, Bishop Tucker
said, and what Japan does, the rest of
Asia will do.
Among the contributors were the
Women's Auxiliary, Church of Our
Savior. Brookland; Girls Friendly So
ciety of Epiphany Church, and Girls
Friendly Society of Epiphany Chapel.
Several parishes in Maryland were
represented with donations and ST.
Agnes Church gave a special offering
The team captained by Miss Nc
Gowan turned in the largest amount.
The women's teams reported S2,7S1 .55
and the mems organizations, S2.304
A special contribution of S93714
brought the days total over $4,000.
Rev. DIR. Robert Johnston. rector of
st. Johns Church, presided at the
luncheon.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
Kellogg to Place
Maiden Name Plea
Before President

Secretary Kellogg has promised
TO submit to President Coolidge the
request of representatives of the
National Woman's Party that the
passport regulations of the State
Department be amended so that
married woman may receive pass
port made out in her maiden name,
and without including the name of
her husband, as now required.
The controversy arose over the
refusal of the State Department TO
issue a passport TO Ruby A. Black,
a journalist, without the addition
of her husbands name. 1t was
then held that the regulations re-
quired the descriptive addition and
that as the regulations had been
prescribed by the President in con-
formity with an act of Congress
they could only be changed by his
direction.
The brief submitted in behalf of
the National Woman's Party con-
tends that the common law recog-
nizes the right of a married woman
70 retain her maiden name, and
that, in the absence of law re-
uuiring a woman to assume her
husbands name, no official of the
Government has authority to com
pei her to do so on passport or
other official document.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
JOHN POOLE HEADS
ADVERTISING CLUB
Federal American Bank
President Unanimously
Elected.

John Poole, president of the Federal
American National Bank, was unani.
mously elected president of the Wash
fngton Advertising Club at the
weekly luncheon of the organization
at the City Club today. Mr.. Poole
succeeds Maurice Kafka in office.
The other officers elected were j. o.
Martin of the Chesapeake and Poto-
mac Telephone Co, first vice president
Frank Kimmel of the Arthur Jordan
Piano Co, second vice president;
John F. Cassidy, reelected, secretary:
Sidney Selinger, reelected, treasurer
The directors elected were: C. B.
Dulcan of the Hecht Co., DIR. Malcolm
G. Gibbs of the Peoples Drug Stores
and Allen De Ford
The report of the secretary showed
that the membership of the club had
greatly increased over the previous
year and that the classifications had
been extended to include department
stores and newspapers.
Delegates will be named in the near
future to attend the general conven-
tion of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World. which takes place
at Houston. Tex. beginning May 8.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
IMITATION MOVIES
BANE, SHE HOLDS
Scenarist Tells Pen Women
of Their Struggle to
Create an Art.

The moving picture industry is
struggling to produce an original art,
but still is in the throes of imitation,
Mabel Heikes Justice of New York
author of more than 200 film plays,
told the League of American Pen
Women in the Shoreham ballroom
today.
She said that the wide adaptation
of short stories and novels, few of
them written with any screen con
tinuity In mind, was due to the ina
bility of the producers to obtain
original material which was not
crudely initiative of something pre-
viously published.
DR.. Mary Meek Atkeson told the
woman writers that the special maya
zine article offered field where money
and reputation could be attained.
This work also, she said, cannot be
treated as a dump by any one who
hopes for success. The magazine
article designed as pot boiler seldom
boils the pot, she maintained.
Others Make Addresses.
Other speakers were Louise Sillcox.
secretary Of the Authors League Of
America; Peggy Albion, Mrs. Frances
Gibbs Keith, who read selections from
one of her plays. and Jessie Ritten-
house, wife of Clinton Scollard, the
poet.
League members will attend the re-
ception by Mrs. Coolidge at the White
House at 3 pm.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
HAMMER AND TWO KNIVES
USED As ARGUMENTS
Brawls End in Arrests, and Hos
pital Treatment for Four Of the
Participants.

hammer. two knives and a plate
were used by four individuals yes
terday in emphasizing their points in
fights they were engaged in, and four
other individuals were the recipients
of wounds.
Charles E. Shore. 20, 2910 NJ street,
and Jacob Passis, %. 1885 Nj street
were fighting in garage at 2S27 NJ
street last night and Passis is al
legged to have inflicted a head wound
on his adversary with hammer
Shore was taken to Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital and >Passis was
charged by the police with assault.
Edward HansboroNgh, colored, was
treated at Casualty Hospital for knife
wounds in the right arm and left
shoulder, said by the police to have
been inflicted by George Haynes, col
ored.
Florence Collins, colored, 81. 135 P
street southwest, was cut on the left
arm and shoulder with knife while
fighting with Walter Carter, another
occupant of the p street house. Carter
was arrested and held on a charge of
assault and the woman was given
surgical aid at Emergency Hospital.
Mrs Annie Bull, 35. is alleged to
have struck her husband. David II.
Bull, with plate. His wound was
dressed at Emergency Hospital. He
was arrested for alleged intoxication
and his wife was accused of assault.
Each was required to deposit $25 col
lateral for appearance in court.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
WOMAN is ATTACKED;
POLICE HUNT YOUTH
Victim Pursues Assailant With
Revolver-Two Rings and
Bank Contents Stolen.

Washington and Maryland authori-
ties are on the lookout for a youth
about 81 years old. who attacked Mrs.
Nellie T. Cause. 80, in her home, near
Glen Echo. early yesterday afternoon.
stole two rings and the contents of a
Child's savings bank and escaped un-
der fire. as Mrs. Cause pursued him.
The victim. wife of Charles E. Cause,
employed by the Government. here,
was waylaid in her home. which is
just of Conduit road. by the assailant
who was armed, and choked almost
into insensibility.
As the intruder left the house Mrs.
Cause obtained revolver and started
in pursuit, her screams attracting the
attention of a neighbor, who went to
her assistance, reaching Mrs. Cause
just as she collapsed. and notified
Montgomery County officers.
Mrs. Cause said that the youth had
been at her home about an hour pre-
viously and had obtained a drink of
water. She left the house shortly aft
erward. and it was on heF return that
the assault occurred, the Sssailant hav-
ing taken advantage of her absence to
enter the house and hide behind a
door.
Local police are working on the
theory that the assailant probably
crossed the river from the Virginia
side, or came from a point some dis
tance from the Cause home in a
Canoe, an old canoe having been found
on the river front A short distance
away. 1t developed that a practically
new canoe had been stolen from near
there. and police believe the old one
was left in its place. The stolen
canoe belonged to ]. II. Hustis and
John Costello. employees of the De-
partment of Commerce.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
FIRST WARRANT ISSUES
IN DETROIT GRAFT REPORT
Former City Employe, Accused of
Misappropriation of $52.72
of City Funds.
By the AssocIated Prrss-


DETROIT, April 2S.-The first war
rant to grow out Of the recent grand
jury investigation into. alleged irregu-
larities in several city and county de-
partments was issued today against
Werner Hemboldt, former superin-
tendent of motor transportation
Specifically, the warrant charges mis-
appropriation of S52.72 through pay
roll irregularities.
Warrants will be asked today. c. p.
O'Neil, city attorney, announced for
G. H. Garner, former superintendent
of the sidewalk division in the De-
partment of Public Works, and J. J.
knight, former superintendent of the
street cleaning division, same depart
ment. Hemboldt, Garner and knight
We're among 19 individuals named by
Judge Frank Murphy in his report on
an investigation into charges of irreg-
ulartties, extortion and conspiracy.
r. NJ. Toms, prosecuting attorney,
has begun drafting complaints against
several of the others named. In addi.
ton to the warrants, civil suits are to
be instituted by direction OF the City
Council for recovery of funds which,
it was alleged, the city had been de-
trauded.
Four city employees, Department of
Public Works foremen, have been sus-
pended indefinitely. Another foreman
in the same department, who was
also cited in the presentment, was dis
charged week ago, it became known
today.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
Taxing Fat Men to Lengthen Lipes
Is Proposal of WOmdn Diet Expert
Excess Weight Not Only Affects Pulchritude, BuI
May Be Danger to Health, Dr. Lulu H. Peters
Tells Pen Women.

be rewarded with a bonus instead of
penaliZed with A tax. The abuse
spurred me to further study. The re-
suit is that / have not changed my
opinion. | have been confirmed in it.
Something certainly should be done
to bring to the attention of the un-
fortunate people who find excess
weight growing upon them the dan
gers of their situation. Unless they
act in time it is apt to be too late. /
can detail a long list of diseases, most
of which eventually prove fatal, which
often can be traced to too much
weight.
Herself Overweight.
"It is not always possible to meet a
prescribed standard of weight, but we
all certainly can work toward it. i
must confess that l would have to
pay some tax myself If my recommen-
dation was made into a law. / am a
few pounds overweight. but when l
get home you can be assured that L
will get to work again In an honest
effort to get back To normal. 1t is a
comfort, at least. to know that l have
by scientific dieting got off a great
part of my excess weight during the
past few years.
"On the whole l am inclined to
defy the fat men and the fat women.
Tax them, ] say. Tax them for their
own good. Tax them to make them
live longer"
Evening star., 1925-04-28
LOSS OF lob LAID
TO BOOTLEGGERS
Former Officer in "Dry Navy
Says Mysterious Power In
fIuences Washington.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
RIFERHEAD, y. Y. April 2s-
Julius Seegall, former officer in the
revenue cutter service, testifying to-
day at Suffolk County's liquor investi-
cation, charged that bootleEgers' in
fuence reached Washington and
caused his discharge from the Gov
ernment's rum-running forces be
cause he was not to be bribed.
Seegalls testimony was offered be
fore Justice OF the Peace Burnside
VINO Is conducting an investigation OF
charges or wholesale bribery Of Gov
ernment dry agents by bootieggers
operating rum ships off Montaull
Point.
Mysterious Influences.
Seegall testified that he formerly
was executive officer OF the Wayanda,
mother ship Of Uncle Sans rum
chasers off Montauk Point His
activities against the boOtleggers were
so persistent and SO successful. he
testified, that mysterious influences
operating through revenue heads in
Washington, caused him to be trans
ferred TO the revenue cutter Seminole
two months ago
A short time after that he said. ne
was dismissed from the service,
charged with gambling
His transfer did NOT occur. he
testified, until he had run down the
auxiliary schooner Hattie T. and
confisCated it's whisky cargo and A..
rested its crew after having taken a
$1,000 bill offered him by one Of the
crew.
Evening star., 1925-04-28

Should fat men be taxed for their
fat?
They should, says DR.. Lulu Hunt
Peters, woman writer on dietetics, and
so should fat women.
DR.. Peters. speaking yesterday at
the opening of the annual book fair of
the League of American Pen Women
at Woodward & Lothrop's. said that
further study of excess fat has con-
Vinced her that a cash penalty for
exceeding the proper weight not only
would help out the National Treasury,
but add considerably to the average
span of American life.
She would have n scientific stand
ard of weight in respect to height
and assess every extra pound Sc
verely enough TO make 1t a real OBJ
ject to study calories intensively and
try to prevent exceeding this stand
ard.
Tax Worse Than Death.
DIR. Peters proceeds on the theory
that an Intangible, distant prospect
of gaunt Death knocking at the door
before his time is hardly as great an
incentive as an immediate drain on
the purse.
when I first made this Suggestion. -
said DR.. Peters. the fat men got up
in arms. 1 received nothing but
abuse. All fat men in history who had
been leaders in any of the affairs of
life were brought TO my attention. 1t
was even proposed that extra weight
Evening star., 1925-04-28
GUESTS OF FRATERNITY.
Eight Men Welcomed to Member
ship by Delta Phi Epsilon.

Eight newly initiated members of
the Alpha chapter of the Delta Phi
Epsilon, professional foreign service
fraternity, were welcomed into full
membership at a banquet held last
night at the Hotel Lafayette.
Among the guests were the
Minister of Greece, DR.. William s.
Culbertson, vice chairman of the
tariff commission; Representative
William P. Connery of Massachusetts,,
Wilmott Lewis, correspondent of the
London Times; J. Eugene Harley,
professor of international law of the
University of Southern California; Dr.
William F. Notz, dean of the foreign
service school of Georgetown Uni
versity; DR.. Richard S. Harvey,
Georgetown University, and DIR.
Arnold Spanhoofd of the foreign
service school of Georgetown Uni
versity.
The initiates were-William D.
Amis, Harold S. Condor, Charles Y.
Duncan, Thomas j. Gleason, John J.
Hassett, Larkin Hundley. Fred c.
Rogers, William F. Sweeney. ~
Evening star., 1925-04-28
ANNOUNCES CHANGES
IN VETERANS BUREAU
Decentralization of Field Forces
Now Complete, Director
Declares.

Director Hines OF the Veterans Bu-
reau today put into effect further re-
organization plans, by which the de-
centralizat ton of the field forces is
completed and important changes are
effected in the central office in Wash
ington.
The planning and control services
have been abolished az such, and
their functions have been transferred
to two newly organized units to be
known as the coordination service,
operating under, an assistant director,
Maj. Omar w. Clark, and the guard
ianship service. operating under Mai
Davis G.. Arnold. designated national
guardianship officer.
Maj. Clark has been in charge of
the bonus work of the bureau, and
Mai. Arnold has been connected with
the bureau since he was one of coun-
sci for the recent congressional COM
mittee investigating the bureau.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
MURDER OF GIRL
STILL UNSOLVED
All Efforts to Establish
Identity of Charred
Remains Fail.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GARY. Ind, April 28.-The charred
and mutilated body of a young woman
found alongside a road near here Sun
day remained unidentified in a Ches-
terton morgue today, despite continued
efforts to identify it and discover the
murderer
Gary officers did not credit reports
that the girl was a victim of gangster
warfare, and sought to identify her
through the always-increasing list of
missing girls.
DR.. A. o. Dobbins of Valparaiso,
coroner of Porter County, and his as
sistant. Dr. H. o. Seipel, went to Ches-
terton this morning to perform an au-
topsy.
The girls age is placed in the neigh
borhood of 20. Judging from the con-
dition Of bits of organs that had failed
OF destruction in the gasoline fire
kindled by those who disposed Of the
body, DIR. Dobbins said, the young
woman might previously have been d
mother or might have been approach
ing that state. although a positive
statement was impossible.
Unless some distinctive body mark
ing is found DR.. Dobbins said, he eX-
pected the spectacles found near the
body to prove the best clue in seeking
identification of the girl and her de
stroyers.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
HOEHLING TO HEAR
TROLLEY VALUATION
Capital Traction Appeal, Trans
ferred to Facilitate Action,
Comes Up May 6.

Justice Adolph A. Hoehling of the
District Supreme Court will hear the
appeal of the Capital Traction Co.
from the valuation placed on its
property by the Public Utilities Com
mission The case has been pending
since December, 1919, and is said to
involve only one question. Because
of the crowded condition of Justice
Hits calendar. an early date could
not be set for the hearing, and Attor-
ney G.. Thomas Dunlop, representing
the railroad company, and Corporation
Counsel Stephens requested him to
certify the matter to Justice Hoehling.
The latter assigned Wednesday, May
6, for the hearing, and limited counsel
to two days in presenting the case.
The question involved relates to the
purchase by the Washington and
Georgetown Railroad Co. of the stock
and bonds of the Rock Creek Railway
Co. and whether the figures of that
transaction are binding on the Public
Utilities Commission in computing the
valuation of the Capital Traction Co,
the successor of the w. & G. r. X. Co
Evening star., 1925-04-28
Rum BarOnet Yarns His Investors
Suits Viii Cause Complete Loss

Thirty-two thousand cases re-
main available for sale, the cir
cular says, but it is problematical
whether they can be disposed of.
the risk of seizure being great.
''It is obvious" Sir Broderick
continues, that big loss of capi-
tai is inevitable and every con-
tributor has the right to sue me
for on-fulflllment of my guaran-
tee, but ! have lost everything.
and any such action would only
result in hampering my endeavors
to save something from the wreck.
And l am the only person who
can~do So.'. --'-----> = - - = - 3.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
OPPOSES US. CONTROL
OF MERCHANT MARINE
Rear Admiral Palmer, Fleet Cor
poration Head, Sees No Profit in
Government Operation.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
HOUSTON. Tex. April 2s-"The
merchant marine cannot amount fU
anything as an institution under
Government control declared ReaF
Admiral Leigh c. Palmer. president
of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
at meeting last night of chamber OF
commerce members and steamship
agencies in Houston
I'VE are reducing the loss in over
head year by year" continued .8d-
miral Palmer. but under Government
control merchant M zine can never
be operated at profit and as com
plete success, because it is not posi-
BILE for me to take your money and
handle it aS successfully and with as
little loss as if it were my own. Since
the year 1921 we have made great
strides in the operation of our mer-
chant marine, and we have improved
the personnel of the corporation. bur
we cannot compete with the private
operators who have absolute freedom
in the matter of selecting their clients
and can close a deal without reference
to the Government"
Evening star., 1925-04-28
AWAIT GRAND JURY ACTION

Two alleged violators of the Harri-
son narcotic law, William G. Davis.
Il. known in the sporting world years
ago as "BiAy Madden" roomer at 127
E street, and Harry Newton Smith,
giving his address as 1915 Pennsyl-
yania avenue, arrested several days
ago by Detective r. A. Sanders and
Revenue Agent r. l.. Rakusin. were
given preliminary hearings before
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage yesterday afternoon,
and each held for the action of the
grand jury.
Davis, anxious to break himself of
the narcotic habit, 1t is stated testi-
fed that he had made purchases OF
drugs from Smith. and the arresting
officers explained the allegations
against the tness-defendant.
Detective Sanders asked a heavy
bond for Smith, and Commissioner
Turnage fixed it at $4,000. Davis
bond was fixed at 1000.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
SEARCH FOR GIRL
AND MAN PRESSED
Vermont Orders Capture of
Ex-ConviCt Dead or Alive.
Has Rifle and Food.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GRANVILLE. Vt. April 2S.-A
score of searchers from Granville.
Braintree and Hancock. led by Dep
uty Sheriff II. +. Ford. pressed
farther northward today in quest of
11-year-old Lucille Chatterton and
Earl Woodward, former convict, with
whom she disappeared from her home
here last Friday. Following reports
that the pair were seen on Braintree
Hill the night before last and dis.
covery yesterday of few footprints
bearing toward the north. the search
was pushed into the Bull Run district
of southern Mortified, beyond the
town of Braintree.
Attorney General Frank G.. Archi-
bald has ordered the capture of Wood
ward dead or alive"
No New Trace Found.
A night search of the heavily wood
ed hill country yielded no new trace
of the pair. The last time the girl
is known to have been seen was when
she went to a spring to fetch water
on the farm of her father, Walter
Chatterton. Woodward, befriended
by Chatterton and employed as a
farm hand, vanished at the same time.
He had purchased a small supply
of food in the village and had rife
and ammunition.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
SOFIA CONTINUES CALM.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 27.-While
the internal situation continues calm
the Bulgarian government has asked
the members of foreign diplomatic
missions for the present not to travel
about the country and to observe Ger
tain precautions with regard TO the
entry of unauthorized persons into the
legations.
The request was made because the
government fears disorderly elements
may try to embarrass 1t by harminE
foreigners. A policeman has been
posted at the door of each of the
legations, and all possible is being
done to protect representatives of
foreign powers.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
PROSPERITY AHEAD.
Cabinet Impresses Coolidge With
Good Outlook,

In the course of today's cabinet
meeting, President Coolidge and his
advisers again gave considerable at
tention to the business outlook.
Secretary Davis reported that there
was an active demand nearly all over
the country for building trade work.
ers.
Facts as to increased bank clear
ings and increased railroad car load
ing were introduced into the discus.
sion by other members, and the Pres.
ident was given the impression that
the prospects for prosperity are very
good