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Evening star., 1925-08-30

A council of administration meet
Ing was held August % and business
of Importance to the department was
transacted.
The delegates to the veterans joint
committee made a report as to the
finances and aims of the committee
and introduced resolutions to be for
warded to the national encampment
The meeting was addressed by Har-
land Wood of the American Legion
and representatives of the various
railroads leading TO the encampment
at st. Petersburg. Commander-in-
Chief Chauncey w. Herrick outlined
some of the work to be performed at
the coming convention. The Seaboard
Air Line was adopted as the official
route and on the night of September
20 at ii O'Clock there will be three spe-
cial trains leaving Washington to carry
delegates and visitors to the South
A meeting will be held September 10
of all delegates and visitors attend
ing. when flnal assignments and reser-
vations will be made. Members who
expected TO attend encampment
should procure certificates from camp
adjutant and attend meeting men
toned in order to complete arrange
mentS. Past Department Commander
William l.. Mattocks is chairman of
transportation committee.
At last meeting of Richard Harder
Camp one veteran was reinstated and
four applications received. Senior
Vice Commander l.. Nelson of Miles
Camp made an address.
Commander p. L. Shomette of Mel
Evening star., 1925-08-30
Descendant of Hapsburgs.
REATRIX PRIOR. the scre,

REATRIX PRIOR. the screen
mother to Douglas Fairbanks. jr..
in Samuel GoiGAyns film production.
stella Dallas is said TO have a most
intricate family tree.
Her mother was French Irish and
her father an Austrian. Her great
grandmother was Sophia Maria Louis,
of Hapsburg. an Austrian arch
duchess. who eloped TO this country
with Count Won Pouke
Miss Prior was born on q Spa nish
grant in California, and is British
subject because of the fact that she
married, before attaining her ma jor-
ity, a British citizen who was a cousin
of the Earl of Dysart. Further 20
cOmplicate matters her four children
are American citizens, one of them
also being married TO Theodore Yofi
EltZ. an Austrian baron. -
Miss Prior. who is comparativelv
new before the motion picture camera,
having been engaged in the writing
end of pictures, was signed by Mr..
Goldwyn for the role of Mrs. Groves.
nor in his screen version of Olivs
Higgins Prouty's novel, which is
being directed by Henry King. for
Fall release through United Artists
Corporation.
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Veterans of Great War

leen. The alternates are: Mrs. Shan
ahan, Mrs. Ethel Fowler, Mrs. L. Belt,
Mrs. w. E. Harvey and Mrs. Nancy
Lee.
A new classification of that type of
disabled veteran rated by the United
States Veterans Bureau as "constitu-
tional psychopathic interiors; who as
Il result are refused compensation, is
being urged by officials of the national
rehabilitation committee of the Amer
lean Legion here.
Compensation has been denied
many psychopathic veterans, the le-
Sionnaires point out, on the ground
that their condition existed since
childhood and did not result from war
service. The legion committee will
recommend that the Veterans Bureau
review this group of disabled veterans
and that they be reclassified into two
general classes. One class, under the
plan, will cover the veterans who prior
to the war were producers and nor
mai useful citizens. In the other class
will be those who before the war were
palpably psychopathic and poor citi-
ZenS.
Ii relief for this type of veterans
cannot be obtained through a Veter-
ans Bureau ruling. the legion will
seek an amendment to the present law
at the coming session of Congress, il
was indicated
Evening star., 1925-08-30
The Plastic Age

a NUMBER of boX-offlce names have
been added to the cast of the Pre-
ferred Picture, THE Plastic Age"
screen version of the novel by Percy
Marks. Henry B. Walthall, David
Butler and Joan Standing will be seen
in three important roles. The leads
are in the hands OF Clara Dow and
Donald Keith, with the parts of next
Importance to Mary Alden and Gilbert
Roland, new Schulberg find.
THE Plastic Age" it is planned.
will be a Fall release. The screen
version was written by Eve Unsell
and Fredericka Sagor and follows
closely Mr.. Marks original novel.
Evening star., 1925-08-30

Charles S. Mckenzie. Astor Camp, and
Frederick Zulch, Miles Camp.
Alternates-at- at-arge-Charles L. PlatZ,
Harden Camp; John ID. Nelson and
George McA1ear, Miles Camp, and Karl
p. Wood Petit Camp.
Delegates--P. T.. Shomette, Lorin G..
Nelson and John ID. Nelson, Miles
Camp; James e. Wilson. John A. CHS
holm, Leo NJ. Devlin, George r. Cook,
William f. Rink and William o. Ohm.
Harden Camp; Karl p. Wood, Petit
Camp; John j. Kiley, Lawton Camp
Louis Kaplan and John c. Coyne, As
tor Camp; James A. Burns and George
Williams, Dewey Camp, and Herman
Harbors and Charles E. Currier, Urell
Camp.
Alternates-George McAlear, Joseph
o. Dennison and George H. Setback,
Miles Camp; F. A. Langa, Howard L.
Leslie, A. w. Evans, w. E. Thorne,
Patrick Joyce and Harry J. Sherwood,
Harden Camp; Adoiph Graef, Petit
Camp: William S. Hodges. Lawton
Camp: Edward p. Emley and John
Schaefer, Astor Camp, and Andrew .
Kimmel and Eugene Doleman, Dewey
Camp.
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was appointed for shaping programs
for Fall and Winter activities as fol-
lows: Mrs. Mae Cotter, senior vice
president; junior vice president, Mrs.
Laura Weaver. past presidents, Mrs.
Margaret Jacobson and Elizabeth
Jeits. Mrs. Elsie Miller, Mrs. Bessie
Quillin, Mrs. Ena Allen, Mrs. Maude
Cooper. Mrs. Fernando Statsberg,
Mrs. T. Mitchell, Mrs. Annie Dough-
erty and Miss Helen Dougherty, Miss
Helen Weaver and Miss Claudius
Barrack.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars laid
to rest in Arlington Cemetery the
body of Capt Edward Grant, one of
the old original members of the order
last Tuesday. The Veterans of
Foreign Wars delegation under De-
partment Commander Francis c..
Huhn, assisted by Post Commander
Daniel ]. Leahy. met the body at the
home of Capt. Grant on Eighth street
northeast, and escorted it to Arling-
ton, where in addition to the Veterans
of Foreign Wars burial ceremonies
full military honors and Masonic rit-
ual was conducted. Lieut.. Edward
j. Sullivan, long associated with Can't
Grant in the watch force in the Navy
and Munitions Building read the ritu-
alistic services as chaplain. Represen-
tatives from the seven posts in the
District, in addition to the DEPART
ment officials, participated.
Evening star., 1925-08-30
The Getaway" Coming.

A MONG the September bookings for
the Belasco Theater is the latest
Dramatists' Theater. Inc. production
by William Harris, jr.. called Tho
Getaway" and described az play of
adventure, written by CharsesSK. Van
Ripper, a western short.story author.
The cast selected will have Violet
Heming as the featured member and
viii include Minor Watson, a Wash
lngton favorite; Frederick Burt, Eric
Dressler and Is others. The produc-
ton. which is said TO be unusually
large, was designed by Livingston
Platt, and the entire direction of the
play will abe done by Ira Harfs. who
has the success of "The Thirteenth
Chair" and THE Cat and the Canary"
tn his credit
Evening star., 1925-08-30
Constance on Conediennes.
"OF all the beautiful and talented

SnF all the beautiful and talented
women who have passed through
the portals of the various comedy
lots in Los Angeles" says Connie
Talmadge. "on1y two or three have
clung tenaciously to the idea of be-
coming star condolences.
fully devised. If it verges too much
on slapstick, it, is apt to lose it's hui
NOR. Subtlety is really d more inn
portant factor in comedy than in any
other form of screen drama. The
slightest overemphasiS of u funny
situation turns it into burlesque.
One must strive for just the right
shading and gradations to keep the
proper tempo. 1t is really easier. in
a way, to let yourself go and be ever
SO tragic and give absolute vent to
pent-up emotions than 1t is TO be
suppressed and give just a light touch
in ones screen work.
'"The woman comedy star must par
ticularly keep the feminine audience
in mind, because often things that are
funny to men are not funny to women,
as they are apt to be too obvious to
our own sex. / have learned from
long experience that what is funny
be funny TO man.. Besides if the
girls like the picture they will bring
the men along anyway.
When all is said and done, if you
can get your appeal over to the fem
inine audience you can rest assured
you will be successful with the men. p"
Evening star., 1925-08-30

Lew Cody, former villain of the
screen, will be seen here in q new spe.
cies of film hero this week, in support
of Norma Shearer in "A Slave or
Fashion" Lew is said TO have ere,
ated a very normal type of hero, nei-
ther goody-goody nor impossibly he
roic. He is seen as q man OF the
world whose love for a girl overcomes
his love of freedom. -
Evening star., 1925-08-30
Test for Motion Pictures.

CLARENCE BROWN, who is now
directing Rudolph Valentino in
"The Lone Eagle" offers a simple
test for determining the good or bad
qualities of a photoplay.
"If get sleepy, it's a poor picture, -
he says. If 1 stay awake, it's a
good one. A poor picture always acts
as a sedative to me; good one holds
my interest and serves as a stimulant.
That test saves me all the trouble of
arguing about dramatic construction,
characterization and such other moot
pointS"
Evening star., 1925-08-30
American Legion.

Senior Vice Commander L. Norman
Templeton of the Stuart Wolcott Post,
No. 10, the American Legion, has
been selected to attend the seventh
Evening star., 1925-08-30

Bebe Daniels will next be seen as
Eabette de Chanvalone, the heroine
of Martinique, a story of the
French West Indies, taken from
Laurence Byre's play.
Evening star., 1925-08-30

natlOnaI tOllNell-
tion at Omaha,
Nebr., october 8 to
9 with the District
of Columbia dele
CATION.
Vincent b. Cos
tello Post, No. 15,
the American Le-
Sion. will hold its
annual election of
next Tues
day night in the
squad room. Dis
trict B uil | d | n <.
Adjt. Edward Nc
Cabe is urging all
members to Sc
cure their tickets
=
Evening star., 1925-08-30

RaIy Chance, Bowling Green, Va.
Baker, Crosby Cowherd, Columbis, Va.
Gulpeper Sales 4 Service Co.. Culpeper. Va
Winchester-Hudsan Company, Winchester, Va.
University Hudson Motors Company. Char
lotfosvilIe. Va.
White House Service Station, Hyattsville, Md.
Perry Boswell, Mt. Rainier, Md.
Evening star., 1925-08-30

Lindsay Motor Company, Alexandris. Va.
Bates Brothers, Orange, Va.
Dents Garage, Great Mills, Md.
Robert v. Norris, La Plata, Md.
Auto Supply Company, Saluds, Va.
Marlboro Motor Company, Marlboro, Md.
w. v. Miller, SurratsviIle, Md.
Universal Service Station, Front Royal, Va.
Evening star., 1925-08-30

Earle X. Trone, Clarendon, Va.
Bresius Brothers & Gormley, Rockville, ND
Woodstock Garage, Woodstock, Va.
New Market Motor CO.. Inc, New Market, Va.
w. Earl DUNCAN, CalIao, Va.
A. G, Bruce, Inc, Greenwood and Croxet, Va
@. w. Hubbard & Son, White Stone. Va.
Hammer Motor Company. ScottsvfIle, Va.
Herbert j. Fry, Leesburg. Va.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
GIVES UP
$1,5OO TO H0LD-UP MEN
Three Bandits Rob William P.
Kubitz of Cash and Escape
in Automobile.

Three white men held up and
robbed William =. kubitz, 736 Twelfth
street, an electrician, of $500 in cash
last night while he was awaiting
Supt. T. Raymond Zepp of the Con-
necticut apartment house in the lat
ter's Office in the basement Of that
building at Connecticut avenue and
NJ street.
Kubitz, n former empIoye of the
apartment, had entered the Office of
Mr.. Zepp only a short time before
the robbers arrived. Alexander w.
Yowell, clerk In the War Depart
ment, of 1903 Wisconsin avenue, also
was there. He lost $3.50.
The three men ran UP the steps
and, getting into an automobile
awaiting them at the curb, made their
getaway west on NJ street.
Detectives Kelley and Scrivener.
who were assigned to the case. be =
lieve that the hold-up men knew
Kubitz was accustomed to carrying
a large sum of money on his person
and had trailed him to the apartment
house.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
CANADA CLAIMS LEAD
IN POWER HARVESTING

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, February Canada
leads the world in harnessing water
power. according to a report of the
Dominion department of the interior.
Hydro-electric development in Can
ada was increased to 3,57S.000 horse
power in 1924 through the installation
of 100000 additional units, the report
said.
Principal water power developments
took place in Ontario and Quebec.
New hydro development in the prairie
provinces and British Columbia to-
tailed nearly $4,000 horsepower.
Water power projects contemplated
within the next two years will add
$4,000 additional horsepower, the de-
partment announced. Work Of erect
ing a plant at Carlton on the Otta-
wa River to furnish 10000 horse
power for export to United States in
dustries will be undertaken this year,
the department said.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
UNITS OF TENANTS
URGED FOR RELIEF
"Anti-Profiteering" Meeting
Told of Advantage of Form
ing Organizations.

An "anti-profiteering mass meeting
was held last night at the Central
High School. under the auspices Of
the West End Tenants Association.
Cooperating with the tenants, pro-
fessional and business people of
Washington" Addresses were de-
livered by o. A. Reed. Mrs. NJ. NJ
Vincent. secretary OF the West End
Tenants Association; w. r. Ryan and
DR.. Charles f. Gilman of New York.
national president of World Vigilance,
United States division.
Mrs. Vincent spoke on the need OF
organization, pointing out that if il
was good for real estate men. bank
ers or others, II certainly must he
good for tenants who are facing in
creased rents here. She urged for
nation of tenants associations in
each section of the city.
Urges Backing for Law.
Mr.. Reed advocated that the ten
ants get behind the proposed lesis
lation to correct alleged rent abuses.
lie found fault with the provision for
a realty board of seven members
saying this would be most expensive
TO the taxpayers of the District and
unnecessary.
DR.. Gilman told Of the purpose Of
his ganiZation to have Congre SIS
pass legislation whereby all Profits on
the rental of real estate over s per
cent Of the assessed value will be
taken by the Government as income
tax.
Mrs. L. W. Schwartze. vice presi-
dent Of the association, presided.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
SENATE CALENDAR
JAM MORE ACUTE
Fight for Action on Shoals
Bill Looms-Money Meas
ureS Sure of Vote.

The struggle for place on the legis-
lative program of the Senate is grow
ing more and more intense as the
close of the present session ap-
proaches. Tomorrow the Senate
meets after recess. with the Bur
sum bill providing for the retirement
or disabled emergency Army officers
as its unfinished business. The State,
Justice, Commerce and Labor appro-
prlation hill also is awaiting final
action. Friends of the Muscle Shoals
bill which. was reported out of con-
ference to the Senate yesterday, may
seek to have IL considered
These are only few of the meas
ures which are b ing pressed for
action. Others include the bill lib
eralizing the civil service retirement
law. the Cape Cod Canal purchase
bill, the McFadden banking bill and
the Cramton bill setting up a sepa-
rate bureau to handle the prohibition
enforcement, under the Treasury De-
partment. Farm relief measures still
are to be put forward.
Money Bills Made Post.
The Senate appropriations COM
mittee will meet tomorrow to pass
upon the Independent offices appro-
priation bill, which will probably be
ordered reported to the Senate. The
appropriation bills have moved along
rapidly, end no fear is now felt less
any of them fail for lack of time to
be considered
In the Senate committee on judi
ciary the nomination of Charles Il.
Warren TO he Attorney General to
succeed Mr.. Stone, soon to go on the
Supreme Bench, probably will be
taken up at its meeting tomorrow.
Opposition has developed because Of
the alleged connection of Mr.. Warren
in the past with the sugar trust.
Evening star., 1925-02-08

and it's proper balancing, while the
Federal agencies are concerned prln-
cirally in seeing that the Govern
mcnts interests are properly pro-
tected and that District affairs are
carried on efficiently and honestly.
The above iderations have led
me to suggest a city council to voice
the opinions Of the taxpayers as to
the total of the budget, its proper
balancing, and to pass on the de-
STABILITY of proposed legislation.
These councilmen should be selected
with the same care that Judges are
selected for courts ,sand not be propa-
Eandists or men with hobbies.
with the lump sum arrangement,
the duties of the Director of the
Budget would appear to be fully per-
formed by having representation at
the hearings conducted by the Com
missioners. On the same basis, the
hearings by committees of Congress
might be carried on jointly.
Plan to Save Time.
Much of the time OF members of
Congress and of the assistants to the
Director of the Budget is taken up
by individuals and small groups
seeking special consideration for
Legislative and appropriation items of
relatively little urgency and merit,
70 the exclusion of matters of greater
Importance to the District as whole.
With the creation of a city council,
these applicants should present their
claims TO the council. which would
report on their urgency and desir-
ability to the Commissioners"
Col. Bell said in his statement that
some criticisms are heard with re-
gard to Zoning, but he said they come
from persons who overlook the fact
that there are limitations to the pow
ers of the zoning commission.
Zoning by Commission.
"Zoning" the Commissioner said,
cannot be based on esthetic considera-
tions, much we would like to have
il so. Our architects advisory council
does much to improve the architecture
of private constructions, but does so
by permission only
Referring to the newly created
National Capital Park Commission.
Col. Bell concluded: 1T is to be hoped
that the activities of this commission
may develop SO as to be of great as
sistance to the District in city and
regional planning. We are not making
the progress in these matters that we
should. We have highway plan for
the District that is probably fairly
good, but that is only the inner
skeleton of a proper city and regional
plal -
Col. Bell prepared the statement
ather consultation with the other Com
missioners.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Ninth Day Collins
Has Been PiniOned
I25 Feet in CaUe-irl
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CAVE CITY, Ky. February =
The predicament of Floyd Collins.
adventurer cave explorer, i'm
prisoned in Sand Cave, was depict
ed in these facts.
Imprisoned since 10 am, Friday,
January 80, eight and a half days.
Without food or water, as far as
known, since Wedn eSday evening.
Trapped by boulder on his foot
at the bottom of tortuous chan
mel about l25 feet long, which is
now blocked by n cave-in, or
squeeze, about 10 feet from Collins.
The shaft being dug to rescue
him at o'clock tonight had pene-
trated to a depth OF only c5 feet
OF the so 10 so feet estimated neces-
sary to reach the cave-in behind
Collins. Drills have penetrated some
1J feet farther.
Lieut.. Gov. II. H. Denhardt. a
brigadier general of the Kentucky
National Guard. directs the work
OF rescue, and 20 State troopers
maintain order.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
DRUGS KILLED WOMAN.
Victim Is Identified as Philadel
pnfa Tenderloin Queen

PHILADELPHIA. February T.
The woman found dead in a Central
city rooming house last night under
mysterious circumstances was iden-
titled today as Mrs. Jennie Burke.
said by police 20 have been the wife
of DR.. Herbert G.. Burke, veterinary
surgeon. now serving time for drug
peddlinG. Lieut.. Peter Cheller to-
night said she had died from an over
dose of drug.
Detectives recognized her, they
said, the queen of the tender
Ioin." an outstanding figure in Phila-
delphia's underworld for more than
10 years. They believed her to have
been the master mind" behind much
of drug traffic.
Discovery Of her name resulted
from the finding in her purse of the
key TO a safe deposit box.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
CLAIMS USHER STUCK
HIS FINGER IN HER EYE
Woman Sues Washington Theater
Company and Play Manager
for $4,000.

Rena Lovett was at the Gayety
Theater Monday and while an usher
was distributing pamphlets among
the audience, she says, he negligently
stuck his finger in her eyes causing
her great pain and requiring hospi
tai and medical treatment which cost
her 800.
On a declaration containing this
allegation she sued the Washington
Theater Company and Jimmie Cooper
manager of revue being played for
$4,000 damages. She is represented
by Attorney William Tomlinson.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
VANDERBILT HAS RELAPSE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. February Frank A.
banker, who has been
slowly recovering from typhoid fever
at his country home in Scarborough,
has had a relapse, but is now believed
to be out of danger, although still
confined to bed
DIR. Norman Barnesby, his physician.
said he was again improving today.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
BANQUET TO BE HELD.

The seventy third annual Founders
day banquet of the local Phi Kappa
Psi will be held at the University
Club Thursday evening, February 10.
The committee in charge of the at
fair includes George B. Lockwood,
Ernest H. Van Fossan, Austic c. Wal
Ter and j. S. Goff.
Evening star., 1925-02-08

low, B. NJ. Wise, Ralph Wise, r. J.
Wise, william e. Wise, c. Wohlge
muth, jr, DR.. J. T. Wolfe, Court F.
Wood, Foster Wood, Representative
w. r. Wood, F. b. Wright, J. Holt
Wright. NJ. ]. Wright. George E.
Wyne, Joseph d. Yerkes, William Fl.
Ierkes, jr.. Guy Yost, John Zanier,
Representative. F. \. Zihlman and
Samuel :ZirkiuA
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Sacramento Paper Purchased.

SAN FRANCISCO, February =
Purchase OF the Sacramento Union
was announced by w. W. Chaplin
formerly publisher Of the Seattle
Post Tntellicencer and the San Fran
cisco Morning Call.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
GARAGES
Test and Comparisons
Win for Washington

rhe best-built garages in the city today are
causing much copying and reproducing in
other cities by experts.
Metal Rest Built Garages are tho most
logical types for housing your car because of
the protection that 1t affords against fire,
theft and the depreciatug elements of Winter
weather.
Experts recently in Washington confded
that BEST BUILT, GARAGES were ideal on
account of the fact that all of the features
of durability and appearance we're included.
Evening star., 1925-02-08
Local Concern Has
Ideal Financing Plan

The WASHINGTON GARAGE CONsTRUC-
TION CO., 1910 Continental Trust Building
are the originators and builders of these
BEST-BrILT METAL GARAGES. and they
have AN ATTRACTIVE Low TERN PAY7
MENT PROPOSITION THAT ALL. WASH
INGTONLANS CAN AVAIL THEMSELVm
OF, Phone Main 19s4.-AdL
Evening star., 1925-02-08
PLANE POTENTIALLY
BEST U. S. DEFENSE,
JOHNSON TESTIFIES

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Evening star., 1925-02-08
BELL OFFERS PLAN .
TO IMPROVE CITY
WITH CITIZENS AID

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