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Evening star., 1925-11-18
PRESBYTERIAN BODY
TO PENSION CLERGY
Board Adopts Plan Which EN-,
braces More Than 5000 Min
listers of Denomination.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, November IS
Pensions for the more than 5000
Presbyterian ministers in the employ
Of the Presbyterian Board of National
Missions will be provided in accord.
anCe with the decision of the board
the office of the general assembly
here announced.
Members of the board. the announce
ment said. had adopted the new pen
sion plan of the Presbyterian Board
of Ministerial Relief for all the eligi-
BILE employees Of the Board of Nation
al Missions. 1t was said to be the
greatest wholesale block of such pen
sion insurance yet adopted by the de-
nomination in connection with the
new pension plan being promoted by
national Presbyterian laymen's com
mittee. headed by VIII II. Hays, for
mer Postmaster General. AS part of
its share in the plan the Board of
National Missions will pay into the
pension fund annually an amount
equal to Il2 per cent of the total
salaries of the 5000 ministers.
Evening star., 1925-11-18
LIEN ON RUM CAR UPHELD.
Federal Court Forbids Sale of Mort
gagged Auto Seized by Agents.

NEW YORK, November Is P).--
The United States Court of Appeals
has handed down a decision de-
nying the Government right to seize
automobiles which are alleged to be
carriers of Intoxicating liquors and
upon which there are chattel mort
cages.
The court dismissed a libel action
brought by the Federal authorities to
seize an automobile upon which
Long Island automobile company held
such a mortgage.
The machine was being sold upon
the installment plan when it was
seized
Evening star., 1925-11-18
FEDERAL WORKERS
HIT ARMY METHODS
h-SaIaried Officers Used
on Trivial Work, Head of
Employees Says.

There could he effected a real say
ing in money if those who have as
sisted in the reorganization of the eX-
ecutiVe departments of the Federal
Government would remove all of those
Army and Navy officers who are now
engaged in trivial employment. aC-
Cording to Luther G. Steward. presi-
dent of the Federation of Federal En-
plOyeS. who proposes to submit Il su &
gestiOn TO Congress for practical
reorganization Of the Government.
Mr.. Steward, while making his views
on reorganization known at the White
House Yesterday said that there are
hundreds of Army and Navy officers
receiving between $4,000 and $500 Il
year who are assigned to duties which
could be performed by $1,000 clerks.
and in many cases by mere mes
sengers. He stated that he did not see
the President today. having called at
the White House merely To arrange
for a reception tomorrow Of an eNecu-
tive council Of the federation.
Sees Huge Saving.
He said that he is of the opinion
that many millions Of dollars could be
saved, bur he said he could not agree
with Senator curtis of Kansas. VINO
has. in his advocacy of reorganization,
''ldll1eu lnele COull pt Il pI dtllIsti SS'N
ing of more than S250.00O,000 annu-
ally, nor does he agree with other ad-
vocates of the reorga nization who be
lieve the saving would amount TO just
a few millionSdollars.
Mr.. Steward intimated that when
he prepared his suggestions he will
submit copy to the President as
well as to members of Congress who
are interested. In his opinion the
principal legislation affecting Federal
employees To be thrashed in the next
session of Congress is the Lehlbach
bill providing for the adjustment of
The Personnel Classification Board and
transferring its functions to the
United States Civil Service Commits
sion. Fie stated that there will be
no permanent settlement of the Classi-
fication problem until class speCitica-
tions are properly prepared. and he
does not believe this will be accom-
plished by the personnel board. Post
ponement of the issue. he contends.
will accomplish no good purpose.
Evening star., 1925-11-18
Order for Lieut.. Col. Carlson.

Lieut.. Col. Raymond C. Carlson.
Ordnance Department Reserve, of this
city, has been ordered to report to
the Assistant Secretary of War for
training in connection with procure
ment services
Evening star., 1925-11-18
Cecil Gives $1,000
OF Wilson Prize
To Help Sports
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, November lS.-Nis-
count Cecil of Chelwood has donat-
ed $1,000 of the $25, 900 prize he
received in New York last Decem-
Der from the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation to the secretariat of
the League of Nations for the de-
velopment of tennis and golfing
facilities and also for the use of
the library of the league.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
Traffic Bureau AU at Sea
As White Lines Vanish IN SnO,C
Many Suggestions Made for Replacing Safety Zones,
But All Brought Up Found to Haze
Some Drawback.
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood

hind every street car unloading or
taking on passengers.
Commissioner oyster, at the same
time, came forward with the sug-
gestion that the street car companies
should be compelled to clean the snow
away from the safety platforms, and
said the subject would be taken up
at the next meeting of the Public
Utilities Commission.
Just as the problem was assuming
greater proportions today Prof Let
me X. Plain, d. T. doctor of traffic),
came forward with the following
more or less enlightening ideas:
''The problem scarcely seems to be
a problem at all, when one looks into
the matter carefully, as l have done.
There are any number of solutions
Why not put umbrellas over the
safety zones just before every snow
storm? Or If that were impracticable,
etch the lines over again on the ice
with an icepick. Or automobiles
might be prohibited from using any
street on which a safety zone was
known to exist Or, again, the Com
missioners might promulgate a regu-
lation making it a criminal offense
for. street-car passengers to -endanger
their lives by using the safety zones.
II could give any number of meth
DDS that would be effective, but
what's the use? Every suggestion I
have made about other things in the
past have been completely ignored.
Such will occur with my safety zone
propositions, l am sure. But, never
theless, I give them for what they are
worth, consequently charging you
nothing"
Evening star., 1925-01-14

Great CONSERVATION reigns at the
traffic bureau these days over the
ill-treatment given all their white
safety zone lines by the snow, ice
and slush of the past few weeks.
Nobody seems to know just what to
do about it,
With the first heavy snowfall re-
Gently the motoring public was
robbed of every vestige of it's traffic
lines, and the problem then arose as
to what good is a carefully worked
out traffic line if nobody knows
where it is except Inspector Headley.
Various suggestions to remedy the
made to the traffic bureau chief, but
all seem to have their drawbacks.
The inspector said that iron stanch-
ions had been considered as markers
zones, but instantly a train of OBJ
jections arises. The stanchions
would have to be lighted at night. in
the first place, and supposing
languishfng lantern wick should be
wicked enough to go out while the
inspector was not looking?
Discs Would Fail
Then came the proposition that
iron discs be put at the corners
But they would be of little benefit"
Inspector Headley states. with snow
and slush piling over them"
Personally. the inspector favors
certain wide thoroughfares. but In
zones have been painted the plat
form would take up most of the
have to be detoured over the side
walk.
If there were no safety islands at
all. motorists would have to stop be-
Evening star., 1925-01-14
Business Record
Of Pre-Abraha,,,
Day Found in Ur
IT, of Penn. Expedition
Says Find Resembles
Cash Ledger of 1924.
b. the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, January IA
What are believed to be the most an
cient business records ever found by
arch eologists. one of the records a
ledger similar to those used today,
have been unearthed by the joint ex-
petition of the British Museum and
the museum of the University of
Pennsylvania at Ur of the Chaldees,
the buried city of Abraham, accord
ing to an announcement made last
night.
The first report from C. Leonard
Woolley, head of the expedition, was
received in this city yesterday and
made public by DR.. George Byron
Gordon, director of the university
museum. The report contained the
announcement of the finding of the
ancient business records the book
keeping of the Temple of the Moon
God, in the former capital of the
Babylonian empire, before the time
of Abraham.
The archeologists have also un-
covered, the report said, a hall OF
justice erected in all probability by
Nebuchadnezzar. striking archi
tectural find, according to Mr. Wooley,
was that of an arch in the facade of
one of the buildings uncovered, which,
he believes, moves back the history
of architecture, in this respect, to
the remotest antiquity.
The report tells of the finding of
the ruins of buildings dating from
the sixteenth century B. c., and still
older walls of shrines put up, as the
inscribed clay cones from their foun-
dations showed, by the kings of Isin
and Larsa, who ruled Ur 1000 years
before Christ.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
AUTO PERMIT LAW
MEETSOBJECT|ON
Commissioners Oppose Plan
Requiring Evidence of
Good Character.

A bill pending in Congress that
would require applicants for automo-
bile, operating permits to submit evil
dence of good moral character was
opposed by the Commissioners in a
report sent Chairman Reed of the
House District committee today.
The measure provides that the ap-
plication for a permit shall be ac-
companied by a photograph of the
applicant together with sworn state
ments from three persons of good re-
pute. certifying to the character of
the applicant One of the indorse-
ments would have to be from the cap
tain of the police precinct in which
the applicant resides.
Object to Change.
In their report to the House Dis
trict committee the Commissioners
said:
The Commissioners believe that
these regulations {meaning those now
in existence) adequately cover the
subject, and that the requirements
proposed in this bill are unnecessary
and burdensome. They. therefore,
recommend unfavorable action on the
bill"
Discussing the traffic problem gem
orally today, Commissioner Oyster de-
clared that he is convinced less speed
would mean fewer accidents. The
Commissioner said information given
him indicates that last week, when
machines had to be driven slowly be-
cause of the snow and ice on tTfe
streets, there was a marked reduction
in the number of accidents.
Would Keep Speed Limit.
81 realize that there is opposition
to reducing the speed limit, but 1 am
still of the opinion it would elimi-
nate half of the accidents Capt.
Oyster declared. THE present speed
limit of Is miles an hour would be
sufficient if motorists would observe
it. Travelling at that, rate. person
can get to any part of the District
in reasonable time"
Although expressing these views,
the Commissioner gave no indication
that he intends to recommend a
lower speed limit to the board.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
SYMPHONY PLAYS
WAGNER CONCERT
Damrosch Orchestra, Aided
by Berta Morena, De-
lights Audience.

Walter Damrosch presented some
comparatively unfamiliar works in
his annual Wagnerian concert at
Polls Theater yesterday afternoon.
when the New York Symphony had
as guest soloist Berta Morena, So
prano of the Munich State Opera,
who has been called by some authori-
ties the greatest Isolde" Two songs,
"SchmerZen" and "Traume," both
sung with beautiful shading of tone
and especially fine pian!ssimo work
in the latter, are numbers that. would
bear more frequent hearings in Wash
ington. Mr.. Damrosch's own concert
arrangement of the march of the
knights of the Grail, in "Parsifal,"
was a fine musical description, poetic
color being given with the bells and
with suggestion of the solemnity OF
a mighty organ tone.
Another unusual work was the
scherzo from Wagner's only SYM
phony, written when he was 19 years
old and plainly showing the in
fiuence of both Beethoven and Mozart
The work is interesting chiefly for use
in contrasting the early and later
trend in Wsgner's development.
interpretations Excellent.
The beautiful overture to Tam
hauser" was the opening selection.
The brasses were particularly pleas
ing in this number. The violins and
'cellos were fascinating in the pre-
lude and the quaint Dance of the
Apprentices" in the "Meistersinger"
selections. The cellos and wood
winds were featured in the prelude
and accompaniment of the "Liebe-
stod," from Tristan und Isolde"
Every number showed the pleasure
and care that Mr.. Damrosch takes in
interpreting the Bayreuth master.
Madame Morena was heard at not
a little disadvantage. She was de-
layed in reaching the United States,
landing in New York last Saturday
Moreover, this was her first concert
in this country since before the war
and she was not d little nervous.
and in a not particularly musical
family, Berta Morena grew up the
possessor of beautiful but prac-
ticalIy unframed voice. At the age
of 10 she sang Agatha in a production
of Der Freischuetz" in the Munich
Opera House and she sang Elsa and
Elizabeth while still very young.
She is to sing Isolde and probably
Brunnhilde with the Metropolitan
Opera Company. Madame Morena
sang Elizabeth,s aria from. Tam
hauser' with enthusiasm and fine
wagnerian style yesterday. Her
singing of the 'Iiebestod" was given
more artistic shading and feeling.
Nine. Morena has marvellous volume,
but at times does not seem to have
perfect breath control. Her German
is, of course, excellent.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
EX-SHERIFF in PRISON
SEEKS new HEARING
Not Permitted to File Affidavits
in Liquor Case, Says Chain of
Logan County, w. Va.

RICHMOND, Va, January 14.-A
new trial for Don Chain. former
sheriff of Logan County, w. Va, serv-
ing a two-year sentence in the At
lanta Federal Penitentiary. was
sought in plea his attorneys were
ready to file in the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals here today.
Chain charged he was not permit
ted to file affidavits protesting the
judge and seeking another jurist. He
was convicted in the District Court at
Huntington of conspiracy to evade
the prohibition act in that he had
agreed with Tennis Hatfield to oper-
ate a saloon in Barnabus, w. Va.
Chain also was fined $4,000.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
EVANGELIST TO TOUR
ADVENTIST MISSIONS
Rev. Meade MacGuire Accepts Call
to Study Work in
South America.

Rev. Meade MacGuire, one of the
world leaders of the Seventh day
Adventists, has accepted call from
the foreign mission board of that
church to make an extensive tour of
South America in the interest of mis-
Sionary work.
Leaving Washington last night, he
started for his home in Modesto,
Calf, where, after spending few
days with his wife, he will start for
the East, leaving New York City on
the S. S. Voltare on February Z.
His first stop will be in Rio de
Janeiro, from which point he will
visit many mission stations in Brazil.
He will then go to Bueuos Aires and
other points in Argentina. From
that country he will go to Chile, and
then up the west coast of South
America, crossing the Andes Noun
tains into Ecuador. 1t is in Ecuador,
Bolivia and Peru that the Seventh
day Adventists are conducting a most
progressive missionary campaign
among the millions of Indians. More
than 5000 of these already have ac-
cepted Christianity.
Around Lake Titieaca, which has an
elevation of 1880 feet above sea
level, the Adventists have established
IL different mission stations, and Mr..
MacGuire will visit all of these, to-
gether with others scattered among
the highlands of the Andes. He will
spend about seven months in South
America, returning home by way of
Central America and Panama.
Mr.. MacGuire has been in, Takonfa
Park for the past 10 days conducting
series of evangelistic meetings In
the headquarters church of the de-
nomination. He and Elder A. G..
Daniels, secretary of the foreign mis-
sion board, and also secretary of the
Ministerial Association of the denom-
ination. have been making a tour of
the leading centers of the church in
North America during the past year,
and successful results have come from
their evangelistic efforts.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
MRS. Gait MAKES PEACE
PLEA TO JEWISH WOMEN
Says It Is Duty of Sex to Curb
War-Americanizing Work
Discussed.

An appeal to aid in ending war by
locating the cause and applying a
cure was made before the Council of
Jewish Women yesterday afternoon
at a meeting in the Eighth Street
Temple by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
in Washington arranging for the con-
ference on this subject to be held next
week
Mrs. Gait spoke on "The Duties of
the Hour" and her address centered
about the duty of women in fostering
and preparing the way for world
peace.
Immigration problems were dis
cussed by Mrs. Levi David. who
touched also on Americanization
work.
Mrs. Mark Lansburgh, who attend
ed the national board meeting of the
council, rendered a digest of the pro-
ceeding, outlining the national prof.
ects of the organization proposed and
in process of execution.
Mrs. Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler sang.
Mrs. Wolf, president of the
local organization, presided.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
ASSERTS BISHOPS
CONv|CHONFA FAIR
Episcopal Church Advocate
Disputes Right Rev. Browns
Claim of Error.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, January IL
Contentious that Bishop William NJ.
Brown, retired prelate of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church. was convicted
of heresy last May in full accord with
canon and civil law were presented
today to the church's court of review
by Charles l.. Dibble of Kalamazoo,
Mich, church advocate.
The proceedings, it was expected,
would wind up the open hearings in
the case, as the next tribunal to
which it may go is the house of
bishops. all of whose sessions are
executive. After Mr.. Dibble and his
associate, John II. Smart of Cleve-
land, have concluded their arguments
on the appeal, Joseph w. Sharts, chief
counsel for the accused bishop, will
close the formal arguments.
Bishop Brown, it was announced,
will wind up his own case with
personal appeal to his fellow bishops
for a reversal of the trial court.
Mr.. Dibble's argument was in reply
to assertions made yesterday by Mr..
Sharts that his client had been mis-
representated in the accusation by
reason of the fact that % detached
selections from his book, Communism
and Christianisn," had been selected
arbitrarily as the basis for the
charges. Mr.. Dibble pointed out that
the whole book had been placed in
evidence at the trial, having been
introduced by the defense itself.
Mr.. Sharts asserted further that the
trial court had erred in not ordering
depositions on church doctrine taken
from all bishops of the church, as
requested by the defense, and also
in taking judicial notice of the
church's doctrine without defining
what constitutes that doctrine.
Mr.. Dibble rejoined that doctrine
'Gas established by the corporate act
OF the church. that each bishop could
have given only his individual opin
ION and that such opinions would
have been incompetent and imma-
terial, as the trial court ruled.
He reaffirmed his position that doc
trine of the church was found in the
Book OF Common Prayer, particularly
in the Apostles and Nicene creeds.
This was in opposition, to the idea
advanced by Mr.. Sharts that the
creeds were confessions of faith,
placed in the prayerbook as part of
the order of worship, and that they
amounted only to symbols of the
church's doctrine.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
THREE ARE HURT
WHILE COAST|NG
Two SIeds in Collision With
AutoS-SeveraI Wrecks
Reported.

Three persons were injured in
coasting accidents last night.
Richard Jacobs, Il, Pierce Mill
road, near Wisconsin avenue. coast
ing on Macomb near Thirty third
street about o'clock, received an
injury to his right leg, when his
sled was struck by a taxicab. James
NJ. Power, 4514 New Hampshire ave-
nue.. driver of the taXicab, took. the
injured boy to Emergency Hospital.
One hour later John P. Harrison,
90, so Foxhall road, coasting near,
his home. injured his foot when his
sled struck an electric light pole.
He received treatment at George
town University Hospital and went
home.
Mary Britton, 16, 2s37 Macomb
street. victim of the third accident,
coasting near her home, was cut
about the face when her sled struck
a parked automobile. She was taken
home by friends and treated.
A street car and lumber wagon
were in collision near the west end
of the bridge over Rock Creek at
p street about $50 o'clock last
night Harry Davis, ia / street
southeast. was operating the car,
while Charles Brooks, 2614 l street,
was in charge of the lumber team.
The front of the car was damaged
and one horse slightly hurt
U. s. Auto in Wreck.
Edward Makall, 431 Second street
southwest, was driver of Govern
ment automobile that collided at
North Capitol and E streets with the
automobile of w. A. Hit, zoos
Kearney street northeast. Slight
damage to the former vehicle resulted.
Slight damage resulted from col
lision between horse-drawn vehicle
in charge of Theodore Green, 412 First
street, and the automobile of Walter
c. Williams, 941 C street southwest.
near Delaware avenue and Canal
street southwest yesterday afternoon.
r A Capital Traction car and mail
truck collided at Fourteenth and III
streets last night about 1880 O'Clock.
The truck, In charge of Earl Thomp-
son, 1926 Encrid street, was forced'
against a semaphore, breaking it.
This was the only damage.
.OrviIle Taylor, I'll Thirteenth
street northeast, was driver of an
automobile that cellided at Thirteenth
and H streets northeast yesterday
afternoon, with the automobile Of
Robert d. Rothwell, 2915 Mills avenue,
parked at the curb. Both cars were
damaged, and Taylor was charged by
the police with colliding.
Samuel Johnson, coiored, 81, 1880
Fifth street, was hurled through the
windshield of his automobile this
morning about o'clock when his
machine collided with street car in
front of 1922 Seventh street. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital for
cut over his left eye, and the police
charged him with driving while in
toxicated, reckless driving and collid-
ing.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
SICK CAT AROUSES
MAN IN FIRE PERIL
Several Business Concerns in
Hyattsville Damaged by Early
Morning Flames.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


HYATTSVILLE. Md, January IA
But for a cat with the collie. Frank
Caccini, a shoemaker er, might be dead
today and scores of Hyattsville build
ings in ruins.
The cat woke up Caccini at 4
o'c'ock this morning by it's cries and
Caccini discovered the pool room of
Frank Baldwin, next door, in flames.
Fire had started from an overheated
stove in the pool room and was
spreading between the ceiling and
roof over the several business places
in the same. building at the end of
Rodgers row.
The pool room, with three tables
and other contents, was practically
gutted at loss of $500 or more. The
lunchroom of Harry Thomas was
damaged about $500. the tailor shop
of A. Elmo about s1,500. the barber
shop of B. F. Chinn, $780,. and the
roof of Rodgers & Rodgers, real es-
tate. was slightly damaged. Gao
cini's shoe shop was damaged about
$1,000. His sleeping quarters are in
the rear of the shoe shop.
Evening star., 1925-01-14
SHRINE CONTRACTS LET.
Two Bids Accepted for Part of
Work at Catholic q.

Contracts were awarded yesterday
for the building of the transept, SUBJ
basement and the flooring above the
easements at the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception, now
under construction at the Catholic
University.
This work will add 100 feet to the
present length of the crypt floor,
making it 304 feet long. The transept
will be ESQ feet wide. J.. r. Whitty
& Co. received the contract for the
transept and William Lannigan the
contract for two southern piers of
the dome.
Bishop Thomas j. Shahan, rector of
the Catholic University, will make a
report of the progress of work on, the
shrine when he reaches Rome. The
bishop will leave Washington today
for MoW Yesh.