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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-26
BANDITS LEE
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the robbers. the Third precinct was
notified.
Bandits Young Men
Detectives from headquarters and
from the precinct were sent to the
garage but no arrests have been
made.
Midget describes his early morn
ing visitors as rather young men,
both of which were dressed IN
light gray overcoats.
The larger of the two was wear
ing a felt hat while the other wore
cap.
One was about five feet three
inches in height. weighing about
40 pounds. while the other was
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-26
QUEENS DEATH CANCELS
LoNDoN's THANKSGIVING

LONDON, Nov. 26.-With the
usual American Society Thanksgiv-
ing dinner cancelled on account Of
the death of Queen Alexandra.
Americans did little today to OBJ
serve their national holiday.
The American Golfing Society
held its annual tournament.
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about five feet eight inches tall
and, weighed about 80 pounds. ac,
cording to Midget. The larger
man Carried 40 caliber pistol.
Earlier In the evening Ralph Nc
Williams, manager of the taxi COM
panx. carried to the bank nearly
$300tin cash.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-26
7 HANKSGIv|N
MASS HELD
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erend Monsignor Filippo Bernar-
DIM, the Very Reverend Monsignor
Paul Marella. the Very Reverend
Raphael Huber. o. NJ. c.. the Very
Reverend Francis j. McShane, o,
A. S., the Very Reverend Ignatius
Smith. o. p. the Very Reverend
w. G.. Scanlon, o. p, Senior Don
Beltram Matthew, ambassador from
Chile; Honoric Pueyrredon, ambas-
sador from Argentina; Doctor Her
nan Velarde, ambassador from
Peru: S. Gurgel do Amaral, am
bassador from Brazil; Senior Don
Francisco Sanchez Latour. min
lister from GuaeNEnala; Doctor En-
rioue Olaya, minister from Colon
his. Senior Don Ricardo J. Alfaro,
minister from Panama; Senior Don
J. Rafael Oremundo. minister from
Costa Rica.
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Royal Chapel, Decked
Awaiting Arrival of
Queen Mothers Body
BY International News Service

LONDON. Nov. 26.-TaIl candles
burn on the high altar and the gold
communion plate is laid out in the
chapel Royal St. James, today.
The altar vases are filled with
flowers, and IN the midst of the
chancel there is tiny spot left
yawning and empty, awaiting the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-26
The Season of Gratitude

INDIVIDUAL achievement may be
L equally as notable. The man or
woman who gives thought. to the fu-
ture will have cause for Thanksgiving
as the years roll by.
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Twomey and Bozek between them
rushed the ball for a succession Of
three downs, and finally a touch
down, after which Byrne booted q
neat goal.
Runs for Forty Yards
The third period was barely under
way when Bozek took the ball from
his quarterback and, evading a ter
rifle tackle by Childs, ran around
Gonzaga's right end for forty yards
and Gonzaga's second touchdown.
This time Byrne was not so sue
cessful with his toe.
In the closing quarter, with the
ball on Loyola's 45-yard line and
in the visitors possession. Paddy
Byrnes intercepted a forward pass
and contributed the most sensational
run of the morning for Gonzaga 8
third touchdown.
This time Twomey was given the
ball to kick and he also failed.
Twomey also missed a drop-kick
in the opening chapter. an attempt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-26

EEW fortunes are made in a day.
Persistent saving, no matter how
small, is the only open sesame to
financial independence.
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being made from Loyola's 3O.yard
line.
Because Of the muddy ball and
slippery going, there was mini
mum of passing and kicking.
Gonzaga will play st. James Col
lege, of Haverhill, Mass, on Decem-
Der 5, at American League Park,
for the Eastern Jesuit preparatory
school championship.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-26
|Debs Find Cabareting
Better Than Society
BY international News Service

NEW YORK, Nov. 26-'Why We Go To CabaretsI is the
title entertaining article which will the forth
coming of the New Yorker written by Miss En Mackay
daughter of Clarence Mackav, the multi-milionare
Evening star., 1925-05-10

said 1. Il haven't talked to any one
for a week.
Take mine. They're the sultan's
brand. Better take the box. Well,
can't stay, you see. 1t would be
presuming on the sentries. But my
servant will look after you. He goes
anywhere and does anything"
x X
60 here, out of a clear sky, had
dropped a member of the i'm
perial court and his black slave. Next
day the slave came with a basket of
delicious grapes from the Seraglio
gardens and a Colette-Willy novel.
l learned all sorts of things from
this funny little African. Sir Robert
Paul, my partner in the first escape
was in another part of the prison.
Bread was mounting to famine prices.
And so on.
The slave, a child in years but old
in intrigue, from constant living in
the imperial harem, smuggled out
notes for me, smuggled in books,
paper and pencils, and, best of all, a
red fez, which said / required to
keep my head warm. This didn't
sound SO foolish when I said it as it
looks written down. Turks are ac-
customed to wearing fezzes indoors:
the slave, therefore. had no idea
l wanted it to escape with. Neither
he nor his master would have helped
me to escape. But fooling the prison
guards was just a game with them.
The following Friday evening the
imperial son-in-law dropped in to
return my eyeglass We had a.
friendly chat and 1 pulled the old
gag about the dentist, which first
allowed me to plan to escape from the
military prison. Surely the COM
mandant would allow me some respite
from my neuralgia?
The imperial son-in-law promised
to mention the matter at the next
favorable opportunity. "A few days
after. the commandant stopped at INV
room during his inspection of the
prison. He was in excellent humor,
in fact, all lit up like Galata Bridge
on a gala night.
He told me that if 1 promised not
to escape while in the streets l might
go to the dentist. He was a merciful
man, he said, and a father to the
widow, the orphan and the prisoner.
He added that my sentries would have
orders to shoot If they detected any
suspicious movements on my part. I
gave my promise not to escape, but
this didn't include the purchase of es-
Gaping gear.
Two men went with me next day to
the dentist. A private carried a rife
with fixed bayonet. A corporal had q
Mauser pistol, loaded. in his hand.
This was an insult after I had given
my word to keep to his side. How
ever, it was no time to stick at trifies
and l compromised by making him
put the safety catch back, to avoid
accidents.
The Armenian dentist unaccua-
Evening star., 1925-05-10

whom we had made our exit. Another
half dozen Greeks were behind us, but
some way Off We edged off to the
right and made a detour, as If we had
business at the farther side of the
square. Having gotten thus far, we
intended to take no risks in passing
unnecessary sentries at the main gate.
Putting some trees between our
selves and the sergeant of the guard.
who stood now in the center of the
gateway, peering into the gathering
darkness, we chose the darkest patch
of railings we could find, tried to
squeeze through them, failed, and then
climbed up them. They were 10 feet
high, and spiked on top. The street
below, although normally d busy
place, contained only two little girls
and a sWeetmeat seller.
We dropped down into the street,
walked away toward Sirkedji and
then up the Horn, to the old
bridge, where we separated for great
er safety. In the small hours of
the morning we foregathered again
at the house of a Greek friend and
heard the news of the world.
OF the maze of plot and counter
plot in the city and of the death
throes of the Committee of Union and
Progress that led Turkey to its ruin
will not write. Some of it still is
secret history; the rest already has
been better written by others.
When the sentries found we were
missing they were sure we had gone
indoors of our own accord like the
good boys they had come to believe
us to be. They went up to our rooms,
couldn't find US there, looked under
the beds. in the lavatories. every
where. Then they questioned the
other British prisoners and counted
and recounted heads in a pathetic ef-
fort to make two and two make six.
At that time we We're far away,
chuckling at their discontinue
A goat" there was. i have al
ready mentioned him. A special po-
liceman was found to have in his
possession a tin of mustard, which
was traced to me. I had given it to
him, telling him to mix a tablespoon
with hot water and drink a glassful
every morning early. Before he had
time to try this interesting dietetic
experiment the escape took place.
The command thought the mus
tard was a bribe and that he was
privy to our movements. He ordered
him to be triced up. No doubt when
the broomstick was applied to the
soles of the poor wretch's feet he
confessed" something. One doesn't
remain dumb under the bastinado.
/ never saw this man again. but
some time afterward l did meet the
sergeant in command of the sentries
at the time of our escape. We shook
hands, that sergeant and /, and mu
tually congratulated ourselves on
having avoided unpleasantness as far
as possible.
Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1925-05-10
White House Social Requirements
Always Big Expense for President

big and enthusiastic over "Old Hick-
cry" and partook SO copiously Of the
punch that cheese crumbs were scat
tered all over the house and were
ground into the carpets and into the
upholstering of the furniture. When
the reception was over the White
House looked as IL IT had been at
tackled by an enemy armed with
cheese and as bent upon destroying
years before. Thousands of dollars
of damage was done and the place
had to be done over. Even in these
modern, dry times, when White House
invitation lists are closely scrutiniZed,
inspection Of the great reception and
dining rooms after a big social affair
produces a rude shock. In lesser de-
gree the jackson cheese party is re-
peated at the semi public functions
where refreshments are served.
k* +
THE President is spared one great
expense in maintaining the social
prestige of the White House. The
flowers cost him nothing. If, in ad6i-
ton to paying for all the food eaten
in the Executive Mansion, he had to
buy flowers, palms, ferns and plants,
he would need q substantial increase
in salary, Uncle Sam, however, pro-
vides floral decorations with lavish
hand. Sixteen large greenhouses, To-
Gated near the Monument, in Potomac
Park, are devoted exclusively to grow
ing flowers and plants for the White
House and providing for the White
House gardens. Experts look after
the gardens themselves in the Sc
cluded part of the White House
grounds south of the Mansion. The
greenhouses and gardens are always
under the eye Of the mistress Of the
White House herself. The Army en-
gineer officers in charge make it a
point to bring them to the attention
Of the Presidents wife as something
over which she has peculiarly per-
sonal control. Without exception each
mistress Of the White House has given
them particular attention. AS a con-
sequence the floral decorations of the
White House and the private gardens
in its rear always reflect the person
ality OF the first lady of the land.
The White House is kept constantly
supplied with flowers. Every room is
prufusely furnished, and upon big So
cial occasions the interior Of the build
Ing IL q great bower Of floral beauty
The mistress OF the White House also
uses flowers with which to pay spe-
cial courtesy to her friends. A huge
box OF flowers from the White House,
delivered by liveried messenger. with
the personal card Of the Presidents
wife attached Is q mark Of distinction
highly priced. Such manifestations of
White House favor are not scattered
about promiscuously. They are kept
sufficiently exclusive to make them
appreciated.
Another expense borne by the Gov
ernfnent is for music. For a hundred
years the famous Marine Band has
been the personal musical orkaniza-
ton OF the presidency. Upon every
great state occasion where music was
required the Marine Band, in glitter.
ing red and gold uniforms, has played,
Evening star., 1925-05-10

furnishing a brilliant. colorful touch
to the surroundings, as well as music
of a character unsurpassed by any
band in the country.
4 the present mistress Of the
White House moves about through
the historic structure, with servant
running ahead to open doors and fly
to obey her slightest wish. she must
often be reminded of her first visit to
Washington and to the White House.
The events must come back with par
ticular vividness when she encounters
a party of tourists being shown
through the lower floors by a guide,
for it was under such circumstances
that she first saw the famous house
over which she now presides.
Before her marriage Mrs. Coolidge.
with other New England school
teachers, journeyed to Washington on
a teachers excursion. Like all other
visitors, she was especially interested
in the White House, little dreaming
she would ever move into it as first
lady of the land. She held her breath
in awe as she viewed the ma jestic
sweep of the East Room and, being
musically inclined. paused to examine
the magnificent grand piano in the
northeast corner. So absorbed was she
that the rest of the party moved ON
leaving her behind. 'whereupon a
White House guard stepped UP to her
and said:
step up, lady, step up"
Recently a friend to whom Mrs.
Coolidge related the incident, remark
ed. well, you sure stepped up"
The White House was the first Gov
ernment building erected in Washing
ton. President Washington laid the
corner stone on October 13, 1892, and
watched the construction with the
keenest interest, frequently riding
down from Philadelphia to confer
with James Hoban of Charleston, S.
c., the brilliant Irish architect, who
drew the plans, which were founded
on the design of the Duke of Lein-
ster's house in Dublin. The struc-
ture was built of Virginia sandstone,
taken from a quarry on Aqua Creek,i
just south of Washington. Until
after the building was burned by the
British in 1914 the stone was the nat
ural color, gray, but it was painted
white when reconstructed and has
been kept so ever since. Hoban also
supervised the rebuilding after the
fire. = ~
The name white House." was
given the Executive Mansion from
the name of the ancestral, home OF
Martha Washington, which was SO
designated. The south portico Was
not added until 1922 and the north
portico until 1929 The building stood
practically unchanged from that time
until 1902, when it was remodeled
under the Roosevelt administration
into its present form, which embodies
the executive offices to the west, and
to the east the hat box entrance
for social functions, when guests
leave their hats and coats in booths
along the corridors. The total cost
of the building has been something
less than a million dollars.
copyright. 1925D
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proposed to celebrate the event by
making and presenting to the new
President the largest cheese ever
known to the history of cheese
mongery. Every man and woman who
owned a COW was invited to give for
the cheese all the milk produced in a
single day-but no Federal cow was
allowed Ito contribute.
"A great cider press was secured
for the cheese's manufacture and on
the appointed day a multitude of men,
women and girls. clad in their best,
came to the appointed place, laden
with pals, pots and tubs of curd.
The cheese was. put to press with
prayer and singing of hymns. When
dried and eatable it weighed l 1.600
pounds. 1t was loaded onto a sleigh
which. bedecked with ribbons and
flags, was driven by Elder Leland all
the way from Cheshire to Washing.
ton, his pathway being lined with mul
titudes who came out to see and hail
the mammoth cheese.
Driving down Pennsylvania avenue
this New Year morning he met with
a perfect ovation. while the, President
received the gift with fitting tribute
to the honest, sturdy and patriotic
class which had produced it."
THE cheese was still on exhibition
on February 6. for on that date
DR.. Cutler again refers to it, giving.
at the same time, a comprehensive
description of Jefferson dinner"
that almost daily institution which
sent the Sage of Monticello home nat
broke at the end of his eight year ad.
ministration.
"Dined at the Presidents" records
DR.. Cutler, "Messrs. Foster, Hillhouse
and Ross of the Senate. General Bond,
Wadsworth, Woods, Hastings, Tenney,
Read and myself. Dinner not as ele.
soup, round of beef. turkey, mutton,
ham, loin of veal, outlets Of mutton
or veal, fried eggs, fried beef, pie
called macaroni, which appeared to be
rich crust filled with strillions of
onions or shallots, which I took it to
be; tasted very strong; not agreeable.
Mr.. Lewis told me there was none in
1t; that 1t was an Italian dish, and
what appeared like onions was made
of -four and butter with particu-
larly strong liquor mixed with them.
Ice cream very good, crust wholly
dried, crumbled into thin flakes, q
dish somewhat like a pudding, inside
white as milk or curd, very porous
and light, covered with cream sauce,
very fine; many other jfmcracks;
great variety of fruits; plenty of wines,
and good. President social. We drank
tea and again viewed the great
cheese"
Another great cheese was sent to
the White House as New Year
present to Gen. Andrew Jackson,
at whose receptions everybody was
admitted. jackson evidently thought
the cheese was to be eaten as well as
seen. Accordingly he had great
knives made from cross-cut saws, the
cheese was carved with them and
passed out to the guests. Punch was
served in tubs. The crowd was 80
Evening star., 1925-05-10
Luck Follows Prisoner Into the "Back Hole of Constantine
Doomed Mem s Pm mQ o r~ ~
Did Friend and Undertakes to Outwt Turkish Captors

a wall and squeezed ourselves through
the railings into the garden again,
and thanked God the sentries hadn't
seen us and taken a pot-Shot at US as
we were getting back into prison. That
would have been adding insult to in
jury.
And SO we continued our walk
around the garden. while unreason-
ably, but gloriously, hope mounted
again with us. When we came past
the sentries again, they were all
standing together in group. Twenty
yards away, n dozen or more Greek
clerks were leaving the restaurant
and walking out of the garden gate
into the main square.
Instantly, mutually, severally, we
saw our chance. How does one get
that way? For hours one plans and
hopes. Reason finds a long way out.
And reasons way is wrong. Some
thing within us speaks. Let there be
light says the Divinity that is al
ways close to us. And there is light.
The path is clear.
Our sudden and simple idea was to
mix with the Greek clerks coming
from their supper and pass out of our
prison with them. This is all we had
to do-all we did.
There was a patch OF deep shadow
near the restaurant, made by a mag
nolia bush. Here we threw away Eu-
ropean hats and drew out the feZZes
which we always kept about our per-
sons for such occasions. The fezzes,
without further disguise, turned us
into passable limitations Of Greeks.
We were, of course, in civilian clothes.
Ny hair and mustache had been
dyed black when l was disguised as a
mechanic. and the dye had not yet
worked out. Robert, although too tall
for a Greek, had the Irish faculty for
impersonation.
We strolled very. very slowly to the
gate. Each clerk was supposed to pro-
duce a pass, and check out with the
sentries. But no one did. The sentry
leaned against the gate post and let
the human stream flow by. We went
with the food tide-a tide that led on
| to fortune.
ITO quicken ones pace was an almost
irresistible impulse, as we drew
| near the sentry. The main square
looked good to us. To bolt into it was
fea sible, now, but we had to remember
that, once there, our troubles were
only half over. Every gate was
guarded, and a battalion of Turks was
| barracked in the square itself.
We were out of the garden now, and
| would have a run for our money"
| whatever happened. The clamor from
| the garden behind us, which we mo-
| me ntarily expected to hear, didn't
! break out. Yet each second was of
deathly urgency. for 1t could only be a
| matter of moments, surely before our
guardians missed us and gave the
alarm.
We dropped behind the couples with
Evening star., 1925-05-10

Seizure by the Turks following
the crash Of an airplane, imprison-
ment for two years, a daring
escape, a frustrated plan to be
smuggled out of Constantinople,
and recapture-such were the ex-
periences OF Maj. YeatsBrown, as
recounted in two preceding arti-
cles. Before being arrested on the
eve Of his hopedfor departure
from the Turkish capital, he had
evaded detection by disgusting
himself, first as a German gov
erness and later as a Hungarian
mechanic.
Maj. Yeats-Brown's life before
the events narrated in this series
of three articles had also been
filled with adventure, with his
service in the Indian Cavalry and
later with the Royal Flying Corps
in Mesopotamia. For his exploits
in the air he was awarded the dis
tinguished flying cross.
A member Of one of England s
noted families. Maj. Yeats Brown
was born in Genoa, Italy, and then
lived in Boston, Mass, until he
was 10 years old. He was educated
in England and on the continent.
Evening star., 1925-05-10
BY OLIVER p. NEWMAN.

- HE recent action Of Congress In
breaking the economy program
long enough to set aside $780,
900 extra for White House re-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-17
A MOUNTAIN OF COPPER

(Rebecca West in New Republic)
America is a continent with which
one can have innumerable love at
fairs. | am not homogeneous my
self in my passion for the Missis-
sippi. There are times when | think
with as insistent a longing for a
place named Brigham, which is in the
state of Utah. 1t is a mining camp.
One drives in ones automobile on
noble roads planted with poplars
over green and fertile plain Gt
was desert till the .Mormons irrigat-
ed it, to canyon that drives a
wedge into the foothills of the snow
peaked mountains. There is one long
winding street Of wooden houses,
painless, delapidated, some with
verandas on which men in broad
hats sit in rocking chairs, splitting
slowly and with an infinity of saga
city; some with plateglass windows,
on which the washed-otf word "sa-
loon" still shows as pathetic sha-
dow, which are eating houses of in
credible baroness and dinginess,
some others with plateglass windows
that show you men on high chairs
with white sheets round them being
shaved, and tin cans everywhere.
Then at the end of the street one
comes on mountain of copper. Just
that, mountain of copper. Pyra-
mid-shaped it is, and cut into regu-
lar terraces all the way up from the
apex to the base, where lies pool
of water emerald as Irish grass. II
sounds the hardest thing in the
world, and the terraces have as sharp
an edge as steel knife. Yet it
seems shape just taken for an in
slant by the ether. One feels as if
one were standing in front of
breaking wave of a substance more
like cloudstuff than water, yet like
the sea; for the whole hillside is
LUMINOSITY and transparency pale,
and reticulated with mineral veins
that are blue and green like sea wa
ter.
want to see that marvel again,
that mountain that is made of me-
tai, that looks as if you could put
your hand through it. l want to 60
back just as want to 60 back to
San Francisco, which is day and a
night further west from Brigham.
For that is like the Bay of Naples,
but it is all done in the delicate pas
tel shades and the gentle greyness
of Edinburgh. Sailing ships lie in
the harbor, with their lovely rigging.
There is dead volcano looking over
the bay at the city, whose musical
name is Tamalpais; she is shaped
like Full jana, and ! am enough in
love to swear she is as beautiful.
Round here are daughterly green
hills running down to the indenting
waters, their slopes blue and white
with wild lupins. I love these places.