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Evening star., 1925-04-12
AERIAL POLAR PARTY
ENCOUNTERS STORM
Heavy Seas Separate Ships-Nor.
wegian Aero Club Fears
Planes Are Damaged.
nv IANES r. WHARTON.

BY RADIO FROM STEAMER FARM.
April 10.-Heavy seas that swept their
decks have separated this ship and
the Hobby, the two vessels bearing e
the North Pole fight expedition of
the Norwegian Aero Club to Spitz-
bergen. The Farm lost its companion
ship yesterday afternoon, when the
former hove to in the lee of Low
Mountain. Fear is felt that the Grated
parts of the two airplanes lashed on
the Hobby's open deck will be seri-
ously damaged.
The Hobby does not carry a wire
less, but II is not believed that She
has come to grief, as the Farm would
have heard through the land station
had misfortune befallen her. Flying
Pilots Larsen and Dietrichson are
aboard the Hobby. Ronald Amundser
and Lincoln Ellsworth, the American
and a. majority of the expedition are
on the Farm. We have not encounter
ed ice, but expect TO do so any day
Almost hourly ii grows perceptibly
colder, though the temperature Is
actually only below freezing. II
was intended that the two vessels
should travel together. Each had q
supplv of oil to pour over the weather
side as protection against heavy seas
The oil did not wholly guard the
Farm, as the waves overturned and
smashed benches, buckets and lug
gage and burst through the hatch al
frequent intervals.
We are making six and half knots
hourly and expect to arrive at the
southern tip of SpitZbergen Sunday
although it is unlikely that we shall
reach Kings Bay before Monday.
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Evening star., 1925-04-12
Six Competing April Fl for
Evening Stars School
Prize.

Western High School is the first
to select its six fnaliSts in the ma
tional oratorical contest. AS re-
suit of grueling competitions all of
the participants in the school have
been reduced to Frances Marshall,
Ardele Martell, Sue Birnie, Samuel
Levering, George Bates and Phillip
Evans. These six will compete for the
school championship and The Evening
Stars school prize of 500, on April 81.
The great interest which has been
aroused in the contest in Western
High School has been due in no small
degree to the committee working un-
der the direction of Miss s. II. Card
ner. In addition, the cooperation of
the Western Breeze, the school paper,
has been an important factor. DR..
Elmer S. Newton, principal of the
school, has advanced the project
tremendously by unwaveringly sup
porting it.
The winner of the Western High
School championship will be heard
during the week April 81, when the
board of judges will hear each of the
eight finalists for the District of Co.
lumbia deliver his or her speech in
his own school auditorium for The
Evening Stars District of Columbia
prize of $500 and a place in the ma
tional finals.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
COTTON FORECAST
LIMITATION URGED
Manufacturers Ask u. S. Re.
ports Be Omitted for Three
Summer Months.
By the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS. April 1.-THE
American Cotton Manufacturers As
sociation today adopted resolutions
asking that the Federal crops report
ing bureau discontinue during June
July and August the semi-monthly
cotton crop forecasts on the ground
that such reports disorganize the
stability of values and react un-
favorably upon the textile industry.
The resolution said the Summer
semi-monthly reports which were
inaugurated last year in compliance
with an act of Congress. furnish
forecasts of production that are not
reliable enough for legitimate trade
and are used largely for speculative
purposes. The resolution added if
the reports are to be continued they
should be confined to condition figures
for June, July and August and no
production forecasts should be made
before the September reports are
compiled.
Other resolutions adopted protested
that while Federal taxes have been
lowered $4,000. 900, 900 in the last four
years, State and local taxation have
Evening star., 1925-04-12
BIZ CHARLES FORREST.

BY the Consolidated Press Association.
Postmaster General New today made
public statistics emphasizing the
fact--of which Gerald Chapman. the
spectacular outlaw now awaiting the
hangman's moose in a Connecticut
prison. is a living estimonial-that
it doesn't pay to monkey with the
United States mail.
8 Widely heralded as he has been as
the super bandit''-a man of eXtraor-
dinary daring and intelligence
even Chapman was no match for the
guardians of the mails. His goose
was cooked that October day, back in
1922, when he and a companion held
up mail truck in lower Broadway,
New York, and rified Ii OF $1,346,000
in currency. jewelry and securities.
Mail Robbery DOWNFALL.
The crime for which he has been
condemned to hang was not a mail
robbery. But it was the work OF
postal inspectors, who had camped on
his trail since the daring New York
mail robbery, that landed him behind
the bars. And If he escaped the moose
in Connecticut, Federal authorities
will be waiting to take him to At
lanta, where a 20-year hitch" for the
mail robbery awaits him.
With Chapman in mind, the Post
master General was asked TO make
available statistics showing just how
many mail robberies there have been
in recent years, and how much, OF
how little comfort the mail thieves
got out of their stolen millions.
The reply was list of 5S cases
which have occurred in the almost
five fiscal years beginning July l, 1920
In these 5S cases, the bandits made
away with s13,462.064, which had been
intrusted to Uncle Sam. But they
did not keep 1t. The figures show that
in 81 of the So cases arrests were
made and part or all of the loot re-
captured The total amount recover
ed was $S,556,659, or cas- per cent OF
all that had been. stolen.
Million Dollar Jobs.
Generally speaking, the greater
the robbery the greater the per
centage of recovery. Among the 5S
cases listed, 5 stand out as mil
lion dollar jobs" They are the Dal-
las, Tex, post Office station holdup
of January IA, 1921; the Chicago
Union Station holdup of January Is
1921; the New York mail truck hold
up of October "a. 1929; the st. Louis
mail truck holdup of April 2, 1928
holdup OF June -, 1924. The tota'
loot in these five cases was sS,597,374
The recovery was S6,444S00, or 10 pei
cent.
The great majority of all the mail
! robberies of the past five years have
been committed in the Middle West
and the Far West. Illinois leads with
15, California is second with s, and
/ Texas is third with 4. New York,
with cases, and Pennsylvania, with
| 9, are the only Eastern States appear
| ing in the list Chapman and his pal
| were the only big timers" to attempt
| a really big hold-up in the East.
show Steady Decline.
Losses by mail theft have steadily
: declined in the past five years. In
! the fiscal year of 1921 there were 16
! hold-ups, with a total in thefts of $6,-
1922. In 1922 there were IS, with
| s2,532,403 in loot. In 1928 there were
| but 6, with a total of S2,506,174 stolen
and in 1924. IL, with s1,s5S,546 stolen
! The current fiscal year, which has
four more months to go, shows g
surprising drop. To date there hav
Evening star., 1925-04-12
WOMAN'S CITY CLUB
OFFICERS NOMINATED
Election Will Be Held on May o.;
Six Members of Board Also
to Be Chosen.

The Women's City Club, p Jackson
nlace, will hold it's annual election
Nav S. when six officers and six new
members TO the board of directors
will be elected. At the monthly
business meeting held April /, MISS
Marie K. Saunders, chairman OF the
nominating committee, submitted the
following names of candidates as the
committees choice: For president, the
present member of the club, Dr. "A.
Frances Foye. and Mrs. Mary Z: u
Johnson; first vice president, MRS
Bessie Parker Brueggeman, MRS.
Marie Stair Lawyer: second wee
president, Miss Myrtle Bum, Mrs.
Thomas w. Sidwell; corresponding
secretary, Mrs Grattan kerans, MIS-
John Lorentz Steele; recording sec
retary. Miss Loretta Barnes. Miss Nell
V. Priye; treasurer, Miss Il. May
L.arkin, Miss Henrietta Gliding Frcn
the following six will be elected to
the hoard: Mrs. John Robert Ash'
Mrs. Laura A Bradley, Miss Olive
Beatty, Mrs Edgar T. Brown, Mrs
William f. Chamberiin, Miss Sarah *
Cushing. Mrs. Roe Fulkerson, Mrs
Alva L. Gardner, Mrs. Edwin st. John
GrebIe, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, Miss Nj
Grace McVey, Mrs. Albert Putney
Mrs. ]. Garfield Riley and Miss Edna
Ross
Evening star., 1925-04-12
BRING MAILING LISTS
TO DATE, MOONEY SAYS
Tells Merchants Business Will Be
Helped and Useless Postal
Labor Avoided.

Postmaster William NJ Mooney has
politely but sternly suggested TO
business establishments in Washing
ton who have mailing lists Of Gus
toners and hopedfo customers that
they revise these mailing lists and
bring them UP to date.
In the interest of the merchant
himself and prompt delivery OF his
mail, as well as labor and time saw
ing among the postal employees, MI.
Mooney took the move. "1t 10 my
desire" he says in a letter addressed
10 the firms concerned, "to give the
business people OF Washington eff
Client service, and an up-to-date
mailing list maintained by them will
be of great assistance to the en-
ployes and myself"
Mr.. Mooney said circular letters re-
Gently mailed by the firms were di-
rected TO patrons who have not lived
at the addresses named for two years,
and in some instances for longer
period.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
ART AND LETTERS
LEADERS TO MEET
International Association Will
Hold Annual Convention Here
Next Saturday.

The International Association OF
Art and Letters will hold its annual
convention in the Mayfower Hotel
Saturday, at which guests and dele
gates from every part OF the Nation
will be present.
The gathering will open at 10
o'clock and the initial session will be
devoted to the presentation of ere
dentials, introductions, new enroll
ments and reports of committees. Fol-
lowing an intermission for lunch, the
delegates will assemble at 2:3o o'clock
and the president, DR.. Clarence ]
Owens, will deliver an address. Fiji
teen minute addresses will be made
by members of the diplomatic corps
who cooperate with the association
and by prominent citizens, who favor
the work of interchange between no.
tions OF those interests in literature
and allied art of each country that
promote a better understanding be-
tween peoples. Names of the speak
ers will be announced later.
Novel Program Planned.
The evening will be devoted to the
"Poetry-F -Festa," an entertainment, the
type of which never before has been
offered, II is said. Margaret Wilde
mer of New York. will give a poetry
recital of the harmonics and verse
of cotemporary poets and of her owr
work. The recital will begin a,
S:45 o'clock. At 10 o'clock general
ball will be opened, interspersed with
interpretative themes of professional
dancers. 1t is planned to have those
who intend to attend to appear ir
costumes that illustrate or interpret
some character from poetry. Details
In pnatnpnaS ui1I ha fur.
nished by Mrs. J. d. Sullivan, 1915
Thirty-firs street; the tickets, Mrs
NJ. V. Smith, the Bradford apart.
ments; general information on the
ball, Mrs. K. ]. Fenton, Wardmar
Park Hotel, and the convention, 201s
N street, the headquarters of the as
SOciation.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
STRIKERS TO RETURN.

BOSTON, April 1.-THE force of 100
custom laborers who struck for higher
wages at the Army base in South Bos-
ton yesterday will return to work Mon
day morning, II was announced today
Ignorance Of the fact that the Washing
ton and not the Boston Office regulates
the wages of the laborers was given as
the cause OF the walkout.
The men who struck are non-govern-
ment wool truckers, and are employed
by the hour or day, as conditions war.
rant.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
DEATH HELD ACCIDENT.

Coroner hewitt conducted an In
quest at the morgue yesterday in the
case of Elias c. Ridings, So years old.
of 122 G. street, who was killed Fri
day morning by a street car of the
one-man type on G street near his
home.
1t was testified that Ridings, walk
ing on the roadway, stepped directly
in front of the car and was knocked
down. His skull was fractured. A
verdict of accidental death was re-
ported.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
Mail RObberies End IL, Disaster,
Statistics for FiUe Years PrOUe
Criminals Almost Certain Of Capture-Chapman
Typical Example of Those Who Haze Tried
to Hold Up Uncle Sam.

been robberies, with q total loot OF
| only $2s0,70s.
So far this year-and for the first
| time in the fve--there has been moth
| ing approaching a million dollar job.
And with Gerald Chapman, the Rond-
out gang and most OF the other big
time" mail bandits behind the bars,
| the Post Office Department has high
| hopes that there won't be any.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
TREE TO BE MEMORIAL.
Will Be Planted as Shrine tt
Daughter of Gen Lee.

A long-leaf pine tree from North
Carolina will be planted in Arlington
Cemetery at pm. tomorrow as q
memorial to Annie Carter Lee
daughter OF Gen. Robert Z. Lee.
Mrs. Charles Fisher Taylor of this
city is in charge of the exercises
Mai. Gen. Hart. quartermaster gen.
eral of the United States Army, will
receive the tree. The Invocation will
be given by Chaplain Axton, U. S. A.
and Eleanor Chambers will be color
bearer Gen. y. D. Hawkins, United
Confederate Veterans, and o. II. Old
royd of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, will make addresses. The
benediction will be pronounced by
Chaplain Scott, U. S. n.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
II POLISH NAVAL CHIEFS
HIT BY GRAFT CHARGES
Commander Arrested and Accused
of Treason-others Dismissed
and Reduced.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WARSAW, April 1f.-Aftcr lengthy
Investigations into the accounts of
the Polish Navy in which charges of
graft were ievelled against high ON
cials, Naval Commander Bartoszewicz
has been arrested and Vice Admiral
Porembski, chief OF the Polish Navy,
suspended.
Both officials are charged with lack
of proper surveillance, while nine
other officials and controllers ir the
department have been dismissed or
reduced in rank.
Commander Bartoszewicz, who was
formerly in the Russian Navy, is also
accused of treason. It Is alleged
that important naval documents,
which he said had been stolen from
his safe, were found hidden in the
house OF his brother-in-law.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
Bankruptcy Plea Filed.

Listing her assets at $1,000 and
her liabilities at s9,95O.9S, Mamie
Nichols, trading as Nichols. a dress
maker at 1341 Connecticut avenue,
has filed petition in the District Su-
preme Court to be adjudged a volun-
tary bankrupt. Attorney Godfrey L.
Munter appears for her.
Evening star., 1925-04-12
Promoted to Major.

Capt. DeForrest Ballou, jr.. Medical
Corps Reserve. on duty at Walter
Reed General Hospital, by direction of
the President has been promoted to
the grade of ma jor, Medical Reserve
Corps,
Evening star., 1925-04-12

been steadily increased until they
amount to $6,662 100000 for the
country; urged Southern cotton spin
ners TO patronize finishing plants in
the South; pledged members Of the
association TO cooperation enforcing
local laws governing child labor and
endorsed the Southern cotton mills
new rules relative to purchase and
sale of cotton and urged members 10
follow those rules.
William J. Vereen Of Moultrie, Ga,
was elected president.
Evening star., 1925-04-12

W ind Ow Screens, W o d
frames; extension kind; guar
anteed to have perfect adjust
ment. Materials used in these
screens are hardwood and
good quality black wire cloth.
Size "a inches high and opens
to SO inches wide. Spe- EOc
cial,
Evening star., 1925-04-12

Screen ID 90 r .,
have 4-inch stiles,
Is inch thick, two
coats of varnish,
mitered mountin gs
and mortised cor
ners. Sizes 30x7S
and 32xS0. Choice,
sUecial-
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charming brides-elect whose
nuptials will take place in
October and November. The
next week is filled to the
brim with festivity and more
plans are being announced daily.
Mrs. Winchester Kelso Jr, will en-
terrain Wednesday at o'clock in the
Ethel Brown Tea Room in honor of
Miss Marie Schuchard. The guests
will include the bridal party and in
innate friends of the bride-elect.
Miss Ruth Gildemeister will enter
tain Wednesday at noon with lunch
con in the Wolff and Marx Tea Room
as compliment to Miss Elizabeth
Springall. The guest list will include
only a few intimate friends of Miss
Springall.
Thursday at 1 o'clock Mrs. Curtis
Vaughan will entertain in her home
in Terrell road in honor of Miss
Marie Schuchard. The members of the
bridal party and few intimate
friends will be included in the guest
list.
Mrs. George r. Thomson will en-
terrain with a tea from 8 to $50
o'clock Friday afternoon in her home
in Kings Highway complimenting
Miss Lorraine Bertrand and Miss
Elizabeth Springall, brides-elect of the
fall. The guests will include the in
innate friends of the honor guests.
Miss Ruth West will honor three
Of the brides-elect with buffet
luncheon Wednesday, October %. in
her home. The honor guests will be
Misses Lorraine Bertrand, Estelle
Storms and Olive Martindale. The
guest list will include the intimate
friends Of the honorees.
Miss Henrietta Steele has chosen
Halloween day. October 81, as the
date for a luncheon in her home to
compliment Miss Estelle Storms and
Miss Lorraine Bertrand.
~ ~ -
Miss De Vera Berlin will compli-
ment Miss Ruth Elizabeth Herbst,
bride-elect of the fall, with luncheon
on Tuesday at noon at the Original
Mexican Restaurant.
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In the Pictures

MISS HATTIE HOOD. upper
left, and Miss Lucille Gaines,
lower right, have been chosen as
Guchcsses in the All College Circle
which is to be held in Dallas.
October 10 and IA. Miss Hood
will be the Duchess OF Baylor
College and Miss Gaines will be
Duchess Of Stuart Hall.
MISS ETHEL CRIDER, lower
left, is pictured in her beautiful
Spanish shawl costume in which
she appeared Friday evening at
her concert appearance in n
benefit recital for the Alamo
Heights school. Hiss Order pos
sesses n charming mezzo-soprano
voice.
MISS KATHERINE GEE.
center. will be the only attend
ant at the wedding Of Miss Doro-
thy DeLesdcrnier and William
r. Gee On October Fl. Miss Gee
complimented Miss DeLesdcrnier
with charming luncheon Thurs
day in her home in West Mag
nolia avenue.
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Sam AmG@naia1a
to Wed i'm
Missouri

The following announcement Of in-
terest to San Antonians IL being
made in the Kansas City papers to-
day:
"Mr. and Mrs. George r. Collett
OF Kansas City announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Florence, to
Robert Moss Ayres, youngest son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Atlee B. Ayres Of San
Antonio, Tex,
Miss Collett is a charming member
of society in Kansas City and Is max
ing her formal debut this winter. She
attended Mrs. Faulkner's school In
Chicago and graduated from Mn.
Porter's school in Pennington, Conn.
She has recently returned from an
eight months tour Of Europe and IL
a splendid French scholar. Miss Col
lett is a lover of sports and will
make a most attractive addition 20
the San Antonio social set.
Robert Ayres needs no introduction
to San Antonio rs he has lived here
all of his life. He is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania. he
hns spent a great many months
abroad and has completely circled the
globe. He is a member of the Amer
lean Institute OF Architects and Is
in business here with Atles b. Ayres.S
his father. In San Antonio social
life, he is an important member, be-
ing connected with the Order Of the
Alamo, is an officer in the German
Club and in the San Jacinto Coil
lion club.
- - -
Mrs. Mary Stuart Edwards appear
cd in two very successful concerts I'M
der the auspices of the Lions clubs
of Corpus Christi and Austin. She
is always favorite wherever she ap-
pears.
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t r a v e l e r S
RETURN to
S. A.

MYTH the coming of October, the
w activities of the many womcn's
club of San Antonio are renewed.
Elaborate entertainments and recep.
lions feature the opening sessions and
old friends greet one another with Joy
40 they meet for the first time since
spring. The buzz of conversation
grows loud as friends tell friends Of
the glorious vacation trips. Amaze
ment is expressed as the story-tellci
recounts tales Of amazing adventure of
a trip overland to Canada or laugh
ter CLEANS as the story deals with
some incident of fun. Enthralling
tales are told of the wonders of Italy.
the glories of Rome, and the fascina-
ton of Paris. Others tell Of bust
ling New York with its hurry and
pleasure and others tell of the Pacific
coast and its "climate." and real
estate agents.
The Woman's club was crowded
Wednesday when its opening recep-
ton and meeting was held. Enthus'
iasm was expressed and the new year
OF the club. the 9th year of its ex
istence. was begun with rush. Var
ious departments of the club have
started their activities at luneheons
and entertainments during the week
and plans are being made daily for
programs worth while in pleasure and
wisdom.
Wednesday was also the day chosen
by the British Women's club for its
opening session, which meeting was
held in the home of Mrs. II. NJ. Au-
brcy.
Thursday, the City Federation Of
Women's clubs opened its 1886
year Of work with business meeting
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Interest Turns to Fall
Caieties and Weddings

n VOW that the first norther is here and feels
VI fall really has come the social instinct dormant
during the heat of the summer, begins to stir and
party plans begin to come into existence.
The eyes of the social world centered the
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CONTINUED On Page 2. Part 81
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-20
TWO-YEAR COAL
STRIKE UNION
7 HIRE 4 I
Miners Head Says Men
Are Prepared to Stay
Out Until 1927.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.-The
anthracite miners will continue their
strike until the spring Of 1927, If nee
essary to win their demands, John l..
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, said in an ad-
dress before the Philadelphia Real Es-
tate Board.
"If the operators believe they can
drive the anthracite mine workers like
cringing quarry slaves back to their
death-dealing collieries, then the oper-
ators and their advisors have but the
visions of FOOLS" lie declared.
Mr.. Lewis said:
The anthracite shutdown has de-
veloped into n stJ,a of siege. Every
authoritative indication emphasizes
that the operators have combined
either to destroy the miners union or
to rob it of its vitality and economic
strength.
"The obvious fact that the anthra-
cite operators continue 10 maintain
day by day the position assumed by
their spokesman in the negotiations on
July 8 constitutes proof sufficient that
they are engaged with all their ire
mendous resources in carrying out
their sinister purpose"
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CALIFORNIA HAS BIG
YEARLY CRIME BILL

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 19.-It costs
California taxpayers $53,7O6,26S.22
annually 10 wage war on crime, fire
and disease, according to compilations
on 1024-102j, city, county and state
expenditures made public by State
Controller Ray i. Riley. During that
period total of S20,SS6, 264.19 was
used to combat crime alone, it was
shown in Riley's analysis.
Another high light Of the survey
was the report by municipalities that
they disburscd 500 $50, 5000 during
the year for police protection and
property protection, fire prevention
work included. The counties also
Jumped the two items and reported u
combined cost of $3.50, S75.53.
The state government announced an
expenditures of S7,340,717.50 by It's
rcgulative, curative. corrective and
penal agencies combating crime, fire
and disease. Approximately 100000
was spent additionally for fire fight
ing.