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Evening star., 1926-04-11

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pied by Browning and his youthful
bride.
Browning's engagement to Miss
Heenan was confirmed by his secre-
tary on March 81. when 1t was first
learned that he had been seeing the
girl frequently. He refused at that
time either to confirm or deny 1t.
Miss Heenan, however announced
their engagement on April and said
they would be married after her six
teenth birthday, in June. Several in
vestigations were started. The Chill
dren's Society began an inquiry into
Browning's relations with the Phi
Lambda Tau Sorority, to which Miss
Heenan belonged.
Acid Attack Probed.
At the same time the police were
investigating an attack on the girl
March 81, when her face and neck
were burned by acid thrown upon
her as she slept In her mothers
apartment. They were unable to dis
cover who threw the acid.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children ordered Mrs.
Heenan and her daughter to appear
in Children's Court in an investiga-
ton Of the fitness of Mrs. Heenan
as a guardian for the girl. The case
was adjourned for one week on the
presentation of a doctors certificate
that Miss Heenan was unable to leave
her room because of the burns.
Miss Heenan was Browning's sec
ond cinderella" In August, 1925. he
had adopted Mary Louise Spas of
Astoria to be foster sister and play
mate to Dorothy Sunshine Browning,
9. whom he had adopted six years be-
fore.
The adoption was annulled after an
investigation had revealed that Miss
Spas was 21 instead of 16, as Brown
ing had first thought.
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ALIEN BARS HOLD
AS Il BILLS FAIL
Senate Committee Provides
However, for War Service
Men Now Abroad.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate immigration committee
turned thumbs down yesterday on IL
bills which would have admitted varl-
Gus classes of aliens without regard
20 quota restrictions, then favoraoly
reported a measure to admlt, ior
period of. one year aliens now ABROAD
who were honorably discharged from
the American Army after their service
in the World War.
Affects 5000 Men.
The bill is designed to take care OF
about 5 900 former service men VINO
went abroad after the war. and who
since have been denied readmission
under the immigration quota law. Be
sides the veterans, the measure would
admit their wives, and children under
18 years of age.
These provisions were attached by
the committee to a House Dill Wnlch
would provide for the naturalization
of honorably discharged veterans Tor
two years under wartime laws Which
waived naturalization fees and the
filing of first papers.
The amended measure ID designed
to take the place of the WadsWortn-
P0flman Dill, WHICH lOl ohAI
have admitted the veterans, their
wives and minor children, but also
their relatives. Some Government
officials estimated at hearings that the
original bill would have let down the
bars for several hundred thousand
aliens. -.
Proposed Exemptions.
Included classes which would have
been exempt under the II re-
iected bills, most of them sponsored
by Senator Copeland. Democrat, New
York, were female domestic servants,
farm laborers, brothers and sisters of
aliens now in this country who have
taken out first papers, f1ances of
American citizens, and the wives. chill
dren and step-children of rabbis and
other ministers residing in the United
States.
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McKINLEY'S DEFEAT
WOULD BE BLOW TO
COURTS HACKERS
Continued from First Page)

NOhAhlhCb AAOlAA Il AoN o6CD
Smiths campaign, National Commit
teeman Allen F. Moore, has issued
a statement claiming Smith will carry
the State by at least 100, 900. The
Mckinley managers claim the same
margin Of victory in a statement to-
night. The sample ballots put out
by the Deneen group for Cook County
all carry the cross opposite McKin-
ley's name. Deneen, it Will be re-
membered. himself carried Cook
County by 5000 in his primary con-
test for the senatorial nomination
against the late Senator Medill Nc
Cormick two years ago, when the
Grove Barrett faction was supporting
Mccormick. Mr.. Moore insists that
Smith will carry Cook County and
down State.
So far as the down State vote iS
concerned, the Smith managers insist
that the colonel will be found far
out in front when the vote is counted.
They say the sentiment among the
farmers has swung against Mckinley
and that he must suffer for discomfort
In agricultural sections.
Further, they say the World Court
is unpopular outside of Chicago. just
as 1t is in Chicago.
When Senator Mckinley beat out
Col. Smith for the senatorial nomina-
ton in 1920. Mckinley lost Cook
County by about 5000 votes and car
ried down State" by something like
100000.
Conditions and party alignments
have changed a good bit since that
time, however.
Mckinley Gains Strength.
In recent weeks. Senator Mckinley
has been gaining strength. When
Col. Smith first seized on the World
Court issue. and Senators Borah of
Idaho. Reed of Missouri and Ship
stead of Minnesota, came into the
State and denounced the court, term
ing Ii the League Court, the issue
caught on quickly. The McKinleyites
found 1t difficult to explain just how
the World Court was separated from
the league. On the other hand, the
people had no difficulty in under
standing the plain statement of the
anti-courters that entry into the
court meant into the league.
Senator Mckinley and Senator
Deneen. however, have countered
with the charge that Col. Smith is
lined up against President Coolidge
and that to elect Smith will be to
admit that fact to the insurgent group
in the Senate, with whom the admins
tration has it's difficulties now.
Vote for Mckinley and back the
President" is their slogan. 1t has not
been without it's effect. Col. Smith,
on the other hand, pooh -poohs the sug-
gestion that he can be considered a
Republican insurgent and refers to
his work for the election of President
Coolidge in 1924, when he was Re
publican State chairman, an office
which he still holds.
Besides attacking the World Court
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bows for the high school cadets and he
is confident 1t will make better trained
cadets and higher type drilling In the
future.
Trophies to Be Presented.
Tentative plans for the first com
petitive drill Of the junior high school
boys on May 10 call for the presenta-
ton of suitable trophies similar to
those awarded the senior high. COM
panies. It is expected that the col
ored Junior high school boys, mas.
much as they only represent two
schools, will have their competitive
drill in conjunction with the senior
high school drill at the American
League Ball Park on June and s.
This is possible inasmuch as for the
first time the colored high school ca
diets will have two days of competitive
drilling.
The junior high boys in The Physi-
cal and Military Education Corps will
be trained under the three following
assistant professors of military sci
ence and tactics: Maj. John G. Dono-
van, assigned to Jefferson and Powell
Junior High Schools; Maj. Raymond
G.. Payne, assigned to Hine and Lang
lev Junior High Schools, and Capt.
William Judkins, assigned to the Mac
rarland and Columbia Junior High
Schools.
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OLD WINE OR NEW WINE?
NOBODY KNOWS WHICH
Floods in Cellars Wash Labels Or
Bottles and Growers Curse
Their Luck.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 10.-Ill fortune con-
tinues to follow the Moselle Valley
wine growers, who are waging a
militant campaign for credit and tax
relief from the government.
When after weeks of effort the
water which had seeped into hundreds
of wine cellars during the disastrous
early Spring floods was pumped out
it was discovered that the labels had
been washed off the bottles that many
wine growers now have no means or
distinguishing between wine 10 and 10
wears old and that bottled last year.
The loss Is estimated at several hun
dred thousand marks. No one wants
10 pay a high price for wine merely
on the guess of the grower that II Is
rare old stuff. 1t is feared that large
lots will have to be sold at prices
prevailing for one-year-old wine.
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By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 10.-The state
ment that an overwhelming majority
Of the 100000 communicate members
of the $500 Congregational Churches
of the United States are strongly in
favor of the Volstead act without any
modification will be presented next
Thursday to the United States Senate
judiciary subcommittee which is in
vestigating prohibition enforcement.
Frank j. Howard, manufacturer, OF
Appleton, Wis, and moderator Of the
church national council, will head a
deputation to appear before the Sen
ate committee.
The Rev. DIR. Jason Noble Pierce,
pastor of President Coolidge's church
in Washington, will be a member of
the deputation.
The statement. prepared by the ex-
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Congregationalist Council Fights
Any Modification of Volstead Act

ecutive committee of the Congrega-
tional National Council, reads:
THE executive committee of the
National Council of Congregational
Churches in the United States be-
lieves that the membership of those
churches in overwhelming majority
are in substantial accord in their be.
lief that any present modification OF
the Volstead act such as is now pro-
posed, or any modification whatever
formulated and advocated by those
agencies now proposing the repeal or
amendment of that act, is opposed to
the moral sentiment and best inter
ests of the American people"
The deputation will have a com
pilation of resolutions passed by the
Congregational National Council at
it's biennial gathering last October in
washington, D. c., and by the various
State Congregational conferences at
their annual meetings.
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Continued from First Page)
about a diminution of consumption.
Alcohol is a poison, but acts OF Par
lament fail to stop its use. II the
people insist on contributing money
for liquor it is better for the country
to have it than the bootlegger.
Calls Manitoba Law Best.
Quebec has vanished the boot
logger and added millions of dollars
to the treasury. Beer and wines are
permitted to be sold in public. Our
people will not buy from bootleggers
now. as the commission sells as
cheaply and, further puts seal on
il. while the articles of the bootlegger
are in doubt. The bootlegger con-
| tinues TO exist in the dry provinces,
however"
Mr.. Russell said the Manitoba gov
ernment liquor control law is the
best temperance legislation ever In
troduced-not total abstinence. but
temperance. We have found that as
| long as human nature exists there
will be a demand for alcoholic liquor
| as a beverage and as long as the rule
of fermentation lasts, you can get it.
We have accomplished wonderful ad-
| vanceS."
| Permits to buy liquor from the COM
mission are issued to reputable citi-
| zens of good character and who have
been indorsed by another citizen, Mr.
Russell explained. The residence Is
listed on the permit and in the case
Of wines and hard liquor 1t is deliver
ed to the address at one price through
out the province. Beer is obtained
direct from the breweries in the same
manner.
rs there limit on the purchaser"
asked Senator Reed of Missouri.
Yes, you can't buy more than one
case of hard liquor a week." respond
ed Mr. Russell and the committee
room was thrown into great commo
ton 1.-Two cases of beer per week is
the limit Also" the witness added.
Says Americans Buy Hard Liquor.
The law prohibits private transpor-
tation, export or selling, Mr.. Russell
declared, and these are the measures
taken to prevent smuggling into dry
territories When Senator Walsh de-
clared liquor smuggling was the one
big problem in my State" Mr.. Rus
sell declared there always is a way
to break the law.
Mr.. Russell, to the amusement of
the spectators, declared the sale of
hard liquor had fallen off and the
consumption of beer had increased,
'but 80 per cent of the hard liquor
Is sold to American tourists. Special
trains are run into Winnipeg every
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Unioue Selling Scheme.

From the outlook Magazine.
A Kansas general store owner re-
Gently mailed a right-ha cotton glove
to 800 farmers. The farmers were
asked to call at the store to receive
the left-hand glove. They came-and
went home with other things they had
bought and paid for.
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Reed Carries Fight.

The most interesting sessions OF the
"wet and dry hearing being con-
Quoted by the Senate judiciary COM
mittees subcommittee have not yet
arrived.
In the opinion of observers VINO
have packed the committee room TO
capacity since the hearings began
week ago, the fun is expected when
Senator Reed of Missouri. an avowed
wet, meets the ardent drys, eye TO
eye.
Senator Reed is the hope OF the
vets on the committee, the other
members either showing unmistakable
signs Of being dry or wearing poker
faces. During the past week when
ever a wet witness got himself tempo
rarily in a hole when questioned py
Senator Walsh, Senator Harreld or
Senator Goff, 1t was the picturesque
Missouri Democrat who rushed to his
assistance.
some observers predict Senator
Reed is going to make it hot Tor
Wayne B. Wheeler's forces. while
others maintain he probably will
adopt a very Indifferent course. Not
withstanding, the most interesting
sessions are still to come, 1t Is believed.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
WEEKS USES AMBULANCE
FROM HOTEL TO. TRAIN
Illness Not Serious, Physician An
nounces-Former Secretary on
Way to Washington.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PASADENA, Calf. April 10.-Al~
though his physician said the condi-
ton Of John w. Weeks was not seri-
Gus, the former Secretary OF War was
taken from his hotel to the train in
an ambulance when ne left for Wash
ington today. He suffered a light
heart attack at his hotel here earlier
in the day.
Mr.. Weeks was cheerful and de-
clared he was feeling fine" He will
spend two months in Washington and
then go to New Hampshire for the
Summer. With him on his Eastward
trip were Mrs. Weeks and a party of
a half dozen friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weeks returned few
weeks ago from a trip to Hawaii At
that time he said his health had been
virtually recovered and that he plan
ned to return East and resume his
business duties soon.
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Exhibit A.

From the London Passing Show.
Father-That young man Of yours
stayed very late last night.
Daughter-Yes, dady; l was showing
him my photo album. ~.
Father-Well, the next time he
wants to stay late show him my cleo
trio light bills.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

The campaign has been enlFened
by the antics of "Big BIZ Thfat9n.
former mayor of Chicago, whp hds
lined up with Col. Smith in Ahitthn
to producing live rats and calling
them by the names of men with
whom in former years he was aihed
politically. big Bill'' has proclaimed
far and wide that King George of
England is running things in Wash
ington and has bought up Senator
Deneen and, Of course, Senator Nc
Kmey.
He insists in his speeches that dur
ing the war King George prevailed
upon the United States to adopt pro
hibition so that the English distilleries
| might have all the business. This
kind of buffoonery on the part OF the
| former mayor has hurt as well as
| helped in the Smith campaign against
| the World Court.
There is a large colOred vote IN
| Chicago. some 200 900, and both Re
| publican factions have been angling
| for these votes. Mckinley is str0nP
| with the colOred voters because he has
| sponsored the anti-lynching bill now
| in the Senate.
| Furthermore, many of their leaders
are for the World Court proposal and
| the Presidents stand on il.
| A%HSl lillIluLt statements Dy pEOHll-
| nent Republicans in the State are be-
| ing made. and in some cases shifts OF
| alignment. Albert Wahl has resigned
| the presidency Of the Business Mems
| William y. McKInley-for- Senator Or
| ganlzation, saying that 1t cannot
stand with Mckinley on the World
! Court. Former Senator Lawrence y.
! Sherman, one Of the "irreconCilables'
against the League of Nations. has
telegraphed his denunciation of the
| World Court 10 Smith supporters. Tn
| Gle Joe Cannon, from Danville. has
| sent his Endorsement Of Senator Me
| Kinley.
| Both Claim Labor Vote.
Both Smith and Mckinley have made'
claims TO the labor vote. and various
labor leaders have enlisted on one side
or the other. As a matter Of fact, the
labor vote will be split, as usual I'm
, this election.
Efforts have been made by the
opponents of Senator Deneen "a
| hook up the Deneen faction with TIL"
| faction of Gov. Len Small. In re
| ply The Dencen leaders say that "thv
| bipartisan leaders are attempt.ig
| to make small the bogie man in ,t.-
| local election They say. howeyer
that a majority Of the leaders who
| supported Gov. Small in the las
| election are supporting III" itttVbi'N
| can leaders of the bipartisan comb
nation in this campaign.
The entire State delegation in
| Congress is up for denomination,
The Republican members from Cook
| County, it appears, will all he re-
nominated with the possible eXCep-
tion of Representative Sproul. who IS
opposed by W. W. Wilson. ,
Representative Fred Britten -
! having a lively race with Mrs.
| Bertha Bauer a leader IN society
/ here.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

week end from Wisconsin and Min
nesota.'
Organized labor's position on pro
hibition, adequately set forth Friday
by six labor leaders who appealed tor
light wines and beer. was echoed yes
terday by John Sullivan, president OF
the New York State Federation or
Labor, the largest single unit IN tne
organized system. and Matthew Vel @
vice president of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor and president Of the
Photo -Engravers' Union.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

It is estimated that the American
oil industry loses $500, 100000 year
by evaporation losses. which amounts
to over per cent Of all the oil pro-
Guced. n
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Col Smith, who holds his title by
virtue of appointment some years
ago to the governors staff, has dis
cussed the farm situation at consid
| erable length in his compaign down
State
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Police Getting Ready.

The police are making ready for
emergencies. The entire force is to
be on duty in 12-hour shifts. The
instructions are naively explicit, say
ing, police of Chicago should be on
the alert at all time, using every
means to prevent and arrest prompt
~ persons attempting to intinlidate or
kidnap political workers or steal bal
lot boxes. Detective bureau auto
squads will patrol the streets, and will
whenever observing suspicious per
sons in automobiles, stop the same,
and if the suspects are gunmen they
shall be arrested"
All of which looks like squalls
ahead. Rumors are widespread that
the underworld is being rounded up
to vote or otherwise influence the
election. The campaign for the Re
publican senatorial nomination has
been no piker's affair, if reports from
both camps are to be credited. The
Smith people insist that the eXpend-
itures of Senator Mckinley run over
$1,000, 900. There has been plenty of
money on the other side, however.
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Fears Tariff Revolt.

He has promised relief He is a
protective. tariff man, but, he insists
that unless something is done TO
equalize the status of the farmer s
dollar With that of the city worker,
there will be a revolt against the
protective tariff.
States Attorney. Robert T.. Grove.
of the Grove Barrett faction, has
Just come forward with q statement
declaring that he regards the World
Court as the paramount issue in this
campaign and that he intends to vote
for Col. Smith, which is all I'm line
with the known plan of the Grove
Barrett faction to throw as much of
it's strength as possible to Smith.
Senator Deneen and Roy o. West,
chairman Of the Deneen group COM
mittee, proclaim on the other hand
that the outstanding issue in the
campaign 80 far as county is con-
cerned, is "bi-partisanship" and
charge that the Grove Barrett fac
tion has hooked up with the Demo-
Gratis led by George f. Brennan for
control Of the county and city gov
ernment. Such bipartisan tactics,
they say, leads to corruption.
9 The charge Is made by the Deneer
people that the bi-partisans have at
tempted to stuff the lists Of registered
voters with bogus voters names, and
they have been busy eliminating
thousands of them. In the heat of
election day battle some of the Chi
cago wards may resemble actual bat
tlefields. There are practical men
on both sides and this election is 60
ing to be no pink tea affair.
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1000 JUNIOR HIGH
BOYS WILL BE PUT
IN CADET UNIFORMS

Continued from First Pagel
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WOMEN'S LEADERS
WILL HIT BACK AT
VETS TOMORROW

Continued from First PageD
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BROWNING MARRIES
CINDERELLA GIRL:
PARENTS CONSENT

Continued from First Page)
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about a diminution of consumption.
Alcohol is a poison, but acts of Par
lament fail to stop it's use. II the
people insist on contributing money
for liquor 1t is better for the country
to have it than the bootlegger.
The Washington times., 1926-02-11
HORSES BARRED.
FOR BALL

There will be no horses IN attend
.ince at the VIRGINIA State society
bsll. to be held soon in the willard
Hotel. There may be many other
things but there win be no horses.
This was definitely announced
today Dy F. G. Baggerly. president.
II feel called upon to make this
statement because OF rumOrs which
rave been circulated, - Mr.. Bag
gerly sad. "This morning at about
o'clock some lady called me up
On the telephone In q state Of great
distress. She said she has two
Young daughters who are going to
the ball. She said she had been told
that q horse was to be brought
into the ballroom as q mount Tor
colonial general.
She explained plaintively that
she feared the horse might become
alarmed at the lights. the crowds
and the music. Her daughters, she
complained, might be injured In the
panic. The horse might leap out
Of the window and fall on her
daughters as they were entering or
leaving.
aShe said she had been informed
a freight elevator at the hotel had
been reserved to carry the horse TO
the ballroom on the eleventh floor.
could not get her name.
,.I inquired and found the rurnor
had been widely CIRCULATED. probably
because OF q publicity stunt az last
years ball In the NTaynower Hotel.
Il can assure all ttmid mothers
that here viii be no horse at this
ball. Their daughters win Be per.
fectlv safe
The Washington times., 1926-02-11
BLAN TON Use OF
RECORD HIT

The proclIvities OF Representative
Thomas L. Blanton OF Texas for
extending his remarks IN the Con.
gressionaI Record have again
brought the fires OF congressional
criticism down upon his head.
The latest cause for censure- is
q transcript Of his controversy this
summer with Lieut.. Col. G. o. Sher
rilL former OFFICER in charge OF
public buildings and public parks,
which occupied nine pages OF the
Record. although set. double column
IN small type.
He was taken to task by Repre-
sentative Bertrand Smell of New
York. chairman of the Rules Conf
mittee on the floor OF the House
late yesterday, who declared that
if other members Of the House
adopted the same procedure, even.
tually we shall have q daily Record
as big as dictionary !,
II think il is time, = he said.
that we should have q general
understanding. and perhaps, ruling
from the chair, so Tar as may. be
possible IN a general way, on what
= expected In q general extension
OF remarks. .
Representative Blanton defended
ms action by declaring that every
word he put into the Record was
pertinent to the bin then under
discussion. a score OF House lead
erss including the floor leader ami
minority leader were drawn into
the discussion, which finally ended
~ Representative Smell withdraw
ing. his request.
The Washington times., 1926-02-11
SONG CONCERT HERE
TO AID WT BODIES

Legion posts and other veteran
organlzations win share in the
proceeds OF the concert az EIGHT
popular song artists next SUNDAY
az the Washington Auditoril,Tn9
sponsors Of the entertainment an,
Those purchasing tickets ara
urged TO write on the reverse side 81
the pasteboards the Organization n
which they wish q 10 per cal,r
snare OF the proceeds dfrecteds '-s
The Washington times., 1926-02-11
NORWEGIAN CREW SAVED
BY AMERICAN STEAMER

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE American
steamer Casper, en- route to Copen-
hagen, rescued the crew Of IS OF
the Norwegian motor ship, Pinto,
which sank today eoff the northern
coast Of Scotland
The Casper was proceeding to-
small vessel engaged in trading
between Norway, Sweden and Dem
mark.