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The Washington times., 1926-03-05
BILL PERMITS MAILING
OF INSECT PoISoNS

The Senate Postoffice Commit.
tee opened hearings today on tho
Frazier bill, to permit the mailing
of poisonous disinfectants, fungi
cides, germicides and insecticides
as parcel post matter. The poisons
would have to be packed in con.
tainers according to spec< <eications
laid down by the postmaster gen.
eral.
The bill has the support Of agri.
cultural organizations, which com.
planned that express charges made
the purchase of the insect killing
poisons prohibitive TO farmers-
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
HAUGEN MARKETING BILL
HEARINGS OPEN IN SENATE

Taking up the Haugen co-opera-
tive marketing bill, the Senate COM
mfttee on Agriculture and forestry
began consideration today of the
first farm relief legislation to come
before it this session.
The bill. which passed the House
two weeks ago, provides an immedi-
ate appropriation of $225, 900 for
the creation Of a cooperative mar
keting division in the Department
of Agriculture.
Morton @. Macdonald, represent
ing paint and varnish interests.
objected to the bills classification
of naval stores as agricultural
products. Naval stores, including
turpentine and resin, he contended,
were manufactured products.
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FALLING LEVER FRACTURES
M.K. HAYRE,s SKULL

william K Hayre, AZ years old.
2IO I st. N. E.. is in a critical
condition in Emergency Hospital
today as a result of fractured
skull received when he was ac-
cidentally struck on the head while
at work in the Washington Termi-
nal.
Hayre is employed as an aribrake
inspector and was going about his
work when a brake lever fell,
striking him. He was not expected
to live, according to hospital au-
thorities.
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TA[IAV D / B |
WAR IS HOT
By GEORGE r. HOLMES
international News service

President Coolidge was forced
again today to send out an sos
call to Democrats in the Senate to
prevent the defeat of a major item
in the Administration program
the Italian debt agreement.
As was the case In the World
Court and tax reduction issues, It
will be Democratic votes that will
enable the Administration measure
TO win out in the Senate-if It wins
out at ALL
Convinced by private polls that
If the Italian agreement we're voted
on this week or next 1t would
be rejected. Administration leaders
have abandoned their plan of bring
ing up the. matter as soon as
Muscle Shoals is disposed of, and
it appeared today that 1t viii be
March I5 before the fight starts.
Under the surface, In the cloak
rooms and lobbies, the most
sanguinary conflict of the session
Is under way to win pledges to In
sure ratification Of the agreement.
The outcome is in doubt.
Edward n. Hurley, Democratic
chairman of the Shipping Board
under the Wilson administration
and q member of the Debt Funding
Commission, is working incessantly
among Democrats in the Senate to
win votes for the agreement.
Opponents of the settlement
claimed today to have at least 80
of the 80 Democrats pledged against
it. Senator'S Borah of Idaho and
Howell Of Nebraska. who will lead
the opposition. claim to have "15
or 16" Republican votes against 1t.
IL these figures can be maintained
against the constantly increasing
pressure Of the Administration the
settlement will have q close shave.
Al dozen certain Administration
votes are not in Washington now
and won't be for some days.
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Another Home Town
Girl to Debut
at Met

NEW YORK, March 81. The
third Hometown girl debut Of
the season viii occur at the
Metropolitan Opera House to-
night when Dorothea Flexner,
of AlletowIl, Pa, will Be heard
III the contralto role III Andrea
Chenier. "
Several special cars, carrying
the mayor of Allentown and
DOrotEea,s friends, will come to
New York for the occasion.
Marion TaI1ey, former Kansas
City choir singIr, and Mary
Lewis. Of Little Rock, Ark, who
reached operate stardom by
way of the cabarets and Fol-
lies, are the other American
born girls who have made their
opera debuts this season.
nists should not refuse to jain trsds
Unions, he said. but on the con
.rary they should join tho tlnioIIs
,f1d affar1Ff III, win noYlfr0I f5f fIarta.
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
Chapman Has Month
More to Write
Sonnets
Nv INTERNATIONAL News Service

A
NEW YORK, March 81. With
the shadow of the moose swing
ing low before him, Gerald
Chapman, notorious bandit, sits
in his Wethersfield cell writing
poetry.
Frederick j. Groehl, Chap
mans counsel, who is appealing
his clients murder conviction to
the United States Supreme
Court, in an effort to save
Chapman from hanging on April
8, declared today that the ban
dit spends most of his time
composing sonnets.
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Knickers for Sports or
School Wear, $3.50

Tweed Knickers, fashioned to fit,
Knickers that the better dressed High
School Boy will wear for golf and in
his classrooms.
sportswear Section for Young Men, second flooS.
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1924. He said that the cars hand.
writing was unmistakable.
However, the Grand Duke Cyril
who has proclaimed himself czar, Is
strongly opposed to the theory that
Nicholas is alive, q fact which
those favoring the former theory
regard As confirmation. N
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
Golf and Sports Hose, 81 to S.

Just the finishing touch to your
knickers. Plain, striped and figured
effects that assure match to almost
any of the popular golf suit patterns.
Mems Furnishings Section First floor
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
To fall.
VIEW HERE
By WILBUR MORSE. Jr.

n8 WILBUR NURSE 1T
A steady march of blue pins
across q map of China. blue pins
coming up from the South. blue
pins closing in from the north, and
blue pins massing eastward on
Peklng, marked the tide of battle
today in the 1926 edition of China .
civil war, as State and War De.
partment experts studied the TAR
Eastern situation.
In the opinion OF military ex.
sperts the blue pins will soon De
covering Pekfng, defended now by
e smaller force of red pins. The
shifting pins indicate that a new
regime may soon rise to power in
China backed by, or at least ap-
proved by the Japanese as OPP
posed to the present controlling
CLIQUE whose pins are significantly
colored red TO denote Soviet Rus
sia support.
Combine Works Fast
A combine to oust the military
regency of the Peking government
BY Feng Yu-hiiany. the socalled
Christian general. began its opera
! tons three weeks ago, Chang Tao
LIN. the Manchurian war lord, and
alleged puppet of the Japanese.
gained control or the Picking sMuk-
den railway, and is moving with
speed toward Tientsin. Ii Ching
has swept through the Shantung
province as far north as Machang
and WI Pei Flu has captured the
Peking Hankow railway, and is
within day or two of Teintain.
Yesterday 5000 reinforcements for
the combine were landed at Taku.
Thus today the joint forces were
standing as conquering invaders at
the gates of the nationalists head
quarters.
Military observers here predicted
today that Picking and Tientsln
would be taken within a fortnight
unless, as so oftentimes happens
In China, the combine leaders split
among themselves.
Feng. the defender can hope for
no help from the Soviets, whether
or no they seek to give it.. Snow
and ice and prohibitive weather
block any aid to Feng through
Mongolia, the road TO Russiass
rulers.
See Chang Victory
Thus a victory for Chang and-his
colleagues is anticipated here. Il
is the preciseness, the co-ordina,
tion. the speed and the effective
ness of the three invaders. Chang,
Ii, and Wu that puzzle the Far
Eastern experts. Many sense that
some super direction. possibly
japanese. has unified these ordi-
narily hostile and independent
forces.
But the union viii not last. it Is
agreed. Chinese generals aren' I
made that wssy.
And SO when the blue pins nave
swept the map and the red pins
have been picked out of their holes
and laid in their pasteboard exile,
the summer edition of the chinese
follies win present the blue pins all
fighting among themselves.
Picking Army scores
PEKING, March 5The national
army has taken several hnndreds Of
prisoners, according to adYicecs
here today. Many of athe prisoner,
II was stated. are white Russians.
The army was continuing TO
thrust south of Tientsin, following
up its victory Of yesterday when L
consolidated its ranks in the face
of furious opposition.
General Feng Yu-Hsiang, VINO IN
the past has successfully crushed
attempts to take the capital, IS
being urged to assume command oS
the defending armies. Feng has
been informed Of the cabinets de-.
sire to have him act as commits
siOner to pacify the provinces OF
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
Young Mems COlored Sports Socks
81 Pair

Plain, vertical and horizontal stripes,
in color combinations that are all the
"rage." Silk and isle, and silk and
rayon combinations.
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Young Mems All COIOrful Shirts
$3.50

in the new figures and striped patterns
that will prevail during the coming sea-
son. Collars to match, and some have
stiff cuffs.
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
Bright New
NeckWear, 81

The new Spring figured and
striped patterns. Ties for sports
wear, Ties for dress wear, and
Ties for street wear.
Mer's Furnishings Section, First floor
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
BrOad-tOe
OxfOrds, Sc

Footwear that speaks Of the new
est fashioning by skilled makers VINO
L,,o,v that the broad toe, heavy grain
and sturdy appearance is most desired
by the High School fellow.
The Washington times., 1926-03-05

Msa.s shes ssotion. seeoad tlooE.
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
Slip-over
Sweaters, 50

Wee neck styles that will al
ways be popular with students
White and heather combinations
in Turtle neck styles that give
the much desired English air."
Mems Furnishings Section. First floor.
The Washington times., 1926-03-05
Felt Hats, S.
Wool Caps, $3.50

Fancy bands in attractive col
ors. Snap brims. Welt and.
bound edges. Shades of grays
and taupes.
Knock-about Caps, in colors
and designs to match your
tweed suit that Fashion favors
for the coming season.
The Washington times., 1926-03-05

Spring brings exceptionally low prices in
Young Mems apparel because We have select
ed these items Ia special manner that re-
suits il these outs tanding values.
The newest apparel is to be found here ii
qualities and quantities that assure satisfac-
ton to the most exacting taste. An early IN
spection Of the garments offered here will
make the High School youth ready to greet
Spring ii Well dressed manner.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10

them something new to talk
about and an opportunity to
raise a rumpus over something
anything.
Even the most prejudiced in
the past have given Miss Joyce
credit for having the same
amount Of intelligence as she
has beauty. and that's saying
lot, but very few figured that
she would pull the surprise on
Los Angeles that she did. They
expected a wild kicking up of
the heels. an attempt to paint
the town delicate red, but,
alas and couple of alacks. she
did neither. When she arrived
from New York none in town
knew on which train she was
coming except her director, Mar
shall Neilan.
Los Angeles and Hollywood
hotels were i'm for the next
surprise. Most of them had
banked on seeing the elusive
Peggy at least once during her
two months stay on the Coast.
Instead Of going to a hotel to
live Miss Joyce went to a modest
little cottage and was seldom
even seen on the streets and
never in a public place.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10
TOO MUCH SLEEP
WORSE THAN
NOT ENOUGH

Dainty Marie, who never goes
to bed before midnight and who
gets up with the chickens, will
be clAssed as a regular fellow by
debutantes who would rather
dance an hour later than get up
an hour sooner. She will draw quite
a divergent designation from
. those who never arise until noon.
Here's what the little lady,
whom perfection of face and form
qualify her as an expert on health
matters, say:
Don't take these admonitions
about beauty sleep too seriously.
OF course, too many late dances
will bring circles around your
eyes, but mark my word, sister,
too many hours in bed are just
as certain as you are born to
make you lazy and stupid and fat.
Sleep aplenty, but never too
much"
Dainty Marie, who is still all
hat her title Of Dainty and Venus
OF the Air implies, offers an un-
usual and artistic act at the Earle
Theater next week.
Miss Meeker's act Is thoroughly
distinctive. Clad in white tights
she literally dances on a ribbon
suspended from the ceiling, offer
ing fine art poses modelled after
the paintings of famous masters
and singing as she works.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10

cludes, is expressive of the vio-
lent emotional transition which
has overtaken the people of the
world since the end of the war
Says Bide Dudley in the Eve.
ming World:
A number of years ago a man
was sent to prison to serve a
life term, and there he stayed
a long, long time. Then came
a pardon and he was once more
a free man. AS he approached
New York on a train he looked
forward eagerly to the chance
to view the various changes
time had wrought. To an ac-
quaintance he said he thought
he would see some of the new
shows in the Broadway district.
He bought a newspaper and
began reading the theatrical
news.
Looming before his eyes were
announcements Of current or
forthcoming productions of
"IOlanthe," "PinafOre," 1.-THE
Two Orphans" THE Bells"
What Every Woman Knows"
and "Cyrano de Bregerac."
Huh" he unused, there
hasn't been much change in
things, after ALL" Suddenly he
smiled.
"Ah" he said. Here's a new
show. "Tll go and see it."
His eye had lit on the adver-
tisement for "Abie's Irish Rose"
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sequence now, at sea, said
Webb.
'Do. you think you can do it,"
asked Mr.. Warner.
Yes replied Webb.
20. K. Go ahead. said Jack.
And they did. Mr. Webb got in
touch with theI captain whose
vessel was lying in readiness In
the harbor. Capt lin, how long
will this blow lAst?. asked Webb.
From five days to two WeelEg.
sir, /" replied the captain.
Can your ship weather this
Storm"
Yes, sir"
"All right; prepare to saiI in
"a hours. .
In less than "a hours % men
and everything imaginable that
might be needed had been crowd
ed onto the deck, the hold, the
cabin, the galley and the fore
400 the next morning, it was
towed out OF the harbor in the
teeth of the gale by two tugs.
When clear, the ship tackled up
the coast. For once the musicians
ed Immediately and continued
with slight Interruptions for meals
and a few hours sleep, for five
days. It was strange adven-
ture and an arduous one. Few
escaped the grip Of sea sickness.
Although precautionary measure
was taken, several men barely
escaped being washed overheard
by gigantic seas, which made the
ship CULVER and creak, and groan
with their tremendous force and
weight. Everything movable had
to be nailed and dashed to deck
and superstructure.
A real storm at sea caught by
the camera remains as an integral
part of a great epic of a great
American industry. making vivid
ly real the atmosphere OF the
Dicture
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10
THE CAMERA FIBS
FOR LITTLE
WILMA

Wilma Banky, internationally
famous for her blonde hair, be.
comes a brunette In the new Ru.
dolph Valentino photoplay, Son
of the Sheik.'
Director George Fitzmaurice de-
clares that wigs or any sort of
false hair will not be rosorted to
in the transformation.
The revelation. besides being OF
more than passing interest to
Miss Banky's admirers, will in
trigue technical students of mo-
ton pictures because it brings
into play new Photographic
process perfected by George
Barnes, chief cinema tographer on
the picture.
Wholly by an arrangement OF
lights said Fitzmaurice, ."Mr.
Barnes has succeeded in accom-.
plishing what, frankly. / believed
to be impossible. He has made
Miss Banky's blonde hair photo.
graph like dark brown"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10

Pugilistic championships, horse
races. tennis matches, CONNER
cial ascendancy, coup detats
and all sorts of things have
been successfully unanswered by
Crossing" the other fellow
which, after all, is about the
sum total of what happened to
the cat!
The theory, however, is sus-
ceptible of gentler and more
subtle applications, as we shall
see.
There Is a thunder in silence,
az Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the
screen star, proved when she
visited Hollywood to make her
first starring screen vehicle, The
Skyrocket." which comes to Gran
dall's Metropolitan and Ambas-
sador theaters tomorrow.
When it was first publicly an
nounced that the famous beauty
was to be starred in motion
pictures the film colony in Holly
wood sat back and patiently
waited to see what would happen.
Among those unkind, particularly
the Californians who refuse to
recognize film folks socially, this
vas a tasty morsel. 1t gave
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10
1.-THE FIRST YEAR
SLATED FOR
NATIONAL

Frank Craven's comedy of the
honeymoon stage of married life,
THE First Year" will be the third
offering by the National Theater
Players at the National for the
week commencing Monday night,
April 10. John Warner will do the
Craven role. Tommy Tucker and
Leneta Lane will be Grace Living
ston who marries Tommy, deserts
the home town with him to live in
New York, to become hastily, but
temporarily, disillusioned as TO the
romance of marrying the man you
love.
Craven designated this comedy of
his "a tragi-comedy of married
life" And a better description
could hardly be fitted for, under
meath it's rapid-fire comedy and, at
times, farcical situations, there is
a solemn note that is as realistic
as life itself.
The fuckers are in that hazard
Gus stage of married life where pro-
pinquity exacts it's toll of tangled
nerves. They survive it but not
before romance takes a survey Of
the cold, hard facts of life and
acknowledges them.
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happy one, for the captivating
Madge Is regarded as one of the
most adept Charleston experts
west of the Sierra Nevada noun
tains, and, while the screen has
never done anything like full jus
tice to her peaches-and-cream
complexion, Madge is sufficiently
beautiful. on form and contour
alone, to make the most fasci
mated reader Of this fascinating
serial revise his or her visualize
ton of this exotic heroine.
Harrison Ford and Leslie Fen.
ton appear prominently as the
girls two lovers, Ramon Worth
and Douglas Keith, while Bard.
son Bard, one of the toughest
villains in vaudeville, has brought
his atavistic meanness to the sill
yer sheet to play the role OF
"Sandy's" husband, Ben Muir
ril1o. Gloria Hope Is another with
a fine role. playing the part Of
Judith Moore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10

y n
The Charleston's dance for
the ages; it is more than a
dance, it is a mood, soothing
the subconsciousness of even the
most mentally derelict; it will
endure for what can be known
here as the Gibraltar period
or the Prudential. We always
get those rocks mixed up. And
SO on and so on.
This, in effect, is what a
pretty young lady in a party
gown tells Keith audiences this
week. She has been sent down,
her message goes, by Ned Way
burn to teach Washingtonians
how to Charleston, and the pre-.
sumption is that Mr.. Wayburn,
in all goodness of heart, has
done this thing. Washington
can do no more in return than
send one of it's high school elo-
cutionists to Mr.. Wayburn's
studio to teach his Charleston
teachers how to combine facil-
ity of tongue and feet.
She can, however, dance the
Charleston from head to toe
with a grace that makes tyros
of most of the professionals.
A*k
The National Geographic So.
ciety, one hears directly from
Mr.. Wayburh is seriously dis
cussing the naming of the
Charleston as this country's ma
tional dance, much as France
has the minuet, Ireland the jig,
Argentina the tango and Ha-
waii it's hula-hula."
"The American National AS
ISOLATION of Dancing Masters,
which meets in New York next
August, will consider the
Charleston in this light" says
Mr.. Wayburn.
The dance, the director con-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-10
SHE DANCED AT
THE AGE OF
TWO

Ballet dancing makes beauti-
full feet" says Alma Nelson, who
is co-headlining at B. F. Keith's
next week.
Miss Nelson, who is a second
cousin of the great Alice Mel.
son, is considered one of the
most finished opponents Of the
art of toe dancing in this country.
She began her training In a bal
let school in Washington when
she was 2 years old. Since then
she has danced continuously. At
4 she was a full-fledged profess
sional. One would have expected
hours of practice and daily per-
formances to have distorted and
spoiled her feet during years of
childhood.
Instead, Miss Nelson stretches
out for inspection the perfect
Cinderella foot, white, soft as to
skin, although with steel.like mus
cles underneath, and size one.and-
one-half, triple A! No ready.
made shoes for this little dancer
A<AIAACA SAAG NOAlCl1I H9TS0II
with children's strapped ankle
ties or have all her slippers made
to order. There Is no sign Of
callous, of joint enlargement or
other foot disbursement here. Her
toes are as straight and delicate
in outline as a baby's,
The only indication OF her pro.
fession is a slight discoloration in
the nail of the great. toe on either
foot. For Miss. Nelson refuses
to use padding of any sort in the
toes of her ballet shoes. It is
upon the very tips of her own
dainty toes that she does all sorts
or eccentric dancing, contortion.
lst figures, buck dancing as we'll
as the classic ballet steps.
But these little feet get hours
OF care every day Each morn
ing they are massaged for half an
hour. and put through every sort
OF stretching and limbering ex.
ercise, quite apart from dancing
practice. After each performance
they are bathed first in hot, then
cold. water, and given q brisk a.
cohol rk&A
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California coast. The great
storm waves that break over
the ship from stem to stern are
real waves, the torrential rain
is real rain, and the furious
blasts that drive it horizon
tally into the leathern faces of
the crew Of real sailormen are
those of the storm wind.
1t was originally intended to
make these scenes at a quiet
dock with the usual aid of wave
machines, etc. But a great
storm blew out of the West.
Lets take & at sea in a real
storm said Barrymore, who
in making this picture was real
izfng the ambition of years.
Ali right, I'll see" replied
Willard Webb. director, and he
went into Jack Warmers office.
Jack, lets take the storm
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EUsrybodJs csnfidsnss..=.=.@.@.s
THE GATE-POST
. ~ Harold PhtLlips

indeed the week New York which the
birth of Little Theater Little Theater
Gotham photographers have been having great funand
of woratey by encouraging definitions what
stutes New Yorker This department its feet the
porch knocks mdy and asks to be allowed to that New
midwife
cradle the bier the Sometimes
he the address,
Birth this week from the
the day that critics blew for the Opera
Players, who sponsored "The Immortal Hour"
Sponsoring the Otis Skinner,
MACEDONIAN,
Right Exmouth which leads John
Evening that the
ton hasn't show, charge admission committee
ings
And which reminds Of the youngsr who being told his
playmate's father Elk, Rotarian Moose asked
low much does cost see him."