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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
QUALITY UTILITIES
DISUSED STABLES
Old Structures in Mayfair Become
Stylish Maisonettes for Duke of
York's Near Neighbors.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
LONDON, February 4-Manv Of
London's aristOcra"y are busy con-
Verting dfsused stables and attics in
Mayfair into stylish maisonettes for
their own use, and the Duke and
Duchess of York indirectly are re
sponsble.
Since these members of the kings
family settled in Mayfair there has
been stampede of those who wish to
live near enough to bask in the royal
smiles. There is great shortage Of
houses in this section and those
available mostly are enormous old
fashioned mansions, costly to lease
and expensive to maintain. Hence
the conversion of stables
Mayfair has, of course. long been
the home of the elite. It is to London
what Park avenue and Fifth avenue
are to New York
In the old days there were many
news filled with small buildings in
which the blooded horses and the
fine carriages Of the aristocracy were
housed. Since the automobile has
come into such common use, however.
the glossy steeds and the gorgeouslv
uniformed laCkeys have largely
joined the other picturesque relics of
the hey day OF blue blood Now
there are few news IN Mayfair these
days which do not house distinguished
families.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
JONESES LOSE APPEAL.
Liquor Convictions at Baltimore
Are Upheld.
Special Dispatch TO The Star

BALTIMORE, February 4-The
conviction of Winfield Jones Of Wash
ington and his brother. Newtield T.
Jones of Atlanta Ga, on charges of
conspiring to violate the prohibition
law by diverting commercial alcohol
to the Baltimore bootleg trade was up
held yesterday by the United States
Court Of Appeals. at Richmond. Va
Word that the Appeals Court had
sustained the decision of the Federal
Court here was conveyed by telegram
to United States District Attorney
Amos w. W. Woodcock.
The Jones brothers are in the city
jail. under sentence of two years each
in the Atlanta Penitentiary. They are
sons of the Rev. Charles Jones. former
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of Georgia. and Winfield Jones
is a we'll known newspaper man of the
Capital City. Sentence was imposed
on them September 10 by Judge Nor
ris A. Soper after a Today trial. during
which 1t was charged that they had
conspired to divert alcohol from the
Maryland Drug and Chemical Co. to
local bootleggers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
MIXED STATUS OF SHIP SEIZURES
BATTLES u. S. in DRY ACTIVITIES
Lower Courts Vary in Interpretation of Law, While
Rum Fleet Grows Larger-Cases Withdrawn
Because of Lack of Evidence.

not strong enough to justify prosecut-
ing the appeals.
The vessels III question We're seized
1912 and 22 miles off the New Eng
land Coast in December and Janu-
airy last, respectively. The right of
seizure depended on whether the evil
dence showed that the vessels had
been delivering liquor TO boats that
We're fast enough to reach shore in
one hour. The lower court decided
that the proof was insufficient. and
the department so concluded in de
Gliding not to prosecute the appeals"
Acting With Dry Unit.
While stating that the Department
of Justice attaches mo significance
to the dismissal of these two appeals,
the statement declared that each
case depends upon its own facts"
I'm these and other cases" it was
added, the department is acting in
full accord with the prohibition unit
and the Coast Guard and will con-
tinue to support these agencies TO the
utmost in the effort to put stop to
liquor smuggling"
One case Of somewhat battling
status is believed to be the Honduran
schooner Argonauta. taken off the
cases of liquor. 1t is now in the port
of Savannah. being held pending an
investigation into her ownership. reg
istry and operations.
Difference of opinion among Judges
in handing down decisions on seized
vessels was said by officials today TO
show on the one side a broad latitude
i'll regard to seizure of vessels hover
ing off the coast regardless of dis
lance, and on the other hand stringen.
restrictions as 70 the distance, the
evidence and the manner of presenta-
ton of the case.
For the first half of this fiscal year,
up to January I, Government figures
show "a vessels were seized, of which
20 were British, as compared with
only Is seizures, including Is British
vessels, for the first half of the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
SEVERE ART CENSORSHIP
BRINGS GERMAN PROTEST
s'safety of the Republic" Jeop-
ardizes Freedom and Even Pro-
ducers Sometimes Go to Jail.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February "A protest
movement has been inaugurated by
German artists against the severity
of the censorship to which art Is sub
jected in Germany.
The freedom Of art, they contend,
is seriously jeopardized when things
have come to such a pass that any
thing resembling a revolutionary idea
in painting, sculpture. literature or
the drama Is legally prosecuted under
the heading of high treason" or "in-
citing to class hatred" on the conten-
ton that the safety of the republic
Is at stake.
Cases are mentioned in which not
only the offending art product was
confiscated, but the author or imper-
senator even sentenced to imprison-
ment.
The list Of prominent artists ap-
pended to this appeal includes Dr..
Ludwig Fulda, DR.. Max Osborn
George Bernhard, Prof NJ. Bonn,
Prof. Einstein, Prof. Max Liebermann,
president of the Reichstag; Paul
Loebe, Heinrich and Thomas Mann,
former Cabinet Minister Gustav Rad
bruch, Ernst Teller and editor-in- chief
Of the Tageblatt Theodore Wolff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04

The Government is badly tangled
up In It's efforts to extend the eight
zenith amendment into coastal waters
Although a series of treaties with
principal maritime powers provide
that American officials may seize
liquor-carrying vessels making con
tact with shore within the distance OF
an hours run of the coast, widely
varying judicial opinion, rendered in
different part of the country; failure
to get a clarifying opinion from the
Supreme Court of the United states
and release of many vessels seized
for want of evidence and other causes
have left the United States Coast
Guard In such a quandary that II
scarcely knows what policy TO pursue.
Indications from the department OF
Justice today We're that stronger evil
dence will be necessary than has been
submitted in such cases as the two
which were appealed to the Supreme
Court, but were withdrawn Monday
by the department.
Fleet Growing Larger.
Meantime, an increa sing number Of
vessels has been plying the coasts.
according TO reports OF the Depart
ment of Justice for the first half of
this fiscal year, and the preponder
dnce OF NeSSeIS VI bIillSI IeelSliS
shown in these reports has brought
reaction from Great Britain in the
form Of strong condemnation by a
meeting in London presided over by
the Bishop of London.
The Department of Justice an
uounced that it's action in dismissing
the Governments appeals Monday in
the Supreme Court of the United
States in the case Of the schooners
Francis Louise and Marjorie Bachman
was not to be taken as evidence "of
any relaxation of efforts of the de
partment against the smuggling of
liquor into the United States"
The appeals We're dismissed" the
statement explained. because the de-
partment was satisfied. from a careful
examination of the record, that the
evidence available TO the Government,
and as used in the court below, was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
MOVIE HOUSE ON US. PLAN

LONDON. February OP.-Lon-
don's first American-built moving pic
ture house, the Plaza, on Picadilly
Circus, will throw its doors open Feb
ruary 8, with Nell Gwyn." an Eng
lish-ma film starring Dorothy Gish.
as it's featured Offering.
Miss Gish will be present in person
for the opening. The theater was be-
gun about two years ago by the Las
ky-Famous Players Company and is a
handsome stone building with every
modern convenience and q magnificent
nine ORGAN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
WANT CHILDREN'S ROOM.
Citizens Seek to Restore Item fol
Mount Pleasant Library.

Residents of the section were urged
by the JohnSon-PoWell-Ba Bancroft Par
ent-Teacher Association, at meeting
Tuesday afternoon in the Mount
Pleasant Library, to press Congress
to restore to the pending District De
ficiencv appropriation an item to per
NIT the opening of a children. room
at the library next March. Failure
Of the appropriation. members Of the
association declared. would deny an
urgent need of the 1900 children of
the three schools.
The Gasque bill for popular election
of the school board also was discussed
al the meeting. but no final position
was taken on the proposal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
RICHES IN INHERITED ART.
Japanese Obtains 2,45O,ee6 Yen
for Articles Father Left,

TOXIC. February 4 LP).-More than
500 curios, ancient autogra phs and
paintings. part of the collection in.
herited by Marquis K. Inouve from
his father, We're sold at auction for a
total of 2.450.996 yen.
The art object which sold for the
highest sum was tea bowl of quaint
design, which was brought TO Janan
from Korea about $50 years ago. II
sold for 1o9,50o yen and was Dur.
chased by T. Fujita, a millionaire
mine owner of Osaka.
Sixty articles We're sold at prices in
excess OF $4,000 yen and more than SO
lor sums larger than 5000 yen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
Washer Rebuffed,
Kicks Young Girl
3 Times on Shins

Peeved because she had CURLY
refused the offer of his company,
an unidentified maSher deliberately
kicked Miss Frances Cline, 20 years
old. of 314 Maryland avenue on The
ShinS three times.
Miss Cline told police she was
stopped by the man on h street
near First street southeast last
night. Upon her indignant refusal
to accept his company, she said he
deliberately drew back his foot and
kicked her three times.
The girl furnished a good descrlo-
ton of her asSailant, adding that
two front teeth were missing, and
the police are searching for him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
FINDS COLLEGE MEN
AND GIRLS IMPROVING
Illinois Dean Says They Have
Dropped Some of Worst
Vices of Past.
Rv the Associated Press.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 4.-Col-
lege boys and girls are growing bet
ter instead of worse, said DIR. Thomas
Arkle Clark. dean of men at the Uni
versity of Illinois, before the educa-
tional association of the Methodist
Episcopal Church here last night.
College girls and boys of today are
not so bad" he told the educators
They have adopted a goodly number
of the fast ways of the world as it
operates today, but have dropped lot
Of the vices of yesterday. Sobriety is
gaining favor and growing to the eX-
tent that drunkenness is not so preva-
lent as it was a few years ago"
Asked If student government pre-
vailed at the University of Illinois, he
answered. Thank God, no."
He found the students of today more
interested in religion than ever before
But he added, they are thinking out
creeds for themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
CONSIDERS C ST. PLEA.
Eldridge Ponders Request for Re.
turn of One-Way Regulation.

Restoration of G street between
Fifth and Sixth streets northeast as
q one-way thoroughfare is being con-
sidered by Traffic Director NJ. O.
Eldridge. as a request for such action
by the Stanton Park Citizens Asso-
citation.
The street which the association
wants changed to one-way thorough
fare parallels Stanton Park. The Pea
body School Is located at the corner
OF Fifth and { streets and the as
ISOLATION is seeking the former ar
rangement as a safety measure for
pupils.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
DEATH PROBE DELAYED.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG Va, Febru-
airy 4.-Edgar Snellings of Falmouth
came to his death last June from the
effects of whisky, coroner's jury de-
cided yesterday. The jury took charge
of the case within two days after the
mans death.
A member stated that the jury had
waited for a report on an analysis of
the whisky, but after seven months
delay decided to proceed without this
evidence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04

and equipment. Robert NJ. Klinger.
vice president Of the organization,
complained Of crowding on the busses
during rush hours, but Mr.. Ham re-
piled that the company had received
no protests of unsatisfactory service.
If the commission authorizes the es-
tablishment OF the Foxall Village
Shuttle" line, Mr.. Ham said, it should
make provision for it's abandonment
at any time the real estate firm Of
Boss 8 Phelps cancels its contract to
guarantee the company against a loss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
CLERK HIRE is ONEROUS
TO FRENCH DEPUTIES
81 900 Year Salary Leaves Little
for Other Than Own Medicine
Employs His Wife.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
PARIS, February with their
salaries fixed at only $4,000 francs
about $1,000 a year. members of the
French Chamber OF Deputies are find
ing the item of clerk hire almost the
most onerous charge in their personal
budgets.
Unlike their congressional brethren
in America, the deputies receive no al
lowanceS for secretaries or Stenog-
raphers. and if they wish to keep up
a voluminous correspondence with
their constituents they must do SO at
their own expense.
One member, Adm. Jaures, brother
of the great socialist leader, Jean
Jaures. who was shot on the eve of
the declaration of war in 1914, has par
TALLY solved the problem.
Nine. Jaures has become his private
secretary. and, although she took up
the study of the pothooks and key
board rather late in life, the admiral
asserts she is doing splendidly. In re-
turn, however, he declares, she takes
his entire deputy's salary as wages,
leaving him only his meager retired
pay from the navy.
Japanese and Arabic are two of the
languages into which the whole Bible
has been transliterated into Braille
type for use of the blind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
Burbank <'Living
Fifty Years Ago.
Bishop Declares
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, February 4-Luther
Burbank, CALIFORNIA; plant wiz
ard" is living 90 years ago"
Bishop G.. &. Bennett Of Duluth
declared before the Episcopal do
cesar convention yesterday in an
address prophesying world con
ception of life and religion.
The Bishop referred to recent
utterances In which Mr.. Burbank
said he could not WORKSHOP God who
doomed people to hell, and declared
himself an infidel.
Mr.. Burbank is living so years
ago and thinking conditions the
same today as then" the bishop
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
NORTH P0LEFLYER
EXPLAINS PROJECT
Says Wilkins Expedition Is
Prepared to Live Two
Years in Arctic.

By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, February Car
Eielson, aviator Of the Wilkins trans.
polar flight, will sail for Alaska Sat
urday with airplanes 20 be used in the
expedition. Capt. George Hubert vii
kins, leader of the expedition, will
follow later.
Wilkins and Eielson will first fiy
from Fairbanks, in the interior Of
Alaska, to Point Barrow, where they
will hop off for the flight across the
million square mile blind spot" of
the Arctic ocean some time between
March 81 and April 81.
Failure of snow motors sent from
here January IS to Nenana. Alaska,
to drag supplies for the expedition on
sleds from Nenana to Barrow, is eX-
pectcd. But, said Eielson. Capt. VII
kins' original plan was to carry his
supplies from Fairbanks, Alaska, to
Barrow by airplane, and this will be
done if Alexander Malcolm Smith,
now in Alaska preparing for the
Nenana Barrow trek, is overcome by
obstacles.
One Thing Settled.
we have settled only one thing
in our itinerary after We leave Bar
row. said Eielson. THAT one thing
is-we fly north.
Everything depends upon what
we find If We find land we may come
back to Barrow for a spare plane
and crew We have there and go mar
that land. 1t we don't find land We
will keep right on going, and go ovel
the North Pole or near it. TO Spitz-
bergen-tf we don't meet with
trouble.
Food for Two Weeks.
I'VE will have with us food for two
weeks, but we Will carry rifles anC
live on the ice for two years if w
have to walk back to land. Seals
in that case, would be the main par
of our food. Capt. wilkins was GU
on the Arctic in an expedition viii
Stefansson, and learned the tech
niQue of living off the country, "a
Stefansson calls it"
Eielson said that on the route from
Fairbanks to Nome, 700 miles, wher
the round trip with mail sleds draw
by dogs uses Sc days, the plane will
do the work in two. From Fairbank
to Livengood, where the nature of tn
country causes dogs to use five day
between points 60 miles apart on al
airline, service in three hours i
promised with planes.
Eielson two wears ago completed
two years of flying with mails il
Alaska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
EVANS is HONORED.
Detective Sergeant, Retiring, Pre-
sented With Watch by Associates.

Detective Sergt. Harry Evans re.
tired. was IS>sented with a watch by
Inspector Henry G. Pratt. chief of de-
tectves. In behalf Of the members Of
the Detective Bureau. just after the
morning roll call at police head
quarters today.
The presentation exercises were
brief and impressive.
"I want to present this watch to
you as token Of the esteem IN which
your fellow workers for the last decade
hold you and as a remembrance to
take with you into private life" In
epector Pratt said.
Sergt. Evans thanked the men for
tho present and offered what assist.
ance and cooperation he could give,
II called upon by any Of the detectives
at any future time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
SHIP IN DISTRESS.
Freighter Standing by 40 Miles
From Delaware Capes.

PHILADELPHIA, February Up
The coal carrier Selwyn Eddy was
reported today by the Maritime Ex-
change to be in distress 40 miles
southeast of the Delaware Capes.
The George ii. Jones, freighter, was
standing by. a Coast Guard cutter
was sent from Cape May to aid the
crippled carrier
The Selwyn Eddy Is bound from
Boston TO Norfolk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-04
Open School Bids February 10.

The Commissioners will open bids
for the construction Of the stuart
Junior High School February 10, il
was announced today At the District
Building. The school will be ruilt en-
a site of an old brewery between
Fourth and Fifth and Z and F streets
northeast.
Evening star., 1926-11-07

ence to make way for that Old Testa-
ment age when Rome was the master
| of .Judea.
The story had for it's theme a plot
as old as 2 200 years and as new as
tomorrow will be new The human
nature of that day was the human
| nature of this one. with the sinister
passions OF earth wiped out by the
balancing power Of a forgiveness that
is divine-exactly like the sinnines
ana forgivings that we know about
and 1t will be known by generations
coming after.
The two women. used to each
others emotional outputs, EXCHANGED
mutual nudgings that conveyed sym.
pathetic understandings until. charged
with the atmosphere Of time and place.
as to experience, in turn. the painting
righteousness Of galley slave, heart
lndinerence to the laurels of a. chariot
race In Its interruption to q search
1or mother love-the inspiration 70
gather legion for the rescue of q
gentle Man of Galilee from Romans
VINO mad condemned Him to death
eacn OF the two women covered in the
gloom OF the Valley of Iepers and
both Strengthened into exhilarated awe
as a Passlng Figure, bearing a cross.
paused to give life to a dead child in
an anguished mothers arms and to
neal TWO woman lepers who were the
Inother and sister Of the house OF H,,r.
When cruelty had gorged Itself with
tragedy and kneeling men and women
We're weeping in the night. the voice
ol one Who had followed hin Master
Evening star., 1926-11-07
SHAW'S NAME REDUCED
IN SIZE OVER THEhTER
Author Asked Change Himself
Because It Outshone
Those os Stars.
Z, .h. 40 -lntoG er,.ae .

~ ~. ASso"iIt"G Prices,
LONDON. N"%eH!er c. - George
Pe.n:rd Shaw'> name, which slarsd
in letters two ieet high IN 'front.' ~
ore OF I.onious largest music halls
showing rne of his plays. has been
reduced in size at the authors re.
quest The letters now are smaller
than those. OF the stars actually ap-
peariug there.
The play is '"!'he Showing Up "f
Rlauc, Posnet :" II is being acted IN
Sill John and Lady Martin Harvey
and ii company of 80. For Years 'h"
lord chamberlain banned this storE
Of horse thes OIL the ground that
il was blasphemous. However, after
braving the deri$ion of cultured play
soers, he relented.
Nix. Shaw suggested that his name
had been displayed so prominently
that his friends Nigh: set the irn-
preston that ne himself vas appear
ing at the music hall. when. as a mat
ter OF fact, he Was not able 20 hhd
time to catch uc with ms writings
Evening star., 1926-11-07

, seemed to cry out to the very door OF
that theater and to all who were in it
THE King is dead. He asked that
you forgive your enemies and love one
another
The curtain closed. and as the lights
flashed on an audience of unsmiiing
faces, many tear-Wet eyes and low
cred heads--men and women who
seemed as If they had been with those
others in the Judean night. who had
wept and repented. went their ways
about them that conveyed the thought
Of that last injunction-to forgive
their enemies and love one another.
The two women went out into the
dusk. walking, silent and close to-
gether.
TRUTH is always interesting. no
matter how small ii sounds and
everybody likes a word about happers
See books. newspapers, sermons and
nice. middle-a ged ladies who were en-
tirely different types of girls.
She was cute little specimen.
with silken knees and face of the
pink and white of commerce. But in
her voice was the virgin simplicity
or youth that no frivols could rob
OF its charm; and She was telling
about herself to woman who was
glad to listen--one reason being that
she dearly loves fappers.
We'll, of course. we live in an
apartment and l have to be satisfied
with IT, but what / want is a house