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Evening star., 1926-03-07

grants themselves, was opportunity
for wholesome development in favor
able American environment
The American type of man was de-
scribed in this way:
1T is characterized by tall stature,
being the tallest of all the larger
groups of white people; by, ona the
average. a medium pigmentation OF
the hair, with scarcity of adult
blonds; by prevalently mixed
eyes, or light ones showing more or
less of q brown admixture; by an in
clination, especially in youth, to
sinewy slenderness, and by other fea-
lures. The main characteristics of its
behavior are. in general, frankness
openness yet shrewdness, energy and
persistence, with. in general, but lit
tie sentimentality or affectation, and
relatively few extremes except per
haps. in Industrial, financial and occa.
sionally in religious endeavors."
The type was not Nordic, he said
and was not even nearer Nordic than
to Alpine. On the contrary, he added
like the British, it was an intermedi
ate type, close to the medium of Eng
lish and white people in general.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
VIRGINIA OFFICIAL
HELD EX-CONv|CT
State Senator Smith Twice
Found Guilty of Felony,
Probers Report.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, March 6.-The
special committee of the Virginia Sen
ate, appointed to determine whether
State Senator Alfred G. Smith of
Norfolk was the same person con-
victed of felonies in South Carolina
and at Fort Monroe, Va, under the
names of C. NJ. Reynolds and Charles
A. Smith, jr., respectively, reported to-
day that he is the same person con
victed In each case.
The committees report, presented
to the senate, declared that your
committee is unanimously of the Opin
ion:
First, That Senator Alfred c.
Smith, who Is now a member of the
Senate of Virginia, is the same person
who was convicted of forgery (which
is a felony in the Court of General
Sessions, County of Clarendon, State
Of South Carolina, on the second day
of June. 1913, under the name of C
NJ. Reynolds;
Second: That the said Alfred c
Smith. now a member of the Senate
of Virginia is the same person who
was convicted of forgery in court
martial proceeding at Fort Monroe
Va, on the 9Th day of August. 1914
under the name of Charles A. Smith
jr.
THAT your committee files here
with, as a part of this record, the
evidence taken in this investigation
and the original records in the case OF
the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar AS
sociation against Alfred G. Smith, fur
nished at the request of the commit
tee by the clerk of the Court of APP
peals of Virginia with the permission
Of said court, which original record
is to be withdrawn and returned tc
the files of said Court of Appeals OF
Virginia not later than the closing OF
this session of the general assembly
OF Virginia"
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HOUSE CONTINUES
! PROHIBITION TALK
Andrews and Wheeler Appear
Before Committee-0ra-
tory Checked on Floor.
BY the Associated Press.


While one Of it's major committees
wrestled with the problem of enforce
ment machinery, the House yesterday
again followed it's recent course of
giving over part of each day to a dis
cussion of prohibition
Assistant Secretary Andrews. head
of the Treasury's dry forces, ana
WAYNE r. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon
League appeared before the ways anu
means committee to urge creation of a
separate prohibition bureau in the
Treasury. Both said such move
would tighten enforcement.
Mr.. Andrews estimated that enforce
ment for the present fiscal year would
cost the Federal Government approx
mately S25 900. 900, but Mr.. Wheeler
asserted fines collected from bootleg
gers were Just about" paying the
bill.
The question was brought to the
floor of the House by Representative
Planton, Democrat, Texas, who mas
charged that 400 open saloons are
operating in Baltimore. He assailed
certain Federal judges" for failure
20 carry out their duties in prohlbl-
ton cases. An increase in the num-
her of such cases WnlCn ne clteu ne
described as an indication of better
enforcement.
Mr.. Wheeler in his testimony also
had something to say about judges,
declaring the best in the law could
never be brought out so long as Il
cent" fines were imposed on liquor
law violators.
Two attempts by Representative
Griffin. Democrat. New York, TO re-
vive the issue later in the day were
blocked on objections Of Representa-
tive Treadway, Republican. Massachu-
setts, who asserted too much propa-
ganda for and against prohibition
Rad been heard on the floor recently.
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PROTEST..
PRINTING CONTRACT
Business Cards With Return
Address Cause of Row
in House.

Job printing plants in many cities
and towns throughout the country
have stirred up a lot OF trouble for
the House committee on post offices
and post roads. and especially for
Representative Sproul, chairman of
subcomittee which has been con-
Quoting hearings, over a comparative
ly small amount Of business that
they hoped TO get.
They have protested against the
practice of the Government in taking
orders for stamped envelopes with r
return address card of the purchaser
printed in one corner. BY making
a blanket contract for the print
ing of these business cards, the
Government has been able 10
furnish this service at a trivial cost
to the business men of the country.
Now the local job printing plants are
making a bid for this business.
AS a matter of fact testimony be
fore the House committee shows that
this entire printing last year cost only
$40, 900. Split up among JOB print
ers in many towns and cities. very rev
of them would get enough printing OF
this sort to pay for the bother.
AS against their appeals TO the com
mittee. more than 10000 protests have
been received from users of printed
stamped envelopes, in every state
urging that the present system or sup
plying them be continued. These pro
tests are from business houses, sec
ret societies, churches, country panKs
and farm organizations, who puN
these envelopes from the Government
in lots of 500 to 1000.
They now get for 20 cents what
would cost them from $1.S5 TO So a
thousand if the work was done BY
private firms. according to testimony
before the committee. In 1925 more
than 5000, 900 900 of these envelopes
were sold, of which 1.700. 100000 car
ried the printed corner card with a
return address. According to testi-
mony of the Post Office Department
officials. users of these envelopes saved
$2.40O,000.
Printed Under Contract.
The printing is not now done by the
Government at the Government
Printing Office, as many have been
led to believe. 1t is done by private
concern, under contract. The present
contract was let on January l. 1925,
for a period of four years, after the
Government had advertised in the
principal papers of the country Tor
bids.
The question is still under discussion
before subcommittee No. of the
House committee on post offices and
post roads, of which Mr.. Sproul is
chairman. But it is likely to be set
tied next Tuesday-by a decision to
continue the present practice. Mr..
Sproul has called an executive meet
ing of the subcommittee for that day.
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| speaker had said the opposition could
be summed up in a word of five let
| ters. money, but he thought II
| would better be summed up in a word
| of seven letters, liberty.
DR.. G. s, Longacre, secretary OF
the Religious Liberty Association
spoke in rebuttal of testimony at the
earlier hearings and cited Is cases IN
which the courts had decided certain
parts of State Sunday laws unconsti
tutional and in some the Supreme
Court had recommended to the legis-
lature that the entire law be rescinded
Chairman Mcleod read into the
record the report of the District Com
missioners that there seemed TO pe
no good reason for the consideration
Of this legislation.
Petitions Pro and Con.
Representative Houston OF Delaware
inserted into the record number OF
petitions in opposition to the Dill ano
MIR. Langford inserted petitions III
favor Of the measure.
Mr.. Columbus said that the leg
islation was serious ana shouia pe
carefully considered. The District OF
L
much as is necessary and consistent
with public welfare, he declared
When he announced in reply to a
oouestion-''We are opposed to 1t al
the present time'-there was ap'
plause. He said that nothing OF such
moment should be put into law With
out the support of the people to make
it effective.
B. r. Wilkinson of the Washing
ton Missionary College made strong
argument against the bill as unnec'
essary, essentially religious. unconstl'
tutional, a departure from the Constl'
tuition, which for the first time IN
centuries abolished the union OF
church and state, as creating olgotry'
and making probable religious des'
potlsm. He declared that this Nation
by passing such a law would reverse
the achievements of 125 years.
T. The president of the Washington
Real Estate Board was recorded as op
posing the bill.
Opposed by Hammer.
!. +. Banks, q patent attorney,
made a strong argument against the
measure insisting that throughout
Maryland as a whole, the SUNDAY
laws are not enforced and he cited
several communities III WHitH Wv
ernment workers from Washington
had built up the community almost
exclusively by Sunday labor. He
asked some of the church people
favoring the bill If they do not go
auto riding on Sunday and for that
reason exempted gasoline stations.
Thomas w. Brown, who for the
last two years has made q canvas
of the religious feeling Of people ol
all denominations, appeared against
the measure.
Rev. Ellis C. Primm, pastor of the
Second Baptist Church. said he had
congregation of 400 to 500 and ht
knew about so of his parishioners be
| long to organize labor and favor
some sort of Sunday observance meas
| ure.
Representative William c. Hammer
Democrat. of North Carolina. de
clared, II am not for the bill as 1t is
DR.. H. L.. Bobby, general secretary
of the Lords Day Alliance of the
| United States, closed the argument
for the proponents Of the bill. He de
scribed how we'll the Sunday law hat
| worked in improving conditions IL
| Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1926-03-07

the recorder of deeds, which are
passed on by the Treasury, and a
measure empowering the Commits
sioners to seek land by condemnation
for the enlargement Of the garbage
disposal plant in Virginia.
The bill which would take $600,O0
from the surplus fund of the District
to complete the connecting link be-
tween Rock Creek and Potomac Parks
passed the House and had likewise
been acted on by the Senate. Senator
Phipps, however, had the Senate re-
consider it's vote and refer the bill
back to the committee to enable him
to present his amendment to require
the Federal Government to pay a share
of the cost. Senator Phipps, support
ing the views of the people of Wash
ington, contends the linking of these
two parks is more a Federal than a
Iocal project and should be paid for
partly by the United States.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Violin STRINGS for Cure.

From the Pittsburgh 5uiS
For more than = century the story
has been revived at times in England
that the ailment of lumbago would flee
from the human body If the individual
would wind a violin string loosely
about the body and wear 1t for a few
months.
The d. A and E strings are favored
as having that curative power, ana re-
Gently when O. few cases of lumbago
developed among members of the Lon
don Stock Exchange there was very
real run on the music stores, the de-
mand for these violin strings taking
nearly all the strings on hand:
Fancy prices were demanded and re-
ceived for pure Italian gut strings,
particularly the L string. that was
said to have a very marked power
over human suffering.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
CATHOLICS TO HOLD
PROTEST MEETING
Several Thousand Expected
to Object to Mexican Treat
ment of Priests.

Several Thousand Catholics of Wash
ington, Baltimore and the vicinity are
expected to attend the mass meeting
at Polls Theater this afternoon at
2:30 o'clock to protest the treatment
of Catholics and the Catholic Church
in Mexico.
Three fact finding committees have
been investigating the Mexican situa
ton, as they were instructed follow
ing the resolution of the Knights OF
Columbus at their annual banquet
two weeks ago to hold protest meet
ing. All local Catholic organizations
Will be represented at the meeting
Notices to attend have been sent out
by the knights of Columbus. the
Catholic Daughters of America, the
Sodality Union of Washington and
other local organizations. At every
mass tomorrow morning in all Cath
olic Churches in Washington the
notice of the meeting will be an.
nounced.
A resolution dealing with the sub
ject has been prepared by a special
committee of lawyers employed by the
Knights of Columbus. Following its
adoption a copy will he sent to Sec
retarN or state Kellogg, senator BO-
rah of the Senate committee on for
eign relations and Representative
Stephan Porter. chairman of the
House committee on foreign affairs.
1t is expected the resolution will be
quite drastic and based chiefly on a
study Of the provisions of the present
Mexican constitution and the present
situation there.
The resolution will also be sent to
every Catholic organization through
out the country, with a request for
action.
The speakers who will address the
gathering are DR.. Abram Simon.
rabbi Of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation. and Representative
John l.. Boylan of New York.
Doors Of the theater will be opened
at 1870 pm. and the meeting will
begin promptly. with James A. Sulli-
van. state deputy of the local Knights
of Columbus, in the chair.
Following the addresses of the two
principal speakers, who will deal with
the situation in Mexico. the resolution
will be presented for adoption. En-
tertainment will be provided by John
Shannahan, Bernard Fitzgerald and
Arthur McCreight.
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Continued from First Pagel
would confer with the different groups
Of insurance men in an effort to ad-
lust their differences. When the COM
mittee met yesterday Mr.. Baldwin re-
ported the conference had beeD held,
but that they were wider apart than
ever over certain provisions.
f.. S. Brashears of the Insurance
Club took issue with Mr.. Baldwin,
saving his understanding was that all
those attending the conference mad
tacitly agreed to ask the Senate com
mittee to wait another week to permit
the groups to agree.
Chairman Capper asked Mr.. Baldwin
what he thought the committee should
do, and the superintendent promptly
replied the committee should approve
the bill and "let them fight it out on
the floor of the Senate" He said the
inference had reached him that the
bill would be killed If reported out by
the committee.
Senator Capper pointed out to Mr..
Baldwin that it was the duty OF the
committee to adjust differences. II
possible. rather than require the Sen
ate to do so on the floor.
Mr.. Brashears said the suggestion
had been made Friday that the con-
troversial features be taken out of the
code and put in separate bill. The
controversy has developed over the
sections which give the superintend-
ent supervision over rate-making for
fire insurance and stricter supervision
In the licensing Of agents.
Rate Section Essential.
Senator Sackett of Kentucky de-
clared the code won't amount to a
hill Of beans If you take out the
rating section
William Montgomery. representing
a life insurance company. pleaded
with the committee to enact some
sort of standard insurance code for
the District, declaring that local COM
panies are suffering greatly from the
lack of proper laws.
After the committee had been in
executive session the announcement
was made that it would wait another
week. after which Chairman Capper
and the subcommittee on insurance is
empowered to take action II the in
surance groups have not agreed.
The committee ordered favorable re-
ports to the Senate on three minor
bills, one authorizing temporary clerk
hire in the District Supreme Court
another relieving the judges of that
court from auditing the records of
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Marine Wins Plea
To Have a Part i'm
Pole RediscOvery
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
If anybody is going to rediscover
the North Pole, the Marines pro-
pose to have a hand in it.
Corpl. Charles l.. Kressler,
u. s. NJ. c., on headquarters duty
at the Navy Department. obtained
a three-month leave yesterday to
go as volunteer coal passer aboard
Comdr. Richard z. Byrd's steamer
Chantier, to Kings Bay where the
hop.off by the plane to the pole
will start.
1t took personal pleading with the
commander and Maj. Gen. Lejeune
to fix it up, but Kessler. who Is a
Washington boy with three years
service to his credit, succeeded and
will do a little intensive coal pass
ing at the Navy Yard in prepare
ton for his new job.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Wine Goes Begging
In German Markets
At Is Cents a Quart
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 6.-Thousands
of gallons of two and three year
old wine are going begging at Is
cents u quart in the wine-growing
valleys of the Moselle, Saar and
Ruhr, where the growers are des-
perately in need of money and are
willing to convert their stocks into
cash at almost any figure Even
at Is cents a quart, which is eXclu-
sive of the federal tax of 20 per
cent, there are few buyers.
One buyer is described as for
eign syndicate. which is said to be
willing to make the attempt to
smuGgle the wine into the United
States in spite of it's bulk.
Conditions in the vineyard country
on both sides of the Rhine are such
that plantations having as high as
40.000 vines are being leased for
song. The growers are asking for
at least years suspension of the
vineyard tax.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Johns Turn at the Wheel.
from the Mobile Register

From the Mobile Register.
Motoring with ones wife should be
the most enjoyable recreation there is.
However-with blame placed upon
neither husband nor wife-it is not al
ways considered an event in which
one might delight.
OGrouch and Mrs. OGrouch We're
taking their customary Sunday trip
to the country, and on this particular
Sabbath day things had not been GO
ing as smoothly as 1t was. possible for
them to go.
THE car is behaving very well to-
day, Jane" said O'Grouch, who was
trying to win his way to peace and
quiet for at least q few miles.
II know" flashed back the better
half. Now it's up to you, John"
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Bull Run Park Proposed.

Senator Swanson, Democrat. Eir
ginia, introduced a bill proposing to
create a commission 10 survey the Bull
Run Civil War battlefield with a
view to determining the feasibility of
it's acquisition as a national military
park.
The commission would consist of
an officer of the Army Engineer Corps
and veteran each of the Union and
Confederate Armies.
The land to be surveyed is that
from and including Centreville to and
including Thoroughfare and Warren.
on Va
Evening star., 1926-03-07
SUSPENDED 80 DAYS.
Jardine Disciplines Chicago Live
Stock Cooperative.

By the Associated Press.
The Chicago Producers Commission
Association, one of the largest CO.
operative live stock market concerns
in the country, was suspended for 80
days as market agency by Secretary
Jardine of the Department of Agri-
culture yesterday.
The action was taken under the
packers and stockyards act, after an
investigation begun in December by
the Secretary into whether there had
been collusion in pricing live stock for
sale, rebating and other unjust price
determinations.
BY another order the Secretary
suspended as registrants under the
packers and stockyards act for five
years Rankin Shelter, Thomas p.
Evans, s. E. Williamson and j. p.
Reilly, all dealers, who were named as
respondents in the inquiry.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
BOARD QUITS TASK
IN MEXICAN CLAIMS
Unable to Agree on Terms of
Reparation for Staying
of IS Americans.

MEXICO CITY, March 6.-The spe-
cial claims commission, which has
failed to come to an agreement as 10
reparation for the staying of IS Amer
lean mining engineers in Chihuahua
in 1916, has disbanded.
The American delegate. Judge Err
nest d. Perry, departed today for his
home in Lincoln, Nebr.; the neutral
judge, DR.. Rodrigo Octavio of Brazil.
left for Havana. Fernandez Gonzales
Roa, who has represented Mexico, is
confined to his bed by illness.
Before his departure Judge Perry
declined to comment on the situation,
merely repeating his previous state
ment that the claims apparently de-
pended on future diplomatic eX-
changes between Washington and
Mexico City.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
For Riceless Days.

From the Progressive Grocer Magazine.
The Chinese are now conducting d
campaign that is very much different
than anything we have ever seen In
this country. We are used to all sorts
of campaigns to promote the eating OF
certain foods, but in China they are
now conducting a campaign to get
people not to eat rice. This is neces-
sary because the heavy rice consump-
tion usually leads to famine at the end
of the year.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
English as Spoken.

From the Bowen Arrow.
English teacher--Michael. when
have finished you may repeat what ]
have said In your own words:
See the COW. Isn't she pretty2 Can
the COW run? Yes. the COW can run.
Can she run as fast as a horse? No,
she cannot run as fast as the horse. y
Michael-Lamp de. COW. Amt she a
beaut? Kin the COW hustle in wild the
horse? Nav. de COW amt in 1t wild
de horse
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Just Needed Repressing.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Il thought you said you never would
marry again. remarked n friend to a
former WidoWer.
Well" replied the former widower,
Il didn't intend to. but | found WAS
getting to think too much of myself. =
Evening star., 1926-03-07
One idea of Dreams.
From the Los Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
The company making the serial,
"Swiss Family Robinson" were out on
location, and during lunch hour some
one brought up the subject of dreams.
Joe Bonomo and Margaret Quimby
each told one and then little Francis
Irwin, four years old. piped up with
his.
Hold on there" interposed Director
Ford, "you don't even know what a
dream isl -
"Oh, yes, I does insisted little
Francis. Its moving pictures in
your Sleep
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Costly Prescription.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Tenant-And how is your husband
this morning?
Mrs. Holmes-Oh. very poorly. He's
got such an expensive disease. The
doctor said he must he kept in good
spirits.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
In Error.

From the Detroit News.
Harold--At last I've found the per.
son / love best in all the world Tall
and slender, big brown eyes, wonder
full smile, beautiful hair and dimples
Horace-Nonsense. old chap. You
haven't dimples,
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Quail Prefers the House.

Frank Motycka, farmer. living east
of Defiance, Ohio, has a pet quail
which his children rescued from
freezing and brought to the house.
says the Toledo Blade. The quail was
freed several times, but flies back into
the hOISe
Evening star., 1926-03-07
The Real Facts.

From the Louisville Courrr-Journal
You say Mr.. Tenspot is out?
YES"
Don't | hear him playing poker?
You may. And he is out $50 right
pDWs"
Evening star., 1926-03-07
Must Have the Wheat.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Even If chemists should perfect syn
thetic food, 1t would be necessary to
raise enough wheat to gamble with.
Evening star., 1926-03-07
BLUE LAWS SCORED
BY MERCHANTS AS
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