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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
FEW SIGNS MARK
WAR ANNIVERSARY
No Flags Raised to Celebrate
u. S. DeCIaration-RiteS
at Peace Monument.

Ten years after the day President
| Wilson signed the declaration Of war
with Germany, Washington is COM
memoratlng the occasion with a few
meetings. a few speeches, but no flags
nor general celebration. Not a flag
was raised downtown to mark the
event, but throughout the city patrl-
otto organizations are remembering
what happened April 6. 1917.
At s o'clock this morning members
Of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Posts met at the Peace Monument,
where simple but impressive exer-
cises were held. The exercises lasted
only a few minutes and consisted Of
a prayer for those who fell in the war
and reading OF President Wilson's
war proclamation by Charles II. Riley.
department commander.
Group Visits President.
Headed by Gen. John L. Glenn, Dis
trict commander Of the @. A. r., q
delegation called on President Cool
idge at the White House at noon with
an invitation for the President to
make the Memorial day address at
Arlington, May 80. Comdr. Riley
represented the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Capt. George L. Unmacht, the
American Legion; Col. John McElroy,
G. A. R, and E. J. Nolan, Spanish
American War Veterans.
The President accepted the invita-
ton.
Henry c. Spengler Post, American
Legion Auxiliary, is giving a tea at
the Thomas Circle Club this after
noon at o'clock. Col. Hanford Mac
Nider, past national commander of
the Legion, and John G.. Sims, ma
tional vice commander, will deliver
addresses appropriate to the occasion.
Their wives will be guests of the post.
George Washington University OBJ
served the anniversary of America s
entrance into the war at chapel exer-
cises in Corcoran Hall this morning.
DIR. William Mather Lewis, president
Of the university, spoke, and official
Army films Of the war were shown.
Meeting Planned Tonight.
Tonight, at o'clock, Sergt. Jasper
Post and Belleau Wood Post, Ameri-
can Legion, will hold joint meeting
at the Thomas Circle Club. The
meeting will be in the nature Of a
memorial for those who were killed in
the war.
At the same time Kenneth II. Nash
Post, No. s, viii meet at the Gavel
Club, 719 Thirteenth street This will
be the monthly meeting of the post,
but it is expected that there win be
exercises in commemoration of the
beginning of the war. New members
will be initiated and plans for mem
bership drive outlined. Refreshments
will be served by the ladies auxiliary.
Comdr. Elliott G. Hunt will preside.
Equality Walter Reed Post, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, will hold it's
memorial exercises tomorrow night at
Pythian Temple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
GAS CUT | CENT HERE.
straight Fuel Now Selling FOL
10 and 20 Cents Gallon.

4 reduction of I cent a gallon in
>the wholesale price OF gasoline in
Washington ard surrounding terri
tory was announced today by the
Standard Oil Co. Other refiuers met
the price reduction.
The new price delivered from tank
wagons TO filing stations is 10 cents
a gallon. To this is added the z-cenr
tax in the District of Cpiunb.a, q tax
Of cents in Maryland ANA a tax OF
Az cents in Virginia. The usual
dealer margin OF from l cent 10 =
cents is added TO the wholesale price
plus the tax. bringing the average
price Of straight" gasoline in Wash
ington to 10 or 20 cents.
The reduction in South Carolina 10y
the Standard company amounted to
2 cents. There was no change IN the
price Of kerosene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06

Mrs. Jennie KaflEa. former owner
Of Kafka's, at Tenth and f streets,
who died recently, left an estate
valued in excess Of 800 900, according
to the petition of her son, Maurice
Kaflla, and Attorney Alexander Wolf,
who are named as executors of her
estate. Her personal property, in
Guiding the business, is placed at $780,
600, while her home, at 1886 Hunting
ton street. is assessed at $12,S93. At
torney Simon Freshman appears for
the executors, who ask for the probate
of her will.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06

Children Get No Pay for Appearing
in Stage Production.

Participation of children in 1.-THE
Awakening" presented in washington
recently under the auspices of the Ku
Klux Khan, did not constitute viola
ton OF, the child-labor law, Corpora
ton Counsel Francis II. Stephens
ruled today in an opinion submitted
to the District Commissioners.
The question was raised by Miss
Fay l.. Bentley, director of school at
tendance and work permits of the
public schools. Mr. Stephens said
that the whole purport of the child
labor act is to forbid child-labor for
compensation, and that the children
who appeared iIr THE Awakening"
We're not compensated as the show
was given for charitable purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
Aviators Take Ship Home.

RIO DE JANEIRO. April 6 Gq).-
Maj. Tadeo Larreborges, Uruguayan
aviator, and his companions, whose
attempt to fly from Italy to Monte.
video was halted when their plane was
forced to descend of the coast Of
Africa last month. arrived yesterday
on the steamship Reina Victoria.
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Continued from First Page
TO stand up. Look at those clothes,
the same clothes he is supposed TO
have worn at the Ridgeway home,
he said. DO you see any blood on
them?"
BOersig Smokes and Chats.
The defense lawyer also dwelt on
the fact that after Boersig was sup
posed to have perpetrated the crime
he went to his home and went to bed.
He asked the jury If man with a
guilty conscience would have walked
home after such an irrational act and
gone to bed.
During the first recess due to the
illness of Mr.. Plaskett, Boersig
smoked q cigarette and chatted with
his attorney,
Representative r. Walton Moore of
Virginia was an interested spectator
at the trial this morning, and he in
formed newspaper men he probably
would have q statement regarding the
Boersig case before the trial is con-
Guided.
Boersig's wife presented a pitiable
figure when she took the stand at 8
o'clock last night. Choked with emo
ton, she said she still had confidence
in her husband, and that while he had
mistreated her while he was drinking
he always made up for it when he
was sober. Mrs. Boersig's four chill
dren also were in the courtroom.
Tells straightforward Story.
Boersig told a straightforward story
when he was on the witness stand,
and all attempts by Commonwealth
Attorney Farr to shake him failed.
Boersig neither denied nor admitted
the Ridgeway crime, but declared his
mind was q blank after his visit at the
home. and that he was certain it
would not have been possible for him
to perpetrate such a crime.
The crowd outside Of the courthouse
today was somewhat diminished. but
those packed into the courtroom itself
were in greater numbers than yester-
day.
Mrs. Ridgeway, one of a score Of
witnesses heard yesterday, directly ac
cused Boersig of the attack on herself
and the two children. Boersig is being
tried for the murder Of Loretta.
Mother Accuses BOersig.
Attired in black and wearing lace
cap to cover bandages on wounds gus-
tanned when she and her two daugh
ters We're left unconscious in the din
ing room of their home, Mrs. Ridge
way was very calm on the witness
stand and gave no evidence of emotion.
She said Boersig knocked at the door
shortly before noon and stayed on the
preteXt that he had arranged to meet
her husband there.
She said that after he had been
there about half an hour he asked for
Il drink of water, which she got him.
After this she bent over to put wood
on the fire, she said. She then told
the jury she remembers nothing be-
yond this point. After being taken
over by the defense counsel she was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
WILL FOR PEACE
URGED BY BRAND
Message to America Holds
Cultivation of Amity Is
Best Cure for War.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April G.-AIore important
than technical disarmament is the
viii for peace, declared Aristide
BRAND. foreign minister. in a message
sent 10 the American people through
the Associated Press on the occasion
u the tenth anniversary Of the entry
II the United States into the World
War.
81 Brands message. sent on the
heels Of France : refusal to participate
Ia the three-pOwer naval disarmament
conference at Geneva. insisted that
The paramount necessity I'm preventing
war is the cultivation in the civilized
world Ut spirit Of peace.
Defense Is Only Idea.
France, added the foreign minister.
has rebuilt her ornaments with one
dea-defense--aud in her new uni
yersal service law ''she tends for the
first time 10 suppress the very idea
Of war being profitable. and places its
abominable burdens upon every one,
men and women.
Il have not forgotten" recalled the
foreign minister. that it was reserved
TO me first 10 learn by an official com
munication from Mr.. Sharp, then
American Ambassador, that the
Federal Government had taken me
decision. which was To exercise 50 con-
siderable an influence in the history
Of the World War.
"The Remuneration Of war as an In
strument 0f national policy is u con-
ception already familiar 70 the sigma
tories Of the League covenant and
the Locaruo treaties. Amy engage
rueut Subscribed 10 in the same spin
by the United States toward another
nation, such as France. should greatly
contribute, i'm the eyes Of the world, 10
enlarge and fortify the foundation OF
which the international policy OF peace
is being erected"
Sends Welcome to Legion.
In conclusion. NJ. BRAND sent a mes
sage OF welcome to the American
Legionnaires who viii return To
France for their annual convention i'm
Paris next September.
Paul Painleve is wal minister today
just as he was 10 years ago. lie Re
marked today that he was sitting II
the same office and az the same desk
as when the news reached him in 1917
that the United States had entered the
great conflict.
There are in America and else
where" he said. "soured souls who
regret that the United states aban-
doned it's isolation to mix la the guar
rels of the old world. Coming genera
tons, on the contrary, viii admire the
heroism with which a great people
deliberately engaged in war whose
horrors they know, TO defend an ideal
OF humanity"
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$4,000 i'll Hospitals.

During the decade the great Army
has been reabsorbed into the peaceful
business of the country, but OF its
1913, 900 wounded who came back, a
force comparable to the small peace
time Army at home, still is under
treatment at the hospitals of the Vet
Grams Bureau.
OF the wartime battle fleet Of the
Navy II capital ships have gone TO
the scrap heap. in the decade Just
ended. All of the destroyers, includ-
ing five completed in 1917, are gone,
scrapped or transferred TO the Coast
Guard to chase rum-runners. In their
place is the huge, war-built destroyer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
Foch and Hindenburg Left.

Name by name, the years have
taken toll Of them only those Two
master soldiers, Hindenburg and Foch,
go on in the heat of great postwar
problems, Hindenburg as President OF
the war-born German republic; toch
still Frances most trusted son III the
hour of battle peril.
Thes10 years have seen vast changes
in the men and the material with
which the great war was fought.
There remain unknown in the graves
of France more than 500 Americans
killed in battle, while another 1,lOo
are still unaccounted for; surplus war
supplies aggregating an original cost
Of more than $4,000 900, 600 have been
sold or transferred with a return TO
fhe Government Of around 800, 100000,
and the wastage by death among the
5 600, 900 men discharged from the
Army in 1919 as physically ut 10 serve
again, has made heavy inroads on the
trained veterans on whom the country
can rely.
BY 1926 the total Of these veterans
between the ages Of is and ~ had
dropped TO 1850, 900, and Of those a
steadily increasing number We're I'M
available for front-line duty by reason
Of dependence, occupation IN essential
war industries or for other causes.
The tables show that, on the normal
rate Of physical disabilities alone, by
1916 there would be less than 4,oO0
Of the youngsters of IS who got into
the war who would still be effective
for military duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
Contestants for Tonight.

The contestants in tonight's group
meeting at Marlboro will be Lansdale
Van Clagett, jr.. of the Marlboro High
School, whose subject will be Frank
Inns Contribution to the Constitution"
Eleanor Hartnell of the Brandywine
High school, who will talk on Lin.
coins Contribution to the Constitu-
ton" and James II. Shreve, jr., Of the
S1rratsyil1e High School, who will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
Most Leaders Retired.

Soldierly Pershing, his years Of ac-
tive service ended, presides now over
the commission on American graves
in France, busying himself with af-
fairs of that legion Of the Army-that-
was, who will never be mustered out
or come home.
Clemenceau, the Tiger of France,
heavy with years, dreams away the
days in peace, remote from public af-
fairs; Papa" Joffre, the rock of stur-
dy courage on whom France rallied in
the bitter first days of battle, pipe in
mouth, takes his ease, careless of his
great honors in the placid content
ment Of his home.
Haig. England's dashing cavalry
man, who saw it through from Mons
to the Marine and back again to Mons
and victory, is now country gentle.
man. Lloyd George, the little Welsh
man, England's war premier, stirs
with politics at home that are small
beside the great stakes he played for
in the war with all the might Of Eng
land at his command.
Not far away as the crow flies, VIII
liam Of Germany lives his latter days
in exile and Seclusion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
FEE SYSTEM CURE
MOVE UNDER WAY
AT VIRGINIA CAPITAL

Continued from First Pasel
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President Signed at Ill.

IreSiUent clSneu at All.
The scene shifted to the White
House.
THE war resolution was signed by
the President at i'll O'clock said
another message sent humming over
the wires.
THE President signed with pen
handed him by Mrs. Wilson, and
which he will preserve.
The President also signed a procla-
nation formally declaring a state of
war between the United States and
Germany"
That let loose the mobilization orders
for the Army, Navy. Marine Corps,
Coast Guard, National Guard and all
reserves. Already recruiting offices
We're swarming with eager volunteers.
The 10 years since that day-years
of battle. of victory, Of restless and
fermenting postwar differences
have brought to the grave all three
of the men whose names are written
on the war resolution, Wilson. Mar
shall and Clark. Only a bare handful
remain to struggle with the fretful
aftermath Of war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
ILL JUROR HALTS
TRIAL OF B0ERSIG

Continued from First Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-06
BY kIRkE l.. SIMPSON.


The decade that for Americans en-
| folds the Great War has gone troop
ing down the corridor OF time.
Ten years ago today the call tc
arms was shrilling in every town and
hamlet under the Stars and Stripes.
The war resolution passed tho
House at o'clock this morning" say
the yellowing records. Already il had
cleared the Senate, and the House roll
call in the early hours Of the new
day showed 373 to so for the war
declaration, with every amendment to
limit the powers Of the President in
the fight or to withhold American
troops from the battleflelds of France
sent down in Overwhelming defeat.
Already, too, the Presidents call for
the first $4,000 600 for the war chest
Law on the desks In Congress and
Army and Navy orders for mobiliZa-
ton of the first 10000 young Amer
leans for the struggle waited only the
Presidents command.
Refuses to Vote for War.
In the House, as the call of the
roll proceeded, Jeanette Rankin of
Montana. the only woman member.
sat with bowed head. unanswering as
her name was twice called.
Vote, vote" came cries frc:n the
floor around her.
II want to stand by my country,
but I cannot vote for war she sobbed
back as she stood to reply, grasping
at her desk for support.
There was cheering a little later
when the totals were announced and
Speaker Champ Clark affixed his
name to the resolution. BY $3.50 am,
the House had adjourned.
Just after noon Vice President Mar
shall added his signature and the reso-
luton was on its way to President
Wilson. Already the wires had carried
orders to seize the German shipping
in American harbors, including the
Vaterland, the mighty transport that
was to bear thousands and thousands
TO France under her new name, the
I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-17

green walls by a simple border of
gray and black.
| The alcove, jutting off from the
| room Just opposite the dormer WIN
| dow. was made distinctive again b. a
wall covered in this same black and
orange marbleiZed paper. Here an
| Empire bed, classically simple with
| it's simple bronze motifs, exactly flttet
| in. With it's plain bed cover of sort
| green velvet and tailored pillows OF
| satin in orange and green. it lost all
| identity as bed and became day
bed. where one could spend many de-
lightfullv lazy hours reading from the
light of the bronze Empire lamp that
stood on the tiny oak table at one end
Bookcase Adds Beauty.
An old portrait rich II color, and
framed in a simple Old gold frame.
hung in the center of the black panel
behind the day bed. The papcr served
to set it off to its very best adNan'
tace and brought out all the lovely
reds and blues and flesh coos of the
old painting.
At one end OF the black lanel be-
hind the fireplace. she had built in n
little bookcase, just deep enough to
hold her books. 1t ended in Il grace
| full arch which gave a feeiirC OF in
creased height to the wall, in itself
none TOO high. With its WooGWorK
of soft apricot it would have been in
| itself q charming decorative bit. But
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filed with books bound after the
chosen designs and colors OF the own
err it became one of the glowingiy
beautiful things in the room. a worthy
rival OF the portrait in the alcove, ana
the brocade hanging in rich beauty
behind the old commode on the OPP
posite wall.
BoOl1bindcr Objects.
The owner. herself an artist. has
had a fancy for long time that there
was no reason why books mus. al
ways be bound in dull brown feathers,
as most French books nave been
bound since time immemorial. She de-
cided to have her little library bound
after her own fancy and so one day
drove to her bookbinders with her
store. When she told him that she
wanted these certain ones bound in
the most vivid of green leather with
small designs in gold, and those
others in orange with silver letter
ings, and still others in puppies. deep
and rich with gold. he thought her
quite mad But he did not openly
resist until she ordered the Life of
Napoleon" bound in rose and black
and gold. Only her conviction won
the day. and now Napoleon's life in
book form stands out quite as dis.
tinctlvely az the Corsicans actual life
did from the fellows about it.
An old oak chest, simple and lovely
in it's Curving beauty, stands in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-17
BY GENEVIEyE HENDRICKS.

That a small apartment may have
all the charm and interest Of grand
salon has never been more delight
fully proven TO me than when | Wis
tied a friend in Paris this Summer.
She has a tiny attic apartment, high
up in an ancient building on the left
bank. II one has doubts as TO the
value of tea when offered five flights
up, they vanish Immediately when
the door is opened and charming
hostess admits YOU to her home.
SO many We're the lovely things she
had. and so we'll placed We're they
against the delightful backgrounds. =,
was difficult to realize then as now
that her apartment consisted OF but
one room with an alcove. a micro
scopic hall and an even timer kitchen
On the walls of the hall she had
bravely placed a red paper with tiny
gold stars dotted all over it, A lovely
red. quite as warm and inviting as
any color could be. Quaint old prints,
most of them in black on white, in
their original ebony frames. were
hung with the greatest care against
this paper, one above the other. At
the end opposite the entrance a mir
ror in its original old gold frame
made the tiny hall seem Just so much
deeper and caught all the light that
came from the single dormer window
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-17

and invited one to sit down to 1t to
write More old books here and two
tiny pewter oil lamps would lure one
here to read. When my hostess was
alone. this tiny poudreuse must have
served quite as we'll it's other duty of
dressing table.
For chairs my hostess had four
lovely old oak side chairs-she had
found them in a tiny inn near Tours
perfect in their proportions ana re-
served in the beauty of their lines
On them my hostess had placed plain
tailored pads covered in neutral vel
vet. knowing full we'll that Eer room
needed no more color. and her chairs
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had beauty enough in themselves not
to need design or color.
Two small armchairs. in the grace
full curving design of the Louis XIV
period. stood at either side of the fire.
place. In one of them my hostess
soon sat herself and. pouring tea from
the china on n tiny low table beside
her, bade me sit opposite on the other
little armchair. so inviting in its rich
color of soft orange rose velvet. Now
YOU must stop looking at my tiny
room and tell me how they decorate
their houses in your great country"
she said
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space and at the same time carry the
eye. upward for greater sense of
height.
In the tiny alcove where the dormer
window jutted out slightly from the
room tiny empire table with deep
green marble top held tiny potted
crystal plant. which threw off in iri-
descent colors the last rays of the
setting sun that made such point of
coming through the waverng old
green and mauve panels of the win
dow glass.
y lovely old poudreuse. graceful and
soft in it's old patina of WaXed brown,
stood at right angles to the window
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-17

center of the wall opposite the tiny
hearth. On it some lovely old bronZes
and above it a mirror catch the light
from the solitary window and throw
1t across the room to light up the
ala baster bust that sta nds on the man.
tlepiece so waXen against the black
wall paper panel
On the chest lovely old pieces of
china. an old glass flip glass in deep
Bohemian blue. more old books and a
lamp painted dull old red with gold
designs OF laurel wreaths and stars
add interest. On either side of the
commode prints. framed in old gold
frames. hung one over the other. save
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Walls Painted i'm Green.

The living room. dining room, bed
room, all in one tiny room beyond.
was delight 10 look upon. To make
the most of the light from her one
window she had had the walls painted
soft antique green and the wood
work a medium apricot tone. This
color scheme. in itself quite lovely,
yet would have lacked point with her
delicate furniture had she not dared
again. On either side of the tiny
hearth and extending above it to the
ceiling was panel of black marble
lied paper with cracks in melon color.
This panel was marked off from the
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al SNAIL APARTMENT rs PARIS

Note-NjSs Hcpdrichs has jnSt re-
turned from tpro and h9lf months ~
Europe >ererGi articles otoHf houses
7rhich INTERESTED her e>periGhp ~
Europe riN appear in fbiS ami !or.is-
coming issues Of The star.