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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-06

A Notions Sale to which you look forward to e
This months sale is even more important, even m
YOU come down tomorrow morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-06

up needs because know that will
than usual We list
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

begin at 1880 o'clock and Mrs.
Arthur J. Seaton is chairman of the
music department.
Mrs. L. d. Whitaker, Mrs. Archie
Straub, Mrs. Hiding Bell, Miss
Annabelle Matthews, Miss Elizabeth
Boyd, Miss Lucy Burlingame, Miss
Evelyn Jones. Miss Frances Wolff,
Miss Kathleen Evans, Mrs. +. j.
Eichenlaub, Miss Mary Frances
Ward and Mrs. Benjamin Sullivan
are among those who have taken
tables for the Phi Mu bridge party
given at the clubhouse of the Ameri :
can Association of University Women
tonight for the benefit of their health
work among the children in the
Georgia mountains.
Among the guests who will attend
the annual banquet of the North
Dakota State Society at the Burling
ton Hotel Monday evening are Sena-
tor Lynn j. Frazier and Mrs. Frazier,
Senator and Mrs. Gerald P. Nye,
Representative and Mrs. O. B. Burt
ness and Mrs. Burtness, Representa-
tive Thomas Hall and his daughters
Representative James Sinclair, Mr..
Charles p. Hamel, president of the
society, and Mrs. Hamel, former
Judge r. P. Burke and Mrs. Burke
and Commissioner and Mrs. Fred
Dennis. More than 80 reservations
have already been made and large
attendance is expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
9th CONGRESS MAY SET MARK
FOR NUMBER OF BILLS ENACTED
Roosevelt Administration Sessions Hold
Record, with us Measures-Only
Public Acts Are Counted.

this list. The great bulk of private
acts are not noted
Approximately $4,000 bills and joint
resolutions have been passed by all
Congresses since 1889. Mr.. McClenon
explained, but the public is likely TO
get a wrong impression from this
figure of the number of laws under
which American people live.
Most Are Private Acts.
At least two-thirds of them. he ex-
plains, have been private acts such
as individual pension bills or measures
for the recompense of individuals for
damages. These now are mostly in
cluded in omnibus bills but once
bulked very large in the total of legis-
lation.
OF the 10000 laws remaining a con-
siderable number are purely local
measures, such as bridge and public
building bills. Many of the remainder
have been superseded or duplicated.
On the whole, Mr.. McClenon believes.
there are only about 5000 Federal
laws which at all affect the general
public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
PUTS SUBWAY PROBLEM
SQUARELY UP TO VOTERS
Chicago Mayor to Submit Issue to
People at Coming June
Election.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 19.-Chicago
is one of the few great cities Of the
world without a subway, but it seemed
little closer today to realizing the
dream of underground transportation
it has harbored for many years.
1.-The subway problem has been
played with long enough. l propose
to put it squarely up to the people
at the June election, and If they say
the word We'll start digging" said
Mayor Dever, who is a candidate for
reelection.
The mayor said a subway ordinance
would be reported to the transporta
ton committee of the city council
within a few days.
THE next step will be to put II
on the ballot and let the people them
selves make the decision. If the ref
erendum carries we will go ahead i'm.
mediately."
The city has a subway fund OF
nearly 100000 available to start the
tunnels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
.S|MMS- STODDARD
WEDDING REPORTED
Couple, Who Postponed Cere-
mony Suddenly, Declared
United Several Months Ago.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, February ia new
angle to the sudden postponement
Of the marriage of Miss Charlotte
Simms. Dayton society girl, to Ken
yon Anthony Stoddard, set for today.
has come to light with the informa-
ton that a marriage license was
issued to the two at Newport. KY.
last October "a.
The Herald and Examiner. quoting
dispatches from Cincinnati, which Is
across the river from Newport, said
they were married in the Kentucky
town the same day by Magistrate
Thomas Hanly.
This report of secret marriage Is
certainly startling" said Ferdinand
w. Peck, jr., uncle of Miss Simms.
knowing Charlotte as l do, it seems
incredible to me that she would go
through such a ceremony without
consulting or confiding in her mother"
En- Route to Florida.
Miss Simms and her mother are en-
route to Florida. while Stoddard, who
was served earlier in the week with
a divorce action summons in the pres
parted from Dayton for Philadelphia,
with the announced intention of spfk-
ing reports of his marriage to another
bride there in 1922.
The divorce suit was brought by
Edith Widing of Portland, Me-, who,
according to the service papers. stated
she married him in April, 1922, when
he used the name of Herman AL
brecht Yaffee. Dispatches from Port
land said no such divorce action was
on record there.
Mr.. Peck said he knew Stoddard had
at one time used an assumed name.
Told Of Past.
"He told my niece all about this
phase Of his career before he proposed
marriage to her. He also admitted
knowing a woman by the name of
Widing 10 years ago, but he did not
say he had married her"
When announcements were printed
In Chicago newspapers recently of the
impending marriage of Stoddard and
Miss Simms, Stoddard was describe
as "the only living son of the Count
ess Alene Byron Harrington and Hunt
ley Stoddard of London"
The marriage license records at
Newport gave Stoddard's birthplace as
Knoxville, Tenn, according to the
Herald and Examiners story. He
said he was an artist, %. living at
Dayton. Miss Simms gave her birth
place as Chicago and her residence as
Dayton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
AMERICAN OPERA III
BRINGS NO PROFITS
Expensive and Unremunera-
tive, Paper Says, Discussing
"The Kings Henchman."
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, February 19---Ameri-
can opera is expensive and unremu-
nerative.
Production Of 1.-THE Kings Hench.
man." the American opera. which had
its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera
House Monday, involved an initial out
lay of $4,000 and entails n running
expense of $4,000 a performance, the
New York Times says today.
1t is predicted that If THE Kings
Henchman" is a fixture on the Metro
politan bill for at least two seasons
it's gross receipts will not greatly ex-
coed $780, 900 for 10 houses sold out.
The estimate on what the Metro'
poltan paid Deems Taylor, composer.
and Edna st. Vincent MillayN author.
is placed by the newspaper at SIS 1000.
share and share alike. One Broadway
music publisher said Taylor would
have received greater returns by sell
ing separate songs for concert.
When Charles Cadman produced
his one-act Indian opera. ''Shanewist'
he received $50 each for five perform
ances, after spending personally $500
TO come from California and stay a
Winter in New York. Horatio Parker
received $4,000 as prize award for
mona"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

The SiXty-ninth Congress is well on
the way toward breaking record 1or
the amount of legislation enacted. &C
cording to w. H. McClenon, assistant
chief of the legislative reference serV'
ice of the Library of Congress-.
Up to January 81, 636 bills and joint
resolutions had been passed. The rec
ord of those passed since that date
had not been made up. The maxi.
mum for any Congress was that or
the Fifty ninth. which sat during
part of the Roosevelt administration
and which passed IT'S measures, In
Guiding such important legislation as
the pure food and drug act and the
meat inspection act.
May See New Record.
The Sixty-seventh passed 655 public
measures, but the SiXty-ninth PROB
ably has exceeded this record already.
The present Congress Is considerably
ahead of all other competitors and has
at least a fighting chance of snatch
ing the laurels away from the Roose-
welt Congress before March ].
Only public acts are considered IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
KHAN FIGHTS CUSTER.
Files Brief in Highest Court in
Kansas Litigation.

The knights of the Ku Klux Klan
filed in the Supreme Court yesterday a
supplemental brief to be used when
it's appeal to prevent being ousted
from Kansas is reached for oral argu-
ment next week.
The Kansas courts held that the
State law required the Khan as cor
poration to obtain permission before
engaging in business in the State.
The Khan asserted that it Is not doing
business within the meaning of the
Kansas law, but that being organized
in Georgia exclusively for charitable
purposes without capital stock or prof.
it to it's members, it can carry on its
activities in Kansas without receiving
permission from the State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
HANGED FOR ASSAULT.
Man Dies on Gallows for Attacking
Woman.

MOUNDSVILLE, w. Va, February
10 R.-Pierce Jeffries, 2I-year-old
Greenbrier County negro. went to
his death on the gallows in the State
Penitentiary here last night. He was
convicted of criminal assault upon a
white woman.
Unfalteringly, Jeffries walked to the
gallOWs. The trap was sprung at 5
pm. and nine minutes later he was
pronounced dead.
I'm ready to CO." said the negro
before the death march started.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

The city of Hankow has nearly
always suffered severely at times of
internal disorders in China, owing to
Its strategical location at the juno
ton of the Han River and the
YangtZe Kiang. During the revolu-
ton of 1911 more than two -thirds of
the city was destroyed by fire, as a
result Of bombardment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
FINE FOLLOWS FLOGGING
Virginian Assessed $40 in Case AL
legged to Involve Wife.
special Dispatcb to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, February 49,
Henry Lewis was fined $40 by County
Magistrate r. S. Fits yesterday for
having whipped Charles Hylton last
Saturday night. Suspicious of atten-
ton to his wife, Lewis, lit was shown.
abducted Hylton to a lonely part of
the Mayfield road and administered a
chastisement with switches.
Hylton caused the arrest OF Lewis
and Oscar Lewis, his brother, who
drove the automobile to the point
selected for punishment. Oscar Lewis
was discharged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
GOLD STAR MOTHER DIES,
Mrs. Alice Dodd's Son Was First
American Soldier Killed.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, February 10
R).-Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd Amer
ica's first gold star mother. died at her
home here last night. Mrs. Dodd was
the mother of James Bethel Gresham,
first soldier in the American expedi.
tionary forces killed in action In the
World War
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
Virginia Delegate Runs Again

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, February 19.-
f. Thurman Boyd, member of the
House of Delegates from Lynchburg.
announced his candidacy yesterday
for reelection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

can soldiers of the World War. All
those belonging to the widow of the
artist have been offered as a gift to
the Government.
Mrs. Elliott is the daughter of Julia
Ward Howe, and is herself an author
of distinction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
SOCIETY
The First Lady of the Land Will Attend
Senatorial Wedding Tonight at
All Souls Unitarian Church.
FRS COOLIDGE will attend the
MI marriage this evening Of Miss

FRS COOLIDGE will attend the
M marriage this evening of Miss
V Rosa-Maye Kendrick, daugh-
4 i ter of Senator and Mrs. John
b. Kendrick, to Maj. Hubert
Reilly Harmon, L. S. A. The cere-
mony will be performed at s o'clock
in All Souls Unitarian Church. at
Sixteenth and Harvard streets, the
chief of chaplains, DIR. John T. Axton'
assisted by the pastor of the church,
the Rev. DIR. u. G. B. Pierce, officiat'
ing. A reception for small company
will follow at 2400 Sixteenth street,
where Senator and Mrs. kendrick
have an apartment.
The Postmaster General and Mrs.
New will be the honor guests at dinner
this evening of the Assistant Post
master General and Mrs. w. Irving
Glover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19
Delightful Party Last
Night Aids Children'S Home.

The annual Springtime ball for the
benefit of the Episcopal Home for
Children was given last evening in
the bathrooms of the Willard Hotel
and was, as usual, a delightful and
very pretty party. The large ball
room had large American flags behind
the boxes and tall palms made a
screen behind the receiving line just
inside the north door Of the ball
room. Mrs. David Meade Lea, presi-
dent Of the board Of lady managers
nf thA hauQas atQQd e. tha head ct
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Mrs. John Elliott of Newport, widow
Of the portrait painter whose pictures
will be exhibited for a period of three
weeks, beginning tomorrow, at the
United States National Museum. is
now in Washington and is staying at
the Mayf1ower.
The display includes portraits of the
original members of the Lafayette
Escadrille and representative Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank +. Nesbit will
entertain at dinner this evening at
the Chevy Chase Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Mrs. Frederick Hastings and Miss
Jane Hastings of Watsontown, Pa,
are guests of Mrs. Jacob Wagner in
her apartment in the Fairfax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Miss Jacqueline French. who came
from New York to attend the, Army
and Navy reception at the White
House, is spending the week end with
her mother, Mrs. John T. French, at
Kew Gardens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Mrs. J. j. Bew and Miss Bew
have gone to Atlantic City, where
they will remain over the week end,
returning to Washington Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

The patio of the Carlton Hotel will
furnish a delightful setting Wednes-
day morning for an hour of Musical
Miniatures" given by Nine. Marie
Won Unschuld for the department of
music of the Washington Federation
of Women's Clubs. The program will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Mrs. Harold Allen will entertain at
tea this afternoon in her home at 6l2
Nineteenth street. She will entertain
at tea again tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Senator and Mrs. Peter Goelet
Gerry have Cancelled their social en-
gagements because of the death yes
terday Of the formers father, Mr..
Elbridge Gerry. Senator and Mrs.
Gerry went to New York Thursday
because of the serious illness of the
late Mr. Gerry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

The marriage of Miss Lucy Brad.
bury Taylor, daughter Of Mrs. Boyd
Taylor, to Mr. Thorvald Frederick
Hammer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
F. Hammer Of Branford, Conn, will
take place this afternoon, at 4 o'clock,
in the Bethlehem Chapel Of the Wash
ington Cathedral, the dean Of the
cathedral, DIR. G.. G. f. Bratenahi. of
floating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

The Ambassador of Cuba and
Sonora de Ferrara will be hosts at
dinner this evening, entertaining in
honor of the Ambassador of Spain
and Sonora de Padilla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

The Ambassador Of Brazil, Senior
Gurgel do Amaral, will entertain a
company Of &c at dinner this evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19

Representative Cleveland A. Newton
of ST. Louis, who will retire from Con-
gress at the end of this session. will
be guest of honor at a dinner to be
given Tuesday night in the presi-
Dental suite at the Willard by Rep
resentative L. c. Dyer Of Missouri.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-10
Spike" BURKE
DESERTS RANKS
OF BACHELORS

Announcement of the marriage
cf Miss Pearl Cooper of this city
and Arthur p. Burke. which was
sulcmni2ed about two weeks ago. is
creating much surprise and interest
among the many friends Of the
contracting parties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burke were qnietly
married in Yuma. and were planning
to keep the fact secret until their
departure early in the summer for
q trip. However. the news got out.
and friends are busy at present
wishing them happiness.
Mrs. Burke is connected with the
Varney Company. having been in
their general office for number
of years. She now occupies the pos
ition Of secretary Of that concern.
Mr.. Burke has resided in the valley
for the past 10 years, for time be-
ing 4 rancher in the Holtville dis
triet. Later he came to this city,
purchasing an interest in the Elite
Printing Company with his brother,
Perry Burke. Later he bought the
Imperial Valley Farmer, of which
he and another brotht~, c. Burke,
are now proprietors.
The couple are residing on FL
Centre avenue, making their home
in the house owned and occupied
bv Mrs. Burke for q number Of
wears.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-10
HIGH MARRIAGE
RATE IN GERMANY
CAUSES ALARM
BY FREDERICK KUN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent)

! BERLIN l0.-Ioung couples in
Germany are marrying more FIRE.
quently than formerly and thereby
, causing anxiety to Germans who de
mand = revision Of the Dawes plan.
, Far-fctchcd as the connection be
tween German marriages and Ger
man rcparations may appear, the
two are inscparablv linked.
When the Dawes scheme was ap-
piled, il was decided that rcpara-
tions payments would be tXacted
from Germany on the basis of =
German prosperity index. \
prosperous Germany would natural
II be expected to paw more to her
tX-enemios than financially de-
pressed Germany. Among the fac
tors on which the Dawes experts
calculated the prosperity index were
German railroad business, foreign
trade, commerce in luxury articles,
eeal, food and births, deaths and
marriages.
In an article. entitled Disquiet-
ing Desire to Marry the Deutsche
Bergwerks .Zeitung, organ of the big
Ruhr coal and iron producers, evin-
ces uncasiness at the growing fire.
quency with which Germans enter
wedioek. Official figures disclose
that Germany established 4 world S
marriage record in 1920. when II
l-2 ont Of every thousand citizens
took the matrimonial VOW. This
high marriage rate was undoubtedly
:, direct reaction from the wartime
marriage slump. During the last
six years, including 1926. marriages
in Germany have hovered above the
prc-war rate.
Overestimate Prosperity
The Bergwerks- -Zeitung fears that
this fact will cause the Dawes ex-
perts to Overcstimate German pros
perity and raise their reparations
demands accordingly. Hence this
newspaper argues that more than
half of the marriages in Berlin, for
instance, are concluded among the
laboring population and that the
German proletariat is enabled to in
dulge in the luxury of matrimOnv,
if it be a luxury. only because the
government is overZealOus in allevl-
ating the social and economic bur
d,ns OF the working people. This
refers to the German system Of state
insurance for the sick, disabled and
unemployed as well as old-age pen
sions and similar benefactions.
Thus it is argued that the Dawes
plan executors are tempted to see
German prosperity in false light
and TO deduce from the frequency
OF marriages in this country that
the entire population is on the crest
o; boom. In reality, according
10 this journal. there is no boom and
if workers marry more readily than
before, it, is because the government
makes il easier for them.
This argument encounters vigor.
Gus contradiction in socialist news.
papers, which reploach the govern
ment with favoring the manufacture
ers, bankers and landowners at the
expense of the working class, cspe.
ciallv in taxation.
Observers are inclined to smile at
this controversy, knowing that mar
riage figures will not decisively in
flucnce the reparations experts in
fixing German payments. Moreover,
it is doubted whether Young couples,
in deliberating whether they should
marry, will be guided by the effect
oil their behavior on Dawes commits
sion members.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-10
PERSONALS

Mrs. Dozier Dawson has returned
from a few days trip to San Ber
| nardino and Ciaremont. While away
she visited her son, William Daw.
son, who is attending Pomona Col
! lege, and her sister. Mrs. William
Fleming, formerly of this city and
now of San Bernardino.
Mrs. W. F.. Burkett of Holtville
was Il visitor in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Lester Smull of Riverside
is here to spend the week. She is
the house guest of Mrs. Jack Tae-
kett. Mrs. Smuli is Il former F.
Centre resident.
Harry Jacobs, Of the viticulturc
department OF the University of
California, spent the week end here.
While in the valley Jacobs looked
over the condition of several vine
yards, having spent a number of
months investigating grape discaS
conditions about year ago. He
is continuing his studies and will
publish his findings at some failure
date.
Mrs. Mary Rickner of Brawley
was among yesterdays out'of'town
visitors.
Word has been received here from
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l.. Graham.
who are on their way east, that Mr..
Graham s health is improving. The
message received by friends came
from Benson, Arizona
Robert Hartman. SON of Rev.
and Mrs. George A. Hartman. was
taken to San Diego this morning,
believing that the change in climate
may benefit him. Robert has been
i'll for several weeks, following an
attack of measles which affected
his ears. st'x
j. s. Duff. who has been the
manager of the Valley Steam Laun-
dry for the past seven years, is
leaving the valley tomorrow. He
will spend some time looking over
Southern California for 4 new loea
ton for a laundry business. His
son, Laurence Duff, who has been
associated with him in this city will
continue in charge OF the business
here.