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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
LITERARY OFFICERS
NAMED AT CENTRAL
Maude Hudson Chosen Valedicto-
rian-Poetess Is Added
This Year.

Literary officers of the Central High
Schools 1927 June class were elected
I'm the auditorium on Wednesday. The
officers are as follows: Valedictorian,
Maude Hudson; historian, William
Crouch; poet, Maurice Neufeld; poet
ess, Gwendolyn Norton; prophet, Alfred
'Noyes; prophecies, Dorothea Lewis.
The offices of poet and prophecies
We're filled on the first ballot, while
choosing the others required a second
ballot.
In former years IT has not been the
custom to have both poet and poetess,
but by reason of motion passed at
the last election this years June class
has both.
Rodney Hatcher. newly elected pres
ident, presided over the meeting.
Fifteen candidates ran for the six
offices. Gwendolyn Norton was the
only candidate for poetess.
The question, Resolved. That the
American Federation of Labor's pro-
posal for a 40hour week be adopted
by the industries Of the United States"
has been definitely decided upon as
the subject for the boys debate with
The John Harris High School of Har-
risburg, Pa. to be held early in March.
Six boys will be selected Friday from
the two teams-Maurice Neufeld,
l1dEIX RSIl1iH ana w Imam HANBACK,,
captained by Robert Coltman, and
James Bernhard, Jack Permit and
Benjamin Hinden. captained by Sol
Alpher The subject Tor this final try
out will be the same as for the Har-
riSburg debate.
That Central students will have the
opportunity TO try for one scholarship
to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and three to Lafayette
~v1 L.
college bureau. Each Massachusetts
scholarship. offered to district com
posed of several States, carries a grant
Of $500. Lafayette offers one $500
scholarship and two 5000 ones to each
district.
4 course in automobile instruction.
similar to that of last year. will be
started Saturday morning for mem
hers of the faculty by f.. NJ. Cornell of
The Central High School auto shop.
Classes will be held every Saturday
morning from 10 10 u o'clock. The
schedule follows:
February 19-The automobile engine
and how 10 it operates; oiling and
cooling.
February 26-~Gear shifts. clutches
and rear axle construction.
March Spring @ystems. brake al
1ustment and types of bearings
Stal1iA itF ltEti ibltilt SlDIdSe
battery.
March l9-Cafbm etors. vacuum
tanks and air cleaners.
March 26~EOrd ignition, starting
and lighting systems.
April Ford transmission.
April 9--Steering gears and wheel
alignment; chass lubrication
Each lesson will consist OF a brief
lecture, followed by practical demon
stration in the shop, in which all mem
bers of the class are permitted tt
participate.
The Girl Reserve Club Of Wash
ington held a regular old-fashioned
box social" and dance at the Blue
Triangle Hut, Twentieth and y streets
At $50 o'clock on February II.
After supper and games u short pro
gram was presented by the Business
High Club. The supper took the place
of the monthly club supper. and al
: Bon Secour of Central was in charge
If the decorations the girls decorated
1 the hut instead Of having their weekly
t.4nafiy3p
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
WOMAN LAWYERS GUESTS
Club to Entertain Mrs. Willebrandt
and Nine. Grinberg.

Two leading woman lawyers, one
of France and the other of the United
States, Nine. Zuzanne Grinberg. MEM
Der of the French Court of Appeals,
and Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebra ndt
Assistant Attorney General will be
guests of honor at the annual banquet
of the Cy Press Club of National
University at the Woman's University
Club next Tuesday night.
Nine. Grinberg will speak on
women and the French Courts" and
MRS. Willebrandt will address the club
on THE Woman Lawyer
Mrs. Ann Webster, president of the
club, viii introduce the toastmistress,
Mrs. Pearl Bellman Klein. Dean
Charles F. Carusi will extend greet
ings on behalf of the school. Other
addresses will be delivered by Prof
Glenn Willett of the faculty. and
Justice F. j. Siddons OF the District
Supreme Court, also a member of the
faculty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
REV. A. D. HOLDER SPEAKS
Clergyman Addresses Pupils at
Garfield School.

Rev A. d. Holder was the principal
speaker at the Garfield School on Fri
day. Exercises in commemoration of
notable negroes were held in the
assembly hall under the leadership Of
Miss f. F. Shimm, who outlined negro
history from 1919.
Eleanore Holder recited Linco1n's
Gettysburg address and Gilmore Wat
son a poem of which Lincoln was
fond, ooh, Why Should the Spirit of
Mortal Be Proud?" The addresses
Of both speakers contained tributes to
the memory Of Abraham Lincoln.
Frederick Douglass and Booker T.
Washington. Reference also was
made to the negro soldiers in war.
The work of the children in quo
tations, short original paragraphs and
appropriate music was the subject OF
favorable comment by the teachers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
BILL AIDS TRAFFIC COURT

The bill to provide for the creation
in the traffic department of a bureau
to handle minor violations of the traf-
fic regulations was introduced in the
Senate yesterday BY Chairman Capper
Of the District committee and referred
to that committee for report. A SINH
lar bill has been introduced In the
House.
Such minor violations as the Com
missioners may designate could be set
tied in the proposed bureau at the
option Of the accused and upon the
waiver by the accused Of a formal
trial. The bill authorizes an appro-
priation Of $4,000 for the maintenance
of such q bureau for the purpose of
relieving the Traffic Court from ham
ding minor infractions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
MONROE SCHOOL GROUP
URGES MORE TEACHERS
Passes Resolution Endorsing Pres
ent Educational Admins
tration and Board,

Resolutions favoring the appropria-
ton of funds to pay salaries for IA
additional teachers in the public
schools of the District and indorsing
the present administration of the pub
lie schools and the Board of Educa-
ton were passed at ii meeting of the
Home and School Association of Mon
roe School, held in the school building
last week.
The following resolution was also
passed: I'VE deeply deplore the fact
that any action may De taken or voiced
by any member of the District Con-
gress of Parent-Teacher Associations
that directly or indirectly represents
the Monroe Home and School Associa-
ton without first having been sub
mitted to the Monroe Home and
School Association for action We
deny the right to be thus represented"
The latter resolution was ordered
sent to the District Congress of Par
Associations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
DROP IN FISH SALES
Decline of Million Dollars Seen in
U. S. Trade Abroad.

United States sales of fish and fish
products to foreign countries declined
by about a million dollars in 1925.
While imports Of those products into
this country increased by more than
four million dollars during the year.
the Commerce Department announced
yesterday. Exports of fish from this
country were valued at $40 1903, S37 last
year, compared with $20,732 $50 in the
preceding year, while imports amount
ed to $34, 343,306. against $30.113,186
in 1925.
Canned salmon was the outstanding
item of American fish exports during
the past year, although the total de-
clined to a value Of $8,57S,221 as com.
pared with $9,06O,703 in 1926.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
SENATOR HITS SALE
OF LINERS BY j. S.
Too Much Haste to Dispose
of Merchant Marine.
Says Fletcher.
BY the Associated Press.

The Shipping Board policy of sell
ing Government ships to private oper-
ators almost comes within the Grim
inal law, Senator Fletcher. Democrat,
Florida. declared yesterday in advo-
eating an adequate merchant marine.
Il have no patience with the mis-
Interpretation of the act of 1920 TO
the effect that it's purpose was 10 get
possible" he added. plain reading
of the law provides that the primary
intention was that there should be
established and maintained an ade-
quate American merchant marine.
Rush to Sell Alleged.
Somewhere and somehow those
who have charge of the administra-
ton of that act have been impre ssed
that it was their function to dispose
of those ships and get them into
private hands and that that was the
way to create and maintain an Ameri-
can merchant marine.
"The pursuit of this policy has re-
suited in getting rid of the best and
the finest ships afloat on any ocean
at ridiculously low figures. 1t seems
to me this almost comes within the
criminal law. This action evidently
was based on the policy dictated, not
by Congress, that the primary duty of
the Shipping Board was to get rid of
the ships"
Sees L. $. as Operator.
But. despite this policy, Senator
Fletcher continued, efforts to get
many of the ships into private hands
had failed and there was no course
now open to the Government except
to own and operate passenger and
cargo vessels and to maintain a baS
anced feet by replacement and re-
conditioning.
Such a fleet, he said, should be
operated either directly by the Gov
eminent or through private operators
under reasonable contracts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
FEDERAL JOBS OPEN.
Civil Service Examinations to Be
Held to Fill Vacancies.

mission announces open competitive
examinations to fill vacancies in the
following positions:
Assistant statistical clerk at 81 800
a year, Junior statistical clerk at 81 800
a year, departmental service.
Under card-punch operator at 81 lao
a year, junior tabulating machine op.
orator at 1920 a year, departmental
service.
Elevator conductor, departmental
service, at 5000 a year. Men only are
desired for this position.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained from the Office
Of the United States Civil Service Com
mission, 1924 + street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
.L|TA GREY TELLS
OF CHAPL|N'S LOVE.
Romance Began When She
Was 7-Married Actor,
Not Man.
by the Associated Press.

10y tHc ASNDtldtcu tTe>S.
BEVERLY HILLS. Calf, February
19.-Charlie Chaplins romance with
tai rocks several months ago. had it's
inception when the film comedians
wife was years old. Mrs. Chaplin
revealed in discussing her divorce
suit at the Chaplin mansion here last
night.
The young wife asserted she was
married to an actor. not a man. ii
husband who lin two years was home
for dinner only six or seven times
"He always was too busy" she
added
Hard to Understand.
Charlie is a funny man. He is
hard to understand, said Mrs. Chap
lin. Il was just a child i'll short
dresses and socks when we first met"
She explained that she was years
old when she made Chaplin's ac-
quaintance in a Hollywood tearoom.
He came over to me and did some
funny tricks with his hands. I
laughed. He seemed a fatherly fun
ny man and we became friends
They renewed the acquaintance two
years later, Mrs. Chaplin related, and
then. when she was II. Chaplin in
vited her to go to his studio some
times.
Mrs. Chaplin said she was 10 when
she came back from school. She had
not seen Charlie for about three
years.
Mother and L went over to the
studio to see Charlie Mrs. Chaplin
explained. lie exclaimed Why never
saw any one change so much in my
life He signed me for the lead in
the Gold Rush
I'VE became engaged before going
on location at Truckee. | came home
after we had been there q month and
a half. 1t was about May. I think
Charlie said we should keep our en-
gagement secret. as it would hurt him
in pictures"
Mrs. Chaplin said three trips had
been made to Mexico before the mar
riage ceremony.
THE terrible things they say about
mother" she continued, land not one
of them true. She always told me
that money Oulv brings trouble She's
st the opposite of what they say
This house never seemed like home
to me. Everything in it reminds me
of some unpleasantness in our mar
ried life. I'm afraid in it. / think if
| spend another six months in il I'll
go crazy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
COAL WAGE FARLEY
REACHING CRISIS
Fate of Conference Likely to
Be Revealed by Middle
of Week.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla February l9.-Dele-
gates to the soft coal wage conference
who remained here during the week
end adjournment generally held the
opinion tonight that the tate Of the
wage scale negotiations would be re-
Nealed definitely before the middle Of
next week
Twenty.one men, the men making up
The subcommittee of final resort into
whose hands the negotiations have
been delivered, are scheduled to sit
again Monday in executive session FOR
another attempt to break the dead
lock between the conflicting proposals
of the miners and operators. Only
concession or compromise. it was said,
can bring the subcommittee back into
the Joint conference to report an
agreement and there were no indica-
lions thar either of these was forth
coming.
The subcommittee. as well as other
members of the joint confere nee scat
tered tonight through the resorts of
Florida and Cuba.
Firm Against Reduction.
The negotiations are deadlocked,
prUmarily on the question of wage re-
auctions, but also on the proposal by
The operators that commission be
SrlttAcu ~ I'm wages, make ADJUST
ments of immediate differences. The
miners have not receded from their
first posluon that they cannot sign
contract calling for wage reductions,
as instructed by the last convention
OF the United Mine Workers of
America. President John l.. Lewis
has told the operators that the view
point represents the attitude of all the
members OF the organization.
On the other hand, the operator
have been immovable from their
stand that the soft coal industry
must have relief, and that the only
solution lies in fixing wages on a
competitive basis with the nom
union mines of Kentucky and West
Virginia.
ScOff at Moscow Story.
President Lewis has told the oper-
atorS that signing of a competitive
wage pact will turn back for SO years
The clock of the mine workers, and
reduce them eventually to the condi-
zion of the poor mortals who are
condemned to work in the mines of
Kentucky and West Virginia.
The operators insist they want to
give the competitive wage scale a
trial They have advanced the opin-
ION that reduction of wages at the
present Tune VIII enaDle tnem 10 re-
cover so much business from the
non-union mines that they will be
able eventually to pay union labor
wage comparable to the present one.
A dispatch from Moscow stating
that the Communist internationale
has issued a proclamation calling on
miners and workers of the world to
rally to the American miner when
their working contract expires April
/, brought little comment from the
conference delegates. Leading oper-
ators smiled and called it silly"
while President Lewis, who is the
miners spokesman, said he did not
care to comment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
ALWAYS FIRST, HOUSTON
SAYS. LAUDING DELAWARE
State Society Hears Address by
Member of Congress at It's
Annual Banquet Here.

Delaware is first in everything, both
for the betterment of the country and
its protection, Representative Robert
III. Houston of that State told the
Delaware State Society of this city at
it's annual banquet at the Raleigh
Hotel last night. He is president and
was postmaster and principal speaker
at the gathering.
Representative Houston cited some
of the States past records TO bear out
his statements, among them that when
the country entered the World War, it
was Delaware that first rallied to the
colorS.
State Senator Louis Drexler de-
scribed Delaware's roads and said the
State had the finest in the country.
Following the banquet there was a
dance and entertainment, at which
William F. Raymond and Fred East
sang solos and Miss Betty Raymond
gave a specially dance.
Gov. Robert r. Robinson telegraph
ed his regrets at being unable to be
present, and United States Senator 7.
Coleman du Pont. who was in Flor
ida. sent two large baskets of flowers.
Mrs Margaret Cox Hewitt led the
gathering in the singing of the State
song. Our Delaware" accompanied
by Miss Adelaide Watson.
Sheldon W. Fairchild was chairman
of the entertainment committee; Ed
ward Abrams. jr.. chairman of the
floor committee; Mrs. T.. l.. Sitter
chairman of the ticket committee. and
Fred Klund. chairman OF the recep-
ton committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
COLLEGE RELIGIOUS
DIRECTORS RESIGN
Purdy and Five Quit as Gov
ern0rs of Princeton
Organization.
By the Associated Press.

PRINCETON, n. j., February 10
Raw F'oote Purdy, general secretary,
and five graduate secretaries resigned
tonight as the governing body or the
Philadelphia Society, Princeton under
graduate religious organization.
The designations were the result or
events which last Fall led DIR. John
Grier Hibben, president OF Princeton,
to appoint a committee to investigate
the activities of the society
The RESERVATIONS, submitted to DIR.
John Mcdowell, president of the board
of directors of the society, take effect
March /. The graduate secretaries
were Theodore Stevenson, Howard
Blake. Frank Bancroft, John Bryant
and Scoville Wishard. They were APP
pointees of the general secretary. Dr.
Hibben declined to comment other
than to say that plans for reorganl-
zation of the society would get under
way Immediately.
Caused by Purdy Letter.
The direct cause of the designations
was letter from Purdy. published
three weeks ago In the Daily Prlnce-
tonian, which showed him to be OPP
posed to the views of President HID
ben on "Buchmanism," an "old-fash
ioned'' religion fostered by Or. FRANK
BuChman Oh New YIN
Several years ago DR.. Hibben an
nounced that SO long as he was presl.
dent of Princeton Buchmanism would
have no place on it's campus and
ordered DIR. Buchanan away from the
university.
Last Fall undergraduates. learning
that DR.. Buchanan was holding secret
conferences with students In their
rooms. at an open forum demanded an
investigation of the Philadelphia So
ciety, and Dr. Hibben appointed a com
mittee composed of three members OF
the faculty, three trustees and three
undergraduates.
Charges Not Substantiated.
While the committee in it's report
last January found that Buchmanism
laid undue stress upon 1.-The confession
of sexual immoralities'' and arraigned
Purdy for entertaining Buchanan, it
reported that the charges against the
society were not substantiated.
Several weeks later the campus was
startled by the appearance In the daily
of Purdy's letter, which proclaimed
that the Philadelphia Society owed
it's aims and methods to Buchanan.
That letter was followed by an edl-
torial in the Daily Princetonian which
pointed to the widely divergent views
held by the president of the univer-
sity and the general secretary.
1t was understood that their resigna-
tions were not asked for. The Phila-
delphian Society is the oldest cole
giate religious organization in the
country. 1t was founded in 1925.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
WOMAN PRESIDENT
HELD POSSIBILITY
Candidacy Would Be No
Laughing Matter, Says Mrs.
Ida Clyde Clarke.

NEW YORK, February ia
woman President is within the range
or possibility" in the belief of Ida
clyde Clarke. one of the pioneer
woman suffrage leaders In the United
states, writing in the March issue
OF Century Magazine.
ohe says woman candidate would
not SET a precedent. There We're two
candidates lin the unsafe seventies"
When their candidates. were viewed
with amusement, she asserts, and If
the organized woman could agree on
candidate now "it would be no
lausn'ng matter to the man aspirants
for the honor
Lack Balance of Power.
Organized women. however. do not
hold the balance of power. saws Miss
clarke, and the woman political
racer Tor big stakes would have to
come either from the rank of non
club women and be able to rally to
her standard woman from all ranks,
or she would have to emerge from
one OF the dominant political parties
II Is safe to assume that no woman
VIII be pushed forward by either poll
tlcal party for some time to come. at
least"
There are now not more than three
tremendous potential power necessary
to achieve high political honors. aside
from group influence"
The three are Anne Morgan. Alice
roosevelt Longworth and Ruth
Hanna Mccormick.
In Ruth Hanna Mccormick. saws
the writer, "is the woman who may.
within the next few years, generate
enough power to put her i'm some
nigh public office. If we are to have
a woman President in my day and
yours the miracle must be wrought
through power and not through
popularity.
Admires Her Ability.
You possibly may not agree with
her political views, but you will like
her for her ability, her simplicity.
her directness: you will admire her
for her beautiful home life, for her
fine qualities as a wife and mother,
tor her business genius. II Ruth
Hanna thought as organized women
OF American think. or If they thought
as she thinks, what leader she
would make"
Ruth Hanna Mccormick. daughter
of Mark Hanna and widow of Sena-
tor Medill Mccormick of Chicago, is
unlike either Alice Longworth. who
has never given an outward sign of
having the slightest purely personal
ambition in politics.. or Anne Nor
gan. whose mind does not work
politically. says Miss Clarke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Man Applying for Marriage License
Finds Rival Already Has Claimed Girl
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, February 19.--Constantly
In the midst of romance. Sidney Sum-
merfield IL no part Of 1t.
Simply supernumerary like the
spear carrier in the grand pageant. as
a deputy clerk in the marriage license
bureau he interviews prospective
brides and bridegrooms more or less
mechanically.
Today, though, he sensed the love.
even the grief and tragedy, which at
tends his job.
Il want a marriage license said a
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

Yes. of course" said Summerfield.
Your Nance"
John Downes.'
Name Of the young LADY,
Marion Tallus.''
'Ahem! You'll pardon me. i hope
II | am mistaken, but another man
Just has received license to marry
"a girl of that name. Care to look at
her age and address?"
Downes gulped twice as he read the
record. pulled down his hat and hur
ried out.
Summerfield tore up blank No
LII, Asa, upon which the only entries
were:
John Downes, aged 35 years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
GRANT RITES ARRANGED.
HyattSville Man to Be Buried in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

Special Dispatch to The Star
EVANSVILLE, Md. February
19.-Funeral services will be held at
10 o'clock Monday for r. Carroll
Grant Of the Washington Loan &
Trust Co, who died this morning at
the Episcopal Eye. Ear and Throat
Hospital, Washington, of meningitis.
Mr.. Grant lived in Hyattsville. The
services will be held at st. Jerome's
Catholic Church, Rev. Andrew j.
Carey, pastor, officiating Burial will
be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Tobacco Sales Large,

I.YNCHBURG, Va, February 10
P).-Sales aggregating S88,900 pounds
on the local dark leaf tobacco market
his week brought the sales ahead of
The same time last year by 10000
pounds. The total sold SO far from
HE 1926 crop is S,317.70o pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
ay the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
STAUNTON, February 19.-Nearly
200 bankers are expected here for the
annual convention Of Group 3. of the
Virginia Bankers Association to be
held Tuesday. The Augusta County
Bankers Association. c. r. Caldwell,
president, will be host. ]. 8. Price of
Luray will preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

Crime was so rare in the French
Premier Poincare's home department
of the Mouse during 1926 it was ln-
necessary to hold single session
of the criminal court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

A new industry for the develop
ment of shark products is proposed
in New Zealand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

Tops of the wings of the airplanes
which carry the mail on the Chicago
Dallas Fort Worth route are a bright
orange to facilitate the finding of It
ship should it be forced down and
lost