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MORE TREES CUT
ALONG BUS ROUTE
Inspection Shows Additional
Hacking and Saving on Har-
ward and Allison Streets.

Twenty-three more of Washington's
beautiful shade trees have fallen vic
Tins to the mysterious and unauthor-
lied tree trimmers, who hacked and
sawed the limbs from Sc Norway
naples on Thirteenth street between
Harvard street and Park road, it was
disclosed today by officials of the trees
and parkings department of the Dis
trict, after an inspection of the trees
along the routes of the Washington
Rapid Transit Co.
The additional trees which have
been mutilated are on Harvard street
between Fourteenth and Sixteenth
streets and on Allison street between
Ninth street and Iowa avenue. Those
on Allison street are sycamores, but
the trees which have been cut on Har-
ward street are Norway naples.
Trimmed Like Others.
Clifford Lanham, superintendent of
trees and parkings, said that the trees
on Allison and Harvard streets were
trimmed much in the same manner
as the 56 on Thirteenth street, and
apparently were cut about the same
time. The symmetry of a number of
them has been destroyed.
Discovery of the additional trees.
which have been cut without the
knowledge or approval of District au-
thorities, has given added impetus to
the investigation which Mr.. Lanham
and attaches of the Public Utilities
Commission have been directed to
make by Engineer Commissioner 7
Franklin Bell.
The blame has been placed on en-
ployes of the bus company. and the
management, it is said, has promised
TO give their names to District off.
clals so that steps may be taken to
prosecute them. E. d. Merrill, presi-
dent and general manager of the com
pany, is scheduled to confer this aft
ernoon with Maj. w. f. r. Covell
senior Assistant Engineer Commits
sloner, in regard to the matter.
In the meantime Mai CoyeIl is
continuing an inspection of the bus
routes with view to compiling data
for the commission concerning the
width OF the streets over which the
busses operate and the damage done
to the trees.
Route Restrictions Planned.
The commission is contemplating
issuing an order forbidding the
double-deck busses to run on Thir-
tcenth and other narrow streets where
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The District Court of Appeals today
sustained the traffic regulation forbid
ding the driving of horse-drawn We
hicles along Sixteenth street except
to deliver merchandise. The opinion
was rendered by Justice Charles H.
Robb, and was concurred in by Chief
Justice Martin. Justice Orion NJ.
Barber of the United States Court of
Customs Appeals, who sat in the
absence of Justice Van Orsdel, filed
dissenting opinion.
The majority opinion adopts the
opinion of the court in the Smallwood
case rendered last month. in which
the power of Director of Traffic FL
bridge to make regulation as to traf-
fic on arterial highways was upheld.
The court there held that the in
tent of Congress would be frustrated
if slowmoving vehicles, such as solid
tired trucks, could not be excluded
from such highways.
The court reverses the decision of
Judge Mcmahon of Police Court, who
had held the regulation invalid and
had dismissed prosecutions brought
by the District of Columbia against
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Five Speakers Assail Blue Law Bill
At House Subcommittee Hearinos

Five spokesman vigorously opposed
the Lankford Sunday blue-law bill
when hearings were resumed today be-
fore the judiciary subcommittee of the
House District committee in the
caucus room of the House Office build
ing.
John B. Colpoys claimed he repre-
sented Go, 900 skilled artisans in labor
unions and, with their families, 225, 900
persons, approximately half the popu-
lation of the District. He said passage
of the Landlord bill would lead to the
opening of clubs and would drive men
to all-day gambling. He emphasized
that no law ever changed the morals
of men, and that if churches wished
to change morals they must do 1t
through education and appeal to mans
better nature than through police
power He told the members of the
that their duty is not to
vote their own sentiments, but the
sentiments of the people of the Dis
trict, the big majority of whom are
not in favor Of this legislation.
A. J. Driscoll, representing the Mid.
city citizens, said that the people
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Minnehaha Turns Flapper as Hiawatha
Dons Spats and Razor-Edged Trousers

with martstyled spats fitted snugly
over Sticky shined shoes.
The change, the chief confesses, has
lifted the burden from the shoulders
Of the squaw and placed it on the
brave. But he is not sorry Dreams
of old-time power and glory, said
young Chief Roy, are for the wrinkled
braves.
THE cigarette" he said, has re-
placed the pipe Of peace among our
wives and daughters. Rouge, deli
cately scented. is the modern war
paint. Stockings of silk are quite the
thing.
THE Charleston-and the Black
Bottom--are our war dances Our
girls are flappers, and our young men
wear floppy pants, and / suspect that
the latter like their gin.''
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MRS. COOLIDGE INSPECTS
TEMPORARY WHITE HOUSE
Makes Survey Prior to Deciding
What Personal Effects Are to Be
Moved to Schlesinger Home,

Mrs. Coolidge, whom the President
has designated to superintend the
moving of their personal effects from
the White House to the Schlesinger
home on Dupont Circle during the
period the White House is under
going repairs, today made a personal
survey of the interior of the tenn
porary home to make notes of the
various rooms and the arrangement
of the furniture and draperies be-
fore determining what articles will
be transferred from the White House
During her visit Mrs. Coolidge was
shown about the house by it's owner
Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger who had re-
turned to Washington from New
York for this purpose.
1t was said at the White House
today that the date for moving to
the temporary home has not been
settled definitely, but the President
has indicated that he would be will
ing to move any time after the 4th
of March.
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should have a right to their innocent
amuSementS.
Benjamin S. Minor former 'presi.
dent of the Washington Base Ball
Club, said he represented this club
and organized base ball. He declared
that there Is less crime and misde-
meanors in the District since Sunday
base ball was organized here during
the war, at the request of the District
Commissioners.
Francis De Sales Ryan, president
of the Central Citizens Association.
and a prominent church worker. also
emphatically opposed the Landlord
bill.
DR.. Joseph A. Themper, national
president of the Association Opposed
to Blue Laws, said that he repre-
sents $50 per cent of the people of
this great city in objecting to such
a ridiculous and improper BILL"
Representative Houston, Republi.
can, of Delaware protested against
the reopening of hearings on the
blue law bill.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the AbSOtIdtbU TTFs5.
CHICAGO, February T.
Gone Longfellow's Minnehaha-she
who used to roam the forest;
In her place has come a fiapper, who
can powder, who can paint
Hiawatha, too, has altered; he has
shed the buckskin leggings;
Nowadays it's spats and trousers,
with sharp creases down the
pantslegs.
Chief Reginald Oshkosh has brought
this word from the reservation at
Menominee, Wis, to the first 1927
powwow of the Grand Council Fire OF
American Indians.
The chief himself was natty in
trousers that carried knife edge and
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His Saddle Empty,
Horse at Burial
Of Policeman Pal
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, February with
empty saddle and slack rein, big,
gentle Jim, the horse which for
seven years had weathered the cold
and the heat. aiding his master
guide Chicago's traffic, saw his old
friend for the last time today.
He stood near the grave of Po-
liceman David J. Cairns in Ever
green Cemetery as the body was
lowered. His presence had been
requested by the family and friends
of Cairns. For ID years Policeman
Cairns, who was killed when an
automobile struck him, served in
the traffic division, and half of that
time he had ridden Jim He was
not mounted when struck
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SUICIDE LEAVES WARNING
OF GAS-FILLED KITCHEN
Pins Note on Door, "Strike No
Matches" Then Turns on Five
Jets-Calls Self Failure at so.
BY the Associeted Press.

BY the ABsOclEteu FreEs.
NEWARK. N. ]. February IA
man who gave the name of William
f. Peters, aged so, when he engaged
a room in Bleecker street two weeks
ago, today committed suicide in the
kitchen of the lodging house by turn
ing on five gas jets.
He left strike no matches" sign
on the outside of the kitchen door.
Portions of several notes written
apparently just before he turned on
the gas read asafollow:
Down and out. Good education.
Well bred. Don't try to find my
relatives"
Just a case of suicide. I had u
big fall from top to bottom"
Il welcome death. A failure at
so. No one to identify me-"
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FATHER OF 28 HAS GIRL,
Lee Gentle of Atlanta Acouires
Added Laurels by Birth.

ATLANTA,F February CP-Lee
Gentle of Atlanta, whose 28 children
won for him the title of Champion
father Of Georgia" and a presenta-
ton recently to President Coolidge
and Congress, today had added laurels.
a daughter having arrived at the
Gentle home yesterday.
Nineteen of the 20 children arc liy.
ing. 1t is hoped that a name for the
new arrival will be found shortly.
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100000 ATTEND
YOSH|H|T0 RITES
Japanese Show Much Emo
ton at Gorgeous Funeral
of Revered Emperor.
BY G. C. EUBANK.

TOXIC, February LP-Yoshihito,
123d Emperor of Japan. tonight was
accorded the most pretentious funeral
in the history of the Orient, approx
mately 100000 bowed, damp-eyed
subjects viewing the gorgeous cortege
which marked the passing of a per-
sonage regarded as a lineal descendant
of the mythical sun goddess.
Although the late ruler actually was
the real Emperor for only a brief
time, owing to an illness which
afflicted him from the time of his
youth, the Japanese revered him as a
deity.
His death caused real nationwide
mourning which foreigners seldom un-
derstand. Consequently, tonight's pro-
cession toward the tomb excited un-
usual emotion among usually stoical
people.
Many People S0bbed.
AS the magnificent catafalque slowly
wended its way over the four-mile
route from the imperial palace to
Shinjuku Gardens, half-suppressed
sobs of men, women and children were
heard. All imperial funerals are held
in the nighttime because the imperial
spirit must go from darkness into
darkness.
Approximately 5000 persons par
ticipated in the procession, which be-
gan to line up shortly before o'clock
this afternoon. The forward end of
the procession and the catafalque be-
gan to move promptly at o'clock,
whereupon artillery throughout Japan
fired 101 guns and the battleships 4S
guns.
Procession Impressive.
The route of the procession was
lighted with 10-foot wooden laterns
on pedestals and containing electric
lights and also by great braziers atop
huge bamboo piles, resembling burn
ing pine faggots. Every effort was
made to preserve the age-old tradi-
tfons, and even the quaint costumes of
those who participated in professions
thousand years ago were reproduced.
No women participated in the pro-
cession, princesses and women Of the
nobility witnessing the ceremony at
Shinjuku Gardens and at Asakawa,
the burial ground.
In addition to court musicians and
reed music, several naval and military
bands interspersed the procession,
playing soft funeral dirges.
A feature Of the procession was the
huge catafalque, drawn by four almost
black oxen, sanctif1ed by due ceremony.
Yoshihitos household regulations
specified black and white spotted oxen,
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REPRESENTATIVE Smell Ill.

Chairman Smell of the House rules
committee is confined to his home with
a severe cold
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Urges Opposite Condition.

Chen urged that the opposite con-
dition would prevail, for the British
method of proposed dual negotiation
''must cleave China into a Nationalist
China, with a government at Wuhan,
and fuedalist China, with a govern
ment at Peking."
To-day PelIing is dying" Chen de
clared, "the British government, chief
sustainers of the Peking regime, is
facing the greatest crisis of her ca
reer in Far Asia. Between Chinese
nattonalism and Chinese fuedalism
there can be no compromise The
moment has come when the British
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fU. 6. Weather Bureau Forecast1
Partly cloudy and slightly colder to-
night; minimum temperature about %
degrees; tomorrow increasing cloudi-
ness. Highest, So, at II midnight; low
est, SO. at s pm. yesterday.
Full report on page 3.
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WINTER TEMPERATURES
 STEADILY MOUNTING

John Nelson, section foreman at Devide, who was brief visitor in the city overnight, reports winter conditions on his section have never been better and that in his opinion it has been the mildest and most open winter that region has ever experienced. But two feet of snow covers the section at the present time. In years past snow to the depth of nine or ten feet was common sight. He agrees with the majority of the oldtimers that the climate of Alaska is changing for the best the temperatures apparently mounting each winter. Soon, he remarked this morning, i've will have Florida weather and the land of the so-called iceberg and snow will be gone for ever."
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LESS LOVE, MORE WAR
 F0R FILMS OF 1927

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 15. P)- Love clinches for the final fade-out will be fewer in this years crop of motion picture films.
 Whats more, the sheiks and shebas are going to have a hard tussle to hold their place through the season, while the comedy crowd works at premium figures and war and costume pictures are given the right of way.
 That is how John Mccormick, west coast productive chief, lines up the program at First National studios. Natural endings, he says, are the new rule.
 Perhaps the years generous inn portations of foreign-made pictures had something to do with it." Mr
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explains. Europeans
Mccormick

Mccormick explains. Europeans have been accustomed to logical de- elopment-whether happy or tragic, in their literature for hundreds of
 3 years and naturally demand it on the screen. Americans, however, like the lighter, less natural, trend for stories, but now they are getting the Old World idea: It means more natural pictures for this year.
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Sam Wagner, pioneer of the Fair view Mountain placer district, who is spending the winter on Pass creek with Frank Erwin, came out to Tal- keetna last week with Pat Collins, who is wintering on Notobac creek. They brot out some fur and returned a few days later to continue trapping until spring.
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Next Tuesdays regular weekly business meeting of the Seward Chamber of Commerce will be held at Fishers cafe
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SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES

Sunday services at the local Meth odist church will be as follows:
 Song and preaching service connec- ted by the pastor at 11:3O a. m.
 Sunday school at 12:45 p. m., which will be immediately following the preaching service. Please take mo- tice of the change in the Sunday school hour.
 The church will be warm and com- fortable. Come and worship with us. You need the services of the sanc- tuary at least once week to strength en you for the experiences of the other six days of the week. Your pres ence will also help others.
 THOS. P. GRAHAM, Minister.
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Your best girl wonders if you are taking her to the Candy Cottage after the show to have Seattle Vel vet Ice Cream.
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APPROVE RIVERS, HARBoRs BILL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. P)-The congressional approval of the rivers and harbors bill was completed when the Senate adopted the conference re- ports.
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ORDERED TO CHINA

ATHENS, Greece, Jan. 15. R)-
 Five British cruisers in Phaleron Bay were ordered to China immedi- ately.
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SHE MANAGES THoRoUGHBREDs

LEXINGTON, Ky, Jan. 15. P)- While there is always a following of women at the races, few are the feminine managers of breeding farms or purchasers of thoroughbreds-b but Miss Elizabeth Dangerfield does both. Miss Dangerfield has just purchased three daughters of Man-O-War from s. D. Riddle for Messers. Carstairs and Pierce, in addition to making other purchases of thoroughbreds for them
 al~ D.
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Seattle chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
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No public dance will be held at the Odd Fellows hall tonight.
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Try our Seattle ice cream. Sylvia's.
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Brunswick Monographs and Re cords. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-09-20
PEACH FESTIVAL
St. Margaret's Guild Holds Meet
ing To Plan Events.

A peach festival ana entertain
ment was planned by members of
the st. Margaret's guild of St.
Marks Episcopal Church at meet
ing in the parish house. Thurs
day afternoon. The affair will be
given Wednesday, September %,
in the parish house. Tickets were
distributed at the meeting. "a
report was given on the recent
dinner rendered by Bertram Whit
man 10 members Of the choir
The meeting was conducted by
Mrs. Frederick Root in the alb
sence of the president and vice
president. Mrs. Louis A. Bell
was hostess of the social hour.
Attending were: Mrs. Sherwood
A. Risley, Mrs. Carl Thoms, of
Absecon, Mrs. Howard Weeks,
Mrs Friedrich Root and Mrs.
Louis A. Bell
The Pleasantville press., 1927-09-20
LODGE INITIATION
Four Receive Degree In Energetic
Lodge Ceremonies.

EO0gG ceremonies.
Initiation of candidates was in
order at a meeting of Energetic
Lodge No. 102, Shepherds of Beth
lehem, in Red Mems hall Wednes-
day night. Those receiving the
degrees of the order were: Mrs.
Edna Luderitz, Mrs. John Stauffer,
Mrs. Lucy Smith and Mrs. l.. Hill.
Mrs. Catherine Helmbold, of
Williamstown, district deputy was
a special guest of the evening, 1t
being her last official visit.
Other guests present were: Mr..
and Mrs. F. Feisling and Mrs. Chris
Feisling, of Gloucester, N. j., Mr..
John Helmbold, of Williamstown,
Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Madsen, Mrs.
Bierman, of Camden, Mrs. Mary
Ritnell and Mrs. Mae Risley, OF
Atlantic City. Mrs. Risley is distric;
deputy of Mispah Lodge, of Bridge
ton.
The supreme convention of the
Shepherds of Bethlehem conyenes
in washington, Sept. 26. The local
lodge will be represented by Mrs
Barbara WINS and Mrs. Margaret
Hilgert. Several members are
planning to attend. Refreshments
were served at the close of the
The Pleasantville press., 1927-09-20
PHILATHEAS LAY
MUSICALE PLANS
Salem N. E. Church Appoints
Committees to Make Ar
rangements for Event

Plans were discussed for a
musical night during Old Home
Week by members of the Phila-
thea class of Salem NJ E. Church
at a meeting in the church par
lor, Thursday night. Mrs. Joseph
Wigglesworth was appointed
chairman of the ticket committee
and Mrs. Milton Clark will super
wise the ushers on the night of
the event. Each chairman is to
select her own committee.
The society decided to pur-
chase shrubbery for one corner OF
the church grounds to aid in the
drive for beautifying the property
The committee on the recent cake
sale reported that the sale was a
big success. Two new members
were welcomed by the president,
Miss Hannah ]. Sculi, were: Mrs.
Orland H. Bailey and Mrs. Leo
S. Lewis. The hostesses of the
social hour were: Mrs. Russell
Carton, Mrs. Joseph Wigglesworth,
Mrs. John M. Smith, Miss Gladys
G. Searles and Mrs. A. /. Ditmas.
Those attending were: Mrs. o.
G. Peters, Mrs. Leona Let's,
Mrs. Jeanette Witham, Mrs. |
Albert B. Johnson, Mrs. William
H. Hoffman Jr., Miss Lillian |
Scull, Mrs. Earl Sanders, Mrs. |
Edward J. Brown, Mrs. Orlanb
H Bailey, Mrs. Richard Shane,
S. Lewis, Miss Hannah j. Scull,
Mrs. Edward J. Blake Mrs. !
Thomas Hamm, Mrs. Russell |
Pickering, Mrs. Milton F. Clark,
Mrs. Helen Demoya, Mrs. Alice
F. Smith, Miss Esther Brown,
Mrs. Arthur P. Ryon, Mrs. Everett
Smith and Rev. S. Monroe Van
SAINT.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-09-20

Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. G. Everett
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. James Car
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Morgan
week, Miss Lulu Van SAINT, Irwin
Praster and Norman Ashley, Of
Port Republic.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-09-20
IGU0CIE'',]TY "a
MRS. PLuMRIDeE HOSTESS
Double Party Held At Home o
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wood.

MI. anu bVOOo-
A double party was given Thurs.
day evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Wood, E. Leeds
avenue, in honor of the birthday
of Frank Plumridge and the home
coming of the Woods, who spent
three months in England. Mrs.
Plumridge was hostess. The table
was beautifully decorated with cut
flowers, and an old fashioned
English dinner was served. Sing
ing and dancing made up the
evenings program.
Those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. Young, William Sunny,
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel kitchenberger,
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Litchenberger,
of New York, William Ebert, of
Atlantic City, James Wood, Oh
Philadelphia, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Smith, of Philadelphia, Mr.. anG
Mrs. John Fairbrothers, of Conover-
town, Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Pras-
ter, Erwin Praster, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Wood, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Plumridge and George Flint, OF
Ilford England, who viii sail for
home Friday on the Lancashire.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-09-20
DEGREE CONFERRED
Lakewood Odd Fellows Team
Demonstrates At Union
LodQe

The First Degree Team of the
Bricksburg Lodge, No. SO, l. o. o.
F., under the direction of Grand
Master Clinton o. Fogg, of Lake
wood, gave an interesting demon
stration recently at the Union
Lodge of Pleasantville.
Thirty members of the Lakewood
lodge were present, and they
brought with them a large dele
CATION from throughout the county.
Grand Master Fogg spoke after the
degree work was completed, and
the program was completed by the
serving of chicken and club sand
wiches and coffee.
Three candidates from Union
Lodge received the degree: Ran
dolph Reitmeyer, Robert Green
and Edwin P. Broomall.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-09-20
BIRTHDAY PARTY

Miss M.argie Smith, of Bay
Drive, entertained several friends
in honor of her eleventh birth
day. Games were played and
prizes awarded to the winners.
The guests included: Normal
Roberts. annette MeCutchen, Ellen
Smith, June Ireland and Chairman
Ireland, of Ventnor City; Margaret
Roberts, Dorothy Roberts, Jane
Roberts, Betty Palmer, Margie Lois
Brown, Norma Brown, Jane Palmer,
Dorothy Brown, Betty Cook, Russell
Stokes, Bobbie Day, Allan Palmer
and Edwin Woolbert.