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Evening star., 1927-11-15
u. S. EMPLOYEES UNION
INSTALLS ITS OFFICERS
Local No. 262 Gives Elaborate Pro-
gram, Including Ad-
dresses

Officers were installed for the year,
and addresses were delivered by Chief
Clerk Frank Birgfeld of the Treas
ury Department, and Miss Gertrude
McNa'ly of the National Federation
of Federal Employees last night at a
regular meeting a Treasury Depart
ment Local No. :62. Federal Employees
Union, at 10 Fourteenth street.
Mr.. Birgfeld discussed efficiency in
Reconsideration, and Miss McNally pre-.
sented a report of the recent annual
convention of the national federation
at San Antonio. Tex.
Officers were installed as follows:
President. E. c. Hooper, first vice
president. John Ginder; second vice
president. Miss r. l.. Lindsey; third
vice president, Miss Sophie Weber;
financial secretary-treasurer, w. r..
Dempsey: recording secretary. Robert
O. Hundley: chairman ways and
means committee, A. y. Sartwell,
chairman membership committee, Vic
tor Garrigus: trustee for two years,
Miss Helen Vessel.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
BLAST DEATH TOLL
RISES AS RESCUERS
DIG INTO WRECKAGE
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was bombarded with pieces of steel,
falling like shrapnel. Windows and
| walls cracked. and tall buildings shook
| more than half mile from the scene.
The report could he .-eard for miles.
Nine hundred telephone lines were put
out of commission. Water mains
burst
Almost before the real significance
of the diSaste had come home to the
city rescue work was being organized
and relief was being rushed TO the
stricken district.
Police Prove Heroes.
Policemen and firemen proved them.
selves heroes by rushing into the heart
of the trouble and, while roofs were
falling and walls collapsing, carried
women and children out of their
wrecked homes. Fire apparatus, pri-
yate~ automobiles and commercial We.
hicles were utilized to rush injured to
the hospitals. Houses were searched
for injured. Through streets flooded by
water escaping from broken mains
the rescue workers plunged to aid
people lying unconscious in their
yards or screaming where they were
hurled.
Fires started in some of the wrecked
homes and in one case five persons
were carried. stunned. out of their
burning house. Another woman who
had been struck by falling plaster and
was lying beside leaking gas main
was saved. a pair of twins who had
been blown from their home and de-
posted, still in their crib, in a back
yard, were rescued.
- l&A II Il, ~
day of tragedy were enacted at the
entrances of the morgue and at vari-
Gus hospitals where relatives of vic.
TINS congregated Only those who
might be able to identify victims were
permitted to view the bodies or see
the injured.
Insurance companies announced
that most Of the loss will have to be
borne by individual property owners,
as the damage was almost all due to
explosion. which is not covered in
the standard fire insurance policies.
Pupils Keep Cool.
Heroism was not restricted to the
rescue workers. Patients in hosp;-
tails to which victims were taken beg.
ged that physicians and nurses give
all their attention to the emergency
cases. Men Caught III ucuIis dShcd
that they be left until women and
children had been succored. A priest,
his face and clothing blackened by
CRIME. clambered into the wreckage
Of the exploded tank to administer the
last rites to the dead and dying.
Pupils in the schools who were show
cred by flying glass kept cool and
there was no disorder.
Hardly had the reyerberationS
ceased when movements were on foot
| to provide food and shelter for those
deprived Of their homes. A flood OF
| subscriptions came into the Red
Cross. The Philadelphia Co. ordered
| 25 rooms in the Fort Pitt Hotel set
aside for needy refugees and shelter
was provided in the Manchester car
barns, st. Joseph's school and other
| available structures.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
SOUTHEAST FETE
PLANS FURTHERED
Community Center Celebration to
Be Held November 25 Will In
clude Varied Program.

Further plans for the Southeast
Community Carnival to be held under
the auspices of the Southeast Commu-
nifty Center in the Hine Junior High
School Friday night, November 25,
were made at a committee meeting in
the school last night.
Mrs. Helen Webb Zeller, in charge
of the vaudeville performance to be
given in the auditorium, reported that
the following program will be pre-
sented:
Stunts by Friendship House group;
monologue by member of the Forrest
Players; two numbers by the childrens
dancing groups of the Southeast Com
munity Center: one-act play. entitled
"At the End of the Rope" by the
Southeast Community Players; a rose
dance by the Rose Buds of Woodbridge;
Kazoo Band by the Degree of Poca-
hontas; an act by the Sisters Comedy
Group; solo by William Hanft; a DEM
onstration of Scout work: selections by
Costlow's Fretted Orchestral; demon
stration by the Improved Order of
Redmen: a monologue by Clarence
Rodlin; and revue act by the Zig-Zag
Entertainers.
MrS. ZeIierS 3 dSSlStdHlS VIII De
ROsaine Fontaine and Strayton Ely,
while Harold Snyder will be in charge
OF lights, and Mrs. F. T. Roys and
Mrs. p. C.. Riston will have charge OF
the dressing rooms.
The following members of the
Southeast Business Mems Association
will assist in the sale Of tickets and
business arrangements: A. Berlin,
James Wood, Frank Del Viccho. G.
L. Thrift. George L. Club. o. T..
Halves. X. Smith and Thomas John.
son. Mrs. NJ. w. Davis. chairman Of
the carnival. reported that James
Flynn of the Southeast Business
Mems Association; David Babp of the
Lincoln Park Citizens Association,
and Capt. William Luckett of the
Southeast Citizens Association will
serve as treaSurers
Evening star., 1927-11-15
PENDING PROJECTS
HELD IMPORTANT
Representative Smell Says Eco
nomic Problems Should Be Dis
posed of at Coming Session.
By the Associated Press.


Boulder Canyon Dam, Muscle
Shoals, Mississippi flood control and
the Great Lakes to Atlantic waterway
project constitute four of the biggest
economic problems ever presented to
Congress, IN the opinion of Chairman
Smell of the House rules committee,
who said today that all should be dis
posed of at the approaching session.
He believes that because of the ap-
preparations which would be necessary
for these projects Congress would do
well If 1t could authorize tax re-
duction of 1925, 100000, the maximum
considered possible by the Treasury.
The chairman said he had not yet
conferred with other Republican
House leaders or committee members
concerning the legislative program,
but that he personally believed the
rules committee, which has the final
say in what bills will be considered by
the House, would endeavor to obtain
passage before the Christmas recess
of a deficiency appropriation bill, an
alien property bill, the tax-reduction
measure and one of the annual sup
ply bills. He does not expect a flood
control bill to be ready before jan
uary.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
bORAH CONDEMNED
AS 'CARP|NG Critic
Corn Belt Committee Reaf-
firms Its Support of Nc.
Nary-Haugen Bill.
BY the Associated Press.


DIES MONIES, Iowa. November
l9.-Ihe corn belt committee, which
has sponsored the McNary-Haucen
bill in two sessions of Congress. today
rededicated itself to the measure and.
just before adjournment in the early
morning hours, condemned Senator
Borah, Republican. Idaho, as pre-
tended friend of the farmer" who has
become "a carping critic" instead of an
aid to the farm cause.
Committee resolutions also charac-
teriZed the business mems commits.
sion report on the United States Cham
Der of Commerce survey of the conGi-
ton OF agriculture as "a deliberate at
tempt by the apostles of Julius Barnes
to substitute sterile proposals for the
vital provisions of the McNary-Hau-
gen bill"
I'VE declare our conviction that
Senator BOrah has no right to speak
for agriculture" said one resolution,
'either in the corn belt or in the West.
and we deeply resent his professed in
terest in these premises"
The committee not only renewed it's
demand for the passage of the Nc.
Naryuaugen bill with the inclusion
of the equalization fee ''untrammeled"
as the heart of the surplus control
problem, but asserted it will scorn-
fully reject any proposal which does
| not meet this great problem fairly and
| honestly"
"Wabbling Congressman" would be
given special attention under one of
two plans under consideration by the
| committee.
Such Congressman would be fur
| niShed with ''boISteripo evidence of tho
demand for farm relief,'' or. would
face retaliation at the next election"
Under one plan of the committee, a
fund would be raised among farm or.
ganiZations by assessment of mem.
bers. the money being used to finance
congressional activities. Under the
other. the fight would be carried into
those districts where the bills support
! is in doubt,
Evening star., 1927-11-15
COLISEUM AND ARENA
FOR BOSTON STATION
Railroad Also to Include Hotel
and Office Building in New
Structure.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, November 1.-THE Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad today announced
plans for q new North Station with
a convention coliseum and sports
arena above it equal in capacity to
the Madison Square Garden and
tianked by new hotel on one end and
a History public office building on the
other.
The building will be on the site OF
the present station and other adjoin
ing railroad property. 1t was estl'
mated that the project would cost
5000, 900. Preliminary work has
been started.
The coliseum is to seat 18,500 per-
sons and will be operated under lease
from the railroad to a group of Bos
ton business men, who will have as
associates the Madison Square inter
ests of New York City.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
ORDER OF RED MEN PLANS
STREET PARADE TONIGHT
Delegates From District and Neigh.
boring States in Farley to
"Adopt" Glass of Candidates.

To the music of 90-piece band and
the shrill of three fife and drum corps
members of the Improved Order of
Red Men from Virginia. Maryland
Delaware and the District of Colum.
bia vii. parade tonight prior to the
holding of class adoption for several
hundred candidates.
The parade is scheduled to move
from Sixth street and Louisiana ave.
nue. at 7:30 o'clock and will proceed
along Pennsylvania avenue and
through downtown streets to the Ply.
THAN Temple. where the fraternal eX
ercises will be conducted. Past Sachem
James j. McCracken will marshall the
parade and Robert s. Strobel, past
great sachem of this city. is general
chairman of the program.
Speakers at the exercises will in
clue Robert II. Grove. Louisville, Ky.
great incohonee of the order; Senator
Cole l.. Blease. past great sachem OF
South Carolina; Harry Cuthriel. great
senior sycamore. and Herbert S. Stet
ser, great chief Of records of the Great
Council of the United States,
Evening star., 1927-11-15
DRY GROUP is LISTED
AS "SNO0PERS' BRIGADE"
Local Association Arrayed Against
Prohibition Attacks Advocates
of Enforcement as "Intolerant."

Sundays meeting Of the Citizens
Service Association for Law and Order
drew fire today from the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
which referred to the 'intolerant at
mosphere" at the gathering and
dubbed the dry organization the
"Snoopcrs' Brigade"
While asserting that the Citizens
Service AssociatiOn's declaration mer'
it's the Endorsement of the anti-prohibi'
ton group in joining 1t in a fight "on
bootlegeers, dope peddcrs and cor
rupt politicians" the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
used this language:
above the din Of bedam at the
mass meeting Of the Shoppers
Brigade are the frank admissions of
the 'Snooper High Command that IL
franticaIly seeks $4,000 for a slush
fund aud that it has declared war on
the Volstead laws most ardent sup
pOrters, bootleggers. dope peddlers and
crooked politicians.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
RETURN TO PITTSBURGH,

HOUSTON, Tex, November IS (Py.
Greatly concerned by the disastrous
explosion in their city yesterday, more
than 20 capitalists and business men
of Pittsburgh were returning to their
homes last night after a two-day stay
in Houston, where they had been on
q goodwill tour.
-Four members of the party left on
the first train after learning Of the
disaster. They included A. w. Rob,
ertson, president Of the Philadelphia
Co.; William J. Fitzgerald, vice presi.
dent of the Pittsburgh Railway Co.
r. W. Chesterman, vice president OF
the Pittsburgh Bell Telephone Co, a nd
Edward J. Lang, director of public
works.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
Young Girl Shoots
Self When Halted
For Speedy Driving
By the Associated Press.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, November
15.-Miss Louise Monteabarro. "a,
shot and killed herself here last
night after being arrested for
speeding by Police Chief Blake of
Calera, near here. Blake said he
had arrested the woman and was
driving her to Calera in her own
automobile when she pulled out a
pistol and shot herself in the head.
He stopped the car. thinking a tire
had blown out, but saw blood
streaming from her face and took
her to a hospital. She died shortly
after arrival there.
Miss Monteabarro resided at Ber.
lin. Ala, near here, and was en-
route to Birmingham on a visit.
Her mother is a travelling sales
woman, with headquarters in Ber-
lin, and her father resides here.
Friends said they could give no
reason for the shooting, which
Coroner Riddle said today was un-
doubtedly self-inflicted.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
DETECTIVES TO RETIRE
AFTER 20 YEARS. SERVICE

Thomas D. Walsh and Robert Liv-
ingston. for the past % years mem.
bers of the detective force, are serv-
ing today their last day of duty. They
Will be retired tomorrow morning.
Brother detectives at roll call this
morning presented each of the veter-
ans with a gold watch. suitably en-
graved. Maj. Gen. George Barnett.
retired, former commandant of the
Marine Corps. made the presentation
address, lauding the spirit engender-
ing loyalty and friendship among
members of the force. Inspector Hen
ry G. Pratt. chief of detectives, paid
tribute to the service record of the
two men and wished them future hap.
piness.
Detective Livingston plans to visit
relatives in Australia, and Walsh an.
ticipates trip abroad soon.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
POLICE UNDERGOING
ANNUAL INSPECTION
Maj. Hesse Begins Visitations tc
District Precincts, Which Prob
ably Will Continue Four Days.

Annual inspection of the Metro
politan police force was started today
by Mai Edwin B. Hesse. superintend.
ent. Every precinct and bureau in
the department will be inspected
during the next four days.
Maj. Hesse visited the harbor,
fourth, ninth, eleventh and fifth pre-
cincts today. Tomorrow he will inspect
the tenth, eighth, seventh, fourteenth
and thirteenth, and on Thursday the
sixth, first, second and twelfth pre-
ciEcts. The schedule Friday includes
visits to the third precinct. House of
Detention and the Traffic Bureau.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
Blind Boone.
rom the New York Sun,

From The New York Sun.
Blind Boone, the pianist, a musical
prodigy famous in the West. who
years ago at the height Of his career
made sensational appearance in this
city. died recently,in Missouri. Boone,
like his rival, Blind Tom, was born
OF slave parents. He was less difficult
to manage than the erratic Blind Tom
and accumulated a considerable for.
tune. on which he retired few years
ago. r~.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
Tardy Fashions.

From the Waterloo Tribune
What backward people they are in
Africa! They are beginning to wear
ciothes, Just when we have begun
dispensing with them.
Evening star., 1927-11-15

How to relieve the housing situa-
ton in Germany will be discussed at
meeting of municipal housing associa.
tions in Munich next May.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
BOWIE ENTRIES
FOR TOMORROW.

Harrison Nesbit and r. l.. Freeman entry
b Mrs. II. NJ. Pearson and Ascot Stable
entry.
eh W. Maxwell and Breckenridge Long
Evening star., 1927-11-15

Postal savings deposits In Japan
now total nearly ST5e,000, 900.
Evening star., 1927-11-15

q. japan will have new railway line
20 miles long.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
Purse. 81. 300: claiming /;
SEVENTH RACE-Purse 81 100; claim
ng: 3.yeaf-olds and up: !, miles.

sApprentiee allowance claimed.
Weather clear. track fast.
Evening star., 1927-11-15
SECOND RACE--Purse. ST 300; claiming:
3-year-olas and up: d n turIoncs
THIRD RACE-Purse. 81 300; claiming;
-year-oids and up; / !. miles.

FOURTH RACE-purse, 81 400: the Ori-
ole Handlcap: 2-year olds' u turlongs.
Evening star., 1927-11-15

FIFTH RACE-Purse. 81 800: The Ram
bow Purse; 3-year-Olds and mp; mile anti
Evening star., 1927-10-02
DRY AGENTS SUSPENDED.
Jackley and Brewer Under Charges
in Farmers Killing.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, October 1.-Prohibi-
tion Agents Dano Jackley and Joseph
r. Brewer of the Washington squad
have been relieved from active duty as
enforcement officers until further
notice, John +. J. Herbert. prohibition
administrator for Maryland, an
nounced yesterday.
The agents and two others were in
dicted for the murder of Charles V.
Gunlach. ST Marys County farmer,
during a raid on his farm, where 1t
had been falsely reported liquor was
being made.
Robert F. Cornett, jr, another of
the prohibition agents indicted, was
unarmed at the time of the shooting,
according to testimony at the bail
hearing for Brewer last Monday in
Federal Court here. John T. Fisher,
jr., the fourth agent, Is in the Walter
Reed Hospital at Washington. He suf-
fered gunshot wound in the right
knee, which agents said was inflicted
by Gunlach before he was fatally shot.
Attorney General Thomas III. Robinson
will assist Philip Fl. Dorsey, States at
torney for st. Marys County. in the
prosecution of the dry agents on the
murder charge, 1t has been announced.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
MEXICO OPENS WAY
FOR CLAIMS MEETING
Resignation of Van Vollenhoven
Delays Convening-Life of Com
mission Prolonged.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ratification by the Mexican Senate
of the extension of the General Claims
Commission convention with the
United States paves the way for
meeting of the commission in Mexico
City, although no definite date has
been set.
Secretary kellogg has been formally
advised by the Mexican embassy of
the action of the Mexican Senate and
as the United States Senate already
had authorized the extension the pact
which prolongs the life Of the con
vention for two years is, therefore.
now effective.
a delay in convening the commits
sion in Mexico City Is necessary be-
cause c. van Vollenhoven, the neutral
member, has returned to his home In
Holland and a new neutral presiding
officer must be selected. DR.. van
Evening star., 1927-10-02
TEACHERS LOSE PAY.
Cocked for Not Appearing on Hot
Chicago Day.

CHICAGO, October ! R.-Public
school teachers who took holiday
September Is after reading in the
morning papers that the schools were
to be closed because of the extreme
heat have been docked that days sal
ary, the Chicago Tribune said today.
1t was explained that while the
school board reached a decision to
close the schools, no actual order was
issued until noon of September IS. For
that reason, it was explained at the
paw window, there was no authori-
zation to pay salaries for that day to
teachers who did not appear at their
schools.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
KAUFMAN TR|PLETS
Join SAME CLASS
Youngsters in kindergarten
to Present Unique Subject
for Efficiency Tests.

Lillian, Ann and Henry Kaufman,
5-year-old triplets in the kindergarten
Of the Adams School, Seventeenth and
r streets, have started out on
mental race" that may result in
some great contribution to science.
If it does. however, the achieve
III mt will have been recorded entirely
unboknown to Lillian, Ann and Henry.
In fact, Lillian, Ann and Henry don't
even know they have engaged in any
race, mental or otherwise. All they
are concerned about is how to make
the most of that sandpile and those
CrayonS and the other gadgetS pro
vidcd for their amusement, or should
we say education, by their kind teach
ers, Miss +. c. Carr and Miss NJ. l..
Trapp.
AS to this race business-it seems
that Lillian, Ann and Henry are the
first set of triplets ever to sit in the
same class in Washington public
school. 1t seems also there are So
called intelligence officers or some
thing like that who make it their
business to compare the mentalities
and SO on of little boys and girls in
school.
Opportunity for Observers.
In the past they have had to con-
tent themselves with comparing the
mental qualities and abilities of broth
ers and sisters with each other or
with those of other boys and girls.
Lots of difference is found in many
of these studies, 1t is rumored
The big opportunity now presents
itself of observing the intellectual
progress of triplets. Lillian may
learn things faster than Ann, for in
stance, and Henry may beat them
both. On the other hand, there is the
possibility that all three will measure
up to virtually the same mental
standard. At any rate, it will prove
an interesting study for the intelli-
gence experts.
IL the brains of the Kaufman trip
let's are the same, it is more than
can be said of their faces. They do
not look alike and, in addition, they
have markedly different habits and
actions. All bear a strong family re-
semblance, however.
After two weeks of school the trip-
let's are enthusiastic over their kin
dergarten work and it is the hope of
MIR. and Mrs. Kaufman that they will
be able to progress through school,
grade by grade, together.
A Healthy Trio.
Since their birth on June 2, 1922.
at Sibley Hospital. the triplets have
not had day of sickness. Mrs. Kauf-
man declares that they play nicely
Evening star., 1927-10-02

by the Nomen's Student Government
Association of the university.
The regulations for freshmen require
that the first-year women wear hats
and black stockings at all times while
on campus.
Each new coed must wear button
with her name printed plainly on it
for identification by the upper class
women. the decalogue states.
Other requirements are:
Freshmen must have nickelS In
change at all times for the use of
upper classmen.
No freshman may appear alone on
the campus when the company of an
other freshman is available.
Evening star., 1927-10-02
CO-EDS CANNOT CARRY
COSMETICS ON CAMPUS
Penn Frosh Must Wear Hats and
Black Stockings and Keep

HIgHeT-upS III NICKeIS.
Correspondence of The Star.
PHILA LADELPHIA.-Rule issued for
freshman co-eds at the University of
Pennsylvania place a partial ban on
the use of cosmetics.
This was revealed recently in the
New Decalogue, list of regulations
issued by the women students sopho-
more vigilance committee.
According to the ruling, the first
year women must not use or have in
their possession any sort of cosmetics
while on the campus. The ruling also
forbids the wearing of unnecessary
jewelry and insignia.
The New Decalogue will be included
in the freshman bible" to be issued
Evening star., 1927-10-02

together and want to do everything
alike.
If 1 hug one. have to hug all
three" Mrs. Kaufman laughinglv
said yesterday, If | buy for one I
have to buy for all three whether
they all need it or not"
The triplets were the Kaufman's
first children. The family lives at
1901 T street, where MIR. Kaufman
conducts a grocery store.
Evening star., 1927-10-02

Vollenhoven informed Secretary Kel-
logg many months ago that he would
be unable to continue service on the
commission beyond its original dura-
ton because of personal business.
The Mexican desire that q meeting
of the commission be held in the Mex
ican capital was expressed while the
extension agreement was under ne.
gotiations and was accepted by the
Washington Government.