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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
YANKEES BEING CROWDED
BY TEAMS FROM WEST

The East scored two victories in the
three games played in the National
League. New York crept up again
to second place as Virgil Barnes held
the Reds to three hits for 6-to-0
shutout, while the Braves bested the
Cubs in hitting match, to d.
The lone Western victory in the
league was a walk-away for Pitts
burgh, II to /, over the Quakers.
Working best in the pinches in spite
Of momentarily erratic support in the
field, Vic Aldridge held the Phils to
Just four hits while his own team
made Is safeties, including home
runs.
A summary of yesterdays games:
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Detroit ......... o000003O0-3 80
:, Holloway and Woodall Pennock and Col
lins Grabowski.
Cleveland. ........3OOO 0OOOO-311O
Philadelphia ..... OOOOOO1 % 10
=, Miller and, L. sewell; Pate. Quinn and
Cochrane Perkins.
Chicago .......... 002300 0O0-5 so
Boston ........... 5000 000-1 IA 1
Thomas and McCurdy Grouse: Weller
Russel. Bradley and Hartley.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
RHE
New York. ....... 201OO2O 1O-6 10
Cincinnati ...... 10000 OOOO-O 80
Sukeforth. "'0 e.
philadelphia ..... OOOO0OO1- Al
Pittsburgh 49,. OOO310 xii Is )
Ulrich., Willoughby and Wilson: Aldridge
and Gooch
Chicago .... '':::: SSYY5 S699SSS39 Il Il
Robertson, Mogridge and Hogan: Bush
Roy, Kaufman. Osborne and Hartnett
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
PITCHING
VIRGINIA LEAGIIE.

Portsmouth Richmond (raIn).
Norfolk. 2: Wilson, 3.
Petersburgh- 20. Kinston. OIL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04

Manager Frederick of Park View
requests that the manager of Mary.
land A. G. call Columbia 9432.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
BIC LEAGUE STATISTICS

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
st. Louis. 8; Washington. 4.
cleveland. 3: Philadelphia. 1.
Detroit, 3: New York. ].
Chicago. D: Boston. 1.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
BIG LEAGUE LEADERS.

Home Run SIuggers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04

Sport Marts are booked for a Pet.
worth League tilt tomorrow, but want
outside games for any date. Call
North 1895.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04

GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Phila mt Pittsburgh. n. Y. at Cincinnati.
n. Y. Mt Cincinnati. Brooklyn at st. Louis.
Brooklyn at st. Louis Boston at Chicago.
Boston at Chicago.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Mrs. Edward Eiselstein was a
recent guest at the home Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Giberson on Wilson boulevard.
The regular monthly meeting Of
the board of education was held
in the Port school on Monday even
ing.
The Ladies' Aid society held
their monthly meeting at the home
of Miss Amanda Blake on Tuesday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Giberson
had as guest on Sunday, Prof.
Haunstein, of Egg Harbor City.
Mrs. Frank Wilson and Miss
Linda Mitchell were Atlantic City
visitors on Saturday.
Word has been received from
Fred Huntley who is employed By
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13
ARTIST CONDEMNS
BOYiSH FIGURES

Girls whose ambition it is to
hive boyish figures were scored
today by w. D. Stevens, New
York artist, during an interview
at the Ambassador Hotel.
"Such girls need never apply
to me for jobs as models" ne
said. "They are flattened where
they should not be flat, destroy
bodily tissue and become hideous
from an artistic point of view.
Girls are also running them
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13
Port Republic News

the C. H, Earl Contracting Com
pany. that he is suffering with a
sprained wrist.
Mrs Grover Wilson was an Egg
Harbor City visitor on Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Kelly were
Egg Harbor City visitors on Satur-
day afternoon.
Mrs. Alice Sewers, of Philadel-
phia, spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Giberson, at their home on Wilson
boulevard.
Mrs. Horace Miller, of Absecon,
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Sahl on Monday.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Anyone in existing conditions
who tries to fly over the Atlantic
is quite obviously mad. He may be
a very valiant maniac. That does
not come into competition with my
thesis Lord Birkenhead.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13
IN THE BAKERY

IN THE BAKERY
What is a synonym"
Why, it's the stuff we put on
the buns every day"
Centre Colonel
IS SIS your wife a good cook2"
Il should say So You should
come over some time when she's
roasting the janitor."
Stanford Choporrol.
Add Smiles: His head is as
empty as a full dinner pail in
Russia.
-Texds Ranger.
She: So you kissed the painted
creature?
He: Yes. | saluted the colors.
Princeton Tiger.
Twelve of them were in the boat
when it sank. There's a case for
you.
--Michigan Caygoyle.
Peculiarly enough, the crew seem
to be the only first class travellers
on most trips.
&C. c. N. Y. Mercury.
He's one of those toe dancers.
Dances on anybody's.
Pomona Sagehen.
He: I'm full of pep.
She: If that's pep, I never
SmeileQ GIN.
Mink.
Goodbye, I'm off to Florence.
$50 long, I'm going to Seattle
NJ myself"
Boston Beanpot.
=
t Give a man enough rope and be
won't have to buy any.
louisville Satyr.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13
GETS LIBERTY
AND MONEY
With Money To Bay Bar
ber's Tools, viii Keep
Out of Jail

A man accused of having broken
into house has been acquitted by
jury. He admitted to Judge w.
Bernard Vause in a Brooklyn court
that he served three terms in the
last 81 years. q could make a liv-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

ing at my trade of barber if l had
SIS to buy tools, and | would not
be picked up by police any more, "
the man told the court. I'VE ought
to be able to fix that" said Judge
vause. He then took SIS from his
pocket and sent the man on his
way.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

selves by late hours, drinking
and .moking. They are becom
ing coarse and old before their
time"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

The one thing that hurts more
than having to pay income tax is
not having to pay income tax
Lord Dewar.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

individually, most people rail at
the newspapers of today. Collect
lively, they will not tolerate any
other kind.-Colonel Robert B. Nc
Cormick.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

The wrong people go to the thea
ter more and more; the right PEG
pie less and less-Clayton Hamil
ton.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Thrift carried TO excess may be
a personal vice. but it cannot fail
to be social virtue Sir ]. A. r.
Marriott, NJ p
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Boston | found refined and gen
teel. and sensitive beyond my ca
pacfty-H. G. Wells.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Age cannot wither nor custom
stale the fiapper of II who has just
turned II.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

The self-made man is one of the
most deplorable creations of civili-
zation.-Sir Herbert Morgan.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

You never can tell. Even the
man who is on the level can't al
ways avoid bumps.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

First Six-Year-Old: Brother left
his coonskin coat at home. Let's
play college boys.
Second Same: We can't. All
the girls we know are decent.
Rice OzCi.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Excited Passenger: The ship (
sinking.
Sailor: I should worry; If don't
belong to me.
Ohio State San Dill s
I'm never going to get mar
RED.
sWhy?"
Because you have to have six
teen wives. 1t says so right In the
marriage ceremony: four better,
four worse, four richer, four poorer
and four times four are sixteen"
Golden Bad.
@Scotohmen won't use the Chi
cago telephones any more"
And why is that?"
Because when the operator
says, Thank you they think that
they are giving something away"
Northeastern Purple Parrot.
-
A cynic is man who is having
the time of his life thinking that
he isn't.
-MichigGn Gaygoyle.
She didn't think of him all the
time. But whenever she thought.
she thought of him.
--NortA1cestern Purple Parrot.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Doctor: I'm sorry, but l can't
cure your husbands talking in his
sleep.
Wife: Can't yop give him some
thing to make him talk more dis
tinctly?
Cornell Widoao. ..
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

A man of diminutive proportions
at down at the restaurant table.
Il want some salad" he said.
''What kind, shrimp" asked the
waiter.
Don't get funny with me,
young mani"
Dartmouth Jack o'Lantera.
aHow you comm along in your
tudies?"
"I'm about to funk out"
'Why don't you get a private
tutor2"
I'm not studying on musical in
ytruments."
--Okh Whvls0ind.
Clerk: You want a gift for
your daughter? How about nice
little garter purse?
Mother: No. ] don't think it
would be wise for her to carry her
money in plain sight.
Washington Diyge.
81 could not love you half so
veil my dear, had not loved be-
Gore"
-Aggievator.
"But, Mother, / met Jack at a
house party"
"What was it, roadhouse?"
Utah Hambag.
aAre you New Yorker?"
"No. I'm an American"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Two Souls With But a Single
Thought. (But in which of
them that thought resides, God
only knows.)
Ohio State Sun Dial.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Some women with a past are so
pleased with it that they are al
ways living up to it.
-Columbia Tester.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

Priscilla: I'd like to have you
meet my father.
John: Does he smoke or drink
Priscilla: No.
John: Well, I'm not contemplate
ing marriage, little girl.
-Cdrnegie Pappet.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

81 sent my boy to college to
acquire a little polish moaned
Farmer Brown, and now he's
drinking itp'
Virginia Reel.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-13

"Son, where have you been?"
queried the anxious mother as her
boy slouched into the house at one
A. M.
1--we been out on date, was
the answer.
"With that dirty shirt?'
NAV, with girl
--Bobcat.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-06-30
Page Fourteen

TROM the sleeveless models cor
directly designed for tennis to the
slightly formal mode in sports
contributed for the onlooker, the
mode for the summer sports cos
tunes is as varied as ii Is interest
ing.
To take the little tennis frock
first, 1t usually is designed to give
the utmost freedom and yet man.
ages to include extreme chic in its
lines. 1t may be in one or two
pieces, possessing, usually, a pleat.
ed skirt. The jumper allows splen'
did movement and may be mono
grammed, embroidered or appliqued
in appealing designs. Colors as
well as all white are used in the
tennis court with a preference
shown for all white.
Golf is a smartly dressed game
these days, also. Jackets and skirts
of flannel are much in evidence.
One piece frocks Of either wooden
or silk are seen topped by jacket
or sweater. Skirts should be wide
enough to permit an easy stance
and may be either plain or plated.
Belts appear to advantage in the
golfing outfit and Z ten add a chic
note to the jacket with wide pock-
cts.
Yachting is made enjoyable with
the very trig double breasted suits
of white flannel. These often cover
a bathing suit that may make prac-
tical use of itself. Other one-piece
white tub silk dresses topped by a
navy blue coat in tailored trimness
serve q successful sartorial pur-
pose.
For mountain climbing or hik-
ing, trousers, divided skirts or
Knockers serve their purpose well.
These are combined with cool
biouses and Jackets. Leather jack
cts are also much in demand with
bright kerchiefs and j. broad-brim'
med hats of felt.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-06-30

CYCLONE. SAFETY SHINGLES LAID
over old shingles. Slate coated. attrac-
tive colors. fire resistant. Lowers your
fire insurance cost. Call Main 1916 for
estimate. Spokane Paper d Stationery Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24

ming. The hats are OF dark material
and the effect is stunning. Another
hat. the helmet, studded with silver
nail-heads. also is becoming popular
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
COFFEE SHOPS CAUSE
ALARM AT OXFORD
Undergraduates Meet Regularly in
Midmording for Gossip and
Mild Flirtations.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
OXFORD. England, March 24.-Cus.
todians Of Oxford's present-day morals
are alarmed at the growth of coffee
shops along the city's main street.
To the accompaniment of a jazz
orchestra and over cups of coffee and
plates Of waters, undergraduates and
undergraduates" of England's most
Rrfstocratic college meet regularly in
midmorning for a bit of gossip, a mild
filtration and discussion of the days
campusalogy."
But reference to the city's historians
shows that the practice is by no
means new. In 1850, in addition to
$40 alehouses, the city boosted several
coffee houses, well frequented by the
students of the day.
University authorities of the times
looked upon the prospecting coffee
houses with alarm as "neanes to Gre
ate idleness and debauch scholars. -
Anthony Wood, one historian of the
times. wrote:
The decay of study, and conse-
Quently of learning, are coffey
houses, to which most scholars retire
and spend much of the day in hearing
and speaking of news and speaking
vilely of their superiors, uttering flu.
emily romantic nonsense, unintelligi-
BILE gibberish, f1ourishing lyes and
nonsense"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24

Mrs. Ada NJ. Tucker yesterday filed
suit to recover $25 900 damages from
the Washington Gas Light Co. for
alleged personal injuries. She says
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
MISS ANNABEL MATHEWS SAILS
FOR DOUBLE TAX CONFERENCE
Woman Lawyer in Internal
Revenue Bureau Will
Represent U. S.
Was Chosen Out of $50 At
torneyS Because of
Expert knowledge.

Miss Annabel Mathews, an attor-
ney in the office of the general counsel
of the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
sailed from New York yesterday for
London, where she will represent the
United States at the international con-
ference on double taxation.
Miss Mathews was chosen out of
$50 lawyers in the Internal Revenue
office because of her outstanding
knowledge of the income tax law.
The delegates to the conference are
economists and lawyers, for the most
part government officials, from all the
countries of the world that now have
income tax laws as well as from some
that are considering such legislation.
The purpose of the conference is a
scientific study of the operation and
Interpretation of income tax laws in
order that the taxpayer will not be
required to pay taxes twice upon
such holdings as he may have in SUBJ
sidiary corporations.
The United States is sending three
official representatives. The other two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
WIFE ASKS INJUNCTION.
Hrs. Lockwood Seeks to Retain
Trust Fund.

Mrs. Grace II. Lockwood has asked
the District Supreme Court for an
Injunction against her husband. Carl
j. Lockwood, who is said to be in
Nevada, and the American Security e.
Trust Co. to prevent the payment by
the company to her husband of his
share in the estate of his father,
Philo J. Lockwood, which is payable
to him next month. Lockwood, the
court is Informed, obtained a divorce
in Nevada, which the wife holds is
invalid.
In October. 1911. the husband is said
TO have directed the trust company to
retain $4,000 as a fund, from the
income of which payments of 500
monthly were to be made to the wife.
Mrs. Lockwood fears that if the trust
company shall surrender to her hus-
band his share of the estate it will
not be able to retain the trust fund
for her maintenance, and she also be
lieves her husband would remove the
assets from the District and she would
not be able to prevent 1t. She is rep
resented by Attorneys Elwood p.
Morey and Harry g. Kimball.
Justice Stafford issued a rule on
the husband and the trust company to
show cause April / why provision
should not be made for the wife by
retaining the trust fund for her
benefit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
Col. Henry Ordered Here.

Col. Guy V. Henry, u. s. Cavalry,
who is just completing a tour of duty
with troops in the Philippines, has
been ordered to this city for duty in
command Of the Sd Cavalry at Fort
Myer, Va, effective April &c.
Col. Henry is the son of a famous
Cavalry officer Of the same name who
commanded the post at Fort Myer for
several years. Col. Henry In his new
assignment will also be in command
Of that post.
He succeeds Brig. Gen. William J.
Glasgow, recently promoted, who has
been. ordered to examination for re
tirement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
EDUCATOR REPLIES
| To MELONS NOTE
Declares SeCretary's Answer
on Debt Policy Fails to
Consider Moral Issue.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 24-Alleged
errors of fact and Interpretation in
the reply of Secretary of the Treas
ury Andrew w. Mellon to state
ment of the political science faculty
of Columbia University, made public
last December, in which the faculty
members opposed the policy of the
United States on war debts, are in the
latest document to he added to the
debate.
The document, made public yester-
day, is a letter written by Edwin X.
A Seligman. McVickar professor of
political economy at Columbia, to Sec
rotary Mellon.
Expresses Faculty View.
Prof. Seligman's letter expresses the
view Of the AZ members of the faculty
who signed the December statement,
which was approved by President
Hibben and 116 members of Prince
tons faculty.
I'm. the first place" Prof. Seligman
says, when you speak of loans as in
yestments. and indeed throughout
your argument. you pass over in 81
lence those moral aspects of the debt
situation which formed the principal
basis of the Columbia and Princeton
statements.
Must Settle Moral Issue.
THE question will not be finally
settled until we reach an adjustment
that Is morally defensible as well as
economically sound.
You intimate, in the second place,
that our statement was based upon
inadequate knowledge of the facts. I
assure you that we are thoroughly
familiar with all the facts that have
been made public by the Treasury
Department"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
ATTEMPT TO kIDNAP
GIRL, is, CHARGED
Mother Said to Have Hired Two
Youths to Take Daughter From
Children's Home.

By the Associated Press.
LANCASTER, Pa, March ga
Theodore Kock, 90, and Elwood Anto-
nelli, 10. together with Mrs. Hiram
Miller of Detroit. Mich, whose daugh-
ter Mae, IS. they are charged with
attempting to kidnap from the Men
MONTE Children's Home at Millers-
vile. were in the Lancaster County
prison last night in default of bail.
Police said all confessed.
Kock and Antonelli told detectives
they were hired for $11O to get the
daughter into the custody of the
mother, who has been estranged from
her husband. Police said Mrs. Miller
had admitted paying the pair SIS and
promising an additional $40 if they
succeeded.
Covering Levi Sander. custodian of
the home. with a pistol, the men
sought to fee with the girl last night,
but became unnerved when the intend
ed victim went to Sanders assistance.
The men fed, but were captured sew
eral hours later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
FEDERAL VACANCIES.
Commission Announces Tests for
Government Positions.

The Civil Service Commission today
announced open competitive examina-
tions to FIJI the following vacancies:
Minor library assistant, Department
of Labor, at 81 ,140.
Railway postal clerk, Railway Mail
Service, at $50.
Associate architect at SO 900, assist
ant architect at 81, 400.
Forest fire prevention lecturer, for
duty in the field, at $4,000:
Technologist at $4,000, associate
technologist at $4,000, assistant tech
nologist at SO 400.
Physicist at $4,000, associate physi-
cist at $4,000, assistant physicist at
50, 400.
Minor laboratory apprentice at 5000.
Assistant scientific aid at $4,000,
junior scientific aid at 1890, under
laboratory apprentice at 81 ,140.
Under multigraph operator at 81 .140,
Junior multigraph operator at 1920,
mimeograph operator at 81, 140.
Lithographic press feeder at $1,140.
Map printers helper at 5000.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained from the Office
of the United States Civil Service Com
mission, 1924 f street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
Nails Decorating Hats.

Paris has a new decoration for
women's hats-a single nail 1t is
made of silver. and is the sole trim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24

drilling Buffalo Bill for a speech of
Is words when the Indian fighter was
persuaded to leave the Wyoming
plains TO face the footlights.
Despite his patient coaching, John
son said, he had to administer nerve
tonic in the form of two bottles of
whisky when Buffalo Bill made his
debut at a Chicago theater.
Johnson died here last night He
was 70 years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
OBSCENE LITERATURE
BILL AGAIN REJECTED
"Clean-Books" Measure Thrown
Into Discard by Fifth New
York Legislature.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALBANY. n. Y, March 24.-The so
called "clean-books" bill, rejected by
four previous Legislatures, was thrown
into the discard again yesterday, when
Senator M. j. Kennedy, Democrat, of
New York, the 1927 sponsor of the
measure. moved for it's discharge from
the codes committee, which has per-
sistently refused to report it. The
motion was defeated by vote Of %
to %.
Under the terms of the bill, indict-
ments could be returned on the whole
or any part of book, magazine, news
paper or other publication, The meas
ure is also designed to strengthen the
literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24

that while residing at 431 First street,
January 81, gas escaped from the COM
pany's pipes and caused her to be
overcome, which resulted in perma-
nent injury. She is represented by
Attorneys Sam A. Syme and Michael
Lane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24
JAMES ]. JOHNSON, CODY'S
TRAINER, DIES IN DENVER
Is Credited With Having Made
Snowman of Buffalo Bill"
by "Patient Coaching"

BY the Associated Press
DENVER, Colo, March 24.--James
J. Johnson, credited with making a
Snowman OF William r. buffalo Bid
Cody, is dead.
Johnson, friends said. spent days
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-24

versity and Mitchell Carroll, repre-
the Department of Commerce.
Miss Matthews has been working with
Prof. Adams as his associate and legal
advisor in the Treasury Department,
where he has been an expert on the
economic results of income taxation.
Miss Matthews is a member of the
Phi Delta Delta Women's Legal So
rority and the Women's Bar Associa-
ton of the District.