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Gibbs, and dramatic readings and
poetry selections by members of the
poetry group. Mrs. Aaron Newman
will act as hostess and the new MEM
bers will be the special guests.
The Smith College Club win hold
meeting tomorrow afternoon at
4:30 o'clock at the A. A. u. w. club.
house. Tea will be served and Mrs.
II. NJ. Nichols will report on the
alumnae council meetings held in
Northampton over the week end.
which she attended as delegate from
the Washington club. Arrangements
will be made for a Spring luncheon
March 81, when the annual sconyen.
ton of the A. A. U. w. will be held
in Washington. AS many prominent
alumnae will be attending the ses-
sions. 1t is expected that the luncheon
will be larger affair than usual.
AT the meeting of the PENNSYLVANIA
Society of Washington in the New
Willard Hotel ballroom tomorrow
night at sis O'Clock the honor guests
will be the Pennsylvania delegation
in the House Of Representatives. This
will be known as House of Renre
sentatfves night" and will give an
opportunity to the Pennsylvania
solons to address the Keystoneites in
the National Capital before they leave
for their homes in Pennsylvania at
the close of Congress. Mr.. George
O'Connor will sing and will be accom-.
panied at the piano by Mr.. Matt
Horn. After the program there will
be dancing until l o'clock.
The Sojourners' Club ball, to be held
Saturday evening, promises to be an
interesting event. AS this session of
congress Is drawing to a close. a
number of Representatives and their
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ladies will be present. The committee,
consisting of Capt. George F. I'm
macht, chairman; Capt. w. J. Stan
nard, Capt. E. S. Bethlehem, Capt. c.
T. Brooks, Comdr. r. G. Davis, Maj.
Albert II. Dondero and Capt. l.. L.
Shook, has been very active to make
this affair an outstanding event.
Much interest is being shown in the
Hindu health luncheon to be given
Monday at 1915 o'clock in the VIII
lard Hotel by the Washington com
mittee, in honor of Swami Yogananda
The swami will give a brief talk on
The Art of Living" and there will
be vocal music by well known Wash
ington musicians.
Tables are being rapidly reserved
for the affair." which is in the nature
of a farewell party for the distin-
guished East Indian philosopher, who
is leaving the city early next week
for Buffalo, n. Y.
Among the many table hostesses
for the luncheon are Mrs. Brooks
Fletcher. Mrs. Henry Riggs Rathbone
Mrs. William w. Van Valzah, Mrs
William Fl. Moses, Mrs. Joseph Gran
ford, Mrs d. c. Redgrave, Miss Eliza
beth Barnes, Mrs William Mercer
Sprigg, Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood
Mrs. Anna L. Hendley. DR.. Lulah
Passlow, Mrs. G. F. Pollomk and Mrs.
j. 3. Freeman.
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PYGMY MATERIAL
u WILL COME HERE
5000 Specimens of ImpIe-
mentS Will Be Sent to
National Museum.
BY the Associated Press.

BOSTON, February 24.---The pyg-
mics who live far in the interior
of New Guinea are ''in the stone age
of culture, said Prof. Matthew w.
Stirling of Berkeley, Calf. yesterday.
Prof. Stirling, who headed the Smith
sonian Institutien-Dutch government
expedition into pygmy land, returned
on the liner President Adams with
other members of the expedition.
Describing the primitive customs of
the fourfoot people, whom he found
very friendly. he remarked that they
had been falsely accused of cannibal-
ism. The accusation, he believed,
arose from their methods of disposing
of their dead. In some villages Gre
nation is practiced, but in others the
bodies are left exposed on a platform
for some time and the bones are pre-
served.
Generous i'm Potatoes.
Members of the expedition found
the pygmies generous in their gifts of
sweet potatoes, the staple product of
this agricultural people; sugar cane
and other food, and thoroughly honest
and trustworthy. They have no for
NAL religion, but are very supersti-
tious. They believe in ghosts and
magic and wear charms and eat GER
tain kinds Of food to ward off evil
spirits.
The men wear nets over their heads
and large nets slung from their
shoulders in which they carry about
their household belongings. AS a rule
they are of poor physique.
Test of Bravery.
While the pygmy bride of New
Guinea has to submit to having her
husband chop off her index finger at
the first joint as a symbol of the
married state, the young man about
to be married must first undergo an
ordeal to test his courage. With two
male relatives of the bride, he goes
out into a clearing. where they shoot
arrows at him. He tries to dodge
the missiles and to shoot back. Some
of the prospective husbands are
killed and many wounded; those who
survive are considered brave enough
to support a wife, but they must also
be possessed Of goodly supply of
the shells which are used as money.
The expedition used airplanes and
canoes in exploring the country
About 5000 specimens of crude
wood and stone implements and
weapons and other material were OBJ
tanned and will be sent to the National
Museum. In addition, many reels of
motion picture film and still pictures
were brought home.
Prof. Stirling said that he planned
to revisit the pygmy country probably
within two years in order to follow
up his studies.
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MRS. r. WHITNEY TOWER
TO WED IN CAIRO TODAY
Daughter of Harry Payne Whitney
Will Be Bride of G.. MacCol-
1och Miller.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 24-Mrs.
Flora Whitney Tower and G. MacCol-
loch Miller. both of New York, viii be
married today in Cairo, Egypt, it was
announced here yesterday.
Mrs. Tower Is the former Flora
Payne Whitney. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. She was
divorced in 1925 from Roderick Tower,
to whom she was married in 1920.
Mr. Miller is son of the late NJ.
Hoffman Miller and grandson of the
late George MacColloch Miller, and is
a lawyer and financier. He joined
Mrs. Tower and her mother recently in
Cairo.
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WILKINS PREPARES
FOR ARCTIC FLIGHT
Captain Reconditions Airplane for
Attempt to Explore Blind
Spot"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, February "a.
Capt. George Hubert wilkins of the
Detroit News Wilkins Arctic expedi-
ton yesterday began reconditioning
the Alaskan, a Fokker airplane used in
flights beyond Point Barrow last year
In his first attempt to explore the
Arctic blind spot" Wilkins arrived
here Tuesday night.
Wings from the Detroiter, wilkins
other Fokker plane, are to be trans
ferred to the Alaskan. A new motor
will be put in and minor repairs made.
Both planes were badly damaged last
year. Wilkins plans to have the
Alaskan reconditioned by the time his
two new Stinson planes arrive from
the States next week, so that they
may be assembled Immediately.
The hop-off for Point Barrow has
been set tentatively for March 10.
when all three planes will depart stimuli
taneously, carrying light loads OF nee
essary equipment. A supply or 3,oo0
gallons of gasoline was stored at Point
Barrow last Summer.
Czechoslovakia has $4,000 passenger
o,,I E00 try1okS
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SOCIETY
Continued from Eighteenth Page)

Visitation Convent will entertain at
a tea dance in compliment to the
class of '27 in the patio at the Carton
Hotel tomorrow afternoon from TO
Z. Miss Jean Nesbit is president OF
the class of '2S.
A very interesting program has been
prepared for the first historical meet
ing of the season of the District Di-
vision of the United Daughters OF the
Confederacy, which will be held at the
Confederate Memorial Home, 1877
Vermont avenue northwest, at
o'clock tomorrow evening. The orator
of the evening will be Congressman
McSwain of South Carolina, whose
reputation as a speaker is very well
known throughout the South as we'll
as in official walks in Washington.
His subject will be Gen. Anderson"
who was one of the outstanding fg-
ures in the war between the States.
There will be a musical program,
which has been arranged by Mrs. Sam
uel Burleigh Milton. the historian for
the District division. Miss Margaret
Brewer will be the pianist and Miss
Evelyn Scott violinist. The program
follows: Piano. Country Gardens,
by Granger; waltz, Opus "a, No. l.
Chopin: prelude in G Minor Rach-
maninoff; violin, From the Cane
brake" by Gardner; Meditation"
from THAT'S by Massenet; Gypsy
Dance" by NacheZ. A general invita-
ton has been extended to all the local
Daughters of the Confederacy and 9th
err Southern organizations to attend.
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A man in Bellows Falls, VT, who
has over 10000 maple trees set out
in rows on the side of hill. plans to
run the sap by pipe lines to storage
tanks at the foot of the hill. In this
way he expects to save the expense
involved in the usual method of gath
ering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24
Rainy Day Specials!

Save when it rains ---
here's the story. When It
rains come down to Kings
Palace and save. Season.
able. desirable merchandise
throughout the store Will
hear red cards reading
"Rainy Day Special" and
offering the various items
nj a deep reduction. 1t will
affect unadvertised items
only. And you will save 1870
or more on each feature.
Look for the Red Cards.
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Maine State Society Will
Give Reception Tomorrow.

Name STATE society VIII
Give Reception Tomorrow.
The Maine State Society of Wash
ington viii hold a reception at the
Hamilton Hotel tomorrow evening II
honor of Senator and Mrs. Arthur r
Gould of Maine.
At the coffee house symposium a.
the clubhouse of the League of Ameri
can Pen Women tomorrow afternoon
Senior Hector Valarde, second secre
tary of the embassy of Peru, will give
an illustrated lecture on Peruvian
Architecture"
Among the patronesses, are Mrs
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Mrs. j. Border
Hartman, Mrs. Franklin H. Ellis and
Mrs. Roland Kidder Smith. The host
esses on this occasion will be Mrs
Robert j. Grant and Mrs. Robert l.
Taylor.
The regular monthly fellowship tea
will be held at the clubhouse Sunday
afternoon from to o'clock. The
program includes vocal numbers by
Mr. Roland Comely and Mrs. Warner
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Czechoslovakia has $4,000 passenger
automobiles and 500 trucks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
BABE RUTH To
/ REWARD BOYS

Babe" Ruth, King Of Swatters,
viii present rs official big league
baseball to Is boys on Monday at
the American League Baseball Park.
The boys who were the first rs to
win the Babe" Ruth gloves will
not only get the baseballs as an
added prize, but will be able to see
the Yankees and Nationals play as
the guests Of the Washington base.
ball club.
The youngsters will meet at the
office of The Washington Times,
1917 II st. N. W., Monday at 2
p. m. They will be taken to the
baseball park, and viii sit in re-
served section.
The Babe" win toss the base.
balls TO the kids. Just after this
the Nicholas Longworth, Speaker
of the House of Representatives,
will present Walter Johnson with
the silver cup he won in The Wash.
ington Herald Popularity Contest
last fall.
The list to lucky winners of the
autographed big. league baseballs
follows:
j. M. schwab, Ballston, Va: Rus.
sell Shaw, 1860 California st. N. w:
A. Hofberg. 500 Twentieth st. N. W.;
Murel Iuhl, 1113 Eleventh st. N. W.;
Robert Crompton, Map.e Avenue, Ia.
kona Park; Thomas Glenn. 1929 Cor
coran st. N. W.; John Coon. 405 G
st. s. E.. George w. Tenley, jr., 8
Walker St., Hyattsville, Nd; F. Har-
low, Alexandria, Va: Clarence Nay.
lor, 1924 Galen st. s. e.: r. Jenkins,
Bethesda, Md; Dan Cleary, 1913
Reservoir Rd.; Nathan Decklebaum
$50 r st. N. W.; William Gatkin, 3OI
d St. S. E.; William Dronenburg, 1876
Sixth St. N. E.; William G.. Glenn,
1914 Thirtieth St.: Harry Burns. 22O5
X st. N. W.; Donald Brown, 1908
Georgia Ave: Eugene Abbott, 1460
Irving St.; William Colburn. 227
West ST., Annapolis. Nd; James
Speake, indian Head. Nd; Joseph
Gowen, East Riverdaie. Nd; Paul
Phillips, Berwyn. Nd: william shu-
mate. 345 stlickler Ave. Clarendon,
Va, and Allen Poore, 1112 Sixth st.
s. W.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
Southern Diaries Gives
Dinner for BOwIers

The Southern Diaries Bowling
League celebrated the completion of
this years activities with a dinner
at the Raleigh last night. Charles
Campbell was POSTMASTER. Short
talks were given by President e. s.
Perot, jr, and other executives OF
Southern Diaries and by Col. Har-
rington Of the Sterrett Operating
Service.
The championship was won by
the Auditors Team with the Ice De-
partment Team a close second. The
Auditors also rolled high team game
at SIS and high set at 1877, High
individual game award went to La
Billie of the Paint Shop Team and
high average award to MacCor-
mack of the Accounting Team.
Officers of Southern Diaries Bowl.
ing League are Harry Douglas.
president and A. P. Crenshaw. ir.,
secretary and treasurer.
Southern Diaries with It's main
office at so M st. n. E.. is known
In more than 100 cities throughout
the South as a manufacturer of
the Velvet Kind Ice Cream.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
ALNN0NY GIVEN
MRS. CHAPLIN
BY International News Service :

BY international News Service
Los ANGELES, April 30.-Lita
Grey Chaplin, wife OF Charles Chap
lin. movie comedian, planned today
to skimp along on $500 monthly
alimony.
Judge Walter Gusrin decided that
sum was sufficient. Mrs. Chaplin
testified however. that $3,275 was
meager monthly budget.
The award was made retroactive
to January 10. The judge also
granted $500 for attorneys fees
and 9th legal expenses and a pay
ment Of 1920 a month on her au-
tomobile.
Although Chaplin's attorneys
closely cross.examined the young
wife regarding items in her house.
hold budget, there was no indication
today that the comedian will contest
the award.
Mrs Chaplin was expected to give
notice today to several Of her
servants in consequence Of the cur.
tailed alimony grant.
At the hearing, Lita said she was
accustomed to a retinue Of nine do.
mestics In an emergency. however,
she said, she could trough It."
with only q nurse, a housemaid, q
cook, a chauffeur, q personal maid
and a butler.
Chaplin's attorneys questioned the
need OF a butler, but did not make
the matter an issue.
On May "a Mrs. Chaplin will ap.
pear before a notary public to give
her deposition on charges contained
In her petition for divorce.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
CHILD HEAL 7 /.
DRIVE ON

Starting today, Washington chill
dren who are to enter the public
schools in the fall are being co.
lic;ted to undergo health examina-
tons in a campaign by the Dis
trict of Columbia Congress Of Par.
ent-Teacher Associations.
The campaign, which is to last
through the month Of May. pur-
poses to examine every pre-school
child In order that existing physi-
cal defects may be treated before
the opening Of schools.
In September another examina-
ton will be made and the progress
noted.
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THE MARCHIoNESS
Some Of the high
4 FLIERS KILLED
BYL|GHTN|NG
CONTINUED from First Page.)

Continued from First Page.)
When the war broke out he was
in his second year at the Uni
versity of Cincinnati. He enlisted
Immediately and was sent to the
Navy Ground School at Massa.
chusetts Institute of Technology.
He received a permanent commits.
sion as ensign in 1919 and was
made lieutenant in 1920.
During the war he met Miss
Mary Raub, whom he later married.
They had a son. Victor Francis
Marineli, ir. Lieutenant MarinelIi
was assigned to the u. s. s. Detroit
in 1920. going on a three.year-cruis
to Europe. He was transferred in
1928 to Hampton Roads.
Two of Lieutenant Marinelli's
brothers, Max and Dante MarinelIi,
are employed on The Washington
Times. The lieutenant visited his
family at the home of his sister.
Mrs. F. p. Hinkel. 1925 Upshur
St. n. w. last Wednesday. He has
five sisters living in Washington:
Mrs. Angelina Nora. Miss Beatrice
Marinelh. Mrs. Hinkel, Mrs. Pauline
Ingraham and Mrs. V. w. Hughes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
PICTURE NOT Of
BAKER BOY
Some seek fame while others have
thrust unnn them

Some seek fame while others have
it thrust upon them.
In attempting to locate little nine.
year-old Albert Baker, missing from
his home in Fredericksburg. Va,
since February %, The Washington
Times published a photograph yes
terday of a lad believed by the
father to be Albert Baker. He was
standing not three feet from Mrs.
Coolidge at the Easter egg rolling.
1t was not Albert Baker, however,
it was Robert Graves, of South
Bend. Ind. a guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Rafferty,. 1921 Georgia Ave-,
who has patiently waited TO see his
picture with Mrs. Coolidge ever
since the memorable event to show
the folks back home.
Robert feels today that he had been
rewarded for risxing his life to get
next to the First Lady. and armed
with many copies OF The Times he
Is going home from his Easter vaca-
ton with the thrill that comes once
in a lifetime.
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VIM. ]. FALL0N
DIES IN n. Y.
BY international News Service

NEW YORK, April 3O.-WiIliam
J. Fallon, noted, criminal lawyer and
former assistant district attorney of
Westchester county, is dead today at
the Hotel Oxford here, where he had
lived with his wife and two chill
dren.
Following his indictment in con-
nection with the affairs of the
brokerage firm OF E. M. Fuller & Co.,
as bucketshop, Fallon suffered a
nervous breakdown more than a year
ago, but was cleared of the charges.
Fallon was credited with being one
or the conntry's most brilliant crinni-
nal lawyers. He defended Mickey"
Arnstein when the latter was ac.
cused of stealing several millions in
bonds and securities.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
U.S.S.CO[ORADO
IS AGROUND

NEW YORK, April sO.--Eleven
hundred men and officers were
marooned when the u. s. s. Col.
orado, the worlds mightiest dread
naught. went aground in the mud
off Diamond Reef, near the mouth
Of the East River today.
While ten tugs strained to free
her, all traffic in the East River
was at q standstill and other war
ships on their way to the Brooklyn
navy yard were compelled to drop
anchor. A dozen freight and fruit
vessels started out from their piers,
but became entangled in a river
traffic jam.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
Youth Nearing Death
Under Forced Breath

ROANOKE, Va, April 30.-Kept
alive for 10 days by artificial respira.
ton, Walter l.. Boothe, Is. was
steadily growing weaker today.
Physicians said they believed death
would occur in 1.-THE next "a hours.
Liquid nourishment was admin
istered today.
The youth continues cheerful. and
chats occasionally, with those around
him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
Bride of Four Days Is
Killed i'm Auto Crash

Word has been received here of
the death of Mrs. Gussie Gulledgo
Reid, four-day bride OF Adrian
Reid, an employee of the United
States Experimental Station at Nc
Neil, Miss. and formerly Of Wash.
ington.
The young woman was killed in
an automobile accident while riding
with her husband and a party of
friends near Mcneil.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
RUTH GETS.
250LOVE
NOTES
lcOntlnued from First PACE

=
and then the district attorney viii
launch the cross-examination.
Gray will take the stand later
in the week and attempt to shoot
holes into the story told by Mrs.
Snyder.
''Afr. Gray did It'll had no hand
in the murder at all'-that was her
version. told from the witness stand
in a voice which, for the most part,
was cold and metallic as it came
doubly intensified through the radio
amplifiers.
The voice. low and melodious at
times-particularly when she re-
ferred to her baby-eame through
the big horns on the courthouse
wall as clear. ringing and resonant
and in diction that did not clip the
final syllables and pronounced the
endings carefully.
His Story win Be Different
She testified that not only did she
take no part IN the beating Of her
husband to death with an iron sash
weight, but that she fought to save
his life.
But Gray, pistol in hand. threat
ened to kill her if she interfered
while he chloroformed the uncon-
scious man as he lay in bed in her
home and strangled him with pie.
fure wire, she claimed. She was
marked with blood from her fight
with the little corset salesman and
circumstances were so much against
her that she agreed with Gray's
scheme to try and deceive the police
by saying burglars had broken into
her home and attacked her and her
husband.
But when Gray goes on the stand
he will tell an entirely different
story.
Ruth Tor 'Momsie' as he may
call her) helped me do it," will be
the burden of his story.
Gray will try to show that he
was the victim Of q master mind,
or, as his lawyer. Samuel l.. Miller,
termed it, "a serpent in the guise
of a woman"
Drawn Into the Affair
Miller claims Gray could not
have been rational when the crime
was committed; that he was strug-
Cling to free himself from Mrs.
Snyder's domination" and that he
was drawn into the bloody affair
"when his mind. will and manhood
were gone"
His testimony, according to Mil
Ter, will prove to be ''the most
tragic story that ever gripped the
human heart"
What effect Mrs. Snyder's story
has had on the jury was the sub.
ject of much discussion today.
It was evident that the jury was
mony as were the 1000 or more
spectators who franticaIly fought
their way into the court room,
overwhelming the police and even
Selling the seats of the press.
One woman actually had the
seat of "the defendant Snyder"
but, strangely enough, she didn't
hold 1t. Nearly everyone else held
what they grabbed; possession was
ten.tenths of the law.
Weak Links in Story
It was conceded. however, that
Mrs. Snyder did not hurt her cause
II, in fact, she did not help it.
She has made a good witness SO
far. But the State is preparing to
grill her mercilessly on two weak
links in her story:
/. Why did she leave the back
door of her home open for Gray to
sneak in on the night of the muir
der after he already had tried
once, as she said. to kill her hus.
band?
2. Why didn't she rouse her hus.
band when she went in to retire
beside him when she knew Gray
was in a nearby room waiting for
q chance to whack him with the
iron bludgeon?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
ThOusan ds More Flee

PINE BLUFF. Ark, April so.
Evacuation of practically every small
town in southeastern Arkansas was
under way today, as motor boats and
trains rushed people to safety before
the rushing torrents of the Arkansas
River, let loose by levee break near
South Bend late yesterday.
Five counties--Chicot, Desha, Ash.
icy, Lincoln and Drew-will be
flooded from the new break, as, will
three Louisiana parishes-East and
West Carroll and Moorehouse.
Thousands fled their homes today
as the waters rose higher and
higher. A relief train left Gould,
Ark. a few hours after the break.
loaded with flood refugees The al.
ready flooded towns of Duman,
Tillar, McGehee, Arkansas City,
Gould and Lake Village will receive
from three to five feet more of
water.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30
To TALK
. PEACE TERMS

BY IntefnntIOnaI News Service
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 80.
Peace negotiations will open tomor-
row.
DR.. Sacasa's liberal representatives
have arrived at Corinto and will
open negotiations with Henry Slim
son. representative of President Cool
idge.
Federal troops have assaulted
rebel positions at La Cruz. near
Teustepe, killing many officers and
rs men,
DR.. Espinos, liberal minister of
foreign affairs, heads the mission.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-30

unusual offers In desirable, well
located Washington apartments for rent
can be secured from the Rental Cel-