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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
BRITISH JURIST, GUEST OF TAFT,
DOUBTS DRY LAW FEASIBILITY
Says England Is Using Less
Liquor Due to Educational
Campaign.
Sir Thomas WllIes Chitty
Praises Supreme Court of
United States.

Sir Thomas Willes ChittF, senior
master Of the King s bench of Eng
land. finds it interesting to watch the
results of prohibition in this country.
believes II "difficult to enforce law
opposed to the opinion of large pro
portion. if not ma jority. of the peo-
pie and is confident England Is solv-
ing the liquor problem without re
course to legislation.
Sir Thomas, who is in this country
as witness on English law In an
alien property case before the District
of Columbia Supreme Court. is stop
ping with his daughter, Mrs. Eliza
beth Phiiipson.S Stow. at the home Of
Chief Justice Taft here. He was pre-
sented to President Coolidge Wednes-
day. He expects to return to Eng
land on the Ma jestic January 90.
Education and time, says Sir
Thomas, will accomplish more than
laws, which are not always oheyed.
He says drinking Is decreasing In Eng
land, especially in schools and univer-
stiles. This. he believes, Is the result
of a careful campaign of education.
England will never pass a prohibition
law, he believes.
Praises Supreme Court.
If people are forced to do what
they don't want to do, he points out,
the law is necessarily unpopular and
more difficult to enforce.
Sir Thomas paid a high tribute to
the Supreme Court of the United
States, at the same time pointing out
advantages which England enjoys in
the procedure Of her lower tribunals.
which secures the prompt admins
tration Of justice.
The United states" he says, "en-
joys a great advantage in having in
its final court Of appeal one judg-
ment which decides what the law
is, rather than the English system,
by which in the House of Lords each
Of the law lords expresses his own
opinion, and although they may all
come to one conclusion. they may
do so for different and sometimes
conflicting reasons"
Cites Speed In England.
One advantage of the English judicial
system, says Sir Thomas, is the fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
KING SCORES CR0WDER.
Wants American Ambassador tt
Cuba Removed From Post.

Senator King, Democrat. Utah. said
today that in his opinion Gen. Enoch
Crowder should be removed as Ameri-
can Ambassador to Cuba because of
his attitude toward American interests
in that country and because he had
"outlived his usefulness
The Utah Senator expects to make
this suggestion soon to a foreign re-
lations subcommittee. which was ap-
pointed to consider the King resoiu-
ton for investigation of the handling
of claims against the Cuban govern
ment brought by American citizens re.
siding in Cuba.
American rights in Cuba are going
unprotected On account of the lax
fty of Gen. Crowder." said King, land
the matter should be brought before
the American people and the Senate. ."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
English Word Home
Adopted by French;
Foyer Is Inadequate

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 2t.--The French
have adopted the English word
home The lack of its equivalent
In the French language always has
been remarked by speaking
peoples with an air Of patronizing
pity. Department and furniture
stores now advertise articles for
'le home" and newspapers use the
word as caption for their domes-
tic and womau's news.
The nearest approach to home In
French is foyer" meaning hearth.
When Frenchman marries, it Is
said he Pounds hearth, but the
word is limited in it's uses and does
not have as wide a significance as
home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
ADMITS He MOVED BODY.
James Stevenson Held for Investi-
CATION in Clatterbuck Death.

James Stevenson, colored. 36 years
old. who is alleged by police to have
admitted moving the body of Richard
Clatterbuck, 35 years old. from the
rear of the formers home at AIS
Washington street, short distance
up the rear alley early yesterday,
was being detained at the sixth pre-
cinct for further investigation today
After an autopsy yesterday, Coror.
err hewitt Issued certificate of death
from alcoholism in the case of Clat
terbuck. Stevenson Is said to have
admitted placing Clatterbuck in the
rear of his house Wednesday night
ITO sober up" after he was under the
influence of intoxicants and to have
found him the next morning where
he had been left. Stevenson further
admitted moving the PROSTATE form
of the man to the rear Of 419 Wash
ington street.
Ethel Smith. colored. living at the
same house as Stevenson, was re-
leased Yesterday after the coroner
had issued a death certificate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
MILLION A YEAR
IS BLUE SKY LOSS
Washington investors Warn
ed Against Stock Frauds in
Thrift Week Program.

One million dollars is lost every year
by Washingtonian who invest in
wildcat" stock and other fraudulent
securities, according to Y. E. Booker
chairman of the committee for the OBJ
servance of safe Investment and make
anvil day in Washington today as a
part of the program q National Thrift
week.
Speakers at meetings IN the various
clubs, civic orga rizationS and schools
today and tonight are stressing the
Importance of thoroughly investigat-
ing all proposed investments before
any money is put up. The million
dollars year that Washington con
tributes to the livelihood of investment
schemers. for the most part, comes
from persons least able to afford fnafl
ciaI losses. Mr.. Booker declares--the
widows, Government clerks, school
teachers and other inexperienced In.
vestors.
Slogan Is Emphasized.
This estimate" Mr.. Booker says of
the million-dollar figure" is made by
the committee after a conference with
the Better Business Bureau, and fol-
lows the analyzing of the stock promo
tons, which have caused hundreds of
people to inquire at the bureau ONCE
for information. This sum is even
more significant when 1t is realized
that those least able to lose have been
the victims: that Government EN-.
ployes, school teachers, widows and
other inexperienced investors have
been fieeced.
''The slogan Before You Invest
Investigate will be emphasized today
bv banks, investment bankers and
other reputable business institutions
in an effort to promote thrift by safe
investments. Especial facilities for
providing free information TO pros.
pective investors will be supplied by
these firms today. However. 1t Is
primarily hoped that the public will
remember the warning throughout
the year"
Burden Put on Public.
In a letter to Adolph Lewisohn,
chairman of the national thrift COM
mittee, 8 Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon declared:
THE Federal Government, the State
authorities, the banks and other
agencies are doing what they can to
lessen the sale of fraudulent securities.
But in the end the solution of this
problem depends largely upon the
public itself, and for this reason all
possible emphasis should be placed
not only on saving part of what one
earns, but of 50 investing II that 1t
shall be secure so far as possible
against loss
Meeting today at which safe invest
ing will be urged are being held at
the Navy Yard. the Y. NJ. G. A.. Build
ings, the City Club. Washington
Round Table, Boys Club, Langdon-
Woodbridge Parent Teacher Associa-
ton, in the Langdon School, and be-
fore the d. A r. at the National
Chamber of Commerce.
Speakers will talk also at the fol-
owing schools: New Brightwood,
Cooke, Hayes, Keene, Blair, Wheat.
ley, Congress Heights and Lenox.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
LAND CESSION FAVORED.

The Senate late yesterday passed a
House bin giving the State Of Virginia
sovereignty over as acres of made
land in Battery Cove. near Alexan-
dria. The land in question, which was
reclaimed by the War Department
some years ago, will continue in the
possession of the United States Gov
eminent. but will be placed within the
sovereign limits Of Virginia by the
legislation.
The Senate made A slight amend
nent at the suggestion of the War
DEPARTMENT, which will have to be
concurred in by the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
KIDNAPPING THEORY
Of COUPLE GROWS
PatroIman and Wife Carried
Away to Prevent Appear
ance at Trial, Belief.

by the Associated Press.
MARION. ILL.,. January 21-The
wherea bouts of Lory l.. Price. 81
year-old State highway patrolman.
and his wife. Ethel. 80. remained un-
disclosed today as Williamson County
officers and a band of patrolmen con-
tlnued securing the territory in the
belief the couple was kidnapped by
Shelton gangsters.
Price and his wife were last seen
Monday night when they attended
show here.
Last at RoadhOuse.
The patrolman. VINO was friendly
with Charles Burger, leader of
gang in bitter rivalry with the Shell
ton faction, was the last known
person to visit Birger's roadhouse,
Shady Rest. before il was dynamited
and burned January Q. Four persons
were killed in the ARRAY.
With a reconvened inquest into the
death of the four persons scheduled
for next week. investigation Ii pro-
ceeding on the theory that Price.
who testified at a previous hearing,
was taken away to prevent his ap-
pearance at the session. Price testi-
fed at the first hearing that he was
George. the caretaker; Mrs. George
and stranger there.
Another reason for supporting the
kidna ping theory was Prices story
to fellow patrolmen that his auto
mobile was forced off the highway
last Friday by another car contain
ing Carl Shelton leader of the gang,
who talked to him for some time.
Price did not reveal the nature of
the conversation other than TO say
It was friendly" but friends re-
called that he appeared to have been
nervous since that time.
Prints of W0man's Shoe.
When the Price home was visited
officers found the telephone wires
cut. Prices automobile In the garage
and prints of a woman's shoe and a
mans bare foot in the yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

BY the Associated Press.
white. haired, white bearded Con
federate veteran of the Civil War, the
only one in Congress, rose in the
House today to honor one of his COM
rades in that conflict.
The veteran was Representative
Steadman. Democrat. North Carolina,
and the occasion for his address was
the 1o3d anniversary of Stonewall
Jacksons birth.
He compared Jackson with Cen
Robert f. Lee, asserting that the two
on one battlefield were invincible.
ION the pages Of history in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
ASKS $50, 900 DAMAGES.
Plaintiff Charges Sandwich She
Bought Contained Glass.

Declaring that particles of glass con
tanned in a sandwich purchased at the
store of the Happiness Candy stores,
Inc, 1907 F street. cut her tongue
and mouth and perforated her intes-
tines. Mrs. Thelma Simpson, Rodman
Apartments, today sued the company
for $500 damages. She says she
visited the store December 8 last. and
ordered a sandwich, which she claims
the company carelessly permitted to
contain particles of glass, of which
she was not aware. She was rendered
sick and will continue to suffer as the
result of the alleged negligence of the
company's employees. she states.
Through Attorney Frank j.. Kelly the
plaintiff SAYS she was rendered unit
to perform her household and social
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
X-Ray Treatment Greatly Increases
Seeds Productivity, Experimenter Says

said, potatoes and other plants are
strengthened at the roots and this re.
suits in the plants obtaining greater
nourishment from the soil.
Light has an unfavorable effect on
seeds, once they have been X.rayed.
Once treated, the seeds, tubers or
bulbs must be kept In the dark. Time
also tends to reduce the effects of the
x-ray, although only to a slight de-
gree. Seeds and tubers kept as long
as three months produce a yield only
slightly less than those planted i'm
lmediately after exposure to the *
,ray."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
STANLEY CLAGUE, "A. B. c.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, DIES
One of Founders of Organization
That Guarantees Honest
Circulation Figures.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 21.-Stahley
Clague, managing director of the Audit
Bureau of Calculations, died suddenly
yesterday.
Mr.. C1ague formerly was secretary
TO the late Dr. Charles w. Eliot,
president of Harvard University, and
head of the advertising service Of the
Curtis Publishing Co. of Philadelphia.
In 1908. in Chicago. he established
his own advertising agency. which
afterward was changed to the Taylor
Critchfield- Claaue Advertising Agency.
He was one of the founders of the
Audit Bureau of Calculations, an
orga nization that guarantees honest
circulation figures to advertisers. Mr..
Clague long has been active in the
advertising field. having been presi-
dent of the Affiliated Agents Associa.
ton of America.
He was the first president of the
Western Advertising Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
Stedman, Only Confederate Veteran
In House, Lauds Memory of Jackson

years to come" he said, ''CfAncellors-
vile will be recorded as perhaps the
most brilliant of the many victories of
Gen. Robert f. Lee, and history win
recall Lieut.. Gen. Stonewall jackson
as the most conspicuous figure In that
great and historic battle.
THE beautiful valley Of Virginia
will never again echo to the cheers of
the brave men who followed hts ban.
rer with a deathless devotion, unsur-
passed anywhere In any land"
Sted1nan, major in the Confeder-
ate Army. was given 1ound applause
when he rose TO speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
British CartOOnists
Use Transatlantic
Phone as Material
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, January 21.-Britisk
""Ttoonists have been working
overtime on the topic of the new
transatlantic radiophone service.
One of them depicts Uncle Sam
making his first call: Hello, Lon.
don? Put me through to
brewery"
In another. Winston Churchill.
chancellor of the exchequer, Is
rapturously listening to the clink
of gold in the United States Treas
ury. and appealing for another
minute. ito hear that lovely sound
again"
A Punch cartoon shows John
Bull and Uncle Sam exchanging
New Year wishes: "The same to
you-sackfuls of them" abiding to
the s25 a minute rate
Others suggest the possibility of
wrong connections. with the Eng
lish hello girls stereotyped: Sorry
you've been troubled"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
JOIN BAR OF HIGH COURT.
Represen tative and Mrs. Kindred
Admitted to Practice.

Representative John J. Kindred of
the second district of New York. and
his wife Mrs. Ella Cramer Kindred.
were admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court of the United states
at noon today Their admission was
moved by Representative Joseph Sears
of Florida.
Mrs. Kindred Is graduate of Vas
sar College and of the law department
of John B. Stetson University, Florida,
In 1919. She has been active in lit
erary and social circles and is a for.
n1er state regent of the Daughters of
the American Revolution for the State
of Florida.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
NORRIS, SOBB|NG,
TELLSOF KILLING.
Says He Shot Chips When
He Came at Him With
Hand on Pocket.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
COURTROOM, AUSTIN. Tex, Jan
uary 21.-Dr. J. Frank Norris, funda-
mentalist pastor of Fort Worth. on
the witness stand here today, told his
story of how he killed Dexter r.
Chips in his church office last
July II.
Weeping and hating over each
word, he related how Chips had come
to his office, had demand that ne
cease attacks on Chipps' friends, had
threatened to kill him. and of how
he shot Chips when he said the lat
ter came at him with his hand on his
hip pocket.
Before giving this part of the story
he had heard himself bitterly lambast
ed and warmly defended by attorneys
in arguments over the admission of
certain evidence. He sat silently In
the witness box for more than an
hour listening to these arguments in
which much of his past was raked
over
Jury Is Withdrawn.
The jury was absent during this dis
cussion.
The debated evidence concerned A
remote conversation alleged to have
occurred between Mayor Fl. c.
Meacham Of Fort Worth and Norris
which the defense wanted to introduce
through Norris
The Judge ruled against the defense
but not before much of the difficultIes
between Norris and MeachAm and the
Fort Worth moral and political situa-
ton had been aired In addresses by
the attorneys to the court.
The defense said they could link up
the remote conversation in chain
OF evidence With the killing OF Chips,
and in supporting this statement At.
torney Dayton Moses OF the defense
detailed narrative in which Chips,
Meacharr1 and Norris frequently came
into opposition with each other.
Norris Face Tense.
Norris sat erect and still while at
torneys for the State referred to him
as this fellow and spoke of attacks
he Is alleged to have made on Fort
Worth citizens from his pulpit. His
face was tense.
The pastor appeared young and
slender i'm his neat bite suit. but his
hair was gray and his eyes were red.
AIlti Lft- jury mao DGStl ESCdIIeO,
Moses asked Norris when he first re
ceived information about threats by
Chips against him, and Norris said
1t was the day before the tragedy.
After relating details Of the tele-
phone conversation with Chips, in
which the lumberman said he was
coming over 70 settle" with Norris.
the pastor told Of the threat Chips
made against him.
II asked who he was" said Norris.
He said II didn't matter"
What is your name?
Tells Of Threat.
1T doesn't matter. I'm coming
over there to kill you. / want you
to stop that sermon and he cursed
IT said, You're mad and / don't
want to see YOU He said his name
was Chips.
I'm a few minutes MIR. l.. H. Mutt
came into my Office, and / asked him
If he knew Chips. He told me he
had seen him at the bank
why didn't you tell Mr.. Mutt OF
your converse ton with Chipps?".
A State objection was sustained.
Il was intending to leave as soon
as my sermon was ready
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
Land Bill to President.

Action by Congress was completed
Yesterday on bill which would give
the States full title 20 land containing
mineral deposits coded by the Govern
ment for school purposes. The Senate
accepted House amendment and the
measure is ready to go to the Presi-
dent for signature. The bill was ad.
vocated by Western States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
MRS. {. L. BAGBY DIES.
Funeral Services will Be Con.
Quoted Tomorrow Morning.

Quoted Tomorrow Morning.
Mrs. Elizabeth Leslie Basby. 81
years old, died yesterday At her resi-.
dence. 1914 Riggs place She was born
in Loudoun County. Va. the daughter
of Capt. Samuel D. Leslie, and had
resided in this city for the past is
years, where she was an active worker
in the First Baptist Church and a
member OF the Daughters of the
American Revolution. and Southern
Society
She is survived by her husband
r. Fl. Bagby, vice president and
cashier of the Washington Mechanics
Savings Bank. a son, Samuel Leslie
Bagby: a daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Bagby: a brother. j. Harry Leslie Of
Leesburg. Va. and two sisters. Mrs
Otis l.. Williams of Loudoun County
and Mrs. Annie Whitehead Of Chat.
ham, Va.
Funeral services will he conducted
tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock at
the First Baptist Church, Sixteenth
and o streets, by Rev. DR.. Samuel
hudson Porter, followed by interment
in Congressional Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

CAMDEN, n. j., January 21-By
exposing seeds of various grains and
edible roots to mild x-ray treatments.
DIR. Moses Jacobson Of this city said
he had obtained greatly increased pro-
ductivity and that further expert
nents may bring about revolutionary
changes In agriculture. He said the
results of, these experiments will be
presented before the American Botan-
ical Society in Philadelphia Febru-
airy
with mild doses Of the x-ray.. b
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
u. S. Soldiers Big Traders.

When it isn't fighting or drilling or
rebuilding its own barracks. Uncle
Sans Army apparently spends most
of its time reading. War Department
figures credit the 173 main and AZ
branch Army Libraries with circu-
lation Of 1,13s .633 books. and a per
ca1tta. average of to Is books year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

SALEM. Ind, January 81 R.-
Flappers of Salem are prohibited from
hopping their goloshes on the order of
the new town marshal. who declared
the open footwear nuisance and or
dered goloshes fastened while wearers
are on the streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
Baltimore Girl Is Bride.

CANNES, France, January 81 up.
Miss Elise, daughter of Thomas. Mel
son Strother of Baltimore, Md, and
Arthur Tuckerman, writer of New
York, were married YESTERDAY at the
historic castle Of Muoana Sartoux.
The Rev. Francis Burgess Of the
American Church, Nice, offlciated,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
BAND CONCERT.
Tomorrow.

BY the United State Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hail, 5:45
o'clock, John s. NJ. Zimmerman, lead
er; Emil A. Fenstad, second leader.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-30

sportsman of Douglas and former
manager of the baseball club here,
is an enthusiastic supporter of the
home talent, team idea. "This is
exactly the thing Douglas needs, :
Anes states, "and I would be willing
to do all 1 can to support a team
in such league
Glenn, Ames, Percy Bowden and
other local fans point out that Doug
las has plenty of high class players
for such team as that proposed.
Among those named Saturday were
Stan Jackson, outfielder; Bill Evans,
Dfielder and all-around player; Art
Jackson, infielder; Rod McRae, short
stop; Roy Storey, infielder and a
former player with the Blues; j..
Peyrara, outfielder; Jose Ruiz, pitch
er; Pete Arzate, catcher; AL AndressA
pitcher; Roy Gardner, pitcher; Albert
Fuzzi, catcher, and Bill Negri, catcher.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-30
Cream of American
Track, Field Talent
To Compete In Euents

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 P)--More than
800 athletics representing the cream
of Americas track and field talent
have enlisted for the classic Millrose
A. A. meet in Madison Square Garden
next Wednesday night, the games
committee today disclosed.
Of the S3 events on the program,
eighteen will be relay races with
scholars carrying the colors of %
colleges. Interest will be focused,
however, in such tests as the Millrose
six hundred" for the Percy Haugh-
ton trophy, the Rodman Wanamaker
mile and special two mile, half, mile,
1 1000 yard high jump, pole vault and
sprint features.
Bob McAllister whose impressive
comeback has re-established him on
the sprinting peak he occupied two
years ago, will confront the strong
est opposition he has faced this year
in two dashes, matching strides with
Al Miller of Harvard, Frank Hussey
of Boston college, Loren Murchison
of the Illinois A. c., Hank Russell Of
the Penn A. c. and Jackson Scholz
of New York.
In the race for the Haughton
trophy will be Alan Helfrich, Ray
Robertson, George Lenless and Pin
Gus Sober, from the east, and Howard
Fitch and Alva Martin from Chicago
Jimmy Connolly, winner of the Wanna
maker mile last year. will defend
his title against such distance stars
as Lloyd Hahn of the Boston A. A.
and Willie GoPdwin Of New York,
among others.
Philip Osif, Haskell Indian, will
seek to stop Leo Lermond's string of
triumphs over the two-mile route,
while six outstanding rivals will leap
against Harold Mosborn, of Chicago,
in the high jump.