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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
PAYS ANNUAL VISIT .
TO WHITE HOUSE
Association of Oldest lnhab%
itantS Takes Part in:NeW
Year Reception.

Members Of the Association of Old4
est Inhabitants of the District Of Coz
lumbia today observed the custon
they have followed annually for manT
years Of Joining in a pilgrimage 10 the
White House to shake the hand OF
the President at his New Year recep.
ton.
Following a brief business meeting
at the Union Engine House, Nine.
teenth and III streets. at which Prest-
dent Theodore W. Noyes presided. the
orga nlzation marched down Pernsyl-
vania avenue to the White House.
When the Oldest Inhabitants arrived
at the east gate. about noon. the Pres
ident had finished receiving orga MIA
lions. and they were advised they
would no received through the west
gate At O'Clock.
Included with those who attended
the gathering today were Mai. s. VII
lard Saxton. 81 years OF age. and
Judge Charles s. Bundy, 95 years old.
two Of the oldest members of the orr
ganiza ton.
The feature of the business meet.
ing was the reading OF the chronicle
of events OF 1926 by John Clagett
Proctor, chronicler of the association.
Every event of interest to Washing
ton during the past year was re-
counted briefly by Mr.. Proctor.
The following new members were
elected at the business meeting:
George Washington Weber. DIR.
Charles V. Pettys. Charles III. Hurdle,
Robert NJ. Morrison. Fulton Lewis,
Merritt .. Chance and George Paris
Jackson.
The association adopted resolutions
of thanks 10 George OConnor and
Matt Horne for entertainment which
they furnished at the annual banquet
of the association several weeks ago.
Before starting for the White House
the members were served with refresh
ments in the basement of the engine
house under the supervision Of DIR.
Ben jamin w. Sunny.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
CHICAGO BEHAVES ITSELF.
Quietest Eve Since Prohibition, Says
Dry Chief.

! CHICAGO. January / GP.-Chicago
| celebrated the Quietest, best behaved
New Years eve since prohibition" f
| C. Yellowley, prohibition admins
! TRAITOR, said today after he had re.
ceived reports from the 120 agents he
| had sent into the haunts of merry
! makers.
.. Hotel and cafe proprietors recently
made a pledge to Mr.. Yellowley that
they would not tolerate drinking at
their tables, and the prohibition ad.
ministrator found the pledges gener-
ally unbroken.
But IL the Loop was not giddy it
was gay enough. theaters, hotels,
restaurants and cafes catering to
thousands who welcomed the baby
year with the usual ceremonies.
1t was estima ted that probably
half million dollars was spent dur
ing the night on cover charges and
table accessories at the downtown
hotels and cafes. More than $4,000
guests paid $145, 900 for places in
seven leading hotels alone.
The dryness and orderliness of the
celebration was attested by hotel pro-
prietors.
I'VE warned the visitors as they
made their reservations that no drink.
ing would be tolerated. said the
Maitre D'Hotel at the Congress, which
entertained more than 2,00O guests.
THE results were apparent. 1t was
the dryest New Year party l ever saw.
l didn't see single instance of what
Mr. Yellowley calls open drinking,
and we had the biggest New Year
patronage in our history"
Huge placards at the Morrison, the
worlds tallest hotel. warned $500
hot til
would be at work and no drinking
would he allowed. This year there
seems to be less drinking and less
noise" came from the Drake, while
the ~. Sale Maitre added. THE driest
bu,lch ever saw on New Year eve;
and it didn't seem to stop the fun"
Several raids and arrests were made
during the evening, but under in
structions from the prohibition head
only the most fragrant cases were in
yolved, the agents concentrating their
attention on gathering evidence for
use later in paddock proceedings.
After Big Violators.
1.-THE people my men seized are not
the drinkers" Mr.. Yellowley said. I'VE
were after the distributors and owners
of establishments which permit the
open ftouting of the prohibition law"
In instructing his agents Mr.. Vel.
lowley spoke of the pledges that had
been made, adding: IF these pledges
are broken, we expect you to bring in
the evidence and in all substantiated
cases the Government will institute
Injunction proceedings Immediately"
A few accidents were reported over
the night. A 6-year-old boy was prob
ably fatally wounded by pistol shots.
a man was struck and killed by a taxi
cab and stabbing ARRAY over the
division of bottle of liquor resulted
in the wounding of celebrant.
The only fracas of any moment oc-
CURED at a roadhOuse known as the
Four Seasons, in Glenview, a suburb.
Three prohibition agents who entered
the place were recognized by some of
the 400 celebrants, and In a melee
which followed the visitors were eject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
CAPT. H. C. LYONS DEAD.

Capt. Harold C. Lyons, AZ years
old. Engineer Corps. u. s. A, who
served as a first lieutenant in the
goth Engineers, which trained at
American University in 1917. died at
Walter Reed Hospital Thursday after
. long Illness. lie later served with
the same outfit overseas, being pro-
NOTED to captain August 10, 1918.
Capt. Lyons was made a captain in
the Engineer Corps of the Regular
Army July j. 1920. His last station
was at the Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology, Pittsburgh, Pa. where he was
on duty with the Reserve Officers
Training Corps.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Esther Gibson Lyons
The bodys was taken yesterday to
Yonkers, n. Y, for interment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
Week of Prayer
January 2 to 9
Is Churches Aim

By the Associated Prese.
A call for a week of prayer. from
January to 2, TO the churches Of
the United States and so other couB-
tries was issued yesterday by the
Federal Council of Churches and
the Worlds Evangelical Alliance.
The Federal Council of Churches
will conduct the weeks observance
in this country through its Commits
sion on Evangelism, headed by DR..
William H. Day of Bridgeport.
Conn.
Young people, nations and gov
ernments, decrease in crime, inter
national relation, and the universal
church will be among subjects for
which the prayers will be offered,
the call said.
Young people will be asked TO join
churches, the councils statement
said, and read the Bible, while
parents will be called upon to real
ize. their responsibilities. In deal
ing with international affairs, the
success of the League of Nations"
and world peace are prayer topics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
FRANCES STAND ON CHINA
Is APPROVED BY JAPAN
Abstention From Any Interference
Y In Internal Affairs Endorsed,
ri M. BRAND Is Assured.
By slas Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
y PAR1S, January Frances pol
Icy OF abstention from any interior.
ence in the internal affairs of China
IL approved by Japan, Ambassador
fstlii is understood to have informed NJ
Brind, the foreign minister, yesterday.
NJ. BRAND considered his conference
with the Japanese envoy SO important
that he failed TO attend the session
of the cabinet.
Instructions recently sent to the
French diplomatic representatives at
the various capitals set forth Frances
intention of keeping her hands off Chi
nese affairs. The policy of the French
foreign Office was definitely stated in
the instructions that 1T would be
wiser to wait until the present crisis
is over in order to be able to negotiate
with authorities really representative
of the Chinese people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
WILD CHEETAH AT LARGE
HUNTED BY CITY POLICE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER,, n. Y, January l.
A young cheetah, a wild African
beast, is roaming the streets of this
city, hunted by motor cycle police
with ready revolvers.
DR.. Audley D.. Stewart, who recently
returned with George Eastman, manu-
facturer, from an African hunt, re.
ported to police that the animal, a
member OF the cat family, had es-
capped from his home.
The cheetah, which DR.. Stewart
kept as pet for his family, is said
to be comparatively harmless when
tanned. Fears were expressed that the
animal might become furious when
cornered or would succumb to the Sc.
we're cold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
POISONED ALCOHOL
CHARGE IS DENIED
Too Much Drinking, Rather
Than Denatured Product,
Blamed by w. B. Wheeler.
BY the Associated Press.


Wayne b. Wheeler of the Anti
Saloon League in a statement today
said reliable information from New
York, where the prohibition agents
are reported off duty" indicated that
most Of the deaths from drinking re-
Gently were due to an overindulgence
in ordinary alcohol rather than from
denatured alcohol.
The situation in Detroit and San
Francisco lis also reported bad" Mr..
Wheeler added
AS to the Governments new
formula for making alcohol unfit for
beverage use, he said the use of 4 per
cent of wood alcohol instead Of per
cent. as formerly. does not mean that
1t is twice as deadly.
I'm fact, 1t Is less dangerous" he
said. The other ingredients in it,
aldohol or pyridine, make it less drink.
able and neutralize in part the poison
effect. 1t tastes like the seepage of
a garbage can favored with over
heated oil. One drink will turn a
normal stomach inside out.
IF the Government ever adopts an
alcohol formula that provides safe,
palatable alcohol to drink prohibition
enforcement will be destroyed. This
problem can and will be solved with
out such a result"
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is not at all unlikely that some of
the volunteer diplomats may have
taken IT upon themselves to open
negotiations, or at least to have ex-
pressed themselves in such a manner
as to give some cause for the belief
that the United States was considering
such step.
Executive Directs Policy.
The President further pointed out
that the organization of the American
Government is different from Euro
pean governments. which, he Is in
cIined to think, is why European
countries, even officials, are so fire.
ouentlv misled by statements made by
American citizens of no official con-
nection. He called attention to the
fact that the diplomatic relations of
the United States are entirely In the
hands of the executive branch of the
Government and that all matters re-
gardirig recognition of foreign
countries rests solely with the ex.
ecutives. and that the American Con.
gress has nothing whatever to do
with matters of this kind.
The impression was gained by those
who heard the President that his
earnest appeal to the press is unmis-
taxable evidence of the determination
of his administration TO carry ont its
policy of protecting American lives
and property in Mexico and Mica.
ragua.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
"W. BIRD" GOES ON VIEW.

LONDON, January CP).-"W. Bird, -"
the Punch artist, strolled through
Mayfair the other day. with his hands
clasped behind his back, his head in
the air and a pince-nez depending from
a band of black silk attached TO his
buttonhole.
Not many persons know that Nv.
Bird" is Senator w. b. Yeats OF the
Irish Free State, whom posterity will
remember not so much as an artist or
a statesman. but as one of the most
delightful poets of the twentieth CEN
fury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
Hungry New Year
Begins ON Island
Off Scotch Coast
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PETERHEAD, Scotland, jan
uary i.-Several hundred inhabi-
tants of the lonely Island of st.
Kilda, in the outer Hebrides,
passed hungry New Year eve.
Many days ago the islanders
hoisted signals of food shortage.
Because of rough weather boat
men have refused to try to make
the landing in the surf which
dashes against st. Kilda's precip-
itous shores. Government officials
plan to send A. relief expedition as
soon as the sea moderates. 81. #
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
Strictly 0ne-Horse Town.

There Is a town in Washington
State that has never yet seen an
auto. The village is up in the Cas-
cade Mountains and has virtually no
roads and would, therefore, be prop
erly Stunned by motorists. The only
Ford the citizens know is in the bed
of one of the mountain streams.
There 10 one buggy in the town, hut
1t 10 seldom used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
$e,561.s5 Ordered Returned.

Irene n. Durham. AS Fourth street
northeast, $11.01: Grover c. Dismukes,
sos F street. 1904: o. j. De Moll,
Twelfth and G streets, S412.21 Hattie
s. Delarue, 1925 East Capitol street
S4.95; Dorothy E. Dement,, 134S Park
wood place, $3.50; Walter s. Diehl
1925 Lanier street, $30.33; John G.
Donovan, 1910 Farragut street, $46.21
Mrs. Susan Whitney Dimock. 1901
Sixteenth street, $10.95
J. Maury Dove, jr., 1408 II street,
s70.3S: p. A. Davis, 4510 II street
$234.4S; Leo K. Drury, Twenty-fifth
and G streets, s357.0S. Capt. William
G.. Du Bose, Navy Department $142.29;
Rear Admiral Charles w. Dyson, 1910
Lamont street, $lS710.
A. l.. Evans, 1905 Fourteenth street,
$1097.
Gertrude w. Fause, 1929 Connects
cut avenue, $1S.72: r. L. Faris, 1916
Harvard street, $62.37; D. B. Fawcett,
1924 Allison street $4.5S; Victor r.
Finer, Ala Third street, $l.S3; Florence
Courts, $2,561.95; Mrs. Mabel Blanche
Ferguson. credit Baker & Baker, at
Cream CO., 1906 Wisconsin avenue,
$272.79.
Gen. Hines Gets $l44.
William Bruce Garner. 1900 Poto.
mac avenue southeast. $4.20; M. A.
Gibson, 1920 Twentieth street, 50;
Denis Quincy, 80 Fourteenth street.
81. 80; Emma Gusihewsky, 1929 Long.
fellow street, S2.0S: Mary T. Garzoier,
1914 Fourth street, $2.71; Alfred B.
Gawler, 1880 Pennsylvania avenue
S63s.14: Walter Gawler, 1880 Pennsyl.
vania avenue, S645.40; Guide Bros,
1914 F street, 1881; Mrs. S. M. Green
baum, 1881 NJ street. $22.56; AlonZo
Gray, ABB Harrison street, $24.s6: r
II. Grayson, 1905 Fulton street, $26.35;
Martha Goebel, GAL M street, 81; Alice
r. Griffith, 1S46 Ontario place, 1897;
Mary f. Griffith, 1543 Franklin street
northeast, $5.07; Annie B. Gotta, 1850
Columbia road, $3.50: Nettie Griffith,
413 Fourth street, $254; Morris G.
Goldstein, 2704 Woodley place, $i6.42;
Robert Nj. Ginter. Post Building,
1890, Maj Ernest Robert Gentry,
Walter Reed, $74.73; g. w. Grimes
1859 Mintwood place, $122.44.
Greenbaum's. Inc, 1871 M street
| sl65.59; Samuel ]. Graham, 1869 Co
iumbia road, s62s.s6; Leonard w.
Groomes, 1416 F street, S355.1s; Col
Alonzo Gray. Abb Harrison street
S122.9s; James d. Glennan. Walter
Reed Hospital, $11993; Mrs. Sadie
Grosner, % Grafton street, Chevy
Chase, Md, $100.75; Rear Admiral
Albert Gleaves, Navy Department
| $148.93.
II. II. Hulbirt. Is seaton place
1874; Joseph Hainen, 404 A street
southeast, $78.06; Mamie +. B. Heider,
2945 Upton, $3.50; Juliet l.. Harrison
1921 Irving street, $4.3s; Jane e.
HERNIA mn, 2700 Connecticut avenue
$3.50: Esther Fl. Hart. 1928 Columbia
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PRESIDENT GREETS
GREAT AND LOVELY
AT OPEN RECEPTION
were presenteb Portugal leading tn
legations

Continued from First Page.l
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PRESIDENT STRIKES
LOOSE TALK ABROAD

CONTINUED from First Page.l
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Il DUCE' LIKES
FORTUNE TOLD
Continued From Page u

reached tremendous proportions. It
Is necessary to assign several spe-
cial secretaries to take care of it.
Hundreds of letters pour into my of
flee every day. These have to be
examined and classified. A corps
Of translators must also work on
them as the biggest part of them
come in from parts outside Italy in
foreign languages. do not think that
there is one single locality in the
world from which 1 have not re-
ceived some letter, or card or some
little souvenir. 1 have my secre-
taries read these letters and bring
me a condensed version of each of
them.
Just the other day, a letter arrived
all the way from Siberia enclosing a
poem written by an admirer of fas-
cism. Another one came from Homo
lulu, others from Arabia, Japan, Aus
tralia, Persia, India. A Japanese pub
fishing house sent me a copy of a
book on fascism, written in Japa-
nese.
My mail contains the most fan
tastic curiosities. Clairvoyants are
extremely mindful of my future and
so are students of the horoscope.
like to read their forecasts and some
times their admonitions. Long life
is usually promised me and in such
abundance-attempted assaSsinations
thstanding-that / can readily
forego fifteen or twenty years on
their prophecies. Some say l will
live to be an octogenarian.
I received a very interesting letter
from an English medium. This me-
dunn told of having conversed with
my mother and of how the spirit of
my mother was constantly lowering
over me and protecting me from all
danger. A photograph also was en-
closed, which showed the medium in
the act of communicating with the
spirit world while at her side was a
phantom from which the medium
claimed was that of my mother.
1 receive many requests from Rus
slams, of old imperial Russia. They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-10
'TB' DEATHS IN
CITY SHOW DROP
DR.. Morgan Urges Right
Living as Preventative.

The tuberculosis death rate in In
dianapolis showed a decided decline
last year, DIR. Herman G.. Morgan,
board of health secretary said to-
day. Deaths in 1926 amounted to
243 while in 1925 there were 276
tuberculosis deaths.
In 1908 the death rate was two
for thousand population. Now the
death rate is less than IS per 1000.
This reduction" Morgan said,
was brought about by educating the
public to the fact that tuberculosis
is a durable disease if the cure is
taken in time. Pasteuriaztion of
milk, tuberculin testing of cattle and
the improved conditions in the city
have helped also"
Tuberculosis is a disease that is
caused by living indoors without
proper ventilation, exercise and
nouHshment," Morgan sta e d.
when we get the public to live
right and get them to understand
how to take care Of themselves We
can cut the death rate to practically
nothing. And at the rate we are
going this will be accomplished in
about ten years"
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praise it every chance I get" This
grateful statement was made just
recently by Mrs. w. II. Butts, 1401
she gave in person to the Konjola
Man at Hooks Drug Store, Penn
sylvania and Market SITS, this city,
where he is explaining this surprising
Konjola medicine to large crowds
throughout each day.
II was a great sufferer for years"
continued Mrs. Butts, land my left
arm was so badly affected that 1
couldn't raise it above my shoulder.
My arms were numb and feeble, and
my fingers would swell up so badly
that l couldn't close my hand. Pains
would start in the fieshy part of my
arm; then go to my shoulder and
shoulder blade. Day and night !
suffered constantly and 1 kept try
ing everything to get relief. The
only help I could get was rubbing
with strong liniments, and pretty
soon these had no more effect on my
pains than so much water
But, l tell you, it was different
when I started taking Konjola. This
medicine had a different effect than
any remedy 1 ever took. About the
third day L felt a change. My
shoulders were feeling better and /
kept right on taking Konjola. In
less than three weeks 1 was free
Of every ache and pain that 1 had
in my body. I seemed to feel better
every day, and now it has been
over six months and I haven't taken
any kind of medicine-not even
Konjola-and still l am just as well
as / was before I ever had neuritis
I surely have faith in this splendid
medicine and, as 1 said, it is a
pleasure to indorse it every chance
I l get"
Konjola is not only for neuritis,
but will produce the same relief in
cases Of rheumatism This medicine
acts upon the stomach, liver, kidneys
and bowels, restoring these organs
to more healthy, normal action, thus
eliminating poisons from the body
and bringing new feelings of health
in general
The Konjola Man is at Hook s
Drug Store, Pennsylvania & Market
St., Indianapolis, where he is daily
meeting the local public and in
Producing and explaining the merits
Of this remedy. Konjola is sold
by every Hook Store in Indian
apolis, and by all druggists in the
nearby towns throughout this sec.
Ition. -Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-10

built to show forth the splendor of
the old, harmonized with the con-
structive spirit of the new. The
glory of Rome will reappear in her
uncovered monuments and become
the metropolis of the Latin world.
To this work, l am earnestly dedi-
Gated. Then, to enhance wish for
general renaissance of all Italian
art. music and literature, 1 receive
from time to time groups of artists,
architects, authors and composers
to further this great work inherent
in the Italian soul.
Restricts Women
Numerous are the foreign person
ages and delegations which come to
call on me at Palazzo Chigi. 1 like
to give ALE of them some little time
in the heavily loaded day. When
conventions of an international i'm
portance meet in Italy, L try to see
a little of their activities. 1 receive
the American surgeons, countless
American students and numerous
other groups. 1 receive groups of
English. French. Spanish, German
and Latin American scientists, cap
tains of industry, financial heads, in
ventors, authors and actors. Touch
with them broadens vision, helps me
look out into the wide world and
consider the great extent of the
horizon.
Occasionally, restricted, very re-
stricted number of women are adj
mitted to audience. At Plazzo Chigi,
I have grown used to seeing an &C.
casional woman coming into my pres
ence, but my natural tendency is to
prohibit their entrance. l have given
imperative orders that at the Plazzo
Viminale, the ministry of the in
terror, where I work in the morning,
no woman shall be admitted. l have
told my subordinates that never must
[ see woman in the palace. They
interfere with the efficient procedure
of the work. They cause delay and
do not appreciate the business-like
character of work, introducing by
their presence an obligatory defer
ence not necessary in the company
of men. For the efficiency of my Of
flee, audiences to women must be
restricted to the least possible num-
ber
MussOlini does not intend to stop
working until he dies. He is driven
on and OH by a relentless ambition
and desire. A dfy's rest is to him
impossible. The premier's article i'm
tOmOrrOw's Times is a remarkable in
spiratiOnal document entitled 1.-THE
Work Spirit" revealing the secret
behind I'll Duce's" success.