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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
FRATERNAL ORDERS
AID TO CITIZENSHIP
Representative McSwain Praises
Society in Addressing Tenn
pie Club.

Public school system alone is not
sufficient to make worthwhile citizen
ship Representative McSwain Of
South Carolina said last night in ad-
dressing the Temple Club of Master
Masons from the Post Office Depart
ment at the clubs monthly meeting.
THE present high standing of
American citizenship" he continued,
lis due in a great part to the fra
ternal societies of this country.
Eighty-five per cent of the fraternities
have constant schools of citizenship"
Mr.. McSwain drew a parallel between
this country and other republics where
there is no fraternalism. Countries
that forbid fraternities cannot hope to
live. The admission Of fraternalism
tends towards the building up Of an
enlightened nation"
The District of Columbia Advisory
Board Of Masonic Clubs, headed by its
president, M. d. Hensey, made its
official visitation and announced the
cherry blossom as the official emblem
to be worn by the fraternity to COM
memorate George Washington birth
day.
The advisory board installed Charles
E. Warren as junior vice president
Of the Temple Club and Louis Brehm
as treasurer. The past president
jewel was presented to Henry Sun.
void, who completed his term Deem
Der 81.
Frank r. Barclay, Abraham A.
Povich, Harold w. Hicks and Claud.
ius L. Burton were elected to mem
bership. The Royal Male Quartet of
the H Street Christian Church pre-
sented several numbers and Ralph H.
Gauker entertaled with piano selec.
tons. The next meeting Of the club
will be February IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
HULL FINDS FAULT
WITH DEBT FIGURES
Says Misleading differences May Be
Drawn From Presidents Claim of
100000, 900 Reduction.

Issue was taken with President
Coolidge last night by Representative
Hull. Democrat, Tennessee, over the
Chief Executives statement Saturday
that Government expenditures have
been reduced by nearly 1000, 900 900
during the past six years.
Wholly misleading differences may
be drawn from this. statement, Hull
asserted, unless the claimed reduction
is submitted to careful ANALYSIS.
1.-THE clear inference from this mar
tial statement" he said, "is that the
Harding and Coolidge administrations
have been annually reducing the level
OF expenditures at the rate of $685..
100000. The whole truth is that the
expenditures of the Government have
been actually increasing since 1924.
what has happened-and nearly
all that has happened-was that for
the single year 1922 the reduction of
the Army and Navy to a peace basis
and the discontinuance of apDroprfa-
lions for the railroads and a portion
of those of the Shipping Board per-
mitted a permanent reduction of the
level of expenditures in the amount
of $1,750. 100000, so that the total ap.
preparations for 1922, emitting public
debt items, were $3,373, 900 900.
eff we take the expenditure for the
five years, 1926, inclusive the total
reductions have been only $275 900 600.
or an average of $55 100000 a year.
This is a vastly different picture of
reduction from that presented by the
President"
Hull declared he would not deny the
Harding and Coolidge administrations
full credit ''for what they have actu-
ally accomplished, but it is due the
American people that the true facts
should be known
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
PROPERTY VALUED
AT $175.5O IS STOLEN
Naval Observatory Reports Loss of
Binoculars and Electric Heater.
Maryland Store Burglarized.

Seven pairs Of binoculars and an
electric heater have been stolen from
the Naval Observatory within the
past week, observatory officials re-
ported to police today. The instru-
ments, some of them purchased from
the French government, were valued
at $175.50. Observatory officials are
checking up to see if anything else
is missing. The thefts were com
mitted at different times, they said.
Local police are assisting the
Charles County, Nd, authorities in
an effort to apprehend burglars who
robbed the store of r. M. Swami at
Aliens Fresh of large quantity of
merchandise Saturday night. Loot
taken from the store included 5000
cigarettes, 1000 cigars, jewelry,
knives and wearing apparel.
Charles Stinson, colored, 1921 u
street, disappointed three colored hold
up men on o between Sixth and
Seventh streets early last night. Stin-
son readily responded when the trio
held him up at the point of a pistol
and demanded his cash. He had none
to give them.
Mrs. Annie Harmon, Grace Dodge
Hotel, was robbed of her pocketbook
containing $50 and a railroad ticket
from Washington to Atlantic City.
when her pocketbook was snatched
from her hand in front of the hotel
last night by a colored boy.
Theft Of jewelry valued at 1920 was
reported by Albert r. Woods, 609 New
Jersey avenue, yesterday. A diamond
ring valued at $125 was included in
the list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
SENATOR RECEIVES
ABUSE FROM X. X. X.
Bruce of Maryland Tells Senate
Dozens of Communications Have
Been Sent to Him.

The Senate was told yesterday by
Senator Bruce. Democrat, of Mary
land, that he has received dozens of
abusive letters from members of the
Ku Klux Khan.
His statement was made as he was
objecting to the insertion into the
Congressional Record of a sheaf of
communications received by Senator
Hefiin, Democrat. Alabama. commend
ing him for his attacks on the knights
of Columbus.
"The Senator from Maryland can
not keep these expressions of the
American people out of the Record,
shouted Senator Helm. They are
protesting against war and indorsing
my position. / shall read them and
and it will require a great deal OF
time.
1.-The truth of this conspiracy to
bring on war is going to be told to
the American people"
Asserting that he would vote to
keep out letters of an abusive kind
from knights of Columbus, Senator
Bruce said Senators should draw the
line somewhere on inserting matter
into the Congressional Record"
II have received dozens and dozens
of letters, abusive and scurrilous in
character. from members of the Ku
Klux Klan." the Marylander said
"They excited in me no sensation ex
cept unmitigated scorn."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
80 PERSONS INDICTED
IN ELECTION PROBE
Pittsburgh Alderman Among Those
Accused - Women Includ-
ed in Jury Report.
By the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, February 1.-Indict-
ments charging conspiracy and mis-
demeanor in connection with alleged
frauds in the November election here
were returned by the grand jury to-
day against 80 persons, including a
number of women, district election
officials and an alderman. The latter,
John Carr, was charged with failing
to receive and properly guard ballot
box.
District Attorney III. H. Gardner
directed the inquiry, which covered a
period of one month. Most Of those
named were election officers in six
Allegheny County precincts. During
the grand jury probe the district at
torney seized a number Of ballot
boxes and at the present time he is
attempting to arrange that these
boxes be left here when the Allegheny
boxes containing the November re-
turns are removed to Washington
later this week for use in the Senate
elections committee inquiry. Alder
man Carr was indicted when it was
found that a ballot box, supposed to
be in his care, was missing.
The conspiracy and misdemeanor
charges were based on allegations
that the district election officers con-
spired to make false returns and will
fully failed to perform their legal
duties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
Open Confession

1.-The works of Dickens, Reade and
Scott 1 always have admired" ex-
planned my neighbor, Henry Spott,
but Shakespeare makes me tired. I
do not hesitate to say and make my
meaning plain, that Shakespeare
turns my whiskers gray and gives my
neck a pain" / know he is an also
ran from whom the cultured shrink;
but oh, it's good to meet a man who
says what he may think. / would
not dare to go abroad and roast Bill
Shakespeare's plays, although those
plays, which I applaud, have bored
me many days. I'd be afraid that
highbrow friends would view me with
disdain, and say my conversation
lends to them a convex pain. / always
travel with the herd in matters of this
kind; humbly bow and take the word
of men I think refined. / boosted
Ibsen in his day, although he made
me sore; then Russians had the right
of way, though frequently they'd
bore. I followed, followed like a sheep
where'er the cultured led, and was
impelied at times to weep, again to
soak my head. At times rebellion
filled my veinsa, and inwardly cried
Give me a. book of Laura James and
let Galsworthy slide" But 1 sup.
pressed this fierce desire, nor was
from bondage freed; lacked the
courage to admire the stuff I liked
to read. But, oh. glory in the spunk
of men like Henry Spott, who say that
Shakespeare plays are junk and
tosh and tommyrot. They do not
seem to care a whoop for your sar
donIc smile; they do not shrivel ur
and droop when told their taste is
vile. What fun they have. these
dauntless jays, in swatting good and
| hard, and knocking all the classic
| bays from some old musty bard!
WALT MASON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
MODIFICATION OF SUNDAY
LAWS HIT BY MINISTERS
Baltimore Clergymen Pass Resolu-
ton Against Allowing Sab
bath Movies and Sports.

special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, February 1.-Resolu-
tons opposing any modification OF the
Sunday blue laws" by the Legisla-
ture were adopted by the Ministerial
Union at a meeting here yesterday.
This action was taken following an
address by Rev. w. S. Mitchell, pastor
of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal
Church of Worchester, Mass, who
said that the churches might properly
borrow a leaf from the theatrical
world, where the producer realized
that he must freshen up his shows
to meet the needs of the times.
Christianity" he said, lis old and
hoary There is question as to
whether it's service to the world has
been finished. The church must
adapt itself to modern civilization.
The outside world is changing"
The resolution dealing with Sunday
laws follows:
Whereas, the press reports bills
legaliZing motion pictures and Sun
day sports are to be introduced into
the Legislature now in session, there
fore the Ministerial Union, repre-
senting the 400 Protestant churches
of Baltimore and vicinity, affirms its
unalterable opposition to any change
| in Sunday laws. The secular5zing of
the Lords day is a. menace to religlo ION,
without which no nation can prosper.
| Society needs the day OF rest for wor'
- L.. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
Champion Spotter of Overtime
Parking Watches Stolen Machine

who works at the bureau. Her sis
ter, at 4:30 O'Clock, went to the scene.
She found the car, but she found also
Policeman r. v. Sinclair with a
ticket in his hand. He handed her
the ticket. She protested that the
car was a stolen automobile which
her sister had asked her to take.
Meanwhile, however, Policeman
John Leech of the sixth precinct had
driven by. with his wife in the car. He
is policeman who read his morning
bulletin. He had noted the tag mum.
bers on the car. He had compared
them with the ones on the morning
report. But he is a careful man. He
went to police headquarters for De-
tective Jet of the automobile squad
to see whether the car had been re-
ported recovered 1t had not been. SO
Jett and Leech returned to the scene.
There they found Sinclair and the sis
ter of the owner of the automobile en-
gagged In conversation.
Sinclair's ticket was a total loss.
The car was towed back to police
headquarters, where 1t is to be claimed
today by the owner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
FARMERS MARKET
AGAIN HITS SNAG
McCarps Ruling Complexities
Program for Re-erecting
Sheds Following Removal.

Another complication over the
farmers market arose today when
Controller General McCarl decided
that the Treasury may use funds
appropriated for construction of the
new Internal Revenue Bureau Build
ing for the purpose of tearing down
the farmers market sheds, but may
not use such funds for re-erecting
the sheds elsewhere.
Under present plans the sheds were
to be removed from the western half
of the market so that excavation and
foundation work could proceed in what
will be one-half of the site of the
Internal Revenue Bureau Building.
But the further complication over re-
erection of the sheds today again tied
up the matter temporarily.
One of the biggest problems has been
where to put the Farmers Market,
but in the absence of a final decision
on this question the District Commits
sioners have transmitted to Congress
a bill which would authorize expendi-
ture of 100000 for new Farmers
Market site.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01

Policeman r. v. Sinclair of the
first precinct, Washingtons cham
pion arresting officer for overtime
parkers and the like, sustained a
severe blow yesterday. The car
which had been parked overtime and
by which he was watchfully waiting
for the claimant had not been left
at the scene by it's owner but by a
thief.
On yesterday mornings daily bull
letin, which all good policemen are
supposed to read carefully so that
they may, perchance, spot the thief"
therein described or the stolen auto
mobile as listed by license tags and
general description, was the entry
with others that a sedan with license
tag 1926 was still out" reported
stolen Saturday, January 20.
Yesterday Mrs. Alice p. Enisor of
1922 Seventh street, who had re-
ported the theft of the automobile
Saturday, received a telephone mes
sage that car resembling hers was
parked near the Veterans Bureau
She communicated with her sister,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
SENATE AGENTS TO GO
FOR BALLOT BOXES
Will Leave Tonight to Get Pitts
burgh Election Records-May
Need Court Order.

Senate agents will proceed tonight
to Pittsburgh to take possession of
the ballots, registration books and
other documents in the contested
Pennsylvania senatorial election of
last November.
AS was the case when the campaign
funds committee took over the Phila-
delphia ballots under directions from
the Senate, court orders may be nee
essary for the transfer of the Pitts
burgh ballots to Washington.
The election documents are sought
for use in the investigation which the
campaign funds committee is to make
into the contest brought by William
B. Wilson, the Democratic candidate,
against William S. Ware, Republican,
who was elected on the face of the
returns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
FIVE BOYS ACCUSED
OF STEALING AUTOS
Three Under 10 in Group Held at
Lynchburg-Eight Cars Taken
Over Week End.

LYNCHBURG, Va, February L.
Callie Wright, Marion Thorpe, Joe
Graham, Lawrence Worley and Jesse
Rush, the last three being under 16
year of age. were arrested here during
the week end on charges of stealing
automobiles. Wright and Thorpe were
arrested near Concord in a stolen car,
being trailed by the owner of the car.
They are also charged with stealing q
set OF license tags from another car at
Six-Mile Bridge. The boys are charged
with stealing car from C. c. Hodges.
Three girls were in the car with them
when they were arrested.
Eight cars were reported stolen here
during the week end. six Of them being
found later by the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
MANEUVERPLANS
|NNEBULOUSSTATE
Action by Congress on Pro-
posed $25. 600 Appropria-
ton Is Awaited.

War Department plans for two
maneuvers in the coming Spring
months are In a nebulous state. pend
ing final action by Congress on a
proposed $4,000 appropriation for
joint maneuvers with the Navy In
the Narragansett Bay area, and also
because of conflicts between this
project and a suggested Air Corps con
centration In the San Antonio, Tex,
area for maneuvers with troops Of the
second division.
Required Funds Not Available.
The joint maneuvers with the Navy
were abandoned some weeks ago as
the funds required were not available.
The War Department now expects an
appropriation to be made, however
and conversations with the Navy have
been reopened to determine IL it liz
possible to revive the original plan.
That plan called for an extensive
Army Air Corps mobilization in May,
as an element of the proposed test
of the northeastern frontier against
a simulated naval attack.
The San Antonio maneuver plan in
its tentative form is for local oper-
alton during April with the exception
of the Air Corps concentration. No
additional troops would be moved in
to the section, units of the second
division stationed regularly at Fort
Sam Houston being employed to work
out tactical problems OF cooperation
with the air forces.
Prepare Recommendation on Subject.
A War Department explanatory
statement today said Maj. Gen. Pat
rick, chief of the Air Corps, was pre-
pairing a recommendation on that
subject.
eff it is found practicable and de-
sirable to utilize a large portion Of
the Air Corps in the New England
maneuvers, then necessarily the ma
neuvers around San Antonio would
not involve as many Air Corps units
as otherwise would be the case" the
statement said.
1t was added that Gen. Patrick's
plans for the San Antonio ma1euvers
were drawn up after the New England
plan had been laid aside, as Il was
thought "a large proportion of the
Air Corps might be assembled (at San
Antonio) and operate In conjunction
with the End Division without addi-
tional expense"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
P.O. EMPLOYE DIES
OF TRAFFIC INJURY
{. w. Turner, Waterman,
Hit by Street Car-Woman
Killed by Automobile.

Edward w. Turner, colored, II years
old, Waterman in the Post Office De.
partment since 1898, who resided at
1904 Sixth street, died at Emergency
Hospital last night from injuries re-
ceived Friday morning when struck
by a street car on Ninth near f
street. His death was the seventh traf-
f1c fatality last month. Coroner hewitt
will conduct an inquest at the morgue
at IL o'clock tomorrow morning.
Turner, a native of this city, was
the first colored boy to serve news
papers to subscribers here. He attend
ed private schools in this city and
later was graduated from the class
of '72 at Howard University. His early
employment was as dispatch clerk and
messenger for Gen. Louis r. Parson
in the transportation division of the
Quartermaster Generals Office.
Resumes Studies i'm 1866.
In 1866 he resumed studies at
Springfield, Mass. and later Lincoln
University in Chester County, Pa. In
1869 he was sent South as a mission
airy teacher, commissioned by the
Freedmens Aid Society of the Pres
byterian Church of Pittsburgh, Pa,
later serving as principal of Kittrell
Academy, Kittrell, n. c. He returned
to this city ard took a position in the
Pension Bureau in 1890.
During the Spanish-American War
Turner served as confidential mailing
clerk to the Postmaster General and
Assistant Attorney General for the
Post Office Department. He was
prominently identified with local col
ored Masonic bodies, Odd Fellows and
Knights of Pythias, and the Crispus
Attacks Association, John Marshall
Holland Relief and other colored or
CARNATIONS. He is survived by his
widow and seven children.
Woman Killed nj Crash.
One elderly colored woman, STOP
ping in the middle of street to
search for a lost article, was almost
instantly killed by an automobile early
last night and another was possibly
fatally injured only few blocks away
by another motorist.
Mrs. Grace Rhodes, II, of 81 Union
court, had stopped near Second and Z
streets to look for a package she had
dropped. Oscar E. Sherman, &c, 202
E street, driving north on Z street,
struck her with his automobile. She
was dead before she could be taken to
Emergency Hospital. A verdict of &C
quest today.
Suffers Skull Fracture.
The second accident occurred at
Seventh street and Pennsylvania ave.
nue.. Arthur Shaffer. working in the
Transportation Building, drove his car
around a stalled truck just as Lucy
Hughes, 76 / street, stepped from in
front of it. Her skull was fractured,
and physicians at Emergency Hos
pital pronounce her condition serious.
Miss Nora Mann, "a, 1901 Sixteenth
street, was slightly injured by the
automobile of William Riley, Guam
tico, Va, at New Hampshire avenue
and O street. Bernard Wilson, g.,
1903 v street, was knocked down and
bruised by the car of Morris Temin,
525 Four-and-a-half street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
THREE ARE SENTENCED
FOR DISTURBING RITES
Two Get Four Months and SIS
Fines, Companion Must Pay
$25 for Fight at Stanley, Va.

LURAY, Va, February Jacob
Grimsley was fined $25 and Floyd
Henderson and Bunker Breeder each
received four months in the county
Jail and SIS fines for disturbance Of
public worship at the Faith Healer
Church near Stanley, Va, last Friday
night. Breeder and Henderson were
convicted of simple assault on Rev.
Frank Conner, who, with William Hill
lard, was seriously injured in at
tempting to eject the intruders. Evil
dence introduced showed that the trio
had been drinking when they entered
the church.
Liquor bottles, rocks, guns and
other weapons were used in the fight,
it was charged. The cases were tried
before County Magistrates T.. K.
Dukehart and j. d. Frazier, with SO
witnesses present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
vIRGINIA'S GASOLINE
TAX BRINGS $6,158,124
Levy for Third Year of Its Opera.
ton is Five Times as Great
as for First Year.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, February 1.-Gasoline
taxes in Virginia for the year 1926
reached $6,158,124. according to the
report made by Motor Vehicle Com
missioner Hayes. This tax has been
collected beginning with 1923, when
the revenues were for the first year
$1,567, 204, and since that time 1t has
been advancing with regularity. For
the first three months this year the
tax was cents a gallon, and for the
rest of the year it was Az cents. Had
the law been for the latter tax the
entire year the revenues would have
exceeded $6,500,00
The report shows that for the col
lection of this tax the expense was
less than one-tenth Of / per cent, and
penalties for not paying within the
precribed time, with interest added,
came veKy near to defraying the en-
tire cost of collecting the tax. 1t is
pointed but that last year there were
only four States--New York. New
Jersey. Massachusetts and Illinois
that did not have gasoline tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
Named Superintendent of Hall.

CLARENDON, Va, February tSpe-
cial). disappointment of Howard Hill of
Aurora Heights as superintendent of
Clarendon Citizens Hall and caretaker
of the fire departments equipment
which is housed there was announced
last night following a meeting of of.
flcers of the Citizens Corporation, the
Citizens Association and the fire de-
partment. Hill will assume his du-
ties at once, giving the fire depart
ment an all-time man to answer fire
calls and to have equipment ready to
leave the building upon arrival of the
volunteers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
CUMBERLAND TO STUDY
FLOOD CONTROL PLANS
Diversion of Potomac Through New
Channel Is One Plan Proposed to
Prevent Disasters.
snecial Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md. February L.
The mayor and Council yesterday
passed a resolution calling a meeting
of citizens at the City Hall next Mon.
day evening to obtain sentiment on
the question of flood prevention and
to finally dispose of the matter.
Mayor Koon said bond issue would
be required If the work is to be car
ried on.
Cumberland was visited by disas-
trous floods in March and May, 1924.
One of the plans recommended by j.
H. Kimball an engineer employed to
make survey, is the diversion Of the
Potomac through a new channel that
would be made through Ridgeley, w.
Va. This is regarded as the most
feasible plan, but would be very costly
and would have to have the legisla-
tive sanction of both Maryland and
West Virginia.