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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-11
DE PRIEST WARNS RACE
AGAINST RED ACTIVITIES
Declares Propaganda Nay Be Plot
to Deprive Colored Citizens Of
Right to Earn Living.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, September 11.-Oscar De
Priest, colored Representative from IL
linoiS addressed the womanS division
Of the National Negro Baptist Conven-
ton, U. S. A.. in session here yeSter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-11
Rich Gold Strike Reported.

PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, September
II R.-Report Of rich gold strike on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
CAPITAL PROMOTION
PLANS DISCUSSED
Bureau of Community Advertising
Gives Convention Phase
Special Attention.

A broadly conceived program for pro-
motion of the National Capital during
1891, especially as a national conven-
ton center, was discussed yesterday at
the initial meeting of the Bureau of
Community Advertising and Publicity
Of the Washington Chamber of Com
merce. The bureau was created re-
Gently under a new system adopted as
q result of the fve-year expansion pro-
gram of the chamber.
In discussing ways to secure more
conventions for Washington it was sug-
gested that steps be taken in cooper
alton with the Washington Convention
Bureau to insure systematic canvaSsing
Of prospective conventions with partic-
ular reference to the bicentennial
year; that literature describing Wash
ington's advantages as a meeting place
for conventions be prepared, and that
efforts be made to approach national
associations through resident members
with a view to securing annual con-
ventions for the Capital.
The bureau, which comprises the
standing committees on the George
washington Bicentennial Celebration,
on Conventions and on Greater Wash
ington," voted to support the Dyer bill,
which aims to establish travel divis-
ion IN the Department of Commerce to
promote travel to and in the United
States. Endorsement also was given to
the plan of the Bicentennial Commit
tee to create a talking motion picture
of washington for Nation wide distri-
button during 1892. A city-wide
courtesy to visitors" campaign was also
urged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
BOTH PARTIES PLAN
TO HOLD CAUCUSES
Candidates for Speaker in
New Congress viii Be
Selected.

Plans by both Democratic and Re-
publican parties for control of the
House in the Seventy-second Congress
will be made at the next House cau-
cuses of both parties here In the last
days of this session.
The Republican caucus will open on
February IS, it was announced yester-
day, and the Democrats will convene
two days later.
Although the formal Democratic
summons has yet to be issued, Repre-
sentative Garner Of Texas, the minority
leader, has announced his forces, in
GLIDING 81 new members, would meet
February %.
The Republicans hold q bare ma
lority of 218 of the ABS seats.
Representative Tilson, the majority
leader, and Chairman Smell of the
House Rules Committee, asserted there
was no dispute as to which party
would organize the House Chairman
Hawley of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, said the country directed us
to keep the power when 1t gave us the
majority"
The Democrats hold ala seats. In
addition there are two normally Demo-
cratic posts recently vacated by death.
Representative Kvale, Farmer-Labor,
holds the other seat.
The Republicans plan to select candi-
dates for Speaker, leader, committee
on COMMITTEES and officers of the House.
The Democrats expect to select a can
didate for Speaker, and to leave the
question of selecting the leader until
the new Congress assemblies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
STAR OPENS
MEETING TONIGHT
Election of Officers to Be Held
Tomorrow Evening by
Grand Chapter.

Arrangements have been completed
for the opening session Of the annual
meeting Of the Grand Chapter; order
of the Eastern Star of the District Of
Columbia, at Z o'clock this evening in
the auditorium of the Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street and New York avenue.
Mrs. Katharine s. Merritt, worthy grand
matron, will preside, and welcome guests
from this and other jurisdictions, the
special guest of honor being the grand
master of Masons in the District Of
Columbia.
Annual reports Of the grand matron
and grand patron, Dr. Charles c..
Galloway, are also sch duled for this
evening. Reports Of officers and COM
mittee chairmen are also on the po-
gram. The session tomorrow evening
will include memorial service for
deceased members, under the direction
Of Mrs. Nellie z. Fletcher, past grand
matron
Election Of officers also Is scheduled
the polls being open from to o'clock
Reuben A. Bogley. past grand patron,
is chairman of elections. Installation
of officers will be held Saturday evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
LANIGAN RETIRES
AFTER AZ YEARS
0verseer in Charge of Labor of
Sewer Department to Travel.
Lowe Ends Service.

Thomas M Lanigan retired yesterday
as overseer in charge of all day labor
in the District Sewer Department.
Lanigan, who is SO years old, lives at
1868 Harvard street He has been a
District employe AZ years. He expects
to travel, following his retirement.
Calvin K. Lowe, chief clerk Of the
Electrical Department, retired yester-
day at the age of 20. He had been with
the District 241a years. For Is years
previous to that he had been secretary
to william E. Mason when the latter
was a member of the State Legislature
of Illinois and Of the House and Senate
in Washington. He had been chief
clerk of the Electrical Department since
July !, 1918.
In behalf of the other employees Of
the Office, w. z. Kern, assistant electro
cal engineer. presented him with tray
cling bag and toilet set.
Mr.. Lowe, who is unmarried, lives at
100 @ street His place will be filled by
civil service examinations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
METAL ASSOCIATION
MERGER ANNOUNCED
Officers Elected for New 0rganiza-
ton of Thirty Employing
Contractors.

Merger Of the Steel Erectors' Asso-
citation and the Iron Contractors As
ISOLATION, local organizations Of employ
ing contractors, will be effected through
approval of cooperative committee,
headed by James F. Murtaugh, IL was
announced yesterday by Thomas Grant,
who has been named temporary secre-
tary
The combined organization, the name
Of which will be selected later, will
have a membership Of about 80 employ
ing contractors.
Charles Dowd was elected president
Of the new body, Emil Schmidt vice
president and Louis Otto treasurer at
. meeting yesterday of joint commit
tee Of the two associations. A COM
mittee, consisting Of j. H. Ford Of the
Steel Erectcrs' Association, and Mr..
Schmidt, former president Of the Iron
Contractors Association, was appointed
to draft rules for the new body. to be
considered at a full meeting Of mem
bers January 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
Farmers Outsmart
Slickers Who Ship
Goods Not Ordered
Held for Storage Letters
Discourage Racket
Claiming Many.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 8.-In this
story the rustic outwits the slick city
chap.
Farmers upstate have worked out q
profitable racket to beat racket. Sup
pose q farmer receives a fountain pen,
stickpin, necktie or even pair of socks
he never ordered. He sits down and
writes something like this:
Goods received. I do not want them,
and will be glad to return them to your
duly authorized representative on pay
ment to me of 81 for storage of same.
This simple ruse is said to have
greatly discouraged the practice of ship
ping unsought goods to upstate farmers
who may live several hundred miles
from the city.
D. H. Chamberlain, jr, of the Better
Business Bureau, who disclosed the
racket" said widows, particularly, had
been imposed upon by operators, who
preyed upon their sympathies. He said
laws would be urged to curb the
practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS
TO MEET IN MEXICO
Session of Pan-American Group to
Be Held in Capital City
Early Next Year.

The Seventh Pan-American Scien-
tific Congress will meet at Mexico City
some time early in 1882, it was de-
cided yesterday by the Governing Board
of the Pan-American Union.
This selection resulted from consid-
Grafton of q report of the special COM
mittee, composed of the Ambassador
of Peru, Manuel de Freyre Santander;
the Minister of Panama, Ricardo J. Al
faro, and the Minister Of Guatemala,
Adrian Recinos, who had been ap-
pointed by the board to consider the
place of meeting after the government
Of Costa Rica had decided that it would
not be possible to hold the congress
at San Jose, as originally scheduled.
The last scientific congress was held at
Lima, Peru, in 1924.
The board also approved the report
of the special committee on the Pan
American Railway, recommending the
appointment of Fred LAWS as chair
man Of the Pan-American Railway
Committee, to succeed Charles M. Pep
per, who recently died.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
ARTS CLUB BAL BOHEME
COMMITTEES NAMED
Alluring Plans for Spectacle Made
by Group Under William
Baker for February 2.

Committee organization work has
been completed for the 1881 Bal Bo-
heme of the Arts Club of Washington,
to be held at the willard Hotel Feb
ruary 2. Alluring plans for the spec
tacle have been made by the Executive
Committee, headed by William F. Baker
Tickets will be placed on sale next
week at the American Automobile As
ISOLATION and the leading hotels. City
wide poster distribution also will be
started. The posters have been entered
in the annual contest, to close Saturday.
The judges will announce the contest
winners Sunday Prizes Of SIS SIS and
$40 will be awarded for the most artis-
tic advertisements. The judges will be
Mrs. Duncan Phillips, Miss Eleanor
Parke Gusts, James F. Harley, James
Rotto and Grin F. Ballou.
Committees already active include:
Decorations, Felix Mahony: Hotel Ar
rangements, Henry Jay Staley; Cos
TUNES, Miss Harriet Garrels, Mrs. Eliza
beth Hammond Hoyt and F. Shepard
Taylor; Posters, Mrs. Louise Rochon
Hoover Publicity, Mrs. Sallie v. H.
Pickett: Costumes, Miss Sibyl Baker:
Floor, Fulton Lewis; Tickets, Mrs. John
Otto johnson; Boxes, Mrs. John F.
Gaynor; Stunt, ]. Minor Dorey, and
Casting, Mrs. Maude Howell Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08

passenger in the car Of woodbridge
September q last whsn IL was In col
lision with . street car Of ths other
defendant at Fourteenth and New York
avenue. she is represented by Attorney
Henry I. Quinn. 4kHkN
Suit to recover $4,000 damages has
been filed by Philip H. Kraft, Sill r
street northeast. against James Spring.
man. 1927 Ellicott street. for injuries
alleged to have been sustained by being
hit by an automobile. The plaintiff
says he was struck by a car Of the de-
PENDANT November ON BladensburE
road. He Is represented by Attorneys
Fred B. Rhodes and Cooper B. Rhodes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
.L|THUANIA MAY END.
LEAGUE RELATIONS
Country Feels 1t Is "Perpet-
uaI Loser" in Geneva
Body'S Decisions.
BY JUNIUs B. WOOD.

~ Gable to The Star.
KOVNO, Lithuania, January 9.-The
next session of the Council of the
League of Nations, starting 10 days
hence, may lose this small, harassed
country as a member.
Lithuania has been dutiful member
Of the League, paying $4,000 a year
IN dues. It also has been perpetual
loser on all questions.
Tersely put, the withdrawal of Lithu-
ania would "call the Leagues blum"
as expressed here and If carried to
logical conclusion. would force the
League either to cease diSmembertng
Lithuania or start open hostilities IN
Europe.
In addition to its old dispute with
Poland over the latters forcible seizure
of wilma and the present bitter dispute
with the Vatican, with an emphatic
exchange of letters between the Pres1-
dent of Lithuania and the Pope at
Rome, which so far has been sup
pressed, Germany has involved Lithu-
ania in a third controversy regarding
Memel once the northern outpost OF
that former empire, which is now pend
ing before the League.
According to Foreign Minister Dr.
D. zaunius, that the League, as usual,
viii decide this against Lithuania is
foregone conclusion.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
FARGO PUBLISHER DIES

FARGO, N. OAK, January P.-
Norman B. Black, IS, publisher of
the Fargo Forum since 1917, died
suddenly at his home here early today.
Mr.. Black had been engaged in news
paper work for nearly half a century,
growing up" as he often expressed it.,
with the atmosphere of print shop
in my nostrils."
Mr.. Black was active In affairs of
Rotary International
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
Rockefeller, Jr., Honored.

NEW YORK, January tP).-John
D. Rockefeller. jr.. was presented yester-
day with the plaque Of Grand Oflcer
of the Crown by Prince Albert de
Ligne, retiring Belgian Ambassador to
the United States.
The award was made in recognition
of the active interest Mr.. Rockefeller
has taken in the University of Brussels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
FLYING LECTURE TOPIC
Paul Edward CARRIER of smithso-
MAN to Speak at Catholic q.

Early efforts at flight and the work
of the pioneers in aviation will be dis
cussed by Paul Edward CARRIER. curator
Of aeronautics for the Smithsonian
Institution, at 6:15 o'clock tomorrow
night in Mcmahon Hall Auditorium,
Catholic University.
Mr.. CARRIERS lecture will be one Of
a Winter course of free public lectures
on aviation at the university. This will
be the third lecture by Mr.. CARRIER. His
fourth, on famous fights and famous
flyers, will be given at the university
January %. other aviation authorities
viii be heard in the series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
Ends Life After Heckling.

Ell PASO. Tex, January 8 [P).-
Actuated by what he termed continued
heckling" of fellow employees, Estan-
islado Garcia. 40, a porter, leaped to
his death yesterday from the eleventh
floor of the Hotel Hilton.
Two women passing the hotel mar
rowly escaped injury as the body
struck on the sidewalk In front of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
+315 DEEDS DECEMBER
MARK IN ARLINGTON
County Clerks Report Shows 1858
Taxes Forwarded From This
Source to State.
By a stan Correspondent of The Star.

By q stan Correspondent Of The Star
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, January s.-Records in
the Office of william H. Duncan county
clerk, reveal that there were 315 deeds
recorded in the county during Deem
Der. Taxes forwarded to the State from
this source amounted to 1868 30.
The clerks report shows the follow
ing additional items:
Wills and administration, 4; State
tax, s35; chancery suits, 10; State tax,
1890; actions at law, 10; State tax, SIT;
prohibition law fines, $525, with total
costs of $413.75; fines in cases other
than prohibition, $4l3.75, with fines OF
$12225.
Collection of delinquent real estate
taxes amounted to $171.8 for the coun-
ty and $15605 for the State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
How "Scrappy" Lambert
Keeps Coughs from Going
On The Air

The famous tenor crooner, "Scrappy"
Lambert says, TITS risky to start a
program on the air without a safe,
quick cough remedy close at hand
one that can relieve cough and clear
up every trace of hoarseness."
That's why he uses Pertussin. It is
quick and sure. Broadcasting studios
use it. tits entirely free from narcotics
and injurious drugs-is safe even for
children. Doctors have prescribed
Pertussin for more than twenty-five
years because it gets at the cause Of the
irritation. This is coughing weather.
Better watch QUIT Stop in at any
druggists for bottle Of Pertussin.
Safe for Every Couch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
MRS. CARTER TO SPEAK

Home Decoration Lecturer to Ad-
dress Clarendon Gathering.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, January 5.-Mrs.
Chrystine Button Carter, well-knovn
lecturer on home decoration and beau
ttncation. Is announced as the speaker
at the public gathering to be held to-
night in the auditorium Of Washington
Lee High School. Her subject will be
1.-The Graceful Art of Living"
The meeting has been arranged by
Thomas r. Mechem. prominent civic
leader Of the county. who Is taking an
active part in plans for the dressing up
Of the county for the bicentennial cele-
bration of 1882. Invitation TO attend
has been extended TO all Of the won1an's
clubs. civic organizations and CONNER
cial bodies Of the county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08

Volcanoes are really safety valves
without them we could hardly have
existed at all, for scientists say 1t is
due to volcanic action that the CONT
nents emerged from the sea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-08
TWO SUE AS RESULT
OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

Auto Passenger Asks $50, 900 From
Driver and Street Car Company
Following Collision.
Frances g. Hall. 23Os H street, has
fled suit in the District Supreme Court
to recover $4,000 damages from the
Capital Traction Co. and william
woodbridge. 3406 N street, for alleged
personal injuries. She says she was .
Smyrna times., 1931-12-23
NO DEPUTY MARSHALLS YET
Charles Hanratty of Smyrna, De
fers appointment for Investigation

fers appointment for Investigation
The Is or 16 men who are en-
ployed by the U. S. District En-
gineer's Office along the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal who ex-
pected to be sworn in as U. S.
deputy marshals this week are
doomed to disappointment. U. S.
Marshal Charles Hanratty of
Smyrna, has reconsidered his de-
cision and said recently he will not
appoint any deputies until he re-
ceives the approval of the Depart
ment of Justice and until each
man to be sworn in as a deputy is
approved by the Department. Early
last week, Captain Harry o. Tunis,
of the Y. S. Engineers office, re-
quested Marshal Hanratty to swear
in these men as deputies so as to
give them more authority in regu-
lating traffic through the canal and
protect government property and
also see that the work of mainten-
ance and their installation of a
dispatch control system for the
canal is not hampered. The inter-
ference is not of a serious nature.
Captain Tunis said, but there had
been damage to government prop
critics where the work is being
done and the bridge tenders and
foremen have not had sufficient
authority to prevent the interfer-
ence. The group of men, most of
them bridge tenders who have been
in the government employe for a
long time, according to Captain
Tunis, came to Wilmington for the
swearing in" ceremonies but
Marshal Hanratty was away on
business, and the men were told to
return Monday. Last week, Mar
shall Hanratty while re-considering
his decision to swear in the dep
Uties, received several communica-
tions from residents of Chesapeake
City, advising Marshal Hanratty
not to appoint certain men before
he investigated their characters
and regulations. Marshal Hanrat-
ty said he did not intend to be re-
sponsible for deputy marshals OF
whom he knows nothing. He does
have the authority to appoint dep
uty marshals but he does not want
to exercise that authority until he
knows who the men are and until
he receives the approval Of his SUI
periors in Washington. Deputy
marshals are supposed to receive a
base pay of S. a day but according
to an understanding between Mar
shall Hanratty and Captain Tunis,
the men were not to have been
paid extra.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-23
G.W.WHITE DIES IN HOSPITAL
Skull Fractured and Both Legs
Broken on Camden Road

George w. White of Wyoming,
20, while walking from behind a
pile of stone on the Camden road
not far from the campmeeting
woods where sidewalks are being
laid by the State Highway Depart
ment, was struck by a truck driv
en- by Preston N Pruitt, of Fruit
land, Md, and sustained three frac-
lures of the skull besides having
both legs broken. He was rushed
to Kent General Hospital where he
died Thursday evening. Pruitt
was given a hearing before Mag
istrate w. d. Burton of Dover on
a charge of assault and battery by
an automobile and was held in
$4,000 bail. Bail was furnished
for Pruitt and he was not only ex-
onerated but released from any
criminal intent whatever.
Smyrna times., 1931-12-23
DWELLING HOUSE IS MOVED
ACROSS DELAWARE RIVER
TRANSPORT ENTIRE FRAME
STRUCTURE FROM FORT MOTT
Ten-Room Residence Placed in Of
ficers' Row at Fort dupont
at Delaware City

Nearly 500 persons stood on the
banks of the Chesapeake and Della
ware Canal at Delaware City,
Thursday and watched the arrival
of an officers residence from Fort
Mott, in New Jersey, arrive, to be
placed in Officers Row at Fort du-
Pont. On account of the tide be-
ing low no attempt was made to
take the residence off the scoWs.
1t was expected to be rolled ashore
Friday morning and then moved on
land about 300 yards to where the
foundation has been prepared for
it. The residence, which contains
ten rooms and an attic, and weighs
$50 tons, was first taken from its
foundation at Fort Mott and NOV
ed nearly half mile to where a
slip had been constructed for its
loading. The chimney of the house
was braced so that it would not
fall. 1t was about o'clock Thurs
day afternoon that the barges were
ready for the trip across the river.
The men Of Company c, of the
First Engineers, who had been do
ing the work, placed the residence
on three naval barges which had
been dashed together. It was Sc
curely braced and twelve members
Of Company G took their positions
on the barges with the residence.
Captain Ralph Salmons, of the
United States Army Engineers De
partment, took charge Of the tow
ing across the river. Two United
States tugs, the Lewis and Beverly,
hooked onto the barges and the
trip across the river was begun.
The trip across the river took just
one and one-half hours and at $50
o'clock the barges with the house
on board anchored opposite the
slip which had been constructed in
the canal at Delaware City. The
house is one of seven at Fort Mott
This fort, like Fort Delaware, in
the centre of the river on Pea
Patch Island, is only manned in
war times. At present it is in
charge of soldier caretakers. The
government decided to move one
residence to Fort DUPONT as an ex-
pertinent The cost will be care
fully gone over and if the War De
partment decides that the cost of
removal was not excessive some of
the other residences will be moved
from Fort Mott to Fort dupont
Smyrna times., 1931-12-23
FROM BLAZING HOME
Man Carries Wife Down Ladder ~
Flames Block Stairway

When flames blocked the stair
way, Carl J. Snowberger climbed
out on a roof, dropped to the
ground and hastily secured a lad
der by which Mrs. Snowberger
climbed down to safety from tba
second floor of the Snowbergers,
burning home near Ridgely, Nd
at 3 A. NJ, last Wednesday. The
house, a landmark in that section
known as the D. Staper homestead
was burned to the ground The
loss is expected to total several
thousand dollars. The fire Is b.
lieved to have been caused by a de-
fective fue, although the Snow
bergers declared that the flue was
recently cleaned out. Mrs. Snow
berger discovered the fire when she
was awakened by the smell Of
smoke. She aroused her HUSBAND.
and neighbors raced to Ridgely. a
mile and a half away, to summon
firemen. Among the fremen who
rushed to the scene was the chief
of the Ridgely company, ]. K.
SnoWberger, father of Carl J. Snow
berger, occupant of the burning
home. The fremen were handicap
ped by a lack Of water, the only
available supply being a pump il
the kitchen which was surrounded
by flames. Some of the Snowberg-
ers' furniture was saved but all Of
their possessions on the second
floor, including clothing, We're de-
stroyed. The Snowbergers' only
child, a son, was spending the night
at the home of relatives in Ridg-
ely