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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT
AT FALKLAND TOMORROW
David ]. Lewis to Speak Before
Parent-Teacher Body at Wash
ington Anniversary Fete.

Special Dispatch to The Star
FALKLAND, Md, February al
Representative-elect David j. Lewis
from the sixth Maryland district, will
speak before the Falkland Parent
Teacher Association at its second
Washington's birthday celebration at
st. Marks Hall here Monday night
He will be introduced by Delegate Odo-
rian w. Roby. Commissioner Lacy
Shaw, president of the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners, will be present.
The Liberty Grove Band will fur
niSh a number of selections and also
lead the chorus of school children and
audience In singing patriotic selections.
Miss Betty Gray, accompanied by Miss
Kash,. will sing; Miss Lorine PEBBLES
will give reading; H. Stephan, violin
list, accompanied by Mrs. Stephan, will
play. Invocation will be by Rev. r.
F. Hall.
The committee in charge are Mrs
S. j. Athey, Mrs. Elmer Duvall and
W. B. Walters, president of the asso-
citation
At the meeting of the association
a program was furnished by the fourth
and fifth grade pupils and by Miss
Charlotte Adams. soprano soloist.
The association favorS the proposed
addition of two school rooms and an au-
jitorium- gymnasium to the present
building. The association went on rec
ord as approving the proposed pro-
motion of a public park along the
Paint Branch in the community Max
Burdette, principal of the school, gave
talk on the value of examinations in
the promotion of teaching in the
schools, explaining the standing of this
school in relation to the schools of the
whole county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
MISSIONARY COUNCIL
TO DISCUSS LYNCHING
Methodists to Consider AdviSab ility
of Services to Be Attended
by All Races.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La, February al
The lynching problem and the advis-
ability OF church services attended by
all races will be discussed by delegates
to a three-day convention of the Cen
eral Missionary Council of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South here next
week.
The council will meet Tuesday and
devote the flrt two days to the foreign
missionary work of the church. Thurs
day has been designated "inter-racial
day"
Among the questions TO be asked the
delegates are:
What can churches and pastors do
to control the lynching and mob evil?"
Would 1t be good to have union serv-
ices with neighboring churches Of other
races?"
us it best for all concerned to have
a majority of Negro leaders trained in
the North?".
lis there need Of closer cooperation
among Indian, Mexican and Anglo
Saxon churches, and what steps may
be taken to bring 1t about?"
The inter-racial open forum will be
conducted by Bishop w. r. McMurray
Of Fayette, Mo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
.CAPONE REPORTED
F.. ON WAY TO CHICAGO
Policeman at DanvilIe, Ill.,,
Says He Talked With
Notorious Gangster.

BY the Associated Press.
DANVILLE. Ill, February 21.-
Traffic Policeman Wiley Wat=-n said
Alphonse Capone, Chicago gang leader,
stepped from the Florida Limited OF
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail
road today, accompanied by three
bodyguards, and was whisked away In
O waiting limousine.
Watson said Capone chatted with
him, admitting his identity.
Residents near the Danville Airport
said q strange cabin monoplane landed
at the field around noon and took of
80 minutes later.
The officer said Capone announced
he would fly to Chicago.
Passengers on the Florida train said
Capone boarded it at Miami, making
no effort to conceal his identity.
Capone is under Federal court
order to appear at Chicago next
Wednesday to answer q contempt of
court citation resulting from his failure
to return from Florida two years ago
when subpoenaed before the grand jury.
Capone at the time pleaded illness.
but Government investigators said he
was well enough to frequent the race
tracks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs.
HOLLYWOOD Calf, February 21.-
The manufacturers of motion pictures
would give lot to know the secret, If
there Is one, Of pleasing all the people
all the time.
Too many movies that are bell-rtng-
ers in the downtown houses" fall fiat
in the neighborhood or second and third
run shows. And often films not so good
in the f1rst-run theaters draw a panic
of customers when they get around to
the neighborhood districts.
A recent and noteworthy example of
pictures in the latter class Is the travel
epic, with Byrd at the South Pole"
1t played first, as all pictures do, in
what the industry calls "ace" theaters,
but the reception 1t got was as chilly
as that received by the members of the
expedition to Little America.
Pictures Take Well.
for as few days as their contracts would
permit, fearing the worst. But the I'M
expected happened. The film did a
capacity business in nearly every neigh
borhood theater in the country.
Approval of pictures in this country
knows no geographic bounds. Pro-
vided the story, cast and other essen
tials are good, the theme or locale mat
ter not
Serious dramas about problems In
the upper strata of New York or other
large city society are as successful in
one part OF the country as another.
SmaN-town audiences, however, seldom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
SILVER PRICES RISE
AS OPTIMISM GAINS
Hoover May Call Farley to
Discuss SIump-Interna-
tionaI Chamber Takes Action.
ny the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February Ala few
rays of sunshine in the form Of activity
on both sides of the Atlantic toward
resuscitating silver pervaded the two
most important markets for the precious
metal today to precipitate the sharpest
upturn of the year in its depressed
price.
silver sold for 2714 cents an ounce
IN the New York. market, an advance OF
/ cent from yesterday, and was quoted
IA penny. This compares with an aver
age price of 52.9 cents in 1929.
Sentiment toward the precious metal,
which recently sold at 1884 cents an
ounce, an all-time low record, was boil
stored by evidence indicating the world
has been aroused to action and may
do something to help the plight OF the
metal, which represents the tangible
wealth of a good portion of its popula-
ton and, therefore. has an important
influence on buying power.
Hoover May Call Farley.
Passage by the United States Senate
Of a resolution asking President Hoover
to take the initiative in calling an in
ternational conference with respect to
the uses and status Of silver was coinct-
Executive Committee of the Interna-
tional Chamber Of Commerce meeting IN
Paris
Another heartening development was
the report of the American Bureau OF
Metal Statistics showing that production
of the white metal in 1880 in the six
countries supplying 81 per cent of the
world output was the smallest in at
least four years.
lessen the spread between the supply
and demand and is regarded as impor-
tant to any efforts made to stabilize
the price of silver In the world market.
The United States remains the lead
ing Silyer-producing Nation in the world,
with total output in 1880 Of 50,234, 900
ounces, compared with 33,447,000 for
Canada, los, 204 900 for Mexico. Others
included in the total are Peru, 1894
900; Australia, 8,S54,00o, and Burma,
1865 900.
Numerous Mines Closed.
The curtailment of operations is. Of
course, directly attributable to the pres
ent low price level. Numerous mines
duction sharply or shut down, and the
downward trend Is being continued this
year.
The curtailment of production is only
one of many factors In the complex
problem. Just what steps the world will
take to bolster the price of silver, the
decline Of which has had tragic aspects,
especially for China, cannot, of course.
be foretold. but distinct improvement
in sentiment in recent weeks has been
noticed.
The Senate and International Cham
Der of Commerce committees that
studied the problem agree that one Of
the chief causes was the desire of India
to dispose Of its stock after adopting q
nominal gold standard, and the debase-
ment Of silver coins by other nations.
This has greatly increased the supply
on the market.
Suggestions have been made that
large loan be made to China to sta
billie the purchasing power of silver,
and there Is wide divergence Of opin-
ion both in New York and the Orient
concerning 1t,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
BILLBOARD GROUP
KEEPS MRS. M'KEON
Resignation Of Maryland
Committee Chairman Re-
iected; Fight to Continue.

Special Dispatch 10 The star.
BALTIMORE, February 3l.-MrM.
Edward II. McKeon's resignation a
chairman Of the Billboard Restriction
Committee of the Federated Garden
Clubs of Maryland has been rejected by
the board Of directors Of the organiza-
ton and Mrs. McKeon has agreed to
remain in once.
The chairman Of billboard restriction
Is anxious. she said, to correct an i'm
preston that has gotten abroad that
she has quit the billboard fight
II am distinctly still in it." she de-
clared, land 1 intend to remain in 1t
until Maryland gets what it wants in
the way Of legislation against billhoards
and signpoStS along the public high
ways of the State.
When I rendered my resignation as
chairman of the committee, / had no
intention in the world of giving the i'm
preston that was no longer interested
in billboard restriction and that was
no longer in the fight TO have the bill,
now before the Maryland Legislature,
passed.
MY resignation was merely a matter
OF FORM" she went on. My years work
was up and simply rendered my resig-
nation with the hope that someone else
might be appointed to carry 1t on. My
resignation was not accepted and so I
am still in Office.
I'm just as keen about the abolition
Of billboards as I ever was and I am
working just as hard as ever to make
others realize that they are unsightly
and constitute a hazard to motorists.
81 particularly don't want the people
who have been working with me to
think have let them down. had no
such intention when I resigned-I ex-
pected to retain my interest, but not the
chairmanship-but I'll retain both If
necessary to make it perfectly clear that
I'm still in the fight"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22

The Rev. James Shera Montgomery,
nastor of the Metropolitan Methodist
Episcopal Church and chaplain OF the
House Of Representatives, Will ofter the
invocation and pronounce the benedlc-
ton. A program of organ music VIII
be given by John Russell Mason, uni
versity librarian, preceding the cere-
monies.
The academic procession will be led
by Prof. Elmer Louis Kayser, with the
president of the university, the provost,
members of the Board of Trustees, the
faculties and the graduating classes In
line. Following the convocatton address
the degrees will be conferred by DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, the candidates
being presented by the deans OF the va
rious schools of the university. The ex-
ercises will close with the presidents
charge to the graduates.
Mems Glee Club will participate in the
Middle Atlantic Glee Club Competition
which is to be held in Washington on
Friday, for the purpose Of selecting a
group to represent this section OF the
country In thu national competition
in New York City on March "a. AS
winners of the National intercollegiate
Glee Club Competition for 1880, the
George Washington singers will COM
pepo III UIle udIIOIldl COIiCcoI t-llo SSaA
regardless of the outcome of the re-
gional contest. This will be their sec
ond appearance In the national con-
test. Entering the competition for the
frst time last year they were awarded
first place, an honor which during the
previous II years of the competition,
had gone to but five universities. The
regional competition will take place at
the Shoreham Hotel and will be fol-
lowed by a dance.
Senior class elections have resulted
in the election of the following class
cfficers: Frank Weitzel, president: Harry
Ruddiman, vice president; Wilhelmina
GUIDE, secretary; Ewin Weihe, treasurer:
Marjory Keim, historian; Harrym1s1
Dorsey, chairman of class night; Rich
ard Mattingly. program chairman;
Richard Radue. chairman Of decora-
tions; Stanley Fraser, chairman of re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
HELD IN CAR THEFT
Alexandria Man Also Charged
With Stealing Tags.

By . stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 2l-
William A. Smith, %, of 523 South Lee
street has been charged with house
breaking and the larceny of State and
city automobile tags here and the lar
ceny Of an automobile in Washington,
D. c., following his arrest here.
Smith was arrested here by Sergt.
Edward J. McDermott Of the State De-
partment of Motor Vehicles. He has
been released under 81, 900 bond pend
ing q hearing In Police Court next
week
Police say that Smith entered HofY-
mans garage at Fairfax and Wilkes
streets February IL and took State and
city automobile tags, which he placed
on an automobile he had stolen In
Washington the previous day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
LODGE ELECTS OFFICERS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WAYNESBORO, Va, February al
Election Of officers and the selection oil
Staunton as the next place of meeting
on April 81 featured the meeting of the
Augusta Odd Fellows Association hello
here.
dent, j. F. Armentrout, Waynesboro
vice president, c. B. Reeves, Stanton
secretary, S. M Mclaughlin, Waynes-
boro; treasurer, w. S. Bryan, Staunton
chaplain, G. z. Bright, Staunton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
MISS HARDY WILL SPEAK
Assistant Superintendent of Schools
to Address Principals Group.

Miss Rose Lees Hardy, assistant SUI
perintendent Of school in charge of
elementary instruction. will address the
Elementary Principals Association at
its meeting at 345 pm. Tuesday, In
the board room of the Franklin Ad-
ministration Building.
Miss Hardy will discuss Significant
Facts Concerning the New Courses of
Study"
Besides Miss Hardy, Mrs. Joshua
Evans, jr., trustee of George Washing
ton University, will speak briefly. Mrs.
E. K. Peoples, president Of the aSsocia-
ton, will preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
LENTEN SERVICES.

EVANSVILLE Nd, February al
Mass Is being held each morning at 8
O'Clock, and services are being held each
Friday evening at 1880 O'Clock In st.
Jerone's Catholic Church here during
Lent. Rev. Andrew J. Carey, pastor
who has been Ill, has resumed his duties
Complete returns from the minstrel
show given here Monday night for the
benefit of the st. Jerome's building fund
are not yet available, but 1t is known
that q substantial sum was cleared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
WOMAN'S CLUB MEETS
Brandywine Organization to Gather
Thursday Afternoon.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
mn ANY~xyxrYTNy1 ~ =

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BRANDYWINE. Md, February 21.-
A meeting of the Woman's Club Of
Brandywine will be held Thursday after
noon at o'clock at Brandywine High
School. The club, at its last meeting,
voted against the proposed county build
ing at HyattSville.
The next meeting of the Mothers
Club will be held at the home of Mrs.
w. T. Mcpherson March IL at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. Canter will be the leader. At the
clubs last session held at the home Of
Mrs. Hogue, an article on THE Infiu-
ences Of Pre-school Life on the Later
Development of the Child" was read by
Mrs. Meinhardt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Trade Body Chartered.

BALTIMORE, February 81 (SpeciaD .
The Kensington Chamber of Com
merce, Inc, of Kensington, Mont
gomery County. has been chartered
under the State laws OF Maryland TO
stimulate interest in the welfare Of the
community. The organization has no
capital stock and the incorporators are
Irwin H. Linton, Washington !. Cleve-
land and George c. Shinn, all Of
Kensington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
THREAT OF DYNAMITE
RECEIVED IN LETTERS
Three Persons Get Communications
at Lynchburg Demanding
Money Under Penalty.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, February 21.-N.
B. Handy, Mrs. Ernest Williams and
j. P. Bell Co., all of this city, have
recently received anonymous letters in
which demands are made for money on
threat of dynamiting their homes or
business places.
All of the letters have been turned
over to the police and Federal authori-
ties. who are engaged in an effort to
disclose identity OF the writer of the
letters. The letters, carefully printed
with a pencil, are written on good sta
tionery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Cork Street Cars to Go.

Cork, Irish Free State, soon will be
without street cars. The present ones
are too old and too noisy for the city
to take over, so the operating company
will quit. Some of the cars are more
than 80 years old, and when rounding
as tanks. Buses probably will succeed
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Recreation Camp Set Up.

CUMBERLAND, Md, February 81
Especially A model camp for recrea-
ton purposes for the use of officials
and guests has been established on the
south branch of the Potomac River
on land leased from A. C.. Mcneil Of
Mountain View Inn, near Moorefield.
The lodge has been built In a grove Of
trees at point noted for scenery. The
building has rustic finish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Cyclist Killed by Truck.

SAN JOSE DE LAS LAJAS, Cuba,
February 81 (P).-Angel Ruiz 24-yc---
old telegraph messenger, who, with
two other young men, sought to set
a bicycle speed record over the new
highway between Santiago and Ha-
vana, was killed yesterday when he
truck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22

, rian for the George
Washington Bicen-
tennial &C I'm m | S.
sion, will deliver
the onv oc alton
address. His SUBJ
iect will be wash
ington and Lin
coin" DR.. H a r I,
who is professor
emeritus Of Har-
ward University,
taught history and
government at that
Institution fro m
1883 to 1926. He
is the author OF
m any important
works in the field
history
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
GAS OFFICE MANAGER
NAMED AT ALEXANDRIA
Raymond c. Brehaut Appointed in
Place of S. T. McAdams, Trans
ferred to Capital.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 21.-
Raymond G. Brehaut has been ap-
pointed manager Of the Alexandria Gas
Co., to replace s. T. McAdams, it was
announced by the Washington Gas Light
Co. today. McAdams, who has been
manager here since the formation of the
Alexandria Gas Co., has been trans
ferred back to the Washington Office.
The new manager, who took charge
several days ago, has only been con-
nected with the Washington Gas Light
Co. for a short time For several years
previous to coming with the Washington
company he was connected with the
Massachusetts, Utility Association, and
has had experience in managing a gas
company Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
DIES AFTER FUNERAL

Prominent Virginia Woman Ex-
pires Following Rites for Sister.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, February I'll
Miss Margaret Gibson, 80, member of
an old and prominent Stephens City
family, died today a few hours after
funeral rites had been held for her sis
ter, Miss Laura Gibson, who died
Thursday from a heart attack while
helping to nurse her older sister, long
an invalid.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. John
Barton Guard and Miss Ella Gibson,
and one brother, Edward Gibson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Girls Spurn Jobs, Lose Dole.

Nearly so unemployed mill girls in
Stalybridge, England have refused work
offered to them in navy, Army and air
force canteens, and as result their
unemployment pay has been stopped.
The wages in the mills range from $3.50
70 $S75 q week. In the canteen service
the girls were offered $3.50 q week with
board and lodgings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
G. w. U. Convocation Tomorrow

@. W. .. COnvOcatIon Tomorrow.
DEGREES will be conferred upon 80
- graduates of George Washington
University at the Winter convoca-
ton at 8 pm. tomorrow in Constitution
Hall.
DR.. Albert Bushnell Hart, eminent
scholar author and teacher and histo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Howard Observes Anniversary.

L Drate the SlXty-1OurCn anniversary
of the granting of its charter Mon
day, March 2, with the annual alumni
charter day dinner in the university
dining hall. Bishop Wilbur p Thirkield
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
former president of the university and
Mrs. Thirkield will be the honor guests.
Members of the faculty and Washing
ton alumni will act as hosts to the
seniors Of all departments. In addition
to addresses by Bishop Thirkield, DR..
Johnson and DR.. S. L. Catlett of Orange,
N. j., president of the General Alumni
Association, there will be short ad-
dresses by representative Of the fac
ulty. local alumni and seniors.
Music will be furnished by the Wom-
ems Glee Club under direction of Miss
Carolyn Grant, instructor In the School
OF Music. and a string ensemble from
the class OF I'ouia Vaughn Jones.
The Charter day dinner was originated
eight years ago by Emory B. Smith,
then alumni secretary of the uniVer-
sity. It's success through the years has
been due primarily to the efforts of Mrs.
Alma j. Scott, who has served as chair
man of the committee sponsoring the
dinner since its origin, except the first
was chairman.
Associated with Mrs. Scott in pro-
noting the dinner this year are Miss
Kitty Bruce, Mrs. Bertha Lomack, Mrs.
Georgia S. johnson, Mrs. Mary r.
Saunders, Mrs. Bertha M. Clarke, Mrs.
Beatrice Catlett, Miss Edna Bowie. Miss
Estelle Brown and Miss A. Blondel
NeWSon.
DR.. E. p. Davis, dean Of the College
OF Liberal Arts, and Registrar F. D.
Wilkinson will be guest speakers at the
Charter day dinner at st. Louis. Fol-
lowing the celebration the Howard off,
GERS will journey to Pine Bluff. Ark,
March 40, where they will attend the
sixth annual meeting Of the National
Association Of Collegiate Deans and
Registrars in Negro Schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
Schools and Colleges
News of Interesting Student and Faculty activities
in Washington's Leading Educational
Institutions.

for all written class work at the dscre-
ton Of the instructor.
DR.. William S. Alternately, pastor oil
Calvary Baptist Church, with address
vespers service this evening at this
women's residence at $50 o'clock. This
service is open to the public. A must
cal service featured last Sundays chapel
with numbers by Helen Tucker, Joseph
Thomas, Willett Denit, Edward Tate
Blake Espy, Roland Norquist and Anna
Mary Sanford.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-12-24
CENTRAL OHIO WATERS MAY
BE CLOSED FOR FISHING

According to Columbus papers
1000 miles of central Ohio rivers
and creeks will be closed to fishing,
effective Jan. L, for a period of two
years to permit restocking with
fish. 1t is stated that VIM. H.
Reinhart, state conservation COM
missioner ordered the streams clos
ed in compliance with a four year
program intended to restore good
fishing in all sections of Ohio. With
the closing of the Muskingum,
Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and
tributaries, fishing is virtually end
ed for two years in central Ohio.
Mr.. Alvin Parmiter, conservation
officer for Morgan county, has not
as yet received any orders from the
state conservation, commission con-
corning the matter referred to.