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FROM THE WILD, WILD WEST. A1 Jennings, who once took a prom- JUST A BIT OF THE FUTURE. ‘•Rosie*’ Stinson, once the wife of the DRESSED FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. This, according RESTORING THE CAPITOL PAINTINGS. Charles Ayer Whipple, the
inent part in frontier life, at the Capitol yesterday. Al, who testi- late Jess Smith, having her fortune told at the Capitol yesterday. to fashion makers, may become the prevailing chapeau style for New artist who has been at work on the Capitol’s paintings for a conple of
fied before the oil investigation committee, is now an evangelist. ‘'Rosie” has spent several days testifying before the Daugherty investi- York during the democratic conclave. The teapot hat is worn by Miss years. Mr. Whipple is a native of Sonthboro, Mass. The photograph
taking a hand now and then in political affairs. National Photo. gating committee of the Senate. National Photo. Claire Luce, a New York girl. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. shows him at work in the Senate wing. Copyright by Kadel & Herbert
CONGRESS REPLACING
‘ HIGH COURT IS SEEN
Proposed Law to Make Any Act
Passed Twice Constitutional
* Is Criticized.
HELD TO UPSET GOVERNMENT
Charles Warren Discusses Idea Be
fore Washington Study.
Charles Warren, addressing Wash
ington Study yesterday, salthe re
cently proposed legislation providing
that a federal bm -which had been
Judged by the Supreme Court as un
■onstitutional may by being passed
\ second time by Congress become
i law would not he 'n fact an
amendment of the Constitution, but
an amciiument of our lonn of gov
•■rnmenl.
“This,” said Mr. Warren, "would
make Congress the supreme law of
Tho land." The fact that the Supreme
< ourt could pass once on the con
stitutionality of a federal enactment
would only delay the utlernace of the
last word in supreme power, which
would be in Congress, and. if that
body so desires, it would overrule the
findings of the court and declare
what should be the law.
Sees t'ongrreoo Supreme.
“This destroys the Constitution
and makes the power of Congress
absolute. The rights of the states
disappear, the federal republic dis
appears and a supreme centralized
power in Washington is the law of
the land if it chooses to legislate
twice on any matter.
“We must understand that our
form of government has one neces
sary and inviolably secure branch,
the Supreme Court, and the rest will
inevitably endure."
Other attacks upon the court Mr.
Warren characterized as misconcep
tion of facts and presupposition of
an evil which does not exist. “Os
the 25.000 decisions of the supreme
court 5,000 have dealt with enact
ments concerning the Constitution,”
said Mr. Warren. “Nine of these 5.000
decisions have been by a 5-to-4 vote.
Os tho nine only five would arouse in
terest. In 135 years the fact that
five decisions of the supreme court
should have been so close is not
enough to challenge the wisdom of
the administration of justice by that
body.
Minority Still Could Hole.
“Newly proposed legislation would
require the vote of seven judges for
a decision on the constitutionality
of any federal law. Again Oongresa
would take to itself the power of
supreme arbiter of justice, for though
a majority of the judges, or even
si* of them, should decide against
the constitutionality of an enactirtent,
and It is the will of Congress that
the three indorsing its act should
prevail, It becomes law. This is not
the decision of the court, it is the
decision of Congress.
"If we are to change our form of
government let us do it openly. Let
•us be honest and let us tell the
people frankly.”
Mrs. Upton Leaves.
Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton, vice
• chairman of the republican national
executive committee, left for Cleve
land yesterday to attend a two-day
meeting of tho republican national
ommltte*. called to make arrange
ment* C*r the republican national
• unventlon.
Man 7 Feet 7 Tall ,
Like Coolidge Cat ,
Sought by Radio
j Use of the radio in the successful i
search for President Coolidge's tom
cat, which strayed from the White
House for a few nights out, is held
responsible for the increasing number
of requests for broadcasting news of
j lost and missing articles being re
| ceived by Army and Navy Signal
1 Corps and communications officers.
Senator Ball of Delaware today
I added to the list, submitting a re
j quest to Secretary Wilbur asking
j that the Navy radio assist in a search
j for Robert Henery Langshaw, 11, of
| Greenville, Del. The description of
Mr. Langshaw said he was seven feet
| seven inches tall, twenty-six years of
j ago, and weighed 150 pound's.
Secretary Wilbur, in declining the
i senator’s request, explained that
since the naval communications were
I sent in code and the pressure of offi
| cial business was very heavy, he be
j lieved commercial radio stations j
could be employed to greater advan- i
| tage. %
PEDESTRIAN, STRUCK
BY AUTO, SUCCUMBS
J. E. Welchel Is Nineteenth Fatal
ity of Year—Find No Bones
Broken.
Jasper E. Whelchel, fifty-four, 1329
H street northwest, employe of the
Veterans’ Bureau, tho nineteenth vic
tim of fatal traffic accidents this
year, was struck by an auto at 9th
and G streets northwest last night ;
about 7 ;30 o’clock, dying at Erner
gency Hospital less than two hours
later.
Raymond William McNaughton,
apartment 403, West Clifton Terraco,
the driver, w going south on 9th
street and turned west into G street,
police reported, when Whelchel was
knocked down.
Tho man was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where an examination failed
to disclose any broken bones. The
victim, however, was in a badly
shock eel condition. It is said that
Whelchel hesitated while crossing the
street, seemingly undecided as to
what direction he would take, and
was struck.
Whelchel, a former resident of
Gainesville, Ga., is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Louise Whelchel, and
three sons and three daughters. The
sons are Lieut. John ,E. Whelchel.
United States Navy: David Lee Whel
chel, and Lieut. Longstreet Whelchel;
the daughters, Mrs. Paul Doolln and
Misses Mary and Louise Whelchel.
Coroner Nevitt will hold an inquest
at the morgue today.
Ohio Riflemen Win.
The Columbus, Ohio, Business Men’s
Riflo Club, with a score of 2,906 in
3.000. has won the gallery team cham
pionship of the United States.at fifty
feet, it was announced by the National
Rifle Association. Masillon, Ohio, was
second with 2,869 and Johnstown, Pa.,
third, with 2,833. Curtis Liston, Johns
town, was high individual scorer, with
592 in 600.
THK EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 11. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 28. ]?)24.
ZONTA CLUB GIVES
JUDGE SELLERS 0. K
| Work of Handling Juvenile Cases
Indorsed hy Unanimous
Vote.
The members of the Zonta Club of
business and professional women of j
Washington passed a resolution at
their regular weekly luncheon meet
ing at the Raleigh Hotel yesterday
indorsing Judge Kathryn Sellers for
her work during her term as judge j
of the Juvenile Court here. The club
was particularly Interested In the j
novel method instituted by Judge •
Sellers for investigating every case
before it came to the court and thus
saving many children the humilia
tion of having their names put on the
court records, as a large percentage
iof cases are thus settled out of j
court. It is said that many other
large American cities and even some
in foreign countries have adopted '
Judge Seller's methods and highly i
approve of them.
Given Unanimous Vote.
Miss May Moyers was the Zonta j
Club member who presented the res- j
olution, which was passed by a unan- t
imous vote. The resolution reads
as follows:
“Whereas the Hon. Kathryn Sellers
has about completed her first term as
judge of the Juvenile Court of the
District of Columbia and lias shown,
throughout her term of office, a ready
understanding and intelligent sym
pathy in dealing with the children of
the District, whose misdemeanors or
misfortunes have brought them be
fore her: now, therefore, be it re
solved, That the Zonta Club of Wash
ington, D. C., place Itself on record
as favoring and respectfully urging
the reappointment of Judge Kathryn
Sellers as judge of the Juvenile Court
of the District of Columbia. And it
is further resolved that copies of
this resolution be sent to tho Presi
dent of the United States and to the
Attorney General.”
General plans for the annual meet
ing for election of officers of the
Zonta Club were also discussed at
the luncheon. This meeting will be
held next Tuesday evening in the
garden bouse of the Grace Dodge
Hotel, at 6:30, when dinner will pre
cede the election.
CHAPLAIN? ASSIGNED.
Fort Wayne School to Graduate
Nine on April 4. f
Nine Army chaplains who will com
plete the regular course of training at
the Chaplains’ School at Fort Wayne,
Mich.. April 4, have been assigned to
stations as follows: William R. Ar
nold, Roman Catholic, to Fort Han
cock, N. J.; Prank B. Bonner, Pres
byterian. Fort Bragg, N. C.; Ed
mond J. Griffin, Roman •Catholic, Fort
Winfield Scott, Calif.; Thomas A. Har
kins, Methodist South. Marfa, Tex.;
Thomas J. Lennan, Roman Catholic,
Fort Benning, Ga.; Maurice W. Rey
nolds, Congregational, Fort Sill, Okla.;
Oscar W. Reynolds, Methodist North,
Fort Brown. Tex.; Henry R. Westcott,
jr.. Baptist North, Fort Sam Houston,
Tex., and Samuel O. Wright, Meth
odist South, Fort Mclntosh, Tex.
In June the Chaplains’ School will
bo transferred from Fort Wayne to
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. It will be
under the command of Brig. Gen.
Harry A. Smith, with Chaplain Joseph ’
L. Hunter as director.
Mosquitoes of 25 Klans in Capital
This Summer 9 But Some Are Peaceable
! i
Twenty-five varieties of mosquitoes j
I may be seen in Washington this sum- j
mcr—and at that the National Pap- i
itai with its mudhole* filled in Is j
remarkably free from this insect
pest.
Harrison G. Dyar, curator of lepl
doptera at the National Museum, has
I just completed one of the most ex
| hanstive studies ever made of Amer
| ican mosquitoes and has incorporated i
much of the material of local col
| lectors.
His report shows that some of the
mosquitoes encountered in Washing
ton do not bite at ail, but are shy,
inoffensive creatures that suffer from
the reputation of wayward brothers.
Along the Anacostia marshes, for in
stance, lives the Wyeomyie smithii,
very rare, which breeds and lives in
pitcher plant leaves. It is small and
stout with silvery scales.
The Culex testaveus is rather nu
merous here, but never has been
known to bite a warm-blooded ani
| mal. Swarms of them have been
seen attacking- frogs. Washington is
practically the northern limit of the
Culex quinquefasciatus, the common
house mosquito of the tropics, me
dium sized and reddish brown. The
Culex pipiens, the common house
mosquito of Europe, also reddish
brown, is found here. In a George- |
town water barrel you might sight |
a Culex salinarius, that flies up from I
the seashore, brown with black
wings.
Maa'n Krai Enemy.
One of the most abundant and
troublesome here is the Culiseta inor
natus, a large brown mosquito, which
attacks by preference large, warm
blooded animals, including man. A
perfect fiend is the Mansonia pertur
bans, who will fly several miles, is
a severe biter, and is so anxious to
get into houses and attack the
inmates that he will fly down, the
chimney when every door and win
dow is screened.
Here is something to remember —
If the Psorophora, a very large in
sect with dusky wings bites you,
just take it got* naturedly and let
him fly away. He is a bad biter, but
Dr. Dyar classes him as a beneficial
Insect, since he destroys many other
mosquito larvae.
The cake eater of the mosquito
FORFEITS COLLATERAL.
Mme. de Sibour Charged With
Reckless Driving in Collision.
Mme. Margaret de Sibour, wife of
J. H. de Sibour, well krfown architect
and prominent in society, who was
arrested the first of the week by
Motoc Cycle Policeman Redman on
Q street * near 27th, charged with (
reckless driving and operating a car
without an operator’s permit, today
in the office of Assistant Corporation
Counsel Thomas was permitted to
forfeit $lO on the reckless driving
charge and ’sl on the no-permit
charge.
At the time of Mme. de Sibour’s
arrest her car had been in collision
with the automobile of John Doolan,
1738 Ist street northwest, which was
parked on the south side of Q street. |
Officer Redman forced Mme. de Sibour
to ride to the station house in the
'patrol wagon. She was released on
S3OO collateral. 1
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family locally is psorophora howardii, !
who has been observed in past years
about chain bridge. He is very
large, colored brilliantly in blue and
gjeen with dull yellow legs. He also
is oeneficial. preying on other mosqui
to larvae and disliking the company
of man. The Psorophora sayi is very
rare in Washington. It is large,
witli dense, erect golden scales on its
head, and will bite badly, but never
is numerous enough to give much
trouble. A very large, black mosquito
with shaggy- blue legs, the Psorophora
horiidus. probably the most northern
representative of the tropical Amer
ican insect, is sometimes found here.
Another largp. black mosquito, the
Psorophora oolumbiae, abounds lo
cally, but Is never very troublesome.
It bites, but there is no severe Irri
tation which follows. Among the
bushes of the river bottom near chain
bridge is found the Aedes trivittatua,
small and brown with broad yellow
lines, which will bite badly any one
who comes in his way but never
comes out in the city streets look
ing for victims. Also around chain
bridge, among the rocks, is found
the Aedes atropaJpus, a bad biter, but
restricted strictly to the vicinity of
its breeding place.
Dry Woods Variety.
One of the most troublesome of
local mosquitoes in dry woods is a
medium sized black insect with
spotted abdomen, the Aedes tri-
I seriatus, which never is very com
i men, hut always a bad biter. The
commonest and most vexatious of
wood mosquitoes is the aedes vexans.
The females stick to the thickets, and
are fierce, predacious creatures. The
males swarm in search of blood after
sunset, often in great numbers.
A small, black mosquito, the Orth
opodomyia signifer, once abundant
in Rock Creek Park, has practically
been driven out during the past few
years. Its larvae live in tree holes.
The attention given trees in the past
few years has made life almost im
possible for the insect here.
The Mcrgarhinus. very large, me
talic green and yellow, has developed
a taste for honey, and the females
rival birds in sucking a blossom-
The males swarm on poison Ivy
leaves. They are very active" and
numerous In daylight. One of the
most dangerous local mosquitoes is
the. Anopheles cruaians which loves
to enter houses and is a bad carrier
of malaria.
WILKINS BUILDING SOLD.
Mrs. Eilleen C. Hines Said to Have
Paid $725,000 for Property.
The Wilkins building, 1512-1514 H
street northwest, has been sold to
Mrs. Eilleen C. Hines for F. H.
Duehay, Inc., it was announced to
day by Randall H. Hagner & Co., who
made the sale. The consideration was
understood to be in the- neighbor
hood of $723,000, and Mrs. Hines will
hold the property as an investment.
Hagner & Co. Will be the rental
agents.
The building contains two stores on
the first floor and ninety-six office
suites.
New Counterfeit Found,
Chief Moran of the secret service
today announced discovery of another
new counterfeit $lO federal reserve
note. It is bn the Federal Reserve
Rank of San Francisco, check lette.r
“C," plate number indistinct, D. F.
Houston, Secretary of the Treasury;
John Burke, Treasurer of the United
States: portrait of Jackson.”
TWO OCCUPANTS HURT
AS AUTO OVERTURNS
| |
Think F. H. Meakum Received
Fractured Skull—Companion
Held by Police.
Francis H. Meakum, twenty-six, and
; James F. Donovan, 2425 N street
northwest, were injured early today
when the car in which they were rid
ing overturned in front of 2209 Wash
ington circle. The mishap occurred
on the street car tracks, blocking
traffic several minutes.
Donovan and Meakum were taken
to Emergency Hospital, where Dr.
John De Mayo found Meakum suffer
ing from a probable fracture of the
sknll, concussion es the brain and
shock, while Donovan sustained mi
nor cuts about the face. Donovan
was held by police of the third pre
cinct for investigation.
Detectives Darnall and Springmann
reached the scene of the accident
j shortly after Policeman A. W. Can- i
* nella of the third precinct had taken
; the injured men to the hospital in the !
; automobile of L. A. Baker, 3032 Cam- 1
| place northwest.
John K. Monroe. 1922 Ist street
i northeast, a mail collector, witnessed
| the accident, and told the police the
car was speeding around the circle
| about 5:30 a-m., when it suddenly
swerved toward the car tracks and
overturned. Dopovan is said by the
police to have made conflicting state
ments as to who was driving the car.
He said they were on their way from
Pennsylvania avenue and 14th street
northwest to his home.
WILBUR ACCEPTS POST.
Made Vice President of U. S.
Olympic Association.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur is
now also vice president of the Amer
ican Olympic Association. He ac
cepted an ipvitation to assume that
office, extended by CoL Robert M.
Thompson yesterday.
The new Navy Secretary also ac
cepted an invitation from Julius H.
Bames, president of the Chamber of
Comffierce of the United States, to
attend the annual meeting of the na
tional chamber in Cleveland next
May.
INCREASES V. 0. STAFF.
Postmaster Mooney was authorized
today by the Post Office Department
to place seven additional clerks on
duty at the Washington city post
ofllce. This is the first authorization
for new clerks since last fall, when
thirty men were added.
The seven clerks will go on duty
April 1 and draw $1,400 a year salary
each, with provision made for auto
matic advancement year by year to
SI,BOO. Authorisation for the clerks
was made by John H. Bartlett, first
assistant postmaster general.
Sues Antoist for SIO,OOO.
Anna C. Abramson today sued John
H. Magrader to recover SIO,OOO dam
ages for allege! personal injuries.
While crossing New Jersey avenue at
D street October 19 last the plaintiff
says she was struck by an automobile
of the defendant and sustained seri
ous Injury. She is represented by At
torney* Hew Toyer ft King.
Suggests Citizens
Probe Congress
To End Scandal
By flip Associated Pre*«.
NORFOLK, Va., March 28.—1 -
J vestigation of Congress by a citi
; Zens’ committee as a possible solu
tion to the national oil scandal
was suggested here last night by
j Judge James A. Emery of Wash
j ington, D. C., in the course of his
address on •‘Government and Busi
ness” before the annual convention
of the North Carolina Pine Asso
ciation. Ho said Americans should
realize that the Teapot Dome in
vestigation is hurting the national
integrity abroad and people should
stop motoring and golfing on elec
tion day and go to the polls and
vote.
Irving O’Hay, around whom
Richard Harding Davis’ story,
"Soldiers of Fortune," was writ
ten, declared peace could never
come until sectional and interna
tional prejudices and religious
bigotries were wiped from the
minds of men.
WANTORIGINALGAS
' TAX BILL OR NONE
Conduit Road Citizens' Association
I Condemns $10,000,000 Bill for
German Belief.
Following a discussion on the meas
ures before Congress bearing on the
automobile reciprocity with Mary
land, a resolution was affered by,the
Conduit Road Citizens’ Association
last night demanding that the orig
inal gasoline tax bill be approved or
none at all. The association’s vote on
this resolution was unanimously af
firmative. The bill before Congress
extending more powers to the Com
missioners of the District of Columbia
was heartily indorsed.
The bill passed by the House of Rep
resentatives authorizing a gift of
$10,000,000 to the needy in Germany
was condemned by the membership. It
was stated that Congress should im
prove school conditions in certain sec
tions of the city before it attempts its
charity abroad.
$91,000 Item Cat.
In a resolution presented by Miss
Cora Van Sant, secretary of the asso
ciation, it was pointed out that char
ity begins at home, and that only re
cently the budget bureau had elimi
nated from the District estimates an
Item of $91,000 for a school in the
Conduit road section.
Other resolutions adopted at the
meeting last night in St. David’s
parish hail were the Cramton bill, •
which authorizes the commitment of
feeble-minded persons to the new Dis
trict feeble-minded home, and the Cap
per-Zlhlman bill, providing fora com
pulsory school attendance law.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Barnes and
j Mr. and Mrs. B. F. King were elected
ito membership. J. D. Smoot presided.
Fight Ammonia Fumes.
Wearing gas masks, members of
No. 27 engine company entered an
ammonia-filled room at the abattoir
of the Ixiffler Provision Co., Benning,
early today, and closed the valve on a
pipe, which had burst, making it pos
sible for employes to return to work
•hortly afterward.
FAVOR DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC WELFARE
Commission Proposes to Consolidate
Duties Now Handled by
Separate Agencies.
SEEK PASSAGE BY HOUSE
Proposal Calls for Unpaid Board
of Supervisors.
The commission on public welfare
legislate on yesterday afternoon ap
proved the bIH for the creation of a.
department of public welfare In thei
District government to take over th«
duties now performed by several sep
arate public agencies.
The completed draft will be laid
before the Commissioners as soon m
possible for their approval and trans
mittal to Congress.
The welfare commission will con
vene again tomorrow morning to fin
ish drafting the bill to provide aid
for dependent children in their own
homes, otherwise referred to as a
mothers' pension law. The commls-
I sion had previously indorsed this
: legislation in principle, but postponed
passing on the details until it should
be determined whether the depart
ment of public welfare was to b»
recommended.
Vnpaid Board Proposed.
The proposed department of publi*
welfare would, under the commi.---
sion’s bill, be supervised by an un
paid board of nine members, to be ap
pointed by the Commissioners. Th*»
executive, functions of the hoard
would be carried on by a director of
public welfare, also named by the
city heads.
The bill abolishes the board of
charities, the board of children'*
guardians and the board of trustee*
of the National Training School for
Girls. The new board would be in
vested with all powers now exercised
by these independent agencies.
Reorganization Purpose.
The purpose of this reorganization
is to bring about unified control of
welfare activities in Washington.
The draft approved by the commis
sion yesterday was prepared by Wil
liam ’ Hudson of the Russell Sag**
Foundation, who came hero, to assist
the commission in its revision of all
child-caring and public welfare leg
islation. Justice Frederick L. Kid
dons is chairman of the commission.
STUDENTS IN EXHIBITION.
Sidwell Pupils to Demonstrate
Gymnastic Ability Tonight.
A gymnastic exhibition will be
given by the pupils of the Sidwells’
Friends School, at the Y. M. C. A. this
evening at 7:30 o'clock. The program
includes a march, run, jumping, mat
work, polka, club-swinging, wand
drill, tug of war and apparatus ex
hibitions.
A plea for peace and sympathy
with mankind was made by Kidney
S. Wicks of the Manchester (Eng
land) Guardian in a talk to the pu
pils yesterday. He also urged the
young people of America to leant
to take a deep interest in the people
of other lands
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