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llPt IPr* v tsiaf* mm IF / * J^SSS *?'~""\! ***'.' '& M&sS&.-yy' ■^^|^g&aßMMMra&MBß|SMj[P|jß3|Ep|jß^WP^^^^Hßßß^^flß^^r^^^Ht7^ > ,f '%-L^> , - v **» .• - mm i^^»--..a^fe:^M a »»» , a,. C < HURCII I)l(iMT VRIES OF POLAND CALL l PON THE PRESIDENT. Left to right. in renter: Hi,...lit Gwiwic, counselor anil charge d'affaires «.f the Polish legation in Washington; Archbishop Cieplak and Rev. Stanislaw J. Kruczok. both of Wilna. Poland. National Photo PHi:\r.ii' \i,?> Ur Aivnuag r Ann v m Ur,* it.*.,. ,?no« «>•• i ssihnA HIGH sv.HUUt.. i The production will serve to entertain the amusement-loving public at Eastern High Audi torium Friday and .Sum-day evenings. Left to right: Eldred Wilson, Dorothy Lawrence, Mar vel Douglas. Ruth Apperson ami Edward Andrus. Washington Star Photo. j URGES LICENSING ! REALTY BROKERS: Speaker Declares D. C. May! Become Mecca for Ban ned Sharps. , With the majority of states having ) adopted, or preparing to adopt, a real ( estate licensing law', the District of \ Columbia is in danger of becoming a ) •Jumping ground for irresponsible | brokers unable to do business in other ( iarts of the country unless it pro- \ tects itself with a similar law. Brig. 5 Gen. Nathan AV. MacChesney, general ) counsel for the National Association of Real Estate Board, told a gathering of several hundred real estate men and prominent business and civic lead- Atrs here in the AVardinan Park Thea- ■ ter last night. Gen. MacChesney, who is the author of the AlacChesney act for the licensing of real estate men and con trol of real estate practices, now a law ) .in 22 States and before the legislatures , of 8 others, told his audience that on , October 1 the statute became effective | in Florida.. As a result, he said, thou- i sands of irresponsible brokers, some , with criminal records, have been } stopped from dealing with the public there. Warns of Menace. ••With the States fast driving the slick salesman and the Irresponsible real estate man from'business, unless the District of Columbia does some ;hing to protect itself It will soon be come the dumping ground for all the crooks and schemers who cannot do business in the rest of the country,” declared Gen. MacChesney. ' The speaker explained that the law Would not bar men from the real es ate field except on the grounds that hey were incompetent or improper persons to conduct such a business. .Me praised highly the local Real Es tate Board, under whose auspices the meeting was held. • and added: ! ‘‘Efforts throughout the country to i have adopted a real estate license ! aw are the most sincere attempt ever set forth by any business to get rid of its own abuses and to serve the public." Gen. MaoChasney said the public would be the chief benefactor ot such t law, which would prevent any man ] iu the real estate business from mak- j ing misrepresentation or using fraudu- j lent or improper methods or false j advertising. Provides a Commission. The law provides for the establish- j uient of a real estate commission to grant licenses to conduct a real es- | tate business, act as a board of ap- I peal for the purchasers who feel they ; nave been improperly treated by a i peal estate man, and to have the power j to suspend or revoke licenses. Clarance Donohoe, president of the j Washington Real Estate Board, pre- | bided, and John L». Weaver, past [ president of the local board and of! the National Association of Real j Estate Boards, Introduced Gen. Mae- j Ohesney. A buffet supper was served following the meeting. .Tonight the local board will hold j its first annual ball at the AVardmen Park Hotel. Approximately 125 niem ■ers of tlm board, their wives and j jmests, will attend the affair. Those j * n charge axe: 31. Tudor Morsell. i chairman; AV. E. King, VVaverly AV. J Taylor, Howard R. Schladt, Leo ,- * wsUhsß THE BIGGEST CAKE EVER BAKED IN WASHINGTON. It is six feet in diameter and weighs 100 pounds, and to make it required 250 pounds of sugar, 100 dozen eggs, 75 pounds of butter and 120 pounds of icing. It has been estimated that the cake would preserve the lives of the National Capital’s cake eaters for the next 20 years. Chef Marius Manon of the Wardman Park Hotel created the pastry. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. r * Forced to Marry At Revolver Point, Bride Declares By the Associated Press. DANVILLE. Va.. November is. —Forced at the point of a revol ver to marry the man she had previously jflted three times, is the story of IS-year-old Leorda Melton, whose parents have announced they will seek an . annulment of marriage to Lonnie Harrison. 24. of Schoolfteld. Harrison, in jail here i charged with abduction of the | girl, denied that he held a pistol concealed in his pocket, against Miss Melton’s side during the cere mony, but admits that he told her last Saturday night that she would have to marry him. The officiating minister told au thorities that the girl sobbed j throughout the ceremony, but that he attributed her actions to emo ! tion and saw no signs of terror on j her part. . COOUDGE GIVES PICTURE. j Sends Autographed Photograph to Republican Women. ' President Coolidge surprised mem i bers of the Federation of Republican | Women of Montgomery County while | they were in attendance at a card I party and luncheon at the Mayflower I Hotel yesterday afternoon when he ! sent them an autographed photo | graph of himself. The women an i nounce they will display the photo graph at each of their future meet ings in the county. Airs. John A. Holmes is chairman of the organization and Mrs. llarrv A. Dawson was in charge of arrange ments for yesterday’s gathering. flirts attending government schools in China are forbidden to wear short fihiStSa » - TTTE EVENING- STAR, WAHHTXGTOK'. D. 0., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1925. POLICE SUBSTATION TO BECOME PRECINCT Fourteenth Will Cover Area North of Calvert Street and West of Rock Creek. The fourteenth precinct will begin functioning in its own right and not as a substation of the seventh pre cinct on December 1, when the juris diction of that territory north of Cal vert street and west of Rock Creek will pass into the new precinct’s con trol. Heretofore the substation at Ten-. leytown, known to the police as fiub-T, has been covering that territory, but the officers in charge there have been under the supervision of the eapfain of the seventh precinct, in George town. Lieut. J. A. Sullivan will be placed in charge of the fourteenth precinct. He will be the only precinct com ; tnanding officer in the police depart ment who has not the rank of cap tain. j The fourteenth precinct, therefore, will be In operation before the thir ; teenth precinct, which is not expect ' ed to be ready to function until the I completion of the station house on Nicholson street west of Georgia ave nue some time around July 1, 1926. Bids are now being asked for the con struction of this station house. The* creation of the thirteenth and fourteenth precincts, it la expected, will result in the addition of tw r o cap taincies to the list of police officers as well as turn lieutenancies. Paint Resists Salt Water. Faints are now made so that they will resist not only weather to a rea | sonable degree but will also last I against salt water. Such pigments are linade to be used on either wood or metal stirfaces. Most of the ordinary colors are imparted to these paints mitb. #U899«% ■ , , j_^; 1— • y , .„,„<... f *■ f J «~T / w_ | '''' r - ■ : | Maj. Fukuda, a J.ipm artillery I ( officer and schoolmate of Prince 1 | Ataka. working in the kitchen of a ) ) New York hotel. He is learning the ) ( American hotel business. . Wide World Photo. ) ~.., CuYUE iTnEK t.t.iAi r. m t*.it..vr tier .m. .ioi.awaiu, i.ArtN With 363 per sons aboard, the ship caught fire at night. After a 30-mile race for land, the burning vessel was beached in the Delaware breakwater. One passenger became panic-stricken, jumped over hoard and wgs drowned. All the other passengers and members of the crew were saved. * Copyright by Milter Serve-.'. MACNIDER REJECTS MEMORIAL PLAN FOR WOMEN OF SOUTH IN ’6l Finds Project Would Have “No Proper Place’* at Arlington in Reply to New Yorker’s Proposal. “Would Establish Precedent.*’ Acting Secretary MacNider of the War Department has acted adversely on the proposition to erect a me morial to the Southern women of the days of the Civil War in the Arling ton National Cemetery. To Frederick l R. Gibbs of 41 Fifth) avenue. New | York City, who submitted the prop osition to the War Dei>artment, Col. MacNider has written that he had given careful consideration to the matter and had "arrived at the con clusion that such a memorial as you propose, fine and beautiful though it may be, has no proper place In a National cemetery.” "In addition to the inappropriate ness of the site requested the Act ing secretary added, "I feel that the act of granting your, request would create an undesirable precedent in that it would be difficult there after for the War Department to deny permission to erect any form of mem orial whatever in that cemetery. I am therefore constrained to inform you that I will not grant your re quest without additional authority from Congress.” In making the application, Mr. Gibbs explained that the Southern Women’s Memorial Association pro posed to erect In the city of Wash ington a memorial to the Southern women of Civil War days and de sired a site in the Arlington Ceme tery, “on top of the knoll just below the mansion on the Custls walk, just i inside the Sheridan gate, not now in , use except as a park.” The memorial, he said, consisted of ] Emil Fuch s group, "Mother Love,” j known as a “poem In marble,” stand- I ins, pa * rwuul qprtt* structure PK MMQHMbJBnHr.' . \ ; *■ >V? SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ENROLLS. Miss Virginia Selden, j prominent in society of the National Capital, enrolling Secretary Mellon > in the American Red Cross yesterday afternoon. Photograph snapped ) in the Secretary's oil. National Photo. ) . _ j X , „ lnMrnr< Bjsf&jSlUffiMdl * ■ f9| ; CALLING A SPADE A SPADE AND WHILING AWAY IDLE HOURS. Witnesses in the Mitchell case, in \ t a room not far from the court, playing cards while awaiting call to the witness stand. Left to right: Lieut. Leigh Wade, rovnd-the-world flyer; Lieut. O. A. Anderson, Lieut. 11. W. Sheridan. Maj. Sumter Smith and Lieut. Eugene Eubanks, adjutant at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.* by 123 feet in dimensions, designed by W. B. Kirby, who assisted in the con struction of the Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park. The cost of the me morial is estimated at SBOO,OOO, and the plans are to be submitted to the Fine Arts Commission. ”It is not a partisan memorial,” said Mr. Giblis in his letter to the Secre tary of War. “for it will be construct ed in such away a.s to be of educa tional value. The women of the South stirred the hearts of the world with their fortitude, bravery and sacrifice. This memorial is designed to present this moral for the coming generation.” One of the larger public parks in Washington, preferably Rock Creek Park, may eventually be selected as a site for the memorial. If the necessary authority is obtained from Congress. OFFICERS ASSUME POSTS. Soroptimists Hold Informal Meet ing at Lafayette Hotel. The Soroptimlst Club held an infor mal meeting yesterday at the La Fayette HoteJ, the newly elected of ficers assuming their places. The three past presidents presented a basket of chrysanthemums to President Van Winkle. A feature of the program was the presentation of , a dug flag.'the gift of Nellie Hysong. 1 The following guests were introduced: , Mrs. John G. Capers, president of : the local Quota Club: Mrs. M. A. } Wathen, past president of the Ad !ver Using Club of Han Antonio, Tex., and Miss Cornelius, Mrs. Jones and MXP. WUkerflWL - . if! ... a if mM .1 x ** ■ *> jT • ii&mm . f 111 ■ , £ c. Ilpi : . ' "*l-1111 r - -- '■ t T1» *iAKE, Ac. i()M(*HIi.G nii»l *G SAFE FOR THE, PRISONERS. Thi- is the new “Black Maria” of the United States marshal’s office- an all-steel, bullet-proof bod* mounted upon an Army truck. It replaces the wooden car which had been in use since Guiteau killed Prc-i -dent Garfield. Prisoners riding in the new car need no longer fear the bullets of speeding bootleggers or pursuing prohibition officials. Washington Star Photo. BRITTEN TO SEEK BAN ON SUBMARINES Will Introduce Measure in House to Eliminate or Curtail Number of Craft. Strict limitation on the construction of submarines or the complete elimi nation of this character of fighting craft by international agreement is proposed in a resolution to be intro duced when Congress meets next month by Representative Fred A. Brit ten of Chicago, ranking Republican member of the House committee on naval affairs. Serious doubt regarding the fighting value of submarines with a potential enemy from 2,500 to 6,000 miles away is expressed by Mr. Britten. He con tends that the cost of one fleet sub marine would pay'for 150 observation and fighting airplanes. •'The most important element in the limitation or abolition of submarine construction, from the American view point, is whether submarines are more valuable to our national defense than they are to other Nations,” said Mr. Britten. “The United States has 83, Kngland 48, and Japan 39 submarines in active commission today, a total of 170, not one of which could cross the Pacific Ocean in peace time and not 10 of which could successfully cross the At lantic and at the end of the trip be prepared for military service. “When one considers the tremen dous cost of construction and main tenance of submarines and then weighs in the balance the uncertain value of these outlaws of war he won ders why the nations have not long | since agreed to abolish them.” j la the middle of the seventeenth j i century a woman held the official posi i tion of rat catcher at the Tower of I London, as shown by an old warrant , rtoontly 41*cnr«md« ;|te 01.0 jiiiAi'MJfcS nx tlAnl. Ur LA.uE. When "Hcd” Grange ptays tn his last college foot ball game Saturday, his -hirt. hearing the number “77,” will he placed among the trophies of the University of Illinois. No other player will ever use the same number. The photo shows “Red’’ and his famous shirt. Copyright erwood 4 T. ndert Meteorite Drives Hole 4 Feet Deep In Ground in Fall By tho Associated Press. MILFORD, N. 11., November 19.—The meteorite, . the fall of ■which startled many persons in southern New Hampshire Sunday, has been found in a pasture owned by Sheriff James P. Cassidy. It had driven a hole 4 feet into the ground. While only about as large as a flattened base ball, there were numerous bits of slag broken off at the point of impact with the earth. Near the spot, was a dis tinct odor of sulphur. Searchers were directed to the !o- | cation by the story of a wood chop- i per. who said he had been "chased j oy a 'fiery thing!” HARDER FIRM FINED.' Last But One of Refrigerator Con- j corns Assessed in Chicago. i CHICAGO, November ,19 <*»).—As sessment by Federal Judge Cllffe yes terday of a $2,000 fine against the Harder Manufacturing Co. of Coble skill, X. Y., disposed of all but one of tho Federal cases against the “re frigeration association,” which consti tuted a large part of the furniture companies Indicted last May "29 by the Federal grand jury for "eliminating competition.” The Bohn Refrigerator Co. of St. Paul, Minn., is the only one left on the docket in the refrigerator case, lines against members of which have totaled $70,000. New York a Game Leader. New York leads all other States in . number of playgrounds and commu nity centers. The total is 858. Mas | sachusetts, a smaller Suite, has 70(5 I playgrounds. Pennsylvania .ranks third with 687. 17 mm IS BANNED IN HIDINGS BILL Congress Would Not Permit Inclusion. Smoot Tells Gen. Stephan. Provision for an armory tor the National Guard of the District of Columbia will not l>e r included" in the promised public buildings bill to come up at the next session of ('ongress. Senator Reed Smoot, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission, has in formed Muj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the local militia, it was learned at National Guard headquar , ters today. Senator Smoot is represented as taking the position that a National i Guard armory is a strictly local i proposition and has no proper place in a general public buildings bill. He pointed out to Stephan and Capt. P. i G. Nevitt. who accompanied the gen i eral to the conference, that commit i tees of Congress would not stand i for it. i Gen. Stephan plans now, it was said, I to go before the Board of Commis sioners as soon as Col. J. Franklin Bell returns to duty and make a strong plea for them to recommend provision for an armory in the Dis trict of Columbia appropriation bill. The local Guard has again been in formed by the trustees of tho Stilson Hutchins estate that the local mili tary organization must give up its present quarters, at 472 L stree:, on June 30. The measure providing for a local armory was held up by the House and Senate District committees last year liecause of representations from the Bureau of the Budget that it was not in conformity with the Pres! dent’s building program. But on this point it was said that Senator Smoot was of the opinion that the budget should not be. concerned in a matter of this kind. He took the position that if the local taxpayers supported if. as it was indicated they had in the past, the armory should be pro . vided. ‘MRS. HARRIET E. CUSHING IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Mother of Western High Teacher ' Dies- After Long Illness—Lived Here Since 1865. Mrs. Harriet K. Cushing, 88 years old, mother of Miss Harriet M. Cush ing, teacher at Western High School, died at her residence, 1629 Q street, yesterday after a long illness. Mrs. Cushing was the widow of Thomas A. Cushing, who was for many years chief of the distilled spir its division of the United States De partment of Internal Revenue, Treas ury Department. She had l»een a resi dent of Washington since 1865. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. F. I. Winter, as sistant of the First Congrega tional Church, will officiate. inter fluent will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Cushing is survived by her I daughter. Miss Cushing, several nieces and nephews. Locusts four inches long that eat nice have invaded Africa.