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Two Dine in DONAHOE'S CAFETERIA Today Cold ave Keue i "WIS Not Looked Soon BONAHOE'S Baked Ham Garden Spinach, Potatoes mashed in milk; Bread or Rolls, fresh from electric ovens; Coffee, Tea, Milk or DONAHOE'S Buttermilk. Special Today 11 A. M. to 3 P. M.

MARRIAGE FRAUD 'BUREAU' HERE IS BARED BY Dr. Wise Denounced As Enemy of Jewry By New York Rabbi Victim of Gambling House on Hill Fires Upon Game Keeper 1 English Mutton Broth with Barley, 12c ZERO WEATHER TAKES ITS TOLL AS WHOLE U. S. FEELSJFFECTS 12 Expire in Chicago; Exploding: Stoves Cause Three Deaths. EVEN FLORIDA HAS COLD SNAP N.

B. If you're downtown tonight try our $1.25 dinner. Experienced, intelligent American waitresses will serve you quickly and courteously Elevator just inside Fifth avenue entrance. Loser of $1,800 Chases Dealer Through Streets. BULLETS GO WILD; HIT AUTO Another gambling joint of the Hill district, it is paid, curae to light PROTESTS MOUNT AGAINST WISE'S RESIGNATION AS FUND HEAD Jews Urge Rabbi Who Lauded Jesus Be Retained.

GIVEN PRAISE BY UNTERMYER 242 FIFTH AVENUE Between Wood and Market Cafeteria Service Also Legs Are Beautiful-Why Wear Russian Boots? Paris Asks Californians Enjoy Bathing and Picnics, While in Winnipeg It "Warms Up" to Zero By the Tnited J.Ori AMiKLES, Iec. 7. The mer-enry climbetl to drrree here at noon totlay. wliile thnnwuids iirrimml to alfcrn.il an i.ut-f-I.Hn musna! recital, other Marte.1 In M-n cur fur nieni'ca in the desert, und surf Imtliuiir drrw crowds to Venice und other bearh reaorts. WINNIPEG, Iee.

7. The thermometer stoMl at 86 degree below zero here early today. Later In the day It warmed op to zero, but dropped lu 10 below at night-fail. were swept peratures by below freezing tom- 40 FIRKS IN PHII.ADEI.riHA. PHILADELPHIA.

Dec. 27. (A. Icy blasts from the northwest caused one death and much distress here today. The mercury dropped to 13 degrees above at 9 a.

m. and the highest point of the day was 18 at noon. The cold snap kept the fire department on the jump, more than 40 fires being reported during the day. AIOIS ARE FROZEN. DETROIT.

Dec. 27. (A. 1'.) Four rersons were taken to hospitals here today, suffering from frozen arms and legs. Frank Hunter, 04 years old, one victim.

Is in a critical condition with both hands and both feet frozen. COLD IN FLORIDA. ATLANTA. Dec 27. (A.

Temperatures stumbled throughout Dixie today as King Winter extended his icy grip below the Mason and Dixon line. Unofficial figures early tonight showed Ashville, N. and Roanoke, Va, to be the coldest spots in the south, with temperatures of 4 and 8 degrees above zero, respectively. Falling temperatures were reported in Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana, South Caroline and Virginia.

The wave also spread to Florida. Cold north' winds were reported at Jacksonville, where the thermometer registered 40 degrees. Tampa's mark was 42, Clearwater 49, and other sections of the state experienced unusually cool weather. EVEN COAST IS HIT. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

27 (United News). A cold wind brought unusually chilly weather to Central California over the week-end. At San Jose, the mercury dropped to 32 "Must Accept Jesus" Speech Scored By Speaker. ASSAILED HERE IN SYNAGOGUE llabbi Stephen S. Wise, Jewish Kabbi, of New York, has no under standing of the Jews an Jewish thought, according to Rabbi Meyer Berlin, of New York.

Rabbi Berlin denounced Dr. Wise's recent praise of Jesus Christ in an address in New York. The attack was made in an address in Beth Jacob Synagogue last night. The speaker is president of the Mizrachi Zionist Organization of America, which demanded the resignation of Dr. Wise from the presidency of the United Palestine Appeal.

The resignation has been handed in, but not passed upon. "MUST ACCEPT CIIKIST." The statements of Dr. Wise on the life and teachings of Christ and his declaration that "Jews should accept Christ" have caused a storm of controversy to arise among the Jew-ry of America. Nathan Straus, an influential Jew, added $150,000 to his $500,000 donation to the Palestine appeal in order to keep Dr. Wise as president.

Others prominent in the Hebraic councils in this country have defended him, while others have denounced him bitterly. The declarations of Dr. Wise, according to Rabbi Berlin, have made it impossible for him to be accepted as a rabbi of the people. Rabbi Berlin continued: "Dr. Wise brought with his statements a situation where the Jews cannot remain indifferent because of the attempt to influence them for the acceptance of the teachings of another religion.

"LACK OF UNDERSTANDING." It is like an attempt would be made to influence Christianity for Buddhism. On the other hand Dr. Wise has done wrong to Christianity by bringing it in a position to be discussed and argued over at the time when centuries have secured the true adherence of the Jew to his religion. "It is surprising to learn of a lack of understanding by Dr. Wise of the Jewish people and Jewish thoughts.

The question raised by his sermon was fought against as recently as a century ago when the great philosopher Mendelson expressed himself in accepted terms that Jesus as a teacher of the new religion cannot be accepted by Jews. "The statement of Dr. Wise concerning the acceptance of Christ by Jews belongs to a very limited circle of Reform Rabbis and even the most liberal of the circle express themselves against the statement of Dr. Wise. Orthodox Rabbis and conservative orthodox Jewry cannot discuss this question nor accept Dr.

Wise as a rabbi of the people. They believe that the teachings of Christianity to other peoples shall be left to the missionary." SILK THrBOli UNITE NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (A. A $20,000,000 silk merger, uniting Beld-ing Brothers Company, and the Hemlnway Silk Company, largest silk manufacturers, was announced tonight.

The merged concern will have assets of more than $20,000,000. annual sales of $16,000,000, net earnings of $2,000,000 based on last year's yesterday afternoon when one of the "victims" of the game, fired three shots at the game-keeper, but missed. Vassillos Zanes, 27 years old, of 517 Fifth avenue, had been playing during the last week at 525 Wylie avenue, he says, and losing consistently, according to police. Yesterday, Zanes tried his luck again, but again lost, bringing his total of losses to about $1,800, police say. BELIEVES GAME FIXED.

Figuring the game was "fixed" and he was being made the goat, Zanes, it is alleged, drew a revolver. Mickey Scarpino, 35 years old, of 39 Chatham street, said to be the game-keeper, fled, pursued by the "victim." At Wylie and Sixth avenues, Zanes, It is alleged, fired three shots at Scarpino, none of which took effect. One of the bullets, however, hit an automobile being driven by Sam Weinky, of 2286 Shady avenue. No one was hurt. City Detective Buck Sweeney, who was nearby, on hearing the shots, hurried to the scene, with drawn gun.

and disarmed Zanes. Both Zanes and Scarpino were lodged in the Northside police station. It's Getting Colder, But Thank Goodness Capital Can Skate WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (A.

The cold wave, increasing In intensity tonight, brought a promise of ice skating in Washington for tomorrow. Unofficial thermometer readings before dark showed temperatures as low as 13 V4, with the mercury on tht downward path. The reflection pool in front of the Lincoln memorial and other bodies of water about the capita! had developed fairly strong surfaces of Ice early today, but officials would not permit skating before tomorrow. GAB KILL MAN NEAR HOE GREENS BURG. PaM Dec.

27 John J. Bolish, of Irwin, was killed near his home this morning by a Irwin-Herminie line street car. Bolish had spent the night in Greensburg with friends and was on his way home. ton street, Swissvale, Several false alarms ifnd a shanty fire, started by boys, also were reported. Flames spread with alarming rapidi ty, threatening adjoining structures, in novelty store of I.

Shurley, Verona street and Braddock avenue, Braddock, early Sunday morning. Investigation to determine the origin of the fire Is under way. The building formerly was used as a hotel and was condemned several yt-ars ago by Fire Marshal Thomas L. Pfarr. Damage estimated at $600 wa-i caused by fire in the home of Charles Alexander, 312 Alocr way, wher another attsrnpt 1o thaw out frozen pipes was made.

Boulevardiers Show Displeasure For London Vogue. CAN'T GET BY MISTINGUETT Br RALPH HETSZKS. United News Staff Correspondent. PARTS, Dec. 27.

"We all have feet and ankles and some of us have legs, so why should we cover up what no one is displeased to see? That is the argument of Parisians who are snubbing the London vogue of Russian boots and the Athens edict for longer skirts Just as they did the American fashion of galoshes. Several London women perhaps they were sent over for the purpose introduced the Russian boots to Paris, but they got sympathy rather than support from the male paraders of the boulevards. The visitors said such foot gear was popular across the Channel, but if London wanted to popularize boots it must allow Paris to wear them first. MISTINGUETT TALKS. No one in France is better qualified to pass judgment on ankles and calves than Mistinguett; most Parisians share her opinions in this instance.

Mis- tinguett's own legs have long been rated at $1,000,000 by their owner and her press agent. "We have feet and ankles and we mean to show them," said "Miss." "We groaned until skirts went up again, and it is no secret now that we regard our feet and ankles as having artistic value. Galoshes, the pride of America, failed to convince us otherwise, so why should boots? NO BOOTS IN STOCK. "And as for those Greeks. Have they really gone back that much, mor ally and spiritually? Have they al ready forgotten that their ancestor Ulysees attributed to the limbs of fair Grecians a capital importance? Be cause, you must agree, everyone knows that if Ulysees resisted the sirens it is because they were deprived of those lower members which the de AMUSEMENTS.

kt KEITH -ALBEE THREE BELOW ZERO EXPECTED IH THIS DISTRICT EARLY TODAY OHIO VICTIM Girl, 14, Names Downtown Notary As Leader. MAN IS HELD AS ABDUCTOR "A marriage bureau." catering to minor girls and older men who have led them astray, was disclosed yesterday when Gertrude LiOttiiinn, 14 years old, of Salem, made startling disclosures involving a downtown notary who makes it easy for any designing man to bring young girls to Pittsburgh from neighboring states and then marry them without parental consent. DIDN'T GIVE CONSENT. Miss Lottman was arraigned in morals court, where she stated the notary had taken her name, the name of Edwin Flavell, 22 years old, who coerced her into consenting to marrying him, and without any investigation as to wnetner sne was or age, procured a marriage license at the city marriage license bureau and a man to perform the ceremony. Miss Lottman maintained that she had not given her consent to the marriage and that the notary had not asked her a question during the time he was filling out a "paper" to procure the license.

She told Magistrate Charles W. Houston that Flavell had answered all questions and that he had told the notary that his intended bride was 21 years old when the question was asked. She also said that when she started to remonstrate the man had forced her to keep silent. A police investigation into the alleged unlawful activities of the notary is being made, and should any criminal evidence be obtained against him, police say, he will be arrested. Miss Lottman and Flavell came to Pittsburgh Wednesday and went to 820 Wylie avenue, the home of Flaveil's sister, where they remained until the license could be obtained.

ABDUCTION CHARGED. They were arrested Saturday after "police had combed the entire city in a search for them. Authorities from Salem had asked that the police of this city pick up the couple after the father had made infonation against Flavell charging him with the abduction of his daughter. Flavell will be returned to the Ohio town to answer to that charge and he will also be charged with violating the Mann act, according to the police. Miss Lottman will be turned over to her father, John Lottman, who came here from Salem yesterday, after he had been notified that the couple had been captured.

He plans the annulment of the marriage. CAR KILLS MAN HEAR HOE JOHNSTOWN, ra. Dec. 21. (A.

John K- Hite, son of Captain John Hite, of Civil War fame and the founder of the Hite House at St. Ayerstown 60 years ago, died today at that place. He was 43 years old. A brother, Charles Hite of Kansas City, is the only survivor of the Captain Hite family. e- Fayette Has Shortage Of Jurors, So Case Is Tried With Only Two (SpeoiaJ to Th Pittwbarjfh Port.) IMONTOWN, Dee.

27. Trying a case with two jurors, instead of the ujsniil wa one of the peculiarities of the December term of criminal court here. All the other men and women empaneled to act as jurors were busy on other ca, and, by consent of counsel and Judre Charles I), fopelami, of Westmoreland county, prejddmjr, it was agreed to allow the pair to decide the cae in which George Karutz was charged with assault anil battery. After testimony had been heard, Judge Cope land instructed the "jury for acquittal. They had to determine which of the men should pay the costs, however, and eventually ordered the defendant to do so.

side that of the earth, makes 13 revolutions around the sun in about two days less than eight years. Viewed from the moving earth the planet seems to make only five revolutions. These being the five laps she gains over the earth in the unseen race. To gain a lap Venus first swings out through space and passes behind the sun, where she is lost to view at the end of the phase as morning star. Then, to overtake, she swings wide again and turns in between the earth and the sun.

Approaching the end of her race Venus is a brilliant object as evening star going down into the west soon after sunset. At the finish she is lost in the sunlight at inferior conjunction only to emerge before sunrise as morning star. Having invented already a time count and a system of hieroglyphic writing which gave them a means of accurate record, the Mayas studied the mysterious comings and goings of Venus. They found that the planet disappeared for eight days between the last glimpse of her in the west and the first in the east, and that the same phases of Venus come back in about "51 days on the averasr, so that five Venus years are virtually equal to eight ordinary years. BV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

NEW YORK. Dec. 27 The northern portion cf the United States -was still in the grip tonight of the cold wave which rode on a cutting- wind out of the Northwest yesterday and accounted directly or indirectly for more than a dozen deaths in the two days. No immediate relief was held out by the weather bureau, which tonight predicted continued cold weather and in some places even lower temperatures. Storm warnings of Northwest gales were displayed on the Atlantic seaboard between Cape Hatteras and Boston.

Sub-zero temperatures in the Middle-West caused the Ohio river to be frozen over in places for the first time since 1313. TWELVE DIE IN CHICAGO. Twelve of the deaths reported occurred at Chicago. One man froze to death at Worchester, Mass, last night. In New York an unidentified Negro was found frozen to death in a hallway today and the body of William, Daly, 50 years old, was found on a Bowery street where he had died of exposure.

Exploding stoves accounted for three deaths and injuries to one. In Rensselear, N. Mrs. Otis T. Crane, 54 years old, and her mother-in-law, Mrs.

Viola Crane, 81 years old. were killed when a coal stove exploded today. Bertrand Crane, IS years old. was injured when he Jumped from a window at the explosion. In Yonkers, N.

Timothy Spillane, 65 years old. was burned to death when his oil heater exploded. In Philadelphia, an aged lamp lighter was frozen to death while mak- I Ll -y 4 A lO Xi-iJ A tl kit A ASVtUAAVaa 28 BELOW AT LAKE. The coldeftt temperature reported today was at Tup per Lake, N. where the mercury went to 28 degrees below zero.

In New York city the temperature went to seven above and hung close increasing suffering among the homeless. Several thousand were cared foe Cold was intense in Pennsylvania. Foresight of the Associated Chanties at Behefonte, in providing poor families with coal Just before Christ mas. prevented much suffering there. Low temperatures were recorded throughout New England, the lowest being an unofficial report of 27 degrees below zero at West Stewartstown.

New Hampshire, near the Canadian line. FOLK MEN RESCUED. Temperatures In Ohio reached 10 degrees below zero and the mercury was expected to hit 10 degrees below in Chicago tonight. More than 300 fire alarms were rung in there last night an i today with loss estimated at $1,000,000. Most were caused by overtaxed heating equipment.

Four surveyors, waist deep in the mud and icy water of Mud Flats in Staten Island bay. where they stuck after attempting to wade ashore when tlwir rowboat grounded, were rescued today by policemen who carried them a hospital in a serious condition. Jv. woman died from exposure in Providence, and a sailor was in a serious condition in a hospital from the same cause. CHICAGO LEADS IN.

DEATHS. CHICAGO. Dec. 27. Twelve deaths.

)llaj-s fire loss and untold suffering were the toll ex-; Chicago by the sub-zero es of yesterday and today. One man was found frozen to death today, while two others died of "causes indirectly, due to the cold. Five vother, deaths with heart disease given the cause probably were superinduced by the cold, the coroner's office fSttid. jBert Daniels, a homeless laborer, was tlfgund with his hands frozen around a' picket fence on which he was sup's purlins himself. It was necessary to the picket and take it with the fjtlan to a hospital before his hands be freed.

-One of today's fires attacked the Milwaukee-Western State Bank, a loss estimated at $30,000. 28 HEIAJW IN MONTANA. 'CHICAGO, Dec 27. (United News.) The cold wave today was gripping the entire district east of the Rockies and extending south to the Missourl-- Arkansas border. Temperatures from 10 to 20 below were reported through the central and --northern portions while even in the far south the mercury tobogganed the freezing point.

7 Miles City. Montana, was the coldest in the United States, with the thermometer registering 2S below zero. FREEZING IN SOUTH. Freezing temperatures extending as v-far south as Montgomery, and AUanu, enowea a ifiuiicraiure vi above. Amarillo.

Tex, shivered in -t. above zero weather, while even Svhreveport, Abilene, an 1 Fort AIIrTM A TTflTOTA In Aiken. S. nd Auguata. Gt, outdoor life prevails throughout the 'entire winter.

These are ideal places for vacation during the winter months because here, amid idea.1 sur-v. round) rigs, the climate in neither too mild nor to bracing. Varied amuanenta Invite open air life golf. roi-, tennis, motorintr. rid-' ing and driving.

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The controversy among Jewish leaders over the speech of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise last Sunday in which he said that Jesus of Nazareth was not a myth but a man and that the Jews must embrace His teachings, was the foremost topic today in Jewish religious circles. While Dr. Nathan Krass of the Temple Emanu-El, in a sermon before his congregation, was upholding the right of Dr. Wise to his personal opinions, concerning Jesus, the national headquarters of the United Palestine Appeal announced that scores of telegrams were being re ceived from all parts of the country in protest against the resignation of Dr.

Wise as chairman of the $5,000,000 campaign which is being conducted. CRITICIZE RESOLUTION. The announcement said that ortho dox rabbis and presidents of orthodox synagogues joined with other Zionist leaders in urging the executive com mittee of the campaign to refuse to accept Dr. Wise resignation which he tendered on the ground that It might be to the interest of the appeal if he withdrew. The messages also criticized the resolution of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis demanding the chairman's resignation, the announce ment said.

Samuel Untermyer, president of the Palestine Foundation Fund, one of the bodies engaged in the campaign, came out in support of Dr. Wise in a letter, containing assurances that he would vote and use whatever influence 1 may possess against accepting your resignation." Mr. Untermyer stated that the attack against Dr. Wise could not be "justified or excused." REAFFIRMS BELIEF. Previously at a dinner of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, Jewish College graduate organization.

Dr. Wise said he would not comment on his sermon of last Sunday until his resignation had been passed upon by the United Palestine Appeal. He also avoided the subject during an address at Temple Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia today. At community church he said: "Last Sunday a Rabbi in a pulpit in New York paid that Jesus Christ did exist; that Jesus was not myth; that Jesus Christ was real. I stand on just those statements." He declined to answer a question dealing with the fairness of the trial of Jesus before his crucifixion.

"I am facing one heresy trial," Dr. Wise said, "and that Is quite enough." ing worse than smoke and wear short skirts, life would be perfect," Miss Anne Graham, a leader of the younger set, said. It fell upon the shoulders of Miss Dorothea Lane to take the offensive against the attack of the elders. "If dress conditions need a change, it is the older women who should set the example," she declared. "Their clothes are far more decollete than ours." Of dozens of young women interviewed, none could be found who would agree to lengthen her skirts.

Several declared that they did not smoke, but even these refused to denounce the habit among others. Pretty Miss Elizabeth Hume had the audacity to greet the edict with the terse remark: "It's all bunk." Chapman's Counsel Makes New Move To Save Bandit's Life N'KW HAVEN. Dec. 27. (United News.) Another step to save Gerald Chapman from the gallows will be taken here tomorrow when Charles V.

Murphy of Danbury, one of his attorneys, liles the bandit's appeal for return to Atlanta penitentiary to serve out his 25-year sentence for the New York mail robbery. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Port. New York. New York.

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CITISK OIK HTHA JAM KS jTT'OllItKTT anil HOHItY HAKRY in TAKINti THK A I Annt tleniinw, NiiiRer of fMiulliern Owl C'oUeajio, Kimin'w Wt Via.r.l Jerome Mann Ntsiorilo Zneto Aninrialit News Motion 1'irtureH Mill iTTh 1 I lMOTH 1 -HiTW rVTirASHOrFVV'S 1-fA lfSQ 4 Continued From Page One.) night storm. Officials last night said there were enough wires in operation to handle their business without delay. FIRES ADD TO DISTRESS. Intense suffering. in the poor districts with scanty fuel supplies and low gas pressure were repoited.

More than a dozen fires added to the distress. Two families were driven from their homes and a third made homeless in a fire which early Sunday morning partly destroyed a three-story brick building and razed a dwelling in the East End. Stubborn flames in the brick structure at 6295 Frankstown avenue, occupied on the first floor by Turner and the Army and Navy store, and the families of Smith Demmler and Ernest Simko, kept firemen busy more than three hours. Icy ladders and frozen water plugs handicapped their progress. The fire fighters suffered frostbitten hands and faces.

Firemen from Hose Company No. 38, Lemington avenue, strung 2,500 feet of hose in a futile effort to save thp two-story frame home of L. E. Carney, 1073 Stoneville street, near the city line. Located on a slope, higher than the city reservoirs, the Carney home was destroyed owing to lack ot water.

The Carney family is being cared for by neighbors. TWELVE FIRES FN EAST END. East End fire companies responded to 12 of 36 fire alarms sounded within 24 hours. After the sixth alarm, wnich had called nearly all the fighting apparatus in the district. Fire Alarm Operators James Moodie ana jonn Llewelyn sent other companies rrom Oakland, Lawrencevilie and squirrel Hill to stand guard until the return of the regulars.

Fire. resulting from a defective chimney, last night caused damage of J600 to a two-story frame dwelling at 6512 Iadson street. East End. The families ot James Santo and Jerry Perella occupy the first and second floors, respectively, but none was home when Miss Mary Nigliore. 19 years old, of 6510 Ladson street, discovered the flames and sent her brother, Al bert Nigliore, to warn the ter Ants.

An over-heated furnace was respon sible for a fire early hunday morning in another two-story frame dwelling at 5504 Sunnyside street, where two! families were forced to flee their night clothing. The family of George Pvirner, occupying the first floor, and the family of Angelo Silverello on the second floor, were asleep when the fire was discovered by I'atrolman J. White, who aroused them and sounded the alarm. Both families were taken in by neighbors. MANY SMALL HUES.

Loss amounting to was wrought "by fire in a one-story brick building, occupied by A. Mark, 1J14 Fifth avenue. A broken gas-pire caused a fire resulting in $25 damages in the confectionery store of H. Finkel. 700 Forbes street.

An at tempt to thaw out a frozen water nine caused a smaa fire In the home of August IMokowski. 3017 Taulowna street- Slight loss resulted when rass i round a frozen nat pipe became ignited in the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall. -713 Broad street. Small los; es from fire also were reported by Edward Henderson.

345 Soho street: J. W. Smith. 211 Renova street, and Frank Fopello, 7321 Bur Not a Skirt Hem To Be Dropped, Is Stand. QUIT SMOKING? WHY, THE IDEA! By ROBKRT D.

Ll'SK. United News Staff Correspondent. WASIIIN'GTON, Dec. 27. Not a single skirt hem has been dropped, nor has one jeweled cigaret holder been cast aside by dainty fingers as a result of the fiercest attack upon debutant-modes and morals ever made in capital society.

Short skirts and smoking are not sinful, the debutantes retorted to the demand of Mrs. John B. Henderson, the leader of diplomatic society, that skirts be dropped to the anklo and cigaret-smoking cease. Within a few short hours after the bull was decided from the exclusive drawing room of Henderson castle, practically everyone in Washington whose name appears in the social register had been heard on the subject. HERE'S THE LINEUP.

This is the way the forces lined up: The debutantes are going to keep their fkirts and cigarets. They are supported in this by the young society matrons. Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, internationally known police matron, favors skirts reaching to within 10 inches of the floor. Mrs.

Henderson is backed by Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Congress of Mothers and Teachers. She also is supported by older society matrons and churchmen. But it is the younger women whose lesrs and lungs are concerned, and it ould appear that more official action will be needed to force them to treat these departments in the mid-Victo rian manner. i "If American womanhood aid neth- Based on Planet's Revolutions Around Sun. WAS PERFECTED IN 580 B.

C. BY THE ASSOClATKI PRESS. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 27. The mystery of the Venus calendar evolved by the ancient Mayas of Central America has been solved by Dr.

Herbert J. Spinden, creator of Mexican archaeology, on the staff of the Pea-body Museum at Harvard. An announcement from the museum today said Dr. Spinden had completed a cor relation between the strange and wonderful time count of the Mayas and the true astronomical positions of the planet Venus in the sixth century B. C.

ORIGIN OF MAYA TLAN. This achievement supplements the discovery by Dr. Spinden two j-ears ago of the secret of the Mayan time count. His findings with regard to the Venus calendar of the Mayas are in complete agreement with those reached for the annual calendar of the ancient people and for dates in their day count according to the correlation with modern chronology announced by the Peabo.iy Museum two years ago. At that time it was shown that the first date in the new world was August 6.

613 II C. when the Mayas began to give each day its consecutive number and to keep a sharp record of celestial events, and that the perfected annual calendar was inaugurated in the winter solstice of 5S0 B. C. Dr. Spinden now is able to prove that the Venus calendar of the Mayas was put in final working order between two risings of Venus as morning star in conjunction with the summer solstices of 538 and 530 B.

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