Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1923, Page 5

ENGINEERS START DAY SESSION Many Subjects to Be Dis- cussed at Annual Gather- ing in Capital. A broad program of topics, technical and public, was taken up at the open- ing of the two-day meeting of the American Engineering Counell, the executive organ of the federated American engineering societies, at the Cosmos Club this morning. in the agenda were foreign relations, waste in industry, reforrestration. government contracts, patents, fed- eral water power, education, amend- ments to by-laws, topographic map- ping and jurisdictional awards in the butlding industry. ‘The patents committee of the coun- ¢ll, headed by Edwin J. Prindle of Included | recommended that the council request the appointment of a joint commis- slon from the Senate and House to investigate the needs of the patent office, both as to personnel and phy- sical equipment. The committee also recommended the passage of the Lehibach bill, providing for reclassifi- cation of government employes. Creation of a committee on indus- trigl ideals, sponsoring a nationwide movement to encourage colleges to train engineers for leadership in pub- lic service and the appointment of engineers to gulde the 1923 program of the Federated American Engineer- ing Societies were also outstanding features of the Initial session. Prof. Joseph W. Roe of New York Univer- sity, was elected chairman of the new committee, other members of which are Mortimer E. Cooley, University.] of Michigan; Prof. C. F. Scott, Yale }(‘nlversi!y, and J. C. Ralston, of Spo- ane. Executive Secretary L. W. Wallace addressed the council in support of the Temple bill, which provides for a topographical survey of the United States to be completed in twenty years. | _Mortimer E. Cooley, dean of the En- gineering Schools of the University of Michigan, was re-elected president of the council at this morning’s meet- ing. Other officers_elected were: Cal- | New York city, and Philip Louls, vice presidents, Howe of this city, treas- lurer. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, j whom President Cooley succeeded two years ago, is among the new re sentatives on the council for 1923. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JA Joke on T hieves Costs Broadway Store Even $700 By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, January 11— ‘When thieves robbed the Rock- well Clothing Company store in Broadway for the fifth time a few weeks ago the manager posted a notice on the window advising them that if they would come back they could have the pants to match a coat they had carried off. The robbers returned yesterday and smashed a 3500 plate glass window. Falling to find the pants, they carried off $200 worth of clothing that was on display. The management plans no more jokes. be the new Italian ambassador, Prince Gelasio Gaetani, who formerly prac- ticed mining engineering in this country, following his graduation from the Columbla University School of Mines. Other speakers wil be Cal- vin W. Rice of New York, secretary of the American Soclety of Mechanical Engineers, and recently engineering envoy to South America, and John J. GANG SOLD THOUSAND STOLEN AUTOS, CHARGE Police Beize Dies and Probe Record of Four Held Under Heavy Bonds at Bridgeport, Conn. By the Associated Press. 2 BRIDGEPORT, Conn., January 11.— Four men arrested here are belleved by the state police to be members of a gang of thieves that has resold in Connecticut cities over 1,000 stolen automoblles. The men were held in $15,000 each on technical charges of breach of the peace pending ar- raignment before United States com- mission Hugh J. Lavery. They are Harold Goldy, Nathan Goldy, Sam Lefsitz and Frank Cleary. The American Body Works hers were raided and police say the Goldy brothers and Lefsitz were found changing numbers on motors of cars sald to have been stolen. Fourteen !sets of dies, used to restamp muti- lated motors, and five automobiles, three still wet with numeral defacing acids, were seized. It has been alleged that automo- biles stolen from New York streets were brought to Bridgeport and mutilated to thwart tracing, then re- sold throughout the state. Engine numbers on automobiles shipped to forelgn customers, it is said, were duplicated on stolen cars. NUARY 11, | gon, 1923. WOULD BAN CHURCH WINE. |2exis i, Jaw_exempting | church | seeks the repeal of the section pro- Oregon Legislator Introduces Four | Y!4ing for chaplains at the penitenti- ary and the boys' training school, one Religious Issue Bills. | of 'whom, under the present law must SALEM, Ore., January 11.—The re- be a Catholic priest. —_— liglous issue, which figured prom- inently in the campaign preceding the | BUILDING RECORD IN U. S. primary and general election In Ore- _— came to the fore in the state legislature through the Introduction |tion’s building expenditures in 1822 of four bills by Representative D. totaled $2,499,061,632, which was Lewis of Portland One bill would repeal the section of | cess of the next best year, 1921, ac- the Oregon code which permits trans- | cording to statistics made public by portation and importation of wine | Bradstreets’. for sacramental purposes. The sec- | Expenditures for December ond relates to the examination of |3$224.859,090, as compared with $136,- public school teachers. The third re- '124,811 in December, 1921. 5 ! WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH. | Two Other Occupants of Car on | | Georgia Road Unhurt, | MARIETTA, Ga., January 11.—Miss | Annfe Gober, twenty-eight years old; ‘member of a well known Marletta |family, was killed last night, when NEW YORK, January 11.—The na- | the automobile of Herbert Clay, for- { mer president of the state senate, in a guy | $885,049,000, or 54.8 per cent, in ex- | Which she was giding crashed into wire on the Atlanta road. Neither Mr. Clay, who was driving the machine at the time of the accident; were | nor Mrs. P. T. Knott, wife of a Mari- | etta” physician, the’ third occupant, was injured. Before we move to 1310-1312 F St. Thousands of Overcoats and Suits at New York, submitted a_report de-| The members o: the American |Tigert, United States commissioner of claring that the present force of ex- | Engineering Council tonight will hold | education. President Cooley will pre- aminers and clerks in the patent|thelr annual dinner at the Chevy|side. The council's sessions will con- office is entirely inadequate, and Chase Club. Among the speakers will | tinue tomorrow. = = = = = = Close Out Prices Every garment made by . vease masx 1st—It's milk, whole milk, wrmmme | Hart Schaffner & Marx 4th—? But that’s not the secret! ROM THE AVENUE AT NINT *45-40 Quercoats and Suits $2985 '*’50-’475" Overcoats and Suits $3485 (at about) W5 off ’60-°55 Overcoat»‘s and Suits $39 This famous semi-annual sale begins today. 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