Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1924, Page 17

EASTERN STUDENT WINS THIRD PRIZE Mary E. Beach Picks London News Story in Competition Held by The Star. CLOSE TO FIRST PLACE Essays Deemed Meritorious Ruled Out Because More Than 300 Words Used. Mary E. Beach, the Eastern High Schiool student who lost first prize in The Star's “bea news story” con- test for the second contest week be- cause she overwrote her essay, has been adjudged winner of the third prize for the third and final contest week, it was announced today by the committee of judges composed of edi- tors of The Star. A check for $10 has been sent to Miss Beach with the compliments of the managing editor of this paper. Misg Beach is a fourth semester Mtudent at Eastern and lives at 318 15th street soutgeast. Skg s sixteen Years old. Miss Beach Would have the first prize & $20 for the cond coutest week, but she falled o comply with the rule which stip, lated that essays should not excee 800 words. Her essay for the sec- week, Wwith ‘a subfect wisely chosen, contained nearly 450 ords and therefore had to be minated. Miss Beach based the essay on Which she took third prize for the fnal conest yeek on an Assoclated Press dispatch from London which appeared on the first page of The Star last Thursday under the head- ing “Macdonald Seeks Harmony with 8. atch set forth the premier's future policies to- vard the United States, he winner of the fourth and final prize of the “best news story” con- test will be announced tomorrow and the essay of the winner published. OPEN FOUR MORE TOWERS TO TOURISTS IN LONDON Scene of Imprisonment of Earl of Northumberland Among Places to Be Shown. socinted Press, February 11.—Tourlsts and lovers of historical associations will have four more towers to exam- ine at the Tower of London in April, when the Martin, Salt, Broad Arrow and Byward towers will be thrown open to the public. It was in the Martin tower that Henry Percy, ninth Earl of North- umiberland, imprisoned for fif- teen years, from 1606 to 1621. The seven bishops were also there in 1688, and in recent vears the miniature rifle range at the foot of the tower was the scene of the exccution of German spies. This tower also housed the crown jewels in 1678, when Col. Blood made his daring raid in an effort to purloin them. 6,600 MILES RECORD FOR 50C-WATT RADIO Town in Russia Picks Up Concerts and Faym Talks From WLAG Station. he Assoclated Press. fINNEAPOLIS, M} February 15. —A world record for watt broad- ng stations is claimed by WLAG, Cities radio central, when it ved word that its program had heard at Batum, Russia, 6,600 By cus Twin . been miles The information was brought back by Maj. E. A. Eckman, former Near Iast Rellef worker, who said concerts and farm talks broadeast by WLAG had been picked up at Batu; Although use of radio sete by for- eign residents is prohibited by the soviet government, Maj. Eckman sald several of his friends had smuggled in recelving sets. By Mary the peace of all mankind. This article appeared ment. ference and believes that tional disputes. been awaited with interest be, or to make the whole nent peace. whole world, I consider it Third Prize Winner In Shr’s"‘Beat News Story” Contest Aged 15, Eastern High School. Home Address: 318 15th Street Northeast. The Best News Story of the Week. Although a majority of the American people prob- ably do not favor a league of nations, I am sure all of us want the world to become a place in which hatreds and jealousies between nations do not exist. Therefore, the article which, in my opinion, eclipsed all others for genuine interest and impor- tance was that which directly concerned America and “Macdonald Seeks Harmony With United States.”” It set forth the English premier’s future policies toward the world and toward the United States in particular. Mr. Macdonald’s chief aim will be to promote good will between all nations. Especially does he de- sire the good will of the American people. As proof of this, the labor party will endeavor to obtain an early ratification of the Anglo-American liquor treaty, which will, no doubt, greatly suppress the rum run- ners, of whom we have read so much and who have threatened to defeat the ends of the prohibition law. But, most important of all, Mr. Macdonald sides with the United States on the question of disarma- He would welcome another disarmament con- honesty, frankness and consideration for others will take the place of armies and fleets in settling interna- and important article I have read during the week. E. Beach, Thursday and was headed, the time will come when This policy of England’s first labor premier has by the whole world. Such . a policy cannot fail to make our relations with the only other English-speaking nation what they should world tend toward perma- Thus, because this x‘anicle tells u‘s what policies England’s first labor premier will pursue, and because those policies will directly affect America and the by far the most interesting | i i RATHBONE IS PROUD OF D. C. BIRTHPLACE Illinois Representative Backs Higher Pay for Police and Firemen of City. Representative Henry R. Rathbone of linols, addressing members of the Po-! licemen’s Assoclation at a meeting held in Pythian Temple last night, sald he was proud of the fact that he was bora in this city, at 8 Jackson place north- west. - He said he was glad to be a member of the District committee of the House and assured members of the as- sociation that he was heartily in favor of better pay for the police and fire de- partments and the underpaid members of other branches of the government service. Speaking of his efforts to improve alley conditions, Representative Rath- hone said his interest in making the improvements was not solely one of health. He said he thought such places are breeders of crime as well as disease and gheir elimination should be a matter of interest to everybody. i Motor Cycle Policeman George Little, chairman of the committee on uniforms for mounted policemen, re- ported that the department will' ex- periment with blue uniforms the ap- proaching summer season. NEW ADDRESS—1325 F STREET Buys Any O’Coat In the How’s that? | House Kuppenheimer and HARDING TOWNSITE LOTS ARE EAGERLY PURCHASED Government Sale Near Miami Nets $386,400 for 129 Par- cels Sold. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, February 15.—Every lot of the fifty-eight remaining from | the two previous days' sales in Hard- ing townsite on the Atlantic, north ‘of Miami Beach, auctioned off yesterday by C. A. Obenchain, con- ducting the sale for the Department of the Interfor. All but four of the fifty-eight Iots were claimed. The sales amounted to $90,875. The 129 lots sold and claimed brought the government $386,400—more than six times the government's appraisal val- ue placed on the townsite before the sale. The remaining four lots which were not claimed tonight will be sub- Ject to another uppraisal and then will be placed on sale at the govern- ment land oftice at Gainesville, Fla., Mr. Obenchaln said today before leay- ing for Washington. The buyers of the lots have al- ready taken steps which will lead to the immedlate improvement and de- velopment of the town of Harding. $5,000 Life Insurance for $46.90 At age ulars and illustration. Cor 1 S e S mpany founded 1965, , 610 Woodward 3 7 Phoe Main S40, et { 35—send date of birth for partie. | Stuffed furniture. | fornia and Representative A. J. Sab- | THE THRILL THAT COMES -ONCE IN A LIFETIME. Fosetimer = DEAR Sig: WOUR NAME HAS BEEn GIVEM US AS A REPRE SENTATIVE CITIZEMN OF Your CrTy WE ARE DESIROUS OF SECURNG A RELIABLE AMBTIOUS MA~ 1M YouR TeRRITORY To HANDLE OCUR PATENT COMBINATION CAM OPEMER AMO PARING KMIFE . IF YOU ARE INTERESTED SemD usiee (CASHor Mong Y ORCER) FoR SAMPLES ArmD CamPleTe INSTRUCTIONS Jeues TRuLy. B'NAI B'RITH ORDER T0 HOLD CONVENTION Record Attendance at 49th An-| nual Session, Opening Sunday, | Is Predicted. A record attendance at the forty- ninth annual convention of District Lodge, No. G, Independent Order of | B'nai B'rith, Sunday and Monday at| the Raleigh Hotel, was predicted to- day by Joseph A. Wilner, general| chairman of the convention com- mittee. Delegates, most of them bringing | their wives, are coming from Mary- | land, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgla, Alabama and| Florida. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, Representative Julius Kahn of Cali- | bath of Illnois will be speakers at the convention, which will open Sun- day morning and continue through Monday, ending with a banquet. Argo Lodge, No. 413, Is the host or- ganization and has made arrange: ments to entertain several hundred. Albert Shefferman is president of Argo Lodge; Hyman M. Goldstein, vice president; David Wiener, secretary " —Do You Know— that we have some exceptionally exclusive designs n Period Furniture—at most attrac- tive prices? Bhowing several creations in over- CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. 71 3th St. Main 5373-5374 For Spring—in Seven Leathers ALL SIZES Airedale Suede Gray Suede Gun Metal Patent Leather Brown Suede Black Suede Tan Leather Puritan Pump s, NVELT Y o Albert L. Adler, financial secretar, Morris Hahn, treasurer: S. J. Wild- man, warden, and Leo . Simon, outer guard. H. M, Goldstein {s chairman of the convention publicity committee; Sol Herzog, finance and program commit- | tee: A. hel, entertainment com- | mittee; F. S. Gichner, transportation committec, and Julius Reiss, banquet committee. Mrs. Milton Strasburger heads the women's reception commit- tee. MISLEADING ADVERTISING| DECLARED TO ROB MANY By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 45 —"Mil- lions of dollars have béfn stolen from the public through misleading financial advertising,” John W. Pren- tiss, president of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, told members of the American Assoclation of Advertising Agencies yesterday. “But the public is partially respon- sible,” he added; “too many people want something for nothing, and it cannot be had.” He said investment bankers of the country spent $40.000,000 annually in financial advertising, and that the amount_would be doubled within ten vears. He predicted a perfod of pros- Derity after taxes were reduced, the | foreign situation improved and the political campalgn concluded. McCormiok Medical Oollege Graduste Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES 400410 McLachlen Blig. 10th and G Bts, N.W. Glasses Fitted Eyes Examined ol ol ——Jol————[c]——o][——]c[——t Make the Most Out of Your Shoe Dollars—AT HIRSH’S! The A “Southern Tie”—A Pump '—By WEBSTER. 2/, THE FIRST Time HE WAS CALLED “DEAR SIR" 1 A LETTER — ie%""g/ EMMETT C. ELMORE CLAIMED BY DEATH ber of Masonic Fraternity Near- ly Fifty Years. Emmett Clayborne Elmore, seventy- seven years old, a retired bullding contractor and a prominent Mason in this city for nearly fifty vears, died at his residence, 712 6th street north- west, vesterday. Funeral services will be held at Speare's chapel, 1208 H street north- west,’ tomorrow -afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the Oak HIll cemetery, Mr. Elmore was born in Richmond, Va., September 23, 1846. He moved to this city when a young man and soon thereafter became a member of the Washington Centennial Lodge, No. 14, F. A . _He would have Leen a member of that organization fifty years the 6th of March. His fellow Masons had been planning a Coolidge Eulogy Of W ashington _ To Be Broadcast President Coolidge from his study in the White House will broadcast to the nation on February 22, an eulogy of George Washington, through station WCAP in Washing- ton, WEAF in New York and WJAR in Providence, R. I Special radio pick-up apparatus will be installed in the White House for broadcasting the President's message.” President Coplidge first used radio broadcasting to address the Ameri- can public, when . he -delivered his _-annual message to Congress, Sinco then WCAP's and WEAF's listeners have heard him deliver an eulogy of the late’ President Harding on De- cember 10, and later at the Lincoln day dinner of the National Repub- lican Club in New York Tuesday. WORLD AIR FLYERS IND.C. TOMORROW Four Officers and Four Me- chanics to Attempt Flight Will See Coolidge. The team of four officers and four mechanics selected by the Army air service to fly around the world will arrive here tomorrow from Langley Fleld, Hampton, Va., where they have | been in training since the first of the year, and wiil depart from Washing- ton by rail Monday night for Santa Monica, Calif., the starting point of the expedition. Tomorrow night they will be guests at dinner of Maj. Gen. Hatsutaro Hara- guchl, milltary attache of the Jap- | anese embassy, and Monday afternoon lat 12:30 o'clock will be presented by | Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, their | chief, to President Coolldge. = | The officers are Maj. Frederick L. {Martin, commanding, of Chanute ! Flela, IIL; Lieut. Leigh Wade, Bolling | Fleld; Licut. L. H. Smith, Crissy | Field, Calif., and Lieut. Eric Nelson, | McCook Fleld, Ohto. | The mechanics are: Jack Harding, | civillan mechanic at McCook Field | ana an officer in the alr service re- | serve, who has been substituted for | Staft Sergt. A. L. Heiney of Eolling | Ficld;” Technical Sergt. Arthur H. | Turner of Crissy Field, Staff Sergt. { Henry H. Ogden, Selfridge Field, Mich., and Staff Sergt. Alva L. Harvey, Chanute Field, IIL. Lieut. he two alternate pilots, | Leslio P. Arnold of Bolling Field and | | Lieut. L. D. Schulze of Callfornla, and | Retired Building Contractor Mem- ' four alternate mechanics will accom- pany the principals to the coast, and, if the latter get away by March 15, | &s_originally planned, the alternates | will not be called on to fill in at any i place along the route, as advance of- | ficers at various major bases will be i uvallable for duty. —— g | { ROOT 79 YEARS OLD. NEW YORK, February 15.—Elihu Root, former Secretary of State, quietly observed his seventy-ninth birthday anniversary at his home to- day. Mr. Root left a hospital a week ago, after an operation. He was said to be rapldly recuperating. celebration {n his honor on that date. He also was a member of the Almar Temple, Shriners, the Columbia Com- mandery and the Eureka Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons, and was treasurer of the St. John's Mite So- clety. He is survived by a brother, H. W. ‘Elmore. A sister, Miss Nannie T. Elmore, dled about a week ago. EXAMINE METHODS INCAR BEARING Senators Question <Traction and - Utilities” Commis- sion Officials. DEPRECIATION AN - ISSUE ‘Whether Rates Are Fixed Accord- ing to Law, Asked by McKellar. The methods of the Public Utiities Commission in dealing with the depre- clation, capital, expense and other ‘charges of the strect raflways, particu- larly the Capital Tractfon Company, were examined today by a Senate Dis- trict subcommittee, at a hearing on the MecKellar five-cent etreet car fare bill. E. B. Fisher, auditor of the Public Utilitles Commission; Secretary Allen of the commission, and officials of the Capital Traction Company, were ques- tioned by Senator McKellar. Secretary Allen and Mr. Fisher both defended the course adopted by the commission. Senator McKellar brought out the fact that the Public Utilities Commie- sion had not challenged the deprectation statements of the Cavltal Traction Company. “Do You think that this is fair to the public?” he asked. |._Mr. Fisher replied that he consfd- jered it a compliment to the com- pany. Last Securities Issued. Senator McKellar in a serfes questions developed the fact that since 1914 when the Capital Traction Company sold bonds of the value of $114,500 thefe have been no securities issued by that company. He made { the point that every increase to the | capital valuation of the company since the sale of those bonds must therefre have been from the earn- ings of the company. In reply to a question by Senator McKellar as the sum which had been allowed by | the Public Utilities Commission to go ito the Capital account of the com- | pany since 1914, Mr. Fisher said this amounted to $2.377,068.55 and that the depreclation charges permitted at that time amounted to $1,665.000. | Senator ~ McKellar _argued that from these two sources the company had accumulated approximately $4.- 542,000 since 1914, or about 25 per cent of the fair value of the property stablished by the Public Utilities Commission, which was $16,647.564.05. | At the same time he said the com- pany had been paying dividends ! ranging from 5 to 7 per cent in those { years. ot Rates of Depreciation. Senator McKellar asked if the Pub- lic Utilitles Commise “ad_estab- lished rates of depre 4 3 as pre- scribed in the law cre. the com- mission and Secretary Allen called his attention to the fato that guch | rates had been tentatively fixed in 1919 after the fair valuation of the property had been made by the com- {mission, and that these rates. had been modified slightly since that time. Mr. Allen said also that the | matter of authority had been raised | before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. That commission has just ruled, he said, that the Public Utilities Com- mission has this authority. Senator McKellar pointed out that the Public Utilities Commission was created eleven years ago and asked whether that was not sufficlent time |in which to fix the rates of deprecia- itioh under the law,. Mr, Allan re- plled that the commlttee had fixed Tates of depreciation as soon as the valuation of the railroad 'properties were made, which took them about five years, and that it had been as | expeditious as possible. The hearings on_ the 5-cent strect car fare bill will be continued next Tuesday morning, provided Chalrman Ball is In Washington at that time. Senator Ball was in Delaware today owing to the serious {iliness of his brother, and Senator Copeland of New York conducted the hearing: Sensational Reductions! Y.OU’LL find this ;:rice simply astounding; you’ll find the best styles and finest quality. Ordinarily, we’d have no need to make this sacrifice, but we find in going over our stock one or two models of a kind. There are many bright ef- fects suitable for Spring and Summer wear—and we have s5s style. 130,135, All sizes in the lot, grouped them for quick clearance. Just Fifty Men’s Suits $l9.7 - 5 40,*45 Values "but not all sizes j;l any one particular Grosner All of them—and the former prices would sound so ridiculous that we're afraid to mention them. You don’t have to be a judge of clothing to see’ what bargains they are. VELOUR HATS Values $ 2-Piece Underwear = 9E. and other well SALE! Styles- of :Today, in all sizes, all leathers, - including : Suede, Patent, Satin, Tan.and Black leathers. ment .........¢ Shoes for Silk . Growing. Girls and Misses 1325 F STREET . Still favored by the women—here shown in all their stylish .95 and buckle, and all sizes. == Former price; $5.75. . Now Hoslery “Upper Seventh Sireet in' Location—City-wide in-Trade” . . beauty cf(?atent and dull HIRSH'S SHOE : To house of Kuppenheimer goéd clothes A < ; \ ol ol ———— o] —— o —— 1, - leathers. Colonial tongue 1026-1028 SEVENTH ST.N. Match