Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 3

PLAN INSPECTION OF HOUSING HERE House Members to Determine for Themselves Need of Rent Commission. Accompanied by rep the District Rent Commission, the ‘Washington Real Estate Board and the Central Labor Union, the members of the subcommittee of the House District committee, who are conduct- ing hearings on the Lampert bill to extend indefinitely the life of the Rent Commission and to enlarge its juris- diction to include hotels and business Pproperty, are going to make a per- sonal inspection tions In the National Capital. This was decided upon at a hearing Tast night, at which 200 tenants ap peared, more than a score of spoke «n urging the necessity of continu- inz the Rent Commission to ‘protect them against advances in rent. The members of the subcommittee Representative Florian Lampert Wisconsin, chairman; Stalker of New York Michigan, Blanton of Te: mer of North Carolina. Hearingx Adjourned. learings have been adjourned ur Monday, when Chairman’ Lampert Dects to announce his plans for th Upersofally conducted tour.” cLeod and Ham- invited to testif; Representative th Hammer read record of the hearing last ni; tement prepared by W. P. | or for the Distriet, of Trade report which 870 apartment hou: shington, exclu; ) These | aging thri hirt reported for re trtments at less t from: §30 to $7 to $100 it the rent act has not had an e effect upon apartment build- aid, is shown in the figures the Di permits nt construction the sum $5.000.000. In 1921 under the rent the amount was $14.000,000. under the rent act, it was 10, and in 1923. under the rent it ‘was $52,000,000. Plenty for Wenlthy. “hat there is a real need for con- tihuing the Rent Commission and have authority property w there W ud bath. a month, and 34 Alortage of rents of cept the wealthy, and that the is causing much ncial suffering. ‘The Rent Commission is as esser tial to the working people as police department,” declared H. ) Peall, a carpenter living at 1360%% Potomac avenue southeast. His personal experiences in relieved of .ex. ve rent were told by Britten. 901 20th street northwest, a newspaper corre- spondent. formerly sccretary to #ephus Daniels w Secretary of the Navy. Others who testified were H. C. Frankenfield, the Portsmouth, 1 New Hampshire avenue Y\’\rlh‘\l\‘ V. S. Grant Maxwell, 1816 14th street northwest: Curtis C. Batson, street northeast: Mrs Hunter of the Shawmut, and Columbia road: G. E. King, 305 C street northwest; Mrs. Sebe New- man, 148 A street northeast; Mrs. H L. Sprague of the New Berne:; H. T. Morning: Kessler and Law- short- mental Robert W. 19th street BANK CLERK ACCUSED. Van Ahn Charged With Embez- zling from Georgetown Institution. Arthur L. Van Ahn of Cherrydale, bookkeeper for the Farmers and Mechanics' National Bank, at Wis- consin avenue and M street north- west, was arraigned before United Ktates Commissioner George H.Méc- donald late vesterday afternoon on a charge of embezzlement of $105. He pleaded not guilty and was released on bond of $3,000, The arrest was made by Depart- ment of Justice agents. Van Ahn, twenty-eight years old, had been in the employ of the bank for about two and a half years, and was formerly emploved by, the Washington Loan and Trust Company. Bank officials are checking up the young man's .Bccounts. —_— SPECIAL NOTICES. entatives of ! of housing condi-* are of | Representatives of On londay opponents of the bill will be into ' from howed two-story apartments, -two W te $50 a month. | and the being charees | Jo- en the latter was 128 C THE A Bit of the Past By Star’s Former Carriers. GLUVAS WILLIAMS Henry J. Laubach, 1025 4th street {northeast, carried a Star route in 1872 and 1873, which included the block | whercon the Congressional Library {now stands and also all the section between North Carolina and South |Carolina avenues to 11th street south- cast, the old “Philadeiphia row” be- ing the last houses he visited. The boys of his territory, he says, recelved their papers from the old horse cars at the foot of the Capitol. Later he sold Stars around the White House during President Grant's second ad- ministration, .ll\d many a time tried to sell that ished personage a r as ha took his afternvon stroll Back in the sixties I carried Stars !on a route which included Capitol Hill iand the navy yard” writes J. | Luckett, 616 Raleigh place, Congr | Hoights, smetimes it would night before we got gur Mr. Luckett, worked on : SETS 0uT TOR DENTIST'S OFFICE , WISHING HE PAD MADE THE APPOINTMENT Y‘OR NEXT WEEK INSTEAD OF TUDAV d National Intelligence o railroading in 1874 and ed from active scrvice last Octobe! In 1884-5 Fred C. Harrics, 15 Pop- lar avenue, Takoma Park, D. C., now @ membey of the manual training de partment of the board of cducation, was rying a route which started at th dence of Gen. John A Lo- gan on a C “I often tnink of | the good timc < . rid from the old in Knox s wagons to the | ning of our adds M who seems 2 few old bo: to take long walk serving the WHETHER TO A TURN 0% TWO ROUND K PERHS 1P HE £ DENTIST WOULD £N APPOINTMENT MEONE FLSE < Newspaper dicaté | Vote After Ten Hours of Debate, Ends Hard Fight Over Colonelcy. ! S - ‘BN’II B'Rith Convention Will Be‘ Held at Raléigh Hotel. I The nomination of Lieut can K. Major to be colonel, which has been fought for months by forn {officers of the Yankee Division w {whi rved as chief of {staff in France, was confirmed by the enate late yesterdiy by a vote of 43 to 24. The votc was taken after ten hours of debate in exceutive s | ston. divided between Thurse vesterday. The charges s nst Col. cluded assertions that he had been cruel to men and officers of the di- vision, and that he was temperamen- Aly unfit for military command, Opposition_to Col by Senator W who s joi 5 Tiis W Senator Lodge, spoke for an hour yesterday ag | |the confirmati 3 Urged Senator W Col. Dun- | hor Davis, Repre- ahn of California, and Represen > A. J. Sabath of Hiinois will be the principal speakers | | tomorrow at the sions of | | the forty n District render opening s nual convention of | Lodge No. 5, Inde-| of B'nai Brith. The | ? . which will held at the Hotel Raleigh, convene tomorro iing and Monday night, th a banquet ! Consideration of benefic in the immizration lay s to be d < and Order be close 1 changes , be one ussed at the by ! dsworth | convention Delegates Are Arriving. nied by their wivi even south Atlantic hourly arri i Joseph A Wi f the convention uirs com- nsylvania Vermont spoke city, and n to Col. testimony #iv the divisional {from the r i cer was unusually tary science and ord prior to his ser Massachusetts of these part lowed to sway the judg Senate when it cam whether he should which in the natural bring him to the commind bodies of troops cism_ of unsuits which, Se been amply su sufficient, h adverse vote Recordx Senator Wadsworth from reports by gener: the unusual ability displayed under 1 the re iry v i convention commit of the District | the ty-five ws. ing the offi- nt in mili- Conee profic d an ey vice in k Lodge, No. 4 m, has tainment for t It is e eral hundred will b banquet Monda¥ night. is_chairman of the mittee. Two Sessions Dally. There will be morning and- after- noon sessions of the convention each day, and tomorrow night a compre- hensive educatior am will be | given at the F t Temple, which Represent Kahn will' be the principal He will be| otoie ded by Henry Hurwitz, president | notice and N v that sev- present at the | Julius Reiss banquet com- | to warrant an Are Stressed their ificer sub- nt. Oth stres: = Other committee are H. dstein, public ance and prog 3 i s X Gichner, 1 Mrs. Milton Strasbur cprion. ent of the Wash- Commerce, the convention. by the War Depi tors, both on aided the de e tions that officers who h clzed Col. Major mi; biased in their opinior objection to him { evidenced by Maj. Edwards, the first con division. extend greetings (o MAY HALT NUMBER PLAN. Congress Committee to Cousiderj Amended Retirement Act. i ¢ a joint committee ander of the EMPLOYMENT DROP NOTED IN JANUARY | L, FORMERLY OF _TH is"with Dertha Parker Beau Parlor, 1112 G st. n.w., where she will be glai sco her patrons. She is speclalizing in electrolysis of superflugus warts and 1 E THAT Znnual meeting of the members of the Fiome for Incurables, for the election of mem: Lers of the board of managers. whose terms are expiring, will be held at the office of the Tnlon Trust corner of H and 15th sts on Thursday, February 21, 1924, at 11 All persons who have contributed 0 in one wum are entitled nd_approved by of Foods, Sanitation and Hes by Good Tousekeeping 3 extracted. (1o " postpaid: AN HORN NG of the business at G0 € & fom Soadie B Siyer 1 All bills against Buddie P. ount of the said business must be Josepl Stein, attorney. SMALL HOUSES | sl drawings. ed Y, turnished, and planted claws order and cared fo; RELL & SON, garde L a«n BRI B New Sorkc: Piliadeipnia gea Wi W shington, - SMITE'S Floon "Made Beautiful, hakdwood floors lald, finished and . 01d_tioors scraped and finished fo » new. Phone Hyatts, 176.)M. HAM., Hyatteville, Md. 17 —hia tome: The National Captal Press < L 1210-1212 D 8t .'4 To Simplify Your Selling' Problems l:ns ADAMS PRINTING. HIGH GRADE. BUT NOT HIGH PRICED BYRON S. ADAMS, puiea, Did the Roof Leak? on us if your roof needs repair- (n: Quality work at moderate cost. %ZRO%%EH“{" Bhone Main 14 . —of any nature promptly and, capaily looked after by practical roofers. X;OONS TROOFING 719 3rd St. 8.W. COMPANY ione Main 935, made a legion of satisfed cus. - {ever, E 1 House of the | eucn o et probably will result’ in postponement of any steps laentification of government learned | Decline in Pay Roll Totals and Per Capita Earnings Also Reported. oward mployes by number, it v noon. nsidered by The bill now is being ¢ Senate com- a joint comn | mittee on civil ser A general decrease of 0.0 per cent | (pmmittee on reform in employment during January w; accompanied by a 4.9 per cent decline l , in pay roll totals and a rdeuction in LEETH BROTHERS per capita earnings of 4.1 per cent, ervice Charge Never Over $148 j e | | ce of the Se ice and the Hou: of the civil according to reports from 7,849 estab lishments in fifty-two manufacturing industries compiled by the bureau | | of labor statistics’of the Department | !of Labor. | | Compared 4,121 {three industries showed i ases - {1.3 per cent in employm r icent in total wages and lin per capita earning h January, —WANTED— A man of prafed sales to come with us to h a brokerage busi- We believe that with ontact this office af- s there is an excellent opportunity for a high-tspe individual with some execu- tive ability to make a per- manent connection of value. All replies should be writing, setting forth the experience of the applicant. All_communications will be held in strictest confldence. Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Dupont Circle | production for inventory and i | purposes, the rate of decrease in em- | ployment was not as great in Janu- per. cont. The decline in produetion, however, was _reflected in pay roll totals, which showed a drop of 1.7 per cent in December. In one week of December.. the 7,849 | establishments reported 2,575, em- i ployes who received a total compen- {sation, of $68,850,028, as compared with 2,552,742 employés in January, with total wages of $65,481,467. R A S Though she is now 104 years of age, Donna Madelna Dotti of Flor- ence, Italy, is still able to take care of her correspondence, read and make narrow bobbin lace. i i Builttorender continuous, iong and low cost service. STERRETT & FLEMING, Inc. Champlain St. and Kalorama Road Columbia 5050 BRANCH SALESROOM 1223 Conn, Ave, EVENING STAR, . WASHINGTON, SNAPSHOTS—{E " ik deviten ™ LOOKS WISTFULLY AT ALL PASSERS-BY. NO WONDER UNPLEASANTLY SUGGEST- THEY LOOK SO CARE-FREE- IVE OF DENTIST'S BUZ2ER THEY'RE NOT ON THEIR * WAY TO THE DENTIST = = DECIDES HE MIGHT &3 WELL GET 1T OVER WITH, SQUARES HIS SHOULDERS AND RINGS BELL AND IM- MEDIATELY WISHES HE HADNYT DAVIS, KAHN, SABATH, PLAN MUSICAL EVENING. TO ADDRESS HEBREws;Prognm to Be Given to Beneml musiy the {Chureh choir of Hyattsville, {benefit of a new church, was made toda D. C, "REACHES DENTIST'S STREET GOSH, HOW DID HE GET HERE SO QUICK,. SLOWS DOWN TO A SNAIL'S PACE HEARS A STEAM DRILL AND HURRIES NERVOUSLY PAST ® GROANS AS DOOR. | 1S TINALLY OPENED) TAKES A LAST 100K AT THE SUNSHINE AND GOES IN BRIGHTEINS PERCEPTIBLY AS NCBODY COMES PERHAPS HE'S MISTAKEN THE DATE , OR DENTIST HAS BEEN TAKEN SICKs. WHO CAN TELL T Among the outstanding features of |u.. program are: S ions by waiian Helo, a group of instru- mm,.u ts; 4 number of members of Club. including Miss th P. Tschiffeley and’ vocal solos a Phillips, sopranc leader of the Hyattsville Pres- n Church, arrangements were all under th of Mm Hyattsville Church. Announcement of a program for a next Thursday evening under auspices of the Presbyterian for the n for lhtl made pipe orj Phillips. COENRAAD V. BOs A Brilliant Pianist A Great Accompanist Records exclusively for the DUO-ART REPRODUCING PIANO Yesterday at the Poli's Th ed the accompaniments for Frie cat arlist [~I Com pla Y on the Duo Art Re rm- anytime and hear this g ing Piano. PIANOLAS AND REPRODUCING PIANOS™ EMMONS S SMITH “SPECIALISTS IN ©0:J DeMOLL DEMOLL PiaNo @ Washington’s AEOLIAN HALL ~ Tweifth and G Streets Steinway and Weber Duo~Art Pianolas - Victrolas - Aeolian -Vocalions 200 FAMILIES Investigated, looked all over Washington and Bought Homes in our INTOWN SUBURB 14th Street" Terrace At 14th and Jefferson Sts. N.W. Ampfe justification for you to take time to see these unusual Homes. Prices, $12,000 to $18,500 Several Sample Houses GO NOW WHY PAY MORE To Inspect Take any 14th Street car (the best service in Washington) to Ingraham Street or drive out 16th Street and through Colorado Avenue. ' —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1924, " OPPOSE TARIFF CUT. Dairy !edgtlflon to Fight Moves for Redugtion. AlL effortp to reduce tariff rates on dalry products and vegetable oils will be opposed and an attempt will be made to raise the status of the bureau of animal industry, of the Department of Agriculture by the new American Dairy Federation, organization ~of which has just been completed. © The federation, it was announced today, will act as ,a national counecil representing lnrxa units and organi- zations in the indUstry. Former Gov. Lowden of Illinois, president of the Holsteln-Friesian ‘Association, is president of the new organization, and its membership includes the Na- tional Federation of Co-Operative Milk _Producers, the International Milk Dealers, the American Creamery Butfer-Makers' Asiociation, the Na- tional Association of Dairy Machinery Manufacturers, the tional Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association the National Dairy Asgociation and the National Dairy Council. PR L Y Miss Eleanor Vrendinburg of Free- hold, N. J., is the first woman to bring a seaplane into France. the | direction and supervision stop that crying About High Rents and Mean Landlords. Take' the Same Money You Pay Out for Rent and Own A (EiURlEITH Home At 36th and R Sts. N.W. Price, $8,100 Nothing cheap about them. but built like $20,000 Homes. Th'ey Sure Fill a Long-Felt Want, as SALES PROVE To Inspect J By auto—Drive across the Q Street lirldge, turn north one blod Street and drive due west to 30th Street (right next the Western chool). Or take P Street ear ‘to 35th Street and walk north to Street, or Wisconsin Avenue car to R Street, and walk west to 30th Street. Realtors - Ouwners and Builders They are moderate in size, COLUMBIA PARK HOMES On the 14th St. Car Line Concrete Alley Positively Give You More For Your Money Than You Can .Get Anywhere In This City Values Predominate Here EXHIBIT HOME 7th and Ingraham Sts. Northwest Open Until 9 P.M. 2nd Group Now Offered See these stylish homes at once. Don’t delay. Lots of things put in to save you money and work. Easy Terms Take l4th Street car marked Takoma to Kennedy Street N.W., walk South; or Dth Street car to Ingraham Street N. W., walk East. Transportation best in city. D. J. . DUNIGAN 1319 New York Ave. MAIN 1267