Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1924, Page 20

ELOPING COUPLE HELD F1 50000000 RAIL [ oo MERGER REPORTED | st by Accident. ety ie”) SHINDLING SCHENE Nickel Plate, C. & 0., Erie| it o1 Penta "oia. ot “cren arove; | Are Alleged to Have Got Mil- W, Oliver Oscar Michael, 52, of 2 . lion in 6 Weeks From Tour- and Pere Marquette Declared| youicrdns by’ Betcciives Darnalt 'sad ists in Moptreal. ,p’?’:\gman of prilkcf he?dquanenl. H H e arrest took place in a rooming in Van Sweringen Group. | nouse on s near Hixtn strece. e tectives learned of the case, they BT 8 T xxrlrd. when |nukl?g up .l:: entirely different matter in a robbery case. DETAILS TO BE ARRANGED | T ke e bern i neiaar 1 sie | KEPT of Detention while Michael is being held at the first precinct pending a preliminary hearing of the case. BRITISH KING VIEWS _RICH OFFICES Gang Declared “Most Notorious” Which Has Ever Operated on Continent. Consolidation of Four Lines Said to Be Matter of Only Few Weeks. e caw viouarons| OIN HELD IN GREM | LIFE’S DARKEST MOMENT. SAY, %10 ,YA BETTER Look ouT Feg‘mAT DAWG OF Yours, THEY VE GOT SoME: FIERCE SQu"zaeu; i THIS PARK A (13 aneor E,M SEES YOUR 2 Hours' H;LL ‘Jssf MATURALLY w CHAW 1t uP! CLEAN gl o we‘ HAw i —By WEBSTER. PLAN CHEST CAMPAIGN. Prince Georges County Citizens to Meet on August 5. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., July 26.—Rep- resentatives of the various organiza- tions making up the Prince Georges County Community Council will meet with the community chest committee of the council August 5 to complete plans for launching the 1924 com- nxunkly chest drive. Close, president of the coun cll, deaisen. tho president o searetary, or'both, or a representative of every organization in the county; every inster ahd anyone clse who will an interest in this county-wide ement to attend the meeting. The meeting will discuss the report of the 1923 community chest committee, elect u committee to manage the 1924 drive, decide upon the amount of money to and upon the beneficiary. or- ganizations and set the dates. — . ‘Women who leave gland for Australia as domestic servants must do 12 months work before they are oW, 5 %’iq\u\ n § M [ 5 Cheaper Coal The New Molby House-Heating Boiler Burns Buckwhezt No. 1 Write for Catalog Molby Boiler Company By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 26.—The Sunday News-Leader tomorrow will say: The Van Sweringen railroad merger is next door to an accomplished fact It is, in fact, accomplished. What remains to be done is detail. Four systems— Nickcl Plate, Chesa- peake and Ohio (including the Hock- ing Valley), Erie and Pere Mar- quette—operating oyer 11,000 mil. line and with total balance-sheet footings of upward of one and a half billion dollars, will within a weeks be brought -under a i control, with Cleveland headquarte T'ut into the picture also Cle land”s new $i7,000,000 . union_station and terminal, for O. P. Van Swerin- #en says he expects to see the steel zoing up on the central section of the depot on the public square within Here in veland the Van Sw. n brothers, Orris . and Man are taken for grant-d. O. I V Siweringen is young—46—and just ginning. M. J. is 44. Both were born m Woc Ohio. | First Bought Nickel Plate. | By the Associated Press: N | mand of Admiral s BIG NAVY PAGEANT Fighting Sfirength in Home Waters Displayed First Time iSnce 1914. . England, July 26.— in ten lines of four Britain's naval th in home Waters. cOmprisinE 194 warships with 30,000 officers and reviewed today in Spithead Bri ilor ruler, King Connaught, and from the deck Victoria and the Duke the Prince of Wales of the royal yatch Albert. The pageant today. under the com- »hn M. de Ro- beck, commander in chief of the At- lantic fleet, was the first since the great naval review of 1914 was held. By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, July 26.—The arrest of six men, two of whom, “English Chappie” Lewis, alias Edward Long, and George Wallace, were arraigned in police court today, marked the drive started recently by the Cana- dian and United States secret service against a gang of international confi- dencé men who are alleged to have swindled tourists visiting Montreal during the last six weeks of more than a million dollars. The two prisoners arraigned today are charged specifically with having obtained $25,000 under false pre- tenses from H. L. Christie of Chicago. Lewis was held without bail and Wallace was also committed to prison Lecause of his inability to furnish bond for $10,000. They were arrested as they were about to board a train for New York. Hidden in Vault. More than $100,000, part of the profits of two weeks' operation of the gang. is sald by the police to be hid- den in a safety deposit vault which allowed to marry. ) s {also in Spithead waters. just before A !| the outbreak of the great war. they have under survelllance. e : poyery vessel fn the 1914 review was | Richly furnished offices in the busi- R Sone Z | obsolete, while the present units were 2 s e # leave the main four to < completed since the war and most of | [C3¥ 7€(00 ety THIRE Y the bo; e e e them were of the latest types. There | 0¢ o0 the tra) of the swindiers The next Van Sweringen purchase | were battleships, cruisers, destroyers, to the authorities, ielded bundles was two more similar lines strung | ines mine aweepers an st lor bogus money - camoufiaged. with out in the territory argund 1 e e oAt s ool genuine $100 and $1,000 bills and also lever Leaf and Lake Tia [and hovered over the roval yac = ouvply fof StaliooErySNRsIRE (the W T In connection with'the magnificont | letterhead of J. P. Morgan & Co. of e Hinting forees today Cthe | New York. Eight false telephones ued a pamphlet deserib. | and two dummy telegraph Instru- I o | g Queen Vietori ments were also seized, as well as a | T B il blackboard on which ' were posted s Mis- | cluding a vaddle wheeler and several supposedly fictitious stock prices and ing batteries. passed before the | Facing results Rl ! can-up in Cuba. | Today the King's wacht steamed | {f X Graham of the United States | along the luo accompanied by the Office Department and Bert Don- admiralty vacht. on which members | b1t Oice Departr 7| 5 "the Tabor government were bas. | Alfon of the United States These two boats were a rrying ble among the ¢ of central territory east of the slssippi i Marquette and - Brie are tory. P. Va by the huge mine-laye Margaret, carrying represen- 4 ,ut the state- of the dominions. while many PR, bt aee | thousands of holiday makers w ik i nessed the pageant fro mhte sea- “hore notoribus” which has ever operated on this continent. Last year, they | stated, this group of swindlers did business in Cuba for 90 days, and during that time “cleaned up” $605.- | 0060. According to United States officials lewis is wanted in the United Sattes on charges of having obtained fraud- ulently, $50.000 from STmon Touch of | St._Augustine, Fla, and $20,000 from | J.E. Blumenthal of Jacksonville, Fla = o An atom of mostly empty space, for ber of new m. warde .".,i:.ln.rf in' state. n | be dedicated Sunday morn. | the electrons that make up its sub- | forest fires .~ They are sermon being delivered by Rev. | 3tance, are like flies in a cathedral | fichting or- 'l. MeC. W ms of Gordonsville. other | COmpared to the size of the atom. | S, W, ] Srie no Van S ments ha ments in r Vpsitive and It is in the Van Sweringen merger. | FIRE WARDENS NAMED. | CHURCH TO BE 3E OPENED. M to The Star Dispatoh to The S as be in readine Somerville, superintendint of home mis- | irg the forest fire s fall. | sions of (he Hanover Presbytery, and Those appointed the pastor, Rev. . Walsh. County were F. W. son, E. J. The congregation has a membership Raney and J. H. e of 30, the church being the result of hard work on the part of the members, ott ‘and Georie | The men cut trees and hauled thp timber Just Drive It; That's All 5 named for Prince|to a saw mill, while zome of the car- pentry work was donated. Wiseman _were Georges County. Peter Grogan & Sons Co, ROGAN'S 817-823 Seventh Se¢., NW “Homefurnishers Since 1866” Courtesy and Service Compare Our Values Reductwns On All urniture In Our Stocks Our annual August Sale is an institution. Our cus-. tomers watch for it. We prepare for it. 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Every dainty woman wants to be rid of perspiratior and body odors. ‘To prevent these odors women have been using chemical deodorants which close the pores, damage the clothing and often cause seriousirrit- ation. Chex does not close the pores, does not damage clothing, does not hide odors with perfume. Nothing is_covered up—Chex removes the cause ‘The story of Chex reads almost like a novel For years an expert in personal hygiene has been working on this one problem—the dis- tressing problem of perspiration odors. At last, after countless experiments, he has found in » newly discovered, rare extract power to do this very thing =—to banish all perspiration odors for 36 hours! And nowat last this amazing med- icinal ingredient is ready in a gentle but effective form which is remark- - ably easy and ?5; @B\ pleasant to use. Geo. Borgfeldt & 111-119 East 16th 8¢, New York reductions are liberal. It's NOT a sale of “odds and ends”—simply a time when we offer an opportunity for big savings. 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