Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1924, Page 39

OIL MEN STRIVING 0 WIN CONFIDENCE Texas Session Designed to|e Improve Relations of In- |: dustry to Public. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. WORTH, Tex., December 11.— CITIZENS APPRECIATE WATER MAIN EXTENSION Association Thanks Commissioners for Keeping Bud- get Ttem. cation for the Insertion in the t budget by the Commissioners an item of $42,000 for extension of the water main to the District line at Dix street and E rtheast was expr t Boundary As! s meeting Tuesday night in the | Burrville School. The association has long desired this improvement as recommended by the Commissioners. Opposition was volced 1for THE EVENING Called to New Orleans. No Deaths to Date. The bubonic plague has struck New Orleans, with no dea to date, bu rousing so much fear again STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 1solation in a marine hospital. A rat, 1.5, TAKES CHARGE CFWARONPLAGUE Public Health Service Expert highly Infected with the plague germs, also was captured near an old dock, and efforts are being made to kill all rats in the vicinity. All vessels are thoroughly fumi- gated before being allowed to leave the port. Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the foc Health Service is making plans to go to New COrleans in a few days to check up on the situation. During the plague a few years ago, on recommendation of the Public Health Service, practically all the rat- | infested docks of New Orleans were | torn down and replaced with concrete plers, it was sald. But there still re- main two old docks. It was near one of these that the plague-infected rat was caught. P. 0. Committee Named. 4,175 BOYS TAKE PART IN CLUB ACTIVITIES Manager of Washington Orguni-‘ zation Makes Report of Program for Past Month. Forty-one hundred and seventy-five boys participated in the various ac- tivities of the Boys' Club of Wash- | ington during the‘last month, F. V. Thomson, superintendent of the club, of that organization at a meeting in | the club, at Third and C streets, Tues- | day night. C., THURSDAY, DE | told members of the board of trustees | CEMBER 11. 1924, ;%89 boxing, wrestling and free play suf-| ficient to keep a cro always ih»l terested. ‘Other activities of the club were reported to be progressing sat- | isfactorily. In conclusion, Mr. Thom- | #on urged the board to in mind arrangements for Christinas enter- tainments. The Senfor Club will be the guests of Col n Jennings at a dance to t hls r_sidence Friday, De- | Wife Sues; Charges Desertion. Mrs. Mamie L. Dayton yesterday filed | suit for a limited divorce from Ralph | L. Dayton, an em al | Revenue Bureau " OTHINE | For the Treatment of = December 31, 1921, and the wife tells| children. The wife fs employed i the court her husband has not con-| $105 a mont tributed anythiz, 0 her support si: the marriage. sertion and cruelty she informs the court ce| Attorneys George . Safford and also charges de-| Wal W. Steveng appear for thii There are no { This attendance was divided as fol- lows, said Mr. Thomson: Attendance in the games rooms, 986; at the Na- Guard Armory, for basket ball, athletic field, playground, swimming pool, at Y. M. C. A., ibrary, 336; Scouts’ meetings, 142; woodwork class, 98; printing class, ; sign lettering, dramatios, 24; instrel practice, and other meet- untry, repre the city which suffered severely from argest industry | 4 years ego that the Public States, con s mbers o 3 o alled upon the situ S Employes of the Washington city ¢ | post office ha cted the follov |ing men to represent them on the organization con- . 3 welfare of the postal was learned that Dr. Jot A o P. Otterback and E. senlor surgdon of the Publi, presenting the supervisor: Service, has been authorized -le > Ryerson and mand the Federal forces fighting the [T, Johnson, representing plague at the Louislana port. Re Batson, quests for Federal help come, it was | said, from the Governor of the State, r of New Orleans and the city health authorities. re case was discovered : Freckles In Use for Over 16 Years Your freckles need attention NOW or may remain all winter. Use Othine —double strengt ion 81 and not of » the will Z. F. Ramsaur rcported a been co: ted from and alongside the Brun g AVALUED PRESENT FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY 1218-1220 F ST. N.W. 'Nell, A. ‘oegler, repre- 5 supervision of the games | rooms 1s _now under the Optomist nting the carriers, and Alexander | Club of Washington, with two col- | , representing watchmen and|lege men alternating nightly to take The foregoing will meet|charge of the work. 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