Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1924, Page 11

AGRIGULTURAL BILL IS VOTED BY HOUSE Carries $124,000,000, In- r6luding $80,000,000 for Roads—Goes to Senate. propriations for the ston Center Mar- ds totaling §124, I- -op- es, the bill for Carrying conduct of Wa et with other 000,000, of which Housq late yesterduy and sent to the senate, second of the big an- Is that the House has d of, and the Navy appropriation bill will probably be roported to the House tomorrow. The agri al bill as it goes tc the Senate es some $59,000,000 more than the current appropriations, but is still several million dollars under the budget estimates. BIll Passes Quickly. The blll was passed after less than two days’ consideration by the House. Fewer than a dozen amendments were offered, and those adopted rep- resented only minor ch:nges. Disposal of the agricultural bill ¥ in the House to the jon Dbill, which is deration early next i hich the ave been | two app iisposed of caders in the wply bills ending ition of the naval| 11, the House will devote its Yime orrow to cousidering numerous ther bills on the calendar. ‘ FRENCH BIRTHS DROP Decrease From 584,000 to 573,000 | Is Reported. PARIS, December 12.—France's birth rate continues to dwindle, ac- ording to official statisties covering first three-quarters of the present r, while the number of marriages is practically the same for the| corresponding period Birth dropped fro 000 and deaths increas 0 521,000. Thus the e over deat year's figure, fell from CHRISTMAS. PRAYERS - FOR WORLD PEACE ASKED National Council of Protestant Episcopal Church Make Plea for Nation-Wide Supplication. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 12. —PnY- ers during the Christmas season for the peace of the world were asked of all church members of .the Nation in.|. .| & resolution adopted yesterday at tho December meeting of the Natlonal Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The resolution followed a state- ment by the soclal service depart- ment of the church which sald: “We are anxious that the next generation shall not execrate us for our failure as it writhes in suftering under the lash of a next great war. That we are menaced with this probability no- body can deny.” Announcement was made of a gift! of $40,000 by Mrs. E.-H. Harriman, | toward the construction of St. Paul's Episcopal School, destroyed by the Japanese earthquake, and of another gift of $5000 by Mrs Harriman for St. Luke's Hospital in Toklo. Donation of $250,000 to the Japanese reconstruction fund by the diocese of Pennsylvania was also announced. — ey WOMAN, 95, FIRE VICTIM. Invalid Would Have Had Birth- day Today. GREENSBORO, N. C., December 12. —>Mrs. Isabella Garrett. who would have been 95 years old today, was burned to death when the home of her son, John Garrett, with whom | she )ind 14 miles south of Greens- rett, an invalid, had been @ room before an open fire by her n’'s wife, who then went into the kitchen to prepare the noon meal. It is_believed the. fire was caused Ly Mrs. Garrett’s clothes catching fire from the open fireplace. The house, a six-room, two-story structure, was destroved. All furni- ture was burned CHRlSTMAS 3 % SAVINGS BRANCH OFFICE DISTRICT NATIONAL BANK Conn. Ave. and K Street We P-y lnterelt ' _The land is located in the following States: ‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHiNGTON. D. U. . BUYS FORESTS ‘IN ELEVEN STATES 2346354 Acres Acquired in 1924, Annual Beport of Commis- sion Reveals. The National Forest Reservation Cdmmissfon has acquired through vurchaee during the'fiscal year of 1924, 2,346,354 acres. The acreage is alstributed In'19 units and-in all 11 dif- terent States, according to the annual report of, the commission. Alabama, 87,097, acres: Ar- kansas, 59,731; Georgia, 159,979; Maine, 32,266; New Hampshire, 409,- 018; North Carolina, 20,168; 354,427 Pennsylvania, 166,937; South Carolina, 20,166; Tennessee, 269,077; Virginia, 660,928, and West Virginia, 226,743. The average price pald for the land stands at $4.98 per acre. During the past fiscal year lands approved for purchase amount to 130,290 acres, at an averago price of $3.26 per acre and the lowest price ever pald during any year. The largest purchase of the year was made in Pennsylvania, where the nurchase of 46,600 acre secrotary of the com attention to the fact that in anticipation of possible pur- chases in_coastal plane reglons of the Southeastern States, investigations have already been made In Texas, in Loulsiana and other States. In ex- treme eastern Texas there seems to be opportunity for the cstablishment of national forests, possibly large areas within the longleaf pine belt with the rosemary pine reglon and where the shortleat pine forms the prevailing growth. N RAILWAYS PAY TRIBUTE TO AUGUST BELMONT Subway and Elevated Trains to Halt One Minute When Funeral Begins This Afternoon. NEW YORK, December 12.—Sub- way and elevated rallway service in New York City will be halted for one minute at 4 o'clock today, when funeral services for August Belmont, financier and sportsman, who dled Wednesday night, will begin in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop Manning will oficiate. Burial will be in the family plot at New- port, R. 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