Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1925, Page 5

. EXPERIS SELECTED| FOR I NQURY Secretary Work Heads Cc servation Board Naming Subcommittee. December Postal Receipts in D. C. Total $518,909 cipts at the Washington City Tost Office for December totaled $518,909.59, or 6.24 per cent mare than last year, istant City Postmas- ter Willlam H. Haycock announc | 1 ritaneously with the | t from the Post Office De- | pa that receipts from &0 | 2 cted citles comstituted a total 3 during the month, or an December, 18 . igures indicated b greatest Christmas traffic in the history of the postal service. Day had the !argest percent- age of gain, with Jacksonville, Fla.; , Cinein- aplds, Roches- ter, Milwaukee and Chicago ranking in order. Los Angeles went the million-dollar réceipts s for the first time. 4 rom the past December, 16 to Mr. Haycock said, the increase 875 per cent over the corre- sponding perlod in 1923, The re- more THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C 'WIDE DIFFERENCE * ON TRAIN CONTROL Railway Executives and I. C. ; C. in Controversy Over Safety Devices. i i The wide range of difference be- tween railroad executives and the Interstate Commerce Commission over Installation of automatic train con- trol devices became vesterday in separate actlons by both sides In the controver: Rallroad executives, gathered in | Waehington for a joint meeting of | the directors of the Amerlcan Rall- way Assoclation and the executive committes of the Association of Rail- way Executives, made public a state- | ment detailing their obj more apparent | Copper Fillings Claimed to End Teeth Infection By the Associated Press. TORONTO, January 7.—Elimination of Infection at the roots of teeth, recog- | plzed as @ subtle and frequent cause of rheumatism, eye trouble, heart disease and other serious aflments, ls claimed for a discovery announced yesterd | after five years' research work at the Unlversity of Toronto, The pew treatment, an article in the Dominion Dental Journal stated, uses copper umalgam as a permanent filling for the root canals of teeth. Fillings in current use are said to have been unable completely to close { the canals, and Infection has been pos- eible in the unfilled portions. This un- seen poison, carried by the blood, circu- lates throughout the system with disas- trous results to the body of the victim, who is usually uncopscious of ite exist- ence. the article adds. er amalgam has already been by some practicing dentists, the ticle stated. but its permanent germ- ., __WED) ITALIANTO SPEAK ON ARCHEOLOGY Dr. Lauro De Bosis to Lec-’ ture Here Before Italy- America Society. Recent archeological discoveries of importance in lands bordering on the Mediterranean Sea will be described by Dr. Lauro de Bosis of the Uni- versity of Rome in an {llustrated lecture next Saturday evening at the residence of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, 1301 16th street northwest, under the ausplces of the Italy-America Soclety. Dr. De Bosis, who Is the son of a well known Italian poet, has lectured In England, and is now visiting the extensively In his native country and | ESDAY, JANUARY 7, Expe; bassy on the the construction of the American demonstration of our confiden recuperative Japanese people,” who are “bend- ing every effort to rebulld capital ity TWO FUNDS BILLS 1925. $1,150,000 Asked ‘ For Rebuilding of | Embassy in Tokio nditure of $1,150,000 for re- in Tokio and the purchase of additional .ground for the em- bassy and consular establishments in Japan was provided reported today by the House for- elgn affairs cimmittee. Secretary in a bill Hughes urged action embassy bill as a *‘practical in the power of their OFFICIALS DIFFER OVER AUTOS HERE Commissioner Thinks 75,000 | Cars Here—Inspector 140,000. ioner Rudolpi [the board of Commis | took issue with Inspec Albert J Headley, chief o° the traffic bureau, | r the estimated number of auto- | | mobiles on the streets of Washing- | | ton. Inspector Headl the subcommittee of the House inquir- |ing into the results of the gasoline | tax in Washington that there are be- | tween 130,000 and 140,000 machines ng the streets of Washington Commissioner Rudoiph declared to Comm chairman of | oners, today testified before | | already rf—- 5'; using the streets of Washington. In:pector Headley, discussing the situation today, pointed out that there werc about 91,000 District tags solr throughout 1924. He said he though! 10,000 could be deducted from thar figure to make allowance for the turnover of machines. Each time a individual automoblle changes hand new tags must be bought for Therefore, the number of tags sold in a year does not indicate the actua! number of machines. Discussing the fallure of the gas tax law to produce thus far the amount est'mated would be produced Inspector Iizadley sald he did not be- lieve the uverage car uses 10 gallons of gas a weel. There are many ca owners, he said, who use their cars principally to get to and from work The inspector further expressed th« belief that the local oil companiet probably sold more gasoline during the year preceding the inauguration of the gas tax here than they have since, because Maryland and Virginla had a gas tax In effe which, the ingpector believes, was inducement to out-of-town ‘motorists to buy their gas in the District be fore tie local law became ef fective. tax Glasses SENT T0 SENATE $289,000,000 for Navy and $157,000,000 Deficiency Measure Are Reported. The $289,000,000 annual propriation bill and the deficlency measure, the first of the | sessfon, were reported today by the Senate appropriations committee. By adding $896,350 to the Hou total the Senate committee allowed | $500.000 for converting two battle crulsers into aircraft carriers and fo construction of additlopal fleet sub- marines. | The ordnance and ordnance stores | item was {ncreased $350.000, and a additional $109.850 made available for the Virgin Islands. | ronage the lecture will be given, are: | The committee made one cut in the | Mrs. Dimock, Mrs. Truxtun Beale, | House bill, reducing from 0 to chesa di Bernezzo, Mr. and Mrs. G. | $350,000 the amount for recreation ‘atelan), Miss Chiera, Mrs. G. W.|for enlisted men. le, Mrs. Marshall Field, Donna Em- | The delficie bill reported to 3 Calderara Gamba, Countess Chl- |Senate is an increase of 000,000, ft| s Countess Glzycka, Mrs. over the House bill. Of this 1 oplnt s : | Keep, Mrs. Charlotte Kellogg, Count- | $1,950,253 added by the natic train | ess ai Mombello, Mrs. Harry Lee Rust. | committc cover judgm ge stricken from the bill | Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, ) Rich- | qudited claims against the “Nothing contained in |ard Townsend, Countess di Villanova, | ment other bill shall be con- | Countess della Porta Viscontl, Prof. | The Senate committee Henry S. Washington and Mrs. Charles | for the surveyor's office Boughton Wood triet of Columbia. Other amcadments prov for the expenses of the agricultural conference | an oil conservatlon board | v - in | for the Interstate Commer: - | Two Navy Men Eall Bitty Poet in|,i5, "1na $150,000 for the investis Craft at Norfolk, Va. cts of reclamation NORFOLK, Va “omndr. Paul Cassard ctions to In-| icidal effcct was not confirmed previous as ordered [to the experiments. Credit for the Cotacidentally, | achievement, which will be explained at ated Its position | tho March meeting of the International clecting request tion of Dental Research, at Chi- lot ¢ Baltimor> and | cago, was given to Dr. F. C. Husband, a Ohlo, Central of New Jersev and|Toronto denti | Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto- | |mac—for ' additlonal time beyond | | January 1 last to make the experi- | j mental Installations ordered. | 3 ceipts for the calendar year 1924 - were $4,725,513.64, and for 19 83, or an increase of of Dr. . BILLUPTO UNIFY or De- | adwin, stallation of the devie by the commission. the commission reit on the question by ot three ratlroad: Fittes Dr. W. Irving Kaufman OPTOMETRIST 809 Iith St. Main 288 jolc——x—o|———|af{c———|o|———]q] ICOAL We Recommend the Coal Best Suited to Your Plant Heating problems have bee the success of this business is given our patrons YOU SAVE MONEY ON FUEL When We Furnish the Fuel You Require ‘ R.J &M C GRACE el i el ———] United States as exchange lecturer by invitation of the Italy-America So- clety. His coming talk will deal with discoverles made in Tome, Os- tia, Pompell, Syracuse, Sardinia, C rene and Tripoil. A love of classical studles which Impelled him to make these his lfe work, and resulted fin | his becoming one of the leading Latin and Greek scholars of the sounger generation, has led him naturaily Into the fleld of archeology. Having founded the classical thea- | ter on the Palatine In Rome, he serv- | d as its director for two years. His | Interests also embrace art, poetry and j educational reform, in which he s the | dleciple of Glovannl Gentlle. Oth- | er social and political problems of Italy engage his interest. To members of the Italy-America Soclety, the coming lecture will be | tree. Others may obtain tickets trom {Miss Emma Chiera, 1724 Kenyon | street northwest. Washington mem- bers of the society, under whose pat- day he does not believe there are | many more than 75,000 machines here. | The license office up to yesterday | | had sold 63,065 1925 license plates, to which Mr. Rudolph adds an estimate of 15,000 to cover out-of-town cdrs ted upon Ly | 1 ago, the board ¢ War SEEK 70 PREVENT OFFICERS' DETAIL Congress Moves in Pay Bill to Stop Assignments Such as Butler’s. te airectos Smith | Raillroad chiefs, in consldering | Jointly the country's traffic outlook, | OROHBTIONWORK - i ldgar engineer: Admiral Ha d Guy ion of minerals merce Departme Depends Ungn Itself. e naval ap- $157,000,000 ot produce the largest volume of busi- | | ness ever put on the ralls. For the | | first quarter of the present year, it | | was sald, prospective traffic, us seen | by the sollciting agencies and joint | rallroad organizations. indicates that car loadings will be 2.2 per cent in| excess of those of the same period in | Hearing Given on Measure Designed to Concentrate Ju- ’ 1924, which broke all records. risdiction in One Bureau. ! #ailve Coimitgenon the Asgoc| clation of Railw: ecutives adopt- mittec report preside which coretary | ur dy for mar traced to the service of the whole people. business might forces workin; practical o . X e today from the Arn would struck a provi appropriation b allow such detail of > officers 1 the Cran | prohibition in the Treasu toh industrial al The measure, the | with the 1 work 5 4th and F N.E. Linc. 233 Linc. 234 | amount | | was said Senate {of the car | control s {and that no practical system totakiipr session, ha under attack | been found.. produc industr years, srotests of users s Govern- | passed by the House added $8,200 for the Dis- act or any i feel that such is not sed, “and ned wiil justifled,” that the wa ‘ — | PLANE CRASH HURTS 2. £30,000 ident Republlican. repited to|e measure nistratio is clalmed th result in an en commlssion report 34 persons, or 6 pe total fatalities on rail- he 3 resulted fro »ilision ¢ St | were killed in grade e Co-ia [fured at’ the I [aents during the year. Tne el hs apts . the | bas v in an 12,3,;,\:”“,,;1," bayt i tew e public welfare would a broken leg an = ——— = = 3 .‘;»rlnv:h'\“;.—rl.-l,mrur]fc]m:i'. If the woney | Ehaete bout the head and body | = | IF YOU HAD A | to be used for traln control could be subpiiuite h they s NECK spent for improving signal syste; and whic all land craft, had just tak. = feet in AS LONG A8 THIS FELLOW | == ==, /FOW‘ Adjectives h ARTISTI( STRIKING ATTRACTIV] REFRESHINC that is Cor for pro wibition rent of t d a failure reau. e prohibition law i by P. Samue principat Mow much real value stands back X naval | of the stock or bonds you are asked inst g rs more pow sreement be 1 ement of Ju ing presen are heard in the cloak room and for further protection of grade WAt th o dEle the fleld and was about 50| | from some undetermined cause ;md‘ AND HAD crossings.’ the air when it sideslipped /< The con | ~ | fell to the carth. soRETHRuAT | | B i ALL ’ . THE WAY | train control devices i SUPPER DANCE DOWN 1 of 8,360 miles of track. an FEOM 10 TO rt' said that on Jany or belng placed on The National Sore Throat Remedy | SHOULD QUICKLY RELIEVE IT ALL DRUG 3 At the same the ap | propriations committee voted against Navy and Marine Corps s indefinitely from public funds | the are serving in out jobs. The action, which would | Butler, would lmit| pay to the usual period regulations, cnt directed otherw bined vice to get the croi Want Hip Flaské ElL rohibitien enforced d. We d any more | cascs. But industry Father Saves Two Sick Children. to The Ktar. WATERS, Daniel P f: o of 5 young children, ill with { pneumonta, to safety from a burning e here last night, and aroused his und other eight children, so that the: escaped. He had arisen to: gite his children some medicine, o) gone to the barn to look after =ome sheep, and when he returned he found | the nouse in flames t to Franklin Square Hole, BOERNSTEIN'S LA JAVA BAND with PETE MACIAS | side | apply Governm | covered .. | Pre: Special Ding FALLI te! bads which were re- extensions of time today b: slon are subcct to pe $100 per day under the While most of the class 1 roads boen ordered to have the installations on small sections of their lines b, January 1, a number of time exten- sions have been gramted. and yester- t refusal of “want legitima Give the prohibi wer to block One | w chanical expert who calls a Is and gives attention to mac] installed «nd offers advice ir oppera! he ka graft ent of withd to illegitimate chan- 1 the bulk of the | T T r supply cam \porters Succumbs in Home of Daughter at| | Lyon Park Few Days After Hfl“l"j Passing of Wife. } Club to Honor Priest. J. Sweeney, for or of the Aloysius Club, wil » guecst of honor of the c nquet tomorrow night in e Hall, cight years Father S ructor of the Gonzaga, later being assigned, his recognized abillty to missionary work city conducting a retreat fus Church. Attorn v will be toastmaster. ward 2nsley Jaughter, placed te pect Hi rursday. Her body v poraril Cemete $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington And Return Sunday, January 11 Similar Excursion January 25 SPECIAL TRAIN 2 for Trade Commission. Farm Ple: Every government employee in our city! Every salesman, business man or woman Every parent, teacher and professional! Every ambitious, thinking individual! Here is the opportunity you have always wanted to hear G. E. Marchand, the, most entertaining and masterful speaker on the Ameri- can platform. MARCHAND The Man Who Is Astounding America! Marchand is a supreme su:cess himself and shows you how to be. 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