Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 12

ACCUSED VETERAN GAN SEE 70 DRIVE Lewis Say S|gh‘ ia Too Dim to Read—Denies Fraud in Asking Auto Permit. the ho vill report Thursday is facing loss of compensation e Court on a police ope snth the . some was hailed All the six ars ago, ever he went conquering his and out who came heart npathy back the n s s to be be- Can See Only Dimly. There's pathos in the ver toid his story n't go to show en see well ball game. work. All 1 wanted wi automobile it was to dri few block 1d then in a secluded neighbo always had some- body with You see, I've i fe, pr * he said. “I nough to enjoy I can’t read ear, and I'm used he talked could get he ned from the pleasure 100 on a definite object write? does And for automob him in so far as the concerned. A war- another angle to it all Hax Dependent Family. “What are my wife and two childre going to do if T lose my compensa- tion money,” Lewis wants to know. “I haven't got a penny saved. 1 haven't tried to fool anybody. I let the doctors examine me. They know how much I can see and how much 1 can't. This is a fine way to treat an who tried to do right by his wasn't a trace of heroism in He talked like a chap who simply doesn’t understand public can turn from warm to atively, after the his buddies won hero. A disabled he's a plain of * Bureau stion which remain is double pronged: Is a man d to compensation for total ess when his eyesight is so bad it he can't work or get the proper enjoyment out of life through his im- paired evesight ien he is not to- blind sentence. case” to be id of the Veterans® will get Bureau quare deal of appea his case case came up to the Vet- u through the Washing- office, from which it was to the central office of Bureau. The medical department of thi ' Bureau, er tests Lewis erma- nently blind.” the case went to the board of appeals, which acts such of World War vet- board stamped it with * Bure claims the OU will find of furnitare. artistic effects ar ture, favorite articles. e have repre. dainty end tables to the larger-an ones. Prices are quality. We have new themselves readils and grouping. 0. J. DeMOLL Twelfth & G A NN G VNG and | soldier | enveloped | ® | extolled a suitable table for the central fea- supporting framed picture as a background, chair or floor lamp at the table ends, one may arrange a grouping that is most pleasing. sentative styles in 0.1.DeMQOLL #co. “Where the piano goes we have the correot furniture for its surroundings’ Blind Auto Driver. HOWARD T. LEWIS, photographed yesterday after leaving Inspector Headley's office. “NEW YORK GREETS [TALIAN DIPLONAT | Yale President Lauds Italy’s Moral Fiber at Luncheon to New Ambassador. e Associated Press :W YORK bind A by James R. —The Italy L Lamont and president of Yale University, in_greeting Glacomo de | Martino, new Italian Ambassador, at a luncheon the Italy-America Society | gave in his honor today. A personal message from President Coolidge was read before a gathering of several hundred prominent guests, including three former American ambassadors |and presidents of four universities. | Mr. nt, president of the so- ety, said Italy commanded America’s |admiration for her courageous and | successtul effort in meeting and solv- |ing her post-war problems. He volced f the felt here with the arations that international ties | that were Angell said the World ad opened the eyes of the rank in the United States to the superb moral quallties of Ttaly. President Ceoolidge In his Jetter to th sald, in part be pleased if. in addition al welcome which I have | accorded him (Signor de Martino), T |may Dbe permitted to join with the |officers and members of the Italy- | America Society in personal greetings |and good wishes. T feel assured that h his friendly co-operation, ac- anceship and good understand- | tween the people of the two countries will be preserved and, if possible, still furth promoted.” Ambassador de Martino, in response his receptio sald he understood the added work of a foreign envoy to be the furthering of national friendships. I note,” said the Ambassador, you are taking a growing and intel- ligent interest in Italy, which is no |longer for you only the country of | churches, museums and Roman ruin but a modern nation which liv thinks and struggles so as to make a place for itself in the world." DOOR-TO-DOOR PEDDLER MADE ENGLISH MAYOR Continues Selling Coal House-to-House After Assum- ing City Headship. ¢ of the Assoclated Press. CALNE, England, March 3.—Ap- pointment to the post of mayor of Calne has not interfered in the least h the bus of Albert James § dealer, who makes his daily rounds with horse and cart calling coal man. and who |\undrrrls\ ght and de- society i n to From Corresponden: al 4000 inhabitants, know Mayor The other him, all as- ‘on the coal about nearly of whom Strange and respect him. coal dealers also respect serting that he s al job, early and late, it as he was before he became the town's chief executive, and furthermore, his com- petitors assert, the mayor has not en- avored to hinder them or to get the better of them in any way in his official capacity Talking About Tables and the Art of Grouping at our store many ideas for effective grouping Some of the most e created by using two or three With mirror or VA AT/ (Y Y (a7 3 7 T N e e Iz AT QATA A and coffee tables d more elaborate very low for the designs that lend y to effective use I = EMMONS S. SMITH Streets N.W. ST A Y AT AT YA AT AR A [ ment of native help THE SUN VDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 22, 1925—PART ROOSEVELT TOUR MEETS OBSTAGLE Viceroy of India Refuses Use of Hunza Pass to Ex- pedition. The expedition Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt into Turkestan has raet with difficulties, it was learned here yesterday, owing to the refusal of ¢ of India to permit the party to use the Hunza Pass from India to Turkestan. It is understood permission is being sought to use another route The Indian government's position was based on the ground that insufficient native carriers were available this year for such an expedition. A very Swedish expedition, it was expla has already entered Turkestan by the Hunza Pass, absorbing practically all the efficient carriers, who, owing to the small population of that part of India, | are not plentiful. The viceroy, it was said, suggested that the expedition be postponed and that it should members as possible so as to leave part available carriers for other British | expeditions which have applied for | hunting permits. It was explained that owing to the wild characteristics of that part of Indla and the scarcity of European aid in case of emergency that the British government had found it necessary to supervise the organization of all hunting expeditions and e engage- proposed of Bulgaria’s Populatmn Gmwmg Correspondence of the Associated Press. SOFIA, February 22—The popula- tion of Bulgaria now numbers 5,11 006, according to figures published by the officfal newspaper, La Bulgarie. These are based on the census of 1924. Easy for Children of the |3 | Sanders rpnrl)‘ of confidencs The record shows that the increase of population has been steady since 1920. To Get Marriage Permits in 90 Cities| | By the Assoclated Pres 3W YORK, March 21.—The Rus- sell Sage Foundation in a canvass of 90 cities has found in nearly all that children under 16 years of ago have little difficulty in obtalning marriage licenses. Minors, vestigators found, from 11 to 15 years old, in- ¥ had little in getting licenses by falsi- | Mdavits in the atter of their but also in having the marriage ceremony perfor This held t in the United Stat stances parents partles to the “connublal conspir “Some license issuers,’ a summ: of the report read, developed plans for discuvering falsification ‘of age by demanding vacious dates in rapid on or by comparing dates with ages given, but calculations rs of zines left in 10 show t minors come prepared to ev: Jusy such a system of cross « tioning. “In many been refu not on f ed “almost anywhere In many in- were found to be s children who have | 1 at one office years ther license office | Man in Arkansas Identified Butcher. Who Lost Big Sum. HOT G. Bole filed information of Min him with grand larc nnection with an alleged swindle by which Peter Sirbu, a retired butcher of Han- nibal, Mo.. reported to the police that e lost $60,000 several days ago to a men Sanders s under arrest here. say Sirbu identified the men alleged to volved. by charging | Police him as one of have been in- older | ¥ GRANT T0 IAPAN DENIED BY MEXICO Concessmns Were Reported Near Naval Base Recently Given Up by U. S. By the Associated Press M March 21 American 4 that the em- n official denial from the Mexican government that port, fishing and other concesslons had been granted to Japanese in the neighborhood of the ling station on Pichilingue Island in the Gulf of California, which was given up re- cently by the United States Navy. W rights to Pichilinque the United es under the 1 surrendered, in ac the nounced v had recel | gestive cordance with the desire of the Mexi- can government to carry out the pro- visfons of the constitution prohibiting | foreign ownership of lands within a 1 00-kilometer zo and a coasts. Tho Mexico City newspapers have published articles to the effect that been granted along the frontiers 50-kilometer zone along the coast and exploit a seaweed and sea- heil industry throughout the ext the Mexic a T Japanese attem anx: to leurr # na in quarters as nd falsely sug that the government Is not carrying out the constitutional quirements for strict malntenan national sovereignty over the tlers und seacoasts. without fron- Trade unions, parts of workman registered calling even when avall- or gulld systems, in rope prohibit a in one many from taking work, ab) in another trade without first serving his apprenticeship, and this rule forced many on the unem- 801 11th N.W. 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