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GERMANY TO SEND 3D DELEGATES HERE Great Interest Felt in Com- ing Session of Interparlia- mentary Union. Ty the Assoclated Press BERLIN, April 4—Germany will be represented by some 30 parliamer- tarians at the international congress of the Interparliamentary Union, which will meet at Washington be- ginning October 1. Although Ger- many in the union deliberations has only 19 votes. interest among Ger- many's lawmakers, of whom 156 men and women of all parties, except Fascist! and Communists, belong to the German group, is so intense that the official 16 delegates will be ac- companied by a dozen or more ordi- nary members The parllamentary group Is send- Ing many of Germany's ablest and best known statesmen. These Include | Paul Loebe, president of the Reich- stag. Prof. Schuecking, one of the| negotiators of the Versailles treaty| and chairman of the German delega- tion: former Chancellor Joseph Wirth, former Colonial Governor Albert Hermann Schnee, former| Colonial Minister Bernard Dernburg;: former Minister of the Interior| Eduard David, who won the Filene| peace prize; the Socialist leader, Rudolf ~ Breitschel Prof. Otto Hoetsch and former Finance Minister Hans von Raumer. Among the women who have de- elared their intention of going to| Washington are Dr. Gertrude BAymex| and Deputies Frau Clara Menda and | Frau Louise Schroeder, EMPLOYES REWARDED FOR SERVICE TO FIRM Electric Co. Re.ognizes Distinguished Feats of Lowly Workers. By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, April 4.—Forty 4hree employes of the General Ele, tric Co. scattered through factories a1.d offices all over the United State. were today given awards of money and certificates by the Charles A. Ceffin Foundation in recognition of Qutstanding services performed by them in 1924, The winners comprise 12 shop wotk- ers, 5 foremen, 15 engineers, 7 com- 1ne 1 men and 4 special awards. | Selected with the greatest care from among the 70,000 employes of the @aneral Electric Co. by a committee ot officials headed by President Gerard Swope, the group represents persons who performed some distingulshed service to the company, the work of machinists finding recognition side by side with the outstanding feats of eminent electrical engineers. The most Interesting awacd of the 43 was given to Richard S. Nassif, a young Assyrian at the Pittsburgh works of the company, who sug- gested himself out of & job, but by 50 doing was given a new and bet- ter one. Nassif carried fan motor parts from a conveyor to an inspec- tion table eight hours a day. He sug- gested a conveyor system which could do the work he was doing. His award is not only for initiative, but for courage. EXCHANGE RATES REVISED General General Postmaster Gives New P. 0. Basis for Several Countries. Postmaster General New yesterday entered changes in the rates at which United States money, after April 7, shall be converted into that of cer- tain foreign countries in the issuance of postal money orders. The changes are: , 1 krona equal to 19 cents; 1 krona equal to 17 cents; ands, 1 florin equal to 40 cents; Spain, peseta equal to 15 cents, and Sweden, krona equal to 27 cents. Officers Ordered Here. John J. Reddy, Medical Corps, at Trenton, N. J., and Capt. Floyd Kil- gore, Medical Corps, at Fort Rile: Kan., have been ordered to this city for duty at the Army Medical Center, Maj. Runaway Nephew Of Peer Located Working in Plant THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, YOU AND UNCLE SAM Series of Educational Articles Telling How Federal Govern- ment Is Organized and How It Functions—W ritten Expressly for School Children. D. C., APRIL 5, 25,000 photographs, Jantern slides and negatives. Its reading room has upon its tables the representative maga- zines and newspapers of Latin America. This library and reading room are open to the public for study and con- sultation and the Pan-American Building overlooking Potomac Park and the Washington Monument to the 1925—PART 1. Republics to the Pan-American Union. The fifth conference held at Santiago, Chile, in 1923, considerably enlarged the functions of the Pan-American Union. (Copyright, 1925, by Will P. Kennedy.) The forty-seventh article in this series will be on “Our Official Agency to Aid the Suffering.” It will be print- ed in this paper next Wednesday. 9 21 BORDER COMMISSION TO DISCUSS ISSUES Mexican and U. S. Delegates Will Consider Smuggling and Immi- |1aboring classes and for a little more |ery | tache | Liverpool, hoping to find work there, ter Reed General Hospital. s ROTAREX Home Double VOLVING heater and its ment. Be sure to see it. down Take advantage of this special offer. Pay the balance in monthly install- ments—a few cents a day. Askfor full particulars by phone if you can- not call. Te]PALAIS ROYAL G and 1lth Sts—Service and Courtesy—Established 1877 ROTAREX Laundry Service Washes and Irons LTHOUGH the ROTAREX Electric is the finest g A washing machine possible to build it can do no g s more than cleanse your clothes. a tiring task of ironing is reduced to child’s play by the g The new principle by which the ROTAREX Washer g washes clothes clean without wear is matched by the g equally exclusive principle of the ROTAREX Ironer g with its double rolls, its RE- markable ruffler attachment. Free Demonstration of these two famous hour-saving appliances in our electrical depart- Youth Is Satisfied He Is Able to Earn Own Living. By ('able to The Star and New York World LONDON, April 4.—Disheartened because he had failed In an examina- tion, 17-year-old Joseph F. E. Bailey, grandson of the late Lord Glanusk and nephew of the present peer, de- cided to seek his fortune among the than a month he spent a hard-work- ing, but relatively happy time, “making good” in his own estimation and proving to his satisfaction that he could at least earn his living without the aid of his aristocratic relatives. . Now he has been discovered and brought back to his ancestral halls, but he contends that he would not have missed the experience for any- thing. There was a country-wide hue and when young Bailey left the United Services College, at Maiden- head, without revealing his inten- tions or destination, but the bo. disguised himself with a false mus and horn-rimmed spectacles and evaded the searchers five weeks. With only a few dollars in his pocket, Balley took train from London to or in the neighboring clty of Man- chester. For a fortnight he tramped both cities without obtaining‘work and it was when he was down to his last cent that he got a job in Bootle, as a factory laborer at a salary of about $11 a week The job at Bootle, which included crawling Into ovens to fetch out baked cork slabs, turned up when things were looking black. “I found the working people 'very sincere and sympathetic,” he said. “They could see that I did not belong to their class, but they asked no questions and made me welcome. Plans for Master Bailey's future are not disclosed by his aristocratic family, but it is understood that he is insistent on being allowed to con- tinue trying to earn his own living and being permitted to make good in his own way. REDUCTION OF TRAFFIC ARRESTS CONTEMPLATED Eldridge Hopes to Pass Over Minor Cases to Concentrate on Willful Infractions. Hope of reducing arrests for minor infractions of fhe traffic laws and for minor accidents in order that the Police Department may concentrate its efforts on willful breaches of the law was expressed by M. O. Eldridge, traffic director, in an address at the Almas Caravan Club luncheon at the Mayflower Hotal Friday. Mr. E dridge also outlined the pres. ent traffic problems in the District which he is endeavoring to solve to the 300 persons who were present at the meeting. Speeches were also made by Illus- trious Potentate Henry Lansburgh, Past'Potentate William F. Gude and John T. McGilv past potentate of Islam Temple, San Francisco, Calif. John J. P. Mullane, president of the club, welcomed the numerous guest and announced tho® a ceremonial ession of Almas Temple will be held urday evening, May 2, at the Washington Auditorium and that on occasion W. Freeland Kendrick, of Philadelphia, will take charge of the ritualistic work. A number of vocal selections were rendered by Miss Kitty Garner, ac- companied by George Wilson, and several solos and duets by Fred East and Willlam Raymond. While “Honey- boy” Harry Evans was leading the singing of old-time melodies, Capt. Robert E. Doyle distributed flowers to all ladies present. The next meet- ing of the Caravan Club will be Fri- Sent to Fort Riley, Fans. Lieut. Col. William R. Pope, U. S Cavalry, of the 62nd Division, Organ- ized Reserves, with station at Towp son, Md., has been detailed as a stu- dent at the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kan. But the even more g Roll Ironer. . re- south, the White House Park on the east, Lincoln Memorial to the west, are visited daily by large throngs of tourists. This Is one of the most beautiful structures in the Natlonal Capital and admirably located. These buildings and grounds represent an outlay of $1,100,000, of which Andrew Carnegie contributed $850,000 and the American republics $250,000. They are dedicated forever to the use of the Pan-American Union, as an in- ternational organization. To carry on all of its activities a large staff of editors, statisticians, compllers, trade cxperts, translators, librarians and clerks is employed. The Pan-American Unfon was founded In 1890, under the name of the International Bureau of American Republics, in accordance with the de- cision of the First Pan-American con- ference, held in Washington the year previous, and presided over by James G. Blalne, then Secretary of State. It was reorganized in 1907 by action of the third Pan-American conference, held In Rio de Janeiro in 1906, and upon _the initiative of Elihu Root, then Becretary of State. At the fourth conference held in Buenos Aires in No. 46—The Union of All the American Republics. gration Problems. STEEL CASES DISMISSED. Federal Trade Commission ‘Acts on Pacific Coast Charges. Dismissal of complaints against six manufacturers of steel and iron products and a supply company or- ganized by them to purchase scrap steel and iron, was announced yes- terday by the Federal Trade Commis- slon. The companies, which were charged with combining to suppress competi- tion in the purchase of raw materials used in their industry, are: Pacific Coast Steel Company, San Francisc Portland and Seattle; Columbia Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, California and Portland, Ore.; Llewellyn Iron Works, Los Angeles; Judson Manu- facturing Company, San Francisco; Southern California Iron and Steel Company, Los Angeles, and Steel Mill and Foundry Supply Company. | By the Associated Pre MEX: CITY, April 4—A mixed commission of delegates representing the United States and Mexico will meet at El Paso May 30 to discuss smuggling and immigration prob- lems. James R. Shefeld, the Ameri- can Ambassador, said today that Mexico had expressed willingness to name commissioners to discuss the new problems growing out of the re- cently negotiated narcotics trea but he was not prepared to say whether the immigration questions would include the restriction of Maxican emigration to the United States. The American delegates to the con- ference have already been selected, but the Mexican representatives have not been named The activities and facilities of the Pan-American Unfon include: Publi- cation of an illustrated monthly magazine which is a record of the progress of all the republics, printed in separate editions, in English, Span- ish and Portugese: publication of handbooks, descriptive pamphlets, commercial statements, maps and spe- clal reports relating to each country; correspondence covering all phases of Pan-American activities; distribution of every variety of informatfon helpful to the promotion of Pan-American commerce, acquaintance, co-operatior and solldarity of interests. This union also sets the date, s lects the place of meeting and pre- pares the programs for the Inter- national conference of the American states and is custodian of their archives. Its library is known as the Columbus Memorial Library, and contains nearly 53,000 volumes, ineluding the original publications, documents and laws of all the republics, together with a large Our,Goyernment is not onl of all the states from Alabama to Wyoming, but it s also the leading spirit in the Unlon of all the American republics that have fashioned their respective governments and their flags after our own. Thus we have a Union of all the Western Hemisphere, founded and maintained for the pur- pose of exchanging mutually useful information and fostering commerce, intercourse, friendship and peace, with headquarters In a marble palace very close to the White House. This Pan-Amarican Union, which was formerly the International Bureau of American Republics, is supported through joint contributions, each nation paying its share of the annual budget in the proportion its popula- tion bears to the total population of all the republics. The general control of the union's activities is in a board made up of the diplomatic representa- tives in Washington of the various republics and the Secretary of State of the United States. This board Assigned to Bolling Field. Second Lieut. Joe R. Sherr, U. Signal Corps, in the Hawaiian mili- Umbrellas are provided by a Port- | tary department has been ordered to land, Ore. theater for patrons wait- collection of maps. The union also ing in line for tickets. possesses a collection of more than 1910, its name was changed from the International Bureau of American this city for duty at the air station elects a director general and an as- ' at Bolling field. sistant director. StationPL. Suppose you were told that you could buy the furniture or rugs you have in mind buying at prices even lower than before the war! Would you believe the man who told you that? Hardly. However, there is a way of doing it that amounts to practically the same thing. It is to turn in, as part payment on your new, some old or used furniture pieces that you have no further use for. First, you come to the store, look through our stocks and see if we have the new furniture piece or pieces, or the new rugs, that you have in mind buying. At the same time see if our price is satisfactory to you. If you find what you want here (and most folks do) then tell us what used pieces you wish to trade in as part payment on the new. For the benefit of those who do not already know, we wish to say that we rep: .und refinish.this used furniture and then place on sale in our Exchange Department (entlr.ely separate from new stocks), where it is bought by people who are glad to get it at the price. Your old furniture may be applied on your first payment—should you wish to purchase on our montl Above we 01l Cook Stoves Equipped with powerful heat generating burners that mix air and oil into gas. Your choice of 2, 3, 4 and 5 burners; sizes with or without high shelf. Your old stove ac- cepted as part payment, $1 7 85 . 2-burner stoves with Bigh . shelt ...00% > Terms $1 Weekly Modernize Your Living’ Room--Save Rent with parlor furniture that does not please you when you can No need to “get along” trade it in as part payment fixtures or without. 3-piece Kroehler Bed Daven- port Suite with mahogany fin- ished frames; upholstered in Blue Velour, ; 597.50 on a new living room suite at Phillip Levy’s. Fitted with bed piece Overstuffed Velour Kroehler Davenport Bed Suite; upholstered in $189.50 Perfod Design Kroehler Bed Davenette Suite with mahogany finished frames; upholstered in Baker's Velour, $l 19.50 Sold on Liberal Monthly Terms of $1. Come in and select models priced as $1 Brown Velour, special at. Trade In Your Old Chairs Windsor Chairs ad & touch of fnement to your ome at _small cost. Mahogany finished ~ Windsor Gas Ranges - All sizes equipped with zuaranteed rustproof ovens. Your old stove accepted as part payment; 4-burner Gas Ranges with elevated oven, priced as $29.50 : Terms $1 Week $1 DELIVERS ANY CONGOLEUM RUG 650 Congoleum Square in kitchen @5 4q $9.95 9x12 Congoleum Art Square $16.40 Mothproof Cedar hests If you have an old piece of furniture to trade in you can make a double saving if you buy at these sale prices: $12.00 Chests ...... ..$8.75 $17.50 Chests $12.50 $23.00 Chests ....$1875 $25.00 Chests c....$1985 New Bedroom Suites for Old At The Phillip Levy Store, 735 7th St., yow can turn in your old-fashioned bedroom suite on a New Period Design Chamber Suite. Full Vanity, Chiffo- rette, Bow-end Bed, Dresser in Walnut Veneer. Now............. 3 . delivered for only $1. Price. 9x10.6 Gold Seal and Neponset Bordered Rugs, for the living 9x12 Neponset and Gold Seal Rugs, new pattern: for and dining room. de in Your Old Table Replace your old parlor stand or oak library table with a modern brown ma- hogany gate-leg table. $16 75 . Prices start at Easy Terms Baronial Brown Reed Fiber 3 Trade in Your Old Dining Suite on a New One Rocker with roll arms and backs; The popular American walnut is fast replacing the mahogany and oak dining suites now sold on easy terms, $7.95 in many homes. A 10-piece.American Walnut Queen Anne Period $1 79 50 e for only cu Dining Suite with genuine leather seat chairs. Now Phillip Levy & Co., 735 7th St. N.W. such as are traded in almost cve up-to-date furniturc. ask about this plan. PHILLIP LEVY & CO. yours. spring seats.... METCALF TAKES CHARGE AT THE PENSION OFFICE New Commissioner Will Stay Not More Than 90 Days, He Declares. Wilder S. Metcalf, the new Commis- sioner of Pensions, took over the reins of office yesterday, succeeding Wash- ington Gardner, who resigned the post on March 4. Mr. Metcalf, who was appointed the President from Lawrence, Kans., and was confirmed by the Senate on March 2, visited the Pension Office, in company with Acting Secretary of the Interfor Finney, for a few minutes this morning and then left for e »ffice of Senator Curtis of Kansas. He was to take over administration of the Pension Office this afternaen The new Pension Commissioyer iterated his intention not 1o rer at the post for which he was appr ed. He will stay in Washington (of a period ranging from 30 tg 90, day Interior Department. officials <aid, H; was sworn into office as Pension 1oms missioner before he left Kausas g few days ago. He has been in th{ farm loan bus 1 Lawrence by nte Miss Annette Ashbury, recentls mitted to mem ip by the Bi Society of Engineers, Is the first o her sex to be so honored ad b ish picture ¢ few pieces of yurs 2y o) Drop in tan 735 7th St. $5 Allowed for Your Old Worn Out Refrigerator Buying nationally erators for 22 stores brings you money saving prices on this product. small sizes—may now be had for a first payment advertised Gibson Refrig- All Styles—in large or tomorrow Top-icer orpiee $11.75 Delivers Your Trade in Your Old Rockers You can replace rockers with one of solid mahogany rockers pictured Row o 610 50 now offer your the cane above, for only. Refurnish With Reed Furniture 1i you now have a parlor suite or reed furniture that you wish to replace you can trade it in on a new Reed Fiber Suite at Phillip Levy's. -piece Reed Fiber Suite with cretonne loose shions over $39.50