Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 16

16 SALE OF “POPPIES" OPENS TOMORROW Legion Auxiliary to Have 200 in Business Section o Sell Memorial Flowers. The “Flanders field poppy” sale will begin tomorrow when 200 members of the District American Legion Aux- iliary will take their places in the downtown business sections, offering the memorial flower to Washing- tonfans THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO AID DRIVE FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS SENORITY HONDRS TOGEN.H L ABBT Gallant Civil War Veteran Is Oldest Living Officer of Army. In preparing a story yesterday of the Ninety-third birthday anniver- sary of Brig. Gen. David S. Gordon, uU. s retired, The Star was ad- vised, and so stated, that this ven- erable soldier is the oldest living Army officer, but it appears that Brig. Gen. Henry Larcom Abbot of Cambridge, Mass., has a prior claim not only to that honor, but to being the United States Military Academy in 1850 when Gen. Robert E. Lee was in command there, and was gradu- ated four years later, the second high man in his class. Custis Lee stood highest. Cited for Bravery. He was breveted second lieutenant, topographical engineers, July 1, 1854, and was commissioned a second lieu- tenant October 2, 1855. He pro- moted to first lieutenant in 1857, to captain in 1862, to colonel of the st Connecticut Artillery during _the Civil War and was honorably mus- tered out of the artillery in '§6 after being cited for numerous acts of bravery. He was wounded at the Battle of Bull Run. At the close of the war he became a major of engineers, was advanced to lieutenant - colonel in 1880, to colonel in 1886 and was retired with the rank of brigadier general in 1904. Gen. Abbot. designed the system of submarine defense adopted by this Government, and also # system of mortar batteries. He has held many notable offices with Government en- MAY 24, 1925—PART T. June 1. No official statement rcgurd-l ing the Argemtine transaction was forthcoming from J. P. Morgan & Company today, but it is expected that plans for the offering will be an- nounced next week. ARGENTINA ACCEPTS MORGAN LOAN OFFER Financial Circles See Effort to Con- solidate Nation’s Short- Term Bonds. MUTUE[. MEN ASK RAISE. Race Track Workers Threaten to Strike. PARIS, May 23 (#)—The employes of the pari-mutuel booths. at the metropolitan race tracks threaten to strike unless their sala.fes are raised 50 per cent. Th sert they now are handling 50 per cent more money Paris By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 23.—Argentina's establishment of new banking connec-! ns indicated in the government ptance of the offer of J: P. Mor- gan & Company and the National City Company to float a $45,000,000. refund- ing_loan, created widespread interest | in financial eircles here today b Most of the Argentine nation’s re-| cent financing-has taken the form of | the m short-term motes, three of which ma-|ing Sunday ture this year—$10,000,000 in June,|Prince of W 20,000,000 in August and $5,000,000 | Without bettin while their increased. salaries have not the Longchamps meet- »on, featuring the stakes, may be it is understood, will be met with - demands_are met in | funds from the new long-term loan, late in'the Fall. All these maturitics, iy Canada Bank Merger 0. K.'d. | Lord Ypre: in bets at the tracks than before the ' LAST SARGENT WORKS TO BE SOLD JULY 24 Pictures Left in Studio of Famous Artist to Be Disposed of in London. By Cable to The Star and New York World. LONDON, May -An important sale of pictures left in the studio of the late John £, rgent when he died will take place at Christ; was announced hete tod: clude portrait sketche Earl Haig, Lord Allenby and other soldiers made for z group ca of the War,’' rich now tional Portrait Galler 'he sale, which wi water-color painted & ntings by d those in y man and memorial flower norial day. be disposed of by were made by dis- Kansas City. Two ers have been made by dis in hospitals in 2 Idaho, Kansas, ) Oklahoma, Oregon, nd Wisconsin, under » Legton Auxiliary quarters cent of the amount de- 1 the sale will go to welfare needy ex-service men and the remaining 10 per cent will go > children’s billet at Otter Lake, charge predict woman will we abled men California, Mis . Virgini the guldance national h Killeen unit, Walker of the George W Mrs. Paul Twyman unit; Mrs. R Robley ioodloe. 0 Post poppy sale will close Friday EARL OF YPRES RITES WILL BE HELD TUESDAY Ashes of Former Marshal French to Be Sent to Ripple Vale, Birthplace. By the Associated Press LONDON ay will be held minster Tuesc fternoon for the E: B r Fiel M. i The body of the di roldier, who died yesterda: vill be conveyed Mo ‘astle to Golders G a Lond, suburb, for cremation. The ashes wil remain Monday night in the chapel of rish Guards at Wellington Bar- London, and after the services at Westminster Abbey Tuesday will be sent to Ripple Vale, in Kent, the field marshal’s birthplace, for private interment. B Founded 1857 at Deal, from Deal inguished | 1.. E. Eliff, commander of Federal Post, No. 824, of the Veterans of For- eign Wars, pinning a Buddy poppy on the_lapel of the coat of Secretary Jar- dine at the Department of Agriculture. These poppies were made by dis- abled vets and will be sold a few d prior to De tion day for their benefit. FINDS NEW AUTO FUEL. | DENIES “BEER TRAIN.” Chemist Uses Molasses as Basis for | B. & 0. Official Explains Special to Substitute. Detroit on June 6. 1 to The Star. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 23 (P.—A | telegram denving that the Baltimore |and Ohio Railroad contemplated run- ning a special “beer” train to Detroit, Mich., from Louisville June 8, was re- ved today from W. Squiggins, general passenger azent for the Baltl- a Oh Cincinnati inference” that a special train 0it on that date, permitting | exc nists to spend the day there, |and burns with no solid product of | connected with a beer combustion,” Mr. Freeland said s “absolutely false,” the “A fuel mixture from molasses can | telegram id be successfully used in gasoline en-| Representatives of the railroad said gines, giving great power, feed and|that a special train would run, flexibility, combined with smoothness said there was no special o of operation and ease in starting.” for it. —Molasses as otor fuel and an alcohol-ether product to displace gaso. line were reported today by E. C. Free land, chemical engineer, to the Amer- ican Chemical Society. ther is very volatile, has a high ire and an extremely wide losive mixture with air a base for a new vapor |range of ex E. F. DROOP & SONS CO., 1300 G Street Washington's Oldest and Leading Music ‘House / ConstrucTive THouGHT E. H. 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