Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1925, Page 22

"EDERATION IDEA GAINING INIPETUS Montgomery County Citizens to Effect Organization on Thursday Night. 1 sections of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1925.. Y. M. C. A. WORKERS |St. Louis to New York Death Race Won; Special Covers Route in 20-Hour Run MAKE FLYING START Total of $4,136 Raised Yesterday. $843 Ahead of First Day Lact Year. Members of the Y. M. C. A’s cam- paign team, out to raise $45,000 to balance the organization’s budget for the current al year, were hoping to equal yesterday's total of $4,136 before tonight and to keep each day By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 17.—After a race with death in a special train, for which freight and passenger trains were shunted to sidings, Gug Wag- goner, wealthy ofl operator of Fort Worth, Tex., was at the bedside of his dying sister last night. The racing special train covered the 1,051 miles between St. Louis and New York in three hours less than the scheduled time of 23 hours of the fast- est of the expresses on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad. \] traffic policeman on the running board to clear the way completed arrange- ments and Waggoner sped to the bedside of his sister in record time. The trip cost him more than $10,000, $5.000 of which went to the train crew, Mr. Wagggoner having promised them that sum If they made the run in 20 hours or less. When he climbed from his coach here and started for the limousiné he ck over his shoulder to the fou win, boys. You are won- WILL STIR SENTIMENT FOR NEGRO MEMORIAL |, Mass Meeting to Be Held Tonight | in Interests of Move to Com- memorate Valor. A mass meeting to create suntiment favorable to the passage by Congress of a bill to commemorate the deeds and valor of negro soldiers and sailors be held tonight by the National Me- morial Assotlation at the John Wes- E. Zion Church, Hines, director of the United States Veterans' Bureau; Representative Hamilton Fish New York, and Rev. Charles ¥ art, pastor of Metropolitan A Church, are scheduled to sp Hampton Institute quartet wil At the session of Cong 3 resentative William R. Wood of In- f | tion, - | erect . [ington to the memory of negro sol- e | diers diana, at the request of the National Memorial Association, introduced a House joint resolution asking the Gov- ernment to create a commission to procure and determine upon a locs plans and designs for and a memorial building in Was and sailors who served in all the wars of the republi S. C. Smith, secretary of the asso- clation, states that Me. Wood and other supporters of the movement in Congress will have the measure taken up for action in the coming ses sion. A modern soda fountain n plac of the bar, which has from ships flying t will be a feature of a m steamship now building at Phil phia. o — e expected to sht at 8 o’clock hool- for the pur-| \ o the Mont- : Federgtion. s to be formed for | € pr ive County into utiful residential nal Cay and throush which enship of the 1inst efforts was belt line Mrs. James A. Gillmore, the sister, suffered a relapse Thursday from an old {llness. Three physiclans and four attending nurses decided that her brother should be called from Fort Worth. He missed connections at St. Louis and ordered the special. News of the special was flashed ahead and all other traffic was side- tracked. Engines were changed at Pittsburgh and once more Waggoner was off over the mountainous route between Pittsburgh and Altoona. He accomplished the 113 miles in 2 hours 13 minutes and equaled the record of the distance, which has long been a boast of the Pennsylvania. A limousine waiting here with a of the present campaign ahead in funds collected the corresponding 5 Yesterday's col- sent the with renewed It was stated at the Y. M A. today that reports from the w s indicate that Washington is responding well to the Y. M. C. A.'s plea for a_contribution of 17% per cent toward the total annual expenses of running the Y. M. C. A. While another luncheon was being held at the Cit b today, at which team work making their re- ports, interest among the workers was centered on the records made by the teams, each of which is competing in a race for the largest collecttions during the week. *| Yesterday's results showed Team No. 7, headed by Charles W. Hoover, leading with a collection of $723, while Team No. 1, captained by M. O. Chance, who won the race last was trailing second with $581 The results reported by rer teams were as follows: N $843, and forward spirit ‘Why waste time and effort on parking an automobile? The Green strect cars . the solve the problem for you. Representation Desired. nization was to have been nned for last Wife Asks Maintenance. Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds in a peti- tion for maintenance filed yvesterday in the District Supreme Court says her husband deserted her last month, re- marking “I am leaving you, catch me if you can.” They were married at Alexandria, Va., September 10 last. Ai:orney Dora Palkin appears for the | wife. | n the ]mhmw\r\ in cha esented, 2 he inclement e of them re that every a voice in the repre- 2d off at *The Capital Traction Company SRRttt Attt R R At th Rt th A thththtRths Al have \lx\rl\n . 10, Dr. W. $150; Team No. 11, John N. I, captain, $350, and a spe- 1, names of whose members have not been made public, $500. Team No. 3 is made up of men in | the Y. M. C. A. who are soliciting con- tributions from residents of the Y. AL C. 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