Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENIXNG STAR. WASIIINGTON, D. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 1925, CITY'S LAST had driven the HORSE-DRAWN MAII n in the Woodridg wil but at noon vesterday Postmaster Mooney (left) WAGON GOES OUT OF SERVICE. distriet for formally in<talled a truck. Mr. C P e sin 2, serving the Woodridge route for the past 25 ve. v S. Crawford (right) new delivery wford is 63 years old, and has been in the employ of the City - Washington Star Photo I am Th voung lady, about to make an after- r speech. is already giving omise of oratorical ability. Photo- graph taken in England Wide World Photo “Unaccustomed THE POSTMASTER GENERAL MAKES A PLEA. He acks that Christ- mas packages | cly. thereby avoiding a mail jam around the 25th of December. And Postmaster General New takes a hand himself in the distribution of mail at the City t Office. Copyright by P. & A. Photos WILBUR REJECTS ", Mark Sgniv o ‘Teocarms Pac ALIFORNIA POST e . maile nature of King has hamberlain the can hestow — Kn Noble Order of th time distinetion vas assumed he of the G, very hig ry a title. the h mark O, arno treatles | iy on Austen decoration | od the ,‘V'Vh it is conferred h ilences Resignation Rumors by Refusing to Return to Former Office. ia { embraces knighthood, the use of K con. | prefix “sir” officially declared n the honor | be inaccurate in the case of honorary vil Division, | knights, when the accolade has ish Empire 1 onferred and no s nnounced that < been granted perr would he decorated < appellation the same to f the Order of t¥ When it was *hamberlain ing the RASH AT CROSSING MESSAGE IS SENT IS FATALTO NNE, - ANTHRACITE N of chief justice | my of the silenced pe tended ned ntment 1stice of ne Court o rnia, the pos re pointed b ed Edwir In his t Wilhy o Der of the Tenth Member of Party, a:LocaI Coal Dealers Want No Child, Is Badly Hurt When | ‘““Premature, Uneconomic™ Train Hits Auto. ’ Strike Settlement. | Louis and No. Mem obile in which | I must honor ender me Present Justice to Resign.” stic to resign said he e is present - Myers Mr. W ived a let vhict ¥ the Associated Press BLYTHEVILLE, Ar Nine persons Notice that there is no need for “a premature settlement” of the anthra that be chief k.. December the appe ne wonld were killed and cite coal strike and “local con will substantial price reductions dispatched fto Samuel D. hairman, Anthracite Operators’ Con were riding at | ference, in Philadelphia by Le Roy O. vesterday | King. president of the Washington All of the dead and the injured, a | Coal Merchants'. Board of Trade. Thilil. were members of the families President Kin today made public of Clem Oxford and his brother, | the following telezsram and letter of lames Oxford, farmers | confirmation which mak: All of the dead—Clem Oxford, tions of the local nization was driving the car, and his four|on this subject hildren. and Lawrence Oxford, his i ind twe children were killed | nstantly The onl ant of the ‘T'he text of the telegram follows car who escaped death, a child of “onsideration of published reports Lawrence Oxford, was hrought to a|of proposed settlement of anthr: here. Physicians stated he oversy convinces us the necessity ! proba will recover. does not exist for a premature settle Th 1ccident ocenrred at Archillan, | ment. Local consumers will only be 1l tion. which is away from the | satistied with agreement embodying main highway and at a point where | substantial price reduc s. Able to side road crosses the railroad | take od emergency of con track a road leading to a planta- | sumer. We stand for settlement tion settlement based on true economics, THE COAL MERCHA OFF TRADE, LIEROY President The letter in confirmation sent Mr. Warriner read “Dear sir: Confirming our day let ter to you of today. of which a copy is inclosed herewith We have taken this action as in the best interest of the public anthracite. Return to Anthracite. “While we have done everything to aid the public in the use of substitutes with as little inconvenience as possible, still we feel that there will be an immediate general return to anthra cite upon resumption of shipments. A price reduction which the publ feels is its due will be a further in- ducement afd a most effective check ment sk seriously injured when St satisfied with has been Warriner, sumers only ept he had con an Francisco passenger train iited efore reaching his | 801, bound struck the ten crossing near here from St. Louis to phis an autor persons . ve heen ci Secretary s 1 ance t kn cabin who o plain Text of Message. Likes Naval Post. occn Deshite 1 ther numer hospital co s gradu apl ess open e Cs 1 hold him here I 1 ' BOARD 0. KINC PLAN BUSINESS TRAINING. {UGENT NOW CHAIRMAN. Heads Trade Commission. Democrat | fiiso Program for Public School Pupils | Federal Under Consideration. A plan to give District public school | pupils more definite training for busi ness life was considered at a confer- ence yesterday afternoon between | school ~ authorities and the public | school committee of the Merchants | and Manufacturers’ Association, com- | posed of Philip Ki Harold H. Levi orge D. Halsey, John A. Eckert and Charles 1. Columbus. Ving | Employment of high been |in department and other stores after ton {<chool hours and on Saturdays is the re- | first step In the proposed plan. While | ns dissents | being paid for their work the pupils | not only against a continuance of the ind opinions of | also would receive credit from school | use of substitutes, but of a change e divialonihas el iuthoibies over to oil. Assuring you of our The practical salesmanship course | hearty co-operation, we are, may be introduced soon after the| ‘Very truly yours. Christmas holidays and likely will be “THE COAL MERCHANTS' followed by others In non-selling bus- BOARD OF TRADE. iness occupations. “By LE ROY 0. KING, President.” John came Democrs of Tdaho Federal 1de Cc for one vear \der the rule providing for the rota »n of the chairmanship among com iie succeeded W. Van Fleet, ission membe minissioner as V21 appointed to fte ited States Senate with missioner Hu Democrat, ¢ in school pupils | ified Conr s veu v vige hajority beommission ently presented - and Dem: 2 sommission v nn additional uty of presiding at meetir orado, chairmanship hevond powers the posi- | and the ultimate good to | ANYWAY. ONE TEAM HAD captain of th 1. captain of the Wellesley. The Irish women def “ACE" the gr The where the hody was PAKES PLACE t German fiyer of tb viater. upon whose head aried until i Over Details, Will Discuss l Problem Thursday. | Officials of the Publlec { Commission are turning over in their |‘m:m]\ today the question of what the next move should be in their efforts to bring an early consolidation of ut the stre 1y lines: The commission’s first move of | ask- ing the companies fo | to what progress they have m | tween themselves toward a vol | merger brought the tement both systems vesterday that while conferences have been held, it would be premature and detrimental to pre- dict the outcome at this time. The commission will take up the | problem of merger again at a meeting Thursday afternoon, but it was prepared today to intimate what step it will take next le be- ntary st from hot Commission States Purpose. When the letter | panies asking them wha pre | they have made since Con the voluntary merger t at the last session, the commission stated it de- sired this information in order to de- cide whether further legislation should he sought ‘om the new Congress, While officials of the commission | were non-committal today, the draft {ing of further legislation designed to rccomplish merger was regarded as a more likely move on the part of the commission as a result of the correspondence with the companies. | Cited. | The law passed at the last session | autherized the companies to work out ‘l plan of voluntary merge atified by Congress be | ried out. There have | e i whs sent the c Law's Provision onsidered in Cong in 1 irs designed to induce mer; imposing heavier taxation on | companies until a consolidation is ef fected. The commission has not acted what form of legislation it will consider for the coming session | the event it should decided to go | beyond the voluntard merger act of | the last session POLICE GUAR.D SHOPPERS. | Special Squad of 23 Out to Battle Pickpockets. | Twenty slenths, pick of the precinct oss cent by .| squads, and three policewomen, com- prising the squad detailed to look | after shoplifters and other thieves in | the stores during the Christmas holi- | day shopping season, went on today umder the direction of Detecti Edward .J. Kelly, who has had charge | of similar squads the past few years. | The operatives were much in evi- | dence in the department and other | stores today. It is the intention of | the police to arrest all persbn ca stealing. Children offenders unde vears will be taken to Juvenile Court, while older ones will be given their TO Irish women's hockey 1e all-Amer in | duty | OF GERMANY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER World War, lying in state at Gn a price was set during the war, was brought down near Utilities | | 1925, information as | < Iria Cummins (left), m, & hands with Miss Anne team, after the recent game at Americans by a score of 2 to | LOSE, The .. STREET RAILWAY NAVY OFFICER WINS MERGER LAGGING ~ AWARD OF HONOR "o | Utilities Board, Pondering|Lieut. Comdr. Wilson Sub-| mits Best Paper to Oil and Gas Symposium. Lieut. Comdr. E. E. Wilson. chief )f the engine section of the Bureau »f Aeronantics here, the best cont National Ofl to the s sympostum of 1 today fn New sessions of the ng of the of Mechanical En. for bution a it was announc York at the opening forty-sixth annual Amer meeti | zinee; | velopme: ess passed | | on the | in- | Comdr. Wilson's paper was selected om hundreds contributed by engi neers, chemists, physicists, industrial ists and other technical men. Its subject w Power Plants for U. S Navy Aircraft.” Extract From Paper. We need not feel that we have ap ached the limits in aircraft en declared Comdr. Wilson in his ““Any one in this stage of de. who for a moment is in feel satisfied with what we for a sever pr zines, paper. clined to have, is just about ready jolt “In this game, we try to keep our we are standing position is some- ground, but quicksand, what unstable “The history of alrcraft engine de velopment i written in the words ‘pounds per horsepower.’ Obviously, this ratio must he kept at a minimum, d this result can be attained by de easing welzht and increasing power. Specific Weight Reflected Back. “The specific weight is reflected into the gross weight of the airplane. The heavier the engine for given power, the greater the wing area nec- essary to support it. “Larger wing area results in greater ght of the structure, which, in urn, requires more power to attain he given performance.” Development of new types of engines will not take place so rapidly in the future as in the past, Comdr. Wilson predicted, There are three stages of develop ment—the experimental, the flight testing and the production stage.” he said. *“We generally contract for an experimental model in numbers of three to five. These engines are thor- oughly tested on the block with a view to getting all the ‘bugs’ out of them. AUTO VICTIM IDENTIFIED. of the man seriously in- motor vehicle in Maryland inday morning and taken to Casu- alty Hospital was established at the hospital late yesterd: He is Col. William H. Walker, 70 years old, a former city editor of the Washington Post. He was injured on the road not r from his home in Maryland Park and was unconscious when taken to the hospital. It was reported at the hospital this afternoon that practically no hope for his recovery is enter- talned. since our rem: KNire won the award ||l 'TIS A GRAND LIFE THIS BE] viets at San Quentin Pricon, California. is one hig festivity ners of varoius contests, ete, of Baron in Berlin, von Richtofen, before the burial. Amiens. in France, ING INCARCERATED AND ALIL Here we have the award being made 1o the winner of the pic-eating contest ALEXANDR A LYING Alexandra at the Sandri QUEEN Queen membe the hody to Westminster. American Artistry in Lace on Exhibit Denotes Triumph of hread rayon domesti roughne en and s centuries w Mil patte teproc nuf he ds st which Ameri e fereign industry ions ¢ s are ictions of old tured hnndreds of rs ago laboriously and by hand, fn the mon- asteries of Europe, are shown with lighting effects which give them new brilli For ung models show will be consi: latest in gowns of ali kinds in which we is a chief component, while er models will specialize show off the styles in lingerie. he official program’ features the fol lowing exhibits farious laces, during the ntly exhibiting the an | vaded what | on display. | New World Industry it \fte the that ind lected In several live how One them mode cording to author with the show. fashion's ace an assured place in the Iy beca of the - str well m the | lends itself flowing line an lace makers claim the do mestic product to be entirel lto the imported THAT. a fine dinner, N ham Chapel. of the royal family attended the service prior to the removal of CIRL 18, AWARDED - NATIONAL HONCRS ed From 600,000 in Farm Club Contest. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, Frances Smith girl of Goary County picked as the farm youth displayed the greatest qualities of leadership in home, club and com- munity life. She was selected from mong 600,000 farm United States. Miss silver loving cup at a dinner tonight which will be attended by 1,200 bovs and girls, delegates to the fourth an nual Congress of Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work, in Pittsburgh, in connection with the International Live Stock Jix- position. The cup, known us the Moses leadership cup, will belong to cmanently. Since Frances Smith became a_club member, seven years ago, the products of her hoe and needle have taken 102 first prizes and have placed 278 times, in addition to $478.25 in premium awards, all at county, state and na- tional farmers’ fairs,” said G. L. Noble, executive secretary of the Na- tional Committee on Boys' and Girls' Club work. “A profit of $2,300 has come to her by the sale of produce she raised herself. “She is about to enter Oklahoma A. & M. College on a scholarship awarded for allaround ability. She has been the real leader of her local club for years, and due to her leader- ship her club has won wide recog- nition as one of the best in the December 1 18-year-old high school Okla., has bee: ho in 19 Nearly 3,000 tons of cigarette papers are used in Brazil each year. Miss children of the | mith will be awarded a huge | PROMIBITION PARTY SELECTS CHAIRMAN Next Campaign—Plan War Upon “Wet™ Senators. | Oklahoma Schoolgirl Select- heads in the air and our feet on the | Slecting D. Leigh York chairman | Hutchins of Los man, the Natio mittee, tel e wet” Colvin of New Mrs, M Angeles vice chair al Prohibition at the Raleigh Ho. new and Len Com in session formulated a directed at defeat ndidates at the tion, including Senator Wadsworth of New York and Senator Shortridg of California, and laid plans for “political _organization to place President in the White House.' Mr. Col who succeeded Dr. B. P, Pugh of Harrisbure, 1 chairman of the commi tte hoth major political parties as “dom linated by the liqu power,” and clared the prohibition party would | stand on a political philosophy in jcluding not only prohibition, lean government, cl o greater America, ¢ {ing to perform its throughout the world A resolution was unanimously adopted authorizing a protest from the committee to Secretary of State Kellogg against the granting of pass ports to foreign delegates to a gath ering here in Washington January 16, | under the auspices of the “wets.” Upshaw Raps City Machines. | Representative Upshaw, Democrat. |of Georgia, appearing at the close of the morning session. predicted, as “friend of democracy.” that his party “would never see the White House again if they continue to surrender to the so-called leadership of foreign ized, metropolitan cities of America.” today cam of certain next elec pable and will- attacked | ) responsibilities Thanksgiving day f the athletic n meet. prizes for win STATE The where Dow and casket of the Kin POPE MAY LEAVE VATICANNEXT YEAR Some Credence Given Report He Will Go to Assisi for Franciscan Fete. equal | appearing on ti It rtended rticipa ons het ind the pre | friendly reln swernmen intliest After pa prossing onging nelnding At Assici more than lege. The Franciseans the holy see, psizad restitut for the se thelr gre ation. in whic he s 14 Jaw whict monastery | e death of t State College Building. examined diftie Mussolini_prsonal un. The cl 1 in finding another | wvailable at Assisi and the e | did not wish to have the coll ferred elsewhe the reached to build a new My e tran: was but | expense of more than 3,000,000 live to n politics and the balance lire to be see and the Fran the Itallan government, [of the total of 5,000,000 borne by the holy ciscan order. It would constitute so radical | parture trom tradition, however despite the high -authority | for it, there are not lacking t miliar h Vatican traditions cannot bring themselves to the holy father will actually such a departure. { de that claimed who make h | University Business Administration ek ol. |~ Ouucer | Burnit, | Miss o1 | Olive E. Geiger, secretary, and Miss Kate P. Johnson, treasurer, of the Association are: Mi