Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1926, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOX D. U, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1928. - BYRD URGES WIDE CHANGES INLAW Governor Would Abolish Many Boards and Enlarge Executive’s Powers. By the Aseociated Press. RICHMON inture his in ele tenant general. Otl ay i tion educa would service be g Constitutiona Constitutional to make tl axecutive h urged, the & he did out that nend these to be- offic administration. erendum on in 1928, a pre to assure When « ne governor called an the Us the pow . and ¥ euard power in not ir Highway Departm Hig ¥ way De e head tly re- Iministra- 1t Grouping of Boards arry gh in vernor to s from funds, ex- automobile and food de- duties to the r tomobiles pur- 30 days befo A State law fixing the fiscal vear the same for all counties and cities. The fssuance of no honds by city 27222770 o T 2l L T L 2 072 GOING OUT OF AUCTION SALE Entire Stock of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry Silverware, Novelties, Etc. At Public Auction Sales Daily 10:30 to 6 P.M. Robert E. Jones & Co. Watches—Diamonds—Jewelry 610 Ninth St. N.W. Opposite U. 8. Patent Office LIVING IN A FOOL’S PARADISE. BOUGHT A MEW CAR , AL . Y OTTA SEE T, SOME BUS AN ECLIPSE E\GHIT How 5 AT N2 A NMET F G, 278,500 Aty 2 *i;721.504 FOR A BAR SAVING OF T 5 AN #8,000 CAR Art :NASIT TILL? ELL WA WHAT | PAID FOR \T! A FRIEMD FIXED |T5 “OR ME . HE Kmow. ;3& DC 1 T FIRM N A\ VT SORE FPAYS O HAvE Y- A FRIEND AT COURT T Copr. 1926 (N. Y. World) Press Pub. Ca onNLY — €5,1 S'VOSE So, - PAID ABOUT ¥2,000 T00 MUCH. ( KJ»\HLV EVERY DEALER N Tow™ WoLD T HAVE SOLD YOU THAT - I ‘CAR. FOR #4,200. ow A MAN 1 o N\ “ A / W / oy cede?/ or county except by a direct vote of the qualified voters of that locality. Regular audits by the State account- ant with publicity given within 30 5| days after any shortage in the ac | counts of local officers. Transfer of the powers of regulating c from the Motor Vehicle Depart- to the State Highway Commis- Automobile Licenses. Issuance of automobile licenses by budget partment weing of ail f agricul- sxclusive con- | Iytechnic Insti v-enforcing duties of under the Depart- departme went of Agriculture. Abolition of State Crop Pest nission « transfer of its | to the Dey of ent Agrl- stock sanitary | of its duties | Agriculture. the V agricul- | mental station and trans- of dutles to Blacksburg. | Atolition of the Virginia truck ex- | and transfer of its | to Blacksburg. | Abolition of the commissioner of hosp Equalization of the State's tax bur- dens, rellef to farmers, landowners e earners and encouragement J.mr! to industry as an incentive for devel- opment constituted the keynote of the message yesterday. governor’ | . |BREAKS TRAIN RECORDS TO BABY SON’S BEDSIDE | Believing Injuries Dangerous, Fa- | ther Arrives on Special to Find | Report Exaggerated. | By the Assoctated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., February 3.—Re- d that his little son had eriously injured in an automo- ‘ e accident, Col. D. Woodward of Hendersonville, N. C. chartered a | special train, arriving here early to- | day. He found the son, Billy, 2, suf- fering only from minor cuts received broke at the dinner | 1 ¥ s he from \utomobiles also aided in the dash, ord time being made from Hen- | ders Greenville, S. C., where | the tr from | of the traln the fastest | run ever made on a railway in the | South. Al southbound trafic was | clezred for the special. BUSINESS LEASE EXPIRES in each county | vhich | | DEMANDS JURY TRIAL. | lauffeus: Deales Charge of Drjv-| ing While Drunk. a ENGINEER BLAMED FOR JERSEY WRECK ° But Automatic Control Device ‘Would Have Averted Disaster, 1. C. C. Says. Munf i th office ing Ghee, colored of Engineman the indl signals, which wer ed by fog. w ninth dent on the P in which near M { to have been Junction, N. November 12 tree at Fifth Nine passen; wmd one Pullman | porter were killed in the rear-end col Iision, while i The police additional a d leav- ons were injured. nced by the I mmerce Commission toda «d from a joint inquiry by the ssion with the Public Utilities Commission of New Jersey. A con- tributing cause to the accident was the faflure of Flagman Cunningham to place torpedoes on the track rail “as required by the rules.” “This aceident,” the commission said, ain calls attention to the iecessity for the use of an automatic train control device which will inter- vene to stop a train when an engine- man, for any reason, disregards the top indicatlon of an automatic block signal. Had an adequate automatic traln control device been in use at this point this accident would have been averted.” Train No. 6, driven by Engineman Carroll, several minutes late, ploughed into the rear end of train No. 156 at a speed estimated to have been be- PEERLESS’ New Models at The Auto Show —By WEBSTER. |EDSON IS NAMED HEAD Practically every day distress mes- sages were picked up from some ves- sel, but all were out of the Andania’s direct path or other ships were re- ported standing by. The log for last Friday, apparently 11"’ the worst day of the passage, read: “A whole 1 with a tremendous followi Will Serve as Chairman of Com- chairman of a citizens' committee of Memorial Hospital drive for $325,000. as the wives of Presidents since the days of the founding of Sibley have The hospital w: School, which was named for Presi dent Hayes' wife. | At the luncheon plans will be dis- cussed for the campaign to he con since the inception of the hospital 32 speak ! . CHARLESTONERS GO OUT. The two g ing from midnight until shortly be - @ IR i 5 @ E DZ=TIOOR OF HOSPITAL DRIVE mittee Which Sponsors Luncheon in Interest of Sibley. John Joy Edson today was named 100, which will hold a luncheon meet- ing in the New Willard Hotel at noon Friday in the interests of the Sibley Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson have been invited, taken an interest in the institution. in_outgrowth of the res National Training Luey Webb ducted here M will be used 1o ¢ nd equip a maternity hospital of 102 beds. When completed Sibley Hospital will have one of the largest maternity hospitals in the This is the first tme The fund vears ago that it has planned & public appeal. Andrew . Phelps, general chair- man of the campagn organization, and field secretary of the United States Chamber of Commerce, will be among the speakes Mrs. William F. MeDowell and Mr. dson are also to Succumb to Exhaustion During h Long-Distance Marathon. 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