Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1926, Page 3

PUBLES-OWNED GAS [ s o ] COMPANY 15 JRGED Senator Howell Predicts New Valuation Will Reach $30.000.000. the request of the| Light C and 1 will be nator Howell urzed consideration of establ auunicipally company the District in_an Tub of Mas teenth stree HARRIS l{--' ulation Failure. v that he did wnership of pub- but only as a Howell MIGUEL C. TOCORN! Former Chilean be the public o as an end n end out that re lities has prove > action and people the value of po- competition, he said, and “in 1y owned ¢ompet- means of pro- bassador to the United States. ill succeed Bel- tran Mathieu, ho resigned to be- foreign minister. S Torcor- 1t present in the U with the ut connection COLORED MAN SLAIN, WOMAN IS HELD | Shooting Sald to Have Occurred During Card Game—Victim De- clared to Have Threatened. realize ‘this Howell pointed out as a| with which, | cing wtor «d example the suc said, public have been in_ On through the publicly-owned competitors. . aid, “is one of the < in the 4 model Washing unple of how an." s ridiculed the current - mere substitution m would solve 1 power. ectric hibitive, he | v distribution. | Bessie Ale: his audience to fight the ¢ | otd, was ar power p until it can { Ginness and Precinct v operated, he said: “If you [ H, W. Smith and J. I the PFederal Government to According to the | 1ct the Great Falls power plant | inz the it over to pri ot & ‘hildren will never ”,”,'“"‘,I ce the water power | o picked ilis come in. threatened anadian System. upon she went to anothe recent visit | tained o revolver, and fired through scrived the (4 glass pane in the door. Db e ‘ i i,..].',(‘.,;, RETAILERS HERE VISITING DEPARTMENT STORE 17 Representatives o; Association then brought to the city limits, where it is distributed another publicly Guests of Lansburgh & Bro. for Two-Day Stay. | Devoie Woolridge, colored, 2 old, hot and killed at 5 o horgicide, to the police. was the re- ent which developed L eard gan-e which Mes. wding T Detectives Lowry. | | e report, dur- olridge backed | was being held Mre. Alexander, electrical syst vned - he result is that eections of the United States. Senator Howell said he thought public ownership of street railways in the District would be very satistac.| Seventeen representatives of the| Zn Qoing away with political influences, | exchange of retailing methods, ar- £ rived in Washington today for a two- day Stay as the guests of Lansburgh ADVISORY BOARD NAMED |& Bro. a member of th- association. = Tomorrow an inspection will be made President Appoints Representatives |of the Lansburgh & Bro. store. The gross income of the seventeen con- cerns which are members of the as assoclation are Felix Vorenberg, presi- et e dent, of the Gilerlst Co., Boston; . J. commiission o the Philadsibhia 8 Bloomingdale, = vice president and s P A e el b treasurer, of Bloomingdale Bros., Inc., 7 Ny shin Elwood White, Tucson, * Miss Sharlot M. Ha e the people at section have first- class service at low costs when com- pared with s in most tory. He suggested that a commis. | American Retailers’ Association, which m could he appointed by the Presi-|Was organized than a year ago, 1 to supervise their operation, thus | having as its object group buving and The retailers will spend today sight- seeing, and will hold a dinner meeting at the Mayflower Hotel this evening. of States to Membership in : cist sociation is sald to be $128,000,000 National Commission. vearly. Among the visiting members of the York, and Andrew M. Cooper, retary, and Harold B. Wess, man- aging director. 0(>00000“000000000“0“000000“00000000“0;00 ZITA ACCUSES BARON. Declares He ‘Withheld Funds From Sale of Jewels, Junetton, | -, Denver, | . Wash.; | Va. reds Ogden, to serve as one of two members of the | mission. The others serve in plices not filled when the personnel commission was announced re- Whe suc unable Liy S PARIS, February #P).—The criminal charge filed by former Lm- press Zita of Austria on_her secret trip to Paris Is against Baron Stei- nert, intimate counselor and personal friend of her husband, the late FEm- peror Charles, it was learned today. Zita charges that the baron withheld proceeds from the sale of the Aus- trian crown jewels in 1921 for his own use. The French judic entative Burton of Ohio willl joath to start actio Washington Study for the sec e, lodged in Switzerla fter- | time ago, was nolled by the Swi On Zita, it i3 learned, spent yes- he was ce Ohio House Member to Address Washingten Sludy. al authorities are casion of his an honorary member of the Study and as such he will speak tomor- row, tuking for his topic, “Our Debtors und Their Debts.”” His previous topic was the Locarno conference, at which | Be represented the United States. SPAIN TO TAKE PART. b BOOKS BOUGHT “Bring Them 15" or Phone FRANKLIN 5416 PEARLMAN'S, 933 G St. N.W. Mongugc Bondi ! T s << 70 ANY INVESTOR IN 53 YEARN A Very Desirable Apartment For Rent in m})"\il()\n. AND_TPHOL- | THE DRESDEN : i John W. Thompson & Co., Inc. mwuw FOR 1636 Eye St. N.W. Main 1473 MADRID, Februar; srder issued by the King today s Shorises official Spanish participation in the cent: 1 exposition at Philadelphia in June. The order points out great interest not mercial aspect of in h~ that there is in the com position but ' political e to show principal prod. d States her i NI RE NBOSSET vlasten; VARNISH FOR YOUR FLOORS Certainteed No. 911, Li i LIGHT T HATLING 1N Darty AD OF ¥ {adelphin. Bos: CORRIGAN'S n.w | was L, nister to London, |« |/ SUPERIOR GARAGES THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, CAROL MAY SEEK BIRTHRIGHT AGAIN s | | i Reported Watching in Paris for Chance to Assume Former Status. | Feminismin Turkey Is Sending Women\ Into Professmns By the Associated Press. Polygamy is virtually non-existant in Turkey and women there, the Commerce Department reports, are preparing themselves in the varfous professions, including law and medi- cine. A new market survey just con- ctuded in that country by G. Bie . American consul general | 4 atinople, shows that many organizations devoted to philan- | thropie, so , intellectual and even political l\\n]u es, have been found ed and are managed entirely by women, and that they are enteri v field of ende % i s a cardinal virtue in siness W Tur consul general pointed out, that the American method of put ting over al by telephone never would results there. The of trade, he said, o sell l(;n.u(lls&xx of loss or pro- . figuring a loss would be made up in a future !|(‘1IJ WILL CLOSE QUARTERS. MHAnndY\VHAto Give Ball as Final Activity. | The Men's and Young | of | Women's Associations will | 1 ¢ present headquar street and Pennsy an entertainment ning. 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