Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1926, Page 4

SCORE PROPOSE SUNDAY CLOSING District Business Men and Labor Protest Plan at House Hearing. Spokesmen for Washington busi mess men, proprietors of places of amusement and organized labor pre tested against Sunday closing legisli tion for the National Capital whe the hearlngs on this subject were ro sumed today before the judiclary sub commlittee of the House District com- mittee In the caucus room of th House Office Building. Charles J. Columbus, executive sec- retary of the Merchants and Manu focturers’ Assoclation, urged the committee that it should Investigate propaganda of the Lord's Day Al ance. This will be made the speclal order of inquiry at the next h Dr. Charles D, Longac offic S ventists, will be the principal W Called Class Legislation. Frank W. Darling of president of t of Amusement Parl ¥ ance is made up principally of labor tng men, protested that the proposed legislationais a_prohibition of freedom and is di ¢ class legislation. It York, tion ttend- wolf, but doe ihe 'poor slation Minion.” to is not bill and Letters in from the Cen the were put in Julian Br arle Th trlet Comm nd called & meeting of the motion picture men sud the Washinzton Federation of Churches, which resulted in an agree- ment that no moving picture shows would open on Sunday until 3 p.m., where formerly they had opened at it am On the eve of reopening of hearings on the Sunday law bill, Charles S. Longacre, editor of the Present Truth, offeial organ of the Seventh-day Ad- sterday sent to the House mmittes a statement in *h he quoted the Rev. Henry L. 2owlby, secretary of the Lord's A g that a powerful, by intends to work in every ¢ al district in its ef- forts completely to close up the Na- tional Capital on Sunday. Those who had been invited to ap- s witnesses at the hearings, hich are to be resumed tomorrow, ative Dicksiein of New . Represen ative Berger of Wi and represeptatives of the | sderation of Churches, Board of | Trade, Chamber of Commerce, Me: chants and Manufacturers’ Asso sociation Opposed to Blue Meihodist Board of Temper- ance and Mo International Re- form Bureau, American Federation of Labor, Citizens' Advisory Council and Washington Real Estate Board. To Emulate “Dry” League. In his statement, Dr. Longacre quotes the Raw. Mr. Bowlby as say- in “We are well financed. Our lobby hington will be an effective perienced one. We shall work congressional wisurict . every State. We shall agitate and spread propaganda anc cause voters to write unceasingly to their Representa- tives until no oCngressman who comes to stay in Congress will refuse to vote for our measures. These were the methods used by the AntiSaloon League and they were effective.” -— BROOKHART PLANS TO FIGHT ON FLOOR |{ AND AT IOWA POLLS f {Continued from First Page.) had been closed Senator Brookhart appeared three times before the com- mittee and raised the point that bal-| lots from 67 precincts should be| thrown out because they reached here in unsealed sacks, which were inclosed in sealed mail pouches. Investigation by the committee disclosed that only | two of the mail pouches were unseal- | od And the committee held that they | were broken in transit. “Later Senator Brookhart requested the committee to reject the official count in five precincts because the number of ballots did not agree with the official report. He neglected to mention that this also prevailed in 1,056 other precincts.” e ASKS STATUS OF CLAIMS. Senator Borah’s Inquiry Reganrding ‘War Adjustments. " | banks NEW DIRECTORY WITH 3,422 SMITHS, IN DISTRICT Property Valuation Is $819,625,572—New Build- ings in Year Total 5.3 Deposit E THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ’ KELLOGG TO BEGIN TALKS WITH ENVOYS oN (Continued from First Page.) LISTS 498,572, ISSUES ABROAD U, TUESDAY, eral conference eventually will be held, Current events at the Leasue of Na- tions fill some authorities with fore- bodings. There is a little fear that even If the league council squabble is composed by compromise, so much bad blood will have been engendered that the “Locarno spirit” will emerge with some of Its tail feathers missing. MARCH 16, 1926. is at odds with Count Quinones de the meeting that Brazil originally had Leon over the manner in which the ! pushed her claim because she wanted Spanish claim has been presented. |to have the American continent for- Spaniards close to the delegation | mally represented on the council. say the forelgn minister is refraining | Several delegates replied by thanking from telegraphing Premier Primo de ! him for this splendid effort on behalf Rivera for fresh instructions, fearing iof Latin America as a whole, but in- that they might be of such a stiff |sisted that under the changing cir- nature as to render any further cumstances and in view bf the present 19—Combined Bank s Are $229,979,000. The population of the District of | Columbia is placed at 498,572 in the | annual enumeration/ made for Boyd's distributed to subscrily A wide varlety atistical in- formation pubiished in the 2,154-page volume touches virtually every vhase | of elvie, financial and governmental | activity In the Distriet. Figurca dealing with real ‘e show an assessed valuation of 88 625,572, The value of business op | tions during the calendar year 1925, | including repairs, was shown at $62.- | 628,980, a slight increase over the | previous year. Of the total of 5319 | new buildings erected, 1,070 were busi- | ness buildings, 4,129 dwellings and 120 | apartments. Bank Capital $24,278,405. The. combined capltal of the 42 nd trust companies s given surplus, $20,317,000; de- and o 5 925 ol 1 for member banks 78,092.57. dther figures show a total fire lo of $837,196, a decrease of $184,233 from the preceding year. Arrests totaled 76,021, an increase of 3,787 over the preceding year, 43,161 of the persons arrested being white and Directory for 1926, which is now being | or 32,860 colored. Arvrests by police. women totaled G87. Of 2908 fire alarms turned in, 227 were false. Deaths, totaling 7,105, showed a de- case of 800 from the preceding year; ng the greatest death ler, being pneumonia, or- anic disease, tuberculosis, Brieht's disease and cerebral hemor- rhags. At the same time births, total- ing 9938, showed an increase of 318. Suicide deaths investizated by the coroner totaled 74 and homicides 57. Premiums paid on all kinds of in- surance totaled $18,974,532; insurance osses pald amounted to $6,303,070, and the amount of insurance written, ex- clusive of casualty, was $1,886,170,357. 967 in Public Schools. puplls registered last 7, of whom 49,717 250 colored. Ex- ,798 on sewers tension and $28309 on sewage 1 brought the total cost of the ge system to June 30, 1925, to 28,256,617. No analytical study of any city dl- rectory would be complete without due recording of the continued numerical supremacy of the Smith family. It boasts of 3,422 names in the new Dis- trict direc with the Johnson's trailing in second place with 2,860 and the legion of Brown third with 2,635, SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK FUND IS RAISED BY VIRGINIA BACKERS (Continued from Page.) was raised in Virginia, persons outside of the State are to be asked to help raise the remainder. Robert N. Harper is chalrman of : committee of leading Washington business men who have set out to raise $50.000 in the National Capita toward the purchasa gf the area. The Shenandoah Naii ol Lark would no. only be a great playground for Wash ington, but ft would attract thousand of visitors every year who would in clude this ety in their ftinerary an spend thousands of dollars heve, it is contended. When informed that the minimun figure had been attained, ecretal Work, Stephen T. Mather, director o the National Parks Service, and Col Glenn Smith, secretary of the South ern Appalachian National Park Assc clation, expressed gratification. Se retary Work was especially enthusi. M her said he had re- PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 9% Comnounded Semi-Annually Commencing January 1, 1926 Assets Over $11,000,000 Surplus, $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY, President JOSHUA W. CARR, Sec'y Watch Your Dog At the very first symptom of chille, dis- nd loss of appetite give Glover's Imperial Distemper Medi- cine and continue for several days after anl have disappeared. ‘This medicine Is very, eflective in the trestment and prevention of distemper and colds. Glover's Imperial Medicines for all dog aflments for saleat all Drug Btores, Pet Shops, Sporting Goods Stores. Write for free “Treatise 00 Dogs.” Ada azao B CLATGLOVER €0., Inc. 119 Fifth Avenne A resolution asking the State De- partment for the status of claims of | American citizens against Great Brit- #in and France growing out of viola- tions of the rights of neutrals from the opening of the World War until the United States entered the conflict was introduced in the Senate yester- day by Senator Borah of Idaho. The resolution was referred to the foreign relations committee, of which Henator Borah is chairman, and prob- ably will be taken up during the week. 'R Te Gy | GLOVER'S IMPERIAL MEDICINES OUSEHOLD “HOW'S” . *. and their ANSWER there’s a Tolman service Bed and Table Linens Mackenzie Sized Rough-Dry Service 6th and C Sts. N.W. “How can this be laundered ?”—"how long will it take ?”"—“how about the color ?”"—“how neatly will it be ironed ?”—“how little will it cost?” No womzan worries when Tolman once tidies her family bundle—from curtain and collar to coun- terpane. 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M Ine. COon” Ave g K at. Niw. N. W, Burchell 813 Mhin Be MW C. C. Fawnett 1357 Wisconsin A Unlon Hardware Co. 613 7th St. N.W. Tolmanized Curtains Pillows Blankets Edw, Cooper 1508 _14ih St. N.W. Craven & Co. 1910 Penneyivania Ave. N.W. . A. Fine 2418 18th St. N.W. Ullman 1778 You St. N.W. Monarch Hardwa; 18th and L Franklin 71, 72, 73 NW. ok, Wall's kit 739 Q.J-I“s.t. nfl?g'-" RS Globe Wholesale & © 423 K Strcet N.W. I TR R R R % PRV test against the control than John Bull would have to protest against an American tariff on rubber. The attitude of the House commit- tee on commerce, which reported last week on the “controls” maintained by foreign governments to the detriment of American economic needs, undoubt- edly clothes the British rubber affair with new importance. Declaration Is Concise. The committee's declaration that such “controls” endanger interna- tional friendships and ‘‘violate eco- nomle principles” is the sort of lan- guage that governments use when they are preparing to demand reme- dial action from other powers. Am- bassador Houghton will be in position 10 enlighten Secretary Kellogg as to the precise attitude of the British forelgn office toward America's rub. ber representations. Secretary Kellogg hopes to receive from Mr. Gibson full information as to the prospects of assembling the league’s preliminary _disarmament couference on May 6. Nothing i3 to be done at that meeting exc ar range the agenda. To that end Mr. Gibson will confer not only with the State Department, but the Navy and War Departments before returning to Switzerland. It s not plunned at present to have any diplomatic officer except our Minister to Switzerland represent the United States at the preliminary meeting in May. takes place, a regular American dele gation will be nted. 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(Copvrizht. 1926.) chance of progress impossible. Apprehensions that Brazil might in- sist upon her right of veto were con- siderably allayed after the American session. Delegates of va rious countries present said Senhor Melio Franco had given them clearly to understand that in view of the| united opinion of the Latin American representative it would be difficuit for ¥ il to maintain her attitude of vot- ing against Germany unless she her- self obtained a permanent seat in the council. The Br: END DIFFERENCES IN COUNCIL FIGHT (Continued_from First Page) llan_ambasador_informed to depart tonight and T ish Journalists imo de Rivera ed to leave with Txtra Fancy Honey in Comb Select, Well Filled Frames 40c Each Magruder Inc. Best Groceries Conn. 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