Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1926, Page 34

ADOPTS NEW PLAN N FIRE FICHTING - 100 Miles High-Pressure |, oo Riffian warrior, : Water Mains Installed for |: t New York Skyscrapers. . |, i i { The immensely valuable skyscraper i@istrict lying south of Thirty-fourth on Manhattan Island, New iYork. has not required the servic la fire engine for more than 13 Riffian Warrior, 67, Runs 70 Miles which distance he said he at daybreak yesterday and ran up to HE _EVENING In Night to Transmit Terms of Krim After partaking of coffeeand rolls, oril 30 |he seemed fresher than did Albin 70 miles, | Stenvoos after winning the Olympic I ad made iated Press OUIDA, French Morocco, ALIIADK) 8 SO e LC B marathon race at Paris in 1924, The feat of running 70 miles from sunset to sunrise, which Hammouch Ben Hadge, Riffian warrior | have accomplished, compa with the established r sunset to _sunrise, Hadge, 67-vear-old was hailed here yes. erday as the creator of a new mara hon record [ ably Panting from his prolonged exertion, he courier reached the gates of Oujda | The from Ren record for 70 miles is held by J. ders of New York, who made it fa ary 21 to 2 The he French sentry. : 34 minutes and 5 seconds. ase direct me to the house of | hu fian delegation,” he said. “Allah |record for the regular marathon dis- ent.” tance of 26 miles and 385 vards is 2 | sentry divected him to the house | hours 48 minutes and 23 45 seconds, | ¢, si Mohammed Azerkane, |\made by A. Michelson at New York, | * where | May 30. 1 ¥ PORTO RICAN CLAIMS Court Must Decide if Volstead Act By the Associated Press | that distance over a measured course. t dista m |[Piy Rico was at Issue in a case heard | WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, A ADOPT BUDGET PLAN. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 30, Employment of a full-time secre- tary and adoption of a budget on which to operate were authorized by A meeting of the directors and execu- tive and finance committee of Rap- pahanniock Valley, Incorporated, held at the courthouse here yesterday. De- tails were left in the hands of the executive committee, which will ad- r a secretary and receive i applications at a meeting to be held April 30 The question | here May 14 the eighteenth amendment| Other matters looking to a con- nd the Volstead act apply to Porto | certed effort to promote the intereata 2 of the Rappahannock section were ussed at length by representatives 1l of the nties embraced in STAR, DRY LAW EXEMPTION Applies to Island, Despite Local Option Grant. BOSTON, cesterday by the United States Cir uit Court for the first district. De- | ision was reserved | Manuel Ramos. a hotelkeeper of PRIL 30, 1926. the area, and the meeting gives prom- ise of great activity in the coming months. Judge Alvin T. Embrey, president of the Rappahannock Val- ley, Incorporated, presided. The rep- resentatives were entertained at luncheon by the Krederickshurg | b Chamber of Commerce, an Cost of Schooling. The average annual cost of educat- ing a pupll in-a public achool in the larger American cities is upward of $100. The highest figure, $1,032, is found In Rochester, N. Y., and the| lowest, $50, in Birmingham, Ala. T average cost in New York City $110, which is exceeded in only five | other cities. In Boston the average | cost Is §105, Chicago $97, Milwaukee | $100 and Philadelphia $88. HARPER’S HEADACHE TABLETS | vouthtul POLICE KILL TWO YOUTHS. DAR RAPIDS, lowa, A pistol fight robhers xht death to F Louis Burns, April 30 years in prison. hetween three | his gang had committed 17 hold-ups and police | in the last few months. 19, was captured -and.-after pleading guilty vesterday to highway robbery | with a gun. sentenced® to 75 He confessed that was he encoun 18, ‘ ter took place Wednesday night when Tom Gahan, | the trio rammed a police car INE ‘o\os\ve Reputation! ds Its ] v vears ago il was zed 3 . s Many vears ago it vealize D nster e M v Miles of Sydney Mines, [San Juan, Porto Rico, was convieted | That Quality always in + Repu- INSECTINE” leity offcials that the extraordinary | icongestion prevalent in that section of | {the city was making the efficient fight. | ing of fires {that the facilit 'or pum: by fire eng iae to be a of a large § The r & network of approximgtely 100 miies | ‘of high pressure water mains. supplied | from 1wo central pumping stations. New York is the only efty in the world {0 equipped. and city officials declare | Yte valve In protecting property val | fues and human lives has heen proved | itime and again « i Locations of Pumping Stations. |t 1 One of these pumpipg stations is lo- ‘eated on the North Rfver and supplies | p side of the high-presure | t of equal supplies o aren ‘eontains elec ally pumps. with the necessary equipment | ( ‘for automatic and safe operation. each being 800 horsepower and capabla of ineffectual in the case | onflagration | was a decision to install | driven motor L peace without autenomy.” %t Impossible, and | force of Ahd-el-Krim. the Riffan war ng water | chief. vere so cumbersome |last | Atlas Hills to Oujda | Fails to Testifv as to Identity of Michelet, a school in the outskirts of Mirce h station | brine her lawyer's Hadge, who is connected with the had heen given the dispatch |T! night and had come from the | Nova Scotia, bettered the mark when he won the Roston marathon. 19, in 2 hours 25 minutes 40 seconds. his time undoubtedly will become a April in the island court of selling liquor to Americans July 4 last. He was sentenced to 90 Avs' imprisonment and a fine of $304 Today's hearing | was on his appeal. | Counsel for the appellant argued | CAROL ABSENTS SELF. Alleged Son. PARIS, April 30 (@K ‘rown Prince Cavol of Rumania failed o appear vesterday at the Lycee rmer | < to his paternity of | the young son of Zizi Lam- hix former morganatic wife. ter establishing appearance in answer (o immons, thereupon filed | *aris, to testify Mme. Lambrino, ‘arlo’s no American expeditionary Nazaire pro 2xhibit at the opens today. sents a dou of an oustretched wings |MEMORIAL TO DOUGHBOY. Mrs. Harry P. Whitney's Monu- ment Reproduced for Exhibit. PARIS, oduction of Mrs. Harry is the m rand Salon, American eagle April 30 (®).—A plaster re- Payne | Whitney’s monument to commemorate the landing of the first troops of the force at St it notahle a which he monument repre- hboy seated on the back | Pa.. hetween the | license. that before the Volstead act was | passed Congress had given Po Rico local option and that later en- actments of Congress did not invali date this legislation. Counsel for the Government maintained that Porto Rico, as an integral part of the United States, was subject to the laws gov- erning the country generally It was held further that the citizens of Porto Rico, by submitting to fine and im prisonment for violations of the stead act, had accepted the law as applying to the island. 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Non-Explosive and Non means Safety and Money Value to You! ' Grocers—15c, 35¢, 60c, 80c & $2.40—Druggists Get Your Money’s Value—A Full 16-0z. Can It Cleans Things Clean Quick! Because “It’s the King of ’Em AllY” Try It! suit to compel him to give the regis | trar of the school identity papers pe | mitting Mircea to marticulate und the name and title of a prince of Hohenzollern. The ease will he heard elivering 3.000 gallons of water & iminute under a pressure of 300 pounds. Thus it will he seen that the | two stations can deliver a total of Korea has its first woman dentist, | Miss Boku-fu-nan, who recently grad. | 36.000 gallons of water at this tre- | mendous pressure. During 1324 there were 7.000 fires in the citv. resulting in a loss ap. proaching $20,000.000. According to former Fire Chief Croker. the fate of | & fire depends upon the first three | minutes. In contrast with the time an engine takes to he put in operation at a fire, compare this system. under which the pumps start automatically | and are running at full capacity with in 30 seconds. This makes an un limited suppiy of water immediately ‘available at 2.700 hyvdrants in the dis trict. . Capacity Established. An idea of the capacity of the system may be gained by the test made when ‘it was first completed. At that time 50 streams of er. each carcying full capacity, were shot into tha air to a height of 250 feer For a short time after its introduction It was customary to hring fire engines to the ‘fire. fearing the ncw method might not be successful. Reporting a serious fire in 1903, the newspapers mentioned the presence of §0 fire engines stand- ing idly by with nothing to do. Each of these pumping stations is | connected with 4he great electric generating plants on the river front of ‘the city. where huge turhines trans- form water and coal into electrieity The connections to the pumping sta- tlons are made hv four Individual power lines. each of which can care for the whole power needs of the sta- tion. Each Follows Different Route. Each of the cables follows a different route to the pumping station. =o that should there he some disturbance it | eould not cause an interruption in the pumping_stations. There is. further. more, a fine on the power company of, | $500 a minute if ever the service should fail. Though it has heen oper- | ating for more than §5 vears, there | has never heen an interriuption | A note to Ambitious Men You don’t have to have big muscles to climb the ladder of success, but health and energy are great assets if you want to reach the top. He is a wise man, there- fore, who plans for caret May 11. A/l aboard for CORAL "GABLES! 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