Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1926, Page 7

= mxxx:xxxxm ' THAYER; PRODUCER OF THE BEST PRINTING Is mall Work Exclusively”’ E l man1sis 9O 12n srneer | HOWARD S. FISK, MANAGER szrrrzzzzssszzzTrzzes STOPS !el'll real g¢ e . Corrects dan- ‘Gruff and sealp eczoma: makes ft and lux- |TCHING RASHES quickly relieved and often cleared away by a few applications of Resinol PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Compounded Semi-Annually Commencing January 1, 1926 Assets Over "FALLING | 2] CAPITAL FRIENDLY, MELLON DISCOVERS ¥ Secretary of Treasury Was | Reluctant to Come, But Enjoys Life Here. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. This Capital City of Washington | seems weave a wonderful spell er the public men of M | [ 1 | to out of the carefully usion of his magniticent g ind bronze and gold-lacquered ing house in Pitt <h more th zo and “drafted” fnto his job by Warren G. Harding, ly predicted that this mod- s would shrink from the of the spotlight and soon go to his sequestered lite in the it back \mnl\\ claimed ploited pri globe to | shington. it was too much like vacy of the gold fish in it E one of the retiring a {of Mr. Mellon, who had heen m difficult to see in Pittsburgh tha |any President of the United St since, and including, George Was ngt Mellon was extremel: me here. would it announced that he speeches, for not in his line. He would like to have said that never, never would be consent to see the mnewspaper | correspondents and reporters he was told that was part of Li ritting his teeth he went th 9 interview. In a shorter t { than it takes to tell it, Mr. Me! found that contact h outside | mortals was not so bad after all. He | found that life in the Treasury wa different from life in the bank | vle here were not alw in something. In any event, the Peo. for were gravest THE EVENING ELABORATE FUNERALS NECESSARY IN CHINA Heavy Burden Placed on Poor by Ancestral Worship Rites of 01d Religion. By the Associated Press. PEKING, May 12.-—Proper respect must be paid the Chinese dead even if the living relatives must starve. A funeral in China, where ancestor worship prevails, is an_affair of importance especially to the poor. Cer- n feasts must be provided and re- s rites observed. A proper ot must be obtained, regardless of financial ability to purchase it, and a certain number of bearers and ner-carriers are required for pigeon.” The mother, of a Chinese emplo: by an Americdn organization recent died and he was compelled to b | $10 to provide the tradition: He proposed to pay it buck a month out of his wages, company donated the sum as a con- sideration for his long and faithful service. PUBLISHERS SEEK - LOWER MAL RATE Delegates Tell Coolldge Pres- ent Charges Have Cut Newspaper Volume. President Coolidge today received delegation of representatives of tl ican Newspapers Publishers As who regarding 1 posed legislation to change the pres- ent postal rates. They pointed that while the and becomes il‘ STAR. WASHINGTON. IPATRONAGE ROW HEARINGS OPENED | Subcommittee to Study Two i Measures Growing Out of Southern Dispute. By the Associated Press. Outeries from various parts of the South against alleged corruption of Federal patronage have stirred Con- gress to action. The House judiciary committee yes- | terday appointed a subcommittee to rings on two measurcs Vdesigned to disclose present practices appointments in the future. ction followed an appeal be- fore the committee by Representative Bush Demo , Mississippl, for an v Into “rotten” conditions in his for which he held President Coolidge responsible in a recent speech 1in the Ho The judiclary committee, which last week report: 1 bill by Representative Wurzbach, Republican, Texas, to re- quire Federal appointees to file, within ifter tuking office, an affidavit they have glven or recefved no | nancial assistance, vesterday order- | rings on a regulation by Repre | tive Stev . Democ outh arolin, unlawf I to r(- thi i and a measure | ling upon the i o Departments for re. Busby means of disclosure to be u la basis for remed legislation pro ! | posed by the other two Southern mem- be The Mississippian, in two recent I\nw hes in the House, charged the M. nd prevent fraud and barter of Fed- | | suid he '|.u| for D. (.. WEDNESDAY, SHOREHAM TO BE SOLD UPON ORDER OF COURT Hotel Will Be Auctioned to Satisfy Deed of Trust—Valued at $1,650,000. Chief Justice McCoy of the Dis- trict Supreme Court today authorized the sale at auction of the Shoreham Hotel property, at Fifteenth and H thwest. The court directs i Ivert Bowie and I arry L. Rust, jr., trustees under a Real Estate to offer the pr egotlations for been in progress for no satisfactory bid was the court. The trustees and the ber 1 in a suit e against the Shore m Hotel Co., in which Loul v d heen appointed receiv at first opposed the deed of trust bue later consented. The hotel property aid to_be valued neys Tobriner Dove, \\mlw wred inter- some_time, but submitted to Attorne, for the veners PLEA FOR MONUMENT. Representative Boylan Wants Jefferson Honored in Capital. Chalrman Luce of the House com mittee on the library was today re- quested by Representative Boylan of New York that when ings are held on the pr Al to erect a monu ment to | Roosevelt in Po- tomac Park he be granted an oppor- tunity to app in opposition. He speaks rot only for himself many others who believe the should not be hastily con - consummated an wishes to ad recognttion in appropriate rials to other great Ame notably Thomas Jefferson, author the Declaraticn of Independence, of brought | MAY DEMANDS REMOVAL OF JUDGE MEEKINS | House Subcommittee urist Is Unfit for Office. By the Associated Press | Evidence to support his petition for | impeachment of Feder: Judge Meekins of North Carolina was pre- sented by Daniel Hickey, former em- ploye of the Internal Revenue Bureau, removal of the jurist, counsel for the alien property todian when Thomas Miller, under indictment in New that office. o _action ing cus now | held —UNDER MITTEN MANAGEMENT QENT YOUR |Former U. S. Employe Tells |others for. | terest in | to_the a petition sent to the judiciary com- mittee last year, but an identical com- munication addressed last week to the Speaker of the House was referred to the judiciary committee for action and u subsequent report to the House. All of the allegations in the affidavit relate to. Meckins' activities before going to the bench, with the argu- ment in the petition that a man “guilty of sucli acts is not fit” to try Meekins of djustments “influ e filing of with David . f internal rev id_of having a voting in- hemical company when reconsideration of a decision reacted benefit of that company. Further congressional action is con in ence sioner leaders | tingent upon the subcommittee’s re- port on today's hearing. DE LUXE {\ Mg 0, Ne Makes it e;sy to Just say “A package of The Kind” and the clerk will hand you a pint of rich and pure ice cream in a clean, No waiting—all convenient package. ready for you. Vanilla_ Chocolate Chocolate and Vanilla Strawberry SIGNAL BIDS TO BE LET. Extension of Lights on 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue Planned Contracts for the extension of the automatic traffic lights on Sixieent street from Euclid to Newton stree nd on Massachusetts ave: Twelfth Seventh {awarded Friday by | missioners. Bids for the work were opened yes terday afternoon. streets the o District Cor Tt asked $5,2 b 1 - bidders were the ¢ {eral Electrie Co. the work for Smith Co. of Canton. Ohio. ter submitted a bid of $13,155 be thougihful $11,000,000 Surplus, $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY, President JOSHUA W. CARR, Sec’y { Republican party with allowing Perry of | WV ard, a negro officlal of the Jus atter of rates, they have no tment. SLBite fo aklay: ajouranient ot Con:| to the highest bidder. Mr. Wurzbach, the lone Texas Re. {publican in Congress, launched the {move with an attack upon Republic ontrcl of patronage in his —e Snow Falls in Rockies. DENVER, 12 OP).—Fair | | weather alone w rnk“ln" from Xh-- Strawberry and Vanilla not asking for loans. All the Go A Product of Southern Dairies i ment money had been lent Mr. Mellon arvived. H { has been arranging to collect ckson, Cleveland and Wooc son. He emphasized that be most appropriate for the library committee to act now on a Jefferson | memorial, as this is the 100th anni- versary of his death. 1o sell patronage in it would PIANU Chey ar , howeve re is to be any postal rates this session, the news- ard on rates in certain | e cting their indus i zation told the sident of the Post Oftice De- demandin) Soon Made a Speech. Pretty soon the unprecedented hap- pened. M Mellon made = heech. Then, miracle of miracles, he agreed to e the microphone and talk over the air. He liked it. Mr. Mellon 1150 b n to ride about the purlieus of Washington, often unattended. He found Washington was extremely friendly. Now there is no doubt Mr. Mellon likes the life of the Capital. In a modest way he likes the social as well as the official life. 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They pack against the case walls and / gears run bright, which means i excessive wear. | the Rocky Snow was reported in Is of the Rockies last night ck ranges blanketed. The ntinued today the footh with the flurries ¢ creased rates. Far Above 1920 Rates. The present rate: ge from 12 to 600 per cent higher than the rates | which were in effect prior to 1920. 2 s, which publishers are from 30 to 300 per cent higher than the old flat rates, ac- cording to the distance of distribu- tion. It was pointed out to the President that the newspapers are paying on an | verage £1.55 per 100 pounds for this | lass of mail, while the Government is paying railroads but pound. The delegation seeing the President, that it will s the Republican leaders of both the Hot and ate before leaving Washington. L List of Delegates. Those in the delegation were. Barnum of the Post-§ B. 1. 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