Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1926, Page 6

6 US.AIR POWER PLAN TOPIG IN SERVICE Administration Policy in 5- Year Financing Cause of Speculation. Specu as to what p administr: n_ will adopt financing of the five-yea “Xpansion pro ion circles. light when th next appropriat around August 15 by the Budget DBu- reau: but they will not share it with he public because of the rigld se- crecy requirements of the Government on budget matters, 3 On the face of the authorizinZ acts for the Army and Navy and prelimi- nary estimates of st which fig: in committee hearings. the general pects of the financial problem plain. air budget of $50.000.000 and u is in order for e first vear « are It is clear that a Supplemental a the program hat that “upward might invol clear. C this huge the last mposed on f the military committee said the air expansion was to be comp- Jished “without taking away from the other arms,” and the same thing is at least implied in the Budget View of Strength. Authorized strength and strength, . are ferent things from Navy alr program view. The present nl of the Army and h: heen since ted foree i Nxed at 125 sive of the Air Corps increa actual strength has been hel 00 under presidential budget poliey For the Navy. Cong witho ized const N post-treaty has asked Congress videythe funds for is u. two, and for drawing plans for three more. It ver to be seen what dent’s budget proy will have to say as to the airpower pro- gram The Army air bill went through despite warnings by Maj Conner, deputy chief of rtmental spokesman of financial aspects of the sub. fore the Senate military committ that it should fail unless Congres the administration were prepare raise Army military appropriations from $265,000,000, the current Army bill total, to $320.000,000, annually That figure included both the e: timated $30.000.000 additional cost fo tho first year of the fivevear air program and provision for replace ment of vanishing war surplus stocks, another budget problem still to be dealt with f we attempt to carry out the expansion) bill other branches, 7,000 a vear. provisions in this G at the expense of t} with no more than §2 we must lose from 000 men from other br: n. Con- ner told the Senators. “Such a solu- tion ruins the J recovery.” v hgyond hope of As Supplemental Estimate. The increased air budszet. under o to Congress this i yplemental esti mate. h restriction as rosthe crease. It will be | lumped in with other requiremen i, if afull vear i< tobe provided for, bably will bring Navy estimates ewhere between $330,001 000,000 for the next fiseal ed with $319,00,000, tract authorizations 000 and r appropriations, in the curr act Navy brought during the hearing dealt only with the cost of new planes and airships, ignoring the question of additional personnel and many indirect ftems. Rear Ad miral Moffett, Navy air chief, placed the equipment cost for the five vears At $85.000,000 or an average of around £17.000,000 additional each vear. Maj. Gen y told the cong the life of a mode four years. That means that air in crease estimates now under consider: tion must proy inst an annual | ‘wash_out” of « ment, with nor Take your youngsters for s !l ride around the Tidal Basin on the SWAN BOAT and less fortunate children will ‘ benefit through THE CHILD W DCIETY 15th St) (Tidal Basin at Excur : o _ Niagara . Falls Round trip . s16% Tickets good sixteen days August 13 Other Dates Aug. 27 | Sept. 10-24 | | Oct. 8 avecial train leaves Washington 8:00 AM. Arriving Nlugara Fails Ask Tickes Agenss for desails and dexcripeive folder the | FARE || sions - Abe Martin Says: | . X o Druggist Artie Small severed an tery while fillin’ a prescription fer a pork sandwich. We never know how a boy is goin’ t* turn out, or when a girl'’s goin’ ' turn in. THREE MORE PERSONS | ARE BITTEN BY DOGS| One Animal Killed, Victims Given Medical Treatment, Police Reports Show. | Three more victims of dogs were | reported to the police today. | Ida Bonar, 30 years old, 806 E street | southwest, was bitten on the right ieg this morning while visiting at |79 O street. A slight wound was treated at Sibley Hospital. 4 years old, 914 street, was bitten on the hand y terday morning by a dog_belonging to another occupant of the house, His family physician dressed the wound wmd the dog killed. Rose Griffin, colored, 2 1128 Tw . was ‘bitten on | the left s treated by | her £ nest. G of the planes Lought in the first of the five years remaining in service during the fifth ye The combined program calls 2,800 active planes at the end of f years, 1000 for the Navy and for the Army and Nation ard. for e 1,500 1t and went home to 1 it left behind ap. of only $£307.500 to start the work. Of that, $300,000 is for an |allmetal experimental dirigible for which the Navy did not ask, and the up politics propriation THE EVENING STAR. WASHINCGTON. CHICAGO GIRL LOST | IN TRANSCAUCASH Near East Relief Worker Last Seen Riding to Arme- | nian Village to See Orphans. | By the Associ CONSTANTINOPLE, August #.— Americans arriving here from the Caucausus report the disappearance in an Armenia of Miss Evelyn E: ted Press. man, 3 . daugh. ter of Harry A. lastman of Chicago Miss Eastman, according to the stories, was last geen proceeding on horseback from Leninakan in the di rection of DMount Alagoz, to visit orphans placed out with villagers who had offered to adopt them. When she | failed to return at night searching parties were organized, but without Success. At the American consulate in Con- stantinople, Miss Eastman's registered address is 6148 Kimbarg avenue, Chi- cago, where the records show she has @an uncle, Rev. O. 8. Eastman. WAS IN RUSSIA MONTH AGO. ST { Chicago Minister Declares He Has Not i Heard From Son’s Ward Since. ! | CHICAG! August (P).—Evelyn | Eastman, 25 years old, Near East re lief worker Who is reported to have 1 in Russian Armenia, we a month ago with rents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Her grandfather, Rev. Sastman of Chicago, a re st minister, said he had not heard from them since. The Eastmans formerly lived in De- troit, he said, and Evelyn, a niece of Mrs. Eastman, was adopted hy his son 20 years ago. The grandfather failed to remember the girl's real parents. He said she has been in the Near East relief work for several years and that her foster parents had been re- lief workers in Europe and Asia since 1915 BUTTER TRAVELS FAR. Australian Cargo Sont Via Den- mark to Dominican Republic. world’'s most traveled butter has finally reached its ultimate des tination in_the ice boxes of the Dominican Republic. William F. Pullman, general re ceiver for the republic, has reported to the Insular Bureau here that the butter was shipped from Victoria, Australia, to Denmark, where it was reshipped to the Dominican Republic and_eventually went on sale to the good folk of Magoris. The remainder is to pay the first year's sulary of the new assistant secretary for air in the Navy Department. (s | Instead of soda hereafter taki tittle “Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia” water any time for indigestion or sour, acid, gassy stomach, and relief will come antly. BETTER THAN SODA genuine “Phillips’ " has been pre- For fifty years | Milk of Magn scribed by physicians because it | overcomes three times as much acid in the stomach as a saturated solu- | tion of bicarbonate of soda, leaving | the stomach sweet and free from all 1 { | SUITS Formerly I'oS | i 18328 F STREET , House of Kuppenheimer Gosd Clothes I e e e e et e e ——— Somach PHILL]PS' Milk | Semi-Annual || Clearance Sale of Il *35—40—45—50 || Kuppenheimer and Grosner 3-Pc. Wool SUITS—at $24.75 No Charge for Alterations Vassar--Grosner and Rocking-Chair UNION The report made no comment of the butter’s ability to withstand the rigors of such travels. of Magnesia | gases. Besides, it neutralizes acid | fermentations in the bowels and gently urges this souring waste from the system without purging. It is| far more pleasant to tako than soda. TRY A 25c BOTTLE Insist upon “Phillips.” Twenty-five cent and fifty cent bottles, any drug- store. “Milk of Magnesia” has been the U. S. Registered Trade Mark of The Charles H. Phillips Chemical Com- pany and its predecessor, Charles H. Phillips, since 1875. STYLE NEWS 4 new note in MEN'S HOSE b « “Pale - Blue” ohade. Bee it n our win- dow. Ner, BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band, Willlam H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader, conducting, at Marine Barracks, at 4:30 p.m. March, “In the Lead"”...Jewell Overture, “Bohemian Girl,’ Balfe Afr de ballet, “Valse Bluette,” Xylophone solo, ‘Valse Cap- B0 cieeinncncnns ‘Wienlawski Musician Wilbur D. Kieffer. Grand scenes from “Tales of Hoffmann" .Offenbach Valse intermezzo, “‘Petite Byouterie” ....-Bohm ‘‘Romance’” Rubinstein American tone poem, ‘‘Breezes From the South Myddleton (a) “lamentation Vislon.” (L) “Tlhe Return of Happy v Marines’ hymn, .“The Halls of Montezuma.”" “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band, Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, second leader, at the Capitol, at 5 p.m. march Grand from *Tann- Overture, “The Magie - Mozart Solo for alto saxophone, “Valse Vanite...... . Wiedoeft Bandmaster G. W. Bruffey. Rhapsodie dance, “The Bam- boula”. . .Coleridge and Taylor Valse, “Luna’ - Lincke Grand_ scenes e opera. “Eugene Onegin,” Tschaikowsky “The Ghost of Grossmann 0, No, Nan- ..Youmans Czardas_frol the Warr Lxcerpts from * trot, selected. 'he Star Spangled Banner.” Foot Crushed by Train. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 9 Robert Brooks, 20 years old, of Wash. ng employed at Potomac Yards, was in- jured at the yards while at work to- day. One foot was mangled and am- putation followed. Brooks' condition ington, member of the air brake is regarded as favorable. T G ‘D. . XONDAY. OF MOTOR COLLISION Mrs. Beckley and Mrs. Given in Alexandria Hospital, and Child in Other Car Is Hurt. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 9.— Mrs. Mary Beckley and Mrs. Josephine Given, giving their address as 1741 I street northwest, Washington, are patients in the Alexandria Hospital as the result of an automobile wreck at 6:30 o'clock last nig] chine they occupied and one driven hy Harvey Wiley of Fairfax County crashed on the highway hetween | Fairfax and Centerville. Eight per sons were in Wiley's car, himself and his ar-old daughter. Mrs. Given sustained a badly cut knee and also a cut on the lip. Mrs. Beckley was cut on the forehead. In the other car only the 3-year-old girl was hurt. She received a slight cut on_the nose. ; Traffic Officer H. J. Durrer sum- moned Wiley before Justice Zoll of Fairfax and he gave bond in $1,000 for appearance at Fairfay at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, when the case will be investigated. One Ship Grounds, Another Fills, in Gale Off Halifax. AX. August 9 (P).--Tive of the crew of the steamer Ringhorn were drowned and pne in- jured when she went ashore at Tine { Cove, Scaterie Island. according to advices to the marine and fisheries de- partment received yesterday. Twelve of the crew were saved. The Ringhorn was dashed to pieces on the rocks in a gale. A message to the department from the steamer Boisrose id that the French trawler Locarna had been abandoned full of water, approximate- ly 200 miles east of Halifax. The crew was taken aboard another Irench trawler, the Uranus, bound for St. Plerre, Miquelon, Includes ATGUST 'TWO WOMEN VICTIMS |BASE BALL PLAYERS when the ma- | including 9. 1928 B for appendi- | the Car ter an operation He was supren | TO BE TRIED IN FALL Blanket Warrants Served Hagerstown, Charging Viola- tion of Sunday Law. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., August 9.— Two warrants were served as a result of yesterday’s base ball game between Hagerstown and_Frederick teams of the Blue Ridge League, one contain- | ing 50 names of league officials, direc- tors, players and employes, headed by | that of President Jamison, and the | other stipulating the entire member- ship of the Hagerstown Base Ball As. reiation They charge violation of the Sunday laws. Counsel for the base ball interests waived a preliminary hearing and asked for a jury trial, which will be given in November. In the mean time games will be continued. More | than 4,000 persons attended )t‘.\l,er-’ day's game. | FAIRMONT PAPERS MERGE Times and West Virginian to Be Published From Same Plant. FAIRMONT, W. V August 19 (#)—The merger of Fairmont's two newspaper plants, the Times and the| West Virginian, has been completed. | 'and, atter August 16, both papers will | be published from the West Virginia: Reduction of overhead ex- as the reasou for TAKE “BAYER ASPIRIN" - Gpnuine Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Toothache DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Building. pense was given consolidation. w ‘Weigel of the West Virginian is president and (. E. Smith of th | Times is vice president of the new company, to be known as the Fair- mont News Publishing Co. BOIVIN BODY TAKEN HOME.@ PHILADELPHIA, August 0 (P) The body of George H. Boivin, former minlster of customs of Canada, who died here vesterday, was sent to| Granby, Quebec, last night. Tt was accompanied by his widow and James A. Flaherty, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Boivin Headache Pain Neuralgia Neuritis Lumbago Rheumatism which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” botes of 12 tableta Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists Amirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaccticacidester of Salieylicactd wurniture Jug:%t Sale~ a Great Variety of Karpen Davenport-Bed Suites HE Davenport-Bed Depart- ment is so large this August that it had to be moved to an- : other floor. Variety of designs - and upholsteries is a feature— Rt all Karpen Suites, toe.