Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1926, Page 5

FIRE-PREVENTION WEEK STARTS HERE Washington Goes on War- path to Get Scalp of De- struction Demon. vent fire." With this slogan the District's Fire- prevention week committee started out today to make a determined ef fort to impress upon the people of the A capsule of radium, valued at $3.- 000, 18 missing here, Thirty milligrams of the precious element were lost a few days ago by Dr. C. Augustus Simpson, 1610 Twen- tieth street. The owner noted its di appearance after the departure of patient he had just treated for tumc Prof. D). H. Kapajlan of the Uni- versity of vesterday aces where the capsule might be found with a delicate {nstrument capable of detect- ing the presence of radium within 20 feet, First he searched Dr. Simpson's y ENIN $3.000 Capsule of Radium Missing Here Eludes Delicate Apparatus Detection office, then the city dump, then the city ash heap and the city incinerator. He found no trace of the presence of radfum. Last night he returned with his apparatus to Philadelphia. The capsule, likely to be picked up with bare hands by somebody ignorant | of its nature, may be dangerous, Dr. Simpson said. It would cause a burn on the flesh which would not be no ticed for about two weeks, after which it would bhe extremely hard to eure. The radium was insured for a third of its value. FIVE-DAY WEEK SET There were sald to be 30 labor banks in_operation. painful and| | STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 25,000 000 SOUGHT FOR RELIEF OF JEWS Conditions of Race in Rrussia| and Poland Described at Local Gathering. among the Jews in 000,000 is being raised in e described before a group of local Jews in E | tributions has now been di Russia, for whom a relief | he report of the delegate: MOXNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1926. Money Given in U. S. for British Miners Said to Be Cause of Feud in Their Union could spare; says the Daily Expres was collected by an unofficial dele; tion which visited the United S just before the official representatives went there. These unofficial delegates, it is asserted, among whom were some Communi: carried that they were authorized to collect funds, but the money they brought home never reached the federation’s central fund. Some branches of the federation are tioning A. J. Cook, general of the federation, as to what has become of the money, says | the newspaper. By the Associated Pr 3 LONDON. October 4.—According to the Daily Express, there is a feud within the Miners' Federation grow- ing out of money collected in the United States for the striking miners in the British Isles. The newspaper asserts that general surprise was oc- casioned by the smallness of the re- sponse to the official delegates sent to the United States to collect funds | and that the All the money the American unions What letters stating | LIDO’S RIVALS OFFER | MORE BEACH LIBERTY‘ Visitors Wear Only Bathing Cos- tumes at French and Span- ish Resorts. Funerals AS LOW AS s100 preparation hearse, cars, new and all n service complete One Price for All Py the Associated Press. ‘; ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, Oc- tober 4.—The Lido has new rivals in| . Jean de Luz, Hendaye and se eral | Basque coas smaller resorts on thi 3 and between Biarritz, in France, | Sebastian. Sy For several resort stood asons the Venetian e as the wost in formal bathing place fn Europe. Hotl | zuests lounged about all day fn their | { bathing costumes and walked into the | | sea whenever the spirit moved them. Much the same condition now pre vails in the smaller resorts of the have heen helped in this way. is true of Poland is also true of | Ba Rumania, only on a smaller scale. |1 “In Russia, as in Poland, the joint committee maintains @ number of | Englishmen loan kassas, he it has | year proven to be a most insti-| San Se lend money at a nominal rate of in- terest to all those who can profit by small loans, whether they be traders or engaged in other gainful occupa- tions. Where the applicant Is too poor to pay interest on a loan from the ka sible for him to have e “Gemilath Chasodim" (free loan societies), and borrow with- out interest. In the course of the last year upward of 25,000 families v R 1m of Central High School by Jacob Billikopf, head of tion of Jewish Charities of hip of un fe dnmunn member the The total affiliated with que coast, which are frequented spanish and South Amerlcan visit- | s and are attracting more and mo and Americans each Call the W. W. CHAMBERS CO. Brown Stone Funecral Home Cor. 14th & Chapin Sts. N.W. Col. 432 Natfonal Capital the necessity for re- ducing the annual loss from conflagra: tlona. Every medium for the dissemina- tlon of information will |l ture films, AS A. F. OF L. GOAL IN REPORT OF COUNCIL s given in connec- 1 the drive for Washington's £ £150,000, now under way. Behrend, chairman of the f committee, d at that mar too, helpful bastian and Biarritz are both | | o formal that bathers are required | re Jews in 530 small towns|to use bathouses aml are not permit- speaker said, for whom | ted to pass through the &treet in | Sl i b done. | buth robes. Sl SN G\w(" N> Nrels Nl Nl SNAelS KGR EIBRZRZNY a |in industry. vity has dn- | r |creased in unb 1se organ aking up for investiga | tion conventions, the | its member the shorter 16,000 Orphans in Poland. While the situation in Poland has . there still are close h orphans who need Billikopt said. The ma- <e children are victims rld War. dition to supporting the orphans the joint distribution com- mittee also maintains a number of | kitchers where the unemployed may tain a good meal for the equivalent to 3 IOH(\ the speaker stated. to encourage cultural mn joint committee spends a month on this itent in Poland." ho declared. “This not_include the health work 1 is being done in that country. ted atown near Bialostock where samination has disclosed ~the act that 75 per cent of thej are suffering with tuber posters w and in bu Hshment which ra indus- production and dern in- : with the attain notable 11 pre is nes unde ntendent of public plarmed to fssue ins to devote considerable sion of the gen- - and approved pre- period ¢ s in mecha Foreizn Delegates Received. 2l dele ge of the oppor them in these camps. |NO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AT SESSION OF LEAGUE Delegates, eral gubject o ventive m wsts of the work was 4,“"‘ conven- bers of the District partment who volunteered their serv fces. 1. Loo Kolt prevention committe tically over the anticiy the campaign this v ta of the committes today in the board of the District Building i ngements for the fire-prevent were completed was made by D J. of the committee, © ed to defry the « Feminine However, Adorn Sex Professiona. in Their Respective ~halrman l(' the fire- e optimis. ted results of meeting Assoclated Press Tha Nations, ence of | e for comfort feminine As Joint Committee Active. “Of a much more constructive na- ‘ure s the work done by the joint dis- tribution committee through its loan s and their co-operatives. There bout 300 such institutions scat- tered through Poland. Through them the small trader is enabled to tide over a critical period. 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