Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1926, Page 29

. N THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1926. BUHHN M“-I-S BUY there are so many independent move- SERGT. ], A- KE AT'NG lng by members of the Headquarters | S|NCLAIR OPPOSES court, in which it is merely withhold- three years ago, the tanker Solana,|sociated Oil Co. tanker, arrived at operated by the Associated Oil Co., | the scene so -ee hours later, after went aground last night during a fog | steering a el through off Purisima Point, near Point Ar-|the fog, and immediately started guello, in Santa Barbara County. forts to refloat tie sticken ship. T Responding to the aid of the strand- | lives of the 33 members of the crew ed vessel, the Betterton, another As-'seemed not to be in danger. ments in regard to the reduction of cotton acreage.” “One reason,” he said, “why I have not been able to determine what to do is because there seems to be about a half dozen distinct movements in North Carolina to reduce Company, he said: “I am practically a Yyoung man yet at 63 years of age. I am just as full of the devil as any of them, and I owe this to the care I have taken of myself and to the splen- did life in the Army., ing its opinion. The counsel also at- tack the validity of the Walsh act and assert that it is an invasion by the Leglslature of a purely judicial function. APPEAL’S DISMISSAL Reply to Federal Move Hits Walsh RETIRES WITH HONOR /. { cotton acreage.” Hope was expressed that agree- ment might be made on one plan. BALLSTON GI.RL WINS $10. ‘Washington Apple Week Associa- tion Honors Essayist. Elizabeth Martin, 12 years old, Ball- ston, Va., today was announced as By the Associated Press. the winner of the $10 first prize in GREENVILLE, 8. C.,, November 4. | the school essay contest conducted —Scores of exhibitors at the seventh |by the Washington Apple Week As- Southern Textile Exposition, under-|sociation. The second prize. $5, went way here this week, have already |to Emilie Payne, 15 years old, also of sold thousands of dollars’ worth of | Ballston. new machinery to mil officials visit | Awards of a box af apples each ing the exposition, it was learned | were made to Elizabeth Smith, 13| vesterday from the management of |years old, Langley Junior High School; the show and from many exhibitors. [Hester Waldron, 13 vears old, Brook- New machinery shown at the ex-|land School, and Gertrude Geller, 11| position this year in most cases fea- | years old, Bryan School. tures the element of labor saving, and this 18 making a tremendous appeal to Southern cotton mill execut. ves and owners. Equipment which a few years ago required three or four per- sons to accomplish a given amoun of work in the process of making | cloth now takes only one operative, and it is this which is bringing about re-equiping of many milis. IMPROVED DEVICES Labor-Saving Machinery Is Sought at Southern Tex- tile Exposition. Canny Grouse Puzzle Hunters. Hunters of grouse have discovered | la canny characteristic of this game bird. The grouse must be shot within two or three seconds from the time he is flushed or he will be out of sight, or at least out of range. The grouse seems wise enough to put a tree or The management of the exposition [some other interference between it snnounced yesterday that a large and the hunter as the first move in number of exhibitors had already re- | its fli served space for the eighth South- Active Service Began in Spanish- American War—Spent 83 Years in Army. Having participated in the Span- ish-American War, the Philippine in- surrection, the Boxer rebellion, the punitive expedition and the World War as a member of the famous 1st Division, John A. Keating, 63, 1st sergeznt, Headquarters Company, District of Washington, was retired vesterday after 33 years of active service in the United States Army. Keating entered the Army as a prl- 1898, at the time of the Span- ish-Afnerican War, enlisting in De- troit as « member of the “Volunteers Later he became a recruit in C pany A, 3d Infantry. Following t he was in Company I, 4th Iniantry; Company F, 10th Infantry; Company E, 22d Infantry; Company G, 27th In- fantry; the 3d Infantry; Supply Com- pany, 26th’ Infantry; the 2d Aero squadron, and lastly in the Headquar- ters Compan~. District of Washing- ton. He is ¢ first man to be retired from the Headquarters Company, and, though 68, is still an expert marks man with both rifle and pistol. At a banquet tendered him last evening at the Headquarters Build- m- ern Textile Exposition to be held at s Textile Hall in the Fall of'1928. ;\ moenng of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held her(‘ today, and on Friday the an- nual gathering of the Southern | Textile Assoclation will be held. Both gatherings usually attract a large number of mill engineers and exec- ‘!-,Jfl\(‘\ from over the Southern textile elt CAIRO McLEAN URGES UNITY. Governor Regrets Varied Plans to Cut Cotton Acreage. RALEIGH, X. C., November 4 (). 5 General Assem- North Carolina be called into pecial session for the enactment of laws that will insure the reduction of cotton acreag s embodied in a communication to Gov. Mclean from Tait Butler, chairman of the executive commitiee of the Southwide Cotton Commission named at the Memphis conference, which made public by the governor night. Gov. McLean stated that he had not answered Dr. Butler’s letter and | that he had not seriously considered | its proposals. i The ernor issued a statement | D: weekly and monthly Que at Sixteenth Street Whether your sojourn in Washington is of a tem- porary or permanent nature and you are looking for home comforts in an absolutely modern hostelry— The Hotel Cairo offers unusual values in one, two, three and four room suites. The Hotel in appointments, equipment, environment and location is second to none in the National Capital. Courteous and efficient service, excellent cuisine. L. R. Hawkins, Manager Telephone, North 2106 Under the Management of Maddux, Marshall, Moss & Mallory, Inc. HOTEL rentals reasonably low. n Bvhlch e e plored ithe et that e Shoe Dept. the biggest Dollar’s Worth of Women’s Value—tomorrow in o Women will agree thct they never heve had an equal opportunity to purchase such values in a DOLLAR SALE. Jcin the crowds that will come to our BASEMENT STORE TOMOR- ROW FOR THIS “BARGAIN” TREAT! FELTS, SATINS, VELOURS, METALLICS, VEL- VETS, and so forth—the values are extraordinary, purchased from a manufacturer who closed out his entire stock on hand—YOU’LL FIND EVERY SHADE AND TYPE OF HAT IN THIS LOT—our only advice to you is to be EARLY!!! EVERY HAT WORTH 2 and 3 times the price We Are Asking SMALL MILLINERY MERCHANTS will do wisely in purchasing them for their own stock—THE VA7UES ARE SENSATIONAL! 1“%%“%55‘55%55%5%5 g RUSSELLS : s i Corner iyt G, 12th & G ur ‘“There are many ups and downs be- fore we mark ‘30’ at the conclusion of our lives. I have gone the complete scale. The life of a soldier is not a bed of roses, but it 1s, however, what you make it. “I will always ,have fond recollec- tions of this company, and now I must bid you all good-night and good-by.” Lieut. Philip M. McRae, speaking for the Headquarters Company, presented Sergt. Keating with a leather grip, sultcase and pocketbook as parting gifts from the men. Sergt. Keating was cited for gal- lantry in action by Brig. Gen. Ban- ford, commander of the 2d Infantry Brigade of the 1st Division. The sergeant will make his future home in San Francisco, Calif. i “Lord Nelson” is the name bestow- ed on Great Britain's most powerful passenger locomotive, which has just been put into service. The glant en- gine has been designed to pull trains of 500 tons at an average speed of 55 miles an hour. Act as Invading Judi- cial Powers. Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, of New York yesterday filed in the Dis- trict Court of Appeals an answer in opposition to ihe motion of Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, spe- clal counsel for the Government in the oil prosecutions, to dismiss the special appeal allowed September 2, 1924, from o decision of Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Court sustaining certain counts of an indictment charging S tempt of the United S The d]’)]lell was .lllo\\od \waiting darhmn by the upreme Court of a sim- against Mal Daugherty, brother of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Attorney Martin -~ W. Littleton, George P. Hoover, J. W. Zevely and G. T. Stanford appear for Mr. Sin- clair and claim that the Walsh act of July 3 cannot be read to refer to a case already heard by the The motion, it is expected, will be submitted tomorrow, without argu- ment, and will be taken under con- sideration by the court. TANKER GOES AGROUND. Vessel in Trouble Near Where U. S. Destroyers Were Lost. 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