Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1926, Page 28

CITIZENS INDORSE COMMISSION RULE P?néy Branch Group Lauds % Bpard—Urges System Be Continued. i Retention of the present .form of eommissionership government for the District of Columbia was indorsed last night by the Piney Branch Citi- rens' Association in a resolution edopted at the meeting in the Ham- line Methodist Church, Sixteenth and Allison streets. Other resolutions adopted included one of indorsement of the recent ac- tion of the Central Citizens' Assocla- tion .recommending. the widening of streets when the proposed new curb- ing and lights are installed instead of postponing that project until after the street improvements are com- pleted, thus entailing additiomal ex- pense. Citing conditions of “city hall cor- | ruption” in many large cities “hors‘ politics are a ruling factor, E. E. Pabst, complimented the officials of the District, declaring that the offl- cials in the District Building were completely divorced from all | Newark, who after a fierce battle and Man Troubled by "Conscience Sends $150 to Treasury The Treasury of the WUnited States was enriched $150 yester- day when some one, troubled by a restless conscience, mailed that sum to the department’s conscience fund. There were three $50 bills accompanied by a short message. The message was apparently mailed from one of the local postal stations and was penned in ink by a masculine hand. It said: “Dear Mellon: Inclosed find $150 belonging to the United States Treasury., a duty long deferred. I’lease‘plue it where it belongs.” e EIGHT POLICEMEN FAIL TO BLOCK MAN’S SUICIDE Jersey Chauffeur, Following Fierce Battle and Swimming Race, Cuts Own Throat. By the Aseociated Press. KEARNEY, N. J.,, November 9. The combined efforts of eight police- men from three municipalities failed | vesterday to prevent the suicide of | Hood Bennett, 40-year-old chauffeur of | swimming race in Passaic River su ceeded in cutting his throat with a | | razor and drowning himsel Two patrolmen from Belleville, four from Newark and two from Kearny deavored to prevent the suicide. Th three municipalities are grouped te en- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,. D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER DANISH PARLIAMENT FACES DISSOLUTION Action Indicated Following In- ability to Agree Upon Terms of Crisis Bill. By the Associated Press. 5 COPENHAGEN, Denmark. No- vember 9.—Parliament will be dis- solved Pecember 1. Premier Staun- ing has announced tRat the parlia- ment and government ‘are unable to accept the amendments to the crisis bill. He asked the King's consent to dissolve Parllament and appeal to the country. The bill in question proposed large additional grants in aid of the un- employed and other measures to deal with the economic situation, which the radicals refused to grant. Socialist government thus has lost the support of- the radicals in the house, which alone enabled the min- isters to hold the majority. The general opinion is that the cabinet realized it would be impos- sible to carry on through another ‘Winter. 15,000 AUTOS PARK ‘Without Necessity of Street Space. By the Associated Press. The unique adjunct of Chicago. ‘The parking area is in Grant Park, | space is free. IN HEART OF CHICAGO Grant Park Takes Cars of Then CHICAGO, November 9.—Parking space for 16,000 automobiles in the heart of the city, without standing one of them in tho streets, is an 9, 1926. on the shore of Lake Michigan. across Michigan avenue lles the busi- ness center. Grant Park was made by filling in the luke. It is a half mile wide be- tween the parking space-and the shore, but a strip 300 feet in width lies between the depressed tracks of the Illinois Central Rallroad and the main. driveway. In this space, for. Campaign Planned to Restore It to Place at Crest of Family Fruit Dish. Ingress, 7,200 feet long, 1,200 cars can § By the Associated Press. stand ‘With longitudinal driveways for 1n‘rels. there is room for 14 rows, or 16,800 cars. Except for a large space at the north end of the park, the rest of the abreast. CHICAGO, November 9.—The orange, the lemon, the grapefruit and the cantaloupe have pushed the ripe red apple off the American table because they have been advertised and the 2 . Just| LACK OF ADVERTISING PUSHES APPLE ASIDE | apple hasn't, Paul Stark of Louistana, Mo., told the Assoclated Cooperage Industries of America yesterday. Stark, president of the American Pomological Soclety, enlisted the ald of the cooperage industry in spread- ing thmugh erflalnl the apple- growars new slogan, “Apples for ha.l(h “The condition of the apple indus- ry is poor,” he sald, “because it has nnt used advertising while the grow- ers of other fruits have exploited their products everywhere. Advertis, ing will restore the apple to its old phoa at the crest of the family fruit dish.” _IllllIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIiIIISI!III[IIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|Il||||IHIIIlllllllllllllll|IIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIlIII"’IIIHIIIIIIIIIHH!III!IIIII'IIIIIIIIIIIINHII||I1Il|I|IIl|lI|II|I||IIlIlIIIlIlIIIIIfllllllllllllllilll!lllllluIIIIIIIIIlItI]IIIIlIlI|I||flIIIlI'IllflIIlilflllllllllllllllmllIiIlIl|l||I||IllllIIIIIIlIllIlI'IlIlIlIlIIIIIIlI!IIIIIIIIHI]IIIIIIIIIII|IHIIIIIIIIHlfllllfllflllllllllfllmmmnm Unusual Bargains Easy Credit Delivers Any Article 1L “thought of bribe” in the adminis- tration of their duties. Mr. Pabst said that this fact alone was enough to warrant the retention of the px'es— ent form of government. His resolu- tion recommending the comnmissioner |~ form of government was adopted unanimously. : Officers of the association were chosen at last night's meeting and the following were re-elected: E. B. Henderson, president; John H. Pellen, vice president, and W. E. Hoffheins, secretary. Clyde Reed was elected as treasurer to succeed R. W. Bishop, who declared his inability to continue in office. Delegates to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations who were re- elected are: E. B. Henderson and John mittee as elected last night is com- mittee as elected las night is com- posed of Capt. G. L. Shorey, J. A. Chamberlain and George A. Finch, the last of whom was re-elected. The association adopted a resolu- tion also asking the Park and Plan- ning Commission to ‘“remove” all known poison ivy in Rock Creek Park and in the neighborhood of Six- teenth street and Colorado avenue. 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