Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1926, Page 5

WASHINGTON., D. C. 1926 PART 1. : Pri ks Runaway H e W e e DECEMBER 19, dUseful Gifts BEARSFUT HEAE I e e Locai Post Office Handling Thousands of Holiday Parcels Daily. More than 26.000 parcels post pack- | ages were delivered vesterday trucks, making four trips each, carry. ing 100 parceis each time, to residents of the District of Columbi: rom send- 1 _over the world, ording to Schooley, superintendent of the amount of incoming mail | shows cle that people in widely scattered purts of the world are taj ing the ‘mail early’ advice to heart sald Schooley to a Star reporter yes- terday, while pointing to the huge piles of mail on the loading platform behind the post office. *‘Although the mail comes in fast, we have enough crmpetent clerks so that it does not stack up on us as it used to.” ‘Incoming and outgoink mail com- bined,” continued Schooley, “has had least a 10 per cent increase over the Christmas mail at this time last The superintendent pointed toward long table at which several boys vorking sorting__Christmas Over there are 5,000 cards,” “and do you know who the Incoming and outgoing is a photograph during a p: i P, < . This | I at the Post Oftice has increased 10 per cent over last year at Christmas time. This cularly busy day last week. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 15.—Hunting with the Cottesmore hounds in the| Melton Mowbray district today, the| Prince of Wales displayed great pluck | and presence of mind in checking the | wild career of a runaway horse,| which had thrown the Belgian multi-| millionaire, Capt. Alfred Lowenstein. | The Belgian financier was hunting on his estate in the neighborhood when ount stumbled and threw him. | He was not_injured. i Among others who went in pursuit of the animal along with the Prince nwick, formerly an actress. Alfred Lowenstein Is the Belgian financier who recently offered the Bel- gian government a loan of $50,000,000 for two years. The offer was refused. Secember 18 (P).— NEW YORK, | most valuable piec | Search for a million dollars’ worth of | jewelry len from the Biarritz, | France, villa of Alfred Lowenstein, financier, has centered in| Matke Christmas Memories Last Throughout the Year Jor Nother A HOOVER—The best elec- tric cleaner. $55 and $75— ! On Easy Terms Belgian New York. Marcel Carpentier, Paris detective, and M. Rousselet, a Paris insurance | solicited the aid New Yc e i tracki who Lowenstein’s ber. At the time of the robbery dispatches placed the value stolen jewelry at $450,000 A s of pearls valued New York dete the French inve: to believe that the jewelry smuggled into the United : that the thieves were in New York City. A PITTSBURG AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER will save her many steps and | study | to-goodness prisoner, and at the same are who are working there? They are the sofis of Representatives, Senat and public officials for a large part partment students from colleges all over the East, including Georgetown and George Washington, besides boys from the local high schools. “That fellow over there,” said Schooley, *“is Edward Swinburne, a runner from Georgetown. The one here, is Frank L. McGrath, captain Also, we have in our de- | ed out the attempting te express the views of the President, Chairman Butler point was nothing to prevent the Chief Executive from sendi plemental estimates to Congr beginning the construction of of the 10 new cruisers at the pr session, after the passage of his bill He said he intended to bring the bill in as soon as possible with a favorable report, perhaps Tuesday, of the Georgetown foot ball team. |and as soon as he could get a special The boy on the other side now fs Clifford Sanford, champlon diver, from Central High School. “Why, we have had 6,000 applica- tions for Christmas work,” he said. “Representatives and Senators come tn and want their boys put to work. and then they bring in their friends and ask to have them given jobs. We can’t give them all jobs. At pres- ent we have taken on about 200 high school boys and 50 college students. They make $5.20 a*day, or 65 cents an_hour, for § hours.” Mr. Schooley said that people are beginning to condense their parcels and pack a lot of presents in one package, so that there is a preponder- ance of large parcels in the mail this vear. “Letters to Santa Claus have not really commenced- to come in yet,” said Schooley. “The children evi- dently did not get the ‘mail early’ ldea. However, about 200 have been received by the inquiry department. |- Any letters of this type are kept and turned over to claimants if they are reliable. These people read the letters and play Santa to the deserving ones who seem really to be poor and TEN NEW cnmsefié ASKED, WHILE THREE rule for its consideration to put it through without delay Navy Dropping Behind. After the President's budget mes- sage had been received, the House naval affairs committee immediately began hearings to determine the com- parative strength of the United States and those of the other treaty . It was developed at these hearings that the American Navy is dropping behind. The committee sent a_communication to the President which has not vet been made public, and the conference at the White House Friday night was a sequel. By the act of December 18, 1924, Congress ‘authorized the construction of eight new light cruisers. Congress has made appropriations to begin the construction of five of these cruisers, and two have already been laid down The three that have not yet been ap- propriated for constitute the bone of contention between the White ITouse and proponents of immediate con- struction at the Capitol. Chairman Butler estimated the total cost of the new cruisers proposed in his_bill, including armament, would be between thirteen and fourtsen 1nil lion dollars each. They will be equipped with 8-inch guns and cap- able of a speed of 35 knots, he and with a wide cruising radius. Limitation Plans Held Failuve. ‘Members of the naval affffairs com- SEEKS TRUCKS DATA. rman Capper of the Senate It is ict committee wrote to Traflic | pre Biabiags iyaktorny fov dn || Eldridge yesterday for in Ik lem of streets for lengthy periods. understood the leter | | Telegraph avenue. The patrolman in other cities dealing with the prob- ucks left standing on the | hour qualified him for an appearance }thvv of five ¢ »mpted by a complaint concerning | feiturs of his driver's license for a <s used for express and general A uling being parked on the street formation as to regulations here and | while waiting to be engaged. TEACHER LOSES PERMIT. Prefers Not to Drive Auto to Going to Jail for Speeding. BE! 3Y, Calif.,, December 18 P).—Prof. G. W. Lubowski of the University of California French de- partment passed up a good chance to n American jail as an honest time forfeited his automobile driver's license for a year. 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Attention was called to the fact that even if the House should pass the Butler bill and then send the naval appropriation bill to the Senate with- out providing for beginning construc- tion of the three cruisers in question, it would be within the rules of the Senate to adopt an amendment for their construction. Revolt Brewing in Senate. It is no secret that a revolt has been brewing in the Senate against the President’s proposal not to appropri- ate at- this session to begin the con- struction of these cruisers. “What we want for the navy is more ships and not mere authorizations to construct them some time in the fu- ture,” is the way some of the friends of the Navy put it last night. Representative Britten of Illinois, a member of the House naval affairs committee, was one of those who con- tinued to insist that the appropria- tions for the three ships now author- ized should be made at the present session. 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