Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 21

NEW YORK-LONDON GALLS ANNOUNCED Ordinary House Telephones on Opposite Side of Aglantic to Be Connected. By the A glated Press. NEW JORK, December 29.—Per- sons in ¥ew York and London soon will be alde to, talk to each other over ordinary house telephones at a cost of § minute. Walter ilfford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., in announcing that the service will be opened to the public early in January, said that as fast as it is practical to do so st will be extended to other sections of the country. The charge will be $75 for a 8- minute conversation and $25 for each additional minute. There will be a report charge of $10 if the tele phone number, but not the desig- nated party, is reached. Calls in either direction are to be limited to 12 minutes if other per- sons are waiting to communicate orally across the Atlantic. The service from New York to London will be restricted to the hours * 8:30 a.m. to 1 cal condit better fo munication t the day. Baker’s Daughtrerr‘Weds. o~ l. Drinki. Fre T sink upon the pillows for a night of calm repose I consume a brace of billows where the quiet river flows. And this water from the river doesn’t set me back a dime; no remorse does it deliver, o I drink it all the time. In my bed I'm sanely drowsing till the rise of morning’s sun, while my friend is out carousing where the bootleg liquors run. In the morning I am chipper, fit to whip the largest snake, and I straightway drink a dipper of fresh water from the lake. Now my friend is waking, after wa the inn; all his bones and joints are aching and he reeks of poisoned gin. In his mouth a taste corroding makes him shudder in his bed, and the fireworks are exploding in his sick and weary head. All his muscles are a-tremble, his bloodshot eyes which have been’ badl. elf-pi m, that in all our love- Iy city th no fool to rank with him. This is what a man is buying when he spends his hard-earned groaning in accent: are’ flying and the floor is strewn with drunks. Brimming flagons bring but sorrow, they provide a foolish game; revelry, n the morrow, with its misery a: When I see the souse I'm grateful that I drink from brook and pond, that T wish no box or crate full of the bottled stuff in bond. All the deadly beakers scorning, I drink blithely from the mere, and I wake up in the morning feeling like a Texas steer, WALT MASON. (Covsright. ) ' INEW POCKET PARACHUTE. ¢ | Italian Flyer Makes Smooth Land- ing With Invention. GENOA, Italy December 29 (#).—A pocket-sized parachute has been in- 29| vented by Lieut. Frer! of the Italian Newton D. e last night of Cleveland. Phogouple will honeymoon to Lake and then go to Los Angele: o o Los Angeles The couple ———— aviation force. At a recent test exhibition the lleu-| 4 tenant jumped from an airplane at a height of 1,200 feet and with his para- chute succeeded in landing smoothly within a few minutes. ar— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926. *11$6,000,000 BRIDGE IS AIM OF OTTAWA Will Span St. Lawrence and Link Up Highway to Washington. Work Starts Soon. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, December 29.— A new international bridge to cost about $6,000,000 and said to be “purely a private enterprise” is to be con- structed across the St. Lawrence River near Brockville, Ontario, the Ottawa Board of Trade announced. It was stated that a hotel owner of New York State, who is the chief s | promoter of the enterprise, has de. s, [ clared the scheme is sufficiently far advanced to permit work being started on the new link between the two countries within 30 days. The site for the proposed bridge is approximately 100 miles from the Canadian capital and in line with a project recently started locally for a direct highway linking Ottawa and ‘Washington, D. C. The United States end of the structure is to be at Col- lins Landing, three miles west of Alexandria Bay, N. Y. NEW LAMP FOR MINERS. Electric Torch of Red Light Changes in Dampness. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 29 (#).—A new miners’ lamp is to be tried out in the coal fields. Operated | by electricity, its filament {s composed of loops of palladium which glow red. ly under normal conditions, but change color radically in the presence of the deadly “fire damp.” Banking With the FEDERAL-AMERICAN Means Much More Than Depositing Your Money and Cashing Your Checks. Over 25 Years of Successful Coal Service to Washingtonians COA ANTHRACITE | p— Every Size—for Every Plant Don't condemn your Heating Plant till you know definitely that you are using the fuel your plant requires. 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L 233 4th and M-BRMKS & CO G ~STREET BETWEEN 11th & 12th THURSDAY - 'Another Great Event Five Gigawtic: Purchases of Advanced Spring Hats In a Two-Day Sale Surpassing Anything We’ve Ever Held A Hat for Every Hour of the Day See the Extra Large Window Display FRIDAY Pre-Season Millinery for Which BROOKS Is Famous Newest Millinery the New York Market Affords Plenty of Large and Small Head Sizes HIGH-LUSTERED STRAW BRAIDS —ALL-OVER PEDALINE HATS BENGALINE AND STRAW—HANDKERCHIEF FELT- HATS FAILLE AND STRAW —ALL-SILK MODELS Flowered Hats Embroideries Ribbon Trims Matrons & e ”Qe And the Colors— Sand—Rose—Poudre Monkey Skin—Sea Green Fourth Floor. ¥oa Red—Black LABOR PLEA FOR MOONEY AGAIN PROVES FAR.URE Retiring Governor of California Declines to Pardon Bomber By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, 29.—Efforts 6f labor individuals to obtain Arthur Burt Co. Paris Thomas J. Mooney, who is serving & life sentence in San Quentin Prison for alleged participation in the bomb- Ing of a preparedness day parade {n San co in 1916, in which nine were killed and many injured, have failed again. deny nor grant Mooney a pardon, be- nounced yesterday that he will neither deny nor grant Mooney a pardon be- cause he has insufficient time before retiring from office to thoroughly ex- amine a 313-page document which ac- companied Mooney's application two weeks ago. Gov. Richardson's term Serving Life Sentence. Calif.,, December wtions and ardon for Silver Brocade Slipers Charmingly graceful in contour, and may be worn in the single silver tone; or refin- ished in dual effect—of silver and to match the dominating shade of your ‘costume. Twelve-fifty The correct Hose for the occasion 1343 F Street Washington London expires the first of the year. Mooney's | fused t3 grant a pardon. sentence to death following a convic- tion of murder in the first degree was [and will not deny the application,” commuted by Gov, Stephens, who re-' Richardson said. “I desire to be fair in this matter EVE CELEBRATION An evening of joyous festivities and whole-hearted good fellowship. A fond farewell for the old year—a cheery wel- come for the new. A happy good time for all. Celebration starts at 10. 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