Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1927, Page 11

ALBERT GOLDHUR N NOTOR CRASH New York- Furrier Possibly Fatally Injured in Accident Near Laurel, Md. Albert Gold, 27 vears old, a manu. facturing furrier of New York City was possibly fatally injured early this morning when the automobile in which he was returning from Balti more was wrecked on the Washing- ton boulevard six miles this side of Laurel, the blinding lights of another car pro Together with Sidney Cincinnatl, Mr. Gold had paid to the Maryland .city y of the men were registe ington at the Raleigh Hotel 5 was at the whetl when the lights of the other car blinded him h same time the approaching swerved as though out of control Unable to see the road, Katz turned sharply, side-swiping a telegraph pole and skidding down an embankment into a ditch. Katz was not injured but it is thought Gol the car as it swerved and his head crashed against the telezraph pole. tractured number of less e accident was blamed on fous inju Dietrich of Baltimore e wrecked car shortly iccident and rushed Mr John came after an investigation in to find, the car with the daz zlng lights which is held responsible POST OFFICE RECEIPTS SHOW DECEMBER GAIN Increase of $50.596 Reported Last Month Over Same Period in 1925. Washington e office receipts showed an increase of $50,596.86 for the last month over the revenues of December, 1925, according to nouncement by Postmaster New yesterday. The District of Co. lumbia stands seventeenth in a list of 50 selected cities throughout - the United States. The total receipts for the vear were $677.658.83. Postal revenues from the 50 cities for the month of Dacember la showed an_increase of $1.6 over those for December the fore. This would indicate, : General, that the people United States spent more than for e in December, 926, than in Decemuer, 1925, The total receipts for the & for December. 1 558.63, as against December, 1925 Atlanta led all the cities in §3%, per 2 next with 18.40, and For 14.90. SOFT COAL CHECKED. Hoover Looks Up Supply as Strike | Is Rumored. In view of reports that bituminous ©oal production mav be interrupted April 1, Secretary Hoover has under- taken, through the Commerce Depart ment, to check up on stocks of soft coal above ground. He refused v terday to discuss the possibility of a strike in the union producing area on that date, but that the situa- tion had bezun to require watching. Union bituminaus mines are now op. r terms of a three-year s April 1 or the principal mine APPRENTICES NEEDED. 30 Vacancies at Navv Yard to Be Filled by Examinations. The Washington need of 30 avpr fce Commission plications for ceived until January 2 Most of the appointments made to the trade some will be m: Full inforr blanks may Navy Yard is in wtices, the Civil Ser announced today the positions will will he f machinist, but le to other trades nd application d from the re. corder of the Labor Board at the Washington Navy Yard, or from the secretary of the fourth 1Tnited e district, 3 F i it 1|H L aned out of | and he suf- | Gold to | an an- | neral | t Worth third, with | THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,. D... (" FRIDAY, Man Who Claimed To Be Son-in-Law Of Miss Arrested By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 7.—Clar- ence C. Martin, Hammond, Ind., was held to the grand jury yester- day, when it was found hp had represented himself as a son-in- law of Miss Mary D. Bailey, as- sistant Federal district attorney, in ¢ effort to “shake down"” a restaurant Kkeeper. Use of the word “Miss” by Mar- tin led the restaurant operator to cause his arrest. | | P | ing from the opposite direction. | L. Katz of | | pendent offices BUREAU LIMITS PLEA FOR VETERANS NOW $16,000,000 Hospital Item Only Request to Be Made to Con- gress This Session. By the Associated Press. The Veterans' Bureau expec gress to go no further this than to authorf $16,000,000 in additional hospital fa. ities throughout the country, already asked in a bill introduced by Chair- man Johnson of the House veterans’ s Con ession committee and supported by the Amer- | ican Legién. Director Hines of the bureau told the committee considering the inde. ppropriations bill that he doubted the wisdom of an actual appropriation until next year, it w: disclosed today, when h m; e were made publi When the h on this Legion bill come up, “the bureau, of course, will review again its program, but T doubt if we will get to the point of any additional appropriation this vear. "I have sajd frankly to the Fed Hospitalization Board and to the | Legion that if we had more money, in addition to what we are asking in this bill, we could net put it under contract during the next year, and it would be ridiculous to ask for it until we could use it Director Hines also told the com- mittee that he intended to ask Presi- dent Coolidge to issue a proclamation for an “insurance week,” when vet- erans would be urged to convert their war risk insurance into Government life policies Mardi Gras Seasofi Begins. NEW ‘ORLE January 7 (#).— Egyptian slave girls rubbed shoulders with persons of ro valty and queens’ hand-maidens last night as the initial | event of the Mardi Gras season swept in with the Twelfth Night Revelers ball. Millions of men can earn money, but the man who can save is head and shoulders above his fellows. FEDERAL-AMERICAN 37 On Savings Thousands are talking about it! 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