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i) THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON 0 ’ ‘FARM AID BATILE ‘EXPECTED TUESDAY lghl Over McNary-Haugen Bill to Center on Equal- ization Fee. Completing Nt Wozen faim velief proposals, the Joise :flkll&lll'\“l‘ vleared decks yesterday for committée its ction on the new MeNary-Haugen n with indi cations t sharp will result when it is taken up Tuesday over its wqualization fee on I« 2%6_control crop surpluses Relief advocates also were ready open fire in the Senate, where man McNary b ordered hea commogfties by the agriculture committee on he farin question early in the week Fee to Bring Fight With farm leaders agreed that 1he principal fght in Congress will be over the proposed equalization iee was considerable speculation s Iy would :merge far as the House they to what bills event from committees. “group 18 concerned. the sentiment among opponents of the fee appeared Zto lean toward the Curtis-Crisp bi partizan compromise measure, princi “ pallt because it said to have the partial indorsement of Necretary .Jar vesentative Agwell. Democrat Leulsiana. however. daid he had lined for his L substantial support pro posal. which. although diffeving (rom the Curtis-Crisp hill in several im. portant detaile, also omits the equali zation fee Among the House and Senate hers favoring .the fee, the Mc Haugen measure hax incurred ally unanim favor Defended by The Curtis-Crisp bill ativactd siderable attention due to an infer sence by Representative Aswel! that it might have been written in Secre- | tary Jardine’s office. but tais brought ya. denial from Repiesaniative Crisp vi Crisp. Democrat. (ieorgia, before the House committee vesterday. e sud his bhill had the “parviial but ot un qualified approval” of Mr. .Jerdine The Georgia Representative up pealed for relinquishment “of pride of ownership” among those who have drafted farm velief bills, in the hope of _bringing out a me reason ably sure of passage. sure He suggested that the commiltee take hig bill, amend it if it saw fit and véport it under the McNary Haugen label £$150,000 JEWISH AID " CAMPAIGN HERE ENDS Prizes to Most Successful Teams to Be Awarded at Meet- ing Today. A final meeting of the executive commitiee ‘and workers in the United | Jewish Campaign will be held this morning the Jewish Commun- 'ty Center. according to Rudolph B. Behrend. announ official close of the TReports 10 be made by campaign teams is expécted to augment consid- erably the total of $111.000 reported | at the last meeting move than'a week ago. For the past few weeks a quiet Ganvass has been going on in un ef- . fort to put Washington “over the top” in the $25.000,000 national cam- « paign for relief of distress among the Jews of eastern Europe. At the same time the Amerlcan Christian Fund for Jewish Relief. un der the Jeadership of Admiral William 8. Benson, has been collecting toward the same cause with encouraging re sults. This fund has been applied 1o that being raised by the United Jewish Campalgn. At the meeting today distributed to the campaign teams and workers who have collected the most, money and the largest number of con tributions for the cause. SOVIET LOSES SUIT. Russian Red Cross Denied Right to " Czarist Funds by Paris Court. PARIS, January 8 (). —The Soviet Red t'ross lost its suit in the Paris courts yesterday to have thé funds of the old Russian Red Cross irans- ferred to it. The attorney for the czarist organization pointed out that the French tribunal could not san tion the attribution of Russian pr the U of So prizes will b= ate property o ion viet Republi % “Phe Soviet zovernment,” he said, 1< willing enough to inherit the credit | side of the.old regime. but doss not care to inherit itx dehts abroad.’ WREATH IS LAID. Auniversary of Gen. Andrew Jack- son Observed by 1812 Daughters. anniversary of the birthday | 1. Andrew .ackson and of th £ New Orledus was observed | 1 morning by members of the | Pistrict Society of the ighters of 1212, who pliced a wreath on his satue in Lafavette quare T2 Mrs. Frances A Clair, president Jof the :oclety. presided at the cerc “Yooni ot which téur Daughters, Mrs, Nerbert Blandy. Miss Ewtelle Richard sou. Mrs. Agnes Rinley and Mrs. Clarn . Dowlinz, were present Union Hours for Farm Hands Hirvest hands of New South Wales will have a 34-hour week and perma nent fain workers will toll 52 houtrk every 1 durs. according 1o @ New 1 7 ing of the state employes' board of that country. Work performed in ex cexs of thess limits will be on a basis f time and a half. Those working full year will haVe one week's vaca \ with full pay. and all holidays will he rest daya with re v ocom Densation East Side-Wheeler in The Kate Ada By tir Ansoiated Press MEMPHIS. Tenn Junuary s Flames ended the romantic career of the Kate Adams majestic river steamer here today and removed from the lower Mississippi the last side-wheeler 10 ply the great stre. in Southern waier The “Kate." heloved iver tolk and pet of plantation workers :long her ¢ e. burned to ti ter's edge he cause of the fire 1x 1ot known. but an investigation i1l be atarted S wenty-eight vears ago. ihe great packet steamed out of Memphis. her home port. on her maiden trip--down the broad river to Arkan ity Two weeks ugo she ret ied irom Natchez, hreasting the mighty cuy vent for the last time and tled 1n at the mother wharf where fire vaged * her today T nlantation pe: ~- whits gnd nclv aliker=te “kat a living Lord Ashfield, prominent member of t the H A Stanley, at - the called to espects to President NORRIS TRIAL DU 0 START MONDAY White House Was Passenger Agent of Southern Ry. he British pe rage, and yesterday, when Coolidge. MRS. MARY R. BROWN DIES Widow of Former Mary Ruth Brown, widow starr Brown, former agent of the daughter, they General | gener ithern Rail IS ANNOUNCED P_o] 1 cy"a_naéc,o. Ingufir Jiclation of «-definitd Polfod FEm erning ‘the work of the Bureaw of Pisheries and the turning'over ton advisory coyncil of, five, appointed/by ecretary Hoover practical data on fishery investigations throughoutéth ity 1o be fused ‘into w, general ! program of nct marked the elose { Friday of & fourday conference of the Division' of_ &clentifia Inquiry, participated in by - Jeading YGovern: ment fishery(exper(® pf thegountry The policytof theiphueas? will e primarily - to - vonductl investigations which will contribute o the mainte. nance’ and' husbandryf of - fishery” ye: jof productiveness, aunounced - Lewis | Rudcliffe, - deputy commissionar . of [ Nisherfes, In tellingof the fAndingd pr {the conference, L The advisory Henry B, B A Capt. 1. “ishing' Gazette? . Scofleld, in | ge of the department of commer- cial fisheries, California, [fish and | Game Commission | of “Seattle. and Emer Higgins, charge of the division of scientific in quiry, began vesterday 1o consider the findings of the conference, and will | prepare o practical program for fu (il nctivities, with e 1o the ood of aquiculture as a whole To Map Out Pre Connnissioner of Fisheries fenry O'Malley defined the immediate prob lem of the conference as an effort “1o devise means and develop methods ef fecting real fishery conservation and to perfect a program of action which will be more effective than any hith o developed.’ council, Eompri: elow of Cambridge W, Wallace, ram o | “We cannot deny or ignore the fact | that our fisherios are declining.” he declared, “and we must conclude that ur efforts have not heen sufficient to maintain the fisheries in their former state of productiveness.” Several outstanding disclosures sulted from the conference, which con sidered every phase of the fishery sit uation. taking due recognition of the responsibilities to the commercial fish eries as well as the strictly scientific aspect of the investigation. * re road here; Gied at her apartment In |~ Amone the facts brought out were g fing. Dtk | he totul vield of fish hax developed treet. Friday evening. She had been |, (he OW ¥t Ot ot and the Baptist Pastor’s Defense in in ill health for the past three vears. tilization of speciex of fish which Mrs, Brown was a devoted member | \\ - g ! X . were formerly unpopular. but the Jot™ M : AL 2 Killing Likely to Be SouthivandSnew ised s Uhurch iolq of many important species has 1 I oL Hilg ceritine : greatly decreased ; . e e e T southern California have heen recent l””,‘ il : Iy developed to a surprising estent. Funeral services will be held at the The vearly yvield of North American the Asinoiuted Press ovsters has decreased 36 per cent in a SEA T apartment 1 ene Co = ) . 3. _AUSTIN, Tex.. January 5. Dr. J.|apartment in Flovence Courts this|yig. more thon a decade, falling off Frank Norris, Fort Worth Baptist ’ 3 - { from 100.000 to 16.000,000 bushels. minister, will £0 to trial here Monday | ReV: W. A. Lambeth. pastor of Mount | o011 heds have heen depleted and fort th Hifnx tof 3 Ch { Vernon Place Church. The body will | iz Al L et or the killing of Dexter 1. Chipps b ter farming has not progressed with a plea of self-defense : That the law of the gun i and “the West will he part of the defense was | < . indicated tod. by Duyton . Moses, Miniature watches arve carried counsel for Dr. ,-who shot and | cigarette cases hy ety women of killed Chipps erman. in the | Parie study_of the I°irs Fort" Worth July ‘17 defense plans,” Moses question: “If you were sitting in a_reom and a man who had threatened you sud denly appeared in your doorway. what would you do? Would you iet him enter, or would: you aet. first?. The | law of the West has been one of quick action.” Prosecution they awere T their plans fo More than 2 e been called, among them a member of Dr. Norris” congrekation, who was in the study when Chipps appeared. and a hotel clerk and a telephone operator. who are said to have overheard a telephone conversation in which Chipps is alleged to have threatened the pastor “We don't want a lawyer's verdict Moses declared today. “\We don't Want a technicul verdict. We want a verdict that will _completely «:mq,\-{ aptist Church of <l Discussi thix asked announced | not reveal | Attorneys ady. but ‘did the public that Dr. Norris is inno cent.” was shot when he called on | orris 10 protest against the min ister's attacks on Mayor H. C. Meacham and his administration in Fort Worth. Chipps was a close friend of the mayor. Three bullets were fired into the lumberman's body Dr. Notris has declared that CHIpps | first” threatened him over the tele phone and when the lumberman ar rived at his office he believed he had come to Kill him MISS EMILIE KAUCHER | EXPIRES AT MUNICH Daughter of Retired Police Ser- geant Here Dies—Mother Is Iil in Austria. Miss Emilie Kaucher, 40 years old. zhitey Theodore Kaucher, re tived sergeant of the Metropolitan Police Department. died December 17 in Munich. Bavaria, where she was stationed with the Shipping Board, it | became known here vesterday. Death followed two days after Miss Kaucher suffered an apoplectic stroke while | alone in the office. Her mother, who went to Europe with her five years ago, has been invalided in Bregenz Austria two vears. The family home | here is at 1915 I street.” ! Miss Kaucher was a ive of Washington and @ member of St Peter's pari She was employed in ( the office of Harris & Ewing 16 vears, | then five years ago went abroad with the Shipping Bowrd and after other | assignments, was placed in the office | of the United States Lines in Munich as clerk and translator Her fathier. who had becn notified by cable of her death, vesterday re celved conflrmation in & let(er, which suid that she was buried in Munich December 20, ufter requiem high mass in a local church, Because of her| mother's condition, she was not told ! of the danughter's death for xome time. Berlin recently - srelle who streets smelling for pointed an official goes through the illicit hreweries South Burns: , ms Was in 28th Year! creature, ¥ audible nhose sonorous whistle 1% far as 20 miles Infand, was the signal for joyous cries. Straighi ening\from thelr tusks at the sound | of the boat's melodous wail, the black cotton pickers with grinning face would shout across the field | er comes de lovin' Kate! ! he Kate' from 1898 until a United States mail boat 15 vears she ran twice a Memphis to Arkansas City and her | reputation for clock-like regularity became traditional Employes of the boat barely , caped with their lives when the bl was discovered fore daylight hoat, 240 feet nd vith a oot heam, was ued at $1275 900 small part of loss = covered , by insurance 1 The Kate Adams was owned by | the Delta Packet ‘Co. of Pitisby ‘gn of which Capt Tom Reese is prest dent. § 1922 For wee's fron wa the W | be taken to Atlanta for burial tomor w. SE This Is the Half-Yearly Event Which Brings You Important Savings on All ‘Saks Suits and Overcoats! Surt Saks stock and ?resmtz’ng sufficiently ae yet to make up the de- ficlency. It shall be the purpose of the bureau to encourage the conserva tion of oysters and scientific handling of the beds. The bureau investigators ' have been instructed to aid the oyster in TN and Overcoats of regular andard. The finest that we have and all that we have. Not for another six-month will such all-embracing reductions, such far-reaching reductions, be possible. E include even our Blue Suits and Overcoats from reductions). Dress Clothes. our world-renowned Aqua tagnac Over ou Mo (usually excepted We include even We include even cutum and ts. O all men who know Saks clothing standards and who value a match- less opportunit to save, let the word go forth of this rare occasion! Third Floor. Saks” PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AT SEVENTH *JN all our stock, the single exception to the reduc- tions is the standard-priced $50 Saks “Criterion” Sack | Su ! T T 00 T | 'DEFINITE FISHERIES PROGRAM Division of Scientifia Inb it pilinpe: wb il sources to the highesi possible degree § editor | Dr. Willis H. Rich | in | the Big (lothing Savings of Each Season! = VUARY 3, 1927=PART Y. BY,CONFERENCE doxsesSet Fopn B3 Parmeit I @t o p e ticulan yroblows \\'lm 0y pyehse ghegituatdonfips @ whole, The fnuocentdooking etamfisTiynes rfhe ornament of the peaches,,j= one of the greatest perlsigo the oyvster, wrapping jts tentacles’ about the bi- valve and devourtng the meats An- other nenace iy the msidious “oyster ursn:'{:ma the efforts of the fishery scientiats ave being exerted tof find » ans 1o defeat this menace of the oysterybeds, which was sald to have ruinedigps high as 80 per cent of the eLP Y certuigp Chesapeake Bay T'héwonferend ory that fish, except in isolated in. ices, travel great distances. The are more generally “stay at homes {than formerly supposed, seldom mi | grating far. Some cod have heen ve- taken as many as five tiy on the same fishing bank. Thete were tales of hairowing hard shups: of inveatigators risking tieir in_icy waters off the coast of ka in attempts to measure the h of the sea and to_ take tempe: tures and collect other data which will some day. it wae predicted. make it | possible to predict with accuracy the ! movements of fishes and to tell other circumstances of vital interest 1o the fish industry Ideas in fixh are changing. it was brought out. even the commercial fish handlers vealizing that no longer can bones he regarded me ce and packing their stock in such a way that the delicate throat of the ulti | mate consumer will not be endan gored by lurking bones Commissioner O'Malley described the present attitude of the fishing industry and the public generally to A the scientific study of fishery, | snying: The attitude of the people toward scientific investigation of the fisheries has undergone a distinct change in the last five yvears. While the tend- ey Was noticeable many vears be- fore. it has been only very recently that lers and fAshermen leaders the industry, advecating fishery regulation, requesting tech nical advice, and calling upon us to draft_appropriate legislation to pro- teat the fisheries S a we find de of MRS. WRIGHT BRINGS SUIT Architect’'s Wife Wants Proceeds of Sale of Prints NEW YORK, January & (). —Mrs, | Miriam Noel Wright. cculptress. i suing for the proceeds of a sale of a Japanese print collection of her hus- band, Frank Lloyd Wright, architeet which brought 36,975 in a vo-day auction at private galleries. An affidavit filed in court Ly Mrs Wright_asks that the payments for the prints be diverted from the Bani Lof Wisconsin, by whose order they were sold. to herself MI-ANNUAL Sksploded the the | 28 33 30 43 48 MEYE Meyer’s Shop Rogers Peet Clothing 1331 F St. “Big News” from our Haddington SUITS OVERCOATS that sold for 35 and ‘40, now 59 475 Be here tomorrow—not only because of the man-size savings —but because the HADDINGTON SUI'TS in this clearance are the kind you'd be glad to buy at the regular prices. An exclu- sive gathering of the styles and patterns that have ¢ much enthusiasm this season els for men and young men. ted so Single and double breasted mode Sizes for every build. $40 anl $45 Haddington Suits Overcoats $ 29 75 Rogers Peet Suits & O’Coats 259, OFF SHIRTS A complete collection of sizes and made ane from our regular season’s stock. The pat strles now in' demand are fully represented WOOL HOSE In Fancy and Neat Patterns Were $1.00 and $1.50 65c¢ Madras—Kooltex—Striped Broadeloth Collar attached and with separate colla- Were $2.50 and $3.00 $1.95 WHITE SHIRTS Genuine Imported English Broadeloth. Collar Attached and Neckband SPECIAL $1.85 PAJAMAS Were $2.50 and $3.00 $1.85 SHOES REDUCED! e 558 R’S SHOP Were $8- Reduced to Everything for Men 1331 F Street

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