Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1927, Page 28

THREENEN BACKE FORSEADOL BOARD Spencer Gordon, Judge Strasburger and Admiral Strauss Indorsed. acceptable School As District S row for con ort “this t Sultable Bo from the si was reache ecutive com afternoon = the executive ¢ the names to the | Learned Asked to Resizn P Was Stanf rding” the advisability 2 he resignations of ) Marie W. Hodgkins and Dr den Johnson on the ground they relatives in the service. After dis cussing the matter it was decided to postpone action until the next meet ing of the executive board Another resolution was adopted protesting against the recently an nounced decision of the board to elim inate domestic science work in the third to sixth grades. The resolution calls for the names of the laymen favoring the change and requests that carrying out of the policy be delayed pending an investigation meeting r calling _fo FINDS JOB HE SOUGHT ONCE, NOW ANNOYING Andre Tardieu Changes Mind After Being Summoned to Senate. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 15.—Andre Tardieu, well known in America as high com missioner there during the war, longed | to be a minister, but now that he is | in the cabinet he sometimes finds it | annoying. He was summoned hastily to the Senate recently to answer questions, ‘When he arrived he was told the pro- gram had been changed. “You think ministers are maids of all work,” he protested to some of the Senators. ‘“You press a button for them to come running. When they arrive you say, ‘Oh, we don't want you now. Go back to the pantry.s » “Then it's a job you should not ve taken,” retorted Henri de Jouve. Del, a newspaper man, who also has suffered the troubles of office. | | 806 D. C. PEOPLE IN MIAMI Bpecial Census Figures Announced by Commerce Department. Eight hundred and six persons gave their last previous place of residence as the District of Columbia in a special census taken in Miami, Fla., as of December 6, 1926, under | the supervision of the Census Bu- reay, according to Commerce De- partment figures made public yes- terday. Only 25,169 of the 131,286 persons making up the population of the ciay on December 6 were from Florida, the census showed. The decennial census, - taken January 1, 1920, showed the pupulation of Miami on that date to have been More than 11,000 persons iding Migmi were from foreign countries. Nearly a thousand former re: dents of Maryland were residing in Miam! on the census date, while Virginia contributed population of the Flor Kiwanis Trustees to Meet. The. trustees of the Capital District of Kiwanis Clubs will hold their an. | nual meeting at the Washington Hotel tomorrow, starting at 9:30 a.m. Forty 8ix clubs will be represented and ahout 100 delegates are expected. 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