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12 WILLASK CONGRESS FORARPORT HERE Bill to Be Proposed Within Two Weeks, Aeronautic Chapter Head Declares. Congress will be asked within the next two weeks to provide a municipal airport for the District of Columbia Plans of the District of Columbia Chapter n A aton, for the rminal, wt coincident wit of articles in The ect, have reached th » Congress can be shown \ a field, the place i nd the cost involved ells of T 3 mthly meeting the need for su 18 to be located " | dent, Henry chairman that “we are and we hor e gress in the next two weeks. ving out its original plans t recommend that the port be located between H the chapter fe mmitte pretty wel a bill in’ Co; Point ost desirable si in turn the most E city can beast. proposals to fill in the en sen the two points have indoned because of the but by establishing a small fiel at first the airport would in no wa be hindered from expanding as the necessity arose. | and G | | ous Sites Considered. | Such a port on the proposed site would.embody two characteristics k probably no other area in the District has—proximity to the eanter oftheoity and aptability to four-way landings. Various sites were considered by the | last Summer and, while | iy could suit their distance from the nd practical impossi worked against committee they prob at the present, business center bility of expansion their choice. e CARDINAL LAUDS JEWS. Hayes Traces American Democracy to Early Precepts of Israel. | YORK, January 21 (®.— n democracy and freedom can be traced back to the early pre- cepts of Israel, Cardinal Hayes told & group of business men at a luncheon yesterday in behalf of the American- Christian fund for Jewish relief. ‘“The Jew was never a slave,” he said. “No Caesar, no Pharoah, no Alexander could bind him to submis- sion. Always the Jew fought for free- dom of expresslon and freédom to worship God in his own way. Hebraic traditions stand for all time. This| influence has come down to us. The tathers of the Declaration of Independ- ence knew it well. DUKE ESTATE TO PAY. Nearly $1,000,000 in Claims Al~" lowed by Court. J CITY, N. J., January 21| P).—Vice Chancellor Bentley yester- day authorized executors of the $89, 000,000 estate of the late James B. Duke, president of the American To- bacco Co., to pay nearly $1,000,000 in claims. | Requests for payments were made by Mrs. Nanaline H. Duke, widow, and the two other executors, George G. Allen and William P. Perkins. There were no contests over the claims, onc | for $900,000 by the Southern Power | Co. and the other by the Dilworth | Methodist Church South of Charlot N. C | Church officials showed pledge | given by Duke to church officials | when plans for a new house of wor-| ship were discussed. | a The seaman has few reliable signs of detecting icebergs, a peculiar glint | being visible on the ice only when | the sun is shining. Nothing is better on Simply add water or Pancake Flour, and in six minutes you are ready to serve the finest breakfast of all—Pillsbury’s Pancakes, with their rare flavor, (wheat or buckwheat), tender, golden-brown, light as a feather, nourishing #nd easy Geod for waffles, too! Made by the millers of Pillsbury’s Best Flour ? | applicants were denied their requests mo the needs | ProPerty hopeles Boy, 11, Confesses To Burning School; “Mad at Teacher” Press. Mo, January 21— Louis on, 11-year-old school- boy, has confessed, authorities have announced, that he and-two vouths set fire to the pleton schoolhouse south of here, the t of January 7, be- cause “were mad t the teacher, ide them attend » Sisson boy is held in the other boys, one ood to be 15 By the Assoc JOPLI of whom d, are sought vouth’s story was that he 5 companions stole half a of kerosene, entered the ouse after dark, poured the kerosene Into a wastebasket and on a desk. ignited it and then The building, a four-room ucture, was destroyed estimated at $12,000. ZONING BODY PASSED ON 146 PLEAS IN 1926/ 57 Applicants Were Denied Re- quests After Hearing and 43 Had No Case. years The One hundred and forty-six proposed changes in property classification were d by the zoning commission 26 calendar yvear, accord. by 1ssistant he Di and executive officer of the commission. According to the report, 57 of the ot after b 1. hearing. C totaled 121, 89 ind 43 were denied even anges in zoning allowed but these were only in some of which involved than one change, such as when is a change in permitted use of ght maximum for ings in the same restriction. pt. Whitehurst explained that e many other applications in zoning in which the were persuaded not to press hearings because of the sness of obtaining what they vproposed cases, the applica for publ Recent investigation indicates that the night heron does not deserve its bad reputation of being destructive to trout BEWARE THE COUGH OR COLD THAT HANGS ON Persistent coughs and colds lead to serious trouble. You can stop |them now with Creomulsion, an | |emulsified creosote that is pleasant | to take. Creomulsion is a new | | medical discovery with two-fold ac- | tion; it soothes and heals the in- || flamed membranes and inhibits | germ growth. | Of all known drugs, creosote is recognized by high medical author- | |ities as one of the greatest healing | agencies for persistent coughs and | colds and other forms of throat troubles. Creomulsion contains in | addition to creosote, other healing | elements which soothe and heal the infected membranes and stop the | rritation and inflammation, while | the creosote goes on to the stom- | ach, is absorbed into the blood, at- | tacks the seat of the trouble and checks the growth of the germs. Creomulsion is guaranteed satis- | factory in the treatment of persist- ent coughs and colds, bronchial and other forms Spir: iseases, and is ex- | cellent for building up the system after colds or flu. Money refunded | f any cough or cold is not relieved | after taking according to direc- tions. Ask your druggist.—Adver- | tisement. Sunday morning! milk to Pillsbury’s to digest! |SENATE NOW HAS E sl report made public | pt. H. C. Whitehurst, ehgineer Commissioner of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927 $300,000 for Muscle Shoals. of the Air £20,000,000, Corps the bi including fund than were provided present cal year. The measure daily ratio to 40 cen for each soldi e House def ARMYSUPRLYBIL Insisted on 118,750 Army. ited use of butter su 1 Soldiers’ d by Representati n, Wisconsin. SAVES CHILDREN The House passed and sent to the Senate yesterday the $357.000,000 | Army appropriation bill prov r | a standing force of 118 Pa by a vote of 235 to 4, came after the for the second time had rejected the Budget Bureau pro- posal for a standing Army of 115 It did so by defeating 235 to roll call vofe an effort tive Blanton, Democrat, the bill to conform with the As ssed with no changes the bill provides for military and $78,000,00 military activities, including $50,000,- 000 for work on rivers and harbors Rescues Four. MENASHA, Wis, Janu Four small children Mrs. Arft were re burning ¥ Resch, carr their The been left alone in the In playing children haa and live cued erday T, ch ho about the jarred the spilling ¢ the fire. crawled o and knees through the rescued the children. House home mail screams improvements already authorized and To continue the five-year chase of 574 airplanes,-or 305 more also would raise the an amendment that would have Homes, | Mail Carrier Enters House San Francisco charged of the Mann act. BURCH-MARSON CASE TURNS TO WEST COAST| Witnesses in Double Divorce Ac- tion to Be Examined in San Francisco. program 11 provides 1s for pur- Mr. Burch divoree. during the - er from 35 eated, how- bstitutes in It was ve Schafer, | gy the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Januars | pauste 21.—A further step to untangle the |of Chicago, « | complicated domestic affairs of m»i» | Burch’and Marson families was taker and | yesterday when Supreme Court Jus | tice Young signed an order directing |t | the examination at San Francisco of certain witnesses in_the suit for di vorce brought by Lindon Walkup Rurch against his wife, Isabelle Keyes . A similar order was in the divorce action of Mrs Marson against her hus band, Capt. Arnaldo Marson, Capt. Marson, a former officer the Italian army, and his wife daughter of the late Bishop Bu of the Protes 1t The world's ears, IN FIRE gineers hi commended the + peat_deposi roleumand t at beds by the g tation being press OF THE FEDERAL-AM ary 21 () £ Mr. and from their y by Sam who heard ildren had use OIN THE in stove door ut, e n his ha smoke the open arried in eptember fe of Mrs. Marson two months and ““The House with the Green The Government withheld action in the expectation that Mr: would bring FUEL SUPPLY IS LOW. Expert Says Only Enough Left for | 200 Years. SCRANTON, Pa., January 21 (P).— | apply of fuel will be ex- | CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB “Everybody’s Doing It the court of honor, Boy Scouts of America. Elliot saved the life of Rev. John Howard Lever of Pitts burgh last August when the clergy man apparently was drowning off Spray Beach, N. J., where the boy was spending his vacation with violation Boy Gets Hero Medal. on and on for s. 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