Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 19

JANUARY 1927. PTOMAINE POISONING LAID TO DEATH OF TWO Murder and Suicide Abandoned in Case of Couple Whielaw sald the Consolidated Found Dead. Exporters had obtained Mexican g landing certificates on cargoes of liquor consigned to Mexico or Cen- tral America, but landed in small boats off the coast of California by payment of “dutles” to a Mexican known as Gonzales. Whitelaw said this practice explained large un- vouchered expenditures on the books of the company. James Patterson, purchasing agent for the British Columbia Liguor Con- trol Board, was placed om the stand upon the assertion of N. W. Rowell, commission counsel, that British Columbia. export houses had bought huge quantities of liquor in the United States, making false affidavits that it was for use for non-beverage purposes and then exporting it. Patterson said this form of impor- tatlon was stopped in 1923 and that since that time spurious United States labels had been used by Brit- ish Columbia liquor exporters. 19 Florida SOUTHERN RESORTS Via Double Track-Sea Level Roate SPEED — SAFETY — COMFORT 9 Thru Trains Daily FROM WASHINGTON E.4W. Cogats : oust Ltd. ~—1 Night Out West Indlan Ltd. —1 Night Out Havane Steelfl — 1 Night Out Paimetto Ltd, — 1 Night Out Florida Gulf Coast Ltd. Florida Special Coust Line Florida Mail 3 Atlantic Coast Line The Standard Raiiroad of the South Tiekets, reservations, information from GEO. P. JAMES, G. P. 1418 “H™ St., N.W. hingtos, D. C. ‘el. Main 7838 Ask for “Tropical Trips” Booklet 9 Models, Patterns, Working Drawings. Fine, Accurate Work, Reasonable Rales LALE ANDREWS H02 F St. N.W. 3rd Floor THE EVENING BTAR, WASHI “MANsIoN. says orio FirsT Lapy | DISCLUSES LIQUOR = INPORTSFRONLS. Years Find Mrs. Donahey as Fresh as When Husband 4 Royal Commission, Probing Customs Violations at Van- Became Governor. cuver, Makes Revelations. TUESDAY 25, company had given $17,000 in two years to the Vancouver World before the paper was discontinued, and that donations of from $1,000 to $2,500 had been made to .the Vancouver Province and the Vancouver Sun for “special editions.” The consolidated exporters did not do much display advertising, Whitelaw sald, but the papers gave the company a certain amount of advertising in the spe- clal editions. FEDERAL JOBS VACANT. Commission Announces Examina- tions to Fill Positions. The Civil Service Commission today | Theories ' ,nnounced open competitive emmma-‘[ | MID-CITY OPPOSES UTILITY NOMINEES Citizens’ Resolution Asks Senate Not to Accept New Candidates. tions to fill vacancies in the following positions: | Assoclate agricultural chemist, om-‘ Everg of experiment stations, Department of | B Evergia Agriculture, at $3,000 a year. | Florida Es: oclate agricultural economist | (transportation), Bureau of Agricul- tural Economics, Department of Agri- | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January Ptomaine poisoning was advanced by the authorities today as the possible | culture, for duty in Washington, D. cause of the deaths of Mr. and Mrs.|C., or in the field, at $3.000 a year. | John Wilson, whose bodies, seated in| Assistant medical officer, assoclate Chairs facing each other, were found | medical officer, medical officer, senior in a bedroom of their home last night. |medical officer, various branches of the Investigation revealed that the p: Government service. married only a few months, in good| Full information and application | financial circumstances and appar- | blanks may be obtained from the office ently happy, had everything to live [of the United States Civil Service Com- for. There was no odor of escaping | mission, 1724 F street. gas and no signs of violence. The- ories of murder and suicide were abandoned. Wilson and his wife, each about 35 years old, apparently had been dead for two days. They were last seen alive by neighbors on Saturday night, when they entertained friends. Bank books found in the house revealed that Wilson had several thousand dollars Budget Your Money and Make Fun of Your Work, Is Her Advice. By the Associated Press VANCOUVER, B. C., January 26— “Donations” to British Columbia newspapers, “duties” to Mexican offi- clals and importations of thensars of gallons of Mquor made In the United States, were revealed before the royal commission investigating customs law violations in a hearing here yesterday. Russel Whitelaw, director of the Consolidated Exporters of Britlsh Columbia, told how his company had contributed to Vancouver newspapers r “no purpose at all.” i y asked for it it, w declared his A resolution opposing confirmation by the Senate of any of the three persons named by President Coolidge to serve on the nmew Public Utilities Commission was adopted by the Mid- City Citizens’ Association, meeting in the Thomson School last night. A copy of the resolution is to be sent to the Senate District _committee. A motion introduced by J. Howard Dunnington requested the Senate committee to investigate charges that the men named own stock in the public utilities and are ‘“other- wise identified with public utilities.” * Michael Mahaney seconded Mr. Dun nington’s motion and then requested By the Associated Prees. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, January 26.— When the Vic Donahey family troop- ed Into the Ohlo executive mansion four years ago many Buckeye mothers sighed to one another, “How will she do it?” The object of their apprehension was Mrs. Donahey. They wondered how she would con tinue to mother successfully her brood of ten children and still find time to discharge the- ardous dutles of the on deposit, and neighbors said he | owned the house in which he and his | wife had lived alone. eighbors knew little about the Wilsons, except that both were em- ployed and kept to themselves. Wil | son was a loom fixer. His first wife got died five years ago. said and He that the assoclation go on record as directly opposing the Senate confirma- tion of the men named for the com- mission, the latter being done. _A. J. Driscoll, president of the asso- ciation, who had been authorized by the organization to investigate and report on the feasibility of a bond issue for the District, said he had investigated the matter and was op. posed to any form of bond issue He also told of increased tax rates at present without the bond issue, 31\(‘]1('aling they would be much higher n the future were loans secured through the issuance of bonds. H. A. Friday and S. J. Harrison, farmers of nearby Maryland, delivered brief talks before the association, urging that the people of the District exercise their power to keep the central Farmers' Market from being moved in an outlying district and separated from the commission merchants’ section of the « Center Market. If the Farmers’ Market is moved far away, they said, and the commis- sion merchants’ part of the market left in a convenient location, it will mean that the farmers will be cut off. ‘This, they pointed out, will give the commission merchants ) chance to prices. Farmers, they added, never can be well enough organized to fix prices themselves. Mr. Harrison favored the Mid-City site for the relocation of the market. Eleven new members were installed as follows: 1. T. Warren, Thomas B. Gardner, C. E. Mosher, E. Eugene Elgin, Lloyd L. Britt, ‘Calvin < sler, James P. Yancey, Cha M. Church, A. Nuland, Miss Sibyl Baker and Capt. Maleolm G. Stewart. Dr. J. C. Buchanan, vice president, presided at the last half of the meeting, re- lleving Mr. Driscoll, who went to at- tend a Senate hearing. FEAST OF CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL OBSERVED Academic Occasion at Catholic University by Students of Theology Class. The patronal feast of the conversion of St. Paul will be an academic occa- sion at the Catholic University today, when high mass will be sung by Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, 0. P. The feast will be observed by the students of the theology class and will be held in the chapel of Caldwell Hall. In the evening the feast day will be observed with musical selections and hy the reading of two papers dealing with the life and teachings of St. Paul. A novena in preparation of the feas: | of the conversion of St. Paul has been | conducted since January 17 in the X: tional Shrine of the Immaculate ception, under the direction of Rev. Francis Lyons of St. Pauls Colloge. It was largely attended. s will be celebrated in the rine Sunday, but the ves- per services at 3 o'clock will be under | direction of the Knights of Columbus. - BIDS FOR U. S. SHIPS REJECTED BY BOARD Leviathan and Others of American Fleet Retained by Govern- ment Officials. By the Associated Press. The Shipping Board yesterday re- jected all bids for the liner Leviathan | and other ships of the United States Lines, and for the freight vessels of | the American Merchant Line. - Two proposals were pending with the board, one by W. F. Kenny and associates of New York and another jointly by J. H. Winchester & Co., present operators of the American Merchant Line, and Gibbs Brothers, Inc., both of New York. Neither con- templated immediate purchase of the Leviathan and sister ships, but the chartering of the passenger vessels and the outright purchase of the freight ships of the American Mer- chant Line. Chairman O'Connor emphasized that the board has not considered readver- tising the ships for sale, and that it was its intention to continue, to op- first lady of one of the biggest States in the country. As Fresh as Ever. Gov. Vie :Donahey has just his third consecutive term. But started {and after four years of ‘“‘mothering” and “first ladying,” his wife's face has the same fresh color as when she came up from New Philadelphia. The details of giving a formal tea and of seeing that son Hal has a fresh supply of collars cause her no worry. “It's just a lot of fun,” she says, > Donahey was a country printer in New Philadelphia he ad- mits candidly he didn’'t earn much money. And the stork came often, Donahey never worrled. a few other thumb rules for getting along: Ten Children Living. “Budget your money. “Make fun of your work. “Trust in God 1 don't enough of us do.” The Donahey’s had 12 children und ten are living. In the midst of her duties as a mother and a governor's wife Mrs. Donahey has retained the pianistic ability of her girlhood and has be- come an art connolseur and some- what of an authority in Ohio on antiques and interior decoration. Two daughters have learned from their mother to play the plano and the violin. believe St Co e G Civil Service Waived For 3. Executive orders just issued by the President authorize the employment as a clerk at Marine headquarters, this city, of Mrs. Arlene K. Mix, widow of Master Sergt. Mix, United States Marine Corps, who lost his life in an airplane accident in April, 1926; the appointment to a clerical position in the classified service of Mrs. Cathrine E. Greenwald, widow of Mark H. Greenwald, formerly employed in the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the reinstatement in a clerical posi- tion in the postal service of Mrs. Bessie G. Thatcher, formerly em- ployed in the post offices at S: vannah and Denver from August, 1902, to Jan- uary, 1914. Operation of the civil service rules was waived in each of these cascs on the recommendation of the heads of the various departments affected. RY CLEANIN AT WOODRUFF'S he Highest Quality 15,05 ' conts You Tees § ¢ LENGTH, ONLY be G'IB‘R%NAN::,.‘;| 7413 e 1 Briax of enclose this nd_with order. Modernize Your Home with ELECTRIC | WIRING and | new style- FIXTURES get our low estimate ¢MUDDIMAN § 709 13th—Main 140 erate the lines through the Emergency Fleet Corporation. In ROUGH DRY The Customer Expects 1. That her clothes be really and entirely clean. 2. She expects the colors and appearance, when finished and clean, to be normal. 3. She expects her clothes to be returned whole, the fabrics not weakened by the laundry. She exp s the size, shape and fit 'of the article not to be altered in the washing. She expects the proper garments to be properly sized. She expects the flat work to be well ironed. She expects the laundry to return all of her pieces. She expects prompt, reliable service and courteous treatment from all wi tact. ith whom she comes in con- Tolman Gives the Customer What She Expects and More TOLMAN LAUNDRY F. W. MacKenzie, Pres. 6th and C Sts. N.W. 6 Dupont Circle Fraghlin 5232 Franklin K32 2469 18th St. e ':w' ;z Columbia 636 = ansburgh & Bro.= The Midgets—at Lansburgh’s The Midget “Follies” troup, (all Americans), will make a visit to our store tomorrow at 5 pm. They are playing at the Earle Theater this week under the direction of Mr. Nonnen- backer. ‘Wednesday is Home Day “Pyrex” 90c Pie Plate Now—at Lansburgh’s Rearrangement for better display of the myriad de- vices included in our Housewares department, is be- ing made. This floor as a whole will be more in- teresting as these arrangements near completion. A growing “fol- lowing” for Housewares de- partment, urges us to -extend its stocks and its services. our Whittall Rug sale Closing out discontinued patterns of these famous rugs at prices that you will recognize as remarkable— for such quality! $150 Anglo Persian Rugs, 9x12, now $138 Anglo Persian Rugs, 8%4x10%....... $97.50 Anglo Persian Rugs, 6x9 ft........... .$119.75 .$110.40 $105 Teprac Rugs, 9x12 ft, now............. $96.50 Teprac Rugs, 8%x10%; ft., now Felt-Base Rugs, $2.50 Waterproof and durable— size 414x9 feet, 24x48 Rag Rugs, 59¢ Hit or miss centers and crowfoot borders. Fifth Floor—Lansburgh's—8th Street 59¢ This is the first time we've ever known one of the regular numbers of the famous line of “Pyrex” ovenware to sell at'a special price! Only a limited number to sell—all with the guarantee that “we shall gladly ~ replace any article of Pyrex ware that breaks in oven use within 5‘_7/) two years.” Sixth Floor—Lansburgh's—8th Street And such an at- tractive one — fin- ished in polychrome and antique gold. Size 10x20 inches— with clear plate glass. Fifth Floor—S8th Street A sale of $59.50 Winter Coats $35 Quite a worthwhile sale, too — offering nearly 200 splendid models for your selection! While a few of these have been reduced in our own stock, the majority are late Winter coats, very recently received! Superbly styled coats that follow slim straight lines or graceful dolman ones; coats richly furred with wolf, beaver, manchurian wolf or fox. Sizes from 14 years up to size 46. Second Floor—8th Street LANSBURGH & BRO.—7th, 8th AND So smartly do they recon- cile your ideal of chic—and your desire for comfort! A metal shank is cunningly con- cealed in the arch to give it support and the combination last is comfort itself. A three-eyelet oxford sketched—tan or patent with lizard calf saddle strap. A two-strap model in black or brown kid, black satin or pat- ent. Second Floor—7th Street E STREETS—J Viko Aluminum sale . Seven important cooking utensils included in this special of extra-heavy aluminum. 1%4-quart Double Boiler, 12-quart Oval Dishpan, French Fry- ing Outfit, Double Ome- lette Pan, Round Double Roaster, 1-quart Cocktail Shaker, 8-quart Boiling Kettle. An opportunity not to be missed! Sixth Floor—Lansburgh’s—8th Street Four Drapery specials Three of them for your windows and one of them for your walls! Prices that enable you to “work wondefs” in the home at small expense. Ruffled Curtains, pr., $1.69 100 Window Shades, 39¢ Dainty white marquisette, The most popular color with colored dots; complete tones in these slight seconds with valance and tie backs. Lk s Tapestry Wall Panels A very popular size—25x Cretonnes, ‘yard, 25¢ A beautiful selection and a colorful one—patterns for a 41 inches—in several very great many purposes. pleasing subjects. Fifth Floor—Lansburgh's—S8th Street Bolero! Among New Spring Dresses $25 This bolero frock of navy georgette, with its artfully flared skirt and its trimming of navy moire ribbon, is but one of the charming models at $25. frocks of flat crepe, crepe There are other satin, crepe roma, georgette and crepella — in models suitable for the miss of 14 to 20, in women’s sizes 36 to 46 and 40% to 54V. Many models especially de- signed for the small woman. Second Floor—S8th Street.