Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1927, Page 27

THE EVEFING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1927. GhaEES 10" lhe paai T **|Frozen Body of Old Engineer Is Found, After HlS Urge to Be Back in Cab Agam Following the sermon by Dr. DURKEE INSTALLED INBROOKLYNPOST Is Formally Inducted as Fourth Pastor of Plymouth Congregahona! Church. | point of a pistol in his office. .an the ice platform of the plant, about #:20 o'clock this morning and robbed of $10.75 by a colored bandit. | Warneke was supervising the sale | of jce tickets at the time of the | hold-up and the vicinity was deserted assistant man- | for the time being. The police were of the|furnished with a good description of the bandit Detectives Weber and Talley investigated the case. a ton of freight to Liverpool from Lake Erfe via the St. Lawrence would be $349 if the canal charge from Lake Ontarlo to the Hudson was included and $3.97 if an all- American route was followed { These higher costs, the report added, would probably restrict the Great Lakes-to-ocean business to about 20,000,000 tons a year While wheat would be the chief commodity moved, the experts con- cluded that very large tonnages of cinde and refined copper, agricul- tural and automotive machinery, meat and steel products generally would promptly flow into such a new channel. gave ICE OFFICIAL IS ROBBED. 81075 Is Hml Securfd From George W. Warneke. ST. LAWRENCE SHip -DANAL FOUND BEST Gommerce Department Re- iports Shows How Project Will Help Farmers. 3 e Crude Rubber, Too, Tt al tir 1 that nearly | 60 per o the country’s present intake of crude rubher probably would pass through the waterway and perhaps half of the coffee and tea. The Middle Western territory, now somewhat handicapped by direct and indirect influen cheaper intercoastal commu made possible by the Panar would benefit greatly, the said. Further, the experts held that while | an enormous freight tonnage would Charles E. Jefferson of the Broadway Tabernacle and the installation prayer of Dr. Charles E. Burton, Dr. Durkee was welcomed in brief ad- dresses by four prominent clergymen of the Congregational Church. Fra- ternal greetings were extended to him after the ritual by the pastors. of the largest churches of New York | of other denominations. CONSTRUCTING NEW ROAD Golf Course in Rock Creek to Be More Accessible. For the purpose of making the golf course in Rock Creek Park more ac- cessible to people using automobiles | fourth pastor of the historic Plymouth | for transportation, the officer of pub- Congregational Chnrch of Brooklyn | jic buildmgs and public parks has or- WEBB 'NQUEST HELD yesterday, when elaborate ceremonies | dered the construction of a new read iy ) | were conducted in the afternoon and |jeading from Military. road. As the | Naval Board Decides He Died in | | evening roadway will cross a deep gully it will | | v "‘”“?”fy.o"'."f.'f'n’?:f.'.';’ (”;‘,,::‘; be necessary to construct a substantial Line of Duty. pastorate ol bridge, and work on this, as well as | Clerk’ Willlam Clayton Webb, were, in order, Henry Ward Beecher, | [ 0 0 oG T i ey fakted.| Lyman Abbot and Newell Dwight g o himeelt while fn the: Re- ecorge W. Warneke, for the ice department thern Dairies, Inc., 1200 reet northe w held up Daniel F. Sullivan, B4 vears old, re tired - locomotive engineer, has made his last run. During the 17 years he lived with his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mra. John J. Sullivan, at 1220 E street southeast, in retirement after years of service in the cab, the thrill of the old life at the throttie lived on. Three weeks ago. in falling, his head struck a radiator. Tt seemed that the blow did something to Dan Sullivan He was no longer an old man dream ing over days gone by, but a voung man, living them ove Three days age, he informed his relatives that his engine was walting. He had to go. He had to be on time. | Then he disappeared | All that was mortal of Dan Sullivan was found yesterday Richard Ballard and Mrs. Alice Mac Gruder of 315 Alabaga avenue south . came across the frozen body | ng in the rear of Savannah street. | Coroner itt fssued a certificate | of death from natural causes The funeral will be held tomorrow, | | with requiem mass at the Holy Com |forter Church. Raral will be in| Martinsburg, W. Va., his birth place. | Mr. Sullivan is survived by his son. | of this city and a daughter of Martins burg, W. Va Rev. J. Stanley Durkee, former | president of Howard University of this | city, was formally installed as the Farmers of the United States Middle. | o wee wrest would be enabled 1o get wheat | from Chicago or Duluth to Liverpool, | Wwhere the international price is made, At a cost at least 615 cents per bushel Jower than they now pay, if the pro posed St. Lawrence ship canal becomes a_reality, experts of the Commerce Department declared today in a long | report setting forth the advantases | ol a Great Lakes to Atlantie water. | Way via the St. Lawrence River. Based on a_prolonged study of the | sis, and this was apparently developed in the naval service., An examination of his pay accounts showed that they were in order The board consisted of Lieut. Comdr. H. R. Hermesch, H. R. Mytinger and J. E. Reed. report A Quick Shine bject, the report, prepared by E. gE and A. Lane Cricher, found tbnt 2 27foot channel Into the Great Lakes ‘Would admit 81 per cent of t geadweight tonnage of ocean vessels now coming to the United States and cancluded that the St. Lawrence . channel would develop a much greater ount of traffic than the other proj 8. hTese confemplate a connec ton with the Hudson River and Lake | Omtario, either with or v it an American canal between &hd Lake Ontario Keefer Takes Issue, t the same time Frank H. Keefer Ontario, former parliamentary Séretary of state for external affairs for Canada, took issue in a speech at Muskegon, Mich., with statements mede by Premier S. L. A, Tascherean of Canadn o 2Ppearing in The Star of January 2 Tak'ng un the reasons given by Mr. Thschereau wny the St. Lawrence should not be developed as a sgaway gr the commerce of the world, Mr feefer sgid the premier is wrong in | his statement that such development would mean joint control by Canada a9d the United States of wvhat the Dremier is quoted as saying is “after &il a Canadian waterway"; that he is whong- in declaring that it iz not purely a navigational proposition, and that the waterway & not Canadian, "the right to its usage is now a joint right of the two nations." \ Quoting from treaties between the United States and Canada . that the navigation of the St. Lawrence shall be free and open for commerce to fie citizens of the United States, which shall also extend to the water of Lake Michigan and to all canals connecting houndary waters, Mr. Keefer said: “Let us be good neigh bors and improve our joint heritage.” Study On Merits Urged. He challenged many of the state ments credited to the premier and said the whole subject should be pfudied on its merits. “The whole benefit to Canada should be carefully welghed-—the economic results realized and also our International duty to foin in removing obstacles to naviga- tlon in waters in which both the nations on each side have rights.” The Commerce Department report said the actual cost of transporting Lak A Healing, Soothine Preparation tor Quickly Relleving SORE GUMS SORE THROAT TONSILITIS Also effective as n daily mouth wath to relieve an unpiens- ant breath and catarrhal condi- tions of the nose and throat. At Your Druggist. SUITS & N, O'COATS Erie | g0 to the waterway, American rail- | roads would suffer little, if any, loss ‘vn husiness. This conclu; was hased on the figures of In e in freight traffic generally, from which they constructed a forecast that rail- [road capacity to handle business | would be continuously strained hy the \.mn\n\ s natt growth | As to the figures of potential traffic for the St, Lawrence Channel, it was said tha in the direction of an underestimate. In this connection, experlence with | the Panama Canal, where estimates of | traffic officially made have been con- tinuously exceeded, was cited . . Denver Man Heads Tailors. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 28 (8) Louis M. Nathab of Denver wasg elect ed president of the National Associa tion of Merchant Tallors of America | and Ruffalo, N. Y., w ‘vun\vn(mn city for 1928 at the eighteanth annual convention of the association here late yesterday. . PBritish imports of wool have jumped 00 pounds in the past year. HERE'’S any error in them would lie | chosen as the | Hilles. 42 Churches Represented. The Ecclesiastical Council, repre- | senting 42 Congregatio churches of five boroughs, met at 2:30 o'clock ves terday afternoon, when the ritual of instailation was begun. Dr. Durkee read a paper he had prepared, in which | he outlined his religious beliefs. In his statement of helief Dr. Dur- kee declared: ““The mission of the church is to teach the gospel to all mankind, and this means to apply the teachings of Jesus Christ to every act of man in every possible relationship of life. “Business, politics and all social re lations must submit to that scrutiny. The gospel is not a narcotic to super | induce numbness or oblivion to the wrongs of this life. It is a trumpet blast echoing along the horizons of the world, challenging to combat every evil, every sin, every wrong.’ Cadman Delivers Charge. | Dr. 8. 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