Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1927, Page 22

22 SIX BILLION SPENT FOR 1376 BUILDING, 1927 Construction Some- | what Lower, Head of Build- | ers’ Exchanges Predicts. While building operations costing 00,000,000 established a record in indications are that the total ex- litures in the United States for construction during 1927 will be ver, according to David T, , president of the N: uilders’ E . in his annual message pre this morning before the con-| ention of the association in session | at the Raleigh Hotel cth in New York. Riffle said that the total build- anditu includ nstr would reach nid, the M. probably $7,000,000 York, he bout one- | ixth of i building Declaring thet banking and mert- age concerns were beginning to tuke active interest in ¢ ruction, M. | id that it would be the purpose | tional Association to foster | struction in all types of | e it would condemn con inued cheap construction for specula- | fon. The association will attempt to educate the public and other businesses oreign to the various building proj cets in its effort to*advance the call. er of construction as well as the | quantity. 3,000 in Organization. | The National Association of Build- ers’ Exchanges has a membership of 7,000 and is composed of contractors, bullders and those engaged in the manufacture and handling of all the sroducts used in building construction Reports of the several officers ¢ nd ommittees of the ciation te- ng given at this afternoon’s session. The _ convention will continue hrough tomorrow, when adjournment will follow the annual banquet and ball. are BIRMINGHAM, Ala., February ®).—A warrant charging crimin hel as sworn out in the Jeffer: County Court of Misdemeanors today by James Esdale, grand dragon of the realm of. Alabama, Knights of the Ku Klux XKlan, against Frederick I. Thompson, publisher of the Birming- ham Age-Herald; C. M. Stanley, a clate editor, and H. W. Kine editor. The action followed ment published in toda paper which quoted E: ing masked whipping: last’ Thurs nigh ue of the lale as “indors- in an address Furnitare Carpets | TOATTEND YOUNG'S FETE | By the Ass Abe Martin Says: 7 i LIVE KLET LIvE HESSE PLEDGES RIGID | were present | | Some folks ary like an ole weather-heaten ci they look five thousin’ times better at night | Somebuddy’s goin’ ' have t’ awful smart t' think up some way t' relieve th’ farmer. My idee o’ overdoin’ it is hav 1 States Senators fer Idah: | rago’s all excited over a chicken hawk, but what gits me is why vul tures haven’ got ont’ that place (Copyright. John Dille Co.) Just e | new HONOR GUESTS FAIL i Toronto Mayor and Board of Con- | trol Absent From Dinner Given by Swimmer. ated Press | TORONTO, February 23.—George l Young, who declined to attend a din- | ner in h hono turned home from winning the Cata lina Channel swim, w vesterday himself the host at a dinner from which the guests of honor were ab- sent. The youthful champion declined to attend the civic dinner tendered him because one of the invited guests was his former pal, Bill Hast from | whom he became estranged after the Wrigley swim. rd he announced he would a dinner for city offici: d eiti- zens himself and invit Mayor Thomas Foster to select the guests. This the mayor declined to do, sa that Young had better issue b invitations to such person: wished to have. Yesterday the second dinner took place, but the mayor and the four members of his board of control failed to attend, a meeting of the board of control being indicated as the reasons for their absence. Members of the given when he r | nied that there is more drinking now | city council and other invited guests, ho! ere pro THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general cretary of the Methodist Board of | Temperance, Prohibition and Puhlic LAW ENFORCEMENT ! ‘ashington, Lincoln, . an as the “big four’ epoch-making personalities in Ameri- AR can history. Washington, he said, was a total absta ner. He denied that prohibition has been tried and failed. He asserted that | prohibition has transformed the polit ical life of the Natlon and “has brought Christian men” to Congress ke the place of the old boozers.” said the more the members of Con- Ivocate prohibition “the safer e with the people.” Improved Conditions in District As- sured Within Two Years. Lauds Police Efficiency. Declaring in and law en all the superin told | fin| BEES BLOCK CHIMNEY. 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FOOD TO HUNGER VICTIMS | | 130 Persons Isolated at San Ja- RIVERSIDE, Calif., February 23.— | Arrangements are heing chmpleted to transport food by mule trains to ap- proximately 130 persons isolated in he San Jacinto Mountaing since last K's storm. Most of them are mount resorts where au- » o ronds have been cut off by washouts. iough it fs possible to leave the 5 by mountain trails, most of marooned are not sufficlently killed In hiking to do so, county offi- s said BLACKSMITHS WANTED. 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