Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 37

B FIRE SWEEPS " STORESINMANILA Loss of $1 ,000, 000 Reportedl in Disastrous Business | Section Blaze. By the Aespciated Prese. MANILA, February 24.—Investiga-| tion was begun here tonight to dete mine the cause of a disastrous fire which swept the heart of the Manila business district today, causing a loss ostimated,_at between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. ine business houses in the Calle olata, one of the principal down. wn st hordering on the Pasig | were destroyed. Four others | dly damaged before fire fight- ers were able to bring the conflagra- | tion under control. Despite the fact that the Binonda in which the fire occurred, is y populated one, no loss of lite in the Tondo district, a shos north of the Binonda area. The Tondo 't is the home of the laboring and the most Oriental spot in About 1,000 were made home- less by the Tondo fire. AUTO GROUP SEEKS T0 REDUCE ACGIDENTS | League of Safety Eduontmnal ngnm In—»,m.,'a',-,(.l | never be able augurated by Association to Cut Mishaps, Lions Told. e 1,000,000 miles of roads in the United States, a half of which are surfaced and a total of 325,000 miles of them hard surfaced, R. | Sing of the club service department of the American Automo bile Association told the Lions Club at its luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel| vesterday.: His subject was ““Romance | of the Open Road.” s g Detracting .from the romance, hej indicated, are the great number of automobile accidents each vea These, he said, the American Automo-| Dile Association is seeking to reduce | through a wide safety educational pro- | gram. The program, he said, has been working particul well among the children, a i4 per 2en! dearease W the number of traffic deaths bwing #town among that class of the population in 1925 over the year 1921. Mr. Singer f the great development in high- s _since 1916, when, he said, the Federal aid bill toward that end nacted. solos were rendered at the n by Miss Hazel G. Hughes, accompanied at,thé piano by | \l\w Adelaide Watson. Announcement was made - that the club will hold its annual ‘ladies’ night” bLanquet in the Mayflower Hote! day night, April 23, at Dr. George T. th.rpp was named chairman in charge of the general committee on arrangements for the occasion. C. Edward de Brauwere, a member of the Lions Club of Miami, and Pat Kline, secretary of the builders’ ex- change of Miami, were guests, the former telling of plans for the Na- tional convention of Lions Clubs to be held in Miami in the near future, Thomas W. Brahany, president of the local club, presides For (‘uldxl, (-flpnorllnlluenn a a_ Preventiv hfio{“:fl‘" the signature o1 E. \\ ARSI ST A “Kiltaarnock™ copy of Robert Burns' work, prioted in 1786, was | recently sold in England for $1,450. There r, manager Grove. vertisement. In Heaven’s tions’ | Convicts’ Escape | In Engine Foiled By Derail Device, By the Associated Press LANSING, Kans., melodramatic attempt by two convicts to escape from the State prison here aboard a com- mandeered locomotive came to naught when the engine was de- railed and well directed fire by guards brought surrender of the two runaways before they had cleared the prison compound. One of them was wounded. Slugging the two members of the engine crew, Ben Shaw, a thief from Ford County, and June Enyart, serving a term for assault from Cherokee County, mounted the cab and started out of the com- pound. The locomotive had been switehing cars within the walls. Guards who saw the %lugging opened fire as Enyart seized the throttle and the locomotive began slowly to pick up speed. Shew s wounded in the hip, but the pair continued in flight until the engine struck a derail device and was thrown from the track. The pair then surrendered. g WARS HELD INEVITABLE. February 24 Earthquakes, Gen. Baird's View. Scotland, Febr t as , in_the opinion o Ill: view, given at the Deslgn Same as ary 24| The High Grade n's de- THE EVEN DOYLE SEES DISTRICT AS POLITICAL DUMP| le Service Officials Claim Con- gress Uses Local Government for Friends. that C(ongress reserves rict of Columbia government | | as a political dumping ;.rouml for dis- appointed constituents, John Thomas Doyle, secretary of the Civil Service Commi i bers of the Optimist Club at the Har- rington Hotel yesterday noon, urged that civil service reform be extended I parts of the District government in order to make Washington not only a beautiful city, but an example in good government. “Washington is the only large city in the United States where the merit system is not applied to all the city Washington government all for the ‘extension of system, and the President District the mer! has signifi gress, however, refuses change.” Doyle gave a brief resume of the civil service reform movement, com- mencing with the civil service act of 1893, which, the Established 1842 annual re. hion of Giasgow Highlanders, is de ied b advocates, wholesale protes Gen. 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Main 8280 NING STAR, speech before mem. | Con- | he said, was the lw;:!n i WASHINGTON, I ning of a new era of American Gov- | ernment. “The act of 1893 put on end to the | | spoils = continued. | development of Washington into the i beautiful eity of fine homes and indus- {tries as it is today would not have { been possible under the old system when most of the residents were peo ple who were here only so long as | their party continued in pow | AEN . vice chairman of the commitie of the Optmist ted Mr. Doyle into initiation | Club, formaliy i ! the ve 189 optigist or [ tions throughout the count bitt. “This club is se to the Rotary Club. lub is * i to the Boy -ank Pieree, president of the club, announced that the international con- “The - D, C. THURSDAY, e FEBRUARY 24, 1921. 1 vention of Optimists' Clubs will be held in Denver July 6, 7.and 8. 'Three delegates will be sent from the \Wash- ington chapter. 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