Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1927, Page 19

PROGRESS OF CITY Chamber of Commerce Wil Have Organizations’ Aid in Opening Exhibit. To mark third annual indus Chamber of Comm. rce, military serv fces, civic bodies and welfare organ- ill join with indussrial and of the Na in stagin “March of rade, March 9. it was announced yesterday from exposition headquarter: Many business institutions have in dicated their intention to participate in this feature as an added oppor tunity for acquainting the residents of Washington with the economic re sources of their community, according to M. A. Leese, president of the chamber. ~These ‘establishments are planning to place in the procession specially prepared floats, both ornate and informative in character, division of the parade also will be given over to vehicles used by vari ous business organizations in their regular activities. Arrange for Floats. Many of the firms that will place floats in the parade are arranging to make them partial replicas of their exhibits to be shown at the Audito. rium while the exposition is in prog- ress from March 10 to 19. These parade displays will depict the work- ing processes of the types of endeavor represented. Heading the procession will be a group of the busses which will afford transportation for a band and repre- sent this public utility which is among those exhibiting. At the head also will ride officials of the chamber and the exposition and the usual police escort. Plans for the parade, as they now stand, also call for a place of honor for a detachment of the District National Guard, along with a delega- tlon from the American Red Cross and from the military hospitals at which war veterans are receiving occupational instruction in making articles which will be shown in the trade display. The parade will be TEld between 10 o'clock and noon, and will move through the downtown section as far &8 Georgetown. School officials have n asked by President Leese of the {ments show chamber to permit school children to | means intentionally leave their classes to see the parade. | liciousl T Members of Committee. On the parade committee, of which Rudolph Jose is chairman, are serv- ing the following representatives of a wide variety of District business organizations: M. A. Leese, Ivan C.|foreign relation documents which has | Weld, C. elvin Sharpe, Albert Schuiteis, J. A. Bailey, E. D. Merrill, G. A. Clark, C. T. Clagett, W. J. Har. per, F. W. Leitheiser, Robert Dougan Leon F. Ulman, Gen. Anton Stephan, Morgan W. Wickersham, J. Gary, E. A. Merkle, Charles Stei F. H Edmonds, Mrs. Mary T. Mitchell, J. Eckert Z. Walker, A. J. Walz, Harry Viner, C. W. Dessart, J. E. Coyle, M. O. Chance, L. James, M. L. Kinslow, H. S. Taylor, Mendel Be. hrend, J. Haumg’uten. A. Emile, H. Gill, Willam® Montgomer Paiano, Jerom¢ Fanciulli, Baer, J. H. Hanna, S, Olshefs WEERKI™ TN HEORTAY, e BulEg ‘THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, . ¢. FEBRUARY 27, 1927—PART 1. ‘B|SHOP CURLEY SPEAKS |Caiaban, Right Rev. Thomas J. Sha-|gan 1 han, Mgr. C. F. Thomas, Rev. Charles " | TO K. OF C. TOMORROW | W Lyons, Rev. Peter Guilday, Sen- lat Walsh of Massachu i S Ransdell of L { jtive h-m'-h:n fivf e i 5. a i va of [assachus | ture Banquet to Be Given |\l Atimen of Baltmere. m ( in His Honor. | of the fourth degree, and StatsDeputy reen of Virginia. . Hogan will be toastmaster. Address on “Intolerance” Will Fea and Con- | Archbishop Curley of Baitimore will | s on “Intolerance” at | | the annual banquet of the Knights of | | Columbus given in his honor at the| ch { Willard Hotel tomorrow night ! th whom accept- | a for this din- | G are the Bri dov. Sir | Je sme Howard: S > 5 . Mar Michael Flaherty, S ank { deliver an ac n 4 e has been appointed: Dr. H. J. Crosson, | sho irman Washington Chapter, rman; Dr. Charles 1. Griffith, | v fourth hE | Hanra SLAYER IS CONVICTED. he following reception committee |degree murder by a ju ate ¢ chairman; James D. |Fame, a S t Leigh last De s too intimate” | old father, The elder o " D. )ih“ & Duni- | divorce . McCann A Sardo, F and Dr. A. D. Wilki Neb February | There killed hy she sat in mber with “rank Mason Mason _testified at that he had planned to marry irl as soon as she could get a and pounds. 1926 Beef Production, Broke All Records, With Total of 7,429,000,000 Pounds. all records by a * Department placed the per ¢ goeoh Dex:| CONSUMPTION OF MEAT | LOWEST IN FIVE YEARS was less meat total of However, per person eaten last year than in any year since 1921, although beef production'broke large margin and | consumption of beef reached the un- the | precedented 7,429,000,000 ilture statistics pita. consumption of and lard for 1926 at pounds, the lowest in five years. consumption was 63.4 per capita, the largest since 1918, while pork consumption was 65.7 pounds, the smallest since that time. Con- sumption of veal was 8.2 pounds per n, mutton and lamb 5.5 pounds, and lard 13.5 pounds. Fewer animals were slaughtered in 1926 than . but the total meat output was larger by 240,000,000 pounds. More cattle were slaughtered in 1918, the year of the great war effort, but Iast year's cattle had much more beef on them. Average weights last year were 964.1 pounds on hoof and $18.3 pounds dressed. Correspond- ing figures for 1918 were 916.5 ana meats pounds 19 BUTTERFLY TRAVELS FAR. Comes in Mail From Honolulu and Lives After Release. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, February 26, —On opening a newspaper sent him from Honolulu, Col. 1 Greenwood Place, field secr Salvation Army, was surp: & beautiful blue and white buttertly drop out and flutter round the room. The paper was sent by Capt. A. Mitchell, who is in command of branch of the army’s work in Hono- lulu, and the butterfly seemed nons the worse for its journey of 4,000 miles w | through the mail the inauguration of the al display of the | a pamphlet committee of G all politica origin of the World War. von Hindenburg wrote. lication of our documen avowal pect just as frank an apswer from the world.” i Miss Fawn Lippincut shot a bandit | by mistake last night. She thought he | wuz a rejected suitor comin’ back fer | his photograph. | Ther's plenty o' help. an’ wages an’ | aries are good, but th’ menace that onfronts this country Is th’ danger- ous shortage o' those who have th’ ack o' gittin’ things done. HINDENBLRG ASHS HORLD RANKNES Says Publication of Secret Documents on War Should Assist Conciliation. By the Associated Pre | BERLIN, February 26.—Germany's | willingness to make public her secrot foreign office documents concerning the origin of the World War should be met with an equally frank answer by the world, in the opinion of President von Hinde g, while Foreign Min- ister Stresemann holds that the docu- that y by no started or ma- ied on the war. gions are contained in the service of truth,”} which will shortly be made public b; the committee of German leagues to| serve as a conclusion to the publica- tion by the German foreign office of car) expr been in progress for some vears. The rman leagues include: industrial _and parties and has for its object com ing the question of German war guilt as set forth in the treaty of | Versailles. “We have revealed the ' litical documents of our past in or-| der to ggt at the truth about the | President | he pub- | is a frank to the world. We now ex- Chancellor Marx wrote: “The ex- 72z R, J. M. Krafft, William J. Rogers, O, 2 J. G. Gibson, Harry R. Lincoin Townsen Copeland, J. A. Deff, L. Lamb, W, B, W& and William —e FAMOUS PEDESTRIAN . IS VICTIM OF STROKE Edward Payson Weston in Dire Need as Illness Ends Work Plans. alted idea of the reconci ion of na- tions cannot be promoted better than by the unequivocal honesty about the past which tore Europe into two hos- tile camps. By publishing our secret a have made an advance iation of nations.” “oreign Minister Stresemann wrote: “I reiterate that we German prepared to appear before any un- biasel court for fon into the ca s of the World War. Pub- lishing the foreign office documents will supply such a court with the requisite material. Any one reading the documents will be convinced that Germany by no means intentionally started or maliciously carried on (hr‘| war.” POISON VIC';IM .ETTER. Man Found in Burning Hotel Room Expected to Recover. Charles W. Lee, vears old New York, who was found in a ing room at the Hotel Mayflower fering from the effects of poisc yesterday afternoon, was restin, easily last night pital. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. February Payson Weston, famous New York-to- San !'tl'ull('ifl?o walker, 1 not fulfill his wish to be an octogenarian mes. senger boy this vear. 6.—Edward brought on by condition, has proved the final handicap to the m:n: of 88, and he is lying in bed in a tiny, dingy flat where Ninth street runs into the Hudson, destitute, in a city which once rang with praise of his exploits. An adopted daughter is caring for found in the room shortly him, and the third in the family is 4 boy of 14—child of former neighbors who died of influenza—who because of ;:?;ued illness is unable to be of any “It is not,” said his daughter, “as if daddy has been a lazy man, for be. after 2 o'clock and was ynable to talk because of his condition. to explain how the furnishings and -|age to the room was estimated at Hotel offi- cials said he had registered at the ho- tel Friday evening, but were unable room furniture had caught fire. Dam- sides his walking he worked on two 5 New York newspapers, but he never |2 00t $20 cared for money : TN Veston himself is cheerful despite| W i i his affliction, but his daughter i e Rk that promised purses have fa arrive, and that for two day: time they were without food. Their small savings have gone, and nothing is coming in. ! Before the pa had announced that to #elf and his dependents “turn professional” and e by walking, as a messeng ! that now is impossible. | = BOARD OF TRADE DINNER 'ggs™g SORE THROAT CHAIRMAN WINS PRAISE § . yesterday Dorothy Andree, venue northeast, d about the h: Iytic Dr. Gibson Given Testimonial by | Committee for Efforts in Stag- | ing Annual Affair. ation of the 1 dinner ever held by the of Trade, and the first which was at tended by a President of the United . approximately 100 members of embership committe timonial dinner to Real Estate Loans per. at the Columbia Country Club NolGomminion Charged es were given by Arthur Carr, Offutt, John Saul and Odell . Smith. A letter tror C. Graham, sident « board, who is now in was read praising Dr. Gib son’s efforts. The littee present ed the guesi vi horor with u library 1amp An o inment followed the d ner. un the program were ter, and Cox, Esther | Alma Zwi and Floyd C. Wi THIEF PENS “HA-HA’ NOTE. Revenge Given as Motive for Kan- sas City Robbery. At All Druggists You can take 12 years to pay off your loan without the expense of renewing. $1.000 for $10 per month, including interest and prin- cipal, half of which is ap- plied to reduction of debt. Larger or smaller loans at {ll proportionate rates. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Largest in Washington Assets Over $13,500,000 Cor. 11th and E N.W. v, President. y ). To rig vrong apparently was the motive of robbers who took $100 from the cash register in downtown | heauty parlor re last nig This | note, scratched in pencil on a blank | heck, was left Fair break, fair tady | There is always a way to get even. | Ja! ha! ha Revenge for some real or fancied JAMES BE wrong was the only explanation Miss | JOSHUA W, Leotha Atchison, proprietor of the shop; could give, KR, Secretary. Qi I PEERLESS FURNITURE CO., 829 7th ST. 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