Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1927, Page 25

SEVEN GonNAS PLANNED ATBALL One Nude Maiden on Horse Declared Not' Enough for Chicago Affair. By the Associated Press. November 14.—The Arts’ s to be done diva—surely the legend to mind—was the noble- or the promise of velief tir gh The crux of t Chicago Arts’ Iots of customers for the ann hits upon the not-so-new-but-: Buccessful idea that injection of some- thing a bit risque would create the desired public di n_pro and con, Wwith the resultant f all tickets. Committee Wants But the argument amo: mitteemen got off . that" the Lady G came genuine there are those W one out seven God Benjamin H ent. is one Godiva. more. One will be Lady Godiva, I and all. The oth will be Godivas on foot, posing in a All will wear ‘blond wigs.” All for Art’s Sake. And so the committee was called today. “It is for art,” they explained. But wkatever the result of the dis- cussion—and this the committee was at pains to commend to the notice of reportars—the ball will positively b held, rain or ' whether it be plural cr, poss PANAMA CANAL TRAFFIC IN NEW RECORD FOR YEAR Total of 6,072 Sea-Going Craft Pass Through, Large Increase in Revenue. By the Associated Press. Panama Canal traffic established a mew record for the last fiscal year with @ constant procession of 6,072 sea-go- in: craft, or an average of 16.6 ships per day passing through the big ditch. “Vessels were handled both in tran- ®it and at the terminals with the promptness which operators have learned to expect and demand,” Go M. L. Walker of the Canal Zone, ad ed in his annual report made public today. The total net revenue from all Sources, except operations of the Pana- ma Railroad Steamskip Line, was laced at $18,131,819 as compared to 17,340,865 the preceding year, the frame. mber 2 singula absentia. Registering THE TIMID SOUL 50 You SAW LOVE AND THE LAWY, UETOAST. TELL ME WHAT MRMILQ You THOUGHT OF WHY, UH -€eR =1 [card THOUGHT ITWAS PRETTY RAW. | SHOULDN'T WANT TO TAKE MRS, MILQUE- ToAST 1 SEE \T. 1T WoULD B€ ALL RIGHT FOR. A STAG PARTY BUT-URH- RATHER INDELICATE FOR LADIE S Hm! | SAW THE PLAY AND | FOUMD IT ~OST | AmULSING. | S DE/\UNG FRAMKLY ASSURE YOU NOTHING \NDELICATE 14 o WITH FACTS AMND \ cAM My MORAL 5 HAVEN'T BEEN IMPAIRED N THE L€I\5T. I'M SORE YOU'RE MNOT INSINUATIMG THAT I'™M “auxiliary business operations” of the canal administration yielding a net profit of $876,536 on shops, store- houses and fuel plants and $1,644.189 on railroad activities exclusive of the steamship line but including com- missaries, docks and cattle industry. Years of experience has demon- s d the value of all these auxili- ary services “combined under one or- ganization,” Gov. Walker said, adding: “It is notable that in the face of the general opposition to the govern- ment engaging in business activities, the wisdom of this arrangement at the ca]rlml is recognized practically univer- sally."” NO-NO-No-ro- vo-Noll! AIDS MAYOR THOMPSON IN ANTI-BRITISH FIGHT Charles Grant Miller of New York Wrrives in Chicago With 32-Page Treatise. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 14.—Armed with a 32-page treatise against angli- cized American histories, Charles Grant Miller of New York, president of the Patriotic League for the Preser- vation of American History, came to Chicago today to testify at the trial of Willlam McAndrew, suspended super- intendent of Chicago pub’ic schools. Miller, who described himself as a pioneer in the movement to rid school- rooms of pro-British texts, prepared the treatise after an investigation of several histories which Mayor Thomp son of Chicago has branded as anti- American. 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