Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1927, Page 10

10 - FIRES OF INDUSTRY CUDE AL LYERS Flaming Stacks of Steel Mills | Light Way for Planes at Night. Correspondence of the Assoclaved Press. NEW YORK.—The fires of industry | Jight the way across half a continent for the night air mail. If every aerial beacon between New York and Chicago were turned ou of the dark still could theit way above the flaming stacks of Pennsylvania steel mill across the coal and oll fields, hore and over Tndi: crescent which is C from the air On an industrial map of the United States such towns as Allentown, Sha- mokin, Brookville and South Bend are obscure and lifeless dots, identified more or less vaguely with steel or coal or _oil or commerce. But to the night air mail pilot these communities and many more hecome Jandmarks in the dar . eac flecting a character of i the light it diffuses into the heavens. | Wesley L. Smith, senior pilot of the New York-Cleveland leg of the air mail service under Federal operation telis how industry hlazes the trail for Cemetery, Beallsville, this county. Burial was in the cemetery. Mr. Spates, who was unmarried and a son of the late George W. Spates of this county, was 75 years old. Announcement has been made that students of the Rockville Grammar School will present “The Bird's Christ- mas Carol” in the Rockville High School auditorium next Wednesday evening. . ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 14 (Special).—Two search wa: nts sworn out by Police Capt. W. W. Campbell vesterday failed to produce any fur. ther evidence In the brass-lock thefts that have been taking place in this ty, and the only arrested suspect | James R, ey of Cameron and Hitt street, was released yesterday to his lawyer, Frederick L. Flynn, promised to produce Langley when Capt. Campbell decides to hold a hear- ing. Langley was arrested on a Sunday afternoon and when appre hended a lock stolen recently from the old Colonial Building, which is now the Beth Israel Congregation gogue, was found on his person. Lang- ley denies the theft of the lock and | sald he found it. A search of his home failed to reveal any further evidence. Capt. Campbell believes a sudden mar- thefts reported. A brass Ioc from 301 South Asaph street # been recovered € anager Paul Morton vester day received the first 1928 Virginia | State automobile tag issued in this | city. The number of his new tag is >$." a number he has held for the stolen who | “tip” | ket for brass locks brought about the | s not | THE: EV. | Chamber of Commerce headquarters. The State Highway Commission will meet in Richmond within the next two weeks to plan for the allo- cation of $7,697,000 available to the eight Virginia construction districts | for road building for 1928. The sugges- | tion that the River road, between | Washington and Alexandria, a link of | the Washington-Richmond ' highway he widened, is to be considered by | the commission, and an appropriation | will be made if the commission decides | to widen the road. | R. Samuel Luckett has heen re-elect- | | ed commander of the R. E. Lee Camp, | Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘NYAT SVILLE, Md., December 14. | WISH TO SEE M’CORMACK Sons of Confederate Veterans, for the | new term. Other officers chosen are: | Richard Ruffner, first commander; Carroll Woolf, lientenant commander: Lindsey Carne, adjutant and treasurer The Christian Endeavor Society of the Methodist Protestant Church has Thomas Simpson, president; | 1. Hooker, vice president; Wells, recording sec | Schrivener, corresponding | v; Norman Roberts, treasurer, | Paul Eberhart, pianist. I Fitzgerald Conneil, No. 459, Knight of Columbus, will meet tonight at 8 o'clock, at the K. of C* hom City Treasurer Roger C has announced that 4,731 pe their capitation tax before the office closed Monday night. The number is a decrease of 862 under last year | elected Greece in War on Communism. of the official campaign to symmunism, the public prose- | asked Parliament to sanc tion the prosecutions of all fhe Com munist deputies, numbering 10. on the | for Spencer charge of high treason for complicity NG_STAR. WASHINGTON $606,605 VALUATION Area Added to Hyattsville Assess- elected to the | ward last sitting heir | hecause of a legal technicality | cilman | 1928, health and parks, to municipal building, street lighting and lections committe Chief of | was form of , Greece, December 14 (). [ $125 to $150 a cember It was June Wine {el e veyor, to appear at the next council meeting and give any information and recommendations he could as to the situation. He made a survey when the question of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. improving Rail- road avenue was considered some time ago. It is planned to install between 50 L 2 |and 60 lights in the new fourth ward, ed—New Councilmen Are |10 0 orted by Councilman Harry Sworn In. | Boswell. | T |DEATH ENDS SET ON NEW WARD COMPOSER’S al valuation of $606,605, placed | 1 estate and improvements in the new fourth ward, was approved |Man Who Wrote “I Heaw You Call- by regular meeting Monday assessments became effec v council at its | night. The | ve at once, | the mayor and c s » A : ing Me” Succumbs in England. Roland T. Read Singer on Way There. il from the fourth were sworn in as They had heen pacity since | not inducted Coun. June, By the Associated Press LONDON, December 14.—The wigh of Charles Marshall to see a old friend, John MecCormack, for whom he composed the sonz, “T Hear | You Calling Me,” will nc | Marshall y Wembley {and McCormack is not likely to arrive |in time for the funeral, as he is now adviso we in an election hut Read will serve until and Galt until June, 1924 Read was appointed a member of committees: Road, police, and Galt was named fire department and |Aquitania. Marshall, an accompanist, composed the tamous song in 1912 especfally for | McCormack. When the Irish tenor | first heard the music, he remarked | that it was exactly what he wanted. | Marshall, who died at the age of 70, | had been receiving rovalties ever since for the song. Harold Lake of the from | editorial staff of the Daily Express. avenue to Ravenswood avenue Claims to have written the words for the noon recess hour of the | Marshall. Street School. The plan has . the finance, Police ( voted a an_increase month arl J. Blanchard Christmas gift In_the in salary from effective De. 15, decided to continue closing Spencer streat until ain his | the man be fulfilled. | |en route to Southamptoni aboard the | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1927. MILL WORKERS EXPECT | 10 PER CENT DECREASE Wage Cut Held Likely as Result| of Recent Drop in | Business. By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, N. H., 14.—Delegates to the Amoskeag work- ers' conference met yesterday after- | noon with the understanding that they | were to receive from the management | > the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.an announcement of a_10 per cent wage veduction, effective December 17. The | Amoskeag is one of the largest textile | mills in the world. | About 9,000 workers are employed by the Amoskeag at present Today's conference called under {a plan for employe representation in | gement which was adopted | several years ago. The mills have an {annual pay roll of $10,000,000 Ten per cent wage reductions have been made recently at textile mills in several main cities and at a few Mas sachusetts plants. Unsatisfactory | business conditions and ithern competition have been the causes gen- | | erally assigned | Fr el December Ttaly's recent reductions in {axes and postal, telegraph and (reight The leading mineral water ratey total e 3 000000, e ———————— > O\ byl v G N> G 0 N> SNl SNpalS Nl L3 Home of R.C.A., Atwater Kent, Crosley . The local distributor, | | . will begin the distri- | bution of tags tomorrow at 104 South | Washington street. The license plates | | are black, with orange numerals, ands| are two and one-half inches longer en in effect some time, ‘Theatrical costumes and ofher A s was received by council {ond-hand clothing sent to delight na from Jor Aman complaining |tives of Egypt must hereafter be dis- | that water from Railroad avengie was |infected before heing landed at Alex- | 1t was de-'andria, according to a new municipal | Latimer, sur- order. in the autonomy movement in Mace- | donia and Thrace. the nigh fivers who take off from o New York after dusk to layv hi. cago breakfast tables letters mailed the night before a thousand miles away. and Freed-Eisemann ELECTRIC Radios 34| cided to ask Edward Watch for Steel Furnaces. “The first thing we look for, flying at night, after leaving New York and its brightly lighted environs behind is the steel country.” Smith says. “The furnaces of Allentown and Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania are suffused in a glow of reddish light that makes them e to identify. “From them we jump to the hard eoal region, which lies in a vast arc from Hazleton. through Shenandoah to Shamokin in east central Pennsyl- vania. Collieries and towns in abun- | Gance, lighted up all night, give the region the appearance of an immense | half moon.” | Central Pennsylvania is a black | area, for, although it has many indus than in 1927. The new plates may be used immediately after purchase with- | out waiting for January 1, as has been | the custom in the past. The departure |from the old system was made by | Gov. Harry ¥lood Byrd. i Miss Sadie James, field representa- | tive of the American Red Cross, who | was sent here by the national chapter to take charge of tornado rehabilita- tion work, has heen called to Wash. | her | ington due to the illness of mother. An assistant has been left in charge, The Retail Merchants’ Club will meet ' tonight at 8 n'clock in the Alexandria tries, few of them are in operation | through the night. “But beyond Bellefonte, Pa., we come to more lights, scattered and frregular, but definite’ enough to look from the sky like a section of the milky way fallen down fo earth. These are the lights of the soft coal mines and they stretch straight from Snow Shoe to Du Bois, Pa. ow the plane is over the oil coun. and here are lights of stillanother Population is more scant and | lights are even more scattered, for there are mo large cities. But from Brookville to Kennerdell, Pa., the ol % ells show up from the night sky, for almost every one has an open gas | try, sort. flame which shines like a torch.” 11 Ohio Mills Guide Flyers. Just across the Pennsylvania-Ohio line the night pilot comes upon the line of light which stretches from Pittsburgh northwest through Youngs- town, Ohio, to Cleveland. “Mills, ovens and blast furfaces, al! aglow, make it a simple task to find this line and to follow it into Cleve- | Jand Lake Erie by night, like others of the great lakes, is identified from the sky as a huge pool of blackness, Smith ates. “But the fiyer sees below him the rim of light along the shore, with scattered dots of light to the south, and westward from Cleveland he fol- Jows this line along the edge of the lake. Now there are more cities. Jedo appears to the north as Lake Erie i left behind, and the plane noses westward until South Bend appears, then Gary. with more steel mills and blast furnaces. “Chicago and its metropolitan area, banked around the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, look from the air at night like a great crescent. The pilot takes the outer edge of the cres- cent, follows it around to the western rim and comes down at the air mail field in Maywood—with dawn still gomewhere behind him.” ROCKVILLE, Md., December 14 (Special).—Judge Robert B. Peter in the Circuit Court at Rockville has signed a decree granting to Ernest Loffler of Wheaton an absolute di- vorce from Mrs. Pauline G. Loffler of Baltimore on the ground of desertion. The plaintiff was represented by At- torney Clifford H. Robertson of Rock- wville. They were married in Anmapo- Jis January .8, 1921, and six weeks later, the bill states, the plaintiff was deserted “without just cause or provo- cation.” No children were born of the marriage. ‘With all of the 17 Epworth Leagu of Frederick and Montgomery Coun- ties well represented, the bi-monthly meeting of the Fred-Mont Epworth League Union was held last evening in Grace Methodist Church, Gaithers: burg. Miss Ruby Trail of Rockville was leader, and, following devotional exercises and a business session, a program of music, recitations and other features was given. Miss Kath- erine Wells, president of the Epworth League of Grace Church, headed the committee of arrangements. Heads Ministerial Body. Rev. W. W, McIntyre, pastor of the thodist Church at Poolesville, was ted president of the Montgomery County Protestant Ministerial Asso- ciation at a_meeting of the organiza- tion in the Rockville Methodist Church yesterday. He succeeds Rev. Byron W. John of the Rockville Methodist Church. The other officers chosen were: Vice president, Rev. Henry K. Pasma, pastor of the Rock- ville Presbyterian Church, and secres tary-treasurer, Rev. William E. Nel- son of the Clarksburg Methodist Church. Program committee—Rev. J. ‘W. Louden of the Darnestown Pres- byterian Church, Rev. Stockton My- erly of the Colesville Methodist Church and Rev. Byron W. John, The session was featured by ad- dresses by Rev. Frark M. McKibben, secretary of the International Reli- gious Education of Maryland and Del- aware; Rev. Maurice Hamm, connect- ed in an official capacity with the #ame organization, and Miss Jrma Mohr, director of the Montgomery County Social Service League. Dr. MeKibhen talked on religious co-opera. tion, Mr. Hamm on the work of the organization with which he is con- nected, and Miss Mohr discussed the activities and needs of the Social Serv- ice Leugue. In addition to the elec- tion of officers, the usual business was transacted. The {5 ministers present partook of a “fellowship” luncheon, merved by women of the Rockville Methodist Church. Tax Complaints Heard. Quite a number of taxpayers of Rarnesville and Poolesville districts appeared before the county commis- sioners here yesterday and expressed dissatisfaction with ~the valuations placed on their properties hy the tax nssessors who recently’ conducted a yeassessment of all real and personal property: in those districts. Adjust- ments in virtually all instances were quickly accomplished, however. Next ‘Tuesday the commissioners will hear protests from Damascus and Darnes- lown districts. Funeral services for Frank P. Spates, native and former resident of this county, who died suddenly of apo- lexy, near Sherman, New Me: To- | § ETRTETETSTE TR EETE TR RTETE TR TETETETETE TS . gifts embodied love orative. An ETZ gift, a frames for old glasses, or bodies all of the qualities gift. An ETZ gift is a wisel too many pairs of glasses: An ETZ gift is decorative to the face, not the face t. 1217 G A GIFTORIAL By Edwin H. 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