Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1927, Page 4

g il THE EVENING 20, 1927, LINDBERCH TAKES ~ ALEXANDRIA CTE STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, -TUESDAY, DECEMBER TRIANGLE MEASURE IS GIVEN TO SENATE tion at this time in a sum slightly in | excess of $17,000,000. would help a lot of members, it wor “Another thing that is highly desir- | provide nothing for his district. Rep able is the removal of all of the old |resentative Busby, Democrat, M ayesores along the south side of Penn- | sippi, also announced that he w inst the bill because, wl PROMINENT IN ANNEXATION CASE CALLES IN PLANE SERVICE T0 COUNTY Ohregon Also Enjoys Ride With American Ace—Both Pleased With Trips. MENTOO de he 1ip and Lindbergh sa y 1n South Amery n of do 1 i American Havana as will be d dop in Central Am. ve Christmas mplete the fiight Only the capitals of vican ecountries will be be unable to visit Mexico. time afte 0 visited pther eities in MOTHER FACKS LONG LAP. Today Covers 800 Miles Program for Fram St to San Antonio. ST. LOUIS, December 20 (). -After » Right of 462 miles on the first leg of ip t0 AMexico City for a Christ geline her the progr . Arriving late yesterday from Detroit with 2 stop at Indlanapolis for lunch- con, Mrs. Lindbergh paid her second visit to St. Louis, this time flying in a Ford tri-motored plane, A blast of cold City Manager, in Annexation Hearing, Says Territory Is in Utilities Area. fax coun that xan city Ly water e dependent on ton. ety v of Alex umed hearing Alex morning counsel made a a stav of pro- ch Cites Utilities Secyice. ence which he hegan un week. With the intrody ed 1o by court iast was ohjec ity disp same Alexandria, Jies area. has repeated! extension of gas mains from v, and in other i o the territoria on. 150 that by he con the © served s that of the system in the same irainage . od o the fit expansion plans of in Morton de o whic Hispn wred ing drains part results Alexandria, hat of which pollution from Hoofs Rur he section in menace the N tr e av He de trunk aid t )sit for along mits to aid, will hin th the city has construc Hooff's the correct city £60,000 ion of a un from This polluted limits, but pollution ot over n sewerage aren sewage disposal sewer ity river he conditions will not om sections outside the ine. Alexandria wi a1l of the Hooff's into municipal In prevent further the answer to questions from coun the counties, Morton said that town of Potomac, which Alexan- | also seeks to annex, has a mod sewage system which does not er into Hoof's Ru drains way from the city i Mile n to the north and into e potomac. ern ur thence Water System Private. l{v connection with Morton's expla- nation of the water em, it was | brought out that the system is owned | and 4![!@]‘.([9(1 by a private corporation. | Opposing counsel interjected that this | torporation could cease operations and | urn off the water suppy at will | Alexandria owns its own gas plant |and is ready to furnish gas to the ter- ritories sought to be annexed *“at once,” Morton testified. This plant, he said, has twice the capacity needed to serve the city on the basis of its pres- | ent consumption. Residents of terri tory to the north of the city have re- peated asked that the city supply zas service to them, the court was | told. ate is $1.45 per 1,000 cubic feet net, or $1.75 per 1.000 cubic ‘eet gross, Morton explained. There = no gas in the territory which Alex- andria now seeks. At the opening of the procecdings | this morning, F. S. McCandlish, as- soclate counsel for Fairfax County, re- quested the court to suspend the trial today because of the absence of Com- |monwealth Attorney Wilson Farr of | bers as a committee Upp Members of counsel for m and Fairfax Counties and Alex- Front rvow, ndlish, Willi vhin S, Barbour, €. € arter Hall and Crandal ow: Charles T. Jesse Snow, Albert V. ¥ ator Frank 1 : Lower, judges in the case, vight: Don P. Halsey of Ly Samuel G Brent of Arlington Co and Frederick Coleman of Freder burg. CUBMARINE PROBE 1S ASKED IN HOUSE Griffin ~ Wants Committee Named to Investigate S-4 and S-51 Disasters. William By the Associated Press Investigation by a of the sinking of & ed today by R House committee and S-51 was ask ntative Griffin, | Democrat, New The resolution would direct Speaker Longworth to select seven House mem- ‘to inquire into the matter of the construction of sub- marines for the United States Navy the method of consideration and ap proval of plans and specifications, and particulars as to issuance of contracts construction. would seek the number condition and general seaworthiness of submarines so far constructed or n commission, with particular refer- ance to the installation of safety de- vices for the protection of the lives of the crew, and the facllities, it anv, for the raising and salvage of subma- rines in case of disaster.” After investigating the two subma- rine disasters, the committee would ba asked to consider the advisability F. n and State Sen- left to rhburg, nty chis- PRESIDENT INVITED | | TO TRADE DINNER Béazd to Hold Annual Banquet on | February 4, with Nota- bles Present. | President Coolidge heads a list of prominent officials and citizens of the | National Capital and nearby States to be invited as honor guests to the an- | Mexico Aids Flood Sufferers. MEXICO CITY, December 20 (#).— | e hundred thousand pesos (roughly | 50,000) has been voted by Congres: for relief of flood victims in the States | of Sonora and Sinaloa. Several towns were badly damaged during floods there recent} For the first time in the 133 years of the University of North Carolina women occupy a place on the facuity. WITH AMENDMENT (Continued from First Page.) | sending the favorable report of that committee. This bill is emphasized as one of the most forward step ever taken by the Government for ideal development of he Capital City in an inspiring ad- |dress by Representative Lanham, Democrat, of Texas, ranking minority | member on the committee on public | buildings and grounds, formerly « member . of the House District com mittee. an Representative Busby, crat, of Mississippi, who led the oppo Sition to the companion measure, the | Reed bill, which provides an addition- al $100,000,000 for Fed buildings throughout the States increases the amount to be spent 1y in | | the States from $15,000,000 to $25.000,- | 000, which passed by a vote of 25 to | 27, ‘announced that he had no opposi tion to the $25,000,000 triangle bill. | Demo- Indorsement Wins Applause. In stressing the importance of im mediate action to relieve the Govern- ment of a heavy rent bill as well to make possible efficient transaction of the Government bi Repre sentative Lanham won applause from | both sides of the House when he said: | “The great purpose of this com: panion bill is to carry out the L'En fant plan and place in this triangle Federal departmental buildings like the Department of Commerce, the De- | | partment of Justice and the Depart- | ment of Labor, to get them out of | rented quarters and to give us a civic center of our own buildings where we may obviate the payment of rent, where we may transact the public pusiness with greater dispatch, and where we may have some architec- tural harmony and conformity among { the structures and make this the great Capital that it should be. “Let me say that these buildings— the Commerce Department, the J | tice Department, and the Labor De partment—ave not intrinsically mere | District of Columbia buildings. They | are buildings in which all the people | of this country are interested.” Chairman Madden of the House ap- | propriations committee also laid em- | phasis on the importance of the Fed- | eral building program as a sound business proposition and pointed out tne importance of expeditiously carry- | | ing forward the construction $25,000,000 Fund Is Extra. siness Chairman Elliott of the public build- | ngs commitiee, Representative Hud speth, Democrat, of Texas, and Repre- sentative Reed of New York were | among those who explained the pu pose of both public buildings measure: It was made clear that the $25,000, 000 for purchase of the Mall triangle site is in addition to and entirely out- |<ide of the $25,000,000 that can be | |spent each vear out of the total| 115,000,000 public building fund ap- proved by the last Congress and in rddition to the $100,000,000 additios | ipproved by the House yesterday. The imount_that can be spent annually | n the $50,000,000 program in Was! ngton, already approved, is $10,000,000 1 vear, which is not affected in any | way by the Reed bill passed yester- day in the House. In his report to the House on the triangle bill, Chairman Elliott said: It is very desirable from the stand- point of economy that this territory be taken over at once, as taking it | yver piecemeal and the erection there- | on of modern Government buildings | will have a_tendency to increase the | value of the real estate not used.‘ which increase in value will have to | e paid by the Government later on. This property is assessed for taxa- | Eliott |of Columbia. sylvania_avenue which have caused oppose the measure hecause he the the people of the Country to wonder | Congress was d why the most important street in the ment a part greatest capital of the world should | HOPES ARE WANING FOR S-4 RESCUE > S | Pushes Administration’s | Program. Congress de a out the tion’s new public buildi which received a 12-month when the approp Senate filibuster Ia Both the House ready have approv t to the | prepara White House a deficiency supply bill carrying, among other items 1 more than $8,000,000 for the initiation | of the first year's work of the which ultimately will provic for new post office and Federal build ings in many cities ¥ ally all of the projects to be cared for under this appropriation were authorized in 1913, and since that time have been awaiting attention of Congress, which was diverted first by the war. The $8.000,000 appropriation is t first money actually to be provided un der the $165,000.000 public buil act authorized sion. In a tion, the Budget au mended to Congress an appropria of several million dollars to start con struction next y on a number of other buildings in various cities. appropriation awai idge’s approval diately upon his ciency supply bill Besides these measures, the I vesterday passed and sent to the S ate bills to authorize appropriations 000,000, to increase to $290,000,- f 000 the total amount to be mad he next 10 years. five years of th 000 is to be After that, the fAving program, gl i toward Senate al <l Coolidge Expresses Regre the assur s s t ing done. NEW VOLUME COMMENDED ion on ne on t tag. MeDe paper man Washingto: | men. ated r of approp: remaing the total | clared fund is to be appropriated in such | tional Capita \mounts as required to provide for | L3 - WIDE AREA IN to be the completion of various project Of the $290,000,000 a lump sum of | 5,000,000 is for the District of Co- umbia, and the remaining $215,000, 000 tor projects throughout t States. Representative Reed, w York, supported Chairman of the public buildings com- |4 mittee, introduced the 1 author- ize the appropriation of $125,000,000, | of which $100,000,000 was allotted to new construction throughout the States and $25,000,000 for the District The measure, as ap- proved yesterday by the House, a_duplicate_of the bill‘which f of passage last year in the Senate. The only opposition that has de veloped to the public buildings pro gram has been from Southern Demo- crats, who contend that (‘nngre.\&“ rather than the Treasury and Post Office Departments, should determine | Republican, | N by the Potomac tations, one streets, and avenue, near 7 it nece rily on t The ligh pair men, work |to renew service area from t Chevy Cha: - e Md affec was 3,600 Radio Patent. Of more than 3,600 in Washinton to rights number 307 2 Under receiv number 119, specia 28, where the new buildings are to be iocated. The views of this group of South- ern Democrats were summed up yes- terday in the House by Representa- tive Huddleston, Democrat, Alabama, | who declared that he would vote | meter THE FASHION SHOP nome or tnE WORUMBO oveRrcoar 3 OVERCOATS| nual Midwinter dinner of the Wash- | of constructing for the Navy suitable | ington Board of Trade, to be held | wind which struck her as she alighted | that county, due to a death in his salvage vessels such as are in use| from the cabin caused her to draw her | family, but ihe court decided that an fur coat collar up about her face. She | 1djournment should not be taken. was comfortable in the plane, how- ever, she said Spending the night here as the guest of Maj. and Mrs. M. D. Robertson, Mirs. Lindbergh arose early for the take-off scheduled at 9 p.fn. Besides the | Lindbergh was | srew of the plane, M 2ccompanied Ma ) manager at Mexico City for the ¥ord Aotor Co., which is host 10 Mrs. Lind bergh on the flight, and Mr. and Mrs. William B. Stout. Stour designed the vhich was piloted by Harry with Harry Russell as mech R. A. Lajou Three hours trip from Detroif 1o Tndia 2 hours 45 minutes lutter city were required for the and from here PANAMA PLANS GREETING, Country Prepaving Greatesi Reception to Welcome Lindy. 0 iP). A re the annals of he committes for » welcome Lindhergh when PANAMA, December seption unrivaled in Panama i the goal of appointed 10 prepare for Col. Charles A. he flies here The con er Alfar mers, Uni sioner for o mommittee arcanging feld. Mai. Gen. G tiee Foreign D. comm the sub Jandin. met, with presiding. I itade headed for a Zaone exper would ¥ wanding ned Al fron tructed info mmities every ussis Tanding pare Janding Zaone hle [ field will Panama movement which chile b, primary schools o subscribes conts for Andberg Mothers of the will sut ach to buy WALSH'S PROPOSED PROBE IS SHIFTED Senate Refers Resolution for Inves- tigating Pawer Financing to In- tersiate Commeree Committee vieh mittee wou tore woul i en he pro 13 Democ Yeans in fave while ats tmiting with epih W& the resolu and ane ars e, Farmer Democ apolis and | the | WASHINGTON MAN HELD | ON ROBBERY CHARGE | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December 2 tle with an armed assailant, screams from Miss Mathilda Presst. man last night resulted in the arrest »f Joseph Bell, 52, of Washington, on v charge of highway robbery. Bell attempted to get the woman's | \andhag, she said. A policeman who heard the screams fired two shots at Bell, who was running, before he stopped. The police said Bell had a | blackiack, a loaded gun and 32 car tridges in his possession. COUPLE FOUND DEAD. Screams of Woman in Hotel Fol-' lowed by Six Shots. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Decemt - 20 (#). | n and a woman registered in a re as Joe Wandling and wife an._ Ohio, were found dead in room early today, each with three breast bullet wounds. Sreams from the woman attracted | atiention of other guests, who then P} 0 d six shots fired. The corone ble to determine which was A revolver was found lying » them. There was no sign of a struggle, police sald Wandling was thought to be about vears old, and the woman about 25 At End of'His Flight Lindy’s Gas Supply Down 10 30 Gallons 15 R the Associat MEXICO CI When Col Valbuena gallons of December Lindbergh 1d _he had about 30 soline left, enough to three hours long- newspaper men at st night ot bad when vou figure couple of hours flying out irse when lost,” Lindbergh had four of five hours o es in gas more than my T passed over ber of lds in Mexico while lost 20. landed at + flown Two o told a ny a landing f and it wo land and acqu ctionns, of course 1 did not desire to do this AT to make a non-stop Ajcht Hickman a Brilliant holar, His Record At School Reveals KANSAS CITY, December 20 —This is the record at Cen A1 High School here of Wil 1 Edward Hickman, suspect being the kidnaper and of Marian Pavker in Los class, president, senior dent, Central Webster Central Chapter, 5 Stident conneil, 1924, 1925, usiness manager, Central i (weekly newspaper). editor, - Centralian n Central Fresident, Classics in foreign navies. Henry Ford to Visit Ireland. DUBLIN, December 20 (#).—Henry Ford will visit Ireland in April o May as a guest of John McCormack, the noted tenor, it was stated at Mc: Cormack’s Moore Abbey home toda Mr. McCormack arrived at his home last night to spend the holidays there. At the Abbey it was sald that Mr. | with | Ford vill combine business pleasure on his visit to Ireland. Jackknives Given To President for Whittling Next Year Following the publication of a story that President Coolidge was looking forward to his retirement when he could sit and rest and en joy whittling he has received a number of jackknives, In mentioning this today, the President said he appreciated the interest in his future, but he felt that he was recelving these pres- ents under false pretenses, as he has no intention of indulging in such idleness as whittling when he retires from the presidency. He admits that whittling used to interest him when he was a lit tle boy, but he has had little time for it or even desire for it since be- coming a man | February 4 at the Willard Hotel. | Invitations are to be sent out to- | morrow to President Coolidge and | other honor guests, including Vice | President Dawes, members of the President’s cabinet, justices of the Su- | preme Court, members of the House | and Senate District committees, the | subcommittees of the committees on | appropriations of the House and Sen- ate dealing with the District of Co- | lumbia, man Madden of the House appropriations committee, | Chairman Warren of the Senate ap- | propriations committee, Gov. Byrd of | Virginia, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, | President Plerson of the Chamber of | | Commerce of the United States, Sena- tor Smoot, of the Public | Buildings Commission; the Distric Commi oners and the Assistant En gineer Commissioner: Merle Thorpe, | editor of the s | editors of the five daily newspapers of | Washington and othe | | Although tickets sale only about two weeks ago, reservations have been taken, and the tal number of attendants at the | meeting is limited to about 700, offi cials of the board said | An elaborate entertainment program is being arranged the committee headed by George Triplett. chairman On August 25, 1919, the first daily | passenger service was instituted miles long—between London d Paris < Closed Until Noon Wednesday December 21st Owing to the Death of Mrs. Anne Grogan-Powers G REDUCED PHILLIPS Peter Grogan & Sons Co. OGAN'’S 817-823 Scventh St. W. 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