Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 10

D. C. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL, |- Martin. 58 years old, 229 Ninth | street northeast, president of the Po- tomac Construction Co., who was kill- ed by the boom of a piledriver at the | foot.of Jefferson avenue | The jury found that Martin was re- sponsible for his own death by stand- ing under false leads, and ignoring or | y | not_hearing warnings shouted by his | Joseph | employes | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. SECONDCLASS MAI RATES DISCUSSED {Publishers and - Congress oy | aw CASE DROPPED ‘,f:;;-:,';;}‘[ Committees Confer on Sug- | FoR WANT OF EVIDENCE ,-;&:::;!::..‘,'f gested Readjusiment. ‘ eds Hmr;m Chiaras] Against Mrs. Pearl Stanley and Authorizes Dismissal. gave his name as Bdward Hower in| swearing out his warrant and that he was in a bad humor toward his si-ter | as a result of a family quarrel. M i - a8 B esult of 3 jumily auarrel, Mi;| Verdict at Inquest in Case of Jo informer, the brother of the M'ffind [ ant, swore under an assumed nane (0 an alleged sale case set for trial. .nd | the defendant failed to appear in court. In view of these facts, ind furiher | lieving no sale was ever made from | an Inquest into the death of this private d\\'ellini. nolle yosse en- —_— wm&%m*&wmxm&amm&m& DE MOL PIANO AND % FURNITURE CO. }'g Twelfth and G Sts. N.W. 3 OPEN TONIGHT can Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- tion; Col. Robert Ewing of the New Orieans States, president of the South- ern Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- tion: Norman E. Mack of the Buffalo Times: Urey Woodson of the Owens: boro (Ky.) Messenger; J. D. Barnum, publisher of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Pos Standard, and W. E. Pearson, chair man of the National Publishers' Con- ference. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and Sailings From New York U ASKED TOPAY FORRIVER IJl]NTRUU Reid Bill Takes Any Part ot Engineering Expense From | Valley States. seph L. Martin. A verdict of accidental death wa returned hy a coroner’s jury today at L M, ARRIVED YESTERDAY Fhne Gray [ine, Matn 090 Allnnm X1ll—Guon Hovember 20 " December 10 . December 9| December & Decen: DEATH HELD A MYSTERY. Because no one could be found who | k4 saw him fatally hutt, a coroner’s| jury today found that James T. Bur-| vows, 71 years old, of 725 Twenty- fourth street, who died at Emergency Hospital Monday night from a frac. tured skull after being picked up un- conscious from the street in front of his home, died in a manner unknown to the jury. Two persons were examined at the | inquest without result. Burrows presumably was the vie-| tim of a hitandrun driver, overaber Americ | DU | Leviathan anchuria TODAY. outhamplon Francisco December 15 | By the Associated Press | A readjustment of second-class mail vates formed the subject of a confer- fence yesterday betieen representa tives of the publishers of the country and Chairmen Moses and Griest of the Senate and House post office com- mittees, $ This was the first definite move t carry out the recommendations to| Congress of Postmaster General New that there he an equitable readjust- ment of rates, “which have changed from time to time during and since the war By the Associated Press The Federal Government was desi nated to assume the entire cost and yesponsibility of controlling the Mis sissippi River's destruc dnods in a hill introduced today Chairman | Jetap: Reid of the House flood-control com- | Conte mittee. Besides mapping out a plan for curbing the Mississippi’s inundations, | o the measure directs the Federal Gov-| Rochambeay ernment to investigate destructive fioods on all other navigable streams Ll of the country and submit ‘o Congress "(".“'v"":';:” a program for their control et Rvndam — pton i g to find any evi- dence of a liquor sale in what looked to him like a family quarrel, United States Attorney David A. Hart today olle prossed a charge of illegal sale nd possession of liguor against Mrs. earl Stanley, 234 Tenth street north- Immediately_afterward, Har Whelan, Mrs. Stanley's attorney, e, | said he would move to have a charge of perjury lodzed against Elwood Hawes, who said he bought a pint anley, his sister. | of liquor from M e 1920 Rates Urged. | Hawes is said have told police that his sister el <hers again |Of the Ninth prec Spokesmen for the publishers again |}, 475" guantity of liquor and to have urged the restoration of the 1920 rate tint (e Hater sined and agreed to prepare statistics to suy . ¢ port their contention that such ac- | bousht R pInt Troth Uar, S0g e tion would result in the greatest vol- s > ume of paying mail ever carried, acrested Mra. Mtanlel Tt in the Mope of the publishers to| It Was. charged today that Hawes have these statistics ready hefumi Hern -Laverpool After vainly tr: DI'E_TOMORROW —Bermuda Marta n ve by - Biancama DUE FRIDAY President - Furniture Gifts of Individuality Havre t Bordeaux SATURDAY, DEC Tampico Francisco ampton Decorated Nest of Tables With Glass Tops. Finished in bright colors. Dainty in design and sturdy in construction. am e alparaiso . . " December DECEMBER 25, Port Limon . December 18 MBER 26 December Opposes Coolidge Plan. Named the “flood control act of 1925, the bill, by directing the Gov ernment to shoulder the entire ex- pense ru counter to the plan de. signed by Maj. Gen. Jadwin, chie{ of Army Engi and recommended to | Au, Congress by President Coolidge. The Jadwin plan proposed that tbe Gov- ernment should bear 80 per. cent of the cost and the valley States the | remaining 20 per cent. The measure does not specify the DUE SUNDAY Pastore Chairman Griest of the House com- | mittee introduces his bill for rate ad- justment soon after Congress recon- venes. after the holidays. If that is not found to be practicable they will be presented at hearings before the | December 21| House committee. s ishers' representatives attending December 10 | vesterday's conference included John December 16 n of the Richmond (Va.) president of the. Am Ilceormlrk Ihilul e N Dr. CLAUDES SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main 721 409110 MelLachlen Bhix. 10th and G Nts. N.W CEMBER 27. . December " Decembe: Novembe; Decembe: An Appropriate Gift Specially Priced at 525 Come in and see the wonder- and would designate the Mississi River Commission as the agency carry out the task. The commiss in a report to Gen. Jadwin, mended an_ expenditure of § 000, while the Army engineer gmm fixed the flood control cost $186.400,000. The Jadwin plan rec mended also that the commission be i % made an advisory hody to the Army ey o i engineers, depriving it of its present | F: uan. La Guayra and Mara- Antw Hayes. . | Edison—Piraeus OUTGOY TEAMERS, SAILING TODAY Albert Ballin—Cherbour. Southampton and | . Hambure E/ & _Puerto| Ohe of Our complete control of the project. Payment Chief Issue. Although drafted alone by Mr., Reid, the bill is said to embody many of the | views of the opponents in Congress | of the Jadwin plan. “My views differ with those em- bodied in the reports to Congress on as to the question of the Gove ment’s policy regarding payment Mr. Reid declared in a statement ac- companying his bill. *“Upon the cor- rect decision on this depends whether or not Congress really wants or in- tends that disastrous floods like that of 1927 shall never occur again or whether only a gesture is intended.” UNDERTAKER TAKES KING BENJAMIN’SBODY Corpse of Cult Leader to Be Em- balmed and Placed on View at Colony. By the Associated Press. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Decem- | M% ber 21.—All that is mortal of Ben- Jamin urnell, seif-styled “seventh messenger,” was carted out of the House of David Colony yesterday in an undertaker's hearse, the resur- rection having failed to materialize. The body of the dead “King who for: 25 years held temporal and spiritual sway over the several hun- dred believers in his doctrine of ever- lasting life, went from the colony, viand, Purnell's eai | Fort_Vietord Columbue. uda West Indies ernise. | St M i ihiel 5 SAILING TOMORROW. Altongo XITi—Corunna, Sinisnder and 11bao. American_Merchant—Plymouth_and London Coamo—San Juan and Santo Demingo City Estonia—Copenh: d Danzie, President Van Bu San Francisco (around, Santa_Ana—Cristobal. naraiso. Araguava—Bermuda | Ambridge—Rotterdam. | Dakotan—Canal Zome and Pacific Coast. Tercero—Buenos Aires. | Tintoretto—Santos. SAILING FRIDAY. istobal and he world) Tauique and DECEMBER 23, acaibo. g Plupru—lnnnla. Cape Haytien and Port au rince. B Mexico—Havana, Progreso, Vera Cruz and ‘ami Brideetown—Port au Prince, Cartagena and Puerto Colombia. NG SATURDAY. DECEMBER 24. and_Antwer, and Liverpool. Letitia—Moville Tasgo mouth. Havre and London. Sibone; ana. Porto Rico—San Ju; Tivives—Santiao. Kiniston and Puerto Bar- "alwmarv-—lh\-nu Cristobal and Port | Halitax and St John. | . Geo rie—Bermu b Qantiaro. " Riagsion and Puerto | Colombia. Elna E_—Pu Plata. Santo Domingo City risti. and Monte ¢ SAILING MONDAY. DECEMBER. 26, Mexican—Cristobal and Pacific Coast. SAILING TUESDAY. DECEMBER 27. Thuringia—Queenstown Cherbours and Ham- ure. SAILING WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 28. Now Tork-—Cherbours. Southampjon /and i Ancon—Port an Prince and Cristoba) Caracas. Juan. 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