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A BIG DAY FOR THE CAPITAL'S opens its annual show today at the Columbia road, and these three aristocrats are among the many competing Perched above the two blue Persians is Nami Koma of for ribbons. Siamese pedigree. — B AR “COMETS” OF THE CINDER PATH. Charley Paddock, America’s star sprinter (at left), paces Dr. Otto . distance runner, in a workout at Los Angeles. Paddock is training for the comping Olympics and the visiting athlete also is keeping in shape for the great international test. GARNER SCORES TAx BILL DELAY) - STUDYAS DECIDED THTE FEVENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, TANUARY 16 1928.° KITTIES. The Washington Cat Club L’Aiglon Club, Eighteenth street and Copyright by Harris & Ewing. ERICAN CONF the Cuban capital, the United States Conference. foreign visitor in Havana. and 21 Lati American countri President Coolidge was tendered on Peltzer, Germany’s famous middle- Wide World Photos. BASIS OF FARM AID Blocked Because It Increases | House Agricultural Commit- Corporation Payments He Says. By the Aseociated Press. g that the administration 1g Benate action on the was $290,000,000 tax-reduction bill becnwv:; it had been discovered that one of its provisions would increase by $50,000,000 the taxes paid by larger corporations was made in the House todsy by Representative Garner, Democrat, of Texas. Gerner insisted that it was not the $290,000.000 reduction to which the ad- ! and predict- on were eliminated, appre a bill calling for a minority afwer the March 15 in which Becrelary sved would pay & wotal 100,000, adding more taxes for Mr. Mellon, t tax reduction W Uncle ase would be brought about “ oomn ma- 2 4 in s Ll revealed Vday, T s e are sgainst i wre expecied e Juepublican regulars for erated Vsbay his dis- vion meay [P minonty Commilee g Y dee i & program PLAN BATTLEFIELD PARK. North snd Bouth Vetersne to Re port on Fessihility, Clem, Union Vivian Flem ¢ i tue Con- bug and Byoleylvauis Ve, WW & and Presi- | s and m»kr£1 coinct- | under a pro-; tee to Discuss Revised Mc- Nary-Haugen Bill. By the Assoclated Press | The revised McNary-Haugéh bill will | be the basis of farm relief discussions | by the House agricultural committee, it was decided today at the first meet- | ing of that committee to consider the | flood of farm proposals made in both | House and Senate. A move to prevent a recurrence of previous extended hearings was made by Representative Adkins, Republican, Tilinois, who expressed the opinion that the committee could agree on a bill within a week. This sentiment was ap- proved by other members of the com- mittee with the suggestion that the present hearings be sharply curtatled by allowing to testify only those who had new ideas or suggestions for relfef. sted that priority be ) could explain o the ortant changes ugen bill especially relating W provisions giving the President blanket power in appoint- g members of the proposed Federal farm board The former bill authorized the Presi- dent W select board members from | of eligibles submitted by a farmers’ | nominating commit The other significant ge in the current bill applies of features W all egricultural products instead of only & lunited few. 'BILL PLANS TO EXPEDITE RETURNS ON INCOME TAX Representative Luce Presents Meas- ure Designed to Bave Time and Heavy Expense, To save Ume &nd expense In the ex- ecution of more than four and a half (million Income ax returns, fuepr tve Luce, Iepublican, of = Ma | chuseta Woday Introauced w bl which provides that except n judiclal pro- ceelugs o I e procecding n o the 1 Justice, 1o witten statement | | required by law need be verified by | vslh or affirmation before a magistrate 0 contains or 1s verified by w writ- ten declaration that iU 1 made under e penialties of perjury. 1L would pro- vide Lhat whoever slyus and issues such la woitlen statement veritied by such decluration shall be gullty of perjury wna subiéct W Whe penaitios thereof, i the statement s willfully false 1, o misterial particular [ WOMEN HIT BUREAUS. ‘lnlhwmv;: Congressmen Urged 1o - | | | | Vole Agsinst Incrense | 10 wn wppest v the Demoeratse mmetnbirs of Congress, made public here | 45 0f the Department « yeebiday, Ui Federntion of Democrath Wornen “of Maryland asked hat Uiy vole wguinst cieating uny more Federa) CAPITAL LAUNCHES ANNUAL THRIFT WEEK CAMPAIC Frank Ghiselll, Back row: Myers, Left to right, front row: and Mrs. W. J. La Varre, corge Richardson and R. C. PERFECTING RADIO TELEVISION FOR THE HOME. The transmitting device used in the demonstration of radio television as it has now been developed for practical home use in laboratories of the The picture is sent through the air on electrical waves like sound. neral Electric Co. d. Wide World Photos. "E CONVENES TODAY IN NATIONAL THEATER. The beautiful structure in ent Coolidge and President Machado addressed the gathering of delegates from at the opening session today of the sixth Pan-American t the most impressive receptions yesterday ever given a Wide World Photos. Miss Beatrix Loughran, America’s fancy skating champion, sailing on the steamship Majestic for St. Moritz to compete in the Winter Olympics at the Swiss resort. Wide World Photos. LADY ERIFF MARES PRISONERS EAT MUSH. Mrs. Helen Dolder, mother of four children and new sheriff of De Kalb County, I, carries her gun as she prepares the jail food herself. When the prisoners loudly objected to mush for supper the other day she subdued them with a fire hose. Wide World Photos SEEING AS YOU HEAR OVER T research engineer of the General £ RADIO. Dr. €. F. W. Alexanderson, lectric Co., looking in the aperture at the top of his radio television receiving apparatus to see the picture appearing there of the person heard er the radio. » Worid Photos. at the same time W ENGINEER KILLS KIDNAPERS AND ESCAPES. Lyman F. Barber, American mining engineer, reunited with his wife and daughter at Mexico City after his thrilling escape from Mexican kidnapers. With his life im peril. Barber got his four guards drunk and beat them to death to make his escape. ¥ P. & A Phots Miss Elizabeth Sherwood, C. J. 1 TOMORROW. iIss Maxine Girt Fleming, George C. Shinn, Rev. Dr. W. L. Darby, J Member: Isaac Gans, chair of the general committee in ¢ Mrs. W. E. Ch. ohn Bullough, E. W ge of Thrift week activitles. berlin, Miss Alma M brumm, E. ¥ GRANGE- OFFICIALS Absence oquuthenti;;_picturc ;f Ch—ris? Held Due in Part to Jewish Ban on Image GATHER FOR PARLEY Sessions, Continue Thursday, Expected to Affect Farm Relief Legislation, to Through Mefubers of the executive committee and officers of the Natlonal Grange were gathering in Washington today in preparation for exccutive committee pesstons sting through ‘Thursday which will vitally influciice the course and nature of farm rellef legislation at ton of Cong w dratt of w farm relief bill, pre- 1 by Dr. C. A Blewart, wsociate v of conomics, University of Hli- ud Frea Brenckman, Washington representative of the Natlonal Gy 15 o be Juld before the executive com mitkee tomorrow. This bill, which pro vides for the so-called export debenture bond plan for farm reliet and which wis ndorsed wb Ui snnual convention of the grange last ember, s expected proved by the commitiee Tuber of O tional Grange slde ut the Others o u ings will dnclude tobert 1. Hob- s of Dels M Fieeman of Ohilo, E. A, Eckert of Ulinols, L. 1t Bmith of Massachusetts, and A B, G of Washington, Flsns for the annusl convention of the Nationa) Grange, to e held in Was ton, N mber 14 Lo 24, will be Ulned, snd a e tor nelected 1's Chiurch, convention headquarters Tomorrow night ut All 5 the sixtieth snnlveesaty of the founda ton of Potomac Gray No. 1 the first eubordinate Gran organ lzed —will be celehrated ydo Mar cultire is to be nstalled as master Benutor Hotuh of Kdaho 1y Dsted us the prinel vl spenker Polomae Grange was o indzed it Washingbon January 8 with about 20 members Ehe 1868 Present “ k Jupt. George P burcaus and o wipe out others, esp fomy Quarterinester Corpe, | Clally the Chlldren s Burean i . cq members of | The latler, the al Ui Semsthility | faniee of U Gy Mon ¥ o battlefields of Fredericks- ) Court, Lsd vaged “poliUeal campaig W secuie Litbonel contiol ul chilldien membership Wcludes more Ui 200 Bandits w denoniing tolls of ships e uppes Yenklee B, ‘The absence of any authentic picture or description of the physical uppen ance of Christ 1s due partly to the Jew- Ish prejudice against “making an Image” und partly to the fact that His brict mintstry was in a lmited locality and did not excite the interest of his- tortans of the day, 1t was declared yes- terday evening n'a lecture at the Y. M. C. A by Dr.John O. Knott, Egyp- wioglst and Holy Land explorer. It wonder 15 expressed why the T Jesus of Nagareth have not n by . : pleture or description,” he mald, “we huve severnl parallels in Bistory “no less pecullar. Cleapatra Anmitted sulcide about 30 yenrs before Was born. Bhe wias the most man of her time, so - though Queen of companton and mistress of An- Mistess of Caesar, und by Cu cluded i Rome with the expectation becoming s wife, Cleoputin's fen- tures lave not come down' o us, nor s wny detalled deseription: been given WILL ASSIST EDISON. Flant Expert to Ald Inventor in Rubber Research, NEW YORIC, Junuary 160 (/ |16t Thomas A Edison in rubber e seArch in Florida, the board of mana wers of the New York Botantcal Garden antounced today 1t had granted a loave Of absence to Dr John K. Small, head Curator of the masenms wnd herbar- i, Who 15 an expert on plant life n the Houthern Btaes, particalarly i Floridu He tind been requesiad by Dr N 1, Hoitton divector 1 chile? of the garden Lo gt his knowledyge of the vegetation af Florida ab the disposal of - Edison whio 18 secking (o discaver & method of Produciig vabber from planta i coms Mgl GuabbLice tony 1 To ua- w of her except that she had a bewitch- Ing personality and a musical voice “But while we know her through s dramatic delineation of turn - with amazement to know less Though the great we Shakespeare to find that we of him than of her cnglish dramatist lived in the blaze of Ellzabethan age, none of the big men of the time seem to have known him. 'The few known facts of his life could be written in three lnes The pletures which now pass for Shake- speare are quite as ideal us the plctures of Christ “The fullure of J ular hist sus to get into see- ave His features en- 5 much easter to s light of the pre of Mis day ag making an image* Jesus' public min 5ry was - probably less than three years I duration, lmited i locality to w small part of the conntry, and, min ghng With w despted people, He did not come I touch With any one who would have cared enough to notice Him i thelr records DRY LAW RESULTS SEEN. w. C. T, U. Leador Says Prohibi tion Is Curblng Evil CHIOAGO, January 16 (4 Womens Chrlstian Temperance Union through s president, Mia Ella A Boole, declared that prohibition, i not the best method of curbing (he lquor evil, has proved better than the “pray ers and pledges of early orusaders Mis the occuaton of the elghth bivthday of the elghteenth amendment The statement wiged the probibition temperance Boole's statement was made on anniversary wa & Hme sppopiate tor the publio “to take an tventory of how 6 Loy Lelped slbvieeinent The | SEES SMITH GAIN IN HOUSTON CHOICE | Meeting Will Also Help South in Line, New York Committeeman Says, Hol Ny the Assoc ction of on as the Demo- any one o oppose Gov, Smith | polls * The Jesse 1 committeeman e erred with Jones, chalvman of the com- mittee 0n convention arvangements before the latter left for New York o take up with arehitects the design for the bullding which Houston wilt erect for the gathering PLEA TO U. S. WORKERS. ok End Edueational Confevences. Workmen of the Nation have been wsked Lo participate o series 0 week end educational conferences, to be held i leading efties under the auapioes of the workers' education bureau of the American Federation of Labor, i lets tern by Matthew Wall, vice president of the federation and head of the buivau anldiensed (0wl Contial Labor Comnetls and made public today an ot wnemplovinent os et o an sitered G paramount nterest 3 WL take place at the vone deivhionn e aaldy Tuvited to Participate fn W organt her sub A WILL SHUNSENATE HOOVER BOOMED FLOOR, SAYS SMITH, INNEW YORK STATE He Senator-Elect Denies Will Appear Voluntarily in Own Defense. Move Inaugurated at Meeting of Leaders From Every Section. By the Associated P ght said he would not appear on the floor of th es Senate in his fight for admi tance to membership of that body. His declaration was made to Senator | ference at Charles S. Deneen, Illinols, after the | Party le: | latter tnormed hum the Senate com- | 0 oo mitt: 4 ed at & cone 1. at which ous an Talo d ten . ould Aveid Contests. w {COX FORESEES SMITH AS NOMINEE OF PARTY Former Ohio Governor Says Pom. erene Will Be First Choice eratic natio wmvention city will - “not only s hold the South of State Delegation, i lne, but will be advantageous to 3 " By the Associated the candidacy of Vs BN Nase] ™ SN Sy B man E Mack, Democratic national | ( NEW YORK hat \“‘, Hoover has mitteeman from New York, said | York Times sai e night { Mr. Mack satd he was confident | Smith would be nominated and_elect= | W8 . ed, und that the party today was | o s miocrakie | “more: closely united than (6 e Bt in: tont .“‘“\;‘-::,1_‘ s ki ol Lol Lol cement had been reached to | ehaice of o delegation said Pane @ Was for Qov. Saueh, TWO WOMEN ARESTED IN NORTHEAST RAID GO0 Quarts ol“lllegfll Liquor Seleed——Gd Chargva Are Made fn 48 Hours, NOTES ATTACK SOVIET. 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