Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 30

+-80 THE EV STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928, PRIVATE SHIP LINES SOUGHT BY HURLEY Business Leaders Can Over- come Merchant Marine Obstacles, He Says. | Br the Associated Press | CHICAGO, Januars 31.—Forceful leaders in business, railroading and | ipning can, with the aid of Congress, 1d modern vessels and establish the American merchant marine in harmony ith the views of President Coolidge. | ard N. Hurley, war-time president of | g Board. told made public said would aid S confronting g ship_operators. | eral remedies to ex- | also ga | ate commerce both in coastwise oceanic trade. Asks Private Capital. | id. Government- | ated at a loss. ied by are used in Conference Rate Regulation Asked. s class of operate n rates e be selected by the Pres: rcoastal rates 3 recommendations.” favorable balance rican shipping se s chased by bankers and sold to the sting public, he predicted, after h the industry will find a sound Before this can happen. he said, sent shippiny and shipping in- should undergo the sine reha- tion in business methods that other trades and forms of merce experi- | enced after the World War. i LECTURES ON CITY. Charles Colfax-Long Will Present Pictorial Story of Capital. Charles Colfax-Long’s pictorial story { the city of Washington, “The En- ted City, From Dawn to Dusk.” be presented for the 400 delegates tending the Women's Patriotic Con- | nce on National Defense in Memo- | Continental Hall Thur: night at | Husband of Gypsy Loses Point in Bandits Say It With Flowers; Rob Sick Man and His Wife By the Associated Press. . CHICAGO, January $1.—Two ban- dits said it with flowers, when they gained entrance to the home of Fred Klein, head of a printing house. over- powered members of the householu and escaped with jewels and furs valued at $15.000 last night. Mr. Klein was ill in bed. The pair, with a box resembling flowers, inquired: “How is Mr. Klein? We've brought him some flowers.” Once inside, they dropped the box, drew weapons and pushed a maid into | a closet. Mrs. Klem was forced into | another. and while one man chatted with Mr. Klein about his health and kept him covered with a pistol, the | other ransacked the apartment and | both fled. i | OSBORN MUST ANSWER SUIT FOR ANNULMENT | Action Brought by “King” of Tribe. William L. Qsborn, ‘“‘commone! who married Princess Julia Osborn, daughter of Emil Mitchell, king of the vpsics, must answer the suit for the nnulment of the marriage brought by King Mitchell in the name of his| Justice Hitz in Equity Di- | sterday denied a_motion of | hter. vision 1 Attorneys Whelan and O'Connell for | . Osborn to dismiss the father's suit. | The couple were married at Rock- | ille, November 18, and King Mitchell | made several court attempts to get | his daughter back. but has been unsuc- | cessful, the young woman remaining | with her husband. Mitchell is being | represented by Attorneys Harry F. Ken- nedy and M. J. Lane. At the hearing yesterday counsel for the husband confended that even if | the girl was only 17 years old when she nt through the ceremony with Osborn, i was above the age of consent fixed by the Maryland law. which is 14 years, and while the husbana miglit be liable | on a perjury charge in Marvland for | misrepresenting her age and a fine might be levied againsc the clergyman for performing the ceremony without a ! >. the girl had given her consent | still consents by continuing to live | with Osborn The court refused to adopt this view | of the law and directed that the answer | 10 the suit be filed within 10 days. Sues for $25.324. Thomas J. McCall, 54 Rhode Island avenue northwest, has filed suit against | the Washington Rapid Transit Co. for $25.324.03 damages for alleged per- sonal injuries and damage to his auto- mobile. Through Attorneys Lambert & Yeatman, the plaintiff says that August 8. 1927. while seated in his parked automobile in the 900 block on Fifteenth street northwest a bus struck his car from the rear. e | Women in Turkey no longer wear | veils. In fact. some of them bob their hair and wear short skirts. i 60%%y ¢ T PALAIS ROYAL Dr. SIEGERTS Ta'e it as a daily stomachic before meals to aid the appetite and increase the fiow of digestive juices. { Your Physician Knows Jj | Same formuls since 1824 Delicious in stewed prunes, Ags. ete. Raisin that’s m Bread ore like a sweet meat IG, luscious raisins add to the de- lightfulness of Holmes’ Raisin Bread. And, of course, it's just as wholesome as our regular white loaf. For an interesting treat, try it toasted. With the freshness which our serv- ive assures this loaf is unsurpassed. It’s more like a cake—yet bread of the finest purity and quality. Our driver will bring you, any day you say, a loaf that has just left the oven. Or better still, let him serve you regularly with all the Holmes’ breads and baked need. sweet goods you Serve a VARIETY of breads such as we offer: Whole Vrench Keystone Milk Maid MHeshth Fullman HOI MODERN I Whest @ L3 Ousker Lunch Losf Kye Plain Kye Caraway Seed Vienna Bread Vienns Huisin MES BAKERY 101.MES & SON, Inc. 9% Serving Bread, Cake and Pies Direct-to-Y our-Door for Over 30 Years 107-115 ¥ St. and 600-61%8 First St. W. Telephone Main 4537-4538 ASKS COAL TRADE PROBE BY SENATE Operator Says Industry Needs Thorough Inquiry by Non-Partisan Body. By the Associated Pross, PITTSBURGH. January 31.—The coal-producing companies of western Pennsylvania_ would be forced into bankruptey if they paid the wages de- manded by striking union miners, be- cause they would be unable to sell coal at a profit, R. Templeton Smith, officer of several coal companies, asserted in an address before the Hun Club terday. Smith also decl: in fav gf a Senate inquiry into the coal in- ustry. hat this industry really needs.” he said, “is a thorough investigation by the United States Senate with a committee of Senators who have no political axes to grind and a fearless type of Jim Reed. It ought to be a committee that would get everybody down there and put them through their paces, operators. mine union leaders and anybody who knows anything about the coal business.” Smith said the western Pennsylvania coal industry was in bad condition be- ause it was unable to meet competition of the non-union fiel of southern West Virginia and ern Kentucky, of freight rates to the Great Lakes and to tidewater. Smith is secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Lawler Gas Coal | Co.. the Ontario Gas Coal Co. and the Poland Coal Co. Among those at the Hungry Club meeting were several offi- | | cers of the United Mine Worke! chairman of the || nd he dscussed at length the matter || FORMER DRY LAW OFFICER CONVICTED OF PERJURY Edwin M. Oliver Declared Guilty of Making False Affidavit in Recent Whisky Case. Edwin M. Oliver, former special of- ficer attached to Center Market and former member of the Agriculture De- partment police, was convicted yester- day by a jury in Criminal Division 1 on a charge of perjury. He is alleged to have made a false affidavit in a whisky case before N. C. Turnage, U. S. commissioner, on which a search warrant was issued to raid the home of BEdward C Hampton, 1418 G street northeast, last August. Hampton and his wife both denied that any liquor was purchased by Oliver from them. Pre- cinct Detective Fihelly testified that Oliver was working with him on liquor cases and he gave him the money to make the purchase. Oliver claimed he made the “buy,” but not finding Fihelly, in a few days staged a party with the contents of the bottle. He was committed to jail to await sentence. Assistant U. 8. Attor- ney Willlam H. Collins appeared for the Government, while the defendant was represented by Attorney E. Russel Kelly. SALVATION ARMY GROWS. Organization Expended $16,747 for . Work Here in 19286. Three posts of the Salvation Army operating in Washington spent $16,747 in the Capital during 1926, the Com- making publi: figures on the Nation- wide work of the “Army.” Three hun- dred and eighty seven persons worked for the Salvation Army here in 1926, against 84 in such service in the past two posts of the organization here in 1916. 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