Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1928, Page 12

Lm HIDER HIGHWAY HEARNG IS HELD House Committee on Roads Is Told of Need of Improving Defense Route. | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, TRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1928, Mrs. Rockefeller Once Had Ambition To Publish Paper Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr., con- fided to & group of newspaper wom- en here Wednesday that she once had an ambition to publish a news- paper herself. The members of the National Women's Press Club were her guests at lunch. “When I was a girl I had an am- bition to own a newspaper of my own,” she said. “because I thought | that then I could have a paper that would always tell the truth. But I have now learned how difficult it is | | i | | | | Arizona Man provides Senate and HOUSC Office Buildings With Official Bibles Discovery that the Senate and House Office Buildings were not in official pos- session of that most-read of all books, the Bible, has led to the donation to Congress of two handsome leather- bound volumes by the American Bible Society. The somewhat startling disclosure was made during a recent committee hear- ing in the Senate Office Building. A Bible was sent for as a witness prepared to testify. but none could be found with- | they were not the property of the Gov- | ernment. | At the office of Sergeant-at-Arms Barry of the Senate it was said that there are several Bibles available in the Capitol proper, all the property of Con- gress. There is one in the Senate| chamber. several on the shelves of rooms adjoining the chamber and one or two in the Senate Library, it was declared. | Neither is there a dearth of “official” | Bibles on the House side of the Capitol, it wes stated. Maj. Louis C. Wilson, installed as a member of the Washing- | lunchcon by Harry Angelico, accom- | ton Kiwanis Club at a luncheon in the ' panied by Elsic Harvey Weaver. Kiwanians Welcome Wilson. U. 8. A, was xnsh\nzum Hotel yesterday, having en transferred from the club at Hampton, Va. 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Rockefeller came ‘to Wash- | ington with ler husband to attend | a dinner for the President given Tuesday night by Secretary Work. sympathetic hearing on the m of widening the Defense from 15 to 30 feet to correct tions was given committee on h Representative Robison of kv presiding. to large delegations Washington, Baltimore and An- ing passage of the Gam- in ready reach | e A man in Avizona heard about the | | incident and sent money to the Bible | Society with a request that Bibles be supplied to both the office buildings. The volumes were turned over to Sena- tor Overman of North Carolina this | week by Rev. James H. Hyatt, sccretary | of the National Capital agency of the | soclety. The Senator thanked the so- ciety and expressed appreciation for the | | work 1t is doing ! CAR N0:713 FOUND. ‘ncrmo‘ ol( ll:‘r“gBlblrs was_turned over = [0 the custodian of the Senate Office | Dr. J. D. 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