Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 6

. STAR., WASHINGTON, D THE _SUNDAY _FEBRUARY 19. 1928 -PART 1. ORATORICAL HEAD Frénch Contestants Enthu- siastic Over World Meet Here in October. €2 vears Hattie Mattux has been years old she has through tie world in N~ wa Lo way natrogal v Paric. one of ve will serve commiitee which semative of Franc trrational O finsls of which w Washingion Auditors blue eved : in_Staunton, Va call her anv d to her left iner 2 nammy. a white child and hen nobody will he il b cd blind il was v was A black B diip 20 o give he e ieay y slim_as 1t N GEOTES pieht be considering the great handi- o Hattic went to school and learned ce with her fingers.” Her fing developed an uncanny sensitive- an oxpert at neediowork kness in which she spent < helped her t ¢ ng it me Gots Job in . O r She showel France The 5 by Le Ma eves. He |BLIND-WOMAN STILL ACTIVE . AFTER LONG FEDERAL SERVICE ux. Sightless Since Childhood, Continues Sewing Following Years of Mail Bag Stitching for U. S. INEW HORSE SHOW \ENTURE LAUNGHED | ) e | Admiral Grayson Heads Or-| | ganization—Bradley Home- vears ago her mother dicd. She | stead Pgrcfiésed. on stitehing bags = there was a break M| win a view The story of the bling 'st.in cquestrian events hers. now and then “an_exhibit of |groun of Washinaton horsemen has or- service. Every gantzed “The National Capital Hors~ socfation.” with Rear Admiral yson., U. 8. N. president. | The new organization. incorporated | She made a_pair of baby “booties™ for : the laws of Delaware, succeeds the son of President Cleveland. born [the old National Capital Horse Show. in the White House, feeling out the [which until last vear staged equestrian pattern which her eyes could not see. | programs at Arlington Park, south end «The first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson visited | of the Highway Bridge m Virginia. The her, | acsociation has purchased the old Brad- Asks for Retirement. {ley homestead neay the Congressional Three vears ago she beeame tired of | COUNtY Club l)\_“r:\d!l‘\ml;||ll.\. Md.. and (he lone {1ip back and forth to work | following extonsive building _improve- it will maintain facilities for e e o Totivement | ments, he asked for retfrement | B0 5.y tws. pony shows. stecplechases, hunts and point-to-point races in addi- fion to elub quarters for the menbe: . she sits in the rocking chair | According to present plans. the fi o e S me BT foom | £how will ba condueted in May under 514" enth ‘street—n_genle. old | the management of Frank Gaskins of oman whos 5 as nimble as | Warrenton, Va. one of the leading SmanRAIEERtE e horse shos oficials of the East In| - ce the retired she has knitted two | conformity with the practice in many S e e I+ working. o the |other cities the National Capital Horse (Rird. J { Show Association is planning to ally it- Som its cage over her head her sclf with a worthv Washington charity hom e cape Sover | whieh would rerefve the major portion In th~ Smithsonian Institution there |of th recefpts from the varions even fc a mail bag with the legend: “Made smots This policy was dect He Mattux, a blind il of the v the founders following ) Gffice Bag: Shon on that the asseciation <t T don't belisve there is any one who iecs, for the promotion of eq hac gotten more runshine out of life rather than one for the me then' T have. vet T have gone through °f diofit for the m-mbors : Ne tn darkness” she savs In addition to Rear Admira key Oceasionally the monotony. |ir tracted interes She beeame, she sa DIty of the posta Postmaster General came to see hel and their wives hired her to sew for them toward the revivel of al eranted. Fellow emploves car] ring set and a rocking t. Goorge W. Brown Retired. or more than 30 years' milita Technical Serat. George W ! 10th Cavalry, at Fort Hua- . Ariz.._has been placed on the Serg A | Mullin, Town Has Pienic When Tax Payment Day Comes Round Ry tha Assnciated Pre BINGHAMTON, N. Y. February 13.—Paylng taxes in the town of Vestal is a plenic. On the day set for the collector’s visit the taxpay- ors gather at the town hall, bring- ng pleric bastete, ‘Th: women serve @inner and the Farm Burcau provides a speaker, who talks on farm inventories and credit statements AVOIDS ATLANTIC CITY. Dirigible Los Angeles to Shun Vicinity After Protest, Becatise of the protest of one Atlantic City hotel proprictor that the noise made by the dirigible Los Angeles dis- turbed his guests, the airship will avoid that town hereafter, under plans of the Navy Department Lieut. C. E. Rosendahl. master of the nirship, was forced by weather condi- tions to fiy t"e Los Angeles over the city about two months ara and the pro- test followed. He informed the depart- ment that he would avoid the town whenever possible. Rosendahl has wide Iatitude in the handling of the airship because of difficulties of navigation in bad weather. son as president, the assoctation’s staff of officers includes Melvin C. Hazen and Thomas P. Bones, vice presidents Hubbert R, Quinter, seeretary, and e P. Plummer asurer. Other includ~ Robsrt M . Ma). Henry Leonard. Maj L. Sccit. Perey M. Nispold, A n. John O. Ghsen, v West. Q.1 Ray a4 Waite WATER HORSEPOWER GAINS 5. PER CENT) | tendant, Geological ,Survey Report Shows Total of 18,206,000 Horse- power in 1027. | Be the Assaviated Pross | _Water power development in the | United States increased 575000 horse- | power, or 5 per cent in 1027, there be- ing a total of 12,206,000 horsepower | January 1, 1928, the Geological Survey ' discloses in a report showing that the increase was in plants of public utility power contprnies. The report shows that the total amount of potential water power avafl- able 90 per cent of the time is 38.110.000 horsepower, with 56,166,000 horsepower available 50 per cent of the time If it were feasible to develop all the water power resources in this country, | 85.000,000 horsepower could be pro- | duced.” the report_continues | California ranks first in the de- veloped water power . with 1.093.000 horsepower: New York iIs second with 1.779.000 and Washington is third with 707,000. Washington leads in po- tential water power with 11.200.000 available 50 per cent of the time, California Is sécond with 6.700.000, Oregon is third with 5.900.000 and New York s fourth with 5.0000M. Mot of the undaveloped power in New York is in the Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers. ' FORD SUES FOR $1,174. | Files Action Against Son of For- | | mer Lincoln Co. Head. PONTIAC, Mich, February 18 () — A suit secking collection from Wolfred C. 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