Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 28

o) . THE EVENING | WEBIR ASKS 0L RESERVEFORNAVY Seeks Legislation to Develop | Petroleum Sources for | LIGHT CALLS FIREMEN. Central High School Laboratory Jet and Candle Overlooked. Responding to an alarm last night, firemen of four engine companies and two truck companies and Battalion Chief Charles C. Schrom found a lighted candle and a lighted gas jet in a laboratory on the third floor at Cen- tral High School. A passerby saw the Gickering light and sounded an alarm. Students working late in the laboratory, are thought to have left the candle and CONTRACTORS ACCUSE TREASURY OFFICIALS Local Concern Claims Data on Agri- culture Building Plans Was Refused. ‘The English Construction Co. of this city has filed protest with the Senate STAR, WASHINGTON, ment, alleging that the company was unable to obtain plans and specifica- tions for the new Department of Agri- culture Administration Building. Bids will be opened next Monday by the su- pervising architect at the Treasury Congress has authorized expenditure of not more than $2,000,000 for this building. ‘The English Construction Co., in let- ters sent to members of the Senatc committee, sald that the company had applied at least three times at the of- fice of the supervising architect and three other times at the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the building program, but THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928, The company, this letter set forth would be glad to appear before the com- mittee to explain the matter and to prove that it was able to fulfill any con- tract on which it would bid. The com- pany further said that the Federal Government by right should be entitled to all the competition possible in such bidding. Treasury officials when asked about the matter today said they had no comment to make for publication. o s ‘The only British nobleman of Ameri- can ancestry is Willlam Waldorf, Vis- count of Astor, a direct descendant of SMITH AND LOWDEN FILE IN N. DAKOTA Only Two Entered by Parties in Primary—Non-Partisans Back Illinois Man. By the Associated Press. BISMARCK, N. Dak., March 1.—The time limit fcr the filing of petitions in names of Frank O. Towden of Iilinois and Gov. Smith of New York entered for the Republican and Democratic | preference, respectively. ‘The Smith petition was filed with the secretary of state late yesterday. Twenty-four hours before a personal declaration of former Gov. Lowden of Illinois had been presented. So far as has been learned, Smith and Lowden are the only candidates for _their respective parties in the pri- | mary. Both Non-Partisan Leaguers and the “opposing faction of Republicans known as the independents, have in- dorsed the Lowden candidacy. Gov. Smith has made no public in- dication to his supporters here of his Quick Relief for that Cough— PISO’S is & pleasant, effective syrup used since 1864. Soothing—containe 00 opiates. _35c and 60¢ sises. Uss PI1SO’'S THROAT sad CHEST SALVE with the syrup. Applied esternally, it quickly penetrates. 3S5c. committee on public’ buildings and had been unable to obtain the neces- grounds against the Treasury Depart- Use in Defense. sary data from which to prepare a bid o om John Jacob Astor, according to the |the presidential grlmnry March 20, ex-!attitude toward the placing of his name Liberty - Magazine. pired at midnight last night with the in nomination. 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