Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1928, Page 3

"DEPCD 15 DENIED LOWER COAL RATE | Hope, However, Seen for Ul-| timate Reduction to Benefit | of Light Users. revision of bitu- the New to the minous coal R hole was the utilit tain its ton. If sy contested tric Pow ®ave approx nual coal b the advantage of The loophole of J o’ pe e compelled to pay for des tions in Washington and Maryland a were found unduly prejudicial, in they excesded the rates from min the Chesapeake & Ohio in comparable districts. Cautioned Against Prejudice. The defendan! to abstain from d Being a finding of undue prejudice #t was explained. the carriers have an election of the methods by which the discrimination must be removed. They may obey the order of the commission by reducing the rate to $2.84 or they /., could comply with it by increasing the Tates on vr? Pennsylvania road to $3.13 | It is felt in local eoal circles tha! the latter method would stir up such dissension that ultimately the railroads would consent to a downward revision of rates to $2.84. Coal from the New River district on the Chesapeake & ©Ohio destined here must move over the Baltimore & Ohio to Eckington through | Benning. Under the long- -and-short- haul °use. the railroads cannot main- | tain a higher rate at Benning than to| Eckington. Consequently. if the car- riers comply with the Interstate Com-| morce Commission's order to reduce | the rate to $284 in favor of the twe enal dealers. they would be compeiled to grant the same rate to the Potomac | Flectric Power Co. for deluene: at} Benning. Y POOR ROADS COSTLY. Association Says Drivers Pay Kore to Traverse Rough Highways. | Motorists of the United States pay Poor roads tax of 22.3 cents for every gallon of gesimne us>d on a rough high- way, according to an estimate made by | the American Road Bullders Associ- | ation. It costs 223 cents more to con- sume a gallon of gas on a poor road than if the same car were driven over 8 good road, thy assoclation estimates The figures were derived from the results of experiments conducted at ‘Washington State College, JTowa State College and North Carolina State Col- lege. They are estimated for a car making 10 miles to the gallon on a rough highway. LIQUOR AUTO SEIZED. of more than three Policemen Thomas Salkeld of the twelfth precinct morning seized an automobile and 336 quarts of alieged liguor. The driver escaped The policeman fell in behind the car on Queen Chapel road northeast and after & Jong chase overnauled it on Bargent road northeast, where the col- ored driver jumped and fizd through Thxs Million-Dollar Printing Plam . " The Nzuonal (,apxlal Press ltf, RON ¢ PRINTING lN A HURRY g Bigh orioed W How Abou! That Rqaf ?’ » ,‘ 6'Gr 2} s HOUKING lu'»ll;,l‘\l IRON('I AD {most_bevond understanding (f§en grade; wide paved alley. The trees at Cedar Hill Cemetery, now in full bloom, present one of the beautiful | displays in_this vicinity. DOCWDOD BURSTS INTO FULL BLOOM Cedar Hill I\P morial Pnk Ceme- tery Contains Beautiful Display of Flower. 1 Cedar Hill where it has of sun, has furnishes one g out its pure whi 1 Cedar Hill. and in ich as on some lawns about , have now come into their that the blooms may last cks, according to P. L president of the Wildflower ation Society. which Is astive {in the campaign to save the trees from ees in Cedar Hill Ceme- here for years, and tery was planted there, Embrey of and the or- ganization is now col rating on the business of adding more pink dogwood to the display of white. “The dogwood is a wonderful tree.” said Mr. Embrey. “and I am thoroughly in sympathy with the campaign to pre- serve and protect it. Why som> per- il e DL et in the woods of their branches is al- I hope | that Washingtonians will learn to have | a resvect for the dogwood | s 50 that na more of them will be torn to plecs i, VIEW OF FLOWERING DOGWOOD I THE EVENING Will Rogers Says: OMAHA —Just flew in from Chelsea, Okla, bucking a head- wind. See by the papers that every appro- priation bill is being pass- ed. Too bad. If you didn't ask for some- thing you would have gotten it Suppose four different groups from four differ- ent parts ot the country all want something and all trade votes with each other, so that everybody gets theirs, What chance has the Ticasury got? 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