Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1928, Page 22

I DEFCTFORESEEN INP.0.DEPARTMENT General Says. fore than $100.000.000 deficit prob- will be incurred by the Post Office | partment for the fiscal year 1929, estimated by Postmaster General His estimate s based on esti- | s of pay increases totaling $77.- | 00.000, & Toss of revenue of $16.000,000 | gn'au(e of decreased rates, and increas- | pay of $15.000.000 to the railroads. | ere is “no such thing as run- | ¢ with regard to balance while ne body fixes your rate to receipts and nother fixes the rates of expenditeves.” the Postmaster General declared in a §tatement late vesterday. He pointed o the 1928 deficit of $32.000.000 §3id that he had hoped the postal serv- foo would break even this year . Inereased Pay te Railroads. The Interstate Commerce Commis- s decision increasing payments to tar carrying the mail by 15 ent will grant them & lump sum of t $45.000,000 tmmediately, he said. increased rate is retroactive to 928, This will have to be met, as the extra annual payment $15,000,000 provided in the While he had no definite idea how this deficit might be avoided. Mr. New pointed out that he was “directed” un- der the law to raise the rates on fourth elass matl or parcel post, with the con- sent of the Interstate Commerce Com- on, “to insure the receipt of rev- enue from such service adequate to pay the cost thereof.” 60,000,000 Due New, He Says. “The Treasury will be called on to 000.000 to the railroads now.” he adding that this was “no coubt one of the things the President had in mind when he warned against extrava- §ant appropriations. The decision was also in the Presi- dent’s mind, he said. when the postage rate revisfon plan was being considered There is a small hope, the Postmas- ter General declared, that the reduced air mail rates, going into effect today. may do something toward diminishing this deficit by increasing business. Un- der these rates, lettars and parcel post will be carried at a cost of 5 cents for the first ounce and 10 cents for each additions! ounce, instead of the present Tate of 10 cents: per half ounce BEING RESURFACED Report Made That All Such High-| ways Soon Will Be in Best | of Condition. { AL { in the public parks for the ks have been undergoing a resurfacing. with asphalt and ed stome, with the result that these vs in a short time will be in the | of condition. The work has been under the direction of Prank T. | side. chief of the parks mainte- nance division, with a minimum of in- convenience of automobile drivers. In Bast and West Potomac parks and the Monument grounds, five miles have been treated, and by Priday the road gangs ! Creek Park. ®here three miles completed. treated in Rock | e for more | than a day, and none of them will be | closed ovrenight, it was announced. h’.‘n- highways which have received | sguare g north basin road, I Jones Monument, basin %536 square yards. Monument grounds, B street. Fifteenth to Seventeenth street, 3,389 square Yards; B street, Twenty-first to Twenty- } sixth streets. 8.207 square vards, and Filteenth street, north basin road to Monument road, 4483 square yards The roadways to be treated in Rock Creck Park include the upper end of Reach drive, the roadway which follows the banks of the creek: Ross road for its entire length, and part of Ridge road INJUNCTION SUSTAINED. | Florida Judge ' Denies Plea Transfer of Property. EARASOTA, Fla. August 1 (® Circutt Judge Paul C. Albritton yes- for | Co. 1o dissolve an injune it from transferring any property in the town of Venice, Fla., to the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engineers. The injunction was issued two wecks ago on application of the Marz Wil- Mams Co. and E. H. Price, who charged that the realty company, in transfer- ring property 1o the brotherhood, was attempting to avoid payment to cred- stors. who hold claims of more than| $1.000,000 Pilot Killed in Plane Crash. BAGDAD, Irak, August 1 (®.—A| Polish airplane, which left Warsaw for round-trip flight to Bagdad and crashed here yesterday. The Lieut the Polish | army, was killed. Other members of the crew escaped unhurt | George Washington University Law School Member Assoriztion of American Law Benools Approved ny Americar M stackton Hall ! 32 Twentieth Sireet + West 1640 P LB ol LG TR bbbt 'ELECTRICAL neise but comprehensive cour for earnest, ambitious young Curriculum inclus Y mechanicsl drawing and intensive shep werk, Course complete in one year Students construct meters, install wiring, test electr machinery. Gradustes are quslified to enter the elactrical field at ence. Thoroughly enuipped fireproof dormatories, dining hall, shops Frunded 1893, Far cataleg ad dress Bliss Electrical Schooll 210 Takoma Ave., Washington, D. C. EVENING CITIZENS PROTEST Indian Skeletons In Ohio Believed STAR, WASHINGTON, fered by Charlea the present trash disposal plant, moved, would be sufficient to serve t| city's needs, and authorized the ) pointment of & committee to study matter. Urge More Police. P the 1 tributed durin D. C, WEDNESDAY, E. Marx, claims that | ing limit on H strest between Becond h dis) nd Pitteenth streets northesst, 1 3 he | Circulars calling attention to the ctvit of the association were dis- the meeting and 23 new members obtained. At the conclusion of the business session refreshments were served hy a committee of the ladies AUGUST 1. 1928, Wilkins' Promoter Accused Passing Bad Cheek. DETROIT, August 1 (#).—Alvin C.| | vented phonograph records that may be rolled up and carried in the pocket They tone is unaffected by surface scratches. and they can be played hundreds of times without changing the needle 10,000 Years Old Rr the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, Aygust 1,—Skele- tons of 20 or 23 Indians have been dug up by a steam shovel ‘excavat- ing at Mill Creek. near here. Ralph Drury, curator of the Cin- nnat! Museum of Natural History, | | | i RAISEIN BUS FARE Trinidad Organization Op-| poses Toll Increase on and 15,000 years old. Bladensburg Line. A mute story of a tragedy was re- vealed. The leg of one of the In- dians had been broken, although it had knit back together. The Indian had died young. Perhaps it was be- cause he could not run around with the rest of the boys, Drury added Drury believes the Indians may have been members of the early Algonquins, who buried their dead in shallow graves. | ol | believes them fo be between 10,000 | | { Aroused over the suggestion that a | charge of 2 cents be made for transfers | Dbetween street cars of the H street line | and the Bladensburg road busses, mem- | | bers of the Trinidad Citizens' Associa- | tion, at thelr meeting in the Wheatley | | School Iast night, adopted a resolution opposing any charge for transfers be- tween street cars or busses of the same traction company. The citizens devoted considerable time | to diseussion of alleged “laxity of co- operation and management in the city | refuse department.” finally voting in | favor of a resolution which charges nditions in that department could be greatly improved.” The resolution. of- i EDUCATIONAL. . - Pocket Records in England. England is taking to the newly in cannot be broken by use, their EDUCATIONAL. “THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE POLITICAL SCIENCES —_—_— A specialized senior college devoted primarily te the fields of Government, International Relations, and Economica. st oo o il Among the subjects in which courses will be given during the college year 1928-29 are the following: American Govermment. United States Comstitutional Histors. United States Censtitutional Law. Comparative titutional Law. Administrative w. State Government. Sitirenshin. Colenial Government. Ameriean Political History. Persennel Administration International Law International Law Procedure. 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Thomas? Dr. Percival Hall, Edward M. New Members. Phillips and Herbert 8. Goodrich to the | fhe new members wete: A. P. Clark. 1 comittee. Themas F. Foley, William §. Rhodes, | Claiming that the recent growth of John T.O'Nell, J. H. Lewis, C. W. Whit- | the community made the present police | ney, Howard H. Harris, Joseph G. Mil- | force inad te, the association voted IY' Mrs. G. O. Nations, William C.| to request j. Hesse to detail more i Clark, Omar C. Humphrey, Aimee P. men to the ninth precinct. At the | Humphrey, Thomas McDonough, Wil- same time & resolution was passed of- | llam Marseglia, Mrs. J. R. French. ficially complaining of the traffic man- | James M. Compton, Frank H. Leom, agement at Eighth and H streets north- | Henry C. Wagner, John W. Diek, L. T.| east and requesting that a traffic offi- | Souder, Gregory J. Bussink, Walter J. | ks the recent appearance here of Hammer, local promoeter, who sponsored George Hubert Wilkins, Arctic explorer, was | i iniled yesterday on camplaint of offi-| cials of a Masonjc Temple, who accused him of paying for rental of the hall with a worthless check for $300. | Hammer, who was unable to make | bond, told police he sold only $181 | worth of tickets for the explorer's lee- | ture, while he spent more than $2,500 in advanee for advertising. ‘Amelia Earhart. the girl fiyer. was cer be stationed at Eleventh and H | Wondrack and Mrs. S. C. 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