Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 16

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Enjoy its healthful heat, its freedom from dust and ashes—and the additional clean space in the basement. Ask about our 10-Day Free Trial Installation THE SUPER OIL HEATOR €O, Dept. WS, 9.13, 1027 Newport Ave., Pawtucket, Rhode Island Please send me complete descriptive litera- tare on the Super Oil Hes fail information on lation, and your easy payment y plas. Authorized Distributor Wallace Engineering Co. 904 12th St. N.W, | Wathington, D. C. Associate Dealer Walter Pierpont 1140 South Patrick St. Alexandria, Va. AUTOMATIC OIL HEATOR ] %i%o;pads HUNDREDS PROTEST * DETENTION HOUSE | LIRS {Southwest Citizens Launch| | Concerted Drive Among Civic Bodies. A concerted effort to arouse public sentiment and to solicit the aid of civic, | religious and welfare organizations to | | help them oust the House of Detention from 910 B street southwest, in the {cvent Icgal action fails. was iaunched |at a mass meeting of several hundred citizens of Southwest Washington in the Marvin M. E. Church last night. | Tentative plans also were made for | personal protests to members of the Senate and House District committees and to the District Commissioners. A committee of threc was named to present a protest resolution before the South Washington Citizens' Association |at its next meeting. Following action { by that body the support of all the citizens' associations in Washington as | well as that of various other bodies will | be sought. | i Assurance that the South Washing- ton group will lend its support was given by George M. Yeatman, former | president of that body and president | of the Southwest Business Men's Asso- ciation. Mr. Yeatman also declared ! that he will take the matter before the business group. | | Attacks Dougherty. { _Mr. Yeatman attacked Commisgioner | Dougherty, declaring that as a mem- ber of the Federation of Citizens' As- sociations he had sat next to Mr. Dougherty when the latter was a dele- gate from the Chevy Chase Citizens' Association and that he had heard him protest against the erection of a theater {in_the Chevy Chase section. Mrs. C. H. Knight, president of the Bradley Parent-Teacher Association, pledged the support of that organiza- tion in the project, while Rev. C. H. Cannon, pastor ‘of the Marvin M. E Church. promised to seck the support of his congregation in the project. after { he had spoken against the house as a ! social, moral and religious detriment to | the communi | The meeting was called to order by | | william K. Wimsatt, chairman of the protesting group, who declared there is nothing to do in a legal way until the injunction proceedings instituted by the Southwest group come before the court. | Mr. Wimsatt said: | “If the Commissioners can get away | with this they can get away with any- | thing.” J. M. Schaffer. 1010 B street south- | west, the first speaker, declared the Southwest section has been woefully neglected for years, and stated that whereas the other sections of the city | have gotten 80 per cent of their school needs under the so-called five-year school building program that the Southwest section has gotten only 10 per cent. R. C. Smith, 1006 B street southwest, | urged the people to make personal calls | |on members of the District committees {of the Senate and House. Following, Rev. Dr. Cannon in a plea i for the citizens to continue unitedly |in the fight against the house there, | declared: “Our homes are at stake. The | welfare of the community is at stake.” Dr. Cannon then declared that the | house “effects not only property but | social character and the moral welfare |of the community,” saying: “The boys jand girls of this community are not | protected by the house being here.” | Others speaking om the issue were ! Milton F. Barrett, Rev. C. P. Ryland, | pastor of the Kendall Baptist Church, {and Millard F. Thompson. The latter declared that before a church could 1 be erected on Sixteenth strect a short while ago the signatures of citizens liv- ing in the neighborhood had to be se- | cured, and added..that the House of Detention has been placed in South- | west Washington without any signa- | tures. Mr. Wimsatt was authorized to act ! 25 chairman of the committee to draw up the protests. He appointed Mr Barrett and Rev. Dr. Cannon, two of the speakers of the evening, to serve with him. s PLANS NEW SYMPHONY. Sir Thomas Beecham to Form Lon- don Orchestra. "‘ LONDON (#).—The formation of a |new London orchestra by Sir Thom:s | Beecham in conjunction with the Bri- |tish Broadcasting Corporation and a prominent phnograph company promiscs to have a stimulating effect on British music. Eefore the war London orchestras | held their own when compared with any |in the world, and the Beecham Sym- phony Orchestra toured with great suc- cess all the principal musical centers of | Europe. Since that time it is notorious | that orchestral playing in London has fallen off. The new orchestra is fo be a perma- nent and whole-time organization, will have daily rehearsals and give weekly symphony concerts in the Queens Hall, London. New Oil Burner Seclls at Remarkably 1 Low Price. A remarkable ne burner which costs only a few dollars and which heats any stove or furnacz just as well as a $400 or $500 oil burner has just been Compary, 3808 Park ave., Dent. 961, St. Louis, Mo. This amazingly simple and | sturdy device works without electricity or gas. It burns a cheap oil, gives one | of the hottest, quickest.and saiest fires known and can be easily slipped into the firebox of any stove or_furnace by any one. The manufacturers want agents and offer a 30 days’ free trial to every me. dvertisement. Write them today.—A: Extreme Care is exercised here in fitting your Oculist’s Prescriptions CLAFLIN 922 14th St. Comns safe insfanf relief Inone swift minute Dr. Scholl’s Zino-pads give you absolute re- 1 lief from corn pain by removing the cause—friction and pres- ] sure sishoes. These small, thin, protective pads heal by the nat- ’ ural process of absorption— ! the only method universally | approved by doctors. Zino-pads | are guaranteed safe and sure. | Buy abox today. At all drug, | shoe and department stores. Dz Scholl’s n = the pain is gonel perfected by the International Heating |. ELol;ster Fi;hermax; Fixes Boat Engine With Seaweed and Hauls His Traps EAST HARPSWELL. Me. (#) —Patch- a motor with seaweed and making it run is the latest achievement of Yankee ingenuity. When Carroll Merriam started for a trip in his motor boat to haul his lob- | ster pots he found that nocturnal ma- | rauders had stripped his craft. They | stole oars, brass running lights, six | cells of battery and oflskins and, worst of all, they cut his six-foot copper gaso- STAR. TWASHTNGTON, MBER 13, 19%8.° hundred yards to the Scal Ledges, where he found a piece of kelp or | | devil's apron with an eight-foot stem | that was hollow. Taking this ashore | | he pushed one end over the end of the | . | severed pipe projecting from his fuel | line feed line connecting the tank with | tank and the other end left at the | the carburetor. carburetor. g | With no place within miles wh»re‘ Wrapping them tightly many times he could obtain copper pipe, with no | from a roll of friction tape he thus | near neighbors and with an order to improvised out of the hollow stalk a | furnish 50 fine lobsters at 50 cents a | fucl pipe line that cnabled him to haul | pound for & noon-time shore dinner, nis traps and fill his order. Later in Merriam showed that Yankee ingenuity | the day the same repair carried him | still flourishes in its native haunts. = | 14 miles to Portland. where a new cop- He had a battery for a radio set in | Per pipe was installed. his_home, and this he soon connected | = Lo with his motor. | In the British Empire are 521,147 Boy | Then he rowed his dory out a few | Scouts. i I il \“ - & o bl A 12000000 2 . w,s\\l‘lq PILSUDSKI TAKES REST | | the marshal is carrying on an existence according to routine. He arises at 9 in the morning and has his breakfast, consisting of two rolls with butter and tea, in bed. H | shaves himself with an American razor and then walks in his garden, accom- panied by his two wolf hounds. The pastimes of his daughters Wanda and Jadwiga, 11 and 9 years old, give him the most pleasure SULEJOWEK, Poland (#).—The let- - ters of Napoleon are the only printed = matter which comes to the hand of Foot Ball Player Breaks Neck. Marshal Pilsudski, who is resting here| WORCESTER, Mass. September 13 at his little cottage from the effects of | ) —james J. Fenton of Lawrence died |1n a hospital yesterday of injurles re- overwork ! Since the doctors ordered a compiete ceived Tuesda in Holy Cros: rest, no official business or private busi- neck was brol IN HIS LITTLE COTTAGE Marshal Avoids All Official Busi- ness to Recover From Effects of Overwork. ness penetrates throuzh the outer foot ball practice. portals of the little white house where !Y‘s 7777 (i You Are Cordially Invited to A ((RTE (3 while tackling a runner | His | WOMEN TO GET PULPITS. e Will Be Admitted to British Meth- odist Ministry. LIVERPOOL, England ().—Women | are now to be admitted to the Wesleyan | Methodist ministry on the same terms | as men, as a result of the adoption of | committee recommendations made to » conference meeting here. | A provision is made, however, that in |the case of a woman minister'’s mare | riage, her resignation shall automati- | cally take place, since she thereby “ace cepis another vocation involving ree sponsibilities which would _interefera with the fulfillment of the duties of & voman minister.” FEI.)S%YW“]ES Tomorrow--Friday, Sept. 14th, from 4 P. M. until 10 P. M, EVERYONE INVITED SOUVENIRS Flowers for the Ladies! Absolutely No Selling to Be Done Friday! ! OPEN HOUSE for INSPECTION oniy See America’s Greatest Clothes Values for Young and Older Men In Washington’s Newest and Most Modern Shop featuring exclusively the newest fashions in men’s modes ALL AT ONE PRICE / 6:30 P. MUSIC Emery Dougherty’s Orchestra LISTEN IN! Station WRC Friday Evening M. Until 7 P. 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