Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 31

THE EVENTSG STAR. WASHINGTON. D. ©. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER ' Pl ANE BHR'S]’ENED {Will Rogers’ Nomination Withdrawn |VOLUNTEERS WILL GIVE Year. "Blans are-on oot to.serve na From Exclusive Club for “Stealing Show™ THANKSGIVING DINNER i i srisiaton s s prparive i to distribute Christmas bounty, consist- | ‘E:’ the Associated Press. » SAN FRANCISCO, November 22— ing of holiday dinners, clothing and fuel. | The Examiner today said that the name o 1928.° E. F. DROOP & SONS CO. 1300 “Gee"= Plan to Serve as Many Children as Finances Permit—Christmas Feasts to Be Held. The Volunteers or America, 1103 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, are seeking a fund to provide needy chil- Applications for this attention during | the Christmas season will be received at_Voluntcer headquarters after No- vember 29. Applicants will be investi- gated and served regardless of race or creed, according fo officers. accusation that while Rogers was & “distinguished guest” of the club at its annual high jinks last August, he “stole the show” by occupying the limelight for an hour and a half instead of keep- ing to the 5 minutes allotted him. Rogers, it was said, kept in the mid- dle of the calcium lighted circle so long that numerous other celebrities were crowded off the schedule. The article || further declared that Rogers aroused the feeling of the members when he re- ferred to the high jinks in a newspaper article as a form of week end divertisse- ment for tired business men from which it took them about two weeks to re- cover. v 5 1 of Will Rogers, actor and humorist, had Ford Craft Is Substituted for | becn, withdrawn by ‘his sponsor from Fokker Delayed by ;_};:nax‘tél:si\'e Bohemian Club of San Damaged Wheel. | The newspaper reported than among the reasons for the withdrawal was an Before a distinguished gathering of PEASANTS RECEIVE AID. Government officials, aviators, air line New Stetn;vay Grands $1,400 Up I-Vzw Steinway Uprights $875 Up operators and members of the ‘diplo- | Ukrainian Commissariat Appro- matic corps from Central and South American countries, Mrs. Calvin Cool- priates Fund for Relief of Needy. KHARKOV, Ukraine, November 22 Tt;':i humorist's sponsor was not idge yesterday afternoon christened by proxy the flagship of a fleet of trans- port planes which will be used to inaugurate an international air trans- port system linking the countries of North America, Central America and South America The ceremony took place at Hoover Field, where a tri-motored Ford mono- niane was dedicated by proxy for the Christopher Columbus, the tri- motored Fokker monoplane which will become the flagship of the new fleet of Pan-American Alrways, Inc.. opera- tors of the international line. ~The Fokker was held at Teterboro Airport.} N. J. after a wheel had been damaged | by dropping into a hole on the landing field there. Mrs. Coolidge christened the plane from a flag-covered stand in an in- closure marked by the flags of the Central and South American nations. | Addresses were made by J. T. Trippe. | president of Pan-American Airways: | Nelson T. Johnson, Assistant Secreta of State; Warren Irving Glover, Sec-| ond Assistant Postmaster General in | charge of air mail; Willam P. Mac- | Cracken, jr. Assistant Secretary of | Commerce for Aeronautics, and J. M. | Eaton, general traffic manager for the airways company. The Marine Band played. | 4 Rapid Communication Stressed. The speakers stressed the importance of rapid passenger and mail communi- cations between the American nations | as a means of cementing international friendships. “This new means of communication,” Assistant Secretary of State Johnson said, “will revolutionize conceptions of time and distance current among the peoples which it will serve. It means a closer relationship, which will without doubt aid in our efforts at a better understanding of one another’s prob- lems. These facilities, which are about | to be made available to the people of 4 this hemisphere, mark the opening of a new era of significance not only to better international understanding but also to international good will.” Pan-American Airways will open the initial unit of its new service early in January. ‘This unit will include three divisions—Miami to Nassau, Miami to Key West and Havana, and Miami to Havana to Camaguey and thence down the West Indies to San Juan. This unit will have a total daily operating ymileage of 4,000 miles. Extend Service Later. Later the system will be extended to include Mexico, the Central American (#).—The commissariat of agrlculture! - has appropriated 113,000,000 rubles (approximately $60,000,000) for the aid of needy peasants, Last year's appro- priation for the same purpose reached 91,000,000 rubles. About 1,800,000 households will be freed from taxation and 5,200,000 rubles will be used for radical agricultural im- | provements. 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