Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 7

BROWN PLANS CUT IN'POSTAL DEFICIT Change in Accounting System One of First Steps Planned in Department. By the Associated Press. . SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 2¢ ~Postmaster General Walter F. Brow addressing the convention of the N tional Association of Postmasters here today, disclosed plans he is formulating with a view to reducing the deficit in the operation of his department. “As a prerequisite to attack upon the postal deficit,” Brown said, “an im- portant change in keeping the depart- ment accounts was inaugurated wil the beginning of the fiscal year. “Heretofore the expenditures of the department for all of the services it performed had been charged to expense of postal service. The department ren- ders a large volume of postal service for which it receives no compensation, and, furthermore, it performs important and costly services which are essential- 1y ‘non-postal “Perhaps the notable example of this kind service,” he said, “is the de- partment's share in the administratior, of merchant marine acts. The cost of carrying ocean mails under the pro- vision of the merchant marine act of 1928 for the current fiscal year will be not less than $12,000.000 more than the gervice would cost under poundage rates “Under our new accounting system the cost of ocean mail contracts, in exeess of poundage rates. the cost of penalty mail carried for the executive departments and independent executive establishments,”™ frank mail, ‘free in county’ newspapers, mail free for the blind, etec.. will not be charged to the expense of postal operations, but will be grouped together under an appro- priate head. The aggregate of our postal revenues will then be substracted from the aggregate of our real postal costs, and the differnce will appear as a true postal deficif AUTOMOBILE IS HURLED | 35 FEET BY STREET CAR Occupant but Owner Refuses Hospital Treat- ment for Possible Hurts. Struck by a Washington Railway & | Electric Co. street car at the intersec- | tion of Eighth and Upshur streets early today, an automobile owned and oper- ated by Warren Finley Basim, 65, of | 1630 Nineteenth street, was hurled 35} feet and overturned, injuring Frank | Thomas, 40, colored, of the 1100 block Suffers Injuries, th | cept rock-strewn paths worn by the of Eighth street, an occupant. Police of the tenth precinct say that the autmobile was traveling north on | Eighth street when struck by the west- | bound street car. operated by Anston | Shackleford, 1109 Fifth street south- | west. | Basim refused hospital treatment, but | Thomas was removed to Emergency | Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. | C. B. White for a fractured hip. His condition was not serious. | THE EVENING CHILDREN DOUSED IN CREEKS TO ESCAPE FOREST FIRE DEATH Fighters Recount Tragic Tale of Entire Herds of Cattle Being Cremated in Wall of Flames. By the Associated Press, | VANCOUVER, Wash, September 20.—A story of how women and chil- dren in the Dole Mountain Valley were drenched in creeks and then wrapped with water-soaked gunny sacks to save their lives from the forest fire which swept the district, destroying a dozen homes, was told here by Deputy Sherift CUff Kemp and Deputy Auditor C. A. Calander upon their return from the devastated area. Dole Mountain Valley, a picturesque community without thoroughfares ex- tread of ancient motor cars and horses, lies at the extreme tip of the Yacolt country, where the fire which threat- ened Yacolt, started roaring on a 16- mile front recently. Herds of Cattle mated. Kemp and Calander said entire herds of cattle were burned to a crisp, cre- mated pigs, goats and chickens littered by-paths and scores of settlers barely escaped the flames, fighting their way to safety with severe burns, injured eyes and smoke-congested lungs. Nights were filled with horror as the settlers crouched on doorsteps of their homes watching the progress of the flames, fearing that any instant their belongings would be ruined. On Bell Mountain, where the fire raged its greatest, Kemp said he was surprised to find that all but one settler, George L. Tarbell, d_escaped alive. Officials believe he died trying to protect his ranch_home, which was destroved. $82.50 T SMALL APARTMENT Living Room. 2 Bedrooms, Kitchen and Dinette " Or_Slight _Alteration Living "Room. Bedroom. large Dining Room. Kitchen and Breakfast Room ALL LARGE ROOMS SMALL CASH PAYMENT TOTAL Monthly Payment Int. and Operatin Monthly Saving. ... Net Monthly Outlay $82.50 Also One large, one small unfurnished apartment FOR RENT by owners unable to occupy same. See_the Above Anytime Today “or Evening M. & R. B. Warren 1661 Crescent Pl Runs West from 16th St. O quare ith of j Kitchen Clocks For the colors., wall, Diamond Value 39.74 Sparkling di set in 18-kt. white gold engraved mounting. Pay 24c Down Clock and Candlesticks VERY SPECIAL $ 8.74 Only 24c Down y mantel eloel Base in wrought metal effect with in special Free Birthday Schoolhouses were turned into tem- porary abodes for the refugees, Calan- der sald, and supplies were Yacolt merchants. With roads blocked by smouldering logs, the supplies were sent inland by railroad speeders. A mist spread like a drenched blanket rnished by | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929. over the fire-blackened forests of the Northwest yesterday and stamped out the last vestige of the flames, which within the last two weeks have swept 300,000 acres, damaged more than a dozen homes of settlers and caused an unestimated amount of damage. Except in the Mount Hood forest. where the most serious blaze started and ran 16 miles in one night to threaten the town of Estacada, Oreg., and con- sumed eight farm homes, the hundreds >f men who fought the various fires nave returned home. State and Federal authorities were surveying the stricken sections, en- deavoring to fix the amount of damage. In the Dole Mountain Valley settlers asked the State of Washington for free grass seed to insure grazing next sea- son. - a slump in horse breeding in Belglum. —Using any old taxicab you find on the streets. Use “Black and White” cabs and “Yellow” cabs, because they are oper- atad by a financially re- sponsible Washington firm. 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