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CITIZENS PROTEST ~ TRAFFIC HAZARD [ame Committee to Confer on John Dixon Home Street Entrance. With a view to eliminating an'alleged | traffic hazard at the Piney Branch | yoad entrance to the John Dixon Home, | 5000 Fourteenth street, the Piney Tiranch Citizens' Association last night adopted a resolution to have a special | committee from the association confer with officials at the home. Edgar B. Henderson, president of the | association, appointed R. W. Cushing | chairman of “the committee. B. R. sonen and E. R. Merritt were named | to_serve with him. The association also adopted a reso- | Jution calling the attention of the Dis- | trict Commissioners to the mneed of | sidewalks on Fifteenth street between Decatur and Emerson streets and on Thirteenth street between Decatur and Farragut streets. It was voted by the body to defer action on the question of increased pay for members of the Fire and Police De- WITNESS CONVICT AS PROVES A FAILURE Paroled Man Unable to Aid in| Solving Murder of Moving Picture Director. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 14.—Otis Hefner, paroled convict, was questioned yesterday by District Attorney Buron Fitts and released with the announce- ment that he was unable to furnish any information that would lead to & solu- tion of the slaying of Willlam Desmond “Taylor, noted motion picture director. Hefner had been quoted as saying he accompanied Edward Sands, secretary ©of the film director, to the apartment where Taylor's body was_found the morning of February 2, 1922, and saw a ~well known motion picture actress leave the place 15 minutes before the body was discovered. “Hefner’s statements are somewhat contradictory in many details with in- formation and indisputable facts here- tofore gathered,” Fitts said. “What we hoped was that Hefner might place us in contact with Edward Sands. Hefner cannot connect us with Sands. We will continue to seek further nformation.” Sands disappeared after the shooting and never has been found. ~ SPECIAL NOTICES. ! HEREBY GIV- k of Washington, frm and has withdrawn pation in the business of the firm on Vember 12, 1 t the annual meeting of the stockhold- firm. the following elections were ried: Mr, Chas. E. Talvert T fo- OAve: NW.. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK: Tolders of the Cranford Company Will be Deld at its ofice, 3050 K st. n.w., Washing- \ion. B. €. ‘at 11 oclock am. oh Tuesday, 2 huary Zist. 1930, for the election of offi- cers for the ensuing year and the transac- $ian ‘of such other business as may come before the meeting. 5H."CRANPORD, President. _ M. L. Cranford. Secretary. ‘GFFICE OF THE WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT Company, January 14, 1980.—In accordance With section 3 0f the charter, the annual -meeting of the Shareholders of the Wash- Theton Gas Likht Company, for the election of directors and for such other business s _may properld come 'before said meeting, “AF pe Deld ‘at ‘the office of the company. 313477 Toth st. niw.. Monday, February 3. 1530, ‘at 13 o'clock naon. The polls Wil be opens from 17 o'clock noon until 1 o'clock m. GEORGE M. WHITWELL. Secretar: THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOC holders of the National Savings & Trust Company. for the election of directors and for 'such’ other business as may Droperly come before it, will be held at the office of ihe company, 'northeast corner of 15th st 97d New York ave. on Monday, 20ta day of January, 1930, at 4 o'clock’p.m. WILLIAM_D.' HOOVER. President. E._PERCIVAL WILSON. Secretagy. FHE ANNUAL MEETING holders of the Continental will be held at the ofices of the col J4ih and H sts. n.w, Washington, D. C.; on Tuesday. January i4th, 1930, at 1 o'clock p.m. for the transaction of such business s may come before the-meeting. M._ 1. TUCKER. Asst. Secretary. NIHE_ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- FOLDERS of ‘the HOME BUILDING ASSO- |CTATION will be heid at the office of the treasurer, 2006 Pennsylvania ave day. January 14, 1930, a ‘election of officers a K- OF THE T Trust Company any. the transaction of riy come DWARD, {ensuing_year and for isuch other business as may pro beiore the meeting. JAMES M. Wi tary. TICE I8 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE nual meeting of the stockholders of the lumbia Realty & Investment Company 1 be held at the office of the company. 1 U st n.w., on Wednesday, January 15, 8 pm. for the election of a board directors’ for the ensuing year and for transaction of such other business as v 'properly come before said meeting. wil ‘be open from 8 to 9 p.m. JESSE H. MITCHELL, President. UAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- Seventh Street Savings Bank, T meeting, will be held in the banking house 3'G'ciock pim. on Tuesday, January 14, FORMATION WANTED OF ACCIDENT out 7.05 am. Thursday, January 9, at h and E sts. n.w. Any one who saw this sccident is requested to communicate with Z.delity Storage Co. 1420 U st. n.w. Phone Nort "PAPERHANGIN 2 and up if_you mpies furnighed. JF _YQU ARE GOING TO MOVE TO OR fiom Phila., New York, Boston. Pittsburgh. Forfolk or ‘any other point, e ¥l tell you how much it t ROOF REPAIRING. PAINTING. blé prices Roofing Co.. 2038 18th st. n.W. 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W, 1s just one way THE EVENING PRINCESS EUDOXIE, Sister of King Boris of Bulgaria, who is that probably will not be speedily follow She is limiting herself to a single new di setting an example of economy in dress ed by European royalty of other courts. ress for her wardrobe each year. From the none-too-large income of the royal house of Bulgaria she chooses to give to the poor out of the slender surplus, rathe er than spend it on clothes. SEA ROADS TO PEACE Bill of Rights for Neu trals Is Valueless Once War Breaks Out. (The principle of neutrsl rights is dl cussed in this article, the eleventh in series on sea power.) BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. It has been the fundamental hypo- thesis of this series of articles that the approaching five-power naval confer- ence in London would be, in reality, a good deal more than an affair of com- bat relativity at sea, with such naval reduction and limitation as might prove to be possible consistently with that principle. The hypothesis has been that the discussions of the conference, and consequently its educative effect, would range, either formally or in- formally, over the whole realm of the strategic relations of peoples on both sea and land. War and peace, in short, have been Jject matter of the conference. Combat relativity at sea, with les- sened and limited economic burdens for the comstruction and maintenance of naval defenses, is known by every one to be the stipulated problem of the con- ference. It holds, and doubtless rightly holds, first place. It is the only an- nounced business of the conference. But the delegates going to London are unusually intelligent men, representing governments exceptionally wide awake, and they hardly can fail to ask them- selves (certainly public opinion will ask) not only how many war vessels each nation may have but what duties, presumnmy,!thae craft may be called upon to perform. plglvlngpteflscussed the situation with a | number of responsible persons, civil and military, in Great Britain and in Amer- ica, I have not found one of them who uestion one can think of as bear- ?x‘ll;r}:.\gon what is, after all, the tran- scendent matter of the day in all coun- ‘What are the reduced aad limited navies to do for peace? Talk About Neutral Rights. We in this country still are talking about neutral rights at sea. Senator Borah, for instance, seems to do more thinking relative to these rights, or so- called rights, than to -nythln'“ else connected with the subject. The “brass tacks” of the world naval position ap- pear to be quite beyond the Senator’s digestive and assimilative capacities. He will not look at them, much less take them into his apprehensive ang ratiocinative system. He sticks to hi favorite food of “minimum belligerent rights and maximum neutral rights at sea. v Acute and progressive minds, how- ever, are seeing maritime rights in a new light. In this new light those rights will be seen in London. How do they look there? X:’\ the first place, there is no instance of a belligerent, whether military or naval, exercising more moderate bel- ligerent rights than either prudence or necessity forced upon him. ‘The bel- ligerent, whether soldier or saflor, | simply fights, and always will fight as hard as he can to win. ~That, when all is said and done, is what he is there for. Try forcibly to restrain him, par- ticularly if he deems his struggle vital, and what do you get? Not peace, but} war. Natural Rights Are Violated. Take the military and naval record of our own country. Suppose Britain had gone too far in her effort to get over Lincoln’s blockade of the South- ern States in the Civil War. Is there any doubt what that would have meant? Is there any doubt it would have me;r;'i at sea. Or take the Spanish-American War— in which, by the way, Britain stood firmly with us. Suppose the statesmen of Downing street had been disposed otherwise. Suppose they had felt that a loss of Spanish prestige and power | would be harmful to Britain and had attempted to aid the Spanish through | our naval lines. Should we then have, cried out for “minimum belligerent rights and maximum neutral rights at sea?” Does even Senator Borah think we should? And call to mind the Great War. What did we do in it but drive our battleships and cruisers and destroyers and mine layers and U-boat chasers through the very middle of the fabric of neutral rights at sea? And one more question: What should we do if we were at war with a neigh- bor in this hemisphere (a condition which probably forever will remain con- trary to fact) and some European or other champion of “minimum’ belliger- ent rights-and maximum neutral rights at sea” defied our-ideas of what it was necessary for us to do by way of block- 1 imagine we all know what we should do. We should cry halt, and if the offender did not halt we should shoot. And there would be, again, not peace, but war. Survival is Always First. Mark this: You must not put a na- tion in such shape that it is compelled to choose between observing a principle and either losing its life or seeing de- velop a situation which seems to it de- structive of its inalienable rights. If you do this, the principle will not be re- spected; the nation will choose to keep its life or to prevent the situation reck- ligerency clean from the international slate, substitute law for war. how much freedom armies willingly give to cbjectionable neutral traders—ex- actly none. And, truth to say, that is the only true logic of war. There is no half-way house between war and peace. The two spheres are absolutely and eternally separate and distinct. The Germans were right about that.- Read their war philosophy. It strikes one as too terrible, too inhuman, too appalling- ly pitiless to be entertained by savages let alone civilized men. But war is like that. The theory and the practice of the Germans were inexorably uncom- passionate and frightful solely because :;eiy were logically, truly, purely mar- “War,” wrote Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian general in the last century, “is an act of violence intended to eom- pel our enemy to fulfill our will. such dangerous things as' war the er- rors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.. He who uses force unsparingly must obtain a superiority if his adversary uses less vigor in its application. To introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.” ‘War Must Be Ruthless. Gen. Hartmann, another exponent of German war theory, wrote that it must be “completely ruthless.” And he went on njure your enemy all you can— in morale, in mind, in body, in what he possesses. Military necessity can make no_distinction between public and pri- vate property. It is entitled to take :.l':‘nt' 1t needs, wherever and however it “No distinction between public and private property.” An army “is entitled to take what it needs”—where and how? “Wherever and however it can."” That was the German doctrine in the books and in the field. And Ger- many, highly militarized Germany, was one of the wers which calles most lustily for “freedom of the seas.” No freedom, so far as the German armies could prevent it, was to exist on the land; the Germans, in the main, were a land power. But on the sea— Germans were not dominant there, so Lhey"nn!urally wanted “freedom of the seas.” They wanted, in other words, to have unrestricted use of their own weapons, while legally trammeling to the fullest possible extent the weapons of the sea powers. further than to suggest that it slightly unsportsmln“zkle? Rights Would Be Worthless. . But let us concede, for the sake of discussion, that America might be neu- tral in the next war—a war in vio- lation of the covenant of the League of Nations and of the Briand-Kellogg pact, if not also of the Locarno treaties (and we may have more Locarnos soon)—and, therefore. insistent upon its neutral rights. What good would these rights be? Not much, I am afraid. We should be almost the only neutral in the world, and we could supply the navally encompassed belligerent, if at all, only through his own ports. All other frontiers would be closed against the aggressor. As for the defending na- tions themselves, we may be sure that of goods obtainable elsewhere. Patently, the question of neutral statement, “from a new angle.” (Copyright, 1930, by the Chicago Daily News.) (In the next article, the twelfth and last in a series on sea power, Mr. Bell tells of America’s need for an adequate striking power at sea. SPORTSWOMAN KILLED. GLOUCESTER, Mass., January 14 (#).—Mrs. Catherine D. Furey, 33-year- old sportswoman, who had engaged in women's wrestling matches, was killed today when her automobile skidded and struck a tree. Her neck was broken. Mrs. Purey, whose maiden name was Miss “Bobby” Wilson, wrestled with Cora Livingston, so-called woman's wrestling champion, at one time. Will Rogers Says: ABOARD S. 8. BREMEN, Jan- uary 14.—My remaining days are dedicated to nihilate the author of the slogan, “Big boats don’t rock.” Say, the higher they are the further they rock. They tail spin, side slip, and ground loop. Well, here’s how bad it is. There is not an American in the barroom and when I think of those poor Senators on the George Washington, may the Almighty have pity on a poor peace delega- tion, on a dry boat, out on a night like this. The more I see of steam- ship travel the less I think of the hardship of Lindbergh. 1If I can find a pilot that wants to fly to America I will be his Levine and this goes as an advertisement. Yours, oned by it to be worse than war. There to get rid of belligerent pretensions on land or seasswipe bel- WILL ROGERS. P. 8—Wish they would disarm these waves. Any student of land warfare knows | In | that was a horse of another color. The | ‘Who can quarrel with that argument, | they .would take from us.not an ounce | rights at sea requires examination, in | the language of the Macdonald-Hoover | STAR, WASHINGTON, ASK CO-ORDINATION IN HIGHWAY WORK Takoma Park Citizens Pro- pose Closer Contact With Maryland. The co-ordination of the highway system of the District of Columbia with that of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission was ad- vocated last night at a meeting of the ‘Takoma Park Citizens’ Association in the Takoma Park branch of the Wash- ington Public Library, Fifth and Cedar streets. Burt W. Andrews, chairman of the committee on streets and lights, in re- porting to the association stressed that the master map of the Maryland-Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission proposes the construction of a highway via Sligo Mill road at the Takoma Park line along Sligo stream to Indian Spring, White Oak and thence to Baltimore, shortening the distance several miles to the Monumental City. With the improvement of New Hamp- shire avenue to the District line, it would connect with the Sligo Mill road and relieve the traffic congestion on the Washington-Baltimore boulevard. It was pointed out that the District owns all of the land to the District line and that property owners have paid their assessments as far back as 1915, but up to the present time New Hamp- shire avenue has not 'been improved. The speakers favoring early improve- ment of this thoroughfare included Walter Irey, John W. Coffman, Mrs. William L. White and John Micklejohn Chester C. Waters, Public Utilities Commission chairman, presented a reso- lution which was adopted, requesting the Public Utilities Commission to pro- vide for exchange of transfers between the Washington Railway & Electric Co. and the Capital Traction Co. at Georgia avenue and Kennedy streets. The association was advised by Sena- tod Reed Smoot that he would present the matter of a proposed armory for the National Guard of the District of Columbia at the next meeting of his committee. ‘Walter Irey reported on the recent gathering when the Capper-Zihlman school board election bill was dis- cussed, while President John Walker related the activities of the Federation of Citizens' Associations. Efforts will be made to obtain the construction of a building and storage space at an estimated cost of $3,000 on the Whittier playgrounds, south of Ta- koma Park. Lieut. Col. J. A. McAlister, U. S. Army Dental Corps, retired was appointed chairman of the health and sanitation committee. President Walker presided. \PICKRELL DENIES KING OFFICE USE Dye Corporation Official TIs Ques- tioned in Lobby Inves- tigation. By the Associated Press. E. R. Pickrell of the General Dye | Stuff Corporation of New York denied | today before the Senate lobby commit- tee that he had used the office of Senator King, Democrat, of Utah as headquarters during consideration of the pending tariff bill. Questioned by Senator Robinson of Indiana, the only regular Republicen on the lobby committee, Pickrell said newspaper reports that he had used King's office as headquarters were un- true. Pickrell said he had written two or three letters in King's office. “You were with Senator King con- stantly,” Robinson asserted. “I was not,” Pickrell replied. “When did you last write a letter in his office?” the Indiana Senator asked. “Along about September or October,” the witness answered. Robinson asked if Pickrell had ever met H. A. Metz of New York in King's office. “I don't recall,” he said. The Indiana Senator asked Pickrell if he had made an appointment to meet Frank K. Boal, a newspaper man, in King's office. Pickrell said he made an appointment, but was unable to keep it because he was called back suddenly to New York. The witness saild he couid not recall the nature of the business, but added it was not caused by the newspaper stories that he was using King's office. oSl i ALUMNAE TO MEET. International Catholic Federation to Convene Here Friday. ‘The International Federation of Cath- olic Alumnae will meet in the Willard Hotel Friday night at 7:30 o'clock, when Miss Elizabeth Dolan, governor of the District chapter, will tline the year's program. The presidents of the alumnae asso- | ciations of the following affiliated schools comprise the executive board of this committee: St. Cecilia’s, red Heart, St. Anthony’s, Notre Dame, St. Patrick’s, Sacred Heart, of Mary, Georgetown, Holy | Trinity, Georgetown Visitation, Im- | maculate Conception, St. Paul’s, Holy Cross and Immacula SHOW TO BE GIVEN. | Benefit for the Church of the Bless- ed Sacrament Is Planned. A minstrel show, followed by a dance, | will be given in the grand ball room of the Mayflower Hotel Friday, January 24, for the benefit of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Chevy Chase, D. C. The entertainment is under auspices of the choir, and the program will begin at 8:30 p.m., with dancing from 10:30 | to 12:30. Sidney’s Mayflower Hotel Orchestra will play for both the show and dancin Mistol REG. U.8. PAT.OFF. i~ | | rar— Gargle Mistol ou know that the latest scientific gl‘:cZwery to check head colds and . soothe those irritated nose and throat | membranes is Mistol? Use the handy dropper in the package; put some fre- quently up the nose, gargle with it. Sore throats and colds relieved. Pleas- | ant and easy! Every druggist carries i Mistol—get a bottle today! 4 MADE BY THE MAKERS OF NUJOL D; C., TUESDAY, JA NUARY 14, 1930. Credit Men to Try To Stir Conscience | Of “Slow” Payer% $7,000,000 Ad Fund to| Be Used in Prompt Payment Drive. By the Associated Press. DENVER, January 14—If you pay your bills promptly on the 1st of each month you are one out of every two persons who_does so. On the other hand, if you are slow in meeting your credit obligations you may find solace in the knowledge that 40 per cent of the credit buyers of America have the same characteristic. Added to that there is another 10 per cent that is downright crooked and not only is slow jn paying, but buys on credit without ever intending to pay. ‘The latter two classes, representing 50 per cent of the people of the United States, are about to have their con- sclences stirred, however. The National Retail Credit Associa- tion is willing to spend $7.000,000 to cause them a few qualms of uneasiness. That fact was revelT-d here by Guy T. Hulse of St. Louif, secretary educational director of the association. He is here to attend the seventh an- nual convention of the Associated Re- tail Credit Bureaus of Colorado, Wyo- ming and New Meixico. ‘The ‘“conscience” fund already has beer: raised and will be expended in ad- vertising aimed to establish a new psychology on the part of credit buy- ers. More than one-third of the sum will be spent for daily newspaper ad- vertising, Hulse said. LOW COTTON PRICE BLAMED ON FORD Ex-Head of Exchange Says| Manufacturer and Rosenwald Force Quotations Down. By the Assoclated Press, Arthur Marsh, former president of the New York Cotton Exchange, sug- gested today before a Senate subcom- mittee investigating cotton exchanges that Henry Ford and Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. be called to tell how the condition of the cotton farmer of the South could be improved. The proposal was a preliminary to an attack on methods used by the con- cerns of which Ford and Rosenwald are heads. Marsh said that Ford was an outstanding exponent of. high wages for labor, but that his buyers were “re- morseless” in using every “possible ex- pediency” to drive down the price of cotton fabrics, used by Ford's plants | in large quantities. ‘The witness also told the subcommit- | tee that buyers of Sears, Roebuck & | Co.; Montgomery Ward & Co. and | Woolworth’s, who use one-fifth of the | cotton goods manufactured, were the | “'most remorseless drivers down"” of cot- ton prices. He added that in an effort to meet competition of the chain stores, inde- pendent dry goods stores had organ- ized buying syndicates with great pur- chasing power. “All are combined,” he said, “to throw the risk of price.back on that poor devil (the cotton farmer), who cannot help himself.” PROMOTIONS SCHEDULED | IN U. S. FOREIGN SERVICE President Hoover Sends to Senate| List of Changes in the Several Classes. President Hoover sent to the Senate yesterday the nominations of the fol- lowing for promotions in the foreign service: From class 2 to class 1, Ferdinand L. Mayer of Indiana; from class 3 to class 2, J. K. Huddle of Ohio; from class 4 to class 3, Leland B. Morris of Pennsylvania and 8. P. Tuck; from class 5 to class 4, Joseph F. McGurk of New Jersey and Homer Brett of Mississippl; from class 6 to class 5, Harry F. Hawley of New York and Romeyn Wormuth of New York; from class 7 to class 6, Harold Playter of California and Walter 8. Reineck of Ohio; from class 8 to class 7, Sidney E. ODonoghue of New Jersey and Thomas H. Robinson of New Jersey: from unclassified to class 8, Edward | P. Lawton, jr, of Georgia: William | Clark Vyse of Washington, D. C., and | Julian F. Harrington of Massachusetts; vice counsels 6f career to be counsels, Edward P. Lawton, jr.; William Clark | Vyse and Julian F. Harrington. | Colored Deaths Exceed Births. LYNCHBURG, Va., January 14 (Spe- | cial) —Colored 'deaths exceeded the births here in December, according to the monthly report of the public wel- | fare department just released by Dr. Mosby G. Perrow. There were 28 deaths and 24 births. White births | aggregated 57. as compared with 40 | deaths during the period. CHEVY CHASE DAIRY d | cieney ratings.” | services in the Treasury Department.” TREASLRY SALARY BOOST REQUESTED $100,000 Declared Neces-| sary to Raise Morale of Underpaid Workers. Promotions and increased pay for more than 600 low-paid employes of the Treasury Department are included in the Treasury-Post Office Department appropriation bill, now before the House. An item of $100,000 is carried in the bill, which would be used, it was ex- plained by Chairman Wood of the ap- propriations committee, “to permit of increases within the grades to those employes who are two or more salary steps away from the rates of pay to which they are eligible under their effi- Most of these employes for whom pay raises are planned are in the office of Treasurer of the United States, in the custodial service and lower clerical ranks. $60 to $100 Increase Planned. “The amount allowed will provide in- creases of $60 and in some cases $100 to those employes in the under- average grades,” Chairman Wood ex- plained, “‘where heretofore the in- adequacy of the appropriations has prevented promotions based upon the efficiency rating.” The pay raises were recommended by Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, who explained -to the appro- priations committee the reasons for, making such recommendations and dis- | closed for the first time the Treasury policy toward promotions. “When the 1931 estimates were under consideration,” said Mr. Mills, “it de- veloped that in a number of offices there were employes whose salaries were at rates of from one to five steps removed from their eligible salaries under their efficiency ratings, many of who were grades where the average of the salaries was below the grade average, but for whom promotions, could not be granted, owing to lack of funds. The classification act presumes that salaries shall be fixed 6n the basis of efficiency ratings. When salaries are out of line so much as four and five steps from eligible salaries, as de- termined by the efficiency ratings, a situation is created which inevitably leads to discouragement and lowered morale on the part of the employes. “The promotions recommended rep- resents less than one-half of 1 per cent of the total compensation for personal General Promotion Opposed. Mr. Mills said he had opposed a gen- eral one-step promotion for all em- ployes because of the Welch act in- creases, which had taken place about 18 months before. RECENT CHANGES NOTED IN U. S. FOREIGN SERVICE First BSecretary Rome Becomes Counselor—Reas- signments of Consuls Reported. Recent changes in the United States foreign service include the designation of Alexander C. Kirk of Illinois, first secretary of embassy at Rome, as coun- selor of that embassy; the designation of Donald B. Heath, Kansas, consul at Port-au-Prince, as second secretary of legation at that port; the designation of Willlam T. Turner, Georgia, vice consul, as third secretary of embassy at Tokio; the appointment of Robert A. Acly, Massachusetts, as vice consul at Montreal; the appointment of Ed- ward. Anderson, jr., Florida, to vice con- sul at Nassau, Bahamas; the transfer of Gerald A. Mokma, Michigan, vice consul, from Leipsig, Germany, to Maracaibo, Venezuela: the transfer of John J. Coyle, New York, vice consul, from Guadaloupe, French West Indies, to Dakar, Senegal, Prench West Africa; the appointment of James H. Wright, Missouri, as vice consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico, and the resignation of Ed- ward J. Norton, Tennessee, as foreign service officer, who is detailed to the State Department. L =B rich flavor Xrh GULDENS . Mustard‘ of Embassy in| Wise mothers prefer W Brothers' Special Nursery Milk produced in co-operation with Doctor J. Thomas Kelley, Jr. Phone West 0183 | bass drum, one woman forgot a century Forgetful Patrons Of Taxicabs Leave 11,000 Articles! Bass Drum and Century | Plant Are Among Things Found. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 14.—Any one who would forget a bass drum in a taxi- | cab would not at first blush be consid- ered overly bright, but there are such people, the annual statement of the Chicago Yellow Cab Co.’s lost and found department triumphantly announces. Eleven thousand persons left various articles in cabs of the company during 1928, the department reports. Women lost more than men, and umbrellas were the most frequently forgotten articles. Besides the patron who forgot his | plant and a can of beans and half a dozen persons left their store teeth. One hundred flasks were left behind, but the company reported only three of them contained anything. KVALE TO MAKE ADDRESS AT VETERANS’ MEETING Minnesota Representative to Speak at the Publig Installation of Officers Tonight. Representative Paul Kvale of Minne- sota will be principal speaker tonight at a public installation of officers of Strawn Turner Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in the high school at Seat Pleasant, Md. Representative Kvale is himself a | veteran and familiar with problems con- fronting former service men. Special guests will include Senator Copeland of New York, Representative Gambrill of Maryland and several na- tional officers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Washington members of the or- ganization have been invited. PULLMAN HEAD WEDS. Col. W. F. Nicholson Marries Di- vorcee in Reno. RENO, Nev., January 14 (#)—Col. W. F. Nicholson, head of the Pullman Co., was married in Reno late yester- day to Mrs. Thora T. Nichols soon after she had divorced Clarence E. Nichols, vice president of the Federal Light & Traction Co. of New York. | THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS— You can atways depend on long lived, fresh specimens. OR Our Special El Produced under the product is bottled, Produced and or address. 3206 N Street N.W. 1407 H Stree As a further protection, unflfi"mau,i Columbia Fiealth Phone Potomac 4000 for Service A3 PROMISES TO TELL FACTS N OILFRALD Former Head of Julian Firm Says He Will Reveal Story of Stock “Mess.” * By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 14.—The enigma of the Julian Petroleum Corpo- ration collapse in 1927, in which in- vestors lost somewhere between $40,000,- 000 and $150,000,000, may be cleared up if Sheridan C. Lewis, former head of the firm, makes good on_ his jpromise to “tell all about the whole rotten mess, inside and out.” Lewls, Jacob Berman and E. H. Rosen- berg, whose alleged connection with the financial debacle resulted in their being sued and prosecuted in State courts, were arrested yesterday on indictments returned as a result of a Federal ind jury investigation into affairs of the company. What became of mililons which in- | vestors spent for fraudulently issued stock in the company is one of the mys- teries of the case. ‘The Federal indictments upon which | the three men were arrested charge 11 counts of misuse of the mails and one count of conspiracy. Berman formerly was head of the Julian stock depart- ment, and Rosenberg was a broker han- dling Julian stock. John Scott Neil, 92-year-old Chica- goan, witnessed the “charge of the light brigade at the Battle of Balakiava in FINER USED CARS Not Under Cover We do not hide our used . They are right out in_front on :the main show- room where you can see what we have. HAWKINS-NASH \_1529 14th St. Dec. 3320 SopitaiHoeers Sympathy, Affection, Respect the Blackistone Blooms to be DROP IN AND ENJOY THE BLOOMS. “WIRE” FLOWERS ANYWHERE. (Our New Address) 3 Doors West “of 14th St. National 4905 “Simple Simon Met a Pieman” But in this instance he was evidently late in coming. 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