Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1930, Page 12

A—12 IGONEGAL HONOR DINNER PLANNED District Plumbing Depart-! ment Head Is New President H of Trade Body. | A. R. McGonegal, head of the plumb- | ing department of the District, who re- | cently was elevated to the presidency of | the American Society of Sanitary En- gineers, will be honor guest at a tes- | timonial dinner meeting of the local| Master Plumbers’ Association February 20, at Wardman Park Hotel, it was an- | nounced last night. | 600 to Attend. ; Six hundred sanitary engineers in| Government service, master plumbers, piumbing supply dealers, manufacturers of sanitatry wares and others interested in the industry will attend the meeting, which was planned to commemorate the election of McGonegal. Among special guests will be officials of the District | government. | The American Society of Sanitary | Engineers is internationai in scope, hav- | ing memberships throughout the United | States, in Canada, Mexico, Panama, Cuba, London and Alexandria, Egypt, and other foreign points. McGonegal is a veteran of govern- ment service here, having served 20 years as chief of the District plumbing inspection service and having been 30 Jears employed in the District govern- ment in the plumbing and sewer divi- sions. He is widely known in the sani- tary engineering field through his writ- ings in trade and professional publica- tions, and for his research work carried on for the American society. District Heads Invited. ‘The District Commissioners have been invited to attend the testimonial dinner meetmr of the local master plumbers. Other invited guests include J. J. Crotty of New York, past president of the American Society of Sanitary Engi- neers; Thomas M. Dugan, McKeesport, Pa., secretary of the society; Maj. Wil- liam C. Groeniger, sanitary engineer of Columbus, Ohio. and D. A. Sanderson, president of the Pennsylvania State Master Plumbers’ Association. Get Confidence Game Terms. Justice Gordon, in Criminal Division 1, yesterday sent Charles Taylor and ‘Thomas Crocby, both colored, to the penitentiary for working the confidence game on Charles A. Harris July 1 last and relieving their victim of $130. Tay- lor was given six years and Crosby three years. Established Years Far or Near Complete With First and best quality. to see near and far). Best 617 By Tremendous Popular Demand Sigmunds Announces - New Soring fro New in Styles and in Colors For Monday An Encore IS-A-L-E Juniors, 13t 19 Sizes for Large Women Both Short and Tall Sizes 16%% Specials Monday and Tuesday Genuine Toric Glasses Shell or Metal Frame Complete Outfit, With Case and Cleaner Included Genuine Toric KRYPTOK Invisible Bifocal Lenses Kryptok Bifocal Lenses (one pair made. Sold regularly $15. Special price Monday and Tuesday KAHN OPTICAL CO. Seventh St. N.W. Between ¥ and O Streets Engineer Honored Lo A. R. McGONEGAL. CAPPER INTRODUCES | D. C. APPOINTMENT BILL Measure Would Enable District Heads to Fill Unexpired Terms on Board. A Dbill to enable the District Com- missioners to make appointment to the Board of Public Welfare to fill unex- pired terms was introduced yesterday by Chairman Capper and referred to the Senate District committee. ‘The Commissioners advised Senator Capper that the present law has been construed to mean that when & mem- ber of this board resigns the Commis- sioners cannot make an appointment for the remainder of that term, but can only appoint for the full term of six years. They believe it more desirable to keep the members of this board | divided into groups with the terms of two members expiring at two-year in- tervals. i Liquidates Medical Aid. MOSCOW, February 8 (#).—The collegium of the people’s commissariat for national health has decided to liqui- date private medical assistance and pri- vate medical payable institutions. At the same time the collegium is submit- ting a project to the Council of People's Commissiries to_introduce everywhere (in towns and villages) a law by which non-working elements of population will have to pay for medical assistance of all kinds except treatment in hospitals during epidemic diseases. Established 33 Years .$3.50 Toric $.7 .50 With Plenty Bring Friend/ The Greatest cause there are modes for appreciate. 1D We've Ever Offered You GREATEST, BECAUSE practically cvery_ dress in this supreme offering is in the very newest -and most wanted Spring styles and colors . . they're all our regular high-grade dresses! Not one dress was purchased at sale prices for this event! Because there are plenty of the wanted PRINTS! Be-. occasion in a most complete range of sizes. because of many other things you'll have to see to On Sale Monday—Second Floor THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FEBRUARY Y, 1930—PART ONR. INSURANCE HEAD | T0 ADDRESS AGENTS | | Frederick Ecker, Metropolitan ‘ President; on Tour of U. S. | and Canada. | Frederick H. Ecker, president of a | $3,000,000,000 institution, the Metro- | politan Life Insurance Co., will address |a_ series of meetings of approximately | 250 field representatives of the insur- | ance company in | Tuesday. | his_plan personally to acquaint field | representatives of the company in the United States and Canada with the pur- poses and ideals of the home office. He is accompanied by Leroy A. Lin- coln, vice president and general coun- sel; A. F. C. Fiske, second vice presi- | dent, and Arthur W. Trethewey, super- | intendent of agencies of the company. As head of the insurance concern, | Ecker has supervision of the investment |of a daily average of $2,000,000 of the | company’s funds and is the directing | head of a force of 44,000 workers. He is the fifth;man to head the Metropoli- tan in its 61 years of existance. He has been connected with the firm for 46 years and started at the of 16 as a clerk, receiving $4 per week. ENGINEER TO SPEAK. F. A. Cowan, transmission engineer of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. of New York, will address the Washington sections of the American | Institute of Electrical Engineers and | the American Society of Mechanical | Engineers at the Cosmos Club Tuesday | evening at 8 o'clock. He will speak on “Varjous ts of the Transoceanic | Telephone Service.” W. A. E. Doying, W. A. Danielson and G. L. Weller are arranging the pro- gram for the section of electrical en- gineers and Admiral H. I. Cone, chair- man of the United States Shipping Board; I. H. Fullmer and G. F. Wil- liams for the section of mechanical engineers. (A=—=Amarican Plan © corvmGaTED, 7.1 7., 19% of PRINTS Dress Values ? + Because every daytime and evening And this section here | Eckers’ visit here is in pursuance of | Keeping Everlastingly At It Brings Success— TO THE UNDERTAKER! — for, all work and no play eventually makes both impossible...you can’t be up on your toes when you’re “out on your feet”...it is even questionable whether everlasting labor will reap everlasting life...who knows but that a capacity for enjoyment here is a preparatory course for eternal felicity later?...think it over...and come to Atlantic City! 7N e e N AN ATLANTIC CITY N AR O o NG S Home of a Hundred Hotels Offering the Comforts of Home + MORTON-A DENNIS-A ST. CHARLES.A Eiieite Bl BEECS ICKERBOCKER-A-E BRIGHTON-A LAFAYETTE-A STRAND-A-E HALL-A-E MARLBOROUGH-BLENHEIM-A-R (€—Eurepean Plan A-E—Both Pane] Write to oAny of the Above for Rates and Reservations [ spete e ||OHNSON RECEIVES Delay in Answering Letter of Senator Was Subject of Criticism. By the Associated Press. gflutor Johnson, Republican, of Cali- fornia, who criticized Secretary Mellon | on the Senate floor recently for his de- {lay in answering & letter relative to a { | california sppointment yesterday re- .Selved a reply from the Secretary of Pl | the Treasury in which Mellon apolo- | gized for the delay. 9 Johnson placed Mellon’s answer be- | fore the Senate with the comment that | the “letter had & depressing and chill- ing effect on our zn't‘hunlum for ef- clency and economy.” Charge by Californian. The California Senator has asserted .|the office of surveyor of customs had been discontinued in 1925, and that he GLIDER EXPERT TO SPEAK had been informed by Secretary Mellon be revived. Later Lieut. Barnaby to Address Air tnat it was not Legion Tomorrow Night. | i Lieut. Ralph 8. Barnaby, U. 8. N, the only licensed Navy glider pilot, who recently descended in a glider from the Navy airship Los Angeles at Lakehurst, N. J, will be the speaker at the quar- terly meeting of the District of Colum- bia Air Legion at 9 o'clock tomorrow night in the Legion headquarters, room 711, International Building, 1319 F street. Lieut. Barnaby, who is America's first licensed glider pilot, went through a glider school on the coast of Cape Cod last Summer. He is to make further descents from the Los Angeles to study upper air currents in cloudy and clear weather and to determine the practica- bility of the glider as a means of send- ing members of the crew from a dirig- ible to the ground to anize landi parties or for other pu:;um - FREDERICK H. ECKER. ASSETS: » $1,180,474.32 Balance to Protect Policy Contracts: Legal reserve requirement—American Experience table of Mortality and 3% % interest on all policies ............ $31,046,185.50 Surplus T R PSP NP 1,638,919.75 Sketched $32,685,105.28 Year 1904 1910 1915 1920 1925 T. J. Adams W. L. Andrews Ha Blak MELLON APOLOGY.: Chas. E. Baldwin the appointment was made and John- son wrote, iring the reason, In his reply yesterday Mellon said the n;;vem ;," named d:: t:u insist- ence Sena Shortri of Califor- ‘nll.‘? o 2l mg:nd:hr . ! “Your colleague, af Shortri ted out that inasmuch as lhndlfi:;; provided for the office of surveyor and & vacancy existed, ly was revealed after the naming of Alf Oftedal, former assistant prohibition commissioner, as collector of customs at San Francisco. In hearings Senate committee the nvpomunenbtdvo: opposed by Johnson and favored by Shortridge. Oftedal’s name was with- drawn by President Hoover after it was claimed he was a resident of Maryland and not eligible for the post. s ings taken yesterday Anso, wealthy gl( m The lers were connected with Anso, who fafled with liabilities of $1,000,000. ptcy proceed: ln!.nelt Faustino e Pope Recives Fascist Secretary. m"l’\nwi ROME, February 8 (#).—Pope granted an audience yesterday to party, ]‘lth the lor xpected intervie b ng-e: interview tween the Pope and Premier M.O MARCHES AHEAD Increase in Insurance in Force Increase in Income. ..., Increase in Assets .. Increase in Reserve New Insurance Paid for INSURANCE IN FORCE, $337,999,411.00 .....$37,073,427.00 1,408,231.67 PN — §5,704,813.36 <o e s svmcemeressmeees . 9y173,076.94 56,986,736.00 Aeacil"s policyholders share in the prosperity of their company. It is the first and only mu- tual old-l.me company to reduce its premium rates to approximately the rates charged by the non-participating stock companies, lower than most of them. its policyholders the low initial rates of a stock company co profit-sharing advantages of a mutual old-line company. e SUMMARY OF ANNUAL REPORT as of December 31, 1929 Assets $45,903 $226,666 $780,660 $3,084,141 $15,695,944 W. K. Cowden Paul B. Cromelin J. Harry Cunningham -L. Whiting- Estes E. C. Graham $1,306,269 R — s First mortgage loans on improved real estate Cesseseswesaiessrinneiesess . 318,448,09638 Resl: & - Bonds - Cash. in banks and in office . Loans on Association’s Policies Collateral Loans Net premiums in process of collection All other assets ....... . k4 D SRR RN tedseeviesiensssnssnnsanessnasssss.$33,86557957 LIABILITIES: Policyholders’ dividends not yet due. . . Reserve for taxes accrued Premiums and interest paid in advance ... Miscellaneous ACACIA’S PYRAMID OF GROWTH PROGRESS DURING TWENTY-FIVE YEAR PERIOD Insurance in Force Surplus $18,327 $25,285 $17,485 $80,986 Jos. H. Milans Chas. F. Roberts H. L. Rust, Jr. \ ACACIA’S TEMPLE OF SERVICE—101 Indiana Avenue, Washington, D. C. be- ‘Mussolini. LONDON- Messrs. CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS 8, King Street, St. James’s Square, London, S. W. L. beg to announce that they WILL SELL AT AUCTION THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF ANCIENT MARBLES the property of The Most Honourable The MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE .V., D.S.0. ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1930 at Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London, W. I. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES MAY BE HAD Cables: Christiart, Piccy, London————= —The only company that gives mbined with the dividends or e ek e S e - 15300000 | $196,145,636 1929 $33,865,580 $1,638,920 $337,999,411 ACACIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION Chartered by Special Act of Congress, March 8, 1869. WM. MONTGOMERY, President DIRECTORS James C. Hoyle Thos. E. Jarrell J. Claude Keiper Arthur D. Marks " John T. Meany Wm. Montgomery J. B. Nichols, M.D minutes. The Pope Pius | him without witnesses, m Au- California purposes last year. 1,992,960.76 1,779,946.50 576,316.19 7,004,459.86 48,000.00 3,171,843.55 843,956.33 At End of Year $1,638,500 $3,395,075 $11,052,500 $71,097,545 L. P. Steuart Eugene E. Thompson E. Lee Trinkle Francis D. Winston 3. P. Yort was in the Vatican an hour talked erely greetin, the members of the suite accompanying gusto Turatl, secretary of the Fascist|Turati. and last night there was specu- whether ‘the visit was connected to % farmers umhfln’ 40,067 c“li.led $14,303,589 of electricity for agri-