Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1931, Page 37

HOME CONTRACTS | WIN HIGH PRAISE Buy-in-Washington Council Hears Contrast of Utilities With Government. Praise for the action of large local utilities in awarding construction and | maitenance contracts to local firms and | workmen, rather than allowing such ex- penditures to go out of Greater Wash- ington, was voiced by E. J. Murph chairman of the Buy-in-Washington Council, at a meeting of that body yes- terday. At the same time. complaint was made ag:inst the increasing amount of District gcvernment construction work, which & survey by Mr. Murphy showed, has been going during the past two years to out-of-town contracting firms. This information was laid before the council at a session which considered plans for setting up a permanent or- ganization. Permanent Organization. The matter of a permanent Buy-in- Washington organization was referred to a_committee headed by L. A. Spiess for further study Mr. Murphy reported that a private survey made of District government { construction operations, including build- | ing and street work. showed that,| wherens in 1928 $4.389,502 of such work went to local builders and but $12,306 o out-of-town contracts, the totals for 1930 were $2.522.527 for local builders and $1.029.330 for out-of-town bidders. For the year 1931 to date the survey showed that local contractors have been awarded work costing $1,333.879 and out-of-town competitors, $970,852. Belief was expressed that possibly through the operation of the Bacon- Dayis “prevailing wage” law, under which out-of-town contractors must pay their workmen the same wage scales as do local contractors, the com- petition of the non-local organizations might be held to a minimum. The figures cited did not include any covering Federal construction work here. Expenditures Decline. Citing the importance of this situa- tion, Mr. Murphy reported that penditures by the Washington Railway & Electric Co., including the Potomac FElectric Power Co., for salaries, opera- tion and maintenance, including new construction work, amounted to $11.- 450719 in 1928. $13.247,389 in 199; $121708.000 in 1930, and an estimated total of about $12,500,000 for 1931. Amounts spent by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. for ccnstruc- tion contracts, awarded locally, he said, were $258.000 for 1928: $1094.600 for 1929, $26.400 for 1930 and $278,300 for 1931. Wages and salaries paid out by the Capital Traction Co. Mr. Murphy re- ported, amounted t> $2,132,094 for 1928, $2,127.446 in 1929 and $2.135,431 for 1930 5 The American Automobile Associa- tlon, the chairman further reported, expends annually in Washington about §700,000 for rent, salaries and Other work. TYPOTHETAE STUDIES INDUSTRIAL CHANGES| Swope Plan Taken Up to Consider Its Application to Print- ing Business. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, October 14—Sug- gestion by Harold P. Winchester of Al- bany, N. Y.. that the Swope plan for broad changes in industrial manage- ment to prevent financial slumps in business be studied for application to the printing industry was debated here before the United Typothetae of Amer- lea After thorough discussion, in which President Hoover's proposed $500,000,- 000 National Credit Corporation for business restoration was commended by some of the speakers. the convention What’s What and W here Attractions Soon to Be Seen in Washington Theaters Something of laughter and fun, in the legitimate theaters, and many and varied features of the screen wil pro- vide Washington with occupation for its spare evenings in the new week just ahead. Schumann-Heink In “Mikado” at Belasco. ME, SCHUMANN-HEINK, picturesque and melodiously beau- tiful, will be the attraction at the Shubert-Belasco Theater for the week beginning Monday. Associat- ed with the dis- tinguished diva are John Dunsmure Robert Pitkin, James R. Liddy Marion Palme Charles Gallagher, Willlam C. Gordon and a chorus of picked voices in a production by Wat- son Barrett, which te promised to pe Schumann-Helnk. Frank Shea. “Fine and Dandy” With Joe Cook at National. lF fear of what will follow over- shadows the enjoyment of your megls. your system may be too acid. Those pangs of indigestion right after eating and that lump you feel in your stomach for hours after, the flatulence and sourness, are the symptoms of over-acidity. Take an anti-acid and neutralize the excess acid. You won't be comfortable until you do. Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia will always check that condition of over-acidity. It acts pleasantly, but promptly and most effec- tively. It supplies needed alkali to neutralize excess acids of the stomach and bowels. Head- aches, flatulence, and nausea are promptly relieved. Your digestion will speedily improve. referred the Swope plan study to the Committee on Resodutions. In his address on the plan which was recently proposed by Gerard Swope of the General Electric Corporation, Win- chester sald there was a need for re- striction of competition in the printing industry and declared the Swope plan 15 a “logical, comprehensive scheme which goes to the heart of the present problem.” and that v or some other d of economic planning must even- tually be adopted ‘The discussion against application of the Swope plan was led by Dr. Francis N. Bird of Cincinnati. With the re- turn of prosperitv, said Dr. Bird, all such plans would become *just s0 much hot air.” WEISMULLER APPEARS WITH REMODELED NOSE Ewimming Champ Can Breathe Through Nasal Passage After Operation. By the Associated Press HOLLYWOOD. Calif., October 14— Johnny Weismuller, swimming cham- plon, walked Hollywood boulevard Mon- dav with a remodeled nose, helpful, he said, in both his aquatic and motion picture careers Before an operation early last week the swimmer's nose was of the bulb type, due to an ill-advised dive as a small boy into a tank containing no water. He hung up all his swimming records breathing through his mouth and, after another accident in a foot ball game three years agn, wasn't even able to smell “Now,"” he aid, “I smell swell, I can breathe easily through my nose and the new Grecian streamlining won't do me any harm at the studio.” . Pleads for Pigeons’ Safety. 5 visibility ved a flight from Owners of 68 homing pigecns entered in a race are hoping farmers will accord the feathered speed- sters the courtesy of emergency larding fields and not make pigeon pie ¢ before they can resume their flight. - Come in and . let us demonstrate the new G-E RADIO | Terms—Demonstrations 1118 13th St. N.W. 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Stires—Homer Recital At Central Community Center, LOU!BE HOMER STIRES, lyric so- prano, and Katherine Homer, pianist, will be heard in recital, the opening event of the Community Insti- tute of Washington, Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock, at Central Community Center, Thirteenth and Clifton streets northwest. A wide diversity of composi- tions will be presented by both artists, including numbers composed by their distinguished father, Sidney Homer, as wall as grand opera arias and selections from the classic masters of music. Tickets may be had at the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau, Willard Hotel and the A. A. A. headquarters, Earle Will Present “The Honor of the Family.” ITH Warren Willlams, a Broadway leading man described as & new kind of dashing screen hero, in the title role, Otis Skinner's famous old play, “The Honor of the Family,” an Honore Balzac romance, will be given its first screen appearance in ashington at the Warner Earle Theater starting Sat- urday. Lewis and Moore will head a lively and entertaining stage show, as- sisted by Barney Dean and the La Verne Sisters, as well as other varied and de- present their special comedy and dance offering. The story of the dashing, romantic philanderer who sought to save an aged but wealthy uncle from a young actress will be remembered as the story of "The Honor of the Family,” which in its day was one of the great theatrical suc- cesses. Elissa Landl In “Wicked” at the Fox. LISSA LANDI in a dramatio sersa- tion titled “Wicked”; the personal earance of Estelle Taylor, distin- d allke on the stage and the screen; the Fan- chon-Marco “Bro- ken Dolls” idea and “Red” Grange in a foot ball serial, “The Galloping Ghost” (at the 11 am. and 5:30 p.m. shows only) consti- tute a four-star headline announce- ment of the Fox Theater for the new week beginning Fri- day of this week. In “Wicked” Miss Landi is supported by Victor McLaglen, Una Markel and, Irene Rich. Este ap) ul Elissa Landl. ‘Taylor will pre & mew cycle of Aonrn. “Broken Dolls” s described as “a delightful, fantastic de- piction of childhood tragedies turned to grown-up hilarities.” And the “Red” Grange serial must speak for itself. “The Phantom of Paris,” With John Gilbert, at Palace. ASTON LEROUX'S famous “Cheri Bibi" translated to the screen, ome husbhands like pie ~ some hushands like cake@@® ~buat ALL{} hushands like BREYERS Hear RAYMOND KNIGHT and LANDT TRIO®& WHITE in_their famous role —"THE BREYER-LEAF BOYS"— ‘WJZ—every Thursday and Sat- urday at 6:30 P. M. Patronize your Breyer Dealer -} with John Gilbert as #ts star, sup- ported by Leila Hyams, Lewis 8f Tan Keith, Aubrey Smith and Natalle Moorhead, in the story of dual character, & man both hated and loved, whose main object was revenge for en injury inflicted in the distant past, will be the new attrae- tion_at Loew’s, eater start- ing Friday, Ted Lewis and his musical klowns will head a stage show of novelties in song, dances and comedy that “better entertatnment than ever before.” Triple Bill st Keith’s “Bad Company” and Two Others. THE R-K-O KEITH'S Theater, start- ing Priday, will offer what the management belleves 18 a triple bill headed by Helen Twelvetrees in “Bad Company,” supported by Ricardo Cortez and John QGarrick, in a Jack Lait story, together with a Masquers’ comedy, “Oh! Oh! Cleopat presenting the come- dians, Wheeler and Woolsey, “with & hundred well known Hollywood play- ers” and the debunking of African im‘)rmmn! by Craveth Wells in “Hell Below Zero.” Helen Twelvetrees was the star of “Millie” and is well known for her pleasing talents and personal- ity. Wheeler and Woolsey say what they have to say themselves. And Mr. Wells seems to have struck & theme $hat needed attention long ago when MAN'S meal: Good, liberal rtions . ; 3 solid, substantial food. But wait a minute. That stomach of yours! You know the price you'll pay. Distress. Discomfort. Far into the night . Doctors have made important discoveries about so-called “stom- ach trouble” in recent years. And here is the amazing thing they say: Most cases of indigestion—"acid stomach,” heartburn, that “'stuffed” feeling after meals—do not origi- nate in the stomach at all. 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