Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 37

* $5,000.00 "IN CASH PRIZES See Your Druggist Every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday nite to the scintillating music of the famous Swanee Syncopators Al forms of dancing taught. SINGLE UNIT RAIL SYSTEM PROPOSED Citizens’ League Plans Fed- eral Action to Consolidate All U. S. Lines. | | By the Associated Press. i NEW YORK. November 6 —Plans for the introduction at the next session of Congress of a bill which would author- ize the consolidation of all the railways o the United States into one large, ir tegrated system have been outlined by Nathan L. Amster, president of the Citi- zens’ National Rallroads League, Inc He said an annual saving of some $300,- 000.000 could be effected by such unifi- |eation, nder the scheme, as propound:d by | iMr Amster, who is a dh’eg&r of the | Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and | other " corporations, a total aggregate | |investment of approximately $24,000,- 1 000,000 “will be unified in order to pre- serve the credit of the railroads, supply efficient transportation service to all sections of the country at the lowest | possible rates and to afford thousands of investors in railroad securities a fair | return on their capital.” Mr. Amster declared emphatically that the plan of the league did not contemplate Government ownership in any form | Plans for Financing. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. MOON MULLINS—Bedridden. 1T SOUNDS LIKE UNCLE WILLIE 1S MOVIN’ YOUR BROTHER-IN-LAW OUT MR. PUMPKIN. HERE’S TO YOUR UNCLE WILLIE'S C., FRIDAY, NOVIE RN — iBER 6, 1931. Do e e Amster. ana s st-| MERCHANTS URGE temp! to accomplish it through the pooling of added revenue. This. how- ever, does not bv any means solve the problem, althoven it points the way. Carrying out the I C. C its logical limit, the effects 1 » comsolidation of Two Minutes’ Silence in All Estab- ARMISTICE TRIBUTE SURVIVOR OF 9 DAYS AT SEA IN OPEN BOAT KEEPS COMPACT Man Who Lived When Other Died of Effects of Thirst LABOR AIDE LEAVES FOR PORTO RICAN JOB Ethelbert Stewart to Help Reor- OUR NEW GIFT and “The project,” he said, “calls for the incorporation of the company under a Federal charter to absorb the equities of all the railroads in the United States, subject to the outstanding bonds, and Le country | into one sturdy, unified ganize Department to “Get on Feet.” lishments Where Practical Asked in Letter. HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT Second Floor Special EATON’S 60 Sheets of Paper 50 Envelopes to Match and Exposure to Care for Companion’s Family. would be known as 1poration of America. ed by a board of g ting security holders, | . labor and the pub- under strict Federal The company “the Railway The ‘Merchants and Manufacturers'| (LS MSREATIOn o L emn Association in a letter to members yes- | compact, sehled between two thirst-tor- terday urged observance of Armistice | tured men in a 17-foot boat on the open day, November 11, by a two-minute | Atlantic was in force today. period of silence in all business estab- | The task of carrying out its terms lishments at 11 o'clock that day wher- | rested upon the emaclated shoulders of ever practicable. The association also | David Warshauer, for 1t came into ef- is asking its members to display flags | fect when his brother-in-law and com- the oc- | panion during nine days of hardship died yesterday from the effects of the damp gangrene, exposure and shock 3 after recovering consciousness long | Ethelbert Stewart, commissloner of enough to recognize his wife and chil- | the Bureau of Statistics, Labor De- | d.rw;“shm" S 4 e ngpnrtment, salled yesterday for Porto n a serious condition | with symptoms of the gangrene which | Fico to aid Gov. Roosevelt place the results from long exposure to salt water, |‘newly reorganized Porto Rican Depart- but physicians believe he will recover. ~|ment of Labor “on its feet.” The two men were swept to sea Oc- | The T4-year-old statistical expert, tober 25 when they attempted o Tun | known as the “grand old man of the eir outboard motor boat from Rocka- ” ordeal. way Beach to Sheepshead Bay. Their | Labor Department,” and considered While they faced death with little| el gave out in the face of an ebb tide | One of the world's greatest statis- hope for rescue, Warshauer, who is t'm|and a stiff off-shore wind. The Cuya- | ticians, slipped out of Washington for s vyears by the merchants’ . It is | father of one son, and Irving Tuchyner. | hoga picked them up 40 miles south of | New York at an early hour and later asking this year that bells or suitable | who left two small boys, agreed that il | Montauk Point at the eastern end of | in the day departed by steamer for alarms be sounded at the beginning and | one of them was saved he would care Tong Island. the tropical island. J end of the period, and that signs be | for both families. Their wives are sis- S NS He is expected back in Washington vosted' at entrances to business estab- | ters. within 30 days. lishments indicating the time and pur- | Tuchyner was unconsclous when the | Textiles imported into the Philippines | It is understood that Stewart's serv- pose of the tribute to the World War | men were picked up by the Coast Guard | so far this year are estimated to be ice was requested by Gov Roosevelt dead. | cutter Cuyahoga Tuesday. He died of | worth approximately $15,000,000. several days ago. Landsdowne VELLUM 50¢ COM Y STATIONERY STORES 718 13th St. N.W. Phone Na. 1974 and decorations appropriate to casion, The two-minute silent period, which is marked in some European countries, has been urged for the past several Women Tuesday. Charles G. Ross, Washington corre- | spondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, | will address a joint meeting of the Council of Jewish Woman and the Sis- SEE THE NEW PHILCOS STAR RADIO CO. 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