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MRS. COOLIDGE MAY GET THIRD ANNUTY Congress Approval Would Leave Three Presidential Widows Non-Recipients. By the Assoclated Press. If Congress approves the proposed granting of an annuity and a franking privilege to Grace Goodhue Coolidge, she will be the sixteenth widow of & President to receive a pension or other emolument from the Government. Two of the six living widows of Presi- denis receive annuities. Mrs. Theodore | Roosevelt gets an annual allowance ofl $5,000 voted by Congress after the | death of her husband in 1918. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was given a $5,000 pension in a law signed by President Coolidge a few days before he left of- fice. The bill had been in Congress for nearly four years before it was enacted. A bill providing & pension for Mrs. H. Taft was passed by the Sen- Cootes to Leave FORT MYER COMMANDANT ORDERED TO BALTIMORE. COL. HARVEY N. COOTES. Col. Harry N. Cootes, commandant at Fort Myer, Va, for nearly three PROF. IRVING FISHER SCORES TECHNOCRACY Condemns Movement Coming at Time When Confidence Was Awaited. By the Associated Press. ““one of the most dangerous munnwleedluonmymm‘v- Speaking at the Reading Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner, the econo- mist attacked the technocrats' reported scrip might be a way out of the coun- try's difficulties. 2 oo epiie o feir apPeAring a deliberate of fear appet just when the restoration of confidence was momentarily awaited as the final factor of recovery to supplement the efforts of President Hoover, his emer- gency .roups ark the Federal Re- ac] nery ress, he declared, have always Efl- fited the majority of workmen. He sald each ad pornrflq vance, “SCREAMING SHELLS” TERMED ONLY GEESE Farmer Near Fort Smelling Had Complained Projectiles Whistle Over His Land. By the Amociated Press. ST. PAUL, January 325.—Those “acreaming shells” going over the Peters | a7 farm must have been geese going South rnrth-wmhr ‘That was wmsammc.mnaqa‘a Snelling, to & complaint lodged with |for the State Legislature by H. C. Peters, farmer living nDear the fort, that shelld and machine-gun ‘bullets have been whistling over his land. “it my lum have been digging up Mr. Peters’ potatoes, !dm‘tkmvn' Capt. Bryant asserted. Mmtunun'&mhm sleep to fire the pieces. “whvwhnm'tnmmddm ammunition in the fort; vu mxm fire 37-miliimeter shells. ‘the presi- d-mmumummw died, we used blanks. “That ‘screaming’ over Mr. Pelers’ Fort | farm must have been geese going South Right Reserved to Limit Quantities Phone Dlstrict 5215 HALL'S Expectorant Americans Meet Princess. NAPLES, Italy, January 25 (#).—The American Consul General Coert du Bois of San Francisco and Mrs. du Bois, the former Margaret Mendell of Bos- ton, were presented yesterday to the Crown Princess Msrie Jose at the Royal Palace here. Crown Prince Humbert, who previously had met the Ameri- cans, was present. BOY HELD IN PAY THEFT Messenger, 18, Is Jailed at Hyatts- | of town, Md.,, on Larceny Charge. Arrested in Hyattstown, Md., last week, Willis Greary, 18-year-old mes- senger boy of the 700 block of Seventh street northeast, was booked at police headquarters yesterday omn charges of larceny after trust and grand hlwy u:ollu say Gretryr lm e pay envzlwu e festern Union pe&: n tbt nouae Office Bui youth was mfll e m& .- . for Coughs and Colds | FREE! « 40c jor of of a 60c bottle of THROAT and CHEST With Each Purchase Salve lort.bem flh m“mlhh mm. an sutomobile Behriver, 1700 block Argentina exported rthan in 1931 T M8 lad MAIDWELL Pad and Cover For Your Ironing Board ‘William ate at the last session and is now on | years, is to be transferred to the Bal- the House calendar. timore headquarters of the 3rd lowering Two Not Recipients. Mrs. Thomas J. Preston. jr.. who was formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and Mrs. Benjamin Harr'son do not draw pensions. A bill providing one for Mrs. Preston passed the Senate, but en- countered some obstacles in the House | and she requested her friends to pigeon- hole it. Mrs. Harrison became. the wife of President Harrison after he left the White House. The only gratuity given Martha | Washington after the death of the first President ll: the free mailing privi- lege. That is enjoved now by Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Harrison. gress granted Dolly Madison a fump sum of $30.000 for manuscripts of her husband entitled, “Debated in Con- gress in 1782 to 1787.” After the death .of Willam Henry Harrison, Co Voted the payment of $25,000 c: to his widow. It was the equivalent of one year's presidential salary at that | time. Mrs. John Tyler was the first widow of a President to receive an an- nuity, getting $5.000, which has be- | come’ the traditional amount. | Pension of Mrs. Lincoln. Reposing in the desk of William Tyler Page, clerk of the Republican minority in the House, is the original letter | written by Mary Todd Lincoln from | Frankfort, Germany, in 1866, petition- ing Congress for a pension that she might have “less pecuniary care.” She was granted a $5.000 annuity. Mrs. Warren Harding received the | balance of her husband’s annual salary. Since it was figured on the fiscal year basis and his death occurred in August, it amounted to almost the entire 12 months’ salary of $75,000. A bill providing a $5.000 pension for her passed the Senate, but she died be- fore action on it was completed in the House. NEW MEXICAN ENVOY TO U. S. IS INDICATED| MEXICO CITY, January 25.—Fer- nando Gonzales Roa, well-known inter- naticnal jurist and Mexican member of the Recognition Conference in 1923, may be the next Mexican Ambassador to the United States, it was indicated here last night. It was learned on reliable authority that Senor Gonzales Roa'’s name has been submitted to shington. Wi . The mew Ambassador will succeed Dr. Jose Manuel Puig Casaurane, who | recently resigned to become secretary of | foreign relations. Senor Gonzales Roa headed the Mexi- | can delegation in 1923, which met with the American delegates. Since 1923, Senor Gonzales Roa has ‘been a member of 8 number of Mexi- can claims commissions. He has been 2 legal adviser to the Mexican govern- ment, Minute Mysteries Solution to A LONG-DISTANCE SOLU- TION. (See Page 3.) Gilbertson, a physician, said g;ré was dead when he discovered y and, fearing implication, laced it on the ice. Fordney ew he was lying by the DE- PRESSION in ice made by body. ‘This proved Bee was alive when laced there. Heat from her gw caused ice to melt, making ion. TRUTH IS THE DAUGTHER OF TIME.—Maazine. Area on or about May 15, it was an- nounced yesterday at the War Depart- mmt | xpected that Col. Cootes wbnld be plleed on duty with the 62nd Cavalry of the Organized Reserves. Col. Cootes is one of the best known Cave\rv officers in the Army and had | Fort Myer since March 21, msn Yhen Tie was assigned to com- mand the 3rd Cavalry as well as the L. p‘T:ol. Cootes served first as an enlisted man and was commissioned in the Army from civil life. He is a native of Staunton, Va., and first enlisted in the Army at the outbreak of the Spanish- American War, serving with the 4th United States Infantry. His commis- sloned rank dates from 1899. During the World War Col. Cootes was awarded the Distinguished Service ss | Medal as chief of staff of the 78th Di- vision during its entire training period and operations in the St. Mihiel of- fensive in France. creases the number of w'k-:m:g adds to their comfort. “The technocrats” said the profes- sor, “have, I understand, many charts as 'to foot-pounds, but, until they in- |clude a few other economic factors | besides energy, I am bound to think they are suffering from that little | knowledge—little in economics—which 'is so often a m & dangerous thing.” N “KLONDYKE BOB” DIES Robert Henderson Started Gold Rush to Yukon in 1896. 'VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan- uary 25 (#).—Robert “Klondyke Bob™ | Henderson, whose sensational discoveries at Gold Creek in 1896 started thou- sands of gold-crazed adventurers on the trail of '98 to the Klondyke, has passed along his last long trail. 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