Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1935, Page 8

REPORTS OF GAINS INTRADE CONTINUE Air Travel Sets High Record in July—Retail Sales Increase. By the Associated Press. A new record for air passenger travel in July, big crowds at Labor day celebrations and continued retail trade improvement were reported yes- terday by the Commerce Department. Scheduled air lines carried 85,193 passengers in July. The previous high was 73,896 in June. From the stand- point of passenger miles flown, the air lines set & new record in July for the fifth successive month. Passenger miles (one passenger flown one mile) in the month were 34,040,925, The department noted that its busi- ness reports from 33 citles “indicated that retall trade throughout the country maintained a higher volume during the week ended Wednesday, September 4, than during the cor- responding week last year.” Labor Day Crowd Big. Niagara Falls authorities, said the report, declared the Labor day crowd was the largest since 1928. Min- neapolis reported the greatest attend- ance at the Minnesota State Fair in 15 years, while he Tri-State Fair at Memphis was said to have eclipsed re- cent records. “Attendance at moving picture theaters over the week end, due to & great extent to the holiday influ- ence, was said to have established new high records in a number of cities,” the department added. While the Labor day holiday made some inroads into the volume of many lines, the department said, business, as compared with a year ago, re- flected improvement. ‘Wholesale Trade Better. “The wholesale trade in general throughout the country was said to reflect steadily improved condition in Tetail lines.” the report added. “Particular emphasis was made on the stronger demand for furniture and various other lines of household equip- ment which followed the large amount of home building and repair work in progress for several months past.” Reports from Cleveland noted that residential construction and alter- ations for the first eight months of the year were $1,000,000 ahead of the same period in 1934. In Atlanta resi- dential construction was 150 per cent ahead for the first seven months of | the year, while in Los Angeles the value of building permits for eight months exceeded those of the last year by 153 per cent. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. HERE'S AN IDEA! OW can a lazy fat man exercise a lean, energetic dog? At least one apartment dweller in the Rock Creck | Park section has solved the problem. Almost any morning he can be seen reclining on & park bench while his pooch runs his tongue out. The bench is on the top of a hill. The man throws, or sometimes he merely kicks a rubber ball far down the hill. ‘The dynamic pooch races 100 yards down, 100 yards back again. For a long time the game goes on like that until the fat man tires. * K K ¥ EVEN FOR A FLAT TIRE. No matter how slight the dam- age, whenever a wrecking car is sent to haul in tazicabs for some of the best known companies a big canvas is put over the cab so there is no means of identifying it. Drivers of wrecking cars have strict orders mot to tow in any cabs without the concealing cover- ing. ki WONDER HOW HE FARED? BEING a Congressman's secretary requires a high degree of versa- | tility, it seems. ) One beleaguered secretary was ex- tended to the utmost, however, when, after arranging to deliver a speech for his boss the next night, the latter left the city without making it clear where the speech was to be made. When last seen the secretary was dividing his time between newspaper files and the telephone, with the out- come still in doubt. x o x * MATTER OF HOSS SENSE. JAMES COSTELLO, assistant United States attorney, was out riding down Middleburg way with one of the judges recently when the jurist’s horse got blocked on a lonely road by & sapling which prevented him turn- ing either right or left. The judge, engrossed in thought, didn't know how to get out of the| colored “Why entanglement until an old man came along and said, don’t you jes' back him out?” The judge did. and fumbled for some change, but couldn’t find any. “I'll leave some money for you at the corner store.” he told the old man, who immediately went to col- lect. Costello happened to be place when the tip was received. Thanking the proprietor, the old man man, but he certainly didn't have A FAR-SIGHTED FLORIST! tonian for the delivery of one rose- Throughout the last school year, the said: “That gentleman was sho’ a fine no horse sense.” * % ok A LEADING florist here accepted an order from a young Washing- bud a week to a girl in a finishing school well out in the suburbs. order was carried out, often by spe- cial delivery. It sounded like a small order for s0 much delivery service, but the flor- ist made an investment in good will that paid a dividend in June. He got the wedding order! in the Choirmaster ATHEDRAL ORGANIST PLAY! FIRST SERVICE TODAY. ROBERT G. BARROW. Mr. Barrow, recently appointed choirmaster and organist at Wash- ington Cathedral, will play his first service in the Bethlehem Chapel this morning. He was a pupil of his predecessor, the late Edward Priest, and subsequently studied in England. Only 26, he is a native of the District and received his preparatory education at St. Albans, the National Ca- thedral School for Boys. HUMPHREYS HEADS TRUCK ASSOCIATION Star's Safety Drive and Constitu- tion Day Celebration Are Indorsed by Body. ‘William E. Humphreys. president of the Jpcobs Transfer Co., was re- elected president of the District Trucking Association at a recent meeting of the organization. Other officers chosen include A. C. Smith, first vice president; Frank L. Murray, secc::” vice president; F. J. | Kane, third vic> president: P. Lu Snowden, treasurer: A. A. Biggs, sec- retary, and C. C. Morgan, jr., assistant secretary. Otto Ruppert. Prancis J. Kane, P. T. McDermott and A. C. Smith were elected delegates to the national or- | ganization, the American 'n'uckm( Associations, Inc. The organization adopted resolu- tions indorsing The Evening Star's safety drive and the Constitution day celebration. Sounded Alike, Anyhow. J T WAS in a restaurant, not far from | the Army War College, and two | diners sitting together couldn't help !belng surprised when they heard a third, seated in another corner of | the room, beckon to the waitress and ;cau out what seemed to be a raum- { bled version of “Miss Rosenbloom.” For the waitress was red-hairec, and her face and freckles seemed a bit reminiscent of Erin. | A few minutes later one of the | puzzled pair asked the waitress if that * | was her name and explained the rea- | | son. “Aw, he called me Love in Bloom,” she said. “All the boys who eat here do.” * ¥ k¥ Count ’Em and See! Quite often persons, especially Washingtonians, will tell you there are 48 colonnades around the Lin- coln Memorial, one for every State. This is not true. There are 36 colonnades, one for each State in the Union at the time Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. | Say It With a Vase! ID you ever see & man wearing a flower vase in his coat? | Perhaps not, although it's getting | to be quite a fad among local dandies | with a weakness for fresh bouton- nieres. | Tiny water phials into which the stem of a rose or some other blos- |som can be inserted are worn under the coat lapel, prolonging the life of | the flower. A local store recently | ordered a supply because of the de- mand. Child, 3, Is Injured by Car. James L. King, colored, 3, 928 Barry place, suffered a possible fracture of the skull yesterday afternoon when he was struck by an automobile said to have been operated by Thomas C. Scott, 45, 2409 North Capitol street. 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