The Washington herald., 1916-11-29
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Judge Lurtin r. CHM. Colonel Harvey
O. Long. and General Lee H. Harris.
department commander. Spanish War
Veterans. of Washington. were guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reeves Rowdybush.
of Kensington. Maryland, early Tuesday
morning. preliminary to a days hunt In
Montgomery County.
The Joint Distribution Committee Of
Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, repre-
senting the American Jewish Relief the
Central Relief and the Peoples Relief
Committees, Up to and including Novem-
Der % made 17.542 separate remittances, re-
presenting s4Oo.s14.o5. to Russia, Poland.
Palestine. Turkey and Rumania.
Suit for maintenance was fled in Dis
trict Supreme Court yesterday by Mrs.
Laura ". Harvey against her husband.
Joseph o. Harvey. cruelty being alleged.
The couple were married September q,
1896, and have two children. Attorney z.
L. Gies represents the wife.
Suit for $4,000 damages was filed m
District Supreme Court yesterday by Louis
v. Mazza against the Baltimore Fruit Ex-
change and Rosario Do Giorgio for al
legged false arrest. Mazza asserts the de-
PENDANTS preferred false criminal
charge against him and that he has spent
1900 defending himself. He II repre-
sented by Attorneys Toomey and Toomey.
Because Kansas has not had a legal ex-
ecution within her borders for fifty years,
and does not want this record broken
every effort Is being made to have the
death sentence of William White, an ex-
United States soldier, commuted. White
was to have been executed at the federal
prison at Leavenworth. December Is. but
President Wilson has granted a reprieve
of thirty days
The Smithsonian Institution announces
that all three buildings: the Smithsonian
building and both the older and new
buildings of the National Museum will
be open to the public from . to 4:3O o'clock
Thanksgiving Day.
The Postoffice Department is preparing
a letter to be mailed to all civic bodies
in the District urging the advantage Of
making holiday purchases early. Post
master Merritt o. Chance is sending mem
bers OF his staff to lecture in schools. A
card. calling attention to the fact that
Christmas is but three weeks of, will be
sent every Washington household in a
few days.
The National Security League will open
two-day congress here January 25
Questions OF International importance
will be discussed. S. Stanwood Menkin is
chairman and Lawrence F. Abbott, Chase
Mellen and Alexander Mellen are the
members Of the committee in charge.
Several saleswomen are needed on the
Isthmus Of Panama, according to infor-
nation received in Washington. An en-
trance salary of $50 a month, with pro-
motion to SO a month after six months
will be paid drygoods and notions sales
women.
Listing personal property at $4,000, and
real estate of unestimated value, the will
of Louis P. Shoemaker. who died Novem-
Der "a, was filed for probate yesterday by
Attorney Wilton J. Lambert. The entire
estate Is left in trust to Abner c. p. Shoe
maker. son of the decedent. the win pro-
viding that one-fourth of the net income
of the estate be paid to the widow, Har-
riet F. Shoemaker. and that another one
fourth be set aside for her benefit dur
ing life. The son gets the remaining half
Fourteenth street business men who
have petitioned the Commissioners to
amend traffic regulations to permit auto
mobiles parking in front of their stores
will have d hearing next week, II was an
nounced by Commissioner BrownIow yes
terday. -
Notice OF the first OF the rate hearings
following valuations Of public utilities,
at a date not fixed. was sent by the Pub
lie Utilities Commission to the Union
Transfer Company yesterday. Inquiry
will be made into tolls. charges, sched-
ules. rates and conditions OF payment and
Joint rates.
Letters were sent yesterday by Stephen
E. Kramer. assistant superintendent Of
schools, to teachers. asking opinions on
a fife and drum corps of eighth-grade
boys. 1t is planned to have a corps Of
sixty high school boys lead the High
School Cadets in the inaugural parade.