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Seward daily gateway., 1924-07-10
CATHERINE D. NOW
 ON HER WAY NORTH

The steamship Catherine D. of the Pacific American Fisheries fleet, left Bellingham last week on another triI to the Alaska canneries of the com pany.
 The steamships Redwood and Nor wood are now in Alaskan waters but will return soon. Each of the three vessels has number of trips more to make before the cannery season is brot to a close.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-07-10

Monarch Mallab1e Ranges at Graefs.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
GIVE
S10,889FOR
6. v. j.
Subscribed to Building Fund
at Mass Meetings to Start
$1,000, 900 Campaign.

George Washington University
students subscribed total Of $10,-
S99 last night as the initial contri-
button to the $1,000, 900 endowment
and building fund FOR which ma.
tion-wide drive will begin Thursday.
The subscriptions were made at
the close of mass meetings he'd in
all Of the colleges Of the university.
The student campaign will De con.
tinued until the endowment dinner
to be held at Rauschers Thurs.
day night at which the nationcl
drive win be started.
Subscriptions last night were as
follows: Medical College, $7,1OO; Co.
lumbar College, 1889; executive
committee, $1,000; Law School, $4OO
and School Of Engineering $500.
The first twelve students to sign
the subscription list each pledged
500 to be paid in five years. Many
other subscriptions for like amounts
were pledged later.
In delivering the principal ad.
dress to the students at Columbian
College last night President William
Mather Lewis emphasized the fact
that no pressure must be used in
the campaign among the students.
Daily results Of the student cam.
paign will be given, and final re.
suits will be announced Thursday
night at the endowment dinner.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
.TEXASELECT|ON
VOTES REACH
CAPITAL
Batch of Ballots in Recount
Asked by MayfieId oppo-
nents, Arrive.

A trail Of ballot boxes led from
Texas to the Capital today as the
first of the votes cast in the 1928
Texas Senatorial election reached
here through the mails for an Off.
cial recount. Ballots cast in 1876
precincts were in hte first batch
arriving.
The recount, demanded by Oh.
ponents Of Senator Earle B. May.
field Dem.) Of Texas. in their ef.
forts to unseat him, will not be
started until the ballots from an
Of Texas 1000 voting precincts
have reached the Senate. 1t was
believed the votes would all be
here within week.
Announcement was made by
Senator Spencer Rep) Of Missouri,
chairman Of the Senate Elections
committee, that the recount would
be started by the sergeant.at.arms
OF the Senate as soon as all the
ballots arrived. The next steu
then will be the submission of the
recount to the Senate committee,
The Washington times., 1924-01-29

turned. Two hours later, the van.
guished triple quintet escaped
through grating.
In the meantime, the fight had
been carried into the city. with dire
results to the sophomores. Passers.
by scented crime wave when they
saw the meeting Of some .detach.
ment of the opposing forces.
Lefty" Meehan was walking
along M street when group Of
freshmen seized him. He ran into
an apartment house, alarming three
tenants and a Pekingese pup in the
lobby and threw OFF, his pursuers
by jumping out Of a washroom
window.
Sophomore j. H. Howard and
four others OF his class were sitting
in an automobile at Fifteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue when he
got his. The car dropped the as.
sailants in all directions as It sped
off. Fights abruptly began and
ended on Fifteenth street, r street
and In hotel Hobbies and Mushrooms.
Law Called I'm.
Finally the sophomores rallied
their forces and enlisted the aid Of
Patrolman w. I. Thompson. They
marched from the Washington
Hotel to Harvey's where the fresh
men. seeing the John Law. growled
futilly. Sixty sat down to dinner
Outside OF torn collars, ripped cloth
ing, cuts. bruises and bumps they
were 'spotless.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
COMPULSORY SCHOOL
BILL TO BE STUDIED

The recently drafted compulsory
school attendance bill, which the
Board of Education drew up, will
be submitted today to the commits
sion on public welfare legislation for
inspection and study. The bill was
introduced at the last session Of
Congress but failed to pass.
The Board Of Education original
ly intended to forward the bin di.
rect to Congress via the District
Commissioners. but they changed
this mode when the commission
revising the local child welfare code
asked to look into the provisions
contained in the bill. James r.
Lloyd, president Of the Board of
Education last night. announced
that the commission would get the
bill today and would be asked to
hurry its consideration so that the
bill can be sent on to Congress-.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29

Campaign includes Owners
as Well as DweIlers and
Extends to Whole City.

Two hundred and twelve own
ers and occupants of alley homes
have been ordered by the District
Health Department to clean up
within five days or face prosecu-
ton in the courts.
Additional notices on several
hundred more persons will be
served today by inspectors Of the
Health Department assigned to
the special duty of inspecting
alley homes.
VIII Visit Every Alley.
The inspections. under the direc-
ton Of Charles r. Holman, chief
sanitary inspector. are being made
by eleven, men. They will continue
their special work. until every alley
dwelling has been visited.
It was estimated today that with.
in a week probably 1000 or more
persons win receive notices TO clean
up.
The campaign of. the Commits.
sioners. placed in charge Of q com.
nittee tof District officials, il ex-
pected to result in a city-wide clean
up Of alleys.
Inspectors reported today that
horrible" conditions were found
in the homes visited yesterday.
Yards were cluttered with rubbish,
sewerage systems were stopped up
and some leaking, fences were
falling, plaster was coming of
walls and generally the alley
homes were badly in need Of Inn.
provement.
The inspectors in serving the
notices give the occupants and
owners from one to three days TO
clean up. They viii return at the
expiration OF the time and II the
conditions are not corrected steps
will be taken Immediately to prose.
cute and owners and occupants.
No Excuses to Be Taken.
Where the conditions are due to
rubbish and can easily be corrected,
from one to two days are allowed
for improvement. Where conditions
are structural ones. owners are
Continued on Page 20O
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BUG HOLLOW NOTES.

Major Ptolemy Ptfbb. Of Biz Bend.
VIII lectufN on his experiences In the
civil War ~ the OpeFy House tOIaOF-
row night for the benefit OF the local
Lodge Of tho Brotherhood Of Hot
D0Ke. Admission 2 bits; come 0ne.
como al.
Niles PEucie PIlIsbuTy ID spending .
1eW WANIKn with her aunt and uncle
Congressman and Mrs. Wave ID.
kaaggs IN Warrington.
Akre, Fiddle, Of Eam's Min. Il here
Visiting Hrs. Cleveland Budd.
Con FlagratiOn's new Incubator 10
working fine. He has sct lt with
green duck eggs, % 10 to have them
ready for frying BY 81. PasriCk's
Day.
Miss ghlesn Dlnger has been under
the care Of Doc Tick o couple Of
days owing to her getting up the,
other night and stepping on . mouse.
Doc says u was q severe nervous
shock but she ID out Of danger now.
Purdy Greene. Of Granville, was
ene guest yesterday evening Of Miss
G0x8MAeme Burns.
GENE BLOSSOM.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
DISTRICT ARTIST WINS
RESTAURANT PRIZE

1--WE Serve the Nation" ia the
sogan contributed by e. G. War.
rem, local artist, and selected from
hundreds OF others by the Washing.
ton Restaurant Association as the
winner Of the $50 prize offered bv
them for the best slogan and de.
sign. Warren's design, which win
be used for posters and advertising.
II drawing Of an overflowinr
cornucopia backed by the Wash.
lngton Monument and with wash.
ington Restaurant Association ard
Member" printed around the edge.
Responses to the contest came
from as far as Texas, and the
judges, Henry Bittinger, of the
Crown Restaurants; Bert l.. Ohm.
stead, Of the Bartholdi, and r.
Romer. advertising counsel for the
Iassociation. had considerable diff.
Guilty selecting the winner from a
large number Of original contribu.
tons.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
TOSTUDY
STORM FROM
BALLOON
Or. c. Leroy Messenger, OF
U. S. Weather Bureau,
Wants to See EN- Close.

DIR. c. Leroy Messenger, of the
United States Weather Bureau.
does not see why anybody should
make a fuss about the Shenan.
doah's getting back home after q
little flight in storm. The truant
flight Of the great airship, he says,
merely proves that the work he
has mapped out for himself is not
at all impossible. For months past
he has been preparing to spend his
time In balloon riding the storms.
Up to this time, no scientist has
studied storms at close range.
Little balloons with instruments
attached, to them have been sent
UP into the storm clouds, but no
human being ever went with them.
Therefore, says DIR. Messenger, no.
body knows what happens up in
the clouds when the storm RACES
Scientists have some theories,
which may or may not be right,
he says. He is going up to see.
Whenever a convenient storm
breaks, he will ride through It in
his balloon. He will study the
storm structure, where It comes
from, where 1t goes and how 1t
acts on the way. He hopes to
map air streams much as Com
modore Maury did the ocean cur
rents. !
One Of the things the storm king
expects to learn is how raindrops
form. Scientists believe rha zee
moisture gathers around a dust
particle-that there could be no
rain in a perfectly clear atmos-
phere-but that Is theory. DR..
Meisinger, in the folds of the cloud,
will watch the mist as It forms in
drops and falls.
The work is expected to be Of
great value to science. It will be
Of practical benefit, also, to avia-
ton. In fact. 1t probably is the
beginning in surveying the sky
ways.
The work of riding the sto'rIs
will not be actually begun until
spring. At the beginning, DIR. Mel
singer will operate from the army
air service station at Scott Field.
Illinois. ..
Copyright. 1894. william Pickett Heinz
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
HEAR
SUIT On
CAIRO
May Group Other Apartments
Trying to Avoid Operation
of D. c. Act.

The District Rent Commission
today put its foot down on the
reported disposition of owners of
large and exclusive apartment
houses to evade the Ball rent act
by claiming they render ''hoteI
service" and are therefore not
subject to jurisdiction of the COM
mission.
Act In Cairo Case.
This stand was taken when the
Commission dismissed the motion
of T. Franklin Schneider, and 9th.
ers, owner Of the Cairo apartment
house at 1915 Q street northwest,
to dismiss the complaint filed with
the Rent Commission by Dora M.
OVERLY, a tenant in apartment No.
1929.
Miss overly, in her complaint,
pleaded to the Rent Commission
that the rent she pays for her apart
ment IL excessive and requested
that it be investigated and reduced.
First Case Of Kind.
Owners of the Cairo apartment
house, on the contrary, took the
position that Miss overly, while
only enjoying the privileges which
prevail in the typical exclusive
apartment house in Washington.
nevertheless is living in an apart
ment house which maintains first
class hotel service, and it Is not
their fault il they do not pay for
the extra privilege and take ad'
vantage of it.
Members of the Rent Commission
said today this Is the first case
of it's kind ever to come before
the Rent Commission, but that a
tendency has been noted for apart
ment house owners to "camou.
flage" by instituting abbreviated
hotel service and that they intend
to keep them strictly accountable
for all apartments where this ex.
ira service does not apply:
Owners Claim Denied.
It is plain, Commissioner Met
zerott writes in the determination
| on the Cairo case, that in the Over
| by case the relationship Of 'iTn-
keeper and guest" does not exist
and for this reason we must dis.
miss the motion Of the owners and
hear the tenants petition.
Decision has not yet been made
whether to confine the hearing to
the overly case or to group to-
lgether all other cases in the
Cairo Of the same status.
In Its motion to dismiss the
OVERLY complaint, owners Of the
Cairo deliberately explain that the
Cairo is considered hotel, and
that 1t advertises extensively
throughout the United States as
Ia hotel, and contemplates. in the
hear future, the installation Of
fifty new baths. l.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29

District Auditor Tells How
Property Assessments
Here Are Made.

Facts and figures to discredit
charges by Congressman Thomas
L. Blanton of Texas, that prop
erty in the. District Of Columbia
is underassessed, were made public
today by William p. Richards,
District tax assessor. He de-
clared there was no foundation
for the charges made on the
floor Of the House by the Texas
Congressman.
Disputes BIant0n.
Mr.. Richards declared that as.
sessments Of property are made on
the basis of sale prices. He said
1t was unfair for Mr.. Blanton to
select individual piece Of property.
and declare they are not assessed
as high as they should be.
''Our assessments are based on a
combination Of sales of property"
Mr.. Richards explained today. 'As.
easements on are not theoretical In
any sense, but are based on actual
figures obtained from the sale
prices Of a number of pieces Of
property. We believe that with a
combination Of sale prices, we can
arrive at a fair value Of property.
Claims Of owners as to the value
OF their property are not accepted
on their face. OF course, we tn
vestigate their appeals from our
valuations but our final decision IL
based on a combination Of sales"
Owners Juggle Values.
Commissioner CunO II. Ruoolpn
said today that when property own
ers appear before the District Rent
Commission they place a very hign
valuation on their property but tnat
when they come to the Dtstrlct
building they place as low Vaiua'
ton as possible. In the nrst IN
stance, a high valuation would bring
higher rentals and in the secono
instance a lower valuation would
bring lower taxes.
Mr.. Richards produced figures
relating to the sale price ana as
sessed value of twenty large apart.
ment houses which had transferred
hands recently. He sadi the total
sale price was $13,551, 1858 and the
assessed value $11.S47 ,347.
In another instance. Mr.. Rich.
ards sited the sale Of 216 small
apartments, whose total sale price
was $15,1S5, 700, and the assessed
value $13 ,414,606
Cites Downtown Sales.
OF TO recent sales OF property
in the downtown business district,
Mr.. Richards says the total sale
price wars $50, $40, 94S, while the
assessed value was $53, 4O7 1877, in
dicating that the property sold for
SO, 900 900 less than the assessed
value.
OF SS2 recent sales in the South
west section the total sale price
was $1,626,145, while the assessed
value was $1,SS4,82S.. OF 1918
recent sales in the Southeast sec.
ton the total sale price was 81
26S,9S5 while the assessed value
was $3.447.S44.
Bank Statements Field.
Mr.. Richards also made public q
sworn statement made to the Treas.
ury Department by fifty Washing.
ton banks which declared their
property was worth a total of &c..
94S, 784.O7. The assessment books
show this same property worth
SIS. 964,SO0, Mr.. Richard said.
The tax assessor declares that II
Is not the practice in Washington
or In any other city in the country
to assess UP to dollar within the
actual value Of property. This ex
plains, 1t was pointed out, any diff
ferences In sale price and assessed
value where the sale price Il
higher.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
THOUSANDS or SKATERS
ENJOY ICE ON POOL

Under the glow Of strong bat.
terry Of electric lights. hundreds OF
skaters gilded over the Lincoln Me.
mortal rejecting pool last night.
Red lanterns marked the thin spots
in the ice.
Attendants Of the office Of rub.
lie buildings and grounds were to.
day instructed to sprinkle the pool
at shutdown to form another sheet Of
ice by morning.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
BUSINESS HIGH 4-YEAR
CLASS MEETS TONIGHT

Graduates OF the four-year course
at the Business High School will
hold their class night exercises to-
night In the school auditorium. Ell.
ercises for the two.year class will
be held tomorrow morning.
Excuse Me-" a two-act play will
feature the program. 1t was writ
ten by members Of the class. Miss
Mary r. Grace, president Of the
class Maurice Robin, historian;
Miss Mary Gloyd, poet; and Perry
Jacobs, valedictorian, are the class
officers.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
JEWISH INTER-cLUR
COUNCIL HAS ELECTION

Paul G. Robin was elected act.
ing president and Miss e. s. Rosen.
berg was appointed acting secretary
to the Jewish Intarclub Council Of
washington at its meeting last
night in the rooms of the young
Friends Club, 71S Ninth street
northwest.
The speaker was Arthur Marxelle.
leader in the council work of the
y. M. III. A. in New York. II. was
appointed to assist the different
committees and viii have charge az
the debating.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
z NAVY. OFFICERS ARE
GIVEN HONOR MEDALS

Heorism of Lieut.. Comdr.. Walter
Atlee Edwards in erscuing 4S2
French sailors from the French
transport, Vinh:Long, in Turkish
waters, December 16, 1892. has been
formally recognized by the Navy
Department by the presentation to
that officer by Secretary DENLY,
Of the medal Of honor.
Lieut.. Tohrnas Ryan, jr., received
siEnilsr recognition for his heroic
work in Yokohama after the Japa-
mes. earthquake.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
The fellosOa 4VhO Is able to
SIP his champagne doubtless
hopes that that rum last S0iu
still be Published.
O'SUILLEABHAIN.
COLLEGIATE DANCING.

Relative to the war between the
"collegiates" and the cake-eaters
for the favor of those Washing
ton flappers who dance all the
time, we learn from SIGHT
SEER" that the Collegiate" is
more of bear. He Is more or
less violent" in handling a girl,
like the cave-man of old, while
the cake-eater, we are told,
writhes and twists and wrenches
but Is more delicate with it.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
THE HIPLEsS GIRL.

So Paris styles, Bill, now de-
cree the hipless type Of dresses
and only the girls who resemble.
stats will be able to meet the
requirements. / wonder how
many people remember when
busts were in vogue and when
the women wore pads around
their hips to make them look
plump? GENEVIEVE
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
Freshmen and Sophs
Fight in Streets

Thermopyae Waterloo and Verdun faded into insigni-
last night before battle much home-in fact
right at home-which exceled those famous scraps in
intensity if not in actual boodshed 1t the battle of
Marshmaow Row. and ended at Harveys after the police
had been called in.
The occasion for the mighty conflict was the annual BAN
nuet Of the sophomore class of Catholic University
The Washington times., 1924-01-29

According to the strange ritual
of colleges, the verdant freshmen
must wreck the sophomore's class
day and dinner at any cost. The
C. u. freshmen were very mindful
of their obligation to time-hallowed
tradition.
All Dressed Up.
The sophomore class. drifting
away from the university grounds
in Brookland yesterday, were all
dressed up, with Harvey's as their
objective. The class started off in
groups. Their figures grew faint
upon the horizon.
Then, through. the strange tele-
graphy of gangdom, the news
spread through the freshmen ranks.
Before the first sophomore con-
ingent had reached the trolley line.
ninety young men, with bright,
smiling faces, but with murder in
their hearts, charged across the
campus. Their prey heard the
thunder Of the pursuing feet. I'm
mindful Of sophomore dignity, the
dressed-up banqueters broke and
ran.
The highways and byways lead
ing down to Marshmallow Row were
choked with would.be captors ~and
would.not-be captives. Some fleet
footed freshmen pounced upon lag
CARDS in the fleeing ranks. marched
them back to the college, and left
them In the gymnasium, locked UP
and quite unclothed.
Authorities Intervene.
The university authorities heard
Of this treatment, and went so far
as TO order the prisoners clothes re
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
FROM JOSH JONES, DIARY.

Pa rubbed his back with the
baby's stomickake medicine in the
dark last mite and got UP feelin'
fine It'll he found out what hede
dun and now. hese got his pane
back agin,
Jim only gets one or two words
OF the readin' on the screen at the
pitcher show cause they switch It
off bafor he can spell the words out,
and he bawled gud and hard at a
funny pitcher cause he thawt It
WA q sad wun.
CHECKERS.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29

A scientist claims to haze
changed a female pigeon to a
male and another asserts that
some day there wiu be similG.
success Nth hannah beings.
Would you rather be a man or a
sOoneGn? If so, s0hy?
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
FROM OLD OKLAHOMA.

From Webb City, OKLA, comes
o letter from ARTHUR F.
PEZOLD, who gives the glad i'm
formation that Oklahoma james
wear as much paint as the F
street flappers, and then he jeers
Washipgtonians for not having
the backbone" necessary to
force suffrage in the District.
He reminds us what our fore
fathers did when they sounded
the cry, Taxation without rep
resentation is tyranny"
A dab of powder
A smear Of paint,
Makes these slxty-yeaP-Old women,
Look just like what they amt.
CHECKERS.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
THAT ODD GIRL.

The oldest grin you ever saw
Is that Of Mary Carriers.
She has O funny smile on her lips
And wears mOuso-traps ON her
gaFteFs.
FLORENCE N. HOAGI4AND.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29

SIim-We always have been
good friends, Cohen, and wen
be good friends to the end, SO
Of course you won't mind lend
ing me ten bucks.
y COIlen-Dat's de end. .
BIAADEN.
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
A1ANO11 g n
POKES AND STROKES.

POKES AND STROKES.
mems hats will be worn at
a rakish angle next spring."
we note. This would indicate
an early passage of~the light
wines and beer bill.
The name of Orgurkewich,
the Polish wrestler who met
Ed Lewis, has been shortened
to Orgurk. In another year or
so it will be "O'Rourke, the
Irish champion"
"Anti-bonus voices among the
veterans" we read. Yes, but
it seems to be a still, small
voice.
Craniologically speaking, DR..
Frank Cranes articles give evil
dence of q Shrewd Uranium.
The only trouble about some
drives" is that much Of the
money goes to the drivers"
FRED VETTER.
USEFUL HOME REMEDIES.
An apple a day'fi Keep doctors away.
So the old folks say;
An onion a .day'u keep all hands as
Until the thirty-fiEst day.
NJ VI carp, L. d.
(The l.. ID. stands for liquor doc
tori $50 n u
The Washington times., 1924-01-29
eallEARI)D10SE
~ BILL PRICE - aaa-Eas1
A HUNSBANDLESS COUNTRY

- nUENCmtANOAAM60 QWONA1SAsF
IKE N. DODGEll, hGving seen
IN the 1seaOspGpers sUhere another
ssUomGn has shot her husband be-
cause he refused to aUeGr the
mecktie she gaze kim for Christ
mas, promises to aDrite to sss sO4ss
contributions on the serious pos
sibilitv that this aUiW soon be q
hsss6Gmdless country - preceded
by country of silent married
men nfrGid 20 open their mouths
because sOifie mag oct q pistol
and shoot 'ens.
ANOTHER CONVERT.
There before me was The Times:
picked IL up with diadain,
ThlnlElng amusement from . was n
NV ewes ssAt the Grand Old Column spied.
~ aet ont 10 read; 1 then hied. 49,
It first aroused my Interest,"
Second, appeared q elslAl0s
Then I laughed and LAUGHED
Till my blues had fled . mile.
So here's 70 the column that 10 grand
May Il prosper all over the land,
Keen On, Bill Price, as you've begun.
MAID o. MT. RAINIER.
--~ 49,
ORGANS AND GRING (TlIe
African Golf TWins.)
The Washington times., 1924-01-29

Craniologically speaking, DR..
Frank Cranes articles give evil
dence of q Shrewd Uranium.