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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-02-28
Truck Markets
Today Vi 1.,s s'1s' H9o1a 1s'''
(Texas Warehouse and Markets
Department.

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 28.-Carlot ship
ments of fruits and vegetables for Fri
day-spinach, Texas, 65; Virginia, q;
cabbage, Texas, SO; Florida, 26; South
Carolina, 2; New York, 8; Wisconsin,
q others, 3; mixed vegetables Texas.
55; others, SO; total, 144; beets, Texas,
1; carrots, Texas, IL; lettuce, Texas, A;
total, beets, carrots and lettuce, l19.
Shipments by districts of origin,
Texas, beets, Lower Valley, /; cabbage
Lower Valley, So; carrots, Laredo, /;
Lower Valley, 10; spinach, Laredo. 20;$
Lower Valley, 1; upper coast, i; Winter
Garden, 43.
Shipping point information-spinach,
unreported; cabbage, beets and carrots,
unchanged.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-02-28
KITCHNER FUND LARGE

LONDON. Feb. 28.-Teh sum of $3,-
496,20O has been received on behalf of
the Lord Kitchener Memorial Fund. Out
Of this s58S,21O has been spent on
scholarships and payments in connec-
tion with memorial chapel which is
being built to commemorate the great
soldier in St. PaurS Cathedral. The
remainder has been invested.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-02-28

1-2 to IS h. p. Fairbanks Morse and
Kreuge- Atlas Oil Engines in stock.
Centrifugal Pumps.
Evening star., 1925-05-08

gregationalist group are: Bertram Fl.
F'ancher, vice president of the Fifth
Avenue Bank, New York City. who
has been for many years treasurer of
the national committee of the Y. NJ.
c. A.; DR.. Lewis r.. Reed. pastor of
Flatbush Congregational Church, at
Brooklyn. N. Y; Loren N. Wood,
prominent New York attorney; r. X.
Crawford. president of the R. X. Craw-
ford Land Co, of Akron, Ohio; John
Rogerson Montgomery, former presi-
dent of the Chicago Bar Association;
DR.. Ashley Day Leavitt, pastor of
Harvard Church, Brookline, Mass.
Herbert Johnson Wells of Kingston
and Providence. Il. l., president Of the
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co, and
Charles Welles Cross, Hartford, Conn,
lawyer.
The local men with whom these
visitors are meeting are Messrs. Hugh
A. Thrift, chairman of the board of
trustees of First Congregational
Church; E. s. La Fetra, William w.
Gilbert, Frank w. Garden, Fred l..
Fishback, DR.. c. II. Ball and Don T..
Preston.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
PLANNING REFORM
OF CIVIL SERVICE
Organization Is Formed Here
to Cooperate With Ma
tIonaI League.

Robert Catherwood, president of
the National Civil Service Reform
League, today announced the forma-
ton OF now organization ia Wash
lngton TO cooperate with the lea que
in watching the Federal Govern
ment and reporting the facts" The
new organization, known as the
Washington Civil Service League is
made up OF persons who are not in
the Government service and who seek
no political office" he declared. Its
officers are DIR. Ellery G. Stowell
president; John JOY Edison. treasurer.
and William Edwards, secretary. 1t
VIII give the National League. whose
headquarters are in New York. the
direct contact with Federal person
mel problems it has heretofore lacked.
Purpose of New League
THE new league will endeavor in
particular" said DR.. Stowen. Ito
ascertain the positions which are of
a non political character; urge the
application to them of sound en-
ployment principles, including scien-
tltic classification. establishment of
proper relationship between service
and pay. the use of efficiency devices
and operations and better methods OF
appointment. EVaSionS and viola
tionS of existing laws will be investi-
gated and appropriate action recon-
mended in the proper quarters"
Special emphasis was laid by Mr..
tathcrwood. III an address before the
first meeting of the new league We'd
neSday night at the Cosmos Club.
upon the necessity for eliminating
politics in the promotion IS well as
the original selection of Government
employees and of dsvising better
methods for the elimination of the
unfit in the effort to secure savings
through increasing governmental
efficiency
Evening star., 1925-05-08
WILL ASK $1,250,000
FOR CENTRAL CHURCH
Congregational Leaders Outline
Plan for National Edifce
in Washington.

Important steps in the plans for the
establishment of a national Congrega.
tionai church in Washington are ex-
pected to he made today in confer
ences between a group of eight promi-
nent Congregationalists from other
cities and Rev. DR.. Jason Noble Pierce
and trustees of the First Congrega-
tional Church--the Presidents church
which is to. be rebuilt.
Today's conferences are on the site
of the proposed national church, the
type of building to be constructed and
the methods of raising the needed
$780, 900.
Conferences and luncheon meeting
are being held at the Willard Hotel by
the group. Tonight they will be the
dinner guests of Harlan p. Stone, as.
sociate justice of the United States
Supreme Court, at the Metropolitan
Club.
The members of the visiting Con.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
DICKSON HOME PROGRAM.

James ]. Davis, Secretary of Labor
addressed members and friends of the
John Dickson Memorial Home last
night during a program given at the
home.
4 musical entertainment was given
by Mrs. SaTona Griest. soprano: Miss
Mabel LOTUS. Contralto: Denton Led
ford. tenor; W. Harold Whiteside
baritone. and Miss Winifred Michael
son, piano soloist and accompanist.
The entertainment was given under
the direction of Miss Mary b. Heaton
superintendent of the home, and the
program was arranged by ]. l.. Bowles,
n member of the home.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
COOLIDGE FILM BANNED.
Talking Movie Withdrawn il
Stock-Selling Campaign.

NEW YORK. May 8 (A.PJ.-The
Phonofilm Sales Corporation. which
has used a talking film" of President
Coolidge making a campaign speech
as part of its advertising for selling
10000 shares of the common stock Of
the De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
1T $50 a share. announced yesterday
that it had eliminated this feature
from its advertising campaign.
This followed Department of
Justice order for investigation of the
use of the Coolidge film. Suggestions
from White House officials are under
stood to have started the investiga
ton
Evening star., 1925-05-08
COSDEN YOUTH FINED.
Oil Magnate's Son Was Disorderly
in New York Hotel.

NEW YORK, May S.-Joshua Cos
den. l9-year-old son of j. S. Cosden.
wealthy oil man of Sands Point,
N Y. and his i7.yearvold companion,
Thomas MacClary, paid $50 fines in
Yorl5vilIe Court yesterday on disor-
derlv conduct charges resulting from
a fracas in the Hotel Biltmore last
Saturday night. The youths apollo
sized for their actions.
Young CoSden and MacClary were
arrested after a holel detective inter
rupted party in their room in which
furniture was broken and crockery
smashed. The hotel management re
ported that payment had been made
for the damage.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
BLOOD PRESSURE CURBED.
Canadian Tells of Treatment With
Extract From Liver.

TORONTO. May S (APl-Dr. W.
j. Macdonald of St. GATHERINGS. on
tario, speaking before the Ontario
Medical Association yesterday. gave
details of new treatment for high
blood pressure. stating that in the 33
clinical cases already treated the pres
sure had been reduced. He said the
treatment consisted of hypodermic in
JectionS of extracts of the liver.
On the average, the patients treated
had been known to be subject to high
$lood pressure for six years before
treatment.
We have patients whose pressures
have been running over 200 for years,
and the pressures are now being kept
under l5O with one dose week" DR..
Macdonald said.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
Drop Signboard Violation Charge
;pecial Dispstch 20 The star.

Special Dispatch 20 The Star.
CLARENDON, Va. MAY S.-Judge
w. Thomas French in Police Court
yesterday nolle pressed the case in
which the Arlington Trust Co. was
charged with having erected an ad-
vertising signboard on the roof of its
building in Rosslyn without the au-
thoritN OF the board of supervisors
W. w. Douglas, president of the com.
pany. agreed that the board was not
consulted, but said there was no vio-
lation of the county ordinance, be-
cause the sign was put in place April
21. 1928, and the ordinance was not
adopted until July IA, 1924.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
BODY OF REPUTED ARMY
MAN WILL BE EXHUMED
Denver Authorities Probe Report
ed Death of G. H. Blank,
Known as Ex-Oficer.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, May S.-Disinter-
ment of the body of G.. III. Blank. real
estate operator, who was reported as
dead in February, was ordered yester-
day by the district attorney when he
heard rumors that Blank might not be
dead or that his death may have been
due to poisoning. A funeral for Blank
was held three days after his reported
death.
Blank was known here as a retired
Army medical officer, coming here in
1923. saying his last post was Camp
Meade, Md. DR.. T.. S. Abbott, Denver
osteopath, said Blank told him he was
an organizer of the United States
Evening star., 1925-05-08
Doctors Transferred.

Lieut. Col. Raymond T.. ingalls,,
Dental Corps, at the Army Dental
School Walter Reed General Hospi-
tai. has been transferred to the gen
eral dispensary, Chicago, H., and
Maj. William s. Rice, Dental Corps,
at the Chicago dispensary, has been
ordered to Walter Reed General Hos
piIal
Evening star., 1925-05-08

Realty Co. at Kansas City. DR.. Ab-
Dott said he did not believe the sup
posed connection with Army medical
circles was substantial
Mrs. Hanna Blank, widow, is facing
charges of obtaining money under
raise pretenses in an information filed
IN criminal Court and sworn by DIR.
Abbott.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
New Station for Warrant Officer

Warrant Officer Dennis Scanlan has
been transferred from Fort Sam
houston, Tex, to the quartermaster
intermediate depot, Front Royal, Va.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
: TRAFFIC REGULATIONS RELIEVE DOWNTOWN CONCESSION
Alleged Deserter Is
Caught After Leap
From Train

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, May A.
While being taken to Baltimore
on q Western Maryland train
yesterday, David Ross, twenty,
alleged deserter from the army,
made q sensational escape from
Captain A. D. Pickering, q
Secret Service operative, by
leaping through a window of
coach as the train was passing
Pinesburg, west Of Hagerstown.
Ross rolled down an embank-
ment and was slightly hurt. He
fled across the country to the
Potomac rvier and was captured
an hour later at Williamsport.
Ross was being brought from
Cumberland and near Pinesburg
he asked to be allowed to 60
to the lavatory. Later Picker
ing heard o crash Of glass and
looking out of q window saw
Ross. He stopped the train and
telephoned to towns ahead Of
the escape.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
MAY ASK 0. K. ON
ELDR|DGE
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Continued from First Page.)
and shall be selected by competitive
examination.
II have referred the matter to
our legal department. II 1t rules
that Eldridge is not subject to the
civil service law, the. commission
VIII accede to the Commissioners
II IL rules that he is subject to
the law, we will be compelled to
insist that he submit TO examiIla-
ton to establish his fitness for the
office.
Will Not Affect Eldridge.
1.-The decision. however. probably
will not affect Mr.. Eldridge's ad.
miniStration at all. If it 10 found
he need not pass the eligibility ex'
animation, he will continue in Of
flee without change. II he is
found subject to the law, there is
little question: about his qualifica'
ton to measure up to any eltgfbil'
ity test which might be required.
"I do. not want the impression
to get out, however. that there lie
any controversy over the matter
We are merely trying to settle a
point of law which must be de-
terrnined sooner or later. 1t makes
no difference to the commission
which way the point is settled
/ but we must comply with the law
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
CLERK VICT I'M
IN STRANGE
ATTACK

James Smith, twenty-five, an EN-.
ploye OF the Henry Clay shoe store,
ct lila Seventh street northwest,
was assaulted and knocked down
while at work at the store today
and Thomas w. Byron, nineteen, OF
500 sixth street northwest, was ar
rested as the assailant.
When requested to tell about the
incident, Smith refused to talk.
According to the police, Patrol
Driver w. B. Piper, OF the Ninth
precinct, was walking past the
store on Seventh street when Byron
ran out OF the place. Byron, placed
under arrest, was taken to the
Second precinct. He clamis he does
not know why he struck Smith.
Smith was taken to Emergency
Hospital and treated for a lacerated
forehead. He told the physician
that he had been held up and that
Byron struck him with some instru-
ment resembling policeman g
baton. Smith returned to work af-
ter four stitches were taken in his
forehead.
It was ascertained that Smith
had just returned from the bank
when assaulted, but when arrested,
Byron did not have any money On
his person. Police say Byron was
in a slightly dazed condition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
Col. Sheriff. Orders
District Traffic Code
Enforced In Parks

Traffic regulations in public parks
today were modified by order of
Lieutenant Colonel C. o. Sheriff., di-
rector Of public buildings and public
parks, to conform with the new
traffic code for the District.
The administration Of traffic laws
In the parks is separated by law
from that for the remainder of
the city, and the laws in the parks
are enforced by the park police.
The speed limit by today's orders
Il increased from eighteen to TWEEN
ty-two miles an hour and all othe~
provisions OF the new traffic code
governing moving traffic are made
to apply to the parks, including
those Of the reckless driving, fleeing
from accidents, driving under in.
duenee OF drugs or liquors and use
Of smoke screens.
Penalties for violations are changed
70 conform with those under the
new code.
Orders were issued today to all
park policemen to enforce strictly
al new traffic regulations in the
parks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
New Traffic Ruling
Reduces Number of
Weekend Accidents

washington adjusted itsef1 to tina
new traffic regulafluQs yesterday
with a marked reduction in the
number Of persons injured over
the weak-end--only ten parsons be
Ing reported hurt.
GeneVievs Lee, 1919 Euclid street
northwest, was released on $50 col.
lateral from the Seventh Precinct
on q charge Of reckless driving.
resulting from an accident on Canal
road northwest, in which her car
Is said TO have sideswiped the
machine driven by Robert Red.
naond. Margaret Tasco, colcred.
face, but refused heSpftal, treat
ment.
-Four policemen In an automobile
driven south on New Hampshire
avenue northwest, In pursuit OF .
suspected machine, were thrown
out of their car when, in an effort
60 avoid striking another, collided
with a lamp post at Virginia ave-
nue., turning their automobile over
and injuring the driver, Policeman
n. s. MONTGOMERY. who was treated
a. Emergency Hospital for q, broken
collar bone. The others escaped
serious injury.
With both legs broken in a col.
lisbon with an automobile operated
by Carl H. Lenhardt, William b.
Trussel, twenty, Of 81 s street
northwest, operator Of q motorcycle,
Ct First and r streets northwest,
was taken 70 Sibley Hospital by q
passing nnotorist.
Lieutenant John T. Clark, Of Fort
Myer, and Emma Hin, 1913 Six
tenth street northwest, occupants
Of an automobile driven by Major
John D. Diery, Of Fort Myer, were
injured by flying glass, when their
automobile was in q collision with
the machine driven by Donald L.
Weikert, Of 764 Newton street
northwest at Eighteenth and Kali
bourne streets northwest. They
were treated for decorations at
Emergency Hospital.
While walking east on New York
avenue northwest, Mrs. Anna Gray,
Of I'll r street northeast, was
struck by an automobile operated
by Herman Washington at the in
tersection Of Fifth street. Wash
ington was arrested and charged
with colliding.
Others hurt were James Morgan,
operator of an automobile in a col
llSion with another car at New
Hampshire avenue and streets
northwest; Catherine Ruth, seven
teen, OF 2940 Brandywine street,
who sustained decorations when her
automobile and another collided at
Eleventh and Maryland avenue
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
TREASURY EMPL DYES TO
LOSE VACCINATION TIME

Treasury Department employees
who are absent from work because
Of illness from vaccination must
have the absence deducted from
their annual sick leave. according
to ruling today by Frank A..
Birgfield, chief clerk of the de-
partment.
No exception can be made from
the organic law which sets the an
rual sick leave, in spite of tlne
worth Of the cause, Birgfield said.
However, when an employee IL vac
cinated by a family physician in
stead of the Health Service, he viii
be allowed to take the time off
from office for incubation without
deduction
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
modern BABEL
At Farley
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Continued from First RA8OJ
Hoover win make an address Of.
welcome to the delegates. Bishop
James q. Freeman will pronounce
the invocation. The Warehouses
.of Aberdeen and Tematr win con-
clude the program with the presis
Dental address.
!. one Of the attractions Of the
.ouinquennial council il q display Of
exhibits III the basement OF the
audisorfurn by organizations carry
ing on specific work along the lines
az endeavor In which the council
q particularly interested.
The chiIdren's bureau Of the De
uartment OF Labor Will show some
Educational motion pictures, the
.Anerican Folk Dance Society VIII
conduct folk dances at intervals,
and other special features VIII be
contributed by the American
Lovers OF Music.
Exhibitors at Meeting.
other exhibitors are: American
child Health Association, National
enid Welfare Association, Child
welfare League OF America, Juve-
nile Court of Cook County of Illi-
nois. Play Grounds and Recreation
Association Of America, Public Wei
fare Committee OF the General Fed
Grafton, American Folk Dance So
ciety. Needlework Guild Of America
The Peace House, Home Economic
Division Of Agriculture, Business
and Professional Women's AssOcia-
tIon. American Lovers Of Music,
international Council of Women,
Christian Science Monitor, Prison
Exhibit OF Industrial Work, Com
mitteA Of Permanent Peace, The
Woman Citizen, and League Of
Nations Non-partisan Association.
Various entertainments have been
planned for the delegates. Wash
ingtonians have loaned so autOmo
biles to take the foreign delegates
on q trip around the city today,
ending az the home Of Mrs. John
B. Henderson. where tea win be
served. Mrs. Alvin Dodd, chairman
Of the transportation COMMITTEES.
VIII be IN charge. assisted by a
committee composed OF. Mrs. Merle
Thorpe, Mrs. David Skinner, Miss
Ealean James and Mrs. Kate Tren-
holm Abrams.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
SUES WIDOW OF FOLK
FOR PAY AS LAWYER

Mrs. Gertrude @. Folk, widow of
former Governor Joseph w. Folk,
OF Missouri and executrix Of his
estate, was sued today in the Dis.
=trict Supreme Court by John s.
Hofnback, Washington lawyer,
for 50 800 for legal services alleged
to have been rendered to Governor
Folk when he was praoticins law
and had offices In this city.
Represented by Attorney James
T. Lloyd, Mr.. Hornback declares
that he was employed October 1,
1920, in Governor Folks law office
to make investigat lions. write briefs,
prepare cases and assist at trials.
He scIaims he has requested pay
rnent from Mrs Folk; which was re-
fused.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-04
WORKERS SEEN
AS NEED Or
CHURCH
World Tired of Theories, Or.
Whitley Tells Gospel
Mission Union

Threats of war, sins in high
places, bootlegging, immorality-ail
these are troubling the world today.
But in the background we can see
the figure of Christ saying: Fear
not, it is 1. Be not afraid.
This hope to q "sin-sick world
was held out today by the Reverend
Doctor Earle Whitley, president OF
the washington Federation OF
Churches. in his address of welcome
to 1000 delegates to- the twelfth
annual Convention OF the Inter
Union OF Gospel Missions
The address was q feature Of the
opening session at the First Congre-
gational ChuWh.
Much has appeared in the press
fundamentalist and n1odernist
parties in the Christian Church
Doctor Whitley said. The radicals
representative of the great body OF
Christ's people, he averred.
Workers Real Need.
To find the real workers foI
Christ, the speaker continued, one
must look to the mission fields, al
home and abroad, where men and
women are sacrificing their very
lives in order to bring about the
"fatherhood Of God and the brother
hood Of man."
"The world today Is crying fol
bread, and too many of us are
giving IL q stone" he said. 1.-THE
need of the world is for the out,
standing verities of the Christian
faith, and not for q lot Of theories. >
Daniel G. Roper, former Collec
tor Of Internal Revenue, welcomed
tie delegates on behalf of the Dis.
trict Commissioners. The Rever.
end w. A. Morgan, pastor oil
Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, greeted the visitors in the
name of the District Pastors Fed
Grafton.
Prior to the speaking. 1 song ser.
vice was led by Peter Quartet.
Homer Rodeheaver, Billy Sundays
man Friday" sang agospel hymn.
Civilizations OutpOsts.
1.-THE missions are the outposts
of civilization. There is no work
in America that needs to be done
more effectively. not only for the
saving of the church, but for the
saving of civilization itself"
With these words. the Right Rev
erend James E. Freeman. Bishop
of Washington, impressed upon the
delegates the Importance of their
work. He spoke yesterday at a
mass meeting of the nlissioners al
the Washington auditorium.
The time is ripe for g. great
reformation in the worId-not local,
but universal" Bishop Freeman
said. THE conviction deepens
more and more in the minds OF
leaders here in our National Capt.
tai that this is civilizations only
hope"
Peter MacFarlane, superintendent
Of the Union Gospel Mission at st.
Paul, spoke at the evening service
in the First Congregational Church.
Peter Quartet, superintendent Of
the Dayton, Ohio. mission, led the
singing.
The Central Union Mission at
624 Louisiana avenue, Is host to
the visiting delegates.
From to 4:45 o'clock this after.
noon there will be a conference on
the subject of Mission Methods
and Mission Fields" at the First
Congregational Church.
At Ais o'clock a popular meeting
will be held at which the principal
address will be made by George
Cnarhafdo re TlaIinIo M