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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
ST ORM RELIEF
CONTINUES

Relief organizations expect to
continue their work in the dew.
astated area of eastern Washington
for at least another week, despite
the steady progress made toward
rehabilitating some 800 refugees
Today the American Red Cross
will begin its permanent reconstruc-
tor program with outright grants"
Of orders on builders where. home
owners have not the financial re-
sources to have their homes re.
built or repaired.
Motorists Crowd Area
Thousands Of Washingtonians
and visitors from nearby Maryland
and Virginia motored through the
storm area yesterday. and at many
points the traffic jam reminded one
of the congestion in the vicinity OF
Griffith Stadium when a worlds
series game was on. Reserves from
several precincts were called upon
to help direct the traffic at inter-
sections.
There was a somewhat different
scene that met the eye yesterday
ana surprise was expressed by many
that there were so few traces OF
the tornado compared with two
days before.
Scores Of those who were either
homeless or whose homes suffered
material damage spent the Sabbath
repairing roofs, putting in windows
and otherwise making houses more
habitable.
Red Cross workers from the relief
headquarters, in the Hine Junior
High School, continued their house
toulouse Check up. on the refugees.
needs and gave orders for coal
food and clothing where actual
want was shown. Eight workers
were thus engaged, and today it
was expected additional workers
would be required to carry out the
permanent relief program. Already
the Red Cross has had to intercede
between landlord and tenant in the
matter of putting on new roofs. re-
placing broken windows and other
wise making 1t possible for the occu.
pants to return to their own
hearths
The Naval Air Station Il almost
back to its normal appearance with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
ISN'T IDEAIISM ALREADY
: SUGAR-COATED?

R6e5Fnlkerson, bless him, talked
TO delegates from KiiOanis Gibbs
end told them, according to neWs
stories, that "idealism should be
sngGr-cOGted so that 1t can be
s'oaltowed painlessly by those
Who need its curative proper
ties"
It's, hard to get" Roe in this
matter. Isn't idealism ulrcady
eWgnr-conted, no matter whot
kind it is? Isn't it so sweet to
those Who believe in nny pnr-
ticMldr kind that sugur-co1ting
Wotld make 1t too sweet?
Wouldn't 1t be best to sugar.
coat some of the VitGlly neces-
sGry things t0e should believe in
and do-prGcticGl, sensible things
zoe fail to do?
The fact that Roe takes most
of kis'n straight, without sweet
eming, makes it all the more
surprising that he recommends
this sugGr-coating stuff.
INQUISITORIAL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
SECOND SECTION
LOCAL NEWS
FORCE SEEN IN
CAR MERGER
Times staff Photo

The Public Utilities Commission
may ask Congress to pass a bill
forcing the local street car COM
panies to merge IL theh present
merger negotiations fail.
Corporation Counsel w. W. Birdie.
It was learned today, has advised
the commission that the bill which
the old commission presented to
the last session of Congress TO
force merger by means Of
penalties and rewards is legal and
constitutional.
Grave doubts as to its con-
stitutionality had been expressed
by John w. Childress, and Col
Harrison Brand, jr., members Of
the new commission. 1t Is believed
that because they had expressed
these doubts they have kent Bird :
opinion secret for several weeks.
The compulsory merger hill,
which Bride has approved, provides.
among other things, for increasing
the gross revenue tax on the
companies from s to per cent, II
they fail to merge within two years
from the time the bills passed.
The corporation counsel's opinion
clears up the situation considerably
IL Harley p. Wilson, and other
merger negotiators, fail to reach an
agreement the r. u. G. may be
forced to present a bill to Congress.
In addition TO submitting his
opinion on the constilutionality OF
last years bill. Bride also pre-
scented 10 the p u. c. the draft OF
q bill. based on the former measure
but less drastic.
His alternate bill eliminates the
penalty OF an increase gross
revenue tax for failure to merge,
which was the teeth of the old
measure but has retained the re.
ward provided in that bill includ.
ing the repeal of the crossing police
man and paving taxes il the COM
panies merge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
ThOinpsOn's Dairy Will
Entertain Advertisers

Thompson's Dairy will entertain
the Advertising Club at a special
luncheon in the new milk plant at
2o12 Eleventh st. N. w. tomorrow.
The invitation was extended to the
club through Earl A. Brown, Of the
dairy. An inducement is offered in
the announcement that no speeches
will be made.
The members will be shown what
happens to milk on the way from
the farm to the home. Scientific
publication and bottling operations
will be demonstrated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
Wild Woman to Take
210-Day Tanning Cure

Policeman B. M. Strong, OF the
Fifth precinct, told Judge Hit in
Police Court that in all his career
as policeman he never handled a
wilder woman than Beatrice Howard,
colored, who was charged with break.
ing three panes in the house Of
John Newman and with assault.
The officer said that when he
placed the woman under arrest she
hit him and spit at him and kicked
and used most profane language.
She will spend 21O days in jaiI,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

! agree 10ith one of your con-
tTibufOrs that uhGt 1Ve badly
need is beautiful architecture
IN our hot dog and soft drink
"emporiums" al oVer the land.
The Fine AIRS Commission
should take the matter up at
Oasce, and the Zoning Commits
SION should say Whnt kind Of
Gotse hot dog Is entitled to,
especially these refined hot dogs
that are skimless.
FIDos OWNER.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
3 Fake Fire Alarms
Land Bow. *. in Tolls

IT was the third trip to the fire.
alarm box that resulted in the
downfall yesterday of Wilton X.
Lewis. Is. 412 Third st. N. W.
Three times in 81 minutes the boy
turned in false alarm from the
box at Fifth and ID SITS. N. W.,
because he wanted to see the en-
gines rum" He spent the night in
the House of Detention.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
GEORGETOWN DEBTORS, PRISON

Condemned in 1895 as being
unsafe for habitatien and liable to
fall on prisoners incarcerated there,
the front wall of the old George.
town Debtors Prison stands today
west of Thirty second Street. below
the old Canal.
The remaining walls Of this
historic structure have long since
fallen down. The front wall of
stone and cement in which are a
center door and two windows
stand today a constant reminder
Of the infancy of the Nations
Capital.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
QUICK, WHAT ABOUT THIS.

If men. in dancing, step all over
the feet of girls. running new shoes,
should they be sued in court? A
Los Angeles girl is doing that very
same thing.
NOW, inquiries a witty chap: II
piano and safe movers get good pay
for moving heavy objects. why
shouldn't a man be paid for moving
. large lady up and down and
around a ball room?
WYISHLNOT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
PISTOL SHOT "CHAMP"

Lieut.. Edward A. Mcmahon. p. c..
n. G., today Is holder of another
District pistol championship, won
at the Camp Simms range yester.
day in competition with 155 other
contestants. Lieutenant Mcmahon
piled up a score Of IS out of a pos.
sihla 100 at Is yards.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
BUHLIG TO Play

Al the third Of it's series Of out.
standing events for thu current sea.
son, the Central Community Center
win present Richard Buhlix. dis.
tinguished Americas pianist. in =
recital in the Central High School
Auditorium next Friday afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

roofs replaced on all but one Of the
barracks. The wants Of the enlisted
men have been cared for first and
all heating plants were in operation
Yesterday. Repairs to hangers and
damaged airpIanes have been de.
layed until this has been accom-.
piished. All repairs at the station
VIII be OF temporary nature, it is
believed, as Congress is expected to
appropriate at the next session for
permanent improvements.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

slaves peeping from the barred
doors and windows of the building
For a protracted period. the
building was used as a police head
quarters. from which police would
issue forth at 10 o'clock at night
to blow horn which for many
years was the signal for observance
of the curfew law In effect In
those years.
One writer credits the building
with having been used for a term
Of years az negro church. Its
last duty was to serve the use oil
a fertilizer warehouse.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
ELINOR GLYN BUYS HOME

F,linor Glyn. author of Three
Weeks" and TT" today Is the
owner NJ the 137.year-old homestead
at 3147 r st. N. w. Following it's
renovation she will make her home
there, II IL said. In the Capitals
cart center" at Georgetown.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
THANKSGIVING HISTORY

Ihanksgivine came to us In per-
maDent way
Through the Pilxrim Fathera A an
early day.
10 was the year Of sixteen hundred
and twenty
That they felt grateful for nature's
plenty,
And instituted the first real Thanks
'RtvHmg Day. n. SMITH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

The old building was the George
town Jail before 1880. After that
time. it became the District Jail.
Many debtors were held there to
await trial. Montgomery County.
Md. frequently sent Its law of.
tenders there.
In 1926 the old Jail was used ss
a slave pen by John Edes and
man mentioned in history as Mr..
Furman. Slaves were sold at
auction before the front door and
until few years ago. there were
old residents of Georgetown who
could remember having seen the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

WHAT ARE YOU GRATEFUL
FOR?
One thing I'm grateful for,
And to you this 1OiH apply;
We can noto do something else
Besides stOGt the fig.
But our troubles neUer end,
They seem to come IN rOt0s,
Because, first thing zoe kmoW,
Well be shoveling off snoWs.
PETES PA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

A patent has been granted a
Washington State inventor for a
combination match and cigar or
cigarette. the match being detacil.
able for Use.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

CONE RIGHT ON IN

r
II your column really open 10
nMybedy, or do yous favor special
contributors? I read II with Ipuoh
Interest, hut have hesltated about
writing for II. BECKY B.
Heard and Seen is .oide open
90 anybody, everybody. II Is a
public garden of fun and fy0Iic.
Contributions must, however, be
suitable to the aim of the column
good Will, good cheer, kappi-
Ress, humor. If they are not,
they are not used. There are no
preferences as to contributors.
The merit Of contributions is
che thing that counts.
Every bright girl or boy;
sVery RUely man or 4Oomdm, has
che same chance here. Our con-
tributors range from 10 years
Of age to rs yeGrst and the
greatest optimist of them all Is
the 76-year-0Ld chap.
~
If Bill Wetter, Of Water
town, Wis, doesn't support
Al Smith for President,
there's nothing in a name,
after all.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21

Rip-Where did yer steal dat
hen yer got under yer blouse?
didn't think yer'd stOOp as low as
that?
All didn't stOOp at all. De
deXn hen kept fOllering me for
most . mile and dern II she
didn't fly right into my arms.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21
LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE OFFICE OF THE SEcRE- TARY OF THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, AT JUNEAU, ALASKA. In the Matter of the Dissolution of the Seward Investment Corporation, Domestic Corporation.
 CERTIFICATE
 I, KARL THEILE, Secretary of the Territory of Alaska, do hereby certify that on the 9th day of March, 1927, there was filed in my office Certifi- cate of Consent of all of the stock holders of the Seward Investment Cor poration, Domestic Corporation, duly signed by all of said stockholders, con- senting to dissolution of said cor poration, the fact of the consent of all of the stockholders appearing from said instrument now on file in my office.
 Now, therefore, I, as said Secretary of the Territory, do hereby declare said Seward Investment Corporation, Domestic Corporation, duly dis solved, such dissolution to take effect upon the filing in this office of the proper proof of publication of this cer- tificate in the manner prescribed by law.
 Dated Juneau, Alaska, March 9, 1927.
 KARL THEILE,
 Secretary of Alaska, Publish March IS, 25, April 1, 8, 15, 1907
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21
CUB" REPORTER 0F GATEWAY TE[LSH
 SEWARD GIRLS WON
GIRLS NEVER HAD A CHANGE WITH CLEVER sEW-
 ARD QUINTET
By Sidney Henrikson

By the decisive victory of the Sew ard girls high school basketball team over Anchorage during the past week the local girls now have the right and honor to wear on their sweaters the letters "Inter-city champs''
 Three games were played, Seward taking two of them which gave them five of the six total games played in- cluding the series played off in Sew ard few weeks ago.
 The first game last week was play ed Thursday evening before a gymna- sium packed to the roof with fans. Anchorage took this one 6-5. The next evening Seward came back vim ing 11-9 and on Saturday morning the final game was played, Seward again romping home victors to the tune of 1877.
 First game.
 Seward breaks off in first part of game, and makes basket. Seward led through this game till the last quarter with a score of Az, when Anchorage broke loose and tied the score at the end of the game A minute rest fol- lowed then the game was continued for five minutes. Seward made point on double foul and Anchorage made a basket leaving the score 6-5 in favor of Anchorage.
 There was nothing spectacular about this game except the exhibition of hard playing on both sides.
 Second game
 Seward led through the first half of this game with score of 4-2, the game continued keeping the fans al ternately in hope and dispair as Anch- orage added two more baskets in the third quarter and as Seward made two foul shots and a point on a double foul in the last quarter leaving the score 9-S in favor of Seward.
 In this game deliberate basket shooting on the part of Seward and teamwork and hard playing on the part of both teams could be witnessed.
 Third game
 Anchorage led in the first quarter with a score of 20; in the second quarter Seward broke loose and made three baskets and Anchorage made a foul shot. Seward kept up the old fight during the second half and ran the score up to IS points; Anchorage made two foul shots and basket leaving the score 1877.
 This was a very spectacular game exhibiting all the merits of extremely marvellous teamwork on the part of Seward and deliberate playing on the part of both teams.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21
SOUTHBOUND LISTING ON ].
 5. $. NORTHWESTERN

The Southbound list of reserva- tions out of Seward on the s. 5. Northwestern which departed early last evening included the following:
 Seattle Geraline Goss, Robert Goss, Oscar Weber, Edward Richter. Miss Louise Bissett, G. w. Golf, Mrs. Golf, Caroline Golf, Geo w. Golf Jr. Geo. Dornberger, Eva Herning Mrs. w. A. Fleckenstein, D. Mcdonald, M. Graham, Miss Alice M. Lund; Mrs. Roy Lund, Roy Lund, Adolph Olson.
 Latouche-Miss T. Johnson, Helen Kennedy, John Harris. Wm. Sanford, Sam Nikeferoff.
 Juneau-E. L. Nanthrup, N. s. Will son. Richard Wakelin, Sam Shucklin.
 Ketchikan-John w. Jones.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21
ALASKA BEST IF ALL SAYS BELLY" MURRAY

J. c. Billy" Murray. former pres ident of the Anchorage Chamber Of Commerce, proprietor of the New Method Cleaners and one of the best known of the younger business men in this district of the Territory, re- turned to Seward yesterday from California where he has been visit ing his parents for some months. California looks good, so does Seat tle," MT. Murray said "but I am de- lighted to be back home once again. The more I saw of the States the better I liked the thought of return ing to my old stamping grounds.
 Picture Framing. Schallerer's Alas ka Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21

Henry Rosenoff, pharmacist of Port land, Ore, passed through the city today en route to Anchorage where he has accepted a position in the Lous- sac drug store.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21

Send your friend an Easter greet ing card. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21
RADIO TOWERS WILL BE
 PAINTED VIVID HuEs

WASHINGTON, March 21. P)- The navy's lofty radio towers at Ar lington are to be decorated in a man. ner suggesting wartime camoufage but having an opposite purpose, the object being to make them more con- spicuous.
 Rising 300 feet from the ground, the towers are regarded as potential hazard to aviation and are to be daubed with bright colors to make them visible from distance in the air. If the scheme works at Airing ton, the Navy Department may apply it to similar towers elsewhere.
 Seattle chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-21

The Gateway leads; other follow.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-23
Four Have Paid
Poll Tax Here

Only four persons in Cameron
county have paid their poll tax, i
was stated Saturday from the office
Of ]. j. Fox, county tax collector.
Time for payment Of the poll taxes
started October /, and will not ex-
pire until January 81, 1928, it was
said.
The first person in the county 10
get his poll tax receipt this year
was w. NJ. Hunter. an attache Of the
office. who paid his assessment On
the first day payment was possible.
Three other persons have since come
in. he declared.
The poll tax assessment amounts
to Sis. and no citizens Of the
county is eligible to vote unless he
can show a tax receipt. w
A request was made from the tax
collectors office that those planning
TO pay the tax do so at their earli-
est convenience and thus saw much
extra labor for the clerks Of the de-
partment during the closing days Of
the allotted time.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-23
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. W. s. Moothart
spent Saturday in Weslaco and Nc
Allen on a business trip. They will
visit in McAllen Sunday and return
to Brownsville that evening.
j. II. Mussell, connected with the
Missouri Pacific railway and nephew
Of Mrs. N. T. Hughes, left last week
for Alabama. His head office is in
Dallas but he has been in the VAL
ley recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. o. Starck are here
on a visit 10 Brownsville after an
absence Of two years. They live in
Dallas.
c. W. Dawley, prominent in Dali
las, and Mrs. Dawley are here visit
ing in Brownsville for q few days.
Miss Jean Smith Of Weslaeo spent
Saturday in the city.
Sam Philips Of weslaco is spend
ing a few days in Brownsville on
business.
Jay Yost Of San Benito was in
Brownsville Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Connors are
making a visit here Of q few days
from San Antonio.
Two brothers and their wives, DR..
and Mrs. II. o. Sparks and DR.. and
Mrs. ID. Fl. Sparks Of Piedmont, Tex,
are spending a few days in Browns
Vile looking about the Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Mccain of
Gregory, Texas, are stopping a few
days in the city .
J. A. Stallcup Of Little Rock. Ark,
and his sister, Mrs. 4. Sands, Of Fort
Worth spent the weekend in
Brownsville on their tour Of the
Valley.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-23
Laundress Lifts 40
Pounds Ironing Shirl

CHICAGO R)-Ironing shirts may
look like child's play 70 the average
person. but engineers attending the
convention Of the American Gas As
ISOLATION, explain that such work
calls for the Drawn OF a stevedore.
To iron one shirt, the engineers
say, forces the laundress TO raise her
iron 20 times. The average iron
weighs six pounds. Thus she lifts
an average Of 100 pounds on each
shirt, and the usual wash containing
ten shirts requires an actual lifting
Of more than a ton.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-23
MAGISTRATES

Mrs. Ethel Hayes Of Brownsville
and Eugene Bates, ST., also Of the
same city, were married Saturday
evening at s o'clock az the Presby-
terrain manse. Rev. T. p. Day, pas
tor of the local church. performed
the ceremony. The couple viii live
in Brownsville. where Mr.. Bates Is
connected with the Bishop Print
shop
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-23

ELECTROCUTED BY RADIO
READING, E7g.-Ronald Williams,
aged IT. was e~lectrocuted when he
hooked up his radio set with an cleo
trio light. wire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08

UlaWlnS up q com
promise ContrO
measure for the
consideration o I
Congress. But tn
first and probably
the most difficult
hazard will have
been su"mounte
when such a bill
Is made ready.
The bill the CON
ferees re now
writing, on the
basis of a tenta
tiV e agreement,
the nature of
" v a" q hninv
kept secret. must
S0. e.. p-t-e on n
f,t,.,-,T .,.,-l.,.I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08

DamrOsch and the New York SYM
phony Orchestra, which will be inn
ported from New York via WEAF.
The program includes Weber's over
ture, "Oberon.' "Siegfried's Death, "
by Wagner; Mozart's "Andante, from
symphony in D. and the march,
"SlaV," by Tschaikowsky.
Instead of the usual dinner hour
concert. WRC has scheduled a Bible
talk and a one-act play, 'Phipps,
which will come from WEAF. The
late attractions win be provided by
the lie Parroquet de Paris Dance
Orche stra in New York and the Carl
ton Club Orchestra of Washington.
Static IN a more or less violent form
returned. last night and succeeded IL
SmotherinE the signals Of the out-of-
town brOadcasters. Coming after a
night Of almost perfect reception. the
reception condition was severe
blow TO On hunters. who had planned
10 add new stations TO their logs.
The atmosphericS We're more pro
nounced III the Northern and Middle
Western broadcast belts. but the
Sout,-s..l zone was affected, too. De
spite the interference, it was possible
TO bring in with some degree of au
dilility the signals of WJAZ an6
WIS. Chicago; WABC, New York
KDkA. Pittsburgh; WGY. Schenec
tady, and WMBI', Miami Beach, Fla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
INDIA LIFTS RADIO BAN.
Restrictions on Foreign Set Sam
pies Removed.

India has removed it's restrictions
on the Importation of sample foreign
made radio equipment, which until
recently required special licenses. The
present import requirements relative
to radio apparatus are that the ex-
porter enter a bond not to sell the
goods and to re-export them within a
year and that he pay the duty leviable
on them and get a refund upon re.
expectation.
The amount of the bond is reported
as at least twice the value of the APP
paratuS, but not more than 1000
rupees. Unless the general import re-
strictions are also removed, it Is not
believed the entry of samples alone
will greatly benefit American or other
exporters.
Bombay concerns have requested
information on our radio apparatus
and many other countries seem anx-
ious to acquire American-made sets
LamDersart, France, and Barcelona,
Spain, for example.