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banks refused 70 do this. The "a.
ktEsal Of assay was based on a seven.
year-old embargo on Russian rold
established because IL was held that
title TO It was not clearly estab-
lished.
As long as the embargo exists the
gold cannot be specie. It's present
status is simply that II is twenty
casks OF material being held IN bank
vaults for the soviet.
Legally the gold is not gold AZ all.
Under the existing situation. IL would
be impossible for the Bank Of France
which is n private corporation. IA
contend that the soviet had confis-
Gated o given sum Of money from Y.
n seek the return Of a like sum
Of money from the twenty casks II
New York.
Therefore the action filed here sets
forth that the identical material. or
-chatties" as the suit terms II. now
held IN the New York bank vaults Il
the property Of the Bank Of France
~ IS averred that il was placed IN
safe deposit in the Russian State
bank before the collapse of Imperial
Russia and appropriated BY the SO.
Wet without any reason Whatsoever.
The action Is like a move 10 70.
cover property alleged to have been
stolen.
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CHANGE Up TO
WATER BOARD
Harlingen District Di-
rectors Expected to
Take Action

HARLINGEN, March 10. - The
board 81 directors Of the Harrington
water district met Saturday morn
Ing 70 discuss the proposed change
from q water improvement 10 a
water control district rs requested
by the commissioners court, and
final action Is expected TO be taken
during the afternoon. County Judge
q. g. Dancy and Commissioner j.
+. Baughn were requested to APP
pear before the board during the
morning session.
The Cameron county commission
erS court has no intention OF issuing
more than $1,00O.O00 in additional
road bonds 20 apply to the taxes ~
1923 IN the event the San Bcnito
n Harlingen water districts change
their form in compliance with the
request Of the commissioners court.
according TO q letter directed to the
managers OF the water districts
which was made public Saturday.
Inc letter was signed by County
Judge O. G. Dancy and all members
OK the court, and members stated
they considered IL fully binding upon
the court. Following is the text az
the letter which was directed "a
Frank Robertson Of San Benito and
g. r. Bobo of Harlingen:
We. the undersigned members Of
the commissioner court Of Gamer
on county, understand that the rea-
son why your districts refuse 10
make the requested change from
Art. ., Sec. AZ. 90 Art. is, Sec. 50.
Is on account Of doubt as to the
policy Of the commissioners court
relative to issuing and selling the
remaining $4,00O,000 OF Cameron
county road bonds authorized By the
voters OK January 26th. 1927, and in
order that there may be no misun-
Outstanding, we beg to submit the
Following as the policy of the COM
m~issioners' court a. a court. ara ~
the individual members thereof. IL
reelected in the November, 1925.
election, to-wit:
lst.-By order duly entered on
February 3, 1923, in Book "UD, pages
. 10, we have agreed 70 issue
only $l,OOO,O0O more Of bonds during
the year 1925 against 1928 taxes'
This y series &C" Of 81, 0O0, 900.
xnd.-It is our policy to issue
only s2,000.000 more, being the
fourth and fifth millions, during the
years 1928 and 1929, but said $4,000
COO TO be against 1929 taxes.
-5rd--The sixth and last million
te De issues against 1880 taxes.
unless your two boards, sitting AZ
boards, shall both unite in an agree
ment 20 release us from said agree
ment \ allow the sixth and last
million to be against 1929 taxes-
There may be circumstance that
Viii arise that will make II 70 the
best interests Of the county that the
sixtn and last million be against
lsz5 taxes, but regardless of circum-
stances. such bonds not to be isrued
except upon permission of both of
your boards"
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fine IMPOSED

Continued from page one.)
Mrs. Woodside. "Ili 20 20 Jail first.
That will be hard on Lorene as II
will on me-"
Before the hearing opened, Mrs.
Woodside asked Lorene IL she want
ed her 20 serve a sentence or pay
a fine II she was convicted.
Il just want protection from your
cruelty" the girl answered. Then
she broke into tears and sobbed
throughout the trial.
Mr.. Woodside announced he would
abide BY his wife's wish not to pay
the fine. but hoped to persuade
Judge White 20 grant her a parole.
The judge said he had not consider
cd A parole. Mr.. Woodside declared
that the mother and daughter loved
each other dearly and that the trou-
bic lay outside the home.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-10

DENTON. Tex. tPp-A mother and
her daughter are students at the
Texas College OF industrial Arts. q
state school for girls.
The mother, Mrs. Ruth Alexan-
der Gipe of Moody, Texas, attends
classes IN foods, hcme economics and
institutional management. She has
returned to the college to work a
year for a degree after she had been
away IL years. Her 5~-year-osd
daughter. Marjorie, II learning the
three RS in the kindergarten main
tanned BY the college FOR the training
Of students who plan to become
teachers
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-10
Weslaco School
Bonds Are Sold

wEsLACo. Mar. 1o.-One hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars
worth of Weslaco school bonds were
sold here Friday night at a meeting
OF the school board to W.. X. Perry
and Son, Of Toledo, for q total prem-
ium of S6.505. Several other bond
houses submitted bids on the paper
but the Terry compsny's was Judged
the best.
The bonds will bear five and n
half per CEN interest semi-annuaily.
Proceeds from the sale are to be
used In making some needed i'm
provements at the school, a new do
nestle science building being ia
cluded among these, and 10 carry
other expenses over the next two
years, 10 was said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-10
Stock Trading
Sets New Record

NEW YORK, March 1O.-tF1-AlI
Saturday trading records were broken
linn another wild orgy off speculation
wv the New York Stock exchange TO-
dar when total sales for the two
hour session ran above 1000, 900
shares for the first time. Common
stock or the Radio corporation, with
an extreme advance OF $14 N share
AZ 3121.75, . new high record, super
rmded General Motors as the market
leader. General Motor touched a
record top for the seventh ronsecu-
tiva session nc $751; a share and then
sol5 dcwn to s157.75 which was s2
N share below yesterdays final quo
taticn. Heavy profit taking sales
checked the advance i'm most Of the
srtive issues, which closed lower.
POTATOES
CHICAGO, March iO.-F1-Pota-
4~mu unchanged.
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NEW YORK, March 10.-P-
Stocks: heavy; Radio up Ia points.
Assumes market leadership.
Bonds: Steady; weeks new offer
ings 1927, 0O0, 600.
Foreign exchanges: Steady; ster-
ling and francs firm.
Cotton; Higher; weekend cover
ing.
Sugar; Steady; improved spot mar
ket.
Coffee: Higher; importers buying.
C~hicago-Wheat: Barely steady;
forecast rains in Kansas.
Corn: Easy; large interior re-
ceipts.
Cattle; Steady.
Hogs: Strong to higher.
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CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, March 10.-tF-Wheat
prices here averaged higher early
today influenced by the fact that
Liverpool quotations failed to reflect
yesterdays weakness of wheat in
Chicago. Unfavorable weather
throughout the corn belt gave firm
ness to the corn market.
Opening unchanged to half cent
higher, Chicago, wheat afterward
scored upturns all around. Corn
started unchanged to 3-s cent ad-
vance. and subsequently, continued tn
climb. Oats sympathixed with corn
Provisions OF likewise tended up.
ward.
Corn closed unsettled, Use to ]
lac net lower. wheat unchanged 10
1-2c off, oats Ice to I lac down
and provisions varying from &c de-
cline to an equal advance.
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NEW YORK. March 10.-(F5-For-
eign exchanges steady, Great Britain
demand 4.s7 9-l6; cables 4.67 1915;
60-day bills on banks a.e3 "a. France
demand 3.93 la; cables 3.93 1-2;
italy demand 5.28: Belgium 1898 1-2;
Germany 23.s6 IL; Tokyo 1878; Mon
trea1 1890 SIS.
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LIVERPOOL COTTON

LIVERPOOL, March 10.-tF-Cot-
ton spot quiet; American strict good
middling 11.01; good middling 1896;
strict ~middling 1886; middling 10.46;
strict low middling 1896; low mid
ding 1881; strict good ordinary
ordinary 9.76. Sales 5000 bales,
$500 American. Receipts 10000,
American 800. Futures closed bare
ly steady; March 9.ss; May e.79;
July 9.71; October 9.49; Dec. GAS;
Jan. 9.43; March (1929) 9.41.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-10
STEEL ORDERS INCREASE

NEW YORK, March l0.-tR1-Un.
filled orders Of the United States
Steel corporation nc the close OF Feb.
ruary amounted TO 4,3es.1 e9. An in.
crease Of f22.242 tons compared with
the end Of the preceding month.
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CHICAGO, March 10.-tP-Butter
higher. creamery extras 40 lie;
standards 40 lac; extra firsts asa
a. lie; firsts a. 1905 lie; sec
onds 41@43 1-2c. Eggs higher; firsts
rs sac; ordinary firsts ~ Sac.
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COTTON OIL STEADY

NEW ORLEANS. March 1O.-tFt-
Cottonseed oil closed steady prime
summer yellow 500; prime crude S12
1-2Gs25. March sos; April si0; May
923; June 935; July cat; August
955; September oct; Oct e55.
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WEATHER OUTLOOK

Southern Plains a West Gulf
States: Mostly fair first part but
probably showers latter half; tenn
peratures normal or above, except
probably colder near end Of week.
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PIONEER FIGHTER DIES

DETROIT. March f0.-E1-The f.
nal bell has sounded for George La
vigne, the Saginaw Kid" former
worlds lightweight boxing champion.
Lavigne, who ruled the lightweight
ranks from 1898 to- 1899 died at his
home here last night after a brief
illness. Death was due TO heart dis
ease.
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n. Y.FUTURES
CLOSE HIGHER
Spots Are Quiet to Ia
Points Up i'm Short
Day Trading

NEW YORK, March 1-F-Ths
cotton market opened steady. un-
changed 70 q decline Of 8 points, &C,
tive mnoths showing net lcases OF \
to 3 points under selling apparently
based ON relatively easy Liverpool
cables and reports Of rains in tht
southwest.
May eased off to 1910 and OCTOBER
20 1905. but there was u little trade
buying and covering sc these prices
and the market steadied W. q few
points from the lowest I'm early trad
ing. y.
Futures closed steady, - 60 AZ
points higher.
Spot quiet; middling 1880.
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NEW SPOTS

NEW ORLEANS. La, March To-
R1-Spot cotton closed quiet IA
points up. Sales 1873; low middling
TITS; middlinR 1880; good middling
1890; receipts 2,7Is; stock 4s3, ESQ.
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NEW YORK. March 10.-tF1-
United States bends liberty 3 1-2s
1O1.13 Ist 4 las 1926 4th 4 las
103.19 treasury 4 Las 1919 Is.
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CHICAGO, March 10.-tPD-Poul.
try alive easy; fowls "a 1-2626;
springs 22G29; turkeys 25@2si
ROSTERS is; ducks 20@2s geese 10
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NEW ORLEANS, March 10.@tF)-
The cotton market opened quiet and
after easing off slightly rallied on
early trading on the map showing
little rain i'm the western drought
section.
First trades were practically un-
changed as Liverpool cables were
about aH expected. A decline OF \
70 2 points was followed BY . rally
on the dry weather map which car
ried May up to 1912, July $500 and
October IT'S, 9 20 9 points above the
previous close on old crop months,
but only 2 points up on October.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-10
BANKER Stays sELr

BANKER STAYS SELF
KNOXVILLE. Tenn, March TO-
R-Oscnr Tate, director OF the
Union National bank and director
OF the Haynes-Henson Shoe company,
shot and killed himself in the shoe
store today.
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Hogs Higher On
Fit. Worth Trades;
Cattle Steady

FORT WORTH. March 10.-F9-
Hogs 1900; higher; top $40; packing
sows TOO; pigs 5.0O66.25.
Cattle and calves 55c; for week:
slaughter steers generally steady,
better grade slaughter yearlings
fully steady, others unchanged; she
stock and cutters ten cents &C. a
quarter lower; other classes cattle
generally steady slaughter calves
steady 70 a quarter lower, trade clos
ing with most Of early decline re-
gained.
Sheep none. For week. wcoled
slaughter lambs 15.00G15-50; fall
ahorn slaughter lambs 1880; shorn
feeder lambs 11.00Gff.75; feeder
wethers T.0OG7.25.
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EAST ST. LOUIS. March 1o.-R-
Hogs $500; active; packing sows
100; pigs 5~.50-7.25. (Top hcgs $780,
Cattle ESQ; calves 100; tops for
week: f451-pound matured steers
14.25; 1O62-pounds yearlings 1885;
660-pounds mixed yearlings 1885,
7S9-pcunds heifers 1925; bulks:
steers 9.75-13.00; fat butcher year
Iings 1~1.O0-11.75.
Sheep 400: for weeks top lambs
1900; bulk 15.50-15.s6; fat yearlings
14.5O-f4.75: mutton ewes S.50-9.50.
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KANSAS CITY
KANSAS CITY. March 10.-tPl-
Hogs 1900; steady; top $40; pack
ing sows 6.50@7.2b.
Cattle $50; calves rs; weeks top:
heavy steers 1900; medium weights
1875; light weights 1850; bulk fed
steers 11-5O-13.50; light yearlings in
GLIDING fed heifers 9.O0-1.5O; stock
ers and feeders 10.25-I2.25.
Sheep none; for week: Top wooded
lambs 1855; bulk 1~5.G0-15.5O; clip
pers 12.35-12.S5; ewes $4,000.
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CHICAGO, March l0.-F-Pota-
toes unchanged
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WORK-by the day or hour by ex- perienced cOlOred woman. Adams 1856.
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LUCK BEAMS QN NEGRO
 AID IF GENERAL WOOD

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Dec. 27 P)-Uncle Alec, the Jamaican ne- gro who served the late General Leonard Wood as personal body guard and general household fact otum, has won big lottery prize and will retire from active life.
 He bought a partnership in a hotel at Caimanera, nearest Cub an port to the United States naval station at Guantanamo. The est abllshment will be run under his name but Uncle Alec will have mo- thing to do but sit in a comfort able rocker on the sea-breeze swept porch.
 Luck smiled on Uncle Alec, whose klnky hair grew gray in the ser vice of Leonard Wood.
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RUSSIA LEANS HEAVILY
 0N LARGE LAND OWNERS

SEMIPALATINSK, Kazakstan Republic, Dec, 27, (P)-The Soviet have taken drastic measures in an effort to wipe out the last rem nants of large land ownership in Central Asia.
 Sixty "beys," or wealthy Mos- lem nobles, who managed during II years of bolshevik rule to ignore all communist doctrines and keep their vast herds of cattle and pro- perty intact, have been driven out of their homes and deported to re- mote Sir-Dariinsk regiones.
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J. $. ARMY ENLARCES
 HAWAIIAN AIR FIELD

HONOLULU, Dec, 27, P)-Im- provement of Wheeler Field, near Schofield Barracks, on this island. to make it one of the finest mil itary airports in the United States. is being planned by the Hawaiian department of the United States army
 The plans are being drawn up with the view of starting the act ual work at the commencement of the next fiscal year, July 1.
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OR SALE Console victOrola anc records like new $45. See UrbaCh
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" WANTED-WOrk by hour or day; General housework except cook ing: also garden work. Phone Madison 19 for Sam, Japanese boy
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The famous sand dunes beween the Spanish peaks and the city of Alamosa contain 52 cents in gold to every cubic year, about the same as sea water. This helps to prove that the area was once a sea floor. Et- forts are now going to be made to recover this gold on a large scale.
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MINES PAY BIG DIVIDENDS

Shareholders of the Consolidated Virginia Mine of Nevada received S42, ,12O,0O0 in dividends in five years time; the California Mine also a Comstock lcde property paid divi- dends of s31,o5o,0Co in three years.
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LESSON PIPES WON'T LEAK WON'T DRIP. WON'T SMELL. CANNOT GET STRONG. YOU CAN MOKE TT EVERYDAY-YET IT STAYS CLEAN ALWAYS S4.O0 AND S7.5O. Schallerer's Alaska Snco.
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WE CARRY THE BEST BRANDS OF CANDY MANUFACTURED I:J THE UNITED STATES BOTH IN BULK AND BOX. The Candy Cot tage.
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CHINESE FARMS ENCOURAGED

kAIF'ENG, China, Dec, 27, R)- Seeking to encourage agriculture, General Feng Yu-hsiang, overlord of three provinces, has ordered his arsenal here to manufacture farr, implements fer distribution among
 he farmers.
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A bull can make money and a bear can make money, but a hog never
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TRY A PURE WHITE ROCK ICE CREAM SODA. SchalIerer's Alaska Shop.
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FRANCE GAINS MILLIONS
 IN INCREASED REVENUES

PARIS, Dec, 27. R)-France has put away in the state coffers $1OO,- 0C0,00 more in taxes in the first 10 months of this year than in the same period of 1927.
 The total taxes collected up to November l was roughly $1,4O0,- OOO,OOO, including both direct and indirect taxes.
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frye-8ruhn's Baby oeef Is unes ceIed
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i F. S. Coast and Geodetic Survt l; Chart and Tide Tables. SCHAT LERER s ALASKA SHOP.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

No hemstiching after the 18th until after Christmas. Gordon's
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Plum and Fig Pudding at BROWN \ & HAWKINS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-17
UNIFORM PLANS
|. FOR BUILDINGS

Plans are being drawn for build
ings to be set on the north side OF
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest,
between Third and Fifteenth
Streets, designed to be architecture.
ally harmonious with the Federal
buildings on the south side by the
Chicago chapter. American Insti.
tute of Architects.
The plans will be forwarded to
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission in December. and
the commission will endeavor to
persuade private builders to follow
the architectural principles laid
down by the Chicago architects.
There is no law regulating the
architecture OF private buildings,
but the commission hopes the plans
can be used for moral effect.
The designs were intrusted to the
Chicago group by the American In
stftute of Architects because It re.
Gently solved a similar problem II
drawing up model plans for build
ings on Michigan Avenue to face
a park in the Windy City.
The commission is also hopeful q
passage at the next session OF Con
gress OF the Shipstead Bill for the
regulation OF private buildings
within 200 feet OF public property.
No action was taken at the last
session.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-17
PARENTS URGED
To AID PUPILS

Taking as his cue the recent
Graf Zeppelin trip. and showing
how 1t. pointed to new age and
the necessity for character and
efficiency in modern life, G. G.
Wilkinson, assistant superintendent
of schools, told the Parents.Teach'
ers Association Of the Shaw Junior
High School, Seventh and Rhode
Island Avenue. last night, of the
need for cooperation between school
and home in putting over the pro.
gram for which society supports
the public schools.
Wilkinsn spoke of the handicap
and the cost of hardness, absence,
lack of program for the waking
hours, idleness and lack of definite
goal as they affect the schools and
the life of the youth.
He called attention to the growth
of the Shaw School and the pro-
vision for that growth in the larger
quarters in the old Mckinley Build.
ing. He cited other instances OF
provision by the Board of Educa.
ton for the steadily increasing pop
ulation.
Emphasizing the responsibility
for character above knowledge and
for cooperation above personal ad.
vancement among backward people.
wilkinson urged the parents to do
their share in the education OF
children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-17
Mural Paintings OF
18th Century Found
In Church
Nv international News Service

MUNICH, Oct. 17.-Work OF
restoration on the Cloister Church
on the Island of Frauenworth in
the Chiemsee has brought to light
mural paintings right and left
from the altar which dates from
the beginning of the thirteenth
century, when this part OF the
church was built.
The paintings, which represent
symbols of the early Christian
church, are comparatively well
preserved, the colors being still
fairly bright and the drawing
clearly discernible.
Most of the mural decorations
from the Roman period were de-
stroyed when the church was
rebuilt few hundred years lat.
err. Parts OF these have also
been found. but they are so dam
aged that the original themes
cannot be made out.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-17
THE NEW

1907 FROM PENNSYLVANIA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-17
STRIKE ENDS

LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE Aus
traIian dockworkers' strike. which
has been in progress since Septem-
Der, causing millions of dollars loss
to shipping companies, ended today,
said a Central News dispatch from
sydney. A general resumption OF
work is anticipated Immediately. The
strike had been marked by out
breaks of serious violence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-17
THasseH and Kramer to
Paw Coolidge q Visit

President Coolidge win to-day
meet Bert Iassell ana Parker
kramer, .'RoclzfordsSweden'' filters.
whose attempted flight to the latter
country almost ended In tragedy,
when they cracked up" In Green.
land and were lost TO the world
for ten days. The two filters
arrived here today, accompanied by
their manager, G. e. Patrick.
Hasse11 and Kramer are making
their headquarters at the Carlton
Hotel, which is managed by dyed
in the wool aviation enthusiast,
Glenn Gerson. After meeting Pres.
iGent Coolidge, the filters win be
entertained at luncheon by Direc.
tor Of Aeronautics Major Clarence
II. Young.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-10-17
DIR. WOOIever to Give
Treaty Defense Talk

Recent treaties for the outlawing
of war will be defended by DR..
Harry e. Woolever in a speech Fri
day night at o'clock at the first
fan meeting Of the Mems Club of
Foundry Methodist Episcopal
Church.
A special program has been ar
ranged in observation Of the 25th
anniversary of the organization.