Parking Time Limit Extension Debated Downtown
City officials study extending time limit restrictions to most of the downtown area amid complaints from residents outside the core. The traffic board and district commissioners seek recommendations on parking rules, public spaces, street widening, and enforcement to ease congestion without simply shifting it elsewhere.
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Piatrict
Tomic
Trade Board
Caw
Bell
C Ity
W H Holcombe
Albert J Headley
Ringgold Hart
Finance Corporation Ruling Expected Today
Judge Hitz to rule on Commonwealth Finance Corporation of Delaware request to set aside the District Supreme court order appointing receivers for its assets in this jurisdiction. Receivers were named over properties including the Hamilton hotel, Department of Justice building, Investment building, and Jefferson apartment. Company counsel argues the appointment exceeded the court’s jurisdiction while most stockholders oppose receivership.
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Hitz
Commonwealth Finance Corporation of Delaware
District Supreme Court
Hamilton
Department of Justice
Investment
Jefferson Apartment
Douglas Obest & Douglas
Darr, Whiteford & Carr
Fire in Fontanet Courts Closet Causes Damage
A fire in a clothing closet at Herbert I. Chalfant’s Fontanet Courts apartment at 1400 Fairmont Street Northwest caused about $350 in damage yesterday afternoon. The blaze, discovered by Mrs. Chalfant and controlled by janitor G H Hairston until Fremen arrived, had an unknown cause and created significant excitement.
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Herbert I. Chalfant
Fontanet Courts
Fairmont Street
L Wen
Chalfant
G H Hairston
Fremen
Coat Found on Bridge With Goodbye Note in Augusta
A coat bearing a Newnan Ga clothing firm name and a Parker family mark was found on the Fifth Street bridge over the Savannah River on the South Carolina side. A good bye note and a fraternity pin were in a pocket, with Parker’s name in the sleeve lining. The coat is believed to belong to W B Parker, former manager of the Western Union Thomson, Ga.
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Augusta Ga
W B Parker
Weaterr Union
Thomson
South Carolina
Fifth Street
Sasannah River
Parker
Newnan
Salem approves $225000 bond issue in referendum
Salem voters backed a $225,900 bond issue by a wide margin. Proceeds would fund a new fire truck and equipment at the station, a park ground, sewers, and street improvements. The measure received strong support in the August 12 referendum.
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Washington Post
Salem
Guard "Rookies" Under Grilling Drill at Fort Humphreys
Bodies of the 121st Engineers District National Guard undergo a stiff drill regime at Fort Humphreys Virginia. Col John Woehmann commands as rookies endure close-order drill and rifle handling. Companies A through F participate in field fortification, revetment tracing, trestle work, and camp sanitation.
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121St Engineers District National Guard
Fort Humphreys
Springfield
John Woehmann
George J Allen
Drill Sergeant Ordered For District Guardsmen
Maj Louis C Brinton announces a new sergeant instructor for the District National Guard. Sgt Carrington Horan, previously with area headquarters Baltimore, is ordered to report for duty today to assist in training district guardsmen under Brigadier Brinton at the armory.
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Louis C Brinton
Maryland Bonds Sold At 3.52 Above Par
Maryland board of public works sold three state bond issues totaling 703000 at 3.52 above par. A syndicate led by Mercantile Trust and Deposit Co Baker Watts Stein Brothers Boyce and Hs la brook won with 103952 bid. Eleven bids from Baltimore and New York were received. Issues included 378000 for general construction loan 1924 250000 for 1922 Baltimore south Maryland trunk road Crain highway and 7900 for University Hospital Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Crain
University Hospital
Norfolk Doctor Faces $40 000 Balm Suit
Norfolk Ya Aug 12 Dr Antonio A Burke a prominent Norfolk physician has been named defendant in a $40,967 suit filed in the court of law and chancery by Montgomery a salesman who accuses the doctor of alienating his wife. The case cites alleged past meetings and a romantic entanglement with the plaintiff’s spouse, with further details noted in the report.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Antonio A Burke
Court of Law and Chancery
Montgomery
New Fire Rules Ordered to Protect Helpless Citizens
District commissioners ordered Fire Chief George S Watson to draft stringent fire regulations for homes and institutions caring for helpless or semi helpless people. The rules would ban wooden fire escapes, govern occupancy of frame buildings, and require modern fireproof construction for new facilities, affecting many hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the aged and children. The final plan may differ, but officials expect approval of most recommendations once drafts are reviewed.
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George S Watson
Francis S Stephens
John Woehmann
Watson
Bruen
Chief Watson
Picnic chairman exalted ruler Washington No 15 Elks outing
Exalted ruler Washington No. 15 B. P. Elka is general chairman for the Elks outing at Glen Keho park. The executive committee includes Od Neumeyer Jr as vice chairman P J Callahan Ur Tracy VM Flagfate Hollander Weilliam Shelby Fred Wersehelimer chairs transportation with J Ho Hag eroy as vice chairman Jen Thobe3 leads the auto committee and Leonard H Schloas chairs the entertainment committee.
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Washington No. 15
B. PO. Elka
Elks
Glen Keho Park
Od Neumeyer, Jr
P. J. Callahan
Tracy VM. Flagfate
Hollander
Weilliam
Shelby Fred Wersehelimer
Transportation
J. Ho Hageroy
Jen Thobe3
Auto
Leonard H. Schloas
Eneertainment Committer
Liquor Prescription Limits Fight by Doctor in Suit
Dr William E Philes of Washington alleges the national prohibition act unlawfully limits alcohol prescriptions. He seeks an injunction against Roy A Ratnes and H M Luckett to permit prescriptions exceeding one pint in ten days for certain medical cases. He argues internal use of spirituous liquors is necessary for some treatments and would violate due process without relief.
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Willam E Philes
Ersenth Street
District Supreme Court
Roy A Ratnes
Prohibition
H M Luckett
Phas
T Wore, Wampler and
Purcell & Densnore
Protective Delay in Prohibition Raids Questioned
Capt W H Slayton, head of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, charges federal agents delayed raids on Washington restaurants until Congress adjourned to arrest patrons for drinking in public. He asserts winter and spring drinking occurred there with no raids, and suggests fear of arresting dry lawmakers.
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Prohibition Enforcement
Congress
Washington
W H Slayton
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Haynes
Harry M. Luckett
Antisaloon Leader Warns on Fruit Juice Intoxicants
Wayne T. F. Wheeler, general counsel for the Antisaloon League, stated that fruit juices cannot be used to create intoxicating drinks at home. He referenced Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland and noted an injunction against further similar acts. Wheeler urged clarification of his remarks before the House Judiciary Committee.
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Wayne TF Wheeler
Antisaloon League
Wheeler
John Philip Hill
Maryland
House Judiciary Committee
Convictions Under Dry Law Reach 35000 in Ten Months
Commissioner Haynes released figures showing 41000 criminal cases initiated and 85000 convictions under the national prohibition act in the first ten months of the fiscal year. Fines totaled 7000000, jail time amounted to 3148 years, with expectations of over 50000 convictions once two additional months are reported.
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Haynes
George Reed dies expert in Indian Office at 57
George Read a veteran administrator in the Indian affairs office died in George Washington University Hospital after an operation for acute appendicitis He directed the probate attorneys of the Indian office with the five civilized tribes in Oklahoma and was regarded as a leading authority on the tribes He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas and the University of Virginia law school He resided at 2039 New Hampshire Avenue NW Surviving are his wife Mrs May Meritt Read his mother and three sisters and two brothers Funeral plans are for Fayetteville Arkansas where the services will be held.
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George
Office of Indian Affairs
George Washington University Hospital
Fayetteville
Ark
Reed
Indian Office
Oklahoma
Arkansas
University of Arkansas
University of Virginia Law School
Northumberland
New Hampshire
May Meritt Read
Mary Jane Reed
Lina Reed
J Fay Reed
William L Reed
Muskogee Okla
William Lewis
Steam Springs
Joseph F Foltz
Portland
Oreg
Michael M Shoemaker Dies in Paris at 71
Michael Myers Shoemaker, author and traveler, died yesterday in Paris at age 71. The body, with Mrs Shoemaker, will be taken to Cincinnati for burial. Son of the late Robert M Shoemaker of Cincinnati, he studied at Cornell, traveled worldwide, wrote several books, and founded the Ohio Society of Colonial Wars.
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New York
Michael Myers Shoemaker
Paris
Services for William R. Keller Held After Short Illness
Funeral services were held yesterday for William Robert Keller, seven, a Takoma Park resident for ten years. He died Saturday at Garfield Hospital after a brief illness. Keller was an attorney in the pension office and previously a school principal in Richland and Johnstown. He was a descendant of Rev John Cooper Stoever, the first Lutheran minister ordained in America. Survived by wife Minerva Line Keller and two sons William Fulton Keller and Eugene Alvin Keller.
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William Robert Keller
Takoma Park
Lebanon
Garfield Hospital
Keller
Pension Office
Richland
Johnstown
John Cooper Stoever
America
Mra
Minerva Line Keller
William Fulton Keller
Gene Alvin Keller
James H. Jones 76, retired Rockville farmer
James H Jones aged 76, a retired farmer from Rockville Maryland, died after a long illness and a recent stroke. He was a Frederick County native who lived in Montgomery County since youth. Survived by wife Katherine Barber Jones and four children Kirtley Jones, Mrs Junius W R Pipe of North Carolina, Mrs Edmund Pendleton Gaines, wife of Lieut Daines US Air Service stationed at Dayton Ohio, and Miss Virginia Jones of Rockville.
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James H Jones
Rockville
Jones
Frederick County
Montgomery County
Katherine Barber Jones
Kirtley Jones
Junius WR Pipe
North Carolina
Edmund Pendleton Gaines
Lieut Daines
United States Air Service
Dayton
Ohio
Virginia Jones
Hines to Be Chief of Staff After Pershing Retirement
Secretary Weeks announced that upon General Pershing’s retirement on September 13 Maj Gen John J. Hines would become chief of staff. Brig Gen Dennis E. Nolan would succeed Hines as deputy chief of staff in charge of the supply section. Hines’ promotion preserves his rank, while Nolan will be brigadier general in the deputy post.
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Weeks
Pershing
John & Hines
Hines
Dennis E Nolan
General Staff
Nolam
Congress
Nolan
A.E
France
Apremont
Noland
AE F Staff
Rum Arrests Drop on Eve Of Promised Clean-Up
Maj Daniel Sullivan and Commissioner Oyster hailed federal action to appoint 27 District police officers as special prohibition agents. The daily police report shows no bootlegging arrests and 10 drunkenness arrests versus 30 the day before. A list of the 27 agents and precinct detectives is forwarded to Harry Luckett for oath.
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Daniel Sullivan
Polce
Oyster
Prohibition
District Police Department
Prohibition Enforcement
Daly
Sullivan
Viceraquad
Harry M Luckett
Trent @ T Davis
Mergt James D McQuade
Harry K Wilson
William Messer
James E Kane
William
Rites for J W A Carroll Held in Forest Glen Church
Funeral services for James W. Carroll of Rockville Maryland were conducted at St Johns Catholic Church Forest Glen by Rev Ubarten Rosensteal. Burial was in St Johns Cemetery. Carroll age 65 died Sunday in Washington from injuries after falling twenty feet while painting a silo on Frank Veldenard’s farm near Colesville. He leaves a widow.
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James W. Carroll
Rockville
St Johns
Rites for Ashby L Brown Veteran to be held today
Funeral services for Sergi Ashby L Brown 49 year old World War I veteran will be held at 12 45 oclock today at Hanlén¢ funeral parlors northeast. Burial will follow at Arlington National Cemetery. Mr Brown died Sunday at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Brown 103 C street northeast after a long enlistment in the army.
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Sergi
L Brown
Hanlén
Arlington National
Brown
Dog Fails Inmate Escape Plot at Danville Jail
In Danville Virginia on August 12 a bulldog of city jailer Nelson Dixon alerted staff to an inmate escape attempt. Gilbert Lewis had nearly severed a jail cell bar with a improvised saw knife fashioned from a dull dinner knife, stolen from a prisoner’s basket on the same tier.
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Washington Post
Danville
Nelson Dixon
Dixon
Gilbert Lewis
Four Heiresses Seek Accounting of Butterfield Estate
Four sisters of the late Mrs Julia Lorillard Butterfield applied to Surrogate J Bennett Southard to require the MCA to file an accounting of the estate valued around 3.5 million dollars. The claimants are Alice Wheeler Katherine Wheeler Kathleen Isabel Thorell Helen S Jeffrey, with addresses in Denver Los Angeles.
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Cold Springs
Julia Lorillard Butterfield
J Bennett Southard
International Committee of the
MCA
Butterfield
Daniel Butterfield
Alice and
Katherine Wheeler
Kathleen Isabel Thorell
Denver
Helen S Jeffrey
Los Angeles
New Roof Offers and Financial Notices in Brief
An advertisement for asphalt roofing products promotes prompt estimates by phone or visit at 4818 Main. A separate notice from the Washington Railway and Electric Company declares a 2.4% preferred stock dividend payable December 1, 1924, and outlines transfer and payment details for August 16, 1921 to August 12, 1924 stockholders, with secretary HOM RB. SER.
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West
William G Carrico
Wiscon
Nash Fipora
Tbstan Colazar
Ansure Ptt
Washington Railway & Erestris Company
Teva
Ivar
Halsey
Elewtris
Coord
Bastnens
Tinplate King Sues Doctor for 250000 Damages
New York Aum 12 Daniel G Reid known as the tinplate King filed suit for 250000 against Dr Charles F Stokes former surgeon general of the navy alleging malpractice in treating a nervous ailment He had paid 49000 upfront and 190000 for subsequent treatment claiming excessive stimulants worsened his health and tied to a prior suit over promissory notes and medical charges.
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New York
Aum
Daniel G Reid
The
Tinplate King Today
Charles F .Stokes
Navy
Reid
Stokes
Pr Stokes
Jack of
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