Christman Spirit Softens Traffic Officers Hearts
Christmas spirit eased pre holiday enforcement as police let many minor infractions pass. Arrests dropped to six from 25, with several cases tied to accidents and hit and run incidents. A motorist chased by an injured driver collided with a streetcar, while others faced charges for collisions and failing to stop. Fines and collateral forfeitures totaled hundreds, including a youth fined for speeding after a Connecticut Avenue incident.
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Summersea
Trea
Tratfi
Joseph Dinger
Decatur Street
Dunger
Georgia Avenue
Rock Creek Church Road
New Hampshire
Georgia Avenues
Anderson
Hut
Garfield Hospital
Ater
Accley
Lutbn Johnson
Fenton Place
First
K Streets
George A. Pogre
Ffth Street
Philip Roach
Browncourt
Nergens
Schuldt
George F. Garnett
P Street
Polleaman Prinkett
Seventh Precinct
Connecticut Avenue
Albemarne Street
Egald
Samual Swartzel
O Street Northwest
Capital Traction Company
Herbert F. Wesér
Twelfth Street
Swartzel
Publisher Attacks Incurables Home Rate Increase
A Washington publisher argues against higher second class mail rates to fund postal pay raises, calling cost figures framed and urging broad taxation of all to cover special government privileges. He also criticizes magazine parcel service costs and urges through freight handling to keep mags in the mails.
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Post Office Department
Congress
Arthur J . Baldwin
National Publishers Association
Congressional Postoffice
Baldwin
Postoffice Department
Publishers’ Association
Postoffica Department
United States
Moses
Organizationa
Americaan Bureau Federation
Mrs Coolidge Joins In Yuletide Charity Event
Mrs. Coolidge participates in a holiday charity drive with a tree of numbered clothing bags for children, a Christmas Eve sketch by Lenore Marie de Grange and her troupe, film show, and Santa arrival at a theater. Central Union Mission plans 300 food baskets at 622 Louisiana Ave NW and a community dinner. Salvation Army hosts meals for men at 102 B St NW and 1 39 PM for 1000 white children at the Army Auditorium 606 B St NW. Naval Air Station Anacostia hosts a mutual aid party for about 150 children with a Santa seaplane visit, organized by Lieut George Owen, ending by 2 PM.
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Lenore Marie de Grange
Roland Robbins
Bennett
Santa Claus
Central Union Mission
Louisiana Avenue Northwest
William H. Ramasy
Salvation Jermy
Broadway
Seventh Street
P Street
B Street
Army
Auditorum
George Owen
Coolidges to Pass A Quiet Christmas
President and Mrs Coolidge plan a quiet White House Christmas mindful of their family loss. Frank W Stearns and his Boston party join at dinner with John Coolidge. The couple will attend services at First Congregational Church. Cabinet members Hughes Weeks Hoover and New will stay in Washington homes.
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Eferes
Charilahia
James B .Freenan
Optsupal Idiovese
Washingti
Wis
Noruw
Hell
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Mra. Coolidge
John 8
Moses
St. John’s Church
Freeman
Archibald Hopkins
Home
Board of Trustees
Abram Simon
Calvf
Coolidge
White House
Frank W. Stearna
Boston
John Coolidge
Mrs Coolidge
Stearns
Freight Shed Burned on Alexandria Wharf
A fire last night virtually destroyed a 40 by 100 foot freight shed at the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat company wharf in Alexandriafoot of Prince street. Roof and walls collapsed hindering firefighters. little freight inside. an office near the warehouse gutted and records lost though safes with key documents were saved. Wharf sustain minor damage. A purse was cut from Mrs Rendalls during Christmas shopping in an F street store, missing a gold watch chain and $5.10.
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Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Prince Street
Alexandria
Mra
B. F. Rendalls
Te Sheridan Apartments
Twenty-second Street
F Street
Man Injured While Erecting Christmas Tree
Glenn H Payne, 34, fell yesterday afternoon while erecting a tree for a Christmas celebration at a church in Virginia. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition and later placed under care at home.
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Glenn H Payne
Roy Christmeas Trea
Church
Tad Sont
Apartments Transfer Set Aside as Fraud in Equity Case
A deed transferring Rodman apartments at Union Rodman Street NW to Jacob Goldenberg was set aside by Justice Hoehling due to misrepresentation. The $200,000 sale involved Barkas & Barkas as realtors. White must cancel a $25,000 deferred note and return 2009 shares of Standard Refiting stock. Judgment of $9,201 against White and Barkas. appeal noted.
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L. Gibbon White
Jacob Goldenberg
Rodman
iConnecticut Avenue
Rodman Street
Goldenberg
Justice Hoehling
Equity Court
George M
Philip Barkas
Standard Refiting Company
White
Barkas
Rudolph B. Behrend
Milton Strasburger
Underwood Attacked by Grippe at Home
Senator Underwood of Alabama is reported laid up with grippe at his home, unable to join debate on the Muscle Shoals bill. His doctors say his condition is not serious and he expects to resume duties when the Senate reconvenes after the holidays. President Coolidge signed a pension bill granting pensions to armed forces veterans.
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Senator Underwood
Alabama
Ffrom
Underwood
Senate
Coollidge
Exhumation of McClintock for Autopsy Amid Family Claims
Details emerge from the McClintock case as exhumation is ordered to obtain more solid evidence. The Shepherds face questions about marriage plans and custody while authorities note past tensions and residence disputes at Kenilworth and the Pope home. The couple, now in Albuquerque, welcome any investigative scrutiny as the process proceeds.
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Tilly Hiness
Hilly
Mo Shepherd
McClintock
Shepherd
Billy
Joseph Savage
Harry Olson
Kenilworth
Shepherda
Door of St Peter's Opened by the Pope
The Holy Father donned the white and gold miter as Swiss guards led the procession. Cardinals and ecclesiastics followed, the Pope striking the holy door with a golden hammer and reciting prayers, then crossing the threshold as devout crowds filed past to kiss the doorpost.
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Holy Father
Sediq Gestatoria
College of Cardinals
Rome
Delai
Vannutelli
Fompill
St. Pauls
Satta Maria Maggiore
St. John Lateran
Longhi
Sedia Gastateria
Ingresaus
Bisseti
Lega
St. Peter’s
Retirement Looms For Supreme Court Justice McKenna From California
The New Year may bring a vacancy on the Supreme Court as Associate Justice McKenna, nearing 82, plans retirement after 27 years on the bench. He has suffered personal losses and health issues but remains active. vacancy would likely go to the Pacific Coast district, with presidential selection and circuit representation considerations noted.
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Supreme Court
McKenna
Justice McKenna
Justice McKanna
MccKenna
Massachusetts
Tennessee
Red Cross Gives $50 Coffee Fund to Police and Fire
The American Red Cross yesterday presented the district police and fire departments with a Christmas gift of $50 for their coffee fund. The money is used to provide coffee and food for the men during long hours at fires or other emergencies.
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American Red Cross
Poice and Fire Departments
Special Notices: Washington and Georgetown Office Meeting
Special notices announce a meeting at the office on work day to discuss purposes of election. Albert W. Howane is listed as secretary. Further readable text appears garbled but indicates civic or organizational procedure and timing around noon.
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Agi
Rice
Washington
Georgetown
Nad
Ibam
Albert W. Howane
Dectbiaty
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