Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 37, 24 December 1919 — Page 2

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?HE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1919.

DUOGET ADOPTION ; RECEIVES APPROVAL j IN MANY QUARTERS ! NSW YORK. Dec. 24. The national budget committee has obtained statements from representative men and -women In all walk of life upon the Important budget bill passed by the House of Representatives, i Included in the list of prominent cltlsens who commented on the bill Were

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. former Gov

ernor Charles 8. wnuman or new York. Mrs. Carrie Cbapmann Catt,

president of the national American Woman Suffrage association; . Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate .'for president tn 1904; John T. Pratt, tchalrman of the national budgett.com imittee; Hugh Frame, general organ Irer of the American Federation of Xabor; Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth iBrown of the New York University; T. B. DeBerhard, manager of the Research Bureau of the Merchants' Association of New York; Charles A. ;Beard director of the Bureau of Municipal Research; Martin W, Littleton and members of the standing committee on congress of the National Security League; Charles D. Orth, secretary; Dr. Franklin H. Oiddlngs of Columbia University; Thomas W. :Churchlll former president of the board of education of New York City; ' CoL Charles E. Lydecker and Mark L. 'Requa,"-former assistant , to Herbert Hoover, food administrator. Men and women interviewed were unanimous in the opinion that the budget bill, as passed by the House, costitutes the first real step taken by congress In recent years to insure efficiency and economy in the administration of the finances of the United 8tatea government. LUXEMBOURG LOVE NOTES " " MAY C08T YANK HIS . WJFE , AURORA. 111.. Dec. 24. George L. Snyder of Aurora, an overland soldier, pent most of his time after the armistice making love to girls In Luxembourg, according to 'his wife. Fannie. In a divorce bill filed in the Kane county Circuit court yesterday she charges she has intercepted several letters received by- her husband from the Luxembourg girls. '

FORMER EMPRESS 18 ILL GENEVA. Dec. 24. Former Empress Zita of Austria' is reported to be seriously 111 with pneumonia at Prangins. She recently was caught in a snow storm, lightly clad. Zita, who In September gave birth to a son, is not sufficiently strong to withstand the rigors of a Swiss winter.

Battery Jars should never be allowed to come in contact with one another.

Light Tonnage Pcsse$ , TkrczghCGudial919 (By AMeolatM press) : 8AULT 8TE MARIE. Mlch Dec. 24. Tonnage- which passed through the United States and Canadian locks and ship canals at this point during the season of navigation of 1919,. was the lightest' registered In' five years, according to the engineers annual report, Just announced. Total freight handled through the waterways connecting Lakes Superior and Huron during the year was 68,235,542, compared with the 1914 tonnage of 65.369,934. The shrinkage In cargo volume was general, only a very few

lines showing increase this season, although the number of passengers carried was greater than ever before. The loss in traffic is partially explained by the fact that fewer ships were operated this year than usual, while many of those that were' run made fewer trips than usual.

labor rates. The government estimate reached about. $5,000 for each house. Even at that figure, and with additional bonuses to buikiors, the gov ernment's first attempt to build V150 homes proved a failure. .

SELFRID6E STORE SELLING HOUSES TO LONDON PUBLIC

LONDON, Dec. 24. A complete line of attractive five room houses was

offered the English public today by London's largest .department store, founded by Harry'; Gordon Selfridge,

the former Chicago merchant.

Many persons who believed the de

partment stores bad reached their ex

treme limit of expansion in selling everything from noodles to threshing

machines, blinked at this Innovation, although they did not fall to Join in

the rush, for the latest bargains. " British Government Failed.

After the government's failure to

cope successfully with Britain's haus

me problems, the lob has now been

turned over to Mr. Selfridge for so

lution.

Selfridge has announced he presently will have a "stock" of semi-detached, concrete cottages on sale at

approximately $2,250.

"We could build more elaborate and pretentious houses, but the house hunters we shall cater to cannot afford more than simple cottages," Mr. Selfridge said today. "We hope to assist only those persons who desire comfortable homes at minimum costs. Our first hundred were advertised last Friday and have been sold. Here's Sample House. "The plans we have at present call for homos with parlor, living room, three bedrooms and kitchen and bathroom. They will not be beautiful, but will have modern comforts." The government's difficulty In furnishing houses arose from the high cost of materials and the Increasing

PRESS LAUNCHED PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Dec. 24 The

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Heg Island's seventy-sixth vessel which was named as a tribute to the loyalty and co-operation of newspapers throughout the nation during the

war, was launched today.

IBANEZ ROYALTIES HELD. . NEW YORK, Dec. 24. Booh royalties due to Vicente Blaaco Ibanei have been held up on a writ of attachment - obtained on two judgments against the Spanish' author in Argentina for alleged debts aggregating 16,998 secured by. notes. The Judgments were transferred to local company which brought the action to collect. ;. Pending the settlement of his claims, all moneys due Ibanei for sals of his books will be withheld.

GLASS I88UES STATEMENT WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. Subscrip

tions to the issue of treasury esrtificates of indebtedness, dated Dee. 1. and maturing June IS, 1920, aggfssjat-

ed. I728.no.000. . Secretary Glass announoed today. yOf this amount 2SV 455-fOO represented certificates paid

for tn treasury certificates of toSOSS. ; .

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ESTABLISHED 70 YEARS

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