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MOVIE TICKETS . TO BE GIVEN THY Judging in Jackie Coogan Con test Will Take Place Friday at District Building. Plans for judging more than 500 •ontestants in The Washington Times and The Washington Herald Jackie Coogan Similarity Contest went ahead today. The judging Win take place at 1 o’clock Friday In front of the District building. Present plans can for the as sembling of children with the same Costumes. For instance: All kids dressed In rags will be in one •roup, all dressed in silks and Satins in another group and so on. 'To Present Tickets. I Tickets for the free showing of Jackie Coogan’s latest picture, “Long Live the King,” at the Co lumbia Theater, will be given out between 8 and 5 o’clock this after noon to all children presenting eight coupons from The Washington Herald from November 28 to De cember 4, ©r eight from The Wash ington Times from the same period with one from The Sunday Herald •f December 2, at the ticket dis tribution offices located as follows: Business office The Washington Herald and The Washington Times, Munsey building; T. G. Wrenn, 8207 M street northwest; Whitley’s Drug Store. 925 Eighth street southeast; Stratford Gift Shop. 3322 Four teenth street northwest; Taft’s Pharmacy, Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street; Tennallytown phar macy. 4501 Wisconsin avenue; Chevy Chase Pharmacy, 5628 Con necticut avenue, and Boyer’s Phar macy, Clarendon, Va. List of Substations. , T h ®y alao may be obtained at the L following substations: 1110 Tenth street northwest; Tenth and West minster streets northwest; rear of 8211 Fourteenth street northwest; 808 Twenty-first street northwest; 141 Bates street northwest; 826 Sixth street southwest; Eighteenth street and Oregon avenue north west: 813 Rock Creek Church road northwest; 601 Massachusetts avenue northwest; • 901 Hamilton street northwest. and Times Agency, North Roval street, Alexandria, Va. The tickets are good for any per fOrman • omnrrow or Thursday. The children will be the guests of Mark Gates, manager of the Columbia Theater, and H. S. Ansley, Os the Metro Pictures Corporation. POLICEMEN ARE ASKED FOR LIVING COST DATA Major Daniel Sullivan, superin tendent of police, has sent out ques-| ttonnaires to every member of the police force seeking living cost data I to present to Congress as an argu ment in favor of Increased salaries .Os policemen. The questionnaire seeks the fol towing information: Name, rank, date appointed; annual basic pav; number of persons wholly depend ent for support; house rent; room I rent and board; average monthly living expenses, exclusive of cloth ing and shoes, and expenses an nually for clothing and shoes, in cluding uniform. $5,700 THEFT LAID TO WOMAN BOOKKEEPER POUGHKEEPSIE, N. T., Dec. 4. Mrs. Florence Friere, thirty-one, ar roetedat her home in Wappingers Falls, near here, was returned to Elizabeth, N. J., to face an indict ment charging embezzlement of 85,700 from the Heidritter Lumber Company, Whose bookkeeper she had been for nearly three years. Deputy sheriffs said Mrs. Friere made a full confession of her false entries In 1920 and 1921, by which * she appropriated approximately 350 a Week “to help out the fomily.” “JACKIE COOGAN COUPON** Eight of these coupons, clipped from dally issues of The TIMES or HERALD, together withone coupon dipped from The SUN DAY HERALD of December 2, wttl secure the boy or girl bearer a free ticket to the Co lumbia Theater to see “Jackie Coogan” in “Long Live the King.” Passes will be Issued Wednes day, December 5. (To be presented at any branch office of The TIMES or HER ALD between 8 and 5 P. M., Wednesday, December 5.) FamousW inter Resorts FLORIDA GEORGIA SS CAROLINAS SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. ■eabearf Florida West Coast Limited Solid Pullman train. Including club car through to Florida West 4 Coast roeorta; effective Dec. t. Leave* Washington 9:44 p. m., dally. Seaboard Florida Limited all Pullman De Luxe train (no extra charge) through to Florida Eaet Coast resorts; effective Jan. 1. 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Kj] 91 II The Youngsters’ Savings Club HI HtTHI Btjgi) Hal!) Paradise Checks ttODKnaS GBEATESTFUEMTIIffi AT THE HUB! THE WASHINGTON TIMES ♦ • The National Daily ♦ • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923. evening will be the unveiling of a portrait of “Frau” Hoegelsberger, former vice-principal of the school, who died in 1916. The reunion will begin with Cen tral songs and cheers. Lieut. Chap man will stage a vaudeville per formance and there will be a show ing of the film of the dedication of the Wilson Memorial Stadium. Plans for the reunion are being made by Thomas H. Chapman, chairman of the reunion committee, assisted by Mrs. Seldon M. Ely, president of the Alumni Association; Mrs- Wm. E. Chamberlin, Major R«h"d° IP Mi C ’ _, shaw » Mrß - Bruce ?fr O d, T Rebecca Rogers and Mrs. Lola Evans Hutchins TEACHERS* INSTITUTE WILL MEET ON FRIDAY All public day schools will be closed Friday, it was announced to day at the Franklin School. On that day the Teachers Institute will hold its annual meeting. “The usual -provisions governing attendance of teachers at the in stitute will govern attendance at the meeting December 7,” is the way the announcement to the teach ers reads. “Every teacher and school officer is expected to be present at the institute during both morning and afternoon sessions. Absence from any part of the in stitute program will be considered the same as absence from a regular school session.” The list of speakers for the insti- tute will be given out tomorrow, Dr. Ballou, superintendent of schools, said. U. 8. Court Recesses Dec. 10. The Supreme Court of the United States has announced a holiday re cess from December ,10 until Jan uary 2. - • B. A 0. Would Inuc Stock The Baltimore andl Ohio Railroad has applied to the Interstate Com merce Commission for permission to issue >7,000,000 vr f per cent equip ment trust certificates. The proceeds will bo used In part payment ter seventy-five locomotives and 1,000 freight cars costing 110,078,7*1. 9