Washington, Nov. 17, A number of persons were injured and "many. houses and buildings blown down or unroofed in the southeast and northeast sections of Washington to-day when a storm swept the city.
Thirteen men, women and children Ihave been sent to hospital.
The root of a school was blown down' but the school-mistress. and thirty-six children who were in the building at the time were not in-
Considerable damage has been done not only here but in the out-ving districts east of the Capital Reuter.
President Coolidge, the guest. honour' to-night at the Founder'a Day dinner of the Union Leagte, founded during the Civil War. tq promote the policies of President Abraham Lincoln, warned the cons fry against the dangers of prose perity, saying that the doctrine of nse was a tine of surrender and decay.
reviewed the nation's progress and justified its protective tariffs He urged reasonable taxation. reduce the National Debt of elehte teen thousand million dollars, bub the financial situation was 80 0d, he said, that they could' consider the development of public works, including food control, and, could "round out" the Navy with mond submarines and cruisers and encouse age, especially, commercial aviation, President Coolidge spoke ye shortly on foreign affairs, He Bal that the United States was more
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