Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1921, Page 34

THE - EVENI ] | Residents Ask Commissioners to Purchase the Nixon Tract. - A petition signed by several hun- dred resjdents of Columbia Helghts and Mount Pleasant- has been pre- sented to the Commissioners. Mrs. Giles Scott Raffer,” requesting the city heads to purghase the Nixon tract, between Monroe street and Park road, for & park and playground for that community. The Columbia Heights section was left without adequate playground fa- cilities several months ago when the owner of a private lot which had been used as a playground found it necessary to withdraw it from public il | use to make way for a building oper- i | ation. 4 The Commissioners promised to con- sider carefully the petition presented. NURSE SUES FOR $600. Mary E. Strieby, a nurse, yesterday filed suit in, the District Supreme Court to recover $600 from Claude D. Kesler, administrator of the estate of Blanche 1. Cooley, who died February 28, 1920. The plaintiff says she nursed the deceased for twelve weeks pre- ceding her death and that the work was reasonably worth $50 per week. She s represented by Attorney John U. Gardiner. Notice The Northeast Savings Bank Announces the Opening of Its New Home H at Eighth Street Northeast Saturday, October 29th, 8.30 AM. “Ain’t We Got Fun’’ at Qur Party e *” Hallowe’en Moulds---Assorted Flavors REG. U.5.PAT. OFF. . -~ WITCHES EARS OF CORN PUMPKINS " APPLES CHAPIN-SACKS, CORP. Phone Franklin 4800 ifting the Mystery from oodrow Wil A Graphic Story by Joseph P. Tumulty The New York Times EVERY DAY FOR 37 DAYS Beginning Next Sunday, October 30th CHAPTERS IN THE FIRST INSTALMENT, NEXT SUNDAY “Colonel Roosevelt and General “William F. McCombs” Among the many controversies over Woodrow Wilson’s public life, none has been argued more bitterly than thequestion, ‘“Why weren’t Colonel Roosevelt and General Wood permitted to go to France?” Mr. Tumulty tells the inside story for the first time. Another subject of dispute has been the relation- ship of Mr. Wilson to his campaign manager, William F. McCombs. The recently published attack. - Mr. Tumulty aboutit. Abraham Lincoln. NG | | aster of the world wa . | to God. y | The roar of their firing no longer “ | thunder. s | all time. Ying! STAR, - WASHINGT! ANERCAN LEGON PLANS CEREWONY ICommander Emery Wants Every Citizen fo Join No- vember 11 Celebration. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, October 28.—Posts of the American Legion throughout the United States are arranging for celebrating the third anniversary of Armistice day. The national head- quarters of the legion here has re- coived information from the posts and fram units of the women's auxiliary which indicates that interest In the proper observation of this new Amer- ican holiday is widespread. Large public meetings are being arranged In many communities and more than a thousand legion posts will stage symbolic pageants. Plans also have been completed for large meetings in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, at which the audiences, by means of amplifiers used in con- nection with long-distance telephone wires, will hear the addresses made at the bupial services in Washington .|for an unknown soldier. John G. Emery. national commander i of the legion, yesterday issued the fol- lowing statement to legionnaires re garding Armistice day celebrations: “At 11 o'clock the morning of November 11, 1918, an entire world, weary and worn, bent under the dis- knelt in thanks The guns ceased booming. smashed around the world in terrible A new note was in the air, ar and strong, a symphony A new hope was in every "{heart—a hope and a prayer that the fighting of nation against nation, of people against people, had cnded for “Three years have passed. We are i (#boul to celebrate the third anniver- sary of that occasion when, for the last time, the field of death and carried to the farthest outpost the order, ‘Cease fir- We want to go back In spirit the runner dashed across and thought to that grand moment. We want to recall, in full, the purpose common to every one at that moment o &n each his or her share to make im- possible, ever again, Let us do this in celel include every American citizen. “We want to recall the thrill that came to each of us, whether at the front or at home, in the knowledge that we had done our duty. We want especially to turn aside from the rou- tine of daily life and to remember the sucrifices of those whose pride is that they gave of thelr dearest and best, and of those among us, torn and crip- pled, who gave of themselves. These are our heroes—our living monuments to American ideals, to American prin- ciples, to American citizenship.” PIE AND MILK AT PARTY. Boys of Y. M. C. A. to Begin Series of Halloween Festivities. Pie eating and milk drinking are to | be the principal features of the initial party of a series of Halloween festivi- | ties at the Boys' Branch of the Y. M. | C. A this afternoon at. 4 o'clock. At 7:30 o'clock boys whose uwcs range from twelve to fourteen years, | inclusive, will stage a party at which peanuts, apples, pie, milk and other | assets for the human interior de- partment will play principal narts. Admission will be by ticket only —but no_charge will be maue 1or wie ticket. Boys may obtain tickets by applying at the office of the boys' branch department. Similar parties will be staged for the “prep” class of boys on Saturday afternoon, and on Monday night. Oc- tober 31, boys from fifteen to eight- een years of age will be the guests. son. Wod_d” oo, book by the late Mr. McCombs was a bitter tells what he knows For the exclusive newspaper rights to the Tumulty story in the Middle Atlantic States, The New York Times has paid the highest price ever paid for such a publication. Nothing equal to this work has appeared in American history or biography since Nicolay and Hay’s Life of Che Nem York Times Every Day for 37 Days WARNING! iz when there is an unusual call for The Times. Take your dealer if you want the will not wish to miss a ¢l BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY ' OCTOBER 30th In the WASHINGTON TERRITORY, the Tumulty Story will be ONLY in THE N| Subscription by Mail, $1.50 for 37 Days. Address the New York Times, Times Square, EW YORK TIMES New York. Newsdealers cannot return unsold copies of The New kaflmea.nthgrudmnre-djmued strictly to their ‘regular demand. Newadcalers arc always short your order at onice with ‘Tumulity articles. Back num| Mflnu\z-vnh‘.b'.e. You ORDER FROM ' YOUR NEWSDEALER ON, D. ¢, FRIDAY,” OCTOBER 28, 1921. N i ) BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF. Clarence Huck Was Examining Revolver—Dies in Hospital. Clarence E, Huck, jr., fourteen'years old, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Clar- ence E. Huck, 3614 1ith street, acci- dentally shot himself in the head while examining a revolver in his room at the home of his aunt, Miss Blanche Huck, 917 19th street, with whom he had lived since he was seven years old. He died at Emergency Hospital yesterday. Clarence_was a pupil in the “sixth grade at Weightman School. He was fond of athletics and spent much time in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. Last night he was at the gymnasium to qualify as & contestant in a_swimming contest, and it was shortly after he re- turned " home that the accident hap- pened. Miss Huck, his aunt, had retired, and Clarence, in_an adjoining room, had prepared to retire. He always kept a pistol under his pillow, his aunt stated, and occasionally examined it, and. it is thought he was making such an ex- amination when it was accidentally dis- charged. d Coroner Nevitt gave a certificate of accidental death. 3,000 ROOMS FOR VISITORS Hotel Space Set Aside for Arms Conference Delegates. Hotels of Washington will supply 3,000 rooms to take care of dele- | gates to the convention next May of | the Chamber of Commerce of = the | United States, the local chamber was assured by Laurence Mills, representing the Hotel Men's Association, who ap- neared before the executive committee of the chamber. A letter from William. J. Dante was presented by Chairman Leese of the conventions committee, offering fa- vorgble terms for the use of Conven- tion Hall as & meeting place for the national chamber. Mr. Leesc was au- tharized to take up the matter with the United States chamber at once. On motion of Ross P. Andrews, reso- lutions condemning the railroad strike contemplated by railroad em- ployes were adopted. Albert Schul- tels, president of the chamber, pre- sided. TRANSFERRED TO FORT MYER. Maj. Frank J. Riley, Quartermaster Corps, has been relieved from duty in the office of the constructing quarter- master, Washington, C., and as- signed to duty as quartermaster at Fort Myer, Va.; vice Capt. Edward Raeder. Quartermaster Corps, to be assigned to other duty. " VER tried Chestnut Farms Dairy Cottage Cheese? You'll enjoy v it as no other. It’s made fresh daily, in our own dairy, from the highest quality milk. All authorities agree as to its nutritive valuc. Sold in 1-lb. and 2-lb. cartons by many grocers, as well as— COTTAGE CHEESE ! Stand 175, Center Market Stand 76, Arcade Market Stand 26, Riggs Market Main Store, 1120 Conn. Ave. Chestnut Farms Dairy GEO. M. OYSTER, Jr. 5 HENRY N. 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