Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1922, Page 10

. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, N 10 is manner and the ‘:nunlclpll llw- ~ City Cut in Half by Virginia Line |S535 y will ne TIRED OF HIS SPAN OF 134 YEAR D.-C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922. While in Lhnllvlll- Iu nv.um.ly sub- (4 mmefl to exami lhrvou[honb the enure city. iclans, some uf n e from g 4 B Mayor Studyisg the Pussle. .hr .:r'n chiugo go m ::T} H % . Hopes to Merge Under New State |2 stz 5 JOHN SHELL TOLD FRIENDS AT DEATH B me $25 OOO - e i pasing Tndofs 3o 1t o5 Eedent gragh, telophons, railway, motor or| of his life amons :::“‘.”.:..'.'."?.li‘..‘.‘.’ 0 hor : u.: Dew state Droposi- | goeial Dispateh to The Btar. to ucur-l LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 13—John|m owever, he [Shell waited for a century, und then & third of a century more, to become famous. He remained Iin obscurity until he had gone sixty years beyond the biblical threescore and 'ten. Four years ago the spotlight of the na- tion was played upon him because It then was discovered that he was the oldest man in the world. Now he Is dead and laid in his grave in the Kentucky- hills at the ripe old age of 134. An f{llustration of why John re- mained unnoticed while nltlnnl were born and passed away can be ob- Specia its proper place in the world. nnllg:l;;f .";n':.:l',' e A That s heeded Is the state. has & problem on its hands which its Problem a Serfous Ome. eltizens demand remedied. It is unique in that it is geographical in char- acter. Half of Bristol is in Virginia, | stance, L negro rnbl a hencoop in Dbalf in Tennessee. The state line runs | Bristol, nd, with a policeman in the length of its main street. In con- “°r‘°:‘,‘f",‘{:,‘ :: ';'.'.kj.'..‘ The miadte of sequence there are two complete mu- | ihe radway he comes (o » hall He nicipal governments—two mayors, | may, sires, taunt the police- two chiefs of police and 5o down the | &R lh:lol';?fld?e'::rl,h’e L1t line to two dog catchers. And as lo Today an agitation was started to solve this, and at the same time give added glory to Bristol. It is proposed to seek authority for the creation of a new state. It would be a real one, the f U advocates say, in that Virginia would be asked to cede territory in sbuth- west Virginia, Tennesse part of fits eastern lands, while Kentucky would be expected to chip In with some of the Cumberland mountain !ecllon Then Bristol would come into glory, ang, in the view of its lnhl.bl‘ tion. The problem of the divided city, however, is a serious one. For in- o thasnte give up the " pection that ‘is part of them and within the present city limits. He called attention today to the abandonment some time 2go of the proposal to have the state line changed for this purpose and insisted that the new state—which he sug- gested might be called Tenneva— would be well worth while creating. (Copyright, 1922.) HOTEL MEN ELECT. BOSTON, July 12.—F. Harold Van Orman of Evansville, Ind., was unan- imously re-elected president of the Hotelmen's Mutual Benefit Associa- tion at its forty-third meeting here. Arthur L. Race of Boston was elected ings at Intervals and there is both |first vice president and John K. Bmch mutual understanding and co-opera- | ford of Chicago, secretary and treas-|in these remote nooks of the Cumber- All the problems are solved in | urer for thirty years, was re- Celsctef.lands are 83 soquestred. from. tele- the state as 7o e tion papers and a visit to the Te#ines- see capital, se of this condition there are upward of 150 people, the police e ine Who must me respects. how- cver, this Is an advantage to the com- munity at large. Considering the many perplexities, tained from the fact that he was dead nearly a week before the news of his passing reached the telegraph wires. On Grassy -craek, in Leslle Sounty, where Uncie: Johns. ae. he was known to the people round about, lived in the old.cabin in which he was born, life moves on today &s it did in We ve fought shy of $1 slurt sales all season, because we maintain rigid standards of quality. But now we can offer shirts of quality—the quality we both have in mmd—at the price every man has in his pocket. Here is the proof: Russian cord and madras shirts, unheard of heretofore at $1 Here, too, are corded white madras shirts and close-count percales in countless patterns —neat checks and stripes, as narrow as pin points or as wide as the poles. Good shirts, every one; you might equal their quality, but never at $1. Our entire stock of men’s HANAN sj s || ~ low shoes Black and tan leathers and white buckskin Americd’s best at the price of any ordinary good shoe Sale of men’s shoes, $450 Good leather shoes; sound in material and workmanship. Black calf, patent leather and tan leathers. The latter including CORDOVAN . All sizes in nearly all widths A sa]le of men’s SUITS our own and our makers’ surplus stocks 5'27.50 Soriety Brand e & The Hecht Co. suits * Sale started with 1,438 suits; and nearly every one oo 26 s suitable for fall wear. . Society Brand and The Hecht Co. My all from 50 suits, and they can’t be beat for ) % —fashion —fabric Society Brand. —finish —fit . Base ball Plenty of blue serges, finished and unfin- ished worsteds, cassimeres, cheviots, novel- - ° tles. Sizes and styles for all men. tickets - "—'et “them here for the ~ " Saturday and Sunday 'White flannel trousers 57.50 : i On or-before Friday. . Deep-bodied flannels, tailored to hold their shape, and sewed to stay. A pleasant’ change any time and almost a necessity at vacation resorts. the eighteenth century. The dwellers | th HR T A'LE that says some‘thi'ng.’ It summons thousands of shirts for your inspection; guarantees their fabric, fit and fashion; and ranks them all under the command of one big dollar. : tains wi ed by the doctors as as Jnhn Shall cl-lmed to have seen as & | to he the chief ttetor in gi 01 Worth of Dlamoncl’s . Wanted at Once Story of Age Verified. was. & passion mountllnurl. and th fact weighed Four years ago a party of Lexing- | MOWHSICA ot ot Tor "o mma’ ton people who had attempted a jaunt | ere: through the mountains heard of the old Juen who claimed to have lived more than a century and a quarter. They visited him, skeptical regarding Just befors he passed on he told Mr. and rs. Samuel Creech, Wltl\ whom he lived, lhlt he was tlred his reported age. They examined all [ t0 BO. wased ‘one who-lived ! - . oo of the evidence that it was possible ;‘;“u:""'":'::"“‘“‘ of every President We need D;amonds,»and will to obtain and returned satisfied that he was correct when he sald he was born In 17 When they repeated their story to the outside World they started a con- troversy that has raged ever since. But the welxh! of the evidence was all in John's favor, and in 1919 the Ken- tucky state fair brought the old man (Copyright, 1922.) pay a good: price for them. _A. KAHN Inc. 935 F Street Platinumsmiths Sl i SEEK WOMAN'S COLLEGE. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., July 12.—Lead- ing Presbyterian laymen here have! to Loulsville to meet his fellow Ken-,5tarted an effort to secure the loca- tucklans. It was the first time that|tion, in or near Lynchbu: he ever had made a trip by railroad, [ Wi yet he later demanded a trip in an airplane and enjoyed it thoroughly. Proof as to Shell's age rested on two | class of the Randolph-Macon e. A commission will make h dence Whh‘h Shell himself offered. In September. s = Zs —_— ‘ 5)@% \“{“"U‘.fifi ul ’f*‘m, Judge the volume and varlety of the sale by the fact that in addition to the neglige shirts we have over 600 collar-attached Shirts in this sale alone ” r‘:‘]fl th;]se are of white oxford. Pray think of the time when you could get a real neglige white oxford sny or Button-down collar style, open front, five pearl buttons, French ¢uffs, and so on thru to the last detail. v Every shirt is guaranteed | —and the guarantee means a new shirt free for any that fades or that fails to give 100% satxsfactlon All sizes in every style, 14 to 17, Ten dollars is such a little price that we hasten to add that all these suits are the usual Hecht Co. standard—all are from our regular stock. Marked dowrl to $10 solely because size assortments are broken. And at $10 we expect more customers than we have suits, so please note this stock card that givs sizes and quantities. Scale of sizes— | 33 | 34 | 35| 36|37]38|39|40|42]44|46 Regulars .......... 67 [T101143170135| 7| 2] 2. | 2 Shotts .aisam s 2|16 19 9 5185 lsndss] ol Stouts . seiezevomaon nsclr st o | Bl s nad sl | 56 All genuine Palm Beach cloths * Al tailored as good suits should be, most of them with felt undercollars and all with Silk taped yoke and seams ; Chiefly in the desired dark colors, with a s sprinkling of light shades. Solid colors, stripes 1o .:.."‘.',’nf'f‘:"‘f".;.""““" ;’:h:f. D wpar and checks. - 5 - fashions. s Greater portion of suits are young men's We shall be foo busy to make. alterations —but satisfaction goes with every purchase, and mhnm may be made any time within five days.