Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1922, Page 10

The House of Quality L Mayer Bros. & Co. 937.939 F St. NW. No Branch Stores Friday’s Special Sales Another Remarkable Sale of Coats at 95 “Marvella,” “Gerona,” “Fash- ona,” “Veldyne” of exquisite quality, in either straightline blouse back or wrappy models. Each coat an individual and ex clusive creation, either selj- trimmed or with luxurious fur collar and cuffs of fox, woljf, caracul, squirrel or skunk. Beautifully silk lined. Black, nazy, brown, reindeer, so- vento. All sizes for women and misses. A Friday Attraction sn Advance Hats Of Duchess and Slipper Satin. $5 Friday e.o<es Small, mediun and large shapes, with bands of silver cloth and side trimmings of fur and smart orna- ments. These are in black only and are priced at five dollars for this one day. Other coats for women and misses, $25, $29, $35, $45, $30 10 $195. Corset Dept. 0 aud $1.95 Girdles Al 3 =0 Friday. Slc irdles and Cor- 1se Dept. $5 10 $T30 NIk Blouses. crepe de chines and - vettes: light and dark 5 o $1 00 es 34 to 44 S ) $2.95 iday, a pair, Silk_Hosiery, perfect o ihe ot o0 Shocates. || Millinery Dept. i el el il 8100 Higlher-priced Trimmed browns, gray, thite; sizes Fotsaleorens 8500 | a,'s sareer: $1.95 Lyous velvet, panne velvet Sweater Dept. and duvetyn. Refined styles, selected for a Friday attrac- $5 Slip-on Sweaters, louy sleeves, round or V ueck, tion Black, brown, uavy, sand. copenhagen. All are beautifully trimmed with belted: good ramge of colors; gold or silver brocade, ostrich | sizes 36 to 44 $1.9 fancies, pins and o-naments. Friday J Hosiery Dept. 5 Silk Hosiery. perfect silver. white, tau. ca coutil to 44. Ch $2 and $3 seiettes. pla coutil: siz 44. Choice, Friday. Children’s “Panty” Dresses, Friday, $1.95 An attraction for our new dept. on third floor. Very ractic of wash- . embroid- Sites 2 to 6 Fridoy, ered in colors. THE EVENING STAR, Thie LOUVRE 1115 1117 F STREET Announcing Two Exceptional Special Sales Suits and Millinery - Such Reductions are made as 5 will bring quick clearance The Suts Are in two lots The Millinery —Every Velvet Hat— Reduced They comprise the high arades, weaves and work- manship for which The Louvre is famed. And every shape is, you know, distinctly an exclu- sive one—and of the best type. Hats that were up to $13.50 £ Hats that were up to $19.50 102 Hats that were up to $32.50 Plain tailored and self- trimmed. Others with trimmings of Squirrel, Mole, Beaver and Seal. Sizes for ladies and misses. Lot 1—Suits that were up to $45.00 Lot 2—Suits that were up to $69.50 comona: —valuesupto $40....ccccuew ‘The clingy Crepes, Satins and Poiret Twills—modeled effec- tively for street and afternopn wear. Louvre qualities—all of them. Special Group of Dresses ;29,50 - WASHINGTOX. 1. C, THURSDAY, PROBE OF DISASTER DEPUSIIONS ARE READ INCOAL MINE 1S ON IPennsylvania Officials Seek ' Cause of Explosion Which ' Cost 76 Lives. By the Ansociuted Press. 1 SPANGLER, Pa., November 9.— Seven state mine inspectors, headed 1by Seward Button, director of the | Pennsylvania bureau of mines, today |started the official investigation of the Reilly mine explosion, which claimed seventy-six lives last Mon- day. As the inquiry opened. Mr. But- ton declared that it would be thor- ough and would continue until the in- vestigators had established the cause. He added that he was “not satisfied that the explosion should have “oc- curred.” Owners and officiale of the mine were to be questioned today. Then the miners who were rescued from the gas-filled pit will be asked to tell their storles. | Inquent Postponed. The inquest, according to Coroner! {3L W. Swabb of Cambria county, will {not be held until the state concludes its investigation. As the investigators gathered for their meeting the funerals of a num- ber of the victims were held. At the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Chureh a joint service was conducted | for seven of the miners. At St. Pat- rick's Roman Catholic Church, near- by, mass was said for five of the vic . while in the Ttalian Roman i horo serv- ! {ices were Leld for five others i !in the day fifteen others wer | buried { _The Spangler Chapter of the Red| {Cross appropriated $1.000 for the re-1i ief of families whose heads met death | in the mine. The Red Cross, the Sal- vation Army and the CUnited Mine { Workers combined forces in the work |of mercy. A fund of $5.000 for relief ! work was contributed by District 5 of the miners' union. Owners of the mine declared that insurance payments would be made at once, the company waiving the ten-day period granted by law PLANSLIQUORTAX. |FORSOLDIERBONUS | BALTIMORE. November % —Maodi-| | fication of the Volstead law and pay- {ment of a soldier's bonus in one step | is contemplated by Representative John Philip Hill, who said he would introduce a measure to this dual end as soon as Congress reconvenes. As he put it, Hill is anxious “to ma Bood” for his constituency of the third district as concrete expres: of his appreciation for their re ing him to Congress. “Beverage Bonus BilL" The measure through twhich Hill Proposes_to achieve his end he calls “the 2.75 per cent beverage bonus In short, it will provide for a 0 cents a gallon on beverages 5 per cent alcoholic content, come to be applied to the pa ment of the soldiers’ cash bonus. Ti bonus aggregate he figures at a bi lion and & half dollars. and he esti- mates that it can be cleared up in three years through the measure he proposes. e “Just as soon as Congress reassem- ibles.” said Representative Hill t ! morning, shall introduce a bever- jage bonus bill. This will kill two i bir 1 one, and will, if en- jacted. a wo' greatest causes fof unrest of the present law—the Vol- jstead law and the soldiers’ bonus } Tt will combine liberalization of the ! Volstead 1aw and gayment of a cash bonus in three vedrs, and also will Inrov!de for only one and a half bil- | i . Later} re to be! i lion dollars, instead of from four to i six billion, as did the bill which stag- j sered i the people before. Will Press for Action “The House, 1 am sure, will pass a bonus bill. My measure should ap- ipeal to it. My biil simply will pro- i Vide for a tax of 20 cents a gallon on | beverages of 2.75 per cent alcohol, i and to pay this money to the soldiers. i I shall present it without loss of a single day.” IN ALIENATION SUT Today’s session of the trial of the $5002000 alienation suit of Lieut. Lort- mer C. Graham, U. 8. N., against Au- gustus L. Humes, wealthy lawyer of New York, which opened yesterday before Justice Hitz and a Jury in Circuit Division 1, was occupied with the reading of depositions of absent witnesses, Attorney Daniel Thew Wright, for the plaintiff, and Attorney Wilton J: Lambert, for Mr. Humes, each out- lined what they expected the evidence to show. Atforney Wright claimed that Humes had sought the hand of Miss Elsa_Portner before her mar- riage to Graham, and had been re- Jected. duty, he sail, Humes had a country liome at Spring Lake, where Mrs. Gra- ham and the children were spending the summer. There in the absence of the husband the older man resumed his attentions to Mrs. Gra- ham, the lawyer asserted, and finally won' her over to the idea of go- ing to Reno for a divorce from the naval officer. Mr. Humes accom- panied her to Chicago on the trip. it was stated, and shortly after the divorce had been granted Mr. Humes prevailed on Mrs. Graham to marry him. Attorney Lambert told the jury that Graham had forfeited the affections of his wi far back as 1912 and that in May. 1916 | cister in ) York she ha sought legal advice of Lawyer Humes. ‘ Graham had persuaded Miss Portner, then only twenty years old, to marry him in Baltimore without the knowl- ! edge of her family. He quit work. | the lawper stated, lived on his wife's i 1l income and then treated her cruelly. U. S. POWER GREATEST FOR PEACE, SAYS SPEAKER ‘ | tates has the greatest | power of nation on earth to pre-. vent war, eclared Dr. Wade H. At-| kinson, addressing the Optimist Club. at its’ regular weekly luncheon held | in the Arlington Hotel yesterday. Dr.| Atkinson stated he based his opinfon upon a study of conditions and ob- servations that he made while trav-; eling abroad, and stated that he be-: lieved the principal of the league of | nations is a good one, although at first it would necessarily have a lot| of flaws in it “The whole time that I was abroad 1 never heard the slightest criticism | of Americani soldiers or of America's action taken during the war," he con- tinued. in glving examples of the high esteeem that the other nations leld for the United States. and raid taat France felt that America’s guidanc: Was necessary to prevent war. “We shouldn't expect France to say! that we won the war any more lhallt France should expect us to say that they won the revolution for us.” he continued, in commenting on our fecl- ing toward France. ! Dr. Atkinson concluded his taik by | giving a description of the Passion | “The United OF THE BETTER KIND COSTS LESS at “The Sign of Good Printing” Moore’s Printcraft Shop 735 13th St. N.W. Yai cDEVITT Personal Stationery‘ | Sealed Ballot Boxes Hold Result NOVEMBER 9. 1922.. KANSAS GOVERNORSHIP CAPTURED BY DEMOCRAT in Third Congre:sional Dis- trict Contect. By the Associated Press. | TOPEKA, Kans., November 9.—The | election of Jonathan M. Davis, demo- | crat, to be governor was conceded today and W. Y. Morgan, defeated re- publican nominee, wired congratula- tions to Mr. Davis, By the Associated Press. KANSA CITY, Mo, November 9.— Two sealed ballot boxes probably hold the result of the third Kansas congressional district race, it became known ttoday, when efforts were made to clear up one of the last doubtful districts 'in the west. All other returns, figures from 300 of the 302 precincts in the district, show Charles Stephens, democrat, | leading W. H. Sproul, republican, by 95 votes. Sproul held the lead in the | early count., but lost it last night.| It is said that the sealed ballots will | not be counted until tomorrow, as in both cases the ballots have been dis- | patched to the county clerk’s office. Wall Finsshes You're Headed Right ’l Wind- | . shield &head- light g’lass ROOF | PAINTS | “HUGH REILLY CO. —Mr. Motorist, when you come our way for AUTO GLASS, be it for windshield, windows or headlights. DBig stocks and big sales enable us to quote-specially interesting prices. g We also furnish glass ifor all other requirements, and specialize in Glass Tops for tables, buffets, desks, etc. In- quire about prices. Play. in Bavaria, which he nessed during the summer. phens, agsistant to the dire budget, who was to speak to attend, due to sickness. The luncheon were won by A. L. while on a visit toland Frank Parsons, o naa wit-| ) RETAIL PAINTS WHOLESALE 5 k Avenue usual prizes awardedl at thal Fisher When Dame Fashion Makes Her Needle Fly She sends it plying through wondrous fabrics, weaving the gor- geous gold and silver cloths into radiant habiliments, of the latest modes, for Madame and Mademoiselle. The House of Erlebacher is presenting with pride these wonderful interpretations, including the luxurious chiffon velvets, trimmed in fur, in the lustrous Copen- hagen Blue, Black and Brown. For the Afternoon and Semi-informal wear are the beautiful in- terpretations in Duchess Satin trimmed with chenille—and crefe ro- maine trimmed in fur, in all the fashionable shades. A word to the wise—Shop Early for Xmas—Shop at Twelve Ten and Twelve Twelve F Street Handsomer Than Ever!; designs in SUN-| RIES set new stand-' | ards of beauty and artistic_merit. T St widths. . | 7316 Window Shades. Bc | 1003 9th St. N.W. | Bouquet Coffee’ May Still Be Bought for ‘ 2 5c Per Pound “Burchell’s” 1325 F St. N.W. | Burchell’s Incomparable ! | Fashion Says . “Shoes Must Shoes and Hosiery for Baclusive Agents in Washington Brown Satin Colonials With Brocade Quarter and and Spanish Louis Heels Same Model in Black Satin With Hosiery to Match, Pure Silk, Full Fashioned, $1.95 Large Assortment of Buckles $2.50 to $37.50. 1219 F STREET N. W. Be Smart” Tongue, Turned Soles 5112 Black Brocade Quarter ‘Tongue Women and Childres for QUEEN QUALITY SHUES. 1109-1111 G St. N.W. Open 9:15 A.M. Close 6:00 P.M. Friday’s Bargain News Include a oerfal Sale of Coats ; For Women and Misses Hundreds of garments have arrived within the past few days. These were purchased at special price concessions which enables us to offer some really remarkable values. Sport Coats, $16.95 The newest models in lined and skeleton lined styles. Fashioned of fine wool tweeds, herringbones, English coatings and plaid backs. Sport Coats at $29.95 Stunning new models of fine quality chinchilla, plaid backs and English coatings. Large roll collars and slash pockets. Fur-Trimmed Sport Coats, $45 The new extra long models with large roll collars of raccoon. Very unusual values. All sizes. Fur-Trimmed and Plain D T eSS}' COG tS, 339_—_5 Every garment in this assortment is an extraordinary value. Many really worth $55.00. Excellent quality materials in all the newest models and colors. 100 Dresses Reduced to *13-% Formerly Priced Up to $29.95 Here is your opportunity to get a smart looking street or afternoon dress at half and less than half the real value. Styles for both women and misses. fash- ioned of Canton crepes, satins, Poiret twills, tricotines and combinations. Come early to avoid disappointment. All Remnant Lots Reduced for Quick Clearance $1.59 Silk Hose, $1.00 Black, brown, cocoa and Russian calf. sizes. . $2.50 Sport Hose, $1.98 ‘Wool Sport Hose, in brown, black and new RRTT0R o Mohair and brushed wool combina- $1 98 Leather Bag” $1'25 tions in all colors. $2.98 Silk Bags, $1.98 g 7 2 Beaded Bag" $2.98 Satinsa:gkcrfead'enchine, in ’a 5:91:: variety Duvetyn Beaded Bags, in black, brown, of styles. Lace and ribbon trimmed. "$5.00 Petticoats, $3.98 $2.98 Silk Underwear, $1.98 Radium Silk-and all-silk Jersey Petticoats. Crepe de chine and radium teddys, cnvelope All wanted colors. All lengths. chemise, etc. Ll New Blouses, $5.00 » Silk Crepe Embroidered Jackette Blouses, in all wanted colors—all sizes. New Sweaters, $5.98 All -