Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1923, Page 12

12 THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. —— g, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1923, Latest News From Various Commaunities Throughout Maryland and Virginia FRUIT TREES SAVED -~ BY SNOW ANDICE No Damage Done by Cold Spell in Maryland and Virginia. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va. April 17 —~—Two @ays of moderately warm weather hav- ing elapsed since the snowfall and freezing temperature of Saturday night and Sunday morning, experts stationed et the state's fleld laboratory here de- clared today apple trees in the com- mercial orchards of the Wchester fruit dlstrict, which normally supplies more than one-fourth of Virginta's apple crop, had escaped injury. Carefully Inspected. F. J. Schneiderhan, pathologist, and w. 'S. Hough, entomologist, said they had inspected buds brought from vir- tually every section of Frederick county, @nd that no damage had been detected upon microscopic examination ample time had been given for any in- Jury to show up. Ice and snow that Formed on ved as a protec- tion d kept out frost The fce and 8o s the weather moderated. Ofticial thermometers registered 28 de- grees above zero. The experts said that none of the appie trees of the Winchester district were advanced enough o cause damage at this t Some e v varieties are budding, but the late apples appear to backward, and the bulk of the Frederick county output co of late bearing fruit, led by York imperials. ome of the emaller fruits, including peaches, plums and cherrles, s of blogsoming, severely dama perature Indications now are that commercial rds will blossol which is wrmal _time ¢ For the last two years advanced too rapidly during inter, causing orchards to blossom from two to three weeks ahead of time, and bad weather conditions later greatly curtailed the crops. FREDERICK TREES SAFE. Fruit One of Coldest Sorings on Record. Survives orchardists, most severe winter ather of this season of the year in the history of the United States weather sta t v Over the week n es of tem- county survived the sections reported. nt to be reflected in the peach crop. REPORTS FROM MARYLAND. exposed Orchards Declared Safe, as Little| Damage Is Seen. Bjecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMOR! Md., April 17.—Fears ral disaster to the Maryland ‘om_the snowfall and lower of Saturday and Sunday led yesterday by weather One of the metecro- s in_commenting on the unprecedented storm said: his sort of weather uit_or other crops. In the firat place, the crops are not sufficiently advanced in most districts of Maryland and sur- rounding territory, and in the second place the thermoreter did not fall low ugh to create widespread damage. ' create real havoc in the orchards Maryland the temperature at this > of year must descend to 28 degrees above zero, and e minimum recorded was only 31 degrees above at 9 o'clock Baturday night.” A total precipitation melted snow of 1. by the local we day morning. AMHERST CROP UNCERTAIN. of rain and Unable tb Tell Effect of Freeze! on Fruit. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va, April 17.—Coun. ty Demonstrator O. B. Ross of Amhers! county, who has inspected many or-| chard: in Amherst county, has made Teport that there are indications that many clusters have still signs of life in them in apple and peach orchards, but whether these will come to a crop of uit he cannot yet tell. Early apples, however, seem to have been hit harder than the later trees, Peach buds indlcate a very ‘slight chance for commercial crops, though | there may be some late peaches. Ki- bertas seem to be severely damaged. A. B. Coate, who used 800 smudge pots In a peach orchard near Elon, can- | not yet make report as to the result| of this firing, but he believes he will have a crop. KENMORE TO OBTAIN HISTORIC DESK AGAIN; Bpecial Dispateh to The St FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 17. —The Kenmore Association soon will Possess 4 rare old relic. The degk on which were signed the many signa- tures of Col. Fielding Lewls and Bet- I Walhington Lewls, ia at Iast to res tirn to iis natlve corner under the far famed frescoes, 5 A letter has been received here from the regent of Old Trails Chapter, Minneapolis, Minn., stating that this ©ld desk was obtainable. Correspond- ence has led to the valuable old relic being donated to Kenmore and the desk will shortly be sent here. G. 0. P. CITY TICKET WINS. Victory Indicated by Incomplete Returns in Charleston. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va, April 17.— Incomplete unofficlal returns indicate the election of W. W. Wertz, re- publican, over Dr. G. C. Robertson, democratf, in the municipal election here yesterday. Fifty-four of the 71 precincts give Wertz 7,475, and Robertson 65,884. The entire republican city ticket has been swept into office with the leader, it appears. —_— RAIN TESTS TRANSFERRED Raimmakers Move From Langlin Field to Aberdeen. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., April 17.— Rainmaking tests, scheduled to have been_held at Langlin Fleld here un- der direction of the Army alr service, have been transferred to Aberdeen, Md. Officers, sent to Langlin Field for the tests. today were ordered to 80 to Aberdeen. -— TRAVELERS’ AID TO MEET. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., April 17— Frank N. Bane of Richmond will be the principal speaker at a state oon- ference of workers of the Travelers' Ald Soclety here Thursday. Other speakers will be Mrs. C. V. Morse of orth arolina, Miss H. E. Anderson of New York and Mrs. R.-M. Wood- son of Lynchburg. after | fsn't hurting | inches was recorded | r bureau since Fri- | “Wonderful Little Girl Is My Wife,” Says Short Will By the Assoclated Press BALTIMORE, Md., April 17.— One of the shortest wllls ever filed in the Orphans’ court here, that of Thomas C. do Rosset, probated yesterday, contalned these four words: “Everything to my wife.” At the bottom of the document he wrote: “A wonderful little girl 18 my wife.” De Rosset dropped dead recent- ly_while playing golf. He was born in Wilimington, C., and was sales manager of the T. H. Symington Company of Bal- timore. 12 PARENTS GUILTY OF SCHOOL NEGLECT Tried in Frederick in Campaign to Enforce Compulsory At- tendance Law. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., April 17.—As the result of a campaign to enforce the compulsory school attendance law in this county, thirtcen parents were tried before Justice J. Grahame Johnson, twelve of whom were found guilty ) The majority of the children involved in the cases were students of the Frank- | linville school. FATHER IDENTIFIES SON AFTER BURIAL No One Had Claimed Boy After He Had Been Killed by Engine. { 1 | | | Special Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., April 17.—The body of the young man who was in- stantly killed at Wagoner's Crossing, Va, east of Patterson’s Creek, day afternoon, when he stepped cut of the way of a freight traln directly In front of a Baltimore and |Ohio_engine, was identified yester- {day by W. T. Propst of Clarksburg, I W Va. as his son, Kenneth Props ielghteen vears old. after the body. which was buried Sunday at Paw | Paw, was exhumed. The father is! on the Monogahala di- vision of the Baltimore and Ohto raflroad. The younger Propst had been cm- Iployed at the Wierton Steel Com- {pany at Clarksburg, but left there ch 31. A brass check marked v. 8. Co., No. 8| found on the ! body by railroad company employes, led to the establishment of his iden- tity through inquiry by the office of the superintendent’ of the Cumber- land division here. 2 LYNCHBURG CHURCHES AGREE TO CONSOLIDATE Westminster and Floyd Street 1 Presbyterian Congregations to Merge in New Building. Special Dispateh to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., April 17.—The congregation of Westminster Pres- byterian Church here has unasimously |adopted a resolution providing for | merger with Floyd Street Presby- | terian Church, the church to take the {name of Westminster. The scheme {ecan not be worked out until a new church building can be_provided in iplace of the present Flovd Street ehurch for the building is not large enough to house the consolidated con- gregations. The move means two new Presby- terian churches. one for Floyd street and the other for Rivermont avenue and a re-location of members of five present churches in communities nearest the four remaining churches. It is expected that both of the new churches will be the last word in church structures and either of them ! probably will cost more money than any other church building now in use in Lynchburg. SUPERINTENDENTS READY FOR SCHOOL CONFERENCE County Officials Will Meet With Maryland State Authorities in Baltimore. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., April 17.—County superintendents will join authorities of the state department of education in a special three-day conference here, beginning tomorrow and last- ing until Friday, Reports will be made by special committees on teachers’ examina. tions, consolidation and transporta- tion.' F. E. Rathbun is scheduled to glve the results of a study made of the Immediate future of the 1923 high school graduates. Dr. Henty M. Fitz- hugh will speak on “County Health | A i g T L L Paimer 'of ‘Frederick Gounty, T Bennett of Queen Anne county and Eugene V. Pruitt’ and Howard T. Ruhl of Calvert county, each will glve discussions_on what should be the policy of the county school authori- ties in reference to establishing new high schools. DECLINES STATE JOB. Politics Drawback to Going on Board of Education. Special Dispateh to The Star. FROSTBURG, Md., April 17.—Dr. J. Marshall Price, a member of the Al- legany county board of education, has declined the appointment to the state board of education tendered him by_Gov. Albert C. Ritchie. When it was reported that Dr. Price likely would accept the appolnt: ment to the statd board, competition larose between the democratic fac- itions in Allegany county as to the appointment of his successor on the county board and Dr. Price ended what might have involved an em- barrassing situation by deciding to remain on the county board. MEMPHIS CARMEN QUIT. Street Car Service Stopped by De- mand for Wage Increase. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 17.—A strike of street railway employes! went into effect at 5:30 this morning, | 650 employes quitting work becauss ' of a wage dispute. The local_union disregarded an or- der from W. D. Mahon of Detrolt, president of the Amalgamated A sociation of Street and Electric Rail. way Employes of America, who asked that the strike order be withheld un- til the arrival in Memphis today of & mediator from Cinclnnatl. The workmen have been recelving 38 cents an hour for the first year; 43 cents the second, and 48 cents for the third. They démand a flat in- crease of 7 cents an hour, W, B.& A ACOURES PLANT AT LAUREL Takes Over Municipal Power Company—Will Supply 500 New Consumers. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, April 17.—The Washington, Baltimore and Annapo- lis electric railway, through its sub- sidiary, the Annapolis Public Uttli- tles Company, has acquired the mu- nicipal electric light plant at Laurel, | and will take over the property as soon as the details of the transfer can be arranged. The property, it iy understood, cost the Annapodls Pub- lic Utilities Company about §25,000. New Machinery Ordered. Current for Laurel consumers will be supplied from Naval Academy Junction. The arrangement involves the installation of new machinery at the station there. This has been or- dered and dellvery Is expected within sixty days. Power will be obtained from the Potomac Electric Power Company in Washington, which sup- plies all the current used by the W. B. & A. iIn the operation of its trains and for its lighting subsidiary. The purchase of the Laurel plant gives about 500 additivnal consum- ers service, th largest of which is a4 shade and curtain plaunt which has Just been put in operation at Laurel. ] This concern employs about 250 p ple and has an annual roll timated at $250,000. It is located in the old cotton duck plant. Bond Insuc Proposed. The name of the Annapolis Public Utilities Company shortly will be changed to that of Annapolis and Chesapeake Bay Power Company. ‘The company now has under negotla tion an issue of $700.000 first mort- gage bonds on which the coupon rate likely will be 6 per cent. It is the expectation that these negotlations soon will be brought to a head. TORNADO-STRICKEN FUNDS ARE RAISED Mechanics Are Donating Their Services in Rebuilding Siiver Spring Homes. o- Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 17.—Silver Spring, this county, gradual recov- ering from the effects of the tornado which visited that village about ten days ago, with such disaatrous results. The debris, which was scattered in all directions, has been removed and the rebullding of the ten or more structures 0 badly damaged by the storm is well under way. Mechanics are donating their services and funds are being contributed to pur- chase materlals and help the sufferers in other wiys. ‘The raising of funds is baing looked after by the Silver Spring volunteer fire department, the Silver Spring Citi- zens' Assoclation and the Ladies' Co- operative Improvement Soclety, and the Montgomery county chapter of the Red Cross also is interesting it Contributions are being received y F. L. Lutes, treasurer of the Siver Spring tornado relief fund. DEFENDANTS INVOLVED IN SAME SUITS DIVORCED Woman and Man Win Decrees, Their Mates Being Mentioned as Corespondents. Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 17.—Mrs. virgie I Edwards and Willlam B. Gray, both of Woodmont, this county, have’ been_granted absolute divorces by Judge Edward C. Peter in the cir- cult court here, the latter from Mrs. Anna D, Gray of Woodmont, and the former ‘from Edward H. Edwards, also of Woodmont. Both plaintiffs charged infidelity the Ldwards case, Mrs. Gray was named as corespondent, and in the Gray case, Mr. Edwards was the c respondent named. Mrs. Edwards was awarded the care and custody of her two children—Myrtle D. and Wordna M., aged eleven and three, respective- 1y, and was allowed alimony of $60 a month, The decree directs Edwards io pay Mra. Edwards' lawyer a feo of $75. In Woman Asks Divorce. Mrs. Lucy Pauline Fox of Sligo, this county, {8 the plaintiff in a suit for an obsolute divorce from Henry Franklin Fox, filled in the circuit court at this place by her attorney, Robert Peter, jr, of Rockville. She charges that on April 10, 1520, the | whereabouts. According to the bill, the couple were married at Forest Glen, “this county, June 22, 1918, and lived together In thig county and Washington clty until April 10, 1920. Motoriats Pay Fines. The foilowing paid fines or forfeited collaterals Yesterday for violations of the motor vehicle regulations: Philip Johnson, $26.50; E. G. Hidren, $7.76; J. L. Mik- kelson, $7.50; William Fowler, $7. —_— 1,400 GET PAY RAISE. Baltimore Company Also to Em- ploy 500 Additional Men. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., April 17.—The Baltimore Copper Smelting and Roll- ing Company at Canton is another large corporation granting substa tial increases in salary to its em- ployes. Beginning tomorrow, the 1,400 workmen in the employ of the company will be granted wage in- creases amounting to 1214 per cent. The company also has announced that departments which have been idle since 1921 will be reopened. This will give employment to an addi- tional 400 or 500 employes. DRIVE FOR ENDOWMENT. Campaign to Begin for U. 8. Sol- dier Grave Decoration. NEW YORK, April 17.—Presidént Harding and Gov. Smith will at- tend a dinner here on May 17, when a campaign will be opened to create a permanent endowment fund for decorating graves of American sol- diers in Europe, it was announced by the executive committee of the Amer- ican memorial dinner. Elihu Root and other notables also will attend, it was announced. ‘The memorial movement is sponsor- ed by the American Logion and other national patriotic organizations, it was sald, BANDITS TAKE $9,200. ‘WILMINGTON, Del, April 17.—The safe of the Clover Dairy Com; Was ‘wrecked and robbed of -$9,200 to~ day. Tho golice have no clue. inthe police court here, Born, Married, Dies in Same _House at 100 Spectal Dispateh to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md. April 17.— In the same house in which she was born over a century ago and in which she was wed twenty-five years later, Mrs. Annabelle Van Lear, Washing- ton county's oldest resident, died at the Nicodemus House, oldest hostel- ry in Sharpsburg, the battlefleld town near here, aged 100 years. Had she lived untll May 15, she would have been 101 years old. Following her husband's death many years ago, Mrs Van Lear traveled extensively, but thirteen years ago returned to Sharpsburg “to die in the house where 1 was born and wedded,” as she often told her friends, She was remarkably active until last November, when her health falled. Several nephews and nieces are her only survivors, BEATS HIGHWAYMAN; ESCAPES FIVE SHOTS Refuses to Throw Up Hands as ' Commanded by Would-Be Robber. Special Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md. April 17— Cleveland G. Beal of ,Smithfield, & freight train conductor of the Baltl- | more and Ohio railroad, formerly of this city, had an exciting encounter with & highwayman on South Arch street, Connelsville, late at night. ‘The bandit held Beal up, pointing a revolver at him and commanding him to hold his hands up. Beal refused and the man grabbed him' by the throat, whereupon Beal struck him, knocking him down. The man arose to his feet and fired five shots at close range at Beal, who, however, luckily escaped belng hit by beating a hasty retreat. —_— GRANDDAUGHTER OF KEY DIES AT AGE OF 92 YEARS By the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., April 17.—Mrs. Mary Howard Lloyd, granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” died here yes- terday, aged ninety-two vears. She also was a granddaughter of Gen. John Eager Howard, famous during the revolutionary war and once Gov- ernor of Maryland. Among _the survivors, a son, Com- modore Edward Lloyd, U. S. N.. re- tired, is prominent in naval circles. {EPISCOPAL DIOCESE GETS HOME AS GIFT Valuable Site in Richmond Pre- sented by Daughters of Late Tobacconist. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, April 17.—Mrs Thomas Carter and Mrs. Beneham Cameron, daughters of the late Peter H. Mayo, who was for a long time ono of the best known tobacconists of the country, have presented to the Diocese of the Episcopal Church in Virginia the old family homestead in Franklin street, directly opposite the Jefferson Hotel, to be used for whatever purposes the church may determine. The property is considered one of the most valuable of all the resi- dences in the city and was for years ones of the show places of Richmgnd. It has a magnificent brick and stbne mansion, with a large yard, and the lot is deep and well shaded. The offices of the Virginia diocese will be transferred to the new quarters at an early date. VIRGINIA SHOE COMPANY FORMS WITH $300,000 Fredericksburg Plant Will Be Tak- en Over and Output Will Be Increased. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 17. —Application for a charter has been made by the Virginia Shoe Corpora- tion to take over and operate the former factory of the Fredericksbury Shoe Company. The capital stoc is_$300,000. The officers are: President, Ira B. Woodbury of Cynwyd, Pa.; first vice president, Lafayette Beans of Fred- ericksburg, Va.; second vice presi- dent, Abram Beane of Fredericksburg, Va.; secretary and treasurer, with W, S. Chesley of Fredericksburg, constitute the board of directors. The Virginia Shoe Corporation has | executed a five-year lease with the Fredericksburg Shoe Company with optlon to buy, and already additlonal ground has been purchased for fac- fory ‘extension from W. & Embrey, Inc, on the north and J. Masters on the west. —_— WILL FINANCE STUDY OF GAS ENGINEERING By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 17.— The Southern Gas Assoclation iIn annual convention here voted unani- mously last night to underwrite the establishment of a chair in gas en- gineering at Johns Hopkins University at Baltlmore for a perfod of five years. L. Irving Pollit, of Baltimore, chair- Jman of the committee, reported the subscription budget for five years over the top. The four year course will be the only complete course in gas engineering offered in the western hemispere, it was reported. ‘The first course will begin with the next fall term. The course will cost about $6,000 a year to the assoclation. Philip H. Gadsden of Charleston, 8. C.,, pregident of the association made a talk last night against tax free securities which he said eventually ‘would put the public utilities corpora- tions out of business. —— OLGA PETROVA SUED. Actress Charged With Alleged Plagiarizing of -“La Rubia.” NEW YORK, April 17.—Olga Pe- trova, actress, was made defendant in a suit for $35,779.33 filed by Wil- lam H Roberts, who charged she made over his play, “La Rubia,” into “The White Peacock. Roberts sald he granted Miss Petrova exclusive rights to produce his play on a per- centage basis, and asked the amount for the salloged plaglarizing of his drama. —— Miss Helen Frick, daughter of the late Henry C. Frick, purchased the 0ld Farm Distillery Company at Con- nellsville, Pa., and will convert the building into- an orphanage for-the care af dependent children. stipulated In the charter application | James | defendant deserted her and that she | - Fenrose of Philadeiphia The above,| has since been unable to learn of his | §1,000,000 DRIVE FOR MD. SEMINARY Plans for Western Part of State Announced for St. Mary’s. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, April 17.— Monsignor Edward J. Wunder, pastor of 8t. Patrick’s Church, this city, has been placed In charge of the western Maryland section of the campaign that is to be carrfed on next October by the priests and laity of the arch- dlocese of Baltimore to ralse a mil- lon dollars for a new St. Mary's Seminary. The present St. Mary's Seminary, which has been for more than 130 years situated on Paca street, Balti- more, is to abandon that site and will be built anew in some other part of Balthnore or In some spot near the city. Oldest Church Seminary. St. Mary's is the oldest Catholic ecclesiastical seminary in the United States. young men for the Catholic priest- hood, not only for the archdiocese of Baltimore, but for many other archdioceses and dloceses. More than thirty archbishops and bishops in the United States have been numbered among its alumni. The late Cardinal Gibbons was its most distingulshed alumnus. Practically every priest among the 1013 Pa. Ave. N.W. * It has trained thousands of | UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN DYING; HIT BY AUTO Efforts to Learn Identity After Being Run Down Prove Fatile. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 17.—A wom- an, as yet unidentified, is in a dying condition in Memorial Hospital, the re- sult of being run down yesterday by a machine sald to have been driven by Mrs. A. G. Quarles, jr., of this city. ‘The woman's skull was fractured. She is beldeved to be either French or Ital- ian, and efforts to learn her identity have been without result. There were a dozen cars smashed, some twenty-five persons injured, in the report for the last twenty-four hours. Activity of the police in arrest- ing speeders and careless and drunken drivers appear to make no impression on that element. The record of the last month is nearly equal to that of any preceding year. secular clergy in western Maryland | at the present day made his ec- clesiastical studies at St. Mary's. Each western Maryland parish will be given a quota to be reached in the campaign Kach parish in the archdlocese will have a quota set. Archbishop Curley is enthusiastical- ly behind the movement, and has urged the pastors of the various churches to get their people whole- heartedly interested in it. It was at the suggestion of the priests of tre | archdiocese that the quota wae set at a million dollars. Such a quota has been set as the minimum necessary to carry on the work, for the seminary is the largest Institution of fts kind in the countr: | Brent TWO ARE INDICTED ONMURDER CHARGE Six Cases of Dry Law Vio- lations Returned by Arling- - ton Jury. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., April 17.—>Mur- der indictments were returned against Charles Turner and James Leonard at the initlal April session ves- terday of the Arlington county cir- cult court. Indictments alleging vi- olation of the national prohibition laws were returned in six cases. ‘Turner's indictment grows out of the killing last January of Charles Reed. His trial was set for May 1. Leonard is charged with killing his wife and his case was continued un- til the June session of the court. Liquor Indictments. Persons indicted for alleged prohi: bition law violations were Daniel Wells, Frank Saffell, Maggie Brown, Leger Taylor, George Picket and George Ennis. Taylor, Plcket and Ennis pleaded guilty and were sentenced by Judge to_one month In jail and a fine of $50 each. Wells and Saffell had thelr cases continued until june, and the case of Maggie Brown will be called April 30. Arlington county _authorities are searching for the persons who en- tered Niepold & Sons' garage early Saturday morning and stole nearly Grosner§ Breaking all Records With Our Removal Sale r-e-d-u-c-t-i-o-n-s The most appealing feature to THIS GREAT EVENT IS THE FACT THAT every article offered in these extraordinary reductions is of a quality- standard which has made this store recognized with the “BEST” IN THE UNITED STATES—and every REDUCTION IS GENUINE, offering to you the unusual advantage of securing THE FINEST MERCHANDISE POSSI- BLE—the sort that is not usually featured in “REDUCTIONS” or “SALES.” travel with the CROWDS! N 27 Y %4 72, 0% 0 You will be surprised to fnd MANHATTANS REDUCED. BOOTLEGGERS TIP POLICE TO RIVALS Declared to Be Exposing Each Other to Grab More Customers. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, April 17.—One | five-hundred-gallon still was captured here yesterday by the local police, the affair going full blast. The op- erators escaped. as the officers came up. While this was going on another | squad of officers went to a place in 6th street, where they succeeded in finding forty-one jars of corn liquor waiting to be claimed. The whisky | was in @ house, but the tenants also made their escape. The bootleggers are beginning to fight among themselves over terri- | tory and patrons, and the rivals are belleved to be turning up cach other in order to extend their own trade The same is said to be truc ~f ti | country districts, where th:re Y | added ‘incentive of big rewaris for the capture of stills and liguor, of which is assessed against the men who are caught at the establish- ments. | a dozen automobile tires after at tempting to open the cash register. The theft was committed while | electric current was turned off. I. | B, Howes, manager of the garag:. ‘lflld the police he believes the bur- glary was the work of the & person or persons who entered garage last January. 1013 Pa. Ave. N.W. * Manhattan Shirts Reduced 119 Kuppenheimer SUITS Hundreds of Them Reduced to $29.85 Just a Few of the Specials! Every imaginablo shade, stripe. ‘White's included. 15¢ Hdk’cts 7 The Finest of Silk Shirts $4.65 Y S, % 7 Z N iz