Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1923, Page 3

N Comfort and Hedlth Depend Upon Ice These rid days, when streets sizzle and houses feel like furnaces, ice brings com- fort and relief. Almost any- body can supply your ice needs in moderate weather, but only a company making and storing | ice m winter tor emergency needs can take care of your| summer nce to That's one reason why American Q &y, misgonary In the viclgity ot the viously selected as the site of the You'll readily see the possibilities for most ef- s beel nd e ) ¢ r equestrian statue ancls v, < . has been depended upon through se he Tokio people never ceased to lgnarnnt Methodist evangelist of co- fective and efficient arrangement. eral gencrations of Washington fam believe in the old myth that a giant |onfal days, and preparations are be- lies—why so many new customers ‘.. q fish under the city some day would|ing made for its erection. 1 : names are added yearly to our books. | B @ bring about its destruction,” he said. A handsome granite pedestal will be We shall be glad to discuss S yearly 5 ‘Kobe. 300 miles away, is general- | provided for the Dante statue near lease and rental. A ly regarded as the safest part of | {ts present tcmporary site in the low- | AMERICAN Japan. as far as danger from earth- | er sgction of Merldian Hill Park. quakes and tidal waves is concern- | = - 'e: ’x‘:k':«l-aw." felt safe there, but not i Renete B Boss and Phelps e 7 3'"50 , ; % B oL peeitien 1 Simiey : ; : . 8 Reservations Are Being Made 5y g IM Cord Tires on Credit || Pay As You Ride i A_SMALL_ PAYMENT DOWN BALANCE ONE, TWO'AND | THREE MONTHS ' Guaranteed 8,000 Miles T. 0. PROBEY C0. | Phone West 133 2100 Pa. Ave. N.W. FLAT TIiRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Service Charge Never Over $1.08 The Rare Book Shop 723 Seventeenth St. i Main 1291 { | i | gravings and Autograph Let- ters. Representative will call. || CASH PAID and purchases || removed promptly. | | Everyt Paints, Oils, Glass and Brushes Becker Paint & Glass Co. | 1259 Wisconsin Ave. Floor Varnish $3 a Gal. 85c a Qt. J. W. Hunt & Company 1221 N. Y. Ave. Phone Main 'SPECIAL NOTICES. Y et CK_CoMTNG back v 1005 3 West 67 | jauake had failed to destroy. again it virow | ! REALIZES SLEEPILY THAT SOMEON TEELS THAT HE'S QUITE SAPE IN = 1S CONTIDENT OF BEING OUT € DANGER AND MUR- MURS THAT SHE REALLY QUEHT TO LET HIM CET LSY HIM GET UP' AND TELLS HER NOT TO DISTURB HERSELF, LET HiM ZD CLOTHES AND MURMURS E \S"GOING TO HAVE BEING POLITE - LITTLE WO DO IT LISTENS P LEAVING WEARILY (€) Wheeter Syn. Inc. DO 1S RELIEVED TO REAR HIS WIFE SAY DROWSILY TO GET UP SOQN TO SHUT THE DOOR THAT'S RATTLING SHE SUPPOSES SHE'D BETTER GET UP AND PIX SAYS NEVER MIND SHE'LL GET UP AND SHUT ITIN 8 A LITTLE NERVOUSLY FOR. S0UNDS OPF HER STIRRING - fT'S TIME SHE WAS DOING TINDE SHE HAS CHEATED ' BY PALLIN THAT DOOR, 5 MAN COMES THROUGH AS EXPECTED AND JUST A SECOND SOMETHING ABOLUT 3 G ASLEEP) THE BID IN KIS HAND - SIGHS AND CETS UP GLUYAS WILLIANS RADIO OPERATOR HERD OF DISASTER Laboriously Translates Into | English Story of Quake. At Post 36 Hours. Speciat Disp . September like the cour- ageous Jack Binns of steamship Re- public fame, stuck steadfastly to his key in the f of almost certain | death' and dis ter. Binns, on January 23, 1909, won the heart-felt plaudits of an entire world when, forgetting his own peril, he continued for hours to send out SOS | calls from the sinking liner Republic, after she had becn rammed by the Florida, and finally succeeded in guid- | ing rescue craft to her side in time | e all on board. Yonemura, operator in charge New York to London Direct Resuming a famous passenger service from the heart of New York direct to the heart of London—with a splendid new ship. You land in easy taxiing distance of any London Hotel. Only first class passengers, no cabin, second or third class carried. You have the whole run of the deck spaces. For bookings apply at once to 1208 F Street N.W. INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE COMPANY e Japanese government wire- fon at Tomioka, 144 miles| okohama, 1s the' man who. h fF e inns' feat of almost a man generation ago, probably will go down | E man who offers in history as one of the outstanding of the he. only man at the Tomioka sta- who under terrible Japanese ca- Th tion nemura for | Yor th nights, | ntic first- date: a foreign tong < 00 miles of broad Pacific the dread message that thousands of his coun- trymen had perished. First to Inform World. When Tokio was rendered so that hardly one stone stood upon another, and there followed the conflagration which wiped out what the earth- as Yonemura, with his smattering nglish, who first apprised the out- side world. Hour after hour, day after day, and gils of the night, Binns” has been . picked up | d newspapers thr He was the of information. The out. There were no messag their own correspondents in na. and Tokio, and it was emura who stood in the breach. once has he failed to answes In the intervals betwee he has laboriously o English some 5.000 w t . MELACHRINO *“The Qne Cigarette Sold the World Over “Gus Recommendation ts Your Protection Tectrical UNIVERSAL you a Melachrino Cigarette never apolo- gizes. He offers to share with you the best that good taste can select. ”» TOKIO ALWAYS IN FEAR OF RUIN BY EARTHQUAKE People Believed Giant Fish Under City Would Destroy It, "+ Says Missionary. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Gs., September 4.—Tokio and its 2,800,000 citizens lived con- stantly in fear of a disaster which would mean complete destructton, ac- cording to Dr. J. C. C. Newton, who returned to Atlanta two months ago, after having served thirty-five years DROP PLANS TO MOVE STATUE OF DANTE Site at 16th and Mount Pleasant Streets Already Chosen for Methodist’s Memorial. Plans for the removal of the statue of Dante from its present position in Meridian Hill Park to the triangular park at the intersection of 16th and Mount Pleasant streets have been abandoned. 1t is said at the office of the chief of engineers of the Army that the park- ing at the intersection of 16th and Mount Pleasant streets had been pre- Gude's home-grown_specimens are world prize winners. 1212 F.—Adver- tisement. “A skyseraper in Japan,” he re-| marked, “means a bullding four or | five stories high Dr. Newton was president of a Methodist educational institution at Kobe, but spent much time in Tckio and Yokohama. . A light 'tween-season felt for wear from now to Indian Summer—ten weeks of comfort Colors: Storm gray, myrtle green, pearl and brown Highest Prices Paid || s ‘— Out of the appalling tragedy which > Why take a chance of having your money and property —for entire. (Libraries: Lo ifls .2 oP thotto greatent citios fof Armrlc m“smr L'ag . tied up as a result of a suit of this character, when you Single. Violimes, Britts (Ene. || ekt e ey anuner heralg Sole Agents for Washington . - X 3 -1 ‘eless operator who, ' Raleigh Haberdasher Exclusive 'But Not Expensive Inc. Thirteen Ten F Street FRinE ithe | ‘Washington’s most beauti{d} residential section of detach- g . . ¢ was from Yonemura that the ed homes. Containing seven million feet of forest-covered land, From the user’s standpoint, e o Dokohamsteantn: ORIGINAL with six miles of improved streets. Includes what remains of no other varnish justifies a 6 vioient tremblore e folloocn Pt . = . 9 higher price L a siccession Of tidal wavbe whicn The Trmngle of iIncreasing Values 2 g : never have to worry about fuel To the 600 home owners who have installed Nokol, fuel is no problem. A Befitting Office The street floor of this New Office Building— . 1415 K Street — offers exceptional facilities com- bmec'i _with remarkable location, to any business requiring spacious office quarters. A Here is an expansive floor, unobstructed, run- ning through to a wide, paved alley and with an equally spacious basement, fitted with lavatories and toilets. The Home of Homes 1417 K Street Phone Main 4340 —and prompt possession can be given of the Apart- ments in The Sunbury—1212 M Street Everybody who has inspected them is loud in praise of the wonderful accommodations that are available in such compact space. There’s no sac- | rifice of comfort nor convenience—but a practical economy of room—which in turn means economy in rental. Just here—handy to everywhere—and delight- fully finished. Open for inspection every day and evening. Boss and Phelps The Home of Homes 1417 K Street Phone Main 4340 Don’t Take a Chance! There are a number of damage suits, filed as a result of automobile accidents, now pending in the D. C. Courts, ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 and $60,000. can so easily carry an AUTOMOBILE LIABILITY POLICY which provides for such a contingency? Write your name and address in the space provided below, mall the clipping to us, and, withcut obligation on your part, we will send you a descriptive booklet on this coverage. Boss & Phelps We Insure Everything Insurable 1417 K St. N.W. M. 4340 Massachusetts Park between Connccticut, Massachusetts and Cathedral avenues (Woodley Rd.). Over five million feet of land sold. Over 130 homes from £15,000 to $200,000 built and under con- struction. Wooded villa sites, lots and central and side hall brick homes, with lots from 50 to 115 feet front—Park Office, 32d and Cathedral Ave. (Woodley Rd.). Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Woodward Building, 15th and H Sts. Established 1890 Nt oat Dotk o You cannot appreciatc the When they need it the wagon calls and continental code. When It 14 stated delight of percolated coffee that that code is not ordinarily used | by Japanese wireless operators. his handicaps can be better understood. fills their tanks, neatly, without dirt or , Nokol AutomaticOil Burners until you have tasted it made ] : ThemBiggs —rebuilt_and sold, by the authorized dis. tributor under year's guarantee t great sav Only limited number mo act quickly. ice, Inc., 1111 New York ave, ervice, Tin Roofs—Slag Roofs REPAIRED AND PAINTED, Call Main 760, Wash. Loan & Grafton&Son,Inc., il "an & Heating and Roofing_Experts’ 55 Yours. . 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Were it not for the grim tragedy that stood behind them, some of Yone- mura’s messages might well take rank with Will Irwin’s mirth-provol 1ing “letters of a Japanese schoolboy His tenses have been badly twisted. And frequently, unable to express himself in English, he has reverted to } Japanese for whole sentences at a {stretch. In the terrific tenseness of {the task he was performing for an {anxious world he never once forgot that politeness of the Japanese which has become a matter for jest.. Invari- ably his messages ended with tite same apologetic objurgation, “please, not no more this time.” At least a half dozen times since last Saturday, when he first com- menced flashing through the ether the only available information regarding Japan's appalling cataclysm, his mes- sages from the powerful Tomioka statlon have been interrupted by heavy earthquake.shocks. In one in- stance it was four hours before shat- tered mechanism could be repaired and the sending of messages resumed. But Yonemura repaired it—and stuck to_his post. From out the great disaster there undoubtedly will come heroes. Great emergencies and catastrophies always produce them. And when Japan makes up that list, it is safe to wager that the name of Taki Yonemura, wire- less operator, will be close to the top. CATHOLIC SCHOOL READY. The Northeast Catholic High School, on Monroe street between Sth and 10th streets, will open September 10 for its second year's work. Regis- tration days are set for the preced- ing Wednesday and Thursday. The school is conducted by the sisters of St. Benedict for the Catholic boys and girls of Brookland and vicinity. S e Scores of women and girls are work- ing in the hay fields of Adirondack farms. in a “UNIVERSAL” IX to ten times more water is circulated than in ordinary percolators; the fall strength and aroma is extracted, and the coffee is ready to serve béfore the water boils. 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