Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1923, Page 15

b 3 ELECTROCTED N AUTO AGERENT Car Falls on Trolley Third Rail—12 Killed, 11 Hurt Week End Toll. HAZELTON, Pa., September 24— Two women and a man were killed last night when their motor car crashed through the guard rail of a bridge over an elegtric railway near here. A fourth occhpant of the car ‘was seriously injured The dead are Delores S. Anguileano, Dorothy Hoban and Robert Kem- merer, 81l of Wilkes-Barre. Death was due to electrocution, the machine striking the third rail when it fell on the tracks. A few minutes later an electric car crashed Into the wreckage, cutting two of the vie- tims' bodies in half. EXPLOSION KILLS THREE. Radiator Bursts, Throwing Water on Driver, Wrecking Car. PITTSBURGH, Pa.. September 24.— Four men and a young woman, were killed and two other persons were riously injured in two automobile denfs in Pittsburgh yvesterday. Thomas Kennedy and Clayton and Stanton Heffner, brothers, were kill- when the radlator of their car burst, throwing scalding water over the driver and causing him to lose control of the machine. Miss Bertha Bickel and Percy Frey- vogel were killed when their auto- mobile was struck by a freight train t a crossing on the Conemaugh di- on_of the Pennsylvania railroad. Miss Mildred Russeli and Louis Ma- rohnic, the latter driver of the car. were seriously injured TROLLEY CRASHES AUTO. SCHENECTADY Y., September T AR B T T 0 Rivals th: beauty of the Scarlet Y( 24.—Four persons were killed and two others Injured when their automobile was struck by an interurban trolley car near here yesterday The dead are: Mrs. Loulse Talford, nineteen, of Schenectady; Regna Tal- ford, her one-year-old daughte: Earl Moore, twenty-five, of Sche tady, brothér of Mrs. Talford, and an unidentified woman, The injured are: Herbert Clarke, seven, of Albany, and Robert Talford, hugband of Mrs. Louise Talford. The highway runs 'parallel with the tracks of the Schenectady Rail- way Company. Passengers in the trolley car said. the automobile ap- parently was racing it, The auto- mobile was struck when it attempted to cross the tracks to take another road. The tralley carried the auto- mabile 300 feet beforp it was brought to a stop. Seven Hurt fn Crash. ATLANTA, Ga., September 24— Three men probably were fatally in- jured and four others seriously hurt in a head-on collision between two automobiles near here late yesterday, according to a local hospital report. V. R. Dumas, twenty-three, and Hugh Ivy, twenty, drivers of the two machines,” sustained fractured skulls. Nefl Morris, seventeen, the hospital report stated, probably has a frac- tured skull and_ ifternal injuries. Roy Holbrook, twenty, and Henry Bray, both of Chamblee, Ga., also are in a hospital. * Two other men, a po- lice report sald, were removed from the wrecked machines and presum- ably taken to hospitals. Both automobiles were speeding when the accident occurred, the po- lice said. 63,000 VETS GET JOBS. Civil Service Report Shows Many in U. S. Positions. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 63,000 former service men received appointments _in the government service, according to figures an- nounced by the Civil Service Commis- sion today. Two hundred and fifty thousand former service men took examinations for appointment to classified positiond in the civil service and 165,000 qualified for appointment, it was announced. Although the total number of ap- pointments to classified positions dur- ing the fiscal year, the commission said, was several thousand less than in the preceding vear, the number of former service men appointed after preference allowance showed a slight increase. 8 C-H O L0 1 The Pen that made the Grade THE EVENING STAR, LIVING COST TOPS ALL PRIOR RECORDS Rises to Point Higher Than Ever, Industrial Earnings Proportion- ately Higher, Is Claim. By the Associated Press. ference board, have higher. gone, proportionately, higher than in 1914. to 4.7 per cent. - war level. crease was §8 per cent; and Detroit, 57 per cent; in reported the smallest advance. having 1914. In the rent item, to have subsided somewhat of between 11 and 20 per cent. NEW YORK. September 24.—THe cost of living.in: the last six months | has risen to a point higher than:ever before, it was announced in a state- ment by .the national industrial con- but the earnings of the average Amerlcan workingman even Rent has risen more rapidly than any other item in the family budget, having climbed to a point 75 per cent From March, 1922, to last July, theré was a steady rise in the cost of living amounting Between March and July of this year food prices soared 3.0 per cent to a point 47 per cent above the pre- In Washington the in- in_Chicago Rich- mond, 56 per cent, as compared with 27 per cent in Salt Lake City, which The | potato led all other varieties of food, climbed 147 per cent since inflation seemed in the | larger eastern citles, except in Wash- | }ington, where there was an increase CHNESE Y TORN BY DOUBLE STRFE Amoy, Awaiting Attack From Outside, Scene of Fierce Factional Battles. By the Associated Press. AMOY, China, Séptember 24.—Con- ditlons which have prevailed here since August 20 remain virtually un- dhanged with the city, besieged by north China forces of Chen Chung- Ming, continually expecting attack by the besieging forces and with traffic into the interior completely cut off. Seven gunboats are in the harbor. | Adding to the strain of the situ- ation local fighting broke out two days ago between Formosans, resi- dents of Amoy, and a strong clan of Chinese in the city. There has been continuous fighting throughout the city between these two factions for Give Your Automobile Better Lubrication By Using REXOLINE MOTOR OILS | Phone Lincoln 7558 SHERWOOD BROS., Inc. | Will Help You Make It Too PARKER Duofold brings out the best thought that’s in you for the mighty good reason that fluent writ- ing gives your mind a clear track ahead! A student or anyone else can’t com- pose his thoughts with an unruly pen nagging his brain. But give him—or her—the balanced swing and the super-smooth point of the Parker Duofold and his mind is ever stimulated with fresh inspiration. He’s proud of this black-tipped, lacquer-red Attractive Jersey Dresses $200.00 per month. Call upon the Resident Manager to exhibit them to you at your convenience — day or evening WASHINGTON, D.. The Very s Wor in Apartment Resi- dence is provided in Retw Gardens 2700 Que Street Planned unusually well, equipped with every detail that makes for comfort; and finished in the best of taste. Of a size to meet your requirements—three to seven rooms—with one and two baths—rentimg from $67.50 to C., MONDAY, two days. Twelve deaths have been rog'ort 7 . ighting between local factions became so flerce yesterday that ail - offices on the bund were ciosed. Bri- th concession Japanese from the destroyers - landed and (g marched into the eity to protect For- mosans. - The military situstion. has been growing more tenie for five days. An (Wl attack is expected tomorrow by united land and sea forces of be- W siegers. Chinese newspapers stated on Au- | M gust 28 that soldiers under Chang|g Tse-Ping had ‘caught and. exeouted two sples from the besieging army, afterward eating the hearts and livers of the dead men. For Better Vision The Right Glasses and Eye Comfort Consult 705 14th St. N.W. Established in 1900 Harry A. Kite (Incorporated) 1514 K Street At ¢10.00 beauty that he can pull out in public; or can lend without fear, because no style of writing can distort its 25-year point. Give your boys and girls flying start for the new school year by geeting Parker Duo- fold or Lady Duofold this week. The color makes it a hard pen to lose— the price makes it a_pen they’ll take care of. Strong % Gold Girdle now included free—was $1 extra before. THE PARKER PEN'COMPANY JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN Duo With The JJ 25 Year Point Duote Samee: 4 Jr. 85 ept for size Iuetold 85 ‘With ring for chatelals ne FOR SALE BY A to 7 Business Bureau, |L. 1340 G st. n.w. P. Andrews Paper Co., & Ross, & G sts, “Baker 0 ave. Sons, M st. o.w. chotoer. I jols ave.. Anacostin. ather Goods Co.. F st. n.w. attinety prug Store, Mg koma, 5918 Georsla wve. Central Drug Company, 3 i n.w. 508 14th wt. Company, |The Oliver N, G, 0'Do Oppenl W7 F 0'Donnel & & Company. Clifton Terrace & lith st. Colodny & Bialek, 1 Georgia ave. 804 9th 723 14th s, ¥ st. cor. 0"Donnell's 301 Pa. Palais Royal, 11th & B. E._Pisher. 17( Nirs. ‘Virgiaia Guild, haylvania dve. ul'd. Gitwo, oot st 13 Hl[’rlll ll Comlfln)'- = n’ Pen Gift 9th st. n.w. 1 Pa. ave. n.w. ne. h & Market Place. Lincain Park Drug Co. 13th_ & East Capitol sts. t 7, 33 Laurel ave. G. C. 'HUGHES Hoyt Tamb, 1ith & Bast Capitol sts. Louis K. Liggett & Co., 1008 ¥ st. n.w. Mitchell, $th & G sts. n.w. Brothers, Park. jonsl Riemembranca Shop, hop. 910 14th at.| 1904 N, el s. Wisconsin. ave. & P st. n.w. mer & Shah, . n.w. Drug_Stores, Inc. n.w. . G wis. Peoples Drug Stores. Tth & K Paul, 1822 G Pi ch P 14th and Colorado Charles F. Plitt, 1330 7th st. n.w. L. T. Queen, 3600 14th st. P. K. Richter, |22 oth st now. {Major H. Robb, 1413 F st ow. Roach Drug Comany, 01 8th st s, service Pharmacy, 1ith & L sis. n.w. Charles Schwartz & Son, 08 7t st o.w. and v, 3rd & G sts. n.w. 7 The Stockett Fiske Co., 919 E st n.ow, Georgla ave. & Rock Creek Chureh road. The Sport Mart, e 914 F st n.w. .w. York ave. & ork ave, 14th & R six. Weller & Moskey, 36th & M sts. Weller & Moskey, 55 Sth 1402 New Ta D. N. Waltord, 907 P: 0w, rm; % A g ve. 1510 14th st. n.w. PEN SHOP 4001, Sth St. N.W. We Sell PARKER Duofold Pens All Makes of Fountain Pens Repaired We will be glad to show you our complefe stock of PARKER DUOFOLD FOUNTAIN PENS WALFORD'S, 909 Pennsylvania Ave. W Brecoton & PRINTERS AND STATIONERS 3256 M St. N.W. West 1028 PARKER DUGFOLD PENS giving qualities. brown and cocoa. [ [ [ [ ] [ m = [ im [} [ ] L 3 ] [ ] [ ] ] [ [ ] [] [ [ - L] ] [] [} ] [ ] [ [} [ L] L] [ = = m [ ] [ ] [] [ - [ ] [ ] - [ [ ] [ ] [ ] lm ] [ ] ] [ ] [ ] [ [} [ 14 to 18 and 36 to 44. Ideal for Afl-ermmn Wear, Street Wear, Business Wear, Utility Wear Jersey has won many laurels for its service- Every wardrobe should have at least one Jersey dress, for it may be worn for nearly all occasions, especially these charming dresses. Smartly fashioned with tiny plaits, flowing collar, vestee and button. Model illustrated. Choose from such ‘shades as gray, blue, . We need not emphasize the importance of this low price, for hundreds of Washington . women know that $10.00 is an exceedingly low price for Jersey dresses of this character. Palais Royal—Third Floor. An Excellent Purchase of Sports and Dress Coats at 25 / have large chin collars or throw scar fs. All of these coats are simple in style. - All showing the straightline silhouette. : ; : The sports coats are particularly smart in the plaids and stripes. Sizes EEEEEEENREENEEEENEINEEEEANEN Phone Main 4846 Zhe PALAIS ROYAL 11th and G Sts.—Est. 1877—A. Lisner, Pres. At the be- ginning of the season you would hardly expect to pur- chase coats at a saving, but we were for- tunate enough to secure 200 coats at a splendid saving and share them with our pa- trons. Made of all wool, soft, smooth and pile fabrics. Opos- sum fur collars. The dress coats Palais Royal—Third Fleor. SEPTEMBER 24, 1923. 1 2 LA R R R R ERERLERRERSENENRRESNRNENRNHSMHRSNSESREEREM Jhe PALAIS QOYAL Bargain Basement “Dollar Sale” With tomorrow’s “Dollar Day” coming at the opening of the fall-winter season and with our “specials” comprising those needs for dress and the home, this Base- ment Store will attract even more than the usual “Dollar Day crowd.” Just as our alert readers are on the lookout for real bargains, so were our “buyers” when they visited the wholesale markets—with.a Dollar Day in view. Basement in your shopping trip tomorrow. 1 Corsets and Girdles Dollar Day at $1i $2.50, $3, $3.50, $4, $5 and $6.50 Models Some few are models selling regularly at more than $6.50. Last of lots, including P. N., Practical Front, C-B, Binner, R & G, W. B. and others. the other. All at $1.00. Some slightly soiled. Include the Bargain Read now—of the special values. '] All sizes up to 36 in one or The most important Dollar Day feature of years. None C. O. D. No phone On sale tomorrow morning.—Palais Royal Basement orders. No exchanges. Store.—Dollar Day. $1.50 Boston Bags, Split Cowhide Leather — with strong leather handles. Sizes 14 and 15 inches, in black and brown. Dollar Day at $1.00. — Basement I Il New Shirt Waists, Voile, Dimity and Nainsook, tuck:in and overblouse styles; with long and short sleeves; all sizes. Dollar Day, $1.—Basement Store. New School Dresses, Of black Sateen with wide bands of high colors; chic but very practical; sizes to 12 years. Dollar Day, $1. —Baxement Store. Rubber Sheet- ing, 2 Yards, First quality — full pieces. Regular at 7oc yard. Dellar Day only at 2 yards for $1.—Base- ment Store. 1 | grade. | $1.50 Silk 25¢ Towels, 5 for Turkish and Huck Towels— quality—for and bath. Dollar Day—5 for $1.00. — Basxement Store. 1 Burson Hose, 4 Pairs, Women's—black with feet; irregulars Day, 4 pairs for $1.00.— sement Store. | Bloomers, 3 Pairs, Irregulars Knit — m cerized—black and pink sizes 4 to 7. Dellar Dey, 3 pairs $1.00 in- stemd of $3.25.—Base- t Sto; Hose, Slight - irregulars — Women's Full-fashioned Black Thread Silk Hose with Embroidered Clocks. Dollar Day $i. —Basement_Store. $1‘ - 1 20c Toweling, 8 Yards, 16 and 18 inches wide —Bleached Huck Towel- ing—1,500 yards—at 8§ yards for $i, instead of Sateen Bloom- ers, 2 Pairs, Children's—sizes 4 to 14 years, in black and white; full cut and with reinforced_gusset. Dol- lar Day—2 pairs, $l.— Basement Store. 20c Muslin 10 Yards, 36 inches wide— bleached — first 3 Pairs for Women's—of pink and white crepe and nain- sook. Regular—and a few extra sizes. Deollar Day, 3 pairs, $1.—Base- me Store. Underwear, 2 for ‘Women's Cambric and Nainsook Short Skirts, Drawers and _ Corset Covers, lace and em- broidery trimmed. Dol- lar Da: y 2 for $1.— Basems tore. Petticoats at New—of sateen, co- lonial taffeta and Web- sterloom, in floral ef- fects, plain colors and black. Dellar Day, $1. —Basement Store. Brassieres; Etc., 2 for Regular 5% and Brassieres and Ban- deaux, some with elastic, or with gar- ters. Of novelty ma- terials—daintily = made. Dollar Sale, 2 for $1.00. —Basement Store. Infants’ Bath Robes, Of all-wool Eider- down, white with pink and ' blue trimmings. Finished with corded belt and pockets. Deol- lar Day, $1.00.—Base- ment Store. $1.29 House Dresses, * Superior—with sét-in sleeves. Of good _tub materials, some with embroidery. others with organdy coilars, Dellar D 00.—B a s ement 750 Waists, 3 for Children’'s Rib- bed Underwaists, with tape and washable buttons. Sizes 2 to 12. Del- lar Day at 3 for $1. = Basement Store. . Palais Royal, Hasement Store—Adjoining Page for U 1 51 1 | Quality 39c Crepes, | 3 Yards, 1,000 yards of this 30- inch Plisse Crepe, in floral, bird and oriental designs and_ colorings. Dollar Day, 3 vards, $1. —Basc Store. - i quality — boys’ Nightgowns, 2 for Women's Crepe Nainsook Gowns, white and pink. Some with shir- ring, some with touches of hand work, Dollar Day, 2 for $1.00.—Base- ment Store. Children’s—at 2 for Nightgowns and Pajamas of white and pink nainsook: tailored sfects; sizes 4 to 12 years. Dollar Day, 2 for $1.00. — Basement Store. 69¢ Hose, 2 Pairs, Irregulars of $1.00 grade Silk Mixed Hose, with seam' at back- reinforced feet: black and colors. _Dollar Day —2 pairs, $1.00.—Base- ment Store. Sports l'me, 3 Paijrs, Irregulars of 50c and %-length Hose. with flat ribs and roll cuff taps; 7 to 9, in grays, browns and tan ement Store. girls’ i 1 Union Suits, 2 for Irregulars -- extra | 35¢ Dimity, | 4 Yards, 32 _and 27 inch First Striped and Checked Dimity. Del- lar Day, 4 yards, $1.— Basem tore. 25¢ Outing, 5 Yards, 1,200 yards White Outing Fiannel. Dollar Day at 5 yards, instead for $1.— 2,200 vards of this Gauze—makes good du: cloth, etc. :Deollar Day, 16 yards for $1.—Base- ment Store. Te—rry Cloth, 3 Yards, Mill ends—1 to yard lengths — 3.000 vards in all. Printed ef- fects for draperies, pil- lowcovers, etc. Dollar Day, 3 yards, $l.—Base- ment Store. 59¢ Scarfs, 3 for Of cretonne, designs and finlshed _with lace edges. Sizes 17Tx54 inches. Dollar Day, 3 for $1.00. — Basement Store. Pillowcases, in art coloring, |'3 for First quality — sizes 42x36 and 45x36 lncllefi. —Basement Store. 1% 1 ¢ | 29¢ Ginghams, 5 Yards, Mill ends of 3 yards — checks, plaids and plain_colors. Del- I ay, 5 yards, $1.00. ment Store. 22¢ Muslin, 7 Yards, 36 inches wide; Un- bleached Mullln—m:‘:l i to 8 Slip-on Sweaters, Girls' and- women's— long _sleeves. knit—in blue, and orchid. 31.00— Closely ta ine. Dollar Day, Basement Store. 25¢ Yd. Ging- hams, 6 Yds. . Mill Ends of 10 to 20 yards—2.000 yards in all, First quality, 32 - inch check .gingham. Dollar Day — yar $1.00.— Basement Store. ‘large sizes 46 to 50. no sleeves, knee length. Dellar Da; suits for $1.00— Basement Store. 35¢ Vests; 4 for Women's First Qual- ity Ribbed Vests—out- sizes—46 to 50. Lo neck, no’ sleeves.” Del- lar Day, 4 for $1.00.— Basement Store. 59¢ Chemise, 2 for Envelope stvle —of nalinsook— some elaborated with medallions; - others “with lace and embroidery trimmings. _ Del- lar Day—2 for Low neck, Union Suits, 3 for Irregulars Suits, low sleeveless. of neck 69c Suits, | 2 for Women's First Qual- ity Ribbed Union Suits —closed and _envelope styles—sizes 36 | Dollar _Day, $1.00—B 29¢ Toweling, 5 Yards, Double Woven Turk- ish Toweling — finest Toweling, 6 Yards, 18 inches wide—un- bleached — longest wearing and very ab- sorbent. Dollar Day, 6 yards, $1.00.—Basement 35¢ T owels, 4 for 20 and_ 40 inch Double Woven Heavy Turkish Bath Towels. Dollar Day, 4 instend of 3 for 91.00—Basement Store. g > 17c Towels, 7 for Bleached Crash. Tow- els—each with hanger. Dollar Day, 7 for $1.00. —Basement Store. School Hose, 4 Pairs, First _ Quality Ribbed Black Hose, reinforced. Boys, heavy, 7 to 9%. 'Girls, fine, & to 10, Dellar 4 pairs, $1.00. —Basement Store. tairs Departments. 1 ’1 IIIIIIIIIIIIII.IIIIIIIIIIIIII..!"II!‘I FRSSRSPPREREFI NP EVES " e ..I “ QII LI ¥ LLEER L] .)‘..»\-!‘ » R l.l.fi.):‘.l-.h L L) LS L W RARNSRST AT ARIERNEREE S )