Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1924, Page 15

CONFESSED FORGER | - TOMBS PRISON SPY Swindler of German Widows En- ables Police to Trace $360,000 Jewel Robbery. MOST OF LOOT RECOVERED Suspension of His Sentence Asked by Prosecutor. ebruary 22.—George Kemmerer, confessed forger and swindler of German widows and orphans, was the Tombs prison spy Who enabled police recently to restore 1o its rightful owners most of $360.- ewelry, it By the Associated ¥ NEW YORK, prison | d . prisoner, they said, information while fn bled police to >.. P. Huge and other | L. Silverman of Pitts- th having shipped him a!0 ent of pumpernickle bread | ng received $10.504 for add- ing machines. Kemmerer arrested in Pueblo, Colo., thirteen months He w: brought t A v York, home, where guilty Silverman's indictment chargi in_this country siderable funds for the relief of desti- tude widows and orpha Kemmerer pas: for fellow .pri: for one of th authorities w #£0 ubout los ¢ a0, his to! s 1 ting the stolen jewelry. indicated he would two weeks hence LI NEGRO GROUP INDORSES COOLIDGE; HITS RADICALS merer a|p British Plan 4-Day Flight to’North Pole In R-36, Paper Hints By the Associated Press. LONDON, February Evening News today prints a vague story that a “scheme is being prepared” for an all-British flight to the north pole. It says the moving spirit is Commander F. M. Boothby, a British air expert, and that the dirigible R-36 will be used. The cost of the project is estimated at £5.000 sterling. It is suggested that the start may be from Pulham, and it is estimated that the round trip can be achieved in four days. BLIND GERMAN PASTOR ADMITTED TO AMERICA Deportation Order Rescinded to Permit Plea for Aid for Teuton Children. 22.— The February 22.—An order of deportation against Rev. Kurt von Schwanenflugel, blind Ger- man clergyman, and his_wife has 1 Inged by immigration au- and they have been released 21lis 1sland. 'hey will rest siting _other es in_the interest of a relief fund fer Ger- man children. The minister and his wife were to be deported a: sons likely to be- come public ¢ | LOFFLERS Colored Press Association Stands . Squarely Behind Capital to Spur Development. and his proposed nomination fo election were indorsed by the Na- ociation in an- ~sterday. adopted in exeeutive i er announced by B. J. Davis Atlanta, Ga., president, ked that the negro race stand squarely back of capital in this coun- “to the end that we may con- the cconomic development set i during the last five { ;mession and he association went on record as scouraging and discrediting “all forms of unionism and economic re jealism,” stating further, “that it be tional Negro Pry 's} purage bolshevi: unism and the like and “that it be the of our people every- p with the best class citizenship, which, in vsis all over our coun- ituted the large employers sovietism, within the continued p where to line American ahor. Fifty-two editors the conferenc brought to a cl attending he rday night. ] SAUSAG i All- - Pork (Meat or Link) THE EVEN ARAB KING SENDS U.S. PERSONAL ENVOY Dr. Shatara First Hedjas Ac- credited Representative in Many Years. . JERUSALEM, February 22 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency). — Dr. Fuad Shatara has been appointed by King Hussein of the Hedjas as his repre- sentative in Washington, sdys Falas- tin, Arab daily newspaper. Dr. Shatara is the first officially ac- credited representative from the Arabian state to a Christian country since the downfall of Arabian rule in Spain. He was born in Palestine. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States while a student of med- fcine in Harvard University. When the British mandate for | Palestine was before the United States Congress for approval, Dr. Shatara appeared before that body as | the representative of the National | Palestine League, an Arablan anti- Zionist organization, and* protested against approval of the Palestine mandate by the United States. e MARTIN SEES D'ALVEAR. BUENOS_ AIRES, February Frederick Roy Martin, general ma ager of the Associated Press, was received yesterday by President d’Al- vear. Mr. Martin was introduced by John W. Riddle, the American ambas- sador to Argentina. and sausage.” according to a odd years. G STAR, WASHINGTON, D, LONG-TERM FIREFIGHTER AT 76TH “MILESTONE” Oldest Man in Service in U. 8, Chief at Cleveland, Celebrates Birth Anniversary. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 22.— Firo Chief George A. Wallace, the oldest firefighter in the country in point of service, celebrated his sev- enty-sixth birthday anniversary to- day. If he lives through March 4, and there is every indication that he will, Mr. Wallace will have completed twenty-three years at the head of the local department. Chief Wallace has been in the fire department here fifty-five years, starting as a hoseman in 18 De- spite his age he attéends every big fire, regardless of thé weather or the hour. He is eligible to pension, but declares that he has no intention of retiring. BANK CLERK SENTENCED. Werblow Gets Five to Ten Years in $102,000 Larceny. NEW YORK, February 22.—Robert M. Werblow, former Chase National Bank clerk, convieted of the larceny of $102,000 through the London branch of the Guaranty Trust Com- pany, yesterday was sentenced to five or ten years in Sing Sing prison. A brother, Henry Werblow, recently was convicted of participation in the larceny and sentenced to five to ten years. ‘Another brother, Isaac, indicted in the case, has not been arrested. 100% PURE S \ ITeading the list of cold weather favorites in the food line is “cakes You can’t beat this age-old com- bination for real, down-right tasti- ness at any meal-time—that is, vided the sausage is “LOFFLER’S.” For over fifty years made from the choicest corn-fed hogs and -spiced ro- formula that has never been changed in those fifty- Be sure it's “LOFFLER'S"—if you crave sausage satisfaction. _Tomorrow--Last ‘ Day! Both shoes for women and children end at closing time tomorrow! these tremendous Sale! $5.95 and $8.50 - Womenq S Shoes HAT a sale it has been! Already hundreds of Washington’s most fashionable tended it! will come tomorrow! afternoon and sport women have at- And hundreds more Smart evening, styles that any woman would be proud to wear far into the spring and summer! And best of all —a wide variety of styles—mostly in all sizes 3 to 8&—and A to C widths! ends tomorrow. tunity! But it Don’t miss this oppor- At our 7th St. and 9th St. Stores only “City Club Shop” 1318 G St. Cor. 7th & K Sts. 414 9th St. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. 233 Pa. Ave. S.E. savings opportunities on reliable Childrens Shoes 5OZ Reduction! TILL time to buy many of Hahn’s highest grade children’s shoes at just half regular prices! Infants’, chil- dren’s, misses’ and growing girls’ high shoes—short lines only, but all sizes in one style or another. Just a few of the items— 55 pairs white Nile cloth lace and button high shoes for infants and chil- dren’s 6 to, 8. Regularly $2.00, now dren. Infants’ sizes 2" to Chil- 1 30 pairs infants’ high shoes. White buck or patent with fanc: tops. Sizes 2 to S. Also 100 pairs misses” brown or tan elk dace boots. leather scout shoes. 13. Regularly $3.00, now Sizes 13 to 2—and 45 pairs small bofs' black or tan e Sizes 10 to 5750 150 pairs children’s patent leather lace boots. Also black or red kid, white buck and tan or pearl elk. Sizes 8% to 11 now child’s Sizes 7 tan to 45 pairs bluchers. Regularly $4. k3 or smoked elk Iso 30 pairs growing girls’ lace or button high shoes in patent, field mouse kid, white canvas or nubuck. 6. Sizes 4 to Regularly $3.50 and $4.00, $7.% 40 pairs child’s lace boots, in genuine white buck or patent Sizes 9 to 11. with fancy tops. Regularly $5.00, now ..... .50 * At 7th St. Store Only WHITE WOMAN TAKES ROLE OPPOSITE NEGRO Actress to Play Part of Wife in Interracial Play to Be Staged by O'Neill. By the Assoclated Pre; NEW YORK, February 22—A young woman whose name is being withheld has agreed, after one lead- ing actress and many near stars re- fused, to play opposite a negro lead- ing man in an interracial play, “All God's Chillun Got Wings,” soon to be staged by Eugene O'Nelll, it was revealed yesterday. The white woman I8 required, in the ciosing scene of the play, to kiss the hand of the negro whose wife ste nas become. O'Nelll's determination to go through with the staging of his play and to make it realistic with a white woman and a negro man in the lead- ing parts, has started much talk in theatrical circles. The plot of the play deals with in- termarriage among negroes and white people and its scenes are laid in the negro district of Manhattan. Better Get ’em While the Gettin’s ODD LOT SU $30, $35 $40, 345 Values -|on the same.corner; C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1924.. The opening scene is a busy corner in this section. On the sidewalk arec eight children, four white and four negro. One little white girl, Ella, holds marbles for Jim Harris, a negro boy. They are portrayed as child swecthearis, she asking: “Do you want to be my feller?” ‘When he answers in the affirma- tive she wafts him a kiss, saying: “Then I'm your girl.” Nine years later the players are Ella is being treated brutally by one of the white men with whom she has grown up and his_attitude is contrasted with tho kindly way of her negro sweet- heart. Ella and Jim are married. Later she becomes insane over the race problem. Her insanity becomes childish happiness when her husband falls to/pass a bar examination and remains a simple negro. She kisses his hand and he prays to be made worthy of “the child you send me lor the woman you take away.” TAPESTRY THIEVES JAILED VERSAILLES, February 22.—Two Frenchmen, Charles and Nouvain, were sentenced yesterday to five years’ imprisonment for stealing tap- estrics from the Versailles Palace last fall The tapestries, each valued at one million francs, were found by the se. cret police shortly after the robbery One had been cut into twelve pieces. ITS All sizes in the lot, but not all sizes in any ome particular style. Taken from regular stock, hut Seme are bright effects yuitable for ol Herzo o= F at only one or two medels of a kind. spring and summer wear. g..c. Oth == FRIEND. OF LINCOLN DIES. Mrs. Katherine A. Miller, Schnec- tady, Expires at Ninety-One. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., February 22, —Mrs. Katherine A. Miller, ninety- one, whose husband, Augustus N. Mil- ler of Chicago, was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, and who employed Lincoln as a lawyer before he became President, died yesterday. Mrs. Mil- ler cherished among her possessions a bed in which Lincoln slept when he visited the Miller home in Chicago. Mr. Miller died forty-five years ago. FITTED CASES ENGLISH KIT BAGS BRIEF CASES BELLOWS CASES OVERNIGHT CASES “OSHKOSH” TRUNES | | $625 Extra heavy finish enamel; sateen lini exclusive full-pecket idea whic hat, Ladies’ Enamel Round HAT BOXES ! ch admits of an extra | 13 AUTO GLAS Taranto & Wasman 3 FOR_ WINDSHIELDS OR _BODIES. l Installed While You Wait, 1017 NEW YORK AVE. N.W. @ Our Half-Yearly Clearance of all Luggage q A SAVINGS OPPORTU- NITY for folks who are quick to take advantage of an occasion which allows THE FIN- EST selections of luggage and trav- eling requisites to be had AT LOW- ER PRICES. oECERS | Leather Goods Company 1324-26 F St. NW. $1 Glos and Silk Wide Seam Hosed9C Women's fine-quality, broad-seam back, silk and fber hose, in biack and coiors. Slight irrefular quality of the §1 grade. Bargain Section, 2nd foor. It's the greatest sale in pay %. Pure Irish ‘Trico-Knit M and all are suital combinatio all bright c black. arigold Crepe Combination Jacquard Silk Crepe 27 Different Styles We've gathered a wonderful lot of stylish garments in rich quality materials, made up in models that are fresh, new and breathe the air of spring. There are numerous models and one sure to suit every taste. $5_ Modish Hats For Early Spring Wear Clever - trimmed _and | 32 tailored styles of all milan, milan and fabric, | 9= horsehair, in solid or the House $20 Suits and Overcoats ...... $25 Suits and Overcoats $30 Suits and Overcoats $35 Suits and Overcoats $40 Suits and Overcoats $50 Suits and Overcoats .. will be con town, and you Tremendous Values and Styles Crowded Into This Enormous Sale of 200 Dresses Materials consist Linen Paisley Combination ble for wear now and spring. Vella Vella Imitation - Silk Failles Otblong Check Crepes All-Wool Jersey Mr. Man—the Great Sale is 0!1 _ Your Unrestricted Choice ‘Every Suit and 0’Coat \ /’20FF ..510.00 .$12.50 .$15.00 .817.50 ..820.00 cen....825.00 vinced when you see Y them. Imagine! You get your unrestricted choice of any Suit or Overcoat in the house at 15 price. The original price tags are on all garments; just We invite every thrifty buyer to look these values over. Sizes in suits for young men, conservative men, stout, short and tall mgn, 32 to 50, and in overcoats 32 to 48, and no charge for alterations. Men’s Department Opens 8 A.M. Saturday Si PONGEE 25¢c Amoskeag GINGHAM 1 fancy colored border, in gruy or tan. 50c and 59¢c Fine ART TICKING variety of c;]:r: lllsg;v featherproof. SATEEN Tricolette OVERBLOUSES °1 Fine quality fiber silk, drop-stitch trico- lette, with Paisley Tront aud b in assorted colors and all siz i S S S T 7 LSS S T T i i large size, heavy cotton blakets, with 29¢ s up in a fine LSV YA 0 AT Y T AT ML YL In lengths from 19¢ a ths. Yard wide. fine twill sateen, in black fine line of colors. _All are useful les ONGEE. 49c Bright, Instrous finish, fine weave, in a 19¢ 2 t0 10 vards, in plain Short lenst! from checks or jacquard patterns, for dresses. Seconds of 55¢ PILLOWCASES of Sizes 16 to 44 Colors .are bright and new, Buy Two or More at This Low Price! Boys’ & Girls’ Choice of Mises' and C ce Shoes, spring a Mes 8% (o n ect: olors” and | 35 Engiish sises 11 to Boys' Extra Quality Serviceable School nd ill!lfi Shoes; hll:lnnlnd llr!; Blucher low High & Low Shoes $ subject to slight imperfections. $5 Satin BEDSPREAD hemmed and_ready for use. Yard-Wide PERCALES SCOUT SHOES 35¢ in size 42136; $398 For full size beds. mratly raised designs, ORI Fine quality Page cases. arseilles or dark grounds, sin and_bine only: fall piec: Wi perfect ; voft, krinkly grade; worth . oI S S S S0 I For Men and Boys ¥ X i Special purchase of 500 pairs of all solid leather Tan Scout Shoes for boys and men. sizes 13 to 574, men’s sizes 6 to 11 shoes; On 7S Boys’ sale tomorrow only. 7 /O[O 8.