Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1924, Page 11

. 'THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 4, 1924—PART 1. MOTHER MORTALITY HIGH IN WASHINGTON Chances to Escape Death From Childbirth Better in Eighteen States and Other Countries. IMPROVEMENT OVER .1921, NITRITE BOOST SEEN. President Coolidge Will Proclaim Incredse on Tariff Rate. An increaso in the tariff rate on sodium nitrite will be proclaimed within the next few days by Presi- dent Coolldge, acting for the second time under the authority of the flexi- ble provisions of the Fordney-McCum- ber tariff act. The tariff commission recently sub- mitted & unanimous recommendation for an increase of 50 per cent, the | maximum allowed under the law, and Rednction Also Made in }hfant% Morality Rate ¥ere, ! in redacing maternal and | the District | figures pre- Grace Abbott, chief of the Unfted States children’s bureau at the day health rence, held under the auspices of the Amer- | ican Child Health Association her last week. Census figures for 19 the District had & maternal mortality | rate of T.1, Miss Abbott reported This means that for every thousand ! daties'born alive in the Distriet dur- ing that year, mothers d from causes conmected with child-| birth. Although u decide from 1921, this rat than those for higher than the United States duri at was 6.8, preceding year, 1921 the » was the highest in ates registration area Better in Other Countries. Comparing American rates with t for twenty-one foreign coun elildren’s bure [ er's chanees : ram ehildbirth wers B ! ndis \frica, Spain Washington was indicated sented by af in cens con! | showed that | seven o - the sle | that vear, which five | Maryland, 2" Carolina, over u period of showing that while the infant had considerably decreased 5 to 1921, the maternal death had remained stationary. | alyvzed the white and bringing out the fact | % T bo mothers | wore for white decidedly highe mothers and The Distric far has been death rate 1921 th 2 vancs the Towe among white rate was Sixty- Child Welfare Much of the progre: 1o during recent ng the health of Washington, Miss been to the ant child Centers. | that had been vears in pro- the children of | Abbott said, hus development of i and an average group of studied Ly the bur The value of the children in reiation to food, the fact that between the Zes of two and four only 5 per cent of the Washington group had dental carfes, while 32 per cent of the Gary children of the same age group | had’ cavities In their teeth. Much work remains tu be done, | Miss Abbott added, before citizens of the District may feel sure that every child here has a real chance at health and normal physical development, | Hahn | fortnight | tionat the revort veste-=-y was transmitted to the Treasury Department for drafting of a preclamation. The increase has been sought by producers of sodium nitrite in the state of Washington. CANVASS FOR RELIEF OF GERMAN CHILDREN Thirty Volunteer Teams to Start Out Tomorrow Morning From Headquarters Here. TRirty teams or voluntary workers from the Washington headquarters of the American committce for relief rman children will start out to- morrow to solicit funds among the business firms and mercantile houses of the city, beginning a campaign that has as its end the raising of a large sum of money in the Capital. Chairman of Teams. Chairman of the various teams with signments are as follows: Rudolph automoblies, ete.; John . Meinberg, bakers; W. T. Galliher, tanks, tr companies, ete.: L. E. Breuninger, builders, con - | ser, builders, coutractors and | S5 LS So Anton Auth, butchers and 8 ! Hecht, cigars and to- cco; J. Maury Dove, and coke companies dairies, ete.; Dr. Richard K. Thomp: son. dentists; Sol Lansburgh, depart- ment stores; Dr. Willlam P. Herbst, druggists; . C. Graham, electric fix- tures and electric contractors: E. §. Alvord, express, transfer and storage warehouses: William F. Gude, florists d_undertakers; Dewey Zirkin, fur- riers; ugene Young, fire insurance; Leopold V. Freudberg, life insurance: Albert Sigmund, jewelry: Martin Wiecgand, lumber Cconcerns; D. J. wuffman, men’s furnishings: Carl A Droop, music stores and musicia; Hugh Reilly, paints and olls; Thoma: A Jurrell, 'real estate: Harry W shoes: George Miller, barbe Herbert Guggenheim, soft drin Baumgarten, book dealers and okbinders; Ed P. Hinkel, carpets, d J. A. Eckert, printers and Litho- craphers Collections to Be Taken. In the meantime letters are being nt to 70,000 residents of Washing- telling of en. Henry T. All Collections will many churches next Sun- day for the fund, and clubs, lodges and other organizations have indi cated their willingness to huip. eral entertain are scheduled in the interest fund in the next hem a radio benefit station WCAP on o benefit card Mrs. Christian Hampshire ave a benefit musical Karl von Lewin- entertainment to be the woman's dramatic sec- Concord Club. o Name Delegates to Parley. The governors of thirty-six states have appointed delegations to the na- convention of the Negro Na- tional Kducational Congress, which will meet in Philadelphis June 16-21 The District branch of the congress wiil meet Tuesday. 8 p.m, at the 12th street Y. M. C. when Prof. J. Sllas, president of ‘the local body. will will taken in &l 3 tion of th, | the convention. Urges Local Education Committees | education, yesterday sent appeals to | States to urge the creation of Io { permanent committees on | women prevented many from 600 EXPECTED HERE AT JEWISH MEETING —— e Arrangements Underway for An- nual Conventiont of B'rith’ Sholem This Month. DANZANSKY IN CHARGE About 400 to Come From Baltimore in Special Train. the direction of Bernard ky as general chairman, the general committee of the Independent Order of B'rith Sholem convention to Dbe held at the Raleigh May 18,19 and 20 is making preparations to enter- tain 600 guests. About 400 will come from Baltimore on a specially char- tered train to be called the “B'rith Sholem Special.” The Independent Order of B'rith Sholem is a Jewish fraternal and beneficent organization, started twen- ty-two years ago in Baltimore and | deslgned originally to include only the Jews of Maryland. | Outgrew Territory. It outgrew its territory and Wash- ington was the first city to form an “outside” lodge, which was organized ten years ago by Bernard Danzansky. The B'rith Sholem is said to be the most democratic of all Jewish fra- ternities. The coming convention will be the largest in the order's history, Dan-| zansky sald. Joseph - Sax, grand | master, and David Paulson. grand secretary, visited Washingion re ntly and commended Danzansky and his committee on the efficient Will See 'President. delegates will be met with| eing busses and shown the c Monday, May 18, they will visit the President. The convention will open that night with a banquet. Associated with Danzansky on the committee are secretary M. B. Hayman, Hoffman, . Kess- ler, M. Poretzky and L. Sklar. Na- tional officers will be elected during | The convention Plotnick, treasurer; general = NS to Help Adult Workers. The American Federation of Labor, through {ts permanent committee on all local trade unions in the Unil educat of bringing about for the purpose with school work closer association everywhere Objects set forth ure that the wage eurnere are adequately represente on municipal school boards: that erc be labor representation on sards of directors of universities and other institutions of higher | learning that “are part of the public | systeme of our country”; that books be provided where | that industrial science be loped in_the public school; that | opportunity be provided for continu- | ation and night schools under public | £chool administration. and that other | steps be taken for education of adult workers, Japanese Discarding Kimonos. Owing to the fact that the cum- bersome kimonos worn by Japanese | ap- | ing death during the carthquake und fire in 1923, prominent Japanese women have Started a movement to discard the kimono ‘as a national | dress and to begin by dressing the | children in modern European clothes. | visibility favorable when they reach- ed Atka, they might have gone on to Attu Island at the end of the chain and 530 miles from Alaska. Indications from northern mes- sages mentioning the weather were that very early in the day it prom- ised to be favorable for the trio at Dutch Harbor to take the air. Earlter fears that Maj. Martin and Sergeant Harvey would suffer severe- 1y from hunger were dispelled by the news from Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, commander of the squadron ordered to proceed from Dutch Harbor, that Maj. Martin carried emergency ra- tions for several weeks and had plenty of matches. The major’s plune was well provided with arms, ammu- nition and fishing tackle. RATIONS FOR LONG PERIOD. AIRMEN RESUME TRIP WITHOUT THEIR CHIEF (Continued from First Page.) ‘Boats also were putting forth from Bering Sea points to search” the northérn coast of the peninsula, where & tundra a hundred miles 16ng covers ‘the shore for twenty miles inlend. Natives told searchers that they had seen a plane going from Chignik toward the lakes Wednes- day. Duteh Harbor dispatch®s did not indicate whether three other fliers who left Santa Monica, Calif,, March 17, under Maj. Martin's command, to circle the earth, had carried out in- structions from Washington to pro- ceed (o the west Aleutian fsiands. The first stage set for the fliers Atkn Island, 250 mil toward Japan from Dutch Harbor, but it was thought that if the trio had started and had found the weather and ti By the Associated Press. DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, May 2 (delayed).—Not until today was wire- mmunication establish ith Chignik, Alaska, and it was learned here that Maj. Frederick L. Martin and Sergt. Alva Harvey had Jeft Chig- nik Wednesda§ for Dutch Harbor and had not returned there, Three aviators of the expedition who have been here since April 19, said that emergency rations carried by Maj. ‘Martin's plane would enable tho two travelers to survive for a long time. The pilots remarked that the missing flyers might suffer severe- ly from weather, but that there was £ood hope for a rescue. These aviators, Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, Lieut. Erick Nelson and Lieut. Leigh Wade, recalled that in fiying to Dutch Harbor from Chignik they had passed countless lakes and small coves. They believed that Maj. Mar- tin might have alighted in one of these and that it would be difficult to find the plane and men in such a place. The weather here today was favor- Sorlie, tonight. DAKOTA POLITICAL LEADER IS KILLED State Senator Baker Dies in Auto Accident—Two Companions By the Assoclated Press. STEELE, N. D, May 3.—State Sen- ator B. F. Baker was killed and Roy Frazler, chairman of the independent Republican state committee, and A. G. Non-Partisan League candidate for governor, in an automobile accident near here ‘The men were en route to Carring- ton to attend a preliminary campaigr meeting of the Non-Partisan Leagus Baker was the league candidate for Eovernor two years ago and was one of the leading fiegures in the organ- ization. Frazier attracted notice last year when the Republican state com mittee, of which he was chairman, de clared for Coolidge for President. Wax Power in League. BISMARCK, N. D., May 3.-—Probable importaat effect on North Dakota politics was seen in political circles here tonight as a result of the death of State Senator B. F. Baker in an automobile accident near Stecle. Senator Baker was regarded as ar outstanding figure in league affairs and it had been agreed that he wnaid sound the Keynote of the Non-Fartisar League campai Many regardec him " as the greatest power in th league at this tim Injured. were seriously injured able to flying, following violent storms over a fortnight. It was not known whether this weather condi- tion was general Orders that the three planes Dutch Ha c when the filed. mand of Lieut. Smith to Aaka Island, sent from Was ‘day, had evidently not been received Real Evidence. From Life. Stranger—Do you really think yo are a hundred vears old” Aged negro—Co'se Ah does. Ah can't remembah when alive! ington, D*C., yester- Why Ah wasn't foregoing dispatch was There is a message of vital in- terest back of this Sale of “Con- science Brand” Mattresses and Box Springs to every Washington home where service, quality and value are considered important. Visit our Furniture Store during “Conscience Brand Week” and let us demonstrate to you the supe- rior merit of these famous mat- s and box springs. Living up to our slogan “H furnishings that Merit Confi we invite you to come and inspect our complete line of “Con Brand” = Mattresses and Springs. This Semi-annual Sale offers an oppertunity to replace your old, worn-out bedding with mattresses and box springs of the well known “Conscience Brand” quaiity at re- duced prices. 8 Semi-Annual Sale Conscignce Brand Matt}'es S€S— |A. F. OF L. SCHoOL WORK. || : Roll Edge Layer Felt Conscience Brand Mattress $22.50 The Brand line. The filler medium-grade—absolutely clean. 30 pounds mond tufted. vice of <tripe, ACA or art ticking, in vidual sealed packages. is P, N 2| Blind Stitched e ” “Gem™ hegins the Conscience select, new and roll edge; dia- t fancy indt Real Sleep!— e e;i Ce OW is the time to stop restless, sleepless nights bed comfortable, get real rest. See Our Window Display of Conscience Brand” Bedding CONSUIENCE BRAND 55-1b. Layer Felt Conscience Brand Mattress 29.75 0 an additional ompared with th Rex. A full four-roll protects the ational m" or the imperial ed: under the favorite sitting on the bed most popular « tresses, be habit of Best 50-1b. Layer Felt Conscience Brand Mattress Make your Change NOW, while you Layer Felt Conscience Brand Mattress $26.50 The “Rex,” the next highest grade Conscience Brand Mattress. Built of somewhat better fiber, of layer felt construction, blind stitched edge, diamond tufted, weight 50 pounds. Choice of fancy stripe, ACA or art ticking. Delivered to you in an in- dividual sealed container, its inviting freshness will bring restful sleep as only Conscience Brand can. speak on “Employment BOOSTERS WILL LIST FOR OUTING IN JUNE | Steamer Chartered and Details of 400-Mile Annual Trip | Arranged. Leswen Criminality Among Negroes Brand Mattresses, Work will be the principal topic of discussion, and there will be a musi- cal program. Public invited. No ad- mission. have the opportunity to buy CONSCIENCE Box-springs and Pillows at reduced prices. In CONSCIENCE Brand Bedding the housekeeper who judges by longer wear and real comfort—rather than by flowery tick alone—can get her kind of a mattress. Canberra, the new seat of govern- ment of the Commonwealth of Aus tralia, was designed by architect. *50.00 The “Morpheus™ is the highest qual ity b0-pound layer o/ Brand mattress M best _long-staple stitched or roll cdg Your choice of fancy art ticking t s luxurious mattress to appreciate quality and beauty n, either blind amond tufted ACA or this its The tick's right, the filler’s tight, the workmanship is right. We are showing a half dozen or more grades under this label, ranging from “Gem” to the wonderful “Elite” 55-1b. best white- staple layer felt mattress. You can fit your purse and your taste.- Come tomorrow. . X W AF . ~ . . CONSTIENCE At the end of every Conscience Brand Mattress is a laced BRAND inspection opening. You can take out a bit of the long-fiber filler L and examine it with your own eyes. No cheap, dirty, short-fiber Finest Layer Felt filler here! The white, fluffy layers of buoyant long-fiber felt COflSCienCe spring back under the pressure of the hand with a resiliency which Bl'afld Nlattress makes real sleep-comifort certain. $ we are selling tands at the top of the line onscience Brand laver felt : {resses. It is made of the very finest long-staple cotton Erown. A truly wonderful mattress, its buoyant resi- will delight vou. Weig @ full four-row s ge, and cither di " Choice of ither fancy strip Although the 1924 booster outing of the Merchants and Manufacturers A: not take place until June 11™AND G STs. ‘Third Floor. Chambers Fireless Gas Ranges Special Prices already taken uv. The coming | trip—the eleventh in the history of the | association—already promises to outdo | its predecessors in point of interest, ac- ss P. Andrews, president tion. The booster committée has chartered the steamer City of Atlanta’ of the Chesapeake ship Company for a trip of 400 miles touching points in Maryland and Virginia. The first stage of the journey will be by special train leaving Washinzton at 2:45 the afte noon of Saturday, June 14, for Balti- more where the steamer wil be boarded, Cape Charles, Md.. will be the first stop of ‘the steamer Sunday morning, and the last stop of the day will be at Nor- e e at Nor. Sale Starts Tomorrow 9:15 A.M. Make up your mind now, not to miss this great bedding event. You will be repaid many times over in better sleep from perfect bedding. BEDDING DEPARTMENT Second Floor SleepA On In addition to this visible proof, the manufacturer’s guarantee is sewed to each mattress. Household Refricerator. top-icer style, hardwood; Jsinches‘ $l3.50 high . White Mountain Refrig- erator, three-door style, hardwood and brass hard- ware; ice #oe ... $33.75 75 Ibs. . Seeger Original Siphon Refrigerator, solid oak por- celain lined with cork insu- lation and extra heavy brass e ... $65.00 ware Nursery Refrigerator and Water Cooler, packed with mineral wool, finished in oak and white en- amel, with nickel faucet 5o - $3o75 $7-00 Up Perfection Oil Cook :\tove, in all it and sizes from.. Specials on the Second Floor DOLLAR AND 40 CENTS Outfit with pint-size can and spray complete . A = ] which How clean, new and sanitary the inside! “Conscience Brand” is a long-service, economical mattress—"conscientious” inside and out. of Arrangements Committee. The committee on arrangements for the outing consists following R P M. E. Hor- John H. Graham, King. Geo. J “Conscience”: “Sense of one’s own ob- ilgation to do or be that wi recog- nized as good.” — Webster's tionary. “Conscience Brand.” symbolized by the figure of conscience—typifying ceaseless vigilance in maintaining quality. . Louis 1 Harry Crandall, Killian, Philip ¥ ansbu tickings, in or art. % Box Springs | Extra Sale Features— AVE you ever noticed that all Read These Unusual Prices: first-class hotels use box- To meet the great demand for medium quality mattresses, made springs? Hotels have to please. under strict sanitary conditions, we offer the “Violet,” “Pen-Mar” q and “Corbett” mattresses at exceptionally low prices. They have learned that sleep— manufacturers of Conscience Brand beddings in their great sunlight real, restful, deep sleep—means plant. Read the prices and descriptions of quality! These are real money and success to them. Do values. vou suppose that hotels would Violet have so generally put in Box Cotton Mattress Springs unless they were the very § best possible springs for a good ozpraliValue | *16.95 . night’s rest? 510 95 % . The “Pen-Mar” 50- A clean, sanitary, 50- pound all new, white, pound, new cotton fill- cotton layer felt mat- g mattresses, soft to tress is made in the same the ‘touch. Your choice modern, sanitary day- of three attractive varie- light factory under the ties of ticking. Rolledge. Sanitary Bedding Law. diamond tufted. While Roll edge; diamond not Conscience Brand, tufted; attractive tick- this is an unusual value. ings. by B DeNeale, Fisher, A, ) oung, Maurice Kafka, Samuel . Goldheim John 8. | nn, F. ar, . H. Neumeyer Jr. J. Harry Cunningham, M. A. Leese, | Jos. A. Berbe Sidney West, Carl | Droop. Maj Anton Stephan, | Richard 1. Lamb, Harper, Stanley TLansburgh. A. F. Jorss, J. Callahan, | 8. M. Selinger, Burdett Siryker and L. | A. Payne. " gl en. w OMNIBUS PENSION BILL VETOED BY PRESIDENT d from First Page.) Triumph Felt-Top Conscience Brand Box Springs Handmade: 72 highest tem- pered individual coil springs, tied eight time: strongest con- struction throughout; well-sup- ported edge. Noiseless, excep- comfortable and dura- Liberally upholstered in a good quality white layer felt. Fancy stripe, art or ACA tick as desired. The bottom is covered with special close weaved tick and the entire box-spring is ab- solutely Impervious to dust or vermin. Delivered to your hopse bright and clean, in a sealed Wrapper. Pen-Mar Layer Felt Mattress Corbett Layer Felt war veteran, regardl was married. The bill provides for increase in the pensions of the veterans of all wars up to and including the Span- ish-American war and of widows and dependents of veterans of all wars from 1812 to 1902. Civil war veterans would have their pensions Increased from $50 to 372 a month and their widows, now getting §30 a month, would recelye $35 ‘and $45 o month, dependent on age. Spanish-American war and other wars, excepting the world war, veterans and their widows would receive proportionate iwareases and a few maimed world war. vet- erans would recetve additional com- pensation. 353,000,000 Annual Cost. e President estimated that the ill would cost $58,000,000 annually ana bring the total pension bill of the country to a point higher than ever before reached. The measure had the indorsement of 2 number of veterans organiza- tions, including the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Span- ish-American War Veterans. Headed by Carmi Thompson of Ohlo, one of the Coolidge campaign managers, a delegation of: representatives of vet- .rang organizations recently urged e President €0 apiprove the bill of when she S quare- lint Clothes famper, 17¢26 in.: strong Mattress *19.50 Made of good quality, white layer felt, 50-pound roll edge; ACA, fancy stripe or art tickings. Ii you are looking fofuh good, medium- prieed layer felt mattress, this will be sure to please $7.75 Per Pair large Bread Box, Cake Box, Flour Box, Sugar, Coffee and Tea $2.35 Electric _Iron, made’ b: The Conscience Brand Box-Spring is supreme comfort. Each spring gives at the exact point of contact, and does not fall into a hammock-like sag. .It is the most sanitary spring. It makes house- keeping easier. Neither dust nor vermin can make their way through the attrac- tive, durable tick, which incases the Conscience Brand product. \ e strongly mades 85¢ EN—— There can be no more ideal, comfort- able, long-wearing combination than a Conscience Brand Spring beneath a Con- science Bfand Mattress. Both the mat- tress and the spring are the best that can be built, It’s Real Sleep Exceptional Conscience Bran . ‘Pillow Value t pounds to pair, white and gray goose feathers and down. Made from ab- solutely clean, live featliers. Feather proof art or fancy stripe ticking. Faluters sme price as ane pair of pillows. Clean—Comfortable—Low Priced CLEANSER DISINFECTANT * wril : DEODORIZER \or g Mop with ad- INSECTICIDE justable handle. 2nd Floor 59¢c =