Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 3

LEADERS IN DISTRICT TO HONOR CITY HEADS Prominent Men and Women to At- y tend Testimonial Dinner to { Commissioners. . INVITATION TO PRESIDENT Entertainment Features An- nounced by J. H. Cunningham. Rogresentative men and women of the District are among. those who have made reservations for the testimonial dinner te the District Commissioners to bo held at the New Willard Hotel Mon- uay eesainz. May 19, according to an announcement last night by Isaac Gans chademian of the joint committee in charze. . Washingtonians may make their res- ervations at the office of the Washing- ton Board of Trade, Washington Cham- ber of Commerce and Merchants and Manufacturers Association and Federa- tion of Citizens' Association. The com- mittee advises that checks in all in- stances should be made to the order of M. A Leese, treasurer, Commissioners dinner committee. Officialy Are Invited. Any one of the: zations will mail tickets to properly accredited in- @viduals immediately on receipt of €heak Five dollars per person covers the cost of the dinner. The presidents ©of the four leading organizations of Washington, which are arranging for the dinner. have joined in an invita- tion to President and Mrs. Coolidge to attend the dinner. The members of the | Senate and House District committer and their wives likewise have been in- vited The program for the cvening in- cludes ‘a reception from 7 to 7:30 o'clock, during which, as well as during’ the dinner, an orchestra Will entertain. Names List of Entertainers. | ©. Harry Cunningham, chairman of the committee on talent, announced last night that among those who ‘would entertain are George O'Connor, mccompanied by Matt Horne; Arthur Pierce and the Washington Quartet, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. M. Bowde, Fred East and Miss Ritchie McLean. - | At “the offices of the organizations | Involved it was stated that there is| & brisk demand for ticket | The seating committee, which George Plitt is chairman, will meet Wednesday afternoon to place those | fwho have made reservations —_— WANT VETO OVERRIDDEN. Veterans Send Appeal to Sgnate and House. A. Miles Camp, TUnited r Veterans,.y day m the Senate House to pass, over the v President, the Bursum pen. The camp urged that the of the United States “be not forg ful: or unmindful with its defender: and particularly t few remaining Veterans of the Grand Army of the | ublic, who saved the Union for Gen, Ne New Hampshire Class Here. The senior class of Hinsdale, N. H Righ School is in Washington for a | three-day sightseeing tour. during which the students will visit the halls of Congress, Mount Vernon and | other historic spots. Leaving here Wednesday, they will stop off to see | New York before returning home Stone to Be Speaker. Attorney General Stone will go to| Cork to deliver an address June | t 1 dinner to Edward | Finch, justice of the appellate | division of the supreme court, and | retiring president of the Association of the Alumni of the Law School of | Columbia University, The dinner will be tendered by the alumni of the Columbia Law chool, of which the Attorney General is former dean. It | is planned to he o of the chief | events of the commencement season. | | IMER . Col. n.w.. r and K, 7 G A VAN LOAD OF FUR- mitare from New York, Philadelphia, Bethle- hem Wi AND HOTELS, rugs with Hoover's Cyclone. « and res v allow 1 AND WIDO rease, rerating or | ted claim, write Dr. Tension ~ Atiorneve, | o HOWE t run in word classified. $2 SREATLY 2 ECIATE the partics who witbessed an auto- mobile accident Tetween two rars at Connec ticut ave. and Calvert st. ning about 8:30. M reons were Tuateate with n.w.. Sunday eve- | 4, At which time three ously " injured, would com. ARRELL, 716 11th st ® 1 BLE FOR ANY debts other those contracted b 2 Jf. THOMAS WINDSOR, 1301 Wisconsin ave. 3 13¢ FURNITURE _RBPAIRING AND _ UPHOL | stered_at vour home: will go anywhere. Ad dress Box 280-H, Star o sonry foundation and chimney for eight-room frame house: also plumbing estimate. Phone | Colnmbia_7333-W. . VE AGENT'S COMMIS- bost brushes . $1.85. PRO- 8 mw. 31 TO_RICHMO! e Barre. Py ~Wasii. to Daytos, 0 [ irect mo SRS AL EPECIAL RAT! Va—Wash. to Boston Wash.—Wash to Detro RED BALL TRANSIT ( CBMENT WORK—CEMENT WAL] coping, garge floors. porches. NORTHEAST CONCRETR 27 7th N.E. - Tine I;-LOORS SCRAPED, CLEANED, finished. CALL _H. GARNER, Fr. Printing at Low 250 Bond Letterhead Bond Billhead XXX Enselopes. Business Ca LOUIS STRAND, 539 East 83rd St.. New York. N.Y. 110 Free Plans and Estimates DWELLS HARRIS, CONTRAGTOS AND 010_F ST. N.W. FR. 8072-W. o BUILDER. 1010 Tin Roofs—Slag Roofs Repaired and Painted. Call Main Grafton & Son, Inc. Roofing experts for 35 veark. ‘Washington Loan & Trust bld WINDOW SCREENS. An ¥iods of remodeling aud repairing. 1 WAS| W '+ STEPS, | RE F. SCOTT, Pot. 2424. 30 THE Lest We Forget ington 70,000 soldiers sleep. This with which to bear the expenses of small. Mail it today, and d NATION PAYS HONOR TO MOTHERS TODAY Sermons, Sunday School Talks and Wearing of Flowers Feature D. C. Observance. Today is’ Mothers' day. Throughout the nation homage is being paid to American mothers be- cause of the service they have ren- dered to their country as the guiding spirit of the home, the source of the nation's strength and supremacy 1t is customary to commemorate the ay by wearing a colored flower if the mpther is stiil living or a white flower in_her memory if deceased. Washington churches of various de- nominations will join in the general observance with appropriate sermons and Sun hool talks The Episcopal churches of the Washington diocese will give prac- tical expgession to ‘the spirit of the day by an offering, one-half of which will be applied to the erection of a memorial to parents and used as a permanent home for aged and in- digent Episcopalians. A celebration that was to have marked the occasion in Washington wasg canceled because of the sudden death of Mrs. Hubert L. Work, wife of the Secretary of the Interior. The dedication of a birch tree in honor of the mothers of all the nation’s Pres dents was to have taken place ves- terday in the White House grounds. Mrs. Coolidge was to have sprinkied the first earth on the tree and the President was to have made an ad- dress. The affair has been postponed indefinitely. All day yesterday the District of Columbia Chapter of American War Mothers sold carnations. annual event with the organization, the proceeds of which go to the relief of the disabled veterans in the va- rious hospitals and to the assistance of needy families of veterans. \GREAT FALLS POWER HEARINGS TUESDAY Experts Called Before Subcommit- tee, Which Will Resume Ses- sions Under Zihlman. Hearings will be resumed Tues- day morning at 10 o'clock in the Dis- trict of Columbia committee room in the House office building on the Zihlman-Moore measure for develop- ment of water power at Chain Bridge amd Great Falls. in accordance with the plan prepared by Maj. M. C. Tyler. Among the been invited who have to testify on Tuesday by acting Chairman Zihlman are Maj. Darlington, who was the officer in charge of this power area during the war; John Hays Hammond, Col William ' Kell chief engineer of the federal power commission, and Maj. Gen. William M. Black, who has made a special study on what the witnesses in money-saving to the people of the | District. R Ball to Aid Service Club. | A military ball is to be given in the sail loft at the navy yard Thars- under the auspices of the Army avy League, for the benefit of the Army, Navy and Marine Club- hcuse, 3 1015 L street northwest. The clubhouse was opened March 4, with a brilliant reception. It is pro- vided with sleeping rooms, baths, showers, and meals may be obtained at reasonable cost. and 11th and E Easy ‘Mont Open Evenin, H.R.How Automobile Painting, ve y‘:t;\r car painted like pew in 3 to 6 s by Lyk Glags Auto Painting System And save money. 2018 12th St N.W Phone Potomac 101. We're Ready to Serve You —with EXPERT ROOF REPAIRERS— men with long experiesce in this work, i SRICT "A D Rootins 1121 5tb N.W. ONCL Company. Phone Main 14. FLOORS Lai, scraped and @nished. @ streets. Office, 32d and Cathedral Ave. annoyance. floors made to look like new. ACME FLOORING CO. 1311 H 8 This is an | | child to participate Sleeping Porches, Large Take H or D St. Cars to 11th St. ENSTEIN On the wooded slopes of Arlington and other cemeteries in Wash. year, as last, their graves will go unmarked, their deeds unsung, unless Washington responds*to an appeal. It is a simple appeal, shortly told. The Grand Army of the Republic and allied veterans' orgenizations in Washington are prohibited from making their annual solicitation in the government departments for funds placing on Decoration Day (and on May 25 for the Confederates) a small American Flag and a flower at the head of each of their comrades’ graves and holding sppropriate exercises in each cemetery where rest soldier dead. ; These veterans appeal to you, through The Evening Star, which will accept and acknowledge contributions. Send something, no matter how nate it “Decoration Day Fund—The Evening Star,” stating, at the same time, whether it should go fo the Decoration Day Fund or the Confederate Veter}n Fund for use May 25. BALL TO ASK ACTION ON SOME D. C. BILLS D. C. Committee Chairman Hopes for Passage of Policemen's, Fire- men’s and Teachers’ Salaries. Senator Ball, chairman of the Dis- trict committee, will endeavor to put through a number of important local bills that are on the calendar before Congress adjourns. If an opportunity presents itself tomorrow the chairman_will seek a vote on the bill to increase the salaries of policemen and firemen. He will not ask for consideration of this measure, however, until the rent law resolution has been disposed of. The next piece of legislation the senator will put forward is the teachers' pay bill, which corresponds to the measure the House passed, ex- cept that it provides a higher salary for the superintendent of schoc Other District bills that may be acted on soon include the following A bill definitely fixing the name of the seat of government; a bill to regulate the practice of architecture in_ Washington, and a measure to regulate the practice of optometry. FERNALD TO PRESS U. S. BUILDINGS BILL Hopes for Early Senate Vote on $50,000,000 Omnibus Program for District. Every effort will be made tain a vote in the Senate, before ad- journment, on the bill providing for | ;ThO! a huge building program house properly a number of government establishments in Washington, Sena- tor Fernald, chairman of the commit- tee on public buildings and grounds, said yesterday. to The bill was reported favorably by | of the National nator Keyes, on behalf of the com- mittee, more than a week ago, and it is believed the measure will pass when it can be called up. The bill guthorizes an appropria- tion of $10,000,000 a vear until the buildings are completed. The total cost is $50,000,000. The buildings are to take care of government offices now housed in rented quarters or in inadequate structures. It includes an archives building to provide for the safe keeping of priceless govern- ment records and docwments. Appeal for Mothers' Memorial. Those in charge of the Mothers' Memorial, last night issued an invi- tation to every man, woman and in the erection of the mothers’ memorial tower. Ap. plications to place tributes in the tower may be made to the Mothers' Memorial Foundation, Continental Trust Company. Representative Reed Improved. Repdesentative Stuart F. Reed West Virginia, chairman of the House District committee, sat up in bed vesterday for the first time after having been confined to his bed for Seventeen weeks. ‘The attending physician hopes of Mr. Reed’s recovery, said that he expected he would be able to stand on his feet for a few minutes this time next week. Representative Reed, a couple of months ago, announced his intention to retire from Congress at the end of the present session BARGAINS! Streets N.E. Just South Md. Ave. LPayments d Sunday Large Lots to Paved Alley Room for Garage Hot-Water Heat Electric Lights Front Lawns @ INCORPORATED @ 1311 H.STREET. NORTHWEST Massachusetts Park The Triangle of Increasing Values between Connecticut.Ave., Massachusetts Ave. and Woodley Road (Cathedral Ave.) 238 acres. i Zoned or restricted against apartments, stores and community houses. - Over 175 homes from $15,000 to $200,000 built and under construction. Actual improvements and hgme values exceed $7,000,000. Wooded villa sites, lots, central and side hall homes, with lots from 50 to 115 feet front. Six miles of improved Park (Woodley Road). Inquiries in person, telephone or letter receive intelligent answer without No engagements made for Sundays. Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Since 1598—No Place Like Home; No Home Like Ours. Riggs-Semmes Bldg., Dupont Circle, Potomac 2200 Member Washington Real Estate Board. held ont | and | SUNDAY STAR, WASHIN ob- | VETERANS TO HONOR GRAVES OF COMRADES Men Wheo Fought for South to Ob- serve May 25 as Memo- ¢ rial Day. EXERCISES AT ARLINGTON Other Organizations to Aid in Ceremonies. Memorial services, under the au- spices of Camp 71, United Confederate Veterane, assisted by other organiza- tions, which help keep alive memories of the soldiers who wore the gray, will hold memorial exercises in the Confederate section of Arkngton cemetery on the afternoon of May 25, at 3 o'clock. Assisting the veterans will be the Confederate Southern Memorial As- sociation, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Southern Relief So- ciety. At the exercises assembly will be sounded by a bugler of the United States Marine Band, after which “America” will be sung by the audi- ence, accompanied by the Marine Band. An oration will be delivered by Representative T. Webber Wilson of Missisippi. Also, there will be sev- eral renditions by a quartet. Prayer and benediction will be delivered by Rev. Dr. Parke P. Flournoy, a mem- ber of Camp 171, U. S, V. Flowers will be strewn under the over the direction of the committee, assisted by all of the Confederath organizations. The committees for the occasion are Arrangements—Col. John M. Fol- lin, airman: Robert Thompson, K. M. Angeélo, George A. Alexander and W. J. Parr. lowers and decorations—Miss Mae V. Petty, Mrs. Elizabeth . Fred, Mrs. Esther Emmart, Mrs. Maude Howell Smith and Mrs. Rose M. Mul- care Public order—Col. W. L. Wilkerson, chairman; J. M. Locker, A. L. McAllis- ter. E. 0. Scaggs and Richard H. Sor- | re The quartet Fannie Shreve Miss Lillian Charles E. P. is_composed of Mrs. Heartsill, soprano: Chenoweth, contralto; Myers, tenor, and Francis Heartsill, bass. ——— Decorations. table Dieces, ete. F.—Advertisement. Wedding Palm; Gude, 1212 TWO HANGED MEN‘EURlED‘ NEW ORLEANS, May 10.—The bodies of two of the six men hanged | at Amite yvesterday for the murder | of Dallas Galmes, at Independence, three years ago—Joseph Bocchio and | atale Deamore were buried here today. TON. | duration. | mitteem Those of Andrea Lamantia, Joseph and Roy Leona were sent to- | night to Brooklyn, N. Y., and that | of Joseph Rini was taken to Chicago | by his father. Colored Body to Meet. District of Columbia Branch Association for the Advancement of Colored People will | hold its regular monthly meeting | Wednesday evening in _the Assembly Hall of the Twelfth Street Branc of the Y. M. C. A. This will probably be one of the most important meel ings of the association since the in- auguration of the city-wide budget and membership drive. The heads of | divisiors, captains and workers have been requested to be present with reports, in order to make the last few remaining days the most inten- sive of the drive Store Hold-Up Nets $18. Three armed men held up Edward M. Davis, proprietor of a delicatessan at 426 K street northeast yesterday. compelled him to open his place of business, and robped the cash regi ter of $18 Davis had closed the establishment for the night, and was on his w to his home at 8 14th street northe: . when the young men stopped him, one of them asking for a dollar. When | refused, Davis told the police, the man drew a revolver and threatened The of | his life unless he reopencd the store | ana permitted him to enter. Davis complied with the demand, opened the store, and stood quietly Ly while the trio rifled the cash register. Coolidge Receives Foreign Visitors At White House With ambassadors and ministers of four foreigp countries calling on President Coolldge” to' present dis- tinguished visitors, the \White House yesterday took on the appearance of the State Department on “diplomatic day.” Sir Esme Howard, the British am- bassador, presented William Morris Hughes, former premier of Australia, who has concluded a series of public addresues in the United States. Preparatory to a national service here tomorrow to celebrgte the 300th anniversary of thg settlement of New York by the Humuenots and Wal- loons, Chaplain Georges: Lauga, rep- resenting Krance and the French Protestagt churches, and Rev. Leon- ard Hoyols, representing the Protes- tant_churches of Belgium, called off the President, eccompanied by French Ambassador Jusserand, Belgian Am- bassador De Cartier and Dutch Min- ister De Graeff. l{ Mme. Signe Lund, a Norwegian newspaper woman, was introduced by Norwegian Minister Bryn. B. A. McDONNELL DIES. Was Enown as ‘“Brian"—Had Lived Here Sixty-Seven Years. Bernard Aloysius McDonnell, sixty- seven vears old, familiarly known as “Brian". McDonnell, died yesterday at | his home, 1003 24th street northwest, | following an illness of six months' Tuneral servites will be held Tues- day morning at St. Stephen’s Catholic | Church. Interment will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery | “Brian” McDonnell was the son of James McDonnell, who came from Treland and settled in Alexandria, | Va. where the son was born. The | father came to Washingtoh when the | son was six months old | For many years McDonnell was | proprietor of “a saloon at 1102 Sth | street, and later was manager of the | Lookout Inn on Good Hope Road. He | had been employed at the Raleigh | Hotel for the past twelve vears, In | the days when Washington had local politics McDonnell was central com- n for the twenty-second dis- trict. He is survived by a son, James A G. McDonnell: a brother, James A McDonnell, and a sigter,” Mary Me- Donnell. PR TV~ 400 Nurses to Hear Talk. | More than 400 nurses in uniform | from the hospital training schools of | this city and the Army school are| expected to attend exercises at 7:30 | oclock this evening at Sacred Heast | “hurch, 16th street and Park road, Rev. Father Smith will preach rmon The Connecticut Inn 1124 Coonecticut Ave. Bet. L & M Unexeclled Food Roast Capon or Tenderloin | Steak Dinner, 85c Every Sunday | Open & AM. 1o & P.M WHEN YOU THINK —of Panting Paperbanging asd Decorat- ing think of Tayler. e Estimates made on request. HARRY W. TAYLCR CO. PAPERHANGING AND PAINTING 2333 18th St. N.W. Tel. Col. 1077 ~ PAINTINGS R. McGill Mackall ARTS CLUB, 2017 Eye DAILY—10 TO § _May 4—through May 6.+ | The Rare Book Shop || 723 Seventeenth St. | Main 1291 Highest Prices Paid | —for entire Libraries or Single Volumes, Prints, En- gravings and Autograph Let- ters. Representative will call. CASH PAID and purchases zemoved promptly. Bradley Hills Washington’s Country Club District Villa sites and acreage properties facing or adjacent to the Congressional Count ry Club, the Burning Tree Golf Club and the Montgomery Country Club, which has been purchased by the Syndicate. Bradley Road is the main thoroughfare through the 2,250 acres of the Bradley Hills Properties which begin at the northwest corner of the extend beyond the Congressional Coun Desirable lots in “The “Montgomery Club, subdivisions. Prices on requ lot, or a villa site, or a small if you BUY IN BRADLEY HILLS | Inquirien In permon, tele answer, without anmoyance. No Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Simce 1898—No Place Like Home; No Home Like Ours. Riggs-Semmes Bldg., Dupont Circle. Member Washington “Burning Tree” and “Congressional” wone or letter recelve imtelligent Chevy Chase Golf Club and try Club. glish Village,” “Hillmead,” test. If you desire a $1,000 farm, you make no mistake engagements made for Sundays. * Potomac 2200 Real "Estate Board. 1006 to 1014 3rd St. N.E. Just North of K St. N.E. $500 CASH Monthly Paymm? Open Evenings and Sunday Large Lots to Paved Alley Room for Garage Hot-Water Heat Sleeping Porches, Large Front Lawns Take H St. Cars to Third Street and Walk North H.R.HOWENS Wl H.STREET. Electric Lights TEIN INCORPORATED NORTHWEST & 4 D. ¢, MAY 11, '1991_PART T ORANGES and GRAPEFRUIT 302" 10th Street N.W. Just ¥ Block South of Penna. Ave. dotsimi .. $1.65 90c ORANGES, 20 Ibs., about Y2 bushel. . . . $1.25 75c GRAPEFRUIT, 35 Ibs., ‘about a bushel . . . .. GRAPEFRUIT, 18 Ibs., ORANGES, ' 755 %5 5o per box . 90 .h. . $3.00 GRAPEFRUIT, Average About per box . $2.25 about > bushel . . . . 55 to the Box CAR LOTS OUR SPECIALTY ORANGES . . . 25 ¢ Dozen GRAPEFRUIT 4 for 25 ¢ FINEST FRUIT FLORIDA HAS ALL HAND CLIPPED No Windfalls or Rots—Strictly Fresh ‘Special Out-of-Town Deliveries and Prices v, €3 25 e $2.50 ORANGES, 75 box lots, $ 3.2 5 $250 lots, > aer " per box $2.50 | D ed Withi el "~ perbox . . No Deliveries Made Until Purchasers See Fruit—If You See the Fruit, You Will Buy GRAPEFRUIT, 75 box l ot s, Deli;zr;:il!iitlfin p er !) 0X GRAPEFRUIT, 150 box Keystone Patk Growers’ Association Member of the Florida Citrus Exchange J. A. COOPER, Manager Compare Our Prices With Others 302 10th Street NNW Between Pa. Ave and Center Market