Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1925, Page 7

Tl EvkNIN CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The National Fellowship Club will ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. Dr. Durkee, president of Howard Y niversity, will address the Business Women's Council at Church of the Covenant. speclal meeting, 8 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Bessie W. Franzonl, 1900 Second street northeast. The regular January meeting has been called off because of the meeting of Grand Chapter, O. E. 8. row night at the Cairo. Strangers in the city cordially Invited. American hardware is used in Bo- Women's Eastern Star Club of the| More than 300,000 definite livia in preference to all others. frreasury Department will hold alpounds of carbon are known. com- R L LS Even a Petted Princess Would Adore Such Tables So lovely are the many delightful tables here at the Lifetime Fur- niture Store that you just can’t help admiring them. ‘Tables of all styles and for all uses— end tables, consoles, library and davenport tables, and many small occasional tables are here to greet you. Prices partake of modesty, and Life- time quality never changes. Davenport tables are priced now from $19.75 to $350. We'll be glad to show you. Lifetime Furniture Is More Than A Name MAYER & CO Between D & E . Seventh Street sy Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits Reduced to $26-35 Just One of the Amazing Values in OUR GREATEST CLEARANCE SALE HartSchaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoatls at astonishing reductions! F we quoted all the bargains there would be too many to read; it’s enough to give you one as typical, and to tell you that there are many, many more in our Greatest Sale. Every Suit and Overcoat in the Sale was made by Hart Schaffner & Marx — that guarantees finest quality; and we’ve cut the prices to the bone—that assures you of the best.values you can find. No Charge for Alterations Deposits Accepted Raleigh Haberdasher Saiisfaction Guaranteed Inc. Thirteen Ten F Street give a get-acquainted dance tomor- ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., FRIDAY, BROOKE HUNTER WEEKS, 69, DIES AT HOME HERE SR Long-Time Employe of Treasury Was Member of Washing- ton Family. Brooke Hunter Weeks, 69 years old, retired, for many vears an employe of the Treasury Department, dled at his residence, 1320 Sunderland place, yes- terday, after a lingering illnesa. "Mr. Weeks was retired from the Govern- ment servico two years ago. Mr. Weeks was a direct descendant of George Washington's grandfather, Lawrence Washington, having been the meventh fn descent. His father and mother, the late Alfred Conrad v . Anne Stephen Hunter were married at University, , at a house bullt by Thomas Jef- ferson. Mr, Weeks was born at Belle Grove Plantation of old St. Marys Parish, La. Coming (o this clty, he was first l.appointed to the Government service in 1876, and, except for a few inter- vening years which he spent in Texas, was employed in the Treasury D he best-looking All- wool Suits and Overcoats. that always sold at $. can be bought in this January Clearance Sale at $18.75. The reduction is a gen- uine one—you can save exactly $6.25 on either suit or overcoat. As this sale just started, there is a wide range of colors and models. Sizes are also complete. You will have no trouble find- ing the garment to please. 7th & serious. ing today. A solution lations and Yestrictions. E give publicity here to improvement in traffic missioners only if you them in. to be service in a true ing public. space. L. Letters and plans must be mailed in immediately. Traf- fic problems are now being consid- ered by, various law-making bodies and legislation is imminent. . All letters must be signed, with mention made of the writer’s permis- sion to publish. ‘Write your solution t ALLAN E. WALK Georgia Ave. and Upshur St. 10th and E Sts. N.W. 17th and L Sts, N.W. Send Your Letter i partment until his retirement two years ago. He is survived by a sister, Miss Fannle Washington Weeks; a broth- er, Alfred Conrad Weeks, and two nieces, Miss Irances Washington Weeks and Miss Nancy Hunter Weeks, all living In Washington. Funeral services will be conducted at the residenee tomorrow afterncon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Oak HIl Cemetery. EX-ENVOY’S WIFE DEAD. Mrs. Robert Underwood Johnson Is Author’s Mother. NEW YORK, January 2.—Mrs. Rob- ert Underwood Johnson, wife of the former Ambassador to Italy and mother of Owen Johnson, the nov- ellet, dled at her home Wednesday night, following a sudden heart at- tack, it was announced by the fam- ily yesterday. Services will be held here this aft- ernoon and interment will be made tomorrow at Stockbridge, Mass. Owen Johnson now is in France and will not be able to attend the funeral. January Clearance Sale of 25 Suits and Overcoats EISEMAN’S F Sts. “No Parking” What Has the Motorist to Say? \ HE AUTOMOBILE problem is de- veloping so rapidly that the regula- tions of yesterday are unfitted for today. The parking problem is It is causing more concern to the motorist than any other problem exist- must be found. Let’s hear from the man who has put his ynplentiful doMars into a car for his business needs, and has watched its usefulness cut down by regu- Voice your views here! MINUTE SERVICE STATIONS will motorists’ letters sug- gesting traffic changes, modified parking laws, court facilities. Your recommendations, plans and criticisms will be brought to the attention of the District Com- act at once in sending No obligation to you is implied. * MINUTE SERVICE STATIONS have adopted the Minuteman insignia as a trade- mark of service readiness. We consider this spirit of our name and appreciate the opportunity to serve the motor- Whatever we do for the unorganized side of the question—the motorist’s side—we be- lieve should bring better understanding be- tween all affected by conditions. To discussion from the motorist’s viewpoint, we open this Conditions of Offer to Publish Letters All meritorious plans received awill be submitted for- mally to the Dis- trict CommiSsion- ers. The writer of a letter must view his subject dispassion- ately. Actual experiences and grievances must only be re- lated in connection with a suggested remedy for parking problems and-traffic congestion or po- lice treatment of motorists. o traffic problems to ER, PRESIDENT Mm&rfikecfiltz’ofls ROOM 701, SOUTHERN BUILDING Penna. Ave. and 21st St. N.W. Linworth and C Sts. SW. 1705 L St. N.W. in Today——NOW' JANUARY 2, . 1925. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Snow or rain tonlght; minimum temperature 20 degrees; tomorrow falr; fresh north and northeast winds. Maryland—Raln or snow tonight; tomorrow falr; little change in tem- perature; strong north winds. Virginla—Fair in west, rain or snow in east portion tonight; tomor- row fair, little change in tempera- ture; strong morth and northwest winds diminishing. Records for 24 Hours Thermometer—4 p.im., 28; 8 p.m 12 midnight, 28; 4 a.m., 30; § a.m,, 24; noon, 29, Barometer—4 . 30.54; 12 midnight, 3 8 am., 30.30; noon, Highest temperature, 30.6, occurred at 3:45 am. today. Lowest tempera- ture, 23.7, occured at 6 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 33; lowest, 28. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at 8 am.: Great Falls—Tem- perature, 32; condition, clear. Weather in Varlous Cltfes. T Temporature. 0 Tiepup Stations. Weather. e g o) tww Tlear Cloudy Foggy. = Raining Snowing Cloudy Clear’ Cloudy Abilene, Tex. 30 b Cioudy Snowing Raining Clear Cleveland | Denver . | Detroit Indianapolis. 30.26 Jacksonviile. 30.30 Kangas City 30. Los Angeles. 30. Snowing Clear, Clear Philadelpiia. 30.90 Snowing Phoenix ....30.18 ! Pittsburgh (8 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Temperature. Weather. 50 ain C. R. GROVE EXPIRES. Father of Capital Physician Dies in Hagerstown. Clinton R. Grove, formerly a well known real estate man of western Maryland, died at Hagerstown, Md., Tueaday, according to word received friends yesterday. ove is survived by his wid- Stella Hedges Grove; a daughter, Mrs. Grove Hardesty of Baltimore; a son, Dr. George H. Grove of this city, and a grandsén, Clinton Grove Hardesty. “Mrs, A O 2 Noted Caricaturist Dies. LONDON, January 2.—Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, famous caricaturist of the Westminster Gazette when it was in Its heyday as a London eve- ning paper, died here yesterday in his eighty-first year. Files Bankruptey Plea Aaron S. Lesser, merchant, 526 H street northeast, today filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. He lists his debts at $2,300.61, and estimates his assets at $1,732.03. Attorney Mil- ton Strasburger represents the mer- chant $5,000 Life Insurance for $46.90 At Age 35—send date of hirth for particu- tars ‘wnd lllustration, Company founded 1865. Assets over_$300. W To mby Goft, 616 Woodward Bldg. —are thoss who select Chambers, makes only & small profit. mabors ill sell you & Fine Qual- ity Gray or Black Ousket for— Equal to un $125 kind. Chembers will finish the whole Fu- neral for— sloo'm Guaranteeing it equal to some costing Call The Brown Stone Funeral ‘Home of W. W. Chambers, Inc. 14th, Cor. Chapin St. N.W. Col. 43 FOUND OG- o and tan female fox forrier, Tall, found Christmas moraing. 622 D Phone Linc. 7453. Ton n ATREDALE, —Tight name, Shaymus. ‘ulley, 1119 14th_st. 3¢ o St. Patri 700. Seceipter Jan. Bth st. u COLLIE. female. Tost in rear of American Uni- versiy, near Nebrask white feet, white Tare. bare ‘spot on. Datk{ biack spot on’ top. of il Ketura to 3410 Reservolr si.'and reces reward. DIAMOND DINN RING—) ve. between T and K nfaining small _black purse with two, twen Leave at . or wi HASDBAG coniaining money ward. 711 10th xt. MUFFLER—WIII ..my who found mufler in Colnmbla Theater. Dec. 31, please call Main 520. Branch 1068 David Cloftmen. Mu Talned_an keersake. Reward. PEARL NECKLACE, December 22nd: o ques T ed. Very liberal reward. " AXica Teutsuml, the Argyle, 1ith and Park rd. Adame 5662 PENDANT TOST—One mall’guew: v 1in and keys; re- Tarwe Giamond, - five ing to Wood- . to Sth. down Liberal feward. Lotarop, do ¥ m- to Lincoln Natl. fi s rs00s Ntz Ol Teestey nighs,containlog | driter’s lcense' of Curgic Call Hyattsville 8273 Rive Bet, Vb Vack pearl. Reward. athedzal Manslon_Sonth 3o Wednesd er reward, - Smith at._n.w. SPECTAULES, shell tim; 1n Columbia o,,um Co.. case. Please notify M. sard, fieid_nurse. v LA —lady's, biue ik, on car, 5. Reward. 6. WEED antiskid chain, Bxit. Munsey Bldg. WRIST WATCH_Lady's white goid Fig Jost Wednesday moraing ahout 10 o'cloc tween fhe 200 block and. 700 block™in T e, Reward. 275 Reward, 1113 W A A om i “or mm, 16th n.¥w. TWO ARMY OFFICEBS DIE. War Department Leatus of Deaths of Maj. Nunan and Lieut. Morton. The War Department is in Maj. Robert G. Nunan, a ret of the Quartermaster Corps, d Naval Hospital, San Diego, Ca cember 29, and that First Licut. jamin R. Morton, Air Service, died at Denver, Colo., on the same date. Mal. Nunar’ was from Oregon, and cntered the military service in June, 191 served tours of duty in the flnance of- fice, War Department, and in the ad- jutant general's office, War Department Lieut. Morton was from Missourf, and entered the Army Signal Corps in March, 1918. He was stationed in_the oftice of the chief of Air Service, War ment, in 1921, and was under treatment at Walter Heed General Hospital in August last. JAMES F COOPER DIES. Well Enown Newspaper Man Once Worked Here. PHILADELPHIA, January 2. F. Cooper, a v«uh man and her Philadelphia Inquirer, dicd yesterday at his home of pneumoni Born in Rondout, N. Y Cooper began his newspaper about 30 ¥ on the Boston rmed t —James known newspaper Washington burean World. He is survived by his widow and two daughters. His mother lives in De- troit, where his body will be taken for burial. NOTED SCULPTOR DIES. Burr Churchlll Mlllel, 64, Suc- cumbs to Brain Fever. Burr Churchill Miller, inent sculptor and a son of th United States Senator Warner Mil- ler of Herkimer, Y., died at his home in this city vesterday of brain tever after an illness of one month. Germany’s Oldest Woman Dies. WALBERBERG Rhineland, Jan- vary 2.—Berta Kuebbler, Germany's oldest woman, is dead here at the a of 106 years and 3 months. PBeaths, Thursday. January ACON, nged 4 years. + B Funeral BACON. 1 TON B. and Cl later. BELL. Thursday, January 1, 1 Randolph husband o of Ernest January 3, friends invited. BULLOCK. Thursday, January 1, JAMES MADISON "widow of Mi Bullock of Greene Coun the. daugnter of Judge William M of Mobile. Ala., and mother of Bullock Willis.' Burlal at Mob CARSON. Departed thig life Wednesdar, cember 31, 1924, at 12:45 a.m,, LUCINDA CABSON. * She leayes i, mours thelr loss Ber husband, two 1 and_friends. ¥ 18! De. A g She leaves to mourn their loxs a devol daugbter. two granddsughters, son-in. undar, Bethiefiem Bapilst Church, Rev W. Face of Friday, Md.. J FA band of Mary M. rangements in due time. GARMAN. Tuesdar, Miami, Fia Frances G December 3 JOHN D., beloved b nan (nee Braughier) will be held at his late residence, 600 Ma land ave. n.e.. on Saturday, January at 3 p.m. Relatives and friends iovi attend. Interment at Cherry Tree, Pa GATEWOOD. Departed thix life Wednes morning, December 31. 1024, AL 8 o'clock, fueral of our brother, ALL GILLISPIE TON, Purmanent Secretars, GLEASON. Wednesday. | at the residence of I lie A._0'Doonell, nw., JOHN L. S dnuglmr ew Jersey hustand of Funeral will beloved” | | Chureh, mass | = of his soul | December 3 Morton st. beloved Arlena Gordon and father of Garnet M., | GORDON. Wednexday. Ris_residen LAS H. usbasd ot Torsex, arsis Co. in charge. HESSLER. Departed this life at 10 o'clock p.m., Mecember 31, t 603 1 st. n. TRA ewart). widow of Hessler. beloved mother of Mrs. William Heixs, Mrs. John Alcoon, Mrs. John Spellbring, Mrs. Goorge Aubinger, Thamas E. a Hessler. Service at followed high . ‘Aloysius Church at Glenwood Cemetery. a s He leaves relatives: and weral from Ji Sunday, to mourn their loss ¥ w Ce pel, suddenly, De. 2004 11th “hushand of arn LEITNER. Departed this life 0, 1924, i 5 ZEA the Tate 10u Leitner. their loss, children. 1 pm., fr T sf. n.w. MACDERMOTT. ' Entered into rest, at the home of her daugh Keith Macdermott, 2 A "l January 1 Macder. . Wil Pennsylvania ave. n.w., Sat- urday, January 3. at n MOOREFIELD. - Friday, Januars 2, 1025, at 4:30 a.m., LOUIS, beloved husband of Jo- sephine Mooretield, aged 48 sears. Funeral sersices at his late residence. n.w., Monday, January 5. at tives and friends lnvited to attend, PURDEY. Wednesday, December Sibley ilospital, . Clark). Funeral Saturday. Janu at §:30 a. Cemeters. QUIGLEY. .. thenee to T B R T repose of her soul. Interment Mou, Cemetery. Relatives and friends SAMPLE. Thursdar. Ju “clock 2 for the Depart- | of the etaft of the | Zfl%tatbs. | | sTONE. Do of e la Stone of from chapel of 10th st. n.w. v, Tatermept Rock (r STONE. A spe Lodge. No AMES €. DULIY WAYNES. Departed this_life ember 31. 1924, 8 pom 1 th st B He lenves to mourn u devoted wife, hers and a bost of W Wednesday at his res HENTEY WAY N two si but’ God Joved THE Thursd bis | WEEKS. piace n.w., late Alfrea Hunter Plantation from his i and formerly of Bell denn. Fla.. BEVERLE WAKHINGTON, son of he. laie WARNEI Alfred Con W ve Pla orl JIn Memoriam. BROWN. dear Tusl departed this life four vary 2, 1921 May the O'er th "Mid the ¢ You will sad_and los . JOSEPH my who Jan BROWN ago today, winds blow softly ud hallowed spot; ot A daughter of Mfre. Aniie my dear 'm.m,- Devaugii HER LOVING HUSBAND AND CHILDREN AND DEAR MOTHL EARVEY. Sacred (o the me i SSIE HARVEY o depaticd thia 1ifs ot 3 Janya 19: ¥ of my den Robioson s ago tods. He giveth His beloved sleep. HER FRiEND Banm MILLER. and n of ¢ A mass, In sud loving remem! DA v st. NEWTON. EL dear, the name T miss you "aud m CHILY otbers are DEVOTED MATHEWS ROBY. WINDHAM. of ‘my darling 1 DAUGHTEI LOVINGLY, ALl SIMMS. In memo ELIZABETH B, 1if WASHINGTON NE AND it it HALL AND HENRY FUNERAL DIRECTORS. " Frank ngers Sons Co. 1113 SEVENTH & Modern Chapel Lisery in_Conne. ~+" VL. SPEARE CO. Neither the successors of nor con- nected with the or 1 W. R. Speare . 940 F St. N.W. Joseph F Bfl‘ch s Sons 3034 M ST NW. R Established 1841 Plone West 96 Gawler Serv1ce Funeral Directors Since 1850 Main 5512 -i-w‘z'_r‘._j.‘.‘.t Timothy Hanlon _641 H ST. N.E Phone T WM. H. SARDO&CC 412 T SCONE Fhone Linco | odern Chapei Nutomotir T. F. COSTELLO NOW LOCATED AT BT. NORTH 7976. _ Dignified_and EMcient Service. cal 816 H ST. N.F Automohile LINCOLN. 8200 Chape r—YHE ORIGINAL e | WR.Speare @o. 1208 H STREET.NW MAIN 108 FORMERLY 940 F ST ALMUS R SPEARE WILLIS B. SPEARE ——— GLYDE J. 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