Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1925, Page 17

Current News Events Summary of Important Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. Current History. Considerable conjecture was started Mere last week with the announce-| iment that Undersecretary of State {Grew was leaving Washington for iSwampscott, Mass., where he will meet Secretary of State Kellogg and Presi- “dent Coolidge. Secretary Kellogg only recent left Washington for his home 4n St. Paul, Minn., on a vacation which was understood to be of undetermined flength. As the most important ques- tions pending at the State Department now are the Chinese situation and the forcign debt, it was concluded that ate developments in these subjects vould be discussed. Secretary Kel gz is known to have approved the lea of a conference between the rep- > ives of countries which signed -eement at the Washington arms onference regarding the extraterri. torial rights of nations in China There has been opposition to this plan from abroad, however. The eyes of the Nation rested on Dayton, Tenn., last week, and watched with interest as the preliminaries were completed and the trial of John Thomas Scopes, high school teacher, accused of teaching evolution, got un- der way William Jennings Bryan was on the stage for the prosecution, | vhile Clarence Darrow of Chicago and Dudley Field Malone of New York were playing leading parts in the de fense. The trial opened with the quashing of an indictment against Scopes because of a_technicality and | his immediate reindictment by the grand jury. This delayed things for bout an hour. The jury was then chosen, after its members emphati- cally declared they either knew noth- ing of evolution or that they had not formed an opinion concerning its merits Scopes {s accused of having violated & law passed by the last Tennessee Legislature which prohibits the teach- {ng of evolution in the public schools. The trial is designed as a test case There is little likelihood that it will yesult in a victory or defeat, as far as the theory of evolution is concerned. The only case in point is whether the State can control the curriculum of its public schools. There is appar- ently little doubt that it can. Abolition of fireworks in most of the cities of the country accomplished little in the way of affecting a ‘safe and sane” Fourth of July. The auto- mobile brought 115 deaths over the week end, drowning accounted for 46, holiday celebrations for 18, and two airplane crashes cost as many lives. Forty-four persons were killed when a cabaret in Boston, filled with holiday merrymakers, collapsed. The week end total wa 2 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the war President, paid a quiet and unos- tentatious visit last week to the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, and spent several hours walk- ing around the grounds and buildings. She is visiting Europe this Summer. The “International Entente Against the Third International,” composed of representatives of anti-bolshevik groups in 21 nations and with head- quarters at Geneva, last week sent a petition to all governments asxing collective international action against Communism. The petition presents Communism as “a grave peril, threat- ening to engulf all countries,” and pleads for co-operation in fighting it With an estimated total of 15,000,000 persons participating, the United States held its second Defense day last Saturday, and upon the decision of officers especially assigned to study its results will depend the continua- tion of the test in future years. Maj. Gen. Hines, chief of staff, character- ized the Defense day as “generally sat- isfactory.” More than two-thirds of those who answered the call for en- rollment last year repeated it this year. The decrease was generally held o be the result of the. test falling on & holiday. Two painters, working in St. Peter’s Cathedral, in Rome, stole Vatican National, Foreign and nose the diseases which destroy world | peace and to discover if there Is a possible contributing cause of war in the profits of war industry. BEZRLPBRILILNRVVARRRE Economic. Latvia, one of the republics “born” after the World War, last week opened negotiations for the funding of her debt of $6,000,000 to the United States. he becomes the seventh power now holding discussions with the United States toward paying their debts. About 45 per cent of the total debt owed this country by 20 nations is now in the process of repayment. Twelvs out of the 20 debtor nations have either completed their agreements or have opened negotiations. France, whose attitude toward the debt question has created more inter- est than the other debtor nations, is about to appoint her commissioners to confer with members of the American Debt-Funding Commission, and thus initiate negotiations which will lead to a funding of this debt. The com- mission is expected to be appointed in the near future. While the mass of the French peo- ple are opposed to the payment of the French debt to this country, the men of importance in financial affairs of the country and the statesmen real- ize that it must be paid, and they are making plans to this end. This was the impression brought back by Rep- resentative Henry W. Watson of Pennsylvania, who returned to Wash- ington last week from a visit to the French capital. 2R2B CYYYYYY . & Ty The war cost Germany a loss of about 12,000,000 population, according to preliminary census estimates made public last week. The population to- day was placed at about 62,500,000, about the same which existed in 1908, At the outbreak of the war the popu- lation was about 68,000,000. It is esti- mated that Germany lost about 7,000,- 000 by the cession of various terri- tories through the Versallles treaty, another 2,750,000 from deaths during the war and another 2,500,000 through the decreased birth rate during the war. ZRRD20 Another good sign for the burdened taxpayer came from the President last week, who was represented as tell- ing newspaper correspondents who in- terviewed him at the “Summer White House” that he favored a general tax reduction all along the line. The President has not set' any amount, waiting for the advice of Treasury ex perts before committing himself to the amount of reduction. The effect of increasing the salaries of postal employes was indicated last week, when Postmaster New esti- mated a deficit B approximately $40,- | 000,000 for the Post Office Department for the fiscal vear of 1925. The deficit was attributed to increased salaries for postal workers provided by the last Congress and the changed postal rates. The figures will be valuable as a work- ing basis for a special joint congres- sional committee, which soon will be- gin hearings in various parts of the country on postal rates, and which must submit its report to Congress the first week of its December session. Australia_expects to come to New | York soon to borrow about $100,000,- 000, partly needed to meet maturing bonds. This was indicated in dis- patches last week, which declared that Australia_had recently asked Great Britaln whether there was any objec- tion to her borrowing the money in New York. Great Britain satd there was mnot, and that probably there would not be enough available in Lon- don to meet the 600,000,000 sterling in bonds which mature this year. The fate of the coal supply, as far as hard coal is concerned, depends on the result of a conference of operators which opened last week at Atlantic City, following by a few days a con- ference of miners in Scranton, Pa. The operators have appointed a sub- committee to negotiate a new agree- ment with the miners to take the place of the present one, which expires on August 31. Y jewelry valued at $50,000 last week but were arrested and the jewelry re. covered within a few days. The painters who committed the actual theft were members of a gang which organized to carry it through. The Jewels stolen consisted of a ring set With diamonds and a sapphire and a gomplete altar service of gold and Precious stones. In resolutions adopted at its gen- ral assembly in Portland, Oreg., last $week the International Christlan En- deavor called upon Congress to sup- port every movement toward limita- tion of armaments and the establish- §ment of a world court of International Sustice. France and Spain, getting together #n Madrid to try a solution of the vex 4ng Riff problem, have decided to offer Abd-el-Krim autonomy in the Riff re gion of Morocco under a Spanish pro- tectorate, but the leader of the war. ying tribesmen fs not expected to a cept it. He has repeatedly stated t he would not accept a Spanish pr: tectorate. Under the agreement the Jrench would receive permission to pursue the tribesmen of Abd-el-Krim into the Spanish Moroccan zone, some- thing which they have long sought, ®5 their pursuit heretofore has been stopped at the Spanish border. ., Montana, where the damaging ‘earthquakes of the past two weeks first made their appearance, felt new Ehocks on Friday, which were felt at Ilelena, Great Falls, Three Forks, Manhattan nd Billings. No wide- epread damage was reported, however. Santa Barbara, Calif., still felt the ufter effects last week of her damag: ing temblor, but they were apparently subsiding. -A new building code and a strict zoning ordinance have been &dopted by the city government of Santa Barbara, and officials there are @ssured there will be no more faulty construction, as exposed by the recent arthquake. Educational. A “book wagon™ in the cities which %rill deliver books at the door of citi- zens as the bread, meat and milk ‘vagons dellver thelr goods is in pros- pect for the future, according to Epeakers at the annual conference last Week in San Francisco of the Ameri- can Library Association. Fifty per cent of the people now are without Ybrary facilities, although library Wwagons and traveling libraries are gradually reaching more people. There should be at least one librarian to f\lc;‘_\ 10 teachers, the librarians were _The Henry ( k Educational Committee last week set a record in the history of endowment, when it sent away for Summer study, all ex penses paid, 305 Pittsburgh public school teachers, The scholarships, which are scattered throughout the world in 47 institutions of learning, will cost $45950. The winners will take Summer courses to improve their equipment as teachers, 70 of them go- ing to Columbia University, in New York. Bernard M. Baruch has given $250,- 000 to the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University for the study of the possibility of maintaining world peace by taking the profit out of war. Mr. Baruch’'s idea for the fund origi- nated from his experiences on the War Industries Board during the war. The first task of the school will be to diag- ) | board | vacant at this time, old_conjectures | Before the negotiations started, however, the miners openly declared that in case there is no agreement on | renewing the contract by August 31| they will spurn arbitration and strike. Affairs of the $26,000,000 grain mar- keting company, the greatest farmer- producer co-operative venture ever at- tempted, dissolved its affairs in Chi- cago last week, following an announce- ment by banker creditors of the com pany that such would be the case.| Iver, president of the compan: tion in a limited way, which was in. terpreted to mean that it might reor- ganize under the Minnesota laws and attempt to do business on less capital. The United States Shipping Board has again run counter to the Emer-| gency Fleet Corporation, this time in| | rejecting last week the bid of $1,370,000 | by the Boston Iron and Metal Com ny for the 200 ships offered by the ! for scrapping some time ago. | President Palmer of the Fleet Cor-| % poration had recommended that the bid be accepted. The bidding for the! ships now must be repeated. It i not known whether Henry Ford whose bid failed to reach the Shippin Board, will make a new effort to ob. tain the vessels. Political. | Senator Norris of Nebraska, a mem. ber of the “Progressive bloc” of th Senate, which recently lost two of its prominent members—Senators La Fol- lette and Ladd—issued a statement last week declaring he has not assumed | leadership of the Progressive party and denying that he has any intention of entering a.third political party. | i The resignation last week of Frank | W. Mondell as a director of the War Finance Corporation has renewed ru-| mors of his possible appointment to a cabinet post, and as there are none ! % as to the resignation of Secretary of the Interior Work have been revived. Secretary Work, however, has given no indication that he intends leaving his present position. Urban Population Greater. For purposes of stalistics a rural unit is any community under 2,500 population, while any community over that figure is classed as “urban.” On this basis the urban population of the United States is 5.6 per cent greater than the rural population. A total of 11,212,654 houses take care of the rural population, while only 9,484,550 dwellings take care of the urban or city population. There are 7,500,000 hou located on farms, leaving 3,712,654 in villages and centers classed as rural. AMBULANCES, $4.00 U to date—Fully equi with rolling <ot stretcher, biankete and pillowe. CHAMBERS' BROWNSTONE FUNERAL HOME. Col. 432 Bacillus Acidophilus Milk For intestinal disorders Ask your physician about I% Prepared by the NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE 1515 U St. N.W. BEBH % THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO LLLVLANLLSTVLLBNRBRLBRLALLQRVBRZLLRVLLLVLDLRRLLLLLLPDRRREVBEDDRVNBIRRRLBRBPERRLBXBERBRLGLLRLDD JULY 12, 1925—PART 1. - Astounding Values Featured in the July Clearance Sa All Advertised Merchandise on Sale at These Prices Tomorrow and Tuesday July Sale Ekonomies Women's Union 50c and 55 Regular sizex at 50, sizes. Bde. Cool. Summer. with' sheil or tight knee: Forest Mills ~and makes Street Floor Athletic Union Suits, 55¢ perfect quality undergar- made of fne nainsook Women's menta. Bodice-top model, and slender lines treet Floor ) Women’s Extra Pa Extra,_sizes atste ™ Aty i knee "on built ouble extr: Street_Floor Women’s Vests, Pink and White Swiss Rihbed Vests. in regular sizes. A cool quality that will sive ‘sple Ntreet Flo Children’s Rayon Socks, 29¢ Short Socks. with fan. light and dark colors. Socke. in light and dark not every size in each col lars. Street Floor Children’s Socks, 17¢ 3 Pairs for 50c in plain_or fancy Mercerized Socks, top style. Perfect and e in light and dark colors. Street_Floor Boys’ $7.50 2-Pants Suits, $5 Wool-mixed Fabric in gray. blue and brown. S Street Floor Boys’ $1 Sport Blouses, 79¢ “:Bell" Brand and other Blouses. in striped ale. tan cofton pongee and Kk 7 to 16. Street Floor With Coupon O Clark’s 0. N. T. Cotton 12 for 45¢ in all sizes Sewing Cotton, in black and white Street Fioor Boys’ Long Pants, White duck and khaki. i Made like dad's e most popular sport a ment worn today. Ntreet Floor $1 Play Suits, Children’s Suits. with high neck. long Sleeves biue. med in red ity Siz Street _Floor With Coupon Only Kotex 39c Dozen Street Floor Embroidery Skirtings 10c Yard 5 to 8 inch Embroidery Qpen-work | patterns. in 1y 15¢ Regularly 15, "0 Val Laces, 5¢ Yard 12 Yards for 55¢ Our usual 10c Val L: 11 inch widths ecru. Round_and diamo Street Floor 36-inch Crepe. in_solid large rose design dress fabric 'a popu .\'(r"l' Floor Swiss Embroidery, 27-inch Fine Swiss Ruffle Flouncing. ruffie. Regularly 75c. other in shell or tight koee Trregulars. Also % Rayon in neat patterns Sizes & to 1 With white striped fabri. 3 to 8 Printed Georgette, $1.98 Yd. Formerly $2.98 with set-on Seamless Suits C Perfect Quality Sheets, in 72x90 bleached ~cotton or bleached cotton that will easily. 50 prepare for future needs. Street Floor bl and extra weight Suite bodice top. excellent . in pink for comfort nts, 45¢ a pants, 10c fine_ribbed ndid service ey tops: in &hades but lor. Irregu- cond grades, IETHETENETE e @ e e e e izes 7 to 17 IS Bl Rl e B haki . nly $1.59 n good qau nd play gar- 69c loug pants hak) and Trin on_cambric good edges in 1 to white and colors with ylar Summer D EE B B S B SRt BU B S R BRU R B R Bl el B L 49c¢ Yd. Embrodery B-inc! For baby und Embroldery Yoke to match, e Street Floor .65c Perfect Certainteed 45¢ Square Yard A good_assortment of attractive terns, in light and dark colors. in Known for wear and certified quaity. abill Sene ““Third Floor at- his Porch Screens, Y Off 4-foot Screens. formerly 2 oot Screens, formerly 5.30. 10-fo0t _ Sereens, now $7.30. Third Floor formes $3.95: now $7.95: now iy $10.95 Costume Actually Worth $2 and $2.50 Just when you need cool, slen- derizing costume slips tha solutely shadowproof—co! special July Clearance of Daint ices far below what 3 Slips at p. would ordinarily pay for quality. Many chased within the last fe so all arc clean, new, f smart. See All Sizes 36 to i Extra Size Slips 46 to 53 Window CE Ty oelin Slips, with built-up Display [ shoulders; trimmed with and ribbon. Dainty Costume Slips, $1 Several hundred Slim-fitting Slips of sheer muslin: to hem, effectively trimmed with lace insertions and edges, medal- n Strap-top style and built-up shoulders lions and embroider: y edges. in regular and extra sizes—36 to 46 and 48 to 52. Favored Summer Hats White, Colors, New Modes and Mediums Easily Worth Twice T heir Street Floor—King’s Palace Swiss ‘and Azure Hair Braids Leghorn Bengaline Satin Roye Reduced for Clearance Attractive models Ught and Taffeta Crepe de Chine Fancy Straws Lyons Velvet with Straw Summer Hats Formerly $3.95 to $7.50 dark - colors. in 2.7 Beautifully trimmed and in numerous smart shapes. Second Floor—King's TEEETTTERETETET Sheets, Regularly $1.39 and $1.50 A splendid value at only $1.00— Dresses That Formerly Sold for 58 and #10 were only 20-inch hip hems. Double ‘hip Palace $ Georgette Crepe, $1.09 Yard Very Special 36-inch Fine Quality black, white and a complete array of light and dark tonmes for street and party frocks. Regularly $1.59 the yard. Street Floor Satisfaction First Since 1859 GS /A\]L 810-818 Seventh Street 5 81x90 and $1x90 un- ench very Georgette, in Sale! Summer Dresses At Sfupendous Reductions Flares Flounces Two-Piece * Straight-line ° Pleats - : > Panels £ Jabots Lace Trims Contrasting Fabrics A choice assortment of dainty Summer Dresses in the season’s favored styles, shown i/light and dark colors, combinations and two-tone effects. Sizes 16 to 44 in an array that has never been equalled at $3.69. ummer Wash Dresss Selling Regularly for $2.98 and $3.98 $1.88 Hundreds of pleasing Summer Dresses that are really dresses (not house dresses), suitable for any Summer need, street, shop- ping, sport, at home and for _busine.ss. - The broadcloths in both striped and plain effects, the linens in vivid Summer tones, taste- fully styled and trimmed. Regular and Extra Sizes 16 to 44 and 42 to 521, Second Floor—King's Palace . Slips 594 .65 Crepes Tub Silks Printed Crepes Silk Crepes Fine Voiles Rayon Stripes Flat Crepes Satins Pongees English Broadcloth Domestic Broadcloth Genuine Imported Linen Awning Striped Fancy Dots Plain Colors Embroidery Lace Hand-drawn Work Tissue Ginghams Fine Voiles New Shipment of Striped Broadcloth49c Yd. This very smart Summer fabric shown in a wide variety of pleasing awning striped patterns in light and dark comb tions in wide and narrow cffects. Lustrous-finish broadcloth 50c Floral Voile | 39¢ Chiffon Voile 29¢ Yd. A sheer, chiffon finish qual that will make beautiful ually sheer quality small price. All the Summer dresses. 38 inches plain colors including white wide. A gorgeous showing of patterns and colors. and black, petal tints and dark shades. 29c Lingerie Crepe 50c White Broadcloth 25¢ Yd. 44c Yd 32 inches wide in plain and 36-inch lustrous finish fabric figured lingerie patterns. suitable for uniforms and 98¢ Flo Flo Printed spf;érrfi::ss Ginghams Mull, 69¢ Yd. 12%c Yd. Pink, orchid, mais, copen Gay patterned striped or and light blue. For smart checked ginghams, 32 inches children’s frocks. wide. Fast color. e t are ab- mes this Slips of Sheer Nain- sook—With double hem to hip, hemstitched shoul- der and top, filet medal- lions anud edge. Or simi- lar models with Val lace and ribbon trimming. One striking model trim- med with several rows of hemstitching. Irish cro- chet medallions and edge. Wontstick Slips—With double hem to hip, bodice top with hemstitching. Satinette and Minette Moire Slips—In peach and- flesh, in tailored style. IN%] the same put- w day resh and 44 DR ED P DR val lace Second Floor Favored Silks Reduced $2 Crepe de Chine $1.59 Yard $3 Satin Faced Crepe $2.29 Yard A graceful draping quality that An allsiik grade that is excel | . 3 lent for Tingetie. ehildren’s feocks | will make beautiful dresses. Jade, and women’'s apparel. Pink, tur.|powder blue, penny brown, tan- quoise, tan, wine, brown, red,|bark, blonde, henna, cocoa and green, cocoa, black and white. black: ; Street Floor—King’s Palace Sale Price of White Flesh Citron Wood Pablo Ashes of Roses - Sand Black White with Black Black with White Clearance of broken-size assortments in the season’s smartest styles. Every.pair new and of excellent quality, all the most popular pump and sandal effects. All sizes in the lot, but not in every style. Various heel heights. Blonde Satin Blonde Kid Black Satin Patent Leather White Second Floor—King’s Palace 5 A large group recently pur- chased priced for quick clear- ance. You will be amazed at the wonderful values offered at this price. dainty or vivid colors, especially suitable for skirts. Sale! Summer Shoes AL B bt S R et G SRR e £ f o 23 Just Arrived! August Butterick Patterns and Delineator July Sale Ekonomies Pillowcases, 29¢ Each 45x36 and Quality Cotton Cases, 1 ing. “Lay in your Sumn supply now.and eave. Street_Floor $2.50 Dimity Spreads, $1.98 81x90. Full Double-hed Size Spreads that will wear and launder well A remarkable value Street Floor $5 Krinkled Bed Sets, $3.9 81x00 gize. Wit Rose, b Full_'double-hed Street Fioor inch sizes. Good from dre er and Fall stripes With Coupon Only Castile Soap 1 Lb Bar, 19c¢ 1 adults Street Flaor SRS el IS | 25c¢ Paris Ggrters, 15¢ n's_ Single No metal ¢ Street Floor Men’s Shirts and Drawers = Street Floar $1.§0 Summer Caps, strives. Sizes 6% tu b Bicess Biose With Coupon Only Wax Paper, 5 Ro!lg, 10c King's Pala “ . sold for 10¢ th * My Street Street $1.25 and $1.50 Union Suits, 95¢ Men's Ath plaid Ohe. Street = ZASTc'_Wash !l'le;, 10 in bow sty Fancy stripe anteed fast color. Street Floor With Coupon Only Octagon Soap Powder 3 Boxes for 16¢ Street Floor 18x45 Scarfs, 29¢ Good grade wh Attractive em Fape Street Floor - 69c Pearl Necklaces (Mfd.) 24 and 30 Necklace tible. ¥ Street Floor $2.95 and $3.50 Leather Street Floor Stamped Goods ham Aprons, PR e Notions Reduced Ry 39¢ Household Apron. 2Be— olored Baby Rubber Pants. 15c—me- dium ‘and large sizes. Sanitary Belts, 19c—flesh eles tie_webbing. Dress Shields., ¢ pr—double: overed in sizes 4 and 5 Kleenex Bands. 5c—good quality. ‘inch allowe i e Street Floor $1.50 Sport Satin $1.19 Yard Plain Color Sport Satin, in sport frocks and Ly T Y - SO D