Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1925, Page 16

16 GEDRCE . HAVEN DESBY OWNHAND New York Banker Despond ent Over Ill Health—Took Bride in February. Ry the Associated F Haven had been a member of this firm, Which was established in 1869, for 28 | vears | Husiness Haven, who was a made frequent trips to health resorts. He recently returned I from the last of these, which was made in company with Mrs. Haven. ate of Yale in the class of ven entered Wall Street | rd. He was a director of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, the Texas and- Pacific Rellroad and the Southern Porto Rican Sugar Co.* Mr. Haven's brother-in-la Nel- | son Birland, said that the banker ap peared in good spirits in the morning when he breakfasted with his family. Shortly before noon, one of his malds said that Mr golf enthusiast, Southern associates THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¥, 'WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, |VETERANS REDUCED IN GRADE, IS CHARGE Probe of Alleged Discrimination Against Employes in Treas- ury Is Started. Aroused at what it charges is mis- treatment of war veterans in viola- tion of the veterans' preference act, the veterans’ joint committee for carrying out the preferment act is preparing to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury afdavits showing that ex-service men in the Treasury tion, the 38 other employes being women. The woman in charge of the sec- tion, acccrding to Mr. Wood, has an inadequate idea of how to arrive at efficiency ratings and has made the ratings low in the case of the two ex-service men, satisfled that the credit points aliowed veterans under the preferment act will bring their rating up. Mr. Wood intends to press vigorously against this alleged discrimination. He will ask not only that the men be restored to their original status, but that other cases of alleged dis crimination be taken up, with a view to establishing finally the rights of the ex-service man. il i 5 Nl 550,000 U. S. EMPLOYES RECORDS BEING CHECKED Civil Service Commission Begins Gathering Data for Use in Retirement Plan. Invoking the aid of the Pension Office and the Census Bureau in the tabulation and checking process, the Civil Service Commission has begun the enormous task of investigating and tabulating the service records of approximately 550,000 Government employes in Washington and through- out the country. The data is being gathered for the administration of the civil service retirement act of 1920 which will undertake the immense task of tabulation, with all the in- formation regarding each employe be- ing checked on one card. The Pen- sion Office, administrative agency of the civil service retirement act, will co-operate. JAILED AS CLAIRVOYANT. KIEV, Russia, July 22 (#).—Prin- cess Olga Volkonsky, widow of Gen. Volkonsky, who was shot during revo- lutionary disturbances in 1918, was today sentenced to three years' im- prisonment and confiscation of prop- erty for practicing clairvoyance, which is forbidden by the Soviet statutes. The princess was accused by the 2,000 PLAN EXCURSION. National Union Hospital Association to Go to Beach. Members of the National Union Assurance Society who are jll and in need of hospital treatment will ben- efit from the proceeds of the annual excursion of the National Union Hos- pital Service Assoclation today at Chesapeake Beach. More than 2,000 persons are in attendance. The following committees are in charge of arrangements: Printing, E. D. Milstead, chairman: J. Harry Jones, F. E. Ferguson and J. E. Rhodes, and reception and tickets, Crawford Bennie, chairman; J. Stan- s, D. L. Leane, Carl Bau- Service Bennle, secretary, and Samuel Trupp. treasurer. The officers of the as surance soci s are James A. Wil liams, president: C. Bennie, financiai secretary: J. Harry Jones, secretary and William W. White, treasurer MISS O'RYAN ENGAGED. General's Daughter to Wed Former Lieutenant. NEW YORK, July 22 UP).—Maj Gén. and Mrs. John F. O'Ryan an nounce the engagement of thei daughter, Miss Dorothy Holmn O'Ryan, te Darwin Curtis of Chica and New York, an illuminating e neer. The wedding will take place October. “MA” FOR BLUEBERRY PIE. About | heard a shot, and. hurrying fo Mr. | Haven's room, found him stretched |on the floor. There bullet | wound in his head Then a widower, Mr | married last February to Miss othy James, daughter of Henry James of New York City and Eas Hampton, L. I. Besides the widow, Mr. Haven leaves two daughters and a son by the former marriage. Bell and Harry Selinger.| Mr. Curtis during the war was s of the hospital associa-|Heutenant at Camp Dix, N. J. Ger tion are Thomas F. Ryan, president: | O'Ryan commanded the 27th Division J. T. Curry, vice president; Crawford | New York National Guard, overseas public prosecutor of establishing a fortune telling parlor near a red army barracks and advising red soldiers how to evade military service. and will take several months to com- plete all compilations. This is the first time the gproject has been un- dertaken, although it has been in the minds of officials of the commission for several months. The commission will have to scruti- nize the records of every employe of the (Government, establishing the length of service, the salary rate, transfers, and all other information which might have a bearing on re- tirement at the retirement age. As soon as the data is secured it will be turned over to the Census Bureau, Department are being discriminated against in the matter of job and sal- ary preferment. 3 The two cases are those of James A. Yager and John H. Murray, ex- service men employed in the corre- spondence section of the loans and |cious blueberry pie wins the vote of currency division of the Treasury|“Ma” Ferguson, Governor of Texas, Department. Harlan Wood, general [in preference to huckleberr: Mrs. counsel for the veterans' joint com- | Ferguson so informed the New York mittee, has before him afidavits tend- | World when her opinion was sought. ing to show that these men have been | “I prefer thg blueberry,” she said, ordered reduced in grade and salary. |‘“because of its superior Tusciousness. Yager and Murray are sald be the |The huckleberry is little known in only t men employed in the sec- | Texas.” Kinney’s One Cent Shoe Sale FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN Two Pairs for the Regular Price Plus One Cent is event comes to Washington but once in FIVE years. Such remarkable valwe-giv- ’irn';sisonlymdepns'flebytherNNEY ization, the largest individual shoe man- fiMinmm.mhvemwmmmmmMfiwmmm season’s high grade shoes. PAIRS OF WOMEN’S HIGH GRADE PUMPS AND ALL STYLES— OXFORDS—IN WITH AND LOW HEELS, BLACK SATINS—PATENT EE KID AND COMBINATIONS. was a Governor Doubtful Huckleberry. NEW YORK, July 22 (#).—Lus- Texas Haven was inent in nking circles, committed sterday at his East Thirty-third street home by shooting himself = News of Mr¢ Haven's death was a| Tourist traffic in Switzerland was shock to his six business partners of heavy last year that the Swiss the New York Stock Exchange firm leral Railways had a decided gain of Strong Thev 1 business in spite of growing auto. worries nobile competition. €33/ PEERLESS FURNITURE C0, 529 7th ST. NW. Make a Big Saving And Be Happily Suited Terms to Suit In the Victrola Sale Tomorrow 0 of the Handsome odel 405 Victrolas As Reduced to $ 1 9 Nine Pieces, With Luxurious 3-Piece Velour Suite or Kroehler Mahogany Davenport Suite in Velour A truly remarkable offer for those in need of fine living room Magnificent Living Room Suite of unusual charm on, upholstered entirely in soft, silky velour! Spring- 1 backs and ve comfortab] with fine imported oudoir Table Lamp and Shade, Bridge Lamp and F 3 g Picture Frame and Imported Tray. substantially made, all for less than the velour suites Don’t miss this opportunity Add Twenty Dollars Davenport Suite Small’ Payment Down—Balance Weekly or Monthly nd_distinc efully designed and of many ketched Above t$112.50 Ea.! Formerly $250.00 Less than hali price—ior beautiful Victrola models 1 1 popular horizontal type is a style that will harmonize with Tudor. Jacobean, Wil- liam and Mary or contemporary Italian Renaissance furnishings. T metal wo is in gold and the centrally divided cover and the drawer are features you'll like! Remember, we have only fifty of this handsome model to sell, and we are selling them fast! It's the opportunity of a lifetime for securing the highest combination of the arts of music and furniture design. Come in and see this and all the oth models now! Don’t delay! And, if you wish, you may purchase any model on our liberal club plan— Turned-soled San- Brown mhdm’lfi&hflmum' $1.49; second pair ONE CENT. lM:n—flphONEmT. ' D e e pair ONE CENT. | [First pair, $1.49—Second pmir, ONE CENT. .- AT. OUR 7TH ST. STORE ONLY (ol — ) 12-Piece Dining Room Suite in Walnut Finish ¥ k of it! A Large Buffet, Oblong Extension Table with s, and Six Genuine Leather-seat Chalrs in blue or brown r choice of Popular Queen Anne or Tudor periods. Also a hade. Gold-finished swing Picture me. Imported nickel, beautifully decorated Tray This suite is built of exceptional quality gum and walnut and other rle woods. Small Cash Payment—Balance Reduced to Terms to Suit one oi the most Weekly or Monthly Balance in 10 Equal Monthly $5 DOWH Payments. No Interest! mi-Vanity a 0-lb. All-cotton Mattress, guaranteed All-steel When Black Flag is used, every fly, every “1\;‘&UHH Bench, Two Feather Pillows and Gold-finish Swing- mosq‘lito and every roach that gets in tlle ‘ house promptly dies. Not one escapes this surer insect killer A Reduced to Terms to Suit 129 10-Piece Bedroom Suite in American and French Walnut genuine match-grain walnut veneer and other suitable 1t is This price includes the Full Chest of Drawers, Good Size Dresser, Large Size as pictured, walnut-brown effect. in that always popular Tudor design. —And Now! 5,000 New Red Seal Victor Records § Drastic Reductions Heywood-Wakefield famous end-of-season prices. Among the on Reed Furniture Reed-fiber Suites now selling at suites offered in this sale you will find some without upholstery, some with new auto type seats that are spring fillled; with loose figured cretonnes. Plain Rat- tan Suites as low as 2 Suites cushions stéred 2 Y and uphol- backs as 39 cushions and covered in attractive Suites with spring cushions and upholstered backs as low as— 69 —uwith any suite purchased during our July Sale, a $19 Bridge Lamp and Shade, $24 Daven- port Table or a $22 Buffet Mirror. with spring Tow Brack FLac doesa complete job of killing. Thatisthe outstanding feature of it—it lets no bug survive. BLack Frac is different, better, surer. It con- tains a secret, vegetable ingredient that flies, mosquitoes and roaches breathe and die. It isabsolutely harm- less to humans and animals—but it kills every insect pest in the home. Buy Brack FLag in either powder or liquid form. Both are equally deadly The™menacing.4%ins10 i insecticides kill, at best, only Ordinary 6 out of every 10 bugs. The four which get away breed the hundreds that return. Don't BLACK FLAG kills to all insect pests. Many people use both. At drug, grocery, hardware and department stores. BLACK FLAG COSTS LESS Brack Frac Powder __.... BrAck FLaG Powder Gun......... Brack Frac Liquid (// pints) Brack FLac Liquid (pints). Brack Frac Sprayer.. Special introductory package contain- ing can of liquid Brack Frac and sprayer for only. 6SC DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE Tet them escape. Bracx Frac kills 10 out of every 10 pests. It will rid a home of insects when all else fails. and rids the home.of o° Ld & Sl () o oo .. Regularly $125 to $3.5 (10-Inch Size) days. Now comes this unexpected of —Never played—at the them are 12-inch size. Over 225 Titles to Select From ! - Join same low price! 3000 of them There are— —They’ll go fast, so come early for yours! (12-Inch Size) 30c¢ and 48c —We have been selling our demonstrator records at this low price for several r of 5000 new single-faced Red Seal Records the Sale at are 10-inch and 2,000 of Fourth Floor—Victrola Salon. 9 Penna. Ave. 8th & D