Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 5

I 1005 Pa. Ave. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. J. KAUFMAN (({TINLIGHT RATE (HARD COAL REGION | 1005 Penna. Ave. 1724 Penna. Ave. Home of the 2-Pants Suit Home of the Dollar Tie We Apologize ! ¥ %o the throngs of patient buyers who had to wait their turn to be served during the past few days. The re- sponse to our December Trade Building Sale simply overwhelmed us. A dreat stock of 2-Pants Suits and Overcoats at prices that usually prevail in January. NO wonder we are rushed off our feet!!! Radio Yot 1,000 “2-PANTS" SUITS & OVERCOATS 1n three great bargain lots $35 2-Pants Suits and Overcoats ; $45 2-Pants Suits and Overcoats .. $55 and $60 $ 2-Pants Suits and Overcoats .. GIFTS MEN LIKE Where Women Like to Shop! Silk-lined Tuxedos, Full Dress or Cutaway Suits . ...eeeeeiens Lounging Robes. ..auu ..$4.35 to $25.00 Travelo Sweaters . ..o vcoreteeres ... $8.50 Worsted Sweaters...ooeen....--..$3.95 Mallory Hats....... Robinhood Hats........... Mumers aesieces e .$5, $6 and $7 cere093:50 .$1.85, $2.95, $3.50 Gloves ... cvwieeoeee....$31.19, $1.95, $2.95 White Broadcloth Shirts. soioinnieio D139 Novelty Shirts. ......coeeee e .. $1.95 Flannel or Cambric Pajamas...... . $1.39 3 Initial Handkerchiefs, in box. ...$1.00 Silk or Wool Hose (3 for2)........$ .69 Hickok Belt Buckles. .......50c to $2.00 10,000 TIES Wrinkleproof Silk- and-Wool, Cut Silk and Knit Silk 1 GIFTS BOXED FREE! DIVISION 1§ BEGUN Householders Expected to Be Chief Beneficiaries Un- der New Plan. The Public Utllitles Commission hopes to apply a_substantial part of the reduction in electric rates to those schedules which affect small con- sumers, such as householders, Maj. W. R. Covell stated today, as accountants hegan making the necessary calcula- tions on which to base the new rates, effective January 1. The commission at its meeting yes. te! ed the offer of Potomac Power Co. to K out the tions immediately by mating the company’s earnings for November and December instead of waiting for complete returns for the year A G. Neal, audltor of the company, will transmit to the commission some time today estimates of the company'’s income for November and December. Profit to Be Estimated. Byers McK. Bachman, chief ac- countant for the commission, will be- £in at once to figure out from these estimates how much the company earned during 1925 in excess of a 713 per cent return on its physical valy ation of about D! Under the ag existing be- tween the company and the commis sion, half of these excess earnings are 10 be devoted to a rate reduction and the the company s unofficially estimated that about $360,000 will be available for the cut in rates. When this figure has been determined the second phase of the job will be to decide how the cut should be distributed among the several classes of users. Maj. Covell & public hearing would not be held. It is understood officials of the company and of the commission are looking into the pos- sibility of simplifying the schedula of rates by reducing the number of clas- st ns. Approves New Bus Lines. The Public Utllities Commission vesterday afternoon approved several ng applications for motor bus lines and announced that a public will be held next month or ation of the people of and Kenilworth for an ex- tension of gas mains into their neigh- borhoods. Following the meeting of the com R. Covell an ssion took no in ite effort to bring about a voluntary merger of the street railway lines. It {s under- stood the question was discussed, but no_conclusions were reached The petition of the Washington Railway and Electric Co. to es 1 starting at with a provision for pay transfers be tween intersecting car lines of both companies. Tenleytown Extension 0. K.'d. The petition df the Capital Traction Co. for an extension of its Chevy Chase M™op bus line to Tenleytown nlso was granted with a provision for the sale of inter between the busses husetts avenue bus line during rush hou granted The commission postponed action on the pending application of the Wash ington Rapid Transit Co. to run its xteenth street busses farther north the District line, and of the Capital Traction Co. to extend its Sixteenth street busses south from Kennedy street to H street and thence to Po tomac Park and the downtown section. The cominission decided to adopt the regulation requiring all operators of taxicabs and individ: hackers to how financial responsibility for the tection of the public, anc ) make the use of taximeters mandatory. The exact language of the new taxi regu lation will be announced later. PROMOTER SILENT _ ON HIS PLANS FOR NATION-WIDE FETE (Continued from First Page.) and Mr. Polk followed suit, both de- laring their ignorance of the move. hent. Concerning the latest venture, the National Sesquicentennial Committee, gether booklet says that L be put on the steps tate capitol in the wholc s well ag in all the leading nd governors and mayors will the citizenry to launch on its eventful and p poseful way The exact plans for carrying this program into effect have not been re- vealed. Nor has the amount of money so far collected or contributed been stated. Whether or not all of the prominent men who are connected with the com- mittee in honorary or advisory capac- ity were actually approached and con- sented to the use of their names fs not known. But there are plenty of ac- ceptances. The illustrated booklet of the organization prints p copies of numerous letters i from Representatives and Senators, governors, mayors, clergymen and newspaper publishers. Most of the letters are couched along the follow- ing lines: “Belng in hearty accord with the purposes of your committee, 1 appreciate your request that I be come a member of the permanent board of directors. I shall be glad to accept if the offer 4s still open.” “I appreciate highly the compli- ment implied in your invitation to be one of the vice presidents of the Na- tional Sesquicentennial Committee, Inc. d another letter from a Sen ator, “and I shall be glad to accep Some Deny Giving Consent. Others, however, deny that they itted the use of their names in connection with the organization Wade H. Ellls said last night in reply to an inquiry as to his mem- bership on the committee: “I have no connection with the National Sesquicentennial Commit- tee. My name at one time appeared as general counsel upon erroneous assumption that I would so act, but this was without my authority and v omptly corrected.” ‘?‘.flol.pr)larx‘:lord MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, who is listed as a director of the committee. said: “I have no connection with the Natlonal Sesquicentennial ~Commit- tee In Washington and know nothing whatever about it. When invited to go into it I assumed the fact that 50 many prominent men already were in it that it was a patriotic move- ment. I have not been asked to make any financial contribution.” Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Mary- land, one of those named as an honorary vice president of the com- mittee, sald the only such commit- tee ho knew of was the advisory LEADERS 0 MEET Gov. Pinchot Invites Busi- ness Men to Discussion to Seek to End Strike. By the Associated Prese. PHILADELPHIA, December 4.— Gov. Pinchot has renewed his efforts to bring about a settlement of -the anthracite strike. Following the rejection of his peace plan by the operators on Monday the governor last night invited civie and business leaders of the hard-coal belt to meet bim in Harrisburg next Tuesday for a further discussion of the situation. It is generally belleved that an- other peace proposal will be formu- lated. ~Should further peace efforts fail, observers think the situation will be referred to the General Assembly provided the governor decldes to call a special session. The Chambers of Commerce of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton, representatives of which were pres- ent when Gov. Pinchot submitted his peace plan last week, have another peace plan under consideration. Its detalls have not been revealed. Rev. John J. Curran, Wilkes-Barre priest, has been in conference here with Samuel D. Warriner, chalrman of the anthracite operators’ confer- ence, and Phillp Murray, vice prest dent of the United Mine Workers. Warriner said that the priest had ex- pressed a wish that the operators agres to the check-off. Mr. Warriner replied that was {mpossible. Some operators view with alarm the dis- placement of anthracite by substitute fuels. J. B. Warrimer, general man- ager of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga- tion Co. sald: “We must all work to- gether to fight thls very evident n;exmre to the prosperity of our re- slog.” Both J. B. Warriner and Maj. W. W. Inglis reiterated statements that the operators’ peace proposals, which were refected by John L. Lewls, pres. ident of the United Mine Workers, two weeks ago, were still open for consideratjon The United Business Men's Associa- tion of this city has instructed a com mittee to write President Coolldge and Gov. Pinchot requesti ‘ederal and State action, with a view to ending the suspension - Cow Returns Home. A farmer near Thatchem, England purchased a cow from a ranch 12 miles distant. At inflking time he went in search of the recently pur chased cow and found that it had wandered back to its homa. ! of Rovernors. Curley of Boston, another listed honorary vice presi- dent, stated he had no association, ect or indirect, with the com at Dr. Baylis invited him to m. an address at the Wardman Park Hotel here October 31 and at the Ho. tel Astor, in New York, on Decen 15, and that he declined both invit. tions. Letterheads Change. Latterheads of the committes show a changing list of ofticers. On one of them John Hays Hammond is given s honorary chairman. Mr. Hammond resigned gev days ago. Dr. Baylis is as president, Leslie M. Shaw fc T Senator Chamber- s as secretary and J. Woodhall Greene as chairman of the board of directors. airman of the membe, mittee and Mr. .8 Y Co ’ sel. Gen Fries told The Star yester. day that he was resigning. On still a third R. C. Ballard Thruston of Louisville is given as chairman of the historic cominittee and George dt. ler Robertson of Baitimore as secre Mr. Thruston has bean engaged r many yvears in_historical and pa- ot work. Mr. Robertson is secre. ta of the Maryland Soclety of the Sons of the American Revolution, many of the heads of which order and the Sons of the Revolution are listed as honorary vice presidents. In the sky blue booklet Henry ¥, Baker, president of the Maryland So- ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution, {8 given as associate treasurer, Thomas L. Lloyd as secre- tary of the board of directors and Wil- llam Grant Brown as counsel. Keep No Books. A visit to the office of the commit- tze in the Munsey Building today dis. closed that Dr. Baylis was expected to return to Washington Monday. His secretary declared that he was “very low" as the result of a heav y cold and being run down through hard work during the heat of the Summer while on business for the committee She sald “the climate here does not agree with Dr. Baylis; it is 80 hot,” but she felt that he might take the Sunday night train to shington if the doctors would let him. The secretary said that the affairs of the organization were conducted openly and aboveboard, although she said that they kept no books. The reason for this, she said, was that out- side of a few subscriptions, Dr, Baylis had expended his own money in the malintenance of the work of the com. mittee and therefore did not deem it necessary to keep books, although a proper accounting could be given of all money spent. Want State Committees. She said that a Philip Bennet sent out letters soliciting funds as finance director of the committee, but that he was not connected with the organiza- tion and had never been under con- tract. He was allowed, however, she sald, to send out the letters on the ammittee stationery and sign him- “finance director’ in order to prove whether or not he was capable of raising funds and becoming offi- clally finance director. “Dr. Baylis soon saw that he was not the type of man we wanted,” said the secretary, who declared that Mr, Bennet had represented that he had 1 list of 450,000 men he could circu- larize. Less than 100 letters soliciting funds signed by Mr. Bennet were sent out, the secretary explained. The idea of the committee is to have each State raise committees to take charge of thelr own finances, sending a certain_percentage to the main office here for expenses—'‘just running expenses,” she stressed. The committee occuples two well furnished rooms on the fourth floor of the Munsey Building, with fine looking office equipment and rugs. It has no connection with the Philadel- phia sesquicentennial celebration set for next year. % PAID ON - SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H ST. N. W. D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1925 Ty Imported and Do- mestic Golf Hose, $3.50. Plaids, checks, mixtures. Others, $1.65 to $7.00 Cedar trees and jolly Kris Kringles surround the store—lights gleam— gifts piled high—happy throngs— —salesfolk story— smile. . All tell the We'’re Ready For Christmas because men want gifts they would buy for themselves. Ready to serve you intelligently —to help you decide the right style, the right color, the proper size. Always ready to uphold our policv—The Customer Is Right. Coat Style Sweaters, $12. Sketch shows light tan coat with new but- ton-down pockets. Mocha Gloves in tan and beaver, $3.50. Juckskin Gloves. slate and beaver, $4. Cape Gloves, $4. Lined, $5, Tie and Muf- fler Sets, $7.50. Many color combinations. Cut -silk Ties, $1 to $5. Pop- ular Perma Silk Ties, $1.50. House Coats, $10. Warm, good - looking coats with con- trasting cuffs, pockets collar. Phoenix Fan- cy Silk Hose. S1. A wide va- riety of pat- terns. Fancy ‘Wool Hose, $2. Collar-attached Shirts, $2.50. Plain and pleat- ed bosom, collar to match shirts, $3.50. Opera Slip- pers in red, blue and green, $5.00. Other Christmas Slip- pers, $1.50 to $5.00. The Avenue at Ninth