Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 18

- 2 WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH BUYING OF FT. RENO « THE SUNDAY STAR, 1926— PART 1. S3000000 INVIEW FORHERQ TRIBUTES Pershing Commission Plan-| ning to Honor U. S. Dead in Cemeteries Abroad. -,_-—Y\-' reason alone should be preserved for | parks. School authorities, highway en- gineers and the water department have all agreed on the advisability of | purchase of the property. ‘The school authoritles have asked for property for two school sites if the area is| purchased, Commissioner Bell sald, | { While the water department is Inter- ested in it because of the probability a | et . large reservoir will be constructed on Commissioner Bell Finds | top of the hill to serve the area north | |of the Bureau of Standards between et 5 A | Wisconsin and Connecticut avenues. | Ad an opportanity’ confidentiuliy. to Land Admirable for UL:S¢: | tiighway atigorities. ace. agtesd off| apcausseistad Fross | converse with sach ather NEW YORK. March 6 b . of e kind now lat the necessity for ita acaulsition *o pre | LIV FORIC March 6 -Lafay| ‘o businens of any kind now la | serve the highway plan in rela- | ctio = 18 s re- e, e o Park Deve!opment hane ] Belt road and Fessenden| vealed in a letter written :;“’r"‘:.;l’”"“‘:" the: h'ml-"hm;ll ’hh-l" stree . : BiYeinsds b . .. . That 1 should hav "_:,‘,.'.',,"“,.:.‘ff:",,,,,, ‘\f'_”f”""" Green in 1784, fust after gqone twelve months ago had not Purchase of the so-called Fort Reno | would be constructed arriving this country visit | American business kept me In En | property on the heights hetween Wis. | Reno area if purchased, Commission. | With old comrades in arms and while | rope . tion for the expenditur | consin and Connecticut avenues, north Bell said, and the whole at Mount Vernon, the home of George After having spent a most agree. Washington. ‘ « | able first night with the general, I um sum of £3.000000, the | B8 : X : > ! enn ot Standards. mrovided | Nt & combined park area. : th the general. iments ol Sy e S - : a > '.’. ‘.:wl.m“::w'v'mn..‘-o(nu...;rl—.. Wi | ninth street is blocked from being cut | The letter, which was in the pos. %™ DOW €oing to New England, and i N : : session of the American Art Galleries ) foush by ¢ & | | will =0 back to Mount Vernon toward en. John 1. Per L atedl vestecdos e Fon. | through by the present condition of ] 14 of America’s ’u‘m,,:l‘?'““""n fonet Bell. he prop. | th® Property, he added. is written in English and expresses m':\“"::’h‘r:' ";""“‘""Q Then. In com AIGIHEGUS S0 O W i erty would cost about $1.000,000, Mr. | = o regret that the marquis missed seeing | Vit I the general, 1 shall visit S id, a ¢ oce | he general upon his arrival Beil said, and is now occupied by | the g ¥ Philanthropist Di shacks and old dwellings Ethel Shannon Very IIl. “On my arrival at New York I was| . ilanthropist Dies. Commissioner Bell and A0S AN I8, Calif., March 6 (#),| very much mortified to hear vou had + NEWBURGIH, N. Y., March 6 (#)— | Bruce of Mary and Sackett Ethel mon, motion picture | safled to South Carolina,' reads Lafay- Will Be Instructor Here. shzgte il bt - Kentucky i the Fort F actress, is serfously i1l here etie’s letter in part. “My intention he Lieut. Col. Troup Miller, Mrs. Anna Delano Hitch, widely | LLonery” last Friday. All expressed | pneumonia. Upon her arrival in Los | ing first to visit friends in New |Cavalry. at Atanta. Ga.. has be known for her philanthropies, died |the hope that it would some day he | Angeles yesterday from the East she | England, 1 wish you had neen in your | ordered to this city for duty as an i today of heart failure which followed |made into an attractive park area.|was removed from the train in a de: | Northern home. and should have pro- | structor at the Armv Medical War Mrs. Hiten | The property sought is bounded by |lirlous condition posed a joint voyaxe 1o Charlestown. | College, Washington Barracke e HCD | rassanden. iloward and Chesapeake | Hitch Sireetas Delano, former |ed vn all sides by ad Belt road and is surround. | s pretentious. subi 4 (e sl nhnal Sl e [Visions on which expensive dwellings | Pitishurgh, representing the Veterans | Vice governor of the Federal Reserve || U000 0 yiiie” "1t is the highest | of Forelgn Wars: Ars. Frederte W | ank, and of Mrs. James A the Distriet of Co ) e e B i i, Mothers' and Maj. X. H. | Touth of Solssons, | Price, Corps of Fngineers. represent. enst of [Ing the Army and serving as secre southeast | tary of the commission, i of Sedun & | % wunu- | BANK OFFICIAL TO FACE | TRIAL FOR SHORTAGE | sector Assistaut Treasurer of Connecticut | | where I have got many friends ‘ \mt U ra- WHERE SOME AMERICANS SLEEP IN FRANCE the happy hile T am enjoy \ngm of this bel wuntry g myhere | confusion aud destruction hn q“.-u while I am LAFAYETTE WARMTH FOR FRIENDS SHOW Letter to Nnthamel Green, on Visit | friends and my .mn her officers what pleasure it will for me 1o to United States in 1784, Re- | embiace my good friend, Gen. Gireen - | “You know my very ancient affec- veals Affection. | tion, my profound regard for you —— So many years have passed since we to Gen. | recreation areas in_ the F o for funds soon to he made roA vess totaling $1.300.0 ronuments constructed in th \nnrh i mml dependent offices bill the House this week S S800,000, which unexpended funds of the coriimission jent 1o desizn the wnd menumental them. They have been mutilated |.,‘ some extent.” In addition to Gen. Pershing, the personnel of the Battle Monuments Commission includes Senator David A sive on July 14, 1918, After July 18 10 American” divisions were involved in the fight which forced the Ge mans back to t sne River. This monument will 30,000 missi hides Ser via S Reed of Pennsylvania, Representative Will Cost §30,000 Each. |John Philip il of Mar: Col. addition o thess emorial | Thomas W. Miller - he commission plans to| Amer 8l monuments, costing |1 borhood of $30.000 each, American fighting n the following places: An X ginm Ypres. Belgium Juvigny, France: Vesle Senators which car n posspssior BU numents tack of pnenmonia s the widow of Frederic and the | sister of Frederick A. in the neic Lo denote her Roose 0000 e te appropré VTl Feport- it § within a short 1 vhich Completion in 1928 Exp The KAHN on 7th St. Special Monday & Tuesday '3 plans of the commission call for ambitious pro vy o L and Caatdgny, | H Is planned nlso to e : }Illl\l ul to record the ovcupation of all American divisions onument at to com- | milllonodd Amerlean vved behind the Hoes v e of-supply mont und ion Americ nd the headqg A = army respectiv A « placed in Rome to| Clarence W. Kuhne, asuistant ! of Amerlean | urer of the Mechanfes and Farmers the Nhallan|Savings Bank. arrested vesterday an Army and Navy|charged with falsifying Sl ted in Italy. These | cover a shortage of $11,1 oniuments and tablets, the commis- [ hound over to the Superior sion points can all be erected [today for trial in May. His | total of $1.300.000, which repre-{ of $5.000 was accepted, ahont cents for each Amer No testimony was given in court or who served in Europe. | Following the hearing Kuhne reit {erated his story that it was to cover Listed. | up the alleged thefis of a former American military ceme. | woman employe of the bank that he rope include the one lo-| had altered the ledgers RBrookwood, 28 miles south- James M, Otis, president of the | nd nt Waereghem, | bank. said he belleved Kuhne's story. | Ifhway between | The woman has not been heard from | \weels ind Ypres, and the following [ for 11y " Sowmme Cenetery,” situ | 11 miles north of St | Gnentin: “Suresnes Cemetery.” uver each bt looking the Seine 1M it £ Mont Valerten, nesr Vistie Cemeters” neas e < northes Thierey: Alsne-Murne nenr Pellean Mihiel fear Thiaueaurt, 18 milex Moz, and ¢« U Meuse upletion of s improvements by tniver wurs e Vineric ul e i the Institution Siys He Sought S— EYHS EXAMINED FREE BY OUR REGISTERED OPTOMETRISTS GENUIL FRAME AND FINEST QUALITY TORIC SPHERICAL LENSES FITTED COMPLETE to Protect Woman. cemete : ‘ Conn., March 6 memarial i to ation iments with i i are ornamental fla the A o fla ina American which e st rooms |7 Court e accommaodation ik Al Roi cemetery and Cemeteries The eizht cated at west of London Belgium ut Acking amplets the proper or their heauty namentation Commission’s Report. Cousin of Lincoln Dies. CARTHAGE, Mo March v P | Miss Nunie Coum, 83, a double second | cuusin ot Abtubinn Lancoln, died here at her hoine (oday Her other and father were buth flrst cousins of the WeLery | ety red President Miss Crum w uthwestl yorn jn Breckineldge County, Ky, A ATBURNE | 4y for the last 30 yeurs had n Cemetery situated near Bomagns, ‘lrl home with a cousin, Mrs. ) niles northwest Verdun. | (yry, here. largest Anmrican burial wops. monuments are o crectad in 55 points in France n the Tyroler Ear Conformer C.p Yer, *d ath i 97th Divisions and the pe 1o designate hattle en "] 18t ad i the i ion Genuine Toric KRYPTOK Invisible Bifocal Lenses First and best quality, $7.50 Spherical Bifocal Leuses Case and Cleaner Included oy ements tin [T Torfe KRYPTOK (owe pair to see near und far). Best lenses made. Sold regularly, $15 to $22. 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