Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1926, Page 36

Strength, Character and Beauty A Bank of Distinction Open for Inspection This Week The art of the ages and the skill of modern science have been combined in the making of this magnifi- ~gm cent bank home—one of the most remarkable in America. There is beauty, dignity and refinement in this building, yet, withal, a striking absence of that cold austerity popularly associated with finan- cial institutions, FEDERAL-AMERICAN NATIONAL BAN K FIDWRTEENTH THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, STREET AT |UNREQUITED LOV CAUSE OF SUICIDE Young Italian Army Officer Slays Self in Presence of Girl Who Rejected Him. By the Associated Preax. NEW YORK, March 19.- Patrizio Rizzotti, a young Itallan calvary lieu- tenant of an old Florentine family, is dead in Florence, Italy, by. his own hand, after a brief unrequited pas- sion for Marie Loulse Schreiber, 18- year-old sub-deb daughter of a Short Hills, N. J., silk merchant. Rizzott!i met Miss Schrieber at the home of Mrs. Cornelia Hoffman, in Florence, where the girl has been vis- iting. He sent two letters to Marie's mother In New Jersey. ‘The letters, Mrs. Schreiber said aft- er cable dispatches came about the suicide, were written in “very broken English,” but in them “it was easy to see that he was head over heels in love with her.” Lieut. Rizzotti had been notified that his visits must slog Marie gave him no encouragement, but he spent whole days promenading under her window. He obtajned a month's leave of ab- sence and went to Paris, apparently in an effort to forget. But he return- ed more enamoured than ever. Yesterday he met Marie coming from the house. He took her hand and bade her farewell in his own tongue. Then - bullet through his heart. at Short Hills: “The wl hnl( thing is very unfortu My daughter is a_very quiet, digi fled girl, not at al! the flapper type. [ know that this will upset her greatly. She Had known the young officer for some time, and while she liked him a good deal, she did not love him. From what I know of him through her let ters and a picture she sent home, he was a very fine type of man. BIBLE CLASS TO DINE. Dr. J. Stanley Durkee Will Speak at Calvary Banquet Tonight. Dr. J. Stanley Durkee. president of Howard University, will be the prina pal speaker at the thirty-fiftth annuai banquet of the Vaughn Bible Class of Calvary Baptist Church in the Sun day schoolroom mnlaht at 7:30 o'clock Other speakers will be Representa tive W. M. Whittington of Mississippi. Dr. Joseph R. Siz00 of New York Ave- nue Presbyterian Church, Prof. Louis D. Bliss and Dr. W. S. Aber nethy. pastor of Calvary Church, Mr; - Vaughn will extend greetings John B. Abraham will be toastny Music will be provided by Holtzclaw Gawler, Sop: Furminger. cornet sol Vaughn Class Orchestra. Arthur B Pierce will give dialect stories. Chairmen of committees in charge are: John A. Patterson, general George B. Bryan, toasts; J. C. Vick, supper; John H. Davis, prh\( L. Kohler, entertainment; R. A invitations; Hugh W. Smith, pres A. C. Oehmler, decorations, and Wal- ter H. Newton, reception. ; Carlos T , and the Modification Asked. NEW YORK, March 19 (®).—The county Republican committee by a vote of 2,000 to 100 has decided to ask Congress to modify the Volstead act. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1926. Bottle of Vodka l Buys Husband; 10 Is Prlce for Wlfe' By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. MOSCOW, March 19,—The mar- ket price of husbands, computed in bottles of vodka, is ro'nlllderl.bly less than for wives, as fixed by two transactions recorded before proper authorities of the village of Pervomaevshina. One Ukraine peasant woman sold and delivered her husband to an- other peasant woman, who desired a capable helper 'on her farm, and the price paid, wad one bottle of vodka. Another peasant in the sane vil- lage sold his wife to a neighbor and the price was’ 10 bottles of vodka. The latter was obliged to call and escort his new helpmate to_his home. The four principals, as well as officlals who sanctioned the tran- sactions by recording them, now await diseiplining. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co.) HOOVER IS GRANDFATHER. Son, Herbert, Jr., Becomes Father of Baby Girl, Telegram Says. PALO ALTO, Calif., March 19 (®). —Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is a grandfather. A daughter was born to Mrs. Her- bert C. Hoover, jr., at Cambridge, Mass,, Wednesday night, Allan Hoover, uncle of the newcomer, was advised yesterday by telegraph. Mrs. Hoover was Miss Margaret Watson of San Francisco. She and her husband are graduates of Leland Stanford University, the alma mater of Secretary oover. Young Hoover ls attending Harvard. _———— Superior Service— Lowest Prices— C. A. 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