Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 5

SCHODLS PLARNIG FOR CELEBRATONS Community Center Branch Arranging Programs for Christmas. The community center department of the public schools has under way its plans for Chrisimas celebrations throughout the city. Columbia Heights, Park View and Petworth will have old-fashioned Chystmas trees as the feature of their celebrations and arrangements for the lighting of the big community tree.in Sherman Circle are nearin 1 The Wilson Heights center program at & o'elock Thursday eve ning with presentation of three one- act plays, under ih Aurora M. Poston 1 a reception in honor of the players. wNer Sthyl Baker, di B the eomrau 1 wil be gaest of honor. T m ha been arranged hy the com mittee of the chapter, includine Ho: bert L. Davis. Alton B. ( Herman Hunt, Miss A. Mrs. E. C. Snvder and others, operation with Mrs. Ida E. community secret A. A. Milne's comed in the Bowler Hat " wi Elizabeth John Dresden. T ary es, and Herbert vitten by Hilde: pla he ! Ward 1 Booth Ta ing Place Martha Di o P, Sylvia Hutt, Rotella, and ington’s will_he wiven by E. Baukages Herbert 1 Melville St Friday_nrizht, munity Chri In the gymnas by a group of young peopie ¢ themselves the Gloom Chaser outgrowth of the popular Club of southeast cente lowing Tuesday ni Message,” pageant written and ranged by Marie Moore Forrest, wil be produced at Armsirong High audi torium by the centers of s 1013 and the Washington tion of Church €% of which Miss Virgir director. They will be nssisted Howard University ducted by Burleigh Williams; Junior Choruses, 17, a com- December 4 en Williams is by th con- the Miss Howard; s directed b The Burrville Senior and conducted by Mrs. Ella Wachington, and the Garfield Chorus, conducted by Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham. Mrs. Forrest is general di- rector of the pageant. The Ceorgetown community cele bration will be held Thursday evening. December 23, in Montr Park. A Norway spruce, planted h the Georgetown Garden Club, 11 be decorated and lighted for its first offi cial Christmas. The assembled audi ence will sing Christmas carols. Re. hearsals of the carol$ will be held next Wednesday evening in the Dum. barten Avenue Methodist Church. PREACHER IS GROCER. Gives All of Fis Salary Back to His Church. FORT WORTH, Tex.. December 11 (®) —Preacher on Sunday. grocer the | rest of the time. That is the way the Rev. H. L. Wilkinson, 37, Baptist pas- tor here, is able to give ail his salary back into the church building fund. Before he opened a bright, spick-and- span grocery a month ago Mr. Wilkin- son donned overalls and worked on the new church structure, which now is completed and being furnished. Now he dons a white apron instead and makes a living tying up sugar, flour and bacon. Each month when he receives his salary check he turns it over to the huilding fund. The church is known as the Granbury Avenue Baptist. Mr. Wilkinson has been pastor two year: i -A motol car manufactured for an Indian pr hi electric lamps. ;| charge of all * | observations in Americ Manila Youth Joined Show | to Secure Funds for College Course. Plans to Exhibit Paintings, Done During Travels, in House Gallery. It's a far cry from an exposition side show to government officialdom, |in a way at least. Juan M. Arellano {of Manila 15 now supervising archi- | tect of the Philippine Islands. in the city planning of ! that vast amehipelag nd a promis- {ing painter. He got his start in {life with a troupe of Moros and | Ragabos, wild men and wild women, | from the mountain fastnesses of vindanao, who were on view inim | orted native surroundings at Jamestown Exposition of Arellano s father atic Tagalos, were self-made men. What should more natural than that Juan should want to follow in_their foot- steps? But hew 1o £ about it, for his funds were insufficient for the voyage to the United States, where he wished to study. The exposition solved the problem. Today Juan not only holds a re- sponsible public position, but, with the aid ot Pedro Guevara, I° 1 nine delegate, is planning to hold an exhibition of his oil and water color paintings, which are his hobby, in the gallery of the House of Repre- | sentatives. He Is touring the United States to study city planning, which [c he savs Is the prerequisite of a good |t erobitect. He to evolve a working plan for h town in the Philippine Islands a result of h% Traffic con- ditions in the large cities here in- (I terest him especially, because of the growing vehicular congestion Manila, The idea dressing in a sleeping and | native fashion was par- ticularly obnoxious to Arellano. but not long ‘after the exposition clos he won the Poore prize for pictorial composition _at the Philadelphis Academy of Fine Arts, where he went with his side show earnings to study painting. Two vears later, 1903 Arellano was awarded the Pupin pri for the best design in intercollegiate | ompetition in a prescribed test, the illumination of an postion grounds of eating, RADIO VOICE TO TURN ON CITY LIGHTING SYSTEM St. Louis Mayor Will Telephone to Microphone and Wave Will Start New Operaticn. By the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, December 11. voice of Mayor Victor J. Miller . ried by long-distance telephone to Pittshurgh, Pa., and there broadeast by Westinghouge radio station KDKA, fwill automatically turn on the first section of the city’synew $8,000.000 electric street light system, it was announced tonight. When at 8 o'clock next Wednesd: night M. r Miller says. “KDKA, re now ready i statioh 600 mile his voice on a 3 When picked up in St. Louis with a special receiving set this wave will automatically start operation of the first sub-station. ‘Westinghouse officials said they be- lieved this would be the first time on record where a radio signal has actu- ated a complete lighting installation by remote control. Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 $10.50 rooms, $8 avatory $7 rool ms. $6 $14 with 1o} n roo weekly let, whower’ 50 % more. R and 1 00! power diploma the the University a practical re employed helped plan the sake of preservation was horn 2 hacienda. Now he emerges as an archi | & | ONCE CIRCUS “WILD" MAN, NOW LEADING PHILIPPINE ARCHITECT lw DETEGTIVE SLENT ONSERENER TRP Visit to South Follows Dis- closures About Pistol by Prisoner at Jail. Detective Ira Keck returned yes- terday from a secret investigating trip into the South concerning the Scrivener case, but absolute silence was maintained at the detective bureau as to what he found. Inspector Pratt’s only statement a specific denial that the pistol ich lay at the feet of Detectiv Sergeant Arthur B. Scrivener his body was found in an alley nea Wisconsin avenue and N street, with a bullet through the heart, on the morning of October 13 last, had ever left Washington. The inspector refrained from com- | ment on the purpose of Keck's trip, | refusing to affirm or deny published ! reports shown him to the effect that 4. M. ARELLANO house. he studied and received his in ‘landscape architecture at Institute, and pursued a | shitectural course at of Pennsyly As sult of his t in 1912 in the New Yor Frederick Law Olmstead. he the Denver, Colo., civ :enter, and the Riverside drive cxte ion in New Y he following 3 AuX Arts Ateliet sequently journe:; Next Drexel )ost graduate al tlice of painted the scenes that he hopes to exhibit. Arellano’s avocational art tinetly indivdualistic. He spec pes and genre figu n vivid land avor: wood bac and rs for 8, he rilippine a tect and paute onal rej King his bow ¢ Keck was making the trip as sult_of the disclosures by Hen: ler Moore, a prisoner at the District jail, who identified the death pistol as one which he had previously owned and had stolen from Florida. Tt is known that after Maj. Peyton Gordon, District attorney, started his independent investigation to check up on Moore's statements, police went to his office and obtained information concerning a certain person believed to have heen a prior owner of the pistol which Moore claimed to have taken from Florida. That was more than a week ago. Keck's trip fol- lowed. DIVORCE CASE NEARS END MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., December 11 (#).— Edith Marie Day’s first matri- monial venture, her marriage to Pat Somerset, in the Spring of 1923, is nearing an end in Hennepin County District Court. An action for divorce begun against the noted English actor a vear ago by the former Minneapolis girl, who rose to theatrical fame as the star in “Irene” and ‘“Rose Marie, as been set for trial Wednesda ight under Holme-Sumner, me, the the name of Somerset's {a " Sapphires and beautiful dia- mond: 18-kt white gold mounting. Orisinal $30.50 Sale Price, $32.50 DIAMOND RING This is a beautifully- cut diamond set in the latest filagree white gold mounting Original Price, \ $75.00 Sale Price, $65 \ $1.00 a Week. 21-Jewel Illinois THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 12, 1926—PART 1. Revised figures compiled by the Ad- Jutant General of the Army show that there were 244,173 battle casualties in the American military forces during the World War, of which 244,086 oc- curred in Europe and 87 in Siberia, not including casualties among per- sonnel of the United States Na and Marine Corps. Of the total casualties, 570 oc. curred to troops from the District of Columbia in the cases of 545 indi viduals, of whom 25 were wounded more than once. Of the local troops, 79 were killed in action, 23 died of wounds, making a total of 1 tle deaths; 468 others received mortal wounds. entire Amer] Army there 510 battle deaths, of which 8 occurred in ction and 12,942 from wounds received in action. There also were 1 3 cases of non wounds among 182, indi- , of whom 18 were wounded four times, 436 three times, and 10,535 non- )2 in bat- | twice. Nearly 62 per cent of the wounds were caused by gunshot, about 33 per cent by gas, about & per cent by shell, 0.11 per cent by air raid and 0.07 per cent by bayonet The number of shellshock cases was 5,016, Of the number killed in action 11,656 were officers and 35,912 were en- |listed men, and 559 officers and 12,383 |enlisted men subsequently died from wounds received in action. The bat |tle casualties were greatest in the | 1st, 34, , 28th, 26th, 324, 4th, 2d 77th D ons, in the order imed. Included in the list of officers who died from wounds received in action were 1 brigadier general, 7 colonels, 14 lieutenant colonels, 48 majors, 267 captains, first lieu- tenants and 900 second lieutenants. Two major generals, 3 brigadier gen- erals and 30 colonels were wounded, but not mortally. More than half the battle casualties occurred in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and slightly more than one-sixth in the Aisne- Marne offensive. ENGLAND TO REGAIN HISTORIC OLD FALCON Iron Sign From Inn in Shake- speare’'s Home Town Is Sold in Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 11.—A rugged ron, taken years from the old Falcon Inn in Shakes- home town of Stratford-on- Avon, England, is to be retur long travel and much handling, to its native abode. A resident of Great Britain, hearing t the relic as offered for sale as part of the famous collection of Charles F. Gunther, hastened to buy it so it might be restored to its place on the front of the inn, not far from her home. nees ki Other inter collection were di the Chicago Histo of the hair and be: liberator, Joseph € ed for sale, as w th 1 rd of the Italian ldi, were offer- piece of the tree irgin Mary was sup- | posed to have sat, the clothes the King child and ancient uding th worn by President McKinley when he was assasinated, and a horse-skin shoe 14 inches longand 5 i s wide. once worn by a at the Rattle of Water Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthro- pist. DANCE TO FOLLOW PLAY. The University of Michigan Club of Washington announced yesterday plans for a dance to follow its presen- tation of “Front Page Stuff,” the an- nual Michigan offering, at the Wash- ington Auditorium on December 27. The dance will be in honor of the opera_troupe. In this instance, however, the guests of honor will also provide the dance music. A really “collegiate” orchestra has been organized within the troupe. The entertainers will be taken on a sightseeing tour of Washington and by points earlier in the day. “The Fulton” Apartment 1448 Park Road N.W. e room, spacious sun parlor, tiled lllll'llvl.”k!h'llen. $45.50 ’ Hartung & Co. 1108 16th FEREARTARTARLEREELEARTARAEEEERERRRRAN SRS FLOOD OF GOLD COINS FOR HOLIDAY GROWS Nearly 100 Millions Estimated Total of This Year's Christmas Withdrawals for Gifts. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 11.—Wall Street’s annual “gold rush” has begun. _Stacks of gold pieces in the $2,50, $5, $10 and $20 denominations are now leaving the vaults of the New York Federal Reserve Bank by the truck- load, bound for country and city banks vhich will supply the stream of gold coins that pour into Christmas stock- ings and gift envelopes. . Every year at this time the New York and other Federal Reserve Banks have watched a growing flood of gold pieces pour forth, and then sud T denly, after the holidays, pour back and become a part of the bank re- serves until another Christmas rolls | around | Officials of the Chase National Bank | estimate that between $50.000,000 and £40.009,000 in gold coins will be with- | drawn ‘from the banks of the coun- try this year, probably seiting a new high record. Last year it was esti- mated that $75.000,600 in gold was put into circulation at this time. In New York alone, it is expected that be- | tween $15,000,000 and $20,600,000 will be distributed this year. For the first time in years the United States Treasury has minted a limited amount of new $2.50 gold pieces as its contribution to the holi- day movement. ine ex-drivers of a British rail- v line figured up at a recent re- on tendered them by the Kine, their combined ages are 663 their total railway service ars and their aggregate mile. ,000 miles, all wa cepti that vears, 4873 accident. e s SIT T TTTTIUCOE TR R TRRRRAR A S The Best Homes garage. Main 6140 are Brueninger Homes See Fhem Before You Buy Open and Lighted Daily Until 9 P.M. Drive out 16th St. to Alaska Ave.. on to 13th St. L€ BreuninGer & Sons 706 Colorado Bldg. Builders and Realtors Shepherd Park Will Be a Community of Over 200 Ideal Homes CASTELBERG’S Great Removal Sale A magnificent dia- mond in a fine high- ¥rade mounting Original Price, $150 Sale Price, $125 $2.00 a Week. EVERYTH G AT REDUCED yVe are going to move to our new, beautiful store on Washington’s g‘:flm street. 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