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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 11, 1927. D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY - AIMEE NPHERSON DUE HERE ON TOUR Woman Evangelist Leaves on Nation-wide Trip for Lectures. By the A LOS longer ANGELBES it 11 facit e a court charges, Pherson to on a planne tion-wide her ftinerary wil er cities in which she e include Kansas Dallas, Wichita, Rochester, N. Y. vk, Philadelphia, New Orle Shreveport. She her secretary, imother and two newsps Miss sect Idron v evanzelist Mrs. Minnie Kennedy Ormiston, former Ar o operator, and Mr Wiseman-Sielaff ‘growing out of ind pastor last return missed Alhert Lee Attor nst Tudge n of District In mc reiterated the McPhe P hidin, v th i wrance hoax Carmel, ¢ ng a part have heen a asked for Mrs, Wiseman v the State ler story so often proce Jehn D. Shibe Is Granted Divorce. | PHILAD Comm masic scommendation orce for John D. Shibe, vice presi- dent and part owner of the Philadel- 1 American League Base Ball Club. iibe is in France. Her hus- his suit last June. action were not re- 11 for a di- PIE_COMPANY of the stockhoiders for the ele company wil Wisconsin n.m from Decem- 7. inclusive. | t 11 o'clock am January 18, 1027, for the electi for the ensii such other business as may come before the meeting. J. H. CRANFORD. President. FORD. NUAT, f_the Naf for the electio holders Company for snch_other come before it, will be held at the office of the company. northeast corner of 15th st and New York ave. n.w. on Monday. 17th day of January, 192° 4 o'clock p.m. | WILLIAM_D. HOOVER, President. ; Cretary PURSUANT TO SECTI! . ARTICLE VIIT, i by-laws, notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Capital Traction Co. for the election of di- | rectors for the ensuing year d the trans- action of such other business as mn( be brought before the meeting will be held at the office of the company. 36th and M n.w., Washington, D. C., Thursday, Janu: 1 1027, at 10:45 o'clock am. The poll will be open from 11 o'clock a.m. unti )‘-’1 o'clock noon 2 g - AL RAMPTON, Seoreta ) THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- bolders of the Home Building Association of the District of Columbia, for the election of officers and directors and for the transac- tion of such other business as may properly | conte before it. will be held at the office of | ihe treasurer, 2006 Pennsylvania ave. n.w. Tuesday evening. January 11. 1927, at gelock, - Books now open for subscription to X _of the 44th ceries ME OODWAR Savings and Trust of directors. oi. the Atlaniic Building G t Uffice of the company. No. 119 South Fair- {ax st Alexandria. Va.. on Friday. January 21, 1927 “This meetunie is for the election of “officers, ATLANTIC_BUILDING COMPANY. By A. L. ZACHARY. Secretary-Treasurer. _ THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE POLICY holders of the Mutnal Investment Fire In- surance Company of the District of Colum- ia, the ele enshing vear, and for other business, will be field at the office of the company. Room 820 Washington Loan & Trust Bullding. Mon- day, January 24th, 1927, at 10 o'clock a.m Polis_open “from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Al policy holders are requesied to be present and vote, as a proxy is not allowable. ment at end of business De- 1, 19 Amount of premium totes, S115.1847 $935.10: amount of Fmount of fire logses. ‘urities held. $12.000 HORACE L. BEALL. Secretary. _ T IN THE MATTER OF WASHINGTON AMERICAN LEAGUE BASE BALL CLUB, | ‘majority of the ash Ameri- ¥ certi k fixed by w0 hundred which sum & bonded ts ‘to about We, the president and board of trustees of the W van League Base Ball Club. h that the ut_of capital the charter said club. thousand dollars ($200.000 fully paid in. and’ the out and’ other indebtedness amot fne hundred thousand doll CLARK C. District of Columbia, to wit 1. Clark riffith, presi Jeague Base of my knowle of formation LARK C. GR Subseribed’ and sworn to before Sth day of January, AD. 19 NEENAT 1 Nota inting an TTSBURGH RATE; INC. 1 SPECIAL ASSN LOCAL MOV WANTED—A RETURN LOAD Of tire from New York. Phi tore. CSMITH'S TRANS RGE COMPANY ROOFING— Let us e O KOONS 031y INCLUDE US in your 1927 Printing plans. The National Capital Press 1210-1212 D ST.N.W EXPERT ROOF REPAIRERS Sec us if conditis IRONCLAD ¢ By Koons, ra S N ow and hines Ad: E i 119 I NEVEK DISAPPOINT PRINTING IN A HURRY BYRON S. ADAMS ~ Sterilization of Bedd‘ing has_beer ong e her. It was in W shop, Tf We d dopt it OBl S ARS —AND STILL AT IT Bedell Mfg. Company 610 1 Can Fin % frabun No the | {| brandishing a ed with the | ). | wnproved | The | -{ vember 2 i | the * comedian busincss” as_may ' properis | % | Chaplin s alleged to ion of trustees for the | amount of cash on hand. | | ' HUSBAND IN WIF {Screen Star Has $16,000,- | 000 and $550,000 Income, | Petition Declares. EMarried Her to Keep Out of | Prison, She Asserts He Told Friends. : | “Los ANGELES Chaplin a funny | Charles s individ nd f: creen guilele | ual pictured | less husband, 1 with an income 000 yearly, in here” by his Chaplin » believed | and a was ht, 1 mced As the sui lay Lloyd Wi ittorney, an 1 to Ch. exeept en during 1 had his childr Threats on Life Charged \lso charged her hus he had married her to the penitentiary 1d ed him y with the ceremony. She ac- nsed him of threatening her life and pistol in her presence BILE e custody of Charles Spencer, Earle, 1: alimony, at { torney’s fees and a division of thc community property. The actor's ortune is estimated by her at $16 1 000,000, of which amount $10,000,000 said to be communit ary is said to be $250,000 an- and his income from other estimated at an additional Mrs. Chaplin hand had avoid Mrs her Ch | and Syaney }is property Hi nually | sources is 1 £300,000. Mrs. Chaplin charges in her suit | that the actor twice threatened her life with a loaded revolver another occasion suggested th end her own life. { The complaint details the marital | life of the comedian and his girl wife m the date of their marr No- | mpalme, Mexico, up to their tion last November. {when Mrs. Chaplin and her two chil dren left he actor's Beverly Hills| mansion for the modest cottage of | her grandparents, a short distance away Alleged Honeymoon Talk. | An_alleged conversation between | | Chaplin _and some of his friend: aboard the train which was bearing the bridal party back to California from Mexico forms the first specific |chflrpe in the complaint “Well, boys, this is better than the | penitentiary, but it won't last long,” is quoted as saying within earshot of his bride. | Upon their return to Los Angeles have frankly informed his wife that the ma ge would not “last long. “I will make you so sick of me that you won’'t want to live with me,” he was quoted as saying. Mrs. Chaplin charges that the actor frequently accused her of be- ing a “gold digger’ and “black- mailer,” who had “ruined” his career | d isgraced” him by forcing him into the marriage for the purpose of “holding him up.” The comedian upbraided her, Mrs. Chaplin says, when she complained of his neglect. Says She Was Left Alone. “Well, what kind of treatment can you expect? I didn't marry you be- cause I wanted to, but because you made me.” he answered. Mrs. Chaplin declares that for the | first two months of their married life her husband took her out in pub- lic on only three or four occ and then with the explanation that he was doing so for the sake of appear- | ances. She avers she pent Christmas day of 1925 alone, Chaplin coming home | intoxicated the next morning. He id not see his children for two weel during last October, and since the| separation has failed to contribute anything to their support, aside from | the payment of a $27 milk bill. As a result, Mrs. Chaplin says, she has been forced to the necessity of bor- { rowing money from friends and to { rely upon the charity of her family. | | Mrs. Chaplin charges that on fre. quent occasions her husband told her | he did not “believe in the custom of | { marriage or in_the marriage rela- | If you are interest- ed in selling or buy- ing property in Takoma Park it will pay you to consult us first. CYRUS IMMON Realtor 1414 K St. N.W. I Main 1022 We Predict an even brighter future for than that attained in Mass. Ave. Heights All improvements — paved streets, sidewalks, curbing and alleys. Wooded Sites All Sizes Hedges & Middleton, Inc. 1tors 1412 Eye St. N.W. Fraoklin 9503 CHAPLIN IS CALLED FAITHLESS E'SDIVORCE SUIT KRS, CHARLIE CHAPLIN. hat ted he “publicly and pri with other women.’ mortth of their mar wlin declares, her hu: i . portion the pict s not name s true,” Chaplin ted when his wif unfaithf 1 nd don't am going company re actress. L co-respondent id to aceused am in who her vou like nd I am I had to motion is h ows it. I vhen I want to and wheth tor not. I don't love you nly living with you bec Mrs. Chaplin decla titud ecame th accompany to see s her husband's atening when she eusec him to t voman me “Certain Woman™ Mentioned. During Mrs. Ch: absence May, 1 he says, an automobile b tain woman” w in front of the acte eral hours on four he car remained night as late as 10 o'clock or's wife alleges that Chap 1 the habit of coming home | night and spent the evening vith ner “only on a very few oc sions.” When he did come home early | nd she had guests in the ould evade them Immediately after filing the divorce Mrs. Chaplin’s lawyers ob- | straining order preventing | m taking any of his prop- | ties out of the State or in any way disposi of them pending the out come of the suit. An order also was ued directing aplin to show | use why a receiver should not be | \ standing ome for s days |4ppointed to handle the community property until the case is settled. = | i FAIR BUILDING PLANNED. | Work on Sew;i;; Si’:uc-lure Due to“ Start Soon. l Construction of a pern ane; ) p ing by the United States at the s national exposition at Seville, Spain s expected to begin within four months, Thomas E. Campbell, com. {hissioner Eeneral representing the | ed Sthtes bosil an- | Bt at the exposition, an The ceived 1 commission has re. | st of a_dozen prominet architects, from which one Wil ba s | Ie to design the building. The Department will be consulted | in the selection, as well as the Fine | ;:«\rrls Commission, which submitted thv% Immediately after the architect has | been selected and the plans drawn, | construction work will begin, prob. | ably before May 1. The:United States | building will cost about $700,000 and ! will house only government exhibits, | It will be a permanent structure, | while another building of large dimen- | ?ff:.?;‘; \\;\Al‘l" Ohnutn the private exhibits | £ rican o | industrial firms, | o g and | REAL ESTATE LOANS BUSINESS, APARTMENT. CHURCH, HOTEL. THEATER. RESIDENCE ARAGE PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION L0 FRED T. NESBIT 1010 Vermont Ave. Main 9392 Comparison s this unusual operation of, unusual homes of the highest character, located just west of the Circle. 5628 Western Ave. Chevy Chase, Md. See this new detached center-hall plan, brick residence. Ten beanti fully finished rooms, three baths first 1 Javatory and two-car built homes of now nearing e. Other architecture completion Open Daily 2to9 P.M. Hedges & Middleton, Inc. Realtors 1412 Eye St. NW. Fr. 9503 OIN THE CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB f the FEDERAL-AMERICAN “Everybody’s Doing It” STORES FOR RENT Surrounded by 72 ew Homes 4th & T Sts. N. Cars Pass the Door Make early choice and have store finished to suit your business H. R. Howenstein Co. 1311 H St. N.W. house he | H | mitte TAKOMA CITIZENS * FIGHT FOR PARKS, Elimination of 25 Per Cent Site Purchase Clause Urged at Meeting. Elimi in the pur play Koma night It wa und incer Street Tmprovement E. I 1014 i} neath the Four tier to Van 1 other 1 to he elir o Cedan n Whit $6.000. Sev s were its ¢ icultur d finance itte n titution ind garder t n and audit and on_zoning and t The Baltimore will be requested t Ing at Chestnut 50 pam., wh being switc erossin T'wo there several mor pointed out t E exists at the New Men and Mrs, membe xation nd Ohio Ra Tamond Mr. clected and Ho honorary memie On motion of Scereta the committee on law was directed to urge t certain bills now before President Che nounced th s for th ntertainment Ang A . A. Carey, Mrs Rutledge R. of Fisk ng com yeur Hooker, Axtell, B. B. Walter Irey, White, W. A H H. Mrs, ation 3 rk, A Lampson, I D. Yorkes. 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Goodacre, C. fpl‘eSident‘ Still Hunting for Temporary Considers Several Places White House, President Coolidge has reached no dec ding temporary Touse during the long pe ite House will be in an up President him- Presidents left to the self, principally because have different id regarding place Moreover, he believes it is because of extensive ref vantageous for a President to The President and -Mrs. Ci a different locality each yea I are house huntin however, | thinks th Pr nt should u » said to have several places in | opportunity acquair with the of country_and _their Mr. Coolidge points out is always much inconver nd | embarrassment, vell as a certain amount of stre experi ed in traveling about country, and the strain the President was re ented giving a_reminder tha there is only one ex-President liv today RIGHT TO KILL ILL PERSON STIRS REICH German Pastor's Play on Proposal to End Suffering Is Debated Throughouot Nation. By the Associated Pro FRANKFORT-ON-ODER January 11.—Nation wid: been aroused on the que ether it is right to kill a pe iflicted with an incurable he subject. on which a sinfons have been expr s n revived written by Rev . pastor of the fashion Withelm Memorial Churct which recently was given in the Frankfort should be t to become different _sections inhabitants While discussing e \ that there lers today, the I the question with sident said he is house of suffi mmodate his house » White House as pos. ience ‘oolidge does not fave nt of a permanent Summe President. He conte lection of a vacation 'RUMANIA IS FACING | FINANGIAL DEFICIT Vote Circulation of 21,000,000,000 Lei Offset by Budges of Expendi- tures Totaling 43,000,000,000 Lei. By ds | pot | 1 Press s RUCH A REST any ion Ru ion January 11 total 1,000,000 lei, h @ note circu tion nd (The 1 faces a budget of mounting to 43,000,000, has a_present exchange htly over one-half cent.) circulation has not been d since 1923, but the budget have steadily becon larger. vear the government was hard | ! at times to swing a budget | 28.000,000,000 lei and there were | nany dayvs, especially at the end of month. when it had to call on the | e Nationale for Ivances in to meet the official pay rolls ineial experts say that the rarity bills will he felt much more keenly is vear. As much as the present | \verescu regime is opposed to infla- | {tion, foreign financiers doing business | ' Rumania for many years say there | | apparently will be no other way out the predicament ! sorts ed in 1ble of Berlin for the Municipal Theater. In the play a daught incurably insane which threaten to time goes on and whick life of torture hoth for and those who love ho unable to. see her gives her a sufficienti a medicine to kill her When the physician gests that undoubted]y found pre 1 the patient Her mother tter suffer large dose of u, tactfully misjudged red it at t without knowled al effect, the mother 11 have killed her (®).A fire that swept through the| The mother is brought to of Newburgh's business dis- | Despite her self-accusation she arly today caused damage esti- [ quitted. nated at $300,000. The flames had| Thus, it been brought under control after fire. | tist has replied pos had battled for hours in zero | tion of whether it is Sixteen families were made | tain circumstances to kill time he offers what mi {an “ethical recompen: No sooner is the mother acquitted than she |atones for what she still believes {be a blameworthy act by becom Hen- | nurse at a hospital wh nervous | disorders are treated Fire Damage $300.000. NEWBURGH, N. Y., January is commented, the dram ively to the ques ht under At the same be termed cer Heffner {G.ow ‘x: T. Hall, L. H. Simpson, jr., Chase B. A. Chandler, H. B. drick, Mrs. J. C. Hollis Parks, parking and H. R. Sr ey, Mrs. C A. L fers, ¥. C. Mer Public health— k, B, playgrounds— D. Blachly, BT HAlL T €. tt, Rudolph W *. C. Gallowa, Richardson, Mrs. ‘| Vessel Bearing Him the Mrs. H. C. White. | Bublicity—T. W, Coffman, Howara| Duchess Reaches Canary Island. e | LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, Jan nd lights—R. Y. Ferner,|uary 11 () .—The British battle Hsom, Acton, R. S.|cruiser Renown, bearing the Duke and ikl L Duch f York on their Austr rrived here last The ro; avelers were we local officials, who were invited dinner aboard the warship. Members of the party planned to visit, the islands for some sightseeing today. DUKE OF YORK ON WAY. K and Boyd, C ett evenin; omed by to Leaman, L. G. Vi y Delegate to Public School Assocla- tion—Walter Irey | Representative on community Wash- I ]»n" birthday celebration-—N, \\'.I tutledge. t These Van Buren Street Homes open for inspection week day from 3 to 9 P.M.—Sundays from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M.—just go through them by yourself — and see what charming homes they are. They are selling themselves by their manifest superiority. Price is appealing— and terms will facilitate purchase. 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[ e ARCH " SPPPORT TURED HERE YOI ated Pross. 11.—Three tting around | the differences | and forei January n n the o !0. im, Attorn Widths ed States unde told the League of sociation re vid, “if i far as it has on the court, should fail road to torm- | £ tates Su ident of ; of Cleveland United Court, was clected pre rican partic movement spirit of Laoc Dr. Nicholas ent of ¢ pation in world | iccordance witl o0 pacts was urged | = Murray Butler, Presi- | lumbia University. He | 1e United States ma * declaration of poelicy indicat o the nations signatory to the Lo- | that it would not aid nation, under the Lo- | definition. by suplying it with | and mur s under cover of | nical neutrality. i iam Allen White, editor of the 1 Gazette, told the association American farmer, facing competition of Europe ing Toomaon-cxDonen 1 oS iy Wil Extra Widths for STOUT WOMEN Black or Brown Kid when ind rural one Pickpocket-Proof Pocket. 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