Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1928, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. .. MONDAY, JANUARY 2. 1928, ' /19 HUGE BUMBS US[D Injunction Sought | “STAGE TEAM” IN COURT. e — To Keep Inventor’s|Marital Troubles Separate Mr. and : Paris acclaims just such fin- i Mrs. Gilbert Wells. Smart — New — Different! i IU WREEK BRIDG[ Formula a Seeret W SHICAGO, January 3 (P)—arita! Cuch are the New Frocks for 4o & sembles and Tailored Shuits T Moy team o€ Brady and Wells S50 teoughy Southern and Spring Wear ar- addelcrerno s A b Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Wells into the riving with every express. also for Southern Weap are JACKSONVILLE, Fla, January | givorce court, 7 Planes Drop 1,100-Pound S e SR R e e D And they are so moderately P extremely smart Dresg and to resggain C. J. Weeks, 60, local |her erstwhile stage partner and hus- { raiiroad engincer, from vevealing | band, who Is' o~ grandson " of the fpriced. 606 - 614 ELEVENTH ST. Sport Coats. . j Missiles in War Depart e as abie o b In 2. TR N | e e i T D 3 3 / an automobile from a_pint of his | g . ment Tests. e aa s TrriteTrEates || o e e oo snaaltiyeath District’ Court here Saturday by . Nathanial P, Pratt of Decatur, Ga., . s The recent airplane bombing ex-| @nd George I Pratt of Atlanta, Flight Planned by News Men. " P & The petitioners asserted that MEXICO CITY, January 2 OP).— periments on the Pec Dee River| they advanced Weeks $13.700 to | Univeceal reports e’ - Bridge in North Carolina have con-| develop the process and that after | linee’ carryin bl "n “"'f IX‘"“"‘gr" Vinced the War Department that,| telling them “a person or persons |,ewgpaper e oy ot siven aaliforeed) Consrote pridge| conmected with the gasoline indus- 4 AL o Target 20 feet wide and 1,000 feet in }:‘*;‘,'.‘t“",,,fim“;”,?“&‘]i"'f- s length, bombing planes canmot in-| gnce opened negotiations with ville and Tampico for a study of Mex- nlu‘.:: ‘al\,\: !;\lxllunr__\' nd:nn{nx‘e‘ ‘nn' l":: fwo motor companies. 5 ican conditions. -h'"C l\l:\‘o“ h T:;ISF les weighing les The suit declared preliminary |seee———— b e A ll‘slsdlm\ sho“,-n ‘llmt lme process e Lo > 2, would “rev tionize the automo- however. will demolish an en-| jje indust the codt ol AT of lh(‘, strongest ;“"0“"}‘; facture being only a few cents per I on employed in any normal galion. ¢ . » To the women wh ‘l & P 0 have attended this event in the past, the dge, the tests disclosed The Army bombing planes, earry- mere announcement of it will send them hurrying to the store on fng 300-pounders, less than half of Shich ‘constioiad ‘TRT, Shent ojt - F.__MLS_T..O__PACIFY' ) Tuesday. And as great as the values have been in the past, they are far greater this year. Unseasonable weather has left us with day in shooting at the bridge and was learned that a bomb of this tvpe | Lithuania-Poland Relations Re- l3t|| & E Biructton (" this Ty main at Sensitive Stage. | 1928 hrger'stocks to clear and our policy of never carrying over mer- S At 4oVARS Jenuary, 2 N0BCRele = chandise means that they will be cleared regardless of how fine 600-Pounders Used. still_ave espite the agree- ofters the quality or how smart the styles. “The next morning, th ment made at Geneva to end the 365 devoted to the use of 600-pound | technical state of war, ) emied \While these bombs accom-| Although several Poles have been Nites plished some damage when they :dln;\'«l ‘m“clmer l'\“w“"' the Ll:h- of Dancing e e D g i e e We H Offered Such V. B irect it 1 yus svon gbvious Anin cuplal W, Rrye, Doy e e Have Never ered Suc ues in tion of the structure. It also was ap- | today was refused permission to en- rent that explosions of thes: < | ter Lithuania despite his claim that Swancc e o feet from | Premier Waldemaras had promised e e ata no efective military | him while in Geneva that he could Swanee Synco- ® damage. have a visa. pators | “It ‘was then decided to use the ’ ] s | 1.100-pound _bomb, containing 35 PR e Directed by TNT. There were only 18 y e Make Bovmbe.of this trpe ava WINDOW SHADES to Order (] | NN 4 Fi Houston, Tex., in a few days, flving to Mexico City by way of Browns: Pombs of this type available for this part of the test. Ti ck at Factory Prices. bridge with these missiles = We would be pleasad to send sou an estimate. in nearl ser cent direct hits and reduction of that part of the y hridge turned over to the Army Air | Corps and the Ordnance Department S O . for experimental purposes to a mass of battered concrete and twisted teel. & :'whe first bomb which struck the bridge destroved two approach spans of & length of 80 feet. The second bomb demolished two more of these approaches, and the last two hits, striking close to the huge pier which supported one of the three large spans over the river, put thig portion of the target out of commission.” The left . oG g ) / Spproach and one span of (e DLINEs | 2 At their original prices these Coats were extremely good valucdi—at ?2:“ ;f;;l:i_n:-;fie;l‘fi;.rZ.'?L,'fi‘{i,”;’;-}Ifft;,f_‘r 1115 1117 F STREET (?I}l?lg;N I?SE"I‘ their present reduced prices they are nothing short of sensational. As for CHOICE OF sy RORERE 0 i e L et TS the Coats themselves—they represent the fashion successes of the present OUR FINEST . i it The Climax of Opportunity COA' season. The furs are smart and of selected quality, the materials :md col- COATS $125 ors are just what you want. _ i Jv destroying the bridge” the am- Bouncement explained, “it probably is offered in this Coat Department—T1hird Floor could have been accomplished® without great difficulty by the melhod‘(\lf :n‘a"%- ing each plane of the group with 1.100- find ‘bombs and releasing these earance Saile | ,mbs in salvo from a nine-ship for- mation. However, since the purpose : of the tests was not merely the de- You have the unrestricted choice of struction of the bridge but obtaining flitary data. it was ne v that save in This Clear Simfromauy Every Streel Dress 300 SMART HATS — e designed th Y £ conditions not esigned to cause he | " mmetiate Qestruction of ‘the bridee. Every Spor[s Dress These phases gave to the War De- 5 J partment much valuable information - T mers o Important from 3 tech- | Every Afternoon Dress In Our French Room __ nical point of view jained it | (Only the $16.50 Group is Excepted) ° The War Department expl was not possible to employ the salvo : hod of dropping the bombs, “in P ) *f the fact that it would have en- Specially Priced for Only O G ’ |14 4”5 tertin ‘harard. o occupants y One Group.—but What a Group of the country adjacent to the bridge. ,Ianuary Sales ; oui— For that reason it was necessary to £ earry out the tests with single planes 1 or with a formation of not more than three planes. This greatly decreased ’ the possibility of hitting the bridge.” . you are sure to Prior to theWiropping of live bombe SR three days were spent in dropping find s h Many styles for demolition bomb cases filled with sand ° Your size in { both day and eve- to determine how the cases would many styles, col- ; i s stand up under impact from high al- y d yies, e F - nung wear in the ors and materials. selection. titudes. It’s a most advantageous time—and the —ns models are those exclusive designs for which NEWSPAPERS MERGE. the Louvre is famous. Every Frock in the Youthful Makes in (SIOLX FALLS. & Duk, Juouars 2 sl:le has been a feature of our regular stock ™ Well dressed wom ill D i e g iyt M this season. < 3 vomenywill choose these Dresses they are Jerari s paver hat ety with i i Paris-Inspired Styles Jasbarliie v wamen i e m“'flp‘::m - SVt ST St iociine pubiticstion 50 the choice of But the price for sucly superlative quality is far below what you The i’ress said it “has been me d el his et ak mtag i o Every Dress Coat Harbingers of the Spring Millinery ;::g.:;'::::}:n?:o?eh o lp:‘“.il'?‘"‘"': Event as this. Buy ‘wow until late in the Spring. trend toward lurger units in all lines % = 5 of tusiners” ' B o L\'ery Sporls Coat Mode you might call these Hats. For each Births Reported. contains some feature that will be promi- nent later on. The vogue for Crochet 7 Dress Department—Second Floor The following births have been reported to rtment in the past 24 ir). 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