Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1928, Page 29

TN, SUNDAY STAR. WASHTNGTON, N. 0. JANUARY 8. .. THRIFT WEEK * WL BE BSERVED Habits of Saving to Be Urged| During Period Beginning January 17. In line with an annual nation-wide | observance, Washington will celebiate | Thriff beginning lanuar: hirthd: versary of Benjan Frank American wpostie thrift. The local observance will be under | direction of the thrift committee of the District of Columhia. now heinx reorganized under the direction ul the Washington ung Christian Association, in, co-opel with other soclul, civic, vommerc educational and religious organ tions. 1saac Gans. membef of the Board| of Educdtion and past president of the Washington Chamber ol merce. has been chosen as chairman of the committee. C. H. Hillegeist is} vice chairman, Mrs. W. E. Chumbe:- | iin second vice chairman. Frank W.| . White treasurer and C. E. Fleming | of the Y. M. C. A. secretary. | Publicity Is Plauned. Numerous subcommitiees will be n of | appointed 10 look after special details of the week's program The com mittees will seek to bring home force fully the deax of (hrift 10 childien housewivex. business men and the “men in the street.” ‘The relativnxhi Of SAVINE 10 NUCCESS proNperity anc happiness will be stressed throu the medium of vublic speeches, the newspapers and other forms o Ppublicity The week will e divided us tollows Pay Bills Promptly . Share with Others day. Bank day, Life Insurance and Make a Will (hv\".'t\vln Your Own Home day. Budget day und Safe In vestments day Bankers, realtors, insurance men retail merchants. school _teachers, pastors, city officials und others wil Join in the campaign, as in former; Years. The “thrift creed’ “Work and earn. Make a budget. record expenditures. Have a bank account. Carry life insurance. g your own home. Make a will. in safe securities. Pay bills promptly. | §hnrv with others.” Indorsers of Movement. The (hrift movement started in Ecranton, Pa., in. 1914, The first| Thrift week celehration ook place in for the week Is Men's Races Fast F! reighi ! SUBS’i'ITfJT_E FOR SKIN FOUND TO LINE DIRIGIBLES New Fabric for Gas Cells of- Big Airships| To Save Boy, 4, ‘Walking on Track COHOES, N Y., January 7.— Racing 60 yards ahead of a fast freight, u railrgad conductor here today snatched a 4-year-old boy al. niost from under the pilot of the locomotive. Joseph Stefanik. the boy, walking with his 9.year-old sister in a railrond yard when the freight, topping 2 grade. plunged down upon them. H. Frank Myers, con- ductot of a train standing on a ~iding saw that the girl had leaped | from the rails. but that the fright- ened boy remained in the path of the oncoming train Sprinting down ahead of the train, Myers swept the boy clem of the s as the locomotive with set ex. ground past, was | | | By the A 1910 that the ligh | destined 1 mant of w Reported to Have Been Developed by Navy Department. iated Press the Bureau of Standards. A substitute for goldheater's | hax been xoaght hy the uir powers « the world since it became apparent i | square vard, this skin hax heen. here | ment of ;| bl 21 tie in conditions. * The movement has | wn with such success that guber | g torial _proclumations are issued | a number of States in recognition of Thrift week Among the organizations which have indorsed the movement are. Advertising Club, American Associa- tion of University Women, American g of Banking. American | Argonaut Club, Associated ! Associated ~ Retail ~Credit | kers' Assoclution, Bar As Lenses COMPLETE with 1. or METAL frame SHEL $10 Outhit for $5 ne’ Women . Housekeepe Community Life Underwriters, turers Welfare ¢ uncil of ¢athal Club. Optimigt Club, | tion, public library, Quota Club, Real Federa- | public xchoois, | Estate Board, ton, Wholesale tion. Women': Y. M. H. A Zonta Club. In Alaska the grass grows 6 feet high. s Round Table, Soropti-'} o ng e-than air ship was | (ofore, important inst mmerce rllulose at this time is vailnahle to the United 3 1 ( the plan to construc | RoIf leaf, i one of the membranes of A new fabric for lining the gas cells| the caecum, a sort of vermiform ap F dirigibles, ae bt ang effective put | pendix or obsolete stomach found in only one-third ns costly ax that made with the precious goldbeater's skin, has heen developed for the Navy De | eattle. Only one is obtained from each animal, and the size varles. Skins from more than 1,000,000 cattle were needed to line the gas cells of the Los | Angeles and the lost Shenandoah These cost from 10 to 26 cents each Weighing only %4 to % ounce to the the most hieh Wi would prevent the ( the hydrogen gns or the more costl, helium. with ‘which uirships ure its permenhility ix only ah 1 hol lent materia! known Develon itre per square meter | > $6.000,000 nirships larger | cas the most effective ruhberized Angeles. Stomach of Cattle. | Goldbeater's skin, which has a his tory as glamorous and ancient as’the art of beating gold into the fineness of Established 18 Years an either the Shenandoah or the Los | fabric permits the escape of many | times (hat amount of gas. ed in making the gas cells, the old ber cement to strong cotton cloth which has been prepared to receive it SHAH, 812 F St. I Vclusive Opticians — Ouwing to the Great Response We Are Continuing This Offer Another Week Toric Far or Near See shah See Better HEADACHE EYE STRAI}M RELIEVED No One Can Be Happ: Unless Their Eyes Focus Properly $5.0 EYES EXAMINED BY DR. A. S. SHAH cal REGISTERED_EYESIGHT SPECIALIST | "iage" SHAH OPTICAL CO. Remember the Address 812 F St. N.W. This is Not o Jewelry Stor FINAL NOTICE Hagve You Filed Your Claim for “PEPCO” REF UND,? WERE YOU A CONSUMER OF ELECTRICITY FURNISHED BY THE POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER CO. WITHIN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FROM AUGUST 1, 1917, TO DECEMBER 31, 1924°? HAVE YOU APPLIED FOR .REFUND? PLEASE DO IT-BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE In accordance with the terms of the Decree of the District Supreme Court, all claims not properly presented and authenticated by January 13, 1928, SHAL . BE BARRED. The Potomac Electric Power Comnany earnestly desires that all users of electricitv furnished by it between August 1, 1917 and December 31, 1924, and who contributed through the rates paid by them between the said dates to the Impounded Fund, 'nd who, bv the Decree of the Su- nreme Court of the District of Columbi». vassed NDecember 31, 1924. may he entitled to a refund thereunder. and WHO HAVE NOT ALREADY RECEIVED SAME, make prompt apnlication for said refund to this com- pany ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 13,1928. - The Company has done its utmost in providing every possible facility to effect settlement of refund due corsumers consistent with rules and reoulations promulgated under the Decree of the Court of December 31, 1924. To date the sum of $2,601,912.16 has been returned to consumers, but there is vet remaining in the fund th= sum of $348.876.25. which the Com- pany earnestly desires to refund to those to whom it rightfully belongs. The Company has established a Special Refund Burean at their of. fices at 14th and EAST CAPITOL STREETS, where the complete rees ords are kept, and most courteonnly requests applicants 1o kindly «q)] at that address. where every facility and assistanece will be extended 1o help them in the filing of their cluims before the closing date of Junu. ary 13,1 For information on the subjec 122-123. : 928, t, please call Main 10,000—RBranch POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER CO. ) P January 7, 1928, PRESIDENT, GOLDBEATER'S ter's skin is applied with rub-, withi & Hine, thin luyer of rubber which | presents a slightly sticky surface. The skins. with (heir natural grease carefully removed, are Iaid on this ma- terial, flesh alde down. so (hat they overlap, When fiipped out of & basin containing a solution of glycerin and arranged n (his manner they have the quality of sticking to each other and sealing (he odgen. They are then | drfed and covered with u thin coat of spar varnish-of great flexibility. The fahric (huw produced welghs | 'rom 3% to 4% ounces to (he square { vard, compared with 13 to 16 ounces | for the hest rubherized material. The | anly advantage of the ruhherized fab ic_has been (hat it cost only $3 to 3.50 a square vard; against $10 for coldbeater's «kin. Jt In estimated that the new rellulose fabric ean be pro luced on a factory scale at a cost of 1hout $3.50 a yard. 30,000 Square Yards to a Ship. When it onsidered that the gas I= in n ke the Los Angeles ~uuire more (han 30,000 square yards materiul the enormous dallar valu f the long research ix obvious. Goldheater's «kin sete its nam om ite use In the goldheater's art nd has heen nsed for the making of It leaf for at least 2,000 years ane whably longer. A sauare of the skin hich was taken from an Egyptian nummy 4,000 yaars old, Is still in good -onditlon. To this day it remaina the nly material which can he used for nterleaving in the hammering of gold nto leaf form which may be 1.200.000 0,000 inch In (hickness. The ous types. sushions | destroy Anykselal (‘hurch metnl, ufter neing pounded to a thick ness of % inch or less, clings to the hammer. It Is then cut into little squares, which are placed helween #heets of goldheater's skin and ham- mered down. recut and hammered again, repeating until the required thinness is attained. .- STONE IN LITHUANIA PRESERVED AS RELIC|+ Only Specimen of Rock Ever Dis- ||, covered There Is Given Tra- ditional History. Correspondence of the Associated Press. ANYKSCIAL, Lithuanfa.—Thers Is only one stone to be found In all Lithuania, where even the puving cobbles for the town streets have to|® « be imported from abroad This lary stone, a relic of the ice nge in a forest near here, and being has a name of its own, ** o country people devil picked up the stone-—one still see the marka of hix claws He hu it at the church, but missed. and only broke off the tops 6f the two steeples. And two truncated stecples—the only ones In all Lithuanin-—-are this day to prove it. - . ‘The Prince of Wales weighs 140 pounds. s MOVIE SIDEBURNS FLOURISH IN TAHITI Natives Copy Whisker Style Set by . Valentino—Adopt “Sheik .Alr.” Correspondence of the Associated Press | 2, Fahiti.—Valentino side | oming into_vogye amons | Dope Now for Hunting. iands of this| A hullst tipped with a nesdle fhat . Hollywood | Infects an unesthetic has heen develun- fed for captoring wild animais aiive So many movie companles have ia | [or z00log'cai purposes. The inairo- vaded the islands to film South sea | ment randers them urconscious for a storles of Iate years that native belles | *hort fime. are developing temperaments and CHICAGO, January 7 UP).-~1'rohibl- tion of lquor in Great Mritain would meun revolution, sald the Right Rev. A. F. Desne. lord Bishop of Aber- deen, Scotland wvpon his arrival in Chicago last night ory his mission of ralsing funds for a memorial io | America’s first Episcopal bishop. . | handsome native youths the non | chalant airs of a movie shelk. The less pulehritudinous find ready | employment as extras and feel In- independent. “The more declareg a Papeete 'ICVIII ‘conside® themselves Pola | K le the good-looking young en adopt the studied mannerigms of | no and have made his side | T8 the fashion ™ 4 last film delegation to arrive | n the steamer San Erancisco | Edmonston' Studie ' Photographers New Location 1333 F St. N.W. Phone Main 4900 “While you are about it, Get a GOOD Picture” An organization of lce cream manu- facturers in Great Britain has asked | that the government take control of ]lhln Industry, so that the standards « 2 tce cream may. be ralsed A o’ V.. ¥ "/ 'Eye Streets. Seventh and Suite Week —during which we shall offer some very &eci&edly favorable prices on Library and Bedroom Suites, of excellent design and splendid qualities. Three styles of Library Suites—the one pictured: and two others of contemporane- As illustrated—three Overstuffed pieces of generous size—covered with MOHAIR— plain Velour on the outside of the backe and sides: toned to match the Mohair. Rever- sible cushions. covered on one side with Damask: on the other with Mohair—spring upholstering. The carved frame detail that adds a touch of distinctiveness of each piece is a 185 Three-piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite—made with a glimpse of the frames exposed, making a very pleasing effect. The entire Suite. front, back, sides. and both sides of the cushions, covered with attractive pattern of Jacquard Velour: spring upholstered, including the reversible $150:2 Three-piece Overstuficd Suite, of very attractive effect—Davenport, Armchair, Fire- side Wing Chair—all covered in Velour of pleasiny pattern. PLAIN color Velour on outside backs of pieces and reverse side of cushions: spring upholstered: of excellent construction............. SRR 1172 All five of these Bedroom Suites Are Exceptional A Suite of superior grade wl\en.you consider the price—and the: workmanship gives roof of its exceptional construction. Walnut Veneer or Mahogany c’eneer on Gumwood ; large mirrors with Dresser and Vanity Dresser: convenient Chifforobe: double-size Bow-end Bed 125& Four-piece Suite, in Walnut Veneer on gumwfio@. The new style of Vanity Dresser,. with mirror and drawers; large mirror on the Dresser: comm chest of drawers, dustproof partitions: and double size Bow-end ous 165% Four-piece Suite, in Walnut Veneer on gumwood.” The Bed has the popular “four poster’” effect, Dreaser with large mirror: Vanity Case with single mirror; Cheat of Drawers: and Double Bed. The construction and finish of each piece is very good 1872 Foug-piece Suite, made up in Walnut Veneer, combined with gum- wood ; affered price. Dresser, Vanity Case, Chest of Drawers and Double Bed— making a Suite of very attractive type: and surprising value at the 198 Six-piece Suite: splendidly made and finished: in decorated Gray Enamel. Vanity Case with triple mirrora: Drawera; Chair and Bench, with seats upholatered in Damask: Dauble Bed, You haven't seen hefore a0 a price, reaser with pleasing a make: at sa low large mirrar; Chest of 2254 R R SR )