Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1928, Page 20

HOME ESSAY TEST JUDGES ANNOUNCED Civic Organization Heads Will Determine Winners of k- Three Contest Prizes. The judges in the home ownership | essay contest that is being conducted through The Star as a feature of the | Capital's observance of National Thrift week are announced today by Joseph A. Herbert, jr, chairman of the own- your-own-home day committee of the | general Thrift week committee. | They are: Rudolph Jose, president | of the City Club; Ivan C. Weld, presi- | dent of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; Edwin C. Graham, dent of the Washington Board of Trade; Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the Merchants and Manu Association, and Mrs. J. Ga Riley. president of the Women's City Club. The jury which will select the best three essavs from th seripts that are contestants for and $20. respe array of which judged 1 virtye of annual electio ous bodies, however will include several m not judges of the prece who, nevertheless, have willingness to co-operate tion of the contest Since vesterday presi- P contribution. Likewise, Washington has vet to submit an essa; | while the other sections of the city| continue to send in manuscript | The contest is not a difficult one to enter. If you have any ideas of vour own about the value to rself or to ¥ or about the value to! of home owning, west | to write much, for the s say 300 | words or less—and send r paper to! “The Home Ownership Essay Contest. If your manuscript 'd before midnight Sa v prize, another chance to receive the $30 second prize and still another oppo: tunity to get the third prize of $20. ©Of course. you can't win more than one prize, but. just the same, you have three chances at the award: SOCIETY (Continued from Page Nineteen.) morrow evening at the Corinthian Yacht Club. Miss Agnes Nolan is chairman of the dance committee; Mrs. Naomi Geraci and Miss Leona Riley are in charge of entertainment; Mrs. Pearce Smith and Miss Dorothy Ryder, floor committee: Miss Eutha Morris and the Misses Leahy, music committee, and Miss Joan Brady, ublgcl(y. Mrs. Clare Trick Willison will be hostess, with Miss Maude Aiton, Mrs, Mary Jeannette Loeffel and Miss Ada F. Soleau assiting, at the Women's City Club Saturday evening, when a pro- | gram of music, selected readings and terpretive dancing will be given by students of the Americanization School. Additional subscribers are Judge Mary O'Toole, Mrs. J. Garfield Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crist, Mrs.” Wymond Bradbury, Miss MyTtle Bunn and Mrs. Helen Montague. Dr. Julia Emery, Dr. Edna A. Rus- 11, Miss Jean Russell Emery and Miss riscilla F, de Aguero are an interest- ing party of prominent New York women who are at the Grace Dodge Hotel for a week while attending the third Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. HE Births Re};orted. GRIFFIN ASSAILS PRISON CROWDING Three-Man Cells Are Housing Six Prisoners at Leavenworth and Atlanta, House Hears. By the Associated Press. Overcrowding in Federal prisons was assalled in the House yesterday by Representative Griffin, Democrat, New York, with the charge that the con- dition is & “menace to the health and morals, not only of the inmates, but of every community in the land to which released criminals return upon the conclusion of their imprisonment." ‘The New York member said cells in the Leavenworth and Atlanta prisons | intended for one prisoner have been | improvised to hold two and three, and jthose intended for three have been |« SeRTERA- | | housing six. He suggested {tion of different types of prisoners, | separate prisons for drug addicts, abo- lition of the “trusty” system, with in- creased appropriations for prison em- ploves, and a system to provide work for_all prisoners. sonal knowledge, Griffin charged that | "drugs have gone and are going into | prisons every day through the medium of ‘trusties MAY LOWER AGE LIMIT. Boy Scouts Consider Taking Mrm-‘ bers Nine Years Old. | CHICAGO, January 19 (#).—Leaders | of the seventh region of the Boy Scouts of America vesterday discussed a plan | for lowering the minimum age limit | | for Boy Scout membership from 12 to |9, making thousands immediately "eli- | gible for the training of the organiza- | tion | "For the purpose. a new manual, the first since the beginning of the organi- zation, is being prepared. The first issue will number 500,000 coples. Generous I Deaths fieporté;i. Tha fallowing_deathe have been reported the Fealth Department in the pas 23 Good to b Jagues 2100 ith gt George Washingt Elzabeth F. Sholl. 5. George W e 1) - . 39 5th st Claudine Stausburs. 142 38, imbia How- 13 "Roacos B. Giddings. 27. Wi *'Silliam H. Jones. 22. en route Emergency | Zaret Weeks. 80 St. Elizabeth's Hos. h Pollard. 7 L. Dixon 50. Fresdm: tler. 47 Careon s Qlnspection in no LR 1108 G Street .On Henderson Furniture and Lamps QBedroom and Dining Room Suites and Odd Pieces, of individual design and excellent quality — Greatly Re- duced for immediate disposal. QLamps and Shades Reduced One- Fourth to One-Half. but will convince you of the remark- able savings offered, at this time. JAMES B. HENDERSON - Fine Furniture, Laces, Upholstery, Paperhanging, Painting HHHIHIE“ Reductions Declaring that he spoke from per- | TWO DIE IN SHIP BLAST. Boller Explodes on Vessel en Route to Boston. BOSTON, January 19 (#).—A boller explosion aboard the tanker Petrol, en route to this port from S8an Pedro, Calif, which caused the death of two of her crew and injury to several others, was reported by radio to the John G. Hall Co., local agents of the Citles Service Refining Co., last night. ‘The message said the accldent occurred “about 400 miles from Boston.” The Petrol, which is commanded by Capt. W. A. Hutchins and carried a crew of 36, is owned by the refining company. She was en route to the Braintree plant of the company with 90,000 barrels of crude oil. Marriage Licenses. t ‘yv\vvn(' licenses have been fssued to the “\¥ahiox H. M. Rovd and Hannah M. Stona. {amues Mo M;, Bzt and, Hannah . Stone, John R, Brown of CAmp Springs, Md.. and iph O, Helland Mabal F. Gladsn N Brown Tenderson na K. Wellar. BN and and and Margier Jott and Willie W. Richard hmond. Va LISTING OF DYERS URGED AT MEET Plan Needed to Identify Responsi- ble Concerns to Public, Says Insurance Man. Less than 1 per cent of the shops in the United States and Canada claiming | to be dyers and cleaners have been list- ed as such by the Bureau of Statistics, John L. Gorley of St. Louls, president of the National Indemnity Exchange and the National Fire Insurance Exchange and editor of the Cleaning and Dyeing World, today told the National Associa- tion of Cleaners and Dyers’ Convention, | which cle: its lons at the Wash- For Begonias— If you want your ferns, hegonias, geraniums and other potted plants to grow better during the Winter months, plant a Plantabb in each pot once a week. Pl FULTON'S bI | = S anta | ODORLESS PLANT FOOD TABLETS | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928. ington Auditorium this afternoon. “We have in the United States and Canada,” Mr. Gorley said, “just a little over 250,000 places that have over their doors the words ‘dyer and cleaner,’ yet the Statistics Bureau could find only 2,406 institutions which it could classify | as dyers and cleaners.” The industry should adopt some plan whereby the responsible concerns can be identified by the public, he said. ‘The report of the resolutions com- mittee, election of office We Sell All Types of OIL LAMPS for Suburban Homes and Cottages See Our Display % Muddiman ¢ 709 13th St. N.W. Main 140-6436 lection of the 1929 convention city were scheduled for late this afternoon prior to adjournment. ‘The annual banquet and dance at the ‘Willard Hotel tonight and & golf tour. nament at the Washington Golf and Country Club tomorrow will complete the contention social activities. Rizik Brothers Continue 509 REDUCTION on All Winter Apparel NO C. 0. DS NO EXCHANGES All Sales Final R e Fleur Divine—Rizik’ TWELVE F s distinctive perfume IR EAESN F 0L PALAIS ROYAL Downstairs Store Have You Seen Our New Home Remedy and Toilet Goods Section? Many Specials, Beginning at 9 IHHIHHHIHHHHMHIHIHIHH]]IHHIHHH[IHIHHHHHMIHIUMIHIHIHHHIH]HHIJ way obligates you, il | | \ i Main 7635 Main 7676 p]‘lOnC! ok PALAIS ROYAL Furniture ANNEX 1106 G St. N.W. More Days of Our Unloading Sale of Offers Lower Prices Than Ever for Friday and Saturday Prices slashed on most of the remaining pieces of furniture. | Every odd pi shoppe haps ship v Read these item arred speak peak Folding steel couch beds Cedar boxes o s will fir 1d desirable pieces here rom handling—but the quali for what it is. s other items riginally $21.75. Now originally $35. ce should be sold tomorrow and Saturday. Keen scratched some per- ty and workman- they merely give you an idea of many Now....$3.95 Enclosed ivory enamel cribs—originally $23.75. Now . 4 12 -Walnut radio Red lacquer tea Console tables ‘T'able lamps Floor lamps 30 Pieces originally $39.75. originally $39.75. Fiber floor lamps Fiber table lamps Upholstered living room chairs—originally $59. inally $13.50. Now...$8.05 75. Now..$15.90 cabinets —or wagons —originally $25 originally $15.50. Now Now originally $21.50. originally $21.50. ....$7.95 75. Now §24 Now........$5.00 Fiber Furniture— Chairs, Rockers, Tables and Settees I.ess Than Cost! 06 G St. NW, Remarkable Purchase of Ruffled Voile and Marquisette Curtains At Greatly Below Normal Prices One of our good manufacturers had a large surplus stock on hand—* took the whole quantity—he sold them at a mere fraction of wha prices that we've seen in many a day! We divided the whole ! take the whole lot and I'll make it well worth your while,” he said. We t they're regularly worth—and here they are—the best curtains at these low lot into three groups for quick selling— 99~ §[39-4159 White or ecru voile stitching furnishings! 36-inch Double Face Terry Cloth 49c 4 It's reversible! - others with colored bandings. Many plain styles, too. match them up to harmonize with vour other Many patterns! some with colored dainty-— Fresh These are voile or marquisette curtains— some have rayon bandings. Others are plain, or in dotted and figurrd effects. ;\l.\n_\' flow- ered voile curtains in this group—all are attractive and new. gold. silk fringe. Palals Royal—Dewnstairs Store 1,000—5-Pc. 50c of all with colored vards long and tie hand Choice W hite ratle Stinch or Irregulars of 89¢ Grade 0Oil Opaque Window 49c Shades Tn green only with fhixtures quality af the Downstairs Store values! Downstalrs Store 36 i Complete exceptional just another Marquisette Curtain Sets white valance all tor Soe! Black-and-gold; All made of fine damask; 2 vards long with scalloped valance valance and side drapes finished with The Palals Roval—Downstairs Store. all taupe-and-gold; The Palais Royal—Downstairs Store, floral rayon bands ~ $5 Damask Drépéry Sets 59.49 Another group of fine voile curtains with or ruffles; also pretty all- over floral voiles in this group. These are most exceptional for this special price. Closing Out the Remnants and Small Lots of the Weisberger Dept. Store Stock of Men’s and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings Men's 81 Hickok Belts Men's $1 Cloth Hats i pairs Men's $1 Leather ( Gloves ., s 10 Men's Mufflers and Beltograms Men's 50c Hickok Belt Buckles 19e N e 19 iauntlet Work 30 pairs Men's 0¢ Fancy Cotton Socks 25 Men's All-wool $4.95 and Sweaters 0 Men's 300 Men's $150 to cloth, in broken sl 25 Men's $1 Belts . M Men's 35 and 50¢ Belts 0 shy s, 13 40 Men's All-wool $398 and Buits 8 Men's $1 Bathing Sults 1 ot s #9¢ and 8¢ L e up Lo b I Men's Collat Quantity 3 15 Young Men's (1 K Quantity ) . 20 Men's $12 50 Ear Mol i 39 a4 Quantity 3 @ Mens 2250 and § sty Sizen EUIREIT) Quantity $ U E 3 Man's Overcoat, siee 33 Puxedo Sl sire §5 1 1 M Woal 40 and 42 walst A palin Men's 8350 Linen Golt Kniekers 10 M o pal Vs Odd Veats Men's White Duck P 3 8005 Corduroy Coats slzes 34, 34, 37 1 Men's $195 Khakl Work Coats to 19¢ ty S S2830 Over Palm Reach and Crash Sutts 3 K and $18 Palm Beach and % N an patrs Men's 8343 Corduroy ' Hport $59 $1.98 Blue Flannel Shirts ris, of broad-. & Ovarcoat s Men's § $498 Unton $1.98 S Wals Tro 11 Men's $213 and e Handkerehiets o u nderwear and 2, fleece lned idies” 89¢ soon N s19) OB Mack Overe 093 O 693 Mo A Studen 1 1 1 13 Noy 1 and 2 pants 18, 1 1093 Rkt 144 Bovs' 8t and Blouses s 13 Childien’s 83 STUNE LR I Litile Boys KLY (i S8 08 908 slees 14N $1a9 [ N N and Wik LEETY Ne 1 Palaly Raval -Dawunstates Store Pants, Rlouses, W Awers s and Topeoats, st Topenats. stees A0 o Bl Hais and - Kiddies Vs 3L AD o 320 U L 18 ¥ 40 g Pa W' 12y 1 and 1 and Qrev N (T sire 34 Y 393 Sweet Ory oS 44 48, 48 Dentm Jackets s1tey $4.93 Cordurov 248 o and Cotton Uy ed Sutls, b 0 $119 By Made fa o Khaki-de 89 93 00 N SN oats, ages 18 and 1 ety Suits, age 21y 1o @ vears and $118 Cottan Plannet shivts 9 s e 1 13 years Sweaters Rovs' Khaki Panis neckband and collar-at (LR 1o AP Shickers and S1as WA L Hiack Knttted o nhn Sutis, 8 Cretonnes 19¢ ans 29 vd- Usual 298¢ new Vi te 39 Grads e patterns v Other Men's and Boys’ Items From Qur DOWNSTAIRS STOR Men's Shints, « ed "w ally, NN W Men's Loat Sweatees §t Mew's Wark Shirty, boe Men's Blue Demim Over chamhray " Bors' Sweaters, oo w St " Boava' Lumderiackets Rors' Pajamas Boas' Suity, + ‘ Rowy' eS8 Mrenvats, Ry o $ Meneaty, Dovustalin Stare