Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1928, Page 24

24 NAVY 70 ABOLISH - CLOTHING INDUSTRY Department Will Abandon Manufacturing and Ask Bids for Needed Materials. Br the Associated Prese Changing another policy, the Navy is going out of the clothing business and will buy its clothing and small stores on contract. The articles, from needles and thread to dungarees and boots, LINCOLN IS PRAISED AT KIWANIS- LUNCHEON W. H. Wheeler Makes Address on Qualities of Civil War President. President Linculms ereatness as a religious man, statesman and politician was praised by W. H. Wheeler, statis- ticlan for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., in an address at & luncheon of the Kiwanis Club in the Washington Hotel vesterday. “Scoffed at as not being religious, he was a model to those who sought truth in religion. Scoffed at as not being a statesman, he was a model for all those who believe in constitutional statesman- | ship, and scoffed at as being & poor politician, he was a model for all tiose who would follow a political bent,” Mr. Wheeler declared. Starting that his forbears were from THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. T. FRIDAY, TEBRUARY 10, 1998. the South, Mr. Wheeler declared he be- lleved, as many other Southerners, that many of the conditions in the South during the reconstruction period would have been avolded had President Lin- coln_lived. coln’s enemies, like Lee's, had come to love him. Vocal selections were rendered at the luncheon by W. F. Raymond. Radford Moses, president of the club, presided. 8. Gives 0. K. to Green Cross Body. Recognition of the American Green Cross as a national body for education and research work in connection with the protection of forests, reforestration, flood control and allied problems would be accorded under a bill by Representa- tive Evans, Republican, California. A truck that had been used by the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World War was dis- covered in use by Chinese troops. Asylum Benefits by Will. The Albany Orphan Asylum of Al- bany, N. Y., s given $35,000 in the will tyne, filed He also declared that Lin- | °F TS Lo LL Ch e re. Mr. Van Alstyne died December 1927. A $10,000 trust fund is created for the benefit of the widow, Mrs. Lillian B. Van Alstyne. ‘The Woman's Misslonary Soclety of the First Congregational Church of Washington is given $2,000 in memory of the widow of the deceased. Bequests for similar amounts are made to the Baptist homes for aged and children. Numerous friends and relatives of Mr. Van Alstyne are remembered with gifts of cash and personal effects, The Sal- vation Army of New York City is named residuary legatee. The estate amounts to a trifle less than $100,000. Students at Harvard are becoming addicted to vagabonding, or wandering into lectures not on their course, and the practice is being encouraged. Woodmard & Lothrop DOWN STAIRS STORE MMisses’ New Frocks for Mid-Season Wear 51650 Prints Ensembles The New Feminine Style Frocks A NEW and most interesting collection of Misses’ IFrocks for Street and Afternoon—including the NEW ensembles and feminine-style frocks that disclose their youth in varied necklines—front and side pleatings— and unusual treatments that make for individuality. One and two piece models that present THE NEW in fashion—at a most interesting low price. Sizes 13 to 19; and 14 to 20. Misses Party Frocks and Matrons’ Sleeveless Dinner Dresses, $16.50 DOWN STAIRS STORE New Shades Crepes Tweeds Flat Crepes Georgettes must meet the Navy's specifications. Formerly the Navy manufactured much of its own clothing. but it was made known today that bids will be asked on articles the total of which will be in the mullions. Among some of the articles to be ‘bought are 60.000 woolen blankets, 2.800 irs ot rubber boots, 22,000 scrub rushes, 15.000 rubber combs. 77.000 mattress covers, 300,000 nainsook draw- s. 400.000 handkerchiefs, 13.000 jack- 000 jumpers, 15.600 necker- chiefs. 00 packages of needles, 5300 pairs of overshoes. 75,000 pairs of black shoes, 10.000 spools of silk thread. 29.000 rs of dungarees, 127,000 undershirts 12.000 caps. The Navy also will ask.for bids on 150,000 white hats and 5.000 blue caps for which the Navy will furnish the ma- terial. It will furnish materials, already cut, for 81,500 jumpers. 4.000 blue flan- nel shirts, 42.000 blue cloth trousers and 124,000 white trousers, the contractors merely to manufacture the articles. Ludwig von Beethoven 'HERE'’S only one “ready-to-fry”,made from Gorton’s famous salt Cod Fish (“No Bones”). It comes in this happy-looking yellow-and-blue can. Open the can, roll the contents into cakes and fry in smoking-hot fat. That's all —and you have a delicious break- fast, luncheon or sup- perin less than no time. —we associate with the “Moonlight Sonata,’ but certainly not with soups, of which he con- sidered himself an authority. He would argue for hours soups’ merits and demerits, and wrote his friend Schindler, “I do not value your judg- ment about soups in’ the least; it's bad.” The taste was the big point. People always argue about tastes, when the big question about food is, is it healthful? There's no argument about milk, its taste, healthfulness. There's but one consideration—consistent standard of quality. Your neighborhood grocery sells Simpson’s milk, whose high quality standards have been main- tained over a long period of years. PLAN COLIGNY HONOR. Huguenot Society to Observe Noted Admiral's Birthday. The birthday of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader and ancestor of Queen Wilhelmnia of The Nether- lands, will be observed Monday night at a reception at the La Fayette Hotel by the recently organized Huguenot Society of Washington. Minister J. Herman van Royen of The Netherlands and Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles P. Sum- merall will be the guests of honor. An address on “The History of the Huguenots in Holland” will be delivered by The Netherlands Minister. The so- ciety’s president, Rev. Florian J. C. Vurpillot, will speak on “The Promul- gation and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.” The society has members in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, as vell in Washington. 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