Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 9

AMBULANCE Private Service, $4.00 Steel Vaults, $85.00 $30-year guarantes best ap eloth-corered caskets. ... . Entire Funerals, $75.00 Up * Lowest Prices The Brown Stone Funeral Wome W. W. Chambers Co. " 1400 Chapin St N.W.. Col. 432 OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT AT EISEMAN'S, 7th & F CLYDE J. NICHOLS, Inc. UNDERTAKERS 4209 9th St. N.W. GRAVIES ‘more appetizing and easier m digest when oefn-«l with I.EA &PERRINS’ Ryan’s efficient Ambu’nm‘e Service ‘James T. Ryan Funeral Director 317 Pa. Ave. SE. Telephone Atlantic 17001701 £5) 4 FUNERAL HELD TODAY FOR J. H. SHANNON Author of Star “Rambler” Articles Is Paid Impressive Tribute. Funeral services for J. Harry Shan- non, veteran member of the editorial staff of The Star and famous for his “Rambler” articles, were conducted this morning. The remains were conveyed from the Shannon home. 4200 Forty- second street, to the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, Sixteenth street and Park road, arriving there at 10 o'clock. Requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. Peter Guilday of the Catholic University, who for many vears had been a close personal friend of Mr. Shannon. Fol- lowing the mass proper, Father Guilday paid 8 brief. but touching and eloguent, tribwte to his friend. He spoke of him as an inspiration to the younger genera« tion of lodl{ and as & man who had contributed to_recording the history of the National Capital, in & way 80 val- unb!e that in his particular line he was !mm was in Fort Lincoln Ceme- tery. The palll close friends and associates of Mr. Shannon for many vears, were Rear Admiral C. W. Dyson, U. S. N., retired: Thomas D. Oeoghm. James ntmLflcL Gideon A. Lyon, C. | Fred Cook and Henry G. Hanford. | APPRAISERS ARE NAMED IN CONDEMNATION CASE Committee Will Make Estimate on Property Desired by Government. William John Brown, pregident of the Black & White Taxi Co., 1242 Twenty~ fourth street: Robert J. Barrett. plum ing and heating contractor, 809 Thir- teenth street, and Milton R. Ney, mer- chant, 801 Market space, were selected today by Justice Willlams Hitz of the District Supreme Court to serve as a commission to appraise the value of five lots on G street near North Capi- tol street, which the United States is seeking to condemn as a site for an addman to the Government Printing Office. The selection was made from a | venire of 50 men called for service. The commissioners were sworn and will meet next Monday to be instructed jby the court and will then name a date for the taking of testimony. The Government is rresenled by Assistant Attorneys General Henry H. Glassie and A Leftwich Sinclair. STAR. WASHINGTON. D. U. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 19%8. Parts of Balloon Which Set World Height Mark Will Be on Display Here MISS KOCH DIES AT 74. Native of Germany Will Be Buried Thursday. Miss Margaret Koch, 74 years old, died at the residence of her niece, Mrs. H. E. Glotzbach, 904 Eleventh street northeast, yesterday after an illness of about six weeks. She was a native of Germany and had been & resident of this city since a young girl. She leaves two sisters, Mrs. Mary Prott and Mrs. J. H. Ruppert of this city. Miss Koch was the dnughtor of the late Henry and Josephine Koch. . Funeral services will be conducted in the Holy Name Catholic Church Thurs- day morning at 9:30 o'clock. Inter- ment will be in st‘ Mary's Cemetery. REAR ADMIRAI. REMEY BURIED WITH HONORS Ranking Naval Officers Act as Pall- bearers at Services in St. Thomas’. Funeral services for Ren Admiral George C. Remey, U. S. N., retired, who died hers Friday night, were held to- day at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Eighteenth and Church streets. Rev. Dr. O. Ernest Smith, rector of the church. officiated at the services which were attended by high ranking officers of ths Navy. Admiral Remey was the oldest retired officer of the Navy and the oldest graduate of the Naval Acad- emv. having been born in 1841. The interment was at Arlington Cemetery, in the family plot, with mili- tary honors. The following rear admirals of the active list were honorary pallbearers: Arthur L. Willard, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard; W. H. Stand- ley. director of fleet training: W. D. Leahy. chief of the Bureau of Ord- |, nance; Richard H. Leigh, chief of the Bureau of Navigation: L. E. Gregory, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. and George H. Rock, chief of the Bureau of Construction and Re- palr. British Flyer in India. KARACHI, India, February 14 ().— Completing a flight of some 550 miles from Jask, Persia. Bert Hinkler, British fiyer, en route to India, am\od here this afternoon. Births Reported The following births have been reparted fo ihe Health Department in the last 24 ours Peter J_and Mary D. Hagan ‘The balloon basket which carried the late Capt. Hawthorne Gray, Army Air Corps, on two flights to an altitude of 42,470 feet, the highest point ever reached by man in any type of aire craft, is en route to Washington from Scott Field, Belleville, IIl, for perma- nent exhibition in the Aircraft Building of the Smithsonian Institution, it was announced today by Paul Edward Gar- ber, curator for aeronautics of the in- stitution. Several of Capt. Gray's instruments already have been received and these will be part of the exhibit which will mark the first exhibit of lighter-than- air craft to be housed in the institu- tion. Although the altitude reached was certified by the Bureau of Stand- ar the Federation Aeronautique In- W. H. LAMAR IS GIVEN BURIAL IN ARLINGTON Services for Former Government Official Conducted at Mount Vernon Church. Funeral services for William Harmong Lamar, 63 years old, former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, who died in Walter Reed Hospital Fri- day, were conducted in the Mount Ver- non Methodist Episcopal Church Soutl this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Chaplain A. C. Oliver of Walter Reed Hospital and Rev. W. A. Lambeth, pastor of the church, officiated. Interment, with full military honors, was in Arlington Ceme- Pnllbnrvrs were Dr. Willlam Shea, Henry Flather, Oliver Metzerott, Dr. Louis Taylor, Charles Davis and Arthur McConville. Mr. Lamar also was a solicitor of the Post Office Department during Presl- dent Wilson's administration and was a member of a family long prominent in_Maryland and the National Capital. In 1883 he served with the Greely relief expedition on the ship Proteus, which was wrecked off the coast of Sabine, and was adrift in an open boat for 39 days until rescued off the coast of Greenland He was a mamber of the University | Club, where he had resided since the death of his wife, Mrs. Virginia Lamar, 10 vears ago. He also was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi D(‘ltal twins (boys) | Phi Fraternities. ternationale, world governing body for aeronautics, has refused to grant credit for a_world record because of the fact that Capt. Gray “was not in possession of his craft and instruments” at the end of the flight. Capt. Gray died as the balloon was making its descent, as far as_can be learned. Despite the action of the federation, Mr. Garber said today the Smithsonian desires the basket and instruments in commemoration of a _‘“wonderful achievement” on the part of Capt. Gray and the balloon. The instruments re- celved to date include the altimeter, the rise and fall indicator, the instru- ment recording the ascent of feet per minute, the thermometer and the oxy- gen heater and oxygen mask. The baro- araph, which records the altitude, will be turned over to the institution later. CHURCH HOSPITALS SHOW MARKED GAIN M. E. Board Reports Large @ifts. $36,000,000 Building Growth Since 1920. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 14.— Marked progress during 1927 in the activities of the hospitals, homes and deaconess board of the Methodist Episcopal Church was shown in the annual report of the secretary, Dr. L. Davis, today Bishop Thomas Nicholson, Detroit, pre- sided at the board meeting. The report told of the dedication of | St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland, erected at _a cost of $5,000,000; the gift of $2,500,060 to Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, for a new building and nurses’ home and of $1,000,000 for a medical re- search laboratory: a gift of $750.000 to the Methodist Children's Home at De- trolt, and the establishment of the Palmer Hospital for cancer research at Boston. “During the past four years the hos- pital properties and endowments have made an increase of $27.000.000." the report said, “while receipts from hos- pitais have increased $5.000.000. ““The total property valuation and en- dowment for all hospitals and homes in the United States represents $75,000.000, an increase of $36,000,000 since 1920." (e A bill is before the British Parlia- ment to legalize marriage between & man and his niece by marriage. §i CARPETS and LINOLEUM are veduced for the W. & J. 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Jor the HALL and STAIR Plain Velver . . $3.00 . 27" wide 4" All Woo Ingnin . 36" wide v $2.00 3 Figured Wool Velvet 27" wide $2.75 Wilton Velvet Figured 27" wide $3.75 Axminster Figured $2.75 Azxminster Plain $4.00 Wilton $3.00 . 27" wide o SN 2T wide . . 27" wide Eu— 96 Narrow Width Carpets More than & hundred colorings are featured in this selec- tion of Plain Velves prfl, 27" wide; it bas been marked from 5 per lmea ‘yard - i W. & J. SLOANE 709-711-713 TWELFTH STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C «The Homse with the Gree Shutters” STORE OPEN FROM 9 A. M. TO 5.30 P. M. DAILY, INCLUDING SATURDAY INLAID LINOLEUM The finest qualities and the from 3125 per square yard T I PLAIN LINOLEUM from $125 per square yard 6™ W. & J. Sloane JASPE Linoleum Rugs in Broun or Gray These W. & J. Sloane Linoleum Endorsed Morchandiu Carvin An Auwrence of Sasisfection Chorge Acownts Convrniently Arvanged rugs serve you effectively and inexpensively. 31400 in the 9 x 12’ sim Furniture, Rugs, Lamps and Draperies all carry the deep February Discounts PIONEER RESIDENT OF GEORGETOWN DIES Mrs. Margaret B. Hines Had Lived in City More Than 80 Years. Mrs. Margaret Burke Hines, sald to town, died yesterday at the age of 96. She had lived in that vicinity for more than 80 years. Mrs. Hines succumbed to general complications resulting from an attack of pneumonia about a year ago. She had been confined to her bed since January, 1927. She died at the home 1310 Thirty-third street. A native of County Galway, Ireland, Mrs. Hines came to America while a young girl. She could recall many col- orful incidents of life in Georgetown more than three-quarters of a century ago and remembered vividly the excit- sination of President Lincoln. She was the widow of Thomas Hines, v.l}:g ‘dxed 31 years ago. They were mar- ! n 1 Mrs. Hlnes was the oldest member of the old Holy Trinity Church in Oeorle- town, where funeral services will gocrlngéxfiwdl u“m? rr;omlnc at 9: 15 . _Interment will be Rood Cemetery. S o — Vienna Student Kills Self. VIENNA, Febfuary 14 (#).—The tragic way in which man | boys and girls take their school marks has been exemplified in reports over the week end. At the closing of the school terms this week, one boy com- {mitted suicide, two attempted suicide, two were picked up while running away from home and seven more are missing. N Marriage Licenses. Lonia M. Dritch and Clara Braclove. Cxrus H Young of Chicago and May W. i Xew York City Edward V. Shafler, ir., both of Culpeper. Va Lonnie Ferguson nd )hry E. Ayres. Harry R, Grr‘:r\luln M b ¥, Rh Tme.:' B ol Eeeria Josen) ey and Thelma M. Burle Evelyn R: o ‘}”\(lr:m.n L5 & containing _Kevs. Ir«lvcnv near party who no operator, De- 1o Persian _with brownish aft 46 Bryant ut n’ noon teward for return of thi W, Hyde, North 1547 nite. spot_under 2635 15th at. n.w. oD oid chain. S Febriary family_pet COLLIE -ux, tan 280 round _tan nae and e . Phone Fr_ 4018 NM__BOOK _ black personal valie to owt n 401 Sth st ne. PATRAGE OF CHEC National Bank. Park Ro TAUR WL ca? OF Loading niatlo: Monday morning - Reward for Dromut. ae: Tiesday about neon on between Galdnaber Phone_Coltt *mall hrown 141n n.\nm PURSE Eev. between Georzia 81187 man s VAT stone wTUR diamond on 4 108 Tih th m' Tamar 3215 St RING OF PEARI st or 819 D et n wand__Cleveland 3 5 night nichts w wh back. Adame 6 ton: Monday. ia v FUN RAL DlRE(‘TORi Wm. H. Sardo & Co. _imousine Ambulance| b Lincoln 524 Frank Geier’s Sons Co. 1113 SEVEN NW Mt chaper Smeshone__Main 2473 JOHN "R."WRIGHT co. _1337_10th St_NW___Phone North 47, James T. Clements Weat %08 “P. A TALTAVULL I 3, TALTAVULL. M. O BRANCH OFFICE. TTCHAS. S. ZURHORST 301 _EAST CAPITOL ST __Phone 1incoln 3 2. F. COSTBLLO ol §; T N tel} Automoli SRy AT Joscph 'F. Birch’s Son 1ISAAC BIRC lll 3034 M St N W n V. L. SPEARE CO Nelther ihe suceessors for connect Y W. Warren Taltavull 14th & Spring Rd. Col. 464 ALMUS R. E Sucoeeding the original W. R. Speare Co 1623 Connecticut Ave. Potomac 4600 8 yre. at 1208 W at, 45 yra a8 940 ¥ ot Timothy Hanlon AAK _ Khgue L8 sas, A iiu‘mn U TRE » R TR e v terme have been the oldest resident of George- | ** of her daughter, Mrs. Mary H. Allen, at 0 ing days of the Civil War and the assas- | **} Austrian | | TROMAN Deaths Reported. » following_deaths have been reported to mn Hiealin Department in the Tast. 24 J 724 Charles W. Hi . National Hospital Louis T. Michener. A1, 'Mn Belmont rd. Genpra ‘Yobat. 74, Sy FOMindon i, w 'lxnnnu Alice Wilcox. 70. George Washington "l Wiliam H. Lamar. 8. Waiter Reed Gen- aral Hosnital nirens Waltsr, 67 800 Masm. ave. ne arry B. Major, M 4805 Towa ave. Daniel George. .m»r{-m‘z Hompital. b Grbr " 91 Cnited Siaten Na- 77611, 49, 4715 Conduit A it an‘ rmmy-m-"un-nnn Ot Feunn: 4% 1508 17th ans Slipper. 45 en routs Chmunity Fos- nit ‘*4i1le Delahunty, 35. Kendall Hotsa Sana- Costantino, 1 year, Children fomeopathic bert Dix; ‘m--u Haynes. 9 months. Children's Hos- Tannah Brown. 8%, 63 P Wnee s, a2 duner Muntctpat e 60. Gallinger Memorial Witliam Harris. 59. 5201 Jay Flien Spencer. 60, Gallinger Hocpital Gussie W. Tines. 46 2178 Rth st 2 S, Roots. 45 Gallinger Muntetpal Hosnital Margusrite B. Conrad. 28, 3118 Sherman Mathews ne " Minictpal Lula M. Stafford. 3 monthe. 137 L et. ne. Card of Thanks s E. a and fami (hm Jelatives and fru floral mbm« mulsod this ll' Trtradas. l‘-bruuv 0 Deaths. ADAVIS, Colin annoices the ADAY 15 LEE D_LATI MISS EMMA A. BRIGHT. AKERS. Sudden! Hoepital.“on M am! 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