Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 7

TNE TVENING WRIGHT IN ATTACK ON SMITHSONIAN Credit Improperly Given to Langley, Pioneer Avi- ator Claims. ed to T that d in do- were not 1 report otations attrib- reports 3 L absti- Wi the and mis- declare th. ed to have an impartial in tion of :us _charges conducted, t has i but 10 Tesponse to such J. H. HARTLEY DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Retired Employe of Bureau of En- ing Succumbs at Home at Age of 88. enth street, eral months. 1., October 16 . Hartley came to Washington belore the Ci War. He en- e Marine Corps and took R : QImmodesty 0{ Modern WOan‘S Dl‘CSS the residen 2:30 o'clock Creeg Cerm heid DAME ELLEN TERRY, 80, MARKS BIRTHDAY TODAY From Von Bernstorft Wedy 4 A 4 Counitess JAINIHN, B st of ¢ fier of e Wik '3k of | 1 i |cate of death from natural cau: A $12 Pension Per Week for All Persons Over 060 Declaring that 76.000,000 people in the United St 0! ail to earn enough in their working v to provide for their old age. Representative Berg Socialist, Wisconsin, announced to- t he had drafted a bill pro- for payment of a pension of week to all persons 60 years of age or over, “harity ity POLICEMAN'S EDICT LEADS TOARREST [ Youth, Told to Watch Auto, | Fights With Detectives ind e poorhorse Who Arvive Later. of the Government to = A determination to obey man’s commands led to the arrest of d Williams, 22 years old, ac avenue souiheast ulting an office yesterday morn after he had | In a scuflle with Detective Fu Arrington of the fifth precinet, which | ended with Arrington being sent to pital with a broken ankle | ted knee. rashed into Willianes® auto= | mobile, which was parked in front of | his home. about 1 o'clock yesterday | morning, and the four youths ‘who had been riding in the car took to the | heels. Motor Cyele Policeman D. € Fhompson of the fifth precinet ordered Williams not to let any one touch the car driven by the boys until he returned, d the trouble oce ed when Dete ton and Robert Langdon few minutes later and tempted to drive off with the i had been set to wateh. ter cd and finally er | pled with A on_ when the det fves tried to place him under arrest > three men W 1 for a few sec- | 1 pped, fallir police- | Many Injured When Flames De- stroy Building—Blaze Starts in Projecting Room. By the As MORTAGO, which in d ou: picture theater local motion ons were in- | urned the t d in the proj is n Northern Italy near CONFESSED PYROMANIAC NOW PLEADS NOT GUILTY Counsel Will File Application for for one month to recover from his August Christine, ars 41 r of the! in| Lunacy Investig | John J. Fis & " P J. Fisher. who pleaded guilty | N last Friday to setting fire o two build- | Syt without < gs January 17. today appeared before | {7\ & AT | Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Di- | o, i8S SINER & 0 Ot e in fail on { vision 1, and was permitted to withdraw | .o ¢ Kl e100) ARaIB0daYE s plea and enter a plea of not guilty. | o1 cath of the other 1wo o James A. O'Shea and John B N 19 tt. for the accused. explained { oy ourt_that they were unable to | gy’ nt Friday at the arraignment | juqoa shed time to prepare an appli- | g for a lunacy i her. while intoxicated. Counsel would be filed wit tion Officer Amos A. Steele was re-| voked by the court. nou tions Are Drawing Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, 75, Natural End, Says Coroner. Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, 75 years old., ot hyistian Cis Plaza_Apartments, Twenty-third stree and Washington Circle, was found dead at her home vesterda her nephew, Thomas coran Courts, Twent streets. She was pronounced dead by | George H. Crof; street. Coroner Nevitt issued a certifi gether, rious denomi- ] ) <eph R. Sizoo, pasto afternoon by | AVenUe 1 Church, kins of Cor- | da¥ e the_ant third and & |87 Tenten at Keith's d the unit More tended {HITS COTTON BOLL PEST.| day | new’ 0 of Hin F i he brings to us a swn Harris, presi- Churches, aysr. 1 The | President Asks Larger Fund for | Fighting Pink Worm. resided an doffered pr President_Coolidge today s ik | gress to increase from $100.000 - amount to be ma Claim which have been fe s under eaks of the pink cotton boll % L Lalioi | Texas | bef f er the Budget Director Lord explained that | of’ R by i €400,000 had been requested for the|fes which are held at fiscal vear, of which $100.000 Was | \rondeses bver station V ted to be made avallable immediately. | . 5 :$217.144,197 Due From Germany. | Germany still owes the United States $217,144,197, the War Department an 1 nounced today eilmbursement of and n occupation. | 38,901 in th e incurred from | aliotted to t! o December 8, 1923, | Armj dits have reduced | horse 5,000,000 dally, are Army Mule Not Hit. its i3 not nd horses are 51,217 | was $291,995,285 7 a head bel that amount almost § Borse. ! against §1 h | Attacked by Pontiff as "Disgusting”| ) mber of the Tertiary 27.—The shameless i - gether too many modern women of 100 many modern | are | tbly far removed from the women, from which results ‘insults to | Chri odel of wife and mot} the eves of God | pontitt decls ed | dai Yon or disgust in 5 of the worl scored by Pope Plus yesterday U Lenten utterance | the Christian fon occurred in the | ples of Christ in the consistory | The Poj | first pr id gustom: ¢ example of precious the family salvation of soclety . 1o commemorate | venerabl s of the vencrable betta | d Mora, a Roman matron who was during ! 50 ne Robert Louis Slevenson —frail and delicate though he was, worked at all hours and all times, writing by lamp light. Ofttimes when some passage of a story stumped him he'd straddle his animal “Jack” and visit a friend, complaining that “the orange is squeczed out, How familiar that sound! We all know the feeling. Particularly in this age when we work and play at such an intense zy-burning pace, More than ever we need sistance daily to rebuild our depleted strength, Now ix the time to turn 1o natural strengthening foods like millc that are encrgy dynamos, A quart of Simpson’s Milk, bought at your grocer's daily to drink, will store up quantities of physical encigy to thwart that squeerzed-out fecling, 2 STAR, WASTITNGTON. $70,000,000 CONSIDERED AS RAIL FLOOD QUOTA Conference of With President Deals With Appor- tionment Question. A delegation of railway exccutives composed of Alfred P. Thom, general counsel of the American Railway Asso- ciation; L. A, Downs, president of the Hlinois Central Ratlroad; L. W. Bald- win, president of the Missouri Pacific Railwav: A. D. McDonald, » president of the Southern Pac Iroad, and R. 0] of the Lou 2 Railway and ation Co., called upon P dent the apportion- nd_ the Executives couns N Coolidge to ment betw the Feds Government or 1 govern. me railroads’ construction ¢ s fnvolved in the Mississippl flood prevention. After the conference the del said the total expenses which the road would have to incur under pl now being considered amount 1o 000.000. The attitude, they said, w that at least part of this should be covered by Federal or State funds. FIRE STATIOl\i SITE TO BE SET TOMORROW ation Dougherty Says Today Ts Final Period for Opponents of 16th and Webster Location. The fate of the proposed fire engin house for 16th and Webster streets wil be definitely determined by the B of Commissione at their semi-we v mee ¢ LtOMOrrow. Proctor L. Doughe Commissioner in charge of the o and Po- lice Depa t n tods that this i set for the opponents of the ation o Tecom- mend another site. ‘The Commissioner said he had heard nothing from them up to noon, and that tomorrow he would lay the matter before the Board of Con oners for final determina- tion. - _ - NORRIS BILL APPROVED. Senate Body Favors Menasure on Juror Qualifications, given today by _the committee to the Nor- ch 1o person could be opinion i ed ¥ aran Faromount Bldg, N Y i, o) TRUCK DRIVER SWINGS PIPE AT BLUEJACKETS Resists Arrest at Naval Air Sta- tion—Is Apprehended and Turned Over to Police. nporarily resisting arrest by blue- jackets at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, today. by wielding a he: iron pipe in the direction of thos ordercd to apprehend him, James Jones, colored, 1531 Fifth str tak and turned over to cleventh precinet, cl driving at | threatening o | A group of n; ng t the int wer tand- | cction of one of the | | station’s streets when =« truck operated | | by Jones cut a corner at id rate of speed and brushed the back of Capt Harold C. Major, Marine Corps pilot. | Licut. W. &G. Tomlinson, photographic | officer at the station, gave chase to the truck, ¢ ng it, admoniched the driver for driving on_the Gov- | ernme using Jumped from the d wi iron pipe several fect long | threatened any one who would atfempt to place him under arrest it. Tomlinson ordered several blue- | s who had congregated to arres but they did not venture into! inging circle made by the truck | h the prevailed upon, howe drop the pipe, and was t custody. A companion of Jon: d off the station and the n by police to the cle . to into| | ASKS FARE INCREASE. | Capital Traction Would Advance Rate to East Pctomac The Capital Tract “m the office of public park permis cents from_the the round-triy ‘Treasury to the golf course and Hains Point in East Potomac Park. | Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of | the office, said that he would very prob- | ably grant the request. He added that o him that thi at the pre | want to sce | this large recre ccount of th d. the increase § money | d no ion_facilities abandoned « 1 his opinion, he asonak a, MONDAY, TERRUARY 27 1928 W, N, MNoses & Sons Public Confidence Since 1861 9 to 5:30 F Street at Eleventh Main 3770 Tomorrow is the Second Day Three-Day Clearance Home Needs No Phone or Mail Orders Because of Limited Quantities Crowds here today were taking advantage of the extraordin- ary savings in this event, in which every Home Department in the store is represented. Quantities are limited. Floor sam- ples and discontinued patterns in several cases. So vou must shop carly to get what you want. Draperies Three groups of year-"round Cretonnes, mostly in lengths up to 15 vards. Some were $1.10 to $1.33 vard; in the 3-day Clear- ance they are 85c. Others, 75c¢ to 85¢ yard, now 55c. Still others that were $1.50 to $1.75 yard, $1.15. Filet Nets and Dotted Marquisettes. now 35c. Silk yard, 5c. d, Formerly 50c to 60c yar: and Mercerized Brush and Loop Edges One-of-a-kind Curtains, some slightly soiled, Drapery Section rd F Lamps Some of our most beautiful lamps are included. but only one of cach. A few are slightly damaged. Lamps that were §75 to S140. Now $25 to $75. Lamp First Floor. Section, Linens 20 Slightly Soiled Colored Bedspreads, sold up to S14 each, “learance price, $7. soiled, that A few Colored Striped Crinkle Bedspreads, slightly were up to $4 each, $2.80. Face Towels that were 30c¢, now 39c. Linen Huck Kitchen Cabinets 2 All-white E ing porcelain tops Clearance, $37.50. Utility Cabinets for home or office, were 83 Clearance, $16. full size, with each. In the 3-day hen Cabinets, Were ameled Kit Floor samples. 8 each. In the 3-day Refrigerators \White Frost Refrigerators with whit Now $36.50 to $51.50. Fitth Flo Rugs and Linoleum Chinese and Persian Rugs, 1 or 2 of a size, nearly Half-Price. 7 Axminster Rugs, 8.3x10.0. Clearance, $39.50. $72 1o 8102 the 3 e o-d Were $531.30 cach. In 6 Axminster Rugs: best quality, 9x12. 3-dav Clearance, $41.50. cauct Other rugs, 1 or 2 of each kind, at proportionate t 25 square vards Linoleum, 4 to 10 square var S0 square yards Green Scoteh Jaspe | square vard. Now, $1.39. Extra fine Carpet Remnants that were 8293 to83y b Lineleum Section, Second Floor, Furniture 7 Armchairs that were So0, now $49.50. K120, now $92.50. Suites that were $423 1o S8 11 Desks at reduced prices. Odd pieces for every room in the ! greatly reduced. Beds that were 832, now $260. 4 Day Deds were S, now $20.75. 4 Dressers that were 883, now $50 4 stonal Tables, formerly 827, now $10.50. Willow and Reed Furniture Floor samples, discontinued patterns, Halt Former Prices. Chairs that were 835, $22.80. Lamps that were 830, $15. S that were 5200 o S0, $100 and $120, X All Halt-Price. Wi Bed Springs and Mattresses Were Rockers, ( andt Fumitire Section. Thind Flaor Moses Best Link Springs for single and donble beds. $13.50, now $o. National Link Springs for single and double beds, Were 89, now $4.25. \Way Sagless Springs, some shopworn, Were $LEL now $20 Columbia Springs. \Were S now $838§, Mattyesses, only one of cach, some shghtly impertect. Were F1O 50 to S28, now $5.50 to $14. Potding Soction Fourih Ploos