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3 * ALLOWS PLACQUE ON UNKNOWN TOMB War Department Permits | Tablet to Be Placed in The War Department: has granted gcrmissian to Lions International, parent y of ns' Clubs in this and other countries. to_place at the tomb of the Unknown Soidisr in Arlingion Cemetery a bronze and gold placque, dedicated to the ‘spirit of American youth." tablet. designed by Arthur B. Heaton, locai hitect sand artist and a member of the Washinzion Lions® Glub. will be ready for unveiling during the two-day execuiive macting of the inter- national association here, Ociober 26 and 27. The War Dcpartment is co-opsorating with Lions ofnciais in erranging th decication ceremonies. to taie place Saturcay alter: X on th~ final day of the me cemmittee in chargs cons L. McKeever, presid: of th> Wash- ington club: Leonard W. Decast, sacrc Tho: V. Brahany and Dr ‘g2 Shar The tablet, 4 inch>s square, will bear the nude figure of a young man in a seiting symoolic of the Lions' motto b2 Intelligance, ur Nation's sa The brief inseription will pro- vide a permanent record of the pres- entation. The memorial will b placed in the erypt of the tomb. President McKeever will preside at the dedica- tion, The Arlington pilgrimaze will be the outstanding event of the program of the executive board. which will meet at ths Mayflower Hote! Among those expscted fo participate are Irving L. Camp of Johnstown, Pa.. past president of Liong In- Ray L. Riley. Sacramento. | first vice president: Earl es, New York., second vice presi- e Melvin Jones, Chicago. Ill., secre- | tary-general. and the following di- | rectors: Vincent C. Hascall, Omaha. Nebr.; Cherles H. Hatton. Wichita, Kane: C. H. Jameson, Tulsa, OKla.: | Dr. M. M. Niclson, Salt Lake City. Utah.: G. H. Hastings. Winston-Salem. | N C.: Horace 8. Kerr, Columbus, Ohio: Arthur C. Call, Anderson. Ind: Cari | E. Croson, Seattle, Wash.. and Albert | Thernton, Tampa, Fla. i Dr. W. B. Wells. Riverside, Calif. chairman of the board of governo also will be pressnt, with two other past presidents of the international as- sociation—Benjamin P. Jones, Newark, N. J, and William A. Westfall, Mason City, Iowa. DEFENDS PURSUERS ACROSS STATE LINE plains Speed of Two Cars Involved in Dry Case. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October 13.—Explain- | It ing that an investigation has shown!® |SCENES FROM “THE CROSS TRIUMPHANT® TC BE PRESENTED AT MOUNT ST. ALBAN iam J~ftries Chewinz, § bel Thompson, Anra Revnolds, bithop in the production. THE_SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. OUIVUBER | 14. 1928 PART 1. 10 DEDIGATE HOME Bichep Murray to Preside at| Ceremony al National 1 Center Friday. The new national center recently | cpened at 13533 New Hampshire avenue | by the Girls Friendly Society America, the first national center to be cstablished in Washington by any church organization, will be dedicated ¥riday afternoon at 4 o'clock by Most Rev. Dr. John G. Murray, presiding hep of the General Col ntion of Protestant-Episcopal Church. as sisted by Right Rev. Dr. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington. The Girls' Friendly Society. an or- anization of the Prof ant-Episcopal Church, numbers about 60.000. girls and women in this country and extends i!&; ranks to England. Scotland. Australia, Porfo Rico, Mexico, the Philippine Islends and many other throughout the world. Would Help Transients. The purpose of the Washington Na- | tional Center is to provide a center in which the objects and activities of the society may be made known and to offer hospitality to transiont mem- bers and associates visitir= Washing- ton On every afternoon during the Epi- | copal convention except Saturdays and HARRIS SEWING PHOITOS CHURCH PAGEANT PLANS (OMPLETER |Final Rchearsals for “Cross iss Henrietta Forrest, James Leroy Douzall, Mrs. Earl Lear, Austin Brown, id Westerson. Be'ow: “Tha Child of Al Ages” Helen Tucker Andrews and Mrs. E. F. Andrews, that District officers, who crossed the! Maryland line September 24 to meke arrests, did not do so intentionally. Proctor L. Dougherty, Commissioner of the District of Columbia. declared to- day there- would be no recurrence of the incident. | Mr. Dougherty addressed his com- | munication to John Philip Hill. former ! Representative from Baltimore. * M. | Hill filed 2 formal protest with the Commissioners the day the nrrm:i were made. | Journal of Episcopal Conventions Arr ISSUED IN 1765 | ang‘cd‘ Left fo Upper right: € Grace Smith, ord K. Berryman as Ewng Photos. 1 LIBRARY TRAGES PRAYER. BOOK [NUNFERS 1( HEAR REPORT ON SIGNS Triumpkant” to Be Held Wednesday and Thursday. Final rchearsals of the *12 episodes mn “Th» Cress Triumphant,” a play to be presented by the churches of Washing‘on at the Cathedral Close in honor of the delegates to the Episcopal convention, will b held Wadnesday ~nd Thursday nights. The pageant will go on PFriday night and Saturd afternoon. The play, which is a story of the of Christianity in_the world, tten by Maricita Minnigerode . Marle Moore Forres | and a siaff of assistants will ha charge of all detalls in the presenta staff includes Miss | Carolina_McKinley, N. Baggs, Mrs. Fulton | W.'S. Moore, Mrs. Georg: Mrs. Anna_Castile, Ado'f Siegfried Scharbau, Denmi& 1. Clarence Ruebsam, Haroiu mdr. C. T. Jewell and others. | Groups Participating. ! Groups participating in the pageant includ> St. John's Church, Georgetown: | St. Steph> Church, St. Alban's Church, Miss Katherine Judge and Gunston Hall: assisted by Paul Bleyden's Studio, Miss Virginia Hunt and a group | Pauline Mrs. Albert Lewls, Mrs. W. Dow ‘Torovs Sundays. tea is served of the center for all delegates attend- ing the convention. During the first three weeks of tha contrr, 117 visitors and 30 guests were reqistered. The fleld division of the G. F. S. A held its annual confer- ence there, €4 zirls on a motor trip from Massachusetts visited the center, the board of directors and executive committee, G. F. S. A. held their Spring mactings at the center and the visitors came from 15 States and the Distriet of Columbia. Personnel of Committee. Th~ Washington National Center Committee, in charge of the center in- cluries the following: Honorary r 1. Lukens. president G. F. S_ A., chair- man: Miss Julia J. Cunningham. head of the Frovince of Washingion, dioces~ nf Maryland: vice chairman. Mrs. Al- fred L. Afken. vice president at largs G. F. 8. A. and hcad of the field divi- . exoentive secretary and treasurer. Miss Ethel Grimes, treasurer. diocese of Washington: Mrs. John C. Boyd. Wash- ington: Mrs. Harold Brown. Newport. R. L: Miss Amelia Bennett, Lowell, ss.. Mrs. Edward B. Meigs. presi- incese of Washington: Miss Mary vize president diocese of Miss Frances W. Sib- it Mrs, Norman Slack. secre- cese of Southern Virginla: ex- officio. Mrs. Arthur D. Story, treasurer G. F.'S. A.: Miss Margaret C. Maule, nead of department for Kousing. and Mrs. Jullus W. Peau, head of depart- ment of finance. CHILD. 6; MAN, 62, HURT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Street Car Hits Charles G. Jen- | kins, Fracturing Skull—Joseph C. Amante's Leg Broken by Auto, Six-year-old Charles G. Jenkins was iously injured last night when he w struck by a street car while playing in (ront of his home at 715 G street south- | He was taken to Casualty Hos- | cast. pital by Mise Mary Woodall of the G strect, address. He was believed to ue suffering from a fractured skull, bruises and lacerations. While proceeding east on B street ai | First street northeast yesterday after- | | noon, an automobile operated by Joseph | Amante. 1315 I street northe struck and knocked down’ Willlam B. | CU"S the Issucs of the campaign. The | countries | in the rooms | chairman, Miss Margara! | Mich.. member board of | in | ROSS E POLLOCK COMMISSIONED. | Former Central Cadet Captain Is POLLOCK, 2D. Licutenant in Reserves. | Ross E. Pollock. 2nd. & junior at | Lafayette College and former captain in the Washington High School Cadet Corps. has received appointment as a Reserve second lieutenant in the Army. He i= a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross E. Pollock of 1316 Delaficld street and Is a native Washingtonian. Ever since is graduation from Contral High School in 1925, when he was captain of Company M. he has been devoting in helping train the cadets at Central At Lafayette College, where he taking en engineering course, he has been active m the R. O. T. C. unit. PRESS CLUB BARS USE OF NAME IN DRY CASE Investigates Report That Detec- tive on Liquor Squad Posed as Correspondent. Paul Wooton. chairman of the board of gavernors of the National Press Club, wrote a letter to Maj. Edwin B. Hesse. cuperintendent of police. . vesterday afternoon, secking information concern- ing reports that a member of the police liquor squad had posed as a nawspaper correspondent, vouched for by the Press ub. After discussing the case with Maj. Hesse over the telephone, Mr. Wooton wrote to the superintendent. stating: “Supplementing our telephone con- versation, 1 want to emphasize again that I have not been able to establish the authenticity of the statement that tective William F. Burke posed as a newsoaver correspondent who would be vouched for by the National Press Club.” | Mr. Wooton added if the report were | true that detectives had used the name of the club In efforts to secure evi- dence in prohibition c: he felt it would be “an unwarranted use of the name of a respectable insttution.” Detective Burke said that. in work- ing on a case a few nights ago. he had merely used a fictitious name, and represented himself as being connected with a New York newspaper | Ma2i. Hess> said he exoected to get a report of the matter later. Republicans to Hold Rally. A Republican rally. under the auspices >f the Hoover and Curtis Club of the Republican State committee, will be held at Wardman Park Theater, Ward mon Park Hotel, Monday evening. Oc tober 22, at 8 o'clock. A program of music and speaking is boing 2rranged. and nationally known speakers will d's- most of his vacation time from college | FRIENDLY SOCIETY | [ neeme onee 1 ISUES BRITISH WIFE 0 OBTAIN DIVORGE Frederick Hamilton MecCor- | mick-Goodhart Alleges De- sertion and Abandonment. * Frederick Hamilton McCormick- Goodhart. scion of a family socially prominent in the capitals of two conti- nents, filed suit for divorce from his wife, Gladys Silvani Smith McCormick- Goodhart, last Thursday in the Circuit Court for Prince Georges County, Md charging desertion. While it was generally known that Mr. and Mrs. McCormick-Goodhart have been sepamited for three years. the divorce action came to light yester- day through an “order of ‘publication.” The bill states that they were mar- ried March 28. 1912. at Chertsey. County of Surrey. England. Mr. M Cormick-Goodhart, who gives his resi dence as Langley Park. Prince Georges County. Md.. charges that his wife abandoned and deserted him. Thoy have two children. Patience Henrietta, 15 years old, and Leander Hamilton, 9 years -old. The bill sets forth that Mr. MeCormick-Goodhart is a naturalized citizen of the United States and has been a resident of Prinee Georges County for two years prior to the institution of the pending snit. His wife, he alleges. is a resident of County Surrey., England. and a non-resident of the State of Marvland. Mr. McCormick-Gooahart 1x wel] known in Washington and spent last Winter with his mother, Mrs. Frederick E. McCormick-Goodhart. formerly of London and Kent, England. on her Maryland estate. His brother, Leander McCormick- Goodhart., commercial secretary of the British embassy here. whose marriage to Miss Janet Phillips, daughter of former Representative and Mrs. Thoma- W. Phillips. jr. of Pennsylvania was one of the outstanding social events of tha season. During the early Spring and Su mer. Mr. McCormick-Goodhart spent much time on his yacht and h: | boen in Washington only at intervals | His wife, it is understood. is at her former_home in England. On his mother's sjde. Mr. McCor- mick-Goodhart is the grandson of the late Leander J. McCormick of Chicago, and his paternal grandfather was the {late Charles Emmanuel Goodbart of <ent. England. His father died some ime ago. OYERCOME BY GAS FUMES. m- E. C. Burke, Stricken in Basement, | Revived by Physician. Carbon monoxide gas leaking from = gas water heater in the basement over- came E. C. Burke, 329 Thirteenth street northeast. last night. but he was< promptly revived by Dr. Joseph Radzie- vich of Casualty Hospital. summoned by Burke's son, Creel. ‘The rescue squad of the Pire Depart- ment was summon=d and found the g1< had been escaping from a hole in thr pipe leading from the gas heater te the chimner. Burke had been working in the bage- ment, when his wife, bscoming worried cbout his absence. went downstairs and found he had fallen out of his chair | upon the floor. KELLOGG TO SPEAK. | Declares He Will Discuse Water- [ ways and Feonomics. | CHICAGO. Octnber 13 (#).—Secre- tary of State Kelloge. on his way to St.” Paul, stopped at Western head- quarters of the Republican national | committee today. H-~ said the issues of | the campaign he would touch on In two addresses he is to make in Min- nesota are the St. Lawrence waterway and edonomic matters. to Coincide With General Gathering in Progress Here: Rare Copies Included. The question was revived last month | when Stephen H. Johnson and Ralph I. | Harbaugh were arrested on charges of violating the dry laws. The arrests | were made on Good Hope road, about | 300 feet across the State line. | In his letter to Mr. Hill, Commissioner Dougherty said the automobile in which | | i o sponsored by Mrs. James Caroll Frazer; - L . ublic is invited. ! edunot | Study of Trafiic Markers and | & Margarst's Church, directed by Mrs. | Wright. 62 vears old. of 1321 M street. | PUPlic I8 Inv¥ Seeretary Kellogg: expressed willing- i . | Wright was removed to Casualty Hos- 1ess to campaign further for Mr. Hoover. Signals to Be Presented lg;m;fi Joyes Chutch of the BpPhanY. pital in a passing automobile and | Three of every five divorced persons but said he did not believe there was US e | S 3 5 at Board Session. | Dames. St. Thomas' Church and others, | "reated for broken leg and brulses. !in England remarry. meh need of it. | “Rev. Charics T. Warner, will represent | “a voice™ through the pageant' scenes | The MeKinley dencers under Miss Caro- | line McKinley's dircction will participate From its vault-like recesses wherein | a prayer bhook printed by John Rich- ards in 1824 “for the Society for tha| the two men were traveling was order- | Ar® sfored one of the most valuable col- ed 0 halt in the District, when a motor | I°Ction of rare. books in th> country, cycle officer attempted to arrest the.| Officials of the Library of Congress have driver fer speeding. In the chase that followed, the Com- T°Cords of the common praver book of missioner asserted, the officer narrowly | escaped injury when the speeding car forced him from the road. Later he |2 was joined by other policemen in an | automobile. The car pursued was not halted until it had crossed the line. “From the foregoing,” Mr. Dougherty | asserted. “it will be observed that the |2t chase originated in the District and | th was continued at such a violent rate of | speed and with such determination on the part of the operator of the automo- bile pursued, to escape, that I am sure a reasonable interpretation of the men- tal attitude of the officers. under the circumstances, will make clear the like- lihood of any one overlooking the fact that the boundary line had been | passed.” SWANTON INDORSED BY CITIZENS’ GROUP Candidacy for Federation Presi- dency Gets Approval of Mount Pleasant Association. | It of to in of lin | 50 ta. A motion to indorse the candidact of W. I. Swanton for the pi the Federation of Citizens’ ‘was unanimously appros Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Assoctation last night at a meeting in the Moun Pleasant branch of the Public Library A resolution calling for the inclusion of additional class rooms. a gvmnasium, | domestic science rooms and . carpenter shop for the Bancroft Jnhnson School, and additional playgiound space for (ha | Powell Junior High School in (h~ 1930~ 1935 school building program wa t:ons d by the|f H: e hy - < complaining i} threatened with It was a'iegnd tha ve been thrown into leaves on numerous B starting fires iy burn unattended. The metier ro- ferred to the committee on police and fire protection A letter from heartily indorsing the prog tablish & 24-hour rchool for erippicd children, was discusced . of ext hi the Kiy Salvage Corps Makes $34.105.122. Sincz the salvage branch of th- Quartermester Corps was orgenized in April, 1918, it has placed to the credit of the treasurer of th» Unitcd States, the sum of $34,105122 receled from the sale of waste material such as old metals, rubber, rags, hottles. hair hides and condemned food-stuffs, hsinz an 2verage arnual return of over £3.000,- 000 for the past 10 years. tr by 1 i dr w ¢ . |t Concrete Mixer Kills IMan. | Epecial Dizpateh to The Star, | ANNAPOLJS, _October 13.—James Howe, colored, 47 vears old. was killed late this afternoon on th» Dsfense | Highway about 8 milez west of An- nepolis. He was riding on a conersts | m mixer of the State Roads Commissh at e hine, his bead being crusaed. | clde with the general con: | Episcopal book, Fnglish B! who h» partment of Agriculture for the past 10 vears, absence to d Ohiy Agr 1900, chorge of county agent and 1786. {20t tozether one of the most compiete | the Episcopal Church and a journal of | |its eonventions beginning, as far back The collection was arranged to coin- | ntion of the Chureh, now meeting here. is on display in the division of prints the head of the west stairway on > second floor. The collection begins with a journal the General Convention held in Christ Church, Philadelphia, in 1786. ‘The first the collection is one printed in 1766 and uszd In the early colonies. the Revolution fi was found expedient book of common prayer in After make certain changes in this praver and a revissd edition, printed 1785, is also on display. The collection also includes the first illustrated edition America, and a cony prepare a copy nrinted for the ch only ue con- d to bs the coples were y Ins what is belis suggestion for a chanzs in tha praver book. Another interesting exhibit SERVICE AT HAWAII U. | : William Llovd of Department of Agrieuliure *n Year's “Leave of Ab: 2m Llovd of 1324 Monroe s‘reet s boen connocted with the De- W will ~waifan I lcave shortly for the ands on a year's leave of relop the extension sery- e at the University of Hewail, He 's from San Franciseo cn Qctobor 20, Mr, Lloyd first eame to Washington 1913, efter having besn with ultural Experimsnt tha D-partment of A From 1913 to 1921 he was in th~ orih~rn e 1o on srrvice of th~ stern Stateg, rnd has co n extension work since 1 wif> witl sail fn Janusry to | m in th Hawaiian AXI DRIVER BEATEN BY PAIR. TELLS POLICE Charles Garland of Botiiesda, a taxi- ver. reporied to polics and Coes- Hospital, where he want for catment. that h> had heen attacked two colored men n street nocih st night when he went to that ad- ess 3 answer a call for a cab, H a2 treated for bruises on the head an midnight shonld Gariand said he was parked, when " enlmed men in a h-ok him tn move on ied that wauld dy it, by ld bl the'r horn At th . they jumped from their ea tackad him, one of each side of the h. Anaiher tax.cab driver, Garlanl i1, wez cz2lled to 45 Fer immediatsly efteru on | {h=ratened hy several enlored men. and when he fell off and under the ma- | 1= for without waiting to pick up his WILL FORM EXTENSION [HICKMAN meES | Advancemeni of Christienity in Penn- sylvania.” A complete journal of the conventicn in Montgomery, Ala., in 1861, wh independent church was vell 25 a eapy of the pray inted in London dn War and run through the blockade to Richmond, is included One of the most interesting of the exhibits is & copy of the prayer booX thich was franslated for the Moose In diens, inhabiting Northwest America in 185 The entire book was printed fa | phonctic characters to enable mission- aries to d the prayers aloud to the Indians in their native tonuc even though they did not know the nstive languace. Another exhibit 1s an old Mohawk primer, used by missionaries in Indian bls in 1786, containing the English sion on one page and the same thing in the tribal language on th> oppesite pag~. In this manner, it is said. many voune Indians bocame familiar with the Enelish language. | ‘Th~ colle~tion was selected and ar- ren; by V. V. Parma. custodian of the division of rare hooks. | ence on Strest OF 1226 ROPBERIES “ends Letters to Texas Police Ad- Crimes to Free Conscisnce, By the Associnted Press SAN QUENTIN October 13, coemed fo dis on the gallows ne PRISON, Calif Williem Edward Hizkmen, Fri- day for the murder in Los Angeles of Little ian Pa is spending the s of his life vriting Istters and his conscisnce of previous froeinz tatement he confessed which he was con- in a series of lettsrs to < in various parts of the espoelally Texes. he told of robberies committed in 1926, He added that he wished fo clear his mind and confass bacause it was “the Ch thing to do.” FOR & 447 Octebar 13 (1) vhish s'ate 7 in_Fe statod tin Ferih v rob:d a in Da~ember 2in~d h~ wishd to con- imes befors he disd. Hizk- man said he was sorry b» could not urn tha monev he cbirined in tha t Worth noldun. No detalls wers N by him about the holdup. AN ANTONIO, Tex., October 13 (/P Hickman was a pariner in a d hold up here in Dscember, 1926, according to a letior from ths con- demned man which wos recelved hers today hy Chi>f of Polies Owon KilGa cords are being checked In an ef- fort, to d=termined what hoid-up Hick- | man confesses, with the commant “that | it is the Christian thing to do." The | condemned man did not name his | he | Duk~ A final report on street traffic signs :nals and markings will be presented at a two-day meeting of the ademinis- irative board of the Ameriean Engineer- ing Council, beginning Friday, by a p-cial committes of the council which for more than a year has been con. cting from the national haadquarters at 26 Jackson place, hore, a Nation-wide survey with the aim of establishing better and more uniform practices to | increase safety and to facilitate traffic | movement, | The sessions will be conducted by | thur W, Berresford, president of the counc ch siated lzst night that | the survey of the committee has dem- | onstrated that valuable public service could be rendered by the adoption of greater uniformity in the use of traf- 5 and markings. onnel of the committee of he American Engincering Council was made a part of the committee of the I Conference on Street and ¢ Safety, organized to draft a ' modcl municipal trafic ordinance, | W. B. Powell of Buffalo, is cha man of the spectal committee, other mombers of which are A. B. Barbor, | manager of the transportation and | communication department of the | United States Chamber of Commerce, | and directer of the National Confer- and Highway Safctv, Department of Commerce: M. G.| Lloyd, chief of the section of safety | ing of the United States Bu- | E. W. James, di- | he division of design of the of Public Roads; L. W. Wal ve s ary of the Ameri- ing Council; Frnest Smith, ser of the American Au- mobile Associztion, and A. C. Oli- phzni, Washington, served as secretary cf the commiliee. CETECTS BOGUS $10 NOTE A poorly made $10 counterfeit Fed- a1 Resarva nofe has been detected by th> United States Secret Service, whose chicf, W. H. Moran, last night warned th~ public The blil was described briefly as fol- On the Federel Reserve Bank of n. Mess.: series of 1914; check let- kY plaie numb=r’ indistine: back plate No. 1282: treasurer of the United etary of the : White, Reigning Beauty of Gay Nineties Found Living in Squalid Cl’licag'o Basement Room Py the Associated Press. CH CAGO, Octaber 13.—Anita Keep, A Ci brauty of the gay 90s, who once reiened svmotously in her cwn villa at Mont~ Carlo as the toast 20 | of Eurooean wits end nobles, was found taday living in a South Side basement eom. | She scrubs by the day when sh» can | ond 'gets very litile of that, She still the blue In hor eyss that made her | oriiz of Fdward VIL the Grand Cyril. Count Tolstol, Wilitam | Leads, tha tin plats king, and others. She was discoverad when_another | headlin“r of a by-gene age, Belle Liv- nzston, touring the counfry writing, | ~d her in the bassment room which | | stood before the American people tor | | said. in a third century war scene, and a large group of girl reserves from the Young Women's Christian Association will appear as angels. Final Scene of Pageant. The final scenc of the pageant, en- | itled “The Child of All Ages.” spon- | sorod by Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, is | to be ‘nted by many groups, throughout the city, assembled by Mrs. | Smiith, Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Fulton | Lewis, Miss Helen Griffith, Mus. | Gabilelle Belham, Miss Emily Steuart, | Mis. George Dow, Mrs. Emmons, Mrs. Horace Torbort, Miss Nancy Tackett, Mrs. Albert N. Baggs, Dr. H. H. D. terrett, Mrs. Willlam N. Wood, Rev. Pinckney Worth, Rev. F. B. Tucker, | Rev. Clarcnce Parker, Rev. Alfred | Menell and others. The entire pageant personnel also will appear in this finale, including choir, angels end leading characters. “Angels” will come from St. Andrew's Chureh and Christ Church in Alex- | andria. HOOVER AS O.RGANIZER PRAISED BY MRS. SPEEL“ | Republican Committeewoman for | trict Gives Radio Talk on Commerce Work. Herbert Hoover's seven-year record as | genius of organization” in the De- partment of Commerce, was cited last night by Mrs. Virginia White Speel Republican national committeewoman for the District of Columbia, in a five- minute radio talk over station WMAL in which she said that there has never a the office of President any one more ! experienced or capable than Mr. Hoover | “Mr. Hoover'’s supreme organizing | genius has made this department unique among national boards of trade and| ministries _of commerce,” sald Mrs Speel. “Officials from all over the world in greater and greater numbers | cross the ocean to study our Depart- ment of Commerce. “A British statesman, late in 1921 burst out with the statement: ‘Now that Hoover is In chargs, we have to fight not only American foreign trade, but, the American Department of Com- merce.” This is why our Department | of Commerce is as important as the Department of State. had enibrtained Bolle Livingston 21 years ago when she was ensconced in her Mcnie Carlo mansidn. Mrs. Keep made her first appearance at a charity ball in_Chicago 35 vears ago as the bride of Billy Keep, then a law partner of Frank O. Lowden, Mrs. Potter Palmer led the grand march at the ball. Mrs. Keep left her husband semo years later and went to Europe. | He killed himself in 1906. “I don't want to talk about things and T am so distressed at your finding me like this,” the white-haired woman “I've been back in Chicago since the war. I'd like to find some work, s0 T could get out of this bassment. TI've| never asked any one for h>lp. A friend put me in a home. but I couldn't stand rering but says about $250 whs taken. | she also uses as a laundrv. Mrs, Keep | it—a parade of wheel chairs.” Too Good to Miss! Fxtraordinary oppor- tunity to buy good shoes, smart shoes tempting SALE Tomorrow their value. Brown and black suedes. bhlue kids, and Tuesday tan ¢ - O at Hahn's e made 7th St. and large scale operations! “Areade™ stores Stvles Pictured and Others shoes — at ralfs, velvets, patents. much helow of those big events possible by our 7th & K 3212 14th