Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1928, Page 27

AVIATRIX'S FLIGHT MAY PROVE RECORD Altitude Mark of Mrs. Thaden of California Near 25,400 Feet. By the Assoclated Press. OAKLAND, Calift, December 8.— ‘Whether Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Tha- ©den, aviatrix and wife of an Oakland | rplane manager, has established a | mew airplane altitude record for women, | 25,400 feet—seems today to depend | ipon which of her three height measur- | :m:L instruments is adjudged to be cor- | ect. | Mrs. Thaden harnessed herself to| #n oxygen tank, stepped into a biplane owned by D. C. Warren of Oakland and climbed heavenward for about an hour | Westerday afternoon. When she de- &cended one of her altimeters registered Bt 25400 feet, the other said 23,100 | feet, and a barograph, read through the | $ealed opening, showed 22,100 feet. Lady Heath’s Becord 24,900 Feet. Both Mrs. Thaden and Leo S. Nagle, Rresldent of the Oakland Chapter of the ational Aeronautical Association, were ronfident that a calibration of the baro- graoh would show that a new record had been set. The present record, 24,- 900 feet, is held by Lady Heath of Eng- | fJand. | ‘It really wasn't a very difficult| flight,” said Mrs. Thaden. “It was awfully cold, though. I first used the oxygen when my head began to feel light at 15,000 feet. The apparatus didn't work properly, but by the time J was 17,000 feet up I got the hang of it end the oxygen refreshed me consid- prably. ‘At 20,000 feet I felt awfully bad. My head was roaring and I couldn’t Ee(‘m to move the controls. I thought would have to come down, but at gz.ooo feet I took another draught of xygen and felt fine. From then on pverything was wonderful. Says Watch “Froze Up.” “My watch stopped at 18,000 feet. I believe it was so cold it just froze up.” Her plane was off the ground slight- Iy more than an hour and a half. Mrs. Thaden, then unmarried, left a ob with a coal company in Wichita, ans., about a year ago to become the first saleswomen of airplanes. She was married to Herbert Thaden, an air pilot, last July. GERMAN WOMEN SEEK HOMES, NOT HOUSES Foderation Tries to Harmonize Architects’ Plans and House- wives’ Needs. BERLIN (#).—The national fed- fration of German women’s organiza- tions has arranged a series of confer- ences between home builders and home o acchitects With e pracieas BLADS e pra p1 the housewife. T The economic impoverishment of Germany, due to the war, has necessi- tated the construction of homes on the fmost economic basis possible. The prehitects, generally speaking, have {:ught a solution along two lines, one, y reducing the number and size of tha Tooms, the other, by standardizing he rooms and furniture. ‘The viewpoint of the women is that $hey will stand for the reduction of if the architect will take B leaf from America and build into the Wwalls such accessories as closets, cup- ards and kitchenettes. They pro- to show to the architects just ‘where, from the German viewpoint, American ideas are The women further believe that tandardization deprives the home of ts personal touch. They insist upon individuality in home outfitting and hope that through the conferences with mrchitects a means may be found for B:en'inc personality in modern dwell- COMMUNISTS DEFEATED. Belgian Prtmier Emerges Victor After Long Struggle. BRUSSELS (#).—The cabinet of ler Henrl Jaspar has emerged suc- ully from the long struggle in Par- lament between the Conservative- ‘atholic-Liberal alliance and the So- falist-Communist opposition. ‘The Communists were defeated in their efforts to trip the government on he question of national defense. The arious left groups had rallied around e slogan, “Six months' military duty,” t failed to sway Parliament. Many signs point to a decline in wer of the Soclalist party and the mmunists. . Peru recently bought 20 airplanes | running it up by hand, two breadths, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1928.° THE EVENING STORY The Crepe Girl. EAN MUIR climbed wearily to her room. Her feet ached, yet they were clad in sensible low heeled shoes. Likewise her heart ached, and it was a courageous, cheerful little heart too, that had beat deter- minedly through a great many trying moments. Jean was small and dark, with seri- ous eyes and a firm mouth. As she hurried up the stair and through ‘the dim hallways of the shabby old board- ing house she looked like a moving light in her bright hued crepe dress. She wore crepe because she sold crepe. A customer would see her standing behind Her counter looking like a pic- ture and would immediately ask to look at crepe of a good quality. As a matter of fact Jean had made her own gown, cut so at the top and so at the bottom. It was just as easy as that to make a crepe dress, but the subtle distinction, which made it appear to be better than it was, came from the girl herself. Two years before Jean had come to the city from a small country town with a high heart and cheeks like roses. Her high-heartedness had passed and the roses had faded, but she was still striving to get ahead, to earn more, to make a place for herself. As she entered her room she scented a familiar odor coming up from the kitchen below. Stew! And the hard sandwich she had eaten for lunch still stuck in her throat. Collapsing upon the bed she kicked off her shoes and wondered whether it would be worth while to go down to dinner. From the other side of the partition came the sound of sobs. Somebody was crying in the adjoining room. Now who was it? “I think the Miller girl moved in after Miss Marshall left.” Jean thought. “She is certainly having a bad half hour, poor thln"' Jean tried to"orget the other’s woe. She had trouble enough of her own at any time. Still, if it was the Miller girl—she was so timid .and shy and young, poor child. Jean sat up and drew her shoes back on. The door opened rather reluctantly upon her knock, and the Miller girl was revealed, pitifully trying to make herself presentable. Jean’s quick glance showed her a suit case packed for de- parture. “What! Are you going to leave?” she exclaimed. Betty Miller nodded. “I've failed.” she said incoherently. “Failed! At what?” “It was a ‘Dictionary for Common Folks,’ but there don’t seem to be any common folks here. At least, if there are they don’t want my dictionary. I tried Poplar Terrace this afternoon—" Jean knew about Poplar Terrace, compact 1little houses full of happy young matrons. What indeed did they want of dictionaries for common folks? “Some of them never came to the door at all and those that did—" Betty swallowed hard. “Oh, my dear!” Jean sat down upon the bed. “What did you try to sell anything of that sort for?” “Well, you see, daddy was a minister And this book was made by an old friend of his, another minister who, doesn't preach now. He wanted me to sell it for him. He said my person- ality would make it succeed. But I've used my personality all up and I haven't sold a smgle volume. Besides, I—I've used all my money up, too, and——" Betty paused aghast at her own admission. “I've got enough left for my fare and I am going home on the 9:20. Mr. Pell will be terribly disap- pointed. And I am disappointed, too, because. I though maybe it would be arf opening. You know, they say that the city teems with romance and ad- venture.” “Well, you have had your adventure,” Jean said dryly. “As for the romance— that’s probably waiting back home for you this minute. Miller flushed. sounds like Dick. I could I have known hift “What does Dick do?” “Oh, he’s a kind of florist, on a very small scale,” Betty sighed. “Oh, I Stop That Cough Quick! | Famous Prescription Has a Double Action ‘The phenomenal success of & famous doctor’s prescription called | Thoxine is due to its double action. It immediately soothes the irritation | and goes direct to the internal cause not reached by patent medicines | |and cough syrups. The very first | swallow usually relieves even the {mosr. obstinate cough. Thoxine contains no chloroform, dope or other dangerous drugs. Safe and pleasant for the whole family. Also excellent for sore throat. Quick relief or your money back. 35c, 60c, |and $1.00. All druggis Betty “That m this country for commercial use. Central Armature Works 625-627 D Street N.W. Phone Main 3660-1-2 SPECIALISTS Industrial Power and Lighting Work Transformer Vaults, Switchboards Generators, Moto Installed and Wired Leaders for 15 Years ‘Annual clearance sale of good used trucks of every descr Dec. 8 to Dec. 15 Here is a way you Christmas peak. You that you can afford to j Sterrett Operating Service, Inc. 30-38 M Street N.E. ts. | Advertisement rs and Controllers iption. 1 can take care of your can buy them so cheap unk them in January. SOS Call Fr. 505 hate to go home to Dick. And Aunt Hetty will scold me—" ‘The dinner bell was ringing, clang, clang, clang. “Come on down to dinner,” Jean said. “Run a powder puff over your face. 'Then you'll look all right.” During the meal she studied the girl opposite her. She decided to go home with Betty. In her present mood somebody should see that she was safely delivered to her friends. A telephone message to Miss Green, head of the department, a swift pack- ing of a bag and Jean was ready. Bet- ty accepted her escort with some sur- prise. It was past midnight when they reached the low, white house where to All There is the elry and Watch Hecht Co. is on to shop. Betty lived. Jean’s knock brought an elderly woman to the door. “Why, it's Betty!” Aunt Hetty ex- claimed. “Yes, and my friend. auntie,” the girl explained. Mrs. Miller made Jean very com- fortable. “If Betty had listened to me she would have stayed at home in the first | place,” the woman said. “Nothing would do but she had to go hunting | adventure. Maybe now she'll settle | down—" “But I won't marry Dick, Auntie!” | Betty cried. |~ “Well, you don't have to. How do you | know he wants you? He's never said he did,” retorted Mrs. Miller. | _“Before you go I want you to see Dick,” Betty said. After breakfast next morning Betty suggested going out to Dick's place. “It isn't far—just down the street a ways.” Entering the small greenhouse out [l | Wl Miss Muir, of the biting Autumn air Jean was as- tonished to find the wealth of bloom that confronted her. Bending over a rosebush upon which was a single white bloom was a tall man with burn- ished hair. He glanced up and Jean met his eyes—clear, earnest gray eyes. This was Dick—Dick Hume. Jean had only half an hour before she must be at the station so there was little time for acquaintance. But as she was leaving, Dick Hume clipped from its stem the single white rose and gave it to her. Betty cried out: “Dicky! You've given her your wonder- ful Augusta, the only one you had!” He smiled. And Jean in strange em- barrassment tried to thank him. ‘That afternoon she was again selling crepes, quite as if nothing had hap- pened. But something had happened. How much had happened she did not dream until one rainy afternoon she found him standing at her counter. “I want five yar&s of something B when tney had. exchanged srect: sald. when they excl greet- ings. “Something like what you are is créepe. “Crepe, then. It's pretty. And here a something for you.” He gave her a X. “And Betty?” Jean breathed as she cut the fabric., “Oh, Betty 'is engaged—to Sidney Jenkins. She’s very happy.” Their eyes met and they smiled. There were white roses in the box. Jean wore one that night when Dick Hume took her out to dinner. And somehow she became something more than crepe girl: she became a joyous, beautiful girl full of anticipations and hopes and promises. (The End.) (Copyright. 1928.) . Bulgaria’s adverse foreign-trade bal- ance is growing. DYNAMITE SLAYING TRIAL NEARING END Accused Man’s Activities Night Before Blast Remain Partially Unexplained. By the Associated Press. ROCKFORD, Ill, December 8.—Two hours and 15 minutes of Paul Reed’s activities on_ the night before Vernon Plager was killed by a dynamite ex- plosion, were unexplained today as Re;d's trial for murder approached its en Prosecuting _ attorneys, on the one hand, contended that Reed placed a 27 10:45 o'clock the night of July 18. Plager was killed the next morning as e on the starter of the car. Reed,. however, maintained he spent that e driving to Rochelle, 40 miles away, t0 seek a relative. He admitted stealing dynamite from a shed near Polo, Ill. He intended to use it, he sald, to blast streams in Wisconsin, where he planned to fish. Judge A. E. Fisher, who also heard Reed and Plager's widow tell the story of their love affair, sald the case would 80 to a jury today. Undersea Radio Tried. CHERBOURG (#).—Submarines will be able to communicate with each other by wireless while under water by means of apparatus now being tested here. Communication beneath the sutface has been made and maintained between two submarines a mile and three-quar- bomb in Plager’s car between 8:30 and ters apart. The Night Before Christmas ---17 Nights Before These are the days of the busy shopper. From place to place... ever hurrying . . ever worrying. And never aday is done but that another hectic one must be prepared for. Counting tonight, there are exactly seventeen nights to Christmas. Wouldn'tit be just wonderful if all your gifts were purchased; if they were all wrapped and ready; if your last worry were over, say, tonight . . . _or a few nights from now? Which brings us to the point of all In Addition These . . . Toy Dept. on the Third Floor . . . Direct Elevator Service . + o Newly Enlarged Stationery Department « « « Gifts for the Home . . . Enlarged Jew- Section . . . Rest Room for Women . .. And ... Yes, Indeed, The e of the many good places this: The Hecht Co. is one of the many good places to shop. With merchandise of national and international renown, with varieties wide and almost unlimited, with prices always reason- able, and with augmented service facilities . . . The Hecht Co. is one of the many good places to shop. The Main Floor . . . Thousands of Gifts Almost everything on this floor is suitable for giving...gifts of every sort...from the costly to those very moderate in price. Information Booth on the Main Floor Located in the center aisle. Here any information...about our store or any parts of the city, street cars, etc....will be cheer- fully given. Special Gift Wrap Service A special gift-wrapping section, where all your purchases will be wrapped with special care...for mailing if you wish. Betty Lane Will Shop for You Our own store shopper, who will gladly make any gift purchases for vou, if you find it inconvenient to come downtown. ‘A Personal Shopper Will Accompany You 1f you have a number of pur- chases to make, we shall be glad to detail a”personal shopper to accompany you. Ask about this service at the Information Booth. If You Are in Doubt As to what to give consult our Gift Adviser, who will cheerfully help you solve any gift problem, F Street at 7th SO SN the Fountain Room, Store. . Floor. Lost and Found The Lost and Found Desk is on the Main Floor.. Money or Jew- elry is sent to the Superintend- Nunnally’s Candies Package and bulk, are for sale in .and also on the Main Basement Stamps May Be Purchased At any of tne service desks. These desks are conveniently lo- cated on every floor. Appointment Desk Center Aisle If you wish to leave worg for a Floor. ent’s Office, Fifth Floor. Christmas Checks Cashed Office, If you cash your checks here you may purchase a Man's $1 Wallet for 25c. In the Main Fourth Floor. Free Deliveries By Parcel Post Purchases of any amount, pro- vided they are within the Govern- ment weight and size (70 pounds in first three zones and 50 pounds in the Fourth zone and beyond; friend to meet you, simply make a memorandum at the Information Booth in the Center “Aisle, Main Gift Certificates Excellent gifts. They are issued on the for any sum of money or any num- ber of pairs of gloves. These ser- tificates may be secured in the Main Office, Fourth Floor, Taxi and Messenger Service At the F St. entrance senger. Private booths are the size not to exceed 84 inches in length and girth combined) will be mailed free of charge anywhere in the United States and all its pos- sessions; also anywhere in the Dominion of Canada (weight limit, 15 pounds). Open a Charge Account The services of a charge account in ‘While you can call a Taxi or send for a telegraph mes- Telephone Booths on Every Floor telephone located on each of our floors. Fountain Room Basement Store shopping in our store pause ...and yourself Fountain in wiches and here are extended to you. Ask to see our Credit Manager, on the Fourth Floor. Mail and Phone Orders Filled By a staff of competent shop- pers. If your letter tells some- thing about each person on your list, so much the better. InFHrcar Co. I i - Afl’k ” ] ] Il | refresh our Room. The tastiest sand- soft \drink confections. v TR