Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 5

Hello Folks: The Budget Boys and “me” will be back “on _the _air’—tonight—7:30— WMAL—DON'T MISS THAT! Read about our great Clearance Sale now at its height—Don’t Miss That! lutis Jo* OPEN'A BUDGET CHARGE ACCOUNT Pay as You Get Paid Ten Weeks to Pay No Interest or Xtra Charges A GREAT JANUARY PURCHASE AND SALE 500 Thirty-Five and Forty Dollar SUITS, O’COATS AND TOPCOATS $2 15 EXTRA PANTS The much wanted Blues and Greys in both Suits FIVE DOLLARS and Overcoats as well as a grand selection of fancies, all sizes and all models. Aad' N forvhe Grasid -January Clearance Sale of Hats, Caps & Furnishings $50,000 stock of high-class furnishings at prices that tickle the purse and astonish the person. How's that? SHIRTS All $3.50 and $3 Grades $1.79 $2.39 3 for $5.25 3 for 87 Stiff-Collar Attached—Collar-to-Match—Collar-Attached Emery, Arrow, Ide, Van Heusen NECKWEAR All $2 Grades 79¢ $1.39 $1.89 3 for $2.25 3 for $4 3 for $5.50 Many Imported Silks—Many Hand Made HOSE $1.00 Silk Hose 69c 3 for $2 Dunhill—Interwoven—Snug Fit UNDERWEAR All $1.25 Hanes Shirts & Drawers $1.39 89¢c $2.39 3 for $4 3 for $2.50 3 for $7 1,000 $1 Athletic U'suits, §9c, 3 for $2 GLOVES All $5 Pigekin i NGl Ehaes Gloves $295 $395 $2.45 $1.85 Washable Chamoisette Gloves $1.19 HATS—CAPS Nobby $5.00 New $2.50 All $2.50 Grades All $1.50 and $1 Grades All $3 and $2.50 Grlde' 75c Wool Hose 49c . 6 for $2.75 $1.50 and $1.25 Wool Hose. 89¢c 3 for $2.50 All $2 Winter All $3 Munsing- Union Suits wear Union Suits All $4.50 and $4 Mocha, etc., All $3.50 Lined THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, JA SEE ROAD BUILDING AS INTERNATIONAL Compton and Whitehurst Speak at Highway Con- vention in Cleveland. By the Associated Press. By the Assoclated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla, January 15— The “education” of Lorelei Lee has been completed. Lorelel, it will be recalled, was the lady preferred in the stage and screen versions of Anita Loos’ novel, “Gentle- men Prefer Blondes,” and the author herself is authority for announcement that the Lorelei definitely and perma- nently has retired from her public career. “Never again,” sald Miss Loos, who, with her husband, John Emecrson, is| ‘spendmg the Winter here. Anita Loos Finishes Lorelei’s Education, ‘ Says She's Tired “to Death™ of Writing‘DUE UP FOR ACTION TODAY . | “I'm tired—tired to death of writing. T've been in and with the movies since I was 7 years old, and I'm through. “I'm not interested in writing; not interested in sports; not interested in | anything of any sort except resting. | Lorelei Lee and her flip companions are | dead and buried. I've put my pen aside | permanently.” 1 ‘The diminutive author added that Mr. | Emerson has taken up golf in a serious | way, and although she could not her- | ald definitely a retirement from ‘his | writing and theatrical producing, he | also was looking forward to rest. CLEVELAND, January 15.—Road concerng all nations and has, therefore, become an international proposition, R. Keith Compton, president of the American Road Builders’' Association, ing of the twenty-sixth annual conven- tion of the association today. “The steps taken by a group of na- tions to construct highways leading from one to another is probably the greatest investment of this age for creating good will, mutual understand- ing and for creating commerce between such nations,” Compton declared. Compton touched on the accomplish- ments of the various divisions of the Road Builders' Association. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst of Washington, in dis- cussing traffic conditions in cities, criti- cized “the entire lack in nearly every city of co-ordination of highway, traffic and public utility interests. The works of one are constantly upset by the works of the other.” “Leaving for the moment mistakes in Jjudgmént and of subgrade conditions I dare say 90 per cent of other failures of streets and roads are due to poor inspections and lack of field control or improper maintenance,” he said. A resume of the activities of State highway departments during the past year was given by C. M. Babcock, State commissioner of highways in Minnesota. Prof. J. Gordon McKay, director of the Cleveland Highway Research Bureau, told of the Cleveland region area highway. TWO D. C. OFFICIALS SPEAK. M. O. Eldridge and Capt. Whitehurst Address Cleveland Meeting. Reports by two Washington men oc- cupied a prominent place on the pro- gram of the city officials’ division of the Amercian Road Builders' Association, which met today in first annual ses- sion at Cleveland, Ohio. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, assistant to the Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict, and president of the division, re- ported for the committee on administra- tion, organization and finance, and Assistant Traffic Director M. O. El- dridge described the work of the divi- slon’s committee on traffic. Four Committees Organized. Discussing plans for future activity, Capt. Whitehurst said the division had been organized into four committees to facilitate the work planned. The com- mittees are: First, organization, administration |and finance; second, design and con- struction; _third, maintenance, and fourth, traffic. Each of these general committees has been divided into vari- ous subcommittees, he said, but for the first year, pending a survey of the municipal field, the general committee en will develop the subjects for study. Concluding his address, Capt. White- hurst said: “If the city officials’ division can accomplish no more than work out constructive suggestions for the benefits of cities to bring about K;;)per cost records, improvements in pection service, systematic and ade- quate maintenance and a closer relation between traffic and highway authorities, it will not only have fulfilled its pur- pose and duty to the municipal authori- ties, but will be the means to pointing the way to saving millions of d for c".heu“ ta ers throughout -American Tentative Working Schedule. Explaining that his traffic .committee has not yet been organized, Mr. Eld- ridge outlined the following tentative schekdule of assignments for committee work: “Causes_of accidents, rules of the road, traffic light signals and signs, parking regulations, weights and loads, traffic zoning and classification, drivers’ permits, safety equipment, street light- ing and traffic law enforcement.” ‘These various problems of traffic con- trol will be examined in different cities and the results reported at a future meeting. Mr. Eldridge urged particularly that the Road Builders’ Association at this time approve and support the National Conference’ on Street and Highway Safety in its efforts to bring about the enactment of uniform motor vehicle laws in the various States and uniform Qanlclpn ordinances in the several les. VIRGINIA TO SPEND $10,663,400 ON ROADS State Commission Announces Ten- tative Allotments for Eight Construction Districts. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., January 15.—The Virginia State Roads Commission this afternoon announced that $9,317,000° will be made available on July 1 for road construction in the eight districts of the State. This is in addition to $612,645 appropriated for engineering, $33,755 for surveys and $1,000,000 for filling in existing gaps. The total for highways amounts to $10,663,400. Of this $4,514,560 comes from the gasoline tax; $4,386,195 is the equiva- lent of the 1-mill tax, the amount of convict labor used, title fees and bus licenses. ~The Federal-aid allotment amounts to $1,450,000. ‘The distribution by districts is: Bris- tol, $1,173,942; Salem, $1,307,175; Lynchburg, $1,170,215; Richmond, $1,- 365,872; Suffolk, $1,368,667; Fredericks- burg, $683,868; Culpeper, $1,054,685; Staunton, $1,192,576. Culpeper district includes Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the allot- ments for this district’s roads are as follows: Buckland to Warrenton, $90,000; Sperryville to Page County Line, $90, 000; Sperryville, to East, $200,000; Dis- trict of Columbia Line to Alexandria, $80,000; Culpeper to route 16, $120,000; Gordonsville to West, $100,000; Coves- ville to North, $100,000; Tyson's Corner to West, $5,000; intersection route 41 to South, $58,285; Rosslyn to West, ;‘1)30,000; Bluemont to Purcellville, $63,~ ‘The commission will hold public hearings on its Culpeper, Staunton and Lynchburg district allotments in Charlottesville, on January 29. PRAISED BY MRS. WILSON. Girl Writer Gets Gift in Recog- nition of Her Ability. WAYCROSS, Ga. (#).—The literary efforts of Miss Rowena Wilson, Way- cross High School senior, have come to the attention of Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son, who has sent her an autographed %fi’ of “The Chronology of Woodrow Inclosed with the book was a note in which Mrs. Wilson complimented the youthful writer and wished her a continued success with her literary career. Miss Wilson has published s book of J:mulndhuhul-numberox ture articles carried in newspapera. v ¥ d the | e e e o ss [FALLS CHURCH AIDS declared in an address here at the open- | $250 Allotted From Town Treasury VOLUNTEER FIREMEN to Pay for Engins Upkeep. Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCE, Va,, January 15.— The Town Councll last night redeemed the promise it made to the Volunteer Fire Department in December by allot- ting the sum of $250, from which the town treasurer was authorized to payi bills for the upkeep of the engine and engine house. A budget of the depart- | ment’s finances, presented by Treasurer Thomas Probey, listed total receipts of last year at $3,122.11, total expenses at $2,880.29, leaving a balance January 1 of $241.82, against which there are out- standing bills amounting to $221.13. Councilman Charles Gage presented a resolution from the Great Falls Street Citizens’ Association asking that the ‘Town Couhcil request the State Cor- poration Commission to establish a uni- form street railway rate from Rosslyn to all stations within the corporate limits of the town of Falls Church, stating that such a rate would encour- age development in sections which now feel they are being discriminated against. Upon suggestion of Council- man Phillip Talbott, Mr. Gage consent- ed to lay the resolution on the table until the next meeting, in order that the mayor might take up the matter with officials of the railway company. A second resolution presented by Mr. Gage he asked be laid on the table for future action in order that it might be thoroughly discussed both by members of the Council and citizens of the town, owing to its far-reaching’ effects if adopted. This calls for a change in the town ordinances to provide for the election of councilmen from the vari- ous wards by voters residing in said wards only, and not as is now the case, by all voters voting on all councilmen. PUGILIST USED TACTICS ON HER, WIFE ALLEGES Mrs. “Andy” Bowen Obtains War- rant Charging Prizefighter With Assault. Complaining that her husband, Henry “Andy” Bowen, local prizefighter, used Emma Bowen yesterday swore to a war- rant charging assault. Bowen pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial when arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today. Mrs. Bowen claims the assault oc- curred in their home, 1426 K street southeast, on January 7. According to Attorney F. Joseph Donohue, who represents Bowen, the couple lived in the same house all last week, and the fighter was amazed when served with the warrant yesterday. He was taken to the fifth precinct police station where he deposited $10 collateral, and when he returned home he found his wife had thrown all of his belongings out in the back yard, ac- cording to the attorney. S s ‘Will Entertain Committees. Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., January 15.— Keith A. Brumback, new president of the Arlington, Fairfax and Alexandria Real Estate Board, will entertain the members of all the board’s recently ap- pointed standing committees at dinner on Wednesday night in the Washington City Club. The dinner will be followed some of his ring tactics on her, Mrs. |be Autoist Is Fined $50 Vhile Contending He Struck “Jay Walker” In spite of his contention that the pedestrian whom he hit was “jay walking,” Harris S. Morris, retired New York stock broker, now living at the Wardman Park Hotel, was today fined $50 by Judge Isaac R. Hitt for reckless driving. Morris struck Willett Halstead while driving his car on New York avenue January 3, He was arrested by Policeman J. S. Cur- tiss of the Traffic Bureau. RICHMOND STUDENT IS HELD AS FORGER| Battles Arresting Officers at Air- port—Said by Detectives to Have Admitted Charge. William Horace Wright, 23 years old, a student at the Uniwersity of Rich- mond, was arrested yesterday at the ‘Washington Airport after putting up a strenuous battle with two headquarters detectives. Eleven checks bearing the forged signature of Ray C. Hobbs of the Pennsylvania Indemnity Corporation, 735 Thirteenth street, were found in his possession, as well as a check for $85, bearing the same name, which he at- tempted to pass at the air field for pas- sage to Baltimore. According to Detectives H. E. Brodie and F. A. Varney, who made the ar- rest, Wright admits forging the checks. He told the officers that he took a letter containing Mr. Hobbs® bank statement and several canceled checks from a mail basket at the Y. M. C. A., where Hobbs lived for a time. With these checks as models, he admits forging 11 checks, the bodies of which were not filled in, and the one for $85 which he attempted to pass at the field. Wright is said to have first tried to engage passage at Hoover Field, but failed because of the suspicion aroused by his appearance at the field on foot. Woodrdge P.-T. A. to Hear Ballou. | Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent | of schools, will address members of the Woodridge Parent-Teacher Association at their meeting at the school Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. 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REWRITTEN MERGER PLAN| Senate Subcommittee Expects to Have Final Meeting This Afternoon. The Senate subcommittee which in- vestigated and rewrote the street rail- | way merger plan expects to have its! final meeting this afternoon to talm: formal actien on the rewritten plan. | If the subcommittee completes its re- | port this afternoon, Chairman Capper | probably will call the Senate District | committee to meet tomorrow to act on | the merger resolution. If, as expected, | the full committee approves what the | the revised | the Senate. Since it has been changed |in a number of essential points from | the original agreement as presented by | the company, the proposed legislation would have to be ratified by the stock- | holders after its enactment before the merger could become a reality. Two Admit Housebreaking. David_ Broker and Sherman Wilson, ' both colored, entered a plea of guilty, before Judge Gus A. Schuldt today on | charges of housebreaking and were bound over to the grand jury under bond of $2,500. The men are accused of taking eight hams .and a slab of bacon from the American Stores, Inc., at 739 North Capitol street on the night of Janu- ary 9. I | Chapel of Cistercian Monastery, Cum- | berland, R. I, first Monastic Church in For Impaired Vision —Consult an Eye P hySiCian There is a grave re- sponsibility resting upon those in charge of children —to sece that their eyes are properly cared for. EDMONDS === Q PTIl CIAN=—= 915 Fifteenth Street WASHINGTON Makers of Eye Glasses and Spectacles by Prescription Exclusively Since 1899 New England, was dedicated last Sun- day. “Arch Preserver” Shoes — now at these same Clearance prices —both Sales on our main floor. Still further Reduced! Many of our finest “Carlton” Shoes now still further reduced, $7.85 Some styles, $9.75 Deeper mark-downs to speed up the clearance. 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