Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1929, Page 17

REAL ESTATE. 'THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D.” ¢;” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY "2, 1929.° REAL ESTATE. 1% NEW NOVEBEGUN FORLQUOR FUND Southern ~ Democrats in House Propose Revision of Prohibition Clause. ters Around Time Clause, as Decision Nears. By the Associated Press. A new move was initiated yesterday by Southern Democrats in the House to obtain congressional approval of the proposed $24,000,000 increase for pro- | final vote expected early next week. hibition enforcement. | Thus far, no proposal to reduce the Undismayed by a defeat in the House | number of cruisers to be built has been to keep the appropriation embodied in | made and the fight on the measure has the deficiency supply bill, from getting | centered around the time clause re- in the hands of a Senate and House | quiring that construction of the 15 conference committe?, the Democrats, | cruisers and one aircraft carrier pro- headed by Representative Byrns of | vided for begin by 1931. President ‘Tennessee, yesterday proposed a revision | Coolidge has asked elimination of the of the prohibition clause which they | time clause, but the group led by Thope will bring about its approval. Chairman Hale of the naval affairs The revision now proposed by the | committee wants the measure passed Democrats is designed to meet the ob- | practically as it now stands. Hale is Jections of Secretary Mellon, who has| confident that he has the strength to contended that as now worded the|put the. bill through without material clause would prevent use of the pro-|change. This would eliminate the posed increase by all of the agencies | necessity for a conference with the charged with enforcement of the dry | House, where the measure was passed laws. Friends of the increased proposal | last year, but the President might veto believe the Byrns amendment would ac- | it In that case there would be a de- complish this. termined attempt to pass it over his Meanwhile, the Senate yesterday was | veto. advised of the desire of the House fora | Most of the opposition to the present conference on the bill and the measure | bill has come from a group of Western formally was turned over to a confer- | Senators, headed by Senators Borah of ence committee. This action preceded | Tdaho and Norris of Nebraska. They by a short time an announcement in | were joined yesterday by Senator Har- the Senate by Senator Harris, Democrat | rison, Democrat, Mississippi, who argued of Georgia, that he would accept the | that the construction program shoula proposed Byrns revision. Harris is the | pe placed in the hands of the incoming original sponsor of the big increase | President as a “weapon of diplomacy” item. . | to force other nations to look favorably Immediately after the Georgian's an- | on further disarmament proceedings. nouncement, however, Senator Smoot, | Through the discussion of the cruiser Republican of Utah, protested that the | pill there has run mention of Great bill had gone to conference and under | Britain and her naval strength. Sup- By the Assoclated Press. With limitation of debate at hand, supporters and opponents of the cruiser bill were looking forward today to the Senate rules it was too late to consider SENATORS PREPARE - FOR CRUISER VOTE! | | Principal Dispute Still Cen- THE VICARION | (Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger) By Gardner Hunting. In the year 1935 Radley Brainard has in- vented the Vicarion. a device with which it is possible to re-create scenes out of the past. The invention is a_sensational suc- cess, with all the theaters installing it in place of ‘motion pictures. Complete Tilu- sions. Inc.. which at that time controls all the improvements on the movie, faces ruin. but when Ferdinand Mortimer and Jerry Ballard, heads of the company. call on him, rainard refuses to make terms. ainard’s records of the past are con- any such plan. While this was taking place, both Houses found time to discuss some phase of the prohibition question. Senator Harris undertook an analysis of the House vote Thursday, which paved the way for sending the bill to conference, and in the House Representative Celler, Democrat, New York, touched debate off by displaying a bottle of tonic which, he said, contained more than 20 per cent of alcohol. Celler was forced to remove_the bottle. The New Yorker, however, got in a few words on the subject. He said the | Department of Agriculture was dis- tributing free pamphlets telling how to | make wine while millions of dollars was being appropriated to enforce prohi tion. He said the bottle which he dis- played had been purchased at a drug store in Brooklyn, and declared that al- though a chemical analysis had shown it to contain more than 20 per cent of alcohol it was sold freely. Representative Green, Democrat, of Florida demanded removal of the fluid. charging the display was in violation of the rules of the House. Representative Le Guardia, Republican, of New York defended Celler, declaring that the tonic was sold under a Government per- mit, but the chair held that the bottle should be removed from the table. ‘The discussion continued until Celler had a page take the bottle off the floor. | In the Senate during his analysis of | the House vote Senator Harris declared ‘Thursday's ballot showed that Republic- an House leaders had been joined in their vote by “the leaders of Tammany Hall, the Philadelphia machine, the Chicago Thompson machine and others opposed to enforcement of the eight- eenth amendment.” MUSIC FRIDAY MUSIC CLUB PROGRAM. A program of varied music, much of | it beautiful, was presented yesterday before the members of the Friday Morn- ing Music Club. The opening piano group was given by Dorothy Radde Emery. Coming in late, the reviewer heard only the energetically brilliant “Ride of the Valkyries,” from Wagner's opera, as arranged for piano by Ernest Hutcheson. It was given colorful treat- ment. Mrs. Emery already had played the “Prelude and Fugue in E Minor,” by | Mendelssohn, and “The Island Spell,” by Ireland. One of Washington's most gifted young singers, Charlotte Harriman, con- tralto, gave the second group. Miss Harriman has a rich voice of the darkly mellow, real contralto quality. She showed in her German numbers yester- day the influence of Mme. Schumann- Heink, with whom she studied last Sum- mer, Miss Harriman’s German diction has improved tremendously. She achieved a fine interpretation of “Erda’s Warning,” from “Das Rheingold.” “Der Nussbaum” was a charming encore. In the purely concert songs— “Caro Mio Ben,” by Giordani, and the two Brahms songs—there seemed a slight tendency to dramatize where a more placid legato coloring would be more effective. Miss Harriman’s high notes are beautiful and rounded. She sang Elgar’s “Where Corals Lie” very. well. The Olmstead, “Thy Sweet Sing- ing,” was a little light in caliber for a voice such as this singer possesses. Zoe Walson was very competent as accom- panist. Rose Maxwell Dickey, violinist, and Hermann Rakemann, viola player, pre- sented a suite for those instruments written by Kalliwoda, who is not a well known composer. He was born in Prague in 1800 and was considered a violin virtuoso in his time. He also served as kapellmeister to the Duke of Fuerstenberg. The suite yesterday has been rarely heard and from. the monotonous reiteration of the rather frugal melodious material it seemed to contain one could easily find reasons why it and its composer were not more familiar to audiences. As a bit of re- search it was a success and also as & vehicle providing opportunity to show Mr. Rakemann's really excellent com- mand of the contralto of the violin her part with her usual musicianship and suavity. KIN(;IS UrNEHANGED. LONDON, February 2 (#).—Lord Dawson of Peen, and Sir Hugh Righy excellent H.F. stated when they left the sick room th: there was no change in his majesty’s condition. ‘The hint in the statement of physi- cians yesterday that the King's con- dition was less favorable than recently came as a slight jar to Englishmen generally, there having been an eager attended King George this morning and porters of the bill have argued that this country’s naval strength was below that. of England, and have declared that country would be more inclined to seek naval disarmament if the United States made it plain that she intended to have naval parity. On_the other hand, those who want the time clause eliminated have con- tended that passage of the cruiser bill as it now stands just after the ratifica- tion of the Kellogg treaty would have a bad effect, and have declared that leav- ing construction of the cruisers in the hands of the President would give him a lever to use in efforts for further naval disarmament. Opposition to the authorization of the cruisers has been negligible and Senator Borah. with others, has declared that he would vote for the measure if the time clause were eliminated. Limitation of debate goes into effect Monday. NEWD. A.R. HOME SHOWING PROGRESS $2,000,000 Nationa! Audito- rium to Be Ready for Dedi- cation April 19. Constitution Hall, the new $2,000,000 auditorium now under construction for the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. will be finished in time for dedication at the Thirty-eighth Continental Congress during the week of April 19, Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the D. A. R., an- nounced yesterday at a meeting of the national board in Memorial Continental Hall. All sessions will be held there if the building has dried out thoroughly. Constitution Hall has been undeck construction since August, the corner- stone having been laid October 30. Progress has been very rapid, due to the fact that finances were always ready. Mrs. Russell William Magna of Holyoke, Mass., heads the finance committee which raised the funds in record time. National Defense Discussed. Consideration was given by the board to resolutions passed by the Women's Fourth Patriotic Conference on Na- tional Defense, the D. A. R. being one of the 38 patriotic bodies composing the conference. The organization's participation in the cruiser conference also was reported. Mrs. Brosseau, in speaking of her satisfaction at the decisions of these two conferences, said: “The time has come when we should fight for Amer- ican standards, for we are confronted with forces that are trying to obstruct the Government, disarm it and deliver it to the enemy without. “In the final analysis of our work,” she added, “good citizenship is the chief aim. Of all our activities, edu- cation, historical research and Ameri~ cani%ation really center around that. In Fight on Disloyalty. “We have begun & vigorous campaign in support of American principles, for many people use unique methods to cover their disloyalty; many preach dis- armament for America and say nothing about disarmament for Russia and other strongly armed countries. Wa are beginning to unmask them and we find | many of them seem to dig into the same chest for treasure to extend their prop- aganda. “The Daughters of the American Revolution,” she declared, “stand for national defense in all its phases, and that means, in part, to fight commu- nistic propaganda and subversive in- fluences, no matter from what source they emanate. SUES FOR WEDDING BILLS. | family, the viola. Mrs. Dickey pl,,yedJ,Agreement Is Declared Broken in| Brs tained in “bo a which hold liquid air, nd . 15 projecting one of mbs.”" which was unmarked, he sees a | beautiful gossamar-clad girl, with whom he falls in_love. although he is engaged to Phyllis Norman. ~During the first demon- stration of the Vicarion, with Phyllis_and her family looking on. a stranze man stag- gers in the siudio. ‘He is unable to tell who he Is and Brainard names him Van Winkle, and makes him his aide Brainard calls in’the the unmarked record, mation from him. H {0 investigate the making of the bomb. Brainard projects two of the three remain- ng_bombs contalning ‘the woodland scene in_which the girl with whom he is infatu- ated appears and decides the records were made by Jeflry Honer. a_criminal whom he has emploved. "Honer dies of fright while listening to the voice of his dead brother which Brainard projects by means of the Vicarion and Honer's secret of the “bomb which contains the “sunrise nympth" passes into the hands of Mortimer and Ballard. e. operator who made but_gains no_infor- (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) INSTALLMENT XXVII HOUSANDS of things were promised that had not yet been recorded simply because there was a limit to physical means. Radley térrified Phyllis one day by smilingly asking her whether she would prefer to witness human sacri- fice at Stonehenge, or the burial of a Neanderthal man! These were not now to her meaningless words; she had just looked at what he told her he believed to be a torch-lit group of Christian refu- gees in the Roman catacombs. Questions were asked in Congress. Phyllis heard Radley make an oral an- swer in his private office in Santa Monica, which was sent in a three- inch ball to be released in the Senate chamber at Washington. It consisted of an introduction to a little series of scenes which accompanied it, and which showed Senators the means of reliving scenes in committee rooms and hotel conferences. There was an instant out- burst of bluster from several sources, in which the word censorship was again prominent. One fire-eating gentleman wired Brainard an incautious, open, personal rebuke. Brainard wired back to him, “Heads or tails; are you cen- soring me or am I censoring you?” A nation-wide laugh went up—but Phyllis wondered whether people laughed from a sense of humor, or a sense of relief at seeing just where Brainard's attention was centered. Aunt Relief said she hoped Radley would at least respect the reputation of the family. And when Phyllis did not reply with immediate reassurance, her face went blank. “Why, you think he will, don't you?"” she queried. “Why, I couldn't go on living if I couldn’t conceal my past!" Van Winkle ventured an epigram. “One’s past, like roots, might better remain buried,” he said. He even joked a bit about it. “I'm rather fortunate just now than otherwise,” he decided: “Brainard might show up utterly dis- graceful things in my career and I never know it!" People said that Brainard had no conscience—that he was growing “as hard as nails,” “as adamant,” as other flinty things. They whispered of forms of debauchery that drew crowds sus- piciously to certain places. Phyllis could only look at his tightening mouth and almost fiercely bright eyes, and wonder how much was true. They called him the ghost-maker. He an- swered that people make their own ghosts; it wasn't his fault if they walked. And he went coolly on solving his mammoth manufacturing problems of which she overheard only an occa- sional hint. She saw that when blows were struck at him, however, he invariably struck back. When his retaliations could be seen and traced, she sometimes wept over them in the certainty that he had lost all vision but that of empire. But when the blows he struck were evidenced only in results, in the col- lapse of attacks against him, in official resignations, in mysterious transfers of authority, in abrupt termination of ca- reers, in lamely explained deaths was then that the girl lived in a night- mare, face to face with'a hideous vision of ruin. Her nervous collapse in the first shock of fear seemed of small account now. It was like the first pain and blood of a childish bruise. ~Changes were beixfg wrought in herself that she could see were not of the passing sort. The glimpse she had had of her own girlish loveliness of a few months ago served to emphasize the hollowing of her fevered cheeks and the haunting things shadowing her eyes—mere sur- face evidences of what went on within, But no one noticed her. Her mother seemed to be living in a kind of golden haze, Perhaps it was happiness—she found it at the Bonmar. Phyllis dis- covered that she was living again in the days of her girlhood there, and the s¢uggle of her parents with poverty long ago. There might be pathos, but there was not outright tragedy, in her mother’s case, Her father, who had been the personification of seasoned sense, kindliness and quiet philosophy, tient, quite intolerant of questioning or curiosity as to what were his pursuits. John was openly a sneering cynic—un- approachable, and not posing in the least. And Carol's once amusing, if startling, frankness was becoming ri- baldry. ~All of them were absorbed, each in his own way, by vicarious living. And Relief Brainard, mostly free from her occasional vague apprehensions, was like a pigtailed youngster at the circus. As to servants—Charles re- tained most of his placid superiority to the common considerations of men, but he had troubles uncounted with his staff, Yet Phyllis herself went daily, night- 1y, to see what people were seeing. It was impossible to do otherwise; there was no other life about her—and no human mind was capable of stifling the impulse that constantly renewed itself. More and more she knew that it was a reaching out after a greater share of life—an intensification of life —that drove her, like every one else, on and on. Yet often and often she recalled what Van Winkle had said about the soullessness of those living, walking beings of yesterday whose company they courted. His remarks nowadays, however, were mostly humorously turned. One day he said, “You can judge a world, too, can’t you, by the company it keeps?” And meant it as a joke. Of course, all pretense that Brainard himself did any censoring of what was shown either publicly or privately was dropped. Phyllis knew from observa- tion that he selected his aids with care and that he kept a sharp eye on gen- eral evidences of what they did; but she could not analyze the standards on which his selection of men or materials was based. She asked him one day if he had not sacrificed all his own free- dom to this captivation of others. He laughed and asked her what she would call freedom. He laughed at every- thing—but rather as a man laughs at satire than at fun, He Jaughed at a story that suddenly obtained currency one day of a gigan- tic conspiracy to steal his whole plant from under him by a concerted coup of his engmies. He asked Phyllis how she thought it could be dene, when by spending an hour in his studio he could know what men met whom and what they said and wrote to each other. He defied alike law and the lawless. He could call a police inspector in and ask him to do a thing the other dare not refuse. He held a balance of power, not merely in legislatures, but in the decisions of individual legislatoys. He had no need to bribe jurors who might hesitate over the expedient course. He feared neither the hatreds nor the con- sciences of men. He commanded abject allegiance, “I hold the string on which men cance, Phyl” he said in all serious- ness. “It can't be done. Radley,” she told him, quite past any display of mere emotion. “I know it can't,” he answered; “but I'm doirg it.” R She could only look at him. He looked back at her; and then with sudden curious attention he said: “You're getting thin, Phyl.” She wondered if the thing that crossed his eyes at the instant was a consciousness that he held the string on which she danced. ‘That night the whole front of the first three floors of the Bonmar was blown out by an air bomb dropped from a ‘plane in a pitch-black sky. The explosive had undoubtedly been intended for the court in the heart of the building—and had missed by luck! “There’s no use beating about the bush, Brainard. I'm here to listen to your terms.” Jerry Ballard sat by Brainard’s south window looking like a whipped man. “I know what you want,” he said, fmd held out a sealed envelope. “Here t is.” Brainard was becoming accustomed to shocks. But as he looked at that square of white, despite all his prep- aration for such a scene, he dared not take his hands from his pockets; he was afraid they would shake. “What's this?” he asked, nodding toward the envelope Ballard held, and making no move to accept it. “It's what Honer left me, telling me it was a lost index you were anxious to have. Is that frank enough for s,” said Brainard, taken by sur- “But—what is it?" prise. He set his teeth to keep down the tremor in him; and then realized that Ballard’s gray cyes were calmly scan- ring him, and relaxed his jaw. “Well " Ballard began, and stopped. Yes, he would stop with that. He would let it be thought he knew what the lost index represented. But if he did, would he be here now at all? Brainard allowed himself to smile. Then he shook his head. “Keep it, Ballard,” he said. “You've got noth- ing I want.” And he saw the little muscles about Ballard’s eyes twitch. “Better look at it, hadn't you?” the other man asked. “Honer may have been lying. knew he could hold us up. ed to get you.” We want- had become nervous, hurried, impa- “That sounds natural enough,” re- » Naval Officer 3211 4gth ‘This charming home speaks “Publicity Stunt.” CHICAGO, February 2 (4#).—Bills for 00 damage suit against Alderman Leonard Grossman today. Gordon was {a mechanic for Amelia Earhart on her transatlantic flight. Mrs. Frances Manning, a designer, asks that amount from Grossman on | the grounds that he agreed to pay the bills if she would purchase the bride's trousseau and arrange the nuptials. It was to be a “publicity stunt,” she claims. She charges Grossman never paid, with the result that stores at which the proneness of late to consider him well out of danger. REALTORS articles were purchased on credit have tation. the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gor- | gon, last July, were the basis of a $100,- | sued her, which has damaged her repu- | permanent home. Of course, thi: 1501 K St. N.W. sley Height $17, 1-5 of an Arre nf Gromnd the large landscaped lot, four spacious bedrooms with two adjoin- ing baths, the numerous clothes closets, two big pantries, the glass- enclosed living porch and open fireplace to want to make this your quarters, floored attic and a two- Open All Bay Sunday Wm. S. Phillips & Co. Exclusive Apents 500 Must Sacrificre St. N, for itself. You need only to see s Miller-built house has servant's car garage. . Main 4600 2 The Best B Cleveland Park TPl %%W-%m-l«-fl%-fl-m-fi- 3408 Quebec St. uy Today in Of course you know: he,|l turned Brainard, “if it had come from anybody but you.” The very nerves of his wrists were knotting with the desire to reach out for that envelope | now resting on his enemy’s knee, But— was Ballard too candid, or just candid enough, for a big man who knew he was beaten? Did Ballard know he was beaten? Was there a subtle trick here comewhere? A trick to learn whether or not Brainard did care what that envelope might contain! “Of course you know what brought me here,” went on Ballard. “We can't let you run those records I'm told you've promised to release the Em- press and other theaters this after- noon.” “Oh?” Brainard smiled. “But of course I can't let you tamper unscathed with my employes—poison 'em, for in- stance.” : Ballard grinned. “I don't know what you mean by that last,” he re- plied, “but I might understand easily. I would have poisoned any of 'em I could reach in the dark if I'd thought 1t would touch you.” “I know you would. That's why I think you did.” “Yes? Then you haven't fastened it on me yet?” “No.” This game of frankness was not an easy one to play with craft. Ballard seemed suddenly to have real ized that a man could have no reserves with Radley Brainard, and might as well not try. But Ballard was far more astute in matters of craft than Brain- ard would ever be, and Brainard had sense enough to know it. In the matter of power, however, it was different—or it looked different. This was clearly a duel in which he must choose his own Wweapons. “But if you are not guilty in this instance, why do you mind my running that stuff at the Empress?” ecause,” Ballard answered easily, is an implied charge which will convince half the people who see it that I am guilty and which I have no means of answering.” Not a completely convincing reason. But Ballard rose from his chair and laid the envelope in his hand upon Brain- ard's desk. “If you don't mind” he said, “I prefer not to be in a position to fight you, Brainard. That should convince you. . If there is anything in this envelope you want, I want nothing to do with it. I'm through. If Mortimer wants to fight you, he may. But not me! I'm going to retire and ask you to furnish me the means to enjoy a peaceful old age in the cherished and regretted frolics of my youth!” The determination to be cautious wavered slightly in Brainard. Ballard seemed to be taking it exactly as Bal- lard would, if he were surrendering. But would Ballard give his conqueror any- thing he might suspect that conqueror wanted, even for the reason he stated? Would he admit -his own impulses to ruthless methods? Why did he not now take Brainard at his word and destroy that envelope and its contents? Ob. viously he wanted Brainard to opgn that envelope. And behind an_exterior he hoped was frigid Radley Brainard was frightened at the desire that rose in waves in him to snatch at the prize he cove as he had coveted nothing else in life! But what would be the natural thing for him, Brainard, to do, if, as he had toldgBallard, he was indifferent to what that”envelope contained? If his reac- tions to the envelope were what inter- ested Ballard, Ballard might be quite as much interested if Brainard did not open it as if he did. Why should not Brainard open it? Why not show a natural curiosity naturally? Could it be_done, in his state? He took the thing up in his hand at last. watching himself with a sense of locking on from a distance. “Let's see what the thing is,” he said, and tried not to clear his throat. “If it's an index, we'll make & record from it and look at it. Then we'll both know what it was that Honer thought I wanted.” Ballard nodded, smiling. Brainard felt that the stroke had been a happy thought. He would do just as he had suggested; and Ballard would never the envelope! In a moment he would know the index—the index! He could think no further. He slowly tore off an end of the white square. Deliberation! He must be deliberate! With his diaphragm shaking, he laid the torn thing down and took out a cigarette. He lighted it, watch- ing to see through the match flame whether his fingers trembled. It was suddenly like a desperate clinch with his enemy. There were Jerry Ballard's cool gray eyes; if that man should learn what this thing meant to him—if he should learn—if he should see the shak- ing nerves! He felt suddenly as bare before Jerry Ballard's eyes as if he had been stripped. Could he kill Ballard? Could he kill him, if Ballard learned the damnable secret of his—of his slavery? But he was not thinking clearly! ‘What a mistake it was to allow him- self to become so tired! Suppose Bal- lard did learn his secret, now that the index were here in his hands. It would no longer give Ballard any power! He picked up the thing again and took out a folded sheet of paper. Then he held it in his hand while he flick- ered aside his first gathering ash. He was drawing every breath consciously, trying to breathe it deep. Where in all the annals of time, from this moment back to creation's first Saturday after- noon, was his dawn maiden’s hour? In a moment he would know! In a mo- ment! In a—vo He opened the sheet of paper in his hand. His eyes blurred. He brushed his hand across them; for his life he could not arrest the gesture. Then he stared. It was as if he had wiped out his vision! That page he held before him was blank! ‘The rising flood of reaction in him was irresistible. Something within him caught at it and tried to check it. Something within shouted warnings in his ears. Ballard was watching him! But his mouth went dry, and his eyes hot. Sweat started out around:them, and in his palms. The room swam about that blank sheet as its pivot, and all else became as blank—empty! And Ballard was watching him! With the last strength that was in him, slowly he laid the sheet of paper on his desk. He raised his eyes to g’ehere he thought that Ballard might “Honer was fooling you,” he said. And cleared his throat. Ballard came into his vision, as scenes of The Vicarion were wont to mate- rialize out of the mists. He was putting on his hat. “Oh, no,” he was saying; ‘“Honer didn't fool us. That was what I came here to find out. Now I know.” “You know—what?” “That_you would sell your soul to know what is in the envelope Honer did leave with us. Of course I haven't shown' you that.” (To be continued tomorrow.) FILM HOUSE.EPLANNED. Laurel, Md., Pvoject to Involve $70,000 Expenditure. BALTIMORE, February 2.—Plans have been made for the erection of a motion picture theater in Laurel, Md., for Sidney B. Lust, operator of theaters in Washington and Virginia. The proposed theater will have a seating capacity of 1,000 and will be of Spanish type of architecture. There will be four stores on the ground floor. Construction is expected to--begin soon and will cost about $70,000, it was said. Ship Grounding Due to Fog. LONDON, February 2 (#).—A thick fog in the English Channel all of last night was held responsible today for the grounding of the British steamer Dafila near Dungeness. An effort was ul’dbe made to refloat the ship at high tide. New Yorkers in the past year got their civil administration, public know what it meant to him! He could open the envelope now. He could open markets, docks, street cars, ferries and toll bridges for $54.87 per capita. Exclusive BREAKFAST AND FRONT PORCH, PARQUET FLOORS, FLOORS AND TRIM THR KITCHEN _ DRESSERS, TRIC PIECE SIN COLORED BATH GARAGE St. Bus—14th East at Emerson Emerson 1016 14th KANSAS AVENUE HOMES 20 FT. WIDE, SIX LARGE ROOMS, REAL OPi SLEEPING CAFRITZ = W ARDROBE -INCH OAK HARDWOOD REFRIGERATOR, (BUFF), AND PAVED ALLEY. 4925 Kansas Ave. CAFRITZ Features N FIREPLACE, CONCRETE CLOSETS, PORC, = OUGHOUT, ELABORATE KELVINATOR ELEC- COLORED ONE- ARTISTIC TWO- (GREEN—BUFF), St. Car—Ga. Ave. to Kansas Ave. Car M. 9080 - N. L. Sansb are pleased th: Mr. H. E. Formerly With J. Estimates Cheerfully is now associated with their sales department IUBUTY, ury CO- Inc. to announce at Brockson E. Douglass Co. FIVE OLD CRUISERS URGED WITHDRAWN Representative French Asks That Crews Be Used on New Warships. Representative French, Republican, of Idaho, chairman of the naval ap- propriations subcommittee, yesterday advocated withdrawal of five old sec- ond-line cruisers and the use of their crews on five new warships that will be_commissioned in 1930. Mr. French said during consider- ation of the annual Navy Department supply bill that while five new cruisers and two submarines would be commis- sioned during that year, the personnel of the Navy would be increased by only 500 men. “We have five old second-line cruis- ers that ought to be withdrawn from the service,” he said. “This would release more than 2,000 men who could be used on the ships coming into service. There are other ships that ought to be withdrawn.” French declared that the $347,000,000 supply bill allotted almost $32.000.000 That's What Everyo —and more delightful features than any other homes in Marietta Park or Petworth! —~THAT’S WHY THEY ARE SELL- ING SO FAST! Newest Frigidaire & Detached Garage Prices $8950 up Exhibit Home 413 Madison St. Unsurpassed locatioh at corne: refinement. MAND THE BEST. Drive out Connecticut Aven: WoODWARD Have Made N “—‘>Absolutely Beautiful”’ Semi-Detached Homes Sha one short block to property, M. & R. B. WARREN Realtors 10™ 11™ F.axp G StreeTs Screens and Awnings When they are put up Will your windows be ready when the first balmy Spring and Summer days arrive? They will, and you will enjoy the comfort of screens and awnings for naval aviation with a provision for the purchase of 373 new planes during the year, the fourth of the five-year program at the end of which i§ is proposed that the Navy shall have 1,000 usable planes. The program of teaching pilots is no% keeping pace with the aircraft procurement program, he added, declaring that the Navy had an_insufficient number of pilots, The Idaho member expressed be- lief that the program of disarmament could best be carried forward by co- operation between the United States and Great Britain. He added that three years from now, when it is pro- posed that another conference shall be held, the United States would have a | billion and a half dollars invested in ships if the cruiser bill becomes a law TWO SHARE MEDAL. Scientists’ Work Is Considered of Equal Merit. NEW YORK, February 2 (#)—Be- cause their contributions to science | were judged of equal merit and both outstanding for the past year, two men will receive the annual gold medal of the Society of Arts and Sciences for 1929. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, professor of physics at the California Institute or Technology. and Dr. Albert. A. Michel- son, head of the department of physies | at the University of Chicago, will be awarded the medals at a dinner at the Hotel Biltmore February 22. Thomas Edison was awarded the medal last year. ne Says About These ® Textone Walls Throughout Wood-burning Fire- places @ Paved Streets and Alleys 100 Leland Street CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND . $17,950 r of Leland Street and Meadow Lane, one ghort block west of Connecticut Avenue, this new English designed home was not built to a price, but to an ideal. rooms, two tiled baths, decorations and appointments of taste and Unusually spacious ‘THIS HOME WILL BE APPRECIATED BY THOSE WHO DE- BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT, OPEN, HEATED AND LIGHTED SATURDAY AND SUNDAY UNTIL 9 P.M. ue to Leland Street. turn west or phone Wisconsin 2875. & LoTHROP Your ow—Pay Al $32.050 e e e the first warm, sunny day if you— Virginia—Maryland ; Sy G Reen We believe it impossible to find the eaual of this home in the matter of beautiful condition. eauipment. ze and price. In addition to 4 BED- ROOMS. papered with imported Enzlish papers, there is a big bath, equipped with ultra- modern features: screcned sleeping and breakfast porches, oak floor real fireplace in large living room. a_kitchen That will brove n joy ta the woman with jts FRIGIDAIRE. handsome cabinet, inlaid linoleum and other excellent features: maid's room and BUILT-IN GARAGE. its Place your order now WINDOW SHADES of @M TONTINE SALES MANAGER Will Be Available About February 15 Ten We put time and expert workmanship on screens and awnings, thus producing the very finest. And, Many other inter- ars successful executive and ! saing Shinen about Sthls fhoms ichak will dotoEees . require this time, we make this i sales experience— é\z'l:'é'sgfi:}zff‘,:m“‘:"”m‘;"'mF“’l"""'n"""m“‘fi’ ot Wen'chads, Grccb, Bakar Sy Moaluhote pawa " i inducement of not billing you for them until they Ability to organize, train.gnd direct VACANT - e Easily Washed are delivered. \ men llll(l women— ith _So { Open All Day Sunday ( Selling Suburban Homes and Investment Lots— Address Box 413_x Star Office Call Main 5300, The Shop Sixtr FLOOR. Office BOSS & PRELFS 1417 K St. N.W. M. 9300 B R R R RS R SRR RS 2 4