Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 6

EARTESTS GVEN | 353 AT WHEATLEY § Ninety Pupils Are Found to f Be Victims of Hearing : Imperfections. Hinety of the 353 Wheatley School | ils whose ears were tested under the nsorship of the Spéech Reading Clpb of Washington Tuesday were foynd to be f he impair- of deaf- ness warranting immediate medical attention. The test was given to 40 children at & Eime with an_spparatus including phonograph with _individual ear to phone receivers. Testing one ear at a | tinte, the youngsters were given printed biank forms on which they were in- structed to write columns of numerals asithey were pronounced through the | hehdsets from tne phonograph record. Asi each series of numerals pronounced was fainter in volume than those which | préceded it and the length of column a child was able to write brought about results from which the precentage of ! hegring loss in each ear was compiled. The tests were administered by A. C. Eastburn, representative of the manu- facturers of the apparatus; Miss Betty C. Wright, secretary of the American Pederation of Organizations for the Hard and Hearing, and Miss Elizabeth | Sargent, ass'stant secretary of the fed- | eration and a member of the local | speech reading club. which is a con- | stitutent group of the national organi- zation. Commenting today upon the results obtained in the Wheatley School, M , who with Miss Wright had been totaling the test sheets since | ‘Tuesday, declared that the 90 cases of hearing imperfections discovered repre- sented “very high average” among the tested 353. She pointed out, however, that because of outside traffic noises and interruptions within the classrooms themselves much of the difficulty might be_traced to that source The school authorities have a hearing | testing machine, but it is fast wearing | out. Although no funds are available for the purchase of a new apparatus, the school officials permitted the demon- | stration to check the valtie of more | modern apparatus with a view toward | seeking new equipment if the demon- | stration meets with approval. CAPTURES 2 MEN BY CAUSING CRASH| Young Autoist Escapes Being Taken for “Ride” by Murderer and Quantico Desertcr. T By the Associated Press. DETROIT, May 9.—Tuesday Law- rence Ramsay, 22-year-old Knoxville, ‘Tenn., youth effected the capture of two men who attempted to take him “for a ride” after he had given them a lift on the highway just outside De- troft by deliberately driving his car into & street car. Last night Ramsay learned that one of the two was a murderer, e from the Colorado Penitentiary at Canon City, and the other a deserter from the United Stal ‘ulrine Jase at Quantico, Va. £ s (1 The two gave théir namies as Lemma Grose and Bernard Zukowski.- Grose told police he escaped January 23 from the Colorado Penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence for mur- der of a jewelry store proprietor in Pueblo in May, 1914, msay met Grose and Zukowski a few miles outside Defroit, to which he came in quest of work. After they entered his car Grose pushed a gun in Ramsay’s side and in- structed him to drive to Dearborn., In- stead Ramsay drove head on into an approaching street car and when his passengers fled Ramsay assisted in run- ning them down. CURTISS FIRM PAYS $2,000,000 FOR AIRPORT | Expenditure of $1,000,000 Planned o Improve Field at Los Angeles Suburb. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, y-9.—Purchase of the _Grand Gentral it Terminal at Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, by the Curtiss Airports. Corporation for about $2,000,000 was announced today by C. C. Spicer, & member of the syndi- cate. Spicer ' sald the corporation planned to spend $1,000,000 to improve the fleld. - B The airport ‘was developed and owned by a of Los Angeles financlers. In ad to the Glendale air terminal, trategical 'w_York, Chicago, Philadel . Baltimore, Louisville, Pitts- burgh, Cleveland, Sf. Louis and San Francisco. The Cuftiss Alrports Corporation is a 425,000,000 corcern headed by C. M. Keys, as chairman of the board, and ‘Walter S: Mervin, president. PRIZES FOR FARMERS._ KANSAS CITY (#).—Cash prize§ to- taling $2,100 are offered this year to ‘vocational agricultural students for out- standing accomplishments. An award of $1,000 has been offered by the Weekly Kansas City Star to the student with the highest rating in the Puture Farmers of America, national organization of students of vocational agriculture. Other prizes will go to State winners. FOR RENT Business Property 490 La. Ave. NW. 25x100, extending back to- alley; 3 stories and cellar. Cheap rent. Address Box 6-V, Star Office ! b ' PUPILS GET HEARING TEST NATIONAL HOSPITAL DAY WILL BE HELD Program Is Scheduled for Saturday at Homeopathic Institution Here. “National Hospital day” will be.ob- served at the Natlonal Homeopathic Hospital, Second and N streets, Satur- day, with a program featured by “open house” beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning, and tea, music and other en- tertainment in the afternoon. Former patients at the hospital, including sev- eral hundred babies born there, and all others interested in the institution | are to participate. Miss Elizabeth Dempsey, superintendent of the hos- pital, 18 in charge of the program. It was decided to hold the celebra- tion on Saturday this year because of | “National Hospital day” falling on Sunday. Tea will be served in the Nurses' Home at 3 o'clock. Babies visiting the hospital with their parents will be provided with milk and taken care of by the nurses at the hospital. The Na- tional Homepathic Hospital is a mem- ber agency of the Washington Com- munity Chest. National Hospital day was indorsed by President Hoover in a letter to Dr. Louis Burlingham, president of the American Hospital Association. It reads, in part, as follows: “The growth of public hospitals in this country is one of the finest mani- festations of the quality of opportunity that is the foremost aspiration of the American people. Our ecitizens will never rest content until the poorest | children in our cities, the loneliest mothers on our most isolated farms, have the comfort and protection of such institutions. I am glad to lend the en- couragement of the presidency to the' movement symbolized by National Hos- pital day.” ' . Shortage of labor is handicapping the engineering trades in France. Were $60 Now 48 118 Now $25 Coats Now $12.50 $35 Coats Now $17.50 $49.50 Coats Now $24.5 S PRESLAU'S—1307-13 G St. N.W. Whitmore and Gompany 1225 F Streer AT I3TH, On F Street Near 13th hool youngsters in midst of test which showed many victims of |deafness. A. C. Eastburn is operating telephonic examination apparatus. Whitmore and Gompany 1225 F StReeT AT I3TH. Special Values GOING-OUT-OF BUSINESS SALE DIAMOND & PLATINUM Wedding Rings Hand-chased iridium platinum set with fine quality diamonds. Were $150 All Platinum and W hite Gold RING MOUNTINGS Now 20% orF ATTRACTIVE SELECTION OF WEDDING GIFTS 20% ' 50% REDUCED Glass and Silverware, Watches, Jewelry, etc. ALL SALES FINAL THE EVENING | Flurr —Star Staff Photo. Cognac Cache Found on Liner. NEW YORK, May 9 (#.—Customs moents vesterdav found 600 bottles of | cognac and champagne stored between .uteelive screens in a ventilator pipe of the French liner De Grésse. SquiBs's Sodium Bicarbonate BECAUSE Squibb's Bi- carbonate of Soda has been highly refined, it will not irritate the stomach. It is free from the impurities which give ordinary bicarbo- nate of soda its bitter taste. The next time you go ta your druggist's for bicarbonate of soda, ask for “Squibb’s.” Always uniform and palatable. At all drug stores ' Highly purified- ' freefrom | bitterness Were $100 Now 880 $120 - STAR, TONIGHT WITH 7 Social Event, With of Glitter Promised to Honored Few. By the Associated Press. - LONDON, May 9.—Helen Wills, Amer- !'ican tennis queen, in silken train and tonight before | plumes, will curtesy ! Queen Mary in the first presentation at the Court of St. James. Partaking in this evening's presenta- tion also will be seven other Amer- icans. As many again from the United States will be presented Queen Mary in_the second court to be held tomor- row night at Buckingham Palace. It was a day of thrills and anticipa- tion for those so honored. with crowded hours of rush, hurry and finally tedious walting. Visits to the halrdresser, prac- tice of the almost forgotten art of the curtesy and being photographed were just parts of the preparation. Little “Poker Face” stood shall chance of her daily practice at tenn! WASHINGTON, v Marks Preparation for London MORE FROM U. S.! | Only Half Minute | | . There is at the end of it all. though, 30 seconds of splendor, the half min- | ute involved in the short trip around | the room to where England's Queen will | sit_alone on the imperial dais, the | Prince of Wales and other members of | the royal family ranged behind her. | There, in front of the Queen, the brief | curtesy will be made, and the fortunate | | one’s half minute of glitter in the | | courtly constellation finished. Priceless Memories Promised. The half minute, however, will be! such as to afford priceless memories for those cnjoying it. The Bucking- | ham Palace courts have come to be the | most splendid of the royal functions | surviving democratic _encroachments, | and tonight's spectacle will be the same | magnificent scene of former years, with | the sparkle of jewels, brilliance of uni- | D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 9, HELEN WILLS BOWS BEFORE QUEEN 1929. forms and the procession of women at- tired in fashion's finest. There is a single diminishing note, the absence of King George, whose seri- ous illness this past Winter made it im- | possible for him to leave Craigwell l‘-louu, at Bognor, where he is recuperat ng. Mary will occupy the throne alone. Perhaps the most difficult part of the presentation will come” with the perfod of waiting which intervenes from the time the palace gates are opened at 8:30 until the turn of each to enter the throne room arrives. Most of those to be. presented planned to spend the time, sometimes as much as two hours, behind the drawn cur- ta’ns of their limousines, playing bridge or reading. mobiles will form on the side the palace. Departures in Attire. | In the clothes to be worn at the | presentation there are two notable de- partures. The traditional white has been abandoned in some instances for pastel shades, while there are to be | fewer flowers and more fans. | The Americans to be presented are: Tonight—M!ss Helen Wills, Californi: CLAFLIN Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. NW. mall out- Thus for the first time Queen | i | Pennsylvania: Mrs. Paul Grening, Cali- : s . The New Country Club Sport Established 1876 For the woman who en,'oyl the outdoors, we present this new tapestry b-g for sport wear. Lovely designs in the high shades that go so nicely with your summer frocks. Mai) Orders Prepaid 1314-16-18 F Street N.W. THE ECO e WRIGHT CO. NOMY FRIDAY These Prices Effective for One Day Only FRIDAY! w Poster Beds FRIDAY ONLY Of excellent make and de- #ign in walnut or mahogany finish. Wood rails, hand- rubbed finish. TOMORROW-—the alert furniture shop- per is offered most unusual savings in these feature " i prices because only a personal inspection items. No comparative ill reveal their real value, FRIDAY ONLY 349.1 Upholstery in fine quality Den- im in an attrac- tive assortment of patterns. Very well constructed. Inner Coil Spring Mattress FRIDAY ONLY 25 380 coil springs assure com- pelte comfort. and bottom. Layer felt top LOW TERMS ARRANGEDI +WRIGHT ~ 905-907 7th St. N.W. SPINACH is a delicacy when eaten with a dressing of 3 partsbutter, 1 part LEA & PERRINS’ SAUCE The Lasting Satisfaction Footer Cleaning may be yours BLANKETS DRY CLEANED, $1.25 Dry cleaning makes blankets soft and ' fluffy. Bindings retain their color and sheen. Delicate shades are retained. Your blankets are made as pleasing as when new. FOOTER'’S America’s Best Dyers and Cleaners Main 2343 1332 G St. N.W. Columbia 720 1784 Col. Rd. | @V “Mother’s Day” you think of Comfort! NNA JETTICK ealth Shoe BINAY; OO“LAST ‘op @ Elizabeth Behn, New York; Alice Coon- ley, Illinois; Lillian Emerson, North Carolina; Mrs. Albert Halsted, Ohio; Jocelyn Plerson, Maryland; Harriet Walker, a friend of Miss Wills, Cali- fornia, and Virginia Willyss, New York. ‘Tomorrow night—Mrs. George Bar- nett, Virginia: Miss Mollie Cullum, fornia; Mrs. George Lawrence, jr., New York; Margaret McKittrick, Missouri; Catherine Norcross, Georgia; Margaret Tyner, Illinois, and Adeline Winston, Georgia. Among the British women to be introduced tomorrow is another ten- nis player, Eileen Bennett, young Brit- ish champion. Mrs. Ray Atherton, wife of the Amer- The long: stoaie 5 "anse | ican charge d'affaires, will sponsor the American presentations. NATIONAL 7th & D Sts, \ Mme. Schumann-Heink world's most beloved prima donn: will be gucot artis of ENNA JETTICK MELODIES Sunday May 12* Mother’s Day Listen in, over WBAL in Baltimore, 7 P.M. makes One of the most comforting shoes ever built. Good-looking. Economical. Sizes to fit every foot —AAAA to EEE. A gift worth while for “Mothers” of all ages! $5 56 7th & K 3212 14th “Women’s Shop’-1207 F St. RABBITS PROVE PESTS. :mmnn Orchardists Ask Legal- i ized Use of Ferrets. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, (#).—Or- | chardists in Grand River Valley are asking the State Legislature for & law | permitting them to use ferrets'in ex- | terminating cottontail rabbits, | M. L. Klenk of Sparta says' he lost | $600 as the result of rabbits eating the | tops out of 185 five-year-old apple trees | and peach trees. Sportsmen, wishing to protect the cot- tontail as a valuable game animal, are opposing the use of ferrets. LIFE That IF in Life IF life were not uncer- tain, IF your future earning capacity were assured, IF investments were always safe, IF the happiness and welfare of your family were not dependent upon you, IF every true story had a happy ending—you would not have to pre- “pare for adversity in the midst of prosperity. A SAVINGS AC- COUNT, a LIFE IN- SURANCE, TRUST and a wisely drawn WILL will- go far toward offsetting the IF in life. LINCOLN BANK 17th'& H Sts. “Mother’s Day” GIFT-SALES SALE $1.45 “LADY LUXURY” AlLSilk: Chiffons Exquisitely fine, all-silk sheer chiffon hose—un paralleled value at their regular $145 price — specially reduced for “Mother's Day. 3 prs. $3.50 Attractively put up in “Mother’s Day” gift boxes ‘Constant-Comfort’ House Shoes Regularly $3.50 “l Sale Price $2.65 Mother will be glad ‘tor have a pair of these luxurious ‘*Constant Comiort” ox- fords, strap slippers or Ju- liets. Made of fine, soft kid with built-in arch support. Specially ~ re- duced tomor- row to $2.65 pair. (7th St. and “Arcade” Stores Only) $1.65 Boudoir Slippers Again stressing the comfort idea this special "Mothers” Sale of attractively styled black kid boudoir shippers with large pom- pon, quilted satin lining, flexible soles and leather heel. Unusual value at $1.65. (7th St. and “Arcade” Stores Only) Boudoir Slippers And for the very young Mothers. tomorrow, these pretty figured satin, wood heel boudoir slippers in black, Copenhagen or old rose. Also modernistic vari-colored de- signs in soft suede moecasins for ?:d.momk wear. Specially reduced (7th St. and “Arcade” Stores Only)