Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1929, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY. JUNK 7, 1920. SILVER SPRING GIRL ~ INURED BY AUTD Child’s Father Swears Out| +“Warrant Charging Driver 3 With Reckless Driving. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., June 17 Mary Horak, 8 vears old, residing here, was painfully injured yesterday after- noon while at Four Corners, when she Was hit by an automobile said by the police to have been driven by Samuel ©. Harris of Baltimore. The child, who was crossing the road at the tim suffered a fractured collarbone and bod: bruises. The father, Anton Hor swore out a warrant against charging the latter with reck ing. Harris put up $12.50 e at the Northern District p: 5 tion for his appearance in Police Court at Rockville June 27. James E. White of Highland, Md., was charged by Officer Nolte of th> North- ern District station with operating a car while intoxicated, following an ac- cident near White Oak on the Coles- ville pike. According to Nolte's port, White drove his car off the road about 150 feet, striking a telephone pole and knocking it out of line. Policeman Charles C. Barnes day arrested McKinley Gaithe: beck, Md., and charged him with driv ing while intoxicated. He will be tried at Rockville June 20. SPEAKS TO COUNCIL. The Junior Red Cross Council, the| enrolled from the addressed at a members of which ar District schools, were meeting at 821 Sixteenth street, thi Dr. H. B. Wilson, in charge of junior work in this city. Following the talk they went through the museum and studied the junior exhibit. At a meeting of the District Chapter the following entertainment was appointed: Dean Bruce Cowie, chairman; Mary Louise Lindsay, Eileen Haltigan, Leila Hulbert, Marie Cahill and Margaret McCau Dinner Honors Graduates. The Venetian Society of the Columbus University School of Accounting gave a Cinner-dance in honor of the graduat- ing class of the school Saturday night in the Mayan room of the Restaurant Madrillon. Addresses were made by Dr. Prancis J. Hemett, dean of the school, and James D. Cushman, instructor, while Robert E. Findlay served as toastmaster. SOCIETY neteenth Page.) . E. P. Abbe, Mrs. E. H. Hartnett, Mrs. N. F. Rabner, Mrs. E. B. Morris, Mrs. J. Fredericl Imirie, Mrs. Leonard L. Nicholson, jr.: Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn, Mrs. Campbell Oliphant, Mrs. J. J. Miller, Mrs. John A. Fleming and Mrs. Charles Moore. Guests motoring out from town will find it most convenient to follow the Rockville pike to its intersection with Grosvenor lane, where they will turn left to the estate. Those coming by trolley should take the Rockville car, | get off at Grosvenor lane and turn lefl | the Recon: to Wild Ac Mrs, Edward Everett Gann was the honor guest at the banguet of Chi Sigma Sororily Saturday evening, which brought to a close iis annual con- vention at the Mayflower Hotel. The newly appointed officers present were: Miss Anne Knouse of Washington, na- tional president; Mrs. Evelyn Steers of Washington, national vice president Miss Kathleen Stinson of Little Rock. Ark., second national vice president: Miss Marie Fitzgerald of Washington. gational recording secretary; Miss Ruth | Nahn of Washington, national corrs sponding secretary: Miss Helen Mauge! of Washington, national treasurer, and Miss Lucille Jones of Washington, na tional adviser. Miss Anne Knouse, na- tional president, acted as toastmistress. There were a number of out-of-town guests present, and the banguet was| followed by @ dance, when additional | guesty Joiped the company. Mrs. Gann wore & striking evening gown of green chiffon encrusted with smail beads. Miss Mary Vogles and Mrs. Kathieen Stinson of Little Rock, Atk., were among those at the banquet, having attended | the conveniion as delegates from the | Fta Chapter. | Mrs. George L. Walter, jr., has closed her apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel for the Summer and has motored 1o Pittsburgh with her sister, Miss Dorothy Fagan, who passed the week end with her at the hotel. | Mr. and Mrs. R, 1 Talbot of Massa- rh\u;vu avenue are spending this week | at the Montclair for a short stay in| New York before returning to their home in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Erwin of Dixon, 11, are stopping in Washington on | their wedding journey. | They have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Turin Bradford Boone part of the time. Last night Mr..and Mrs. Erwin | entertained at a dinner party at a local | hotel, when the guests included Miss Mamie Hennessey and Mr. and Mrs. Boone. A miscellaneous shower for Miss Lelia Elizabeth Cook, whose marriage to M:. F. Joseph Donohue will take place June 26 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Catholic Uni: ersity, was given by Mrs. J. Maynar Magruder, matron of honor for Miss Cook, at’ Mrs. Magruder's home in Lyon Village, Va., yesterday afternoon. The decorations were pink and white #napdragons and Spring flowers. Bridge was played. Each guest received a minature picture of Miss Cook as a gouvenir. The guests were: Mrs Richard Cook, Mrs. Ronald Billington, Mrs. Booth Moyer, Mrs. Brintnall Mer- thant, Mrs. Thomas Lodge, Mrs. George Naphen, Mrs. James Lawlor, Mrs, Paul michhorn, Miss Gertrude Van Riper, iss Rosemary Sullivan. Miss Kath- tine Mannix, Miss Mae O'Connor, Miss ty_ McNamara. Miss Anne O'Leary, iss Katherine May. Miss Freda Marks | nd Miss Agatha Waldron. Modern equipment has blankets, retur 5, iy for waching many original qualiti and placed in storage. PHONE LINCOLN 1810 ASK ABOUT OUR " VACATION SPECIAL RUGS DRAPERIES SEAT COVERS CAIl SRR EENNYS TTTLUIIAS May 12, 1929, UR first full day in Japan was spent in sightseeing, in speech- making and in dining. That is likely to be the general course of events for the next several weeks. The sightseeing is delightful the speechmaking, by ourselves, is pain- | ful and the dining has its decided limi- | tations. | Yesterday morning, as early as was i possible after so strenuous a day and evening, which is to say a reasonable time after 10 o'clock, we foregathered in the lobby of the hotel, after much telephoning to rooms in summons of the belated ones, and in the course of time we entered motor cars that bore on their windshields the magic words, in both English and Japanese, “Party of Visiting American Journalists Iam not of the opinion that these placards gave us any special privileges with the traffic policemen, but they at least drew to us the attention of the multitudes and we were the objectives of much GLIMPSING THE FAR EAST By GIDEON A. LYON, Member of American Journalists’ Party Now Touring Orient as Guests of Carnegie Endowment for Internatiunal Peace. erected structures good for many dec- !ades to come and strong enough to | withstand the severest earthquakes. | Nothing finer is to be seen anywhere in | the way of bridge construction than the Eitai-bashi, the Kiyosu-bashi and the | Komokata bridges spanning Tokio's di- | viding stream. And it is somewhat a| | matter of pride to us that in the plan-| | ning of these great works the services of American engineers were enlisted. | The tale is only started, but I cannot finish it in this present compass. I may mention that 5¢ new s were | added to the 30 that previously ex- | isted in the metropolitan area: that 117 new grammar schools were built to re- | place those destroyed; that 5 free dis- | | pensaries, 12 employment offices and 10 municipal dining rooms and 10 munici- | pal pawnshops were constructed. Imay | also tell of 3 large central markets es- | tablished. %, [ | | Insurance Against Disaster. | _Those are in major part works in re- | placement and extension. There are the national headquariers, | afternoon by | committee | | owners to the municipality. amusing, and perhaps amused, public| new works of prevention and insurance attention against disaster as well, such as the | This was the first time that I, at'adoption of a zoning system, which re- re- | One of Tokio's New Bridges. —Photoby G. A. L. | | least, ever went riding behind a broad- | duces the risk of congestion, and the es- | casting label, and it was an interesting | tablishment of several fire-prevention cxperience. ‘Americans are not unfa-| districts. In the rebuilding of these | miliar sights in Tokio. There are some | latter districts the municipality has | thousands of our folks here. But a|granted the property owners 20,000,000 squad of a dozen whizzing around in|yen—aboui $10,000,000—as a subsidy | | closely grouped machines seems to ex- | for fireproof construction and has loaned cite the most avid interest on the part|in addition some 60,000,000 yen at a | of the populace. low rate of nterest. ¢ This tremendous work has been cost- Visit Reconstruction Bureau. ly. It has drained Japan of its spare First we drove to the Reconstruction cash and drawn upon its reserves and Bureau, To most of us the disaster of is credit. At present the total cost is | September 1, 1923, has been, until now, | €stimated at 847,000,000 yen, or half as | | merely a tragic tale in the news dis- | many dollars. This Work and these ex- | | patches, of which we have written col- | penditures are all under the home office umns of consolatory, and perhaps ad-,Supervision and by municipal authori- | visory, matter. Today it became an epic | ties. In addition, the imperial govern- | s we looked upon the maps of the|ment is engaged in reconstructions en- | econstruction area and upon the pho- |tailing an estimated cost of 826,000,000 , tographs of the devastated region and|yen. That makes 1,673,000,000 yen in | saw the plans for the rebuilding and |all-—$836.500,000. And all has been heard the details of the tremendous | done within five and a half years from | work of recovery and improvement un- | the disaster. The expectation is that dertaken by the Japanese people. | the set program will be finished by the It is not my purpose to repeat the | municipality in another year. But pri story of that horror of 1923, the terrific | | earth shock, followed by the devouring | conflagration which took an appalling | . . | number of lives. Tt is, however, my pur- || Think of Next Winter— | pose, very briefly to tell how Japan has | 1 ; | faced the situation thus created and has aiso o 1 performed the titanic task of rebuilding. | | Sometimes, in reflection upon the mat- | L] | ter, I have been tempted to think that | | perhaps such a terror in our own coun- | | try would not have been met with quite | uch a stout spirit and with such good | | works in reparation. We have had some | disastrous fires and quakes and have | not in all cases fully improved our op- | | portunities for better city making. We gathered around a long table in ruction Bureau, cated In the, heart of the devastated | district, and listened to & sucecinct statement of the work by one of un-{k members of the staff of this organi- ion, interpreted in relay speedily and fectively by two young men with the bi-lingual faculty, which is coming to be so prevalent in Japan. 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This hospital is erected as a_memo- rial to those pitiful victims of the con- flagration. the American people to Tokio, for it has been established upon an endow- | ment of more than 7,000,000 yen given | the American Red Cr | which most of us did not know until | the second of the reasons why we interested in this new ins we went through its | empty rooms we felt that although the All temporary buildings erected for |great resulis—their power of regimen- | emergency use, for housing and for | tation,” as it were. business must be replaced by fireproof | construction within 10 years of the fire. | Rapld progress is being made to that| youing the reconstruction bureay, we 3 v r vn, seeing signs of o 1 will not pause now to discu: drove about town, seein , even to descrive, the type of construc- | reckage and new works, until we came tion following the disaster. Suffice it to |t a8 new bu €. say, for the present, that it is ade- quate, that it is as closely true to the Japanese architectural type as it is possible to get under the Westernizing ences 0 O ok e “of | Fraternity Memorial Hospital, just com- ground-squeezing, high construction, Pleted xam}1 to be opened for service and ngnh{\ «h»;p nrr;‘ some ;-xni‘cllen( ex- | m‘;}l month. : il amples of modern fireproof, large-scale | There are two reasons, one s nd ortrnetion slong ;’un‘ly Japam‘soimw otherwise, for, noting (thl; ins{)im- lines. |tion. In the first place, it has been Tokio undoubtedly will be a cleaner, | crected on a part of that great open healthier, better and more prosperous |space to which vast numbers of the city as & vesult of this reconsiruction people flocked on that terrible day in work. It is too much to say that the |1923 when the fires swept Tokio—flock- isaster of September 1, 1923, was a (ed there as a place of refuge, only to blessing in disguise, No such horror | find it death trap, a5 the fames can ever be so considered. But it has | surging from all sides, lashel with at least proved, through the sequel, the | devouring waves until unknown thou- indomitable spirit of the Japanese peo- | sands were custroyed. Nobody knows ple. It has demonstrated, in this same | just how many people lost their liv Visit to Memorial Hospital. | we were marshaled at the front door and caught a glimpse of a group of uniformed young women, whom we rec- | ognized as nurses WoopwarD & LLoTHROP 10™ 11" F axp G STreETSs RCA RADIOILA 44 The newest achievement in Radio today—the screen grid radiotrons—which give higher ampli- fication and greater selectivity, are included in this new release of RCA. 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