Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1929, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. C, Ty 18 HOURS WASHINGTON TO FLORIDA ‘The Double-Track Sea- Level Rowute Atlantic Coast Line The Standard Railroad of the South RO B IAMES, P oA, 1418 “H" 8¢., N. W., Washington, D. SWIMMING POOL OPeN TO THE PusLic DALy BA.MtonP. M. Membership card, without charge, on application SWIMMING PARTIES ARRANGED 14"'xK First drop of Freezone * stops all pain. Doesn’t hurt one bit. Drop a little “Freezone' on.an aching corn, instant- | one of the few Holbeins in the United By that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Y dmfi_nulht bottle of m:uu" lhwan:.“ sufficient to remove every OLD COMPANY’S LEHIGH ANTHRACITE WHOLESALE Blair Road and Sheridan St. N.W. SHPPING FEATURE BASEL BUSHNESS 'Home of International Bank, | on Rhine River, Is Switzer- land’s Only Port. Basel, Switzerland’s one and only‘ port, has been selected for the home of the new international bank, which will control war reparations funds. “Basel stands, colossus-like, with a foot on each bank of the Rhine where that river leaves Switzerland,” says a bulletin of the National Geographic | Soclety. “The Rhine gives Switzerland its sole waterway to the sea. Boats and Daughter Admits Slaying for Which Father Is in Prison By the Assoclated Press. JACKSON, Miss,, November 20.— T. G. Gunter, serving a five-year sentence in the State Penitentiary for a crime his daughter has con- fessed, yesterday was given a 90-day suspension of sentence in order to publish a petition for a pardon, after which the aged man will be granted a pardon by Gov. Bilbo. Gunter’s suspension was granted by Gov. Bilbo and followed closely the confession of his daughter, Mrs. Pearl Drew that she, and not her father, killed her husband early this year. Gu};)ter was convicted largely on the testimony of his daughter and her daughter, both of whom alleged at the time that Gunter had slain Drew. barges coming up the Rhine emerge into the large inner harbor at Basel. Overhead cranes swing buckets of wheat out of barge holds. Ore trains move into positién along the quay. In one recent year 280,000 tons of imports and exports were moved by water in this harbor. If the Rhine commission, established by the Versailles treaty, will improve the Rhine channel, guarantee- ing a 614-foot depth the year around, Basel merchants claim they can do a 2,000,000-ton freight business by water annually. Tourists Are Sidetracked. “Unless one is a shipper, a buyer of silk ribbon, dyes or chemicals, a lov- er of Holbein's art, or, now, an inter- national banker, he might better visit Geneva or Zurich than Basel. Trade has put its mark upon Basel. Trade has given it a population of 135,000 and more rich men than any other city of Switzerland. Trade and lack of Alps on its doorstep have sidetracked tour- ists from its gates. Sightseers hurry on to Lausanne, St. Moritz and Lugano. “The time to have visited Basel was in the heyday of Columbus, Balboa and Magellan. At the beginning of the sixteenth century three masters of three arts—literature, painting and man; Basel, is most acceptable, because the town lies within the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland Some English maps_spell it Basle. In French Basel is Bale In italian Basel is Baselia. oot aster, his wife, a dardy of :l‘:: h'.‘érvllgx?rn Erasmus himself or Hol- bein’s son, and enjoy_the hecrty com- panionship of these Basel worthies in one’s own living room. Has Many Spellings. “Rivalry of certain twin cities of the United States has its counterpart in Basel. Since the Rhine divides the city, the left bank takes the title Gross Basel, while the right bank must be Klein Basel. tween the Basels, Klein and Gross, in | times past. An ingenious artist of Cross | Basel carved a figure, still to be seen in the museum of the famous University of Basel, which put out its tongue and rolled its eyes in derision at Klein Basel from an advantageous position on the bridge. Bad feeling existed be- “Like most Swiss towns, Basel has spellings. The German spelling, “Basel is pronounced without the ‘s,’ like the unit of compressed hay, with the ‘a’ broadened slightly.” | printing—Ilived at Basel and lent their genius to joint enterprise. They were Hans Holbein, the younger, the paint- er; Erasmus, the Bernard Shaw of his day, and Froben, the master printer. “Not one of them became rich. Eras- mus thought he was well off when an Englishman settled £20 ($100) a year on him! A single copy of Erasmus’ ‘Paraphrases,’ published by Froben, sold in an American book auction a few years ago for $210. Froben brought | Holbein to the city to decorate his | books. Once in Basel, Holbein branched out into portraiture and altar decora- | tion. The local public art gallery treas- | ures many of Holbein's works. The art world’s estimation of him may be judged by the price of $3,750 paid recently for | States. | “Yet it is simpler to introduce an ! American to Holbein than any other | member of Basel's trio. What art store, | indeed, is so poor as not to offer for sale a Holbein print? Usually the print is a side-face sketch of a plump Ger- man, done without color except for a tinge of pink on the cheek and a bit of blue in the eyes. Holbein’s men us- ually wear tams sliding rakishly over one ear. His genius lay in his ability | to pack a person’s character into a line. | So, for a few dollars, any one may buy RETAIL GEO. W. SPIER JEWELER New Address 806 14th St. N.W. | Watches—Diamonds Jewelry—Silverw Fine Watch and ! Jewelry Repairing Established 1890 DOWNTOWN STORES 10 DECORATE SOON Work Begins After Thanks- giving, in Keeping With Shop-Early Movement. Be the weather unseasonably warm or cold, Washington's downtown depart- ment stores will be decked out in Christmas dress a week from Priday, the day after Thanksgiving day, in keeping with the mail-early-shop-early movement, it was announced today by Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Association. At that time most of the Washington WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1929. shops will have on display large stocks of Christmas goods, ordered months ago and which now are being received here. ‘This practice, made necessary by the demand of the public for means of avoiding the last-minute Christmas rush that formerly made the holiday season a real trial for buyers and shopkeepers alike, is in marked contrast to former years, when merchants waited for a cold snap to give the Christmas season a send-off, Shaw pointed out. While a few_stores will take note of the coming Christmas holiday even earlier and others will organize their displays after Thanksgiving, most shops will put on seasonal dress November 29, it is announced. The action by members of the mer- chants’ organization in moving forward the Christmas shopping season Wwas taken only after the association had re- ceived assurances from its members that Christmas merchandise would be avail- able and on display at the earlier date, Mr. Shaw said. The shop-early-mail-early campaign here is a part of a national movement in which the Post Office Department is co-operating, witl a view to minimizing the last-minute avalanche of work that COUGHS KEPT THE JOHNSONS AWAKE /| 2705 Wood Ave., Till REM brought grateful relief Jack and “Billy Jean” Johnson of Kansas City, used to get bad coughs each winter, and their mother was more or less resigned to losing several nights’ sleep whenever a mgh arrived. Then she saw a REM ad and bought a bottle at Reynolds’ Drug Store at 25th and Garfield. Now she stops her children’s coughs before they havea chance to get a good start. “We get more sleep than any winter before,” she adds. Restless nights don’t do coui‘lu lngfind. and many a person has RI to thank for a good night’s sleep. If REM doesn’t relieve your cough quickly, your druggist is authore ized to give your money back. ‘The fact that not one in a thou- sand ever wanted it back l:;lll 8 story as convincing as Mrs. Johnson’s. REM quickly spreads a soothing, healing over irritated throats Smart Collegiate “Low-Heelers” for the Modern Miss Also at our other stores Phone Georgia 3081 for Fall Prices Style pictured com- bines brown “Man- Eating” Shark, with tawny Camel Elk. Soles of flexible, dampproof “Kamp- Tramp” leather. 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