Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1929, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, . GEOGRAPHY RAES MALIN TROUBLES Changes Will Mean Arduous Trip for Christmas Cards if Caution Lacks. The Christmas greeting card for a| {friend in Europe may cross the Atlantic three times and arrive about Easter week if it 1s not addressed properly. | That is why the Post Office Depart- | ment asks postmasters to display lists | of changes in European place names. “A letter addressed to Russia,” says | @ bulletin from the National Geographic | Society, “may make a longer journey than the sender expects. | Sensitive About Name. | “The name may be right, the street eddress may be perfectly correct, but when that letter reaches the border it | may be turned back because it is ad- dressed to ‘Russia.’ When this happens | the letter retraces its journey through | Poland and Germany to Hamburg, and is placed on board a steamer for the United States. “If the fnder's name and address are on the envelope, or in the letter, the New York dead letter office will return it. If the dead letter office opens the envelope and finds no more identifi- cation than ‘Much love and many kisses, Mary,’ it is resealed, ‘Russia’ in the ad- | dress crossed out, and the official title ‘U. S. 8. R’ substituted. Then the let- ter starts another Atlantic voyage. “The U. §. 8. R. (or U. R. 8. §.), the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, is very particular about its name and has long threatened to turn back mail ad- dressed to its imperial predecessor, Rus- sia. Turkey is equally punctilious about spelling. Since the Turkish govern- ment expects its people to learn a whole new alphabet, it seems to con- sider that the least aliens can do is to learn to spell rightly the names of the Turkish cities, Now It Is “Istanbul.” “A letter addressed to Constantinople may suffer the same fate that threatens a letter addressed to Rucsia. Istanbul is the proper name ani Turkey now insists that the whole ~orld use it. “The new countries and governments | of Europe arose from the wave of na- tionalism that followed the World War. One method of exrressing nationalism was_the revival of native names, or, in the case of th-. United States of the Soviet Republi, the suppression of names with Ts-rist connotations. “One and rll, they have asked the ‘world to follow their new labels. There- fore, & perscn addressing a communis tion to Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Albania, Turkey or Ireland would do well to cheek the current town end country designations. Estonia Names Changed. “The Post Office Department fre- ! quently publishes lists of the preferred names. Recently it announced changes | for Estonia—Tallinn, and not Reval: ‘Tartu, and not Dorpat; Rakvere, and not Wesenberg; Paide and not Weis- senstein, etc. “The National Geographic Society spent three years of research in pre- paring its new map of Europe, contain- ing official spellings of all place names, and then had to make alterations while the map was being printed because of recent national nomenclature changes.” YOUMAN IS “BROKE,” ATTORNEY DECLARES Counsel Answers Wife's Plea for $500 Weekly Alimony by Say- ing Client Owes $200,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 18.—Sued for $500 a week alimony pending dis- | position of his wife's separation suic and $5.000 counsel fees, Vincent You- man, 32-year-old composer, yesterday was pictured by his attorney as owing $200,000 and not having a cent w pay it with, Mrs. Youmans charges that the com- gmer has been weaned away from er by his parents and that she 1| living in poverty with their two chii- dren. in Philadelphia February they separated ' later. He | paid her $150 a week for several months after she had filled an un- successful separation sult in Chi- cago, but stopped payments last Juiy, when she filed the present suit. Since that time he has given her only $800. She says he recently signed contracts ‘which will bring him $120,000. Supreme Court Justice Callahan re- served decision. STSTOSOSTS SO, 87 CARS! ALL MODELS $25.00 to $2,000.00 No Reasonable Offer Refused 20% DOWN No Finance Charges Every Price Reduced You May Drive Any Car ‘Three Days and If Not Satis- fled Exchange for Any in Stock. 1 OBSERVANCE PLANNED. | Y. W. C. A. Group Will Stage Cere- monial Tomorrow. The Y. W. C. A. observance of Christ- mas week will be inaugurated tomorrow night with the ceremonial “The Hang- ing of the Greens.” From 5 to 6:30 o'clock the Girl Re- serve Glee Club from the high schools | will give an informal carol service in the lobbies and corridors. At 8 o'clock in Barker Hall the Elizabeth Somers Glee Club will give a public rehearsal | of the carols which it will sing next | week at the Christmas ceremonies. “The Hanging of the Greens" will start at 9 o'clock and will include deco- ration of the hall, lighting of the Yule log and coming of the Wassail bo Open Every Day Until 9P Oakland, Buick, Roosevelt Marmon, Cadillac, Packard Lincoln, Pierce, Chevrolet, Ford Hudson, Essex, Nash, Chrysler New Roosevelts Was Now Roosevelt Sedan $1145 $945 Roosevelt Coupe 1145 945 Roosevelt Victoria 1215 845 Pierce Used Car Dept. 1437 Irving N.W iz Trip Round L NEW YORK Sunday, December 22 Special Through Train Direct to Penna. Station, 7th Avenue and 32nd Street Leave Washington 12:30A Arrive Newark (Market St) 5:43A Arrive New York (Pennsylvania Station) 6:05 A M Returning, leave New York 5'15 P.M.. Hudson Terminal 510 PM. Néwark (Market Street) 538 P.M ALL STEEL EQUIPMENT Pennsylvania Railroad Wo FOUR HURT AS BOMB ROCKS STREET CAR Blast Is in Defiance of New Or- leans Threat to Invoke Death Penalty Law. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, December 18.—De- spite the announced intention of au- thorities to arrect suspects under a | State Jaw by which the death penalty may be invoked, another street car bombing has been added to the violence attendant to the New Orleans trolley strike. Of 15 passengers on a car last night, 3 £ 4TSS Personal Greeting Cards \\\\\l//; Delphi, 40; Thomas Pierre, 26, and George Brown, 37, colored, suffered cuts and bruises. Brown received treatment at a hospital and the others were taken to their homes for ministration by physicians. Laid between the rails, the bomb ex- ploded under the front truck, ripping up several floor boards and breaking windows, The car proceeded on its route after the blast. Street car dynamitings have oc- curred at irregular intervals since the beginning of the strike of local street car men last July. Police and Federal marshals, the lat- Alma Vaughn, 52; W. A. | ter striving to enforce an injunction, began an investigation after the bomb- lngA but found little on which to base an arrest. Hungary's labor situation is gradu- ally improving. DECEMBER 18, 1929 'POTENT MOONSHINE EXPLODES IN COURT Witness' Testimony Regarding | Strength of Liquor Is Borne | Out by Blast. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December Chila testified with great earnestness that the moonshine whisky Mrs. Anna | Burazin sold him had a potency the like of which he never had experienced even in his wildest dreams. 18.—Frank On_the strength of his testimony Mrs. Burazin was fined $100 d costs | yesterday. Following this Police Sergt. | Richard Powers carried the moonshine into a nearby court room, where he was a witness in another case. He placed the package on a chair beside him. ‘The room may have been overheated: the moonshine may have been unduly shaken in being carried about. Some- thing certainly happened, for the stuff exploded like a bomb. The court ducked and escaped injury, but Bailiff Louis London was cut by flying glass. Bailiff Leo Nowacki dodged a big hunk | of glass and drew his pistol. ‘The explosion demonstrated, . Sergt. | Powers pointed out, that Frank Chila's remarks concerning the moonshine’s | potency were well within bounds of | veracity. | American steel is being used in clocks made in Japan WwARD & Lo —The Christmas Store < Those who have failed to order their personal greeting cards—or who need additional quantities to fill out their list, will find us well able to care for their needs due to exceptional fi lities provided here this year. Fashion’s Important Accessories Are the gifts smart women want ...and are here in infinite variety Handkerchiefs A wide choice of handkerchiefs may be had at each of these prices. Handkerchiefs typical of each group are sketched at the left. Illustration 1 is one of a large group chiefs in many printed designs and colors, each Illustration 2 is one of a popular group of handkerchiefs with printed designs and with drawn threads, each ..35¢ Illustrations 3 and 4 are two of an of linen hanker- styles of chiffon unusually large variety of styles with applique, prints, drawn threads and hind-rolled hems, each Ilustration 5, one of a group of white linen handker- corners chiefs with colored threads, each applique Illustrations 6 and 7 are two styles of chiefs; No. 6, 75¢; No. 7, §1. Tllustrations 8, 9 and 10 are three styles of white linen handkerchiefs with exquisite® handwork; No. 8, $2.50; No. 9, $3; No. 10, $5. Others, $1.50 HANDKERCHIEFS, AsLE 13, FIRsT FLOOR. Others, from S0c to $3. 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