Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1930, Page 4

SPACE 1§ NEEDED IN SIXTH DIVISION Partly Modernized Schools Lack Proper Facilities for Elementary Grades. This is the Afth of @ se @eseriding the physical ngton’s public schools. vlous articles, s of articles Az tn the there {3 mo attempt school svstem merely presenting the conditions saw them. The sizth article dealing with another school system division will apoear to- morrow. Old school buildings, partly modern- ived, but usually lacking in adequate space and proper facilities for many of the activities that are considered essen- tial for pupils of the elementary grades in any modern educational system, are the general rule throughout the sixth division of Washington public schools. The exceptions are few, and there is no wholly up-to-date bullding—in con- struction and equipment—to compare with several of the school buildings re- cently opened, or about to be opened, in certain other divisions. The w"‘:"%‘sfih”lm’; the nearest approach to a strictly modern structure, but it is of piecemeal construetion, with an older portion that has been renovated and two more recently constructed rtions. The Kings- man School & comparatively new , but its design does not come to the “last word” in school strue- Are Too Small. Both of these buildings are :h’fl{l too small to accommodate propertly al of the children who attend them. The sixth division embraces the white elementary schools in those parts of the downtown Northwest and the Northeast sections lying east of the ‘White House, south of New York ave- nue and southeast of the Pennsylvania TRailroad tracks, including that part of the Northeast on the eastern side of the Anscostis River. There are 320 school buildings in the division. Many buildings and classes are crowded. There are approximately 90 classes, or about 50 per cent of the whole number in the division above the kindergartens, that have more than 3§ pupils each—the desirable maximum for an elementary class in & modern school Of these classes 18 were found by a Star reporter to have more than 40 pupils each—the practical maximum within '_hlnhkt::: local schol authorities are trying to 'p every class. There are 17 -time classes in th There are three portable wooden buildings of one room each in use in the division. In the entire division there is only one assembly hall. It is in the addition to_the Wheatley School. In many of the buldings. 23 ‘Jound Guring s sureey gs, a8 s survey conducted in the last three weeks, are as_follows: Ludiow School, Sixth and G streets nort] —Eight class rooms; total en- rollment, 300; total sittings, 339; five chsuk'm have more 'i‘a.n !smvupth each, one kindergarten, pils; 1o part- time classes, no pombr;: isf , steam heat satisfactory; old- type tollet, separate tollet for kinder- garten badly needed; two it play Tesur- be- tween F and G streets northeast.—Bight class rooms, six being used for regular classes and two for domestic art and science instruction; 173; sittings in only class above with 36; no part-time classes, no port- ables; daylight poor as building is close to dwellings on two sides, necessitating frequent use of electric lights; steam heat satisfactory; old-type tollets; one large and one small t play room: outside playgroundl very meager, closed street used; teachers' room small; building is quite old, but in fairly sat- isfactory condition; purchase of adjoin- m':‘. property for playground is main n Coaching Rooms Needed. Gales School, Pirst and G streets northwest.—Twelve class rooms; no part-time classes, no partables; total en- Tollment, 390; total sittings, 452; five classes have more than 35 pupils each; no assembly hall in this building, nor in Seaton or Blake Schools, with which it is grouped, totaling more than 1,000 pupils, under one administrative prin- cipal: one manual training room for the group. Gales School needs enuhlng room: lighting satisfactory, althougl electric lights are frequently needed in several rooms that are clgse to an out- side wall; steam heat satisfactory; old- style tollets: two basement play rooms; limited playground, concreted and fenced, in angle between Massachusetts avenue and G street; heavy traffic on both sides makes use of streets impos- sible and play space is insufficient for 80 many children. Beaton School. I street between Sec- ond and Third streets northwest.— Twelve class rooms, no part-time classes, no portables: ‘total enroliment, 413; total sittings. 455; 7 classes have more than 35 pupils each, one of them, & sixth grade, having 42; coacl rooms needed: has one domestic seience room used by girls of this and other two achools in group: lighting satisfac- tory: steam heat satisfactory: old-type tollets in separate outside brick building connected with main bullding by cov- ered passa modern flush tanks needed; two play rooms in basement: la; und fairly satisfactory: halls of MJE’, very narrow and artificial dight needed continuously in halls and base- ment rooms. Blake School, North Capitol street between K and L streets.—Eight class rooms; total enroliment, 216; total sit- tings, 312; two classes have more than 35 pupils each, one, a first grade, hav- & no part-time classes; lighting isfactory: hot-air plant gives uneven heat, soot and coal gas abundant; old- style tollets; two dark and dirty base- ment play rooms; small outside play- : no portables; chief need is new ml plant and better play facilities. Basins Sought for 23 Years. Peabody School, Fifth and C streets northeast.—Building 50 years old last October; grouped with Hilton and Car- Schools under one administrative rgarten, Jdergarten with morning and after- noon sections, 61; lighting satisfactory: steam satisfactory: old-style toilets; one wash basin for 204 and one for 213 girls, although forts have been made for 23 years mfig !u! ‘wash ifiu:' m-:psnh lor _kindergartens; play rooms* basement; playground in Upper: A group of second-grade children of the Ludlow School crowded into one end of a narrow, instruction from Mrs. L. M. Meirs, coaching teacher. buildings. They contrast sharply with the light and airy rooms provided ventilated cloak room, where they are receivis mnflln\l-llhfieoflfilll-'uefl"x THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930. | i. J| where a sick or injured child or sick dark and poorly Such conditions for this necessary form of instruction in the modern school buildings of Washington, : A portable school bullding Lower: ditions in this school make it necessary to use grounds, fe into one cormer of the school occupying much-needed “IL heated, poorly ventila playground space at the Maury School. Crowded com- poorly ted temporary structure, which is jammed many of the children fo use the street for play. —Star Staff Photos. fairly good condition since Parent- ‘Teacher Association purchased 2¢ tons of vel to resurafce it. ton School, Sixth street, between B and C streets northeast.—Whole building cramped: halls narrow; rooms shaped; eight class rooms; total ent, 225; total sittings, 294; two classes have more than 35 puplils each; no portable, no part-time classes; one room vacant; daylight poor, windows being close to other buildings; artificial light frequently used; steam heat satis- factory; old-style tollets; more wash basing needed; one inside play room for girls, none for boys; no outside play- und, except sfwn about 15 by 50 ’::b for girls; closed street used for play; building is surrounded by street and three alleys. Abandonment of this building for school purposes has been and erection of new structure at corner o('mh Ahnyd [ l(.;!m next to Peabody playground. Carbery, Pifth street between D and B streets northeast—Eight class rooms, halls narrow and naturally dark; total enrollment, 251; total sittings, 303; four classes have more than 35 Dlm\ll each, one-third of them, a third grade, having 43; also one kindergarten, 38; one divi- lergarten badly needed; one play room for girls, none for boys; out- side playground meager, but soon to be enlarged. y Heating Plant Unsatisfactory. Hayes, Pifth and K streets northeast— Eight class rooms; total enrollment, 327; total sittings, 336; two ~time classes, one first grade with 37 puplls and one first grade with 41 pupils; one kinder- arten, 54; no portables; lighting satis- factory when electric lights used; prin- cipal’s office needs artificial light contin- uously; hot-air plant heats unevenly, soot and coal gas abundant; principal's office unheated; old-style toilets, more wash basins needed; two basement play rooms; outside playground large enough, but surface poor, muddy in wet weather and dusty in dry weather; no assembly hall in this building or Blair achool, with which it is grouped; adequate store room needed, only a cubby hole, used also as principal’s office, being now available; no movable furniture in any grade above kindergarten; outside ap- pearance of building needs improve- ment; kindergarten needs separate tol- let and wash basins. Blair, I street between Sixth and Seventh streets northeast—Eight rooms; total enroliment, 269; total sittings, 330; three classes have more than 35 pupils each; one class, & fourth grade, having 41; one kindergarten, 30; no part-time classes, no portables; lighting satisfac- ; old-type hot-air furnace gives in- sufficient heat; soot and coal gas seri- y complained of and new plant asked for; old-style toilets; basement flooded when Star reporter called, January 14, apparently because sewers would not carry off Tain water; water pressure not adequate for teachers’ wash basins and tollets on upper floor; teachers’ room and principal's office both small, two basement play rooms; outside play ground, with holes and mud in wet weather, larger boys playing on street; no store room and one is needed badly; separate tollets and wash basins needed (?rbmnmn: exdt:rlnr ;D ll’tnlg: of and grounds unsightly; paj on inside walls peeling off, although painted 18 months ago. Play Yard Is Flooded. Madison, Tenth and G streets north- east—Eight class rcoms, total enroliment, 207; total stitings, 200; no part-time classes, no portables; two small teachers’ rooms; two classes have more than 35 pupils each—a first grade with 41 and a third grade with 40; lighting satisfactory; steam heat satisfactory; old-style toi- lets, only two wash basins for all chil- dren; two small basement play rooms; outside playground muddy in wet weather, closed street used rej ly addition to Ehyrreund: rain water drains from playground into space near school on lower level, flooding school yard and carrying dirt into a cess pool. Star re] r saw several inches of water in yard at rear entrance of school build- W & rain. ting ds School, Ninth and D streets northeast—Eight class rooms; total en- rollment, 384; total sittings, 375; three A Correction In Tuesday’s article on the public school survey The Star in- correctly stated that there e 111 part-time classes in the tiird division. This error resulted from an inadvertent confusion of the terms, “part-time” and “oversize,” and from the similarity of the two totals. Actually, there were 11 part- time classes and 111 oversize classes in that division. P In the initial article of this series it was stated that the two surveying reporters had found 150 part-time cl city. _ Tuesda mflnmly 11 for this division. misstatement that there were 111 was obvious to school officials and others conversant with the school situation, but this correc- tion is printed so there can be no question of The Star's desire to be absolutely fair in its survey. with 38 pupils; all but one class, a seventh grade, have more than 35 pupils each; the third grade has 42 and the eighth grade 44; two pupils in eighth have no regular desks and sit at a table; lighting satisfactory; hot-air nt_gives uneven heat, bullding cold n extreme ~weather; two coaching .|rooms not adequately heated: old-style toilets, lavatory for teachers on sec- ond floor is needed; two basement play rooms; outside playground small and inadequate, needs resurfacing. This bullding is grouped with the Maury School. Together they have seven part- time classes with every prospect of more crowding soon. Maury School, Thirteenth and B streets northeast—Eight class rooms, one portable building; total enroliment, 435; total sittings, 402; four part-time classes—1A with 35 pupils, 1AB with 39, and two second grades with 39 each; nine classes have more than 35 pupils each, not counting one kinder- garten with 52: lighting satisfactory; steam heat satisfactory; old-style tollets need replacing; no separate toilet for kindergarten; = two basement play rooms, but one is used also as teach lunch room: outside playground not large enough; paint on walls of perma. nent building ling off. The portable was to have electric lights installed in few days. It is heated unevenly by the usual stove and generally is in fairly good condition. The Maury building is old and gloomy inside. More room for Me& puplls and teachers is the chief n Portable School Is Dark, Kingsman School, Fourteenth and E streets northeast—Bullding about six years old, built on terrace above street level and surrounded by unimproved lot; eight class rooms and two rooms for domestic art and sclence instruc- tion; one portable building; total en- rollment, 334; total sittings, 358, in- cluding 42 seats in portable: no part- time classes; seven classes have more than 35 puplls each; portable occupied by third grade with 33 pupils, which is lowest enrollment; lighting satisfactory in main buflding, but portable has no artificial light and is dark on cloudy days; steam heat generally satisfactory, except that in extreme weather top floor rooms in northeast corner are cold; modern toilets; two play rooms in basement on Eound level; outside play- und unsatisfactory because it is be- ow the grade of the adjoining property and water drains on to it. Except for lack of artificial light the portable is in fairly good condition, having, how- ever, the usual poor heating and other faults of all portable school struetures. Although it is one of the newer build- ln(fla. h'::e Kingsman has smaller rooms an Tooms 00 small to accommodate comfortably nr? eh“?.:' especially when movable furni- Benning road northeast—Eight class rooms; total enrollment, 314; total sit- 35 pupils each, three of them h.vln1 more than 40 vurfll—c 1A with 8! puplls, & third with 43 pupils and a Afth with pls; the oversized first placed at s long table than some of the more an- | style. in | clent structures, some necessary. Lighting is satisfactory; hot- air furnace of old (ype gives uneven heat and building is sometimes cold: so0t often abundant, and heating plant ! frequently breaks down when fan gets out of order; hose attachment to wash out basement needed; no hot water in building; toilets old style and often out of order; two basement play rooms, too small; outaide playground large enough but badly in need of resurfacing, hav- ing holes and in wet weather much mud; playground fence is entirely in- adequate, and 10 years' efforts to get a new fence have been unavailing. ere is no seventh nor eighth grade in this school, and pupils of those grades in this neighborhood have to walk a long distance to the Wheatley School. The parents in the neighborhood are asking for at least a seventh grade in the Blow School, even on a part-time basis. Regular Furniture Needed. ‘Wheatley School, Montéllo avenue and Neal street northeast—Twenty-four class rooms; made up of an old but renovated building with two 8-room additions of eomnl.ntlwelly1 modern con- struction; an assembly hall, which is also used as a gymnasium, is provided; also adequate office, teachers’ rooms, storeroom, etc., all satisfactory since improvements have been made in recent years; total enroliment, 820; total sit- tings, 794; four part-time classes, all first grades; also two kindergartens on part time, as usual; 11 classes have more than 35 pupils each, of which two have more than 40—both sixth grades with 44 pupils each; tables and extra chairs are furnished to pupils in over- sized grades when regular furniture is lacking. One class room is too dark for class work and is used, with artificial lights, as a library for children, who spend only 40-minute periods there twice a week. In addition to the reg- ular class rooms the building has one cooking room, one domestic art room, one manual training room and one room for coaching classes. Lighting is satis- factory, except that electric light is needed almost continuously in some of the smaller rooms not used for class work; direct and indirect steam heating plants are satisfactory, except that old part of bullding sometimes is dusty from fan system; old style toilets in old part and modern tollets in new part; three play rooms in basement, but they are seldom used; large outside play- ground is well fenced and surface is satisfactory; children’s garden and ten- nis court provided. -Ghief need of this bullding is new-style furniture for class rooms, all now being of old type, even movable desks and «chairs in kinder- gartens and first grades. Kindergarten room has separate toilet and separate entrance to playground. There are two kindergarten classes, using this room at different times of the day, one having 46 and the other 43 pupils. Desks Are Too Small. Plerce School, Fourteenth and G streets northeast—Eight class rooms, total enrollment, 330; total 'sittings, 336; two part-time classes—a first grade with.33 Fupils and a second grade with 33 puplls. Eight classes have more than 35 pupils each. In one seventh grade with 38 pupils there are a num- ber of large boys who are obliged to use desks and chairs much too small for them. There are broken desks and chairs in three class rooms and half a dogzen more chairs are so ancient that the screws will no longer hold them to the floor and they wobble about when used. For a coaching “room” the only available space is a landing on the stairway provided with benches that fold up against the wall. The teachers’ room and principal’s office are tiny un- heated rooms. Only toilet for teachers is jammed in a corner of the principal's office. The lighting is satisfactory with the aid of electricity, the halls being naturally dark; a hot-air plant gives fairly satisfactory heat, but occasionally plenty of soot and coal gas; toilets old yle: play- ‘especially for the 158 buudl:: Other needs are new furniture and room for coaching work. There was nmx:ck ;:h cmm {gr grou work among un| m:h‘rmher Anocurign n expense provided three d for first, second, Two have been ordered by the association. All teachers' furniture is old and sev- eral chairs are broken. ‘Webb School, Fifteenth and Rosedale streets northeast—Eight class rooms, total enrollment, 344; total sittings, 336; no portable, two part-time classes—a first grade with 31 pupils and a first grade with 32 puplls; five classes have more than 35 pupils each, two of them having more than fourth grade with 42 and a sixth de with 41, Seven of the regular c! Toom seats are broken. The Parent-Teacher As- sociation has provided four dogen chairs for group work for the first, second, third and fourth grades and ordered two dozen more. atural lighting on north side of bullding is poor because of proximity to another building; elec- tric lights satisfactory; ventilation of building poor, desks in some rooms being crowded so close to windows that they cannot be opened in Winter with- out drafts blowing on children’s heads; hot-air heating plant unsatisfactory, registers near ceilings, soot and coal gas often abundant; old-style toilets; there is one Plly room for girls, but the room formerly used for boys' play room now used for manual training shop. outside playground fairly satisfactory, but surface rough; front lawn unsight- _floors in halls and several rooms splintered; teachers have tmproved ap- pearance of some of the old class room furniture by painting it themselves. Kenllworth School, Kenilworth ave- nue and Ord street northea: Four class rooms, no portable, no teachers' room, no lavatory for teachers, no coaching room; total enroliment, 128; total sittings, 15! lighting satisfac- | tory; hot-air plant furnishes fairly ade- quate heat; old-style toilets; two base- }ment play rooms; outside 'playground |large enough, but surface in r con- {dition. There is no room in this build- | teacher may go for rest or treatment, the only place available for such pur- pose being a dilapidated couch behind | & screen in an open corridor on the sec- ond floor. The bullding has no store room, Playground Needs Draining. Benning School, Minnesota avenue and Foote street northeast.—Eight class rooms; one portable building used for manual training instruction for boys of Kenilworth and Benning Schools; total enroliment of Benning School, 243; total sittings, 256; no part-time classes. The seventh grade of 26 pupils and the eighth grade of 21 pupils, making a total of 47, are combined in one room with only 35 regular school chairs and desks, the deficiency being supplied with undersized chairs and desks borrowed from lower grades, with one tall boy sit- ting at a table. One class room is used for girls of the Benning and Kenilworth Schools for domestic art and science in- struction. The teachers' room is small. There is no teachers' lavatory, no coach- ing room; lighting is satisfactory; steam heat, partly direct and partly indireet, for two sections of building is fairly satisfactory; tollets are old style. There re two small basement play rooms. The playground attached to this school is one of the largest in the District, but it is badly in need of grading and drain- ing. When it was visited by this re- porter it was very muddy and dotted with pools of rain water. The rear edge of the playground is only a little more than 10 feet from & steam rallroad track, which runs at the foot of an embankment on & lower level than the playground. There is no intervening fence between the greater part of the playground and the track on this side. The portable building has no artificial light and is often dark. It is heated unevenly by a stove and the floors are cold in Winter. The purchase of a dwelling adjoining the playground has been suggested to relieve congestion and ke it possible to give the seventh and hth separate rooms in the main building. LACK OF COMMUNICATION BLOCKS WEDDING NEWS Virginia Faire and Howard B. Worne, Jr. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., January 30.— Film circles here speculated excitedly today on whether two of their leading members, Virginia Browne Faire, actress, and Howard B. Worne, jr., 3 were man and wife. license Tuesday in San Bernardino, say- ing they were going to the snow-bound fastness of Big Bear Lake to be married. PFrient no way of learning the sequel. Heavy snows which two weeks ago swept down into the San Be resort district, hemmed in of the couple. the secrets ARMY TRANSFERS TOLD. Board Appointed to Inquire Into Demotion of Officers. Col. Warren W. Whitside, Quarter- master Corps, at the West Point Mili- tary Academy, has been ordered to this city for duty in the office of the quar- termaster general. Maj. Francis B. Mal- lon, War Department General Staff, has | been assigned to the 38th Infantry, at|| Fort Sill, Okla. Maj. Charles Porter- field, jr., Field Artillery, on duty with the New York National Guard at Bing- hamton, has been assigned to the 1st Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla. Capt. Arthur E. Danielson, Quartermaster Corps, has been transferred from Bal- timore to San Antonio, Tex. First Lieut. Robert W. Crichlow, jr., Coast Artillery Corps, has been transferred from Ha wall to Fort Monroe, Va., and First Lieut. Richard W. Stevens, Infantry, from Hawali to Fort Brady, Mich. Capt. Max Weinberg, Medical Admin- istrative Corps, in this city, has been placed on the retired list on his own application., master Corps; Brig. Gen. Henry C. Fisher, Medical Corps, and Col. Fred- erick W. Coleman, Finance Department, not certain officers were placed in class B due to their own neglect, misconduct, | or avoidable habits under the provisions of section 24B, act of Congress approved June 4, 1920." DIVORCEE WEDS SAILOR. Mrs. Putnam Becomes Bride of An- tinoe Rescue Hero. NEW YORK, January 30 (®).—The New York Sun yesterday said that Mrs. George Palmer Putnam, who receive a divorce last month in Reno, was married recently in Fort Plerce, Fla., to Prank M. Upton, one of the heroces of the liner President Roosevelt's rescue of the crew of the Antinoe. The Sun quoted Putnam as sayin he had heard of the marriage an “wished them both the best of luck.” — . Tughoat Reaches P;rt. —The tugboat Stone Number Six, after battling rough seas for more than 12 hours, was reported at 12:30 a.m. today to have safely reached Southport, & few miles south of here. An intensive search had been carried on for the tug and seven men aboard it. Physician’s & Dentist’s Office 't, Columbls L ~ f ) it densely °ugu'\§..fi""32:.':.,a’:f arens in this Fll’ of Washington. In ad- e B ot S S o occupants ‘of “that Duilding T Phone Mayeroft Apts. Film Circles Await Word From ||| The couple obtained & marriage || rig. Gen. Louls H. Bash, Quarter- || have been constituted a board to meet | | in this city “to determine whether or || ‘WILMINGTON, N. C., January 30 (®). || SENHTEVOTESEE ON SLAND 1SSUE pine Independence Is Re- garded as Improbable. By the Associated Press. Senate action on the (‘uelflon of in- dependence for the Philippines seems likely before the end of the present session, but a decision in the House is regarded as improbable. ent_labor riots in California, in- volving Filipinos, and the introduction of the question of Philippine imports into the sugar tariff discussion have brought the subject to the fore, Two measures are under considera- tion by the Senate territories commit- tee and Chairman Bingham has indi- cated that a report will be made some- time after February 10, when hearings on these bills are completed, Bingham Asks Study. Bingham is the author of a bill to appoint commission to study the question, another would grant immedi- ate freedom and a third, now bein prepared by Senator Vandenber of Michigan, & member of the committee, would give the Filipino independence in 10_years [ utonom: The question of restricting immigra. tion from the Philippines was brough up in the Senate yesterday in connec- tion with the California disorders. At present H"m"u may enter the United States at wi gar was mentioned fre- quently in the Senate’s recent debate on the tariff rate to be im commodity when im At present sugar from th enters the that is nullif tariff on Cuban imports. Commissioner Asks Independence. With emanicipation of the islands, it is contended, imm! tion restrictions could be put into effect and the tariff applied to Philippine sugar as well as to 1;\:::: imports from Cuba and other points. Commissioner Camilo Osias, the two: official representatives island government, made an sioned plea for independence the House late yesterday. Asked if the Pilipinos would be satisfied to be con- sidered as foreigners by the United States, his answer was a shouted, rters & protective one of Shirts Madras, Percale, etc., with collar attached or separate collars to match styles. o 3 for $4.50 Madras, etc, collar at- tached and separate collars to match. Al;so demi- bosoms. Were $3, $9.15 $3.50 and $4...... sz 3 For $6.00 Broadcloth and Glen- brook; non-shrinkable in white and plain coler: lar attached neckband ..... Finest Imported Madras, separate collars and collar attached. ‘Were $5, $6 and $7 3 for $8.50 " Finest Southampton Broadcloth, in white only; neckband and collar - §9 89 attached 3 for $8.50 Finest of the silks— radium, etc., with separate collar to_ match. Were $7.50, $10 Sl R 35-59 3 for $15.00 Pajamas Welsh Margetson of Lon- don, and pure silk. $1.59 $2 and "'3'for $4.50 LR $‘s;x: $350 and $2.29 $5.95 3 for $15.00 IDENT MANAGER AUSTIN €’ WALLER Datrict oses Early*House Action of Philip- | will be made at cost. Regardless of former price........ $295. THE DUKE OF ALBA, Whe has been selected for the eduea- tion portfolio in the new cabinet of the Spanish government under Gen, D'Amaso_Berenguer. . RESERVE GIRLS TO MEET. 240 Delegates of Eastern Region at Session Here Tomorrow. ‘Two hundred and forty delegates from the Girl Reserve Clubs of the Eastern _region, comprising Pennsyl- vanis, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, will meet in Washington tomorrow for a three- day annual Midwinter conference of the organization. Sessions will be held in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A, Seven- teenth and K streets. Discussion of Girl Reserve problems, including vocational guidance, music, hobbies and membership, will occupy the attention of the delegates. An in- ternational banquet, to take place Sat- urday night, at which girl guests from foreign embassies and legations will be present, will be a feature of the con- erence. Asks $20,000 for Injuries. Claiming to have sustained serious injury when struck by a hearse belong- ing to John T. Rhines, 901 Third street southwest, November 14 last, George E. Souder, 203 F street, has filled suit mam Rhines for $20,000 damages in District Supreme Court. He is rep- resented by Attorney P. B. Morehouse. Rare Choosing' i —and big savings—now e We have made the final Clearance cut affecting every Suit—Overcoat—Top Coat remaining in stock— which means Fashion Park, Charter House, Richard Austin (English Overcoats) and Mode makes. There are no restrictions—no exceptions other than Full Dress and Cutaways—and necessary alterations $3 2.75 Here are furnishings— If there's a weakness anywhere in the wardrobe—now is the opportunity to replenish at a saving. Neckwear $1.00 Cut Silk and sgc wrinkle-proof ...... 3for $1.65 $1.50 cut sille $2 and $2.50 cut silk .iveeeies B .;_f.y:uo .U, an ) cut silk grades .. 52.29 3 for $6.50 $2.50 to $3.50 Fashion ;nit silk. . sl'ss Lounging Robes Blanket and Ter- ry Robes. Were $5 §3.95 anket obes. Were $9 and $10.. s5 95 Brocade Robes, with satin collar and cuffs, and mer- ‘c;]rixedsn h;llvzake . ere $11, an 1 Fine Brocade Robes. Were $15 and $16.50 . Silk-lined Lounge Suits, es Were $25, d L sj.omA 315-75 Ali-siik’ Robes, silk lined, and Lounge Suits. & Were $40 to $65.. 325 15 All Flannel Robes Reduced Athletic Union Suits The Mode makes of fne madras; comfortably cut. Were $1and $1.50 19c 3 for $2.25 The Mode—F at Eleventh v F DIVING BELL TESTS PROVE SUCCESSFUL Two Men Are “Rescued” From Depth of 68 Feet by New Device. ABOARD U. 8. 8. FALCON, off Key ‘West, Fla., January 30.—Two men from the submarine 8-4, resting on the bot- tom of the Gulf of Mexico, 68 feet below the surface, were “rescued” and hauled aboard this craft yesterday, proving, [ naval officers said, the feasibility of out- | | side aid in_submarine disasters under certain conditions. Today the experiments with a device known as the O'Rourke diving bell will | be continued at greater depths until of- ficers in charge learn just how far down the bell can go safely on its mission of rescue. Last year men escaped from the 8-4 in safety experiments with the “me- chanical lung” from a depth of 210 feet, without outside assistance. Officers in charge of the present tests expressed hope that the diving bell would permit them to work at greater depths. In yesterday’s experiments the diving bell was lowered from the Falcon, in calm seas, and was seated over the motor hatch of the submarine $-4 by divers who went down with it, Men from the bell entered the submarine through the hatch, demonstrating also the feasibility of sending down workmen from the outside to repair dama whl:‘:h might leave a submarine unable to rise. Lieut. Charles H. Momsen and Chjef Torpedoman Edward A. Kalinoski, who were first to try the “mechanical lung” in last year's tests, were the first to go down yesterday in the diving bell and enter the submarine. BRI CRAAS Seeks to Recover $3,200. Morris M. Sigel, 19, of Hartford, Conn., through his next friend, Jack Levin, has filed suit in the District Supreme Court against the U. 8. Vend- ing Machine Corporation, 1700 I street, to recover $3,200 which he paid for 10 vending machines P\lrthlled from the company Aug 15. The boy says he repudiated his contract because of his minority and offered to return the machines for the return of his money but the company refused. He is rep- r;en’ ted by Attorney Hyman Gold- stein, Mufflers Were $2 and $2.50 . 95¢ 5229 $4.29 Were $3.00 to Were $6 to $10 Hosiery Included are imported and domestic makes of cash-- mere, silk and wool. Lisle and silk mixtures. Were N ssc 75¢ 3for $1.50 Were $1 and 3for $2.25 Were $2 and .., §1.29 " sters3.78 $2.29 3tor $6.50 Were $3 to $5 ¢ Hats Small lots of Felt Hats. Were $5t087 .iiiiniins ’z"s Small lots of Henry Heath English Hats. Were $10 and $12 35.’5 Mark Cross Gloves Lot of the famous make of buckskin gloves a0 Lot of London made Genuine Pigskin GloVess \oshus. na $329