Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1930, Page 6

A—6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1930. Furniture New and Slightly Used ntal and Domestic Rugs—Also Antiques iy % Ay Ay Y Dawes Furniture & Speciaity Co. 2447 18th St. N.W., at Col. k4. = —— —atthe 9th & E ' FASHION SHOP Every ' 0’Coat NOW it it i - ICommgnder Tells of Rapidly SADNESS MARSS (AR BANQUET | Dwindling Ranks—Reaffirms | r Pledge of Patriotism. | A note of sadness was sounded at | the annual banquet of the fast-thinning ranks of the Grand Army of the Re- | public Jast night at the Raleigh Hotel | when Commander-in-Chief Edwin J. | Foster told the 200 guests, including | the Woman's Relief Corps and member. | of other patriotic_organizations, that | their force had shrunk by 27,000 in | the last year. |~ “We have lost one comrade from our | ranks every 15 minutes during the last 12 months, but there are still 22,000 of us left and we'll keep up the fight for American patriotism and the stability of American ideals as long as there’s a | man left wearing the biue,” the 80- | year-old commander declared. IRENE CASTLE PLANS TO REBUILD HAVEN IN WHICH 83 DOGS BURNED JThe commissioner reminded Mrs. Mc- ! Laughlin that she had been an ex- ceptional dancer, and without equal as |a style originator. Knows She Has Slowed Up. { Laughlin has lived here she has had many tempting offers to return to the stage, which she left a few years after | Vernon Castle, her first husband, was killed. He died in an airplane crash during the World War. “I'm not so blind that I do not know I have slowed up,” she once remarked “Maybe not so light on my feet or so willowy.” | " 'She may be more matronly, but not her walking, her dress, her hair, even |around the world. “I couldn’t have my home and my "husband if I went back to the stage. | Barbara and I have great times in the {country. The major and I ride three times & week and when the hunting | season is on we have a gay time.” | Play Double Solitaire at Home. ‘The McLaughlins are home. folk, oc- casionally visiting the opera or' the | hockey matches, going South for the | Winter, or to Europe for the Summer. ! More often they st at home playing | double solitaire. The actress, who eight | years ago ‘couldn’t go to sleep before 2, now is the matron who says she can't | In the elght years that Mrs. Mc-| less comely than when her dancing, | her manicures, were copied by women | MRS. FRENCH JAILED AFTER SHOOTING Police Probe Dead Train Diapatch-! er's Relations With Her. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., February 12.—Mrs Reggle French, 35, was in jail last night while police investigated her relations with John S. Garmon, 41-year-old night chief train dispatcher, who was slain in_her apartment yesterday. Police said Mrs. French told them she and her husband had known Gar- mon and his wife for eight years. Through her attorfeys she issued @ statement that she killed him in self- defense after he attempted to enter her apartment. | J. M. Colleny, Garmon’s friend, who had driven him to Mrs. French's apart- ment and waited in an autamobile while he was shot to death, told police the woman had broken into Garmon's | apartment_last Thursday and taken a packet of letters. Garmon, he said, was seeking to recover them when he was killed. Plan Monument to Stradivarius. CREMONA, Italy, February 12 (#).— monument is to be erected here to Stradivarius. This s the home of the Shoots “Friend” ¥ p, }ijlacto s Take the recognized standard remedy—Grove's Laxative BROMO 80¢ at all druggiets Laxative BROMO MRS. REGGIE FRENCH Of Atlanta, G:, who was taken into| custody by officers who answered her Three Past Commanders Attend. | For the first time since its organiza- | tlon 65 years ago the G. A. R. gath- {]| ered for“an annual banquet with three | $25 Overcoats, $35 Overcoats, $45 Overcoats, $55 Overcoats, $65 Overcoats, Of course, we are including all of our finest WORUMBOS $75 Grades, now. . . .$37.50 $85 Grades, now. .. .$42.50 Alterations at Cost The Tashion Shop | 9th&ESts. 501 Ninth | | chairman, executive board; Miss Grace SO past commanders-in-chief on hand to | celebrate with them. | Samuel G. Mawson, department com- | mander, presided, introducing the speakers, who included, in addition to | Comdr. Foster, Mrs. Margaret J. L.| | Bennett, national president of the Wom- | | an’s_Relief Corps; Representative Roy | G. Fitzgerald of Ohio, who spoke on | the qualities of citizenship emphasized | by Abraham Lincoln; Past Command- ers-in-Chief Samuel R. Van Sant of Minnesota, John King of Baltimore and Judge John Reese of this city; Capt. Theodore Cazeau, commander-in-chief, | Sons of Union Veterans; Earl Church, | commissioner of pensions; Capt. H. W. | Miller, District commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Gov. Fred W. Green | |of Michigan, commander-in-chief of | Spanish War Veterans. | Reception Precedes Dinner. | i At the reception preceding the din- | ner, Mr. Foster, Department Comdr. Mawson and his staff received the guests, assisted by members of the Woman'’s Relief Corps. Included in the line were Gen. John A. Clem, retired; Dr. Henry A. Johnson, Judge Hosea B. Moulton, Judge John Reese, Col. O. H. Oldroyd, E. D. Godfrey, John Middl ton, B. W. Bonney, Frederick Sho | sleeve, F. J. Young, Past Command | in-Chief King, Mrs. Margaret J. Bennett, national president, W. R. | iMrl. Charlotte Cary, department pre: dent; Mrs. Mary H. Wingate, national | Hurd, national president, Daughters of | Union Veterans; Mrs. Caroline Gury, | Mrs. Addie W. Hickman, Mrs. Anna Horn, department president, Daughters of Union Veterans; Miss Jennie Ham- ilton, Mrs. Tillie Entrikin, Mrs. Alice | Stine, Miss Augusta Palmer, Mrs. Eliza- beth D. Shaw, Mrs. Cora Manoly, Mrs. Lida Oldroyd, Mrs. E. C. Clintock and Miss Ida C. Canfield. ‘Vocal numbers, including “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” were sung by il.he women’s chorus directed by Miss Gertrude Lyons. Solo numbers were given by Miss Itma Griggs, Miss Mar- | garet Bowie accompanying. Hazard Wheeler, department color | bearer, presented the colors, while Miss | J. E. McCaffey led in the singing of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Interest in radio in Canada this| Winter has exceeded all expectations. 7 s ¢ ‘HER® ; ///// 7 IRENE CASTLE McLAUGHLIN, \ By the Associated Press. LAKE FOREST, IIl, February 12.— The 83 dogs burned to death when fire destroyed Mrs. Irene Castle McLaugh- lin's dog refuge, “Orphans of the Storm,” yesterday did not die in vain. Mrs. McLaughlin announced today that & new and even better refuge for homeless dogs would replace the $10,000 kennels that burned. She furthermore declared that she would demand a thor- ough investigation by the fire marshal’s office and would press prosecution if it were found the fire was of mcend\ar}“ origin, as she believes. | Phone Wires Were Cut. The theory of incendiarism was borne T out, she said, not only by the nature of the fire itself, starting as it did in B Laciy T the early morning hours, but by the o fact that telephone wires leading from ity o0 VP S "TUOUSANDS ARE NOW the keeper's dwelling were cut, pre- venting the summoning of firemen. o TG WHYTE-FOX NO. 2 CoLon. AND. “Sxin” TRRFATION o ingrodionts o€ well bonn :i?. which arrived too late to be of value. Mrs. McLaughlin's crusade against cruelty to animals on several occasions | brought her into sharp verbal tiits. Once she challenged the Chicago health | commissioner’s order for all dogs to be | inoculated against rables. She publicly objected to horse show harness that forced the horses to hold their heads erect, Rables, she advised Dr. Arnold H. Kegel, the health commissioner, was a rare malady, and what were called “mad” dogs more likely were sick dogs. FALLING HAIR knocks dandruff and [mente by kill ) Whyie-Fox knocks. ekin against the refuge, which the com- plaints describe as a nuisance. The barking of the keeper's dog Bum raised the first alarm. The keeper, Tom Webster, released 40 dogs, while his wife drove a truck several miles to summon ‘There have been several complaints to the Lake County prosecutor recently ine 14 aetive beatic vaive.” Its' EXCHANGED STIEFF GRAND PIANO Beautiful Tone— New Piano Guarantee $885—TERMS - CHAS. M. STIEFF, Inc. 1340 G Street N. W. Q\ANO AL P08y, O 24 7 NIES Friday FEB.14% _— i | Pure Delicious CANDIES Give HER licious choco a pretty heart-shaped box of de- lates on Valentine Day...show HER that you haven't forgotten! The numbers shown below are beautifully _ Assorted ‘ ;‘;/2-Ib. size 30¢ packaged. . .gifts you can be justly proud to give. Each box contains a selected variety of unexcelled chocolates . . . pieces that have proved their popularity. In Decorated Chocolates 'y Decorate 1. Sie 95 A most delightiul variety of fine chocolates with tempting centers of nuts, creams and other tasty fillings. heart-shaped boxes. Packed in beautiful decorated For Valentine Parties—M yra Monet Candy Hearts AT ALL Jar filled can 29¢ Other Attractive Heart Boxes parties. In each heart-s incomparable nuts, fruits Delicious centers...en- cased in chocolate. estly THE BUSY Each jar contains_hundreds of dainty little dy hearts...Valentine color. These lit- tle hearts are just the thing for your Valentine Packed in sealed glass jars. haped box is an assortment of and cordials. Sanitary Soda Fountains! . Valentine Sundaes oty 20¢ Drop in one of our stores and try this new and delightful Valentine Sundae. " You'll be glad you did! It is delicious and different. pure Mod- priced. St | stay awake after midnight. Mrs. French said Garmon called her | call for help and found the body of by telephone shortly after 2 am. yes-| John B. Gorman, 41, lying in the hall | terday and told her he was going to|of her home. Mrs. French told officers | see her. She said she called the police.| Gorman drew a pistol and threatened | Finally, she said, she let him in. They | to kill her and take his own life. “Then | struggled and she drew her gun and|I shot,” she said. fired, she said. | ~—Associated Press Photo. - | Hydroelectric installations in Canada | now total 5,727,600 horsepower. Obliging Firemen Build Fire. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., February 12 (#).—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marcus | were out visiting. The fire went out. The children were cold, but ingenious. They summoned the firemen. An en- gine company obliged. The dwelling isoon was cozy again. TINION DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA How Much Peace of Mind? In estimating the yield from an invest- ment, the peace of mind that it will assure you is one of the basic factors to be con- sidered. A Savings Account with the Union Trust Company is entirely free of worries. It - is worth 100 cents on the dollar under all conditions. It assures you a steady yield at a fixed level. 2% paid on Checking and 3% on Savings Accounts . SOUTHWEST CORNER - FIFTEENTH AND H STREETS NORTHWEST EDWARDJ.STELLWAGEN PRESIDENT Al Furniture for the LIVING ROOM has been reduced HE Living Room where casy comfort and real livability prevail, ataains these attributes with furnishings well chosen for cheir style and quiet harmony. Upholsteted pieces — Club Chairs, Love Seats, Sofas — whose careful workmanship includes attention to springs, webbing, hair and down, are here n many styles to suit various decorative schemes. Desks, Secretaries, Tables and Chairs, many of them period reproductions by our own craftsmen, provide an ample range for choice. And during February all have been reduced. - W. & J. SLOANE "The House with the Green Shutters” 709-711-713 TWELFTH STREET. N. W. ' WASHINGTON, D. C. QUININE Tablets | Successful Since 1889 e e