Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1930, Page 11

POWER BILL FIGHT REVEALED BY GRAY Farm Bureau Representative Urged Coolidge to Veto Muscle Shoals Buy. By the Associated Press. Chester Gray, Washington represent- ative of the American Farm Bureau Federation, testified today before the Senate lobby commitiee that he had urged former President Coolidge to veto the Norris bill providing for Gov- ernment operation of Muscle Shoals. Pocket Veto Received. One of the reasons he gave the for- mer President, Gray said, was that if the bill were signed it would “destroy Edward A. O'Neil, head of the Ala- bama Farm Bureau Federation.” bill received a pocket veto. Gray asserted he did not know what effect his appeal for O'Neal had to do with President Coolidge, the former had “never The Present Play adding that | ed the Re- | publican ticket in his life.” l It also was brought out through a letter from Gray to O'Neal dated Jun- 1, 1927, that Gray intended to provide Senator Walcott, Republican, Connecti- cut, with material for a minority 1eport against the Norris bill. A later letter said Walcott was a di- rector of the Union Carbide Co., and “since the Union Carbide peo) Oppos] resolution for financial purposes.” letter O'Neal to Gray on June 11, 1929, included ‘his sentence: | “1 am afraid Senator Walcott’s put- ting in a minority report, holding the business connection he does, will hurt our cause; so I would be very careful what I do.” The committee was informed today through a letter written by Gray to O'Neal in July, 1929, that a represeq ative of the Union Carbide Co. had sug- | sted to the Farm Bureau Federation| MISS KATHERINE BROW that a field agent be employed to ad- vocate the proposal of the American Cyanamid Co. to lease Muscle Shoals. K. F. Bower Considered. The letter said that R. F. Bower was | being considered as the’agent and that a Mr. Mitchell of the carbide company “seems to think that his company or the American Cyanamid Co. would foot the bfiL™ Gray continued that it made no dif- ference to him where the money came from, but wrote it “may make a differ- ence to you, since it is to be advanced to Mr. Bower through the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation.” He added that he would not be surprised if Bower | would “back away” from such a prop- osition if it were suggested. DEATH OF LASSITER IS HELD SUICIDE Despondency Over Business Troubles Is Responsible, Po- lice Are Told. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt has issued & certificate of suicide in the death of Norfleet Lassiter, 50 years old, a real estate agent, who was found overcome MRS. GLENNA SMITH TEN) IPLAY OF COLONIAL PERIOD TO BE GIVEN | “Janice Meredith,” Junior Thea- ter's Offering Tomorrow After- noon and Evening. The play “Janice Meredith,” with | action background in the Revolutionary period, will be the Junior Theater's ‘Washington birthday offering at the Belasco Theater tomorrow afternoon and evening. Mrs. Glenna Smith Tennin, co-man- ager of the Junior Theater with Miss Katherine Brown, said that in choosing “the youth of the Capital an opportu- nity fo visualize the costumes and set- tings and customs of that day, besides realizing more fully the meaning of the historic events of the Revolutionary Period.” On behalf of the managers it was an- nounced that the Junior Theater planned {to use the Belasco Theater for its | productions, with matinee and evening | the play the managers sought to give | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930, SENATORS 10 AGT ON NORRIS PROBE Shortridge to Call Committee to Consider Campaign Resoiution. Senator Shortridge of California, chairman of the Senate committee on privileges and elections, said today he | would call his committee together at | an early date to consider the Norris resolution providing for appointment of a committee to_investigate campaign | expenditures in the senatorial primaries and elections this year. | The Norris resolution provides for ap- pointment of a special committee of five Senators to make the investigation !and authorizes the expenditure of 100,000, or as much thereof as neces- sary, for that purpose. Thc Norris reso- lution also provides that the commit- |tee shall be appointed by the Vice | President, who is the presiding officer of the Senate. ¥ | Provision Is Expected. | Senator Shortridge said he believed the Senate probably would provide for an investigation of campaign expendi- tures. He said, however, that there | nad been some discussion among mem- bers of the privileges and elections committee of an amendment to the| Norris resolution to provide that the | investigation be made by the standing committee on elections, without re- sorting to the appointment of a special committee. .He pointed out that in the veent serious charges should be brought against any one elected to the | Senate or any contest should arise, the | committee on privileges and _elections | ultimately would have to deal with it. | He called attention to the overlapping | work of the Reed slush fund committee, a special committee of the Senate ap- | pointed in 1926 to investigate campaign expenditures, and of the privileges and | | elections committee in the Vare case. | | The California Senator said that pos- | | sibly it would be better to have the | standing committee authorized to make | the proposed investigations this year if they become necessary. | Membership Restrictions. ‘The Norris resolution provides, that no Senator who is up for re-election | this year shall serve on the investigat- | ing committee. Only three members {of the privileges and elections com- { mittee out of 15 are up for election. , ‘Two_of them are Republicans and | one a Democrat. | RUDY VALLEE IS LISTED AS PRESS CLUB GUEST| Will Head His Band of Connecticut Yankees at Function Scheduled for Tuesday Night. Rudy Vallee and his band of Con- necticut Yankees will be guests of the National Press Club in the club's audi- torjum next Tuesday night from 9 o'clock until midnight. The original orchestra of eight men will appear here, augmented by four additional musicians. Arrangements for Vallee’s appearance have been com- pleted by the National Broadcasting Co. and Lee Poe Hart, chairman of the Press Club entertainment committee. At noon Tuesday Vallee and his or- chestra will play at the Congressional Club's annual breakfast in honor of Mrs. Hoover. WASHINGTON CHOSEN FOR MASONS’ MEETING Grand Masters Select Capital for Fifth Successive Annual Conclave. The grand masters of Masonsy at a | one-day meeting in the Willard Hotel | yesterday, selected Washington as the site for their 1931 national conference. This conference will mark the fifth| successive time the conclave has been | held in the National Capital. The delegates today were in Alex- andria to attend a meeting in the new Masonic Temple of the George Wash- ington Masonic National Memorial As- | sociation. § The conference session was set for February 20 next year so as to precede immediately the meeting of the memorial association. Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, and a member of President Hoover's law enforcement commission, was the principal speaker at a dinner last night in the Willard Hotel, that closed the conference. He spoke on Masonic subjects. Other speakers were Judge Charles A. Dewey, grand master of Lowa, and O. Frank Hart, general grand master of the Council of Royal and Select Masters of America. Yesterday’s session, attended by 44 delegates, was taken up in the main with discussion of business affairs of the | fraternity and its educational program. In this latter connection papers were | read by Grand Master Herbert W. Dean | Grand Master Hiram Lively of Texas | telling of work in their jurisdictions. ARCHITECT T0 GET ADDED PERSONNEL 25 Per-Cent Increase to Be Made. Gradually Through Civil Service. ‘Twenty-five per cent increase in the personnel of the office of - supervising architect of the Treasury, in order to carry forward the enlarged public build- ing program, is forecast by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Heath, in charge of the program. ‘The office of supervising architect, which is headed by James A. Wetmore, | who because he is a lawyer holds the rank of “acting” supervising architect, now employes over 300 architects, en- gineers and draftsmen and nearly 100 field engineers. “Steps are now being taken,” Mr. Heath disclosed in his address over the National Radio Forum last night, to “increase the force by 25 per cent.” While details concerning these “steps”. were .not ' disclosed at the Treasury today, it was understood that the increase Will not be made immes diately, but will come through the reg- ular civil service appoingment routine, in the course of time. It was intimated that some appropriations are now available to add some of these new people, but it was thought likely that additional appropriations might be asked for personnel, in case the Keyes- Elliott bill, increasing the whole build- ing program, is enacted. Administra- tion leaders have confidently predicted passage of this legislation adding $230,- 000,000 to the building program. TAXI DRIVER HELD UP. Three Unidentified Colored Get $20 Loot. ‘Twenty dollars was taken from Neil King, a taxicab driver, by three un- identified colored men, who held him up today at Fifth and Elm streets. Several similar robberies in Washing- ton recently were believed by investiga- tors to have been committed by others, as the descriptions of the men involved in today’s hold-up falled to tally. 5 e Rev. D. B. Jones, the oldest Noncon- Men | of Massachusetts, Deputy Grand Master | formist miinister in Wales, who died re- | Gharles H. Johnson of New York and | cenll{u.tued 87, was pastor of Caerleon Bapt Church for 62 years oreached nearly 6,000 sermons. and Important! | Merchandise in these offerings may be soiled, | shopworn or faded and we camnot gua | quanti | assortments. | Odds & Ends at “Give in the gas-filled kitchen of his apart- ment, at 3033 Sixteenth street, yes. terday. afternoon. Firemen of No. 2 Tescue. sqyad, summoned by Mrs, Las- siter when she returned home from a shopping trip to find her husband in a chair with a jet of a gas stove open, failed in efforts to revive him. Lassiter is survived, in addition to his widow, by a young daughter. Police were informed that he had been de- spondent because of business diffi- culties. performances each Saturday. anization is non-commercial. GREATEST Useo can su Chevrolet History SEE OURISMAN ADV. PAGE 10-A 'WASHINGTON'S” FINEST MEN'S WEAR SHOP: Until1P.M. Saturday! Raleigh Haberdasher Men’s Furnishings 400 Fine Shirts Broken lots and slightly soiled from display. Sizes 14 to 17. For- merly sold for $1.95 to $5. c Faultless Nobelt Pajamas R_egular $3 and $3.50 values. New s 95 Spring patterns in coat and slip-over '3 styles. Sizes A, B, C, D. 5350 to 250 Fancy Shirts Collar-attached and neckband $ 65 styles. New stripes, fancy figures, 1‘ handsome checks. Sizes from 14 to 17. Sleeve lengths, 33 to 35. Resilio Neckwear Regular $2, $2.50 and $3 handmade $ neckwear. Imported and domestic silks. Stripes, dots, checks, figures. Imported Mufflers Regular $5 and $6 mufflers, in full s size squares. Solid colors, dots, checks and stripes. 2 Raleigh %8 Shoes Black and tans, in sizes 5, 51} and s 3 6 only. Reduced to this price because Raleigh Haberdasher size and style ranges are broken. 1310 F Street s The or-| i | | i | -50c Brassiers 50c Slips, Teddies, Gowns, Ete. ..... 19¢ -19¢ -19¢ 50c Sport Socks. . ....19¢ $1 Corsets ..... oo SIS $1.50 Rayon Bloomers, 19¢ $1 Long Silk Gloves. .19¢ 50c School Bags 69c Black Twin-heel Hosiery, per pair. ..39¢ 69c Sports Hosiery. ..39¢ 69c Vanity Sets. .....39¢c $1 Raincoats 50c Flowers ....... A group of Silk Dresses se- lected from our r $15 numbers. Prints, C and Georgettes. All siz ALSO at $5 we include fle Tweed and Ombre Sport C. Former values to $14.75. High-grade Spring Coal n fur trimmed and tailored models. Sheens and Broadcloths. In regular and extra .. ALSO fur-woven coats col- legiate styles and fur collared Sport Coats. Formerly to $16.75. A group of Winter Co: ing extra sizes. to $25. 1 Genuine Coat with silk linings. special. Now yeu choose Spring’ newest sl the season’s est price. Your choice of our entire stock at this ridiculously low price. Smart shapes and new colors. All sizes. nclud- Formerly $19.75 Mink-dyed Coney Very 300 New Spring HAT Reg. $1.95 to $2.45 from newest shapes and all the des at Downstairs—Millinery All Kiddies’: 69c Rayon Underwear 44c 98¢ Fabric Gloves $1 House Dresses. $1 Rayon Gowns $1 Rayon Scarfs ...,... $1 Kiddies’ Tams. . $1 Kiddies’ Dresses $1.25 Crepe Undies. $1.35 Silk Hosiery. .. ... $1.98 Kid Gloves ........ $1.98 Silk Crepe de Chin 69c $1.98 Silk Blouses. $1.50 Suit Cases . $1.50 Week End Cases. . 8! " $1.50 Smart Hat Boxes..89¢ Flannel Formerly sold as '5 e ot chases. oh! what values Were rs Dept. Coats, Coal | 19 S may $ low- Hats 95¢ Pumps AAA to EEE. L) Priced to sell quickly. fur-trimmed Winter Mostly Blacks. $29 values! 14 Winter Coats in browns, blacks $10 values in fur-trimmed Dress Chinchillas and Roadster Downstairs Dept. “ Straps, Ties, Step - in and Oxfords, in black and tan kid and patent leather. Sizes 3 to 9. Widths Important! Values quoted were i l prices. No refunds, exchanges or adjustments! A L L SALES FINAL! Come early as possible for For Just Four and One-Half Hours in Our Washington’s Birthday Sale! (Store Will Open at 8:30 A.M. and Close Promptly at 1 PM.) JUST LOOK AT THE BARGAINS LISTED BELOW! 19c-39c 44c-89c 5133 $1.98 Handbags $1.98 Cotton Umbrellas, $1.19 $1.98 Dark Color Slips $1.59 $1.98 Slipover Sweat- --$1.69 $5.00 Silk Dresses. ...$1.98 $3.98 Fleece-lined Leatherette Rain- $1.98 $5.00 Silk Umbrellas.. $2.19 $3.98 Rayon Robes. ..$2,39 $3.98 Rayon Pajamas $2.39 $3.98 All-wool Coat Sweaters . ... $5.95 Silk Dresses. ...$2.98 $6.98 Tweed Suits. . . .$3.50 $6.98 Sports Coatse. .$3.50 Misses’. and Women’s Dresses, Coats and Suits Sensationally Reduced for This 4}=Hour Event! A lroupdnl Tweed, Tw'lL. ? sl 00 g | 29 KT | A Great Sale of Over 1,500 Pairs “ARCH- CULTURE” $3.95 & $4.95 Late pur- beautiful Sealine $16.75. In our now priced at FOOTWEAR Very Specially Priced $3.49 Main Floor—Shoes The Avenue at 7th —Special “Washington’s Birthday” Event! —Four Hsurs Only—Until One O’Clock! extraorc]mary sale 350 of Our $35—$40—$45 2-TROUSER SUITS MEN’S OVERCOATS MEN’S TOPCOATS HE price_is the lowest we have offered you for twelve months . . . that ought to mean something. The Suits, the Overcoats, the Topcoats, are our own Saks stock, tailored even more! MEN’S FURNISHINGS |[BOYS’ Men’s $1.95 and $2.45 Wifke and Fancy Shirts Reduced! $1.00 ANCIES—in collar-attached and collar-to-match tyles—sizes 131 to 20. White, in broken Some slightly soiled. Genuine “Reis” $150 and $2 Athletic Q5 Union Suits Men’s $4.95 to $8.50 Shaker Coat, Slip-on and Slip-over Sport Sweaters. . $3.65 Men’s 75c and $1.00 Hose; Lisle-and-W ool, Silk-andWool, Silkand-Lisle, and Silk. 550 Sizes 10 to 12 Men’s liinch Black Straps. and 38 to 50. Regularly 35¢ Men’s $3.00 and $4.00 Wh Shirts; small and large pleats sizes Men’s $2.50 and $3.45 Tan and Gray Gloves. Sizes 7% and 7% Men’s §1.15 Rayon Union Suits; and 36 only Eight $8.50 and $10 Sweater Sets. include 2/36, 3/38, 2/40 and 1/44 $12.50 Moleskin Coats, Sheep- lined . 28 Pairs $3.50 to $5.00 Gloves. Sizes 7%, 7% and 8. Some slightly faded from window display . Ten $2.95 Stuttgarter Union Suits—part wool. Sizes 36.and 50 only Men’s $1.50 Coat Shirts and Drawers, Striped Madras; broken sizes. . ., $1.00 Reis Cotton (medium weight) Shirts and Drawers $2.25 Stuttgarter Shirts and . Drawers. Broken sizes ...... Men’s $8.50 Fancy Silk Shirts; collar. attached and collar-to-match styles Men’s $1.00 Hand-tailored Ties .. 95¢ $3.95 Men’s " $3.00" Pajam but slightly soiled. S only . Saks—First Floor according to the high Saks standards. That ought to mean 7E urge you to be early because, while there aré¢ 350 W garments at start of selling, it is best to choose before the best patterns have been picked over. Tans, Grays and Browns. Overcoats include plain l!lueu and Grays. »Topcoats are in smart mixtures, Saks—Third Floor Suits in wanted WEARABLES -$22.50-$25 Prepster Suits and OQOvercoats, on Sale at $15.00 - 'HE loyest price at which Saks Prepster Suits and ®vercoats have ever been offered. The values are extraordinary! Every smart model, pattern and fabric is included—ip hoth Snits and Overcoats—with plenty of Tans, Grays and Browns. - $2.95 Leatherette Lumberjackets. Suede- lined; corduroy collar and cuffs; water- proof. Sizes 4 to 18 $2.95 Boys' Wool Golf Knickers. lots and sizes; I Sizes 7 to0 18 .. $2.15 Coats, double - breasted; heep collar; sizes 610 18. Little Boys’ Overcoats. ed style; Tan and Gray. Some Chin- chillas. Sizes 3 10 9 $9.95 Little Boys' Overcoats, Allwool tl- collars; $8.85 $5.50 $2.15 and wool - lined; convertil mostly Grays; broken lots; sizes 3 to 9 $4.95 Shaker Sweaters. Odds and ends. All wool. Some slightly soile Small sizes only. Saks—Second Floor SHOE REDUCTIONS Saks §10 “Custom” Shoes in a special value group. High and low model: black and tan; broken sizes and st Only 95 PUrs ;.. suisiisss soid ¥ Saks $8 “Delta” Oxfords. B nd $7.85 d Tan; broken sizes and styles; 73 pairs Saks ¢ . Blacl i sizes and styles. Only 215 pairs $4'85 %.7.50 ’:o '.35 go{:‘ Si TJ. Bh;‘ck and 2 an; high and low styles; b lot. ;"d ;iu:’ yl roken lots 52.95 125 an elt Slippers. T¢ and Gray; soft soles and p-;d’:d hul:'.-l 95 only 127 pairs. Hylo and Everett: C $1.50 to $3 Infants' Shoes. Broken lots 5oc and sizes . Saks—First Floor 2-Trouser Suits and Topcoats! TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THIS SEASON’S STOCK—4TH FLOOR EAR in mind that every Suit and Top- coat included in this ex- traordinary value group is from our own stock. Not one garment is a sale garment—as you will see at the very first glance! ‘18 Saks—Fourth Floor THE Tans, Grays and Browns that are so popular this season—the smart new weaves — the newest single and double breasted styles — are all here. And in addition, a perfect fitting for every man!