Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 14

A—M THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 9,-1930—PART ONE. CENSUS 15 TAKEN | e mece | IN HOSPITAL CHECK 8,917 Patients Reported in District Institutions by Enumerators Feb. 26. Hospital census day, on February 26, found 8917 patients housed in hos- | | pitals, sanitariums and convalescent | 5 homes in the District of Columbia, ac-| 5 ! cording to the figures submitted by the | 3 American Public Health Association, | 200 BODIES FOUND INFLODDED TOWNS French Funeral Processions Wade Knee-Deep in Re- clining Waters. By the Assoriated Press. MONTAUBAN, France, March 8.—A vast expanse of yellow mud, 50 miles long by 10 to 15 wide, spreads over this region of sorrow, where hundreds of familles are burying their dead or digging_in the debris to recover bodies. | night and Tuesday morning, flow peace- | Regiment of Engineers is inspecting the fully in their beds, while all along| puildings. The engineers have had to e e ssan Agen and Sosens funeral | Prevent by force some families return- processions eft ' the churches often to the tottering homes. knse-deep in water, While imore Wrecked Houses Dynamited. wait] . . :’y In‘ rows in the churches awaiting Wt the ki reae they are dynamited to prevent disaster. Prlll:“: i c""“fl"‘fi"'m The streets are filled with furniture, esident Doumergue an emier Jothing . Tardieu, starting from Agen today, | e44in8 and clothing pulled from dam | traveled through the countryside where | 88ed houses, and thousands of women people for five days lived in terror.|sit on their pitiful possessions while With tears in his eyes the President| their men skirmish for provisions or spoke to his people, trying to comfort labor to clear out their homes. them. He said that the country was| Probably 200 dead have been found in mourning and that all France was and searchers are digging in the ruins coming to the rescue with money and and watching the rivers for another goods. hundred believed lost, Troops have taken control of the Troops are burying thousands of dead | devastated towns to prevent pillaging| animals in quicklime and engineers |and also to protect householders from | have taken over all wells. returning to b:nn(e l';mnemd gfl:r&n‘ ettt A law has not been proclaimed, bu e discipline s almost ns strict, permits | s,on5rr PCOPIE Bre Tow eating more | being required for entrance to the | the World War, according to recent in- HUSBAND VANISHES AFTER HONEYMOON Co-Ed Bride Scorns War Vet- ‘! eran Who May Have i Another Wife. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 8.— | Her honeymoon abruptly ended, the for- | mer Alice Gutknecht, University of Wis | consin co-ed, who married R. A. Davis |after a whirlwind romance in Mexico | would not have needed a man she wed last Monday may be the i ?:lle( that he h“{ suffered a mental husband of another woman. pse, accoun! for actions. Mrs. G admitted that. the Davis was reported to have left his | courichin was a whirlwind affair and bride and her mother, Mrs. A. U. Gut- | that her daughter had known Davis knecht, when the train on which they |only a week before the marriage. traveled from the Mexican - capital b g B2 m:ym the American border at Laredo | MURDER SUSPECT NAMED. early today. :fi‘flfln and “fi’mud’”:::‘r;:‘“;{Wnunded Man Wanted in Bank officials at the border den! vis' | had been detained by them. The con- | Robbery Slaying. CHICAGO, March 8 (P).—James ductor of the train reported on his ar. | rival here that Da: was stop at ' Riley, lying probably mortally wounded the border because he lacked a pass- i, tno Bridewell Hospital, was identi- fled today as Richard McNeese, wanted port. The immigration officers ex- pressed the belief that @avis had for the robbery of the Oakland, Ky., and the murder of J. Robert entered the United States and said he The identification was made by passport. | Meanwhile, American Legion offials | i af e request of Mrs. R. A. Davis of | g Mesa, Ariz., were attempiing to locate | Tanss y Iirey oF Ll ey and Davis in order to clear up his identity. Mrs. Davis advised the Legion offi- cials that the man answered the | description of her husband who has | Russian orders placed in ‘Britain in spent much time in Government mental |the last three months of 1929 totaled James J. Kirby of Gallatin, Tenn., who ‘nrrlved today to view the suspect. — The Rivers Garonnee, Tarn, Aveyron | tOWns. | vestigations which showed that eggs, and Tescou, whose walls of water swept | A regiment of black Senegalese are | cheese, sugar, fruits and nuts are much cut bridges, dykes and houses Monday | doing police duty, while the 7th/more popul BERRY & CO. ANNOUNCE THE MOST FORCEFUL SELLING EVENT IN OUR HISTORY—GOLD AND PLATINUM JEWELRY—DIAMONDS AND FINE GEM SET PIECES—WATCHES—STERLING AND PLATED SILVERWARE—GLASSWARE City, tonight prepared to return to her | home in Milwaukee after learning the result of wounds. hospitals since the World War as the | $23,851,140, as compared with $8,469,810 which is making a survey of the Dis- She expressed the | in the same period of the year before. trict of Columbia for the Council ot Bocial Agencies at the request of the Community Chest. These figures, officials said, are fairly average for this year. They included the Washington Sanitarium and Hos- g.irhl at Takoma Park and the District | aining School for the Feeble Minded. | ‘Were these two excluded the hospital census would have shown 8490 pa- tients. Nor did the figures include 222 mew-born infants. In all the hospitals, sanitariums and convalescent homes, including the ‘Washington Sanitarfum and the Dis- trict Training School, there are 10,805 beds, the census figures disclosed. Oc- cupancy for the whope group of insti tutions on census day was 87.9 per cent. More than half of all cases were men- tal and the percentage of occupancy for that group was 95.8 per cent. The mcenu;e of occupancy for general pitals was only 68.4 per cent. Thirty per cent of the beds in the voluntary, proprietary and municipal hospitals are for colored people, the figures show, or 963 out of 3,218 beds, but 35.3 per cent of the patients were colored, or 777 out of a total of 2,198. Voluntary hospitals are those governed by a board and not conducted for profit. Proprietary hospitals are private hospitals, the earnings of which go to the owner of | the institution. Municipal hospitals are municipally owned. Freedmen's Hospital is included in this group, al- though it is under the direction of the Department of the Interior and is sup- ported by the Government. 20.6 Per Cent Non-Residents. Of all the patients in the general hospitals, 20.6 per cent were found to | be non-residents. In the same | of hospitals 890 were 3 females. Only 270, or 123 per cent, were children under 15 years of age. ‘This is exclusive of the 222 new-born infants. Of all patients in general hos- pitals, 47.6 per cent were married, 414 per cent were single and 11 per cent were widows. In general hospitals 44.4 per cent of | the patients were full pay, 10.6 per cent :|MOTHER AND SON SHOT BY FRIEND AFTER ROW Man Kills Self After Murder, Re- sult of Woman’s Date With Brother-in-Law. By the Associated Press. PERU, ., March 8.—Walter C. Kennedy, 36, this morning shot and killed Mrs. Edith M. Floor, 33, in her home; wounded her son, Gerald, 10, and shot and killed himself. and Mrs. Floor had been friends for some time, but recently they | | had quarreled after Kennedy criticized keeping company with other her ennedy became angered when Mrs. Floor went to a motion picture show with another man yesterday, Kennedy not knowing that :he man was Mrs. Floor's brother-in- aw. A SALE OF JEELRY YOU’LL NEVER FORGET Right here on this page you aresreading INDISPUTABLE PROOF that EVERY ENERGY has been put forth to make this ONCE-i LIFETIME sale. While we are diverging from our 1 MODEST and DIGNIFIED POLICY OF DOING BUSI NESS—the magnitude of this sale DEMANDS IT! Good busi judgment derhands it! So we are gbing the limit in a BROAD, SWEEPING, WHOLE-HEARTED, PRICE-SLASHING, throughout the ENTIRE STOC T recomstruction i mad Mr. Chas. E. Berry, Sr., is retiring from active management of the business. A complete Re- In order that it may be taken over by Mr. Charles E. Berry, Jr, every dollar’s worth kly as possible. Jr—— SALT AND PEPPERS RICHARD J. (DICK) COX, A detective sergeant and former pugilist, who subdued a man of radical views and arrested him for disorderly con- |duct after he denounced President | Hoover yesterday while passing the | White House on a street car. —P. & A. Photo. SOLID GOLD RINGS Large grouping of Ladies’ Rings, set with semi-precious and simulated gems. Former values to BRACELETS The new el Mesh Watch Brace- lets; sizes to fit your watch; sell regularly I municipal group only full pay, 3.3 per cent per cent free patients. Hospitals for mental cases are not included. D. C. Residents Pay Half of Cost. District residents, through taxation | and gifts, aided by whatever assistance was given by the Federal Government, ity silver plate. Many styles. Reorganization sale price, $1.85 WATCH MAR. 10th NEWSPAPERS FOR AT 9:30 DAILY SPECIALS ACTUAL SAVINGS - OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THOSE WHO WANT THE BETTER THINGS IN JEWELRY and engraved; for- SALE saes MONDAY EXTREME REDUCTIONS PREVAIL ON ALL DIAMONDS AND GEM-SET PLATINUM AND GOLD JEWELRY private rooms and ‘wards. Of the cases, 44.4 per cent were surgical, 40.7 per cent medical, 13.6 per u':‘t obstetrical and 1.3 per cent pedi- atric. In the voluntary and n!:‘lunlclpll SR At Old Bailey Police Court, in Lon- gon, r&cn}!ly a m‘:{b‘.‘d‘ excused rom the jury because langu used in the case. i TO THE FIRST 100 CUSTOMERS When the doors open Monday at 9:30 AM, we will give absolutely FREE, a fine Silver- plated Teaspoon to the first 100 customers who 5 I enter the store. No purchase necessary—and ‘ X ~ Jll] every morning this week we will give a Tea- 53 from three to six months, 9 per cent from six months to one year and 1.1 per cent from one to four years. This did not mclude{ t"l?: hllu;!lulo? hos- pitals because of long stay of many patients in such institutions and also excluded the proprietary hospitals. SEVERAL HURT IN STORM [NEW FORD GAS SAVER 72 MILES ON 2 GALLONS Walter Critchlow, 4611 C street, Wheaton, TIl, has patented a NEW VIX Vapor Humidifier and Gas Saver Model suitable for all Autos, Trucks, Tractors and Engines that | brings reports of amazing records. | Come _earl, il We urge you to see them. o {h:':v day until you complete your Sale price, s FUNCHAL, Madeira, March l.—sev-‘ eral persons were injured and houses ‘were demolished during a terrific rain- storm which swept the island of Ma-| deira last night. Boulders rolled from cliffs with terrifying thunder and tem- he water front. w ATCHES OF FINER QUALITY, GREATLY LOWERED IN PRICE EVERY BERRY & CO. WATCH IS THE ACME OF TIME-KEEPING PERFECTION—SELLING AT PRICES—TO OUR KNOWLEDGE—THE LOWEST EVER SEEN IN WASHINGTON. MEN! HERE'S VALUE While 23 of these fine Strap watches last they will be on sale at this ridiculous low price. Berry & Co. $15.00 VALUE, NOW NEW MODERN STRAP WATCHES $2250 Sturdy 15-i. A Handsome Strap A Dandy White Gold Strap Watch; curved Watch, Filled 17-j. Strap Watch models; guaranteed by of unusual accuracy. $30 factory and us. regular. ; Berry & Co. Supreme Quality} $100 Diamond Ring exquisitely $250 Diamond Solitaire Rin mounted in white $62.00 set in new square 0 gold. Very special at $160 Brooch of witra smart- arge center diamond with 2 e smaller gems. “6250 sapphires ENTIRE STOCK ON SALE CT GOODS ARE OF COURSY FXCEPTED whEN TWE RESTRICTED TO FACTORY PRICE MAINTAINANCE. | Other makes report amazing nlni ‘of 1% to 3, more than before. $150 Exqui Diamond Ring, Diamond and Platinum 16k il $300 Ring of unmatched 1 o e NPT $185 Square-cut Diamond of unusual quality 3117.85 and brillianey BEAUTIFUL PENDANTS beautiful _$6.00 ty mew Choker Neek- that e u- $2.85 /- $365 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STORE — SAVINGS OF ONE-THIRD TO ONE-HALF =~ e R vy SR SO }3.15 $7.50 Ostrich Hide Bill Fold; 14-karat gold mounted $55 Solid Mahogany 8-day Chime Mantel Clock. $17-50 The Molsture principle makes En- gine run like on a cool night and eliminates carbon from engine. | Mr. Critchlow wants County and State Agencies everywhere to make $250 to $1,000 per month. He also now offers to send 1 to introduce. Write him today.—Ad- vertisement. i ngers on the Laurentic who went ashore were unable to return to the liner and spent the night on the islans The departure of the Laurentic was de layed 24 hours. Inhabitants of the island, where a terrific landslide recently took 17 lives, are in great fear of additional land-| slips, which may result from persistent heavy rains. b taire that displays the entire diamond surfa I? s265 fullest advantage. P Indestructible \ | NECKLACE! Pearls with that lustre = T $1.80 Chokers, ome, two and three strand. Sale STERLING & PLATED SILVERWARE $3.50 Silver-plated Quaker ;1_45 Salt and Peppers. Sale price $10.00 Silver-plated ;5,55 Pitcher. Sale pri 5 $6-35 $8.85 $10.00 _ Silver-pl Boat and Tra; $13. 39.65 potes; gold lined. Sale price. 55-25 $10.00 Silver-plated Cream and Su old lined. Sale $.65 wai dl‘l' };;"pi"' Plate ell and Tree Meat Plat- ters. At.. g sGJS $12.00 Heavy Silver Plate Vegetable Dish.. Sale price. $48.00, 8 pieces, Silver- - plated Cockiail et Sule §9/0 65 pri e d $10 Genuine Pyrex C: silver-plated; pierced or en- $32 Genuine Jade Rings. Li Sale price ... Re-Organisation Sale Price . $13.65 $14-6 $22.50 WRIST WATCH Re-Organisation Sale Price $11-55 No Down Payment Till June 4 Years to Pay at Slight Cost Here is a sensational offer of in- terest to every home owner in Washington and vicinity. (1) Free $89 Val Hot water He Modern Steam Heating Plant at Lowest Price. (3) Terms that mean you can the full benefit of in- now without pay- ing a penny till June. This Includes 6 Radiators 17-Inch Boiler Written Guarantee Save 10% to 20% | i g g e —a O | see ot e e e 12355 NO DOWN PAYMENT STATIONERY Qur Stationary Depart- ment just teems with real bargains. We offer you your choice of our entire stock at........ $35 Imported Italian Pot- : tery Table Lamp. Sale price Sl 520 Tiffany Bronze Book ~ B EARLY um Top Bar Pins. < $37.50 ONLY 28 Silver Com- . One group.| Values to $65. 5 Year Written Guarantee Automatic Only one ;ol: ::- @) Si read Tray; swinging handles. Sale sz.ss Stratford Plate SILVERWARE $27.50 Heavy Sil- ver-plated Silver- ware set. 50-year guarantee. 6 Knives WRIST WATCHES GREATLY REDUCED $30 White Gold Filled ~ $100 Diamond Set toed Ladies’ Ladies Wrist Watch, Wrist Watch. 17-j. Sale price— Watch. Sale price— $1455 $59.00 $215.00 TIFFANY and CRYSTAL GLASSWARE Fine Clear Crystal Glassware i etched desi and quality. s 75 GOBLETS, SHERBETS, 8 " ICE TRAR ‘WINES, 3. Regular $7.50 Per Set of Six Now $375 Handsome Dia- mond Platinum Wrist h.-n mered de- ot § Dassert Spoons $10,00 VALUES et REDUCED TO. . . .. Berry & Co. % OFF [ 610 THIRTEENTH STREET a very exclusive tall, graceful stemware of beauty =