Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1930, Page 26

AERIAL WAR FLEET TUNED FOR REVIEW §200 Pilots Man $5,000,000 ! Planes at Sacramento Dur- * ing Army Maneuvers. U By the Associated Press. MATHER FIELD, SACRAMENTO. Calif, April 3.—Five million dallars’ . worth of airplanes were tuned up and i polished ar.d more than 200 Army pilot: “donned their best uniforms today for a formal review by the commanding offi cer of the annual Air Corps maneuver: here, Brig. Gen. W. E. Gillmore. The review, however, was not per mitted to interfere with the mock “war" activities for which 159 planes: have { been gathered here from all parts of the Y Nation. The operations office ordered > morning spent in maneuvers de: £ time conditions, ‘mencement of the several missions, as the maneuver flights are known, was'nol " given in preliminary orders. Headqu ters said the exact time for the “attack’ would be given squadron commander: shortly before the take-off. Mobilization of the Air Corps tactical units was completed yesterday with arrival from Selfridge Field of a group of planes de- layed en route by stormy weather. . MICHIGAN HUNTS TWO WHO SHOT GARAGE MAN Victim Declares Pair in Car in Ditch Had Body in Machine. By the Associated Press. MENOMINEE, Mich., April 3.—Mich jgan State police and sherifl's officers of Upper Michigan and Northern Wis- consin late last night were searching i for two men who shot and clubbed ‘Alex Andrews, proprietor of a garage here, on Highway U. S. 2, about 17 miles north of Menominee. 3 Andrews drove to a garage five miles north of the city about 8:30 p.m.. the bones of his left hand shattered by a bullet and his head bruised and bleed- ing from the clubbing. He said he was asked to go to the place 17 miles from Menominee to haul a car out of the ditch. He drove alone. After getting the car back on the road he noticed a flat tire and opened the.s= front door of the car to look for &, spare tube. Andrews glanced at & man sitting in the rear seat and saw that he had beside him a bundle which ap- peared to be a human body. FINANCIER ANSWERS LA GUARDIA CHARGES H. G. Dalton Declares Counsel Approved Plan for Steel and Tube Merger. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, April 3—H. G. Dalton. Cleveland financier who was named by Representative F. H. La Guardia as a “go-between” in negotiations for merger of Bethlehem Steel with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, yesterday answered with a statement which said: “Counsel for both companies were consulted and approved the proposed transaction as entirely legal before the negotiations were completed.” La Guardia had called the merger plan a combination “in restraint of trade” and introduced a resolution ask- ing Attorney General Willlam D. Mitch- ell to investigate it. . EXISTENCE OF PLANET THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930. Open a Charge ‘Account for Easter Shopping The Hosiéry Classic of 1930 $1.49 3 pairs, $4.35 Lovely stockings just out of the mills. Full-fashioned, pure silk . . . in sheer chiffon or service weights. Picot or plain tops. Carefully styled . . . fea- turing the new French heel . . . and the smartest shades for wear with Easter costumes. ¥ Ivoire Beige Clair Plage Breeze Light Gunmetal Rosador Muscadine Blonde Dore Sunbask Sunbrown (Main Floor, The Hecht Co) This smartly clad miss is wearing a new Miss Carolyn flat crepe ensemble. Sizes 12 to 20. $29.50 For Easter . . . dress hats of taffeta or lace braid . . . (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) suit hats of baku $5 Tar Hecar Co. The “Little Bride Shop” On the third floor displays effectivel! everything for the Ernez.bride . .y. from lovely l.inserie, frocks, suits, coats to the wedding gown and veil. “F Street at Seventh’ Easter Coats are Known by New Collars $99.75 They’ve taken a new lease on life this Spring . . . so many new trim features. Flattering collars . « . smartly swinging capes . . . fitted lines . . . individual styles . « « a coat for every type. Tai- lored to fit like a glove. Soft fabrics and “Heatless” furs Soft fabrics—tricova, " kashe mire, tricolain, silk, velvet and swagger tweed and covert. Close furs, “cool” for Summer wear. Kit galyac, squirrel, galopin, mole, lapin and monkey. New blues, high shades and black. Sizes for Misses, Women, Little Women and Larger Women A special group of coats; Paris adaptations, in fine cloth and appropriate g $39.75 (Third Floor, The Heeht Co.) (Taira Floor) Nationally Known Silvercraft Boudoir & Desk Clocks at Aboutl/ Usual Price and Capes Black onyx base. Grey face with black numerals. Distinctive clock with fine American movement. A decorative Easel Clock for modern homes. In dull or shiny fin- ishes (non-tarnish- able). Easel Desk Clock. Bright platinoid finish. Fine thin movement. A ccu- rate timekeeper. $4.95 Pedestal Desk or Boudoir Clock. Platinoid finish. Base in black or jade green bakelite. (Note—All Clocks Are Non-Tarnishable.) (Main Floor, The Hecht Co.) Lhis Suit Season demands the Fur Scarf of Fox $39.75 Finishing perfection . . . worn with careless grace. Big, silky skins, finished with natural legs and large brushes. Cherry red, grey (dyed red), beige, pointed and brown fox scarfs. Smaller ecarfs in two-skin kit fox, in grey or cross fox markings. (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) CONFIRMED BY PICTURES: _T'here's nothing smarter than straw. Suit hats of ) e g balibuntl, bangkok . . . softer models of taffeta and milan Egyptian Observatory Places Dis- « .. “dress hats” of lacelike hair. Berets, turbans, brims covery 45 Times Distance of of every description . . . worn off the face, . . affording a Earth From Sun. provocative glimpse of softening curls, By the Associated Press. (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) CAIRO, Egypt, April 3.—A photo- graph taken at the Helouan Observatory confirmed, it was stated today, existence of the transneptune planet recently dis- covered by the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. Photographs of the plant were taken March 17, 24 and 27, the body appearing on the sensitive plates after an hour's exposure in each case. The planet is less briiliant than Nep- tune, which formerly was thought to g@ the outermost planet, but it apparently is larger than the earth. Its distance is about 45 times the distance of the earth from the sun. INCREASE FILM BUDGET By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 3.—J. L. Warner, wvice president of First National Studios, announced today that a program calling for expenditure of $17,500,000 on 40 pictures had been decided upon by the company for the 1930-31 period. The budget represents an increase of $6,500,- . 000 over last year. Warner said 10 technicolor films would be made. Wind, Rain and Sun have no terrors for L WASH s FOR IT LAUNDERS Beauty and harmony of color need no longer be iuvifiud range of attractive colors, every one of which is durable. «“\WaSHade" launders easily without streaks, cracks, sags or frays. Look for the “Seal of Quality." ion It is an emblem of p and is found only on shades HADE SHO HOOPER & KLESNER 929 H St N.W. National 4763 George J. Benzing, Mgr. Window shades and awnings tailored 4ayour windows. $1.50 to $2 Handmade Gowns ‘and Pajamas 51 Made by patient fingers . . . there’s a dollar’s worth of sewing in each tiny seam. Espe- cially nice for warm weather . . . Comfortable . . . clean feeling . . . they take any amount of launder- ing and like it. Pure White or Flower Tints Porto Rican and Phil- ippine work . . . dainty bits of applique in con- trasting colors. Pipings and touches of embroid- ery. Pretty nighties and two-piece pajamas. Fine nainsook . . . pure white as well as dainty biue, pink, nile, flesh, laven- der, etc. Some soiled. Sizes 15, 16 and 17 (Main Floor, The Hecht Co.) 3 Fashion’s Easter BrushPaints Gay Frocks and Ensembles $13.95 Frocks, jacket frocks, and en- sembles . . . made in the modern, feminine manner. Piping, but- tons, jabots, bows, tuckings and frills. For street, sporis, busi- ness, afternoon and evening. Sheer prints and nubbed Tweed Demure and elaborate prints . . . flat crepe, dashing tweeds, chiffons, lace (combinations of the two), and classic navy geor- gette. Stunning color combina- tions as well as blue tones, opal- ine pink, gold and brown shades and black and white. Sizes for Misses, Women, Little Women and Larger Women (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) From the Fifth Floor Frocks in Polka Dots and Prints $9.95 “Little” frocks that you will enjoy “from now on” . .. now under a Spring coat . ., . later for shopping and vaca- tion. Jackets, boleros, bows and flaring skirts are featured . . . re- freshing new modes. The Charm of Black and W hite The perennial charm of white against black or dark blue. Spots... varying in size from pin dots to dollars . . . quaint prints . . . con- ventional designs . . . plain shades. Rayon crepes and cotion and rayon prints. Sizes for Misses, women, little women and larger women.