Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1930, Page 26

ARINEOFFGERS GET DECORATIONS Medals Given for Valor While Fighting Bandits in Nicaragua. Four Marine Corps officers yesterday received decorations fer valor in Nica-| ragua from Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke amid the| glare of motion picture lights and the! click of still and movie cameras. | The ceremony took place at 11 o'clock | inthe office of the Secretary of the| Navy. with the officers wearing their bright blue uniforms and decorations | they have earned on foreign fields. Lieut. Col. Charles R. Sanderson, a native Washingtonian, who lives at 2320 | Tracy place and is on duty at Marine Corps headquarters here, Teceived ‘the | Distinguished Service medal for effi- clency as supply officer and quarter- master of the Marine brigade in Nica- ragua when the bandit fighting was at its hottest. - | Maj. Louis M. Bourne, jr. came up! from the Marine post in Quantico, Va.,| to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross for dashing across the Gulf of | Mexico in 13 hours and 45 minutes from Miami, Fla., ta Managua, Nicaragua, in a spectacular aerial flight. and for bat- tling the Nicaraguan bandits from the air. First Lieut. Vernon M. Guyman and First Lieut. Clarence J. Chappell ob- tained the Navy Cross for their courage in engaging in battle with the bandits from their airplane. Mr. Jahncke read each citation as he presented each officer with the decora- tion. High ranking officers of the Ma- rine Corps participated in the cere- mony. SOCIAL AGENCIES COMMITTEE ELECTS Elwood Street and Walter S. Ufford Again Are Chairman and Vice Chairman. At the annual meeting of the Council of Social Agencies yesterday in the Y. W. C. A. Building, Elwood Street and ‘Walter S. Ufford were re-elected chair- man and vice chairman, respectively, of the committee on social service ex- change. ‘The members of the executive com- mittee, also re-elected, are Miss Mattie Gibson, Rev. Lawrence J. Shehan, Oscar Leonard, Miss A. Patricia Morse, George W. Phillips and Mrs. John W. Davidge. John B. Dawson, director of the New Haven, Conn., community. fund and chairman of the Social Service Ex- change committee of the Association of Community Chests and Councils, was the principal speaker. He explained the ‘welfare work that is being done through the exchange. Mr. .Ufford gave a brief outline of the history of the Social Serv- ice Exchange in Washington. Mrs. Mary F. C. Leute, executive sec- retary, told of the changes made in equipment and methods of registration to bring the exchange up to date with- out stopping its service. CANADIAN CITY CLERK FOUND DEAD IN VAULT Wife Tells Police He Left Home at 4 AM. to Go to Office in Fear of Suspected Prowlers. By, the Associated Press. ALBERNTA. British Columbia, April 24—Authorities today vainly were seek- ing a motive for the mysterious shoot- ing of City Clerk Martin M. Stephens, | whose body was found in a vault of the City Hall after the building was de- stroyed by fire. His wife told the police he had been | worried since seeing two men pmwnngl about the City Hall on Tuesday and had got up at 4 am. and gone to the office. | The theory was advanced that he may have found the vault open and was shot | down while making an investigation. The annual audit of the city’s books had been started Tuesday by F. H. Kidd, a_chartered accountant of Vic- toria. He said he had checked the cash balance and it had seemed in order. The safe at the City Hall had not been opened since the fire, but au- thoritles said it was not believed to contain much cash, as Stephens had made a deposit at the bank Tuesday. —_— Road Contract Awarded. Quartermaster Gen. De. Witt has con- tracted with the Carson & Gruman Co. of .this city for the construction of a service road from the main highway in the reservation at Fort Myer, Va. to the new radio transmitting station on | that reservation at a cost of $2,871. ‘This Magic Spray Opens Up Stuffed Nostrils in 3 Minutes | dustries. Lieut. Clarence J. Chappell stand to the THE EVENING GOVERNMENT REWARDS VALOR OF MARI A quartet of “Devil Dog” officers who yesterday received from the hand of Acting Secretary of the Navy Jahncke (center) decorations for outstanding feats in the campaign against bandits in Nicaragua. the left are First Lieut. Vernon M. Guyman and Lieut. Col. Charles R. Sanderson. right. Maj. Louis M. Bourne, jr., and First STAR, WASHINGTON, Flanking Mr. Jahncke on —star staff photo. SCHOLARSHP TES SDISHPPROVED District School Authorities Refuse to Participate in Edison Competition. Reiteration of the school authorities' stand in refusing to approve the Edison scholarship competition this year was forthcoming at the Franklin ‘Adminis- tration Blillding yesterday following re- ceipt here of a_telegraphic statement from Prank R. Schell, assistant to the president of the Thomas A. Edison In- In his statement, Mr. Schell insisted that the scholarship award, made, he said by Mr. Edison himself, is offered solely “to stimulate interest of school boys all over the country in research,” and not to serve the ends of ‘‘commer- cial publicity” as, he declared, the Washington school board believed. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, explained today that when the Board of Education approved the competition last year it had no’ idea that an annual contest was being launched. At that time it was an- nounced the winner would be “Edison’s successor.” He added that offers of scholarships threugh contests of various sorts are being received almost weekly by the school authorities and that most of them are turned down without formal board action because, after careful study, they are found to have less scho- lastic’ worth to the competing pupils MAKE THIS A GQOD SPRING Keep the bowels open, the system clean and free from impurities that poison and bring on colds, W'headaches and all the rest of the troubles that come from biliousness due to constipa- tion. Ask your druggist today for Dr. Boice’s Prescription Tablets and insist on getting them from your druggist. - Large box, 25c. Money-back guarantee. Reduced from G STREET AT ELEVENTH than they have commercial value to ment, went into detail in explaining | the 154 projects provided for in the 1. been made public from time to time, as the donors. The Board of Education refused to | approve the competition at its meeting a week ago today. the RIVERS AND i-.IARBORS BILL" = APPROVED BY COMMITTEE i Middle and Northwest Representa- | tives to Protest’ Erie-Oswego Canal Project. | By the Associated Press. Enactment of - the approximately | $110,000,000 ommibus rivers and - har- bors . hill was recommended to the | House yesterday in a formal report b the rivers and harbors committee, whil a group of Middle and Northwest Rep- | resentatives arrranged to meet today | to protest inclusion 4n_the measure of | the Erie-Oswego Canal project. | The committee report, a bulky docu- | W. M. Moses & Sons Public Confidence F Street at Eleventh - For .F riday Only Pe’pp‘erell' Sheets 81x90 Size The Linen Shop, First Floor e PALAIS ROYAL TELEPHONE DISTRICT 4400 Frankly! They’ve Lingered Too Long to Please Us! 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Glove Section, Pirst Floor F Street at Eleventh National 3770 After-Easter Clearance Tailored Suits $29.75 to $69.50 Were $39.75 to $98.50 Suits with smart jackets, flared and plaited skirts and attractive silk blouses, all deliggtfully feminine. Telga, sharkskin, coverts, tweeds, twills and many novelty fabrics. Sizes 14 to 44. 10 Dresses 20 Dresses 318 328 Were $39.75 Were $29.75 to $69.50 ¢ Street and afternoon models in odd sizes and colors, greatly reduced for clearance. The Apparel Shop, Second Floor In the Opportunity Shop New Arrivals in Smart Dresses $10 The newest styles in printed crepes so popular this season. Printed chiffons with smart little jackets; plain crepes and georgettes; wash crepes in plain and pastel shades. Sleeveless and long sleeve models. Sizes for junior misses, misses and women. . Coats for Spring ~and Summer ¥15 Dress and sports coats of broadcloth, basket- weave, covert twill, tweeds. Capes, high-fitted waistlines or straight-line effects, string belts. Navy, oxford, tan, green and black. Sizes for misses and women, The Opportunity Shop, Second Floor Allen-A Chiffon Stockings, $1- | Smart chiffon stockings, semi-fashioned to fit snugly at ankle, calf and knee. In the smart shades that are most popular now. Hoslery Section, Pirst Floor Daytime Frocks, $1.95 New arrivals in printed dimity, lawn, linene, broadcloth, percale or pique, trimmed with ruffles, flares or lace. Sleeveless, short or cape sleeves, with or without collars. Datime Procks, Lower Floor Smart_Handbags, $2.95 An exceptionally smart group at so little a price, Plain leathers, grains, combinations, bright tapes- tries, silks, tweeds and many others. Handbag Section, First Floor 135 Bar Harbor Chairs 788 They are not Winter dresses, but left overs from the early Spring ship- ments, and from our final last Summer shipments—Ilight coi'ors and mate- rials that will be increasingly useful from !Eis time on. (That's why we offer them NOW at this final clearance price.) 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