Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1930, Page 4

A4 * THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. HOOVER VICTORY | D. 6, COLLECTS CLIPPINGS ON BYRD VETERANS'BILLO.K LOOMS IN SENATE Hoover Vigorously Denounces Act Which Threatens Tax Increase. weterans (at present $511,000.000 per apnum) by $18.000.000 for the first year, increasing annually untdl it reaches a possible additional sum of $400,000.000 & ¥ bill, as. amended by the Senate committee, will | add directly $102,000,000 the first year, ultimately rising to the addition of a sum of $225.000,000 per annum. Even these estimates are far from including the whole of the potential obligations created by the principles embraced in this legislation and the uncertain added expense by certain amendments to previous legislation. “Mr. Mellon states that the passage of this legislation implies positive in- crease of taxation at the next session of “It does not appear that these bills even represent the real views of the various veterans’ organizations. The American Legion, after careful study as to what they considered the needs of their fellow veterans, proposed legisla- tion which would require an additional expenditure of $35,000.000 per annum. ‘Thus these measures which are before Congress represent an implied increase in expenditure of from three to ten times what these veterans themselves consider would be just. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and other organizations have contended for measures differing entirely from those now proposed. Quotes Hines on Inequalities. “Gen. Hines has pointed out that this legislation goes far beyond immediate necessities, and that, of even more im- portance, it creates grave inequalities, injustices and discriminations - among veterans resulting from the methods adopted or extended in these bills, and ereates further dangers to both the public and the veterans. The very fact that the committees of Congress and the various veterans' associations have themselves been, during the past six months, of many minds upon these questions indicates their extreme diffi- culty. There certainly comes from it all the conclusion that he should either have a sound plan now or should have more time for determination of national policy upon established principles in dealing with these' questions for the future. We must arrive at such a basis as will discharge our manifest national obligation with equity among veterans and to the public. “I do not wish to be misunderstood. There are cases of veterans who are in mneed of help today, who are suffering and to whom I earnestly wish to see generous treatment given. But these situations do not reach anything like the dimensions of these measures. “We have stretched Government ex- penditures in the budget beginning July 1 to the utmost limit of our possible receipts and have even incurred a prob- able deficit, principally for the relief of unemployment through expansion of public construction. Every additional dollar of expenditure means an addi- tional dollar in taxes. This is no time to increase the tax burden of the coun- try. 1 rocognize that such considera- tions would carry but little weight with our people were the needs of our vet- erans the and were we dealing ‘with sound measures, but, as Gen. Hines presents, there are conclusive reasons for opposing an unsound measure which is against the best jnterests of the vet- erans themselves arid places an unjusti- fled load upon the taxpayers at a time when every effort should be made to lighten it. “I do_not believe that just criticism or opposition should arise to such sug- gestions upon full understanding of the situation, for I know that the great body of patriotic men who served in the World War themselves recognize that there are limits to expenditure and there are principles that should be ahered to if we are not to prejudice their interest, both as veterans and citizens.” Secretary Melion said a deficit of over $100,000,000 was in prospect for July 1, 1913, and that, if the reduced income tax rate is to be continued, Ppresent estimates forecast a deficit of $180,00,000. These figures, he added, do not take into consideration expend: tures necessitated by the veterans' measure or other additional legislation. Mellon Letter Quoted. His letter follows: “I have your memorandum stating that the director of the Veterans' Bu- Yeau estimates the cost in the fiscal year 1931 of H. R. 10381, as amended and reported by the Senate finance committee, to be $102,000.000 and the ultimate cost to be $225.000,000 an- nually. You ask me to give you my best judgment as to whether receipts for the fiscal year 1931 will be ade- quate to support this additional bur- den. I regret to say that they will not. “You appreciate, of course, the very great difficulty of estimating revenue 12 months in advance, particularly when, #s under our system, the Government depends so largely on one form of tax. the income tax—which is directly sus- ceptible to fluctuations in business con- ditions. An abcolutely accurate esti- mate would presuppose our ability to forecast general business conditions over the period of the next 12 months, and this is absolutely impossible. H “Based on estimates of expenditures furnished by the director of the budget and on this department’s estimates of receipts. which, I may add, are predi- cated on & not unhopeful attitude in respect of future business developments, the present indications are that the Government will close the fiscal year 1931 with a deficit of over $100,000,000. If the reduced income tax rate is to be maintained and made applicable to 1930 incomes, present estimates fore- | cast a deficit of approximately $180,- 000.000. These figures are, of course, exclusive of any additional burdens to be imposed by new legislation. “I think I should call your attention to the fact that these figures are based on the assumption that interest pay- | ments to be made by foreign govern- | ments in accordance with existing debt settlenient agreements will be paid in United States Government securities, as they have almost universally been paid in the past, rather than in cash. thus constituting an automatic reduction of our national debt, but not making these payments available for current expendi- tures. Even when foreign interest pay- ments have been made in cash, the| Treasury up to the present time has | been in a position to apply them to the reduction of our national debt. This policy has been so well estab- lished over the course of years, and is manifestly so sound, that foreign re- Kflyments, both principal and interest, ave come to be looked upon as definite- ly earmarked for the reduction of our war debt. Moreover, whether these in- terest payments are to be made in securities or cash is dependent on con- ditions wholly without our control. We | are not justified, therefore, in budget- ing upon the assumption that they will | be made in cash. But assuming that they are, and assuming that our Gov- | ernment is willing to set aside its well considered and established program of debt reduction, even then I cannot give you any assurance at the present time, and without taking into considerations new burdens, that we can retain the 1 per cent reduction and not incur the danger of a deficit. 1928 Tax Rate Threatened. appear during the Casualty ington tomorrow might. tomorrew night for a the hospital building DANCERS IN CASUALTY BENEFIT These three dancers, through the Edith Reed Entertainment Bureau, will | Hospital benefit trip of the steamer City of Wash- The boat leaves the Seventh street wharf at 8 o'clock mile trip down the river, the entire proceeds going to d equipment fund. —Star Staff Photo. not point out at this time that this increased burden may necessitate even | higher rates than 1928 revenue act. | “In the present state of business,| accompanied as it must be by an in-| evitable reduction in the national in-| come, the Treasury Department is| vitally interested in not definitely clos- ing the door to the possibility of re- taining the reduced tax rates now in existence. In spite of the figures akove quoted, I am still hopeful that condi- | tions may have shown such m‘;:rove- ment by December as to justify my recommending to you and to the Con- gress a renewal of the action taken last December. The present estimates do not indicate that this is possible. but | this does not mean that we should put ourselves in such a position as to pre- clude the possibility should events take | a favorable course. | “In this connection, I think it is appropriate to remind you of what this | 1 per cent reduction means to the in- | provided for in the come taxpayer, and particularly to the | income taxpayer with a moderate income. “If the 1 per cent reduction is not retained, approximately 2,095,000 taxe payers with net incomes of $10,000 or | less will pay, during the calendar year 1931, approximately $28,000,000 more than they would otherwise pay, thus losing the benefit of a 56 per cent reduction. If we take taxpayers with net incomes of $7,000 or less, they will lose the benefit of a 66 per cent reducs tion in taxes. It will be remembered that about two-thirds of the tax re- duction benefit to individuals was accorded to taxpayers with net incomes of $25,000 or less. “In s0 far as corporations’ are con- cerned, if the rate is restored to 12 per cent they will lose the benefit of ap- proximately a $90,000,000 reduction in their income taxes—at a time when the Government should endeavor to relieve rather than to increase the burdens on ingustry. n conclusion, I can answer your question by stating that legislation in- creasing the expenditures for 1931 by $100,000,000 and more, over and above expenditures as now estimated by the Budget Director, will necessitate the restoration of rates applicable to 1931 income to .the rates provided for in the revenue act of 1928, and it is probable that such increased expenditures may call for even higher taxes in order to maintain & balanced budget. “In fairness to the country, I feel that the Congress should be informed that if expenditures are further in- a;ased now, taxes must be in Decem- Hines Protests Extension. Hines objected particularly to the provisions of the bill extending from 1925 until 1930 the period in which disabilities incurred are to be presumed to have been the result of war or war- time service. This provision, he sald, would affect some 100,000 cases and was “manifest~ ly inequifable” to the many more veter- | ans who could not claim compensation | under its terms. The question is, he said, “whether the Nation s going to assume responsi- bility for disabilities among the 4,500,- 000 veterans which originate as ordi- nary incidents of lif DAWES VISITS OLD AIDE FOR FRIENDLY CHAT Ambassador Goes to Milwaukee to | See Man Who Was His Office | Boy 35 Years Ago. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 23.—Gen. Charles G. Dawes Ambassador to England, became plain “Charley” Dawes yesterday as he tiptoed into & sanitarium here to visit Francis Kil- i kenney, his office boy of more than 35 years ago. Dawes came from Chicago for a chat with the man, now 45, who had grown | up in service with him. Kilkenney obtained his first job when Dawes was | controller of currency during President | McKinley's administration. The lad | became an ardent partisan of his patron and followed him through the vice presidency. Then Kilkenney's health broke and he became an inmate of the Sacred Heart Sanitarium. For more than an hour Dawes and Kilkenney dwelt in the past. They talked of the days under McKinley, of their war experiences together when the young Kilkenney Irishman became a lieutenant and aide to Dawes: of the campaign t at boosted Dawes to the | Vice President’s chair CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Mid-City Citizens' Associa- tion, Thomson Community Center, Twelfth and L streets, 8 p.m. Field day, University Club of Wash- ington, Manor Country Club, 6:30 p.m. Card party. St. John's Episcopal | Church, Parish Hall, Thirty-fourth | street and Rainier avenue, Mount Rainier, Md,, 8 pm. FUTURE. Luncheon meeting, Associated Retall | Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 noon. “But if $100,000,000 or more is to be added to the expenditures already in sight, it 1s perfectly apparent that the 1923 ‘income tax rates must be rstored. and 1 should not be quite fair to the members of both houses and to the Sakpayers of the Upited States if I did | Luncheon meeting, Washington Round ‘Table, University Club, tomorrow, 12:36 | noon. JUNIOR CITIZENS |Miss Ethel Claire Randall to| | ing to an announcement made at a re- | Junior Citizens’ Alliance participate in | invitation, extended by Gov. Dern of | Credit Men of Washington, Ambassador | COACH 1S ENGAGED Direct Dramatic Unit of Alliance. Miss Ethel Claire Randall, a Ihra'rl(‘al" director of many years' experience, has been engaged to coach the Junior Citi~ zens’ Alliance's dramatic unit, accord- cent lawn party, held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Adams for members of the alliance. Miss Randall comes to this junior clvic body, which is now engaged in an energetic campaign for national repre- sentation for the District of Columbia after a long career in the field of the- ater work. Her record includes two years of study under Prof. Baker in the latter's famous “47 Workship” at Har- vard University. She has also been professor of dramatic literature at the School of the Theater, New York City, and an accreditted studeni to the Ab- bey Theater, Dublin, Ireland. Student of Shakespeare. v She studied Shakespeare under both | Dr. J. F. Furniwall and Dr. Edward Dowden and has just completed five years at Sweetbriar College, where she gave instruction in the arts of the theater, Besides directing productions for the | Junior Citizens’ Alliance, Miss Randall will conduct classes In dramatic art under the auspices of the alliance, ‘hich all duly enrolled members of the . C. A" will be invited to atiend free of charge. Talks to Be Given. It also was announced that a policy of providing frequent talks by promi- nent Washingtonians on subjects of in~ terest to young business or professional men and women has been adopted by this junior civic organization. The firsy of these talks will be delivered on the evening of July 11 in the Washington Chamber of Commerce board room, when members will be addressed by Charles W. Darr, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Capt. H. A. Chapman of the District of Columbia Fire Department also will speak, and Chief George S. Watson of the Fire Department will be present as guest of honor, A third subject of discussion at the | lawn party was the proposal that the the annual Labor day policemen’s and firemen's parade. Members were favor- ably disposed toward this suggestion, and plans for the alliance’s presentation are now under way. C. & A. BOND VOIDING PLEA FAILS IN COURT Southern Stockholders Sought to| Intervene in Receivership Proceedings, By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 23.—Federal Judge George A. Carpenter today denied a pe- | tition of Charles Clay Briggs and the Alton Corporation, Bay St. Louis, Miss., stockholders of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, to intervene in receivership proceedings of the railroad. Contending that Eastern bankers had profited to the extent of $40,000,000 from the sale of Chicago & Alton bond issues since 1912, Briggs sought through intervention to, have some of the bonds voided. Judge Carpenter held that lapse of years between the beginning of the re- ceivership in {.\szz and today's petition was one reasoh for refusing the petition. Through his counsel, Bejamin Wham, | Briggs announced he would take his plea to the United States Circuit Court | of Appeals. HOOVER TO SPEAK Accepts Utah Governor's Invitation for Radio Talk June 30. President Hoover today accepted an | Utah, to address by radio on June 30 the governors’ conference at Salt Lake | City. The address will be brief and will be broadcast over both the National and Columbia f 4 FLY Take advantage of an early start by an aggres- sive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free distribution wire-handled fly swatters. Astrology "ylass, Rosicrucian Fellow- ship Study Genter, 907 Fifteenth street, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Ask for one at the main office_of The Star, 11th and Pa. Ave. NW. ON PENSIONS SEEN Tax Increase Threat Is Held Whip to Force Congress Into Line. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Hoover has started a battle with Congress which he is likely to win. He wants the Senate to modify the House bill which would involve an ad- ditional expenditure of more than a hundred millions dollars next year and ultimately a quarter of a billion, dollars every year for the care of war veterans. Stimulated by the fact that Congress overrode the President's veto of the Spanish-American ~ War legislation, there has been pressure to broaden the Government system of compensation by & virtual extension of the pension sys- tem. The Government has been having a hard enough time figuring out how to avoid a deficit at the close of the fiscal | year 1931 next June; but now if the pension_legislation goes through, the administration is prepared to ask for a repeal of previous tax legislation so as to increase income taxes. High-Tax Idea Is Unwelcome. The suggestion of higher taxes is not relished by members of Congress, be- cause a far larger group of voters would be affected by such a step than by the veterans' legislation. The President, moreover, takes the position that Con- gress does not have to pass the pending bills, because they do not “represent the real views of the veterans' organiza- tions. He declares that the American Legion, after a careful study, proposed legisiation which would require addi- tional expenditures of only $35,000,000 per year. Gen. Hines, head of the Vet~ erans’ Bureau, objects to the principles in the proposed bills as departing “ab- solutely from the original conception of assistance’to World War vetcrans based upon inability to earn their living be- cause of injury or disease arising.out of the World War.” “Most certainly we should distin- guish,” says Gen. Hines, “between those veterans whose injuries and disabilities were incurred in service and those whose inabilities have been brought about after service.” The head of the Veterans' Bureau claims that if the principles in the pending bill are adopted the door wouid be opened “to a general pension tem at the same rates of ¢ompensa- tion given to men who actually suffered in the war” and that the potential cost to the Government “may quite well run into hundreds of millions of dollars.” Border Line Cases Puzzle. The difficulty Is that there are somo meritorious cases of disability whose origin it is impossible to determine ex- actly and the Veterans' Bureau is in- clined to recommend that the present law pe liberalized to permit adjudication of porder line cases. There are indications that the Presi- dent_would approve a bill in line with the ideas of the Veterans' Bureau and | there is & sentiment in Congress in favor of a substitute measure. Just the same the whole episode fore- casts a study of the pension problem as it relates to World War veterans, som thing which has for the last few yeais been looming up as a possibility and which now has taken the form of a probability, Heretofore, soldier bonus legislation has been opposed on the ground that the Government could not afford to increase taxes to take care of the vet- erans, beyend the provisions already made. The veterans' organizations have *not relaxed their efforts, however, and as many of their members grow older and need aid, the pressure for action has’ been brewing. With the develop- ment of the Nation's prosperity incame taxes have been gradually reduced so that relatively few persons pay the tax bill. There is likelihood of further governmental expenditures for the vet- erans in the next five years which may not mean increased taxation, but which at least will have the effect of prevent- ing further tax reductions. There are some members of Congress who think that it might have been better to retain a very small tax on the incomes in the lower brackets than to have made so many people exempt from the payment of any taxes to the Federal Govern- ment. (Copyright, 1930.) DIRIGIBLE MOORED British Ship, R-101, Reconditioned and Ready for Trial Flights. CARDINGTON, England, June 23 (#)—The airship, R-101, British dirigible, was hitched to its moorin mast here today preparatory to tii flights this week. Since her last outdoor appearance before Christmas the R-101 has been reconditioned, lightened and her lift- ing capacity increased by 6 tons. When she returns to her shed in the middle of July she will be somewhar further lengthened and a new set of improved oil engines, capable of re- verse action, will be installed. SEVENTH VICTIM FOUND Speed Boat Pilot One of Eight Drowned .in Lake. ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, June 23 (#).—The body of John Meyers, operator of the speed boat which cost the lives of eght prominent Toledoans in Lake Erie last Saturday, was recovered near here yesterday by members of a Coast Guard crew. Meyers' body was the seventh to be recovered and the search will be con- tinued by the Coast Guard tomorrow for Herbert W. Nauts, internal revenue collector, the only victim of the lake tragedy whose body has not been re- covered. - ) k Giving wings to words through pot-books and Wash Day has no place in the modern woman's scheme of thi Hom Laundry Service take care of clothes for he: cleans them thoroughly returns them promptly leaving her time for more important duties. May We Serve You? HOME LAUNDRY Phone AT lantic 2400 MISS NINA M. BUCKLEY, | Who owns what is bélieved to be the most com| extraordinary work by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. newspaper clippings of the admiral since his first crossing of the North Pole by air. | | plete record collected of the | Miss Buckley has collected | ~Star Staff Photo. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, June 23.—Evidence that the universe 15 “committing suicide” was laid before the delegates to the world power conference today by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astronomer. Far from seeking to alarm his audi- ence of engineers, however, the as- vast aurpllel of power which could be drawn from this orgy of self-destruction if the scientists could find a way to harness it. The extreme penetrative power of the cosmic ray discovered by Kohlhoerster and by Robert Andrews Millikan, the American physicist, indicated to Sir Arthur that, the source of the ray prob- ably was the self-destruction of atoms divesting themselves to the last shreds of their energy and passing out of exist- ence. The rays are passing in all directions through space, proceeding from count- less self-slaughtering atoms, and as he sees it the cosmic day is in effect “the last moan of the suicide.” But inasmuch as atomic suicide must be committed by all available atoms be- fore the universe is annihilated, Sir Arthur gives the cosmos as we know it quite a few years to live. As to the possibility of the radiation and reforming itself into new protons and electrons, he expressed skepticism “On this point,” said the aStronomer, “you may guess what you will; I have no light to throw upon it, but don't forget thai although we might provide in this way for the renewing of mat- ter which has discolved away and for the renewing of stars which have died out, there is an inexorable running down of the universe an energy is de- | graded from organized to more disor~ | ganized forms. “Unless we can circumvent the sec- tronomer gave them a vision of the| from suicidal atoms somekow collecting | UNIVERSE COMMITTING SUICIDE. POWER CONVENTION TOLD | | |tuting a hydrogen atom would ond law of thermo dynamtcs—which is | as much as to say that unless we can | make time run backwards—the universe must ultimately reach a state of uni- form changelessness.” | Meanwhile, he indicated, the engi- | neers would find themselves in a para- dise of power—where a_teacup full of | ‘water would equal a modern power sta- | tion—if it could beé discovered how to | inicte the self destruction of atoms when and where wanted. | If only this secret could be found. he continued, “instead of pampering the appetite of our engine with deli- cacies like coal or ofl we shall induce it to work on a plain diet of subatomic energy,” the energy stored away in matter., Astronomical calculations indicated | that subatomic energy could be released | by heating the atom to a temperature | of 40,000,000 degrees centigrade. At | that temperature, theoretically, the ' only electron and one proton consti- “run together and cancel each other,” leav- | arrested. ing nothing but “a splash in the ether representing energy set free,” he said. | Remarking that a temperature of | 1,000,000 degrees centigrade already | had been achieved in a laboratory, Sir Arthur admitted that it still re ned to be proved 40,000,000 degr really would unlock the subatomic storehouse. | S DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist ~ - AFTER FIRM FAILS Larceny of $95,670 l:)hargedk to Harold Russell Ryder, Woody & Co. Partner. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 23.—A grand jury indictment has been' returned against Harold Russell Ryder, 35-year-old | | partner in Woody & Co. bankrupt | brokerage firm, it was learned today. | The indictment charges grand larceny in the first degree. S The firm failed. last Thursday with | losses estimated at from $3,000,000 to | $5,000,0000 Ryder was indicted on | complaint of John Vanneck of the | Equitable Holding Corporation, who de- | manded accounting for $95,670 he alleged he gave the firm to buy stocks | which were never delivered. Tomorrow Ryder will go before a | bankruptcy referee. It is expected that | accountants will have discovered by that time how much of the $7,000,000 assets of Woody & Co. is left. . Among those whose names and phone numbers were found among Ryder's effects' were John F. Curry, Tammany lgader; Thomas F. Mc- Andrews, secretary to Mayor Walker; Charles S. Hand, tormer secretary to the mayor; Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Betty Starbuck, Jean Ackerman 'and Irene Delroy, actresses. Miss Starbuck’s | mother said she and her daughter were old friends of Ryder. Ryder has resented references to him | as a big Broadway spender. - It was revealed that Ryder gave a check for $2,500 recently to George U Harvey, borough president of Queens, | who explained the gift was to be used if he became a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for governor. Tardy Tourist Dangerous. CHERBOURG, France, June 23 (#).— It is dangerous to be in the way of a tourist in a hurry to catch his boat. Alfred Clark, an Englishman running on a pler for a steamer, crashed into Julian Lesaulnier, stevedore, knocking him into_the water. O. C. Herring of Easton, Pa., an enlisted man of the United States battleship Arkansas, dived off the pier to the rescue. Clark was | Kahn, Inc.; BUREAU T0 ELECT Five New Trustees to Be Chosen at Luncheon on Friday, Five new trustees will be chosen at the annual meeting of the Better Busi- ness Bureau at a luncheon Priday at 12:30 o'clock at the National Press Club. The names of Y. E. Booker of Y. E. Booker & Co., Gerald Grosner of Gros- ner’s, Thomas E. Jarrell of T. E. Jar- rell & Co.,, C. H. Pope of the Munsey Trust Co. and F. P, H. Siddons of the American Security & Trust Co. have been submitted to the nominating com- mittee, officers said today. Present trustees to be nominated for re-election are: Edward C. Baltz, Per- petual Building Association; Isaac Beh- rend, M. Philipsborn & Co.; B. B. Bur- gunder, 8. Kann's Sons Co.; A. C. Case, the Palais Royal; William G. Galliher, 1010 Vermont i Ralph Gold- smith, Lansburgh & Bro.: E. C. Graham, National Electric Supply Co.. Harry W. Hahn, Willlam Hahn & Co. James Hardey, Woodward & Lothroj H. G. Hoskinson, Riggs National Bank; Sylvan King, King's Palace; M., A. Leese, M. A. Leese Optical Co.: John D. Leonard, Washington Savings Bank: Louis Levay, Prazee-Potomac Laundry; H. H. Levi, the Hecht Co.; Herbert J. Rich, B. Rich's Sons; E. Rubel, Underwood & Underwood; H. L. Rust, H. L. Rust Co.. Herman M. Shapiro. Peerless Furniture Co.: Abraham Sig- mund, M. Brooks Cp.; W. W. Spaid, W. B. Hibbs & Co.: Anton Stephan, 26 Jackson place; Arthur Sundlun, A. Ben T. Webster, Boss & Phelps, and Claude H. Woodward, Mount Vernon Savings Bank. The nominating committee is com= posed of B. B. Burgunder, chairman; Howard Moran. H. J. Rich, Willlam G. Galliher and Thomas E. Jarrell, Louis Rothschild, director, will make his annual report. Coaching Season Opens. NEWPORT, R. 1, June 23 (#).—Mrs, Muriel Vanderbilt ,Church has insug- urated the coaching season. She enter- tained at the Clambake Club, dri: guests from her hom: in a coach four. e Red velvet rosettes were bridies. ™ DIAMOND WEDDING BANDS Diamond Wedding Band, solid platinum, set with 43 beautiful, fiery ‘cut stones, in channel effect—no metal shows I be ~ $18 to $400 | Spehill’ .ol tween the stones. $ 125 Members Amsterdam Diamond Exchange A. 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