Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1931, Page 15

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 11, | RECEPTION 0 OPEN lll 15th St Next fo Keith' 66 MILES ON 1 GALLON?| 'NEW AUTO GAS SAVER| ‘Walter Critchlow, 3879 A Street, | on 1 gallon; sutos, motoreycles, ¥ To quickly introduce, the Inventor | offers llDM’DOO cash prizes for best | Sum ade; and wants County, tate, Salesmen, Arclfl. $250.00— | .00 month. offers to send | e !or trial. Write him. for one -Advertisement. Jer. A O. Homan, 1830 Wiscomsin Ave. this city, says, “No Asthma B “rodi s A NEW MAN Buone West 2460 or write today io W. K. HART AND COOLEY RADIATOR ENCQI:OSURES | = | women, representing every State in the o call give Formation -na estimates. HOWARD S. GODDARD = Phone | 7 Este Loans | (D. C. Property Only) 6% No Commission Charged | You can take 12 years to pay off your loans without the expense of renewing. $1.000 for $10 per month, including interest and principal. Larger or smaller loans at proportion- i | ate rates. Perpetual Buildi Association || Prevengion of Unemployment Is; | ventatives of Unemployment" WOMEN'S MEETING, Directors of General Club' Federation to Hold Midwin- f ter Sessions in Capital. A reception Tuesday night will open the Midwinter meeting of directors of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, to be held at the national head- quarters, 1834 N street, beginning Wed- nesday morning and continuing through Saturday of this week. Hoover to Receive Board. A feature of the meeting will come Thursday morning when President Hoover will-receive the members of the board, and immediately afterward Mrs. Hoover will welcome the club women. One afternoon during the meeting wili be given over to a pilgrimage to An- napolis, where, after being conducted through the Naval Academy, the women will be received by Admiral and Mrs. Robison. A trip will also be made to the Occoquan Prison. Sir Wilmott Lewis, London corre- spondent, recently knighted by the British government, will be the Thurs- day evening speaker; Senor Manuel y Santander, Peruvian Ambassador, will discuss inter-American relations before the group; Dr. Lilllan Moller Gilbreth, head of the Women'’s Division of Presi- dent Hoover's Emergency Committee for Employment, will discuss the part played by women in solving the unem- ployment problem, and Dr. James S. Plant, director of the Essex County Child Guidance Clinic, Newark, N. J.. will_discuss the recent White Conference on Child Health and ?m- tection. Conferences to Be Held. In addition to the regular sessions, at which the speakers will be heard and reports and discussions of federation | lems and policies will take place, ' will hold confer- mm. Ariz., next April, will | conduet & conference, and Mrs. Thors | H. Seaton, chairman of the Art Commit~ tee of the Twentieth Century Club of ‘Washington, will sponsor a luncheon for those interested in art. The latter wm be held at the Carlton Hotel, with Mrs. Willlam N. Harder, chairman of the Department of Fine Arts of the General Federation, as principal speaker. Mrs. John F. Sippel, Baltimore, presi- dent of the General Federation, will | preside over all sessions, which are ex- to be attended by about 100 United States o CONFERENCE TO VIEW s JOBLESS QUESTION Aim of Welfare Congress January 26-27. “Permanent Pre- will be held January 26-27 at the Hamiiton Hotel. Participating will be the social action department of the National Catholic | Welfare Council, the social justice com- mission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. and the social service commission of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. | Speakers and their subjects for the Wu-hnm Edwin S. Smith, | e Employers Can Do”: Fred Hoehler, “What & Municipal Govern- ment Can Do"”; Leifur Magnusson, “International Aspects of the Problem,” and Willlam T. Foster, “The Road to A conference on || Plenty.” Established 1881 Largest in Washington Assets Over $23,000,000 Cor. 11th and E N.W. eoANES BERRY. President BALTZ, Secretary R "Lm-n -in Sunlq night at 8 I Big Priceé Reductions HUPMOBILE Free “f_heeling MOTT MOTORS, Inc. 1520 14th St. N.W. IR ATTIES LA GUARANTEED HOMEOWNERS Let Us Install This American Kadiator Co. HOT-WATER PLANT Now—Pay in A little down installs it. A little monthly pays for it. At the afternoon session John P. Frey || will discuss “Wages and Hours” and George Soule will speak on “Are Busi- ness Cycles Avoidable?” Speakers scheduled for the closing day include Dr. John R. Commons, John E. Edgerton, Dr. A. E. Suffern, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Darwin J. | Meserole and Edward E. Hunt. The meeting will close with a banquet to be addressed by Rev. Dr. Harry F. Ward, A’ Ryan and Rabbi ENGINEERING COUNCIL | TO STUDY UNEMPLOYMENT Annual Meeting Planned Friday, and Saturday Will Discuss Business Situation. The American Engineering Oouncil | | will consider the question involving un- ' employment at its annual meeting the Hotel Mayflower Priday and Sa | urday. | the call of Col. Arthur| wwa of President Hoover's lmmency Employment Committee, the Engineering Council will attempt to | discuss the actual facts of unemploy- | ‘ment and of relief effort, temporary and | permanent, throughout American in- | dustry. Carl E. Grunsky of San Fran- eisco is president of the council, a body of 72 representatives of 25 national and local member organizations. ‘Two-year-old Jean Olb.on recently | traveled unaccompanied from Canada to London to visit her grandmother. Three Years! Call our graduste heating e A LD I e e Includes 18- in. boller, 6 l‘ltlmh low as 10-Year Written Guarantee AMERICAN 'HEATING Engineering Co. 907 N. Y. Ave. NW. ] Just Phone Nat’l 8421 Belgian Ambassador ,puzzled other | ! Paul May, Belgian Ambassador t| the United States, who succeeds Prince | Albert de Ligne. May is one of the oldest members of the Belgian diplo- matic service and was formerly the Belgian government's representative at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is sched- | uled to sail for this country some time | in February. Below, Mrs. May. A. P. Photos. DR. BALFOUR TO SPEAK | Mayo Foundation Chief of Burgery Here Next Saturday Night. Dr. Donald C. Balfour, chief of surgery of the Mayo Foundation and | professor of surgery at the University | of Minnesota Medical School, will ad- dress members of the local profession at & meeting Saturday night at 8 o'clock to be held in the auditorium of the | District of Columbia Medical Society, 1718 M _street, under auspices of the George Washington University Medical | soc:ecy Dr. William Thornwall Davis, presi dent of the George Washington Uni versity Medical Soflfl.y will preside. l | | WCOY PREDICTED 1.5, CENSUS IN 1940 = Died . With Figures ants Praise Intuition. Joseph 8. McCoy, whose life was de- voted to furnishing any branch of the Government with figures on any sub- Ject it desired, as his last job made an estimate that the population of the FflTflmd States would be 141,302,000 in ‘The work was just about done Thurs- dty nlght ‘when he left his office after telling his assistants he would revise the estimate next day. Priday he died k. | with the figures still on his des] Estimate Appeals to McCoy. For 41 years when estimates of tax collections, income from revenue bills, losses by changes in laws, population or other figures were wanted, the appeal went to McCoy. Mr. McCoy, seized with a sudden at- tack while driving his tomobile at Fourteenth and C streets, managed to steer the machine to & at the curb Jjust before he died. Intuition, his assistants said, played a great part in his work, for he seemed to know the answer to questions that rsons and required end- less mathematical calculations. Used Chinese Counting Board. In making his calculations he fre- quently turned to his Chinese counting | board and soon reached an answer that 141,- 131 302,000 on Desk—Assist- | The 1940 estimate population used by the the capita ry in of cl.rl:ullflon nhmn the tes the United would increase 0.0 131, uaooo in ll 133,824,000 in 1936, 135, l!'l 557000 in 1938 and nonlooo m |RADIO TOPICS ANNGUNCED Sons of American Revolution to Give Program Thursday. ‘The committee in charge of fl&) broadcasting from the national head- quarters of the Bociety of Sons of the American Revolution yesterday an- nounced the speakers and subjects on its program for Thursday at 8 p.m. over station WJSV. Prank B. Steele, secretary general of the soclety, will speak on “Influences. Inimical to Our General Welfare,” and Prof. Selden M. Ely will speak on “Our National Heritage.” These addresses | are educational in character. ASK SALE PERMISSION ‘The District Commissioners yesterday asked Congress for .authority to sell a small plot of ground near Thirty-ninth street and Cathedral avenue, which was a powder-house site for the munici- pality of Georgetown many years ago. Commissioners explained that parcel 15 (0o small o be of any use to the city, measuring only 40 by 40 feet, and that it is situated in the center of the property of the West- chester Development Corporation. The bill' drafted by the city heads would authorize sale of the powdebhouu site to the corporation for $560. LANSBURGH’S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 No Connection With Any Other Washington Store Portable Electric Sewing Machines A handy little machine that can be taken from one room $o another, Full size sewing head. Complete with Attachments—Motor Base and Cover *39 SEWING MACHINES—THIRD FLOOR. Nothing We Can Say About These Coats Will Convince You as Much as Actually Seeing the Fabric and Fur Sale of Just 85 New Fur-Trimmed Coats We Were Fortunate in Securing Even This Small Number to Sell at the Price of $39.75 to $49.75 Values If you've shopped for a coat, you know how hard it is to find really good looking ones for $28! These have a regal beauty—of fab- ric, of fine details, and imaginable! Choose From .and Fashion- the loveliest fur sets These Rich Right Furs Long, fluffy, pointed black furs, caracul and pieced skunk generously used on crepe and trico broadcloths; 14 to 44 and 4214 to 4615 COAT SHOP—SECOND FLOOR. LANSBU RGH’S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 No Connection With Any Other Washington Store 1931—PART ONE. LANSBURGH'S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 No Connection With Any Other Washington Store. A Surprise for Mothers and Daughters A Special Sale! Frocks for Tots From One of Our Best Makers Plain and printed broadcloth with $ ‘59 contrasting collars, and embroidery; never-rip crotch in bloomers; hems. Only three styles sketched. More elaborate than the $1.59 dresses, with faggoting on collars, rows and rows of smocking, and fine em- broidery. Only two styles sketched. Mail and Phone Orders Filled While Quantity Lasts TOTS' SHOP—FOURTH FLOOR Good Silks Have Never Been as Inex- pensive as They Are Now at Lansburgh’s Imagine! Fine Quality Canton Crepe or Flat Crepe Our Usual $2.45 Quality YARD with the smart pebble finish— flat crepe with a lovely soft suede-like surface— fascinatihgly new—of the famous Lansburgh quality—yet only $1.69 a yard! Colors for Present Wear—Colors New for Spring Chinese Gold Arabian Red Powder Pink Watermelon Pink Hilite Blue Clemates Blue Woodland Green Muscade Beige Amulet Blue Rose Ceder Ocean Green Mother Goose W hite Navy Blue Clair Sandy Beige Buddha Green Chukker Green Copperglo Rouge Red Challenge Blue Talisman Red Tropic Sun Corinthian Green Eggshell Blue Jade Flesh Black These Fhocks Will Cost You Little at This Sale Price* Above: McCall Pattern 6357 Size 36 45¢ Material ... $7.61 $8.06 Left: Butterick Pattern 3633 Size 36 Material 3 50¢c ..$6.55 $7.03 SILKS—THIRD FLOOR L ANSBURGH'’S