Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1931, Page 26

COMMUNIST AGTS DRAW LEGION FIRE Montgomery Veterans’ Meet- ing at Rockville Aimed at Reds in America. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, ‘ January 15.— Sponsored by the various American Legion posts and auxiliaries of the county, and with approximately 600 ns in attendance, a meeting aimed at commuristic activities in this coun- try was held in the high school audi- torium here last evening. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, presi- dens general of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the first president of the American Legion Auxiliary, and Maj. Gen. Amos A. Pries, formerly chief of the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army, were the principal speakers, both pointing out the dangers of communistic propaganda and decrying a tendency to under esti- mate its seriousness. Declared Real Menace. Mrs. Hobart, who has been promi- fent in the anti-communistic cam- paign that has n progress throughout the country, particularly by patriotic organizations, stated that her investigations had convinced her that the teaching of Communism had gogrwed sufficiently in this country be regarded a real menace to Gov- ernment, home and religion. She told of having heard a prominent worker in the cause declare that Nation-wide unempleyment migh result in the over- throw of this Government and referred to the possibility of communtstic con- nection with the existing unemploy- ment situation in the country. She also mentioned hearing another agi- tator predict that the Government's downfall would eventually be accom- plished through the ballot. Maj. Gen. Fries referred to the de- plorable condition of the Russian peo- ple under Soviet rule, declaring their situation to be most hopeless and the end not yet in sight, and charged Rus- sia is under the domination of the “worst band of cutthroats that ever ruled a_ people.” He stated that one way to help the Russian people and to handicap the Communists in their ac- tivities would be to refuse to buy Rus- sian goods. He criticized Protestant ministers for preaching pacifism and made a plea for adequate national de- fense. Letter From Gen. Pershing. ‘Warner E. Pumphrey, commander of the Henderson-Smith-Edmonds Ameri- can Post_of Rockville and head of the General Committee of Arrange- ments, called the meeting to order and troduced Col. George Henderson of Cumberland, department commander of Maryland, as the presiding officer. Col. Henderson _addressed the gathering briefly, explaining what the American FORTUNE LOST BY EX-PREMIER TO KEEP FIRM'S GOOD NAME Stanley Baldwin Took Heavy Losses in_lron Trade " to Save Investors. Held on to Stock Despite Drop From $14.60 to 40 Cents a Share. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, England, January 15—Former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin revealed here last niglit' that a large part of his personal fortune had been dissipated ause he had kept it in the British iron trade. Shares which were worth £3 (about $14.60) when he became premier in 1923, he said, were worth 20 pence (40 cents) now. “It may have been bad business on my part” Mr. Baldwin sald. “But when you have an old name in a busi- ness against which nething ever has been said, and when you know the public comes into the business on the strength of that name, it is an im- possibility to throw your shares on the market, knowing that in all human probability the loss will fall on them, not you.” STANLEY BALDWIN. ‘The former premier's ancestors were in the iron trade in the time of Charles IL When Mr, Baldwin was financial sec- retary of the Treasury in 1919, he pre- sented 20 per cent of his personal for- tune to the country for the reduction of the national debt. The gift amount- ed to about $600,000, and for years the name of the donor was not made public. jon exists for and referred particu- larly to the Maryland Department. He He read a letter from Gen. John J. Pershing to Comdr. Pumphrey, in which the -distinguished officer expressed in- terest in the meeting and its object and conveyed his regrets at being unable to attend. Mrs. Estelle Hunt Dean, who was ac- companied on the plano by her dafigh- ter, Miss Helen Dean, sang several se- Jections, including “The Star Spangled Banner” and “America,” and the Drum Corps of Victery American Legion Post, No. 4, of Washington, participated in the program. Under the direction of Scoutmaster Frank Overcast, members of the Rockville Boy Scout Troop served | as ushers. The invocation and bene- | diction were by Rev. Millard F. Minnick | of Christ Episcopal Church, Rockville. |7 Commitfee on Arrangements. The Committee on Arrangements was composed of Comdr. Pumphrey of the Rockville Post; Maj. Howard W. Cutler, commander of the Cissel-Saxon Post of Silver Spring; Albert ‘Wilson, com- mander of the Norman B. Price Post of Sandy Spring; Miss Lucy Simpson and Mrs. Paul Clark, presidents, respec- tively, of the Rockville and Silver Spring auxiliaries, and Mrs. Helen Weedon of R ding the meeting, Mrs. Weedon, ta whose efforts the success of the meeting was largely due, and her sister, | Miss Mary Pumphrey of ‘Rockville, en- tertained dinner at uflmt‘:lr;g: ir _ guest a6 “u. P‘lsluu. ‘Mrs. Hobart, at here, . and Established Over Fifty Years Decidedly Reduced Prices on HENDERSON FURNITURE MANY BED ROOM & DINING ROOM SUITES Reduced 15% to 33Y3% ALL LAMPS 259, to 50%, Off Regular Prices ALL SMOKING CABINETS 259, OFf Regular Prices ALL TEA CARTS 33Y3% ‘Off Regular Prices MANY ODD CHAIRS, TABLES, DESKS AND BOOKCASES, ETC 159, to 25%, Off Regular Prices The savings are greater than we have offered for some years. be convinced. James B. Fine Furniture and Come in tomorrow and HexbpErsoN Interior Decorating 1108 G Street—Phones: District 777 A Great Two-Day CLEARAWAY of Sorosis Quality $10.50 to $16.50 Evening slippers of exquisite im- ported brocades in gold or silver with matching kid trims . . . tintable bro- cades . . . gold or silver ki one-strap styles. and Other Footwear Shoes at 3 $7 45 d opera or $4.50 to $7.50 Slippers at Leisure slippers — mules, bridge and pyjama slippers in satin, leather, brocade and other fabrics— ostrich trimmed and heel-strap hules —week-end slippers in zipper bags. Jellef’s Shoe S d’Orsays, $3.45 hop—Street Floor. Miss Helen Dean, Maj. and Mrs. Howard ‘W. Cutler, Col. Henderson, Comdr. and Mrs. Pumphrey and Miss Charlotte Pumphrey. 1 PUT OFF OIL PROBE Senate Committeemen Unable to Hear R. 8. Kelley Charges. The Senate Lands Committee today postponed consideration of the charges by Ralph 8. Kelley, former field agent of the General Land Office, of irregu- larities in the disposition of the Gov- ernment’s oil shale lands. Members of the committee were un- able to attend the scheduled meeting. The committee was to take up the reso- L\‘mon proposing & senatorial investiga- lon. England’s death rate has decreased one-half in the last 50 years. JUGOSLAVIA FINDS - 835000000 LOAN Reported Negotiations Sur- prise, Since Stronger Coun- tries Have Failed. ' BY CONSTANTINE BROWN., Negotiations for a loan of $35,000,000 ‘between the Jugoslav government and a group of international bankers have been virtually completed, according to ports received in Washington. The eading banking houses participating in this loan are: Banque d'Union Paris- ienne, which will handle the major part of the loan to be subscribed in Paris; the Rothschild Bank, representing the British interests, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York. This loan will be issued at 96 and will bear 6 per-cent interest, according to reliable informa- tion. News Causes Comment. The news that Jugoslavia was able to find a loan in the international mar- ket in these days of political unrest is causing & good deal of comment in diplomatic quarters here. Other more important and more powerful countries, offering a more substantial profit to the promoters and the eventual sub- scribers, have been knocking without avail at the doors of American bankers. ‘They were told that the New York foreign bond market was top-heavy and that no foreign loan could be float- ed successfully under the present po- litical circumstances. The fact that Jugoslavia, & compara- tively small state, was able to obtain what more important countries have not been able to, surprises most people. Yet careful examination of the situa- tion would prove that international bankers will always find money when they see a possibility of doing & profit- able business. First, money is cheap in the world today and a loan ylelding 6 per cent is an_attractive proposition, if it offers sufficient guarantees of being repaid. Second, the Jugoslav loan is made for strictly economic purposes.. The bank- ers have specifically provided, it is Senate Reporter Moved to $50 Gift by Caraway Speech: Yy for relief work in Arkansas, stated in well informed circles, that ail the monies advanced to Jugosiavia will have to be employed only for economic purposes. These have been clearly in- dicated by the Jugoslav government in the conversations with the banks' rep- nun:flvea. l;ob a centthnl the loan can used for any other purposes without “the specific consent of the bankers. Finally, the bankers are con- vinced that they are taking no .risk, since the internal political situation in Jugoslavig is reported to be stable. versations for this loan started in Belgrade a year ago. At that time a, representative of the Rothschild Bank, after & visit to Belgrade, re] acd- versely, as the antagonism between the Serbs and Croats was at its height, and it looked as if a revolution might break out at any moment. ‘Then King Alexander took the mat- ter in hand and established a dictato ‘This apparently has been a suc: ‘The bankers’ agents in Jugoslavia have reported that the country as a whole has accepted the King’s dictator- ship as the only solution for settling the arguments between Serbian . and Croatian politiclans, Today, it is said, the King-dictafors enjoys the complete loyalty of his subjects. ‘Under these circumstances the Roths- child Bank agreed to join the other two banking groups and Jugoslavia ru granted the loan. This loan will be fol- lowed by & more important one if the first issue is floated successfully. (Copyright, 1931.) HONOR LEE AND JACKSON ‘The Midwinter entertainment and ball of the Soclety of Virginia, sched- uled to take place at the Willard Ho- tel Friday night, January 23, will be given in honor of Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson, whose birth an- ‘niversaries occur this month. 4 The feature program' being arranged for the occasion is under the direction of Mrs. Maude Howell. 4JANUARY - FEATURE VALUE! _ANSBURGH'S | 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 00000000000000009000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 occasion—in sizes 0000000000 9000000000006 No Connection With Any Other Washington Store Beginning Tomorrow at 9:15 A.M. In the Inexpensive Shop—Second Floor Sale of 300 New Spring Frocks Sketched Left to Right Turquoi fur, $7.74. e blue, with white. Rust red, with embroid- ered dots, $7.74. Bright _ blue, A with ecrw 7.74. Navy and white - printed frock, $7.74. ] \ New Prints—Smart Crepes Flattering Chiffons—Fur-Trimmed Sleeves—New High Shades You can tell at a glance they are NEW— but it will take two good looks at their price tags to be convinced they’re only $7.74! Frocks in the new color contrasts—frocks with fur, bead and lace trimming! Frocks for every 14 to 20 and 38 to 44. INEXPENSIVE SHOP—SECOND FLOOR | DOHERTY CHARGES U. . BUCK-PASSING' Head of Cities Service Co. Declares National Resources Are .Being Wasted. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 15.—Henry L. head of .Cities Service Co.,|ting Doherty, in full-page advertisements published in ne today charges the United States with “passing the buck” in con- servation of oil and- that meanwhile the national “I have no fight are being wasted. with our Federal officials who have been afraid to take & firm stand on this oil matter,” he says, “for I doubt if they would have gotten any place in a fight with a great line of oil barons, but the situ- ation has now gotten so bad that many of these oll barons are themselves frightened and, I believe, now is the time to . -his statement, issued simultane- % g ] £ i, i ] E i i o i : g § 5 £ 3 2 Lt 55 E 3? i : £ 8 £ : g : i 2 g f 5§ ge E D ! g i i “We could not get oil business beca: pe: buy out first the little producer -l:ld then the little refiner at v.gelr own price.” He contended ofl was the Nation's most important munition of war and its exhaustion would not only invite other nations to make war upon us, but ;fi‘:fld handicap us in the conduct of g would Large number of beads, flints and arrowheads have been unearthed at Neolithic village believed to be 5,000 years old. Lindenthal Cologne, on the site of a | Fri 25 CAPITAL SCHOOLS ON ACCREDITED LIST, Seven of Washington’s Public Senior High Institutions Are Given Approval. Twenty-five secondary schools of the District of Columbia, including seven of the public senior high schools, are contained in the list of “accredited” schools for 1931 published by the com= mission on secondary schools of the Association of Colleges and Secondary d | Schools of the Middle States and Mary- land. ‘The 25 local institutions listed are: v | Academy of the Holy Cross, Armstrong Technical High School, Business High School, Central High School, Chevy Chase School, Devitt School, Dunbar High School, h Eastman School, Georgetown Visitation Convent, Gunston Hall, Holton-Arms School, Immaculata Seminary, Maret School, McKinley Technical High School, Miss Madeira’s School, Mount Vernon Seminary, Notre Dame Academy, St. Alban’s School, the iends School, National Cathedral School for Boys, St John's College High School, Sidwell’s fory School, Western Hign School Woodward School for g‘o;- bt WoobpwarD & LoTHROP DOWN STAIRS STORE Tomorrow — Remnant Day Savings - Remnant Day Merchandise is not returnable or exhangeable; not sent C. 0. D. or on approval; Phone and mail orders not accepted Granite Silk Hose Irregulars—Special 95¢ A new shipment of 1,200 with lisle hems and soles. to 10%. Women’s Suede Pumps THE DOWN STAIRS STORE, Were $4.95 to $6.50 pairs; slight irregulars of this heavy, service-weight hose, Mostly: dark shades. Regular sizes 8% to 10; oui‘lizel $1.95 200 pairs; black and brown suede, with medium or round toes Many attractive styles; high or low heels. irs Women's Slippers: many attractive amples from & Broken size: _Pais Included is oup of manutacturer. _ Soiled. and $2.35. Now . 109 Pairs Women's $ioim low or Cuban heels. Broken si 10 Pairs Women's Siippers; feit, Bolled. Rayon Underwear en’ Broken sizes, Were $1 and $1.95, Ne 100 Pairs styles. nown Glove™ well k Spectal.... in and Jeat rious styles and leathers, oken $1 $1 and $1.25, ¢ THE DOWN STAIRS STORE Was $1.50, $1.95 ¢ 67 pieces; including pajamas, pajama coats, combinations, chemise, bloomers, panties and gowns. Some slightly soiled, few damaged. $1. Lavelle Gowns NOW covvecneess 550 23 pleces Glove Silk Under- wear, including bloomers, panties and combinations. Slightly soiled. Were $1.95 and $2.95. Now 95¢ 95¢ Were $3.95 63; of printed Lavelle silk, piped in contrasting shades. Sizes 16 and 17. 23 pleces Muslin Underwear, gowns and pajamas. Slightly soiled. Were $1.50 and $1.95. Now......95¢ THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE and crepe gowns. Slight~ ly soiled. Were SL N . tesssenas.B5C W X - o TR e or Cuba; s, $295. Now.. Sizes 3 to 8, AA to C in lot. “Goodyear ular makes. - Sivles for 1 sizes, most; 1 Were several styles and leathers, Size 4 B only. Junior Girls’ and Misses’ Oxfords weres2ss $1.95 72 pairs; Broken sizes. 60 Pairs Children’s Slippers, felt and leather, in sev- eral styles. Some solled. Broken sizes, Wers Garter Brassieres $1.45 555 2% 12; sizes 33, 34, 38, i 44 and Costume Shps . $2.25 Were s3.98 9; flesh and white. h ly soiled. Bll.(o- THE DOWN STAIRS STORB. Women’s, Missés’ and Half-Size Dresses, $9 " Were $13.50 to $25 §5; satin, canton, lace, novelty woollens, velvet and chiffon. Street, evening and dinner frocks, in a choice of many-shades. 30 Women’s and Misses’ Dresses; satin and canton. wine, green, blue and beige. Broken sizes, THE DOWN STAIRS STORE Sports Dresses Were $7.95 and $10 $4.15 10; of jersey and novelty crepe. 40 and 4. Sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, ‘THE DOWN STAIRS STORE. Women’s Sports Coats Were s16.50 $12.25 7; of attractive tweed mixtures, with trimmings of French beaver, lapin (rabbit) and wolf. Sizes 38 to 48. 15 Bed Jackets; orchid, blue, pink and green. Were $2.95. Now ..........$51 1 Black Velveteen Coat, trimmed with lapin (rab. bit). Size 14. Was $25. NOW ©ocvvonne 14.50 Home Frocks were s1.95 95¢ 50; in attractive prints. 15 Printed Smocks. ' Slightly soiled. Broken sizes. Were $1.95. Now.....S§1 8 Rdyon Pajama Sets, Were $7.95. Now ........$3.95 Girls’ Coats, $5.95 Were $10.95 and $12.95 7; including chinchillas and tweeds. Sizes 7, 8 and . 2. 8 Juniors’ Coats: 2 of black and Were Were $1.50, $1.65 and $1.95 30; in attractive styles. Size: 50 Children Now two-piece 5 Reduced to. Soiled. Sizes 16 to 18 anc 36 to 46. 5 Sik Negligees, in 1 shades. P Were $5.95, NOW ...oicoverss. s 88 1 Rayon Pa; ‘Was $3.95. Now ........$195 Earrings, 75¢ Were $1 in many novel 5. -9be 1. 356 45 pairs; styles. 18 Novelty Bracelets: red, and Now . Men’s Cotton Handkerchiefs, 18¢ Were 35¢ 300; with colored borders and initials. 36 Women's Handkerchiefs, of linen and bastiste. 25c. NOW.........2 f THE DOWN STAIRS STORE. Black, brown, Were $10, Now $6 Berets, 25¢ Were $1 and $2 + 405 of . velvet. 33 Felt Johnnie Hats. Were Book Ends, 50c Were $1 34 pairs, in the shape of ele- phants. Ly n's " Hs 50c and $1. Now. Fancy Cuff Gloves 50c Were s1.15 124 pairs; of gray, beige and brown fabrics. Boys’ All-Wool Overcoats, 57.25 Were $9.75 10; in grays and tans. Neat- ly lined and well tail :;, 7, 10 and 11 for Bo: lined ~ Cotton Union_Sults, Waist_models wi ieeves and knee Sizes 6 to Sizes 4, &maller 3 ow .. $1.43 THE DOWN STAIRS STORE. Pre-Shrunk Broadcloth Shirts were s1.5581.15 217; collar-attached style; blue, tan, green and white. Neckband model; white only. Ma- Jority reduced from regular stock, but some are specially bought. Sizes 14 to 16% in lot. ~Sofled. 92 Men's White terned S| Part-Wool Coat Sweaters, Sizes 42 and 4. Now. 13 Pairs Men’s Nains Sizes 26, 28 dark 36, 38, Were $2.95 Und so0k and 30, Were s . Wel Pairs Men's Fancy broadeloth. Soiled. Were §2.95. Nos