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FLOWERS CONGEAL * DEATH ON BORDER France Building Huge Hive of Hidden Ferts Along East- ern Boundary. (Continued From First Page.) this turret. The whole pill box is to contain a garrison of 12 men, all ex- pert machine gunners fully familiar with every detaill of the terrain over which_ thelr fire is to be projected. Suzh a miniature fort is of two sto- l“‘?. ‘The upper story, which we have Hkened to a conning tower, is a reversi- ble turret of steel, furnished with nar- Tow slits through which the mouths of the mechine guns point. Twenty or thirty yards under ground, depending upon the soil formation and other circumstances, is the second story, serving as a reserve depot. This is the dugout replacing the muddy hole of the last war. It is a relatively comfortable chamber, 10 by 12 yards, furnished with camp beds, electric light and heat, run- ning water and electric cooking facili ties. At the same time it serves as a reservolr of munitions and contains spare machine guns. i No Two Alike. 7 No two of these miniature forts are exactly alike in shade and every one is an independent unit of defense care- fully adapted to the particular exigen- cies of the surrounding terrain. The spaces betwecn the pill boxes can be covered with cross fire and artillery fire from the second line in the rear. By a tunn-l 60 feet underground the advance posts communicate with a sec- ond girdle of forts of more elaborate construction. This second chain runs about a mile to the rear. Here are to be massed reserves of manpower and equipment. Here also, deep in the ground, are forward dressing stations and hospitals, electric generating sta- tions, water reservoirs, gas projectors, food stores ard electric railway sta- tions communicating with the rear by broader subterranean passages. The steel turrets of the second chain forts have rapid-firing light artillery. This s°cond chain may be said to serve as a feeder to the front line. Things are so arranged that one second-line fort serves as feeder and support to 10 or 12 {ront-line pill-boxes, on the average. Huge Cities Under Ground. The third line is made up of two immense underground cities, at bogh ends of the frontier, one in the north and one in the south, each capable of containing or sending into attack 100,- 000 men equipped with fleld artillery, tanks, armored cars, gas and liquid-fire projectors. To the third-line defense must also be reckoned scores of “parcs mobiles,” or rolling forts. These can be moved rapidly from one sector of the front to the other, to the support of any threatened pomnt in the line. In case of necessity they may also serve as wedges to be driven into the enemy's front ard as jumping-off places for infantry attacks beyond the frontier. No other detalls of the elaborate new d-fense system of France are guarded with more rigid secrecy than the num- ber, strength and mobile capacity of these rolling forts, which would un- doubtedly figure as the surprise element par excell’nce in any coming battle. Simultaneously with the northern border, from Basle to Luxembourg, the Italian frontier, from the Alps to the Mediterranean, where not a single fort existed hitherto, is being put into a state of defense. In this sector the French engineers are overcoming im- mense difficulties. As they are unable to dig into th> soil, forts and observa- | tion rosts are drilled and blasted into the granite, As the Alps offer a natural and im- Eassnble protection in most places, there as been no necessity for a long chain of forts. Small posts have nevertheless | been constructed overlooking mountain roads and passes between Italy and | France. | Use “Water-Line” Defense. ‘The system of defense i5 of an en-| tirely different nature from that em- ployed along the German borders. It s somewhat reminiscent of the famous “water line” of the Dutch in that it relies on blowing up the approaches, as the Hollanders would their dikes, there- with inundating the country and mal dng it inaccessible to an invading army. The moment war should be declared on France and a hostile force advance over the few Alpine roads leading to Nice, the French would blow up roads | and bridges by merely pressing a but-| ton in the mountain lookouts, mannned ' by detachments of the famous Blue, Devils. The mines to do this destruc- | tive work have been installed in various places unknown to any one but the French high command. The fact that all the northern forti- fications are of concrete is a surprise to French public opinion, as it was taken for granted that not even the thickest walls of reinforced concrete could resist the pounding of modern heavy siege artillery. The . experience of 1916 wes cited in the helief that the forts of Verdun were totally pulverized under the Crown Prince's sledge-ham- mer blows. The contrary is the truth, however. The forts of Verdun may have been ruined on the outside, but inside they remained intact, of eighteen subter- ranean chambers in Fort Vaux, 15 were undamaged. They had withstood two months’ uninterrupted artillery fire of the heaviest and most de- structive caliber. Vaux surrendered through lack of water and munitions, mot because it had been annihilated | and had become untenable. Mass was celebrated in its deepest cellars half an | hour before the white flag was hoisted. Walls Five Times as Thick. As the new forts have walls four and five times as thick as those of Vaux and Douaumont, they are considered immune to the heaviest artillery fire known at present. An ingenious system of ventilation that in addition to ing the air always fresh inside the chai bers also excludes poiscn gas waves by maintaining a higher atmospheric pres- sure inside than out, largely removes danger of suffocation. With the installation of numercus; enti-aireraft batterles and the main-| tennce of her own air fleet at the! highest point of efficiency, France fig-| that in two years she will have a es imoregnable &s this can be, speaking. i cntic system of dafense will, t efficient and powerful ths WCTH ver ssen. For 10 years 20, €50 foreign laborers have been at wo: cn it, under the guidance of the entire military engineering corps of France. In its main cutline it is the concepticn | cf Marshal Petain. That its comple- tion in two years is virtually assured may be seen in Petain’s resignation | from the supreme direction of the scheme, to devote himself exclusively | to the study of the weakest link in the defense of an armed camp, as France would become in the event of war, that is to the aerial approach. say, Copyright, 1931, by N % fop Paper Alliance, faes oo N $110.79 REPORTED STOLEN Money Hidden Beneath Counter’ Stolen During Night. Theft of $110.79, which had been. gecreted beneath a counter the night | before, was discovered yesterday when emplcyes of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. store at 2001 Eighth stfeet opened the establishment. ‘The manager, George M. Willett, 11602 A m southeast, reported to police e rs gained en- trance to the store the tran- som over a rear door, | extensive questioning. Where Flowers Hide a Ring of Steel and Stone Guarding France . RHURN UF H.EH LEGEND z, Map showing how fortificati-ns are arranged along the French border, with the “pill boxes” backed up by heavier turrets armed with “75's” and at either | end of the line the huge underground cities which can give shelter to 100,000 armed men with their supporting artillery and other equipment. is an artist’s conception of how one of the peaceful garden scenes would appear with its undergrcund fortifications raised to send forth its mes: mw SUPPORTING FORTS W8 UNDERGROUND CITIES oo MOVING FORTS ®® /TALIAN FRONTIER POSTS voe PILL BOX OUTPOSTS At the left ngers of death. | SCHOOL TEACHER'S KILLING CONFESSED | Youth Arrested on Coast Ad- | mits Slaying Enid Marriott | in Colorado. By the Associated Press. i STOCKTON, Calif., June 20.—The slaying of Miss Enid Marriott, school teacher of Wiggins, Colo., which had | baffled authorities for months, was con- | fessed voluntarily here today by John Schopflin, 21, who t-1d police he killed | the young woman because she ‘“gos-| sipped” about him. | In a statement to police the youth | said he shot Miss Marriott to death | the night of November 15, last, and threw her body in an irrigation ditch near Wiggins. A searching party re- covered the body January 19, froun; in a huge cake of ice. Schopflin_ was one of a number of suspects taken into. custody by Colo- rado officers. He was released after Identified by Woman. A wreck, while riding in a stolen | automobile, Tesulted in his arrest here | last night. | He was grilled ccncerning several | local hold-ups and was identified by | Mrs. Catherine Witt as the youth who | picked her up in a motor car here April 3 and criminally assaulted her. Schopflin denied Mrs. Witt's accusa. tion. After several hours of questio: ing he turned suddenly on the detec- tives. “If you want something like that,”| he said, “I'll give you something that | will take me a Ict further than that would take me. | “Remember the woman that was| killed and thrown in the creek last November in Colorado? Well, I did it.” Further questioning brought addi- tional details of the crime. He de- scribed Enid Marriott as a woman that “always wanted to be doing something | and saying something.” He said she was “always bustin’ into things, telling on bootleggers and talking a lot.” “She talked about me going with a married lady,” he sald. “And she talked too much, so I stopped her. Describes Slaying. | “I met her on the night of November | 15 as she got off the train at Wiggins and took her in my car. We drove | about 10 miles from town and stopped | on the bridge. We got out of the car. I told her ebout talking about me. Then | I told her I was going to kill her and | pulled the gun. She said ‘Oh, God, | don't.” I shot the contents of the 38-/ caliber revolver at her. I think there, were five shots, but I do not know how many hit her. Her body fell into the irrigation ditch and I threw her books in after her. “After the shooting I drove back to| the town cf Omar, where I had been working. ‘The gun belonged to a boy | named Mitcheil Adams of Wiggins. I} threw it away along the railroad right of way. 'There was no one else im- plicated in this erime.” After the murder, he said, he stayed at the town for a time and on one occasion he “thought he was gone.” At that time Sheriff Johnston examined the tires of his car in an effort to race the slayer, but found nothing in- criminating in th» tread design. Schopflin alzo admitted a hold-up here in 1928, implicating his' brother now in the Army in the Philippine Islands. TWO HELD FOR ATTACK ON HOSPITAL GUARDS Cause of Altercation at St. Eliza- beth’s Remairs Unknown After Police Arrive. Two men went to St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital yesterday afternoon “looking for trouble,” according to police, whose re- port indicated that they found it. Following an encounter with two guards at the institution, one of the men was taken to Casualty Hospital, and later both were locked up a eleventh precin=t on charges of assault, The men arrested were Marshall de, 36, of 2312 Warder street, and Edgar Miles, 34. Police were uncertain as to the exact cause of the trouble, other than that .the two were engaged in an altercation with Capt. E. W. Sansbury and Special Officer D. D. Lacy of the hospital staff. Sansbury was_treated & staff Ehy- sician at St. Elizabeth’s for minor head injuries, while h?ndn ) taken to Casualty Bm suffe {from the effects of & from Bansbury’s night- -cotton, ¢t | and NEW GRADUATES TO JOIN MIDSHIPMEN’S CRUISE| Acting Secretary Jahncke Inaugurates Policy to Prométe} UN $75’mn BUND Good Feeling Between Services. A newly graduated second lieutenant of the Army will join the midshipmen’s cruise next week as an innovation in a policy which Acting Secretary Ernest | Lee Jahncke of the Navy hopes to see extended, as a means of promoting better feeling between the sister serv- ices. Second Lieut. Marshall 8. Carter, son of Col. Clifton C. Carter, U. 8. A., head of the department of natural and experimental philosophy 2t West | | Point, will join the U. 8. S. Arkansas |does things on the Hudson. on Tuesday at Copenhagen, having | crossed the North Atlantic by commer- cial transportation Arrangements for this innovation OF WEST POINT were made with West Point authorities | by Acting Secretary Jahncke and Rear | Admiral Frank B. Upham, chief of the | Bureau of Navigation. Mr. Jahncke said today that he would like to see half a dozen or more West Point cadets or new Army officers take the midshipmen's cruise annually. and similarly have an equal number of | midshipmen or ensigns go to West Point during the Summer months to ascertain first hand how the Army The bene- fits of such a policy, he believes, would be incalculable and stimulate a frater- 1‘111 spirit among the national defense orces. HYDE HITS FOES OF FARM BOARD IN RADIO ADDRESS “the greatest drive against distress ever undertaken by any government on earth,” and a description of the work of the Agriculture Department. Explaining that the Farm Board is an independent agency, Secretary Hyde said that because of its close relation to agriculture any discussion of his | department must take it into account. “Emergency Operations.” While the loans and stabilization activities of the board have attracted | most public attention, he said, they are only “emergency operations,” and con- stitute but a small part of the activi- ties of the board, whose major objective, he added, “is to help the farmers or- ganize their cwn institutions just as the steel and ol industry have done.” “We hear the cry ‘Government in| business,’ ” the Secretary added. “The | to put the farmer in business—in the | not going in business. Its business is | to put the farmer in buisness—in the | business of planning the volume of his | crop, in the business of following his crop, through organization, into the | markets cf the world; in the business of having a sales department for his production, just as any other factory has. Why not? It is his crop. He| produced it. Nobody is clothed with | divine right, or vested with authority to sell it for him. If there is anything new cr revolutionary about this, the novelty is due solely to the fact that it is farmers who are organizing. Busi- ness, finance, labor did it many years 2go. | Gain to American, Farmers. “Another stereotyped criticism is that | the board has lost $500,000,000. It | cannot definitely he said that the | Farm Board has lost anything. The | total amcunt that the board has at| risk is around $400,000,000. For t.hl'.l money it has thousands of bales of | millions of bushels of wheat, and the pledge of credit of many organizations cf earnest men who are | striving through organization to benefit 27% millions of fellow Americans. No one can foretell what the final ac- counting will be. If it were necessary to liquidate ‘on the present market, there would be a large loss on the e of the paper transactions, but, vhen benefits already achieved for egriculture are balanced against any probable loss of funds, the balance on today's market would be a gain for American f¢ " Pointing to erative movem the two years of its existence. Under distress conditions “so acute as to cause political revolutions in many of the nations,” Secretary Hyde said in discussing relief measures, the United States has “weathered the stress with- out even a strike.” Affords Work for 600,000, of the co-op- c.myde sald’ that d much in The Government has been instru- mental in affording work for something over 600,000 men in the ht n;uu, Mr. Hyde sald, and ns aided 385,000 farm f: “put in their crops, plant a garden and started ag: ‘The vast “organized Hoover, he fact that it was Togram of relief work was lpnd. directed” by President declared, referring to the the desire of the Presi- dent that the loans be made speedily | thetically with a view to re- ""min distress and re-establishing the drought sufferers in their businesses. “This has been done,” he declared. Secretary Hyde reviewed the work of his department, which he described as “a great educational research and service institution, not alone for farmers, but for every citizen of the Nation.” $50,000,000 for Road Ald. ‘Through the Bureau of Roads and the Extension Service of half of drought relief and unemploy- ment. { Another $50,000,000 was added to| the normal Federal-aid roads fund for | 1931, he declared. To speed up em- | ployment, he asserted, the President' had directed it be made immediately available to the States for road con- struction. President Hoover boosted the program by recommending a | further emergency appropriation of | $80,000,000 to be loaned to the States so | they could match Federal funds al-| ready available, he declared, and an- | other $9,000,000 was added for forest | roads and trails. The last two appro- priations became available six months | ago, Secretary Hyde said, and today | the volume of unfinished road work now going forward is $289,000,000. More than 100,000 men have been em- ployed directly on Federal-aid projects; 290,000 more have been employed on State work which this expanded pro- | gram has largely made possible, he de- clared. “We estimate that, in all, 590,000 men have been given employment. | wholly or partially in consequence of | these emergency funds,” Secretary | Hyde asserted. The full text of Secretary Hyde's| speech appears in the Editqrial Section | of today’s Star. ROGERS TO SPEAK INDEPENDENCE DAY State Department Official Named Orator for Capital Cere- mony. Selection of James G. Rogers, As-| sistant Secretary of State, as the prin- cipal speaker at ceremonies to be held Independence day on the Washington Monument grounds was announced yes- terday by a committee in charge ap- pointed by the District Commissioners. ‘Thomas P. Littlepage, the chairman, referred to Rogers a: ive-wire of the ‘litt’e cabinet,’ who has had wide ex- perience as a lawyer, educator and author and who is eminently fitted as the Capital City's Independence ' day orator.” s ‘The ceremonies will begin at 7 p.m., July 4, in order that the fireworks may be displayed at 8:30 and a larger num- ber of children may see them. Special invitations will be sent to members of the diplomatic eral officials, patriotic organizati citizens’ associations. ~ The ceremonies will be held- south of the Monument. while chairs for the fire- works exhibition will be located to the north. A 50 cent charge will be made for ths latter seats to defray expenses. ‘The budget calls for expenditure of not more than $2,300 on the program. Injured When Car Skids. Benjamin Walker, colored, 45 of 604 Division avenue northeast, was seriously lnm late yesterday when his luw; af Also complete line of stand- ard and all-American made watches. Shop at the friendly store— you're always with a smile—with no obligation to buy. Charge Accounts Invited M Wnrt:lmr!er Co. SCHULTZ IS FREED Move Means No Let-Up in} Drive on New York Crime, Say Officials. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 20.—The State released Arthur Flegenheimer, other-!| wise “Dutch” Schultz, Bronx beer baron, today in $75,000 bail pending disposi- tion of three indictments against him for felonious assault and violations of the Sullivan firearms law. ‘The move did not, however, officials said, indicate the slightest hope to| racketeers and gangsters for peace in the war against them by local, State and Federal authorities. The next month will see an intensive drive | against the underworld, it was as- serted, which should rid the city of | some of its “public enemies.” ! Jack Diamond will be tried soon in both Federal and State courts. At- torneys in a conference today agreed that whatever prosecutor tried Dia- mond first would “lend” him to the other for trial before the execution of | the first sentence in event of wn-i viction. | Diamond's name appears on the Fed- | eral trial calendar for next Monday. | It is doubtful, however, that he will be tried for prohibition law violations | and conspiracy before he faces the | extraordinary term in Supreme Court | July 13. Severa] reports on the racketeer in- come tax investigation by Hugh Mc- Quillan, chief of the intelligence unit of the Department of Internal Revenue | in this district, have been forwarded to Washington. | No action is likely to be taken by | the grand jury until August or Sep. tember. The reports concern the ac tivities of agents and accountants “’i work on specific cases each relating to a racketeer. A. 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King, Democrat, of Utah, in a state- ment issued by the Bureau of Publicity of the Democratic National Committee, sald the corporations had been com- pelled to take steps to turn back the fleet because of heavy shrinkage in foreign trade “due to the operation of the Hawley-Smoot tariff.” The state- ment said in part: “Daily we are reminded of the serious effects of the provincial and isolation- ist policies of the party in power. Its bvl.stlng! and shoutings have been si- lenced by the lamentations of the people and the increasing tide of criticism which presages defeat of the Republi- can Party at the coming election. Re- publican policies have weakened our industrial and economic structure and brought Natfon-wide woe and distress subsidies have been granted to the shipping concerns, under the plea that we must have a merchant marine that wowld carry our flag and products to every part of the world; and yet measures have been enacted and' policies pursued to cut off our trade with foreign nations. “These policies have closed mills, fac- torles and mines, almost destroyed ag- riculture and driven millions of farm- ers from their homes and have reduced our exports hundreds of millions of dollars and threatened our merchant marine which has been the recipient of governmental favors and munificent bounties. “Sooner or later the American peo- ple will learn that neither men nor na- tions can live alone. The world is small and growing smaller, and good will among all netions and co-operation among all peoples are indispensable to national peace and prosperity.” TWO POLICE OFFICERS INDICTED IN DETROIT Perjury Is Charged — True Bills] Returned Against 48 Other Persons. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, June police officers were charges of perjury, obstrucing justice and neglect of duty. The indictments were included in a batch of true bills returned by the Wayne County grand jury which has been investigating con- ditions in Detroit for the last 10 months. Forty-eight other persons were in- dicted, but their names and the charges against them were not revealed. The police officers are Inspector Rob- ert A. MacPherson, who for a time was deputy chief of detective: ind Detec- tive Lieut. Max Waldfogel. Other indictments were believed to be connected with the so-called plumb- ing racket, described as having extorted $500,000 from the plumbing and heating businesses of Detroit, the investigation of vice conditions {n the suburb of Ham- tramck and of gang killings HITS PRIMATE OUSTER Toledo Bishop Protests Expulsion From Spain Illegal. TOLEDO, 'Spain, June 20 (@)— Bishop Feliciano of Aretusa, vicar gen- eral of the Archdiocese of Toledo, today issued for publication a protest he said he had sent to President Alcala Zamora asking that Cardinal Segura, primate of Spain, be allowed to return to Spain. 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LONDON, June 20.—Dr. Marle amg_eoa. noted advocate of birth control, yesterday reiterated her statement that she was going to Rome to lecture on “the con- structive side of birth control.” “I accej the invitation,” she said, “but kept it quiet, not wanting to cause trouble for any one {n Rome. I am definitely 80ing to keep the appointment to lecture.” Dispatches from Rome said that Italian officials ridiculed her announcement that she had been invited to speak at a meeting over which Premier Mussolini would preside. BLOOM AND JAHNCKE IN CONTROVERSY OVER 1812 SAILORS’ WHISKERS (Continued From First Page.) hand toward a sculptured bust on a pedestal near his desk. “Look at George Washington,” he shouted. “Did George Washington wear whiskers? Did Thomas Jefferson wear whiskers? Did any of the great men of that period wear them? No, sir. Look at all these pictures and busts around my office. Not a whisker in sight” Bloom said he had been informed by | reliable persons that whiskers did not come into general use until a few years before the Civil War. “If Mr. Jahncke was just joking about the whiskers,” he declared, “then I want to say that his joke has whiskers on it. I don't think he ought to be Jjoking about a serious patriotic propo- sition such as the restoration of the Constitution. “Mr. Jahncke is quoted as saying that the ship doesn't have sails enough to | move her under her own power. I be- lieve Mr. Johncke has been misinformed on this point. It is inconceivable to me that the Government would restore Old Ironsides only half way.” Mr. Jahncke amended his statement regarding the shortage of canvas on the Constitution when he learned that the ship had been completely rigged with 30 sails having an area of 12,500 square yards. He first was under the impression that the ship had no sailing canvas, since the Navy was without funds to purchase it, but was informed that the Wellington, Sears Manufacturing Co. of New York had donated the full set as a “patriotic gesture.” As for the type of uniforms worn in 1812, Mr. Bloom has dug into naval rec- ords'and is ready to tell the Navy just how the crew should be attired. The records show that while there was a prescribed uniform for officers, the reg- ulations permitted seamen to dress about as they pleased. In 1817, how- ever, a standard uniform for the en- listed men was adopted. It called for blue jacket and trousers, red vest with yellow buttons and a black hat for Win- ter wear, and “white duck jackets, trousers and vests” in Summer. “Whiskers were not a part of the prescribed uniform,” Bloom pointed out. “I defy any one to prove that sailors on the Constitution didn’t have a close shave. I don't intend to give up the ship in this fight for full restoraton of Old Ironsides. I'm going down to the Navy Department and beard Mr. Jahncke in his own den.” Gary, Ind., Bank Closed. INDIANAPOLIS, June 20 (#).—The State Banking Department today closed the First State Bank of Gary, Ind. The bank had a capital stock cf $75,- 000; deposits were listed at $650,000, and loans, $465,000. Frozen assets were given as the reason for the closing. CHURCH SITUATION * (GRAVE, SAYSPOPE § Accord Not in Sight and Ne-" gotiations With Italy Held =~ .: Hardly Begun. By the Assoelated Press. the Pope that no accord is in sight - with Premier Mussolini’s government . made a dark picture today of what- the government yesterday described a fairly optimistic situation. - persecutions, tinual menaces” have been reported by the bishops of Italy. He gave a much . different view of his negotiations with-- the government than the one come ing from the government sources. ‘The Pope resumed his policy of sa: ing blunt- words about Mussolini’s “per- secution” of him, of the church and of Catholic youth. To & group of seminarians he declared that not omly s Catholics but nearly the whole world ** was “with and behind the Pope” in.. his “bitter sorrow.” A As for the negotiations with the = government, he declared they are not i« even really sf this govern--~ ment officials replied only that the exchange of notes was proceeding nor-~" mally. Semi-official estimates are that 15, 000 of the 25000 Catholic clubs 4 ;flumu part of the church” were’ ted. These “dissolved” clubs, his holi- ness said, are not allowed to meet silently and there is espionage and‘'* “continued menaces.” Referring to the Fascists without (naming them, the Pope declared they,, “appear to be trying to have it be-.. lieved, especially abroad, that things are not so very grave, that the inci- dents have been insignificant and sporadic, that all is passed and tran-, 'zuuéi;.y :ien.ored. - “Exactly the contrary is true—the truth lies in the contrary of all that.. they seek to have believed even in_ their country. We are not on the way to an accord and the negotiations * are not even begun. Not only have we - not entered a state of tranquillity, but everything possible has been done to maintain the menacing horizon.” TWO MEN BURNED Gasoline Ignited While Tank Is Being Filled. Two men with minor burns .. yesterday when a truck which they were filling with gasoline caught fire .. in the garage of the General Co., Georgia avenue and W street. Robert Slimmell, 40, of 212 Varnum Truck - dant, Ra son, ‘colored, 26, of 37 Q burned on the arms and face. Both were given first-ald treatment by Dr. . W. A. Wood, physician for the baking concern. Pire extinguishers put out the flames before they could spread. a SHANTUNG SHIRTS OF IMPORTED JAPANESE SILK *.95 Shantung Shirts of this quality sold for as much as $5.00 only a few years ago. Noth- ing equals them for coolness and comfort on sultry Summer days. They are just the thing for Washington's hot Summer climate. Buy a Dozen at This Price SALTZ BROTHERS 134} F STREET N.W.