Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1931, Page 12

THE SUNDAY STRIKE HARDSHPS | OF MINERS TOLD 1dleness Intensifies Distress| Where Earning Was Already Too Meager. This is the second of several daily articles depicting conditions among the families of the striking soft coal miners in Western Pennsylvania. _Gor. Pinchot. in an appeal to the Red Cross fo provide food for the children in the strike are, termed the situation a “‘general calamity.” BY ROGER BATCHELDER. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CEDAR GROVE, Pa, July 11— ‘When the Governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot, said that the children | in the soft coal mine regions were starving. Dan Lane became hopeful that a portraval of the real conditions ‘would surely bring relief. Dan is an intelligent colored miner. | but there is no color line in the coal o-l¢us. 3T migrated here 25 years| ogo fiom Virginia to work the mines. By zenfrnl consent he has been placed in charge of the relief camp of the Na- tional Miners' Union, which cares for 333 men, women and children, the strikers' contingent in this section. The elevator no longer goes down the dark shaft, except for the times when the watchmen and pumpers must | 20 below. In the little village, stodgily | and dustily located in the hills of& ‘Warchington County, 400 men are out of work. Dan called “Mrs. Dan” to see how mattersistood, and the mistress of the cooking department., mother of four children, two of whom are sick and undernourished, got the key to the! eommissary. Food Is Scarce. “Not so bad.” she said. philosophi- cally nd not altogether good.” She had opened a wooden door in a barrack structure and considered the larder. Outside, hungry men were walking about nervously; children, ex- hausted by weeping, stood stolidly; and women were hurrying for the driftwood of the nearby woodlands in case there might be something for them to cook in their iron stoves. . Mrs. Lane was complacent as she Jooked under-the counter of the bare room. “It should be better tomorrow,” she ventured, “because we have just had a load of 67 cans of soup, and that will keep the boys happy. Then I have 12 big loaves of bread. In the morn- ing, something else may show up, and I divide the best way I can.” Mrs. Dan had a baby girl In her arms, Marle, 15 months. Marie has never known cow's milk, and has never spoken nor walked. She is undernour- | ished and she seemed to be very ill.|evangelism and disarmamen This morning she had black bread | soaked in water, so that her teeth, | which are not coming along any too | well, wouldn't be hurt. Children Are Sick. “The oldest boy is pretty sick, too,” said Mrs. Lane, “and they had him in’ Capital Marksmen Near World’s Record STAR, WASHINGTO | The District National Guard's rifle team, shown above, last week came within two points of the world record score of 895 out of a p:ssible 900, winning the Palma team championship match in the Eastern small-bore rifle tournament at Sea Girt, N. J. The Washington marksmen earned the Proudham trophy and silver medals. Left to right: Staff Sergt. Alex J. Thill, First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, Capt. Just C. Jensen, team captain; Sergt. Theodore L. Harrell, and Pirst Lieut. Walter R. Stokes, coach. RIFLE 'I'EAM WINS NEW JERSEY TOURNAMENT, EARNING PROUDHAM TROPHY AND SILVER MEDALS. . HEAD URGES YOUTH CRUSADE Proposes Campaign of Law Observance, Evangelism and Disarmament. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, “youth crusade, for July 11.—A law observance, was pro- posed her: tonight by Dr. Danlel E Poling, prisident of the International Society of Christian Endeavor, at that organization's fifteenth annual inerna- tional convention. At the first formal plenary session cf the convention, attended by more BY CURTIS HODGES. It has often seemed that the manager }0! a vention bureau is a happy in- dividual. He drops into the news- !paper office and announces that the National Association of Horn Rim Spec- | tacle Adjusters or some such organiza- | tion has decided to hold its next annual | convention in the hcme city and that it { will be sumptuously entertained. It al- ways seemed to me that the convention | bureau manager was so complacent and | usually said the word sumptuously o slickly that the business of being a con- a Pittsburgh hospital until the time|than 10,000 delegates, Dr. Poling call>d | vention manager must be a good one. for free patients was up. The other two, who were born outside the coal places, don’t mind being hungry.” Two wide-eyed children were on the rickety steps, looking at the man who had arrived in an automobile. Just across the road was a car that had| been there for four years because the owner had found it impossible to buy automobile plates. ‘The baby coughed dismally, and the eldest boy sat down on a cracker box, with a childish resignation. ‘White men, who were in the vast majority, came ambling into the room with forced casualness. These men have not been away from the mine for months, most of them, and while they asked no questions, they were eager to pick up word of the great world outside. In a few minutes, the word has passed around that a stran-! ger was seeking information regarding conditions and 20 men gathered, anxi- ous to be questioned. Children trooped along outside, afraid to come in, it was said, because there might be trouble with the man who| possibly had something to do with “the | company.” Receipts Tell Story. Sheaths of recelpts from the mining companies were proffered in quiet fashion. They told the miner's story. “I'm Luther Williams," said a stocky | young man in_Coverdale, “and Il's] fortunate that I've been single. I've| been around the munes for 12 years and in mine No. 8 since 1927. “When 1 started out I was making $1.01 for pick coal by the ton, but the cuts cam: unt!l we came down to 45 | cents a ton. We were never noiified | about the cut until pay day c:me. I| haven't bought a suit of clothes fcr: ihree years, and what I have has come | from my friends. When the strike came, I was $50 in the hole on the board bill at the bachelor quarters.” Williams showed receipts from the company offices cf the Pittsburgh ‘Terminal Coal Corporation, a dozen of them, disclosing that in two-week periods he had made from $10 to $15, and that in every case the company’s bill rendered to him was exactly to the cent of the same amount. On Decem- ber 15 for instince, arter he had worked since the first of the month, he was credited with $12.82, and his deficit with the company was precisely $12.82. On February 28 of this year, he earned $11.18, according to the half-monthly reccrd. and was charged with $11.18, unitemizea. Wages and Bills Balance. Richard Ford, with five children, working for the same company, in Mine No. 9, had credits of $12.40, $17.72 and $16.85, with debits of exactly | the same amount: and John B. Char- ier, with the Camegle Coal Co., passed | on cne of his receipts, which showed him overdrawn. At the bottom of most of these slips were crosses, which are | “kisses” in mining pariance, or a line. which means no money, and is called | a “snake why we can't feed cur chil- said Lane. “Ana I'il give you the figures. I averaged $12 a week. Out cf that come $1 for the doctor, 50 cents for sick insurance, and $5 for rent for two months, carbide for my miner's lamp, $1.85 a month; powder, 75 cents; 8 cents for rubber for my Jamp. I have to buy shoes every 90 days with rubber soles that c:st $4.50, and I must pay $15 yearly for tools. In the Winter I pay $5.75 a ton for | coal that I mine for 44 cents. Seldom Get Cash. I “Then there are head and school taxes every year, amounting to $14.65 and taken cut of my salary by the com- pany,” continued Lane. “If there is a complaint against the unitemized bill, you are fired.” The mines rarely hand out cish, be- cause the men have not gotten far enough ahead to warrant a consider- @bl sum. But they have tokens, good at_the company stres. In a group this afternoon, some of them were requested for inspection. ‘The r:en were silent; they didn’t have them and the children had no banks froma which they could be extracted. Finaliy one of the men had an idea. He came in five minutes later, drag- ging & rather suspicious miner, who seemed to be the plutocrat of the lot. “Could we see some of the company money?” ‘Il show you a penny in a minute.” He went outside the quarters and came in a moment later with a metal token, the same size as a penny, with no marking except for a slit in the middle of the metal. b 25-Cent Plutocrat. “I want it back,” he pronounced. “I may need it.” I ‘That man, it was confidentially as- serted, was the plutocrat of the dis-| trict. Some one had seen him with a quaiter token on Friday, and"#he story wd_gone around in Paul Revere fash- upon youth to lead in “the education and enlistment of friends of prohibi- ton in mantaining the eighteenth amendment and the supporting of President Hoover and enforcement agencies.” “Prohibition is not the only issue. | however,” Dr. Poling continued. “We are not interested in prohibition to the exclusion of other important issues. Political dscisions should not be con- | ditioned exclusively upon whether or not parties are dry and candidates are ! for the elghteenth amendment. “American democracy must find a way to destroy poverty. The American | social and economic system must accept responsibility for discovering how to give work to every willing worker, for mak ing the average man more secure in hi savings and for distributing more widely the higher privileges of life as well as the bare necessities. “The passion of the Soviet to win a class war must be matched by the fervor of American democracy to perfect ‘this freedom.’ American youth must wait on the call of such a leadership. In delay is the promise of disaster and youth does not consent to failure.” Dr. Poling closed his address with an impassioned appeal for world peace and disarmament. LODGE TO SEAT OFFICERS Clarendon Rebekahs Will Installation Tomorrow. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va.. July 11.—Installa- tion of officers of Clarendon Rebekah Lodge. No. 28, will be held Monday night in Odd Fellows' Hall under a spe- cial dispensation granted by Mrs. Lillian V. Cunningham, president of the Re- bekah Assembly of Virginia Mrs. Olive Johnson, district deputy, will conduct the ceremonies, and will be assisted by a staff of officers composed of past noble grands of the lodge. Mrs. Prances Shreve will be installed as noble grand. AUTO HITS AMBULANCE Lillian Lee, 20, of No. 5 Fenton street, was slightly hurt last night when the automobile in which she was riding was_in collision with _th: Emergency Hospital ambulance which was returning from a call to the 100 block of T street. Miss Lee was taken to the hospital in the ambulance and was treated for bruises on the right sid2 of her body. Neither the ambulance driver nor Misa Bertha Hurley, 112 Pierce street, driver of the car, was injured. Hold = e Spanish Strike Threatened. GUADALAJARA, Spain, July 11 (#). —Workmen threatened a general strike tonight because the government re- cently removed the military academy from” here, and today an airplane fac- tory announced it will have to close its shops, dismissing 180 men. jon. It wasn't that he was holding out on the boys, because he had a wife and eight children, but he had been thrifty enough to save something that was worth 25 cents. One of the miners explained that he didn't want the people of the cities to think that they are all bolsheviks. “I'd llke to see gold from Russia or anywhere else,” he said, “so that we could send the kids away to school when they get ready for college. We're not unpatriotic. Most of us younger ones went into the war and did the same as the rest of you folks. “We like it out here, or we wouldn't have stayed. Coal mining is just the same as anything else, once you get used to it. You hate to think you'll have to wear a straw hat instead of this cap with its old calcium lamp. Indebted to Company. “But supposing that you have a likely place to dig. Maybe you'll have to go through 6 feet of rock, get the rock out of the way before you hit coal. You don't get paid for that, and when the slip from the company comes in on the first or the fifteenth, it takes a lot of explaining at home to prove that you haven't been loafing, when the kids are hungry and the wife gives you one of those looks. “I'm a hundred behind,” said an- other, “and when my boy gets old enough to work he’ll have to pay it. His mother wants him to go to col- lege in Philadelphia, but I guess he won't be smart enough unless he gets more to e d he'll have to help out when the te lets him out of school at 16. He'll carry the tin pail, and maybe he'll like it, as I really do. (Copyright. 18816 But for the last two months or since its beginning I have had an oppor- tunity to watch the convention depart- | ment of the Greater National Capital | Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. And the life of the convention | bureau manager is certainly not all beer and skittles. | "In the short time the ccmmittee has been going representatives of the con- vention department have traveled more than 10,600 miles, covering the United States from Oklahoma in the Southwest to To- | ronto and Montreal in the Northwest. In fact, as this article ls written the convention bureau manager is | packing bis grip to go to Toronto | again. He got a kind of half-way kick in the face the last time he was there, 5o he is \/ | turning the other QEL, cheek. = Volumes of cor- respondence, booklets, pamphlets and | all other such material are useful in | bringing conventions to any city and | sometimes unaided will achieve success. | At least they can never be slighted. | One convention organization contacted | recently by the committee involved thg | composition of ‘a 10,000-word letter. | Another called for the preparation and printing cf an entirely new pamphlet on Washirfgton. Banners and ribbon badges and many other things are re- | quired. But. after all, the plan that is | safest in attracting a part of the two or three hundred million dollars of con- | vention money to any city is to have a personal representative of the city's | ecnveption bureau on the job. | Business Clubs Meeting. ‘There is, for example, the national | convention of the American Business Clubs, which is to be held next in ‘Washington. The scene of battle for this convention was Ponca City, Okla., 1,500 miles from Washington. The con- vention manager of the committee, who had just returned from Montreal, packed his grip and spent two days and two nights getting to Ponca City. Arriving there ke hurried to the con- vention and for three days was in the hottest of the fight. He bagged the convention and thus paved the way for the expenditure in Washington of a sum of money two or three hundred times larger than his expenses on the trip. The same day he received a tele- gram from th home office announcing that the National Retail-Credit Men’s Association, in session in St. Louis, had dscided to hold its next meeting. in Washington, with 1,000 delegates who would remain the greater part of a week. Since the convention manager had ¢pent a great dsal of time prepar- ing facts, figures and pamphlets and arranging for invitations to the credit men, and had, in fact, co-ordinated the efforts of those who were working for this convention, it was little wonder that he was jubilant and that in his jubilance he hopped a plane at Ponca City and arrived in Washington smiling broadly. His smile was frozen quickly when he found that 50 per cent of his efforts in Toronto and Montreal had bzen without effect. One convention on which he had been working had decided stubbornly to go somewhere else. Bridge playing if carried out success- fully by any player, must be done-ac- cording to well established rules. The player who trumps his partner's ace runs the risk at once of losing the game and possibly being murdered in cold blood. So it is in the convention busi- ness. Rules must be followed. ‘The first thing the convention bureau manager must do is to find out what body is going to make the decision as to the next meeting place and where and when it will make it. If it develops that the decision is to be made by a board of directors, the convention man- ager hes one problem. If it is to be made by the national convention in session then he has quite ‘another prob- lom. 1If the board of directors controls the situation it is up to the convention manager to load himself down with Iit- erature, maps and charts showing the advantages of his city as a meeting place for conventions—the sights to be observed, the facllity for entertainment, number of country clubs, city clubs, night clubs and day clubs, distance of main convention kall from the leading hotel:, floor space for expdsition pur- poses, hotel rates and accommodations in all brackets and a host of other things. Informatien Is Supplied. Arriving at the meeting of the board to make he e h and ex- pmm”c and e all questions that are CONVENTION BUREAU WORK NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES \Flitting About Nation With Charts and | - Data to Capture Meetings for Capital Job of Big Proportions. |beard of directors of any organization is nearly always a highly deliberative |body and wants nothing but facts. | Whether or not the convention bureau | manager may be a hail fellow well met, | playboy ascetic, golf player or pingpong | Player is entirely aside from the ques- | tion. All he has to do is to have facts |at hand—many convincing facts—and {to be able to present them in a con- vincing manner. 1f he takes care of | this task well he may go away and shake the dice with the cigar stand girl or engage in any other diversion that | may suit bis fancy and rest assured that the board of directors is working. | But if the decision is to be made by | the national convention in session then | the convention bureau manager will | have no time for relaxation. He may | shake the dice for the cigars, he may | play golf, he may even sieep: but if he | does sieep it will be with one eye open. There is no rest for the convention bu- reau manager who is working on 500 or 1,000 delegates, each of whom will have a vote on the next convention city. 1f th> decision is to be made in con- vention session, then the bureau man- ager should take facts with him but as he goes along on the train to the con- vention city it is the part of wisdom for him to stow his facts on the rack along with his hat and let his mind run to the political maneuvers of Mark Hanna, Bois> Penrose and the other tacticians | who made the game of politics some- | thing that cou.d be enjoyed by the | worst of us. | Wire pulling is often the order of the | day in a trade convention as well as in | a political convention. John Smith is a candidate for vice president of the| | organization He controls a certain group of delegates, He is willing to trade his votes for other votes that will support his candidacy. He cares not to what city the next convention may go 80 long as he is elocted vice president. It is the business of the convention bu- | reau manager to get next to all these ! | John Smiths and | to do so uickly. In other words he may be able to | gather support for the John Smiths | or at least for th= | strongest John | Smiths and they |in turn will give | support to his ef- forts to get the next convention. | " Very seldom in any instance is ths convention bureau manager, himself, in the limelight. It is his business to remain in his hotel room confer- ring and planning and possibly plot- ting, or to move quietly and whisper- ingly among the delegates at all times. He may need convincing facts about his home city, but what he must ever have in mind is the politics of the convention. — Occasionally in Spot. | Only once in a great while is the | convention bureau manager drawn into the “spot.” An exception was noted recently when the convention manager of the Capital Committee was made an honorary member of a local piano tun- ers' organization. This action accord- ing to his own words, made him auto- matically or accidentally or axiomat- ically or in some way a member of the national organization of piano tuners. According to his own confession the high point of his musical education is his ability to distinguish quickly a trombone from a bass drum. But he was pleased with the honor of mem- .:el':ship and besides it was in line of uty. One other thing the convention bu- reau manager should always have in mind; he must always have the ardent support of the local organization in his home city. One of the essential things in going after the national convention D. €, JULY 12, 193 SOCIALISTS “PASS SPANISH- GABINET Convention Votes Down Pro- posal to Organize as “Treasonable.” By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 11.—Spanish Social- ists decided in convention today that it wculd be “treason” to the cause of the republic to try to form a cabinet to succeed the present ccalition pro- visional government when the latter re- signs at the convocation of the Naticnal Assembly next Tuesday. le proposal was made in the con- vention on the ground tnat its sponsors believed a Socialist cabinet c-uld bring “order out of chaos in Spain.” The proposal was defeated by a majority vote of the Socialists. The possibility of Sccialist control of the constituent Assembly was believed to have been removed by an agreement for concerted action on the part of various Republican groups. The left-wing Republicans, under Manuel Azana, minister of war; the Radicals, under Foreign Minister Ale- Jandro Lerroux, and the so-called “‘autonomous Republicans” under Min- ister of Ccmmunications Mart'nez Barrios, agreed to mainiain their al- liance during the sessions of the Assembly. Left Republican Bloc. Such an alliance mezns that the left Republicans will have a bloc of at least 150 seats, while the Socialists will have only an estimated 122, aithough they emerged from the receni elections as the most popular single pirty. ‘Th: move caused a wicespread belief that Forelgn Minister Lerroux may be- come the first president cf the constitu- tional government. Julian Vesteiro, Socialist leader, will be speaker. The deputies will receive a salary of about $100 per month. The cabinet tonight was rushing its program of details for tne Assembly's cpening. » The telephone strike continued to | cause further trouble today and fre- quent cases of wire cutting were re- ported from many places throughout | the country. A number of arrests were made. Telephone ccmpany officials announced that they were beginning to fill strikers’ positions. The provincial governor at Seville sent troops to the village of Guillena to care for live stock which was aban- doned by striking farmhands. Rumors persisted in Madrid, Bilbao and various other cities that general | strikes might be declared Monday on | the eve of the opening of the new Con- | stituent Assembly. ~ Members of the | government said they belleved that rad- jcal Lefts were seeking to embarrass the Alcala Zamora administration, Assembly Meeting Tuesday. Spain’s new Constituent Assembly 1s | to meet in Madrid next Tuesday, but| it will not remain long if any of the resort towns clamoring for its transfer have their way. | Madrid is swelteringly hot in Mid- | summer and that argument is being | {used for all it is worth by seashore and | docks in the wake of the appar:ntly | moutain cfties as a reason why the | second Spanish republic's first.national | assembly should work in a more pleas- ! ant place. | San Sebastian and Santander on the | north coast, where the court Sum- | mered under ihe monarchy, have strong bids. San Sebastian offered free use of its casino, which once sought to rival | Monte Carlo, but in which gambling has | not been allowed for years, for the As-| sembly's meeting place. It raised half a million pesetas (about $47,500) by popular subscription to payv the ex- penses of the Assembly. Hotels offered | special rates to Assemblymen. i Other citles made attractive bids. | and everywhere the hotel keepers told | pitifully about their hard times and how much it would help to have an Assembly in town. Then Madrid hotel men and mer- chants got busy. They told the gov- ernment they were having hard times, t0o. They sald the only reason they were keeping open and losing money was because hope of the Assembly was | buoying them up—to say nothing, they added, of their patriotic duty. U. S. OFFICERS TO GET CUBA MILITARY ORDER Decoration Rites Set for Tomorrow for Two Men Who Helped Organize Air Force. Bv the Associated Press. HAVANA, July 11.—The Third Or- der of Military Merit will be conferred Monday morning upon Capt. Jack Beam and Lieut. Jack Hodgson, members of the United States Army Air Commis- sions which helped organize Cuba's aviation forces. ‘The ceremony will take place in the presidential palace. Because United States Army officers cannot accept decorations from foreign governments without authorization, they will be handed to Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, to be sent to the State Department in Washington and held until permission to accept them is granted the two. Capt. Beam, head of the commis- sion, has completed his work and will leave Tuesday for the General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Lieut. Hodgson will remain in Havana. e HURT IN AUTO CRASH John Banne, 32, 1442 N street, was treated at Emergency Hospital last night for cuts received when his auto- mobile crashed into a tree at Mary- land avenue and C street southwest. Mary Bunhirs, 11, visiting relatives at 631 Florence street northeast, re- ceived treatment at Casualty Hospital for bruises suffered when she was struck by an automobile operated by Walter H. Rhyne, 1632 E street south- east. The accident occurred in the 300 block of Sixteenth street southeast. Heath Aircraft Head Killed. NILES, Mich, July 11 (#).—Fred Seiler, 38 years old, general managey of any organization is to get the leaders of the local division together for a bit of lmgintlon. For it is the local lead- ers who must stand out in front in the battle for the next convention. In.the fact the convention manager must if it be possible to do so, have certain local leaders along with him to the convention cit; where the decision on the next meeting place is to be made. Convention guests as State falr guests or guests of any other kind are sensitive. They do not wish to come to any city unless the latchstring is easily visible. And there is nothing so convincing as to the future visibility of the latchstring s a warm greeting and a slap on the back from a few of the boys who are pro- posing to entertain the next convention. ‘The convention bureau manager must be prepared for ups and downs but if he can make the ups exceed the downs, he has no kick coming. VARGAS FOR W LSON PLAN RIO DE JANEIRO, July 11 (#).— Economic equality of nations according to the late President Wilson's 14 points was advocated tonight by President Vargas at a dinner given the diplomatic corps. President Vargras added, how- ever, that he believed the time was not and answer The! or to the board meeting | § of the Heath Aircraft Corporation of Niles, was killed today when his air- plane went into a spin and crashed near _the city limits. FILE CLERK now for, file clerk and statisti- Begin _today for AMINA . Instruction every day and gnly 10 entire CoUre . eor. ih sng P eohrw et, 6331, 18- 'REDUCED SUMMER RATES 1 . 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Meantime attempts by Chief Ivan Smith of the Coronado police to inter- rogate the former naval officer, who had been absent from his home eight days prior to his wife's death, and who returned last night when informed of her apparent suicide, were unavailing. Officer Taken to Hospital. Chief Smith said he had besn ted by Mrs. Lillian Hackney, a friend of Mrs. Scudder, that the ex-naval officer’s wife had seen her absent husband in Tia Juana in the company of Mrs. Fran- ces Geiger. Mrs. Hackney was reported to have gone to Tia Juana with Mrs. Scudder at the latter's request. Smith said he was told that Scudder was taken to a hospital today, but he had no word concerning his condition. Dr. Ernest Porter, Scudder's physician, declined to answer questions concerning the man's condition, saying the infor- mation was “strictly confidential.” At Scudder’s hcme, Sutherlsnd Per- kins, Scudder’s stepson, said the former officer had not been home at all yes- terday. Perkins said he did not know where Scudder had gene. Mrs. Geiger Denies Report. | ‘The coroner said no inquest would ‘be held provided the report of the chemist disclosed nothing new. He said | apparently Mrs. Scudder took poison as | a result of despondency over her hus- band's actions. Mrs. Geiger, widow of Col. Harcld Geiger, war-time aviator, returned to her home Thursday night, after an ab- | sence of a week, but denied that she | had been with Scudder. NEW YORK DOCKS RENTING PROBED Inquiry Begins After Suicide| of Chief Engineer of Department. home of Mrs. Church’s mother, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 11—Legislative in- vestigators into city affairs today took a consuming interest in the department of | suicidal death of Traugott F. 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(1) $120 7-Pc. Dinette Suite. . d. Mahogany veneered. (14) $8.50 Feltona Rugs......... 9x12 ft., large size, perfect. (1) $13.95 Coffee Table............ Removable glass tray. « (3) $6.75 Juvenile Gliders......... Strongly built. (13) $1.69 Folding Card Tables........ Well braced. (22) $1.75 Upholstered Foot Stools. . (8) $4.95 End Tables. ... Book trough style. (9) $3.75 Maple Porch Rockers. . Roomy and comfortable. (3) $4.50 Lawn Benches .......... Steel frame. $22.50 Coil Spring Glider............. Ball bearing—chain hanging. $165 Two-Pc. Bed-Davenport Suite. . Fine tapestry upholstered. (2) $195 4-Pc. Bedroom Suites. . .. .. Venetian mirror. (6) $6.50 Simmons Steel Beds...... Figured walnut ven Wood finish. (2) $39.50 Coil Spring Day Beds Inner coil mattress. (7) $2.95 Bassinets. .. Ivory Enamel finish. (3) $18 Chest of Drawers....... Maple finish. (6) $1.69 Steamer Chairs.......... Folding style. (7) $7.50 Davenport Tables........ 48 inch; mahogany finish. (1) $250 10-Pc. Dining Room Suite. . Walnut finish. (5) $12.50 Boudoir Chairs......... Figured rayon upholste: (1) $85 Davenport Da.y SR Denim upholstered *99 . $69.75 e $74.50 .. $4.99 ... $Q.95 oo $3.98 $1.00 - $7.00 e $2.99 T X e $2.99 $16.50 5122 $13350 . $3.99 .- $24 5199 .. 81175 - $4.50 5165 oo $625 55 IWNRIGHT= 905 7th St. N.W