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A—6 GRANDS UPRIGHTS wu AND ~~ MIDGET PIANOS FOR RENT s D o HUGO WORCH Most Coughs Demand Creomulsion| Don't let them get a strangle hold. | Fight germs quickly. Cre8mulsion| | combines the 7 best helps khown to | modern science. Powerful but harm- less. Pleasant to take. No narcoti Your druggist will refund | money if any cough or cold no mai ter how long standing is not rélieve ‘by Creomulsion.—Advertisement. 1110 G.Est.ien MOTIVES OF YOUNG “Ask and Ye Shall Have” Is Philosophy Demonstdated by Two. This 1s the fourth of & series of dail atches by a writer who travel forth across the country o {8 the story of the thousands of home- less, wandering boys. BY DANIEL ROBERT MAUE. Two young hitch-iravelers, part of that tragic army of homeless, migratory | youths who are roving the continent, arose tardily from the concrete floor cf the town jall at Wayne, Pa. Sleepily they donned their shoes, | then washed their faces at the water tap. A strip of building paper il:nd:.'.t Calif., was still thousands of miles away. The dozen others, young and old, who had shared the floor were gone. Hungry now the two laggards went from the station house and dro) into & nearby restaurant. Just a little something to eat, pel ‘The restaurant man grumbled some- thing about already having fed five men that morning. Nevertheless he EISEMAN’S SEVENTH AND F ALL-WOOL SUITS and-butter and large pieces of two- old pi ‘The late comers ate and the western outskirts of Wa, Fortunately, I happened along in my little roadster. I had no need to invite the two travelers to ride end of our ride. The transient young- er generation surprisingly often prefers not being promiscuous with names, at least, real names. However, the two were Leslie Rhodes and Frank Mikkel- son, with parental homes in Glendale. They had been “selling magazines” in Brooklyn—a bit of fiction consrived to comfort fathers and mothers. Leslie explained that they really had been living through the philosphy, “Ask and ye shall have.” Going to Wayne. they had learned from a garage man thint ey might “go to jall for the night.” As long as they could keep neat they could ex] to hitch by motor car. They had no baggage, no funds. They had vowed they would remain together. But for my sometimes pointed ques- tions, the conversation drifted along in friendly fashion. Finally 18-year-old WANDERERS DIFFER THE EVENING S to check the cumbersome articles, and in Chicago, the immediate destina u;: ving, Los Angel T! A el d that they had Jonas changed his shirt tory of a Pittsburgh.cafete: he “took it off and put it side out, “I've never been my life,” he decided. He left his paren- g h:m; at Seattle last Junxe‘. and returning ne PBut,” he said, “you can live off the folks for long.” Edward’s I know by verified hearsay. It is the story of the weaker, transtent " youtl who sinks info wn- scrupulousness, degen practices Could I tell it in crimes. amm‘m stand as A ’ ON TRUNK MURDER “True Story” Promised by Dr. Judd. representing the sordid pitfalls confronting ever;’fimh- By the traveling youth who encounters life in any of the larger cities Near midnight I entered Pittsburgh’s Central Registration Bureau. Five boys were just filing away from the desk. Their features, even the texture and color of their garments, were obscured by the soot of freight engines. Not one wore an overcoat. They carried only soiled newspapers—which might yet come in handy, although they were going across the street to the Y. M: C. A. and possibly to real beds. Not Equal to Chair. ‘The Y M. C. A. would send them to the Newsboys' Home, for they had been booked as minors. Not one was more skeptical, county ted today to hear the “true story” of the killing of two women from the lips of Dr. William C. Judd, husband of Win- nie Ruth Judd, convicted “trunk mur- deress,” under sentence to be hanged February 17. Dr. Judd, who wes expected to arrive today from Prescott, said he would “tell all” to Sheriff J. R. McFadden in an attempt to save bis wife. “If Dr. Judd has any new facts,” said | the sheriff, “we will be glad to hear them. It seems a bit strange he did not come to the aid of his wife before this.” Mrs. Judd was convicted of murdering Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Rol. She also was « | uelson. “Going to Massachusetts. In & few minutes one of the five returned. “The home's got a full house,” he called to the desk attendant. “Send him to the A. I. P.” came & voice from the rear of the roczy So this time the grimy ygi"g wan- derer carried a card to the quarters of the Associaticn for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor. There he could sleep in a chair or on the floor. neatly-dressed youth walked A gloomily away from the desk. I had said as he came toward me, He had not eaten during the day; he had been too intent on reaching Greensburg, 35 miles beyond Pittsburgh. He thought there might be a letter, even & little money, waiting there, Everything, per- haps, would be all right if he could Jjust reach home in a small Pennsyl- vania town. He left there two years ago when it seemed obvious that trees For he is a tree surgeon. But he had worked six months in the Ford plant at Dearborn, later as After that, despite canvassing for the merest of jobs, he had been free to join the ranks of the wandering but still prideful American youth. (Tomorrow: A Wanderer at Fifteen.) (Copyright, 1932, by North American News- for & time must go utterly neglected. | a filling station attendant at Cleveland. | . Both * | Phoenix bungalow October 17, 1931, their bodies dismembered and sent to Los Angeles in trunks, where the crime was discovered when Mrs. Judd called to claim them at the depot. - n I tell the whole truth of this case,” Dr. Judd said in Prescott last night, “there will be another person in a prison cell and Ruth Judd will stand exonerated of this crime of whicn she has been accused and convicted. O. V. Wilson, chief of Mrs. Judd's defense counsel, sald he would await the arrival of Dr. Judd and that the two, after Dr. Judd had talked with the the case before the State Supreme Court, which on Monday denied the woman & new trial and set the date for execution, would be filed within the next 13 days. o R S PRISON FACTORY ASSAILED Four Associations Protest Federal Cotton Duck Competition. NEW YORK, December 14 (#.—Four industrial associations joined yesterday | in & protest to the United States Attor- ney General against the operation of a cotton duck factory in the Atlanta Pen- itentlary. ‘They declared the prison mill turned out more than 25 per cent of all the cotton duck made in this country and = AWAIT ‘NEW FACTS ‘flfiom) 1S ASKED = N Phoenix Officials Skeptical of |Widow Files Damage Suit as Res of Che Manion ‘The torneys of ‘Early automobile belonging to Meyers and by Karl ted o; ‘Washington, struck & car operated by Manion, upset, skidded across the road and struck Early, who was repair- ing the horn of his own machine in front of a Hyattstown garage. injured in_a Frederick hospital. In connection with the accident Brown uhter in the Circuit Court here i heard the attendant offer him “a chair | sheriff, would go to the State prison at Selling Magazines.” at the A. I B.” o Florence to confer with Mrs. Judd. Wil- |Confessed Ten Robberies, S8ay Po- Introduced last year, Vicks Plan has been flu, bronchitls, pneumonia and other dissbling Names were not exchanged until the | I don't believe I'm equal to it,” he |s0n said a petition for a rehearing of amazingly successful in showing the way to diseases. 1 OAKLAND, . —A youth who identified himself, police said, as Ralph Solloway, jr., son of a milliongire Toronto, Canada, arrested here yesterday m.g":l- was legedly station Young Solloway, captured when he attempted to fiee from the apartment of Miss Agnes Sheridan, 21, as police closed in on him, was quoted as saying his fatl Tcronto investment brokerage house of Solloway & Mills. Known also as “Ralph Crawford,” of- ficers said the youth told them he ran away from home at the age of 15 and served France. Special Dispatch o The Btar. ROCKVILLE, & sequel to an automobile accident st Hyattstown, May 30, in which Walter E. Early of Washington, & Government employe, lost his lfe, a suit for $150,000 damages was filed yesterday efternoon in the Circuit Court by his widow, Mrs. Agnes P. Early, against Paul F. Myers ‘Washington and William F. Prettyman Rockville. BANKER’S SON JAILED NESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1932, Are You A GOLDS-SUSCEPTIBLE? MAN'S DEATH, ult of Fatal Accident at Hyattstown. Colds-Susceptibles, According to Recent Medical Research, ‘Are Those Having Four or More Colds & Year Md., December 14.—As ' BEWARE OF COLDS NOW In clnical teste among thousands Jest wintes, Vicks Colds-Contro]l Plan reduced the mumbes and duration of ¢olds by half'—cut the danger and costs of colds more than hall! How you can follow Vicks Plan in your home is fully explained in each Vicks package. Oolds—especially those mean “grippy” colds so prevalent at the present time—are more of a menace than most people suppose. They lower body resistance and often pave the way for serious ills. 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MUSKOGEE, Okla., December 14 (#). —Hardware merchants here are knock- ing the dust off their forgotten stock of buggy whirls and old Dobbin's frisky snorting is heard in place of the fiivver's backfire on many a farm these frosty mornings. Merchants report that more buggy whips have been sold within the last months than during the last decad Frank's dark head withdrew into the collar of his overcoat. He slept for many miles, while Leslie, the senior by three years, talked with me. Yes, his father was still maintaining an impoverished cleaning establishment. Leslie could, perhaps, eventnally “work into the business” “I don’t want a lot of money,” he explained. “I'd like to be just & well-to-do, decent business man. “I aim to be married by the time I'm 23, only first I'd like to see some of the world. Then I know I'll be content to settle’ down. A lot of people marTy “there {s no industry in which Govern- | ment competition has so far invaded | the fleld of private ergurpme as in the | cotton T aking the protest lustry. The associations m: were the American Cotton Manufac- turers’ Association, the Association of Cotton Textile Merchants, the Cotton Duck Association and the National As- sociation of Cotton Manufacturers, And Now Meyers— ‘18 NOTHING DOWN Japan’ mated 's rice crop t 313,856,000 this yesr is esti- bushels. wpey | EEEE e ce eewen || Sale of Rogers Peet and Schloss More Bewildering Case. = a a: asse: $6 lN JANUARY ISW nfx‘}:u: Eni‘?{“iifix mfl:‘x;‘?fi l:ql:?: nZout our Certificate for giving Glasses tf;ilg Xm.u the edge off his enthusiasm for that mode of life. When Frank awoke he told me he could not yet see beyond completion of high school, when that should again become possible. His thoughtfuiness and silence told me that the economics of his history, as com- pared_with his companion's, were the more hewunenn:. I put them down in the square st Chambersburg, Pa. They immediately $6 IN FEBRUARY $6 IN MARCH SUITS and O’COATS started for westward outskirts of thi':{‘t':.‘ wing dark when I climbed : . Prescriptions Filled at These Prices Y H Uil e g, Mol o By S || £, Ocslisd, Bt il o Thoe Bt st Single-Breasted — Double-Breasted—Sizes 33 to £ = ings of the town the roadster was again Speci: DAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY ONLY, $5.00 b o githerng nendvar § a0 || T B RSB FRiDAY i SATCRDAY ORI, 8 L I £ the d pulled to the side of the cial for SDAY, NL 46 Bl B Sh what wonder- ford v ¥ o S 1 g BB, iR 1 ues—Browns-—-Grays—Longs—>Shorts recognized two young men laboring on foot up the slope. They were familiar faces from Times Square, New York. Edward and Jonas (fictitous names) in leaving Bedford, Pa., had unwittingly hitched to a local sutomobile. They ful values these suitsareat $18. All models are shown in a great variety of smart blues, grays, browns and tans. Regulars—Stouts—In fact, our stock of over eight hundred Winter suits and overcoats is now reduced for our Semi-Annual Clearance— 312 McGill Building Eyesight Specialist 908-914 G St. N.W. A e Pl 9 AM. to 6 PM. McGill Buil into the gathering dusk they could hardly have expected a lift. Hotel Kept Luggage. A small hotel in Freehold, N. J., had been forced to keep the traveling case nd bundles of these two sophisticated transients They had registered there | | only two nights earlier. They had | been disappointed in the belief that somehow they could raise the fee of 2 dollar. However, that was a neat way A Real Railroad President Says Lionel Electric Trains afford the American Boy the thrill and ad- venture of railroading. They provide him with the means of exercising his mind so that he may grow up to be the type of man who will add his inventiveness and effort to the develf&ment of the country's future, Gen. W. W. Atterbury so vividly testifies, a5 President, The Pennsyivanis Railroad (A reprint from Lionel Catalogue, 1931) AN HONEST SALE—TRUE VALUES With confidence in your approval and your support of “STRAIGHT SHOOTING” —we make no wild claims of fictitious savings—nor ridiculous comparative prices— We state simplv that in this CLEARANCE SALE youcangetaSCH .OSS SUIT OR OVER- COAT AS LOW AS $17.50—And similar re- Christmas Special in Handkerchiefs | They are all pure linen— imported, and in a variety of effects. Cut-out and embroid- Boucher Trains and Accessories . 40% Off List Prices ered initials; lain and in A . . N i - Lionel Service Repair Station : . i . . | it e SO ., .........n.e..a.,?... sbpcosins 8 ductions in every price range bring our finer service on Lionel and other makes, too, at reasonable prices. We carry the most complete stock of replacement parts in the city. Lional trains priced from $3.78 complete up to $70.00. 109, discount on some items. Xmas Tree Light Sets 8 striped; hand-rolled hems. Schloss and Rogers Peet suits and overcoats within your Budget. We guarantee the wearing qualities, style and value of every suit. We guarantee perfect alterations without extra cost— The actual value is 50c Fibre Insulated Track Pins, Special, 36¢c doz. Special in Genuine Easy Built Mountain Scenery and Accessories er Sizes 3x4, 4x6, 4x8, 4x10. Price Mount that train this year or we will mount l:"“ n -~ Waterfalls ....$16.00 1 b . Peccary Pigskin Gloves g 1B : And we guarantee you will be more than sat ~ Eopcaias 1 R i isfied with our offerings—and our pledge as i Platforms built to ord from $4.00 to $10. it for you. Headlight bulbs Red, White and Gr ‘We have the best sclection of Shop in Comfort_ tree ornaments and trimmings that can be found anywhere. Nothing over 10c. Superior Lock & Electric Co. - 1410 L St. N.W. Open Evenings Phone Met. 8439 Washington Building, 1419 G St. NW. Demand has materially increased the wholesale price of these gloves— but we are holding fast to the price we set for the holidays—as long as our generous supply holds out. All sizes. for Lionel and other makes of tr VALUE FUNDAMENTAL—STYLE PARAMOUNT EYER MEN S SHO!’ e A The Mode—F at Eleventh 1331 F Street 1331 F Street B

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