Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1933, Page 7

MAN, 75, IN HOSPITAL AS RESULT OF ATTACK Says Colored Man Beat Him While He Was Walking in Soldiers’ BURIED GOLD" LURE OSTS AN LNES 555 THE EVENING TAX GROUP OF HOUSE | PLAN VALENTINE PARTY REPORTS ON REFUNDS="“" View Community Center to $38,708,828 in Claims for 1931 Studied by Commitiee on Tn- Entertain Children. A costume parade, with prizes; an en- tertainment by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts; games, dancing, jig-saw puzzles and refreshments will feature a chil- dren’s Valentine party to be given “I STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY THOMAS INTRODUCES INFLATION PROPOSAL Bill Would Authorize Issuance of Currency Through 30-Year 31, 1933. he gathered President-elect Roosevelt lower and lower.” he favored cheapening the wer of the dollar tott.he ex- MEXICAN DEFAULTED BOND SUIT DISMISSED New York Supreme Court Throws Out Action Brought by committee to obtain a ruling on how it should distribute the money among thousands of bondholders. o The Mexican government contended that the money, which it had turhed over to the committee since 1922 “For distribution among the bondholders, was Mexican property “and that the New York courts had no jurisdiction overtt. An independent committee of Mex- by Louis S. g | jes. d Issues. Ia Group. J’reasure Seekers Continue | o s = el vl ternal Revenue Levies. Bond Issuel mont Group. — Mm‘m‘ S 7 st Park View Community Center on Pri- . termined condition at Providence Hos- Futile Quests of NeW |t todsy from mjuries sufterea Jan Mexico “Hoards.” . By the Assoclated Press. SANTA FE, N. Mex., January 31.— Burled gold abounds in New Mexico— | in legend. The legends draw treasure seekers | on futile quests that often cost their | lives. W. W. Brooks, 65, of Hollywood, Calif,, is the latest. Brooks, who lived in New Mexico as | & youth, returned to seek a reputed cache of gold. His body was found by & cowboy. Officers at first expressed | the opinion he had been slain for a map he carried showing the hidden wealth, but later decided he had fallen and received fatal injuries. Mexican Treasure Sought. The treasure Brooks sought—one of the many rumored hidden in the moun- | tains, on the plains and in sun-baked | haciendas—was reported stolen many | years ago by a band of Americans who massacred a Spanish mule train party and, fearing pursuit, buried their loot | and never returned | g adobe home of of Taos_there pt in fruit jars whizh was never death, which was | | | | the late Arthur M hangs a tale of gol and used as door s found after Manby in itself a mystery. His decapitated body was found in a locked room five years ago. The death has been called successively natural, suicide. murder and natural again, with the added belief of a few that he is still al and the body was that of uary 22 when he was beaten about the | head and shoulders. He was treated at home, following the attack, and police obtained information of the case yes- terday after the elderly man was ordered to the hospital by his family physician. Severly bruised about the chest and scalp, Ridgeway came home Sunday a week ago and said an unidentified col- | ored man set upon him as he was walk- ing in the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home. Ridgeway's condition was regarded as serous at the hospital today, although he will probably recover. CONGRESS ASSAILED Criticized for Its Failure to Bal- lance Budget. CHICAGO, January 31 (#).—The Na- tional Organization to Reduce Public Expenditures last night accused Con- gress of alternately deflating and in- flating the national budget, thereby accomplishing nothing in its economy program. The charge was made in a bulletin | issued by the organization, which de- clared the lame duck session of Con- gress was impeding business in its up- ward climb by procrastinating in cut- ting cost of government. The statement said that the total Treasury deficit was approaching five billion dollars and that Congress, while The general b s Roiett T,is that the | requcing proposed economies of $830,- Filing its annual report with the House, the Joint Congressional Com- mittee on Internal Revenue Taxation served notice it had studied $38,709.828 | ;x: tax refunds for the 1931 calendar | ar. 3 The committee in past years has| refunds of more than $75,000 author- President Hoover just vetoed —and was sustained in the House—a bill which would have re- quired this committee to approve all refunds of more than $20,000 before they could be paid. The Joint Committee's report said that the refunds for the 1931 calendar year compared with $97,503,653 al- lowed in 1930, and were 66 per cent under the average for the preceding four years, It added: “In the majority of cases the refunds and credits reported by the commissioner have not been open to serious criticism. Differences of ! opinion, however, have arisen in dis- posing of some of the excess profits tax cases which have long been pending.” . Bread prices in Scotland are being reduced. [ LUMPY SOFT COAL day. Directing it will be Miss Edith Shannon, chairman, assisted by the' Park View Citizens' Assoclation, Wom- en’s Club and Parent-Teacher Asso- clation. In making this announcement today acted in an advisory capacity on tax the Community Center department said the public is invited. An admis- ized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. | sion fee of 5 cents will be charged, Miss last week | Frances Cooper, community secretary at Park View Center, said. “The Avenus"—7th, Sth and D St rency | By the Associated Preas. Contending that times are getting worse instead of | Thomas, Democrat, of Oklshoma, yes- e terday sought through a bill intro- Thomas duced in the Senate, to inflate the through which money could be In reading several newspaper arti- cles and editorials into the Congres- sional Record Thomas told colleagues MEN’'S STORE SEVENTH AND THE AVENUE better, Senator cur- 30-year bond issues Ployes issued. Cotton e money bill provides rency shall be used to pay Federal em- and for public works and all other governmental expenditures. produced in Sweden last contracts. into_circulation, that such cur- By the Associated Press. * NEW YORK, January 31.—The Mex- ican government yesterday won dis-|that missal of a Supréeme Court action|the brought by Thomas W. Lamont, as chairman of the International Commit- tee of Bankers on Mexico, concerning the ownership of $7,500,000 interest on defaulted Mexican bonds. year weighed nearly 40,000,000 pounds. 'The suit was brought by the Lamont Ottenheimer, opposed plication for dismissal of the suit, bonds lived outside of the U 000; Switzerland, $20,000,000; $23,000,000; Holland, $47,000,000 mately $109,000,000. “Clear the Racks of All Winter Overcoats”—Comes the Order From the Merchandising Of fiee—So Here Goes! committee’s complaint, accord- ing to the Mexican government, showed holders of $408,000,000 worth® oé States and were distributed as follos: Mexico, $7,000,000; Belgium, $19,000,- ; Germeny, ,000; Great Britain, $175,000,000; Prance, $117,000,- 000, and the United States, approxi- his hunery | 600,000 to $246,000,000, haa added el ¢ her items, leaving the s a British subject and his | penses to ot d en a matter of national of- budget unbalanced. ern in both Washington and | = 260 MEN’S OVERCOATS Regardless of original costs or Robbers Attack Hacienda. = could never have accumulated sufficient In recent weeks Eugenio Yrisarri has money to bury in his short life, is “_’ENGA Lol “Loads of Jegend says is near the ancestral home | Springer, have been combed in vain®or of the family a treasure he probably never left. Users of Soft { $ ’.50 twice defended his hacienda near Al- | sometimes sought. The crumbled ruins [ Lumps” risarri, in modest circumstances,| ~Careful investigators say there is lit- ————|] Coal Are De- | 5 5 ing trontier cattle thief, who obviously || lighted With buguerque from robbers, who came in |of the castle of Lucien Maxwell, he of search of a fabulcus fortune which | the broad acres and huge herds,,at John P. Agnew & Co,, Inc. knows of no gold tle possibility that any of the legends || 728 14th St. NA. 3068 rd of B are fcunded on fact. 15 Um'fy. Right drug Reserved stores to guar-. s antee Limit Savings Quan- Service tities Satisfac- xpial Val'amens Il ‘ $1 4:75 $18?5 $24.75 for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday All Unity Drug Stores are owner-managed, thus . assuring you personal attention to your every need. Let Us Fill Your Prescriptions former selling prices—regrouped and REDUCED to 3 clearing prices —Red letter days are here for men who buy Winter overcoats in this sale! Every coat in the three sale groups is new and correctly styled not only for the balance of this Winter, but next Winter as well. In fact, there’s several season’s warmth and wear in every one of them. What’s more, the “Big Shots” of overcoat materials are represented = ‘in the three groups. Modess Sanitary Napkins 50c Gillette Blue Blades Package of 5 36¢ 65¢ Mike Martin’s Liniment 28c 2 for 53¢ Meltons, Fleeces, Velours, Alperus Cambridge Grays, Oxford Grays, Browns and Blues...All Sizes, 34 to 46...Single and Double-Breasted Models...Come Early! 4 $1.50 Renault’s Wine Tonic 74c¢ 2 tor $1.45 30c Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets 19¢ 250 TWO-TROUSER SUITS... REDUCED FOR QUICK SELLING —Single and double-breasted models in the wanted shades of grays and browns. R Unity’s Special Low Price 1 9c Rox 3 49¢c 35c Smith Bros. Cough Syrup 26¢ . Kann’s—Men's Store—Second Floor. And Here’s a Sale of PAJAMAS “Faultless” —no-belt 94.- “Kann’s Own” —Coat style—Middy style—Notch-collar style- . . . Draw string, elastic or Faultless (no-belt) waist . . . Plain and fancy broadcloths with piped edges and contrasting trimmings . . : Plain color broad- cloths with silk trimmings. Three well known makes; at an excep- tionally low price. Sizes A, B, C, D. Kann’s—Men's Store—Street Floor. $1.39 Buys These for BOYS! All-Wool All-Wool Golf Hose : Juvenile Knickers . . .$|.39 Sweaters . . .S|'39 9 Pairs for . .’|.39 Suits..... .’l-.39 —Original $2.95 to $4.95 models— —Long, full-cut, baggy knickers in —The better kind...Pure zephyrs serviceable brown and gray mix- in solid colors...two-color com- —Fine mercerized lisle hose with ‘Turtle neck and Vee neck styles— full uniform foot...Smart pat- and 3-pc. combination with beret, tures, with worsted cuffs. All binations ... Fancy Philadelphia lined and bar tacked. Sizes 6 lwgunds. All shades. Sizes 28 terns—Juvenile, junior and youth sweater and corduroy shorts. Sizes to 18. to 36. sizes 6% to 11. 4t09. \ §//////////’/////////////////////////////////// 50c Pepsodent Tooth Paste. 29¢ 25c Feenamints 50c Autostrop Blades 25c¢ Listerine Tooth Paste..18¢ 35¢ Musterole 25c¢ Nelson’s Hair Pomade. . 25¢c Packer’s Tar Soap. ... $1.25 Creomulsion 7 25c¢ Black and White Peroxide Vanishing Cream 9c 75¢ Russian Mineral Oil, pt., 37¢ 85c Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, “Sealpax” 35c Dr. Scholl’s Corn, Bunion or Callous Pads 26¢ $1.00 Bayer’s Aspirin Bottle of 100 Tablets 59¢ 10c Toilet Tissue Clothing Department Second Floor pt. ---48¢ 35¢ Danderine Hair Tonic. .27¢ 75¢ Vapex 57¢ 5c¢ Lord Balto. Cigars, 35¢ Colgate’s Shaving 1 1,000 Sheets 35¢ Noxzema for 50c Epsom Salts, 5-Ib-can. . 29¢ 4 170 ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING UNITY DRUG STORES NORTHWEST Shoemaker’s Drug Store, 5301 Georgia Morgan Bros. Pharmacy, 4231 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Ave. N.W. CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT Sugar’s Drug Store, 35th & O Sts. N.W. A Morgan Bros. Pharmacy, 30th & P Sts. W;s'hel'nfio‘s. Drug Store, 7th & Penna. NW. ; t Pharmacy, 1905 Mass. Ave. N.W. NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST 5 e 8t & I Lincoln Park Pharmacy, -13th & East Bernstein’s Drug Store, 18th & Florida i Ave. N.W. Market Pharmacy, 7th & P Sts. N.W. Home Pharmacy, 4th & H Sts. N.E. 9tandard Pharmacy, 7th & S Sts. N.W. Capitol Towers Pharmacy, 208 Mass. Reiskin’s Cut Rate Drug Store, 1st & Ave. N.E. Florida Ave. N.W. Silver’s Pharmacy, Upshur Pharmacy, 200 Upshur St. N.W. Ave. S.E. 2341 Pennsylvania Eann's—Boys’ Store—Second Floor,