Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1937, Page 11

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 25 1937—PART OXNE. Hundreds of Unadvertised Pieces of Fine Furniture —11 Honored RIVE LAUNCHED AGAINST SYPHILIS Chicagoans Polled in Effort to Get Secret Blood - Tests. By the Associated Press, | CHICAGO, July 24.—Health officers began the country's first mass attack on the syphilis plague today by poll- | ing Chicagoans on the question of | submitting to free secret blood tests administered by family doctors Dr. Louis Schmidt, head of Mayor Edward J. Kelly's Committee for | Control of Venereal Disease, said that in Chicago the problem has been di- vorced from superstition, ignorance Lansburghs Semi-Annual Sale SEVENTH, EIGHTH ynd E STREETS District 7578 e Features “A Few Pennies a Day” Purchase Plan! | This unique innovation in furniture selling means hundreds of Wash- ington families may possess and use the fine furniture they’ve always longed to buy. Any suite on this page (or group of individual pieces totaling $25 or more) may be purchased on this new Lansburgh “A Few Pennies A Day” plan. Or you may select unadvertised merchandise included in the Semi-Annual Sale. Ask any sales person to explain the plan (which includes a small carrying charge). He will tell you the exact amount to “save up”—whichyou pay once each month. Lansburgh’s—Fifth Floor—7th, 8th & E Streets HALL S. LUSK. Q.95 - One-Room Apartment 5-Pc. Bed-Living Room Suite .and false modesty and hence it is &yphilis.” The plague, he added. can be brought G' U' ALUMNUS PUT Dr. Schmidt sald returns from the 50.000 a day, would govern estab- Is Named to State Supreme Doctors’ Aid Asked. Hall S. Lusk. former honor student | “the logical city for the first popular under control just as tuberculosis ON OREGON BENCH secret ballots, to be mailed to every +lishment of machinery for administeg- Court. Chicago’s 5,500 physicians would be | 8t the Georgetown University Arts referendum and actual abatement of was a few decades ago. family in the city at the rate of Hall S. Lusk, Native of District, ing the tests, Asked to test the blood of their reg- ular patients without charge, the doc- | tor said, and the State and city health departments would be asked to handle most of the laboratory work. “Undoubtedly there are hundreds upon hundreds of doctors who will be willing to give their time and talent for this project,” Dr. Schmidt said. “AIl necessary supplies would be fur- nished them. They would give only Jtheir time.” Blood samples would be sent to lab- oratories under code numbers and results of the tests would be confiden- tial between patient and physician. Treatment of those needing it then would be arranged. Would Produce Census. R. Oliver C. Wenger, specialist in the United States Public Health Serv- fce, explained the tests ultimately would produce for the first time “an Actual census of syphilis and it will be out in the open where we can com- College and Law School and judge of the Circuit Court of Oregon for six years, has been named to the Supreme | | Court of that State by Gov. Martin, it | was learned yesterday through his | | brother, Rufus S. Lusk, president of | the Washington Taxpayers' Associa- | | tion. Lusk, who was born here in 1883, | the son of the late Charles S. Lusk. | received his first edueation in local public schools, subsequently being | graduated from Georgetown College | in 1904 and the law school in 1907. | He served for five vears as secre- | tary to Chief Justice Sheppard of the | District Court of Appeals, later moving to Montana and then to Portland, | Oreg., where he practiced law until his appointment in 1930 to the Oregon bench. In 1932 he was elected to the | Circuit Court for a six-year term While in school here he was editor in chief of the Georgetown Journal, He led his college class in scholastic | average for four years. He now is | president of the Georgetown Alumni 18th Century Wing Chair All five pieces carefully chosen to harmonize with each other. If bought separately would cost much more. They are: Studio*couch which opens to full or twin bed sizes . .. com- fortable lounge chair upholstered in dur- able frierette . . . handsoms occasional chair with rich brocatelle eovering . . . coffee table with separate glass tray « + . book-trough end table. 30c a Doy for 6 Months on the “Few Pennies a Doy” Plan Everything that “a model” lounge chair should possess . . . good looks exceptional value . .. construction for comfortable resting. All in all, it's a stately, dignified piece of furniture with high back (acting as a head rest). Has reversible spring-filled seat cush- bat it with medical methods.” Club of Oregon and a professor at | The first bundle of 250,000 ballots | the Northwest Law School. snd explanatory letters were mailed S 3 foday. The Federal Government fur- nished 2,000,000 franked envelopes, in- jOBs HELD FOUND cluding self-addressed folders for re- turn votes When the poll is ended, the letters will have put to Chicago's 3.500,000 residents this question: “In strict confidence and at no ex- pense to you, would vou like to be given by your own physician a blood test for syphilis?” A “Yes” or “No" reply is requested PRIEST TO DESCRIBE EXPERIENCE IN SPAIN Very Rev. Sylvester Sancho, For- mer C. U. Student, Will Speak Today at McMahon Hall. Personal experiences in Spain last month will be described by Very Rev. Sylvester Sancho, O. P., former stu- dent at Catholic University, in a lec- ture at McMahon . Hall at 7:30 pm. ¥ todayv. His topic will be “An Eye- witness From Spain.” Father Sancho 1= rector magnifi- cus of the Uni- versity of St Thomas at Ma- nila. P. I, a pon- tifical university and the oldest in- stitution of high- er learning under the American flag. He is a na- tive of Spain and & member of the Dominican Order, and it was at that , college at Catholic University that he etudied during the academic year of 1918-19. Well acquainted with Gen. Franco, Pather Sancho entered Bilbao with | the insurgent army when that city fell | recently Father Sancho. FORW.P.A. WORKERS | Hopkins Says Most of Them Went Into Private Industry and Were Not “Enforced Lay-Offs.” By the Associated Press. Harry L. Hopkins, the works prog- ress administrator, said yesterday most of the persons leaving W. P. A | rolls in recent months left for pri- | vate jobs and were not “‘enforced lay- offs.” Although 171458 workers left W. P. A. projects from April to May, he | sald, rolls decreased only 64,928 be- cause 106,530 persons were assigned to W. P. A, jobs in May who were | not working on projects in April. Most of the new workers were taken from locsl relief rolls. The Workers Alliance, however, called for a national “job march” on Washington on August 23 to protest against W. P. A. lay-offs, which it said would result in large numbers being “condemned to miserable local relief—or no relief.” MEETING TO DISCUSS FARM UNION'S DRIVE. Plans to Be Considered for En}ist-’ ing 5,000,000 Rural Workers. Henderson to Speak. Plans to enlist the country’s 5,000,- 000 rural workers in the United Can- nery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America will be discussed at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at an open meeting in the Friends Meeting House, 1811 I street. The meeting is under auspices of the Washington Committee to Aid Agricultural Workers. The new union claims to have 100.000 members in At present he is on his way from | en international meeting of Domini- | can educators and provincials at Rome to his post in Manila. He is visiting the leading Catholic institutions of higher learning in this country on his way to the Philippines. | The lecture will be open to the | general public. RIVER TRIP TUESDAY Boutheast Business Men to Take Families to Marshall Hall. Members of the Southeast Business Men's Association and their families will take their annual trip to Marshall Hall, Md., Tuesday on the steamer City of Washington. Trips at 10 am, 2 p.m, a sunset cruise at 5:30 pm. and a moonlight | jaunt at 8:30 p.m. are scheduled. Those making the early morning trip will have a schedule of entertainment, including races, calling contest, pie- eating contest, tug-of-war and a beau- | R. O'Hara, chairman, announced yes- | ty contest. In the evening dancing Wwill be the feature Arthur Shaffer is chairman of ar- rangements, assisted by Charles Fisch- er, Frank Del Vecchio, Charles Miller, P. C. McGrath. Parker Stout, Charles Jenkins, Alex Berlin, Andrew Dargen, O. W. Rickard and Louis P. Prick. | Dahl, member of the executive board. 23 States and a campaign to organize the other rural workers is being launched. Speakers will include Donald Hen- derson, president of the union: Con- rad Espe, secretary-treasurer, and Leif A report will be made on the recent agricultural workers' convention in | Denver, at which delegates voted for affiliation with the Committee on In- dustrial Organization. TWO-WEEK CHURCH FETE| WILL OPEN TOMORROW | Holy Comforter Boys’ Band to Play as Annual Summer Fes- tival Is Launched. The annual Summer festival of the | Holy Comforter Church will open to- | morrow at 7:30 pm. on the grounds | of the parochial school at Fifteenth | | and East Capitol streets, Rev. Charles | | terday. It will last for two weeks, | ending August 7 The Holy Comforter Boys' Band has been engaged to play during the first hours of the opening night and will | be heard again during the week. The Knights of Columbus Band and the Fiks Boys' Band also will play. Huckster Loses Wrecks Wagon, Injures Horse Twice within two years George Lomedico, 60, a veteran huckster and one of the few remaining in Wash- ington, has seen the contents of his wagon spilled over the street and eidewalk and his horse injured in a traffic accident For 30 years Lomedico, who lives with his wife at 2202 I street, has eold groceries to Washington house- wives from his horse-drawn wagon. He came to this country from Italy 35 years ago, and still does not speak good English. “What I'm gonna do now?” he eried bitterly yesterday after survey- ing the wreckage of his wagon in the 2400 block of P street. “I got nothing but this wagon.” Lomedico was making a sale on a doorstep when s grocery truck, driven by James Newmsan, 22, colored, 911 4 All as Auto Twenty-fifth street, ran into the rear of the wagon, throwing it onto the sidewalk, injuring the horse, Kitty, and spreading the street with vege- tables and fruit. The horse was so badly hurt it had to be shot. W. 8. | Collins, a veterinary, called by a witness, borrowed a gun from Police- | man John P. Ratzeman of the sev- enth precinct to dispatch the animal Newman was taken to the seventh precinct, where he was charged with reckless driving. The elderly Italian vendor esti- mated the damage to be between $300 and $400, “all I got.” A similar accident happened at Twelfth and Constitution avenue on February 27, 1936. Lomedico's horse, Sani, had to be destroyed following the accident. Kitty was her suc- cessor. t ion. In rust or brown tapestry. Boudoir Chair with Ottoman A finer, more comfortable chair we've not seen for many a day. Has large shaped back and re- versible seat cushion. With matching full size ottoman. Both pieces in glazed chintz (in the ever popular cowslip design). Gov. Winthrop Secretary An exacting reproduction of the original. Note the 13 States grille . . . broken pediment and finial . . . secret compartments. Chippendale hardware. Of se- lected hardwood with deep ma- hogany lustrous finish. 4.99 Only 18¢ a Day for 5 Months Buys It on the “Few-Ponnies-a-Day” Plan 4 8.00 7-Pc Walnut Veneer Bed Room Ensemble Built to our specifications of selected cabinet woods. Specially noteworthy is the spacious chest-robe (usually found only in very ex- pensive suites). Other pieces in rich match- ing walnut veneer; full or twin zize bed « . . large dresser with plate-glass mir- ror . . . comfortable boudoir chair in glazed chintz . . . resilient coil spring « .. easy resting mattress , , . two soft hen feather pillows. 26¢ a Day for 12 Months on the “Few Pennies a Day” Plan 9-Pc. 18th Century Dining Room Suite A distinguished copy from early American origi- nals—note the gracious lines of Duncan Phyfe influence. Beautifully finished in lustrous glowing mahogany veneers. The 9 pieces are spacious 66-in. buffet, glass door china «+ . large extension table . .. § side chairs « .. 1 host'’s chair. The server (not pictured) is only 14.95 extra. 30c a Day for 12 Months on the “Few Pennies a Day” Plan 5-Pc. Walnut Veneer Dinette Ensemble As completely modern as it is come pletely outstanding in value. A mers pioture cannot begin 1o do justice to the graceful chair backs . . . the nicely turned table legs . the glowing sheen of the hand- rubbed rich walnut veneer. Sturdy extension table and four slip-seat chairs. 28¢ a Day for 5 Months on the “Few Pennies a Day” Plan