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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. MOTORISTS TOLD T0PLAN COURSES Van Duzer Cites Neglect of Hand Signals as Acci- dent Cause. Like the skipper of a vessel ists should befare they take to the highway, fic Director William A. Van suggests, in emphasizing that of Washington's accidents result from | thought Aimless motor- mentally | , Traf- | Duzer many chart a course” | ess maneuvers. driving—with the pcrsm‘ e wheel making a decision cn of the moment while sur- | d by & heavy flow of traffic—has | been a lead factor in a majority of | planned turns eaching intersections and | the last minute to | traffic lane, acci- | be fewer | point folder of orts made by du advance of did not wa ate his ncrease in Accidents us results for ocent drivers Duzer said to disregard tl bec ith the increased the traffic vy of closed cars, believes Rr ason (m Neglect g from the | s too much be lowered developed a ally have ning without t have Van Duzer changing the-corne | torpedo or y one person, traffic , 5. of 906 ¥ southeast, who was knocked a machine. The child 5 bruised. RUSSIANS’ CAMP DRIFTS 138 MILES FROM POLE By the Associated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, August Soviet representatives here received d polar camp today 138 miles from the direction | be torpedoed ground fog and with a 28-degree temperature at s came here to assist . pm_m ed passenger the Pole from Mosc Quezon in Japan Rodeo Queen BEAUTY SELECTED SUN VALLEY.” “MISS MISS ROBERTA BRASS Because of her beauty and expert horsemanship Miss Brass has been selected to rule over the Sun Valley, Idaho Rodeo this month as “Miss Sun Valley.” For many years her pioneer family owned the vast ranch which has been con- verted into a playground Wide World Photo | died seven years ago,” “Here’s Looking at You” These pretty “princesses,” each wearing a tropical fruit grown in San Diego County, Calif., will vie for the honor of ruling as queen of the annual San Diego County Fair = l( ide World I’holo FPSIGATIACK | PALESTIN DEBATE BELIEVED FAKED ~ SPLITS ZIONSTS | Loyalist Offmlals Hold Shlp Jewish State Party Leader Incident Was Staged by Calls British Plan Germans. “Suicide Pact.” he Associated Press. Byt SoEinted P hans ENCIA defense August ministry Spain, Switzerland, August 8 al Spokesmen for and against oposal to divide Pales- e states clashed tod: tes in the World Zionist had the appearanc g brough Germany applause build up a reason for war against reported submarine attacks on the German cruiser fraud perpetrated by or objec- re were no meetings yesterday ause of the Jewish Sabbath, but the general debate was resumed after sundown and continued into today. Meir Grossman, leader of the Jew- ish state party, told the congress (After the Leipzig incident in June leaders are beaten and ready n the Mediterranean, Germany urrender te: ry to make a Jew- announced under-water scrutiny of | ish state an impotent vassal of the the hull showed it had been scraped ish Empire. To accept the Brit- by & metal object, but whether by a n is to enter a suicide pact.” the superstructuse of a Three States Planned. submarine was not determined (The Briti: plan, drafted by a (Germany and Italy withdrew from | royal commission, proposed the parti- the European Non-intervention Com- | tion of Palesti mittee’s naval patrol around Spain Arab state and an after the incident because Britain British mandate.) and France refused to join in a four-| Dr. Emil Schmork of Poland sec- power warning demonstration against | onded Grossm: stand and said that the Spanish government.) | less than 500,000 more Jews could The statement said the Leipzig was | D¢ @bsorbed by the Jewish state pro- visited 8 few days before the sup-|Posed by the British report posed attack by Italian and Spanish| David Ben Gurion, Jewish labor insurgent naval officers and muni- | JeAder, Who was expelled from Pal- | tions aboard thereafter were shifted | €stine in 1917, but returned after a to other positions “so the ship might | 5t8Y in the United States to rise to a without danger of | Position of influence in the Jewish | labor movement, met the attacks, Favors Negotiations. He outlined the case for that part of the congress which favors agreeing to negotiate with Great Britain on the basis of the royal commission's report He said the Jews will continue to | fight for full realization of the prom- | ises made in the Balfour declaration Balfour declaration of | Spanish government In support of its charges, the min- istry published a statement which it said had been obtained secretly from a member of the cruiser's crew area under | sinking.” A watch by picked sailors then was maintained, the statement said, and the rest of the crew knew nothing of the “torpedoing” until shortly before the cruiser reached Germany. i The ministry asserted that, based on the evidence, it appeared no attacks took place. At the time Ger- many charged the vessel was attacked the ministry said all of its submarines were in port. Ak home hment of a Jewish n Palestine.) SPOTTED FEVER FATAL TO YOUTH IN VIRGINIA. Death From Malady in State This Year Reported tional HARVARD DEAN ASSAILS WASHINGTON BUILDINGS} Hudnut Says Classical Design Has Stesl. | First No Place in Present Concrete Age. ) By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 1 of the Harvard ecture classical at Crewe. 7.—Dean Joseph Scho e Associated Press 'CREWE, Va., August 7—The first death from Rocky Mountain spotted | fever in Virginia this year was reported here today with the death of Wilson Hudgins, 17 Dr. A. M. Smith of Petersburg, who attended the patient, said it was the case of the disease he had heard n this region since it was reported ng eastward this Summer. Smith said the dis very d that the _outh died “very r red splotches appeared his body and he was stricken with ills and fev e doctor said t pased lisease is spread gh the bite of the common wood and warned persons to guard ct which and Greco-Rom Bartenders’ Union to Meet. o amend the alcoholic bever- be discussed at a meet- Bartenders' Union, Old at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Wirephoto Helps | o xo. 55 Kinin U.S. Find Spanish Refugee Brings First News to Family of Girl Who Eloped 8 Years Ago. e Associated Press NVER, Au ‘ephoto broug Associated Colorado Paulino | Doctors say it is no longer necessary to take depressing drugs to lower blood pressure and relieve the asso- ciated symptoms of headache and diz- ziness. French physicians have dis- covered a new drugless method that gives great benefit. They have found that a concen- trate of gar certain dosage lowers the 4 pr from 10 to 40 be prolonged es at prescribed intervals that_as the bleod e is lowered, in almost all cases the as. sociated symptoms of headache and dizziness disappear ALLIMI ws of her since idad, Colo., eight in New en elicited her arrival Sure enou The Associated ported Mrs. Rojas to whom she was m objections near Sant that Rojas was deter- t a job, Fr i and his Mys. Solleta 1 Trinidad, offered to help ‘She doesn’t know that her father Frazzini said Mother died two years ago. She doesn't know that either.” | all right Press dispatch re- band, a miner rried against her hting in the Garlic- Parsley Tablets contain the essence of these ingredients in highly centrated They are specially processed 40 25 10 do away with objectionable taste and odor. They contain no drugs of any kind They act dull by improving the condition, not by mined to g ng the pain sister, Weite for valumble name and FREE booklet information and ad address en a postcard and mail to for sale by PEOPLE'S VITA Health Fi ) delegates to | into a Jewish state, | ain pledged her aid to facili- | DIPLOMATIC" JOBS | HINDERING POLICE |Crime Wave Laid to Force Personnel Shortage Caused hy Extra Work. Furnishing special ‘details of detec- | tives and uniformed officers to “cover’ diplomatic corps and vtongressional | social functions and sporting events is partly responsible for the petty crime wave which has swept Washington | during recent weeks, Inspector L. I H. Edwards, acting police superin- | tendent, said last night. [ Such assignments, the inspector- ex- plained, leave gaps in the personnel and “pile up” leave, causing further temporary depletion. of the ranks. At present, he said, 35 of the force's 60 | detective sergeants are on leave. As a resu't of one special detail, only three patrolmen wére on duty int the entire third precinct from midnight | Priday to 8 a.m. yesterday. The only other police protection for this ‘area was four officers patrolling in two | scout cars. Eleventh Precinct's Plight. An even worse situation was ex- perienced at the eleventh precinct re- | cently, Edwards said, when the short- | age of men necessitated the pressing of the switchboard operator, into serv- ice on a “beat.” This left one officer in the precinct. The same condition in the eighth and precin At society parties, officers are used | to prevent traffic snarls and “handle” | crowds, Edwards explained. Boxing | and wrestling matches also are regular assignments | Housebreakings Reported. Despite the shortage of detectives nly four housebreakings and one at- tempted hold-up were reported during | the last 24 hours i The victims were Miss C. L. Scott, | Hano Connecticut avenue, who told | police her apartment was burglarized of $47; Blanche Cohen, 1601 Argonne | place, who reported the theft of $51 | by a duplicate-key burglar; William | | D. Thomas, 4004 D street southeast, | | whose chicken house was looted of 52 fowl, and Isaac Miller, proprietor of | & filling station at 2045 Georgia avenue, who said his cash register was robbed of $20. | U. S. INTERVENTION " OUT, RIVERS TOLD Government Can't Help Georgia Return Prisoners, Lawyers Believe. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, August 7.—Legal ad- | visers dropped part of Georgia's fugi- tive convict problems back into the | lap of Gov. E. D. Rivers today with the opinion that Federal authorities | couldn’t help in extraditions. Rivers sought to invoke a 1793 Fed- eral law to require return to Georgia | chain gangs of Robert Elliott Burns, James Cunningham and other fugi- tives who have found havens in the North. He asked Assistant Attorneys Gen- eral W. H. Duckworth and Marshall | Allison to confer with Federal Dis- trict Attorney Lawrence Camp. “I don't expect the Federal ‘ernmen! to take any action in the | matter,” said Duckworth, after a brief | | conversation with Camp today. “Any | action would have to be by State au- | thorities in the Pederal courts and I | haven't analyzed the situation far | | enough to see that we can do that.” | Camp said extradition was “purely | a State matter.” | Gov. Hurley of Massachusetts re- | | cently refused extradition for Cun- ningham, a convicted colored burglar, | |on grounds he had been brulllh"¢ | treated in the chain gang from which he escaped. | Gov- | Carolina Prisoner Says He Slew Florence Barton in Hansas City. NDREWS, N. C., August 7 (#)— | fiw.pv T. O. Sleyton of the State prison camp here said tonight a prisoner had | | confessed to the slaying of Florence | | Barton in Kansas City in 1920. | | Sleyton said the prisoner, Clyde | Cummings, told him he killed Miss | | Barton for $200, paid him by another | man “He (CONFESSES oLD SLAYING| | told me the other party's| name,” Sleyton said, “but I can't re- | lease it. T believe there’s something | to his story, though.” Cummings, Cleyton said, was sen- tenced in Buncombe County ]Ast‘ month to serve nine months for at- tempted extortion, | \ SURVIVES H 000 VOLTS JERSEY CITY, N J, August 7 (P). | —George McCullough, 57, of Wood- bridge, a Pennsylvinia Railroad en- gineer, touched a wire carrying 11,000 volts today and survived When his locomotive stalled here, McCullough climbed to the top to| make the necessary repairs. His body touched the live wire above and he | was hurled to the ground. 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FREE Booklet on HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE on high blood pressure written by Dr. Frederic Damrau. e to sufferers from high blood pressure. Tt gives TJust write your YAN PATTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO. 54 West lllinois $t. Chicage o0d Btores and all Leading Drag Stores ] C, AUGUST 8, Look over the special August sale values listed here and then remember that there are hundreds of other values for every room in the house. Select now what you will need and we will make im mediate delivery or hold your selection for future delivery without any additional charge. Handsome, custom-built suite that is styled for beauty and long service and approaches the ultimate in value giving. construction with deep, roll-front seat cushions. 1937—PART ONE. HOUSE and HERRMAN Two-Piece Living Room Suite strie’ mohair fabric in your choice of colors! Very smart and very low priced. VIRGINIA SOFA—I18th Century design. Solid Philippine ma- hogany frame. Au- gust Sale Price... $59-50 CLUB CHAIR—Built for solid comfort and relaxation. Cov- ered with durable friezette. Au- gust Sale OCCASIONAL CHAIR—Grace- ful style with turned legs and stretcher Tapestry covering August Sale COLONIAL ROCKER — High back and spring seat. Small- figured tapestry covering. Au- gust Sale Price MODERN COFFEE TABLE — Walnut and gumwood, with re- movable glass tray. $7 75 August Sale Price__ TABLE — Duncan Solid gumwood in mahogany finish. DROP-LEAF Phyfe style. walnut or August Sale Price DRUM OCCASIONAL TABLE— Made of solid walnut or ma- hogany with veneered top. Au- gust Sale END TABLE—Hardwood in wal- nut finish. Unusually attractive for this low price. $I 29 August Sale Price._ MODERN END TABLE—Wai- nut and gumwood with hand- rubbed finish. gust Sale Price LIFT-TOP CONSOLE TABLE— A turn of the top and it makes a dinette or card table. Au- gust Sale Price Drop-Leaf Toble S‘l ‘l .50 Doubly useful table with two wide drop-leaves and Duncan Phyfe base. Made of solid gum- wood. Handsome walnut or ma- hogany finish, LIVING ROOM SUITE—Smart, attractive and well-made suite in London club style. Mohair frieze covering in your choice of colors. Reversible R T $85, 5147 5185 5950 5109 5125 5164 5197 s117 5147 5165 $187 CONVENIENT TERMS LIVING ROOM SUITE—Modern design with expertly tailored pleated backs and wide arms. Rich pile mohair covering in a wide variety of colors that are pleasingly effective. Reversible cushions. August Sale Price . ... LIVING ROOM SUITE—A beautiful reproduc- tion of the comfortable English lounge type covered with antique vélvet in lustrous colorings. Down and feather-filled seat cushions. August Sale Price MAPLE BEDROOM SUITE—Constructed of solid maple. Rich, subdued antique finish Dresser or vanity, chest and bed. August MUDERN BEDROOM SUITE—Four large pieces with plate mirrors and plenty of drawer space, Well constructed of walnut and gum- wood. Nicely finished. August Sale Price MAHOGANY BEDROOM SUITE—Colonial de- sign in mahogany and gumwood. Fine finish and fine details of construction. Reeded post and pineapple carved poster bed. Four pieces. August Sale Price MODERN BEDROOM SUITE—Four large pieces with plate mirrors and roomy drawer fronts. Choice of handsomely figured walnut or prima vera veneers. Waterfall fronts. Four pieces. August Sale Price - LOUIS XV BEDROOM SUITE—Well construet- ed of crotch walnut veneers on maple. Hand- worked inlays and carved mirror frames. Four pieces. August Sale Price DINING ROOM SUITE—Eighteenth Century design with Duncan Phyfe table. Mahogany or walnut and gumwood, nicely finished. Complete with 10 pleces. August Sale Price v WALNUT DINING ROOM SUITE—Conserva- ively ‘styled suite in walnut veneers with dur- able gumwood base. Sturdily built for long service and beautifully finished. Ten pieces. August Sale Price o MODERN DINING ROOM SUITE—A splendid example of the style that has become 30 popular. Modified design in walnut and gumwood. Ten pleces, August Sale Price MAHOGANY DINING ROOM SUITE—Beauti- ful suite of 18th century influence in fine ma- hogany veneers trimmed with fine line mould- ,ings. Superior finish and eraftsmanship. Ten ‘pieces. August Sale Price It features extended back and front The covering is the popular, new 129 WINTHROP SECRETARY — Four-drawer base with lock on each. Walnut or ma}*n!am and gumwood Sale Price KNEE-HOLE DESK - drawer space, with one drawer designed for filing. Mahogany or walnut finish August Sale Price. $2750 MAPLE DINETTE SUITE — Made of solid rock maple. Ex- tension table and 4 ladder-back chalirs. August $29.50 Sale Price BREAKFAST SUITE — Sturdy drop-leaf table and four Windsor style chairs Au- gust Sale Price . $|4-50 COCKTAIL TABLE—In solid mahogany or walnut, with glass s Triee e 91150 POSTER BED OUTFIT — De- sirable poster bed in full or twin size. Complete with comfort- able mattress and ooil spring. August Sale $2 I .50 Price REFLECTOR LAMP — Six-way type for either direct or indirect Ample SIMMONS INNER - SPRING MATTRESS—Covered in heavy woven stripe ticking. Au- e $17.75 Price STUDIO COUCH—Covered In rust, green or brown homespun Innerspring mattress on coll spring base A.us'{: $24.95 ust Sale Price WALNUT DINETTE SUITE— Featuring a new design. Walnut and gumwood construction Seven Dpieces. Sale Price Dining Chairs 52 7.50 Pine regular dining room chair sets. Made of walnut or ma- hogany and gumwood. Sol4 only in sets of five side and one arm chatr, HousE and HERRMANN 7th and Eye Sts. N.W. “Furniture of Merit” Since 1885 8433-35 Georgia Ave. N.W. Exclusive OSTERMOOR MATTRESS Dealer

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