The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.])
February 18, 1925

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TINY MISS PAULINA LONGWORTH’S FIRST SIGNATURE; WILL THESE FOOTPRINTS LEAD SOME DAY TO WHITE HOUSE? I I -J.’ I Thi* (fhirami ICiriitii-iirfllldXilHtul A rCOT I J* -r~r W 0 •».vh,2- H’. r c r "\x r >4 Jf v n^ ?w w Ikv gM v zSaifr ';,-„c ?\x JrW’C'jTmMs 8 shown. Will she follow in the footsteps of her distinguished maternal grandfather and preside some day ever the White Boose? -—jr-—gr-jr^~sr 'hk BEGINS Phpna Company Asks Valua tion Ba Increased From $lB,- 000,000 to $25,000,000 A valuation of about $25,000,000 will be claimed before the Public Utilities Commission by the Chesa peake and, Potomac Telephone Company, A. E. Berry, president, Said today. This is an increased value of $7,000,000 over the $18,000,000 value.which the commission places on the phone company and its property. The public hearing in the Dis trict building today, called to con sider reduced rates, resolved it self into a hearing as to whether there should be a revaluation of the telephone company. Bell Aria Evidence. Engineer Commissioner J. Frank- Bn Bell announced at the beginning of the hearing that if the company could produce sufficient evidence to show the need of a reappraisal, the commission would revalue the Company. Dozier A. DeVane, general coun sel of the phone company, then introduced J. Dallas Grady, real estate broker, who as chairman of the appraisal committee of the Washington Real Estate Board testified as to the value of land owned by the phone company. Other witnesses gave testimony of the increased value of the property holdings of the company. It was fully expected that the commission would grant the request for a new value.* Another hearing to consider the valuation quest iop alone will probably be held soon. This will be followed by a rate hearing. The commission devoted most of today to hearing evidence to show the need of a new valuation. In making it known the company Is seeking a* 125,000,000 valuation, Mr. Berry pointed out that this value is made on book cost and on the value of a dollar today as com pared with several years ago. t6e weather Fair tonight; lowest tem perature about 30 degrees; tomorrow increasiiig cloud- Bbm and warmer; gentle to moderate northeast winds. Tra, La, La! Early Spring Is Seen HAGERSTOWN, Md., Feb. 18.—The first robins, believed by many persons to be har bingers of spring, have arrived in this section.* The birds have been enticed North by the mod erate weather of* the past week. Robins are arriving here earlier that usual, ruralists say. GARDINER, Mass., Feb. 18. Residents here report seeing several robins, and as a result they are looking forward for an early spring. DH.BUHTONDIES AFTER ILLNESS OFI7WEEKS President of University o Michigan Succumbs to _ Relapse ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. IF.- Doctor Marlon Leroy Burton, pres! dent of the University of Michigan died at 8:20 a. m. today, after ai illness of seventeen weeks. Faflur •of his heart to respond to the de mands imposed by the relapse sul sered last Thursday was named b; physicians as the Immediate caus of death. He was fifty years old. Doctor Burton, a close friend o the President, made the Coolidge nomination speech at the G. O. F convention last June. Doctor Burton’s illness wa diagnosed as pleural pneumonia Funeral services will probably b private. Dies While Asleep. Doctor Burton died while sleepini quietly. No member of the famll; was 'present when the end caqif A nurse who*had just taken hi pulse, finding it unchanged, hear him sigh deeply. She ran acres the hall and summoned Docto John P. Parsons who was at th bedside in a moment. Docto Burton, however, had already ei pired. In the house were Mrs. Burton their son, Paul, nineteen, and thei daughter, Jane, twelve. The erend Doctor Harold Emersoi Burton, of New York, brother o Doctor Burton, came to Ann Arbo last week, but found the patient to ill to be seen, and returned horn Sunday. Notification was sent to i daughter. Theodosia Burton Stew art, in California. The only details thus far an nounced are that burial will tak place here in Forest Hill cemeterj and that the body of Doctor Bui ton probably will lie in stat before the funeral. George Lewii (Continued on Pago 2, Column 84 I NO 13,167 r-y WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1925. s££ss. THREE CENTS) C. P. ASKS RE-VALUATION

w w Coast Defenses Called Worthless i .J Ju JU JU JUr JU Ik ik LIQUOR CARAVAN IN BATTLE RIDICULES LS.GMST DEFENSE Worthless Against Air Attack, Asserts Con. LaGuardia at Aircraft Probe The charge that all of Amer ica’s coast defense stations “are absolutely worthless,” was made today before the House Aircraft Investigating Committee by Con grcMnnn New York. LaGuardia was a flier in the A. E. F. “Every cent that Congress ap propriates for the army’s coast defense stations is money thrown away,” said LaGuardia. Not only are the stations “obso lete,” declared LaGuardia, “but would be worse than worthless against enemy air attack.” AU Officers Know It "There is not an officer in the army who will not admit that our stationary coast defenses are help less and worthless," added La- Guardia. LaGuardia further charged "the general staffs of the army and navy with retarding airplane develop ment’ and of withholding informa tion on air bombing tests from Congress. The committee immediately acted upon LaGuardia’s charge and adopted unanimously a resolution ordering Secretary of War Weeks to present at once full data on the bombing tests on the battleships New Jersey and Virginia in No vmeber, 1921. _ "I have been trying for eight months to get the report on these tests, and I haven’t been able to get a thing from the army,” said LaGuardia. Blames Army Staff “The general staff of the army Is as guilty as the navy in holding back air development.” A doleful picture was painted by LaGuardia as to what would hap pen to- the Panama Canal should it be attacked from the air. “We no adequate defense at the- canal from air attack," said "Our fortifications there would be put out of commission in a jiffy. “We must have airplanes, lots of them, to defend our coasts and pos sessions; otherwise, our frontiers will remain vulnerable.” Ridicules "Anti” Guns. LaGuardia vigorously challenged statements of War Department officials who have declared before the committee that America could be defended from air attack by anti-aircraft guns. "That is bosh,” sa|d LaGuardia. "In my squadron, only one man was brought down behind enemy lines,” said LaGuardia. “Give any aviator a parachute and a cast iron seat in his plane and he can bomb any territory protected by anti-aircraft guns.** LaGuardia Suggestions. LaGuardia offered three concrete suggestions for developing aviation. They were, briefly: 1. Unify the air service under an independent department in the Government. 2. Provide Federal aid for assist ing commercial aviation. 3. Develop a flying reserve. “Cut out this controversy be tween the army and navy by uniting the air service,” said La- Guardia. “Compel the army to furnish information on its up-to date mobile coast defense. Make every naval officer receive at least ten years afloat so we will have some sailors and navigators.” "I would establish a separate air department and yhen use every thing we have, every officer we (Continued on Page 2, Column COLLINSIS SEALED IN TDNIB Rescuers Leaving for Homes as Curtain Falls on Cave Tragedy SAND CAVE, Ky.. Feb. 18.— To make sure that Floyd i Coiling will not be disturbed m his Sand Cave tomb, 75 feet-below the sur face, workers today were sealing the crevice with cement. was decided upon after H. T. Carmichael, chief of the’ rescue crew which strove frantic ally to reach CMlins while he was alive, abandoned plans to set off, a huge charge of dynamite in the rescue shaft that would shake all the loose rock and* talus together. B. Dyle, owner of the farm, on which Sand Cave, is located,'ob jected to this procedure. Rescuers Leaving While Carmichael and engineers were conferring in regard to the last "clean-up” work to be done around the scene of the epic strug gle to save a human from death, miners, scientists, engineers, sur geons, military men and the scores of others who have assisted In the work, were leaving for their homes in various parts of the country. And the nation was fast forgetting the tragedy in this little mountain village. Nature, which has sneered and mocked at man’s puny efforts to bring him forth, is taking further steps to seal his mausoleum irrevoc-, ably. Crack in Cliff A great crack appeared at the base of the cliff which overhangs the entrance to the cave. It is now six inches wide and the ground in front of the cliff seems to be sink ing. Composed of treacherous, shifting mudk, even before the res cue operations started, the under ground strata which have been dis turbed by the sinking of the shafts and tunnels, again are seeking to adjust themselves. It is likely that the ground will sink until all the natural passageways have been closed. Rescue operations were formally abandoned yesterday. No exten sions of the shaft or laterals were attempted. "But please, boys, say it ended In a fight, not a quit,”, Carmichael asked. "Twenty men would have gone on, even given 'their lives, if I had said go on.” I Brief and simple funeral services were held ort top of the cliff over looking Sand Cave entrance and' the pit where the rescue fight was waged. The Reverend C. K. Dickey, pastor of the Horse Cave and Cave City Methodist churches was in charge of the service, assisted by the Reverend Roy H. Blser of the Glasgow Christian Church. 1 Several hundred folk from the hills and towng around about gathered about the preachers. There was a song by the Cave City com bined choirs, reading of Scriptures, a sfcrmon of thanks to the world and the rescuers, and Collins was left to sleep in the caverns that he loved and explored in life. $74,000,000 SPENT BY U. S. ON AIR SINCE WAR The Army Air Service has spent approximately 874,000,000 in the furtherance of its program since the war, according to figures ob tained at the War Department today. Os this amount, $19,000,000 has been spent in new construction, it was said. Oross-Word Pnule on Page 10. ■'FATHER, THY WILL BE DONE!” ■II I ■■■■WSSMMS'SSSW'' Jfl B Uiwn I MM u imSBMMMSWMMMMisiiiwii mwSii In Orir.darlMrt hours the reecee work, the femfl, of H»,d ColHne has knelt at the month of Sand Cave and prayed. Before them constantly was the vision of their loved one, far underground, and workers battling to save him. The photo shows the pathetic drama. Left to right: Russell and Herman Collins, nephews of FJoyd; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Collins, his father and stepmother, and Andrew JJollins. The dog, Okie, is Floyd’s own dog. ir Lw. .I.M.' I 18.0 >r I- QPERITION ON ■USE ELOHII Former Miss Swanson, Recent Bride, Hurriedly Taken From Hotel to Hospital PARIS, Feb. 18.—Gloria Swanson, famous American film star, was hurriedly and mysteriously removed from the Plaza Athenne Hotel at 1:30 o'clock this morning and taken to a hospital, where it was said an operation was performed. Miss Swanson recently became the bride of Marquis de la False. Her Children Sall. Film friends of the marquise and her husband gathered at the St. Lazare station to bld them fare well in their secheduled departure on the 10:06 a. m. boat train, to catch the liner France for America, were astounded to learn from offi cials of the French line that Miss Swanson had been operated on and was in a hospital. Miss Swanson’s two children and their governess caught the boat train per schedule and will sail .on the Ffince. de la Falaise’- de la Cou draye, the husband, said to Inter national News Service: Falls From Horse “Doctor Vaudescal operated on Gloria at 2 o’clock this morning in his private hospital in the Boule vard Montmorancy. The operation was entirely successful. He hopes Gloria will be able to leave the hos pital within a week. “The operation became suddenly necessary last night as a result of Gloria’s continual rehearsing of a film scene which necessitated her falling off a horse, which rebutted in injuring her. “Gloria’s condition is complicated, however, by an operation she un derwent two years ago. CATHOLIC PRIEST FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL ROOM NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—The Rev erend Peter J. Slane, a Catholic priest, of Owosso, Mich., was found dead, apparently from a natural cause, in his room in the Hotel Sagamore, Coney Island, today. The body was found by a police man who had been summoned when Father Slane did not respond to knocks at his door. A telegram was sent to the bishop of the De troit diocese asking for Instruction*. Alexandria Nets Set for Inaugural Rum The ■fcon who are responsible for the! plea, has brought a rum fleet to anchor off the to supply the demand for the inauguration, probably will have a hard time getting it. If the bootleggers try to run the liquor in automobiles through Alexandria it will be seized, Paul Morton, Alexandria’s di rector of public safety, announced today. His plans are ready. Dhring the night Alexandria has four policemen on duty, two on motorcycles and two in automo biles, who beside their regular work of patroling the streets of the city keep a keen eye on all cars coming from the Soutfi. These men are especially trained for their work, and recently five automobiles fell into the het which has been laid. Smoke Screens Futile. Smoke screens have been shown to be of little avail in escaping this squad. One fast car while using a heavy smoke screen to ward off its pursuers was forced into a telephone pole on the main street of the city in the sensa tional round-up, by an officers in a' Ford car. Although the police in Alexandria have not received any official no tice that the rum fleet managed to slip any of the liquor on land near Norfolk ready for shipment here, the night Squad will use every effort to capture any of the Uquor should it be sent through Alex andria. BRIDE’S FATHER CONFIRMS REPORT TELLEGEN WED SALEM, N. J., Feb. 18.—J. Dale Dilworth, father of Lou Tellegen’s third bride, confirmed today dis patches from Los Angeles which brought the secret ceremony to light. Dilworth is president of the Salem Class Works and member of an old and wealthy South Jersey family. He said his daughter Isabel, who is twenty-three years old, married Telegen at Rutherford, N. J., De cember 17, the Reverend R. A. Kohler performing 'the ceremony. Paul Koch, a Rutherford attorney, and Mrs. Koch witnessed the mar riage. Harriot Thanks U. S. Friends fPARIS, Feb. 18. —“We thank our American and British friends for their confidence in French finance and their aid in combatting assaults against the franc,” Premier Herriot told the Chamber of Deputies to day. Radio News on Page 18. I HOME! EDITION

lirOSTHOMfiETS FIVENIDNTHS IN JAIL Man Who Gypped Sweetheart Caught on Another Bad Check Charge Considered by the*court to be “too dangerous an individual to be floating around the District," Fred erick C. Rydstrom, arrested yester day on two charges of passing bad checks, was sentenced to five months in jail by Judge Schuldt today pending his appearance be fore the grand jury on a charge of forgery. When a former sweetheart of Rydstrom’s asked that he be sent to jail over a month ago for giving her a bad check as a Christmas present, Assistant District Attorney Ralph Given sympathized with her as the victim of a "mean trick," but Rydstrom could not be prose cuted. Today Rydstrom pleaded guilty to giving Mrs. Susie C. Windeck, his landlady at 1426 M{ street northwest, checks for |l6 and 310 which proved worthless. When arrested for passing the checks, a statutory charge was placed against him and Mrs. Millicent L. Shendow, who was arrested at the same time in the M street apart ment. Although Mrs. Shendow was re leased on 325 collateral, she appear ed in Police Court today and both she and Rydstrom pleaded not guilty as charged and demanded a trial by jury. Headquarters De tective Arthur Scrivener said the couple had been living together for over a week. r HUNIAUTO CAPTURED bm fl fl 188-" Kk llil iinli II 111 vII 11 II ■V w V V flfl fl fl "J "ibflkii Oip ll 1 flllfl nlfl* fl fl fl fljfll?— fl fl "f '<l Police Trie* One Prisoner. Can K Fails in Attempt J R cu With We errMt of one alleged rum-runner following an exciting chase through the streets of down town Washington early today, police are scouring the city fdr the occupants of two motorcar convoys .of the captured bootleg car, the drivers of which, it is charged, tried to wreck the police ear and shoot the occupants. Warrants will be sworn out charging the’ alleged convoy gun men with conspiracy. The comrades of the captured rum runners, according to the police, attempted several times to rescue the prisoner. After the man had been lodged in Fourth precinct, two high-powered convoy cars circled the station house several, times and then disap peared into the night. Rum Runner Identified. The captured rum ninner said he Was Adolph Olewack, 708 Eighth street southeast. He is charged. with illegal transportation and pos- v session of whiskey and operating a smoke screen. J In police court today, Olewack pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. A total bond of SB,OOO was demanded by the court on the various charges. The chase was perhaps the most dramatic incident recorded in the Capital's war on rUm runners. Speeding autos, shrouded by thick black smoke screens, sputtering pistols, shrieking motor horns, fur nished thrills seldom experienced. Barrage of Shots. The bootleggers did everything in their power to avoid arrest, step- v ping on the accelerators until their powerful cars were going a mile a minute, blinding the police with heavy smoke screens, firing a steady barrage of shots, and sum moning other bootleggers to their aid by sounding their horns con tinually. t Meanwhile downtown Washington stopped and watched. Pretty girls with their escorts, already out so 1 late that they would have to sneak into their homes to avoid trouble, poured out of the restaurants. MilK wagons stopped. All traffic ceased. Bootleggers joined in the battle and attempted to block the chase. Pa trolling police commandeered cars and followed. In the end, police crowded the liquor car to the curb, three men ran, and the convoys escaped, but police caught Olewack. They seised the abandoned car and tweijsy-four cases of alleged liquor which it car ried. Hired by Rum Gang. Olewack said he was hired by a liquor gang and had broughfl the stuff from Baltimore. Police be lieve he was hired by a big syndi cate organized to furnish Washing ton, Baltimore, and other eastern cities with rum. It may be a part of the supply being brought to Washington for the inauguration. thoy 8&y The exciting night started about 2 o’clock, when Ogle and two ,i friends were riding down Twelfth street in a car belonging to and j driven by one of his companions. As they reached- Twelfth and E streets they sighted the big toquor cars. Ogle spya Trained to detect

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2 il Kot LPNs- woman exexuTive- 1 now They Koto q. M. Cowie, the attend ing physician, diagnosed. the Illness yesterday as streptococcus pleurisy. Doctor Burton was one of the closest friends of the President and annually visited the Coolidges at ithe White House. 1 As president of Smith College, NorthMMmbsujgfgfs., thttHnlversity or n i r in America, lie was uMMHWust 30, 1874, at Brook lyn, lowa, receiving his bachelor Os arts degree from Carleton Col lege, Northfield. Minn., in 1900, and an additional degree from Yale with highest honors In 1909. Doctor Burton was awarded his doctor of philosophy degree from Yale in 1907, a doctor of divinity degree from Carleton in 1909, and ”a doctor of laws from Tufts in 1911. On June 14, 1900, he married gg The smart Washington woman will find in this gg gS group of attractive new handbags a purse to ac- gg gg company almost every type of frock. Varied in de- gg gg sign and material, they feature many of the sea- gg gg son’s smartest styles. The nwst complete and distinguished collection offered by us at such prices! gg Values to $8 t=s W Il Now for /A I WSJ g| i! Alfio a special collection of bags for d»Q all occasions, specially reduced to WfflAM BRANCH OF fig II W. ROUNTREE BRO. Prominent Educator Who Nominated, i Coolidge, Dies s -i

1 1 si F i ■SBBSSMWWBWgSRBHUUWSHWSWS SW DR. MARION LEROY BURTON, Prominent educates, of Michigan -University, who dfad at Ann Arbor today after a. rious IHness of seventeen weeks. Doctor Burton made the Coolidge nomination speech at the G. 0. F« convention in June. Nina Leona Mosep, of Northfield, I Minn. An instructor of Greek in Carle ton Academy in 1899-1900, Doctor Burton was named president of Windom Institute, Windom. Minn., in 1900, where he served until appointed an assistant professor at Yale in 1907. z i Doctor Burton entered the clergy in 1908, as- pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn. N. Y.; While serving in this capacity he j was named president of Smith Col lege, where he spent seven years, until 1917. He took over the posi tion as president of the University of Michigan in 1920. Since he has been president a score of the greatest college build- Ihgs in the nation have been erected in Ann Arbor. Washington Alumni Shocked by News of Dr. Burton’s Death! The death of Doctor Marion Le roy Burton, president of the Uni versity of Michigan, cast a pall of gloom over the Washington alumni I something to support herself and children. She had never done a stroke of work as a wage earner before, but undaunted, she took I hold and kept on until she reached the high position she holds I PHILLIP EOHDON 111 DEDITIL Phillip Gordon, with his whirl wind piano technique and his virile surety and command of his instru mapt, gave a delightful program\at the Playhouse last evening, being presented as one of the “Chlckerlng Young American” artists through the qourtesy Os the Arthur Jordan Piano Company. It will be a privilege to lovers ot music to hear this fine pianist on Friday evening, when he will again give a recital in the “home of the Chiekering.” the Jordan Plano Com pany, at 8:80, for which invitations may be obtained upon application at the store. It was Godowsky Who made his fleeting runs alive with tone color, and still held thru we call “the speech of another theme or melody. This Phillip Gordon con veys much ’in the same manner. Hii runs and double runs fftrtriv glisten. His rubato is so well con trolled that it holds his rhythm alive and ever interesting whether he is building up t<f climax or giving a retard that yet does not lose the captivating swing of the music. Yet he can pa:nt a gentle picture, as in the Andanate Cantabile of Tschaikowsky with its full melody. Agaftr- fairy leaps of tone come in the “fountain,” which the French title calls “The Play of the Water by RaveK Chopm. Schumann, Scar latti, and an American, JohnTasher Howard, were among his interpre tations, and for final encore fol i lowing the “Naila/ Waltz*’ of De- I Jibes, which Dohnanyi has so bril liantly arranged, he gave the ever- I fascinating “Rigolitto Quartet” ar ranged for piano, with fine variety jin its separate song transcriptions. of the Ann Arbor Institution. Tpe annual banquet of the alumni association, which was to hare been held at Rauscher's tonight, and the guest of honor was to hnve i been Doctor Burtpn, hajt been post poned until' sdarch 10. On that date the meeting of the alumni will be in the nature of a memorial to the great Middle West educator. JWould Reduce “Red” Army LONDON, Feb. 18.—The “red” army in Russia would be reduced to 5,000 men if a proposal said to have been made by the revolutionary war council be adopted, a Moscow dispatch today said. W w|| I IlMijK Short -Will H fi iwF x. Lines ||||l|||||ff WS» Were 5~ 5 11 lg||||lll.|llTOf TT7OMEN get a chance -*lll Tzs 3f150 W like this only once a 5::: J ■^m HfHH'ttHffltt-lk year—and then only at 5J :Hahn’s. The final clean- W 1S H up of all remaining short lines, discontinued HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ;;:1 IIIIIIIIWW ZfffftlK- styles and broken Igllllj f Save 2-3 to 4-5 the regU- jjjj j; j j ;;i m I rn'Tn^ffi ;;;S;;;; a ar P 1^068 —but don’t de- ■■■Si lay a minute. All Sales Final lllllllbll lg| /y J No Exchanges C b :i::i::ii:::Hii:: 1 i Cor. 7th K Sts. IBSBBBIIIb™ iii:i: i: HHH H V 414 9tt St IS; at our *914-16 Pa. Ave. lg: Gst.store 233 Pa. Ave. S.E tOIST DEFENSE' IIDIGDEED i (Continued from First Page.) have, in developing aviation, Wth j military and commercial. Takes .Rap at Navy. J “We have, you know,” LaGuardia J interposed, “a navy which cant navigate its x, L. P. Spor, of Sandusky, Ohio, world war flier, told of experiences on European battle fronts. He said American aviators thought nothing I of, and suffered no serious ill-effects from, flying over areas guarded by j anti-aircraft guns. Even though peppered with shrapnel, Spor de- clared- the fliers were not hampered in bombing or observation opera tions. y Congressman McGee (Rep.) of Penna., urged enactment of legisla tion providing better training facili ties and more rapid promotion for air service personnel. J Because of the startling revela tions ot America's inadequate air defense, developed in the commit tee’s Fecret session yesterday, Con gressman Vastel (Rep.) of Indiana, announced today he would introdu'-e a joint- resolut on giving the com mittee authority to conduct its i"* veshgation during adjournment or C Th«* secret testimony of hfah rank ing army and navy officers revealed, it was learned today, that America s air defense “is absolutely helpless-. During the secret session. Major General John L. Hines, chief of staff, placed 'the blame for Ameri ca’s lack of air defense upon Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of air service. Under a vigorous cross-examina tion, however, Hines admitted, it was learned, that the general staff had never asked the air service for air defence plans. Air-defense is the chief problem which the committee desires to in vestigate during the adjournment. "Capt. Rennar Transferred Captain Wilbert V. Renner, now on duty with the organised re serves at York, Pa., has been or dered to duty in the Philippines, the War Department announced to day. Army orders today also as signed Colonel Louis R. Burgess to duty with the organized reserves at Erie, Pa.*, instead of Harrisburg. l and one that many a man would envy. There to ft! heighte ANY woman with brains and initiative can reach m the I business world or public life today. v _. PICKPOCKET GETS 817, 2 HIOHHWAYMEN. B*7 Held-up at the point of a gun at Slxth-and-a-half and N streets northwest last night by two colored men, David Taylpr, colored, 8701 Porter street ilbrthwest, reports that he was robbed of 847. Raymond C. Johnson, Virginia Highlands, Va., had his pocket picked of 817 in bills while on a street 'car, between Ninth and Pennsylvania* avenue and Takoma Park yesterday, he told police. Fined for Negligence MADRID, Feb. 18—The pro prietor of the Hotel National was fined 500 pesetas today for negli gence in permitting his guests to be jrobbed. The robbers chloro formed their ’victims and escaped with a lajrge sum of jewelry and monev. nwwwy. i' A those who A have smoked fay® Melachrinos can judge the quality of fl the finest Turkish tobacco. W J| r: f MELACHRINO "The One Cigarette Sold the World Qwar” REPORT ON GERMAN ARMS GIVEN TO ALLIED ENVOYS PARIS. Feb. 18.—The interfiled i military control commission’s secret report on German armament, com prising forty-four pares. withtwo i annexe®, was handed to Premier Harriot by Marshal Foeh at noon t today. It covers, first, man power. and. second, armaments. Foch sent copies of the report to I ail the allied ambsessdor*. The ambassadors’ council wB discuss the report within a week. Turkey Signs U. 8. Contract CONSTANTINOPLE, 1 Feb. It.— a The Turkish government has on tered into a 110.000,000 contract with 3 the Ulon Contractins Company of New York for the irrigation of the 1 Maritza valley, it was learned today. 1 Maritza is the principal river in Eastern Turkey.

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i 11 1 1 “PROGRESSIVE” DEMOCRATS WILL HOLD ANTI-TAMMANY RALLY X pm now SPLIT 3 WITS and SouthDppose “Boss Ridden” East—Plans for Conferences By WILLIAM HARD. Democratic national politics is boiling again in a large tea pot with threte volcanic spouts. A “progressive Democratic emis sary is on his way from Wash ington to St. Louis to arrange a large conference of western •nd southern “progressive’ Demo eiats to be held in April 'on the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday for the purpose oratori cally of re-dedicating the Demo cratic party to the principles of Thomas Jefferson and for the purpose politically and practically of cementnig the so-called free and unterrified “progressive” southern Democrats and western Democrats against the so-called “boss-ridden Democratic machine of Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. r Conferences Held. Conferences on this subject have been held in Washington; and prominently among those who-have taken part in these conferences is the “progressive’’ Democratic na tional committeeman from lowa, E. T. Meredith, millionaire farm paper publisher. It is hoped that at the confer ences In St. Louis a clarion call to “progressive** Democracy will be delivered by Woodrow Wilson’s friend, the former minister to Bel glum and distinguished author and orator, Brand Whitlock, of Toledo. Ohio. Meanwhile a totally different line toward a national conference of prominent Democrats is being pur sued by Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, formerly Assistant Sec retary of the Navy under Wpodrow Wilson and recently manager fur the Presidential aspirations of Gov cratic national convention. Mr. Roosevelt some time ago issued a letter to prominent Demo- ATTENTION Valuable Piece of Chevy Chase Property To be Sold at Auction Tedsy, Wediiewiv. Ffbmrj IS, ISSS, at three o'clock P. M. No. One West Bradley Lane This Is very valuable property aa dte. •oont es it beiny the emly lot within •even blocks with as restrictions in the Seed to to Ks use. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th F —2ZZLZ i==r tone, and George Trowbridge Titt- I man, prominent Washington basso, I will appear as the leading soloists I at the George Washington birthday 3 If/ i I celebration to be held in the new Jr I Auditorium, February 23, at 10:80 -m I As. an additional feature Lieu- I ten ant Jean Labat, formerly of the I French Military Mission, will sing Pledged to Quality the “Marseillaise.'’ I The program for the I celebration was arranged at a meet* York Ave I ing ot the committee on arrang*- rourteentn 3LK I’WCW I DTK AVC, ments held yesterday at the Army I and Navy Club.. yf 1 Minnesotans to Meet X PtfYi “f rl /I I All Minnesotans in Washington kjV'fff ./l.ll'll'WWV are invited to a "get together” and I entertainment of the Minnesota I State Society tonight at the Play- TV Ip/ir/itirj boUße lßl4 N Btreet nortßweat z O I v U I U fl b v Vet Bureau Manager Named I Thomas J. Bannigan, today was Z'y jg IT JT"\ I appointed regional manager for the V /HI g n s I United States Veterans Bureau at J-g g g 99 g'g i I Hartford, Conn. The following items are included in the Sale at 3-Piece Suits Overcoats ==f Es 1 I T TERB'S an inside tip for the I nS=y cheese and milk, tomato sauce or j£=-jjr I onions—Gulden’s brings out a 1 All FanCV aucculent flavor you never knew 1 n tt j spaghetti had. Mako the feat bJ 1 FOUr-in-Hands —and find out for yourself. 4* Gulden’s makes a treat out of Tprrv every food you eat it with —hot lerry GlOtn roast beef, steak, pork chops, any 0J717 and Blanket Robes meat, or fish, hot or ©old. Keep jj the bottle on the table, beside I your salt and pepper shakers. Many Other Groups of Furnishings at Semi- a J 9 a f n J f I in store for you. Charles Gulden, Inc., Annual Keauctionsl Dept. QQI2, Blizabeth Street. New I Ferfc. 'X I ilnew chief clerk on INTERIOR JOB, j|||| H EO Ml ji i

W. BERTRAND ACKER, ‘...V-x;/. Who has been appointed chief clerk of the Interior Department, succeeding John Harvey. Mr. Acker has been lathe department for thirty-two years. He was private secretary to Secretary Bliss, confidential clerk to Secretay Hitchcock and assistant attorney for the Secretary of the Interior under Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. He resides at 1317 Harvard street. crats throughout the country ask ing their, views regarding the future of-the Democratic party. It is now announced that the answers encourage him in believihg that a national conference can be held which will bring ‘.together Democrats of all factions in re, sponse to a call signed by the late Democratic candidate for the presidency, John W. Davis. It can be securely stated that If Mr. Roosevelt Is under this impres sion, he has been misinformed. The southern and western “pro gressive’* Democrats are not in a mood at this moment to respond to 'any call either from the city which is the headquarters of Tammany or from the forces wtych produced the results of the last Democratic Na tional Convention. They-are out for a “new deal.” v Feeling of “Distrust.” This lg emphatically' indicated in a icply sent to Mr. Roosevelt $y Mfs. Madge V. O’Neil. Democratic Na tional committee woman of lowa. She says to Mr. Roosevelt: “I would suggest to you that if a movement such, as you are start ing is to accomplish good results, it must originate in the West rather than in the East. I have reason to| believe that even you haven’t any i conception of the feeling of dis- trust among Dtfflnocrats generally in the West of certain local branches of the Democratic Party in the I East: and. a; long„ as this feeling exists, it would be unwise for any one olosely identified with those branches to attempt any national re organization of the Democratic Party.” Three Conferences Possible. In' other words, Mrs. O’Neil of, lowa, who is in close touch with Democratic western and southern “progressive'.’ sentiment, asks Mr. Roosevelt and New York to keep off the grass and to let the West the WASHINGTON TIMES Tfce TVafionol Daily WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1925. and the South planlTthe new seed and raise the new harvest. Thus, if Mr. Roosevelt persists in his intentiohs regarding a national conference for Democrats; It would seem likely that instead of one con ference there might be two confer ences.-'-'- •i 1 For Gavin McNab, however, Democratic leader of San Francisco, it would seem that two conferences would not be enough He would seem to be on his way to wanting three conferences. In his reply to Mr. Roosevelt’s overtures, Mr. McNab assails the York Democracy for «being governed by the city of New fjrk, “the city-which is the money-mart of the country.” He then assails the Southern Democracy for being governed by the problem of the negro. He save that the Democratic party at present is “merely an aggregation of local interests.’' He says that in this respect it re sembles the “old Austrian Empire” and cannot be “truly national.” What McNsb Says. He says: “We, of the West, where the States are which vested Woodrow- Wilson with power, wonder now at a, so-called party leadership which refuses to examine Itself and asCer l tain the truth.” Thus a Western conference of Democrats and a Western and Southern conference of Democrats land an Eastern conference of Democrats would seem* to be indi cated for the purpose of unifying the Democratic pa#y. The main strength in the Situation, In this writer’s judgment, lies, right or wrong, with those who are. advo cating a Western and Southern conference. (Copjyrisht. 1921. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY FETE AT AUDITORIUM Emilio De Gogorza, famous bari- l x fIUI OF OEEimm PUTED N, Y. Orchestra Gives 9th Sym phony With D. C. Choral Groups Assisting By JEBSIE MaeBRIDE. t- When Washington attempted to aid the New York Symphony Or chestra in Beethoven’s great choral symphony, the Ninth, at Poli’s yes terday afternoon, a. great oppor tunity was missed. In the words of Doctor Walter Damrosch, in his inimitable talk on the symphony, with piano excerpts, this great work marks “a revolution and a climax of Beethoven’s life work. It opens up new vistas, new orchestrations, and unfolds human emotions never expressed before.” It was its first presentation, I believe, in Wash ington. The Ninth .Symphony occupies an entire symphony program, taking an hour apd ten minutes to per form. It Is an epitome of life. At its close, for a sublime consumma tion, a huge chorus and a nolo quartet ring out Beethoven’s final message to the world—in the set ting of Schiller's famous “Ode to Joy,” in a great ensemble. Bad Chorus Grouping. No one ever imagined the Ninth Symphony without a raised plat form for chorus, a properly bal anced placing of the voices to melt into and augment the great orches tral tone poem. This chorus, made up of three of the leading Ohoruses of the city, were seated behind the orchestra on the flat stage, many of the women placed in the theater orchestra~pit, the njen cornered at the back w the stage. I don’t be lieve even in a small village that such an arrangement would be at tempted for this great work. .It failed of its purpose; the effort was wasted. A few climax points alone told what might have Deen accom plished. Four movements of the sym phony precede the choral single. It was not dramatized in the mighty power’ of the Fifth of Beethoven, perhaps the latep» score had not the pulse of that Symphony of Fate. -Perhaps Doctor Damroach built up an image, in his eloquent end poetic words, that even a symphony could not fulfill, when he claimed for the music meanings that have been as varied as the many inter pretations of Hamlet. It divides itself into a “verse,” the first movement, Os life's futility. The “starch for pleasure” follows in a scherzo, delicately gay, m which the full urge of the mood was given in a folk-music spirit with a fine wood wind bit and a delightful fugue finale. Out of the lovely “adagio” comes the first strain of Wagner's “Preislled,” which came before his opera “Meistersinger.” The song here of the violas was most beautiful.' Thep on to/the {irocessional, in which "tens of housands of feet come marching together in universal brotherhood,” as an ideal peace on i4arth. There lacked here a swinging unity of rhythm. It was beautiful, but not compelling. x Solo Work Excellent. The baritone solo voice. of Charles Stratton becomes *a dra matic episode, this fine singer bringing a noble element Into the music. The rest of the solo quartet, with Ruth Rodgers, soprano; Helena Marsh, contralto, apd Fraser Gangs, tenor, was not so significant. 1 waava w cao Mvfc cv UiAlVAli UVVVnu v aKaaaaMjp** 22 Afa&e An _ I Appointment I —to inspect this one new APARTMENT HOME,. occupying a superb location one square from Sixteenth and Columbia Road on the edge of Rock Creek Park. x With idoney now wasted as rent, you can OWN H THIS CO-OPERATIVE HOME! dJtJTF —after the small IM». j VIMIOWt) BAR PIN lost;' reward Offered.

PRETTY new bungalow, 5 rooms. bath; Mt. Rainier; for rent. AUTO MECHANICS wanted; must be high class man. TO -Jm-- y I. real gift of Interpretation In th© Lalo from his Symphony Espagnole. A newcomer here. Lee Cronican, as accorrfpanist, brought us another artist who is an asset to the city and an accompanist whose playing is significant. Edgar Gray, bass-baritone, with i Mrs. Henry, Hunt McKee at the piano, is a singer with a real ap r predation of melody and a Hen voice of broad range, and a colora l tura soprano" from California, Mrs. i Gilmore, completed a group of artists with an appealing freshness, and an unexpected bravura to her runs and trills. Jewish Inter-Club Play I An amateur theatrical production J will be presented by the Jewish Inter-club Council tonight at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association headquarters. f 50 different styles of I I H novelty pumps and ox- I I I /fords, in patent, satin, I I suede, velvet, alligator I U and combination effects I J J —with flapper, Cuban f I I and high heels. A BERBERICHS 813 PENNA. AVE. mt SEOI6E-IS ■■l BETTER Monarch Has “Fair Night,’ Says Official Bulletin—Bron ,chitis Brought on by ‘Flu’ r t J V t LONDON, Feb. 18.—The general condition of King George led hie three physicians, to hope today that he would be able to overcome the bronchitis trouble without it devd oping into anything more serious. His specific illness is bronchitii due to Influenza, it was stated. An official bulletin issued al Buckingham Palace today said: “The King had a fair night although there is no change in th- bin’ which has already been passed by the Senate. In case a Wt* :i will more time its consideration before Maron 4. yji ■Mnaft Elliott, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, who is steering the MH. expects* a favorable vote if th* measure can be piloted through the obstructions thrown up by those op posed to further expenditure of m ey r totrict _ tmpt y yernc s;i The bUI, i£ pas s®° ay *1 H directly to the President for hh ator Borah, of Idaho, to have the blH returned to the Senate for re consideration. Sun Yat San Victorious -g SHANGHAI, Feb. is.-—Forces i I Chul Mteg, It wag ife? J Qf, IQTTOUD /T

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4 JEAN ELIOT’S GOSSIP OF SOCIETY

MRS. COOLIDGE ■ATTENDS CLUB BREAKFAST Is Guest of Congressional I Ladies at Wardman Park Today By JEAN ELIOT. TOHE annual breakfast of the Con X greesional Club, given today with B Mrs. Coolidge as the guest of honor, was marked this year by several unusual features. In the first place it took place out kt Wardnaan Park k Hotel, instead of at Rauscher’s, where the Congressional ladies have been meeting for the last several years, explanation has been offered for the change, but possibly the powers that be were afraid that the guests going in might become entangled with Miss Natalie Ham mond's guests coming out. Then, there was the introduction of Mme. SundeUus, of the Metropolitan Opera, as the chief contributor to an entertain went program which, in the past, has customarily been a product of dub talent. H The fact that Mme. Sundellus was tc ring had been kept secret and it came as a complete and pleasant surprise. There was an orchestra I horn the Marine Band to play with muted strings while the breakfast was in progress, with an instru mental solo or two alternating with the songs. Nor was “club talent’ 1 entirely lacking, for Mme. Sunde S Hus accompaniments were played by Mrs. Carl Chlndblom, wife of Con- B Cressman Chindblom, who is a gifted pianist. When the Swedish prime donna was previously in town to ring at one of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s musical mornings,” she vas a guest, it will te remembered I at the Swedish legation. Mrs. Chindbolm, by the way, is of Swe li dish extraction. both her family end her husbands having come pioneering to this country some fifty years ago. The fact that President and Mrs. Coolidge "regretted” for the Con gressional C3ub's annual reception, V hut that Mrs. Coolidge turned out— K all in a new spring frock look tag as pretty as the proverbial painted wagon—-was in line with g the course that. We White House E has pursued all winter. Few invl tatfons for festivities which involved the President have been accented not even the traditional series of Cabinet dinners although he has gone through with the regular so cial program at the White House with resignation if not with enjoy- He was persuaded to go to the opera when the new auditorium was opened. He accepted the Massa chusetts Society’s invitation for a reception in his honor —an I M rs. Coolidgb's. He has taken in 1 few men’s banquets at most of whiph he was speak. '/There more or lees unofficial dinners at t the White House beside President Coolidge's famous political break foot parties. Bat for the most part it has de volved upon Mrs. Coolidge to main tain the social contacts for the White House. Not a bad division of labor at that, for President Cool r idge always seems to regard a party as a chore and Mrs. Coolid-|A iM- WMdVatd A letbwp. Society’s Choice New Colonial Room SOCIAL Washington has In stantly approved this new I melange of music, menu and decorative splendor. Supper dancing after TO p. m. Dinner dancing, 7 to 9 p, m. No extra cover charge at Dinner. W I* (HORgHAMjJ&reC For Reservations 16th and H Streets Main 8460 Northwest Kl 7^^*— —■^w——■ ——u« i ii I Alive Again for a Night BPI poPHuouT Harris a twite Miss Evelina Kean as “Widbw Skelton” and Constant Southworth as Thomas Jefferson, the ancestors they will impersonate at the Historical Costume Ball to be given at the Mayflower Hotel Saturday evening.' -r.y Club and their "house guests,” but several members entertained house parties for this special occasion and were accompanied by their visitors even to two or three or'fcdlr. Mrs. Coolidge was, of course-, seated on the right of the president of the elub, Mrs. James F. Byrnes, with Mrs. Gillett, wife of the Speak er. on Mrs. Byrnes* left. Mrs. Taft, wife of the former President and present Chief Justice, occupied a seat nearby. Jt had been hoped that Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. James Schoolcraft Sherman and Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall, to whom invitations had been sent, might attend, but they were not able to accept and so the effort to'assemble this interesting group of ex-Presi dents’ and ex-Vtce Presidents’ wives came to naught. Mrs. Davis Only “CaMneteer” At This Year’s Breakfast Mrs/ Davis, wife of the Secretary of Labor, with Mr. Bevis’ mother under her wing, was seated at the honor table, and another guest there was Mrs. Gillett’s mother. Mrs. William E. Rice, who came down from Massachusetts for the Speaker’s dinner at the white House and who is making a visit to her daughter. Although the wives of Cabinet pfficers are all eligible for membership in the Com gresrional dub,- Mrs. Davis shares With Mrs. Hoover the distinction of being the only one of the present group to belong, and the wife of the secretary of Commerce was not able to be present on this occasion. The president-elect Os the club, Mrs. Lindley M. Hadley, a I‘ttls group Os “past presidents and Mrs. John B. Henderson, honorary vice president, and a privileged person since she presented the ground upon which stands the home of the club—these completed the list of guests at Mrs. Coolidge's table. For the officers of the club there was a second honor table, at which were seated a few ouch guests as Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, who had come with Mrs. Coolidge. At each of the other tables a Senator’s wtfe or the chairman of one of the standing committees presided as hostess. Mrs. Louis T. McFadden was chairman of the breakfast commit tee and arranged the party this time, assisted by a committee In cluding Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, Mrs. A. E. B. Stephens and Miss Clara Sproul. They received many congratulation on the smoothness with which everything went off and there was a chorus of approval foi the very charming program and menu cards—folders of dull gold paper, very rich and heavy, with a cut of the Congressional Chib on the outside and inside an Auto graphed portrait of Mrs. Coolidge. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, who has for years been a picturesque figure at Congressional Club break fasts—her hat parked beneath her chair—was among the missing, be ing at present occupied with her infant daughter, bom on Valen tine’s Day. But looking about me :.'..THE WASHINGTON TIMES Th, National Daily WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1925. from my coign Os vantage I spied Mrs". Robert Lansing—her menfiier ship dJttes from her husband's term as Secretary of State—with hbr. sister-in-law and guest. Miss Emma Lansing; Mrs. Stephen B. Elkina daughter, wife and mother of a senator —Mrs. John H. Strong, with several guests, and Mrs. Charles J, Linthicum, hostess to several vHit tag Marylanders. Over in another corner 1 dis covered pretty Dorothy Dennett, now Mrs. Patton Jesse Slemp, who has been honeymooning tn the South and who timed her return for a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dennett, in order'to at tend the breakfast.

CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT ASSISTS AT WEDDING. The wedding of Miss Katherine Mimmaok and the Reverend Florian Vurpillot, until recently vector of the Huguenot church in Charleston, 8. C., is taking place this afternoon. The ceremony will be preformed at 4 o’clock in St. John's Church in the presence of a small company of relatives and friend* with the rector, the Reverend Doctor John- be* escorted f to tkd 1 altar grid given in marriage by the Chief. Justice, Mr; Taft, and the brfcfegroom will have aa best' man his young ten, Denys VurpiHoL Thprffino other attendants.- the bride bn Q street. v v-: The bride Is wearing gigowp M gray orepe de chtee, made very i simply, and a black hat trimmed with shaded feathers. The couple i will sail -the»latter part of next week for eighteen months’ travel in j Europe. With them 'will go the i bridegroom’s two small daughters, Simone and France, who are here for the wedding. The out-of-town guests for the wedding are Mrs. Lewis Gouveneur Morris, of New York; Mrs. Harrall Mulliken, of New York, and Mrs. Johnston de Peyster. of New York.

The Counselor of the Czechoslo- vak Legation and Mme. Lipova were hosts to a- company of twelve at luncheon today. \ee i MRS. HINES ENTERTAINS 1 AT LUNCHEON. Mrs. Frank T. Hines, wife of 1 General Hines, director of the Vet- 1 erans* Bureau, entertained at lunch- eon today in compliment to Mrs. Merritt W. Ireland and Mrs. James 1 T. Morris, of St. Paul. Other guests were Mrs. David Shanks, wife of 1 Generals Shanks, Mrs. David Blair, wife of the Commissioner of Inter- nal Revenue, Mrs. H. A. Fowler, 1 Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage, Mrs. Charles Graves Matthews, Mrs. Charles Wil liamson, Mrs. Peyton Gordon, Mrs. I McPherson Crichton, Mrs. C. C. i Hearn, Mrs. J. B. Cutter and Mrs. John A. Kennedy.

Congressman and Mrs. Percy E. Quinn will entertain at bridge this evening in compliment to the 1 former’s niece, Miss Louise Pendar- vis, of Magnolia, Miss., who is 1 visiting them And the two recent brides, Mrs. Patten Wise Slemp, and Mrs. Charieton E. Moran. There will be about fifty guests— chiefly young married couples. Mrs. Quinn will entertain at luncheon on Saturday in honor of Mrs. James F. Byrnes, wife of Congressman Byrnes of South Car- olina, and on Tuesday she will en tertain at luncheon. Mrs. Willard Saulsbury will be at home tomorrow afternoon after 4 1 o’clock. Assisting her will be Mrs. 1 Thomas F. Bayard, wife of Senator t Bayard, of Delaware Mrs. Frederick L. Chapin and Miss Harriet Haw- kins. i

Mrs. Arthur Hollis Tirrell was 1 hostess to a company of forty at luncheon at the .Hotel Hamilton. t

Mrs. Henry Cooper, wife of Congressman Cooper of Wisconsin, is entertaining at tea this after- 2 noon at the New Willard in com- pllment to Mrs. Joseph Walsh, wife of Judge Walsh of Massachusetts, j and Mrs. Patten Wise Slemp, for- merly Miss Dorothy Dennett. t The Secretary of War and Mrs. t Weeks will be the guests of honor at dinner this evening of the Min- irter of The Netherlands and Mme. de Graeff, who will have a com- t pany of r The Secretary of Laboy and Mrs. Davis will be guests of honor at 1 dinner this eyening of Congressman and Mrs. Ernest Ackertnan, who J will entertain at Warkman Park r Hotel. 1

Commander and Mrs. W. W. Gal braith will entertain a company of I twelve at dinner this eveninr pre- 1 ceding the dance of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps st ti«e New Willard. COSTUME BALL A LOVELY PICTURE Scene in Famous “Gallerie des Glaces” Revived at Hammond Party The mirrored ballroom at Raus cher’s blossomed out last night as the-famous “Gallerie des Blaces” at Versailles, scene of countless bril liant gatherings in those days when the lovely Marie Antoniette held sway and she and her court danced merrily on the rim of a volcano. Just such a scene was re-enacted last evening, with lords and ladies of high degree stepping the' stately measures of the minuet, the pavanne and other court dances of the Louis XVI period. The occasion was the "Marie Antoinette ball, which Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond gave for their daughter, Miss Natalie Hammond, and at which some 200 or 260 guests were assembled In an atmosphere which revived as nearly as possible the, happier days of history’s most hapless queen. The Hammonds do things of this sort so well. With ample means they combine the sure taste to put on a period party correct in every detail, combining color and life and high artistic value. The groups of men and maids, special friends of Miss Hammond, who had revived the dances of an older day, had been drilled by a well-known danc, Ing teacher; a famous theatrical agency had been invoked for propet lighting effects and ransacked for “props” of the days of Louis. And the ringing minßtxels-profeMionala —who contributed quaint French chansons to the entertainment were as authentic in their gypsy dress of the preiod as were the guests in their lovely coyrt costumes Great' garlands of laurel, tlower decked, overhung the mirrors of the ball room, orange trees ware set between and bright-colored flowers were tucked away among the smilax, with which the ceiling was veiled. The young people present seemed to be all in fancy costume, many of them in character—famous personages of Marie Antoinette’s court —and even in the small group of contemporaries of Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, who were present, one found some charming period gowns while mahy a pretty woman had compromised by donning a white wig, quoiffed a la Marie Antoinette to top off her modish ball gown. For these spectators a dais had been raised at one end of the ball room, from which they might view the merrymakers with comfort. Pbge B®r» Out of Old Print Bear Train of Boyal Hostess. A regal figure was Mrs. Ham tnond .as she stood with Ifr. Ham mond in the ante room to greet their guests. Over an under robe of rose embroidered in crystals she hM court train of American Beauty fel&g cloth of SllUitar—held Tup; if you please, by two tiny blackamoor pages in the turibans of and gorgeous livery sb familiar in the quaint prints of this era. Her own plentiful hair was touched with powder and dressed high with roses and towering para' dise feather, and she wore some beautiful ornaments of rubies and diamonds with long pendant diamond earrings, Mr. Hammond’s sister, Misc Betty Hammond, who was standing by to assist the hostess, had chosen a Dußarry costume of deep blue rilk, built out over a petticoat of robe-colored silk and trimmed witn panels of rose and silver lace. There were blue feathers to dress .her. snowy wig. Very different was the little host ess from the Natalie Hammond of every day, who wears her hair cropped close and hat an amusing penchant for mannish lines and fabrics. This was a virion of feminine loveliness, with her tow ering white wig puffed and curled and flower decked and her gown of apricot taffeta, over its petti coat of pale blue chiffon. It was cut short to shbw slim ankles and tiny slippers with glittering and fan shaped tongues of lace, but a court train of silver cloth was hung from the shoulders. This like the gown was garlanded with the enchanting taffeta flowers tricked out with crystal dew drops. Which are so characteristic of the Marie Antoinette period. Stately Measures of Long Ago Trod By Modern Beaux and Bells With Commander Elmer Lang worthy—a stately figure in a pale blue court costume of the period, snowy lace at wrist and throat, colorful embroideries and gay rib bon shoulder knots—Miss Ham mond danced a charming gavotte, which was the climax of the pro gram of court dances—interspersed w|th “amusing rigadons” and “gl gues” by pupils of Miss Minnie Hawke—and a moment later state ly measures had given place to the ultra modern music of a fa mous jazz orchestra. Announced by name of the his toric personage represented—Mme. la Princesse de Lambalie, le Due et Duchesse de Polignac, M. le Due de Morny, and the rest —the partici pants in the minuet, with which the program opened, made effective entrance. Mlle. Lutfia Yousry. in salmon pink satin and laces, her white wig setting off her black eyes to perfection; Miss Claudia Reed, in a lovely gown of blue and silver brocade over rose satin, with a towering white wig; the Zolnay girls—Margaret and Elizabeth —one I gowned in rose, the other in blue, with their gay cavaliers —all were; anchanting. But perhaps the love liest lady of the lot was Miss Helen Carusl as the Duchesse di Polignac, 1 her tight bodice of sapphire blue, velvet framing snowy shoulders, her flowered skirt much beflouncod and .built out over hoops and the 1 towering masses of her snowy hair dressed with clusters of blue, grapes. Her costume, authentic in avery detail, was copied from an j old print, and so charming was the i picture that a spontaneous burst j of applause greeted her entrance. 1 She seemed, too, to have the "fesl” of the period and was never out of I character all evening, flirting her handkerchief with an old-time grace and reviving the pretty coquetries of the eighteenth century. Memories of Marie Antoinette’s playing at dairying at the Pel it Trianon were revived by the shephards’ dance—silk-clad sh<pn d- Bsses and their cavaliers—in which on Page 23.) Wxtrard SLottirop Down Stairs Store ..-'.J nn i ■■■i. New and Smart Spring Clothes Are Arriving Daily-Lesser Priced rib 588=88 Intriguing Printed Silk Frocks //I X\\ One- and Two-Piece Models \\/il tr For Women and Misses ■I M’v H iRSSgoi With Spring and Easter near, it seems quite probable that life] “prints” will fashion the smartest and most distinctive ufra M Bw frocks. Not only because-of their “different” types, but J ■M because so many unique, colorful creations are possible. And they’re so adaptable to every occasion. MBWI Prints on Light and Dark Grounds 1 Al I I Either pale or deep colon form suitable grounds for Ift I I I various prints to display their versatility. Graduated dots, I i l( futuristic, fade-out stripe, check and block effects. JH I j Every one is effectively trimmed with lace or self- /Af\\ H W collars and cuffs, or pipings of contrasting shades. Jw f w DOWN STAIRS STORK V i niin I 'J. I- The Popular Suspender Skirts At This Popular Price S) f Set s S' 1 ”3 bmb a Thev Fit in” with Every Daytime Occasion. So they’re very popular for street, afternoon and sports wear. And these just |he shades you’ll want —tans, grays,. cocoa, navy, black, and browns. It Many pleasing plaids, stripes and self stripes, while some are smartly plain. Soft, smooth, well-wearing materials. v Wool Crepes Rfid Pockets are sometimes seen on each side. The vogue of this newest creation is daily increasing and will play an important role in correct Springtime sports wear. r ll B Peasant Blouses to Wear With Them, $1.95 Nothing seems to so smartiy combine with suspender skirts as Peasant Blouses. \l I Fronts -trimmed with colorful embroidery and cuffs to match. Others of voile U j in pastel shades in plain and embroidery trimmed effects. Sizes 36 to 42. DOWN STAIRS STORE F Small Silk and Straw Combination Hats Are Favored for Sports Wear fHB $9*95 J'- l In Variegated Cdlorings Small chic sports hats in variegated straw and silk combina- __ tions with color bands of crepe de chine. Full pleated material. Many smart models—all strictly tailored. These are as appropriate for outings as they are for street., and sports wear. These favorite shades: p f Brick Lanvin Sand j'" I Poudre Bleu Wood Rust Copen Crap-Apple DOWN STAIRS STORE Fashion’s Newest Spring Pumps Are Attractively Pair Low Priced O Fashionable new pumps—just arrived. You’ll be more than pleased when you see how attractive and practical these new styles are. One-Strap Pumps Step-in Pumps Opera Pumps Side Tie Pumps Leathers include all patent leather, patent leather and tan calfskin, patent leather and gray combinations, all black satin, satin and velvet combinations and all tan calf. SIZES 354 TO 7 DOWN STAIRS STORE. 7 n,. -r