Evening star. [volume], May 14, 1920, Image 9

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Saturday Special!
Lovely Summer Hats
Stunning Styles
Worth $12.60 and $15
at Beth Stores
Saturday Special
The summer season's latest modes in dainty hats irnin
the most exclusive designer.-. If you want f-jf\
-?these hats are the "last word." They arc worth 1
Sl_'.50 and !?15. Our great Saturday special at.. " w
Bachrach's
1423 F St.
Smart
Millinery
915 G St.
I. C. C. TO HEAR PETITION
FOR FREIGHT INCREASES
Hearings will be held by the Intvr
! state Commerce Commission, sitting;
as n body, on the application of the
| main trunck line railroads of the
j United States for a general increase
in freight rates May 24.
A. I*. Thom, chairman of the Asso
ciation of Railway Executives, will
present the case of the railroads. Va
rious railroad presidents will testify
at the hearings, which are expected to
last several days. The hearings will
determine rates to be allowed the
roads to insure the standard return
guaranteed under the transpor
tation act.
In their application for increases, ,
i lit- roads did not ask for any increase I
in passenger rates.
ITALIAN ORATOR COMING.
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j Chaplain General of Army to Visit ;
Washington June 4.
Very Rev. Prof. Giovanni Semeria. ?
said to ho the greatest orator in j
Italy, and chaplain general of the
Italian forces in the war, is expect
ed to visit Washington June 4. ac- j
cording to information received to- J
day from Count Morra di Lavriano. i
During his stay in the capital he j
will he the guest of Rev. NT. I>e Carlo. J
rector of Holy Rosary Church, and !
will lecture on the night of June A |
at St. Patrick's Hall.
The honor system of the students of
Northwestern University has been abol
ished. as the students had failed to live
up to the confidence placed in them.
For
Saturday
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Send L's Your Furs
for Safe Storage.
The House
of Courtesy'
A Special Offering
Fifty Garden Hats
Essentially Summer Hats, of such charming' char
acter in shape and embellishment as to accentuate the
splendid values and emphasize the extraordinariness of the
price?
The trimmings arc of the quaint field flowers, daisies and as
sorted wheat?in graceful shapes of becoming proportions.
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350 High-grade
Dress Blouses
A combination of a maker's models and selections
from our own stock, affording a choice of exclusive and
exceptional productions.
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Tie-on Blouses
and
Over Blouses
Basque Blouses
and
Surplice Blouses
Radically Less Than
the Wholesale Price
They are (fesigned with real Filet and Yal and Venetian lace;
beaded, hand embroidered and braided effects; unusually refined
in type and instrinsic worth ; conventional and novelty collars and
sleeves of varying models.
White, Flesh, Frcnch Toast. Navy Blue and the full coterie of
the season's distinctive colorinps.
(Continued from Eighth Tape.)
at the grarden party to he piven at
Cathedral Close Tor the benefit of the
House of Mercy Tuesday. May 25. from
3 to 7 o'clock. Mrs. Henry B. Brown
will have charge of the tea and coffee
table, and she will be assisted by Mrs.
Albert L. Mills. Mrs. "William C. Rives,
Mrs. Francis E. Warren. Mrs. Helen
McLeod Smith. Mrs. Patch, Mrs. Owen.
Mrs. Bryan. Miss Kittelle, Miss Eliza
beth Small. Miss Mary Kittelle and Mrs.
John l>. Small wood.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Birthright have
as their guest during the Southern
Baptist convention Mrs. A. L. Bur
roughs of Norfolk. Va.
The marriage of Miss Adalinda .Ta- {
cobson and Mr. Karl Jorss. whose en- i
gagement w as recently anni?uneed, j
will tnl;e place in St. haul's Clmrch j
the ev fi.of June L\ ;
AJiss Jit'obson was given a delight - |
fully-arranged britie*> shower this;
week, with Miss i.ouife Eiker as j
hostess, in her home. .31 H Connecticut '
avenue, Chevy (*hss?\
A one-act comedy. "Absent !e Chat
les Souris Densent," will be presented
by the Fairmont French Club at the .?
garden party given by Mrs. Arthur j
Ramsay and Mrs. Henry T. Rainey j
at Calumet Place tomorrow afternoon, j
Honor guests of the French Club will j
be Mrs. John A. Logan, Mrs. Matthew
T. Scott, Mrs. T. l>e Witt Talmage and
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood.
Assisting in the garden between 3
and 6 o'clock will be Mr.;. Frederick
L. Siddons, Mrs. A. Leftwich Sinclair.
Mrs. Cato Sells, Mrs. Ellen Spencer
Mussey, Mrs. James T. Lloyd. Mrs. Ar
thur P. Call, Mrs. William Gerry Mor
gan. Mrs. William E. Chamberlain,
Mrs. Wade Atkinson, Mrs. Daniel
Webster Prentiss, Mrs. Mary LogMn
Tucker, Miss Janet Richards, Mrs.
Marian Alien Martindell and the mem
bers of the Fairmont Alumnae Asso
ciation.
The annual silver offering will be
given to the free ward of the Garfield
Hospital in compliment tN Mrs. Logan.
Mrs. W. M. Stoner will preside at
t lie meeting of the Political Study
Club to be held tomorrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock at the residence of Mrs.
Henry F. Dimock, on Scott circle.
Miss Margaret Ripy has charge of the
musical program.
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncev I^pew ar
rived at the Willard yesterday for
their annual spring visit. They will
spend about ten days here.
MnJ. Marriott to Rettirn for Bride.
Maj. John Charles Oakes Marriott,
formerly a member of the staff of
t lie military attache of the British
embassy, but now in England, where
he has been gazetted to the brigade
of guards from his former regiment,
has been given three weeks' leave
of absence to come to America for his
marriage to Miss Maud E. Kahn,
(laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto II.
Kahn of New York. The ceremony
will take place on June 0 at the Kahn
estate on Long Island, the young
couple going to England a few days
later. A large number of the mem
bers of the British embassy staff are
planning to go to New York for the
wedding. The engagement was an
nounced in the spring from Florida.
On account of inclement weather
the May festival which was to have
been given by the Friends' School to
morrow afternoon for the benefit of
the Baby Hospital camp, has been
postponed until Monday at 3:30
o'clock.
The new secretary of the American
embassy at Madrid and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn are in New York, pre
paratory to sailing tomorrow for the
former's new post at Madrid.
The Young Women's Christian As
sociation's summer home for girls
at Silver Spring. Md., which was
taken over by Mrs. John D. Rocke
feller to add to the comfort of woman
workers during the war. has on its
new spring dress, and tomorrow
evening Mrs. Nancy H. Williams, the
director, will entertain at dinner the
woman welfare workers from the
War Department and others interest
ed in comforts for women.
Mrs." Herbert J. "Wild has as her
guests Mrs. Harry Hathaway of Fall
River, Mass., and Mrs. Charles Mul
dock of Meriden, Conn., for whom
several delightful social events have
been given.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hauptman Ege
have gone to Chicago to make their
future home.
Births Reported.
Tlw? following birth* have been reported to
the health department the last twenty-four
hours:
Samuel E. and Erma fihewbridge. boy.
lie Roy and Edith A. Russell, boy.
Arthur W. and Mami* EI. Taylor. girl.
.Tames M. and Teresa M. Kirulz. girl twins.
Lester M. and Esther V. Kefativer, boy.
Jesse and Nettie M. Taylor, girl.
. Raymond and Margaret Hall, boy.
Marriage Licenses.
Marriage licenses hare been issued to the
following:
Joseph Q. Edwards of Sumter. 8. C., and
Gray see P. Courser of Swainshoro. Gn.
Edgar R. A. Rosley and Genevieve M. Davis,
both of Raltimore. Md.
Thomas Sitnms of Mount Rainier. Md., and
Mary E. Downing of Clinton, Md.
Harry D. Walters, United States Navy, and
Lucille LaRue of St. Louis, Mo.
.fumes R. Russell and Beulah Gardiner.
Bernard Thaxton and Agnes M. Krol.
Harry Cohen of Brooklyn. N. Y., and Louise J
E. Davis of Wilmington. "Del.
Iris E. Belch of New Rerne. N. C., and Res- J
sie Jennings of Kellys' Ford, Va. I
Maryland Redmond and Hattie Spriggs. j
Walter E. Wakeman of Seattle, Wash., and !
Delos C. Oissel of this city. I
Carl E. Farr and Amy McLeod HarVey.
Deaths Reported.
The following deaths have been reported to ?
the health department in the last twenty-four '
hours:
Harry Silverman. 33, Tuberculosis Hospital.
Ada J. Garner. (10, 231 13th street southwest.
Adelaide Spencer Saunders. 75, 1811! Belmont
road.
Margaret Cahill. 05, Washington Asylum
Hospital.
Edward A. Green. 45. 1410 G st.
Alexander R. Bohrer. 70, 143 R street north
east.
Mary M. Sands. 74. 4416 loth st.
Charles W. Hitt. 57. 'Garfield Hospital.
Margaret A. Beers, 50, 2101 13th street
southeast.
James M. Lewis, 58, 129 Q street southwest.
Lief Backer, 40. St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Daisy E. Rice. 10. 1423 I> st. n.e.
John G. Kurtz. 2 months. 2300 K st.
Infant of Crawford M. and Lucy M. Cook.
4 hours. Sibley Hospital.
Alice Lucas. 52. St. Elisabeth's Hospital.
"Wilbur Holland, 7. 007 L street northeast.
Irietha Waiston. 11 months. Children's Hosl
pital.
Receives Staff Assignment.
Commander Nathaniel H. Wright, on
duty in the bureau of steam engineer
ing. Navy Department, lias been as
signed to duty on the staff of Vice
Admiral C. S. Williams, commanding
scniadron 1. Pacific fleet.
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Sterno Canned Heat, 95c
dozen.
Star Vibrator, $4.59.
Sanitax Hairbrushes, $2.89.
Venida Hair Nets, 15c.
3-Stem Hair Switches, $2.98.
Hairbrush sale, 79c.
Cluster Curls, first quality,
$5.50.
Hairpin Cabinets, 5c, 10c,
15c, 25c.
Jeans' Brilliantine, 29c.
'809 SEVENTH SI)
RULING ON AUTO SALE.
I such a purchase. The case was
j b rought for the purpose of having
' the court determine the disputed
Second-Hand Purchases Resold (question and sentence was suspended
Here Must Be Reported.
Second-hand dealers in automo
biles who make purchases in other
jurisdictions and sell them in thi.
city are required to make reports of
such purchases to the police depart
ment. Such was the ruling of Judge
Hardison in the ca.se of Samuel
Hyatt, a South Washington dealer
charged in Police Court yesterday
with failure to make a .report of
Two Receive Transfers.
Capt. Robert W. McNcely. at the '
Naval War College. Newport. R. 1 . 1
has been ordered to this city for duty,
as a member of the naval examining j
and retiring boards, and Capt. (George j
W. Williams, also at the Naval War j
College, has been assigned to duty iri '
the office of naval operations. Navy j
Department. 4
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This Store is Closed
at 1 P.M. Saturdays
?throughout the year, with the exception of Julv and
August, when it is dosed all day Saturdays. This
change has been made solely in the interest of our
employes, and we trust, therefore, that our patrons
will kindly arrange for the completion of their shop
ping before this hour on Saturdays.
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Graceful Spring Dress Oxfords
Another shifoment has arrived?Genuine Black
Buckskin and Havana Brown Kid. A seasonable
advantage in these Snyder <?t Little styles was
accomplished by building the soles a bit stouter and
equipping them with leather French heels, thus
making them desirable for both dress and street
wear.
An abundant array of Snyder & Little exclusive
black and brown pumps and oxfords?
$9 to $15
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Twelve -Ten F St.
Advancing Our Semi-Annual Sale
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Our Entire
Stock of
SUITS
Silks and Jerseys
Excepted
The Reduction Sale comes earlier
this year because we made larger pur
chases in anticipation of the scarcity
of materials, we are positive in
the statement that it would be difficult
to find a more comprehensive showing
of
Fashionable Apparel
for Women
With Our Stocks so complete, this
sale comes at a time when you can
anticipate your apparel needs for the
coming fall and winter, as the styles?
like all ERLEBACHER models?are a
season in advance.
The Economies offered are par
ticularly noteworthy, mainly because
at their original price the garments
offered were not priced any higher
than you would pay for garments of
the ordinary kind.
The Qualities and the finish of all
Erlebacher merchandise must pass the
most rigid tests, so that they reach
the standard by which the success of
this establishment has attained.
Reductions
On Entire Stock of
Dresses, Gowns
and Wraps
Organdies
Excepted
The Mammoth
Cloak and
Suit House
Inc.
Remarkable Sale Saturday
Women's & Misses' Hand-Tailored Suits
Some taken from regular stock. The ma
jority samples from a leading New York man
ufacturer. Made to retail at $70 to $85. Every
style and fabric represented?
Navy, black, tan, checks and mixtures.
$
39
.50
Values Up to $85
High-Grade Sport Coats
The very newest sport styles, a wonderful
assortment. Some have popular leather belts,
novel pockets, pleats, etc. In short, three
quarter and full length. Most all full silk lined.
Every wanted color.
Values Up to $45
Summer Dresses
New Wash Frocks and Dresses
Many styles and materials to select from.
Dotted and plain Swisses, organdies, figured,
plain and striped voiles, dimity and linene.
Short sleeves, patch pockets, dainty ves
tees, tunics, wide crushed girdles and sashes
are delightfully suggestive of the styles.
Values Up to $25