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B-4 ROBBERIES KEEP POLICE ON JUMP Homes of Comdr. Needham and Dr. Charles H. Wheat ley Burglarized. Burglars, hold-up men,, pocketbook matchers and petty thieves were in evi dence enough Saturday night and yes terday to keep police busy, the hoihes of Comdr. Ralph C. Needham, 3624 Davis street, and Dr. Charles H. Wheatley, 3625 Davis street, both of the U. S. Navy, being among those burglarized.- Jewelry valued at $l5O was taken from Dr. Wheatley’s home, while Jewelry taken from the home of Comdr. Need ham was valued at more than SSOO. A box of official -papers also disappeared from the Needham home. The box of orders and other documents was found discarded near the Pennsylvania Ave nue Bridge. Albert A. Lawrence, a painter, resid ing at 1311 E street northeast, early yesterday said he was the victim of two highwaymen at North Carolina avenue and Thirteenth street northeast. His Watch and SB7 in cash were taken. Charles J. White of 617 P street, a taxicab driver, said he was held up by two men in Rock Creek Park yesterday afternoon. He said the bandits took $4.85. Among the places visited by the week end burglars was the studio of Gunston Hall School Building at 1904 Florida avenue. Mrs. Mary Gildersleeve, super intendent, told police that entrance was gained by cutting a glass panel in the front door. Ransacking of the building netted the burglars nothing. Burglars last night ransacked the home of Carl Prehn, 2705 Thirteenth The Greatest Ever! Make Your Own Records Price Complete with Tubes V Three instruments in one: Victor Radio, Victor Elec trola and Victor Home Recording! Five-Circuit, Screen- Grid, Micro-Synchronous, 8 Tubes. The finest and best product of the R. C. A. Victor Co. 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MI 111/ A phone call will bring one of our sales engineers to your 111 II VfV home or office without obligation. ■ Get Our Easy Monthly Payment Plan —2i Years to Pay | I ABC OIL BURNER SALES CORP. I C. S. WATSON, Mgr. 1722 H St. N.W. Factory Branch NAtional 8188 I j ,r . i f - • street southeast, and obtained a small sum of money, but overlooked gold coins in a box they handled in a dresser drawer. Twelve suits of clothing collected for , the pool and other articles were stolen | from the. Episcopal City Mission, 1300 block of K street. Miss Judith Chafley, 714 Ninteenth street, was the victim of a pocketbook snatcher. She reported the loss of $2 in cash and valuable papers. | Mrs. Annie Ferguson, 2921 Eleventh street southeast, was awakened early yesterday by a man searching the room. She screamed and the burglar fled. UNION IS PROTECTED • WHEN OUSTING LEADER Police Guard Meeting in Chicago as Members Vote Against > Labor Racketeer. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December I.—Under the watchful eyes of 20 policemen and two assistant States’ attorneys, the News paper Drivers’ Union,- in a special meeting, yesterday ousted Jack Barry, labor racketeer, from his post as secre tary of the organization. Barry, who was charged with taking the office by force and then terrorizing the members, was not present. He was in Jail, awaiting trial in a warehouse whisky robbery and on charges of vagrancy. The special police detail and the States* attorneys were assigned to see that none of Barry's aides attempt’d to attend the meeting. For 42510th St. N.W. s.fe I Business Property JOS. A. HERBERT & SONS 1013 15th St. N.W. Phone District 4590 THE EVK.m.vG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MOKDAYT DECEMBER 1. 1930. ROOSEVELT USES PHRASE ‘SINK OF INIQUITY’ IN JEST Governor’* Reference to New York in Banquet Speech Used “Face tiously,” It Is Explained. By the Associated Press. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. Ga„ December 1. —Gov. Franklin D. Roose velt was speaking facetiously at the supper here Saturday night in using the phrase “sink of iniquity” in men tioning the City of New York and was setting forth what he understood to represent the attitude of some persons unacquainted with the metropolis. Guests who were present today em phasized this. Charles F. Palmer of Atlanta, who presided, said: “As by inference I had been touching upon feasts of the ancient Romans, Gov. Roosevelt Immediately caught the cue and contrasted the informality of the ’possum dinner with the State oc casions which are properly required under other circumstances. “With his justly famous, cordially contagious smile, he made mention of that ‘sink of iniquity’ New York. (If he had been writing, he would have put the phrase in quotation marks)—where formal functions are necessarily re quired, but at which neighborliness cannot show itself so good naturedly as v If If? * Low Prices •••••■• • v IP 1# - '•••'-•ill • r •-••• •• •••*•••••• V-- * * > I* w* »• » on MEANS SOMETHIN*; Wg&N TOE Ftttt-' „ JUgg mm m saks, vine s§*r£ a MinJfc—but a‘Mink Coat h a AJa*t#**./ jjf|t Sak& Sa3es- ' ; -' V . • | Purs aro fifit* m every eense-erf. • IgSg the to Hava in addi- i I if§ |• | IMm atteKlrefcsNfuUy styled ' •'"J 5 ' I v-i / v .\\ •¥ • ” v 4 s***t*f& A % these tow * v~-rv M-fe- -* & 54 r ? *JS V. ••'. , ' " ■ .V.• -, •* •• * ’*v?. •' 7 - Muskrat €0ai»,.,,,.. S6S , 75.-'v jHuclioi* Seal Coats.. .1165 ’ »»wi».to*. * MW arrival*. ft?. --zsam&mWWwA-f - -1 --- -■ ■ - ***, IWftAU F«wi#(« 9kNi* ra4B ; m'm ■»!■» » *■<•<*«>**? ,'■> mmm ■» * .i*» »*■» .. ... t MEMBSS HAirrat FUERIERV GUILD around the ’possum table. The guests promptly responded laughingly to his joke and were unanimous in proclaim ing any city that requires State dinners as a ‘sink of iniquity’ when compared with White Sulphur Springs, Ga„ where all were enjoying such a rollickingly friendly, old-fashioned good time in do ing honor to the Governor of New York State. “As I understand the expression, the Governor was using the phrase of eth ers unacquainted with the great city and of course did not himself mean to convey that as his idea.” - Sunday Laws Enforced. BUENOS AIRES, December 1 (JP). — Municipal authorities yesterday began' rigid enforcement of the Sunday laws decreed under the Irigoyen regime. The sale of cigarettes is forbidden and no, alcoholic beverages may be dispensed except by restaurants which sell them with meals. I CLAFLIN I Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 I SOCIETY i 1 , ■ (Continued From Third Page.) house talks will be Inaugurated to day at 4 o’clock, in the Stonletgh Cqurt studio of the District of Co lumbia League of American Pen Women. Helen Topping Miller, short st fjr writer, will be guest speaker, w'ho will talk on the art of the short story, followed by some of her experiences. During the social hour preceding the talk, tho'e attending will be seated at small tables, where coffee will be served with a touch of Elizabethan : atmosphere. Mrs. James T. Watson, Jr., is chair- I man of the coffee house. Her assist , auts include Mrs. Hugh Irish, Mrs. OVERCOATS You Choose from one of the largest stocks in the city—at THE HECHT CO. w - WSmsmßm * * \ i r m ■*:■'.;y SHhw. mk 9 y-J 9 Hyß Sni 11 H . -...a Hf 9| HF w v 99 998& y 9 ■?''••• - 9 f wm- .> M .Aflllil L 9V :& J 9 IH TsfcSSSSS&ssx 4 A? i 4 - vK v* 99HH9BP o^w<:^^>^9W9p^3«HH9H^WBM|PPP9aHBBMBjBf9BH| • «Saß* M *’' ’ "f'&'Vr ju/U <* x.'MwWX * * ' ■X; :• . ■•• •;■'•:■ X;.-.. . .£: /8 v > .^Jpy / j§|Sg-,: ?V'^A,;:~ts'/ >' -I'>V i.-AtVfe* jr,‘' V y y 9 *vY • ' ''„ ”Jg A <*. 1 . t yymkFm 11 y-f^y^W > MfDHyPB Hr V'V I A ■ v 1*- . f Rh I The Sheldon Boucle T » .^Rgßfl^^Li^Jp! I A worsted curl fabric '.....developed in a dou- If ’ >:? ble-breastcd fitted coat. j '* ’* i|: Deep yoke lining of l i •'.; I; Skinner’s satin. LfßaLi The Sheldon Gridiron alpaca # _ A __ ;.St deep pile fabric. 3j>XQeso PKS^III*iII SS^BBKBK^^Sm i.> J Interlined with tilA',;.; • :| worsted for acMed I warmth. Full lined. Brown, oxford " *s§£ I The Mid-tex Coat A? A medium weight coat a ; -,|| for in-between tempera- yil 1 A - ' : . ; . Ap tures. Ideal for the man I V/ *, 4 .1 who doesn’t like to wear •■ M a heavy overcoat. ■mBBBB Society Brand Chief 1 Double-breasted mel- || fiHßiifllHF ton cloth . . . warmth % 1 |- •. ■.- 1 -\:;■■■ - without bulk. With or .Bk9H^^^^w without the velvet col- 1| lar. In blue and oxford grey. Two Seconds by Direct Elevators to the Men's \ mBSSf Clothing Department—Second Floor • ;aHB * THE HECHT CO. Robert Clay Sherrill and Miss Frances A. Walker, the latter is in charge of reservations; The booklovers’ hour tonight at the Young Women’s Christian Association will have “Books for Christmastime” i as its general theme, to be reviewed by Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, who will in clude in her talk books by two Wash ington writers, “Glfto of Long Ago,” by ; Ida Donnally Peters, and “Kees,” by i Marian King. The Booklover Fund, which is main tained In memory of Louis Hamilton 1 Bayly, who lost his life in the World War, has been recently enlarged by a 1 contribution from a group of booklovers who gave a benefit party for this fund at the home of Miss Agnes Geyer. The fund, as administered by the book lovws, cares for a child at the Central Unlop Mission through gifts of the booklovers of the Young Women’s Chris tian Association safe their friends. ' f t WOMAN, 72/COLLAPSES Mrs. Oracs Perkins Stricken Dur ing Wait at Union Station.' While awaiting the arrival of a daughter-in-law from Chicago yester day. Mrs. Grace C. Perkins. 72 years old, of Bowie, Md., was fatally stricken in the waiting room of Union Station. Mrs. Perkins, with a daughter-in law, Mrs. H. T. Perkins, and a friend, Walter Hardesty, all of Bowie, had met in the station to await the arrival of another daughter-in-law from Chicago, when collapse occurred. - - CHATHAM, VA.„ BANK SIJUT Institution Capitalised at SIOO,OOO Closed by State* CHATHAM, Va., December 1 (Jf). — The Chatham Savings Bank, one of the oldest financial Institutions in Pittsyl vania County, failed to open for busi ness today. The bank was capitalized at SIOO,OOO. A note pinned to the door said the bank was closed by order of the State banking department M. E. Bristow. State commissioner of Insurance and banking, was expected here this after noon. County officers said approximately $25.00$ of county money on deposit was protected by bond.