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ARLINGTON FIRST TO GO TELEPHONE C. & P. Co. Official Addresses County Kiwanis Club at Weekly Meeting. By a Staff Correspondent ol The Star. CLARENDON, Va„ March 10.— Arlington County had the distinction of haring the first telephone in Vir ginia. Edwin P. Hill, information di rector of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Washington, told - members of the Arlington County Kiwanis Club at their weekly luncheon meeting here yesterday. This telephone, the speaker declared, was operated on a private line and con nected Fort Myer. then known as Fort Whipple, with the office of chief signal officer of the Army in Washington. It was placed in service in October. 1877, I about 18 months after the telephone ' was invented by Alexandria Graham Bell. Relates Phone History. Mr. Hill related the history of the telephone from the time of its inven-1 tion to its present state of develop- j ment, explaining that the first con- , versa tion over the telephone was held March 10. 1876. in Boston between the ; inventor and his assistant, Thomas A. | Watson. The speaker stated that telephone j communication today can be held with ; 40 countries on six .continents. There j are now 19,600.000 telephones operated ! by or connected with the Bell system and users of the service in this country now average about 80.000.000 calls daily. Continuing the speaker said: Cities Are Connected. “Washington was connected with Baltimore June 25. 1883. Washington and New York and Boston were con nected December 31. 1885. Subsequently long distance lines were connected with every section of the country.” The program, which was under di rection of John Webster, vice president of the club, included solos by Mary Francis Glenn, soprano, accompanied by Alice E. Elliott. OCEAN AIR TRAVEL SEEN IN FEW YEARS _ Society for Testing Materials Told Prospects by Goodyear Zeppelin Official. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 10.— Transoceanic airship lines will be in operation within a few years, if en abling legislation now before Congress is given favorable consideration. Dr. Karl Arnstein, rice president in charge of engineering of the Goodyear-Zep pelin Corporation, told the American Society for Testing Materials at a din ner here last night. Dr. Arnstein, designer of the U. S. S. Akron and its sister ship. Macon, now under construction, spoke at the con clusion of a symposium on rubber manufacturing, in w’hieh engineers and scientists engaged, discussing the mer chant airship bill, introduced in both -houses, to extend to airships the pro visions of existing legislation governing steamships. The proposed law does not include the construction loan feature of ma rine legislation, however, he pointed put. “The rigid airship has succeeded 1 throughout a long term of practical j application and has proved to be the practical type for large commercial ships,” he said. BROOKLYN PAPER SOLD NEW YORK, March 10 (jp.—Sale of the Brooklyn Standard Union by Paul Block to Fremont C. Pack, owner of the Brooklyn Daily Times, was an nounced yesterday in formal state ments carried in both newspapers. Effective today the two papers will be consolidated as the Brooklyn Daily Times and Standard Union. The Times was established February 28, 1848, and the Standard Union 15 years later. Waste Baskets j Leatherette, with gilt Bi centennial motif. For guest room, $ 1.00 etc.-.. | Wizard Mops 3-cornered. washable. Fits into corners; radiators. Large $2.00 size— S|.00 ——— Vacuum Water i Sets Reduced JJj) From nVi( $16.00 to— $8.85 Qt. size. Assorted colors and mirror trays. SOCIETY _(Continued From Second Page.) for their acts on the circus program. Groups have been organized and plans laid for the training of the different classes by the officers of the 3d Ca valry. With only three weeks remaining before the opening of the entertainment, prac tices have been scheduled for every day in the week except Saturday and Sun day. Each afternoon from 2 to 4 the young horsewomen have an engagement at the post riding hall, which takes precedence over concerts, teas and other social obligations. Manv new names have been adde^. to the list of participants this year, for of the 60 who will take part in the rides, less than 20 were in the 1931 show. Those who will ride this year are Dorothv Anderson. Josephine An drews, Betty Balsley. Maxine Behney. Mary’ Bradley. Suzanne Bradley, Mary Stuart Birdsall, Mary Buell, Julie Camp Jane Cassedy. Bowie Clagett, Caroline Craft. Rebecca Davidson, Jeanne Darby. Meredith Haines, Exe lona Hamilton, Mary Henry, Patricia Henrv, Josephine Henry, Louise Her ron. Phyllis Hight. Margaret Honeycutt, Nancy Jones, Elvira Johnson, Jane* Kromer. Sallie Mitchell LeFcvre, Nancy Lee Luttrell. Mollie Mattis, Jane Mc Harg. Bambie McKenna. Martha Mc Kenna. Francesca McKenney, Betty ! McNally, Harriet Mitchell. Janet Mur- , ray, Grace O'Hara, Beatrice Patton, : Jeanne Patterson, Gertrude Pearson, i Isabel Perrv. Elizabeth Pillsbury, Jeanne Richards, Ruth Riley. He Ian Robbins, Virginia Rogers. Frances Stearns, Ger aldine Schuh Helen Smith, Margaret Swing. Mariorie Talman. Jane Thorpe, 3arbara Truby. Ruth Tuckerman, Sarah Louise Turner, Evelyn Walker, Helen Walker, Mary Louise Watson, Betty West, Frances Wheeler and Anne Wyant. Miss Grace La Mar will arrive from New York City today to be the house guest over the week end of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nash. Miss La Mar will be the guest artist Sunday evening at a recital to be given by Mr. and Mrs. Nash, at 9 o'clock, in the Caroline McKinley Studio, at 1731 I street northwest, when she will re peat the program she gave recently in Town Hall in New York City. Miss La Mar will be the guest of Mrs. Dunlop and her daughter. Miss Maud Dunlop, Monday and for several days next week. Mrs. Benjamin B. Wallace, who lived several years in China, where Dr. Wal lace was adviser to the minister of fi nance, will be guest of honor of the Irvine-Welles Chapter, D. A. R., Sat urday afternoon, March 19, at 2:30 o'clock, when she will give a talk on III - ' ' " ' M . ' Visits Maryland | MISS ALMA ROBINSON, Who is spending some time with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Carr, in their home. Pine Shadows, in St. Marys City, Md. Miss Robinson, whose home is in Parkers Landing, Pa., is a graduate of Wellesley College in the class of 1931. Shanghai and her rambles among the Chinese people. The meeting will be held in the home I of the vice regent of the chapter. Miss Frances Crossman, at 1789 Lanier place northwest. The lecture will be fol lowed by tea, with Mrs. Andrew J. San ford presiding at the tea table. Mrs W. W. Case of Detroit, Mich., is at the Dodge during her brief stay in the capital. Mrs. D. S. Iglehart of Westbury, Long Island, accompanied by her daughter, came to Washington yesterday to spend a short time and are staying at Ward man Park Hotel. “The Family Album" Will Be Given Tomorrow Evening. The Chinn-Colhoun Circle of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church will pre sent “The Family Album" tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock in the Sunday school room. Mrs. Claude Keiper and Mrs. Ram say Nevitt will appear in the leading roles of this unique entertainment. “Thumbnail Sketches of the Orient” will be the subject of an address by GarfinckePs Announce This Amazing Opportunity FOR FRIDAY . . . ONLY! A SPECIAL PURCHASE OF FRENCH CREPE SLIPS AT THE EXTRAORDINARY PRICE OF *2.95 ■ Keen interest to give you a very remarkable oppor tunity made this special purchase possible and we are passing the savings on to you. They are beautiful costume slips in White or Tea Rose, made in sil houette styles, lace trimmed and tailored. They come in all sizes from 32 to 42. I A Distinctive Offering From Our Famous Fifth Floor. Julius Garfijvckel &_Co. F Street at Fourteenth fl D ulin & Martin Connecticut o4ve. (max' SPRING HOUSEWARES SALE Adjust-o-Matic "Universal" Vacuum Cleaner With Motor Driven Brush New improved features. 12 months guaran tee. Limited quan tity of complete a t t a c h m ents free: I Cash Price— 539.5° Easy terms *2.25 dovn $5.00 monthly Delivered on Approval—Phone Rational 1293 Westinghouse Electric Iron ( with heat control at your fin ger tips—from low to high. Formerly $8.75 SPECIAL. Allowance on Your Old i Iron—$1.00 \ Net Cost.... $4-95 Special! Chamois Best for window cleaning, silver polishing or washing the car 21"xl6" piece— Regular $1.40 size . #»Ve i The Latest Model of the Norge Electric Refrigerator The lifetime refrigerator—5 cubic feet, porcelain interior. The Norge Rollator is the greatest development in recent years. Under laboratory test it has run the equivalent of 12 years in the average home and the most delicate instruments are un able to measure any wear. Only $10 Monthly—Like Buying Ico Mrs. Will C. Barnes, following the reg ular business meeting of the Women’s Alliance of All Souls’ Unitarian Church tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Eugene F. Mueller will be hostess at the luncheon following. Mr. LawTence W. Luellen and his daughter Miss Alberta Luellen of York are at the Shoreham and have with them Miss Rosanna Wilson ot lxx Angeles They left New York the middle of February, stopped on their way South in Washington, then visited in St, Au gustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami Beach and Edward Bok's Singing Tower and Bird Sanctuary^ Mr Luellen re turned to New York by motor last night | and Miss Luellen and Miss Wilson will ] return by airplane tomorrow. Many prominent Washington woman will entertain box parties at the May flower Hotel tomorrow night when at 8:45 o’clock the A Capella Choir of Washington will be heard in its annual Lenten concert. The guests of Mrs. Ellis A. Yost in her box will be the wives of West Vir ginia’s membeis cf the House of Repre sentatives. including Mrs. Carl G. Bach man. Mrs Frank L. Bowman, Mrs. Lynn S. Homer. Mrs. Robert L. Hogg, Mrs. Hugh Ike Shott and Mrs. Joe L. Smith. Mrs. Thomas Sterling will entertain in her box at the concert Mrs. Ernest E. Danley. wife of the special assistant to the Attorney General: Mrs. Theodore , Risley, w’ife of the solicitor of the De partment of Labor; Mrs. Edward Dixon | Hayes, wife of the former Representa- 1 five from Missouri* Mrs. W. W. McCm to and Miss Kate Weaver. Mrs Ernest Daniel's guests will be Baroness von Loewenfeldt. Mrs. Alice Nlbley Smoot, Mrs. Gertrude Douglas. Mrs. Nannie Green Jobe and the Misses Young. The event is attracting the attend ance of social and musical Washington. /'The Right of theTittle Man tq Live” will be the subject of the address which Gov. O. Max Gardner of North Caro ma will make at a dinner to be given in his honor tomorrow evening by the woman's National Democratic Club. Mrs. William Henry White will be the guest of honor at the weekly tea. which the club will give Saturday, when she will give a dramatic reading during the afternoon. Miss Elizabeth Pederson is again in Washington for some time, coming here from her home in Minneapolis. Minn., and has taken a suite at the Wardman Park Hotel. Miss Mary A. Lloyd of Glenn Dale. Md.. sailed today from New York with a party of fellow workers of the Navy Department for San Francisco, Calif. The party will take the Panama Canal route. Miss Lloyd plans to «pend a few days in San Francisco and to return home by rail, stopping off a day at San Antonio, Tex., and spending sev eral days in New Orleans, La. Mrs. Robert Parker of Marblehead. Mass, is spending a few days at the Dodge, and is accompanied by her daughter, Miss C. E. Parker. Miss Jesse W. Harris, Miss Letty You lose your heart to the twin prints (brown-and-yel low, navy-and-white or black-and-white) . . . you adore the surplice blouse with covered shoulders tying at one side and the jacket tying at the other! In fact it‘s a frock with an air! After Vionnet! A Misses’ Fashion, $29.50 BETTER DRESS SALON—SECOND FLOOR JQ)S0P1~I closing-out HARRIS Friday 50 spring dresses ^95 were $10 40 spring dresses ”J95 were 16.50 10 winter coats $|5 fur trimmed, were 59.75 Sales are final I hats at Harris' what's "dee-vine" ^flOW no age on the "deb" may be dignified on I the matron 1 • I things have I happened in our brighter., finer.. all-new millinery section JQOI b3||||>uni1 HARRIS * a sale price, 6.50 Mitchell and Miss Una V. Cram, all of Knoxville, Term., are spending some time In this city, staying at the Ward man Park Hotel. Church to Give Supper. HYATTSVILLE. Md., March 10 (Spe cial).—A roast beef supper will be given by the Rector's Aid of Pinkney Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church this eve ning in the parish hall from 5 to 7 o’clock. -• Cereals from reclaimed parts of Libya are making Italy less dependent on foreign supplies. 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The renditions are faithful to the originals and give to the room an atmosphere at once refined and restful, while they have the background of superior craftsmanship. A composite group, creating a most attractive suite, in maple, finished in the old antique color, furnishing an extremely handsome room. Poster bed with canopy and valance of figured chintz, with bedspread to match. The chest is a reproduction of block-front type, effectively carved, hanging mirror, highboy with broken pediment top, dressing table with chintz, drapery and maple triple mirror, night table, ladder-back chair for use at dressing table, side chair of the Carver design, with rush seat. This is the suite illustrated. The Sloane influence on production $ makes the price only. Early American Suite of eight pieces reflective of Colonial New England. Construction is cherry and maple, finished in the soft, old amber tone so delightfully artistic. 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