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Truman Silent on Plea
By Condon to Release
FBI Loyalty Letter
Dr. Edward U. Condon, head of
the National Bureau of Stand
ards, has asked President Tru
man to make public the FBI
letter concerning his loyalty.
Whether the atomic scientist's re
quest will serve to bring the letter
from Mr. Truman's files was not
indicated. A demand by the House
so far has failed to produce the let
ter and the White House had no
comment on Dr. Condon's request.
It was disclosed yesterday that Dr.
Condon’s request that the letter be
made public was forwarded to the
White House by Secretary of Com
merce Sawyer. The Bureau. of
Standards is part of the Commerce
Department.
Letter’s Interest Recalled.
The Interest in the letter is a
development of a charge by a House
Un-American Activities Subcommit
tee last March that Dr. Condon was
“one of the weakest links” in the
Nation’s atomic security. The sub
committee said also that the scien
tist associated “knowingly or un
knowingly” with persons believed to
be Soviet espionage agents.
Dr. Condon made a vigorous de
nial of the charges and has been
seeking to clear his name.
In ft letter written last Wednes
day and released yesterday by the
Commerce Department, Dr. Condon
said:
“Although I have never seen the
FBI letter I cannot believe it con
tains anything of a factual nature
which challenges either my loyalty
or my discretion, because nothing of
the sort exists. The baseless rumors
or gossip that such a letter might
contain cannot possibly be as de
famatory as the attacks by Con
gressman Thomas’ subcommittee.”
Thomas Heads Group.
Representative Thomas, Republi
can, of New Jersey, is chairman of
the Un-American Activities Com
mittee.
If the letter is made public, Dr.
Condon asked for opportunity to
make on analytic statement about
its contents at the same time. He
asked this, he said, “in view of the
experience I have already had with
Congressman Thomas’ partial quo
tations and quotations out of con
text.”
The letter was written by FBI
Director ‘J. Edgar Hoover to the
Commerce Department Loyalty
Board about a year ago. The letter
presumably summarizes the results
of an FBI investigation of Dr. Con
don's background.
The Commerce Department Loy
alty Board also made an investi
gation and reported last February
24 that there are “no reasonable
grounds” to doubt the scientists
loyalty.
Letter Is Quoted.
The Un-Apierican Activities bub
committee quoted the FBI letter as
saying Dr. Condon had been in
contact with “an individual alleged,
bv a self-confessed Soviet espionage
agent, to have engaged in espionage
activities with the Russians.”
Mr. Thomas acknowledged later
that Mr. Hoover also , said in the
letter there was no evidence that
Dr. Condon was disloyal.
“The issue which the House com
mittee is making about this letter
is largely fictitious,” Dr. Condon
said in his letter. “The committee
investigators must have had it in
their possession at one time in order
to get the partial and distorted
quotations from it which they used.”
The committee asked for the let
ter. Mr. Truman issued orders it
was not to be turned over on the;
ground it was part of the confiden
tial files of the executive depart-1
ment. The House, by a vote of 300
to 29. adopted a resolution demand
ing that the Commerce Secretary
turn over the letter and its files on
Dr. Condon.
Truman Stands Firm.
Mr. Trumsn's reply was, in effect, I
"let the House try and get them.”
Before Secretary of Commerce1
Harriman was succeeded as secre
tary by Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Truman
asked that the letter be sent to him.
Dr. Condon, in his letter, re
marked that the President's position
is "based on general policy consid
erations and not related to the
specific contents of that letter.”
The scientist wrote that the re
sulting situation is "somewhat ein
barassing to me, because Congress
man Thomas is using this to create
the impression that I am trying,to
conceal something.” He added that
"there is nothing about me or my
activities that I wish concealed.”
He said, however, he had become in
creasingly concerned at the reaction
of some of his friends to the with
holding of the letter.
Witnesses Questioned.
The Thomas committee has been
questioning witnesses privately in
preparation for a hearing on the
Condon case.
Dr. Condon wrote that in view of
the delay in- holding the hearing
"it is natural to conclude that Con
gressman Thomas recognizes his
inability to sustain the charges
against me.”
Speaker Martin said yesterday he
believes also the letter should be
WHILE RICHELIEU LOOKS ON—George Solon, auctioneer, with hand raised, center, was sell
ing a bronze life-sized statue of Cardinal Richelieu when this picture was taken during an
auction of the belongings of the late Mrs. Fvalyn Walsh McLean at Friendship yesterday. The
statue went for $200. _—Star Staff Photo. -
Scant 100, at $10 Each, Show
For First Bidding at Friendship
The possessions of Evalvn Walsh
McLean and her father-in-law.
John R. McLean, are now on sale
in a public auction lasting through
Saturday night.
First lots were knocked down
yesterday afternoon and last night
in two sessions, some outside in the
gardens of Friendship, Mrs. Mc
Lean's estate at Wisconsin avenue
and R street N.W., and some inside
in the ballroom.
Each person attending is re
quired to pay a $10 fee, which can
be applied to the price of any item
bought at the auction. If he does
not buy, the $10 will be added to
the approximately $4,200 collected
during last week's exhibit days (at
$1 a person) which will go to the
Community Chest. More than
5,000 persons trooped through
Friendship last week, but the total
, amount going to the Chest is
figured after the Government takes
its 17-eent tax out of each dollar.
: There is no tax on the $10 fee,
however.
First items of the 3.000 lots listed
jin the catalog ($2 per copy) were
the huge outdoor sculptured figures,
outdoor furniture and miscellane
ous pieces of sculpture, some
j amounting to fragments.
Fewer Than 100 Present.
The sale began slowly, with fewer
than 100 persons on hand. Many of
the outdoor pieces were purchased
by Elam L. Tanner of Richmond,
Va.. who either has a vast estate
or is in the business of selling out
t door figures to ,the owners ot Vir
ginia estates.
!' Tile heroic, greater than life size
figures of famous painters brought
from $100 to $200. An Italian sculp
tured marble well head, with a fit
of spirited bidding, went for $600.
Other items went for much less—a
Chinese bronze dog for $15.
The fountain on the terrace just
outside the back doors of the main
hall went for $260 and everybody
seemed to consider it about the best
buy‘of the afternoon. Mr. Tanner
bought one marble figure of a full
'sized Grecian girl, sight unseen, for
$150.
When the sale moved inside and
turned to less expensive furniture,
dishes, glassware and bric-a-brac,
many of the amateurs entered suc
cessful bids for a dozen plates or
an odd lot of dishes. By this time
the crowd was up to about 150,
three-fourths of it women.
72 Glasses for $15.
Seventy-two crystal wine glasses
went for $15 while 17 Limoges porce
lan gold encrusted place plates
brought $37. A miscellaneous lot
of porcelain crab plates sold for
$16.
About 100 persons were on hand
for last night’s session, at which
more titan 200 lots of linen sheets
and table cloths, towels and blankets
were listed for sale.
The more valuable items in the
vast collection of paintings, porce
lains, enamels, chna, glassware,
silver, furniture, rugs, tapestries,
linens, laces, jewelry and so forth
will be sold beginning tomorrow,
at 1 p.m. with 8 p.m. sessions also
scheduled for Friday and Saturday
The collection is appraised at
$145,000 and is being sold on orders
of Mrs. McLean’s executors, Thur
man Arnold and the American Se
-
made public “not only for Dr. Con
don's sake but for the country’s
\sake.” He said keeping the letter
! secret had caused doubt to arise.
“I think if 1 were Dr. Condon,”
he said, “I'd want it made public,
too. If there was1 anything too
tough on him in it probably it al
ready would have leaked out.”
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Gambling
(Continued Prom First Page.'_
slain in a gangland dispute, and
a number of his lieutenants.
A multi-million-dollar numbers
game operation proved to be the
foundation of Schult’s violent
underworld reign.
Mr. Pay has indicated the scope
of the special grand jury inquiry
will cross the District line. Police
officials have stated from time to
time their efforts to curb gambling
here have been hampered by the'
fact the “big shots” maintained;
headquarters in Maryland and Vir
ginia.
Meanwhile, routine police activity
against gambling continued here.
Three persons were held for grand
Jury action by United States Com
missioner Needham C. Turnage yes
terday. Bond was set at $1,500 each
on lottery charges.
AH Plead Not Guilty.
The three, all of whom pleaded
not guilty, are John I. Robinson and
his wife. Annie, both 39, of the 600
block of Q street N.W., and Andrew
P. Gordon, 29, of the 4600 block of
Hayes street N.E.
Four others, arrested with Gordon
in a raid on his home, were freed
because of insufficient evidence.
They were Evelyn Gordon, 28, and
Robert Gordon, 47, both of the Hayes
street address; Herman Threats, 37,
of the 800 block of Fifty-second
street N.E. and Robert E. Young. 37,
of the 3800 block of Sheriff road N-E.
All are colored.
Andrew Burr, 22, colored, a mess
attendant at Walter Reed Hospital,
was granted a continuance of his
case to May 24 by Judge Ellen K.
Raedy in Municipal Court, where he
was ' arraigned on lottery charges.
Bond was fixed at $1,500. He lives
in the 400 block of Elm street NAV.
Police said he was arrested Friday |
in a mess hall at the hospital.
Garfield X-Ray Chief Hurt
By Car on Columbia Road
Dr. Aubrey Hampton, 47, chief of
the x-ray section of Garfield Hospi
tal, suffered head injuries last night
when he was struck by an automo
bile which police said was being
driven by Thoralf Svendsen, 38,
commercial counselor of the Nor
wegian Embassy.
Dr. Hampton, whose home Is at
1320 Harvard street N.W., was taken
to Garfield Hospital in a Health De
partment ambulance. His condition
was described fs fair.
According to police, Mr. Svendsen
was driving east on Columbia road
N.W. W'hen Dr. Hampton stepped
from a loading platform in the 1600
block. No charges were-prelerred
against Mr. Svendsen.
National Symphony
Signs 14 Soloists for
Winter Concerts
Fourteen soloists have been signed
for next winter’s National Sym
phony Orchestra concert season, or
chestra officials announced last
night.
While the symphony’s $165,000
fund drive has not yet finished, the
season has been arranged on the
expectation the full amount will
be raised by fall. Several benefits
are planned to bring in the amount
still lacking, which is about $18,000,
officials said.
Season ticket applications will be
mailed to regular subscribers to
morrow. Twenty-two concerts are
planned, with the opening set for
October 14.
Among the soloists lis'Od are Fritz
Kreisler, Erica Morini and Isaac
Stern, violinists; Arthur Rubinstein,
Rudolf Firkusny, Earl Wild. Eugene
Istomin and Marjorie Mitchell,
pianists; Blanche Thebom, mezzo
soprano; Helen Traubel, soprano;
Salvatore Baccaloni, basso, and Syl
via Meyer, harpist.
Two large choral works will fea
ture other soloists. Nell Tangeman
and Harold Haugh will sing . in j
Mahler's Das tied von der Erde, and
Etelka Freund, pianist, will be heard
with the Washington Choral Society ,
in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.
Several guest conductors will soon
be engaged to lead the orchestra j
while Dr. Hans Kindler, the perma- :
nent conductor, is on ‘rips in Europe '
during January and Match.
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Funeral Rites Tuesday
For Frank J. Mersch
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Requiem mass will be said at 9:30
am. Tuesday at the Church of the
Nativity for Frank J. Mersch, 75,
who died yesterday at Emergency
Hospital. Burial will be in St.
Mary s Cemetery.
Mr. Mersch suffered a stroke yes->
terday morning at Georgia avenue
and Kennedy street N.W., while pn
his way to deliver Mother's Day!
caids to friends. He and Mrs.
Mersch, who survives him, had sold
greeting cards to friends and church
associates on special occasions since
his retirement trom business 10:
years ago.
A native of Cincinnati, Mr
Mersch was the son of Henry and
Catherine Mersch. He. attended
schools in Ohio and later went into
the grocery business with his wife,
the former Mary C. Wahl, in Frank
fort, Ind.
Mr. Mersch was at one time
freight superintendent of the old
Clover Leaf Railroad in Indiana.
He and Mrs. Mersch came to
Washington in 1927 and together
managed a grocery store at Thir
teenth street and Park road N.W.
for about 10 years. Their home is at
611 Kennedy street N.W.
Mr. Mersch was a member of the
Holy Name Society and the Manresa
Retreat Group of the Church of the
Nativity.
A son, Victor S. Mersch, is clerk of
the Tax Court of the United States
here and is a former District Regis
ter of Wills. Two other sons. Alfred
W. and Clarence F. Mersch, also
survive.
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Plan to Disobey Draft
Gets Mixed Reception
AtSegregafionSession
■y »h# Atiociattd Pr«l ^
A Philip Randolph, sponsor of the
civil disobedience plan under which
Negroes would refuse to be drafted
into the armed services, said last
night his program is gaining na
tional momentum.
Mr. Randolph, president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car (Por
ters, came from New York to testify
before a commisssion of inquiry into
segregation in the armed forces.
He was cheered by a packed as
sembly hall at the Twelfth street
branch of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association as he advocated
his program, which he said would
“do the couritry a favor” by ending
what he called undemocratic and
unjust racialism.
But twice he evaded direct ques
tions on whether he would urge
Negroes to ignore the draft in time
of war. Finally he said:
"We’ll cross that bridge when we
come to it.” /
He warned that civil disobedience
would be difficult.
"You must be willing to live dan
gerously,” he said. But he added
there must be “no violence, no hate,
no -revenge.”
Howard Professor Objects.
The meeting was adjourned when
Prof. Frank Coleman, who teaches
physics at Howard University, said
from the floor that the plan was
unsound and not poplar with many
Negroes.
He was told he could appear to
day as a witness.
Prof. Coleman said he represented
two American Legion post# com
posed of about -2,500 Negro ex-sol
diers, He said they endorsed, with
just one dissenting vote, a resolu
tion that opposed civil disobedience.
Several witnesses have been ques
tioned, in the Unofficial inquiry and
more are scheduled to appear at
the final session this morning.
Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney
and veteran civil liberties cam
paigner, is a member of the inquiry
board.' He injected a political note
into the questioning when he asked
Mr. Randolph if his group had been
“able to smoke Gov. Dewey out” as
to his stand on racial discrimination.
Mr. Randolph said no. '
Improvements Described.
James C. Evans, a Negro who is
advisor to Secretary of Defense For
restal on Negro problems, testified
at length on what is being done to
better conditions in the services.
Mr. Evans said the Navy has made
marked improvement, although he
added that at one time it was the
worst branch of service for Negroes.
Mr. Randolph first read a pre
pared text, in which he recom
mended a "bold and immediate pro
gram of action” to get what he
called "universal justice.”
During questioning later, he was
more emphatic. He said the civil
disobedience program was the only
program that would advance the
Negro cause. He said that America
is “fluid” and now is the time to
strike. If Negroes wait, it may be
too late, he said. • '
Asked Stand on Communism.
He said he has received hundreds
of letters from over, the country.
He read one which said, his .civil
disobedience program would do more
’for Negroes than Lihcoln’s emanci
pation proclamation.
Mr. Randolph said he didn’t op
pose Negroes fighting for the
country, but he did oppose their
fighting as “slaves.”
Mr. Hays asked Kim 'flatly
whether he thought American de
mocracy was better than commu
nism.
Mr. Randolph said he favored a
“vital, virile and dynamic democ
racy.” He said he was not in favor,
however, of the war hysteria which
he said is being whipped ud against
Russia through propaganda.
"You can’t stop Communism by
the atomic bomb,” he said "But
you can by making democracy
work.”
The remark brought loud ap
plause.
Draft Policy Discussed.
Selective service in war time told
the armed services that they had no
; legal right to designate persons to
; be drafted on a racial basis but the
advice had no effect. Col. Campbell
C. Johnson, assistant to Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, the director, told
i the panel.
“It is a matter of record that the
Selective service informed the serv
ices as early as 1941 that they had
no right to designate on a color
basis under the Selective Service
Father Baumeister
Takes Carmelite Post
The Very Rev. Cyril Baumeister,
O. C. D„ has been installed as su
perior of the Carmelite Monastery,
2131 Lincoln road N.E. He was
elected to the post during a meeting
at Holy Hill, Wis., of representa
tives of Carmelite monasteries in
this country and the Philippine
Islands.
The Very Rev. Angel us M. Kopp,
O. C. D., professor of spiritual the
ology at the Carmelite House of
Studies here, was elected superior
of the Carmelite monastery at
Milwaukee. «
Greeks Find 40 Babies
Strangled by Rebels
•y the Associated Pf«l
ATHENS, May War Minister
George Stratos said tonight the
Greek Army ha$ found the bodies
of 40 babies strangled by guerrillas
during a retreat across Ghiona
mountain early this week.
Stratos told reporters that ‘‘prison
ers said the babies of guerrilla
hostages and women guerrillas were
killed to prevent their cries from
betraying the location of the guer
rilla band to pursuing army ttoops.’*
He said the bodies of babies rang
ing from 3 months to 3 years were
found scattered over the ground
near Villate Stromnl. They were
found by army troops mopping up in
(he Roumeli area where 2,000 guer
rillas have been killed or captured
in the last three weeks.
•fhe government announced a
.special commission of medical doc
tors will be dispatched to Stromnl
immediately to investigate what
Mr. Stratos called “a frightful and'
hideous act.”
Athens newspapers reported cap
tured bandits as saying many of
the babies were children of womelh
guerrillas who consented to the
slaying of tl^£ babies in an effort
to avoid capture.
Mrs. Harry E. Van Deusen
To Be Buried in Virginia
Funeral services for Mrs. M. Ger
trude Van Deusen, 67, of 1428 North
Fillmore street, Arlington, were to
be held at 3 p.m. today at the Ives
funeral home, 2847 Wilson boule
vard, Arlington. Burial will be in
Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Herndon.
Va.
Mrs. Van Deusen, who had lived
in Arlington with her husband.
Harry E. Van Deusen. for more than
40 years, was active in Sunday
school work in the Clarendon Meth
I odist Church. She was a member of
.the Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
A native of Brandy, Va., near
Orange, Mrs. Van Deusen attended
schools in Fairfax County and
Herndon. She was married to Mr.
Van Deusen in 1902. He is a retired
employe of the United States Public
Health Service.
A son, W..E. Van Deusen, is an
Arlington attorney.
In addition to her husband and
son, Mrs. Van Deusen leaves three
brothers, Zenus F. and Luther H.
McMillen of “Washington, and Ar
i thur C. McMillen, Arlington; two
i sisters, Mrs, George O. Sunday of
Washington, and Mrs. R, S. Crippen,
Arlington, and two grandchildren,
| Peggy and 3 Billy > Van Deusen,
j Arlington. • j
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Act,” he said. “But we were a pro
curement agency and, in a period, of
emergency when there was such a j
rush to build up the , armed fonptes,
it would have been useless to carry
I the point further.
“Frankly, the policy of calling for
delivery of men on a color basis put
many white men in uniform long
before their normal term,” he added.
Pointing out that the policy was
based on the matter of separate ac
commodations available, Col. John
son said he believed that “as long
as we have segregation we will have
discrimination.”
Thurman L. Dodson, president of
the National Bar Association, is
chairman of the oommission and
Mr. Hays acted as counsel. Other
members present were Kermit Eby,
CIO educational director; Dr. Ken
neth B. Clark, City College of New
York; David Lord, Americans for
Democratic Action; Harold Gibbons,
St. Louis regional director, United
Distribution Workers (CIO); Hiram;
Elfenbein, New York attorney; Mrs.
Elsie Elfenbein, executive director,;
National Council for Jewish Women,1
and Andrew L. Newman, American
Veterans' Committee.
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Baby Injure^ as Car
Skids Across Lawn
A six-week-old baby was hurt:
yesterday and her older sister es
caped injury when a two-car col
lision propelled one ol the cars
across three lawns.
The baby, Anastasia Hangeman
ole, daughter of E. V. Hangemanole,
of 1343 Underwood street N.W., was
knocked from a baby carriage on
the lawn in front of the home of
Mrs. Helen Colevas, *509 Thirteenth
street N.W. and suffered bruises.
She was treated by jr private physi
cian at home.
Her five-year-old sister, Helen,
was pulled from the path of the
car by Jane Pplevas, 23, who also
tried to pull the carriage out of,
the way of the car but was unable
to get to it . iif time.
The automobile, according to po
lice, was driven by Frank R. Cole,;
i 29. of 918 Van Buren street N.W.
He was charged with driving at
unreasonable speed.
Police said Cole’s car collided at
Thirteenth and Kennedy streets
i N.W with a car driven by R. E. |
Brigham. 24, of 3108 Thirty-ninth I
street N.W. The impact of the j
collision apparently shoved Cole's
car across the sidewalk.
Rifes for C. H: Hardesty
Wtll Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for Charles Henry
Hardesty, ,77, who dirtl of a heart
ailment yesterday at Sibley Hospital,
will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow
kt the Warner E. Pumphrey Funeral
Home, 8434 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, Burial will be in the Coles
ville Methodist Church Cqpetery.
Mr. Hardesty was a native of Four
Corner, Md. He had worked as a
carpenter in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties for many years
before his retirement about 1930.
His wife, Mrs. Annie Virginia
Hardesty, died in 1944. They had
been married 50 years.
Mr, Hardesty leaves five daughters,
Mrs. Harold Putnam and Mrs. Annie
Thompson, Hyattayille; Mrs.f Wil
liam Hobbs, Colesville; Mrs. Dorothy
Shaver, Silver Spring, and Mrs.
Louise Johnson, Takoma Park, and
a son, Henry Hardesty, Hyattsville.
Services Set Tuesday
For Bartholomew Shea
Funeral services for Bartholomew
Shea, 80, retired plumber who died
Friday will be held at 8 ajn. Tues
day at the Hanlon funeral home,
3831 Georgia avenue N.W.
Requiem mass will be said at St.
Aloysius Catholic Church at 9 a.m.,
and burial will be in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Mr. Shea, who lived at 705 Sixth
street N.W., died of injuries suf
fered when struck by a streetcar
here more than two months ago.
According to police, Mr. Shea was
struck by a streetcar operated by
Roy L. Mayo, 58, of 1834 Fourth
street N.E., while crosing G street
February 26.
Mr. Shea is survived by a sister,
Miss Katherine Shea of 2312 Chev
erly avenue, Cheverly, Md.: a
daughter. Mrs. R. J. Kessell of Lan
sing, Mich., and a granddaughter.
Children's Library Post
Goes to- Miss LaBounty
•- Miss Maxine LaBounty has been
named to succeed Miss Louise Pay
son Latimer as director of work
with children, the Public Library
has announced. Miss Latimer re
tired May 1.
Miss LaBounty began work with
the library as assistant children's
librarian. She was later appointed
supervisor of the schools division.
Miss Elsie S. McDonald was named
I to succeed her as, supervisor.
Camp Directory Available
The summer camp directory of
j the Council of Social Agencies' Rec
reation Division is ready for dis
j tribution. The phamphlet lists day
iand overnight camps in the Wash
ington area.
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*» Similar in style and eon*
. struction to benches used
in loral parks. The Wash
ington bench is built of
selected cedar, reinforced,
bolted and braced ai vital
points. Weather, resistant,
these benches will
give rou years of
service. Immediate
delivery on one or
a Quantity.
LUMBER—MILLWORK
ELLY.
2121 GEORGIA AVE.
All Building Materials
Sold in Small Quantities
NO. 1341
.NEXT TO BALL PARK.
SALE!
Just 69 Reg. $10 Size
4*7 Ft. Reversible
MOURZOUKS
OMLC
Vz PRICE
ALL METAL
VENETIAN
'BLINDS
Complete! Ready to Hangl
? 13" to 28"
Wide S
64" Long 9
Reg. $7.50
$jg.69
*
Here are just the rugs you've been
looking for. and at a price you can
afford! They're heavy quality, can
be had In a good selection of beauti
fully stenciled designs and colors.
They have no '‘wrong side ’ and are
completely reversible. Be here early for
best selection. Suitable for most any
room, also porches.
OTHER SIZES AT
PRACTICALLY Va PRICE!
4—Site 6x9-ft._SI-95
12—Site lx 10-ft.S 13.95
4—Site ixl2-ft.SI 1.95
20—Site 9xl2-ft. .....Ml.95
I—Si*e 9xl5-\t._Slh-95
WAITE'S FIBRE
SUMMER RU£S
Waite’t ‘(Waifair)
2L”i Ft.___„ *;! *2
27x51 Inn. - *3—5
Wait a’O' ( Broadway)
SiTi Ft. --— $5r52
IS*
:«:SS
29" t* 36"
Wide I
64" Ui* 1
Reg. $8
$0.99
Here It What You Get!
• All-Metal • Bonderixed
Top N Enamel (
• All-Metal • Matching
Bottom Rail Tapes
• pBtM*ed ™* « Pocked
9*0r. , Singly
Cord • A"
Additional Charge lor Delirory
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