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Judge Raedy Resumes
Jury Branch Duties;
Silent on King Letter
Judge Ellen K. Raedy today re
sumed her duties in jury branch of
Municipal Court criminal division,
where she leveled a charge of favor
itism against the Corporation
Counsel’s Office last week.
Only one case prosecuted by that
office today was on the judge’s
docket. In it Mrs. Rosie Lee Arsen
ault, 45. of 4600 Chevy Chase boule- j
vard. Chevy Chase, Md„ pleaded
guilty to three counts of rent con
trol law violations.
Judge Raedy's decision to turn
the case over to probation officers
for pre-sentence investigation was
not opposed by Clark P. King, chief
assistant corporation counsel in
Municipal Court.
The entire transaction was brief.
Mrs. Arsenault merely withdrew her
earlier request lor jury trial and
announced she would plead guilty
to charges that she charged tenants
overcelling •■ent tailed to provide
minimum utilities required by la.v
and failed to post rent ceiling no
tices in an aoa-t.nent she owns here.
Assault Case Heard.
The remainder of Judge Raedy’s
docket for today was comprised of
cases prosecuted by the United
States Attorney's office. A simple
assault case was before the jury
during most of the 2'2-hour morn
ing session.
Judge Raedy has been assigned
to criminal jury branch for the last
three months. Since the summer
vacation season began two months
ago that branch has been in session
only two days each week. The rest
of the judge's court days have been
spent handling civil suits.
The judge today continued to re
main silent regarding the favoritism
charge she made last Thursday
during a bench conference with
Assistant Corporation Counsel Philip
Brophy. At that time she declared
his office dropped drunken driving
charges against its friends but not
for others.
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West said today he still has re
ceived no reply from Judge Raedy
in answer to his demand last Friday
that she furnish proof of her "seri
ous accusation.”
Two Drunken Driving Case*.
In two drunken driving cases be
fore Judge Nadine L. Gallagher in
Traffic Court yesterday John Persh
ing Carr, 29, lawyer, of 6727 Fairfax
road, Bethesda, pleaded guilty to
being under the influence of In
toxicants and to a charge that he
was driving without a permit.
Mr. Brophy dropped a speeding
charge that had originally been
placed against Mr. Carr. The prose
cutor explained to Judge Gallagher
that he took this action because he
felt the speeding charge was actu
ally a part of the drunken driving
charge.
Judge Gallagher did not question
or oppose Mr. Brophy's move, and
postponed sentencing Mr. Carr until
next month, pending probation office
Investigation.
The second defendant, Harry Dor
sheimer, 41, a painter living at 424
Warner street N.W., pleaded not
guilty and requested a Jury trial,
which was set for October 6 before
Judge Raedy.
No drunken driving cases were
filed in court today.
Koral Charges Based
On Unrevealed Source
Testimony given at a House Un
American Activities Committee
hearing yesterday by Louis J. Rus
sell, committee Investigator, that
Alexander Koral was a courier for
Communist spy agents between New
York and Washington, was based
on information from undisclosed
sources and not from Koral, the
committee record showed today.
Koral, a New York City education
department engineer, refused to an
swer committee questions as to
whether he ever was a Communist.
He also refused to say whether he
met agents here and in New York
and carried packages, presumably
containing secret Government data,
bewteen the two cities.
It was erroneously reported in
The Star yesterday tnat Mr. Russell
testified that Koral had tout a sub
committee he made several trips be
tween Washington and New York as
a courier carrying material received
from Government employes in con
nection with a Communist espion
age ring, and that iVlt. Russell read
from the stand what he said was a
statement given by Koial to the
subcommittee in closed session Fri
day night.
Earlier yesterday Representative
Hebert, Democrat, of Louisiana, a
member of the committee, said he
knew "from good authority," that
Koral signed a "confesdon” that he
had taken part in an espionage ring.
Koral refused to affirm or deny Mr.
Hebert's statement.
Jops Offer Bulbs, Tinware
Lily bulbs, tinware and handker
chiefs are being offered to American
buyers by a Japanese firm, through
the Kagoshima Chamber of Com
merce.
Text of Duncan Lee Statement
This is the text of the denial
by Duncan C. Lee. Washington
attorney, before the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activi
ties. that he supplied information
to a Russian spy ring
Miss Elizabeth Bentley in her re
cent testimony before the House
Un-American Affairs committee has
accused me of being a Communist
and of supplying her with secret,
information concerning the OSS.
I want to say categorically that
I am not and have never been a
Communist and that X have never
divulged classified information to
any unauthorized person. I had
been an assistant in the legal offices
of Gen. Donovan before the war; I
had come to the OSS with him as
his assistant, and I was therefore
particularly aware of a requirement,
of personal loyalty to him in such
matters along with my loyalty to
the service of the United Stales.
During the war. my wife and I
met Miss Bentley socially at the
home of a friend. We met a great
many people at this time. There
after we saw Miss Bentley off and
on for a little over a year. Our
acquaintance was entirely a social
one.
I made it a rule during my serv
ice with OSS never to discuss any
thing that had not previously ap
peared in a newspaper and then
1
only to the extent made public. I
certainly kept strictly to this rule
in any talks I ever had with Miss
Bentley.
I was in the Army and in the
OSS for nearly four years and dur
that time worked day and night,
both in Washington and overseas,
to further our war effort. I am
sure that Gen. Donovan and the
other officers under whom I served
will confirm the fact that my war
record is one of which I can feel
justly proud.
While in the Army I rose from
the rank of first lieutenant to lieu
tenant colonel. I have received
several official commendations. I
know that I have served my country
with complete loyalty and to the
best of my ability and it is a pro
found shock to find my name and
war record attacked by the irre
sponsible charges of this woman.
It is hard for me to believe that
Miss Bentley s statements are those
of a rational person. In trying to
recall my acquaintance with Miss
Bentley I have been puzzled that I
do not remember that she ever
tried to get any information from
me. In view of that fact I am
tempted to believe that Miss Bentley
used her social relationship with
me merely to help her misrepresent
to her employers for her own per
sonal buildup that she had access
through me to some one of the im
portance of Gen. Donovan.'*
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Duncan Lee Denies Being Red or Revealing Secrets
'Continued From First Page.i
He told tne committee he had known
Miss Bentley only as “Helen Grant."
Nervous During Testimony.
Although he seemed nervous. Mr.
Lee answered all questions willingly
and without hesitation.
The young lawyer said he was
born in Nanking, China, received
his B. A. degree from Yale Uni
versity, was a Rhodes scholar at
Oxford for three years and took
graduate work at Yale Law School.
He said he had been an assistant
j in Gen. Donovan’s legal office before
the war and came to 08S with him
as his assistant. He was commis
sioned a first lieutenant in August,
1942, a month after joining the OSS
stall, and was discharged nearly
four years later as a lieutenant
colonel. Mr. Lee was shot down on
an OSS mission to China. He now
practices law in the Investment
Building.
In answer to questions, Mr. Lee
said he first met Mias Bentley under!
the name of Helen Grant at the
home of Mary Watkins Price In
October, 1943 Miss Price, now a
leader of tl« Wallace Party in North
Carolina, has been previously named
by Miss Bentley as a party member
who went through the files of Col
umnist Walter Llppmann for infor
mation while serving as his secre
tary. At the time of the meeting
with Miss Bentley, Mr. Lee said
Miss Price was living at 2038 I
street N.W.
Described as Good friend.
Mr. Lee described Miss Price as
"a good friend of my wife and
mvself.”
Series of Photographs Shown.
While questioning Mr. Lee, Chief
Committee Investigator Robert E.
Stripling showed Mr. Lee a series of
photographs which it developed were
pictures of places where Mr. Lee had
lived in Washington or had met
Miss Bentley at various times.
Mr. Lee admitted having enter
tained Miss Bentley about 15 times
at the two places where the Lees
lived here. He said he had also
met her at the Georgetown Phar
macy, Wisconsin avenue and O
street N.W.; the Triangle Luncheon
ette at Wisconsin avenue and
Thirty-fourth street N.W., and at
Martin's Restaurant at Wisconsin
avenue and M street N.W.
It was when Mr. Stripling asked
Mr. Lee why he met Miss Bentley
in a drugstore that Mr. Lee de
scribed at length the background of
his relationship with Miss Bentley.
Attracted by Miss Bentley.
He said when he and Mrs. Lee
first met Miss Bentley they both
found her "attractive, well informed
j and well educated and she seemed to
, find us attractive.”
For 10 months of the 15 months'
Mrs. Gilda Burke of Alexandria, War Assets Administration
employe, who formerly was secretary to Nathan Gregory Silver
master, shown as she identified a telephone indicator contain
ing names and numbers called by Mr. Sllvermaster. Earlier
witnesses had linked some of those names to alleged espionage
rings here. —Star Staff Photos.
he knew her, he said, he and his
wife continued to enjoy her com
pany. Ultimately, however, he said,
he and Mrs. Lee came to the conclu
sion that Miss Bentley was a ''lonely,
neurotic and frustrated woman”
whose liking for the Lees was "un
naturally intense.”
There was nothing in their rela
tionship, he said, that appeared to
justify the intense way Miss Bentley
seemed to follow up their acquaint
ance.
Mr. Lee added that when the Lees
first met Miss Bentley "she posed as
a moderate liberal,” but when her
views became increasingly left wing
“I felt it was a relationship which
might prove embarrassing to my
position.”
Sought to End Friendship.
Finally, in October, 1944, Mr. Lee
continued, he said that he told
Miss Bentley that the acquaintance
-. ■■ — ■ 1 1 " " '
portant information which she
earlier said she had gotten from the
OSS.
Differ on Meeting Dates.
Mr. Lee and Miss Bentley gave
different dates for their first meet
ing and for the occasion or occa
sions on which Mr. Lee met the
late Golas.
Miss Bentley said Mr. Lee could
not have met Golas in New York,
as he said, because by that time
Golas was dead.
Miss Bentley, in telling the com
mittee what she had learned from
Mr. Lee, told of an official meeting
at which the exchange of 12 OSS
agents with 12 NKVD (Russian se
cret police* agents was discussed.
The committee stopped her at the
point where she said Admiral Leahy
opposed the exchange.
When Mr. Lee resumed the stand
to refute her testimony, he told
the committee that the exchange
of agents has been described in de
tail in a book describing some OSS
activities.
Says She Learned of Deal.
Miss Bentley said she had also
learned from Mr. Lee of a deal
made by the Navy with the Chi
nese secret police under which the
Navy was to supply arms to the
Chinese in exchange for informa
tion. Miss Bentley said Mr. Lee
told her that the Chinese had not
kept the agreement and that was
why Mr. Lee was sent to China.
When Miss Bentley asserted that
Miss Price was the first to tell her
that Mr. Lee was a Communist,
Representative Hebert suggested
that Miss Price be called as a wit
ness. Chairman Thomas said she
would be subpoenaed.
Miss Bentley declared that Mr.
Lee early in their acquaintance
probably did not know she was a
Soviet agent but "he knew all along
I was a Communist.” She said she
did not understand “how I could
not have impressed him as a Com
munist agent.”
Questions Testimony.
Summarizing Miss Bentley's refu
tation of Mr. Lees testimony, Mr.
Hebert said to Miss Bentley:
"So it gets down to whether you
or Mr. Lee is lying today.”
"You can draw your own conclu
sions,” the witness replied.
Later when Mr. Lee returned to
the stand and commented on Miss
Bentley's "vivid imagination," Mr.
Hebert asked him:
REFUSES TO TESTIFY—Alexander Koral, New York City edu
cation department engineer, described earlier as a secret wit
ness, is shown at a hearing before the House Committee on Un
American Activities as he refused to answer questions of Chief
Investigator Robert E. Stripling, standing, at yesterday's session.
had better be ended on the ground
that her expressed views were toe
extreme.
"When I told her this." he said
"her reaction was quite violent. She
cried and protested that we meant
a great deal to her, that she was
Intensely fond of us and that we
had to go on seeing her."
In order to get her out of the
house, he said, he and his wife
agreed to her suggestion to meet her
occasionally at public places.
Mr. Lee finally got around to an
swering the original question—why
he met Miss Bentley in a drug store
—by saying that she called and
asked to see him and his wife, but
his wife had to stay home because
they could not get a baby sitter.
Tells Opposite Story.
Recalled to the stand, Miss Bent
ley told a different opposed story.
She attributed to Mr. Lee the im
"Then one of you has been lying
today."
! "That's right, ;hat's light," the
attorney said.
j "And you’re not?" Mr. Hebert
queried.
"I am not lying,’ Mr. Lee de
clared.
Didn't Tell OSS About Her.
Under questioning of Representa
tive Mundt, Repuolican, of South
Dakota, Mr. Lee satd he never told
OSS authorities about Miss Bent
ley, although he was disturbed per
sonally by her extreme left-wing;
views. He said he considered her
a personal problem.
“If what you say is true," Mr.
Mundt told Mr. Lee, “I am bitterly
disappointed about the way the OSS
operated under Gen. Donovan.” i
Mr. Mundt made his comment [
soon after Mr. Lee returned to the
stand and denied Miss Bentley's
testimony “in every respect to which
it was contrary to mine.”
"You are prepared under oath to I
say that all these charges directed
against you are not true?” Mr. He- '
bert asked Mr. Lee.
“I am prepared to say that," re
plied Mr. Lee.
Sees "Personal Spite.
! He theorized that "personal spite"'
might have motivated Miss Bent
ley's revelations.
In his description of his meeting
with Golas. at the 823 Restaurant
on Fifteenth strett, Mr. Lee de
scribed Golas as "a very colorless
character who was obviously very
ill.” When the committee asked
him on his return to the stand what
he bad dlscpswed with Golas, he said
he didnt remember, but acknowl
edged under questioning that they
might have "touched on" discussion
of a second front, since that was
being discussed everywhere in the
fall of 1943.
Mr. Thomas, in his questioning of
Mr. Lee, brought out that Mr. Lee
was counsel for Russian War Relief
and the American Committee for
Chinese Relief while he was practic
ing law in Gen. Donovan's New
York firm in 1940 and 1941.
Asked About Red Contacts.
Asked by Representative Hebert
if he came into contact with any
Communists while he was retained
by Russian War Relief, Mr. Lee
replied: j
i aon t Know Most ot the peo
ple I met were Wall Street bankers
and lawyers.”
The committee repeatedly ques
tioned Mr. Lee about his meetings
with Miss Bently and Golas. Mr.
Lee said that sometime after he met
Golas in Washington—he didn't re
member just how long—he called
Miss Bentley while he was in New
York and joined Miss Bentley and
Golas in a restaurant.
In view of Miss Bentley's testi
mony that Golas died within a
month after the Washington meet
ing with Mr. Lee, the committee
kept prodding him for exact dates.
Finally it was decided that the com
mittee would ask the Wat Depart
ment for the voucher covering a trip
to New York at about this time. Mr.
Lee said he was sure that at the
time of the New York meeting he
was in that city on official businecs.
Says She Succeded Miss Price.
Miss Bentley testified that she
succeeded Miss Price in receiving
information from Mr. Lee. But Mr.
Lee said he had never furnished
information to Miss Price and did
not know whether she was a mem
ber of the Communist Party, al
though her views were liberal.
Mr. Mundt asked the witness if
he did not think that the relation
ship he described as having had
with Miss Bentley was not a very
unusual one.
"Very unusual,” agreed the wit
ness. "I hope I never have another
friendship like it.”
Doering Telegram Cited.
Mr. Lee completed his appeance
by asking to put ihto the record j
a telegram from O. C. Doering, who
is associated with Gen. Donovan's
law firm here and was executive
officer of the OSS.
“I want to say now.” Mr. Doering
telegraphed, "that I know his
(Lee's) work during the war and I
completely belive in his loyalty to
OSS and the country. I have ab
solute faith in his innocence of the
charges made against him by
Elizabeth Bentley.”
Mr. Doering is now on vacation in
Wisconsin. He notified the commit
tee that he would be glad to testify
in Mr. Lee's behalf.
The committee planned to open
its afternoon hearings with Robert
T. Miller as the first witness.
Mr. Miller was former head of
research in the Office of the Co
ordinator of Inter-American Affairs
and later assistant chief of the
State Department's Research and
Publications Division in charge of
publications. Miss Bentley has pre
viously testified that Mr. Miller was
a dues-paying Communist and one
of her Government informants.
He. as well as Mr. Lee. has been
listed by Miss Bentley as an in-j
formant.
As committee members prepared
for today's session. Chairman
ft s
Thomas told reporters that “new
angles” have appeared which will
make It impossible to complete the
hearings this week.
The "new angles,” resulting from
an executive session after yester-i
day’s open hearing, may make it
necessary to change the order in
which scheduled witnesses are
called, Mr. Thomas said.
He thought it likely that Lauchlin
Currie, former administrative as
sistant to the late President Roose
velt, will not be called until Thurs
day. Mr. Currie, who has asked for
a chance to deny charges of reveal
ing war secrets, was previously
scheduled to head tomorrow’s wit
ness list.
Mr. Thomas was more conserva
tive in discussing the "new angles”
than his colleagues last week, when
they described a "mystery witness”
as one who had the Information
to “break” the espionage investi
gation.
The mystery man turned out to
be Alexander Koral,, an assistant
engineer in the Bureau of Con
struction of New York City’s Board
of Education.
He testified after Victor Perlo,
a former War Production Board
economist, a morning witness, re
fused to answer questions on the
grounds that the questions might
incriminate him. Perlo is one of
those accused of being in the spy
ring here.
On the witness stand yesterday,
Koral proved so uncommunicative
that he wouldn't even tell the com
mittee if he had ever visited Wash
ington.
Once Koral had testified he was
51 years old, born in London and
a resident of Brooklyn, he proceeded
to stand on his constitutional rights
not to answer questions on the
ground they might incriminate him.
He refused to say whether he had
; ever been a Communist, whether
he knew Miss Bentley and whether
he ever served as a courier between
spy agents.
Asked About Statement.
When Mr. Hebert asked Koral
whether he had “signed a state
ment confessing membership in an
espionage ring related to the Soviet
government,” Koral stood on his
constitutional rights not to answer.
“If I told you that I know you
signed a confession, what would you
say about that?” Mr. Hebert per
sisted.
The witness replied that he
wouldn’t say anything about it.
“Well, I know from good author
ity that you did sign a confession,”
Mr. Hebert told the witness.
Russell Tells of Inquiry.
When Koral left the stand Com
mittee Investigator Louis E. Russell
testified on the basis of information
he said he had obtained in investi
gations by himself and others.
He said Koral was approached in
1939 by a man known as “Frank”
who said he had heard from mutual
friends that Koral needed money to
pay medical expenses for his son.
"Koral subsequently became a
courier for Frank’ and made 12
contacts for him with men he knew
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In IMS, the Investigator con
tinued, “Frank” asked Koral to go
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as “Grig” in front of a movie thea
ter. At this rendezvous, Mr. Russell
said, Koral gave "Grig” a package
from "Frank” and received a pack
age to take back to "Frank.”
Charges 8ix Payments.
Mr. Russell said Koral was paid
off by “Frank” on six different oc
casions. He said the payoff was in
$10 bills, but he didn't know the
size of these payments.
Before Koral took the stand. Mrs.
Gilds Burke, a War Assets Admin
istration employe, who lives in Old
Dominion Garden, Alexandria, was
called to identify a telephone num
ber locator she said she had used
while working as secretary and later
as administrative assistant to Na
than Gregory Silvermaster.
Silvermaster was described by Miss
Bentley as leader of an espionage
ring of Government employes. On
the witness stand last week Silver
master refused to say whether or
not he was a Communist or whether
or not he knew a number of indi
viduals whose names have cropped
up in the testimony.
Mrs. Burke pointed out in the di
rectory the names of Frank Coe,
Bela Gold, Harold Glasser, Harry
Magdoff, Lee Pressman, George Sil
verman, William Ludwig Ullman,
Harry White, David Wahl and
"Keeney.”
The name of Harry Dexter White,
former Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, has been mentioned in
previous testimony. Mr. Stripling
said the name "Keeney” was Philip
O. Keeney. The names of all but
Mr. Wahl and Mr. Keeney have
appeared previously in the testi
mony.
In answer to questions, the wit
ness said that Silvermaster had
communicated with all the men
whose names she had pointed out
in the indicator.
She was asked if she was ever
sent by Silvermaster to deliver a
package to Mr. Currie.
Delivered Envelope.
Mrs. Burke said she delivered a
"letter-envelope” to Mr. Currie on
the second floor of the old State
Department Building in 1943. She
said she did not know what was
in the envelope.
Mr. Stripling brought out that
she customarily typed SUvermaster's
letters.
In another development. Repre
sentative Hebert called attention to
an advertisement in the real estate
section of The Star on May 3, 1947.
advertising for sale a home at 5515
Thirtieth street N.W. Previous testi
mony has brought out that Silver
master formerly lived at this ad
dress.
Mr. Hebert said he was introduc
ing the advertisement in connection
with Silvermaster's refusal to say
whether he had photographic equip
ment in the basement of his home.
Miss Bentley testified that war
secrets were photographed in his
basement.
The advertisement, as read by
Mr. Hebert., listed an "excellent
photographic room" in the basement
of the home as one of its attractions.
School Officials Meet
Attorney on Charges
Of Red Textbooks
Charges by a Chevy Chase -at
torney that some Montgomery
County textbooks contain Commun
ist propaganda will be taken up in
detail with school authorities with
a view to "corrective measures.”
This was decided at a closed meet
ing in Bethesda last night between
the attorney, Franklin C. Miles, and
representatives of the Board of Edu
cation and the county commission
ers.
At the same time, according to
Commissioner Wesley I. Sauter, Mr.
Miles agreed to withdraw the
charges ^lth reference to the Rugg
books and the Bruner-Smlth series
after it was pointed out they are
not being used regularly in the
school system.
Scheduled to be discussed with
school authorities, however, is the
Building America series.
While Mr. Sauter refused to dis
close details of last night's meet
ing, he said all matters were dis
cussed in a spirit of co-operation.
He added that the next move would
be up to the Board of Education.
Those attending the meeting be
sides Mr. Miles and Mr. Sauter, were
County Commissioner Oliver W.
Youngblood, Mrs. Curtis Walker,
and James W. Bill, members of
the Board of Education; County
Supervisor Irving G. McNayr and
the superintendent of schools, Dr.
Edwin W. Broome.
Romanian Denies Report
Nation Will Join U.S.S.R.
fey th* Associated Press
ROME. Aug. 10.—Nicola Dinule
scu, Romanian press attache here,
today denied foreign reports that
Romania would join the Soviet
Union.
Referring to an article yesterday
in the Istanbul (Turkey) newspaper
Cumhurlyet quoting Romanian ref*
ugee sources in Turkey as saying a
plebiscite on joining the U. S. S. R.
would be held In Romania August
23. Dinulescu said:
“This • is an obvious absurdity,
from a newspaper which has always
been against our country. Also It
comes from refugees who are against
the present regime.”
Autopsy Set in Death
Of Agriculture Aide,
Reported in Accident
An autopsy to determine the causa
of death of Charles D. Allen, 50, an
Agriculture Department official, who
died yesterday at his home, 5813
Thirty-second street N.W., was to
be performed this afternoon by Dep
uty Coroner Christopher J. Murphy.
Although Dr. Murphy yesterday
had attributed Mr. Allen’s death to
» heart ailment for which he had
been under treatment for some time,
information reaching him last night
of an automobile accident in which
both Mr. Allen and his wife were
involved last week prompted him to
order the autopsy, police said.
Accordnlg to police, Mr. Allen's
car and an automobile driven by
Ethel McKnight. 38, colored, a maid
in the home of Maj. Walter H. Par
sons, 5529 Thirtieth street N.W., col
lided last Priday night. No report
of the accident was made, it was
said.
After Mr. Allen’s death yesterday,
according to Pvt. 1-arold P. Gipa
of the accident investigation unit,
Mrs. Allen reported the accident to
Mr. Allen’s personal physician, who
notified Dr. Murphy.
Mr. Allen had been with the Agri
culture Department since 1922. Ha
had been an administrative officer
in the Bureau of Animal Husbandry
for several years.
A native of Wyoming, Pa., he went
to schobl in West Pittson. Pa. Mr.
Allen came to Washington more
than 25 years ago. He was a vet
eran of World War I.
His widow and a brother, Robert
Allen of Elizabeth, N. J„ survive.
Funeral services will be neld at
2:30 p.m. Thursday at the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
1301 New York avenue N.W. Burial
will be in Glenwood Cemetery.
Westphalian breweries In Ger
many are now back to 50 per cent
of their prew ar production.
WATER^p HEATERS
John G Websteb
.THE MODE . . . Important Men'* Corner|
of 1948—1949
Suits*Topcoats» O’Coats
Hand Tailored Worsted and Sharkskin
$60 I MS Suits $48
Wonderful savings on distinguished new ’48—’49
garments. Sizes: regular, short, long, stout and
short stout.
COURTESY STORAGE: Suits & Topcoats *tfl
Oct. 1; O’Coats ’til Nov. 1.
Tremendous Selections of ’48—''49
Topcoats & O’Coats
*48 *52 *69
An annual event occasioned by our regular coat
makers’ co-operation—plus our own lower mark•
up policy. All sizes in each group.
OVERCOATS
V«lo Royal— 26-ox. oil-wool fleece; blue, oxford or
brown _ $41
TOPCOATS
Anicot 6overt—with all wool xipper lining. V enetian
covert in natural, brown or olive-- .$52
Camel Heir & Woal— fly-front or double breasted polo
models . $52
Strand—Bal model; pure worsted gabardine--$41
Pembrookc Gaberdine—with all-wool xipper lining..$52
Pilot Military Coat—trench model, of worsted gabardine,
with all-wool xipper lining ...- $69
4 WAYS TO PAY:
• Cosh • 30-Day Charge • Tri-Pay Plan
• $10 Deposit
Final Clearance!
All Wool Tropical Worsted Suits
Were NOW
Glenbrook $45 $25.75
Richard Prince $47.50-558 $37.75
Fashion Park $68-$85 $57.75
Furnishings '
Shirts, white & striped $3.95 $2.95
Play Shorts & Swim Trunks $3.95-$5.95 $2.59
Lightweight Robes $7.95-$14.95 $5.89 & $7.89
Neckwear $140 95c
Neckwear $240 $1.65
Hosiery (anklets) 65c*75c 49c
Straw Hats—Vl Price, $340415 $1.75 b $7.50
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Henri, 9 te t Henri. 10 te 9
Cletei Saturday Ul- H**r,: 19 * 9
COURTESY PARKING: Star Pleao, 10th b E
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