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In view of today’s rising prices, the
reductions on the pianos we have on
sale mean real dollar savings! Many
pianos have been marked down for
this event . . . instruments of well
known makes, all sizes and styles.
Some are floor samples, some used,
some brand-new, and every one is an
unusual value.
If you have been thinking of buying a
piano anytime in the future, consider
how wise it will be to buy now at these
reduced prices during our big Anni
versary Sale.
A Small Down Payment
Delivers Any Piano
3 Years to Pay
REpublic 6212
iCharges of Holding
Woman Slave Denied
By Baltimore Couple
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Oct. 20.—A Bal
timore couple today called “abso
lutely false” charges by a former
mental patient that they kept her
in a state of slavery for 12 years.
Mrs. Elsie T. Jensen, 41, sued in
Baltimore City Court yesterday
for $125,000 damages. The de
fendants are Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Weinberg.
“Absolutely false, absolutely un
heard of,” Mr. Weinberg said to
day. “I don’t want to make any
furtner comment unttf I have coni
suited my attorneys.’”
Family Known To Doctor.
Dr. Kenneth Jones, superin
tendent of the State institution,’
from which Mrs. Jensen was
paroled to the Weinbergs, qaid: •
“I knew the family personally.
•She was released to these people
under our regular procedures.
We considered them to be high
class people and I cannot conceive
of them doing such things.”
It is regular practice for the
mental institutions to have social
workers check on home conditions
before patients are paroled to
any one.
Mrs. Jensen said the Weinbergs
arranged to take her out of Rose
wood State training school for
feeble minded children in 1935
and placed on parole in their
home, then at Blackstone, Va.
Says She Got No Wages.
(Mrs. Jensen would have been
26 in 1935, but due to crowded
conditions in State mental institu
tions many Rosewood inmates
were kept there through adult
hood.)
At Blackstone and later at the
Weinberg home in Baltimore, Mrs.
Jensen alleged, she was allowed
virtually no freedom and made to
work seven days a week without a
penny in wages.
The Weinbergs treated her as a
“drudge and a slave,” her suit said.
They beat her when she disobeyed
them, Mrs. Jensen charged.
Mrs. Truman Sends
Gift for Bazaar
By the Associated Press
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Oct.
20.—Mrs. Harry S. Truman sent a
package from the White House in
response to a postcard request
from Mrs. Robert Jones for a
church bazaar gift.
Women of Epiphany Episcopal
Church will wait until November
16, the final day of their “Holiday
Fiesta,” to see what’s inside.
Irate Landlords Storm Office
Of Los Angeles Rent Director
By the A«ociatrJ Pr«i» , i
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.—Two
hundred and fifty angry, booing
landlords, carrying “Down With
Harry Truman” signs, stormed
Government rent offices and city
hall yesterday, protesting delay in
rent decontrol here.
There was no riot. But there
might have been had not Govern
ment guards, armed with billy
clubs, pacified the property
owners when the marchers
forced their way into the lobby
of a Government building.
Five squads of city police rein
forced the guards.
The landlords sought entrance
\o the office cJ5 Arel Ren$ Control
birector Ben ICoepke to protest
delay in rent decontrol voted last
July by city council. The matter
later was carried by a tenants’
council into the courts and now
is pending before Federal District
Court in Washington, where a
decision is expected Monday.
O. L. Duffy,' a Government
guard, told the group that safety
conditions would not permit en
trance of all into Mr. Koepke’s
office. They demanded to know
why certain neighboring cities
have decontrol and Los Angeles
does not.
“You know the answer to that
as well as I do,” Mr. Koepke told
them.
National Housing Expediter
Tighe Woods has been enjoined
from signing a decontrol order,
pending outcome of the litigation.
At least 90 per cent of the
marching landlords today carried
placards: Some of them read:
“Is Hitler Dead?” “Tighe Woods
Defies Congress But Obeys Union
Bosses.” “Down With Harry
Truman!”
The marchers, many of them
members of the Small Property
Owners League, then paraded to
City Hall where they demanded
to see Mayor Fletcher Bowron.
Deputy Mayor Orville Caldwell
told them that Mayor Bowron has
nothing to do with rent control.
A chorus of boos was his answer.
Rubber Fenders Used
DETROIT.—Trial tests of rub
ber fenders have been so suc
cessful that the Detroit Street
Railway Co. has ordered them for
106 new cars and is replacing
steel fenders on vehicles in serv
ice. The fenders reputedly will
outwear metal ones and prac
tically eliminate fender-mainte
nance costs.
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GOING
REAL ESTATE SHOPPING
THIS SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY?
... then be sure to shop first in the big real estate src-*
tion of The Star tomorrow and every Saturday, r •
consulting the large selection of properties advertise;!
In The Star on Saturday you’ll have more time to shop
around ... to inspect homes ... to compare values.
The Star carries more real estate display advertising
than the three other Washington newspapers combined
... more than any other paper in the United States.
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HUNDREDS AND
HUNDREDS OF THE MOST
WANTED FALL HATS
• . . JUST ARRIVED,
AND WHAT
AN ARRAY OF
SHAPES
AND COLORS
AND
STYLES!
ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICED AT ONLY
• FINE FUR FELTS
• LUSCIOUS VELOURS
Just name your hat, madame... we'll bet
we've got it, and for a tiny 3.88! Choose
from a tremendous variety of shapes: pillboxes,
cloches, profiles, visor caps, head-huggers,
Spanish-influence hats, sideswept brims!
And the details! . . . glittering pendants,
intriguing veils, braid, pompons,
towering feathers, rayon velvet touches! Lush
textured velours, many imported . . .
fine fur felts usually far, far higher.
The colors! . . . darks, neutrals,
brights, a veritable rainbow!
^ LANSBURGH'S—Millinery Salon—Second Floor
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