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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-08
Dainty
GlnSS1C0Te
fOrCOOHnQ
Drinks
and Sherbets

"Thonksl" Roid the Judge.
"A fdirer lass
Nepcr GoVe me n drink in n
prettier gioss."
You see, the glass came from
Wenamaker's, and that's why the
lines from Maud Muller" can't
he quoted too literally.
We have recently made y Iarse
purchase Of extremely attractive
light-cut glassware, which will bs
sold 2s to 50 per cent less than
regular prices.
Included are number Of
pieces delightfully."- suited for
pleasant afternoon teas or
luneheons as served on porch or
lawn.
Dainty two piece acts for SUGAR
and cream, SOC TO Sl.7S the set.
Iccd-tea tumb lers, with
handles, 50 dozen.
Grspe.juice sets jug and six
tumblers with handles. 81 q set.
Glass sandwich trays with
handles, 81 and $50.
Lemon dishes, accompanied by
glass forks. A0c.
Sherbet glasses, s. o dozen.
Footed glasses for ioe-cresm,
g a dozen,
Ne10 and Very
Handsome Are Some
Iced Tea Sets
in coiored slsss Of tho optic"
cut. decorated with lieht cutting.
/ A set includes six glasses, each
with its coaster, and a jug with
cover and coaster. As the coiors
are exquisite shades of amethyst,
amber and peacock blue, and tho
handles and coasters are OF a very
deep royal blue, tho contrast i,
splendid In effect.
h Floor
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-08
Rush and Mourz011k
Rugs at Clearance
Prices

As intimated, we neither buy
nor sell stale Summer rugs.
Starting July first, we have
substantially reduced prices on
discontinued patterns, b:.l:cn
assortments and limited quaint
ties, including such favorites
for the porch as:
Japanese rush rugs, oval, OBJ
long, rounded and block de-
signs; sizes 6x9 to SKIP feet.
prices, SIS TO SAP.
Belgian Mourzouk rugs. sizes
6x9 to 9x12 feet, SIS to $3.50.
Japanese straw rugs, in two
tone block patterns, 9x12 feet.
$8.75.
tseyenth Floor
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-08

hasty fingers, and the sin
gle feature of the faultless
hand-twisting of the bril-
liant strands on the rope
edge of a chair or table, or
on its legs or stretchers, IS
worthy of a paragraph Of
mention-and, you will see,
is receiving it!
The tables in these cane
sets are very handsome.
The simplest repast, spread
forth on one of them, would
gain in appetizing effect.
Of course, when one
thinks of refreshments
served coolly and comfort
ably on the porch, one nat
urally thinks of the table
before any other piece Of
furniture.
The variety of wicker
tables in different styles
and sizes on display here
demonstrates as forcibly
as anything can do the
far-reaching service to
homes, great or small,
sumptuous or simple, of the
Wanamaker stocks of Sum-
mer furniture.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-08

TVERE the tea-wagon
II trundles in impor-
family to interpolate
a word for itself as an ac-
cessory in serving any one
of those delightful repasts
with the al fresco flavor.
Right you are, Tea
Wagon
The housewife selecting
you here can have you in a
choice of many styles and
finishes, to harmonic or
contrast pleasantly with
any plan of porch decora-
ton; and when you are of
wicker, you are lighter to
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-08

VTERY striking is one
" table in richest an
tique gold and blue
effect.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
Jail Furrs to Wait
Grand Jury Action
Four Accused as Slayers of
Virginia Farmer Waive
Preliminary Hearing.

MIDDLEBURG. Va. May AL
exander and Charles Furr. brothers,
and their sons, Milton and Lewis,
are in the county Jail at Leesburg
tonight to await action of the grand
jury on a charge of implication in
the murder Of Irving Hatcher. prod
uce dealer. on April Is.
Preliminary hearing. which was
set for today. was waived by the
defense.
Commonwealth attorneys scored
point in the matter-pf bail for
the quartet. Milton F.r, who con-
fessed to staying Hatcher. has been
at liverty on $1,000 bail since the
occurrence. IT would have been nee
essary for the defendants TO nave
introduced their testimony in order
for bail to be granted.
The prisoners were taken to Lees
burg under a heavy guard, as II
was feared there would be trouble
between rival clans.
More than fifty witnesses were
summonsed to appear before the
grand jury June Is.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
WILL ASK HARDING
TO GIVEOPINlONO ON
B 0 N U 5 MEASURE
Senate Committee Seeks
To Avoid Possibility
Of Veto.
AGREES TO CONFER
President Assures Leaders He
Will Be Glad to Consider
Plan.
AGREES TO CONFER

Republican members of the Sem
ate Finance Committee will ask
President Harding to approve a
modified form of the soldier bonus
bill. on which they have agreed.
They will do this to avoid the
possibility of a Presidential veto.
The intention is to drive through
the bill without further delay,
once the Presidents sanction has
been obtained. The President has
assured Senate leaders he will be
glad to confer with them and will
tell them what he thinks of their
proposals.
Details of Senate rlan.
The bill on which the ma jority
members of the Finance Committee
have agreed is a modification of
the measure that passed the House.
1t provides for payment of the
bonus through the Issuance of in
surance certificates. computed at
the rate Of 81 daily for domestic
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
.SHRINERS TO FETE
LEADER NPARADE
BEFORE PRESIDENT
Imperial Potentate Cults,
OF Georgia, Is Honor
Guest. :
BANQUET TONIGHT
Line of March Leads up
Avenue and by White
House.

Shriners of Washington will
parade down Pennsylvania avenue
and pass In review before Preside
Harding on the west side OF the
White House this afternoon In
honor of Imperial Potentate Ernest
a. Cults. of Alec Temple, Sa-
vannan. Ga.
The parade will start at 8 o'clock.
after business session at the
Capitol Theater. All of the uni
formed bodies of Almas Temple
will participate in the pageant.
These include the military band.
Arab patrol drill corps, Oriental
hand. drum corps and Almas ie-
Eion OF honor. The Alma. Glee
Club will render vocal selections
en- route.
The parade will start from
Eleventh and p streets northwest,
and traverse the following route ::
north on Eleventh street to the
north side of Pennsylvania avenue.
west on the north side of Pennsyl-
vania avenue to the roadway south
of the Treasury. emerging from
West Executive avenue to the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue.
Vo~'N w CNcCullNe
south on East Executive avenue to
roadway south of Treasury, thence
east to the south side of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and east thereon to
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue and disband.
Formation of the parade will be
as follows: Police Gordon, mar
shal and aides. Oriental band. i'm,
perial potentate of North America.
Almas Temple divan and past
potentates, visiting potentates and
members of their divan, military
band. Arab patrol drill corps.
floats (Walter Reed HospitaD.
floor team. candidates. drum corps.
Saracen guard. Almas legion of
honor, glee club and chanters. glad
hand committee. mobiles appearing
in full dress. mobiles in army. navy
and Marine Corps uniform. noble>
in tuxedo or business attire. Almas
Automobile Club.
A banquet will be rendered to
Imperial Potentate Cults at the
Willard Hotel after which a cere-
monial will be held at the Capitol
Theater, when a large class OF
novices will be conducted across
the hot sands.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03

service and si.25 daily for foreign
service. The certificates will have
an immediate loan value at banks
of SO per cent of their value. After
three years. loans would be made
directly. by the government. At the
end of twenty years, the veterans
would be paid In cash or annu.ties.
Veterans entitled to $50 or less
would receive cash.
The proposal of Senator. smoot.
committee member. that paid-up
Insurance be sub:.ituted for the
plan of issuing certificates with a
loan value, was discarded. Smoot
indicated. however, that he would
carry the fight for his suggestion
to the floor. 49,
The reclamation provisions OF
the House bill have been elimi-
mated, but other optional dement's
retained
The scheme is principally the
suggestion Of Senator McCumber
chairman of the committee.
Source of Revenue Indennite.
How the money to pay the bonus
win be derived is yet to be de-
cided. and this may prove the
stumbling block to executive ap-
provai. The President maintains
his position that no bill should be
enacted which does not provide the
means for raising the funds 1t will
require. The inclination of the
Finance Committee is to provide
for Immediate outlays through the
issuance of Treasury certificates
depending on ordinary revenues &c
meet the expenditures in subse.
quent years. In this connection
revision of tax laws is in pros.
pect, at which time provision could
be made for the bonus.
Treasury actuaries have COM
puted the cost of the McCumber
plan at s77.00O,000 for the frs
year. ss2.0OO.OOO for the Second
S73. 100000 for the third, and 1885,
100000 for the fourth. The ulti-
mate cost by 1865. when IL {.
figured all claims will have beer
paid. would approximate $4,000
900, 900.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
Daugherty to Push
War Fraud Probes
Answers House Charges by
Appeal for $5OO,O00 to
Aid Prosecution.

The s500,oo0 which the. Depart
ment of Justice has asked Congress
to appropriate will be used to pross
ecute war contract frauds, Attorney
General Daugherty has announced.
He has been assured by Chairman
Madden Of the House Appropriations
Committee that the money, will be
granted.
With this money. Mr.. Daugherty
says the investigation and subse-
quent prosecution of war contract
frauds will go forward with un-
precedented speed because in the
past only $4,000 had been available
for this purpose, and the depart
ment has been using money out
OF other funds to cause the investi-
cation to be made
The cantonment frauds investiga- =
tion will be in the hands of Roscoe
Mccullough. former Representative
from Ohio. who will also supervise
the preparation of cases in which
the government intends to prose
cute. His salary will be $4,000
yearly, and his rank that of special
assistant to the Attorney General
The increased appropriation had
been asked by President Harding
after conferences with Mr. Daugh-
erty and Budget Director Dawes. it
is understood, in answer to the
charges made on the floor of the
House by Representatives johnson
and Woodruff that the Justice De-
partment was lax in making the
investigation. In answer to these
charges, Mr.. Daugherty said he "has
no objection IL Congress wants to
make the investigation"
The investigation of these war
time transactions" he added. has
been going on as fast as we could
get men to do this work. The
Department has pursued the custom
of not publishing what contracts
Or contractors were under investi-
CATION"
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03

Judge Samuel G.. Brent of the
Circuit court for this judicial cir
cult has appointed Wilson NJ. Farr
f Fairfax commOnwealth's at
i"rney for that county to fill the
, vacancy caused by the death of
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
Rainey Made Assistant
Hamilton Bank Cashier

C. Francis Rainey. teller OF the
Riggs National Bank. was elected
an assistant cashier Of the Hamil-
ton Savings Bank at a special meet
ing of the board of directors in the
Hamilton Bank Building, Seventh and
l streets northwest. Rainey will be
placed in charge of the Dupont branch
of the bank.
George Forrest and George Pink
ney. both colored. were held for the
grand jury in $500 bond on joint
charge of grand larceny.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
Mrs. Lloyd BiddLe Heads
TakOnid Park Civic Club

Mrs. Lloyd Biddle was elected pres
ldent OF the Takoma Park Civic Study
Cluo Yesterday at the annual meet
ing OF the organization at the Ia
koma Library. Fifth and Peters
streets.
other officers elected were: First
vice president, Mrs. Walter Trey; sec
ond vice president. Mrs. II. l.. Johr
SION, corresponding secretary. Mrs
b. Bruce Lamond: recording secrc
tary, Mrs. A. NJ. Milburn: treasurer
Mrs. James Lord: directors. .Yrs
Horace w. Whitaker. Mrs. Stanley
Smith and Mrs. H. W. Hochbaum
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
FIRE IN WOODLAND
DESTROYS 2 HOMES

Two families were made homeless
as the result of a blaze which de-
stroyed a frame barracks house of
the Potomac Oil and Gas Company
and swept an area one mile square
in an adjoining woodland. along the
Marlboro pike. Two miles east OF the
District line. last night.
The first was discovered by Mary
land Sta.e policemen shortly after
5 o'clock. and fire fighting apparatus
from this city was required before
the fire could be extinguished.
The damage is estimated at $4,000.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03

c. Vernon Ford. Farr throughout
the illness Of Mr.. Ford acted as
commOnwealth's attorney.
The Greater Alexandria Trade
Exhibit opened at the armory to-
night. Hundreds thronged the big
hall. The exhibits was opened at
1880 o'clock when the lights were
flashed on by Mayor ]. NJ. Duncan.
An address was given by r. E.
Knight. president of the Chamber
Of Commerce
The Atlantic Association of ST.
Mary's Sunday School will give
five hundred and euchre party
at the Lyceum Hall tomorrow eve
ming. Tickets may be procured at
the hall.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
Asserts Gossip Causes
Spread of Disease

WEST HOBOKEN. n. j.. May a
Gossip is one of the worst causes
of the spread of contagious diseases,
Chief Inspector Rudolph Kunz. of the
board of health. declared today. Re-
porting ninety-seven cases or measles
and several of diphtheria and scar
let fever in the community. the chief
inspector said gossiping mothers were
to blame for the communication of
all three diseases.
After our inspectors have done
all they can to isolate cases. the
mothers of afflicted children go
abroad or gossip over the back fences
with neighbors. and thus the germs
are carried to other children" said
Kunz.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03

removed from the War coliees ~
st. Patrick's Cathedral for msse-st
10 o'clock.
From St Patrfcks'. the cor1sgt :
will make its way to Arlington e<al
tionaI Cemetery, where Il will be
placed In a receiving vault. -
Every unit OF troops IN the vf-
cinity OF Washington VIII take part
in the funeral ceremonies and every
major general in the vicinity viii
be an honorary pallbearer
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
Almas Temple Annual Ball.

Imperial POtentate OF North Amer
lea Ernest A Cults, of Savannah,
Ga. was the guest of honor last
night at the annual ball OF Almas
Temple. Arab Patrol. held in the
City Club ballroom. More than $50
members and guests were in the
grand march, which was led by Al
mas Military Band of sixty pieces.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
GEN. M'ANDREW
FUNERAL TO-DAY

The body Of Maj. Gen. James Nc
Andrew, who died Sunday night at
Walter Reed Hospital after long
illness. lies in state today in the
rotunda OF the Army War College.
This morning the remains will be
The Washington herald., 1922-05-03
ALEXANDRIA POST,
AMERICAN LEGION,
HOLDS BANQUET
Rep. Hamilton Fish, Prin-
cipal Speaker, Urges
Bonus.
LAUNCH "Y" DRIVE
Fire Bells Give Signal-New
Clerk of Court
Appointed.
LAUNCH "Y" DRIVE
THE HERALD BUREAU.

7e7 King Street.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May a.
Representative Hamilton Fish. Of
New York. was the principal
speaker at the get together" ban
quet of Alexandria Post, No. 25,
American Legion. held in the West
minister Building tonight.
The Legion, he declared. is the
greatest patriotic organization In
America 1t is the bulwark of the
government. 1t does not represent
radical or socialistic movements,
The speaker advocated the ad-
tusted compensation bill and said
~ believed il was a moral oblI-
CATION. Capt. Philip ]. Jensen.
commander of the famous Canadian
Black Watch. told of the early
days of the war with that regi-
ment. He is a student at the Epis-
eopal Theological Seminary.
Others who spoke were II. w.
Raeggie, member OF the national
legislative committee: DR.. o. l..
Owens, national speakers bureau.
and Department Adjutant w. j.
Price Comdr ]. Randall Cation
presided. Vocal selections were
given by the Misses Howard and
Stephen Field.
The ringing of fire bells at noon
today marked the formal launching
of the drive to raise sT5.000 to build
Y. NJ. c. A. building here. The
$50 campaigners had luncheon in the
Chamber of Commerce and then
started canvassing the city. The di-
vision designated by Carroll Pierce
headed the list. bringing in s2.270.
The next team was No. 5. headed
by Charles B. Swan. with S7.40O.
This brings the total pledged TO date
TO s36,35O.
Elliott F. Hoffman, 80 years old.
was appointed clerk of the courts
by Judge Robinson Moncure. of the
Corporation Court. to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of Newell
s. Greenaway.
Mr. Hoffman has been employed
in the general offices Of the South
crn Railway Company in Washing
ton He is world war veteran
and served overseas with the l69th
Infantry. Rainbow Division. being en-
gagged in three battles. and also
served with the army of occupa-
tiOn in Germany.
Judge Samuel G.. Brent of the
Circuit Court for this judicial cir
cult has appointed Wilson NJ. Farr
+ Fairfax commemorative at
torney for that county to fill the
= vacancy caused by the death of
The Washington times., 1922-10-17
COURT GRANTS
INJUNCTION To
PREVENT SALE
Real Estate Of J. J. O'Neill Was
to Have Been Auctioned to
Pay Assessments.

Justice Siddons, Of the District
Supreme Court. today granted John
]. O'Neill an injunction preventing
the Government from proceeding to
sell, at auction. certain real estate
because OF the petitioners failure to
pay certain taxes assessed by the
Government for alleged violation Of
the liquor laws.
O'Neill originally sought to re-
strain Galen TAFT. collector of in.
ternal revenue, and his assistants,
from selling the property, and At.
torneys Newmyer and King. repre-
senting O'Neill. obtained the re.
straining order on, the grounds that
the alleged taxesN were in reality
penalties which the Government had
no right to collect by distraint pro-
ceedings.
In overruling the motion of the
Government to dismiss O'Neill's peti.
ton for en- injunction, the court ex.
pressed the opinion that "by the
very nature of the imposition, II 10
a penalty and not a tax"
The Washington times., 1922-10-17
Michigan Veterans
OF Russian Fighting
Reach New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. l7.-Veter-
ans who fought all the way from
Chateau Thierry to Italy and the
frozen north Of Russia came in to
New Orleans last night and today
from Michigan. The Detroit and
Grand Rapids specials each brought
$50 veterans.
They represented the Thirty.sec-
ond division. which helped stop the
Germans on the Marne in July, 1918,
and the Eighty.fifth division whose
units were in Russia and Italy. The
Michigan delegation was headed to.
day by the drum and bugle CORDS Of
thirty.three pieces which captured
first prize last year at the Kansas
City national convention.
In the party were Michigan's two
medal of honor men, Harold A. Fur
long, OF Ann Arbor, who single-ha M.
ed captured four machine guns and
twenty prisoners, and John Robinson,
OF Wayne, who. by a special act OF
Congress, was commissioned and re-
tired on three.fourths pay. He was
wounded during heroic service.
The Washington times., 1922-10-17
New Workers. Expect
Deegan to Be Elected
New Chief of Legion
by International News Service.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. IL
The main body Of the New York
state delegation arriving for the
national legion convention late yes
terday, came out en- masse today 10
promote the candidacy Of William
r. Deegan, former New York State
commander. for national commander
of the legion.
While the big delegations from
Illinois, Pennsylvania, California
Michigan and Ohio have not com
mitted themselves to any candidate.
New York feels that sentiment will
win Deegan's election. They be-
lieve the attack directed against
Deegan, by Col. Charles r. Forbes,
head of the War Veterans Bureau
will help the candidate rather than
injure his candidacy.
Included in the New York dele
cation were Miss Annie b. Duncan
head of the largest nurses post In
the country; Irwin ]. Rackoff, de
clared to have been the smallest
man IN the United States Army
State Commander Albert s. Callan
Chatham, and Col. Wade H. Hays
spokesman and commander Of the
Seventh infantry, New York.
The Washington times., 1922-10-17

find automobiles that would trans.
fer them to the club without
charge.
Other cards. with blank spaces
for names and addresses. we're
found. These were membership
cards which "entitle the holder to
all the privileges of the club"
Seven gaming tables and their
green covers, all properly num-
bered for dice games. were con.
fiscated. Two blackjack" tables
and two pool tables were also taken
away, along with a desk which the
Klansmen claim was used by one
Of the clubs "lookouts."
Hauled Away in Truck.
The truck which took the man
giving his name as Mater" had
driven up to the club. was \loaded
with some Of the confiscated equip
ment and used to haul 1t to the
county court house. Mater was
forced to ride with one of the
deputies.
Prosecutor Ball has veral
names taken from articles confis'
Gated at the club which he believes
will result in revealing all the in.
side workings of that organization.
The confiscated articles will be
held at the court house as, evidence
and later returned to its rightful
owners should they appear and
claim 1t. Should no one claim the
apparatus, it will be destroyed.
klansmen regard the results of
the raid as a complete vindication
OF their organization which has
been making charges that gambling
was going on on a large scale in
the county.
1t was planned to have ten wit
nesses before the grand jury yes
terday in probe Of gambling in the
county, but when Prosecutor Ball
learned that unexpected develop
ments were going on at the H!ll.
top Club he asked that the jury
postpone that phase of the investi-
cation until today.
The Washington times., 1922-10-17
c. men.
DOING RUSSIAN
RELIEF WORK
Col. Haskell and Many Other
WashingtonIans Have Been
Abroad for Months.

Reports from Moscow, received in
Washington today. indicate that the
Nations Capital has contributed its
full quota to the personnel Of the
American relief administration in
Russia.
Col. William N. Haskell, whose
family lives at 1891 Sixteenth street
northwest, is at the head of the
washington unit serving with the
administration, having begun his
duties last fall, when 1t was planned
to feed 1000, 900 refugees through.
out the winter and spring.
Credited with having accomplished
the most remarkable incubation
program for the prevention Of cpl.
demic disease ever launched In a
Beeuwkes, also Of Washington, as.
sumed the responsibility Of dis
tributing upwards Of $7,00o,pO0
worth Of hospital medical supplies.
Like Colonel Haskell, he does not
expect to return to his home here
for many months.
His assistant. DIR. Walter P.
davenport, who has shared his
work from the beginning. is als0 a
washingtonian. So is DR.. John IL.
Dawson, in charge OF the receipt.
warehousing and dispatch Of hun
dreds of carloads of medical sup
plies. Charles M. Willoughpy, 1924
Seventeenth street northwest. a
well.known Washington newspaper
man, also is in the Ukraine. j.
Bently Mulford. of Chatham courts.
is ranked in the medical division
and Is stationed at Moscow. as Is
also Thomas J. Farraher, 21O Rhode
Island avenue.
Other Washington men in the
Moscow unit include John G. An
derson, 1913 U street southeast: Karl
Leon Mayer, 3106 p street nor.h.
west: Prof Edmond A. Walsh. OF
Georgetown University; Joseph a.
Driscoll, Thomas A. Pace. 1907
Ninth street northeast: Arthur
Patrick Gill. 1928 Florida avenue;
| B. w. James, Charles w. Surles,
225 Indiana avenue: r. J. Smith,
1906 G street: Herbert Dean Brink,
Of Takoma, Park. and Omar j.
Brown, 1927 Irving street nortn.
| west.