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CITY CLUB CONCERT.

4 recital was given by Anne
NornWell Starke. soprano; Helen
ane Mari, dancer and George G..
orwell. pianist. before a large
udience that filled the rooms of the
Nomen's City Club last night. They
we're received with enthusiasm.
Mrs. Starke, who has studied both
iere and in New York. has light
,'oice with especially good lower
totes and splendid enunciation. Her
lhrasing, too. was excellent. She
eemed at her best in Martins Way
,rer's Night Song" and Rummers
lGcstacy.' Her encorcs were "A
II hday," by Woodman. and Pearl
ANS Rain" Emory Potter
Starke, at the piano, was an admi-
rable accompanist.
Mar who is listed as "a
disciple of Ruth st. Denis" seemed
,oruughly versed in the technique
If her art and used her hands espe-
tally effectively. She danced an
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Savings of J, ! and Even More!

3-$25 MISSES CLOTH BoLERo FRocKs-narked half
though they exceptionally good styles Navy
1$25$35 MISSES AFTERNOON FRocKs-sreat savings
too; flat veVets a few kasha models
three costumes the
6-$35- $3.50 MISSES ONE FRoCKS-just
thing for immediate tIs,
Paris blue and S1975
1886 $3.50 MISSES
georgettes Vevets-boeo Also
Charmeen bolero $2375
5-$45 MISSES AFTERNOON AND EVENING FRocKS-n-
deed worth while through this hHons
and frost Lipsck brown, beige and black $3.50
5-s4e5o MISSES SATIN AFTERNOON FRocKs-attraetveIy
draped models black
3-s55 MISSES AFTERNOON FRocKs-two piece styles
satin de chine with clever $3.50
2-s55 MISSES DISTINCTIVE AFTERNOON FRocKs-re-
productions of Paris Satin flat $3.50
2-MssES' TULLE DANCE Notwithstanding basque
models $500
1G$5950 MISSES OCCASION FRoCKS-taored
models in nal a chiffon
trimmed in velvet $3.50
5-$7950 $1to MISSES INDIVIDUAL FRoCkS-
unusual style treatments in frost and Roma
fur trimmed-some clevery tered Wine and pstck
Misses Frock Shop-Third Floor
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Indian nautch dance to some of tire
Woodforde- Finden Oriental music
and a TAM" of Schuberts, with
lovely Brahms Waltz" as the en-
core.
Mr. Cornwell, a young pianist
seemed a bit nervous and self-con
scious at first. He has a good touch
md clear cut technique. He seemed
most at case in his encore, "A-f1at
Waltz" by Chopin. His other num-
bers were Tschaikowskis "Troika"
and Rachmaninoff's prelude in G
Minor"
Josephine Byrd Campbell. accom-
PIANIST for the dance, also deserves
word of special commentator.
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arold d. Phillips entertained at sea
Tuesday afternoon, when they had as
listing them and presiding at the tea
able MIS-. Charles :. Deneen, AIRS.
ieorge I'll. Moses. Mrs. Selden p
Nencer. Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe. Mrs.
-, gh Robinson Mrs Edmund Web
steer, Mrs. Alfred Anthony, Miss Bur
ION. Miss Sallie HeNVs Phillips. Miss
Mary Necd"r. Miss Marian Abbott
Miss Eleanor Abbot, Miss France
Webster and Mis- Iary Head.
Mrs. Mary l.. .,son of Boston
Mass. is at the Maytiower Hotel for
he season. Mrs. Dobson has been
spending the Winters at the Nationa
Capital for several years rast and has
made many friends here.
The International Association .
Arts and Letters vii. give a tea in tn
>anquet room of the Carlton Hotel to
orroW afternoon.
meeting has been called at tn
aeidencs Of MIR. and Mrs. George Z
MarYe, 1900 y street. for Tuesday
February /. at $50 o'C,ock. of ali Pc
aj4s Interested in Monticello. TIL
pHakel's on the occasion will be Mis-
'anet Richards. Representative Il
Walton Moore and commissioner Sid
aey f. Taliaferro. The committee o
arrangements are Mrs. Edward Terry
Sanford, Mrs. Claude n. Swanson. Mrs
Lawrence ID. Tyson Nine. Ekei
en-. Mrs. George r. Marye and Mrs
Walter II. Tuckerman. Mrs. Rose
Gouverneur Hoes is chairman fol
Washington of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation. and the vi"
.hairmen are Mrs. Charles Graves
Matthews and Mrs. William Caben
Rives
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Mrs. George A. sanderson and Mrs.
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A Few Juniors Frocks!

6-$1950 JUNIOR MISSES FROCkS-veve models attractive
nd n OF a
few de
$1s5o $25 MISSES FRocKsafternoon styles in
sabIe silks with peated skirts embroidered SIS
Junior Misses Frock Shop-Third Floor
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SOCIETY
CONTINUED from Eighteenth Page.l

Southern Society reception. The com
pany included Mr.. and Mrs. David II.
Blair, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward j.. Gam,
Mrs. William Laird Dunlop. Jr.; Mrs.
J. e. Moffett and Or. Mitchell and Mr..
Wade II. Cooper Among those in
the distinguished company at the lee
lure and dance were: Mai and Mrs.
John A. Gilmore and Maj. and Mrs.
James +. Johnson.
Mrs. Ellen Heffernan has gone TO
houston, Tex. where she is w IN her
daughter, Mrs. G. +. Gilmore, at TN
Warwick. Since the death of Mr.
Heffernan a year ago Mrs Heifernan
has made her home in New York ana
Hollywood, Calf
A wedding of interest to local folks
will be that of Miss Virginia Curley
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. William T..
turley of Southern Maryland, to Mr.
Claude Vallandingham, which will oc-
EUR Sunday evening. January 30 at
o'clock. In the historic old home of the
BRIDES parents. Calvert's Rest Ridge
st. Mary's County. Miss Curey is
we'll known in this city, having at
ended the Bryantown School for
.'irls and st. Mary's Academy. at St
MarV's CifV
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A Few Junior Misses Coats!

| 6-$395o $4950 JUNIOR MISSES TRIMMED COATS
popular coatines
| Of
|
| Junior Misses Coots-Third Floor
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PUGILIST'S BACK BROKEN.
Paul Harris, Victim of Auto
Crash, Will Be Invalid.

OKECHOBEE, Fla. January IS Cp).
Paul Harris, Boston welterweight,
received broken back when his au-
tomobile overturned near here last
night. Three companions were slight
ly injured.
Physicians said today that the fight
er's back was completely broken, but
that he would recover. lie will be-
hopeless invalid, however, they said.
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Congressional Club Tea and
Musical This Afternoon.

At the Congressional Clubs tea to-
day the guest of honor will be a young
pianist of only years. Little Miss
Evelyn Woods of Toledo, Ohio, of
whom the noted French pianist, Du
misnil says, She has gift from
God" renders Chopin, Moskowski,
Paderewski and other of the world $
famous composers with the ease and
finish of a mature artist. Guy MaieI
says of her, She is AS wonderful as
Mozart himself" Mrs. Zella Il. Sand,
also of Toledo, who accompanies lit
tie Miss Woods to this city. will play
the second piano part. There are
other artists who will also be heard.
Following the program tea will be
served, with Mrs. James J. Davis, Mrs.
James A. Reed, Mrs. George w. Nor
ris and Mrs. II. C. Ransley officiating
as hoStesses.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs John W. Joyes
announce the engagement of their
Slaughter, Miss Georgiana Joyes, to
Cadet Mason T.. Stober. son of Mr..
and Mrs. +. l.. Stober Of Greene. Iowa.
The announcement was made at a
tea yesterday afternoon given by Mrs.
Joyes for group of the close friends
of Miss Joyes. Presiding at the tea
table were Miss Sallie Hews Phillips
anu MISS violet WheIan, and assist
ms Miss Joyes were Miss Harriet
Stearns Whitford and Miss Olive Sher-
10y.
Judge and Mrs. Ernest Henry Van
F'ossan returned to their apartment
at Wardman Park Hotel yesterday
from Detroit, where Judge Van
Fpssan attended a hearing of the
United States Board of Tax Appeals,
of which he is a member. Judge and
Mrs. Van Fossan have as their guest
for a few days the latter's sister-in-
law, Mrs. j. Camden Brady of Nor.
folk.
Mr.. Harry Wardman will sail on the
Majestic this evening for London,
where he is going for the opening of
his new hotel, the Park Lane. He is
accompanied by Mr.. Wallace CHS
well Mrs. Wardn1an. who arrived in
Paris two weeks ago to place her
daughter, Miss Helen Wardman. in
school, win meet Mr.. Wardman in
London. Mr.. Wardman and Mr.. CHS
well will return to Washington about
the first of March.
Mrs. George A. Sanderson and Mrs.
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Junior League Billboard
san Grows in Interest.

Additional patronesses for the Junior
Leagues billboard ball on Friday,
February 4. are: Mrs. j. Butler
Wright. wife OF the Assistant Secrc-
tary of sta Q: Mrs. Richard :. Aldrich
Mrs. George r. Marye, Mrs. 5. NJ
Breckenridge Long Mrs. Cople3
Amory. Mrs. Sherman Flint.
All the boxes have been sold, but
tickets may still be had from Miss
Virginia Hunt.
One of the attractive numbers IN
the entertainment which will open the
ball at 10 o'clock is the strut number
led by Miss Helen Gary. Other
dancers in this group will be; Miss
Katharine Sutherland, Miss Barbara
Hight. Miss Delphine Heyl Miss Lila
Tuckerman. Miss Charlotte Clark
Miss Katharine Dunlop, Miss Mar
garet Mackar. Miss Elizabeth Glen,
Mrs. Pierre Gaillard and Mrs. James
T. BraZelton.
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Miss Olga Sieverling entertained on
Wednesday evening at a surprise birth
day anniversary party at her home on
Fl street, in compliment to her mother,
Mrs. Adolph w. Sieverling, when the
guests. who played bridge, were: Mr..
and Mrs. p. T.. Harding, Mr.. and
Mrs. Maurice Spencer. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Sherzer, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Sieverling, Mrs. T.. V. Mckenna. Miss
Gladys Mckenna, Miss Tillee Posey,
Miss Dorothy Lederer and Mr.. j.
w. Hartig.
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Mrs Proctor Dougherty, wife of the
District Commissioner, chairman of
the committee in charge of the card
party to be given Monday, February
IA, at 2:30 o'clock pm, at the New
Willard Hotel, for the purpose of rails
ing funds to buy medici prints for
the Public Library, announces that
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s. ASSORTED JEWELRY-In a
group which includes smart neck
laces, rhinestone pins, brooches.
Slave-link bracelets. rhinestone ear
rings. All pieces in good style stand
ing-for clearance at $I.95.
Evening star., 1927-12-11

Every time it looks as If everything
was known about cars and their use
along comes some one with a new twist
or a clever idea. Here is an incident
which happened recently and which
shows how some situations may be
handled in a novel way.
An annoying neighbor bought new
car and. before starting on long trip,
decided to break it in by running ~
engine for day and a night. ParAuI
the car down the street from his ho:Ne
so that he would not be annoyed by
the exhaust fumes, he started the en-
gine and then locked all the doors 1t
looked like an easy way to get around
the annoyance of keeping under %
miles per hour for the first 500 miles
Of his trip.
1t so happened that another neigh
Dor detected the exhaust fumes and
decided to stop the engine. Although
it is a violation of law to let an engine
run unattended by a driver when the
car is parked in the street, the irrt'
tated neighbor did not care to rely
on legal proceedings. His idea was
TO stop the engine and end the nui-
sance.
But how? The doors of the car were
locked. and while it would have been
possible to raise the hood and discon-
meet the high-tension ignition wire, he
cid not care to risk tampering with
Evening star., 1927-12-11
AUTOISTS GET WARNING
: OF CLIPPED FLY WHEEL
Clicking Noise in Starting Process
Is Indication That Teeth
Need Eepair.

Motorists who have trouble starting
, the car because of teeth being Clipped
off the flywheel have no valid excuse
for being surprised when such starter
failure comes their way. This sort Of
trouble usually gives it's warning
which is described by one shop fore
man as follows:
1t seldom occurs that more than one
tooth chips. at a time, and 1t also Is
true that one chipped tooth will not
seriously interfere with the starting
procedure. AS a matter Of fact. the
car will start just as we'll, with the
exception that there will be a clicking
sound as the starter gear meshes with
the flywheel gear and cranks over the
engine.
If one fears the consequences of a
breakdown when the car cannot be
cranked except by hand. the time to
avoid any such trouble is when those
first daily clicks are heard in the start
ing process. They are a warning that a
tooth Is chipped and that in time other
teeth will come off and make it impos.
sible for the Bendix gear to take hold
of the fly wheel for a long enough
period to crank the engine when cold,
Evening star., 1927-12-11
INTERSECTIONS HELD
BIG DANGER POINT
Slow Speed at Corners Would
Reduce Accidents, Ex-
pert Says.

BALTIMORE, December 10 (Spe-
ciaD.-Much in the way of property
damage, injuries and death might be
avoided in motor car operation, in the
opinion of Motor Vehicle COMMISSIONS
f. Austin Baughman, through a little
extra effort on the part Of operators
i'm making ii habit to approach and
cross interSecting highways at a slow
and cautious rate of speed. with their
foot on the brake pedal rather than on
the gas.
Failure to slow down and proceed
with caution, as all safety rules re-
quire, at such places results not alone
in vast property damage through col
lisions, but also many injuries and not
few deaths" says the commissioner,
who adds, in this connection:
Usually less than a seconds time
would have sufficed to have possibly
prevented these accidents. A trifling
extra effort on the part Of one, or both
operators, would, no doubt, have pre-
vented death, injury or property dam
age.
prevention of collisions a intersec-
tions is quite simple. In the main, all
that is necessary is to comply with the
right-of-way law and to slow down
and proceed with caution when aD-
pr0acnlnS Sucn point.
Apparently, failure to comply with
these reasonable provisions has be-
come a habit with many operators who
fail TO realize the danger incurred by
merely sounding their horns and con-
tinung on across at unabated speed.
"A motor vehicle is capable of COW
ering a considerable distance in a
short period of time. = a l5mile an
hour rate q vehicle progresses nearly
% feet every second; at 20 miles per
hour nearly 80 feet each second; at 80
miles per hour, Al feet per second.
with an increasing rate of speed,
stopping becomes more difficult. At a
15-nile rate average stops are made in
about 90 feet; at a 20-mile rate in
about 81 feet at a 30-mile rate about
So feet and at 3J-mile rate, SO feet
on the average will be required.
The foregoing figures cannot fail 10
emphasize the necessity for a slowly
cautious rate of speed on approaching
any highway intersection. Any rate
Of speed in excess of 10 to u miles an
hour may be a dangerous rate to ap-
| pr0ach an intersection.
"A little effort on the part Of oper-
ators in making it habit to approach
| and cross intersections at a cautious
/ rate Of speed with their foot on the
! brake pedal instead of the gas, will
/ do much TO eliminate avoidable acCi-
dents on the highways" says Com
| missioner Baughman.
Evening star., 1927-12-11
WARNS MOTORISTS
AGAINST COLD DAYS
Authority Advises Local
AutoiStS Not to ProCraSti-
nate Any Longer.

Washington motor car owners who
thus far have neglected TO have their
cars serviced against the arduous
Winter months should lose no time in
making such provision.
This Is the advice given ny a vet
eran Washington motorlst, who makes
the point that while the weather has
been open" this season. motorists
should not be deluded into believing
that the coming months and far into
March and April will be easy on cars
or their drivers.
"As all local motorists should have
learned" he says. the National Cap
ital rarely is visited by really cold
weather until the middle of December.
and sometimes not until after the
Christmas holidays. But after that
comes a season which is as rigorous
as is to be found anywhere, and one
which makes the most severe dema nds
on motor cars.
For that reason automobile owners
who have procrastinated in the matter
of having needed repairs made, feel
ing that if the weather remains as
moderate. or nearly as moderate. as
it has been for the last two months.
| they will not have to have them at
| tended to at all. are making a great
mistake. one for which they may have
to pay dearly when Winter actually
| gets under way"
! The next fortnight should he util.
| iZed by motorists. according TO this oh
| server. in getting their cars into final
! shape before the long. hard drive,
which will not be terminated until the
| first leaves begin to appear In the
| Spring.
| There still is time" he says.
Ito prepare the vehicle upon which
! YOU are depending for safe and ra pid
/ transportation during the years most
| difficult season for all that it must go
! through in answer to your cea seless
demands. \ little time and care now
| expended will he revealed as doubly
valuable a month or six weeks hence"
Evening star., 1927-12-11
DRIVERS OF OFFICIAL CARS
AROUSE PUBLIC INDIGNATION
Flagrant Violation of Traffic Laws Under
Protection of Brass Buttons
Vigorously Opposed.

Drivers of United States mail
tLucks, motor cycle policemen and
those who fit hither and yon about
tne city or countryside with official
signs plastered on their automobiles
now are being given a measure OF
au'ehtion by observers attempting to
make a thorough analysis of Nation
woe traffic safety conditions
Rich mems sons and daughters,
Iong held up as public examples of
Wiilful disregard for law are to enjoy
: q much-needed respite from the lime
inght of public attention. The reck-
Lessness of a moneyed youth in his
hashy, high-speed roadster now is
viewed as an old story. The modern
chapter in safety has 4 few words
10 say about those who may hide
their recklessness behind brass but
tons and high-sounding titles.
State Police Cited.
Complaints are made by motorists
IN many sections that State police.
whose duty it is to set a good ex-
ample for the motoring public as we'll
as to enforce the law. are speeding
up and down the highways and show
Ing little regard for the traffic stat
utes. These officers show by their
actions that they believe they are
above the legislation which they are
sworn TO uphold, forgetting that all
men are equal before the law of the
land, and that the authority with
which they are clothed in itself is no
license for doing what would be illegal
Tor any other person to do.
Such a situation tends to create a
feeling that discrimination exists in
the enforcement Of the law. and that
always is undesirable. Ii not only
gives rise to resentment toward of
ficers, but is likely to foster disrespect
Tor the law and the persons authorized
to enforce it.
Brass Buttons Condemned.
The use of brass buttons for the
purpose of personal violations of laws
and ordinances is meeting with Ma
tion-wide condemnation. Wealth, once
the great factor in eXoneration, seems
10 be giving way to the official cloak.
Motorists plainly are incensed over
the new turn in the safety problem.
What right" many are asking
has a motor cycle officer to speed
up and down a thoroughfare while
presuming 10 guard the public and
discourage recklessness?,''
A safety advocate who endcavors to
apply the rules Of common sense
while driving tells the following story
as A case in point:
Il had stopped beside a street car
to await discharge of passengers when
a loud cry of Indignation suddenly
went up from the driver Of the car
behind me. His horn screamed get
out of the wayr but l did not move
because Of the universal law forbid
ding the passing of standing street
cars while they are taking on or dis.
Evening star., 1927-12-11

/ charging passengers and, further.
I more, because there were tWo-foOt let
| ters painted on the pavement COM
manding me to stop before proceeding
to cross the intersection.
But the horn blowing continued.
SO, as a suggestion to the impatient
driver behind me, 1 signaled with
my hand and arm a motion that would
I Indicate the possibility of jumping
over my car and getting by in a
| newer and more efficient manner.
Imagine my surprise to observe,
when the vehicle did pass me, that
it was the police patrol merely en-
gagged in Offering transportation to
several policemen who were going out
to their respective beats
THE significant point is that the
patrol had no reason TO hurry and,
under no circumstances, was justified
| i'm asking me to violate ordinances
and endanGer the lives of others"
Functionaries Not Spared.
The new criticism does not even
srare the civic functionary who rides
in an official" car and who has moth
ing to say when his driver violates
regulations. Inspired by the thought
that they are privileged, many driV-
ers Of official cars have thrown re-
sponsiblity to the four winds and are
playing a very important role in de-
feating the true aims of safety on the
streets and highways.
Taxi drivers, however. are being
spared in the new wave of criticism.
In fact, they are receiving praise for
their skill and their ability to keep out
of trouble.
The reason is obvio,... Taxi driv-
ers are responsible. Trouble means
losing a job. 1t is not such business
like proposition in official ranks. Ii
the officer who is fooling the public by
observing conditions from a car in
stead of from a motor cycle, and hap
pens to smash into something, he can
say tha- he was chasing some traffic
violator who was mistaking the street
for a race course.
A traffic officer who crashed into the
rear of a truck and broke his leg
when he was thrown from bis motor
cycle, had nothing to say about his
own actions. lie blamed the driver
of the truck for stopping too sud
denly.
The average commercial driver
fears both the loss of his job and ar
rest The official" driver apparently
fears neither. 1t appears TO be max
ing a difference.
When will the guardians of our
highways, the officials who motor and
the drivers of these city, State and
Federal machines be made to feel that
they are not exceptions to the rule of
safety and that they are responsible
TO the public? Is 1t not time for the
Police Departments. mail service and
other official departments to adopt
the sensible policy now employed by
modern business concerns?
Evening star., 1927-12-11
Steering With Skids
Declared Best Way
OF Breaking Them

Regardless of how wrong it seems
or how firmly instinct argues
against it, the best way to break
skid is to steer with it. Steering
against the direction in which the
rear wheels are sliding tends to in
crease the tangent of the skid. 1t
is hard to see the advantage of
turning the front wheels with the
skid until one actually has expert
enced it's salutary effects. A little
practice on a deserted roadway will
prove the point to the skeptic.
Evening star., 1927-12-11

Tires that have many miles of serv-
ice yet to give but which are short
of the amount of tread that is best
suited for Winter driving, will be re-
placed during the cold months by new
ones in many cases. The old tires
should be stored carefully against the
day when they will be called back into
service. They should be placed in a
dry, dark place, and especial precau-
tions should be taken against placing
them near the heating plant, par.
ticularly if it is of the hot-water or
steam variety.
Evening star., 1927-12-11
Irate Neighbor Stops Motor Of Auto
Running Overnight In Owners Test

the other persons property to that ex-
tent.
He desired some simpler method of
obtaining the desired results, and he
accomplished his purpose merely by
pressing the sole of his shoe against
the end of the exhaust pipe. The en-
gine became irregular and then stalled.
In the morning the owner had to
change his plans somewhat in order
TO purchase a new resistance unit
which had burned out because the ig-
milton was turned on while the engine
was not running. At that, he got off
lightly considering that he mad been
running the engine in direct violation
of law.