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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
PENNSYI v ANA
AT CABINET
DINNER
Congressional Delegation
Guests at Fete for
the President

Ine secretary or LABOR ana MIS-.
Davis entertained at dinner last
night at the Carlton Hotel for the
President and Mrs. Coolidge. the
party bringing to a successful close
the series of Cabinet dinners to the
Chief Executive.
The most unusual feature Of the
dinner was the inclusion among the
guests of the entire Pennsylvania
delegation in Congress and their
wives, headed by Senator and Mrs.
George Wharton Pepper and Sen
ator and Mrs. David Aiken Reed.
Secretary Mellon Of the Treasury
company were the Assistant Sec
rotary Of Labor and Mrs. Carl Robe
White, the Lieutenant Governor of
Pennsylvania and Mrs. Arthur
James, William Green, president Of
Judge and Mrs. George w. Make,
Worthington Scranton. also Of
Scranton shes the Republican Ma.
tional Committeewoman for Penn.
sylvania: Col. and Mrs. Eric Wood,
Of Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
w A1AS4OWa uIaAlOllll
Medill Mccormick. Mrs. w. Harry
Brown, Mrs. HI. A. Strong. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. J. Davis, of Detroit,
brother and sister-in.law Of Sec
rotary Davis; Mrs. Stanley Rinehart
and her sister, Mrs. C. A. Barton,
OF Butler, Pa, and Mrs. Benjamin
Oswald, Of Batavia, Ill.
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VICE PRESIDENT
HONORED AT DINNER
The Vice President and Mrs.
Dawes were the guests for whom
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh gave a din.
were the Belgian Ambassador and
Baroness de Cartier, the Ambass,
adsr Of Argentina and Mime. Pueyr.
redon, the Ambassador OF Chile,
Senior Cruchaga; the German Am.
bassador and Baroness Nathan. the
Hungarian Minister and Countess
Szechenyi, the Austrian Minister
and Nine. Prochnik, Justice and
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, Mr.. and
Mrs. Keith Merrill, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles ]. Bell, Nine. Lais, Col. and
Mrs. Edward Clifford, the former
Governor OF Pennsylvania>and Mrs.
Clifford Pinchot. Mrs. Merchant
Mahony. Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs.
James Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Arm
stead Davis, Miss Mabel Boardman !,
Senator David I. Walsh, Senator
Arthur Capper. Representative A.
Piatt Andrew, DR.. David Jane Hill,
Ira Bennett and Col. William e.
Horton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy L. Neuhauser
gave q dinner last night, entertain.
ing for the Secretary to the Presi.
dent and Mrs. Everett Sanders. The
other guests were former Senator
and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Dial, Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore w. Noyes. Cap.
tain and Mrs. Herbert c. White.
hurst, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel G.
Roper. Brig. Gen. and Mrs. James
e. Fechet, Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs.
William Dwight Chandler, jr.. Mrs.
p. Lee Phillips, Mr.. and Mrs. viii.
son Compton and Phillips Hill.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
COLONIAL WARS
SOCIETY MEETS

Representative Brooks Fletcher Of
Ohio addressed the members Of the
Society OF Colonial Wars in the
District of Columbia at a meeting
held last evening in the Fairfax
room of the Willard. The officers
of this society are: Samuel. Herrick,
governor: the Very Rev, G. c. F..
Bratenahl, deputy governor; Mark
ley Bethea, secretary: Harry Lee
Rust. ir., treasurer, and Capt Rob
ert Root Bennett. registrar
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Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Belmont
of New York are at the Carlton
Hotel for several days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
SENATOR AND MRS.
PEPPER HAVE GUESTS

Senator and Mrs. George Whar-
ton Pepper have as their guests at
the Powhatan Miss Caroline Norton,
Miss Priscilla Carstairs and Miss
Julia Norton. Of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Oscar Z. Bland entertained
at a bridge luncheon today at the
Congressional Country Club. There
were 46 in the company.
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Lady Lister.kaye has arrived from
New York, where she has been spend
ing the winter. and is at the May.
flower. She will attend the dinner
to be given by the British Ambas.
sador and Lady Isabella Howard to.
morrow evening.
The Assistant Secretary of Com.
merce and Mrs. j. Walter Drake
and John Drake left Washington
Saturday for Santa Barbara. CAL.
where they will remain two or three
weeks
Senator-elect and Mrs. Daniel f.
Steck. who have made their home
at the Wardtnan Park Hotel the
past winter, will leave for their
home in Ottumwa, Iowa, the latter
part Of the week. They expect to
make the trip to Paris with the
American Legion next fall.
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Representative and Mrs. Godfrey
G. Goodwin will sail from New
York on the Chateau Thierry on
Tuesday. for trip to the Phil
ippines and Honolulu, returning by
way of California where they will
visit friends.
-
The former German Ambassador
TO Rome and Baroness Gosier are
at the Mayflower.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
NAVY OFFICIAL
HOST AT DINNER

The Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Aeronautics, Edward p.
Warner. entertained at dinner at
Wardman Park Hotel last evening.
when his guests were the Assistant
Secretary of War and Mrs. F. Tru-
bee Dawson. Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Edward H. Campbell, the AS
sistant Attorney General, Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. and
Wing Commander T. G. Hethering-
ton. Of the British embassy and
Mrs. Hetherington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
OFF FOR PANAMA
AFTER ADJOURNMENT

j senator and Mrs. Walter Evans
Edge win sail on Saturday from New
for Panama and expect to be absent
~. 4 month. The Senator may visit
Nicaragua to study the situation
Ahere.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
JERITZA, THE BEAUTIFUL,
ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON

Nine. Maria Jeritza, world IA.
nous Viennesse opera soprano,
comes to us from the Metropolitan
Opera in recital on Friday after
noon. at 4:sO. as the fourth artist
in Mrs. Wilson Gresne's phil.
harmonic Course" OF concerts at
Polls Theater.
Nine. Jeritza will sing. In this
her only recital here of the sea.
son. the arias II est douX, il est
bon" from Massenet's ''Herodiade, /"
and I'm questa Reggia" from PUG.
cini's latest opera, "Turandot, =
which viii be a novelty of the
She win also sing the Brahms
Inner leise"; Cornelius ''Kimm,
wir .wandeln"; Schubert's "Erlko.
mig; Reynaldo Hahn's> "Infidelits" ,;
Augusta Holmes "Au pays: "Con.
stancy" by Edward MacDowell: and
Spring Dropped Song Into My
Heart" by Beatrice Fenner.
Macmillan Rose, violinist, and
Emil Polak, at the piano, will as
sist Nine. Jeritza. Mr.. Rose will
play the Bach "Arioso";; Mozart.
Kreisler "Rondo";; Rimsky- Korsa.
koff flynn to the Sun" and
Ernst's Hungarian Airs"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
sWILBURS TO HAVE
nTNNER TONIGHT

The Secretary OF the. Navy and
Mrs. Wilbur will entertain a small
company at dinner this evening
having the Italian Ambassador,
Mobile Giaconno de Martino. as the
ranking guest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-02
MUSIC NOTES
BY Jessie MacBride-

'phasized by the placing OF RaVels
Spanish Rhapsody after this mas.
terful "Fetes" with its amazing ap.
proach of the far-off marching
throng, up to tempest of aban.
don. Ravel seems initiative and un-
creative after the Debussy score.
His inventions sound merely clever.
not inspirational. 1t came as an
anti-climax that was revealing, but
not to the Ravel credit.
The concert, in the T. Arthur
Smith series, was the fourth. The
final concert Of this great orchestra
win be given on March 20.
The Washington times., 1927-05-31
BROTHER SEES
RUTH At JAIL

OssINsING, N. 2, May s1.--The
hitherto ironclad rules Of Sing Sings
death house were set aside yester-
day to permit a visitor TO see Ruth
Snyder, the condemned blonde from
Queens Village. L. I.
The visitor was her brother, An
drew.
Unaware Of the rule forbidding
visitors on holidays, Brown jour-
neyed to Sing Sing yesterday. At
1irst he was refused admittance, but
when he pleaded that, being q work.
man, this holiday would afford him
his only chance OF his seeing his sis
ter, the rule was waived.
Brown spent an hour in the dingy
death house whispering to his sister
through a fine wire mesh.
Mrs. Josephine Brown, Ruth's
mother. who planned to visit her
daughter, gave up the project when
informed visitors were not allowed.
She spent the day with Lorraine,
nine, her granddaughter. at the Sny-
der home in Queens Village.
On June z a legal battle for GUS
tody Of Lorraine is scheduled to
begin before Surrogate Daniel Noble
in Queen court, Jamaica, L. 1.
The contestants for the right to
guide the child's future destinies
will be her grandmother and War
rem Schneider, a brother Of her
slain father.
Upon the winner of the contest
win devolve the duty of suing the
Prudential life Insurance Company
for $102, 900 insurance.
Unlike other holidays, the mono
tony Of Memorial Day is not re-
lieved by any variation in the
frugal prison fare. Beans, bread
ana tea constituted the menu of
the most pretentious neal Of the
day.
Gray read the newspapers and
smoked cigarettes. Ruth pushed
the papers aside. saying they upset
her, and spent her time walking in
the sunlight in the small exercise
court in the death house enclosure.
The Washington times., 1927-05-31
161 Louisiana POstOffices
Forced to Shut Down

There are 161 postoffices not
functioning in Louisiana because
Of the flood, 1t was reported today
by Warren I. Glover, second as
sistant postmaster general.
Glover, who has been dispatched
to the Mississippi valley to handle the
the mails there, states in a tele-
gram to Postmaster General Harry
s. New that conditions are still
very serious. lBiRla
A special effort is being made
by the postoffice to supply refugees
with newspapers. Some of them
have not read a paper since the
flood started. Glover states.
The Washington times., 1927-05-31
.MRS.CHAPL|N To
FILE ANSWER
-PhOto by InternatiOnaI
D. International NeWs eervice


LOS ANGELES, May 81. - Re.
gardless Of whether newspapermen
are barred from the hearing, Lita
Grey Chaplin was prepared to give
her deposition today in her divorce
suit against Charlie Chaplin.
Last week Mrs. Chaplin refused
to answer questions propounded by
the comedians attorneys when an
attempt was made to have report
ers excluded. Chaplin's lawyers
obtained court order directing the
actors wife to show cause why she
should not answer the interroga-
tons or be held In contempt. The
contempt hearing was scheduled
for next Thursday.
A change in plans by her at.
torneys yesterday brought the an.
nouncement Mrs. Chaplin would
appear this morning in the office
Of Lloyd Wright, Chaplin's per-
sonal counsel, to answer all proper
questions"
This move, it was explained by
Lyndol L. Young. chief counsel
for Mrs. Chaplin, was decided upon
in order to expedite Chaplin's an.
swer to the divorce complaint,
which must be filed by next sat.
urday, unless q further extension
Of time is granted.
Evening star., 1927-05-07
ALL DOORS THAT SLAM
ARE CALLED NUISANCES
Story Is Told of Tired Business
Man Made Crazy
by Noise.

The story is told a out the tired
business man who is reputed to have
gone crazy because of slamming doors.
True or untrue, there is no getting
away from the fact that unchecked
doors-doors that either refuse to
close unless hand is laid upon them,
or doors that slam shut with a bang
before the hand can stop them-are a
constant source of annoyance.
The noisy door is first cousin to the
door thai sticks and refuses to lock
properly. Neither should be tolerated
in the home, yet nearly all homes suf-
fer from doors that are defective in
one respect or more.
With Sum-aer coming on, which
means that screen doors are brought
back into service, the need for door
checks is doubled. Door checks are
made in many styles, suited to doors
of every description. There is a wide
range in prices.
All checks are easily regulated to
the needs or requirements of any par
ticular door, and springs which are
easily wound are ample to meet any
strain which may be put upon a door
The home that is equipped with door
checks has noiseless asset and con-
venience that is appreciated.
Evening star., 1927-05-07
RAPID PROGRESS BEING MADE
ONHOME IN WESLEY HEIGHTS
Star Model Dwelling Expected to Be Com
pleted and Furnished for Inspec-
tion by July 80.

this to be cheaper in the long tu.5
than to have to repair le9ky cellar
walls after water has found its way
through the masonry. he said.
All the sashes used i'm the cellar
windows, Mr.. Miller said, will be
metal, for the reason that they are
less bulky in construction than wood
sashes and, therefore, allow a greater
amount of light in the cellar Metal
sashes also have the advantage. he
said. of being free of swelling and
sticking in wet weather.
After the cellar walls Of the model
home were carried up to the proper
height and leveled exactly around the
building, the first floor joists were put
in place.
Upkeep Big Factor.
In the building of the home the
owner should consider very carefully
the ultimate cost as we'll as the first
cost. No money is saved, and in the
end a great deal of money may be
lost, by the use of inferior, f1imsy, or
substitute materials. The use of
such materials means costly replace
ment or repairs. sometimes within
few months after the completion of
the new home. The use of good
standard or trade-marked materials
1nsures the home owner good and
reasonable service from them, low
maintenance costs and low deprecia-
tion. A house built of such mate
rials will last throughout the lifetime
of the owner and probably for many
succeeding generations of his family.
Watching the construction of this
Star model home closely will be the
equivalent of taking a course in good
construction. This work is intended
to be model, not only for the gen
eral public, but for architects and
younger builders of less experience
as we'll.
Evening star., 1927-05-07
Home Owning and Building Page for Washington
SECOND OF STAR MODEL HOMES
TO BE BUILT IN LYON VILLAGE
Two-Story House of Seven Rooms Will Be
of Italian Design on High Tract
Overlooking Lee Highway.

concrete mixed with waterproofing.
Chimney and fireplace constructed of
brick: provide ash dump and clean-out
door in cellar. Wall above grade con.
structed of concrete blocks. water
proofed inside and out.
Carpentry-All framing to be of
well seasoned pine; oak floors; interior
doors and built-in kitchen cabinet as
required in detailed specifications.
Hardware-All hardware shall be
malleable iron, finished in dull black
or solid bronze. Handle bolts to be
equipped with spring friction clevises
to insure firmness in operation. Fin
ish hardware as required in detailed
specifications.
Easement windows-Steel easement
windows are to be used throughout.
Plastering and lathing
to be two-coat work, to be applied to
insulating lumber; replacing lath as
plaster base; finish coat of hydrated
lime gauged with plaster of paris.
Metal Work-GutterS, leaders and
down spouts to be of heavy galvanized
iron.
Roofing-Main roof shall be 4-ply
Stag roofing; all other to be straight
barrel mission tile.
Painting-Strictly pure white lead
and linseed oil, in proper proportions,
shall form the basis of all paints. In
terror trim to receive three good coats
of white lead and flatting oil and one
coat of flat enamel. Finished floors
to be vanished throughout as directed
in detailed specifications.
Electrical work-Complete system of
electric wiring from meter to all OUT
let's. including all panel boards, juno
ton boxes and all other fittings. The
installation must be in accordance
with the rules and regulations of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters.
Plumbing-A complete system and
fixtures ready to use shall be provided,
as shown on plans and in accordance
with local regulations.
Tile work-Tile floor and wainscot
on bathroom, with built.in accessories.
Insulation-Through with build
ing board used as sheathing and as
plaster bast, replacing lath. AS plaster
base on second floor ceiling operates
as roof insulation.
Evening star., 1927-05-07
Insulated Dwelling, Luxury Years Ago,
Now Costs Less Than Old Time Home

always brings. care should be exer-
cised to see that doors and windows
are snug and that there are no open
spaces,
Evening star., 1927-05-07
NEW DOORS AND TRIM
CHANGE HOUSES LOOKS

1t has been said that you cannot
make a beautiful home with an ugly
house to start with, that all the beau
tiful furniture and artistically tinted
walls will not offset the original
house. The exterior may be orna
mented with porches and additions,
the floors may be refinished, but the
woodwork must remain.
This is no longer true. 1t is hard,
but not impossible. New doors and
trim change the entire aspect Of any
house, fact that has only been real
lied in recent years Originally doors
We're made for utility alone, as a
means of passing from one room to
another Modern doors serve two.
fold purpose, for they add much to
the attractiveness of the room; with
out them, no room can be truly beau
tiful.
With well chosen doors and trim
even the bare room becomes a salts
flying picture, forming a suitable foil
for the furniture and giving outward
evidence of durability. Woodwork
forms an interior background of good
taste in the home of today.
Evening star., 1927-05-07
NEW DEVICES ADOPTED.

Thoughtful housewives planning
their homes are making provision for
proved devices which lessen the tire
some and disagreeable tasks of house
work. One of the outstanding conven-
fences of recent years is the chimney
fed incinerator.
With this there is no longer reason
for the housewife to tolerate so obnox-
ious source Of disease as the garbage
can. All waste material is deposited
in the handy hopper door in the kitch-
en- and falls down the flue into the
incinerator chamber in the basement,
which is lighted at intervals.
Tin cans and other non-combustibles
are flame sterilized and dropped to the
ash pit, to be removed later.
Evening star., 1927-05-07
DANGER CALLED SMALL.

The prospective home owner who
uses his commonsenSe in considering
the real needs of his family and his
ability to pay, and who checks his
own judgment by consulting expert
enced persons, may so ahead with full
confidence.
He need not be frightened by the
mistakes of needless persons who have
been carried away by some novel fea-
ture and coaxed into a bad bargain or
who have tried to buy beyond their
means.
While some risks are involved, as is
usually the case in obtaining anything
worth while, the danger of failure is
relatively small when weighed against
the advantages of an owned home.
Evening star., 1927-05-07
PRESSURE AND SMOKE
HELP PLUMBING TEST
Split Hubs or Defective Pipe
Should be Removed and Re-
placed by Perfect Ones.

Every plumbing system should be
given two teStS-one when the
''roughIng in has been completed and
another after the fixtures and fittings
are in place.
For the roughing tests, the openings
should be closed up temporarily and a
water pressure of at least 10 pounds
applied to the whole system, which
should then be given a most careful
examination for leaks, especially those
likely to occur in out-of-the-way
places.
If split hubs or defective pipe are
found--and they may be, despite the
utmost care on the part of the manu-
facturer-they should be removed and
replaced by perfect ones. The final
test may be in the form of pungent
smoke pumped into the system. Any
large leaks will make themselves
known by sight of the escaping; smoke
and small ones may be detected by the
odor of the smoke.
Soap suds may be applied to any
suspected places, and If there is a
leak, bubbles will show themselves.
Evening star., 1927-05-07

Rapid progress is being made in the
construction of The Star model home
in Wesley Heights. To date work has
gone along on schedule time, and it is
expected the house will be finished.
completely furnished and ready for
formal public inspection promptly on
July 80.
This model home, the first of the
1927 series sponsored by The Star
as service to it's readers, is being
built by the firm of w. c. & A. n.
Miller, Washington realtors and build
ers. 1t is located on the west side of
Forty-fourth place between Garfield
and Hawthorne streets.
The Wesley Heights model home is
a two-story English cottage type of
brick and stucco with exposed timber
work, containing eight rooms.
Excavation Complete.
The excavation for the house was
completed last week and the concrete
footings for the foundation then We're
poured. The foOtings are two feet
wide and one foot deep and extend
around the entire building. After these
footings had been allowed to stand and
harden construction of the foundation
wall was begun.
This wall is of hard-burned clay
brick laid in cement mortar and is 13
inches in thickness. The excavation
was made sufficiently larger than the
actual floor area to allow for the
parging of the cement and sand of
this foundation wall below grade.
There are built into the wall two
courses of slate. one just above the
footings. and another at the grade
line. This slate has been built in to
top the absorption of water by the
walls for it is we'll known fact that
all masonry. even hard-burned brick
absorbs moisture upward and that
unless some impervious barrier such
as slate is built into the wall water
will absorb upward, eventually ruin
ing the plaster in the building above
and tending to rot out the ends of
the joists upon the wall.
In addition to the parging. the
builders will cover this wall below
grade with hot pitch as further
barrier against the absorption of
water by the masonry, and as a final
check against the water hazard they
will lay around the building a course
of drain tile which will spill into the
sewer line of the house.
Cellar Damppr0of.
One of the most disagreeable things
that can confront a home owner. w.
G.. Miller pointed out today, is a
leaky, damp cellar. 1t is, therefore.
much wiser, he said. to expend the
necessary funds for proper prevention
OF this condition than to attempt to
avoid the additional cost by omitting
the features of cellar construction de-
scrloed above. Experience has showr
Evening star., 1927-05-07

Formerly insulated houses were un-
doubtedly luxury. Insulation. being
an added expense, could be used only
in the erection of the most elaborate
homes. Now an insulated house can
he built for the same cost as old-fash-
ioned, loosely constructed houses, and
in many localities the cost IS some
what less. The resultant fuel saving
is an added advantage.
An insulated house retains the tenn
perature which is created inside its
walls for an indefinite period. In hot
Summer weather the house must be
cooled by the opening of windows
after the sun goes down. In the morn
ing. when the heat of the day again
approaches, the windows should be
closed or nearly closed and the shades
drawn so that the effect of the insula-
tion in retaining the night GOODNESS
will not be offset by heated air waiting
in through open spaces. Every good
housewife knows this trick of keeping
the house cool, but il is invariably un-
successful in the upper portions of the
house. as the hot rays of the sun
actually penetrate the materials of
WHICH the Olu-idSnlODSO flOuSG AZ builLs
making sleeping quarters unbearably
warm.
BY observing a small fraction of the
precaution which is exercised with a
refrigerator in keeping the doors
closed so that the warm air viii not
melt the ice and spoil the food, an in
sulated house may be maintained with
unusual comfort in the hottest
weather.
BY the same token. precaution
should be used in the Winter time to
gain full benefit from insulation. IT
is obvious that no matter what mate
rials are used in the construction of a
house the heating plant would be en-.
tirely ineffective if the windows and
doors We're left open during cold
weather. But some houses are SO
loosely constructed that the aggregate
amount of infiltration of air around
windows and. doors is equal approxi
mately TO one good sized door opening.
In order therefore, to secure the
maximum benefit from an insulated
house, save fuel and retain that
warmth and comfort which insuls ton