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PARIS EXPECTS
DROP IN COSTS
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PARIS. Oct. Sin spite of the
fact that a large number of people
keep talking about 1.-The good old
days" and the eternal increase in
prices, figures just published by the
Minister of Labor show that living
in France is now several points
lower than it was in 1926 and the
chances are that it will continue
on the downward trend, inasmuch
as the franc is now stabilized.
Life in France is now just five
times more expensive than it was
before the war. Taking the figure
/ to indicate the cost of living in
July, 1914, prices in 1925 stood at
as; in 1926, they were at 5.71 and
in 1927, $50 and at the present
time, approximately $40.
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TUNNELS LURED
BY SCENERY
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ROME, Oct. 8.--The beauty of the
scenery about the city of Merano
has so captivated Mrs. Polly" Tun-
ney that she sent a telegram to
her mother today asking her and
her brother to go there to enjoy
the view.
The former heavyweight cham
piOn and his bride have remained
longer at Merano than any other
place they have visited upon their
honeymoon.
This was due to the double fact
that the scenery is wonderful and
that the reporters and photog.
raphers have not bothered them
there.
The honeymooners arrived on
Saturday night and were still there
today, with every indication that
they would remain indefinitely
They plan a visit to the Italian
lakes in the same regiOn-a dis
trict noted for its scenic beauty.
Both Gene and Polly" were en-
raptured over the loneliness of the
scenery and the solitude.
1t is expected that Mrs. Lauder,
mother of the bride, and her brother
who remained behind in Rome after
the marriage last week, will go to
northern Italy to join the honey
mooners.
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8 DIE IN PLANE
CRASHES
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Eight persons, two of them still
unidentified today, were killed IN
three airplane crashes yesterday at
fields in the west and middle west.
Two planes collided in the air at
Detroit and five persons were killed.
Two of them, young woman and
young man, were unidentified to-
day. The dead included Capt.
Clement Brown, president of the
Aero Coupe company, of Detroit
and his fiancee, Marjorie Yuill, the
fiancee of Russell j. Paulger, pilot
of one of the planes, was waiting
for HON on the ground and saw him
crash to his death.
In a crash at Denver two young
socially prominent girls were killed
when the unlicensed pilot of the
plane in which they were making
a flight forbidden by their father,
"froZe" to the controls while the
ship was in a tail spin.
The girls were Mary Begole, %,
and her sister, Carroll, 10, daugh-
tiers of George Bego,e, city auditor
of Denver. The pilot, Charles Will
son, is critically injured with a
broken back.
At Cincinnati a pilot was killed
and student flier injured when their
plane crashed from a height of 100
feet
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FINED IN
ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA. Va, Oct. s.
Fines totalling more than $1,000
were levied in police court by
Judge Snow today. John Little
and Roy Thomas, North Carolina
youths who were captured Saturday
while transporting So jars of corn
liquor in small roadster, were each
fined $3.50 and costs and given three
months Jail sentences. Elizabeth
Fleming, colored, charged with sec
ond offense against the dry law,
was given 6 months in Jail and a
fine of $40 and costs. De Witt
Turner, charged with reckless driv-
ing, was fined $50 and costs. Ten
drunks who pleaded guilty were
given the usual $14 fine.
Exercises will be held at the
Old Presbyterian Meeting House
next Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock
when a gravestone will be unveiled
in honor of the memory of James
Craik. chief surgeon of the Con-
tinental Army and Washington's
physician, whose grave in the old
church yard has been unmarked.
Surgeon Ireland and Representa-
tive r. Walton Moore will be the
speakers.
The October term of the Corpora
ton Court convened today with
Judge William p. Woolls presiding.
Classes at the Alexandria High
School have been organized for the
current year. The senior class Of
ficers are Howard Blackwell, presi-
dent, Cleveland Shaw, vice presi-
dent. and Samuel Bernheimer, Sec
retary-treasurer. Elizabeth Knight
has been made editor Of the Last
Lap. the monthly publication. and
Ellen w. Painter editor of the
Alecko. the annual.
Malvin Ayers, Is, of Fairfax
County. was taken to the Alexan-
dria Hospital last night, the vic
tim of a hit.and-run driver.
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BORDER STATES
GET 4 SVN til
SPEECHES
By GEORGE r. HOLMES
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ALBANY. N. Y, Oct. 8.-Gov.
Al Smiths real drive for the Pres
idency gets under way this week.
The West is behind him. Tbs
border States are at hand. The
East lies ahead.
This week the Democratic nom
Inee invades the border country. Il
IL doubtful. it is also necessary 70
his candidacy lie 1T Is to be success
full in November. Figure a. they
will, the Democratic managers cam
not envision Democratic success in
November without some Of the bor-
cdr States.
Next Saturday Governor Smith
will be in Louisville, KY. all OF
Friday will be spent In Tennessee.
The week following will see him in
Missouri. He already has been IN
Oklahoma. Maryland, another Inn
porant border State. is being saved
until later in the campaign.
Will Talk Tariff
Governor Smith probably will
speak on the tariff at Louisville,
there in the blue grass country, he
will lay low the charge that he is
"a traiff for revenue only" Demo-
crat, and blossom forth as a pro-
tectionist. That at least il the
prospect.
The itinerary for Governor
Smiths second week on the road
was still undecided today. Sedalia,
Mo-, and Chicago are still on the
schedule for the second week, but
whether there will be other dates
appeared doubtful today.
There has been a good deal OF
dickering over an Ohio date. Cleve.
land, Cincinnati and Columbus are
being considered. Today it appeared
problematical whether Governor
Smith will speak at all in the State
or in Indiana.
The Governor has striven COM
stantly to cut down the number OF
speeches originally mapped out for
him by the national committee. He
intends to make at most not to ex-
coed Is speeches during the cam.
paign. Six of those he has deliv.
cred in the West. He figures on
four more in the border States,
leaving the rest to be scattered
throughout the East in the final
two weeks of the campaign.
Governor Smith will leave Albany
tomorrow on the first leg of his
second tour. He will go to New
York for conferences with party
leaders before proceeding on to
Tennessee Thursday.
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Tires for trucks or pleasure cars can
be easily purchased from the tire service
company advertising in the "WhO's
Who" cOlumns-4-next to last page.
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HOOVER CLAIMS
VIRGINIA AND
TENNESSEE
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
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international News Service
Herbert Hoover is certain to carry
Tennessee and Virginia and has an
'.even chance OF winning North
Carolina and Alabama. it was de-
clared here today by members Of his
board of strategy" in summarizing
the effects of his one-day invasion
of the "Solid South. /"
The Hoover advisers were highly
pleased with conditions in the South
and enthusiastically predicted Hoover
would be the first Republican nomi-
nee since before the Civil War to
smash through the traditions that
have kept Dixie Democratic for SO
years. Hoover also was cheered as
hundreds of kilograms reached him
with congratulations on his Eliza
BEETHOVEN, Tenn, speech.
Hughes Going Into Action
The Hoover campaign meanwhile
roared into high gear. Sharles
Evans Hughes, standard bearer Of
the 1925 campaign, and William E.
Borah, the lone wolf" of Idaho,
will share the limelight with the
nominee during the last month Of
the campaign. Other speakers will
be broadcasted in the east and west,
every morning and evening up until
election day.
Borah, just concluding a long
swing through the west. will return
here this week to confer with
Hoover. Then he will leave again
on tour of six states-West Vir-
ginia, New York. Connecticut, New
Jersey, Rhode Island and Massa-
chusetts. He will speak in New York
City toward the close Of the cam
paign.
Hughes will open his speaking
tou rim behalf of Hoover at Sedalia,
Mo-, within the next two weeks.
Then he will make four more pre-
pared addresses. closing the cam
paign in Brooklyn. He also will
speak in Massachusetts and upstate
New York. according to present
plans.
Hoover To Speak Twice
Hoover himself will make two
more speeches in the East, one at
Boston October Is and the other in
New York City. October %. He may
add a third for the last week OF
| October, before he leaves for his
| California home to vote.
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JAZZ OPERA To
BEFILMED
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VIENNA, Oct. 8.-The jazz-opera,
Johnny Strikes Up" by the young
Austrian composer, Ernest kreneK'
will probably be the first modern
opera phonofilm from reliable source.
Krenek, who is one of the most
successful musicians Of the younger
set" has concluded negotiations
with Hollywood company and his
opera, which was the big sensation
OF the past season, will soon be
seen in the movies. where its filmed
musical accompaniment will be re-
produced by loud speakers.
The text as well as the music OF
Johnny Strikes Up" is very mod
ern, "AmericaniZed," and contrary
to all operate conditions. There
fore it caused considerable com
ment that the most conservative
opera house of the world, the
Vienna Grand Opera, has also pre-
scnted it to its critical audience.
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The situation is complicated by
the clamor of Maryland pupils for
admission. These are admitted
only il the number in the class
they seek to enter is less than AZ.
When the quota is filled and a Dis
trict child asks for admission. room
IA made by dismissing a Maryland
nupil, who may have had only a
davis or a weeks instruction.
Three of the portables~ imme-
diately adjoin the school building.
sTwo are on a site owned by the
0istrict at Broad Branch Road, and
Northampton Street. Four are on
another District-owned site at
Thirty-sixth and Ellicott Streets
Northwest.
plans are now being drawn in
tbe Municipal Architects office for
q new grade school building on the
Broad Branch Road site. The build
ing is expected to be ready for
nupils next year. Eventually a
%chooI will also be built at the
Thirty.sixth Street site.
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Minister, 81, and Friend
Killed in Auto Crash

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Oct. s.
Two men were killed and a woman
seriously injured when an auto
mobile plunged through a bridge
at Beckley last night.
The Rev. Lee Ashworth, 81. OF
Bland, Va. and James w. Powers,
Of Beckley, are dead,
Mrs. Powers suffered fractured
leg and severe bruises.
The Washington times., 1928-10-08
WANTS FIRM DISSOLVED

wbe dissolution Of Wilcox, Hane
nd Company, Incorporated, real
astate brokers, was asked by George
= Hane, in equity court today.
Through Attorneys Burkart and
omjnn. Hane tells the court that he
I,as acquired all capital stock in the
corporation since the death OF his
80 mariners and now prefers that
tns. corporation be dissolved.
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LOCATION OF THE BUILDINGS

Branch Road and Northampton Street Northwest The
picture at the left above, shows two Of the portable
schoohouses at the Brown School ste while the picture
below shows two youngsters rdgng their to school
The map in the center shows the locations of the portable
The Washington times., 1928-10-08
Roy SHOT BY PAL

YORK, Oct. S.--Raymond M
GundeI. 14-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Gundel, was shot in the
chest by a companion who aimed at
q can held by the Gundel boy with
a rifle. The lad Is confined to the
hospital. The boys were practicing
at a target a mile south of the city
The Washington times., 1928-10-08
Socialist Lecturer Sees
Honver Next President

Herbert Hoover VIII be the next
President, Charles Solomon. Social
jst, predicted in the course OF en-
address yesterday afternoon at SO8
I st. n. w. Solomon, who just re-
turned from tour or the south,
SacIa rcd that Governor Smith will
- s1snowed under" in that section.
The lecture was the first of a
.aries of five to be devoted to po-
I;ticaJ Darties of this nation. Next
week the forum will discuss the
Communist party.
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visibly under the shock OF his
;mpertinence. Then she / stared
poisonously at Linda. turned on
ner heel and walked back through
her front door.
There was a dark bay window
m her house whose curtains wers
moving stealthily. Tom gave 1T
an angry glance and drew Linda
toward the waiting car. odd
anooping heilion." he said. Il hope
she wasn't disappointed"
Nervous laughter welled up
and broke from Linda's lips. "She
probably wasn't. The pose was
perfect-exactly the sort of thing
a woman like her would hope to
see on the Veranda of perfectly
respectable archaeology professor.
It makes grand gossip for tie
Fortnightly Bridge Club"
But he isn't respectable" said
Tom. settling a robe about her
knees and leaning back to adjust
the gear shift. THAT is, not re-
spectable according to Marbury
standards. He neither goes to
church. owns a small sedan nor
wears (Thicago-made clothes. He
.Ioesn't fall in with the presidents
set Of tea drinkers, or with the
country club set of gin drinkers.
"He hasn't annexed a stout,
comfortable wife to talk over the
fence with Mrs. Steuer, and he
nae persisted in tearing about
town to formal receptions on that
srotesoue wheel of his, In, indeed.
- Won expect DR.. Primes respect
ahiIity to protect you from Mrs.
Steuer's malace, you're sunk. He
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the table, he made for it, poured
himself drink, and left the room.
A, moment later, they heard the
soft chug-chug OF his engine near
the front step.
The Hindu had disa ppeared. DIR.
Prime gathered up Linda's wraps
and helped her to her feet. When
they reached the door. he stopped
to say to her: Next time you ride
with Doyle Hoskins. stay In town.
I don't patrol all the surrounding
roads, looking for young ladies to
pick up out of the dust. Good
night"
He had thrust her into Toms
outstretched, helpful arms. and
shut the door. They could hear
him tramping back toward the
gods and COLLINS OF the study.
Tom, reaching to support her
body, let his arms tighten around
her. For a moment she hung upon
him, limp and helpless. Linda"
he SAID, j love you. sweetheart
Before she could answer, the
porch light next door flashed on
and flooded them in it's hrillia nee.
The angry Mrs. Steuer stood nv
the porch railing staring across
thunderously at them.
CHAPTER 30
Linda shrank back. but Tom
would not release her. He only
held here there in the light. with
one arm around her, and with the
other made the gesture of
courtly bow to the deans wife.
That robust lady started almost
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pal stood with his hands be-
hind his back, staring out at
the night. His attitude was
not that of a servant await
ing orders.
DR.. Prime poured a second glass
of port for Linda, and two more
for himself and the Hindu, Come,
Gopal,' he said, lifting his glass.
. I'VE must drink to Miss Waldron s
health-and to her better judg-
ment" Linda set her glass down
untasted. This sardonic silence as
to her nights escapade was max
ing her uncomfortable.
When Dhan GoDal went out
with the glasses, she turned to DIR.
Prime. Look here. You think me
worse than am, because you
found me walking home from a
motor ride, as all the girls do in
the cheap magazine stories. Her
face had taken on an angry red.
A flicker of q smile crossed the
professors dark, bearded face. I'm
the contrary, think you much
better than / had any right to ex-
pect-in this generation. Bad girls
don't walk home, do they
He was laughing at her. Linda
settled back with her eyes on the
Javanese Monsters Her lips pouted
childishly.
The doctor seemed to speak more
seriously. But the knocker fell on
the door outside, and Dian Gopal
glided to open it.
Hello there, kid" said Thomas
Moonlight. ushered into the light
and blinking his eyes against it.
when do we start?"
AT once" broke in DIR. Prime,
looking at the battered alarm clock
that did duty on cabinet shelf.
"Go out and start your motor
quietly. One of hell's worst fends
lives next door, and it's now past
midnight, two hours past closing
time for Linda's boarding house"
Tom nodded and rose easily from
his perch on the foot of the crouch.
Seeing thS port bottle standing on
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By Virginia Swain

kicked her Pekingese out or his
yard last year when he caught
it tearing the throat OF his pet
pigeon. l came up just after the
tragedy and found him sitting on
the ground beside the dying
pigeon, sobbinE cut loud. The
woman was glarins at him over
the hedge with green, gloating
eyes. / wanted to knock her
down"
HIM" said Linda, judicially.
Look here, darling" continued
Tom, II won't be put off the
track by that old dragon. I was
Just saying something-what was
it-that I loved you, wasn't II?
Linda dimpled. Somewhat" she
corrected.
The boy nodded gravely. "Oh,
to be sure. And what did you
intend to answer to that?"
Linda threw her head back and
looked at him with a half smile.
II didn't intend to answer"
Thomas Moonlight nodded po-
litely.
He let the car idle through
dark street behind the campus.
ANU l4luEd SdL N0IE oNLclStA1 0N11~A
stiff against the side of the seat.
Come on, be yourself, Beauti-
full" he said. And stop looking
like a Portrait of Young Lady
who Expects to Be Kissed.
won't, l assure you"
He heard her catch her breath
angrily and grinned in the dark
ness. After little while he
stopped the car under an over
hanging locust three and turned
to her. What's the matter,
Linda? How did you get hurt
and why were you at Doc Primes
tonight? I'm not asking to pry,
but because I'm really interested,
you know"
Linda looked at him doubtfully
a moment and at last began 10
talk. IT was out riding" she
said, with Doyle Hoskins.'
The name came out with an oh
Vious effort. And when we got
out OF town, I got out Of the car,
fell out. in fact, and DR.. Prime
came along and picked ma up.
That's all.
EEs Rs Continued Tomorrow
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4 . i f. y .
dreamed for a moment you would
fail to read between the lines OF
that letter. AS you read it. I've
insulted you and I'm most Dis.
perately sorry
Shirley looked at him with = con.
tempt not far removed from pity.
She disensaged her arm.
Roger, I've given you all the
money | had. / can't do any more
tor YOU. / want the few things
1Slaad that were OF any value and
VIII send for them. II ! can
help YOU In any way / would still
do so, but I4cannot. If l had an
other fifty thousand dollars or
could borrow 1t, would give II
to you. Al 1t Is can do nothing.
But Brennaway--you don't
mean to say he's going to let the
action come into court? Don't
you see he'll take steps to prevent
ii in his own way IL he thinks
you're Indifferent. You must beg
him not to let your name be
dragged through the mire, then
] can make terms with him
I'm not going to blackmail him-I
don't want to extort anything
from him only want safety
in all conscience it's little enough
to ask.
@"You. needn't Be so frightened,
Roger" she said, really wishing
that she could comfort him d little
as well as save herself from the
degrading spectacle Of his fear.
ALAN isn't at all spiteful. He
won't take any steps against you.
That Gained him considerably.
II don't want to parade my own
misfortunes and please don't
think I'm nursing q grievance
against you. Shirley" he said.
but you gave me the wrong cue
by staying the night there. All
this has so upset me that / find 1t
very difficult to concentrate my
attention" Shirley groaned at
the oft repeated formula. You
must give me q lead. Do you
think the best thing would be to
write TO Brennaway and say that
] have seen you and accepted your
explanation and-withdraw the
threat OF an actiou?'I
Shirley felt as If her heart had
missed a beat. Here was her crisis.
she must tread with the utmost
care. If she were to advise him
to withdraw from the action in his
present state of mind, he would
almost certainly accept the advice.
On the other hand, she could
never look Alan in the face
again ii at this stage OF their
relationship she were deliberately
to strive for divorce.
II can't advise you one way
or the other about the action,
she said shortly. THAT is your
own affair"
You can at least tell me this,
If you really wish to help me-
does Brennaway intend to con.
tent himself with an ordinary
defense in court?'
mo, He does not intend 10
defend it at all" she told him.
"Ah." He clutched at his chin.
why not?"
There was a short silence and
then:
Just minute. Shirley. !
feel az il rnists were clearing
and. as it were revealing fresh
nists. When you stayed the
night at the cottage YOU did
not apparently expect me to
take steps for a divorce. Why,
then, did you stay the night at
the cottage?"
Shirley 1esitated. Tt would be