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THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia. Maryland. Vir-
einia and West Virginia-Partly cloudy
tonight tomorrow increasing ciolldi-
ness. with Slowly rising temperature.
Record for Twenty-four Hours.
Thermometers pm. a.: 8 pm. 80:
IL midnight. 81: am, SO; 8 am, IS:
noon. 49,
Barometer a pm. 29e4 8 pm,
So03; l2 midnight 3005: am, 3007;
8 am. 30.i4: noon. 30.l3.
Highest temperature. 48, occurred at
36. occurred at 4 am today
Temperature same Gate last year
Highest. 81; lowest, 80.
Tide Tables.
Furnished By United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey)
Today-Low tide, SAP am. and e:oe
pm; high tide, 1929 am. and il:46
pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. e:25 am. and
$50 pm: high tide. I2:ll pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 7:07 am: sun sets
e:3s pm.
Tcmorrow-Sun rises 7:06 am: sun
sets $40 pm.
Moon rises 1924 pm: sets e:47 am
Automobile lights TO be lighted one
half hour after sunset. ~
Condition of the Water.
Great Fails-Very muddy.
Weather in Various Cities.
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police the two. driving an automobile
belonging to the deputies, stayed at the
Smith home for short time until
asked to leave.
Burns said he did not know they
were being hunted until yesterday,
when he read newspaper account OF
their disappearance.
Radio stations WBAA, Purdue UNI
versity, and WIS and KYW OF Chicago
last night broadcast information about
the deputies and escaped prisoners. A
description OF the automobile. a black
touring car, bearing 1928 Indiana IL
cense 475-475. also was broadcast.
Additional details of American Le-
gion members, county and State po-
lice and volunteers we're sent out today
to search for the missing deputies. one
IS years Of age and the other 81. Of
ficials believe the deputies were either
slain and their bodies hidden or that
they were rendered helpless and left In
some isolated place.
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SHIP FRAUDS REVEALED |
WITH ARREST OF TWO
By the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA. February To-
Wholesale frauds. leading steamship
captains TO put TO sea with men whom
they believed experienced, but who,
Government agents asserted, never
had smelled salt water" we're revealed
here last night with the arrest Of tTo
New Yorkers.
The prisoners. John J. Clark and
Raymond r. German, we're held by a
Federal commissioner under $4,000
bail each. Clark was charged with
buying. selling and altering Official
United States documents. while GN9-
man was held as a material witness.
He was alleged TO have admitted SELL
ing a seanans certificate IN Clark.
Officials sai' the frauds were national
In scope, With Philadelphia as the
headquarters OF the ring.
Members Of the ring we're alleged TO
have bought and sold certificates ny
discharge from vessels and certificates
Of service. erasing the original holders
name and substituting that OF the pur-
chaser. They also we're said TO have
dealt in sailors passports. charging
$500 for them.
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|0SbORN DENIES
! GYPSY WIFE IS IS
HCommoner" Answers Suit of
[ king" Mitchell to Sep
arate Couple.

William l.. Osborn. the "commoner'
vho married Princess" Julia Mitchell
otherwise called Mary ]. Mitchell
daughter Of Emil Mitchell. king of the
gypSieS. al Rockville November Il. today
filed an answer to the injunction suit
brought against him III the name Of his
wife by her father. by which the latter
Sought To separate the couple,
Through Attorneys Whe!an g.
O'Connell. the husband denies that his
wife is only l6 wears old as claimed III
the Sui;. but asserts that she was re-
puted 10 be Is years old. and he had
been told by King Mitchell that she was
is and that he gave that age when APP
plying for the marriage license. He
denies all the other allegations of the
fathers petition. and asserts that King
Mitchell had sold his daughter TO 2
Philadelphia gypsy for $4,000 agains;
her will and without her consent.
Osborn tells the court that al the re-
quest Of the princess he went to Phil
adelphia and brought her back to
washington 10 rescue her from the
gypsy 10 whom she had been sold. he
says. He admits there was no consent
Of parent or guardian 10 the issuance
Of the marriage license. and there did
not need 10 be. since the girl. as he had
been informed. is Is years old
Mary l. Osborn. wife Of the defend
ant. attaches to his answer an affidavit
n which she declares the suit, although
IN her name by hoT father as next
friend. was not filed at her request or
with her consent. but over her obicc-
tion. She says she Is over Is years ole.
and is legally competent to enter into
valid marriage without the consent
Of her father
She married Osborn she says, with
full knowledge Of all the consequences.
Is now living with him and desires to
remain with him. Her surroundings
she says. are better than when under
her father. and she is receiving an ed
ucation. which was denied by her
father The suit is merely TO get her
TO return to gypsy life. she says. to tell
fortunes for The benefit of her father
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lpon the Capital and the citizens

upon the Capital and the citizens
therein.
"At the regular February meeting OF
the board. held on the evening of the
7th, communication to this effect
from n Washington citizen was pre-
sented and members Of the board who
had seen the Aim expressed their feel
ings that the film was one that should
not be shown because of the said i'm
moral character and because Of the re-
Election cast upon the dignity OF the
Capital.
"At the conclusion Of this discussion
the secretary of the chamber was in
structed to write to you In protest
and urging In particular that all ref
ercnce to Washington be eliminated
from the film, because the scenes rep
resented as taking place In Washington
we're untruthful and derogatOry.
1.-THE chamber hopes that you may
be able to take steps through your Of
flee as a result of which this film will
BE- modified or suppressed"
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PRISONERS SEEN,
DEPUTIES MISSING
Guards Taking Two to Reforma'
tory Believed Slain or Held
Helpless.
BY tho Associated Press.

By tho Associated Press.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, February To-
Search for Deputy Shertfs John F.
Grove and wallace Mcclure, who dis
appeared Tuesday while taking two
prisoners to the State Reformatory, at
Pendleton, 90 miles distant. was ex-
tended to Illinois today after word
came from Danville. ILL.,. that the two
prisoners, each under 20 years OF age,
had been seen near there.
According to word from Danville po-
lice, the two prisoners. Samuel Baxter
and John Burns, both under to rs
year sentences for robbery. were at the
home Of Burns uncle, at Kingston, Ill.
near Danville. Tuesday morning. sew
eral hours after they left here In the
custody of the deputy sheriffs: Otto
w. Smith, Burns uncle, told Danville
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IAN economic patriot" When an
American does the same thing he Is
"a materialistic Shylock." Understand
ing that as The basis of European
thought, ii is not difficult TO grasp
! the next stage OF this story-but TO
! understand what YOU are about to read.
| you must accept the European view
| point that anything done by Americans
| is wrong because We did 1t.
| Back in April. 1917 We had just de-
clared war on Germany. The public
| lists OF England and France were telling
! US how wonderful We were and how
we were going TO save the world for
democracy. Missions" poured across
| the sea 10 arrange for men, money and
| supplies to be sent from this country
to our new allies. The need of haste
was dinned into our ears and we were
told that in this crisis OF the human
| race there was no time 10 talk OF such
sordid details as loans or repayments.
| Americans were so generous I'VE were
toldl that we wouldn't ask such en-
bsrrassing questions. anyway.
We laid all our resources on the table
and told them to help themselves. They
did We never dreamed that they
would ever think Of holding out on us
and we took for granted the same un-
stinted cooperation that we gave.
Did we get 1t.
We did not!
Foreign Attitude on Air Mastery.
In April, 1917. while French mis-
sions were helping themselves TO our
freely proffered resources, M. DAu-
bienv. president OF the aeronauticai
subcommittee of the French army,
wrote a letter to NJ Daniel Vincent.
nnt, - 90 rf
| itary aeronautics. This letter. written
| within two weeks after we had entered
the war. warned M. Vincent Of his du-
ties in the pending negotiations for
American help and contained the fol-
lowing admonitOry statement:
1T Is necessary to also hold account
in the negotiations with the United
States) Of this other fact that the war
has given birth TO a new industry. TO
which We owe In the national interest
10 reserve for after the war a vast
market BY LIMITING IN WHATEVER
MEASURE POSSIBLE THE COMPE-
TITTON OF FOREIGNERS"
On May %, 1917, the British parlia-
ment appointed committee on civil
aerial transport This committees
report TO the air board declared:
COST WHAT IT MAY. this country
fGreat Brltainl must lead the world
| in civil aerial transport" The British
viewpoint was further expressed In
these words--"The commercial aircraft
| OF the future will be TO aerial defense
what the merchan, marine has been 70
| the grand feet" The next step In this
| program Of cooperation was TO tell us
| that England and France had devci-
| opec the types OF airpIaneA most suit
! able for war use and that our indus
| tries could be Of most service by de-
! voting their energies TO building re-
| placements for these types. That sound
| ed rea9Jnable. but p few American
| Dr0us we're flrrowed in thought when
We were told that We should eonfine
our efforts TO the manufacture OF parts
WHICH. were 10 be shipped 10 England
and France 10 be assembled. Still, we
| did that, too.
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What Happened to Our Money.

Then We adopted an air program Of
our own. for which at various times
Congress appropriated the impressive
sum Of 81 .g87 .05474s. Later Congress
revoked sss7 900 900 Of this amount.
Leaving the amount available for air
plane and engine construction 81, 200 e
054 758 This IL the amount that was
supposed 10 have been stolen" Let's
ser where IL went
The American Aeronautical Industry
got &GS 704. I55. for which 1t delivered
10 the Government 9,7z2 airplane.~wan
average cost per plane of $685.. which
VAS less than the cost of plane pro-
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duction in any country In Europe during
the war period.
725,37O, for which 1t delivered 14.765
airplane engines--an average cost of
$6.SS9.
The automobile and other industries
produced 4,l52 airplanes at cost of
$29,0l6888, and 27.l88 airplane en-
gines at q cost of $143.1l2.792 The
total expenditure with American manu-
facturers was $35S.6O9.2 .205, for which
the Government received 1894 air.
planes and 4l.953 airplane engines =
Il greater production than shown by
the total Of England and France in
an" similar period during the war;
What became Of the planes? Most
Of them were used in training aviators
III American flying schools. About
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CHAPTER ".
American AirnlaneS.

The European propaganda aimed at
the destruction of American belief III
our ability To build and fly airplanes
has been mentioned in a previous chap
ter The time has come TO turn up
a few cards besides Aces.
1t seems to be an article Of faith
on the other side of the Atlantic that
when European makes money he l.
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Rickcuhaci>cr scored his first victory In n
hrllm& hattie over the German lines James
Nti~suer also moved INTO ihr scoring Column
With victory over an AlhatroSs. In tho
liz hifnE the tahriC vas torn off one wing of
Mct<sner's plalte and the other l0osened but
by = game struggle he regaiued the Ancrl-
can lines where his plane crashed, but Mes
,Slrr escaped unharrncd.
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SOUTHAMPTON. February 10 LH1.--
William T. Cosgrave, President Of the
irish Free State, returning from the
United States disembarked from steam
ship Olympic this afternoon, leaving
later for London. He plans to return TO
ireland tomorrow
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KILLS SELF OVER WILL.
Brothers of New Jersey Woman
Contested 500, 900 Division.

NORTH BERGEN, N. j., February 10
R).-Miss Julia Pierano, 40, plunged to
death from the roof Of her four STORY
apartment home yesterday, while three
OF her brothers were contesting the will
of her father that made her one of the
principal beneflciarics In his estate, val
ued at about 100000.
The brothers charged undue influence.
The father Marco Pierano, died last
October
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$500 were DeI!aviland fighting planes,
of which $50 got TO France and the
balance were waiting shipment on the
docks when the 3fmiStice came -- and
1t should be remembered that England
controlled the shipping tonnage.
OF the whole sum OF over 81 .200.-
COO 1000. over half was returned to the
Government unexpended. The total
actual cost of planes engines. balloons,
fields. training ana maintenance was
$598 900, ISL.
Perhaps the foregoing show why our
combat reports have the Americans fly
ing in French and English planes. A
great many OF these French and Eng
lish" planes were assembled in European
factories from parts made in the United
states. The European planes We used
we're not a free gift from our Allies-We
pad England and France $4,000 900
for them.
After the war the American avia-
ton industry was the biggest in the
world which did not fit into the plans
Of our allies at all. Suddenly a group
Of our politicians and publications burst
forth with charges that American air.
plane manufacture had stolen $780,
100000 and the ensuing row so dis
credited the American airplane industry
that 1t was set back for 10 years TO the
profit OF French and English makers OF
airplanes.
The attack on the airplane industry
was supported bv Americans who were
under the spell of European propaganda
and certain others who were willing
10 have attention centered on airplancs
so that 1t might be diverted from ship
ping.
In 1927 American aviation came into
It's own and proved It's superiority to
the world in both pilots and ships. Just
as II did In 1918 1t is to be hoped that
this time We will not permit foreign
propaganda to cheat us olIt OF our ma
tional right again, s
fCopytlght Ip.Bl
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~ n.y Gfeeun5.Y. fip,e tf,Tay

En expedition from the Enithsoatan
Institution l,ss sci oUt for Florida u
sex lI,f,4naiioE ofa an Indian tribe
which 6otsliaate6 Florida IN the sig
teenta century. tough, with Ponce de
Lem and il be!ieyc9 ~ have practiced
GaslDgba !ianl, sGaip.Gg end human GAG
yIfes III yictlmE
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ACES UP! 5z i!5z JOHN E707
The Fact Story Of American Avators in the World War


% % % and s s' % % ' @ @ : .'s1 sS h the "S" ~ of the
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Eomorrow-Read OF the growth OF
the American Air Service In the Spring
OF 1918. Of the battles 1t won and OF
the losses II suffered.
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OVerCOatS
sl4" SO" sl8" ST." 81"

Regular prices were $50, $3.50, $2s.
$27. So $50 and $3.50 Sizes from 10 to 20
years Smart, servceable, warm ovcrcoats.
these, and there is still comprehensive sclec~
ton.
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WA washinStonian' r g;
.(Aristocrat of Tuo-7rousers Suits
so

COmparatlVe1y newcomer, the
Washingtonian,' for we made the orig
inal presentation only last September
But this new suit or perhaps we should
say group of suits, has already host of
staunch friends.
For one thing. the "Washingtonian" is
most appropriately named. 1t ltexpresses
the traditional good taste of Washing
tons we'll dressed men, 1t is distinctly a
quality suit. unique in that we have
added the economical two-trouserS fea-
ture.
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Every suit has two pairs of knickers;
selection OF fabrics, models. colors and pat.
terms is good. Suits at So75 regularly bring
up to SIS; those at $l375 up to SIS, inclusive
Sizes average from to 10 years.
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Hemstitching, pieoting, pleat-
ing. Buttons covered. Dress
making and gowns copied.
1873 S St. NV. N. i726
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Patronesscs Named for
Lowell Thomas Lecture

An impressive list of patronesses is
announced for the lecture by Lowell
Thomas at the National Theater at
$3.50 o'clock Friday afternoon, Novem-
ber .. which is to be given under the
sponsorship of Lady Isabella Howard
Countess Ssherr- -Thoss and Mrs. WAL
ter r. Tuckerman. the proceeds to be
divided between Protestant and Cath
olic charities. The list to date in
clu6es. in addition to names already
announced. Mrs Harry S. New. Sonora
de Teller. Viscountess dAlte. Madame
Peter. Sonora de Alfaro. Mrs. Pierce
Butler. Mrs. Guy Despard Goff. Mrs.
Arthur d. Addison. Mrs Charles S.
Alden. Mrs. Willard Brownson. Miss
Mabel Boardman. Mrs. Charles j. Bell
Mrs Perry Belmont. Mrs. Henry c.
Corbin. Mrs. Robert Hollister Chapman.
Mrs. James r. Curtis. Mrs. Charles
DENLY. Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins. Mrs.
Gibson Fshnestock. Mrs. James E.
Freeman. Mrs James Carroll Frazer,
Mrs Henry w. Fitch. Mrs. Ridgely
Hunt, Mrs. Frederick c. Hicks Mrs
Benjamin Royal Holcombe. Mrs. Hen
men Jennings. Mrs Robert Lansing.
Mrs. George Hewitt Myers. Mrs. Eugene
Meyer. Mrs. Frank B. Noyes. Mrs. Dun
can Phillips. Mrs. William c. Rives.
Mrs. E. Hope Slater. Mrs. ]. Holabird
ioWne and Mrs. Carleton Van Valken-
burg.
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D. A. R. Chapter Benefit
Party Set for November 19

The young people Of Washington are
looking forward with great Interest to
the ball and card party to be given
by the Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter.
ID. A. r. Monday evening. Novernbe,
10, In the Willard Hotel. This Is this
only benefit given by the chaoter DUR
ing the season and the funds derived.
from this affair are used to carry OF;
its work for the coming yeaS.
and Miss Elizabeth Caldwell vice chair
man of the young ladies' committee, and
they will have assisting them Miss
Theodore Adams. Miss Mildred Bra
shears. Miss Mary Jurikin. Miss Anna
l.. Clark, Miss Dorothy Ellis, Miss Alice
Graham. Miss Ida Randall. Miss Alice
Louise Hunter Miss Martha Burch,
Miss Marguerite Jacobs. Miss Helen
Belt. Miss Mary Sprign1an. Miss Ora
Ward Miss Roberta Searle. Miss Erma
Storm. WMiss Marion Heyser. Miss Viz
ginia Armstrong Miss Betty Morris. Miss
Louise Jacquette. Miss Catherine
Spengler. Miss Marion Wallace. Miss Al
berta Warren. Miss Annabel Lee
garet Mason Connell Miss Henrietta
Goldsmith. Miss Mary Beard, Miss
Gretna Boswell. Miss Frances Brown.
Miss Marguerite Brown. Miss Mary
Brown, Miss Mary Caldwell. Miss Fanita
Clairmont, Miss Isabel Claphsm Miss
Mary Dalglish. Miss Margaret Harri-
man. Miss Phoebe Knappen. Miss Mar
Caret Linn, Miss Jane Mitchell. Miss
Helen Moves. Miss Miriam Prescott. Miss
Frances Sherman. Miss Airline Newman.
Miss Phoebe Stine. Miss AmeIie Walker.
Miss Edwardine Martin. Miss Alberta
Warren Miss Audrey Belt and Miss
Virginia Boyd.
Evening star., 1928-10-21
St. Certrude's Guild
Meets for Conference

Mrs. Richard J. Murphy. chairman of
social activities Of st. Gertrude's Guild.
presided at meeting Of the guild men,
bers in her home. at 1880 Lamont
street, Wednesday morning. The meet
ing was for the purpose of discussing
means Of furthering the interests of
st. Gertrude's School of Arts and
Crafts, which has moved from It's tenn
porary home at Fifteenth street and
Bunker Hill road northeast. to its own
specially designed building on Sargent
road. in Brookland, D. c. Attention
was called to the report recently sub
mitted to the guild emphasizing the
lack Of equipment which has restricted
the number of children now in the
school and has created a long waiting
list.
The first step toward raising fu,Ms
to help In furnishing the dormito,]es
and classrooms will be a card party
to be given at Wardman Park Hotel
Monday afternoon, November 26. The
chairmen named were: Mrs. r. j. MUIR
ply, patrons and patronesses; Mrs. D.
j. Callahan, tickets; Mrs. r. L. Graves,
prizes, and Mrs F. r. Weller, candy.
The following members of the guild
were present at the meeting Wednes-
day: Mrs, Milton e. Allies, Mrs. d. J.
Callahan. Mrs. r. L. Graves, Mrs.
James q. Haskell, Mrs. Harry "
Haynes. Mrs. e. T. Kilkoff, Mrs. r. J.
McGovern, Mrs. T. j. MacKavanagh.
Mrs. r C. L. Moran, Mrs. r. j. Muir
ply. Mrs. Charles p. Neill, Miss Flor
ence r. Roach. Mrs. D, C. Shea, Mrs.
J. p. Tumulty and Mrs. Frank r.
Weller.
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Chic Girls Club Outlines
Plans for Winter Season

The Ohio Girls Club of Washington
has formulated plans for the seasons
activities. Under the leadership Of Mrs.
Ethel 3. Hess. who has been elected
president of the club, many plans have
been worked out for the various groups
who are interested in dancing. bridge,
bowling and other activities.
Arrangements are being made for o
reception for all the club members,
which will be one of the early events
of the Fall season. Dances will be held
bi-monthly in the Arlington Hotel. Miss
Grace Young is chairman Of the dance
committee. The bridge group will meet
in the Thomson School Wednesday
nights. Miss Guyton is In charge OF
that committee. The bowling team
will meet at 4:45 o'clock Tuesday after
noon in Recreation alleys, at Ninth and
G streets. Miss May Beck Is In charge
and will be assisted by Miss Ruth
Talbot.
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Treat for Booklovers
An Event of Monday

A rare treat was afforded the book
lovers Of Washington Monday afternoon
when pre-view of an epochal book on
"symbolicsl Philosophy" by Manly P.
Hall, was shown In the ballroom Of the
Mayfiower Hotel. The book. which will
be presented to His Royal Highness
Gustavus Adolphus, Crown Prince of
Sweden. through Mr. Bostron1. Minister
OF Sweden. weighs Is pounds and is
exqutsitely bound In baby goat. Hand
somely engrossed on the fiyleaf is the
authors presentation inscription to the
crown prince. who is a devout student
OF philosophy and science.
A lucid explanation of the cryptic
contents OF this unusual work was made
by Mrs. Frederick H. Colburn of San
Francisco. who represented the author
some OF the topics explained were The
Ancient Mysteries. atlantis and the
Gods Of Antiquity" "The Bembine Table
OF Isis" THE Sum-" "A Universal
Deity" The Hiramic Legend The
Eleusinian Mysteries" "Pythagorean
Mathematics The Human BODY in
Symbolism" THE Emerald Tablet of
Hermes." The Chemical Marriage. ;,
Mystic Christianity" THE Faith of
1slam," American Indian SYMBOLISM, {"
The Mystery of the Apocalypse"
The 81 large color illustrations were
displayed on numerous screens. which
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Cabinet Members. Listed
As Temporary Absentees
Continued from First Page.)

home in Pittsburgh since her return to
this country.
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Pen Women Plan to Meet
At Halloween Carnival

Mrs. Harry p. Hunt. nationally
known as q writer under the name OF
Lilly r. Hunt, has loaned her estate,
The Hollies, near Ballston, Va, to the
National League Of American Pen
Women for Halloween carnival,
which they will give jointly with the
District League.
Mrs. Charles Augustus Hawley,
chairman Of arrangements, assisted by
Mrs. Charles w. Allen and a committee
Of league members, Is going to dupli-
cate the Old World carnival with ali of
its picturesque settings, costumes,
music and gaiety.
Harriet Louise Hunt, schoolgirl
daughter of Mrs. Hunt. will be in
charge Of the younger set, who will act
as guides, vendors and dancing girls
The carnival will open at IL noon Sat-
urday and will continue until IL mid
night.
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Miss Marian Burns and Miss Eliza
beth Witter of Mansfield. Ohio. are at
the Grace Dodge Hotel for q week or
more. They are touring by automobile