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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

At a lovely ceremony to be per-
formed at the First Baptist church,
this afternoon at 4, Miss Virginia
Whitlock, daughter of Mrs. John
Whitlock, 3515 North Pennsylvania
street, will become the bride of
Isle Raymond Besore, son of Mr..
md Mrs. E. Raymond Besore, 6l2
Berkeley road.
The Rev. Frederick E. Taylor will
reed TIE service before an slt2r
banked with palms, ferns and cluS-
tiers OF white cnrysanthemums. The
altar will be lighted by twelve ca
thedral candles.
While the uShers, GladdiS Voyle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

and Arthur Brown, are seating the
guests, Vaughn Cornish, assisted by
Miss Elsie McGregor, organist, will
sing Greig's ST Love Thee" Miss
McGregor viii play "Ieibestraum,"
"Salut glamour" and Venetian
Love Song"
+ Mrs. Victor Muesowir who win
be matron OF honor, will wear blue
chiffon, made with simD.a rculce,
long tight sleeves, and long circular
skirt. She VIII carry an arm bou-
quet of pink chrysanthemums.
Miss Hazel Lamkin and Miss
Dorothy Rogge will be bridesmaids.
Their gowns will be fashioned
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
DINNER DANCE DRAWS
$50 TO BROADM00R

One hundred fifty reservations
we're made for the Broadmoor
Country Club Thanksgiving dinner
dance, held Wednesday night.
Harvest decorations were used
throughout the clubhouse. The
large center table at which Mr.. and
Mrs. A. M. Rosenthal, and other
officers of the club with their wives
and guests were seated, was CEN
tered with a huge bowl of fruit and
nuts. The smaller tables were ar
ranged with similar centerpieces.
Mr.. Rosenthal is president of the
club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

similar to that of Mrs. Mussawir's.
Miss Lamkin will wear beige, and
carry copper chrysanthomumS, end
Miss Royce apricot. She will carry
yellow chrysanthemurns. They vii
wear turbans Of silver net and
MORE slippers to match their
gowns.
Victor Mussawir will be best man,
The bride, who will be given in
marriage by her brother, j. Harry
Whitlock, will wear flesh chiffon,
with shirred bodice, cape hanging
in back to the waist line, and long
fared skirt with uneven hemline.
She will wear hat of flesh lace,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
PLedQe NelU Members

Miss Frances Brewer, Miss Hazel
Carter, Miss Louise Cook, Miss
Martha Cubel, Miss Elizabeth King,
Miss Norma Miller, and Miss Mary
Miller will be pledged to Sigma Tau
Delta sorority Friday night at the
meeting with Miss Stella Menke,
719 Minnesota street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
CLARA STEFFIN BRIDE
OF ROSCOE HAND

Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Steffin, 704
Orange street, announce the mar
rage of their daughter. Miss Clara
Steffin. to Roscoe Hand. son OF Mrs
Julia Hand. 1910 Hoyt avenue. The
wedding took place this morning at
the rectory of st. Patrick's church
and was followed by breakfast al
the home Of the brides parents.
After a trip to Los Angeles Mr.. and
Mrs. Hand will be at home at 264t
Allen avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
AUTHOR TO TALK AT
AYRES ON MONDAY

Richard Halliburton, well-known
author, will talk on his new book,
New Worlds to Conquer" before
patrons of L. S. Ayres & Co. at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon, in the au-
ditorium, eighth floor.
Following the lecture, he will
autograph copies of his books. A
tea will be given for him in the
book shop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

sleeves. She wore a silk tulle en-
broidered veil, arranged cap shape,
with clusters of orange blossoms.
She carried white roses and lilies
of the valley.
Following the ceremony, a we'd
ding breakfast will be served at the
Seville tavern. Mr.. and Mrs. Brad
ley have gone east on a trip, the
bride travelling in a brown crepe
ensemble with brown accessories.
They will be at home, after Dec.
IS, at 31S East Twenty-fourth
street
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Attend State Contention

Miss Juanita Mann. Miss Raffaele
Montani, and Miss Hazel Moore viii
attend the state convention Of Phi
Beta Psi sorority to be held at
Anderson Friday and Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Slate Requl0r Meeting

Regular meeting OF Kappa Sigma
Chi sorority will be held Friday
night at the home of Mrs. H. M.
Anderson. Mrs. E. R. Bebout will
he hostess
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Club GiUes P0rtg

A luncheon-bridge party will bt
given Wednesday at l at the In
dianapolis Athletic Club for guests
and members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28
Auxiliary Meeting

woman's auxiliary TO the Alien
helm will meet at 2:30 Friday al
the home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-28

Celebrate Anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Bunge, 1145
Reid place, celebrated their fifth
wedding anniversary with a dinner
at o'clock for twenty-five guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
CAPITALS PROGRESS
TO BE DISCUSSED
Economic Development Will Be
Keynote of Board of Trade
Meeting Tonight.

The economic development of WASH
ington will be the keynote Of the meet
ing of the washington Board of Trade
tonight at o'clock in the Willard
Hotel.
At previous meetings the board has
taken up other phases of Washington's
growth since the World War and to-
night the business side of life here viii
come in for its share of discussion.
Walter B. Clarkson, assistant to the
president of the Chesapeake 81 Potomac
Telephone Co., will be the principal
speaker Lloyd B. Wilson, the telephone
company president, also will be present
and is to be introduced. Rufus S. Lusk,
executive secretary of the Operative
Builders, Association. will also speak.
Mr.. Clarkson will tell of the telephone
company's plans for Washington, in
GLIDING the reasons for the dial system
and when it probably will be installed
in each section of the city. He is also
expected to quote figures, prepared by
experts of the telephone company,
estimating the probable growth in popu-
lation of the District within the next
10 years.
Mr.. Lusk will outline the real estate
development here since the war, paying
particular attention to the growth OF
the apartment house and subdivision
trend.
e. j. Murphy, president of the board.
will preside, and after the meeting
buffet supper will be served,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

who deplored what he regarded Is the
sentimental tendencies of penal reform
crusaders.
The body also went on record IN
favor of a more stringent law for the
District governing the sale Of stocks and
securities. Another expression favored
conversion of the Pension once into q
National Guard Armory.
1t further was recommended by the
association that the entrance to Rock
Greek Park, just north of the reservoir,
be moved north to point opposite
Kennedy street.
With one exception, all officers were
reelected. They we're: Edgar B. Hen
derson, president; G.. l.. Shorey, vice
president, who was new to the office;
w. e. Hoffheins, secretary; w. j. La
varre, treasurer.
Executive committeeman, named for
two years: S. B. Cameron and F. G.
Merritt. j. H. Pellen VSs elected to
the committee for yeal%b succeed the
late E. E. Pabst.
Delegates to the Federation Of Citi-
zens' Associations are Mr.. Henderson
and Mr.. Shorey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
TRADE BODY BACKS
VOTE IN DISTRICT
AppropriateS Money in Aid of
Committee on National
Representation.

The washington Board of Trade, at
a meeting Of its executive committee
yesterday, appropriated $3.50 for the
use of the citizens joint committee on
national representation and voted to
hold another $3.50 in reserve for the
joint committee if it should be needed
The matter was introduced at the
meeting by E. j. Murphy, president OF
the board, who told the committee that
the board annually makes a similar
appropriation. He said the committee
members were all familiar with the
use to which the funds were put and
then moved that the money be set aside.
The motion was unanimously passed,
At the same committee meeting 80
persons were admitted to membership
in the board. The new members are:
Clinton A. Allen, Charles H. Bates,
Irving N. bernstein, Porter L. Bush,
j. Fendall Cain, William B. Daniels, G..
Carroll Dimond, George E. Elliott, Floyd
A. Gessford, j, H. Goodman, Harold L.
Hines, Alvin F. Hipsley, w. e. Holmes,
G. T. Hunter, Luther lager, w. Parker
Jones. William j. Keane. CIV. King,
jr.; Joseph G. Klinge, A. C!&Lakenan,
L. @. Major, Richard H. Mansfield,
Frank F. Nesbit, w. J. Neuland, Ed
nlund 1. Cakes, @. L. Plemmons, Royal
Radio and Speciality Co., Roy d. Borden,
Harold c. Moynelo, l.. A. Smithers,
william Stecher, Harry w. Strieter,
Thomas C.. Thompson, Heron Todd, T.
T. Walker, Milton c. Walters, Charles
A. Tanner, II. Leroy zile, James II.
Seeley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
w. w. HICKS GREETS
PHOTO FINISHERS
In Welcoming Address Stresses
Urgent Need of National Rep
resentation for District.

District representation in national af-
fairs was urged by Walter w. Hicks of
Washington, territorial vice president,
in an address of welcome today at the
annual convention of the Master Photo
Finishers of America in the Wardman
Park Hotel. More than 1000 guests
from all parts Of the country and
abroad were present.
Declaring they had been disfranchised
for half century, Hicks added that
"the citizens of the District of Columbia
have less chance than an alien of TAX
ing part in the affairs of their city and
of their country. The alien may be-
come naturalized in any one of the
48 States, and thereby obtain a vote
But no native of the District of Column
bia can remain here without relinquish-
ing his right to express his opinion as
to how he shall be governed"
The other speakers included Fred
Mayer, Portland. Greg, national presi-
dent; William Burton. Kirkwood, Mo-;
A. J. Cunningham. Utica, N. Y; j. 1.
Crabtree. Rochester, N. Y, and F. M.
Moling. Toledo. Ohio.
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ties at first. Having tried to cross the
street against the lights and been driven
back with curses by the traffic cop, he
asks for a subway. To- his embarrass-
ment, he finds himself in an under
ground station" instead, and discovers
that what he wanted really was a pas
senger tunnel. And as he continues his
voyage of adventure he learns that
trans" have become street cars, "lor-
ries" transformed to trucks, while the
pavement" is no longer the place OF
safety known here as the sidewalk, but
the middle of the street.
Changed Meanings.
In his hotel lifts" have become ele-
vators, boots" bellhopS and ginger ale
a set-up. If button flies off his coat
and he sallies forth to a shop, now a
store, to get the equipment needed to
repair the damage, he will be met with
filters of amusement or blank Stares of
cotton" in mistake for spool of thread.
list he will mark himself as sending
pants" and vests" in blissful ignor-
ance that these garments are now the
land. And 1t is only a process of elimi-
nation which discloses to him that the
mysterious bosom shirt" is none other
than that triumph of civilization in
which men sacrifice their comfort or
the altar of pEopriety.
All these embarraSsments spring from
o re original mistake by the erring
Briton. He has been taught from child
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
LAN|ER CITIZENS
URGE HEALTH STEP
ChiIdren's Center Is Favored
by Association Following
Or. Davis Speech.

A resolution urging the establish
nent of a child health center, or clinic,
within the vicinity of the territory Cow
cred by the Lanier Heights Citizens
Association was adopted by that body
at a meeting in the Cooke School, Sew
enteenth street and Columbia road, last
night.
The resolution was adopted following
an address by DR.. Hugh j. Davis. di-
rector of the child hygiene service of
the District of Columbia Health De-
partment, who told of the growth of
the child health centers in Washington
and their work along preventative and
corrective lines.
The association went on record as
favoring blue sky" legislation in the
District of Columbia for regulating sale
OF stocks and securities.
Following a lengthy debate on the
question of requiring drivers of motor
vehicles to carry liability insurance, the
latter question was referred to COM
mittee for report at future meeting.
Other resolutions adopted included
one to establish within the association
committee on community interests
and another to establish a special COM
mittee on traffic. r. Woodland Gates,
president of the association, presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
CITIZENS APPROVE
CAPITAL PENALTY
Piney Branch Association 0p-
poses Modification of
District Law.

The Piney Branch Citizens Associa-
ton declared itself last night against
any effort to modify the capital punish
ment law in the District as it now
stands. The meeting also elected off,
GERS for the coming year.
The resolution in favor of the death
penalty was presented by S. B, Cameron,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
CITIZENS DEMAND
SUPPORT OF LAWS
Takoma Park Group Asks
Clearing of Good Name
of D. C. Police.

Urging that steps be taken to clear
the good name of the Police Depart
ment." the Takoma Park Citizens As
ISOLATION went on record unanimously
in favor of enforcement of prohibition
and all other laws in the District at a
meeting last night in the Takoma Park
branch of the Washington Public Lii
brary.
The action of the association was
embodied in a resolution presented by
DR.. Guy Clinton, declaring in its pre-
amble that the moral standard of a
community depends upon the enforce
ment of its laws.
For several months past" the reso-
luton continued, there has been con-
slant turmoil and insinuations of
crimes and graft within our police
toriouSly known, to its hurt throughout
the country.
Calls for Support.
"The Takoma Park Citizens Associa-
ton calls upon officials and the press of
the city to support the laws and en-
forcement of the same against those
deflantly opposing them, whether 1t be
the eighteenth amendment or any other
law, and that the good name of our Po-
lice Department be cleared of the con-
slant insinuations heaped upon it.
Burt w. Andrews, chairman of the
tention to the inacceSsibility of the
new Edwin A. Paul Junior High School.
which is nearing completion near
Brightwood. The association voted to
urge the District Commissioners to take
steps Immediately to extend Eighth and
Ninth streets southwark from Quack-
enboS streets, to extend Peabody street
from Seventh to Eighth street. to eX-
tend Oglethorpe street from Seventh
to Eighth streets in front Of the school
and to grade the streets and provide
cinder walks as soon as they are OPEN
ed in order to make the new school
more accessible.
Grade Crossing Appeal.
The, association Endorsed resolution
adopted by the Takoma Park Cham
Der of Commerce for abolition of the
grade crossing of the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad at Chestnut street. the
immediate installation of safety gates
and 24-hour service of a Waterman at
this point. Attention was called to the
two tragedies within the past year, in
which four persons were killed at this
crossing.
DR.. Lewlyn Jordan of North Takoma,
Md, told of recent conference with
District officials who are fastening
plans for the construction of an under
pass at Fern street and OF the will
ingneSs of Maryland authorities to con-
struct the necessary approaches on the
Maryland side. This will eliminate the
Chestnut street crossing and open up
a new thoroughfafe from Maryland to
the city via Piney Branch road, which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
is to be widened to 100 feet as far south

is to be widened to 120 feet as far south
as Thirteenth street.
John Walker, delegate to the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations, reported
on the last meeting of the federation
and the action of that body in favoring
the use of a portion of the $8,000,000
now to the credit of the District in the
United States Treasury for the con-
struction of an underpaSs at Chestnut
street, and also at Michigan avenue,
Brookland. D. c.
The principal speaker of the evening
was Herbert S. Wood, president of the
District of Columbia Public School AS
ISOLATION, who explained the Capper-
Zihlman bill for an elective Board OF
Education.
John Walker presided, with Chester
G. Waters as secretary of the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

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BY ALFRED P. PERRY.

"a cannon fades mark and lams 1t
with the Doodle. He is trailed by the
bulls, dunce-capped. given the Niagara
weeps and hooked for the rap"
All of which is doubtless quite clear
to most modern Americans, but to the
uninstructed Briton this choice speci-
men of transatlantic English sounds
like good Greek.
And perhaps there are even some
Americans outside Chicago who may
fail at first to. realize that these un-
familiar words describe very common
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
WEDDING BELLS TO RING.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November IL P)--
The engagement of Marjorie Nudge
Gladman of Santa Monica, Cal, and
John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. j.,
was announced here last night.
Miss Gladman and Van Ryn are
among the most promising of the young
tennis players in America. Mldge
Gladnnan is ranked No. 7 among the
woman net artists. Van Ryn, former
captain of the Princeton tennis team,
with Wilmer Allison, of Texas, won
the Wimbledon and Davis Cup doubles
championship this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
ENGLISH AS SHE is SPOKE!
How's Briton t Know He's Top-Hole When We
Americans Simply Call Him
Good Scont2

hood that the Americans speak Eng
lish, from which fact he has jumped to
the unjuStifiable conclusion that this
must needs be the very same English
as he talks at home today. Were he
about to take journey of a few hours
to France or Germany, he would spend
days studying phrase books to At him
self to cope with all the problems of the
traveller in a foreign country. But he
takes no trouble whatsoever to prepare
himself for any conversational difficult
ties which he might expect reasonably
TO encounter in land 5000 miles across
the ocean.
Such an Anglo-American guide, how
ever, should include chapter on dan
gerous words" and common slang" to
Keep the stranger on the straight and
narrow path. Else he may have the sad
experience of the English lecturer who
addressed an American woman's club.
Touched and fiattered by the hospitable
warmth of his greeting, this unhappy
man expressed his gratitude by begin
ming my dear friends, when I look
down upon your homely faces" The
evening was not a success.
Must Learn Give-and-Take.
But apart from the avoidance of such
unfortunate SoleciSms, the Briton has
much else to learn in the art of con-
versational give-and-take How am I
to take it when my American friend re-
plies to Is minutes steady talking on
my part with the words ooh, don't be
dumb" And If he adds that what l
nave been saying is so much Sboloney,
bunk or appleSauce, how am to know
that he thinks my eloquent discourse is
twaddle. tripe, f1apdoodle or sheer bal
derdash? Suppose judge his meaning
by the scorns upon his face, will he I'M
derstand that when I tell him he's a
B. F., a ninny or a wet, that / suggest
he is sap, nut or boob? And if he
declares my real trouble to be that am
plaStered shellacked, oiled or organized,
how am 1 to know he institutes that /
am half seas over, blotto binged or
screwed? And when I try to make
things up by telling him that he's a top
hole chap, a stout lad or a pukka sahib,
will he realize that think him swell
guy, a good scout or a prince? I doubt
it very much. 4
But even without such useful guides
to conversation it should not take the
greenhon long to learn the ropes. For
the racy slang of the West is known in
part already across the sea, thanks to
the missionary enterprise of Hollywood,
whose latest "talkieS" will doubtless has
ten education in this interesting field.
But every wanderer must hope that all
differenceA of speech and custom will
not disappear, for they add such spice
to travel. After all, this language stunt
is really rather ripping. It would bore
me stiff to hear the same bally words in
every blinking spot blew into. These
standardizing Johnnies are just talking
tripe through the back of their necks.
What we rudy well want in this dashed
world is more Jolly old variety-what?
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place incident, Tor,
being translated,
they say: "A gun
man holds up a cit
izen and makes off
with his loot. He
is pursued by de-
tectives, cornered,
bombed with tear
gas and captured
for punishment"
Ignorance of such
niceties of the
American language
is regrettable but
not disastrous for
the visitor. 1t is
in the speech of
everyday life that
he is apt to meet
with raa1 dificIlI-
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MRS. ADA N. MILNE DIES.
Funeral Services Will Be Held To-
morrow Morning.

Mrs. Ada Nunan Milne, so years old,
widow of George Marshall Milne, and a
resident of this city for the past Is
years, died in Emergency Hospital Sun
day after a sudden illness. She was
the Burlington Hotel. where she was
stricken Saturday night.
Funeral services will be conducted IL
st. Matthew's Church tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in
the Abbey Mausoleum.
Mrs. Milne was the daughter of the
late James Nunan. veteran of the Mex
lean War and civil engineer. She is sur
vived by three sisters, Miss B. Nunan
and Mrs. Nora Gillespie, with whom she
made her home in the Burlington, and
Mrs. Ruth Rothrock. and brother, p,
A. human,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

Alfred p. Perry, British Journalist
temporarily attached to The Star STAFF,
finds American SLANG, or rather ChicGoo
slang, Intriguing to say the least. MI.
Perry thinks that some OF the language
he describes bcIoD may not be common
place to some Americans. HIS coF?ec-
ture is correct, IL is not COMMONPLACE
epeH to most Americans.