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LICENSED TO MARRY

Anthony w. Proctor, "a 1903 r St.
y. W. and Bernice Sharpe. is. 1901
Webster chrlstman, 2s. and Catherine
Harold ". Curran. IS, iOS Fifth st.
n. E., and Dorothy B. Allen, rs, 1875
Millard F. West, tr,., 2S, Chevy, Chase.
Md. and Emily S. Maddox, 81. 1887
James B. Mccaslin. 25 MassilIon. Ala.
and Inez z. Van Ness, %. Lyles. Tenn.
and Martha F. Powell. 81, Orlando. Fla.
Albert Goodman, 81, Annapolis, Md.
and Rose L. Strauss, 24, Severn Park.
Herman strauss, 81. Severn Park. Nd.
and Dora Schwartz. IS, Baltimore, Nd.
Clarence A. Oakley. "a, and Margaret
A. Cunningham. IS. both of Richmond,
Calvin R. johnson. u, and Christine
Herman L. Scott, 25. 2sos Eleventh
st. N. w, and Louise e. Taliaferro. 20,
H2l U st. N. w.
Thomas R. Oakley. IS, sharon, Pa
browski, 80, both Of Baltimore, Nd.
Joseph Gorecki, 81, and Louise Dom
Mcintyre, ss. both Of Baltimore, Nd.
Kenneth N. Thompson, 20, 5S2s Third
St N. w, and Geraldine Richards, 81.
Earl G. whitson. IS, 1918 KaIorams
Road. and Lucille v. Brown. 20. l34S
Harvard st. N. w.
Clarence z. Foster, 30, New York
and Gertrude Bundy. "a. 500 U Sc. N. w
Thomas s. Walton. 33, and Viola NJ
Ragland. rs. both Of Richmond. Va.
Dennis wheeler, IS, and Sadie Oar
den. 20. both OF 143 L st. s. e.
Cordell H. Rugsby, IS, and Leathe /
Little. rs, both OF Richmond. Va.
Troy Fields. 20, ia Rhode Island Ave
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ROGERS TELLS
OF ROW WITH
H0EY GIRL

WEST CHESTER, Pa, Nov. Is
U.N.s0.-The grand jury investi'
cation of the death of glamorous
EVELYN Hoey, Broadway actress
and singer, was resumed today
with the taking OF. medical and
police testimony.
Henry Huddleston Rogers, III,
heir to a portion of the oil mil
lions left by his father, was
cioseted with the jury for an
hour and As minutes. According
to his attorneys, he was ques-
toned severely concerning all de
tails of events which ended with
the singer lying dead on a. bed
room floor with a bullet through
her head in his home near Down
ington last September II.
Rogers emerged from the jury
chamber smiling and it was re-
vealed by District Attorney Will
liam E, Parke that he told the
Jury that he and Miss Hoey had
argued over the photograph OF a
pretty New York society girl.
81 cannot relate what Rogers
said before the grand jury"
Parke said, "but he told the story
of the photograph at the inquest.
All 1 can say is that he did not
change his story before the grand
Jury"
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DEATHS

Mamie X. Cornelius, 81 years, st.
Elizabeths Hospital.
Elisa s. Lyon, 81 years, 2141 wyoming
Ave. N. W.
Catherine H. Clabaugh, ~ years, 9o1
InEraham st. N. w.
Richard A. Edelin, 81 years, ProW-
dence Hospital.
Thomas e. Newell. SO years. 1913 H
st. N. w.
Charles H. Howard. So years, Garfield
Hospital
Harry G. AIbrecht. 81 years, 700
Twenty-second st. n. w.
Lena r. Hern, 56 years, 213 H st. n. E.
Allen NJ. Duke, IS years, Casualty Hos
Raoul A. Dornfeld, ~ years. 2s5O Wis
consin Ave. N. W.
Daniel Mccoy, 40 years, 1850 Wisconsin
Ave. N. W.
John F. Hanscom, 10 years 1850 Wis
consin Ave. N. W.
sue e. McNurtrey, sS years, National
Homeopathic Hospital.
Milton Smith, jr. II years, Gallinger
Hospital.
Infant May. II hours, Garfield Hos
Daniel Allen. SIS years, st. ElizabethS
Minnie Bannistsr, SO years. GalIinger
Hospital.
Rosie Brown. ~ years. sos st. N. W.
Novella Washington, 3s years, Freed
mems Hospital.
James McNeaI. 81 years, Casualty Hos
pital.
Judson W. Lyons. 20 years. Gallinssr
Hospital.
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BIRTHS

Arthur and Mildred Taylor girl
Webster and Marie Patterson. boy.
Thomas and Agnes Carroll, boy.
Burr and Mary Ansell, boy.
Beveridge and Adelaide Miller, boy.
Andrew and Helen Boiling. tr.. boy.
Reuby and Mildred Long, boy.
Leo and Marie Dunn, boy.
Charles and Lillian Thompson, boy.
James and Eve McKenny, boy.
Edgar and Margaret Edwards, boy.
James and virginia Cowling. girl.
Harper and Florence Cooper. girl.
Kenneth and Daisy Zimmerman, girl
Wallace and Anita Agnew, girl
waine and Kathrvn Matson, girl.
Richard and Ernestine Walker, girl.
Wilmer and Lefty Jones, girl.
Edward and Esther Rose, girl
Spencer and Dorothy Roland, girl.
Pietro and Concetta Paolino. boy.
Syrlyrvian and Larrinda Jeffries, boy
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HORSE SHOW
TOAD NEEDY

FOUR CORNERS, Md, Nov. IS.
United States Army and civilian
riders will compete during the
Indian Spring charity horse show
here tomorrow as a post-season
benefit affair for Montgomery
county's needy school children,
according to Fred j. Hughes, ST.,
chairman Of the show. following
the entering of several members
of the Fort Myer horse show team
last night.
Fourteen events make up the
days program, and beginning at
10 a. m. the classes will include
jumping and saddle competition
for ponies, with adult hunting,
jumping and riding classes round
ing out the program during the
afternoon.
Many civilian entries have been
made by followers of the horse
show ring from washington, Vir.
ginia and Maryland.
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DIED

CLARK, GRADY Won Thursday, No
vember IA, 1885, at Mount Alto Hos:
pital, GRADY w. CLARK. beloved son of
Mrs, Dolly Clark, of st. Petersburg. Fla.
and brother Of Mrs. B. E. Doolittle, of
Washington, D. c.. Mrs. L. W. Lynn and
Mrs A. B. Green. of St. Petersburg, Fla.
Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Company funeral home, Fourteenth and
Chaplin Streets Northwest. until Monday
November 1S, 1895. at . 80 p. M, thence
to Arlington National Cemetery, where ser
vices will be held at 3 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend.
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Funeral arrangements were
being completed today for viii.
liam Tusnell Sabine, SO, chief OF
the civil division Of the Bureau OF
Internal Revenue, who died yester.
day in his home at 507 Carroll
Ave-, Takoma Park, Md, after an
illness of several days.
Mr.. Sabine had been with the
Bureau of Internal Revenue nine
years and formerly was an attor.
ney for the United States Ship
ping Board. He came to Wash.
ington IL years ago from New
York city, where his father, the
Right Rev. William T. Sabine was
Episcopal bishop of New York.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Bertha Sabine; four sisters, Mrs.
o. F.. Lewis and the Misses Mary
and Julia Sabine, of New York,
and Mrs. Frances w. Coles, Of
Istanbul, Turkey, and two brothers,
DR.. Philip S. Sabine, Of Pasadena,
Cal, and G. Arthur Sabine, Of
Jacksonville, Fla.
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Early Birds Seek
LoW-Cost Housing

There is no end of early
birds as far as the Districts
one million six hundred thou
sand dollar low-cost housin g
project for Negroes IS con-
cerned. The management division
of PWA public Works Admin
istration) housing section revealed
yesterday that so applications
have already been received for
apartments in the Central Ave-,
and Benning Rd., structure which
will not be ready for at least a
year. The so applicants were
asked to file formal applications.
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Bathing Beauties
Will Vie in W. Va.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Nov.
15.-A bathing beauty contest, the
winner to be acclaimed Miss Mar
tinsburg," will be held by the
Kiwanis Club of this city in con-
nection with the charity JAM
bouree to be held here December
3, 4 and S. The beauty contest
will be held the final night.
Proceeds will be applied to a
fund to aid needy families in the
city and county.
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Alexandra Red Cross
Drive Starts Sunday

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov. Is.
Final plans to launch its roll call
drive Sunday will be made by the
local chapter of the American Red
Cross here tonight at q meeting
in the George Mason Hotel.
Richard F. Allen, manager Of
the Eastern area and deputy COM
missioner in Europe during the
World War, will speak. The cam
paign, which usually gets under
way Armistice Day, was postponed
because of the illness of the chap
ter chairman, Mrs. Richard B.
English.
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Trial Plans Ready
In Drake SWindIe

Plans for prosecution Of 40 indi
viduals under the indictment for
fraud in connection with the Sir
Francis Drake estate Swindle were
perfected yesterday by the Justice
Department. Trial is scheduled in
Chicago November 10. Arthur
Bishop of Scotland Yard and
Charles Challen, British attorney,
will aid the Government.
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U. 5. Puts New Curb
OnFuqitiVes Abroad

With a view to making it i'm
possible for fugitive financierS to
play tag with American justice in
foreign lands, the United States
yesterday added another link to
q chain of new extradition trea-
ties. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull exchanged notifications Of a
new extradition treaty with NJ.
Faik, Konitza, the Albanian min.
iSEAr.
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N. W., and Della MCDOWELL 81, l1l4
Twenty-third st. N. W.
Harold W. Curran, rs, 1Os Firth 81.
N. E., and Dorothy B. Allen, rs, 1876
Richard @. Fonrchy. 80. 21I sedgwIck
Gardens and Juanita NJ. cooney, 81,
Seattle, Wash.
James V. Richltt. 20. $40 Roxboro
Place N W. and Anita P. Maxfield. 20
5I2 Somerset Place N. w.
Joseph e. Holland. 20, Newark, N. j.,
and Margaret l.. Thomas. 20, ST. Georges
Island, Md.
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Boy Of Five Rescues
His Drowning Brother

RICHMOND, Nov. 15.-Robert
Cook, S, son of Harry Cook, Of
Elwood, Va, is a hero because he
saved his baby brother, Harry, jr,
from drowning in a spring. Harry,
jr., 80 months old, was uncon-
scious under the surface of the
spring, four feet deep. when Rob
ert jumped in and pulled him out.
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Biigadier Ranking
Given Moorehead

Federal recognition of Harry
Morehead, of Sacramento, Calf,
as a brigadier general, was an
nounced by the War Department
yesterday. General Morehead Is
State adjutant general Of the Cali
fornia. National Guard.
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CHARLES H. MERILLAT

Charles H. Merillat, Washington
attorney and newspaperman whose
body was recovered yesterday from
the Potomac River, was buried
today in Rock Creek Cemetery.
The District Bar Association
was represented at rites held at
the grave by a committee Of IL.
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A Giant Mushroom

PARIS GN.S0.-A giant mush
room has been gathered at Halli
court, near st. Omer. It weighs
over two pounds and has . cir
cumference of 80 inches.
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BOWIE. JANE McKAY-on Tuesday, No.

BOWIE. JANE McKAY-on Tuesday, No.
Hospital. MISS JANE MCKAY BOWIE. be-
loved daughter of the late Doctor Duncan
and Mary J. Bowie and sister of Mrs.
Elizabeth Walker, Mrs. Margaret B. Fow-
Ter, J. Ray Bowie and William L. Bowie.
of Tulsa. Okla.
Remains resting at the W. W. Cham.
bers Co. funeral home, 14OO Chaplin st.
Funeral services from the W. w. Cham
bers Co. funeral home. 14O0 Chaplin st.
n. W., on Friday, November Is, at 2:3O
D.
Relatives and friends invited
Iuterment Rock Creek Cemetery.
COOKSEY, GEORGE Jon Thursday
afternoon, November II, 1895, at the
residence of his brother. Robert Cooksey.
81 16raik St., Alexandria, Va, GEORGE
j. COOKSEY. aged sixty-seven years, son
Of the late W. J. and Frances Leeanna
Cooksey,
Funeral services will be held on Sun
day afternoon, November II, 1885. at 2
o'clock, from his brothers residence, IS
Craik Street, Alexandria, Va.
Interment will follow In Clifton, Va.
Arrangements by the Cunningham fu-
neral home, 500 Cameron Street. Alex
andria, Va.
CONNELLY, MARGARET-on Friday
November IS, 1885. at her late resi-
Hshr dsRsf 6S97 S9NNE SnfTsF ha P beloved M M wife Of
Jasper Connolly.
Remains resting at the W. w. Cham.
bers Co. funeral home, Fourteenth and
Chaplin Streets Northwest. Services and
interment will be in New York City, N. Y.
IsHERWOOD, DIXIE H-On Friday, No
vember 8. 1885, at Los Angeles. Calf; >;
| DIXIE H. isHERWooD. he is survived
by three children. two sons. Ralph L.
! Isherwood, of Lake Worth. Fla; Walter
| B. Isherwood, of Washington. D. c.. and
one daughter. Mrs. Ballard E. Galloway.
| Of San Antonio, Tex. Remains resting at
the W. W. Chambers Co. funeral home
| Fourteenth and Chaplin SITS. n. W.
Funeral services will be held on Friday
afternoon. November 15, 1895. at
o'clock from the W. W.. Chambers Co. fu'
Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
Interment will follow in Congressional
Cemetery.
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BERBAKOS, PETE-on Friday, November
15. 1895, PETE BERBAKoS, the beloved
brother of Mrs. Angelo N. Chaconas, of
and George Berbakos.
Remains resting at the w. W. Chambers
Company funeral home, Fourteenth and
Chaplin Streets Northwest.
Notice of funeral services and inteTment
hereafter
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WOOD. CARROLL Don Friday morn.
ing, November Is. 1885. at the Univers-
ROLL D. WOOD, aged thirty five years.
Late residence, 719 South Fairfax street,
Alexandra. Va.
Remains resting at the Cunningham
funeral home, SO9 Cameron street. Alex
andria, Va. Notice of funeral services
and interment hereafter.
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MERILLAT. CHARLES H.-suddenly, on
Monday. November 4. 1885. CHARLES
H. MERILLAT. beloved husband of Louise
Mccall Merillat.
Funeral services and interment private
at Rock Creek Cemetery. on Friday. No
veD1her tx at 3 30 ID. m.
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THOMAS. RICHARD CLARK-suddenly

THOMAS, RICHARD CLARK-suddenly
on Thursday. November. IA, 1885. at his
residence, 51Sh K st. N. E. RICHARD
CLARK THOMAS. husband Of the late Re.
father of Mrs Joseph 1. Fox and. Miss
May e. Thomas
Funeral services will be held on satur.
day, November 10. at 2:30 p. m. from the
late residence 51sa X Street Northeast.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend Interment will follow in Cedar Hill
Cemetery Services by Chambers Co.
Southeast funeral home.
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Rites for w. T. Sabine
Being Arranged

The committee consisted of Wal.
ter M. Bastian, Alexander H. Bell,
Paul s. Black, Thomas F. Burke,
Robert H. Driskill, Christopher B.
Garnett, Thomas M. Cuttings, Hay.
den johnson, Charles J. Happier,
Percival H. Marshall, H enry
Schweinhaut and George H.
ZeutZius.
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SABINE WILLIAM TUFNELL-on Thurs.
day, November IA, 1895, after short
illness, at his residence, 507 Carroll Ave
nue.. Takoma Park. Md: WILLIAM TUF-
McDouRaII and son of the late Right Rev.
william Tufnell and Theresa schieffelin
Sabine. o,, c.
pany funeral home, 14OO Chaplin Street
Northwest. on Saturday, November 49,
interment in woodlawn Cemetery, New
York city. n. 7.
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Id. C. RECORD OF BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES
DIED

Florine Brown. Is months, Frssdmsn'S
Hospital.
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DANIEL FRANCIS MCCOY

Arlington burial today was ac-
corded Daniel Francis Mccoy,
war veteran who died Tuesday
at Mt. Alto Hospital.
Mr.. Mccoy was a former Gov
ernment employe. He lived at
323 Linworth Pl. S. w.
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MRS. ALICE M. NORTON

MhSos AAANE IVA NOUAON
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice
M. Norton, a lifelong resident of
Washington, who died yesterday
at her home, 1905 Delafield Pl.
N. W., will be held at 2 p. m.
tomorrow in the s. H. Hines
Funeral Home, 1901 Fourteenth
st. N. W. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Norton was the wife of
George H. Norton, treasurer Of
the H. r. Norton Rendering Com
pany, Alexandria Road and Co
lumbia Pike. She was 81 years
old. Surviving are her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ryan, her
husband, and three daughters.
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Der 10 1850 AT = q CLOCK.
Relatives and friends are invited TO at
Interment will follow in Cellar Hill
Cemetery
Services by Chambers
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Marriage Announcements
24HoUR SERVICE. S376 UP.
GOoDHARTS. 1914 q St. MAI. s17S
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:
Relatives and friends a's invited to at.
Interment will follow in Oak Hill Gene
fery
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KOLB, IDA ELIZABETH-on Friday.
November is, 1895. IDA ELIZABETH
KOLB. the beloved mother of Charles
w. Kolb, Of 1928 Fourth Street N. w.
Remains resting at the W. w. Cham
bers Co. funeral home. Fourteenth and
Chaplin Streets Northwest.
Notice Of funeral services and inter-
ment heraafter.
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WILSON. MAYMIE Won Wednesday.
November 13 1885. at her residence
22O5 First Street Northwest, MAYMIE
v. WILSON. the beloved wife of Luther
R. Wilson.
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DIED

HAVENNER, ALBERT LEE-on Thurs
day, November IA, 1885, at Providence
Hospital, ALBERT LEE HAXENNER, be;
loved husband of Virginia Havenner and
father of Albert Lee. ir., and Carl Haven
ner; beloved son of William II. and Lillle
and Howard Havenner.
Remains resting at his late residence,
71O Thirteenth Street Southeast.
Funeral services from Bradburn Memo
rial Church, X Street between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Streets Southeast, on Tues
day. November 10. 1885 at 2 80 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend
Interment In Congressional Cemetery.
Services by Chambers Company South
east funeral home.
The trail is hard. the pain severe,
To part with one we loved so dear.
We stood and prayed at his bedside
And asked for life, but God denied.
HIS LOVING WIFE. MOTHER
AND FATHER.
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SHIRLEY, RENA-on Thursday, Novem-
ber H. 1885. at Alexandria Hospital.
beloved wife of Harry Shirley, in the
thiEty-seventh year of her. age.
Remains resting at the Cunningham
funeral home, 500 Cameron Street. Alex
andria, Va.
Funeral services will be held, on Sat-
urday morning, November IS, 1875, at
II o'clock a. M, from the Cunningham
funeral home, 500 Cameron Street. Alex
andria, Va.
Interment will follow in Ivy Hill Gene.
terry, Alexandria, Va.
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Funeral services will be held on satur-
day morning. November 1s. 1885. at II
o'clock from the W. W. Chambers Com
pany, funeral home. 1400 Chaplin Street
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day. November 13 1895. at the resi-
dence Of her sister Mrs Henry E. Bit
finger. 1910 Livingston Street Northwest,
ANNIE ELIZABETH SPEER the beloved
mother of Virginia Speer Davis. c. Pres
ton speer and the late Doris Pinner.
Remains resting at the ". W: Chambers
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JENKINS, ANNIE EsTELLE-on Thurs
day, November IA. 1885, at sibley Hos
pitsl, ANNIE EsTELLE JENKINS tnee
Rollins). beloved wife of John J. Jenkins.
Remains resting at the w. w Chambers
Co. Southeast funeral home. 517 Eleventh
St. s. z.
Funeral services from she Providence
Methodist Church. WestmorPlard county,
Va. on Saturday. November Is, at 3 p. m.
Relatives and friends are invited
Interment in church cemetery.
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Remains resting at her late residence.
2205 First Street Northwest until 1:30
Funeral services will be held from the
Rhode Island Methodist Protestant Church.
First Street and Rhode, Island Avenue
Northwest. on SATURDAY. afternoon. Eovem-
her 1R 1A35 at . o'clock.
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mMRaR 1880 c street
mUME Northeast
To-day: Laurel and Hardy in BON
ME SCOTLAND" Novelty.
Tomorrow: Double Feature. ZaSu
pitts in "AFFAIRS OF SUSAN" Hoot
Gibson in POWDER SMOKE RANGE"
Betty Boop.
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Funeral services will be held on satur-
day afternoon. November ! g. 1898. at 2
o'clock from the W. w. Chambers Com
pany funeral home, 400 Chaplin Street
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Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend
Interment will follow in Cedar Hill Ceme-
terry
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In MenOriam

The rose that is sweetest and fairest
Is the rose that is killed by the frost
But the love that is dearest and rarest
Is the love that we have lost.
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|ATYOUR THEATER 1CS'c47 0SRa4
18th St. Below r
st. n. W.

Screen: GARY COOPER and ANN
HARDING in PETER IRBETSON'
with DICKIE MOORE.
stage: "oNE HOUR WITH YOU
with Al Norman, "Broadway's Newest
Joanquin Garay, the
Libonati Trio. Prosper and Marat;
Marjorie Clay and the IL David Bines
Girls.
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Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Company funeral home, Fourteenth and
l
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SAWYER. MARY ELIZABETH-On Thurs
day, November IA. 1885, at her resi-
dence. 1914 Nineteenth Street Northwest,
loved wife of Thomas +. Sawyer Besides
her husband. she is also survived by two
daughters, Mrs. June K. Lawson and Mrs.
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DIED

OSBORNE, MAYME J.-On Thursday
morning, November IA. 1885. at Sibley
Memorial Hospital, MAYME J. OSBORNE,
the beloved wife of Jacob B. Osborne. Re.
mains resting at the W. w. Chambers
Company Southeast funeral home SIT
Eleventh Street Southeast.
Funeral services will be held on sat-
urday afternoon. November 10, 1885. at
2:3O p. m, from the W. W. Chambers
Co. Southeast funeral home, 5l7 Eleventh
Street Southeast.
Relatives and friends are invited to at.
tend
Interment will follow in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

1t all started when young Jerry Miller, aged
10, stumbled onto dog -eared book in his par
entS' home in Denver.
1t looked like just another book but it was the
Key to great adventures and unspeakable
nance; for 1t was, as you have guessed copy
of Treasure Island" and it unlocked whole
new world for young Jerry Miller
ERRY read it eagerly and lost himself for
- hours at a time on sun bleached beaches of
the Spanish Main. Finding it good he passed it
on TO his brother Donald, aged 8; and when
Donald got through with it, it went to a play
mate, young LIE Roy Jungerfermon And after
LIE Roy got through with it, the Miller boys g.
year-old sisters, Mary Lou and Marjorie, read it.
All OF this being done. the next inevitable
step was for the five children to go out and plav
~Treasure Island" themselves
Ihey didn't put it that way, of course What
they sad was something like, Lets go out and
hunt for desert island with buried gold on il
Now Denver is in the heart of a great gold
country, but it is poor place to look for desert
islands and pirate hoards-unless YOU are
chlld ana have just read your Stevenson. These
youngsters found the obstacles remarkably few
Inc hrSt move. as with all pirate expeditions
was to find ship and here nameless truck
orlVer came to the rescue, quite unintentionalI,
by parking his coal truck in a vacant lot along
SIDE the back yard of the home where the
Miller children, their parents, and Grandpa
Patrick Flaherty lived
rms truck was Immediately appropriated
and in the twinkling of an eye it ceased to be
coal truck and became Squire Trelawnev's
snip Hispaniola. With brooms sticks and scraps
OF cloth the children rugged it with masts and
SalS' ana Jerry got bit of school room chalk
anu anu printed the name, Hispaniola, in large,
Shghtly uneven letters on one side.
All good pirate ships must have narrot
ABOARD; and luckily lie Roy Jungcrf2"Don';
Evening star., 1935-01-27

mother owned one. lie Roy Immediately appro-
pliated it, and its name changed from pro-
sale Polly to Capt. Flint The parrot goggled
its eyes wisely, gurged darkly in its throat,
ana accepted the new role without protest, al
though instead of listening in on the BIAS
phemous tales of pirates it had never heard any,
thing more blood-curdlng than the innocent
condolences of Mrs. Jungerfermon's bridge club