Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1925, Page 24

24 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, lv).>0 , FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1925 NFFANLEADER RULES HORDEED Abd-EIl-Krim’s Rout of Span- iards Ushers In New Moor- ish Regime. af Mr. Mo international aff BY PAUL Qorresponder SCOTT MOWRER, ur end the Chicago the World War it became transport urgently to the nce the larger part of can army In ¢ PARIS, outb: Tiecessar battlefields of the h Morc quence, fall back ug With great prived of n not only Iy neutral, been con- and Abel-e ance thr spponents jughout this period Hard Fighting for French. 5. the French ven month 191 opened a road Mou; the and since, to unde not too was, 1 yet ‘res terial lations rated part of th Berenguer brought shuan part foroy Dick Murphy, Oldsmobile Dealer, Builds a Letter to Sarmuel J. Prescott, Builder. Dear Sam: You’ve put so many new addresses in Washington and I've put so many Oldsmobiles at Washing- ton addresses that it would be fitting to put the Oldsmobile Coach at your address. € You build some other Murphy’s In-a-dor Bed into some of your houses —in the Convertible Oldsmobile Coach, with a few simple seat adjust- ments, any one can build a bed that even a som- nambulist would stick to. QPlans and specifica- tions are handled so much by you that I know you'll readily appreciate the merit of those of the Oldsmobile Coach: Fish- er Body, Delco Ignition, Duco Finish, L-Head Six- Cylinder Engine and, Harrison Radiator. QA trip around to your various building activi- ties as my guest will lay the foundation for mo- toring comfort with economy for you, with the Oldsmobile Coach. Oldsmotively, DICK MURPHY. DM/ ss: P. S—Financing this deal is easy—the Oldsmobile Coach costs only $1,075 f. o. b. Lansing. D. M. DICK MURPIHY, o MURPHY. Peesinanr CisTRIBUTORS 1835 14th St. Patomac 1000 poD York World says that a qu jtween the | the servan subordinate a man who understood matters differently, a certain Gen. Sylvestre. This dashing, swaggering, elegant, ambitious officer of mixed Spanish and Cuban blood, glorious with wounds received in the Cuban campaign, could not brook his posi- tion as subordinate in Ceuta under Eerenguer in 1916, and by means of intrigues with the Spanfsh military juntas or officers’ soviets, and with the Immediate military entourage of King Alfonso, got himself appointed {to the command of Melilla, where he would at least be free from his su- perior’s immediate survelllance. Quarrel Between Commanders. The Berenguer plan of campaign called for the ultimate capture of Ajdir from the we: lvestre, know- ing that the King greatly desired this capture, thought it should be attempt ed from the e where he himself was operating. Though nominally un- der Gen. Berenguer's orders, Sylves- tre corresponded directly with the King and, thus encouraged, butted recklessly on in all directions, in de- flance of his superior and careless of the increasing agitation which was manifest among the Riffian tribes The native cadl of Melilla, Abd-el- Krim, ventured to warn him, and to er mediatory services, The bold Ivestre spurned the upstart native, who soon afterward returned to the Riff with guile and anger in his heart, Early in 192] the rival Spanish com- manders had a fateful interview on neutral territory, that is, in the cab- in of a ship at sea. Sylvestre demand- ed more men; Berenguer refused to upply them. Sylvestre, intent upon ising the King, decided to go ahead yway. In March a Spanish column actually reached Sidi Driss, scarcely 10 miles distant from AJdir. The na- however, were aroused In ear- nest. Two months later the post at Sidi Driss was attacked and surround- ed. The post on Mount lbaran was attacked and taken. Of 325 men only escaped. Defeat and Death for Sylvestre. Sylvestre was furious. He at once organized a formidable column of 20,000 men to téach the rebels a les- son. In July the column advanced. At Iguerben it met an unexpected a' tack from the flerce sons of Urlaghel, among whom was the former cadi of Melflla, Abd-el-Krim, The Riffans were determined. The Spaniards were thrown back in disorder on Anuel. Gther tribes rallied to the chase, panish native troops deserted en masse. The retreat became a rout. The unfortunate Sylvestre, according to the most charitable account, commit- suicide before his staff. The re- s of the Sylvestre column, to- er with a relief column which had up under Gen. Naverro, were thrown back and finally surrounded on Mount Arruit, where Navarro and many of his men died. The total Span- Ish loss was 25,000 men killed or cap- tured, 300 cannon, 200 machine guns, 20,000 rifies and large quantities of am; tion. Never in the cotem- porary history of North Africa had been such a native victory. The remnants of Spanish were chased » th very gates of Mel leven ars of patient effort w undone. el-Krim's political fortune was de. An independent state, a con- federation of victorious tribes, came into being in the Riff (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Dally News Co.) WIDOW HAS NEW SPOUSE. Quarrel Over Millionaire Estate Reveals Second Marriage. ¥ YORK, March 13.—The New rrel be- children and the widow Gobel, millionaire meat packer, who died last March, has re- led the age of Mrs. Gobel to Sigwar John Reid last December. e child are alleged to have ob- jected so uously to the second marriage, the World says, that Mrs. R ordered them from the Gobel , in Brooklyn, and hired detec- tives to see that no one entered the house except herself, Dr. Reid and of August Dr. and Mrs, Reid are now living at a hotel, the name of which could not be learned, the World says. Dawss to Speak in New York. W YORK, March 13.—Vice Presi- tent Dawes has accepted an invita- tion to of the Hat hits--- TRINIDAD ASPHALT LAKE IS MARVEL Supply Seems Inexhaustible, Amount Taken Out Al- ways Replaced. “The pavements of city streets cry to the cloop of horses’ hoofs and the whir of automobile tires, 'Trinidad,” in tribute to the island’s asphalt de- posits. Radlo and telephone wires reverberate the refrain. Even the walls of houses shut out these sounds, as well as the cold, with the world-famous product of this emerald island of the southern Caribbean,” says 2 bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo- graphic Socfety. “The most southerly fsland of the West Indies and the largest of the British Islands in the Caribbean with the exception of Jamaica, lying just a few hundred feet from the Vene- zuela coast, Trinidad ships yearly to the United, States more asphalt and bitumen than all the other countries of the world combined. Our 80,000~ ton importation from Trinidad, how- ever, 13 only about one-fourth of the quantity used in the United State: Much of our road material is a b product of the petroleum and coal-tar industries. 4 Supply Is Enormouns. “When Sir Walter Raleigh stopped on the shores of Trinidad to ‘pay’ his vessels with pitch from the fa- mous ‘lake, he declared that there was enough of the substance for all the vessels of the world for centurles to come, and even the demand which modern civilization has put upon the supply has scarcely changed the truth of his statement. “About & mile from the shore, near La Brea, the peculiar phenomenon, which has been varlously termed an ‘inferno, & ‘Stygian pool’ and ‘the fountain of Styx,’ is located. Had Dante known of {its existence, it probably would have served to stimu- Jate his imagination to still more fantastic flights. However, the lake about which §o many Interesting sto- ries have been told does not deser its reputation. A man who contem- plated uicide in its black depths would dle of starvation before th: ooze dragged him in above his knees. “The sensation produced by walk- ing over its surface is much like that of treading upon some great beast whose flesh gives beneath th2 feet—it is soft, blood-warm, and the wrinkles over is surface in the blind- ing light of the sun seem to rise and fall with his breathing, and the water which in the furrows sug- sts that the animal is prespiring. Depth Is Unknown. “It {s sald that the area of the pitch-bearing lake is 110 acres and no one knows how deep it is. There an almost uncanny feature con- ected with the rvemoval of the sphalt from the a. Rails and VER saw anything so eff the back in my iife as Tyree's Buchu and Hyoscyamus. It is & wonderful medicine. of long Buch Tva Ursl, Pareirs Hyoscyamu Hops, Acetate of Aethereal spirit of Nitrae and Hexamethylen You do mot feel like you are taking med| Tt_doesn't taste like medi- There is nothing in it that hurts you in the least Tt will not burt the digestion Price 50_cents. One or two teaspoonfu J. 5. TYREE, Inc, Washington, D. —this is one of the New Modes— interpreted by Mode Craftsmen: double-breast- ed Suit that'll appeal strongly to the dressy young man. Three-button —with two to but- ten; wide shoul- ders, with a tenden- cy to tapering waist; and either wide or medium cut trousers. Blue, and the light tones and tints. In three popular grade&— $35-$40-$50 The Henry Heath—from London—at $9. Borselino—from Italy—at $9. Stetson—special blocks and including the new Ocean-tint Pearl—at $7. Mode Specials—at $5 and $7. Individually proportioned. The Mode—F at Eleventh sleepers have been bullt out into the lake, and each day the laborers dig up chunks of the pitch, which break off with dry, blue fiint-like fractures, and throw them into a car which ru on rails. Each day they make a trough along the sides of the track with their picks and when they re- turn the mext morning the trough is filled again level and solid for them to dig up—a furrow that {s never finished. “Like the Burning Bush, the lake seems never to be consumed, and like the daughters of Danaus, who had to catch water in a sleve, the men never see the results of thelr labors. At night a great gully runs across the horizon, and at dawn the surface is level agaln. “About every three days, however, the pitch swallows up the rafis and the sieepers and they must be raised and readjusted on the surfach Al- though about 100,000 tons of asphalt are being taken from the lake each year, the little track need never be moved; the pitch comes to the railway. Produces “!P‘Oly" Effects. The subtle movements of this queer pool have produced some ‘spooky’ ef- fects—islands wander like lonely ghosts from shore go shore; sometimes a tree trunk sticks up out of the surface like the arm clother in white samite which bore ‘Excalibur,’ points its warning finger, and again is drawn back into the Cimmerian depths. “One writer has estimated that at least 10,000,000 tons of the mixture have been churned into asphalt by gas during the ages in Pitch Lake, which is known as Devil's Cauldron among the natives. About 4,000,000 tons have already been removed, and by 1920 the surface of the lake had fallen 15 feot below its former level. Once during its history the viscous fluid overflowed Its banks and made its way to the sea near La Brea. Now the world's supply is shipped from Brighton, which falrly reeks of ita stock In trade. Asphalt boulders stick up out of the sand along the shore like mysterious black sea worms, the piles of the plers are caked with pitch, the pavements are of the same material, and the black children of the island play with dolls whose little black faces and bodies are made of pltch. Columbus Saw Penks. “The island is really a beautitul resort, its roads are excellent, and It {s easy to reach from the Venezuela shore, its green trees towering on the sky line from far. out at sea. On his third voyage Columbus saw fits three mountain peaks, which gave it Its name, rise out of the sea on July 31, 1498. At the foot of these hills clusters the group of bulldings which forms the capital city, Port of Spain, NDERSOLD. 95 *5 Miracle Values HOT DINNER AT MIDDAY SUNDAY BRITISH CUSTOM Report on Gas Consumption Shows Old-Time Hours of ‘Cooking Undergo No Change. Qorrespondence of the Associated Pres LONDON, February 20.—The hot Sunday midday dinner is still a fetish among the majority of English people, says a report ou gas con- sumption, which In England is at its maximum between 11 o'clock in the morning and 1 p.m. on Sundays Close observers of gas consumption say that the hours of cooking vary in different towns. Brighton, for in- stance, spends more time on the sea front and pier and goes on cooking untll nearly 3 pm. Nottingham in- clines to the continental style and uses more gas for cooking in the evening. Scotland, with stricter ob- servance of the Sabbath, does most of its cooking for Sunday on the previous day. a rather nondescript modern town which has grown up on the charred ruins of the old Spanish cit “Though the island has been Brit- ish since 1797, it is as polyglot as Zanzibar; negroes, mulattoes from high yellow to ginger, French Span- iards, Venezuelans, Chinamen, East Indians, Tamils, Americans and Eng- lish lofter in its streets or hang over its baleonles.” VERYBODY isreading it! Specialist in House Wiring and Fix- tures. New Electric Appliances Washing Machines, Elec- tric Ranges, Percolators, Electric Irons, Waffle Irons, Toasters. ale of Vacuum Cleaners and Floor Lamps, The Home Electric Shop 517 10th St. Main 6549 Special GRAND OPERA LAGGING. Buenos Aires Sees Season’s Pros- pects Go Glimmering. Correspondence of The Star aud the Chicago Daily News. - BUENOS AIRES, February 15— Buenos Aires may not have a grand opera season this year. Thus far efforts of the municipal authorities to lease the beautiful Colon opera house have been in vain. The reason is sald to be that nd opera has been a losing venture in Buenos Aires during recent seasons. Formerly the opera was the leading social attraction of the year and called forth a dazzling parade of the elite. The most expensive stars were brought from New York and Chicago, and every seat in the house was sold. A generous proportion of the receipts reverted to the munic- ipality as owner of the theater. The decline in popularity of opera is ascribed to changing tastes, movies, vaudeville and cabarets drawing larger and larger crowds. Of the 3,280,000 passenger cars pro- duced in the United States last year, the average retall price per car was $814. R T IR TR T THE ARGONNE 16th and Col. Rd. Several very at- tractive apartments ranging from two rooms, kitchen, re- ception hall, bath and balcony to four rooms, kitchen, re- ception hall and bath. THE ARGONNE RESIDENT MANAGER a _hundred days™ shout the Romans. “Who says Italy is slow? Haste in construction has rot prevented the builders from erecting an elaborate stucco facade In the baroque style. AUTOIST GETS>60 DAYS. Driving While Intoxicated Charge Draws Jail Sentence. 1,000-ROOM HOTEL BUILT FOR HOLY YEAR VISITORS Rome Announces Construction of Special House of Entertainment Is Nearing Completion. Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago Daily News. ROME, February 15—One of the largest of the speclal hotels designed to house pilgrims to the celebration in Rome this year of the Anno Santo is now approaching completion. It is in the grounds of the Villa Massimo, Police behind the palace of Queen Mar- | Court today gherita. The hotel, which consists of | The defend three large connectsd scructures, con- (day by Policeman tains & thousane rooms—each with |stated that Offord tunning water- -and 100 baths. It |his automobile, has been built in a little more than |caused three months. “A thousand rooms in nearby. Louis M. Offord, eolored, charged with drivin i ated colliding, was given & sentence days on t st count and $40 or days on the second one when he ap- red before Judge Schuldt in and of 60 30 was arrested H which glanc much damage to two m Hann ¥S, we are 29 years old. Next Monday 1s the first day of our Anniversary Sales---to last one week. Zwo Pages in Sunday’s Post; 7Two Pages in Sunday’s Star; Two Ad- vertisements in Sunday’s Herald. Read ’em and keep Monday Morning open for shopping. We have made splendid preparations and think you will like the se- lections and the prices. The Hecht Co. ON PREMISES T GUARANTEE We guarantee the price of any arment purchased in this store to be the lowest in the city! 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