Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1926, Page 23

TUU_ UF BUSH HRES ACCUSES HUSBAND. | MIUTT AND JEFF—Jeff Dopes Out the Reason Why a Chicken Crosses the Street. INALSTRALIAIS 3 Towns Threatened by Flames i Fanned by High Wind. ! Hope Is in Rain. By the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, Australia, Aary 18.—The death toll from bush fires in Australla has now reached 31. Four bersons are missing. A strong wind is fanning the fires in many places and rain is anxiously awaited. The township of Toolangi in the Healesville district of Victoria was saved after desperate _struggle with the fir which traveled with alarming rapidity through the forest. Women and children were sent out of the fire zone to places of safety. Only the determination of the firefighters | ' 10 save their homes prevented the whole township from being ravaged. Febru- | Wife Says He Took Woman to Cuba on Her Money. Mrs. Lina Bolcioni, in a suit fo: maintenance filed in the District Su her husband, Paul Bolcionl, drew from took another womoa on a trip Cuba. She asks the court to seque ter her husband’s estate so that sh may recover her alimony. ‘vhey were married April 7, 1304, and the wife says for six vears hoth were em | going into the real estate and bro 1 kerage business. Mrs. Bolclon! says {urged her June 2 iast to visit Cuba to investigate certamn proposed in vestments, and on her return, June 11, she discovered that the bank ac count of $15,000 had becn depleted | to $7,500. She charges that her Lus i band financed the trip to Cuba for himself and another woman in her nabsence. Attornevs Carter and Harlan Wood appear wife. her husband for the RUSH-SEATS The conflagration was a terrifying spectacle. Now and then a great tree would crash to earth and fire- fighters had narrow escapes from death. Under the illumination pro: vided by blazes huge crowds wit- nessed the burial of six fire victims | last night in the West Warburton ' Cemetery, and similar scenes were er- wcted at the Y ra Junction Ceme- | tery ed with smoke during the burfals. i A destructive fire has broken out in | the Toora Hill Victoria, where flames are in some plices 50 feet high. The fire is tra eling with great rapidity and is threat ening the township of Porepunka VFirefighters had to run for thelr lives from the fire in Yallourn township. SOUTH AMERVICAN COURTS Dr. Leo S. Rowe Addresses Wash- ington Study—Other Talks Scheduled “in Course. | ARE TOPIC OF LECTURE || | Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director general 4 this morning on America and Its Courts,” ond of a course of lectures on gov- | ernment, which has offered a review | ©of the tribunals of the world Next Thursday “The French Sys. | tem of Jurisprudence” will be the sub- Ject of a lecture by Gilbert Chinard, | professor of French at Johns Hopkins | Tniversity, and on Thursday, March ||/ 4, Dr. Albert H. Putney, dean of the | sehool of soclal sclence of the Amer. | University, will speak on the ish System of Jurisprudence ™ Court of Arbitration” will be ie subject of the lecture to be given | ' Wednesday, March 10, by Prof. C. | on Vollenhoven, profes: of inter-| ional law at the University of Lei- | d Claims | nd Mexico. | n will speak on | sions of the court | speaking on Thursday. | Tt is planned that the last lecture of | this course sholl be delivered by Dr. Edmund A. Walsh on his return to! Washington from Russia, where he | has been called on a special commlis- | slon. He Is expectel to return in six weeks. The lectures are at Rauscher’s at 11 o'clock in the morning, unless | otherwise specified. Children of ‘“Expression” Classes Scheduled to Entertain. Children of the rhythmic expression and oral expression classes of the Thomson Community Center, Twelfth and L streets, will have a recital to- night at 8 o’clock in which the play of “Cinderella” and Interpretative dancing under the direction of Evelyn Davis will be featured. The smaller children who will take part will be Rhoda Lee Davis, Meri-| anne Diefigen, Carol Oberlin, Rose | Oberlin, Martha Ludwig. Katherine Buche, Toby Gerber and Martha King. | The older children who will dance are Mary Chapeno, Vernoll Berry, Margaret Owens, Beatrice Mullen, Jeanette Michel, Carol Oberlin, Jane Robertson and Sara Thornley Jane Robe: part in th ra_ Thornly e the steps = be the stepmother; Jeanette Michel will play the part of the fairy sodmother; Carol Oberlin will be the rgaret Owens the foot Chapeno ol Berry prince and M C. Driscoll. the community secretary of the Thomson Center, is chalrman of the arrangements, with Raca Overlin in charge of the audito- rium. ~Mrs. J. W. Whaler and Mrs. vnne are to assist with the children and A. E. Stevenin and Mrs, W. L. Davis are to be in charge of tickets. Harold Snyder of the com- munity center department will be in charge of the stage lighting. R e American _and British S tourists in France are said ?3"11::\6; Jeft 10,000,000,000 francs last season. The cemeteries were enshroud- ||| country in southern || the ||| We put RUSH-SEATS in an- tique and moder: airs. We weave these RUSH-SEATS by band exactly as it was done in the olden times. preme Court yesterday, hcarges that | the bank money belonging tc her and ployed at the Cuban embassy, later | Keene | Upholstering REUPHOLSTERI PARLOR SUITES AND ODD CHAIRS A SPECIALTY CHAIR CANEING The Best Place and Lowest lces After All | Ask my 35.000 customers. I give :!;;"fr\me you have the right to $9 SILK TAPESTRY CUT TO $2.98 PER YARD THIS WEEK ONLY Clay A. Armstrong i Drop Postal to 1233 10th Street N.W. | Or Phone Franklin 7483 Mr. Armstrong will call personally i MOTHER! 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WASHINGTOM, D. €., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926. N £ DeciDeD To IMAGINE LOOK, MUTT! ANDY MeLLON GAVE ME His / PerRsoNAL CHecic FoR #1000. As A LoAN YO , Tre LION ) TAMeRS, / HE WAS TIRED OF BeING ANNOYED BY US Sso He TOLD me (& T COLLD TELL Him WHY A CHicken CROSSES THE STREET He'D SLIP Us THe THOUSAND ! WELL, T WENT Down ON THe STReET AAD STARTED ™ TINLc, AND THE MoRe T THOUGHT THe WoRse OFE T WASL AaD THen & Gor A/ HAPPY tbeA. R NT WAS A CHiCkehs AnD Y ™Men T STARTED To CROSS THe STReer: THE TRAEFIC WAS AWEUL AAD T WAS HIT Twace BUT )| EWALLY T GoT R AcRoSS Auwve: /4N 2 (Copyright. 1926. Ly H. M ST E THE REASON A CHICKEN 23 Fisher. Trac Mark Rez. U. S Pat. §ff.) 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