Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 24

s 24 TWO SOCIETY GIRLS | [_cuoe e 0ers | TOSING IN OPERA 7 Helen Gatley and Chaflottel Childress Get Places in Washington Company. of Two wmembers Washington's younger social set, Miss Helen H. Gatley, who is to make her debut Christmas Day, and Miss Charlotte Childress, a debutante of last vear, will have parts in e forthcoming productions of the Washington Opera Co., having been chosen at the voice | now in progre: | The former is the ¢ rter of Mr. Prescott v, and the lat-| v d Mrs. John W. Cildres: Chey among the large number wf‘ wingers engaged as the result of the hich have disclosed one young | vice of phenomenal range venport, 4 young mi n long curls. | Miss Davenport created a sensation, | rding to Edouard Albion, general! recter of the opera, by taking high | with little apparent effort. This/| note is believed to be Ligher than any | attained on the operatic stage, .'md! ndded inte t was lent to Miss Daven- | port's pe: mance by the fact that| she has had no voice training. | By the Associated Press | business and vacation trip in the far | Hoover brought a brilliant pictire of / THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 19. 1926—PART 1. HOOVER 10 STUMP FORG.OP. THISFALL of Water Problems, He Says He Offered Services. CHICAGO, September 18.—Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, will make several addresses in the Middle | West this Fall in behalf of Republican | success at the November elections. Stopping in Chicago today on his way to Washington from a combined | West, Secretary Hoover sald he had offered his services to the party. Officials of the Republican Senate) campaign committee said Hoover | would be asked to discuss several| issues before audiences in States yvet to be selected. Coming from Los Angeles, Mr. aircraft development in the far West, and declared that within six months several commercial air lines linking Denver or Cheyenne with Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest should be in_full operation. Much of the Secretary's attention | lows from an adjacent sea, from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and on the upper Mississippi and the Missourl. In the West the water problems are problems of flood control, frrigation, reclamation and use of water for power. They are being considered all together." |ANT TRAGEDY DIMS LIGHT.| Houses Short-Circuited by Shocked Spider and Feasting Foes. Special Diepatch to The Star BRIDGEPORT, Conn., September 18.—A tragedy the insect world was discovered by electricians seek- last night in 20 houses on drive, Lordship, near here. A large spider, it was found, incautiously stepped from one ex posed service wire to another. His electrocuted body was discovered by an industrious ant, who led his fel sand hill to feast upon it. Hundreds of ants came up to the dead spider und were in turn electrocuted as they touched the body the insects caused the short circuit which dimmed the lights. had Damascus Swords Famous. scus swords were in real- for their quality rather than for any legend about them. They could spring back straight and true as an arrow 0o matter how many times they were bent. The method of tem- pering them was a secret for ages ing the cause of the dimming of lights | Prospect | The accumulated bodies of | GAVE AWAY RICHES ! - AND DIES A PAUPER | Patrick H. Flynn, Recluse, | Always Granted Pleas of ' Friends for “Loans.” | Special Dispateh to The Star. MONTICELLO, Y September 118.—When Patrick I1. Flynn, Brook- | llyn's “trolley king,” politician and | contractor, retired his $150,000 |home near DeBruce, 30 vears ago. | every one estimated his fortune .’\l} least $1,000,000. He had been president of the Nas- | sau Electric Railroad, which he had | organized, owned considerable prop- | erty in and about Brooklyn, and In | At to lall was believed very wealthy. | that time he abandoned politics, bu iness and personal association and | began the life of a recluse in his magnificent manor. Now, three months after his death, | at 86, his will, a threeline instru- | ment in his own handwriting, which bent double and would | bequeathed his possessions to Helna | Despite scarcity and enormous cost of SAN 1. Meht, his housekeeper, was offered for probate before Surrogate Smith. It has been found, according to | | William H. McGrath of Livingston 'Est. ¢. A. VOORHEES, M. D.. Philadelphia. | b= Manor, the executor, that the for- tune has dwindled, through unfor- tunate loans and litigation, to noth- ing except a bale of stock in a salted gold mine. Mrs. Meht has a bundle of I O U's and receipts representing fens of thou- sands of dollars loaned by Mr. Flynn to former business and political asso- | ciates. | The home long ago passed out of his | hands and just three weeks before his | vhile its builder and one-time owner | who hill onee by Clarence Bolhemus, the hauled supplies up the manor. to keeper, simply would hand over the amount requested, in either cash or ne- gotiable securities. Yet only three friends attended the old recluse's funeral. Radium for Blood Speed. For the first time in history scien- tists are able to measure exactly how fast the blood flows through the body. | death the house was destroyed by fire, | This achlevement was announced re- cently by Drs. Herman Blumgart | was living in a small cottage owned |, 14 ‘Soma Welss of the Thorndyke Laboratories, Boston City Hospital, who declare it will ‘be of valuable aid in determining abnormal conditions, particularly heart disease, says the Popular Science Magazine. By thelr method radium is injected |in the left arm of a patient. Carried in the blood stream through heart and lungs, its arrival in the right arm is detected by an electroscope. For the normal person the average speed of the blood over this course is from 15 to 20 seconds, the doctors report for a diseased person it is as slow as 45 to 60 seconds. When messenger boys took telegrams | [ to Mr. Flynn, he would meet them at | the door, pay them handsome tips and return them to the office with the mes. sages unopened. But when a friend or acquaintance would come for finan- cial aid, Fiynn, according to his house. 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