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. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., JUNE 17, 1928—PART .1. WORKERS BATTLE 10 SAVE LEVEES 13,000 Men Labor to Keep St. Francis River Dykes From Breaking. K. ) PRIVARY CAMPAIGN - CLOSES IN MAINE ‘ Republicans Have Waged Lively Battle for Sena- tor and Governor. THE SOCIETY OF NATIVES PICNCS IN POTOMAC PARK Senate Opponents UTILITIES INQUIRY TURNSTOMISSOUR | | Tennessee Information Agen- cies Also to Come Under U. S. Scrutiny. By the Associatad Press Activities of public utility informa- | tion agencies in two more States—Mis- | ®ouri and Tennessee—will come under the scrutiny this week of the Federal | ‘Trade Commission in its utility finan- cing investigation. Resuming _its hearings Tuesday, the | tommission has subpoenacd as a witness J B, Sheridan of St. Louis, sccretary | of the Missouri commitice on public | utility information, and a tformer St. Louis newspaper man, who was figured Pprominently in previous testimony. Guy P. Newburn of Nashville, d: rector of the Tennessee Public Serv- ice Information Bureau, is scheduled to take the stand Thursday, it heing anticipated that Sheridan’s’ testimony Wwill require two days. Commissioner Edgar A, McCullough, who is presiding at the hearings, ulso announced that the hearings vwould be | | By the Associated Press. KENNETT, Mo., June 16.—Almost ' vainly fighting to keep back the stead- ily rising waters of the St. Francis ! River, more than 3,000 farmers, busi- | ness and professional men battled on | tonight in a desperate effort to save the | remainder of their crops and homes ! irom floods | The workers were leaving nothing unturned in their unceasing tofl to strengthen the weakened spots along al 25-mile front to the north of here aftet | the 150-foot break which occurred early | today, inundating more than 25,000 acres of land and driving hundreds of ' familles from their homes. Ample warning was given those in the are: flooded. At scveral points near Campbell, to the north of here, the task of keeping | |the river back seemed hopaless this By the Associated Prees. PORTLAND, Me., June 16.—A lively Republican party primary campaign in Maine closed tonight, with two candi- dates seeking the nomination for United States Senator and four in the field for the gubernatorial nomination. The votes will be cast on Monday. There are no Democratic contests for the leading places on the ticket. Senator Prederick Hale, now serving his second term, is opposed for renom- | Ination by Gov. Ralph O. Brewster. | The Republican candidates for governor !are Wililam Tudor Gardiner, former Speaker of the Maine House of Repre- sentatives; State Senator Prederick W. Hinckley of South Portland, Herbert C. Libby, Colby College professor and former mayor of Waterville, and John G. Smith, State bank examiner and former mayor of Saco. | ] | | —Star Staff Pho’ suspended between July 7 and Septem- ber 1, because of the hot Summe: days, bui that investigation into holding com- | g:n\es and paolicity organizations would | continued by examiners in the “.eld. | Hodges to Be Heard. | ‘The remaining witnesses to be hea before the sessions are to be suspend include Earl Hodges of New Yor! merly director of the Arkansas Public | Service Information RBureau, and Rex 1. Brown of Little Rows, Ark., secreiary and treasurer of the bureau, and sec- | retary and treasurer of the Arkansas| Public Utilities Association. They, gether with H. Lee Jones of Topeka director of the information bureau of the Kansas Public Service Co. and sec- retary of the Kansas section of the Middle West division of the National Electric Light Association, have been summoned to testify June 26 and NATIVES' SOCIETY HOLDS CONTESS rd ed Races and Athletic Program| Fealure Annual Picnic of D. C. Group. There wiil be stiff joints and tired muscles ameng th® members of the = | Society of Natives of th» District of o e etary o the Tadi. | Columbia as a result of athletic con- ana committee on public utility infor- | iests which afforded the chief enter- mation and now secretary-treasurer of | tainment at their annual picnic yes- h‘-‘:hflhl:l ot gs‘:s'nm‘::’?,g- terday afternoon under the trees at Witnesses to follow him include Wil- Hains Point. 3 liam Stokes of Indianapolis, secretary| Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of the Indiana Public Utilities Associa- | of poiice, joined the picnickers during tion; Frank O. Cuppey of Lafayette, | the afternoon and finally was persuaded Ind. general manager of the Lafayette |to enter the ball-throwing contest. He Telephone Co.. and Arthur E. Scott of | Was numbered among the losers Indianapolis, director of public relations| Lee D. Latimer, president of the of the Interstate Public Service Co. society, was in charge of arrangements. " Files Semate Repert. Vincent B. Smith was in charge of ths . athletic program. In addition to announcing its plans A Ben Hur chariot race was won by for future hearings, the commission sub- | a “team captained by J. C. Kondruf, tnitted its monthly interim report to th> | with Benjamin Israel's team second. Benate, ic which it was siated thal Jsrae] was the winner of the potato 5480 answers had been received {rom | race, and his team won a quick victory privately owned utility companies to the | jn ' tyg-of-war. commission’s first general questionnaire, | " Other events were a 50-yard dash, eoncerning production, purchases, sales, | with F. D. Umhau, first; Lee D. Lati- interstate business, intercompany rela- | mer, second, and C. L. Perry, third: a earnings, investments and | tionships, three-legged race, which was won by plant capacity. <. | Mrs. Vincent B. Smith and Miss Elois> | ‘The report said that represontatives Best, and a ball. of the commission were in offices of | by Mr, Smith among the men and Miss holding companies in New York.| Best among the women Iphia. Boston and Chicago, ob- | taining information on the financing G, . the dzations, which will be dis- Daring l&':'un th the commis- | mon! o flon has held hearings on publicity | | atility organization in 13 States ‘Thire remain 6: of 28 organizations eovering 38 Spates, and 4 geo. graphical divisions of the National Eleciric Light Assoriation to be inquirsd into, before the publicity phases of the inouiry will have been compieted. URCED ONBAPTSTS NEWS— MEN TO WORK |Former Preshyterian Mod- IN RUSTIC PARADlSE‘ erator Speaks at Opening et | of Northern Convention. ‘Writers and Photographers to Use Clubbouse Nine Miles From | pErmore oo™ President’s Lodge. | DETROIT, June 16.—Questions of the validity and universality of Chris- | tanity and of the relationship of the | older and younger churches are t) l;:.gelm! issues si Robert By the Associated Press. H confronting mh-“ BUPERIOR. Wis., June 16.—Most of enterprise in this new age, Dr. E. Bpeer of New York, former the men ;Mh&mnms &odznun of uuChumrl l‘:’nmbly ?.-f who accompan: - Presbyterian urch, said toda; $dge on his vacation this Summer will | his keynote”address e opening of be housed in 2 rustic paradise on Lake | the i th annual Northern g.p. miles from Cedar Island | tist Convention. on the Brule River, where the Dr Speer issued a call for the Chris- t will live. tian Church to ‘ake up with rencwed P A Duluth manufacturer. effort and energy the task of “giving _bas offered ti tions of | Christ tc men and women of every hufi-wnt%wmubmwh-l‘m wrlrl!- land.” spondents. e cl sleeping ] o guarters for 85 and more than that can Esporting” Christiauity. be taken care of in the dining room. “The hypocrites must stop talking ey 1 the ¢ | about our right to export Christianity bestifun 6f “the many akes 1o thss Uniess they Slop exporting everyining vieinity. There is every provision for €lse under the sun to every land in the world, We owe the Christian religion o every man and, woman in the woild.” The ke speaker declared that | “the greatest issue before us is whether there is a redemptive mission in Chris- tianity, valid, final and universal, or whether Christianity is a Western cul- ture that always will be incomplete. “If the Christian faith is here only 3 . swimming and other outdoor activities ———e Buicide rates in the United States are ggr than deaths from rafiroad ac- ts. _ SPECIAL NOTICES, CK RETURNING TO HARRIBBURG. as one of a group of faiths to be %fl“m"f,fi“‘",},’gg'fl{{ Joad ®' | finally gathered up as the synthesis of —— 10 $TOCKHOLDERS the religious experience of all the world, | iz of "4 that means the end of Christianity and | the missionary en terprise. s veur W. C. Coleman of Wichita, Kans,, Comoany So 511 7th president of the convention, predicted rert myrhoest on Thursisy June Zist internal harmony” during the sessions in his opening address. He predicted there would be no claches between fundamentalist and liberal groups, Togn miiam g olin open v wm 161 o 4 WEsRY " BERGH AN S credary ANTED ORPART LOAD TO Plrens 20D ot TARD, A° A Reports Are Read. ress Co. Frankiln 4506 The first day of the six-day conven- | tion was devoted largely to receiving | reports of organizations and societies | of the convention. The board of mis 1 WILL WOT BE RESPONBIBLE VYOI ANY niracied other than by~ mses) Wiy E Sillanti: 23 8 o1 w B 8055 Ttk BW. —GET ACQUAINTED WMON yg Fridsy. whic ac ane 2 you can | gionary co-operstion reported that re- £, W * g .’.;’l;.({:fi‘-.",."“’ O W ROLIRTN: | coipta” to the boasd increased shout $600,000 during the last year over those HOTEL VAN DESIRES 0 ENTER INTO of the preceding year. b bty "cluse” i ornmess section oi Approximately ~ 5,000 laymen and 1 Box 475, o e Pt Oftae DaSLOTS, Tepresenting 25 Btates, were INCLA YOUR PORCH tow AT 1O% . here for the convention. They were to sripie windous Ly wsod congition {rom | p)1 the pulpits of virtually ail Detrolt "t £ MOVING ELBEWH WeP'ie | churches tomorrow, O i weiter e moeTeting GIRL PAINTS MAN'S FACE. #ll Call Muin 9220 b%" oM THANE & BIOKAGE (O § WIL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE YOI AMY \Then He Goes Into Town and Is Un- W_oC ALL N, 3615 i4th st » PAMTED VAR LOADE OF FUINET Uitk done by the Bright Life 207 T Wew Yorh, Prile. Bosson. Rieh | .., Sr oT ket A il "";“fiim"z'mmsm “ wrOgAGE Co YALO.-With his face painted i Lo¥ By e D and whooping Indian fashion, gt H Bt B B Callaghan, 21, farmer, of Angols G & oo taken i custody and arraigned on ashington, 1) « A charges of heing drunk HOTELE, HOBPITAL RESTAULANTS On_epcountering the officer, Callag- eatolerias, ciube avienton: Perfect cofter | pan insisted he had no residence here 5 ey, eronms and was merely attempting o cateh T, T Aoy trolley back u Angola, expiaining he only #ll-giesr pyrex had finishe Lo S - g the bright lights, b W atiy Who puinted your face?” Judgs Me- ok Wi ety Test Laughin asked Callaghsn " o vidiary i 1 essive, Foss it Kok 316 Rev- My mal bushingly replied the GARAGE MATER ey wxlvenied watlsl young farmer, twirling his hat and v, 4o0re, ......&L;f'n;,w(.u viels, banging his heed o B U0 | Jutge MicLaughiin euspended sen- WATIONAL PARK, BLACK A '#00e op Callaghsn's promise o return iglion and personsl sery- U the solitude of the barnyard 3 &prings, 8, Das. " Wadbingiin refererics. . 0% G e e, SISTERS NEARING 100. VhREHoURE - viored i ot convel 4 sespondencn o1 the Assnctated Press PAIRMONT, W. Ve~ Mrs, Margaret Jane Grove has passed her ninety-sixth versary. Her sister, Mrs, Corilla K I6 98, and another sister, Miss Harn of Kenesaw, Nebr., i “They have spent aciive, useful e - a1 1give) comt ) BHErad o g 55 0T 10 S0 5w ‘opponite e Gus O M Workmen's Compensation Insurance e Ryl Inaempity Con i compeny) we ofier v Chre o1 yOuI heen i penssl 10 ot 428 10 1N 422) Grove was chief promoter of he formation of the equal suffrige o cheties in West Virginis many years ago and has been active 1 polllica) and civie matters. The sisters are natives of Marviend his fling In the city among | - FORMER NAVAL R OFFER AIRCRAFT SPEED AWARD ESERVE FLYERS First Prize of Kind to Datc Applics to Straiqht Course — Pilot to Get Trophy. A group of former Naval Reserve aviators, including F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for aviation; William A. Rockefeller and_Caleb S. Bragg, has established a trophy to be 2warded $rom time to time to the pilot breaking the world’s maximum aircraft speed record, it was announced yester- day by the National Aeronautic Asso- clation, custodian of the award. The trophy has been christened the S. Thompson Speed Trophy" in honor of Lewis S. Thompson of Red Bank, N. J a token of its “appre- ciation for his generous financial sup- port, sympathetic advice and unstinted devotion of his time, experience and cnergy during the early days of their training at West Palm Beach, Fla., and Huntington, N. ¥. First of Kind. To date there has been no air speed prize. The only awards near it are the Schneider International Seaplane Trophy and the Pulitzer Trophy. but both of these are offered to winners of closed-course races. and the speed of plan=s in thes> contests do not repre- sent their maximum. The L. 8. Thomp- son Speed Trophy would be given to| the pilot who flies th> fastest over the course. The trophy stands about 2!, feet high, 1s a silver celestial globe and stands, mounted on a walnut bass On the globe astronomical figures are inlaid in bronze and the various con- stellations are indicated by stars. As a ymbol of speed, a gold comet is,inlaid | In the silver sphere. Under terms of the gift, the trophy itself does not become the property of th> winning pilot, but with it ‘are smaller replicas which will be given the successful contestants Bernardi Holds Record. In the event a forelgn pilot qualifies for the trophy. it will be given into possession of the embassy in Wasn- ington repressnting his_country. Those who donated the trohy W. Laud Brown. W. P. Thomps Oliver B James, Charles H. Stowart Frederick _ Beach, Artomus L. Gates, Foster Rogkwell, Kenneth R. Smith John V. Farwell, 3d; H. P. Davison, K. R. McAlpin, R. Bartow Read, F. R. V | Lunch, D. 'H. McCulloch, Earl C. B. | Gould, D. s. Ingalls, John M. Vorys, A | G Mcliwaine, jr.; Henry L. Landon, ir.: | Robert A. Lovett, Reginald G. Cocmbe. | E. O. McDonell. ‘Allan W. Amos, Gra- ham M. Brush, R. L. Ireland, jr. Sam- | usl 5. Walker and A. J. Ditman The first award of the trophy wil! be made to the pilot breaking the present 1 < von | Official kilometer straight-away speed | maximum speed record of 318 miles an throwing contest won Mario de Ber- | e. hour now held by Maj. nardi of the Italian Royal Air For Girl Hurt as Pare By the Ascociated Press POTTSVILLE, Pa., June 16—8ix hundred school children were thrown into a heap on a vaudeville stage’ at | :’l;e Sgyhumzkfll County 1rnr grounds to- | y collapse of a temporary | stand. Only one was seriously hurt. | Theresa Hogan, 17, one of four girls | of Duck Run, taken to a ital here, | tonight was reported in a critical con- dition. The other three were discharg- ed after treatment. Authorities es- timated that at least 100 children were cut and brulsed. The Hogan girl was trampled in the nl:sh of the others when they found the: tage Collapses W;th 600 Children: | nts Join Near-Panic | The children, all from Cass township, | were giving a pageant which was wit- | nessed by several thousand adults, in- cluding the parents of many of them. One of the !upgoru of the stand gave way and as the section immediately | above the collapsing truss went down. other sections fell, Panic stricken, the children tried to make their way out of the crush. The spectators left their seats and made their way across the | intervening space to the stage and for a time there was a seething, screaming | mass of adults and children on and around the stage. Order finally was restored and the four girls most seri- | ously hurt taken to the hospital in an ambulance. The stand was repaired and the pageant was resumed BELA KUN ORDERED BANIHED N PLANE Communist Who Set Up “Red Terror” to Be Ousted by Austrians. By the Associated Press VIENNA, June 16.—Bela Kun, the fiery Communist, who Inaugurated a “red terror” in Hungary in 1919, s to be banished from Austria for the sec- ond time, This time he will be sent to Germany by airplane, the government of that | country having promised to relay him by another airplane to some Baltic port, | whence a Russian steamer can trans- port, him to Leningrad. Arrested Aprit 28, This program was revealed in min- isterial circles tonight, Kun has been under arrest here since April 28, on the tecnnical charge of entering Aus- tria after he had n expelled. The police assert, however, that his presence in Vienna was part of a plot %o Inau- gurate a fresh Communistic regime in Hungary under the patronage of Mos- cow The decision to banish the agitator was reached in advance of his trial, which does not open until June 20. It | was sald that he will be sentenced to a short term in prison, because of pass- ! port srregularitien and at the conclu. | ¥ion of that term will be shipped north by sirplane. Used Five Passports. Kun entered Austria this time undep a false German pessport, an offense punishable by 90 days in jall. He is sid 1o have used five different pass- ports 1o rench this eity, which he chose as his neadguarters, because of the awift punishment inflicted on his eolleagues in Hungary, His 1919 power there Insted only four months, hut in that time a thousand of more persons hostile 1o his doctrines were put to death He fled to Russia and for a brief time in 1921 was Boviet high commissar in the Crimea. In May, 1925, he turned up in Portuga). but was deported for he- ing impllcated in an assault on the commander of the Portugal safety stats police, - . Leola and Leota Simpson, 18-year-old twin sisters of Collinsville, Mo., have | finished thelr four-year course In the high echool with exactly the same aver- | age In their studies—90.4 per cent BOOKS WANTED in any Bri Phone Franklin $415 BIG BOOK SHOP 933 G St N.W, i I 'RUSSIAN GIRLS APT " AS GEISHA DANCERS |One Reluctantly Given License to | Perform at Cabarets in Tokio. | Correspondence of The star. TOKIO.—The geisha girls in Japan | are not Japanese. There are at least Russian geisha maidens, all with blonde | hair and red cheeks, entertaining the | tired business men of Kobe, Osaka and | Nagasaki, Now there is one In Tokio | who has adopted the professional name | of “Helen Doran.” Miss Doran appeared at Metropolitan | police headquarters recently and made an application for a geisha license. The | Invasion of foreign girl entertainers is | not encouraged by the authorities. so | the young Russian candidate was given a rigid examination In her knowledge of the Japanese language and ability to strum the shamisen. She qualified | | In_every particular and the license was reluctantly given, Bhe told the police she had been born m Moscow and brought up in Harbin, | where she earned her living as a | cabaret dancer. It was in that “wick- | edest city” of the Far East that she | began learning Japanese. Subsequently | | she came 1o Jaj and completed her | study of the language. She amazed the | officials by her knowledge of Japanese | music and dancing | | Geisha girls are supposed to enter- | | tatn at banguets and parties at so much an hour. They receive salaries and honuses the same as actresses in Amer- fca. 'Their profession is respected and many of them marry rich and influen- tia'_husbands. PAINT CERTAINTEED Cement Floor Paint $1.10 quart.......$3.75 gallon Roof Paint, Red $1.50 gallon Porch Floor Paint $1.10 quart .. $3.75 gallon Certainteed Liquid Wax 80c pint.. 80c quart. $3.00 gallon H. R. H. Paint Cleaner Absorbene w.zn Paper Cleaner Oc Valspar Varnish $1.10 pint $1.95 quart EXPERT PAINT ADVICE FREE MUTH Quality Sinee 1865 | him’ whisky on Priday. BIRL 1S ARRESTED BY DRY RADERS | Stenographer, Accomoanying Man Making Rum Delivery, Held in $500 Bond. When he arrived at the rendezvous of Sergl. O. J. Letterman's raiding squadron yesterday afternoon, m re- sponse to a call for three pints of | i 1 afternoon, with the dykes weakened by | seepage. It is belleved by some that the crest of the third rise, which was expected to exceed the flood stage of last night by a foot and a half, would appear tonight or tomorrow. It 15 the opinion of th> workers that should the crest be reached tomight nothing would keep the waters from breaking through to flood 75,000 addi- tional acres of land. Red Cross headquarters were estab- lish>d here today as plans went under way to care for those driven from their hom-s, The citizens were assistad by five companies of National Guardsmen ordered to the scene carlier in the week by Gov. Sam Baker ARKANSAS LAND FLOODED. 20,000 Acres Already Inundated as White River Rises. HELENA, Ark., June 16 (#).—Water lignor, Edward Albert Hawkins. 31 years | from the swollen White River was slow- old, 1933 Eighteenth street, have been accompanied O'Brien, 24 years old, of 10 As a result, both Te arrested and charged with violations laws, According to Sergt. Letterman. “rookie” policeman, dressed in civilian of the liquor | time the river reaches its crest. is said to|ly creeping over land in South Phillip iss Lilllan County and indications were that F II street. | quson, Melwood, Ratio, Lundell and pq sibly Countis: would b2 flooded by th Ap- proximately 20,000 acres were alreads a | Inundated. Reports here from Lee County sal clothing, had made a purchase at|land in the Phillips Bayou sectisn also Hawkins' apartment. of this, the squad secreted themselves in an apartment houss on Columbia road between Fourteenth and Fifteent| strcets and ordered three pints of whisky to be delivered to them there, they say. Hawkins is said to have come with the whisky and was- arrested. Miss O'Brien, in the automobile, also was arrested. Hawkins was charged with sale, {rans- porting and possession and released under $1.000 bond. Miss O'Brien wes released under $500 bond on charges of transporting and possession. Ehe gave her occupation as a stenographer. Make Third Arrest. Following the arrests, the squad went & Frank Perry Coliins, of Sligo Mill road, who, the same informant charges. sold charged with sale, possession and trans- porting and released mder %1.000 | or.d. Later the police went to the apart- ment house at 1929 Eighteenth street which is next door to the scene of the first raid, entered an apartmeat there and seized 20 gallons of alleged alcohol, 20 quarts of alleged whisky and some beer. The apartment was not occunied. The second raid was made on ‘nforma- tion that several men had teen .arry- ing suitcases from one apartment io the other. Sell Drinks From Car. A novel scheme for providing the means with which to quench the thirst of customers was in force at 2104 Four- | teenth street, police charged. The same squad arrested Austin Frederick Gun- nell of Silver Spring, Md., and Carl V. Wolfender, 23 years old, 1432 U street. Police say that Wolfender sat in a car parked in front of the place vutil Gunnell received a demand for liquor. Gunnell then whistled, 1t s claim~d, and Wolfender carried a bottle in from the car, filled the order and then re. turned with his wares to the car. Wolfender was charged with sale, transporting and possession and Gu nell with sale and possession. was released under $1,000 bond. . | | to Hawkins' apartment and arrested .. Collins was | | didates are: Former Gov. J. A. A. Burn- Each | Snail Suggested the Wood Screw. | It is thought that the idea of the | serew was suggested by the spiral shell of the edible snail. "It was not the On the strength | Was under water LIGHT VOTE IS SEE N MNNESOTA RACE Three-Cornered Contest for| Senate Choice I$ Chief | Interest Tomorrow. ‘ By the Associatsd Press. ] PAUL, June 16.—Candidates fear a light vote Monday in Minnesota's State-wide primary election. interest in which has been shadowed by national political events. | Selection of a candidate in a three- | cornered race for the United States| Senate the outstanding contest | among Republicans who seek a cham- | plon to oppose Senator Henrik Ship- stead, | Farmer-Laborite, provided his party nominates him. The three can- \ quist. Minneapolis: State Senator A. J. Rockne, Zumbrota, and Arthur E. Nel- son. former St. Paul mayor. Shipstead is opposed far the Parmer- Labor nomination by Willlam Watkins, Minneapolis. Nelther have campaigned hard, each reporting today that $100 | for filing fees represented their total campalgn outlay in sworn statements filed by the secretary of state. Gov. Theodor Christianson, Dawson, seeks his third nomination as a Re- publican for the position he now oc- cuples. with George Simpson, Min- neapolls, former attorney general, his | primary opponent. Dr. L. A. Fritsche, | New Ulm, and Ernest Lundeen. Min® | neapolis, seek the Parmer-Labor guber- | natorial nomination. Democrats have no primary races, Duel With Cards. A nice, clean way for the settlement of “affairs of honor" in Czechos'ovakia shape of the shell that suggested the | DAs been discovered to avenge an in- | screw, but the spiral motion which it | Sult. is necessary to gl‘., the body of the|'0 have given offense to the busin snail in order to withdraw it from the Man. who challenged him to a duel This at once showed that an | WhY not settle the affair at cards object of a screw-shape embodied in a | Another man suggested. shell solid powerfully resisted attempts to withdraw it by a straight pull. Oil UmlfiZ Madrid Stirs Nation-Wide Hunt for Deposits By the Associated Press MADRID, June 16.--The petro- leum deposits reported to exist under this city have heen investigated by the Spanish technologist, Dupuy de Loma, who states that the principal value of the diccovery is the fact that it has been made in cretacean ground. This proves that a cretacean and infracretacean band traverses Spain from Santander to Valencia, with numerous places where there are indications of ofl, althc \gh not necessarily in commercial q. titles. Dupuy de Loma advises the gov- ernment to fry soundings in Sorla, Santander and other places. The investigations give ground for hopes in the Province of Sorla, where the conditions of the ground and traces found justify bellef that petroleum exints, three bedrooms, cxposures, lease during absence. in appointments and service. 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Was Surrendered to Farmer Who Claimed Ownership. Correspondence of The Star { ROCHESTER.—John_Austin of 1735 Lyell avenue took his fishing tackle in | hand and hied him to the barge canal | bridge. Before leaving home he prom- | ised Mrs. Austin he would make an un- usual catch bofore returning home. | For three hours Mr. Austin sat on | the east bank of the canal on the | south side of \Lyell avenue and all he | got were little nibbles. Oh, gosh,” ejaculated Mr. Austin, | ‘look at that fish swimming across | here with his head out of the water.” | There, sure enough, was a pointed nose floundering around in a vortex the “fish" stirred up. 7 Mr. Austin took his rod. made a dex- terous cast' and landed the line near the “fish.” There was a commotion and Mr. ‘Austin quickly learned he had something pulling on his line. Care- fully, for fear of breaking it. but with nervous haste he heeled the line in and landed—a porker weighing 10 pounds. As the angler sat with his tired catch | in his lap, wondering what Seth Green or Isaak Walton would say about it, a farmer from the other side of the canal came and claimed the pig. It had straved to the canal and fallen in Color of Sounds. Observations have proved that a con- siderable percentage of people uncon- clously associate color with every sound | they hear. Pleas notes seem to go | with soft, delicate shades. Some mod- erately high notes suggest gold, shrill | ones; silver and harsh notes seem to go | with deep sounds. ” Stammering and Other Speech Disorders Adults and Parents Prof. H. J. Heltman, A. M., Director Speech Clinics, Medical College, Syracuse University, and Binghamton (N. 'Y.) Public Schools, will be in Washington tomorrow (Monday, Tune, 18) for consultation and advice. For pointments call Cleveland 262 INSPECT —Fcr the Rent You 1731 to 1735 U ¢ A S S S N S S S S SRS S SRR AR PN Semi-Detached—Fri; Garages—Four Bedroo Drive_out 16th St. 1311 H STREET You Can Buy One of These Homes s LSRR SRR R AR SRR AN RN RN TN .\\t\\\\\\\\“‘\\\\\\‘m\\“\\\\‘\w aire—Two-car Separate Brick Large Lots—Wide Parking BIGGEST BARGAINS EVER IN THIS SECTION to_Upshur_St. N.W. Open and Lighted Until Representative Ira G. Herzy faces op- position in the fourth district in the person of Donald P. Snow of Bangor. There {5 no opposition to the renome ination of Representative Carroll L. cedy, Wallace H. White, jr., and John E. Nelson, all Republicans. Gov. Brewster has made his cam- paign on a platform of safeguarding and developing the State’s resources, particularly waterpower, and has as- serted. that he is fighting the party “machine,” power interests and cor- poration. When Brewster was running for governor his opponents that he had the support of Klux Klan and the assertion was re- vived in the present campaign by for- mer Gov. Percival P. Baxter, Brew- ster's predecessor. Brewster had de- nied that he is a member of the Klan. p No }?uuundln[ egmmtm m issue have appear in waged by the candidates for governor. It is largely a matter of personal am- bitions. The unopposed democratic candidates are Herbert E. Holmes of Lewiston for Senator and Edward C. Maran, jr., of Rockland for governor. . STOREKEEPER ROBBED. Koperwas Loses Clothing in Third Theft in Four Years. Israel Koperwas, owner of a cloth- ing store at 1814, Seventh street, was held up there last night for the third time in four years, and robbed of four or five pairs of pants, valued at $25. Two colored men entered the store about 10 o'clock, he told police. and asked to be shown some shoes. While he was preparing to fit one man. he said, the other suddenly made a das for the do:rmnnd mb&s‘d the pants. Koperwas held on to companion, but he pulled what appeared to be an enormous from his pocket and held it at Koperwas' chest. The store Ber’s confederate quickly " dissppersed T's con ite ly through the door. ians and reise and Sei- Physici for Exe: t, Reduction. Come Price Sold on Easy Terms Get It At GIBSON’S 917-19 G St. NW. TODAY Are Now Paying— pshur St. N.W. e e S RS SRS SRS LSRSRLRCLSLLL2N ms—Electric Lights— to_left 1% Cleck P.M. nd 90 INCORPORATED NORTHWEST