Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1928, Page 8

8 W IR VHTE APPEAL 5 1P T WEST Secretary Will Probably Send Answer to Con- troller General. Joining issue with Controller General J.R. McCarl. Dr. Willilam A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital, yesterday. placed before Acting Secretary Edward C. Finney of the Interior Department his answer to the Tecent ruling of the controller general, holding, in effect, that the noted alien- ist owes the Government some $3,000 annually, because his allowances ex- ceed his salary by that sum. Dr. White declared in a lengthy written comment on the McCarl ruling that he is en- titled to the allowances in addition to his salary of $7,500. Decision concerning the next step to be taken in the case will rest with Sec- retary Roy O. West, who is scheduled to return to his desk tomorrow, follow- ing a trip of inspection of the depart- ment's activities in the Western section | of the country. It is considered likely. | however, that the voluminous reply will | be transmitted to Controller General McCarl. Fortifying his answer with a lengthy recitation of the history of St. Eliza- | beth's and provisions made from its earliest days for allowances, including | quarters for the superiniendent, the | eminent alienist, who has rounded out a quarter of a century in his present | post, cited the praciice of several States | which, he said, furnish quarters in ad- dition to a stated salary to superin- tendents of institutions for the insane. State, he pointed out, even fur- | nished groceries in addition to other | es to its superintendent of the | ospital for the Insane. WINE PRICES RISE. Famous “Vin Rouge” Now 2,000 Per Cent Higher Than Before War. | PARIS (#).—The price of ordinary French table wine has reached a point 2,0007 higher than before the war. Despite the fact that the 1928 grape crop is excellent the wine merchants are driving the price still higher. The actual increase is not as much as the figures indicate, owing to the drop in wvalue of the fran: Establis SHAH, 812 F §t. KEEPS HAT “They're like the sora—good-eating | | birds that come to the Virginia swamps |in the Fall, stay around long enough | for a whole Iot of them to be shot for | breakfast food, then go down into the | mud and turn into hop-toads,” was the | official pronouncement of the American Association of Straw Hat Disappearance | Investigators in annual session in the | Capital today. The pronouncement came as the re- sult of thousands of inquiries &s to just where the hard hats of the Sum- out, generally every Fall about the mid- dle of September. Trace Old Legend. Meeting as it were, on the deadline of the straw bonnet season, the associa- tion waited long enough yesterday to sez the lid of its president, John I Q Sennet softly and silently vanish away, doffed their own relics of the fortitude they showed on May 14, or there- abouts, and then went out to celebrate. But 1t was not without considerable dissension that the official pronounce- ment of the association was reached. It was vigorously held by one or two of the more practical members that the disappearance of the straw hat at this time of the year was due to the old tradition which grew out of the | habit of an old ruler of Mexico who | made his subiects wear straw hats in the Summer time “as a matter of dis- | cip'ine.” Every year, according to the history | book, just about the fifteenth of Sep- | tember. the ruler got the heaves or| hives, the book doesn’t quite make clear At any rate, he disappeared for a month or so to recuperate. and the | nry joytully hid their straw bon- | By the time the ruler had recovered from his malady he had forgotten about the Summer hoadgear, discipline and all that sort of thing, and the hat ques- | tion was out of his mind. Saving Complex. 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MYSTERY OF VANISHING STRAWS) FEDERAL AUDIT OF MINE SLEUTHS PUZZLED |Some Lean to Legend of Swampland Nemesis—Others Revive Traditional Story of Old Mexico. kelleys on the top shelf of the hall | closet. But the hall closet theory did not quite dispose of the disappearance, for there they were, on the hall closet shelf, so the members of the association, some of whom are great sportsmen decided that as a compromise they would not actually say that straw hats turn into noptoads, hopergrasses, or anything else. ‘They had the original premise of the hats, disappearance on the fifteenth of Sentember and it would please almost cdy if they just said they do the sora which turn into hop- toads. And that left even the breakfast food heorists in a good frame of mind. SEEK SUICIDE REMEDY. Student Self-Killings Stir Turkish Authorities. CONSTANTINOPLE (#).— An epi- demic of student suicides which has been giving the Turkish authorities some concern spread to an American institution of learning. 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