Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1928, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928 JEWSH WELFARE DELEBATES ARRNE Convention Will Begin To- morrow—Dawes and Wil- bur to Speak. More than three hundred social work- ers and directors of Jewish centers and Y. M. H. A’s are expected to attend the convention of the Jewish Welfare Board which ppens here tomorrow. Many of the delegates already have arrived and will register this evening at the Jewish Community Center, where an informal ranged in their honor. Registration ‘will continue tomorrow morning until 10 o'clock, when the first business ses- sion of the conclave gets under way. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur will speak at the afternoon session and Vice President Dawes will head the list of speakers at the banquet in the evening. Others who will address the banquet include Jucge Irving Lehman, president of the Jewish Welfare Board: Louls Marshall. noted constitutional lawyer: Morris Cafritz, president of the local Jewish Center; Dr. Abram Simon, rabbi of the Eighth Street Temple, and Mrs. Alexander Wolf. Maurice D. Rosenberg, former president of the District Bank- ers’, Association, will act as toastmaster. ‘The banquet will be held at the Center and a number of Washingtonians have been invited. Leon J. Obermayer is chairman af the Tational committee on arrangements, which includes the following: Maj. J. O. Adler, Henry J. Bernheim, Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, Felix Fuld, Mrs. Jerome J. Hanaver, Isaac Hassler, Joseph Rosenzweig and J. L. Wiseman. The following are members of the executive council of the Jewish Welfare Boar: Irving Lehman. president: Felix M. Warburg. Jacob M. Loeb, M. C. Sloss and Jar~h K. Newman, vice presidents: Benjamin J Buttenwieser, treasurer and Josenh Rosenzwelg, secretary. Harry L. Glucksman is executive di- Tector of the organization, Louis Krait is in charge of Jewish Center activities, Phillip R. Goldstein is director of cam- paigns, Mordecai Soltes is director of Jewish extension education and Isadore Abelson is in® charge of Army and Navy activities. S The Jewish Welfare Board was or- fi'fl"d in 1917 to look out for the well- ing of the service men of Jewish faith. but since the war has taken the leadership of the Jewish Center move- ment and has hecome the parent or- ganization of hundreds of these centers and Y. M. H. A’s scattered throughout the country. INSPECTIONS CHANGED. Theater Curtains to Be Looked Over Monthly. ‘The District Commissioners yesterday |changed the procedure of - inspecting fireproof curtains in Washington’s thea- !ters by ordering them inspected once & month by members of the building dnspector’s office instead of before each {performance by a Fire Department rep- Tesentative. as has been the practice since last March. a The practice was found unsatisfac- tory, and the Fire Devartment recom- mended the change. The new order be- comes effective January 15, 1929. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE 18 HEREBY Iehasing Assn. will P 2 Assn, will be held in the office of the reception has been ar-| i | Skill and Finesse Unknown to Modern Workers Attained 300 Years Ago. Mrs. Frank W. Mahin Tells of Time When Lacemaking Was Real Art. A skill and finesc: of workm:z:aship unknown to modern days was attained by the lacemakers of 300 years ago. Many beautiful pieces of lace, number- ing several hundred, and dating back to the beginning of the sixteenth cen- utry, are to be seen in a museum collec- tion owned by Mrs. Frank W. Mahin of 1860 Columbia road. In 1915, when Mrs. Mahin accom- panied her husband to his consular post in Holland, she left her collection with the National Museum in this city, and there it was exhibited to the public until 1922, when it was taken back to Mrs. Mahin’s home. Since that time a great many rare pieces have been pur- chased and added to the collection, which Mrs. Mahin has herself mounted and prepare’ in a way which shows to full advantage the beauty of individual pleces. For =5 years, Mrs. Mahin states, she has been collecting laces, but, she added, “I have known and loved the beauty of rare old lace since I was a child.” Mrs. Mahin is not merely an amateur collector of antique lace; she is an experienccd connoisseur, one who has made an exhaustive study of a subject she loves, and as a consequence “she knows what she is talking about.” Re g handmade bobbin laces and machine bobbi.: laces made in the early prt of the nianeteenth century, Mrs. Mahin said: “It is very difficult to distinguish the hnadmde bobbin lace and the machine-made lace, and il petter: lonly after the most careful scrutiny, [ROOF REPATRING. PAINTING, GUTTER: ort 3 4 /AJAX "ROOFING GO 3038 18t st o SPECIAL SALE OF CHOICE APPLES DUR- ‘kn‘l December. Autumn Gold—Best Cider on uarv 1. O S pid, EndeT Rt Jen IREL, Frederick Pike—Hour Out. g WHEN YOU BUY A PEN, GET 'We have "EM. Come in and_ have yours “free. CHAS. F. , 81 t. Dw. 2nd floor, watch and jewelry THE BEST. encon 815-F-22. ITHE ANNAUL MEETING OF THE STOCK. holders of the National Capital Bank Washington, D. C., for the election of direc- tors and the transaction of any other busi- h brought before the mee! held Tuesday, January 8, 1929, 12 o'clock noon and 3 STEWART. Cashi THE SHAREHOLD- R Washington. . 0 RS lel‘l:u’ y 8. ’:m at 11 o'clock hsiing year and for such ot SR et S bl A_ROBAFY. LeEXNICIOS. President. gnx ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- olders of the ‘Lincoln Natlonal Bank: o the election of directors and such other busi- |pess as may properly come ore the meet- ing, will be held at the main banking house Tueésday, January 8, 1929, between 13 m. and IEBm. Books 1o the transter of stock 8Ty S, 1620, " JAMES A. BOPER. Cashi n will o Janu- NNUAL MEETING OF o £ AND G OF THE_ STOCK- holders of the Real Estate [Gompany of 'the. District ot Columbia: Top REGULAR ANNUAL G OF the shareholders of the Columbia National Bank of Washington will be held Tuesday. January 8, 1029. ‘at its banking house, 911 st. n.w.| Washington, D. C.. for the elec- tion of directors and such other business ax mev properly come before the meeting. Polls open_{rom 12 noon until 1 o'clock p.m. _ARTHUR N. MITCHELL, Cashier. |NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE annual meeting of the stockholders of the Washington American League Base |Club vill be field af the omces of tha Base Ball Park, Washinzton, D C, on Wednesday, January 2, 1929, at 12:00 o‘clock noon, for the purpose of electing & board of directors for the ensuing year, and for such {other business as may be properly brought befors said meetine. EDWARD B. EYNON. JR.. Secretary. THE ANNUAL MPETING OF THE STOC {holders of the "Columbia. Title Insurance Company ot the District of the purpose of electine 15 company for the ensuinz ve at the office of the compan Monday. 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ADAMS PRINTING IN A HURRY 4 High grade, but not high pri ok S50 B0 N Priced: ection of “directors. for the | sametimes under a magnifying glass, can the distinction be made. Of course, any one who knows laces can tell right away, but frequently I have had per- sons tell me that they have a rare old plece of real lace which had belonged to their great-grandmother or grand- mggher, and when I see the lace I know it is machine made. As lace machinery was invented as far back as 1810, it is easy to see that one might possess an old lace ntique believed to be hand- made which really, after all, was made by machinery.” Art Practically Lost. ‘The art of handmade bobbin laces, as known 300 years ago, has been prac- tically lost to the modern world, Mrs Mahin claims. “As many as 1,500 or 2,000 bobbins would be employcl at one time by a lacemaker of the sixteenth or seven- teenth . century,” she said. “Now, throughout the entire country of Bel- gium, famous for its lacemakers, there is only one girl who can handle as many 2s 1,000 bobbins at a time. She is the pride of her country.” The utmost skill must be employed in the use of these bobbins, Mrs. Mahin explained, in order not to break the threads, which are frequently of the fineness and delicacy of cobwebs. With reference to bobbins, Mrs. Mahin stated that in olden days it was the custom for the young men of those times to present their sweethearts with elabo- rately ornamented bone_bobbins, often- times bearing the name of the girl en- graved in gold letters. 2 From the old Catholic Church of Haarlem Mrs. Mahin secured some of her most valuable pieces of rare old Honiton lace—a lace of such delicacy of workmanship and design that it might be a reproduction of some beau- tifully frosted window pane on a Win- ter night. A lace garment used in the baptism of babies, some priests’ vest- ments of Venetian rosepoint, as well as some altar cloths, are among the pieces secured by Mrs. Mahin from the Dutch church and previously used in the church for more than 300 years. Some interesting details were related by Mrs. Mahin as to the manner in which she found come of her laces. At one time she was living in the moun- tainous little town of Reichenberg, Bo- hemia, where her husband was sta- tioned as the United States consul. Mrs. Mahin’s son, then a boy of 12 years and as great a lover of laces as his mother, was running through the streets of the town, playing at a paper-chase game with a number of other boys. As he passed a little lace shop he spied a piece of rare old Angleterre hanging in the window amid a lot of machine- made laces. Falling out of the paper chase, Mrs. Mahin states, he came run- ring home, calling breathlessly to her as he entered the house: “Mother, come quick. I know where you can get a piece of real Angleterre.” Mrs. Mahin said she secured the lace, and that it is one of the rarest in her collection, dating back to the “lost-art period” of lacemaking, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, Another time, Mrs. Mahin declared, che entered an antique shop in Holland, and, looking among some modern and ordinary pieces, she discovered an ex- tremely valuable collar-and-cuff set of Venetian rosepoint. Upon asking the price, the shopkeeper named a very modest one, and said: “Do you really want them? Why, I had planned to use them on my coat this Spring.” “She could never hgve used them,” sald Mrs. Mahin, “because they were so old they would have fallen to pieces within a few weeks.” Picking up . some wonderful old flounces of Point d'Alencon of the time of Louis XIV' of France, she con- tinued: “There are the flounces which were used on the ladies’ bodices. It took three' of the flounces for each sleeve. And these,” she added, point- ing to some ruffies of Mechlin lace, “were ruffies used on a gentleman’s slecves. The Mechlin lace was used for the gentlemen’s clothing, as it was s'ronger due to the manner in which they rolled the thread. It took one year Ao these ake & pair of 5, 50 you COLLECTION OF RARE LACES DESCRIBED BY OWNER HERE MRS. FRANK W. MAHIN. —Underwood Photo. know the gentlemen’s clothing must have been fairly expensive.” Impossible to Copy. Mrs. Mahin has several pieces of very fine Binche lace, a bobbin lace, made in Belgium, and impossible to be copied by machinery. In pointing out the fine details of some hepidmade bobbin laces —Lille, Mechlin and an English lace known as Buckingham—Mrs. Mahin stated that the girls who did the “pricking” of these laces were only able to work about two hours in the morn- ing, when their eyes were fresh and able to bear the strain of the fine work. Mrs. Mahin made a lovely picture as she placed a dainty cap of exquisite Binche lace upon her head to illustrate the manner in which the long lappets, or streamers, were worn hanging in front over the shoulders. “As far as is known,” continued this Interesting “lady of the laces,” “there is not a museum in all of Europe thst has as perfect a specimen as this sap. I was told by an authority in The Hague that it “vas the only perZect cap she had ever seen of lace of ‘ais Zesign and period, and she had visit-d prac- tically every well known lizz collection, on the Continent. “Contrary to its name, Angleterre lace was not made in England,” said Mrs. Mahin. “It was made by the lace- makers of France and smuggled into England. Frequently the smugglers re- sorted to coffins in which to send the lace into the country, and it was then called ‘English point’ in order to have the people believe it had been made in their own country.” ‘Taking from a box a magnificent col- lar of Point de France, mounted on a piece of dark velvet, Mrs. Mahin re- lated an interesting fact regarding the ‘manufacture of this lace. “In the time of Louis XIV of Prance the French Minister of Finance, Cobert, bribed a number of Venetian lacemak- ers to leave their own country and teach the Prench the art of making Venetian needlepoint laces. These laces first produced in France by the Vene- tian lacemakers were called Point de France, although they were in reality Venetian rosepoint lace.” Although the ancient art of needle- point lacemaking has practically died out in Europe, as it was made two and three centuries ago, Mrs. Mahin said that recently the industry had been re- vived in Burano, Italy under auspices of some Italian ladies. ‘The many fine pieces of French lace of the times of Louis XIV, XV and XVI, which Mrs. Mahin numbers in her collection, give interesting testimony to the influence of the three periods. Cemmencing with Louis XIV, an elabo- ration of detail is shown, with a gradual trend toward the simpler but dignified period of Louis XVI. Mrs. Mahin's col- lection, which includes rare pieces of cixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth century lace from Hol- land, Belgium, France, England, Italy and Bohemia, has been exhibited three times in Holland with the famous col- lections of the Queen and the Queen Mother, and Mrs. Mahin states, with justifiable pride, that her collection numbers a few antique bits which are unequaled in workmanship by even those of ‘the Queen. POLICEMAN I;FINED FOR'SITTING IN WATCH BOX One Other Penalized, Otie Warned and Two Exonerated by Trial Board. .Pvt. L. G. Walker, fifth precinct, who was refused the services of Pvt. Robert J. Allen, a brother officer; as counsel at his trial before the Police Trial Board, was found guilty by the board of sitting in a watch box on Highway Bridge while on duty and fined $15, Inspector Louis J. Stoll re- ported yesterday. ‘The following decisions were rendered in other cases: Pvt. W. L. Danley, fourth precinct, leaving his beat, fined $10; Pvt. J. L. Meeks, tenth precinct, sitting in_ a taxicab while on duty, warned; Pvt. John Apostolides, thir- teenth precinct, exonerated of charge of wearing civilian clothes while on duty, and Pvt. S. F. Smith, first pre- cinct, exonerated of charge of failure to pay just debt. | aiMculty in getting water either for ANDREWS DEPICTS | GOBI EXPLORATION Fossil of Largest Land Mam- mal and Another Dinosaur’ Egg Found in Desert. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews described the major discoveries of his most recent expedition to Central Asia from which he has just returned before members of the National Gecgraphic Society last evening at the Washington Auditorium, and showed remarkable motion picture films of the adventures of the explora- tions. Members of the party ran the gamut from blinding sandstorms to en- counters with native brigands. They brought back the fossil of the largest land mammal yet disclosed; a mammoth creature which stood 16 feet high, had a neck towering 12 feet above that, and moved about on legs as mas- sive as the pillars of a cathedral. It ate the tops of trees in the Gobi millions of years ago, before that region was one of the most arid deserts on the face of the earth. A second remarkable find was the skull of a titanothere, a saddle-shaped skull from which the nose bone pro- trudes straight up, 3 feet above the eyes, and at the top was a bulbous but- ton. Then there was a mastodon with a scoop-shovel jaw, formed of dental ma- terial, with which it scooped up food from the marsh lands, also in ages ;iast before its habitat had become a d sert so that the explorers at times had great themselves or their camels. Patch Camels’ Feet. i The men traveled in automobiles, across sands, through mud in the less arid stretches and among rocks. Their supplies were transported by camels. And the discarded rubber tires of the automobiles were used to patch the feet of the camels—a process which fur- nishad one amusing reel of the pictures. When a camel was ready to shed his wool it was plucked from the animal to furnish material for packing the speci- mens_brought ‘l}ack’}:ykwny of Kalgan Peking to New York. Bn%r. And%ews also reported the finding of more dinosaur eggs. These eges, he announced, had aged. He formerly had asserted they were 10,000,000 years old, now it is believed they are 95,000, 000 years old. He explained th ! crepancy by telling that scientists now agreed that the old-time estimates of the different geological periods were | far too short to explain the changes that had come upon the face of the earth and its living creatures whose re- mains are being discovered. Radio, the explorer said, is not an unmixed blessing upon an_exped|ion of this character. It is useful for time signals, which help determine longitude necessary for exact map making, but the messages from home are as apt to distract the explorers from the task in hand as a telegram to a leading lady delivered during the intermission of a play. It is far better for the work | of such an expedition, he sald, to be incommunicado. Find Dune Dwellers. Among the remains of human life found were skeletons of peoples who occupied the desert 3,000 years or so ago, before the Mongols came, and much older remains, probably 20,000 years, of the dune dwellers, so named from the sandy places where they had their camp sites. And from these sites many implements of this stone age pe- riod were collected. Though the expedition carried many supplies, it had to depend upon game for m:h, @nd gazelles provided an adequate supply. At times the tem- perature registered 140 degrees, but the air was so_dry that this was not un- bearable. Shaving cream would dry on the men's faces before the razor could be zfipucd. Conditions were so rigorous in the Western Gobi that the camels “died like fiies.” BURGLARS RAID STORE-POST OFFICE Edmonston ~ Woman Discovers Stamps and Foods Missing. Door Panel Broken. Special Dispatch to The Star. EDMONSTON, Md., December 15.— Burglars raided the postoffice and store here of Mrs. Margaret Tierney Thursday night. taking $3 in cash and stamps, parcel post packages including a mov- ing picture machine, and everything in the way of meats, cheese and but- ter in the icebox of the store. Police were notified by Mrs. Tierney. who discovered the robbery at 7:30 o'clock. The side door of the building had been unlocked from the inside after the glass panel was broken. No clues were furnished the police. FAMILY 1S ENDANGERED BY ESCAPING GAS FUMES Home to Attend Son’s Funeral, Is Overcome by Carbon Monoxide. The family of Mrs. Madeline Murphy, 34, of 1309 "Eleventh street, narrowly escaped tragedy today when Mrs. Mur- phy was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes escaping from a faulty gas heater in_her bathroom. Mrs. Murphy has been seriously ill at Walter Reed Hospial and only by spe- cial permission was she able to come home today to attend the funeral of her If-year-old son, Harry, who dled two days ago. The mother went to the bathroom this morning to prepare for the fu- neral, turning on the gas heater to warm the room. An hour later her 15- year-old daughter, Alice, became alarm- ed at Mrs. Murphy’s prolonged abscnce and investigated. She found her mother lying unconscious on the floor, over- come by the deadly fumes. The Fire Depaptment rescue squad and the Emergency Hospital ambulance were called. After an hour’s work she ‘was revived. Mrs. Murphy will not be able to at- tend the funeral. RELIGIOUS ATTACKS HIT. A bill which would make it a crime to refer to the religion of any candi- date for Federal office with the intent to elect or defeat him was introduced in the House today by Representative Loring Black, Democrat, of New York. This_measure proposed a penalty of ‘Woman, three years' imprisonment or a fine of $5,000 for each and every such offense. By the Associated Press. Broadcasting time valued at $500,000 was used by the Department of Agricul- ture in carrying information through the air last year to the Nation's farm- ers. Nelson A. Crawford, director of infor- mation for the department, testified he- | fore the House agriculture appropria- | tlons subcommittee that the amount of sadio time given the b wowld Radio Stations Give Government Time Worth $500,000, House Group Is Informed have cost $500,000 at the prevailing commercial rates. ¥ ‘Two types of educational programs are being carried on by the department in co-operation with broadcasting sta- tions over the country, Crawford said, while various other information is be- ing presemted over a national hook-up. All of the time, he said, was being do- nated by the radio stations. {tures, The washed soil contains 126,- | By the Associated Press. lct;:ew:m ;ofllxnn.'.e that lfl;edourth of ,500, arm ve radio Tocelving outfits, _ . 2 SERT, DA PREVENTION OF INFLUENZA DEPENDS ON PRECAUTIONS Surgeon General Cumming Gives Eleven Simple Rules for Combatting Growing Epidemic. With influenza in an epidemic state and spreading with alarming rapidity throughout the Nation over the lanes of human travel, Surgeon Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the United State Public Health Service, with reports at hand of 40,000 reported cases and 160,000 unre- ported, yesterday issued instructions for personal safeguards as an effort to check the spread of the disease. The epidemic, Dr. Cumming says, has grown to such alarming proportions that the lines of battle should be drawn up by every health department in the Na- tion to prevent a recurrence of the epi- demic of 1917-18 which took its toll of thousands upon thousands of lives. Dr. Cumming’s instructions are as follows: “The prevention of influenza depends mainly on the individual and his ob- servance of some of the practical laws of hygiene. The following habits might be cultivated to advantage, remember- ing that influenza is a disease spread through the secretions from the nose and throat of influenza patients find- ing their way into the noses and throats of healthy individuals. Walk in Open Air. “1. Avoid needless crowding, walking to and from work, if practicable, is good exercise and keeps one from over- crowded street cars, busses and similar | conveyances. | “2. Take adventage of as much sun- shine and open air as you can. 3. Sleep with the windows open and be sure your home is well ventilated. “4, Avold people who are coughing, sneezing or snuffling and do not cough or sneeze yourself without using a hand- kerchief. “5. Wash your hands immediately before eating and do not put your hands to your mouth or nose. By shak- ing hands or handling objects touched by others you may infect yourself by | carrying your hand to your mouth or nose. “6. Do not use a napkin, towel, s 3 fork, knife, giass, dish or cup which has been used by another person unless such articles have been either washed or sterilized, Avoid the common drink- ing cup. Keep General Health. “7. Keep your general health—TFirst using inside and outside plenty of | b Ef'eln water; second by eating clean, wholesome food; third, by sleeping at least seven hours out of each 24; fourth, by keeping the bowels regulated. “8. Keep away from houses where there are cases of influenza. “9. Avoid chilling. “10. Avold overheated rooms. “11. In case the disease develops, go to bed immediately and remain there | until recovery. A physiclan should be | called at once.” “The present epidemic,” Dr. Cum- ming says, “is occurring at a season when a higher influenza sickness rate may be expected. Since the germ cau ing the disease has not yet been sati: factorily demonstrated, it is necessary to depend upon symptoms to determine whether or not influenza is present. These symptoms vary in intensity, but when one sufters from headache, aching in body and limbs, cough, chill, some fever and, above all, a severe prostra- tion, it 1s safe to say that that individ- ual has influenza.” Dr. Cumming pointed out that the character of the malady in the present epidemic is mild, but said that that is no reason to belicve that it will stay that way. The disease has just gained a foothold. so far, and it is difficult to determine, he declared, just what course it will run. America Loses $2.000 000,000 Annually AsPlant Food Is Washed Away From Soil By the Associated Press. | The Nation loses more than $2,000,- 000,000 annually in plant food lost in | the washing away of more than 1,500,- | 000,000 tons of soil from fields and pas- 000,000,000 pounds of plant food. Relating this loss before the House agriculture appropriations subcommit- tee, H. H. Bennett of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils said that “ero-{ sion is removing from our fields 21 | times as much plant food every year as | is taken out of the soil by the crops removed, and this is a minimum esti- mate that 1s obviously small.” The farmers of the country, he de- clared, sustain a direct loss of not less than $200,000,000 annually through erosion. He estimated that in the past decade 30,000,000 acres of farm and pasture land have been abandoned be- cause the soil became impoverished by reason of the washing off >f the more fertile topsoil. The entire country {5 affected by soil erosion. Bennett told the committee. He added that the “problem of soil end water conservation is inseparably tied flood control and continuing economic permanency of the Nation.” Under the present system of farming. he declared, “the bulk of our rolling lands will have been ruined or so se- verely impoverished that they can ;'nalntain only a peasant type of farm- ing.” FORESEES SPREAD OF CORN BORER Pest Is Being Held Normally in Check, However, Ex- pert Contends. While predicting that the corn borer eventually will infest every section of the country where it can survive, Dr. C. L. Marlatt, chief of the plane quaran- tirle and control administration of the Agriculture Department, contends it is being held in check, except where it is spreading normally by flight. Testifying before the subcommittee at hearings on the. agriculture appropria- tion bill, Dr, Marlatt said the “normal spread,” of the corn borer is something that cannot be prevented. “We are willing to say right off the reel that this pest eventually is going to cover the United States, that is, where it can live,” he asserted. He added, however, that the spread of the insect last year was very trivial, largely due to efficient preventive meas- ures. “We are holding back the ;Freld of this insect,” he declared, adding that this was useful not only directly in keeping certain areas of the corn belt free from the pest, but in “enabling us in the meanwhile to bring out natural control by means of parasites.” “That is being done in connection with the research phase of the work,” he said. “It is also of value in demon- strating the necessary farm practices needed for control. The work is useful along those lines as well as in the actual prevention or delaying of the spread.” DELMARVA FARMERS LOSE REPORT PLEA Market News Service Appropria- tion Missing in Fin- ished Bill. Despite vigorous. efforts by the farm- ers of the Delmarva Peninsula, embrac- ing 14 counties in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia in the Eastern Shore sec- tion to obtain for that highly produc- tive area more adequate market news service and an appropriation of $5,000 for a reporting bureau in Pocomoke City, Md., the provision for this service was missing from the agricultural ap- propriations bill when it was reported to the House yesterday. Support of Representatives Golds- borough of Maryland, Bland of Virginia and Houston of Delaware was expressed in the committee hearings, and the project was especially urged by F. B. Bomberger, chief of the Maryland State Department of Markets, who made a lengthy statement on the needs of the farmers before the committee. Daily News reports on strawberries from May 10 to June 30, Irish potatoes from June 20 to July 31, early apples from July 5 to August cucumbers from July 1 to July 31, late apples from August 1 to October 31, cantaloupes from August 5 to September 10, and | sweet potatoes from August 15 to Octo- ber tled are tvu.ll to this section, jt was inted out. poRepom received now, testimony of Bomberger before the committee shot come from Philadelphia, and in some instances are received too late to be of great value to the shippers ih the Del- marva district. e ADMITS KILLING WOMAN. Ohioan Confesses to Police Robbery ‘Was Motive of Slaying. confessed to the slaying of Miss Anna Keough, 68, who was beaten to death in her home on the night of November 30. Robbery was the motive, Garwood stated in his signed confession to the police, in which he implicated James McDonald, 48, who, though under ar- rest, has not confessed his glfl in the arwood was traced by a blood- Jolice sald,.. 25l yws, | stopping it at the present time.” Will Rogers NEW YORK CITY.—Say, didn’t I always tell you that Prince of Wales was quite a boy. He can do a whole lot besides look good and dance. He stood respon- sible for that op- eration that his own younger doc- tor performed. If he had been al- lowed to come in an aeroplane he would have saved his father two weeks earlier. I do hope we are smart enough to stay out of this boundary dis- pute between Bo- livia and Para- guay. Any na- tion that will argue over land, as cheap as land is today, ain’t in their right mind anyhow. Okla- homa and Texas been arguing over a boundary, and Oklahoma won. We made Texas take the land. I wish my neighbor would want my farm. He would certainly get it. GRAPE INDUSTRY HELD IN DEPLORABLE STATE Tenny Tells House Group Califer- nians Are Uncertain of Legal Points. By the Associated Plell.. The grape industry, in the opinion of Lloyd S. Tenny, former Department | of Agriculture expert and now vice president of the California Vineyardists’ | Association, is in a “deplorable condi- tion” and is “entering into the most colossal experiment anywhere in the United States in trying to solve its own problem through co-operation.” Mr. Tenny made this statement while testifying before a House subcommittee at hearings on the Agriculture Depart- ment appropriation bill. He was urg- ing a Federal appropriation of $15,000 to supplement the market news work of the department as an aid to the California industry, which he said did a business of $100,000,000 a year, but ‘absolutely busted.” e do not know whether it is a legitimate or an illegitimate business. I have contacts with enforcement people, and have certain 'statements from them regarding their _attitude toward the grape business. They tell us that there is absolutely no question that it is perfectly legal to ship grapes; that it is perfectly legal to sell a crate of grapes; that it is perfectly legal to transport it to anybody's home. Wheth- er it is legal for a man, after he has it there, to make wine of it is a ques- tion. that administratively has never been determined, and has never been determined in the court, but we all agree there is no provision against was Sweden !.ik:l Movies. STOCKHOLM (#).—Of $9.211,500 spent in 101 Swedish cities on admis- slon fees to theaters, moving picture houses, sporting and similar amuse- ments last year, the greater part was spent on cinem: FLAT TIRE ? FRANKLIN 764 Formerly Main 500 LEETH BROS./ [AVIATRIY, FEARING LAESS, ENDSLFE | | { — {Lonely Flyer Shoots Self in: 2001 16th St. N.W. Exceptionally attractive apartments of three out- rooms, reception hall, bath and large kitchen. Reasonable Rentals | Hotel, Leaving Note Ex- plaining Act. By the Assoclated Press. 1 NEW YORK, December 15.—Loneli- | {ness and fear of iliness were believed | by police today to have caused Miss Leila Kerr, 35 years old, student fiyer, iw shoot herself to death in her suite in | the Hotel Ambassador. 1 Adno'L found in the pocket of a coat. |read: “I have suffered a stroke—there is {no one left since the family is gone and my brother died—he died in |the war—I occupy a two-room suite jon the eighteenth floor of a large hotel.” Her brother, Walter, was killed in the ‘Werld War and her father, mother and a sister died several years ago. She was the sole survivor of the family. | The_body was identified by her uncle, Jchn B. Kerr, of New York City, presi- dent of the New York, Ontario & West- ern Railway Co. Miss Kerr was born in West Orange, J., but registered at the hotel last | ptember as from Chatham, Mass. Since the deaths of other members of her family, Mr. Kerr said, sh~ had be- come melancholy and virtually a re- cluse. | Flying was her recreation, police said, and she had twice crossed the continent in airplanes. A student’s flying certifi- | |caic dated last July was found among| i her efTects. | Miss Kerr had nol been seen about| {the hotel since late Thursday. When | {the manager, Theodore Kroll, entered | her suite with a pass key last night he ' found the body on a bed, cied in an| | afternoon frock. Near her was a silver- ||, i handled pistol and a box of cartridges. | There was a bullet wound in the right side of her head. | TG T iSpeed of 40 M. P. H., {New Sea Record, Isj ‘Made by Saratoga | | St | {Giant Airplane Carrier Makes New Mark in Power Test Run. S | ARMS 1954 Columbia Road ANOTHER APARTMENT UNDER WARDMAN MANAGE- MENT, that means service and modern surroundings. All vacant apartments are now being put in perfect condition. Tnspect the following available apartments, 1 room & bath. .$37.50 2 rooms, kitchen th. .$69.50 3 rooms, kitchen & bath, $105.00 4 rooms, kitchen & 2 baths, $125 (Corne: exposures) All apartments are equipped with Prigidaire, runtning on house current. Manager on ;Premises Phone Potamac 133 1‘. ;'fl!llIlIIIl|HlllIIIllIIIIIII|Illlmlll_ll"mlll_lll1llllllllllmllli AThe-Bfigh;;— | 2123 California St. N.W. Several very desirable apartments, iz periect con- dition, available furnished or unfurnished, in this ex- clusive apartment hotel. Rentals with hotel serviee. 1 room and bath, $60.00 2 rooms & bath, 85.00 3 rooms & bath, 140.00 Wardman Management North 3494 complete ! | " By the Associated Press. | _SAN PEDRO. Calif., December 15. fup with national defense, farm relief, | The United States Navy's huge airplane carrier Saratoga was hailed today as | the speed queen of the seas and the most powerful ship afloat, following her | performance n breaking the world | | record for power recently set by her sister ship, the Lexington, and estab- | lishing & new speed mark for fighting | ships. : | | Steaming over almost the same course on which the Lexington exactly one month ago set a maritime record, the Saratoga’s turbo-electric plant yesterday developed a peak of 215,518 horsepower, which drove the 33,000-ton monsfer through the sea at speed of 34.99 knots, or more than 40 statute miles an hour. The Lexington's record was 1209.751 horsepower and a speed of | 34.82 knots. | Made on Full Power Test. | The Lexington's high-power marks | were made on a full power endurance | run of one hour, while the Saratoga's new world record, made on her final acceptance trial, was confined to a one- mile course. Battle fleet officers were jubilant over | results of the Saratoga’s final trials and | declared that the performance of the | sister ships proves the worth of the American idea of applying electric power to warship construction. i The Saratoga was expected by naval officials to develop even greater speed and power when she runs off her one- hour and four-hour full power tests. Ships Cost $90,000,000. The Saratoga and Lexington are each 880 feet long, displace 33,000 tons and | cost the Navy $45,000,000 apiece. Each | is a floating home for more than 100 | fighting planes. They also have eight | 8-inch main battery guns, twelve 5-inch | anti-aireraft guns and four torpedo | tubes, ‘The power plant of each ship consists of sixteen 11,250 horsepower boilers and four main steam turbines which develop | sufficient electric energy to drive the | eight mammoth motors. Over the open grave of J. D. Drewett, | 74, who had rung the bells of Mitcham, England, belfry for 60 years, handbell ringers gave a special peal o | The Choice of Families 3 Hundreds of Thoughtful Devonshire Courts North Cleweland Park Wis. Ave., fgom Upton to Van; Ness e e Handsome. mew. well-planned building enjoying a most desirable and_convenient location. Large. sunny rooms: most suites have elevator Prigidaire (costiof operation pals by owner), etc. —_— 2 Rooms. Kitchen and Bath $57.50:10 $65.00 Resident Manger on Premises B. F. SAUL CO. 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