Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 28

-SHOCK STARLINGS AWAY, URGES MAN Seattle Resident Offers Plan of Electrifying Birds’ Roosting Places. The menace of the starling, which has caused the city government so much grief in recent years, is attract- ing Nation-wide attention, and sugges- tions as to how to end it continue to reach the District Commissioners. Among the latest is a letter received today from the far Pacific slopes of the continent, written by Charles H.Smith of 1013 East Forty-second street, Seattle, ‘Washington. Mr. Smith admits his motive in submitting the plan. is: “Wishing a monetary compensation if it is adopted and is successful.” Briefly, the Smith plan calls for shocking the birds electrically just prior to their settling into the comfort of their nightly slumbers on Pennsyl- vania avenue. This, Mr. Smith says, ‘would get the birds away before the Hoover inauguration. The plan starts with the Electrical Department, which would be called upon to string wires around the buildings, with contact points on the ledges the birds use as roosting places. Next the Fire Department would be called upon to dampen the roosting places thor- oughly. Just as the birds have roosted some one would turn on a switch and shock the birds into flying away. Mr. Smith suggests that the electricity be applied only in mild doses, “but if a few birds were killed in the trials it might not be such a shock to the Audubon Society.” ‘Another suggestion came from J. P. Dowd, superintendent of buildings of a department store company in Phila- delphia. After saying that the birds in Philadelphia are as troublesome as those here, Mr. Dowd writes: “The only way 1 have found to scat- ter them is that I detail a man at 4:30 p.m. to go to the upper floors and go around on the sides which they are perched and explode blank cartridges. By this method, he keeps the birds con- tinually on the jump until darkness sets in and the birds must roost before it gets dark. They do not fly around after dark, so in order to keep this building free of them, I keep the man on duty until 6:30 p.m. when they disperse to other buildings and do not annoy ours.” The Commissioners, however, already have washed their hands of the problem. Von Huenefeld’s Body Will Lie in State, With Aviators on Guard. BERLIN, February 7 (#).—Special lans to honor the late Baron von uenefeld, noted German airn.an, have been made by the League of German Flyers. His body will lie in staté in the Berlin Cathedral and a deputation of fiyers, including Capt. Herman Koehl, will stand guard over the body. It has not yet been definitely decided Whether Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice, the member of the crew of the famous transatlantic monoplane Bremen, will attend the services. The family of Baron von Huenefeld has received a warm telegram of condolence from the Irish Flying Gorps officer. e S A “Flu” Claims Heavy Death Toll. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, February 7 .—Influenza is claiming hundreds of victims in Czechoslovakia. In Prague the death rate is so high undeftakers are seven days behind in the interring of the dead. At some churches requiem services are held every 15 minutes. As a precautionary measure the gov- ernment today ordered the closing of &ll schools. ——— Cripple’s Store Bombed. CHICAGO, February 7 (#).—Two windows were shattered this morning by a small bomb whieh -e: in the Sunday, February 17 Special Through Train No change of cars Saturdsy Night February 16 Lv. Washington Returning Lv. Niagara Falls (New York entral 110 PM. PIM. vania Railroad Attendants Pylvania Railroa 38 g9 INeuritis! Few diseases cause greater suffer- ing than painful Neuritis or Rheu- matism. 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READING, Pa, February 7:(P).— Quiet prevailed today in the Berks County Jail, where disorders among the 180 prisoners were quelled last night by State, city and county police with riot guns and tear gas bombs. A heavy police guard patrolled the corridors after disturbances kept the prison in an uproar for four hours. The disorders were started by pisoners in sympathy with Mike Terrizza, who had been giving trouble for four days. On Sunday, Terrizza, who is serving two to four years for larceny, set fire to a mattress in his cell. He was placed in solitary confinement. | KEYES TRIAL NEARS END. Case May Go to Los Angeles Jury Tomorrow. LOS ANGELES, February 7 (#).— The case of formér District Attorney Asa Keyes, Ed Rosenberg and Ben | Getzoff, charged with bribery and con- spiracy, is expected to go to the jury late tomorrow. Attorneys on both sides plan to conclude arguments by that time. Keyes' plea for acquittal, begun yes- terday, would take up all of today’s| court session, he said. The argument of | ‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, .FEBRUARY "7, 19%9. 120 ARE TAKEN IN RAIDS. | Whalen's Aide Serves Warning While Chief Is Out of City. NEW YORK, February 7@ (P).—A dragnet thrown out by police in the five boroughs of the city today had caught in its meshes 120 persofs. Acting Po- lice Commissioner Philip D. Hoyt said the round-up was a warning to Yhe criminal element that they need expect no armistice due to Commissioner ‘Whalen being out of the city. The greater number of those taken into custody, said the police, would be charged with major offenses. All the cells at police headquarters were filled by midnight and precinct stations were notified to hold the remaining prisoners. Pershing and Fletcher Sail. NEW YORK, February 7 (#).—Gen. John J. 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