Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 39

THE EVENING STAR,* WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929. T the 29-year-old gift of the islands from | NAVY BUILD‘NG PLAN 1‘1:; s};:::v;;:\g;ei::;ll:‘}:: l::;: i\;fldl- the Samoan chiefs. | OF PARKING DESIGNED ! covering the rear of wings 1 to 5, inclu- 5 | “In the lists of American territ(ériali ssessions one group of islands seldom D o | sive, and area No. 2, covering the rear of wings 6 to 9, inclusive, All vehicles appears. The status of 70 guano islands scattered all over the Pacific is indefi- entering from the west are to be parked starting at the east end of the area en- nite. Even the position and existence tered in the order of arrival and head of some of them is indefinite. By a law passed in 1856 the United States ex- ; 4 tended temporary protection to Amflt Chief Clerk Curtis Announces. in. The opposite applies to vehicles can citizens exploiting guano deposits H N e entering from the east. on bird islands, While the United| COPies of a new plan to facilitate ) "y 5 not belleved that the distance | States 55 mot obliged to maintain Sov- | supervised parking in the rear of the |people will have to walk will be worth ereignty over ggano islands, neither has | Navy Building are to be placed in the | complaint,” Capt. Pafsons d”‘”fidl‘ she surrendered all rights. Over some el e wnine | “The maiter of head-in parking wil islets and banks, such as Navassa |hands of Government emploves owning | facjlitate getting the cars parked in the Island, between Jamaica and Haiti, | Sutemebiles, under an announcement | morming and with supervision wil give Quita Sueno Bank, Roncador Cay, Ser- | pade B¥ 7 5. CQrtis, space for many more cars to park. We oot Mt Parsons, chief of the pro- | fecl that delay should oceur Wwhen' the tection division of the Office of Public 0¢Cupants leave rather than upon ar- rana Bank and Swan islands, all in the Western Caribbean, and Gente Hermosa ceup: | Buildings and Public Parks, gave notice | F¥a% of the new system of parking which will or Swains Island, near Samoa, the | American flag files’ without question.” | e | g0 into effect next Monday. The super- TLaymen's missionary movement in | vised parking will be under direction of Detroit has 600 committeemen. the building guards of the office. Park- cans. cast to west as the United States is |long and as wide as the United States is wide. Wake Island of the Territory of Hawaii, an uninhabited atoll 18 feet above sea level, lies nearly 3,000 miles UNCLE SHN W be marooned on an uninhabited island with 10 selected books the United States offers endiess opportunities. In| Six More in Samoa Add to Sprinkling in Seas of Both Hemispheres. U. S. Employes Owning Autos to Receive Copies of Proposition, the West Indies there are some very nice islands on which nature, barring | occasional lapses, maintains the quiet- ness of a good library. Wake Island, | previously mentioned, assures almost perfect privacy, ,The nearest bit of |land is 300 miles away. Choosing Sequestered Spot. “Rose Island, in the Samoan group, | { has unusual advantages for the seeker of literary leisure. It is 80 miles east of its nearest neighbor; climate, equa- ble; real estate, one island half a | square mile in area, comfortably situ- ated within a coral breakwater; inhabi- tants, none; fishing, excellent, although | many species are poisonous. New pack- {ets of 10 selected books could be ob- | tained by the small boat which comes to Rose Island annually to deposit Among the 4,400 foreign residents now in Hankow, China, 248 are Ameri- Acceptance by Congress of the Samoan Islands as part of the United States territory definitely adds six more bits of land to the thousands of islands the | Nation now owns. | “The United States has acquired some | 9,000 islands outside the boundaries of the 48 States” says a bulletin from the National Geographic Socicty. - Dopee [o[——|0][—=[o][——23|0]c———|o|c———|al——=I0] “This host of territorial islands is asattered from the South Pacific north ®2roes the Arctic Circle. They sprinkle the seas of both hemispheres for a dis- tance of 15000 miles from St. John, emergency stores of food and water for the use of sailors who might be ship- wrecked. . “The Samoan Islands loom large in the history of the United States foreign EASTER FLOWERS | BROTHERS policy. The joint agreement of Great | Britain, the United States and Ger- many to establish a protectorate over the islands, represented, it was sald, the first departure from our Nation's his- toric attitude toward alliances. The joint protectorate did not work out well, 50 by treaties in 1900 and 1904 the United States took control over the eastern half of the islands, containing Pago Paga harbor, the finest in all the | South Seas. Congress, after all these vears, has passed a resolution accepting The Little Demon Guard Against Him and You'll Save Many a Repair Bill Friction (metal rubbing against metal) wears out gears! It's the little demon that surely and quickly destroys any car. Demand Ebonite-T for the | transmission, because it makes gear shifting easy. Demand Ebonite-R for the rear axles. It prevents noise, and de- livers long, satisfactory service. EBONITE (Combination of Pure Oil) 20 Cents a Shot At Filling Stations and Garages. 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