Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1929, Page 24

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za FAUQUIER SHOW LIST OFF PRESS Catalogues Out for Nine- | teenth Annual Exhibition at Marshall, Va. ! @pecial Dispatch to The Btar. i MARSHALL, Va., July 13.—Catalogues are’ out for the Nineteenth Annual Fauquier Fair and Horse Show, which will be held at Marshall, Va., Wednes- 'day, Thursday and Fridsy, August 21, 232 and 23. The entries will close Sat- THE SUNDAY SKILL OF MASTER SAVES CREW OF 29 ABOARD DOOMED BOAT American Skipper Sticks With Ship Until Last Moment, Then All Escape ! ATTENDANCE AT PICNIC IS LIMITED TO TWINS 87 Pairs Attended Second Annual Event in North Carolina. Brothers Are Hosts. MA' N. C. (®. 'TTHEWS, Eighty- seven pairs oe twins recent! tended STAR, WASHINGTON the Sustar-Kuestar twins' picnic Rere. It was the second annual picnic with J. E. Sustar and B. A. Sustar, aged 69, of Matthews, and Clarence and Faiston Kuestar, jr., 14, acting as hosts. Every other set of twins in Mecklen- by County and a number of eugenic students seeking information on mul- tiple birth were invited. The infor- mation gathered will be filed at the eugenics_record office at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 5 D. C, JULY 14, 1929—PART 1 HEAR THE NEW VICTOR RADIO Without Panic. f BY GEORGE HYDE. By Cable to The Ster and Chicago Daily 5. RIGA, July 13.—The skill and ecir- cumspection of Capt. Biebe, master of the Americen salvage boat Resource, saved the crew of 29 when disaster over~ took the ship after a calm Summer night in the treacherous Esthonian waters. ing in the midst of the white foam. The inrushing water caused the master to send an 8 O § and order the over- worked crew to abandon the doomed Rerource. ‘There was no panic when the crew worked its way, with the ship's papers, on board the wave-swept decks of the bltfluhlg. Slava, clinging with stiffen-~ ing hands to whatever proved reliablc IMMEDIATE Get Your New idS OTrner ‘The Resource was engaged in suc- |as a support. Victor Radio po! All the men, except four who are re- maining voluntarily on board the Slava, were taken on board an Esthon- ian government tug into the port of Hapsal, whence they went to Tallinn and were housed in the seamen’s home. It is estimated that raising the Resource will cost $20,000, (Copyright, 1929.) i & An 383.year-old man was recently | | sentenced in Birmingham, England, to three years' imprisonment. ¢ .00 " ou;d $3= Trip Ocean City, Md. Children 5 years and under 12 half farelf Maryland's Ocean Resort Surf Bathing | Sunday, July 21 Good for day enly |, soectar tratn 1 2 Y. AVE NS L Timnle direct nd’ con- |l cessful salvage work on the Russian warships sunk in October, 1917, in Moon _Sound, connecting the Finnish and Rigda Gulfs. She was moored alongside the Russian battleship Slava, which went aground after a fight near the Island of Moon. Suddenly, in the morning, there sprang up a fresh gale which developed into a raging storm, turning the calm. grey waters of shallow, stone studded Moon Sound into a foaming whirlpool, Capt. Biebe says he has seen lots of seas, but never such nasty, sharp breakers madly tossing the powerful boat until the anchors gave way. Dramatically brief messages from a | i lighthouse keeper reaching the Esthon- jan shore, told of the sinking of the Resource an hour later. The situation of the Resource became critical when || blows from beams stretched out from the Slava rammed the Resource’s hull and other blows from submarine rocks ||| drove holes in the starboard bottom. ‘The maelstrom whirling alongside the Resource frustrated any maneuver- | i 1 ARTHUR 11th & You St.NW. NORTH 1234 urday, August 10. Many interesting Teatures have been added this year and attractive prises ‘are offered in all classes, ‘The show is held under the auspices of the Fauquier County Agricultural Society. The officers are Mrs. John T. Ramey, president; S. H. Carter, vice president;, P. W. Anderson, secretary and treasurer, and E. Carter Foster, executive secretary. The directors are Mrs. John T. Ramey, Charles Baird, John T. Ramey, James D. Gibson, John F. Walker, Willlam Skinker, H. M. Lut- trell, B. A. Rucker, William Rowland, 8. H. Carter, Joshua Filetcher, F. D. Gaskins, H. C. Groome, J. W. Slaughter, D. H. Meade, W. W. Gulick, John C. Butler, D. C. Sands, P. W. Anderson. John F. Walker is superintendent of the horse show department, which in- cludes the following classes: Three- year-old hunters, hunters four years old and under, green hunters, Corin- thian class, handicap jumping class, touch and out class, saddle horses, light- ‘weight hunters, thoroughbred hunt- ers, saddle ponles, saddle pairs of ponies, pony jumping classes, ponies’ touch and go, ponles’ Corinthian, rmy championship, thoroughbred stal- fon, colt two-year-olds, yearlings and Toal, helf breds, hunter type mare or gelding three years old, two years old, one year old and foal either sex, half bred mares and foal. John T. Ramey has charge of the heavy draft horse de- partment and this consists of breeding classes, teams and pulling contest. AT SEXTON'’S 647 H ST. N.E. ; LIN. 6590 Liberal Terms Open Until 10 P.M The NEW VICTOR IS HERE HUGO WORCH 1110 G St. N.W. We have it! The New Micro-Synchronous VICTOR RADIO Convenient Terms S. GORDON’S MUSIC & RADIO SHOP 1716 Pa. Ave. N.W. ive Ocean Cit 0 L18 P, arrive Wasinsion 1000 [f | Wash., Balto. & Annap. artments have the following I superintendents: Beef cattle, 8. H. EICC. R. R. Carter, Charles Baird, Singleton Luttrell 12th snd N. Y. Ave. N.W. and Henry Pishback; dairy cattle, Carl = == S VICTOR ; swine department, J. W. RADIO Adams; farm products department, Can Now Be Heard at James D. Gibson; women's department, Mrs. T. H. Maddux, Miss Edith Carter Either of Our Stores RS GEORGETOWN department, Mrs. J. B. McCarty; poultry ‘MUSIC SHOP department, O. O. Carr, Harry E. Dion. 3219 M St. N.W. YOUNG HEN PRODUCES MANY DOUBLE EGGS RIFKIND’S 1549 7th St. NW. Nine Inches Around by Seven and NEW VICTOR a Half Inches Other Way Meas- RADIO | urement of Some. \ | —plus our dependable CONWAY, N. H. (P.—A hen that has almost developed a habit of laying service gives you the ut- most in radio satisfac- mammoth eggs with “double-barreled” tion. Mt. Pleasant MUSIC SHOP 3310 14th St. N.W. | OPEN EVENINGS the usual contents and, in addition, Col. 1641 SEE and HEAR THE NEW VICTOR RADIO WITH ELECTROLA K. C. SEXTON & CO. Victrolas, Records and Radios 631 Penn. Ave. S.E. Come in and hear the new VICTOR RADIO T erms—Demonstrations £s HARRIS <o 2900 14th St. N.W. Cel. 0101 At Harvard another egg of average size in an aver- ag2 shell. ‘Some of the eggs were so large as to Tesemble the product of some far larger bird, measuring 9 inches in circumfer- ence one way and 7% inches the other. Their weights were about 6 ounces of these huge eggs second day and then apparently re- turned to normal production. " S GREAT LAKES CAPTAIN CUPID’S AID 52 YEARS Four Million Persons Provided Ro- mantic Settings by Exoursion Boat Out of Toledo. TOLEDO, Ohio (#)—Capt. Harry | Tyrie has been Cupid's first mate on the Great Lakes for 52 years. o apmropriste TomARAC seitings approp! romantic sel ;’r: 4,000,000 grwns. which is about all w boy could .do himself, the captain says. He is 68 years old now, and many of do's grandfathers and grandmothers e engaged while erulslng‘uln the moonlight on his boats. But chief pride is not of romance—it's the fact that no passenger has been lost from his ships. to suit! NOW IT IS HERE IN WASHINGTON | any MICRO-SYNCHRONOUS VICTOR RADIO | | The Hecht Co. I I Street 4 7™ O R D ; A N PIANO (O COMBINES ARE POPULAR ' IN SOUTHWEST STATES ‘?our Out of Five “Thrashing Rigs” | i Made Are Found in Prairie | Country. . KANBAS CITY (#).—Four out of five | eombines used by American grain farmers do their work in Southwestern Btates. More than 40,000 harvester-thrashers are listed in Kansas, Oklahoma and ‘Texas, a survey shows, out of an ap- . P te total of 50,000. Kansas leads ‘with more than 22,000. 1 In the number of tractors west of the Mississippl, however, this South- ‘western trio falls below Midwestern States, where farm units are smaller. 1t is estimated that Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas have about 100,000 of nearly 1,000,000 tractors in the country. o SYNAGOGUE ECLIPSES ! .FAMED GERMAN CHURCH Dome of Noted Berlin Cathedral | Will Be Exceeded by 119-Foot \ y . Capola. BERLIN (#).—The Evangelischer Dom, the Protestant cathedral in which B om, deliver, LOUIS & CO. ; | 7th & GEE St. NW. ! | | I l Read, for yoz;. i separately or combin with new Electrola. | AT | ROYAL RADIO AND SPECIALTY CO. 1741 Cenn. Ave. NW. Potomac 3040 “Radio as It Skoulq Be” COLVIN RUN. COLVIN RUN, Va., July 13 (Spe- - Colvin Run hool and Community League met the school house, It was decided to hold a dance and carnival July 26 and President J. A. Wheeler abpointed _ THE NEW VICTOR RADIO e

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