Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1929, Page 11

[CE DAM GIVES WAY 50 Feet of Water Rushing Down Indus Valley After Glacier Is Broken. By the Associated Press. LEH, Kashmir, August 17.—A wall of | water 50 feet high todsy swept down the Indus Valley as & result of the breaking of the glacler dam on the Shyok River, sending terror '.l'\l‘()u¥l this primitive old principality of Kash- i ir. A lake 12 miles Tong, 173 feet deep and 1,000 feet wide, which took months to grow 3 a glacier pushed across the Shyok River, has burst through the ice barrier nd is falling upon Kashmir and Punjab. Warning guns and beacon fifes blazed through she quiet Shyok and Indus Val and here, at the end of the telegraph line, operators sent broadcast’ messdges appealing to the people to leave their homes to the rag- ing waters and save their lives, Thou- sands of prim.live native farmers fled the valleys. The chief industry of the principality, the making of the inimit- #ble Kashmir shawls, was paralyzed. Property Loss. “The property loss in Kashmir for the most part was crops of millet, a kind of corn, which forms the chief agricul- tural product of the district. The home loss will be snall, for the Kashmirites live almost entirey in tents and are able to carry their houses with them. It was feared that farther down the Indus Vall in Punjab, where the new the river at Attock, the roperty would be much_greater. opulat. denser there. The great wave of as like to be felt as far 4.s Sukkur, in lower Punjab, where a dam is being built, almost a thou- sand miles away from the bursting of the glacier wall. River boats raced at full steam down the river toward Sukkur to escape the rushing waters. ‘The enormous flood of water sud- denly released is rushing south on the Indus River at the same time. Outlet of India. Kashmir, where the great lake gath- ered 17,000 feet above sea level, is one of the outlets of India to Central Asia. The Karokoram range of mountains bounds it on the north, and is almost impassable except for four months in the year. Some of the passes of the Karokoram group are 20,000 feet high. There are only a handful of Euro- ans in the principality. Col. E. B. owell is the resident representative of the British government in India, but the country is under the direct rule of the Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh. The natives of the district immedi- ately around the spot where the dam | burst are known as Ladahki and are the porters used by the caravans which cross the Karokoram passes into Cen- tral Asia, starting from Leh. The great WENACIGHASHIR Little Robert Francis Coleman with The fire rescue squad rendered first aid THE.SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C.. ' LANSBURGH & BRO 7th, 8th and E Sts—FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—National 9800 his grandmother, Mrs. Harry Newman, Robert found a bottle of poison yesterday and proceeded to drink the contents. and he will recover—Star Staff Photo. U.S. AND CANADIAN ZIONISTS T0 MEET . Young Poale Zion Convention Will Open Here Saturday, August 31. Delegates from throughout the United States and Canada are to attend the eighth Young Poale Zion convention, to open in, the Jewish Community Center here, August 31, to be featured by dis- cussions of many problems concerning the younger Jewish generation. The principal aim of the organization, it is pointed out, is to help the Palestinian _Histadruth, the Jewish Federation of Labor, in its work to bulld the new Jewish homeland into a great co-operative democracy. ‘The Young Poale Zion Organization of America also is concerned with speed- ing Jewish culture and furthering the spirit of progressive Jewish nationalism, in addition to fostering the tradi- majority are Mohammedans. RED CROSS N.UTRITION EXPERTS TO CONFER HERE Those East of Mississippi to Study Effects of Food on Health. By the Associated Press. Red Cross nutrition experts from all States east of the Mississippi River will spend the last two weeks in August at national headquarters here studying re- cent developments in nutrition. Nutri- tion experts west of the Mississippl will meet simultaneously in St. Louis. The two conferences will formulate a basis for next year's program of the American Red Cross Nutrition Service, which last year reached 120,000 school children and 4,000 adult classes. In the Mississippi flood region alone, the Red Cross distributed 12,000 pounds of yeast as food in its campaign to pre- vent Pellagra, particularly among school children. New findings in the effects of foods on health will be demonstrated in the animal experimental laboratory of Dr. E. V. McCullum, at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, Baltimore. Dr. Willlam Gerry ‘Morgan, cancer specialist and presi- dent-elect of the American Medical As- sociation, will address the conference here on the relation of nutrition to di- seases of the digestive tract. MRS. ROSE TZ\YLDR DIES; RITES SET FOR MONDAY Associated With Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children Many Years. Mrs. Rose Maria Taylor, 56 years of age, for many years associated with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, died suddenly of acute in- digestion at the home of her son-in-law, Lawrence W. Fitzgerald, with whom she resided, at 3508 Eighteenth street, Fri- day. She had been in good health up to a few moments before her death. Mrs. Taylor was born in this city, but lived for a period of 18 years in Brooklyn, N. Y., where she became as- sociated with the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children. The last years of her life have been spent in Washington. She leaves a husband, Charles Murray Taylor of Baltimore, Md.; two sons, George O'Dougherty of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Joseph O’Dougher- ty of Washington, and a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence W. Fitzgerald, with whom she made her home. Funeral services will be held at her home at 9 o'clock Monday morning. Interment will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Two Rumanian Flyers Killed. BUCHAREST, Rumania, August 17 (#)—Two army flyers were fatally in- Jured yesterday when their plane crash- ed in a fleld adjoining the Royal Palace of Contreceni. It narrowly missed striking soldiers drilling in the fleld. SWIMMING! Keep Coicl)’l and Fit YOUR Y. M. C. A. POOL 1736 G St. N.W. by JOINING NOW at LOW SUMMER RATES 9 LOCK RLPAIRING ClocksCalled For«Delivered: N‘:}'EL tional devotion to social justice among the younger generatlon, it is stated. ‘With the creation of the extended Jewish Agency for Palestine, in which all classes of Jewry are being united in the work of up-building the Jewish homeland, Palestine has been placed in the very center of Jewish life. Plans for the proper participation of the Young Poale Zionists for the larger ef- forts will be discussed and acted upon by the convention. Many leaders of the Zionist movement will participate in the convention here which will continue at the center over | Labor day. The local arrangements committee is headed by Harry Dobkin, secretary of the Washington branch. - British Trade Mission in Brazil. By Cable to The Star. RIO DE JANEIRO, August 17.—The British economic mission to South America, headed by Lord d'Abernon, former British Ambassador to Germany, passed through the port here yesterday on board the liner Alcantara, en route to Buenos Alres. Lord d’Abernon said his mission would confine its studies solely to Argentina and Brazil. BOY SWALLOWS POISON. ! Rescue Squad Rushed to Aid of 22-Month-0ld. : Casualty Hospital ambulance were summoned yesterday to 2009 Evart street northeast, after the 22-month- old son of George M. Coleman, an em- ploye of the Ggvernment Printing Of- fice, had taken advantage of the tem- norlry absence of his elders to swal- w a small amount of poison he found in_a medicine cabinet. The child, Robert Francis Coleman, was given first aid and pronounced out of danger by the ambulance doctor. There was no need for the firemen, RUM BaT GIVES BATTLE. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 17 (P).—A Danish customs boat and rum runner Thursday night staged a battle in a manner not unknown to American waters, - The customs boat Ternen sur- prised the boat Herkules with 1.400 litres of spirits. The smuggler fled to its ;mother ship outside territprial was || ters, but the Ternen pursued and de- manded its surrender on the ground that it had been caught in Danish wa- ters. A revolver fight was in progress when & German patrol boat with a machine gun clinched the seizure. Build up (7Y : . Po¢ With 3@“513 the hundred ¢ of Cement 5, Berwyn-Bins Cement Block Works l Balto.-Wash. Bivd, Berwyn, Md. _Salesmen Wanted to Interest Contractors. Organized Responsibility . Use Yellow Cabs nd Black and White Cabs | Owned and Operated by Brown Bros. DON'T FORGET THE BUDGET" BOYS “ME"— ‘WMAL WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 Well, Folks: Here's the news you've been waiting for. Go The fire rescue squad No. 1 and l‘ to it—it's the last word. OW%‘? S FINAL REDUCTIONS All Woolen Suits payments or ments. Jus' depend get paid. Final Reduction All $35 Suits (Extra Pants, $5) Final Reduction All $40 Suits (Extra Pants, $6) Final Reduction o . All $45 Suits (Extra Pants, $7) Final Reduction . All $50 Suits (Extra Pants, $8) Buy ’Emon the Kaufman Budget Plan Pay Y, Cash. Balance 10 weekly ve semi-monthly pay- Ne Charge for Alterations ¢ Good for Now---Good for Fall s on the way you AUGUST 1 1929 _PART 1. 3 ; * New Kermana Domestic Rugs W Reduced Tomorrow! Lead-Blown Glassware .In Rose and a Few Crystal and Color Combinations 15¢ Each Just the glasses are pic- tured, but there are others too; goblets, fruit salads, sherbets, wine glasses, and footed water glasses—and salad plates! You really save at this reduced price! Glassware—Sixth Floor Choose From 3 Dinnerware Patterns, $16.95 A service for 12 persons, in old ivory color; a blue border pattern—rose, yellow, and blue floral spray—and a semi-border pattern on a tan background; specially re- duced for a limited time. China—B8ixth Floor Men’s COCOON Broadcloth Shirts This Will Most Likely Be the Last Time They Will Carry the Low Price $1.95 We've sold thousands of cocoon broadcloth shirts at $1.95. In other Washington shops they sell for far more. But now, due to more rigid merchandise control, it seems quite improbable that we will be able to secure them in the future to sell at this price. Men who like cocoon broad- cloth shirts, who like to economize, will stock up gen- erously tomorrow, - Collar at- tached and neckband models; sizes 1313 to 17. White only. Men's Wear Shop—Street Floor Four Bed Outfits in the Annual August Sale brown fi With Spring and Mattress, $35.95. Look Like Orientals But Cost About a Fourth Less! The ancient handcraft of rug making is losing out to modern machines. It recently became possible through a marvelous new process to copy the magnificent sheen, the deep cushion pile, even the orgeous colorings of true Orientals. And as usual, the cost is greatly essened by machine production. We present our first showing of these beautiful domestic rugs, in the rich rose, blue, and taupe shades characteristic of real Orientals—in the same mystic patterns so full of meaning and romance. You must see them before time to put down your Winter rugs! 9x12 feet 8.3x10.6 feet $150 $138 6x9 feet 4.6x7.6 feet $97.50 $54 May Be Pur- chased on Our Budget Plan 3x6 feet $25 27x54 inches $16 Russ—Fifth Floor Complete With Coil Spring and Felt Mattress $35.95 Whichever outit you choose, you'll get a beauti- ful Simmons bed, a Foster double-decker coil spring and four-row Imperial edge “Reeleeze” mattress—at a greatly reduced price! tyle bed that m; Plain Windsor style bed. Rich ish; 33"—4'—4%6". Solid-panel Windsor type bed, finished in brown; 3'3"—4’ and 4'6”. Complete with Spring and Mattress, $35.95. Cane panel is light and del: in brown finish; 3'3"—4'—4 Plain, solid-panel style, very much in demand; brown fin- ish; 3'3"—4'—4'6". $35.95. Bedwear—Third Floor Y ey ) Fall Frocks *9.69 Satin Frocks Flat Crepe Frocks Georgette Frocks Velvet Trimmings New Tweed Prints The New Shades Our first showing of new Fall frocks—and what smartness and newness it reveals! Sleek satins, soft and shiny, mould the figure in the new 1929 manner—satins combined with transparent velvet—flat crepe appears in the new tweed designs, or takes the lighter than navy, brown and black shades. Proof indeed that new fashions are not costly if you shop here! Sizes 14 to 20, 36 to 50, 38!; to 50%.