Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 31

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929. MAKERS OF LINEN ON AMERICAN TOUR Irish and Scottish Manufac-| turers Will Visit Cities in U. S. and Canada. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 15.—Twenty-| one leading Irish and Scottish textile | manufacturers arrived yesterday on the liner Laconia to begin an industrial | tour of the United States as an official | delegation suggested by the Prince of ‘Wales. The group is known as the Irish- Scottish linen industry delegation and includes proprietors of the principal linen mills of Northern Ireland and Scotland, who have come to this coun- try to study modern American mer- | chandising methods with a view to ap-| plying them to British industry. The delegation will be received to- morrow by Mayor Walker and on Wed- nesday will go to Washington to be received by President Hoover and to be conducted on an inspection tour of the Department of Commerce by Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary. The visitors will return to New York Thursday for meetings with mercantile Jeaders of this city and on Friday will | leave for a tour of American and Ca- nadian _industrial centers. The itin- erary includes Chicago, October 21-22; Detroit, October 23; Toronto, October 24; Montreal, October 25, and Boston, October 26-28. The party will return | to New York on October 29 for more | conferences and will sail on November 2. | STEALS $500 VIOLIN. Mexican Takes It Because He ‘Wanted to Learn to Play. MEXICO CITY (Special) —Hunger often drives men to steal. It drove | Faustino Hernandez of Mexico to steal. | Hernandez was hungry for music, §0 | he stole a violin. The violin was valued at $500. He told police he had only borrowed it in order to learn to play, but he was taken into custody. |and when it had run its course the | to have his own kind as executioners. | of “heads” to the American Clun. NINE-TON ELEPHANT IS DOOMED| TO DIE AS RAGE LEADS HIM TO SLAY Pachydermic Mates May Be Executioners of Circus King Who Killed Woman. J By the Associated Press, BAY CITY, Tex., October 15—The circus drums’ that once stirred Black Diamond, a nine-ton brute engine of destruction, into jovial elephantine per- | formances ‘under the big top beat out | a tatto of approaching death for him yesterday. Through the elephant’s brain there darted Saturday a primeval urge to kill; broken body of Mrs. Eva Donohue, 52, was tossed aside by the huge trunk, and the mighty beast’s former trainer, H. D. Prickett, 38, lay seriously hurt. Black Diamond was sentenced to die, perhaps Circus officials are planning to put an end to the killer today or tomor- row, when they will have left the popu- lous country en route to another stand. They fear an attempt to kill here might endanger other human lives. Meanwhile, Black Diamond, chained fast to his car, sprawled in a stupor, the jungle craze still reflected in the | mad’ gleam of his eyes as his stolid CORN GROWS IN LONDON Motorist Tells of Sight of Ameri- can Product Near Brewery. Motoring along York road in Batter- sea, writes a contributor to the London Chronicle, I noticed that on a piece of land adjoining a brewery there was growing a large crop of American corn. This bsing an uncommon sight in Ton- don, I stopped to_talk to the concierge of the brewery. I found that he him- self had planted it. He told me that every year he did so. His directors were very fo=d of it, besides which eaci year they Eive I forget how many thousands The members tell the concierge that his London-grown corn has & better flavor than the corn they generally gat in America. A Dutch company will modernize a large sugar mill recently purchased in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. cotemporaries went about their accus- tomed duties, unmindful that the role of fratricidal executioner may be thrust upon them. Two methods of taking Black Dia- mond’s 1if: were under consideration, one by firing squad, the other by strangulation. If the latter is adopted, a chain with | pois free ends will be wrapped about the | killer's neck and three elephants will be attached to cach end. Then a strange death march, with the vietim still, will begin with the signal which | sets the animals to move in opposite directions. The circus moves on to Corpus Christi today and to Kennedy tomorrow. On | one of these “hops” Black Diamond will be slain. HOOPSNAKE BELIEF SURVIVES ATTACKS | Many Still Insist- Reptile Rolls Like Wheel and Stings With Tail. ‘The hoopsnake story is one of the hardiest myths in the lore of this country, according to the Indianapolis News. The story, as told and retold since pioneer times, is that this snake is long and slender and has a stinger on its tail like a wasp. The stinger is supposed to be filled with deadly on. According to tradition, the snake takes its tail in its mouth and by con- tortions of its body rises to the posi- tion of a rolling wheel, and travels so fast that it is hardly visible. It is sup- posed to feed on men and animals and to kill its victim by approaching at a high rate of speed and, when a few feet distant, straightening its body like a spear and driving its tail into the target. The belief is that if the victim See Etz and See Better” Efficiency in Children No matter how bright the youngster may appear— unless he or she can grasp and understand readily what is demonstrated during school times, slow. In school days, sight is standing and knowledge. progress will be vitally important to under- Are your children’s eyes all that they should be? Bring them here for a test based on the most scientific knowledge that research and experience can offer. 1217 G Street~ l dodges and the snake strikes a the tree will immediately die, and thlt the snake will die at the same time nnd its body will petrify at the moment of impact and stand out like a crow- ber driven into the tree. In some places the myth includes stories about the snake being luminous and having the power to inflate itself, so that it looks like a ball of fire roll- ing over the ground. In practically all the stories by persons relating per- sonal experiences with the hoopsnake they evaded its sting or, if it missed them and died, they were so frightened that they neglected to examine or preserve the body. ‘The first recorded mention of this | myth is in letters from English colonists in the Carolinas, in 1688. 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