Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1929, Page 50

Tiikd SUNDAY ST AR, WASHINGTON, D C.. DECEMBER 29, PART THREE. CHURGH PICTURES IBN SAUD CREATES AIR FORCE TO FORTIFY DESERT KINGDOM WILEY PAID HONOR v jpresident of the Harvard Club, pre- sided. In addition to Dr. Wiley, spe- cial guests at his table were Edmund Platt of the Federal Reserve Board, Cabot Stevens and John R. Holcomb. At the conclusion of the luncheon Justice McCoy asked the members to drink a toast to the guest of honor. It creases Power. HOUSTON, Tex. (#).—A new station, iNEw STATION IN HOUSTON.W‘Z ARE ARRAIGNED HERE KTRH to Go on Air—gTUE 1n. FOR ROBBERY OF LAUNDRY |One Held Over Under $2,500 Bond. | chair. Op the witness stand today he | fafled to identify Temple other than by saying his voice sounded similar to that of the man who held the gun the morning of the robbe: The third man arrested with the pair arraigned today was released by jorder of Assistant Uj S. Attorney was in the form of a pocm written for the occasion by Mrs. Cabot Stevens, which the toasimaster read. Dr. Wiley made a brief reply, after which Justice McCoy introduced each . BY HARVARD CLUB KTRH, has been authorized for Hous- | Case of Other Is | Charles Murray. [ton, and the power of another, KTUE, | Continued. | -“ | has been increased from 5 to 100 watts. | 1t will carry C. B. S. programs. 10 Bfi EXHIB”EDK'HQ of Hediaz, Called Napo-| leon of Arabia, Once Was Exile. Friend of Lepers Dies, Mrs. Walter Draper, who with her Alleged to be two-of the four men | | who broke into the Arcade Sunshine | Photographs in Colors Show 0ld Virginia Houses of Worship. The pictorial historic exhibition of photographs in colors, showing the old parish churches of Virginia, recently shown at the Library of Congress, has been loaned to the Public Library by Francls Marion Wigmore, it was an- nouncez yesterday. They will be placed on exhibition in the second-floor lobby of the central building from December 31 to January 31. In the interest of perpetuating the existence of the old parish churches many of which are threatened with de- cay. Mr. Wigmore has made these pic- tures in hope of gaining for them the attention of those who may be willing to help in securing the preservation of these ancient landmarks. it is exnlained Furthermore. many of the old churches are architecturally fitted to inspire a new generation. it is contended. The photographs are considered of exceptional beauty. zained through painstaking care in both the taking of the pictures at the scene and their preparation from the negatives. They are colored in oils with fidelity to the scene as it now exists, Along with such famous buildings as old Pohick Church, old Christ Church. Alexandria: old Bruton Parish Church at Willlamsburg. and the ruins at Jamestown, are the lesser known old Aquia Church near Stafford Court House, old Merchant’s Hove Church in Prince Georges County., which took its fanciful na from the plantation owned in part by Richard Quinney, a brother-in-law of Shakespeare’s daug! ter. Judith. and old Hunga Church and old St. George's Church. called “Old Pongoteague,” on the Virginia Peninsula. Some of the old churches are plain rectangular structures with- out ornament, others are cruciform in shape, or possess quaint towers and | porches, but all show the simplicity that marked the colonial architecture of the late Stuart and the Georgian eras. | A booklet descriptive of the collec- tion, printed by the Library of Con- gress &t the time of its exhibition there, may be consulted in the Washing- toniana division. TEST BY WENR BRINGS MORE THAN 7,000 LETTERS Btation Director's Idea Proves That Fans Are Not Losing Interest. CHICAGO (.—A M-minute day- | light concentration test brought more | than 7.000 fan letters to WENR and | proved to Morgan Eastman, station di- | Tector, that radio listeners are not los- ing interest. The letters were from 18 States and | = one province in Canad ‘The test, proposed by Eastman, that listeners could distinguish one | voice from several broadcasting in uni- son. Three persons enunciated dif- was Fisher Wives Set F;hion. ‘The famous fisher wives of Newhaven, Scotland, who were given a free trip | to London recently, are unconsciously starting & fashion. Some of the latest | models being shown in Scotch centers have & strong tendency to follow the lines of the clothes worn by the fisher folk. The fishlike frocks of spotted tulle are developing a new silhouette. They are allowed to be “more bunchy.” and lavers of tiers overlapping one Master of ' Million Square Miles Now Hopes to Be Caliph at Mecca. By the Associated Press LONDON.—As a fitting climax to his amazin - career, Ibn Saud, King of the Hedjaz and Sultan of Nedj, has begun | the creation of his own independent air | squadron. Six pilots, all former officers of the | royal air force, have signed contracts as pilot-instructors and left for Riadh, Ibn Saud’s capital. With them went several of the latest type of fighting air- | planes manufactured: in England. With each airplane doing the work of several companies of infantry, Ibn Saud’s desert kingdom in the heart of Arabia will be almost impregnable. Add | to this the fact that English aviators and airplanes bespeak some sort of ‘understanding” with Great Britain, Ton Saud has been called a Napoleon of the desert. A Cromwell Is a more fitting description. At the head of his | orthodox Wahabis, members of the most puritanical sect of the Mohammedans, | he came out of the desert fastnesses of | Nedj in Central Arabia in 1924 waging a holy war against Arabs who had de- viated from the strict teachings of the Koran. At that_time he was the Sultan of Nedj in Central Arabia and his Wa- habis, sternly des ng strong drink. | tobacco and® fine attire, descended on the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the port of Jedda, where these luxuries were much in evidence, King Hussein and his son and succes- sor, King All, were successively toppled from the throne of Hedjaz, which Ibn promptly assumed. Thirty vears ago Tbn Saud was a poor | 243,000 Delaware Citizens Invited to Party by Governor By the Associated Press. DOVER, Del.. December 28— If residents of the State of Dela ware take seriously an invita- tion of Gov. and Mrs. C. Douglas Buck and attend a New Year eve party, some one is up against it. 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