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B—-6 1930 CENSUS WORK OPENS WEDNESDAY 120,000 Enumerators, Mo- bilized, Will Report to 575 Supervisors for Instruction. By the Associated Press. The mighty 1930 census mill which will tally and tabulate the population of these United States is mobilized and motorized, ready to go bright and early Wednesday morning Its 120,000 census takers, reporting to 575 supervisors, have been instructed | on how to scrutinize every city apart- ment house and sleuth out every hermit on a remote river bank. To census headquarters here every hermit is a family and must be count- ed as such. Tally must be taken, t00, of the sailors at sea. Everybody counts with Uncle Sam. His aim is to be ac- curate. Choice of April Explained. ‘That is one reason why the month of April was set for census taking. considered a between-season time, when the adventuring “average American family” is most likely to be found at home. “Americans are gadabouts and the hardest question in the census is where to enumerate them,” said one expert in the office of the bureau chief. Nationally illuminating facts on un- employment, illiteracy, industries, agri- culture and racial proportions lurk be- hind the marks the census taker makes | in the little blank squares on the big | schedules. Census Details Outlined. The many ramifications of the great 1930 census mill are therefore of vast fmportance and the basement packing rooms of the Census Bureau were full of last-minute flurry today as plentiful extra supplies of big brown portfolios filled with schedules in variegated col- ors were being rushed out to super- visors. With one of these big brown port- folios under his arm and an assortment of 20,000 possible questions on the tip of his tongue, a census taker will come calling on you within two weeks after April 2 if you live in the city; within 30 days thereafter if you live on the arm. GREECE HOIGORS HEROES ATHENS, March 31 (#)—In the mfie of all government officials, the nt of Greece yesterday laid the first stones of a building to commemo- rate the heroes of the war of inde- pendence of 1821-29. Every Greek city which took a distinguished part in the war sent a stone marked with its name for use in the structure. |{AGENTS TO DISCUSS It is | Explorers Find Jeweled Mummy 4,000 Years Old Pennsylvania U. Expedi- tion Continues Hunt for Buriel Place of Royalty. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, March 31.-—A mummy which, with its decorations of | amulets and jewelry lay undisturbed for 4,000 years, has been vered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum expedition at Meydum, t, Alan Rowe, fleld director, has advised mu- seum authorities. Mr. Rowe said the mummy was that of a woman hamed_Sat-her-em-Hat, | who lived about 2000 B. C. Rowe said the expedition was con- tinuing jts search for a burial chamber | in the Mastabah lying near the great pyramid of Seneferu, who lived about 2000 B. C. The Mastabah, a huge tomb in the shape of a trapezoid, was used for the burial of members of the royal family and dependents of Seneferu. REVENUE PROBLEMS | Ten Divisions Will Be Represented | at Three-Day Conference Today at Cleveland. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, March 31.—Agents in charge of 10 Central and Midwestern | divisions of Bureau of Internal Rev-| enue will open a, three-day conference | here today to discuss bureau problems. | The conference will be headed by | Robert H. Lucas, national internal rev- | enue commissioner, who will speak Tuesday evening on “Taxation and | Business.” | The following agents will be here for the conference: Harley Howard, Buf- falo; Walter P. Mayes, Pittsburgh; Wes- ley R. Miles, Huntington, W. Vi Charles E. Bolden, Cincinnati; John R. Kirk, Springfield, Iil; C. W. Herrick, Chicago; George Neal, Detroit; D. W. Reynolds, Milwaukee; Ernest P. Hutch- inson and William Billings, both of Indianapolis, and Ernest C. Rarey, Cleveland. David Burnett, deputy commission; Frederick H. Newburg, chief of fleld procedure, and William Vastine, head of the training division, | will accompany Commissioner Lucas from Washington. The policy_of hold- sectional conferences was in: urated this year by Lucas, who was aj pointed last June by President Hoover. Formerly all fleld agents were called to an annual conference in Washing- ton, but in Lucas’ opinion the old policy ‘was unsatisfactory. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930. BRI, AWAKENED GREAKS UM AN Liquor Trucks Disturb Sleep of Couple—She Calls Po- lice, Who Seize Seven. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 31.—The rum- bling of heavily laden liquor trucks along the roads of Woodbridge,.N. J., which disturbed the slumbers of a honeymoon couple, led to the arrest parly yesterday at Keasbey, N. J., of seven alleged rum runners and the seizure of 200 cases of cognac, valued | by Federal agents at $100 a case. Early yesterday morning John H. McGill, deputy surveyor of the Port of | New York jn charge of enforcement | received @ - telephone call from the ' bride, whose name he withheld, inform- | ing him that she and her husband were | unable to sleep because of the noise of the trucks. Inspectors from New York located 20 men unloading the cognac cargo from a motor boat at a pier 8t Keasbey. The inspectors advanced to the attack just &s a red warning light flashed on the - pierhead. The boat shot away th INDIGESTION ACID STOMACH HEARTBURN HEADACHE GASES -NAUSEA Sick stomachs, scur stomachs | and indigestion usually mean ex- cess acid. The stomach nerves are over-stimulated. Too much acid makes the stomach and in- testines sour. Alkali kills acid instantly. The best form is Phillips Milk of Mag- nesia, because one harmless, tasteless dose neutralizes many | times its volume in acid. Since its invention, 50 years ago, it has remained the standard with phy- sicians everywhere. Take a spoonful in water and your unhappy condition will prob- ably end in five minutes. Then nly 100 Sets at An Offer So Unusual We Must Limit Quantity — Come Early and the rum runners on shore scattered, but the inspectors managed to capture seven. PARACHUTE LANDS GIRL PITCHED OUT OF PLANE Mildred Kauffman Escapes Death in Trying to Beat Own Record of 46 Inside Loops. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, March 31, — Mildred Kauffman, Kansas City aviatrix and holder of the woman’'s world record of 46 inside loops, escaped with a few slight scratches and bruises after she was catapulted from her plane at a height of 3,200 feet yesterday at the Buffalo airport. She was attempting to break her own record. She landed safely with the aid of her parachute, while the plane crashed to earth, its motor wide open. dent was witnessed by several thousand persons. Miss Kauffman said she was making | the thirty-first loop when she was thrown from the cockpit. 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