Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1930, Page 22

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MOTHERS PREPARE T0 SAIL TOMORROW New York to Honor Gold Star | 2, hieh ot o eped o ut eclor as Contingent With Tribute Paid Notables. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 6—The first con- tingent of gold star mothers to visit the graves of their sons in France as | porothy Nickerson, nolort u'zhnoloflst.g tes Government | “Is an integral grading factor in nu- e izt mwm';;nm | merous standards established for agri- | cultural products. Cotton, for instance, is sold according to grade and staple. will sail at noon tomorrow Hoboken, N. J., the great debarking port of the American Expeditionary Force, standard grades. product colors for the various grades by which the commodity is marketed, the specific lot in question being classified accord- ing to the color approximated by the | f variables—color, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 6, FRUITS ARE GIVEN DIZZY RIDE IN TESTING GRADES BY COLOR BY FRANK I WELLER, Associated Press Farm Editor. A machine that whirls hay, apples, cotton and other farm products at such a high rate of speed that the object been developed by the Department of Agriculture as an aid in establishing The hue assumed by the revolving is compared with accepted test. | “The element of color,” says Miss | “The grade factor consists of three leat and trash, and preparation or ginning. Hay is graded :n color, foreign material and condi- ion. “Color is an Iimportant element in grading fruits and vegetables; it is a part of the specifications for cotton- linters standards; it plays a part in grading rice, honey, meats, grains, breads, mayonnaise and innumerable other agricultural commodities or the manufactured products thereof, often with direct correlation in protein con- tent, diastatic activity, or money value. Since_color is an important grading tor, Miss Nickerson adds, it is nec- ry that a measure be made of color Standards thus may be kept con- stant from year to year, the real im- portance of color as & factor of utility may be determined, and the intervals at which color gradations are fixed in the standards may be specified accord- ing to such determinations. ‘The first group will number 232 mothers, Bouth, and additional groups will sail | each week until the 6,000 mothers who | have accepted the Government’s invita- | tion will have made the pilgrimage |Mariner Who Believed He Faced| overseas. The pier of the United States Lines from which the liner America sails will be decked with American flags in honor of the occasion and 24 members of Congress have arranged to be present to bid the mothers bon voyage. As the mostly from the West and | MESSAGE FOUND IN SEA By the Associated Press. HAD FLOATED 18 MONTHSi‘ Death With Belligerent Crew No- tified Friends of Peril. NEW YORK, May 6.—Larry Kim- marine oiler, yesterday learned U.'S. WEDDINGS IN LONDON UNDER RESTRICTIONS Archbishop of Canterbury Limits Issue of Special Licenses for Mar- riages in Famous Churches. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 6.—Americans who ! want to be married in famous London 'WORK ON STREETS AND PARKS SLATED Citizens’ Association In- formed of Improvements Scheduled. Committee reports and letters, offi- | cially assuring the improvement of street and park areas in the commu- nity, were presented to the Washing- ton Highlands Citizens' Association at & meeting last night in the Congress Heights School. A letter from the District Engineer- ing Department assured the association that Giesboro road will be improved for 350 feet south of Livingston road by a 10-foot widening designed to elim- inate dangerous curves. Miss Bessie B. Warren, president, an- nounced that the city planning com- mission is_preparing to buy properties at Oxon Run for the construction of public parks. The committee on education reported that children of the community dur- ing next year will be afforded bus service to the Congress Heights School. Plans were made to stage a mass meeting tonight at the Congress Heights School for discussing the need of a gym- nasium and a four-room addition to P. F. Kimmett, warrant officer of the ‘War Department, who recently returned to Washington from a trip through the Panama Canal Zone, described his voyage. Vocal selections were sung by Mrs. Karl Sherer, accompanied by Mrs. Charles M. Hess. —_— PROMINENT MAN HANGED Mexican Posse Mistakes Official for Fugitive Bandit. MEXICO CITY, May 6 (#)—Dis- patches from the town of Ahualulco, State of Jalisco, yesterday reported that a posse out hunting for & bandit cap- tured at night a man they thought to be the one sought and proceeded to | hang him immediately in the public ! square in the nearby town of Tala. The execution took place after mid- night, and the next morning the towns- men of Tala discovered to their horror | that the man hanging from a tree in| the plaza was Canuto Garcia, head of | the local agrarian_commission and a respected citizen. Garcia unfortunately bore & close physical resemblance to the bandit and had the same name. 1930. MEDALS WON BY FOUR Institute of Social Sciences le-‘ wards Outstanding Services. NEW YORK, May 6 (®.—The Na- tional Institute of Social Sciences yes- terday announced awards of the insti- tute’s gold medal to three men and one woman for outstanding social services. ‘The medals will be presented Thursday at & dinner here. ‘The recipients are Miss Anna B. Gallup, curator-in-chief of the Brook- lyn Children’s Museum; Willlam Lyon Phelps, Lampson . professor, Yale Uni- versity; Nathan Straus, financier, and Dr. George Richards Minot, director of the Thorndike memorial laboratory, Boston City Hospital. lNDIGESTIOhi from too much acid, sour gassystom- ach, hangover, over-eating instantly | relieved. Ask your druggist for CIDINE MILLIONS FIND IT BEST See Etz and See Better” O~ =g ? Note this VA / LUE CLICQUOT CLUB PALE DRY OFFERS 13 more for your money ERE'S a way te save money when you buy ginger ale. Simply ask for Clicquot Club Pale Dry. It comes in full 16-eunce pint bottles, not scanty 12-ounce bottles Hke you usually get. Clicquot gives you 4 extra ounces in every bottle. And to insure its purity this famous aged ginger ale comes te you in the bay, 42 airplanes | mODS: i % ffih‘%’ r':'u?‘,iofi;’fi? nboaTd, i | that a message he had thrown into the | churches like St. Margaret’s, Westmin- Ceremonies, such as New York usually | sea in a bottle when he believed he was | ster, and St. Georges, in Hanover reserves for distinguished guests, have | facing death off the Brasilian coast 18| Square, will henceforth find the satis- gg&e‘é’.“ficm‘%er‘s’nfl Othe © Amerivan | months ago had been picked up off |faction of their desires more difficult, Legion and the Veterans of Foreign | Massachusetts. the Daily Mail says. Wikss' have b‘é{‘w"“‘?{‘e"] tojescort tue | A frelghter on which he had shipped| “Tha Mall states that the Archulshop mothers to City Hall late today 10|p,q a crew composed of Japanese.|of Canterbury has motified the Ameri- ;;:‘:: .;J;stz:r’:)\f. ‘;}‘ffi:‘é’ S Filipinos and Rumanians. They had|can embassy that in the future it will The ceremonies included a guard of |one fight aft r another, Kimmons said, | not be possible to issue the required honor in the plaza of the city hall |the trouble reaching a climax when a | speclal licenses so freely as in the past. composed of letachments of the Army, s holds that the special avyMasines and National Guard, | Rumanian attacked the chief engineer | The archbishop ho At }:‘mlt- with 600 gold star mothers of New York | and was killed. licenses, costing about $125 and pe City, whose sons died in France but| Feeling ran high, and Kimmons, be- | ting the marriage to take place in the whose bodies have been returned to|lieving he would never set foot ashore, | church at any time, have been granted this country. | wrote the note describing the situation, |to Americans for reasons that would Each mother making the pilgrimage | giving his address as the Seaman's|not have been sufficient if submitted will carry with her a silk American flag | Church Institute, New York. He called | by Englishmen. i to place on her son’s grave as a gift |at the instituie Yesterday and found a | The Mail asserts that Americans vis- from the City of New York. Jetter from the keeper of the Wood End iting England who have not the neces- As each mother arrived in New York, | light house at Provinceton, Mass., saying | sary residential qualifications must most of them aged and many of them | the bottle and its message had been | henceforth prove that a real urgency on their first visit to the city, they were | found. exists before obtaining a special license. greeted at the railroad stations by Army e Oil producing shale in the Uintah| Georgia’s income in 1929 from 10 officers, who escorted them to their hotels and cared for their baggage. Basin, in Utah, is estimated at 92,139,- | truck crops was $5,221,000, an increase 000,000 tons. of 29 per cent. 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Have Your Eyes Examined Every Two Years 1217 1217 G St G St. N.W. N.W. The handy party package containing 12 fall pints. 1217 G Street- ‘The Sixteenth Street Highlands Citi- zens’ Association concluded its season of meetings with a session in the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth and Kennedy streets, last night. The next regular meeting of the association will be held the first Monday in October, it was announced by the civic body. ‘The meeting last night was more in the nature of a get-together, the citi- zens adopting no resolutions, but con- fining themselves to a discussion of the work of the body during the past year. Discussing the proposal to have Six- teenth street reservoir transferred to the | Rock Creek Park to be included in park development, the hope was ex- pressed among the citizens that the office of Lieut. Col, U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, would see fit to transform the old reservoir into & sunken garden. No action was taken last night, however, the group having goné on record pre- \mzusly as in favor of such an enter- prise. In the absence of the president, Dr. Lewis J. Battle, Harry Wood, first vice president, presided. Dr. J. W. Hollings- worth, secretary, recorded the minutes. Adding Machine Stolen. An adding machine valued at $200 was stolen from the office of & coal yard in the 700 block of South Capitol street last night by duplicate key thieves, Harry Berwick, of the 4700 block of Fourth street, manager of the estab- lishment, reported to police of No. 4 station today. Merchants Transfer & Storage Co. 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