Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1930, Page 41

MOVIE PCTURES | MADE OF SHADOWS Cloud Views Reproduced as U. S. Avjators Fly Over Victoria Mountains. *“We magde moving pictures of our own | shadow ch the clouds below, as we | elimbed high over Victoria and flew south for Rio. For you can go ‘Roll- ing Down, to Rio’ now on big ferry! boats of the sky, giant ply hetween the two Am Frederick Simpich, Nati Socie enos Aires “Skimming low to see the country, We came to the vast plantations on the rich, green plains about Campos. Horses and cattle by thousands grazed there; many herds stampeded wh n we roared & few yards above them. Peons, cutting sugar cane and loading it on big ox carts, waved their matchets at us. - Over | muddy roads plodding ox-teams the heavy cane caris to the | sugar miil, or as it is known | to all the world e workers. Field overseers in wh iits sat about on 8leek saddle hor Fine “On our whole flig ton, no stretch of more graphic and absorbing. It was like a 100-mile panel or mural of “‘Country Life in Brazil’ with farm folk gardening, feeding pigs. chopping wood, milking or loafing. ldren were at play, one group with a goat harnessed to a little wagon; at every farm house | chickens for cover, thinking us a big hawk. 4 “Then it rained. Water fell all about us. It shut out a world-famed view we had waited for—the flock of odd, queer-shaped mountain rocks about Rio. These are a curiosity. They look almost artificial, as though on the earth, yet not of it. You fancy that some big David on another /planet used his sling to hurl these boulders through space at our world, with Rio as his bull's-eye. “When a hole of light showed ahead, Pilot Hawkins gave the big Nyrba plane ‘all the motors had,' and we fairly raced for that cloud break. And there was Rio, overcast, but visible, with its famous mountain, The Finger of God, feaching up and poking into low clouds. City of Many Angles. you see Rio, not as one a big city, e than 1,500,000, but ken into kaleidoscopic parts that are tucked into valleys, set on points of land, spread in the graceful bends of | beautiful blue b or clinging like Tibetan monasteries to steep, wooded hills. And boldly straight through the imminse, opulent city, runs the famous Avenida Rio Branco. It is Rio’s main artery now. Few other cities on earth would have equal municipal courage to let engineers do what Rio let them do. ‘You nced a long, fine wide avenue right through your crowded city,’ the planners said. Rio answered ‘0. K. and they tore down hundreds of buildings, and naw here is Rio Branco, a new Fifth avenue, a Champs Elysees. Still, you see workmen dynamiting rocky hills away to make building lots or ex- tend boulevards, or washing away glant clay banks with hydraulic streams, as in Seattle boom days. “Scenically, architecturally, Rio star- tles you with its theatrical character. Prom my hotel window the sky line Jooks like a string of fantastic palaces at some world fair. And the long water- front is unique. No dirty docks, smelly ‘warehouses, ramshackle wharf cafes and sailors’ boarding houses. Instead, you ride from the dignified American em- bassy at one end of a glittering bay- front boulevard around to a race course at the other, with club buildings grace- ful as ancient temples in Egypt. Street Cars Like Fireflies. “Like a colossal firefly, an illuminated | @erial tram car crawls up its cable, carrying sightseers to view glittering Rio at night, from the peak of Sugar Loaf Mountain. High up along the top of an old Roman-like aqueduct, which brought city water in Portuguese days, a street car line now rumbles, and hordes of democratic Brazilians ride the street cats for the sheer pleasure of seeing their home town. Highways, smooth and hard, wind into surrounding hills, to give breath-taking views of the far-flung city and its majestic island- studded bay, atop one peak is risen a heroic stone figure of Christ, with arms outstretched over Rio. “Paris, New York, San Francisco, all blend here. Tree-shaded boulevard cafes; long files of Fifth avenue style busses and a ferry to Nichteroy, across the bay, of the same form that ferries ou from Market street over to Oak- jand. Aristocratic homes, as on old Nob Hill. Infinite coffee shops, for coffee 1§ more popular here than spirits. And more French spoken, around hotels, theaters and intellectual centers, than the aversge American hears even s “Above all, the Brazilian himself. A smew race, in a way; at least a new racial mixture, descended from Indians ted here. More population, and ractically all dwellers, are of his racial amalgemation, and the mod- | erns are proud to be called ‘Brazilieros.’ | It is & social error to call them Portu- guese. Foot ball is their fetish. Be- fore the sumptuous buildin of big dailies crowds block traffic to read the foot ball scores. Foot ball is_above politics, horse races, news from Europe —even above the coflee quotations. “Pull the Teeth” Street. “Rio, as you ¢ now. is a new town. Quain remain, re mindful of he Rua Ouvidor, like n i Btreets, closed to all vehicula favorite promenade, ‘where you're to meet whoevor yc looking Old streets, too, with old names, such as ‘Pull_the Teeth where old men ped-ile live chicksns in panniers borne L mules “But_the conspictiou e centry Depicted. pt from Washing- scenery has been sure hase of Rio, | h it via the | from the | its bright, | in Te- from real estate ise to challenge the hills and plague the sou! artistic con- | servatives. I found the American com- | mercial attache in & building | put up by one of R ailies. Prom his window vou with big ships from s com- o ar craft of | e personnel is | trained by a ¥ 1 mission of | 32 officers and men v dash | of color to the lecal American colony., | 3 conic Skyscrape rywhere: seapl: g. and many fleet at Sunset. Serrated | kies; hoats shadow n-protected fortified hills; irsting into Picturesque Baj “What t blue hills etched ag ripples swe steamer a whit ing the cen tood on the the wo:ld, beaten around hordes would not_tourists, ma 48 the capital and chie that embraces nearl: America, both in ar city of a nation half of all South and population.” Authors Seek Protection, Writers are now striving to secure in- ternational protection in the film indus- tries. At the International Congress of Authors and Compogers, which met in Budapest, Hungary, recently, it was decided to create a_central organization, by night | MISS EDITH Daughter of Mrs. Albert Mack of McLean, Va.,, whose marriage to Mr. Floyd | THE SUNDAY ST LESLII Muse Gantt of Langley, Va., will take place in St. John’s Episcopal Church, McLean, at 3 o'clock Saturday, August 30. SOVIET STORES OFFER ROYAL GEMS AND CLOTHING FOR SALE Special Dispatch to The Star. MOSCOW, August 16—Government second-hand stores, officially named “commission shops,” are a great lure here to the money of tourists. They are stocked with art objects of china, silver and gold, with paintings, ikons, tea and coffee sets, gems, rugs, ivory, jade, tortoise shell, and even clothing and household linens confis- cated from the aristocracy of imperial Russia. The government has immense stocks of baubles dating back i some cases to the reign of Catherine the Great. These wer~ - igmented recently by further seizures of rugs and household articles for non-payment of the heavy taxes imposed upon the non-working classes. In the days of t' . great famine in 1920-21 members of Mr. Hoover's relief administration and other foreigners were frequently offered diamonds and rubles, rare tapestries and rugs, gold cigarette cases and begemmed snuff boxes for a few pounds of sugar or flour. Prices now are not that low, but they are still below what the same articles would cost in other countries, provided Philipsborn ELEVENTH ST. = one overlooks the one-third ad valorem | export tax. | The Soviet authorities, in fact, expect |to reap a harvest this season because | more than 10,000 Americans are ex- pected to visit here, - | A visit to one of the shops is like | turning over the pages of Russian his- | tory. One sees a_magnificent dinner service of pure gold_that belonged to Empress Catherine, Russia’s most ex- travagant soverelgn; & tea set of ex- quisite Sexon, which formed a part of the household equipment of Czar Nich- olas I; & jeweled sword with which Em- peror Alexander IT defended himself, & diamond-studded fkon, in front of which the late Empress Alexandra prayed: a gold and ivory crucifix with which the monk Rasputin is said to have per- formed some of his “miracles”; a toy electric train with which the little crip- | pled czarevitch used to amuse himself, and so on. Even the wearing apparel, including wedding dresses and shoes, of Russia’s Empresses are on sale. Particularly fine are the collections of jeweled snuff boxes, vanity cases and cigarette cases. These range in price from $50 to $50.000. BETWEEN F &G Special Purcl.ase for Government Imployees and Professional Women rery Size for Women, Misses Juniors \ appy fate for any pay check! 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BOMBAY, India, August 16.—Brit- ish troops were hurried northward to- day toward Peshawar, Northwest fron- tier province, to deal with a situation which was described officially as “‘of considerable gravity and danger.” Mar- tial law, invoked yesterday, was tn full force in the city and surrounding ter- ritory. While the number of hostile tribes- men afield at this time was not large, it was very difficult to engage them, because of the nature of the terrain and the extreme mobility of the raiders. During the past few days the raiders have invested parts of Peshawar, forced their way into the supply depot and done considerable damage, fited on the cantonments in which the bungalows of Europeans there are located, and at one time they cut off all communication with the city itself. A lull in the situation has developed just now, while the tribesmen await reinforcements. ‘The Afridis on the Khajuri Plain are expecting more. men from the Kohat district, and their Orakzai allies similarly are waiting in the Khanki Valley. The Haji of Turangzai is trying to raise & military force in Bajur to help the Afridids, while “Red Shirt” bands have been busy in the Charsadda dis- trict north of Peshawar. All sections of the Afridis are now regarded as im- plicated in the revolt, but the Moh- mands hitherto have shown themselves averse to fighting. FEAR FRONTIER WAR. Considerable Uneasiness Aroused in London Over Reports. LONDON, August 16 (#).—Consid- erable uneasiness has been aroused here by admissions in official announcements |at Simla, Indian Summer capital, that & serious situation exists on the Indian Northwest frontier. There is a 1airly general expectation | here that a frontier war on a large scale will develop as a result of efforis | to crush the Afridi and other maraud- ing tribesmen, who recently have threat- ened Peshawar, fortified city which controls the important Khyber Pass. Since Parliament is not in session, | the usual method of eliciting informa- tion—that is, by questions to the min- |isters concerned—is unavailable. The government itself is' making no state- | ments. so that the public has become | dependent for news on Indian official | communigues and the censored dis- patches of Indian correspondents, who. ‘ it 1s believed, are not allowed to tell all ‘(hey know of the situation. | 'The anti-government papers today | took a gloomy view and inferred from ‘the Simla announcements that the position justified anxiety. Buried Church F;:nd. ISTANBUL (/7).—D. Talbot Rice, Brit- | ish archeologist, recently brought to | light another of Istanbul's burled treas- ures, ruins of a hitherto unknown Byzantine Church in the Vianga Bostan | quarter. - The work was financed by | Rudolph Messel of Drewstegnton, Devon, ! England. House of Courtesy Phone NAtional 1133 Brown Broadcloth Dyed Civet Cat Blouse Back Brown Vona Beaver_Co June Bride | | | here from the big namesakes. | under construction, with a reverse bend, | where erosien recently forced the mov- |ing of a State highway. The laboratory MRS. CHARLES ABDO, Formerly Miss Cecelia Cifala, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Cifala, now living at 3604 Ninth street northeast. —Clinedinst Fhoto 14 FROM DISTRICT ORDERED TO CAMP Instructed to| Infantry Officers Report for Two Weeks of Trai Fourteen additional Infantry cfficers, all yesidents of this clty, have been ordered to report at Camp Meade, Md., today for two weeks' training under | Regular Army instructors, it is an-| nounced through the headquarters of the 3d Corps Aréa, United States Army. The list includes two captains, 10 first lieutenants and two sccond lieutenants. They are: Captains—Nelson Bennett and Wil- lism Tyree Hardaway. First” lieutenants—Wallace Beattie Hoover, Altus Garvy Moore, Albert Chrisman Reed, Isaac Mantes Capayas, | John Philip Schaefer, John Phillips Davey, Ralph McTier Graham, Charles William Phifer, Robert Van Rensselaer Haig and Joseph James Stubbs. Second lieuténants—Charles Maurice | McKnight and Herbert Hilton Mc- Murray. Woman Illness Rate High. ‘The British ministry of labor recently compiled a departmental return show- ing the respective rates of sickness of man and woman officials in the depart- ment over & period of 12 months. The total staft for the year ending Janu- ary 31, 1929, was 15,094) representing 8.254 ~established and 6,840 unestab- lished, or 11,266 men and 3,628 women. | The average sickness of women was/ 14.2 days, of disabled men 11.2 and of other men 9.2 days. For Coatless Fall Days—Wear Transparent Velvet Two-piece com! tion of | ing at Meade. }I B. €., AUGUST. 17, 1930—PART ' THREE.' l Rivers Are Studied ' In Model Form to | Learn Their Power CAMERIDGE, Mass. (#).—Old Man River has been tamed at last and brought into a new laboratory at Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology. His menacing powers are reproduced | here in models of real rivers, about 1| inch to the foot. These laboratory streams are even banked, bottomed and | leveed with mud and sand transported | The 100-year floods, and even the | 1,000-year overflows—that is, those which afe not expected oftener than once in 1,000 years—are sent booming through miniature banks. As they tear apart man’s protective dikes, telltale drops of dye catch Old Man River's fingerprints and show en- gineers precisely what happened. This river hydraulic laboratory is in charge of Prof. K. C. Reynolds. Along one side of a 100-foot Toom a model of the Connecticut River is engineers expect to learn what will make this bend stay put. Dikes Made of Silt. Across the Toom, in a long plate-glass case, is a dike made from &ilt, with which the city of Hartford, Conn., ex- pects to build a 3-mile-long embank- ment to reclaim municipal lands.. The levee fills the middle of the case, with water representing the river at one end, sometimes up to the dike top. With dyes and instruments, the engineers have measured the seepage and found how to place the earthworks to restrain the river. Have Miniature Plant. Nearby, half the height of a bunga- 0! ands a miniature power-plant with concrete spillway and river channel below. all in model size. A record flood has run over the spill- way to dash upward the equivalent of 40 feet and show what sort of bottom the river below needs to avold under- mining. e S Imports Japanese Bees. SHANGHAI ().—Chih Shih-Huel, & north China landowner, has imported 200 boxes of Japanese bees for his ten- ant farmers explaining that the Japan- ese insects get along better in China than honeymakers of any other type. 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