Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1930, Page 24

DESERT IS COMBED THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, U, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930. adventure, outfitted himself with camp supplies and pack animals early in No- vember to cross the forbidden desert. No indication that the New Yorker's trek across the repelling ms had T O'Nelll, Ginger Rogers, Ted Lewis and Ruth Etting. Mrs. Farnum was be- lieved to have accompanied her hus- band only part of the way on his journey, but she had not returned to STUDENT TWICE BEFORE TRIED TO BURN SCHOOL flance, Richard Clayton, star student at_the school admitted today. N fire ment last week and also fired the woods the iris, as the motif of her bath room. The walls painted with growing irises in flower on the bank of a river, the river being the bath itself, and BRITISH HOSTESSES VIE FOR FANCY BATH ROOMS Live Under Old Roman Laws. The only way to vividly describe a trip to the little Republic of San M: rino, in Italy—say, from such a place the are met_with success or traglc failure was | their apartment in West Seventy- near the building, but both blazes were the whole effect that of a charming | %S, Rimini—is o say it is a carriage FOR LOST AGENT Exhausted Mule Indicates Plight of Theatrical Man May Be Desperate. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 15.—Griz- zled sons of the desert were combing Death Valley today for traces of Ralph G. Farnum, New York theatrical agent, one of whose pack mules, spent and emaciated, staggered into Purnace Creek last Saturday, mute testimony to & possible tragedy. The booking agent, forsaking the received at any point in the historic California wasteland until the hardy burro dragged its way into Purnace Creek. In a communication to Los Angeles police yesterday, Deputy Sheriff Harvey Goper of Death Valley Junction stated the adventurer, who gave his name as Ralph Farnum, was believed lost in the furnace-like valley and asked that aid be given in a check of the New York- er's whereabouts. FARNUM LEFT ON VACATION. | Wife Planned to Accompany Him Only Part of Way. NEW YORK, December 15 (&).— | Ralph G. Farnum, Broadway theatrical agent missing in Death Valley, left New | York some weeks ago with his wife, the | former Mabelle Griffith of Baltimore, | for a vacation in the Far West. The only directions he left at his office were to keep in touch with some glitter of Broadway for the glare and stillness of Death Valley inquest of of his more important clients. He had been agent for Will Mahoney, Zelma seventh street and friends did not know her whereabouts. Cigars From Louisiana. Seventy-elght million cigars were turned out by New Orleans and its immediate vicinity during the pabt year. The tobacco trade is quite extensive and the cigars manufactured are sald to be of a high grade generally, al- though all grades are made. The workers, men and women, earn on an average of $32 per week on a plece- work basis. B Rots, Rusts and Smauts, The cost of the plant ills of this | country is estimated at a billion and a half dollars. If it were not for these attacks the wheat crop would be 97,- 000,000 bushels greater, and the corn borer and other pests account for 271,- 000,000 bushels of corn. Canada’s loss amounts to about $45,000,000. Richard Clayton Admits Three At- tempts to Destroy Building to Get Home to Fiance. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 15.— Twice before he attempted to destroy the dormitory at the Pennsylvania Forestry School at Mount Alto, near here. because he was homesick and wanted to return home to see his extinguished by fellow students. Then Monday night he poured kerosene on the rafters in the boller room and struck a match, An investigation led to his arrest and confession to this fire. His fiance in Ilion stopped corresponding with him. He said he figured he could get home without criticism from the girl's father, who was financing his education. o ; Rayon production in Italy is increas- ing. |Lady Cromer Has Her Favorite Flower, the Iris, as Motif and Walls Made Scenic. LONDON (N.AN.A).—Bath rooms are as important as any other part of a house in the scheme of the modern decorator, and many fashionable host- esses are vying with each other in the originality of their effects in this di- l.rection. Lady Cromer has her favorite flower, garden, The Marchesa Malacrida has a bath room which is modern in the extreme, & vivid contrast to her bed room, which is very much of the middle ages. The bath room is painted to resemble black marble, streaked with yellow. The bath is yello d the mirrors on the wall are backed with gold instead of silver, fl;reby giving a marvelously sunny effect. (Copyright, 1030. by the North American Newspaper Al MEN!—Let Elizabeth Brewster Shop for You —she will select the prettiest for each one and make all come within your drive to the Middle Ages. Heve it is, Just as it has been for centuries, the in the woild, and high up in the clouds or, as they say nearest country to heaven. It walls are precipices, and it Entering the | ancient gate after the climb to this impregnable mount of city towers, it really seems as though the world below | was different—if not of another planet, | then certainly of another age and smallest’ republic themselves, the | has about 13,000 citizens. time—for its people are still ruled by | the old Roman laws, budget. No charge for her services! 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