Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1931, Page 28

JOB-COMMITTEE HAS 8 ON PAY ROLL Statement Outlines Opera- tions for Relief of Unem- ployment of Capital. With _announcement that approxi- mately 80 persons are being carried on its pay roll, the District of Columbla Committee on Employment, in a state- ment today which outlined the pres‘:n” status of its operations, said that it now “has at its disposal a smooth function- ing organization of employes which is | capable of undertaking almost any sort of Jaboring work on a contract basis.” The present staff, the committee said, is by far the largest whica it has THE EVENING HARVARD SCIENTISTS TO MAKE EARTHQUAKES Thickness of Anci WITH DYNAMITE {Vibration Speed Through Granite and ent Glacier Drifts to Be Measured by Seismographs. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 9.—Dr. L. Don Leet, in charge of the Harvard seismograph station, plans to produce artificial earthquake shocks next Sum- mer. The shocks will be produced by dynamite. They will be measured by portable seismographs. The experiments will take two forms. One will be the measurement of the speed with which vibrations travel through granite. The other will be the measuring of the thickness of drifts left by glaciers 10,000 years ago, re- A s sandths of a second how long it took for the vibrations to reach the seis- | mograph. | Experiment Is Explained. | The vibrations travel through loose | earth at the surface, such as glacial | till, at a far slower rate than through | the solid formations below. By dis- charging the dynamite at successively | greater distances, the first waves to \Teach the instrument will, for a short distance, travel only through the low- | speed material. Beyond a certain point, | however, depending upon the thickness STAR AMERICAN SHIPPING COMBINE EFFECTED World-Wide Service Under Stars and Stripes Is Created. WASHINGTON By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 9.—A world- | wide shipping service under the Amer- | ican flag will be created through a' consolidation of interests of the Inter- national Mercantile Marine Co. and the Roosevelt Steamship Co. which was an- nounced Tuesday. The merger, which has been rumored for several months, was announced by P. A. S. Franklin, president of the In- ternational Mercantile Marine. The | Roosevelt Co., which was organized in JANUARY 9 D. C., FRIDAY, # ik | LOAN MADE TO SISTERS Music and Musicians || oossaos e s s s |loan of $1,800.000 has been made to Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin of St. Joscph here by the Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trusi Co. and Thomas L. Gannon of St. Louis. The order has filed in their favor a deed of trust for five of its properties. A part of the money is to be used, | | according to the deed, for the refinanc- seasons. |ing of loans used to'rebuild Mundelin fif Vot <R O A5 NERIS Lo ege in Chicago. i your loans g S e SR | s expense of renewinr. $1,000 ?SHE second Moll;r Gl tha - | ior $10 per month, including season took place last evening ARE YOU interest and principal. Larger at the Shoreham Hot:l with Floyd & Y or smalier loans at proportion- Sherman, tenor, and Gene Stewart, OUALIFIED? ate rates A large corporation in organist, as guest artists. This series of recitals has been P erpetual Washington has decided to Building enlarge its sales organization arranged at the request of certain local music_lovers who believe that the organ is destined to become @ concert instrument under the im- < 0 A Wi with men of no prior sales ex- ssociation perience. If accepted, you Established 1881 will receive excellent train- Largest in Washington ing in sales work and the as- Assets Over $23,000,000 Real Estate Loans (D. C. Property Only) 5% No Comu:ission Charged You can take 12 years to Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. the younger musicians in the city, and have offered many interesting programs during the past few pulse of the modern school of organists. Both artists appearing last night are prize winners of one sort or an- other. Mr. Stewart is a laureate scholar of the Peabody Institute and Postpone Concert of the artists, tonight's concert of the Georgetown January 16. Ruby Potter, soprano, and Louis concert. They will, however, from today, if all goes well. will be a Bauer arrangement of Of Georgetown Series, Music Series has been post- Potter, pianist, had been scheduled offer the same Included among the Cesar Mr. Sherman a contest winner of the sistance of experienced men Cor. 11th and E N.W. | vealing the original formation of the |of the surface material, the waves will yet employed in accordance with its land. intention to utilize the funds from the Atwater Kent national comp-tition. be able to make better time by travel- | 1925, will retain its corporate indentity ¥ alify, ve s e ME: V. Pres 4 The program, which was enjoyed by To quality, you mustshave DWARD € BALTZ. ‘Secrers lude, Fugue and EDWARD C@ BAT . charity foot ball game as a direct means of giving work to as many persons as possible. Three Crews on Duty. The workers have been divided into three crews. One, consisting of 35 colored men, is assigned to the fish market wharf un- loading the barge of firewood brought up from Quantico. This wood is be- ing delivered through Salvation Army depots and in a house-to-house dis- tribution made possible by Army trans- port trucks and trucks furnished by Wash B, Williams, coal dealer. Another crew of approximately 25 colored men is cleaning up a portion of Massachusetts Park, under super- vision of the office of public buildings and public parks. A third, consisting of 15 white men, is cutting felled timber in Arlington Cemetery into cord lengths and an ex- perienced carpenter has been employed | to construct from miscellaneous pieces o timber rustic furniture, which the committee hopes to sell to replenish its | fund. The preponderance of colored help being employed now, the committee ex- plains, is due to a desire to_divide the work as much as possible. White labor | was used for the first barge of m'ewood,i it points out. Supervisory Force. The supervisory force includes two stencgraphers, a bookkeeper, one gen- eral loreman, two bosses and & time- keeper. ! The committee is hopeful now that some sort of clean-up work on private property will be launched to enable it to replenish its fund from time to time and extend the scope of its employment. It wants to keep its relief work on a practical basis of employment and at the same time hold its fund as near as possible to the amount received from the fcot ball game. | WRIGLEY TO TRADE PRODUCTS FOR GRAIN Western Canadian Wholesalers | Told Money Would Be Left in Area and Burden Relieved. By the Associated Press. ! CHICAGO, January 9—The plan of the William Wrigley, Jr.. Co., Ltd., of Canada, to take wheat in exchange for its products in Western Canada was explained in a letter frem its Toronto | offices to wholesalers, made public here | Tuesday. “We have decided,” the letter sald, “that all money owing us in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta from De- cember 12, 1930, to May 1, 1931, shall be accumulated to purchase wheat for delivery in May, 1931. In other words, we propose to take wheat in exchange for Wrigley's products.” % ‘The company explained that it had three purposes. Cash was not to be taken out of the western provinces, but the money left there in the form of wheat. The company said it felt wheat at 65 cents a bushel was cheap and that it would make money. Also, the plan would reiieve to some extent the carrying strain on farmers, pools and | other business enterprises. f wheat goes up, as we feel is prob- able, we will profit,” said the company. “But if it goes-down we become part- mers with the West and as such take our loss with them. Our real object is to let Western Canada pay up in kind —pay in wheat for what the West owes us and, unless wheat goes up, we pro- pose to invest further of the com- pany’s resources in wheat until we actually own 1,000,000 bushels.” The letter said the company would buy wheat only at or below -the price | of 65 cents a bushel, on the basis of No. 1 Northern in store at Fort Wil- liam, Port Arthur or Vancouver. BEAUTY PRO;IES FATAL FOR HOLD-UP SUSPECT ‘Woman Identifies Man Held on At- tempted Robbery Charge by Eyes That Thrilled Her. ke Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 9.—Jack Simon can say with conviction that beauty is fatal. Charged with the attempted robbery of Mrs. Eugenia Shatiloff, Simon was | :er ¢ Municipal Judge Haas yester- ay. A deputy district attorney asked of | Mrs, Shatilofi: “How do you identify | this defendant as the man who tried 1o rob you?” “By those beautiful black eyes” re- plied the women. “He had such| gorgeous eyes—I'll never forget them, they thrilled me so— The judge ordered Simon held for trial OWED 23 BANKS $534,190 Arkansas Company Schedule Filed With Bankruptcy Referee. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., January 9 (#).— Schedules of the Vann M. Howell Co., filed Tuesday with th> bankruptey Teferee, showed the company, & holding corporation for A. B. Banks, owed 23 Ark:nsas banks $534,190, of which $135,190 is due 17 State banks which hold no security Combined indebtedness of the Howell Co. and A. B. Banks, both of which filed voluntary bankruptcy petitions in Federal Court December 22, to Arkan- sas banks amounts to $1,292630, the schedules of both companies shoged. Children Like This Safe Prescription |! Coughs and Sore Throat | Relieved Almost Instantly Stop children’s coughs and sore throats before these ailments lead to dangerous ills. Use Thoxine, a | doctor’s famous prescription which brings relief within 15 minutes, yet | contains no harmful drugs. Thoxine works on a differént | principle, it has a quick, double | | action—it relieves the irritation and ' pleasant tasting and easy to (lke—l not a gargle. Ask for Thoxine, put Granite Wave Speeds Studied. Geologists have long believed that the continents were underlain by gran- ite. They have been trying for many years to determine how thick this layer is. -The only means of study has been, |and still is, the velocities with which | earthquake waves travel through it. Little_knowledge, Dr. Leet says, now exists about the velocity of vibrations in_granite. If such speeds are deter- mined, they will indirectly contribute to the aim of scientists to learn the thickness of this foundation layer, or the study may reveal that this founda- tion is not granite at all. This first phase of his research will be undertaken at the granite quarries in Quincy, Mass. Not only will measure- ment of the speed at the surface be| attempted, but, as far as practicable, the veloclties of the vibrations traveling through granite under diffeent degrees | of pressure, according to it depth. | Investigate Tce Thiskness. The second form the research will take will be a determisation of the | thickness of the vast coverings of rock | and earth debris left by the ice 5he€lsi in the last great ice age. Beneath these deposits lie the solid rock for- mations that were at the surface be- fore the ice advanced. A charting of the old land surfaces would reveal a general picture of the land before it was changed by the gla- ciers, revealing, possibly, that hills oc- curred in placés now occupled by val- leys and that rivers 10,000 years ago ran in different directions from those of today. Portable Seismograph Used. ‘The principal means for studying| these problems is a portable seismo- | graph, first developed commercially for discovering oil deposits. The Harvard | Seismograph Station has just recelved | two of these instruments, one a com- | mercial type, the other an instrument unique in its field. . | The ordinary type records vibrations traveling in only one direction. The | other, especially constructed for this kind of research by H. Gordon Taylor of Washington, records waves in three dimensions at right angles to one an- other. In operation, a charge of dynamite is | set off at some distance from the in-| strument. The time of discharge is| photographed instantly on a film. A/ vibrating tuning fork records the pas- sage of time in intervals of a hun- dreth of a second. As the film turns, the arrival of the first vibrations thgpugh the ground are immediately photographed on the film. The accu- | racy of the instrument makes it pos- sible to show within a couple of thou- ing part of the distance in the under- lying high-speed solid rock. | Thus, they will arrive ahead of the | schedule they would follow on te sur- | face. For example, the vibrations may travel through ordinary earth at to 6,000 feet per second, while th | travel i rock formations at speeds of 15,000 fect a second and up. Thus, in taking a set of observations |along & straight line a profile of the rock below the surface will be revealed. Bank Closes to Thwart Run. | | LA MOTTE, Iowa, January 9 () | The cry of “Bank’s closed” rang over | La Motte Wednesday. | The closed bank was in Lamont— | but the damage was done. Depositors staged a run on the Towa Savings Bank here and the doors were closed. Offi- | cials said the bank was in excellent | condition and the closing was for pro- | tection of depositors. SELLING OUT! Must Vacate Tomorrow, Jan. 10th Entire Stock Must Be Sold Lamps Sacrificed $4.95 Torchiere Lamps, now.....$2.35 $4 Bridge Lamps and Shade, now.$2.25 $4.50 Jr. Floor Lamps and Shade, Erector Sets No. 7. Were $10. Now. Others at equal ri g Child’s Furniture Drop-Leaf Table and Chairs. Were $12.50. Ncw $8. Virginia Dare Candies $1 box, now 5c bars, 2 and 3 for. Miniature Golf Sets For indoors, complete, as low as. ..69¢ FIXTURES .50¢ vee Be KORN PAPA GIFT SHOP 3122-14th St. N.W. | and Kermit Roosevelt will continue as president. He will also become a vice president and a director of the Inter- ! national Mercantile Marine Co. | The consolidation crcates a fleet with | a total tonnage of 550,000 tons. the largest under the American flag, and | operating approximately 68 steamers to | Australia, India, the Philippines, the | Far East, leading Eastern and Guif | ports of the United States and principal | English and European shipping points, | West Indies and Mexico, Central Amer- ica_and South America. The consideration through which the International Mercantile Marine ac-| quires control was not announced. Elephants have their own code of customs. One of them is that no mem- | ber of the herd must die amongst his fellows. When an old elephant feels that his course is run, he separates him- self from the herd and makes for its graveyard—for each herd has a burial ground of its own. Dolls Sacrificed $1 Dolls. now . $5 Dolls, now $6 Dolls, mo: All styles and kin Reed Doll Carriages $8 Doll Carriages, now .$5.25 $10 Doll Carriages, now .$6.50 Autos ... Iron T.oys Of all kinds, at less than cost. Stationery Cedar Chests C-mplete with writing paper and envelopes. Were $2.50. Now...$1.65 Gift Tables Articles were 25¢ to $6.00. Now 10c to $4.90 Metal Book Ends Various styles. Were $1.00, Now..50c FOR SALE 50c 75 Across from Park Savings Bank J B.Jones &Co. The Popular G Street Store i 1219-1221 G Street N.W. Between 12th and 13th On Our Second Floor! Saturday Sale of ddvance Spring DRESSES OPIES and adaptations of the be: fashions in Paris and New York houses. Dresses you will enjoy wear ing now under winter coats and late into the Spring! Made to Sell for Ne: for Afternoon for Stre up ready for use in 35c, 60c and | $1.00 bottles. If you are not satis- | fled your money will be refunded. | Sold by all druggists—Advertise- | ‘mh ] Friends Are Telling Friends! Chiffons Georgettes Roma Crepe Sheer Woolens Lace Combinations Suede Flat Crepes Printed Silk Crepes NEW STYLES Unique Cuff Treatments! Peplums . . . Caplet Effects! Coat Styles! Flattering Cowl Necklines! Smart Wrap-Arounds! Wide Circular Skirts! Colors w High Shades Deep Pastels Black and ear Gorgeous Print. Sizes 14 to 20—38 fo 44—24!5 to 4614 About Our “Fashion Without Extravagance” Dresses Shop Here First and Save the Difference v Variation,” D'Albert’s “Gavotte in D Minor, Debussy sons d'Or,” | Chopin num- | 3 tors, Massenet's Aria from “Herodiade,” two selec- tions by Rachmaninoff, Le Forge's “Song of the Open” and the Long- fellow-Lehman “Endymion.” Mr. and Mrs. Potter, incidentally, are among the most prominent of character, at least a high- school education, satisfactory references and a willingness to learn and work. The position is permanent and offers unusual opper- tunity. Address Box 264-R, Star Office. a large audience, and an enthusiastic one, included selections by Yon, Massenet, Schumann, Albeniz, B-e- thoven and many others. E.deS. M. OWG to the illness of one poned untll next Priday, to appear as the artists for this program a week their selections | { | Franck “Pre- ‘ | LTZ. Seeretary i — Just Think of It-— | The Star delivered to rour doot every evening and Sunday morning at 11;c per day and 5c¢ Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? ‘Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. Bernard Shaw detests music with his | meals. Once, he called the leader of | the restaurant orchestra over. “Could | vou play something if I asked you to?" “But certainly, —monsieur.” ~ “Well, | would you play either poker or dominoes —whichever you like—until I have fin- | ished my dinner?" ! Ruby Fotisw. 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