Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1931, Page 40

VA S WORRED BY COCOASURPLS i | Warehouses in Holland Filled | by Overproduction of Leaf Crop. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. GENEVA, September 19.—It is not overproduction of coffee which is wor- rying the Javanese authorities, but a' surplus production of cocoa leaves, th>| raw material from which the valuable medicinal drug cocaine is made, not to ak of cough sirups and soothing ps to put the baby to sleep. Drug control by various states has | brought about a change in the drug traffic and to some extent cleared illegi- timate channels of equally ii drugs. This has caused the pi of Javanese cocoa leaves in Holland, not because the thrifty Dutch are’look- ing for new and unexploited markets, but because the annual crop of leaves of the Javanese cocos plant will not keep in the Javanese tesand has to be shipped to the warehouses of Amsterdam, whenoe they are distributed throughout the world. On December ! il .Xd1930. there were 1,366,550 pounds so “The leat crop is more or less. con- stant, and with manufacture tending to decrease in recent years the accumula- tions in the Amsterdam dock ware-| houses is not Nkely to decrease until the native planters realize the economic necessity of curtailing production or shipment, as was done for a time with ;ubber and is still being done with cof- ee. Japan has recently entered the lists Peruvian growers’ output, like that of constant. _Overpro- word. No one in dare to call it under- Maj. Oliver 8. McCleary, retired, has been relieved from duty in the Salt Lake City High Schools and ordered to_his cation; Capts. E. N. Frakes and C. P. Haycock, Infantry, frem New York City to Hawall; Lieut. C. B. Leinbach, Fleld Fort_Ben H. Davidson, Cavalry, &t Salt Lake City, and Col. P. M. ShS; fer, Infantry, at Des Moines, have been ordered to their homes to await retire- ment; Col. E. R. W. McCabe, Field Ar- tillery, in this city, has been ordered to the General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark, for treatment; Capt. Corvan Fisher, Infantry, Alcatras, Calif., will be retired September 30 on his own application; Capt. Thomas D. Stamps, Engineers, assistant military attache at Tokyo. has been ordered to this city for duty in the office of the Chief of Engineers, Munitions Building; Capt. S. I Strong, Quartermaster Corps, from Panama to this eity; Capt. Elbert Cock, Quartermaster Corps, at San An- tonio, to his home for retirement; Capt. from | R. L _Fain, Quartermaster Corps, the War Department to Fort Bliss, ‘Texas; Maj. J. C. F. Tillson, jr., War Department General Stafl, to Fort Bliss, ‘Texas; Master Sergeant PFrank H. Scheeler, Quartermaster Corps and Stafl Sergeant Jesse Wi En- gineers, both at Fort Humphreys, Va., will be retired September 30, after more W Herringshaw, Quarter. oA W, - in the Philippines, hl'; Toe, Va., cisco; Capt. Stark, Infantry, from Madison Barr: N. Y., to Fort Ontario, N. Y.; Lieut. V. A. Conrad, Signal to Bolling Field, Anacostia, D. C. for meteor- | ological activities. | l Marine Corps Orders Maj. Norman C. Bates, detached U. 8. 8. Maryland, to duty as division Marine officer, Battleship Division 1, Battle Force, United States Fleet, and | aide on the staff of the commander U. 8. 8. Texas. Pirst Lieut. Willlam W. Conway, died Bcptember 7. | First Lieut. Willlam W. Paca, orders to Department of the Pacific modified; | to Quantico, Va. | Pirst Lieut. Raymond T. Presnell, detached headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., to Quantico, Va. | Second Lieut. James F..Shaw, jr., as- signed to-duty at San Diego, Calif. Beacon inn 1801 Calvert St. N.W. Col. 10028 85¢ Duck, Tesh 5 Course Dinner Sunday Fried Spring Chicken. Roast Chicken, Tenderloin . EMILY R. PENDLETON —Announces that she has assumed the management of Tilden Gardens Cafe 3000 Tilden St. Cormer of Conn. Ave. and Tilden St. 5-Course Dinner, $1.00 Dinner, 5:30 to 7:30 Sunday, 12 to 2:30 and 5:30 to 7:30 , | pers about. * | had played several minor roles. Th«| lead! :[MCKELLAR RAPS HARBORD e THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, LONDON SESSIONS MISS LOUISE HARRISON GWYNN, Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William C. Gwynn, one of the prettiest buds of the sea- son, who will be presented at a tea. —a —Underwood Photo. BLONDE EGYPTOLOGIST WINS WAY TO STAGE IN 15 MINUTES x| Petite Beauty Drops Class in Museum When Star Is Taken Ill and Gets Role Permancntly. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, ber 19.—The latest way to get a sl role in a_Broadwa show seems to be to teach Rygw]o‘y in a museum, uEecmly if one is blonde, pretty and intelligent—and there hap- pens to be an empty pair of star’s slip- ‘That was the formula given for star- | dom by Ethelynn Koepke, who will play | the ingenue lead in the New York show, | “The Best of Families,” at its opening | he;: e ali' e pened fast Mmi al D} 80 fas i Koepke is a bit breathless when she | tells about it. | Last Tuesday afternoon she was teaching a class of high school students l}:‘ I‘l’u Municipal Museum of Rochester, c'vgponunny called on the telephone in the person of the director of Roches- ter’s Little Theater, where Miss Koepke ling lady of “The Best of Families,” | which was &lhm in Rochester, had been taken il A petite blonde was needed. Could Miss Koepke play the part? ‘The director wanted to know. Fifteen minutes later the five-foot school teacher was at the theater. The manager of the show greeted her, turned her around, shoved the script of the play into her hand, and ordered: . You have got to . ‘There was one rehearsal. From then until 8:30 pm. when the curtain went up Miss Koepke e crammed ber lines. As it was necessary to_take her | predecessor back to New York, Miss Koepke played the remaining perform- with the casf with & weeks' leave of nhenc‘:’gvm the mu- seum and a theatrical contract. for that time in her pocket. . 57 4 Miss Koepke was graduated from Rochester University in 1930. FOR BONUS OPPOSITION Tennessee | Benator Says Former General Has Been Pensioner Since Leaving Service. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 19.— | James G. Harbord, chairman of the! Board of the Radio Corporation of America, wzs teken to task last night by Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee. for his position against further bonus pleas at the coming American Legion convention in Detroit. He referred to Harbord's recent state- | ment that Legionnaires should not go to their convention “with a program of relief in one hand and a tin cup in the cther.” In a statement from his home, Sen- | ator McKellar said he had learned from | the Secretary of War that Harbord | ba has “received a pension from the Gov- and Now ernment as officer of just $500 per month ever ce he went out of the service,” and added that “Gen. Harbord has rendered no service to the Army since just after the war.” “People who live in glass houses,” Senator McKellar said, “should not throw stones.” DRIVE ON PI:AYING ‘CARDS NEW YORK, September 19 (). —Ely Culbertson, contract bridge expert, is from Russia with & story about Togalty. He had a scheme for doubling the sale of playing cards in the Soviets, but the man in charge of the syndicate | would have none of it. “He told me,” Culbertson said, “that he had been put on the job for the ex- press purpose of cutting down the sal of cards because there queens in the decks. He boasted slashed the annual sale to 1,500,000 decks. They tried putting out decks without figures of royalty and the Rus- sians refused to buy them.” AT KITTS 1330 G St. Lowest Price Ever Complete With Tubes Nothing More to Pay or Buy EASY TERMS standard that has made Philco the recognized leader. Never before have we offered a Console Philco at so low a price. TOO BUSY Come, see it, hear it, today! - TO CALL? Send for free lllustrated literature .on this New Philco Radle L. Kitt Thirtecii-Thirty G St. MERCHANTS OF MUSIGC DRAW SCIENTISTS Faraday Centennial and Brit- ish Association Events. Are to Overlap. LONDON, September 19.—The cen- tenary of Michael Faraday, to be cele- brated in London beginning Monda; until October 3, will overlap the meet- ing of the British Association, which begins Wednesday, and the two events | will draw eminent scientists from all | corners of the globe. ciation is Gen. Smuts and, on Wednes- day afternoon, he will declare the Faraday exhibition open to the gen- blic. g exnibition, to be held at the Royal Albert Hail, will be devoted to the demonstration of the results of Faraday’s work, and will illustrate the basic _principles and _the - modern methods which have made such things a5 broadcasting. radio telephony and television possible. An aurora of electric light will 1I- luminate the statue of Faraday on a memorial dias in the center of the and with prices adjusted so that truly you're: a decade. This year's president of the asso- | hall. ‘Suspended from the great dome there will be a specially woven white canopy 80,000 square feet in _area. Beams of light from some 250 con- cealed projectors will be trained on the canopy, and the resulting reflected shadowless light will be the equivalent of half a million candles. Exhibits will include illustrations of Faraday's original experiments, relics of scientific discovery, working models | N: and scientific demonstrations of mod- ern application of electricity in numer- ous branches of industry. Marconi Apparatus Shown. Some of Marconi's original appara- tus will be displayed, and manual and automatic telephone exchanges will be seen working Faraday's diary is being published in full for the Royal Institution and at- tention has been directed to his vast correspondence, in which he por- trayed himself as perhaps no other pioneer has ever done. His later cor- respondence with Prof, Schonbein, the Swiss scientist. has a tragic interest, for in it Paraday recounts the gradual loss of his powers, his muscular weak- ness and failing memory. In his last note to Schonbein, in 1865, he says: “Again_and again I tear up my let- ter for I write nonsense. I cannot spell or write a line continuously. Whether I, shall recover—this con- fusion—I do not know. I will not write any more to you. My love to you” (Copyright. 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alllance, Inc.) Wales' maternal death rate for the last 40 years has been 40 per cent higher than that for England. D. C., SEPTEMBER 20, 1931—PART THREE. | VY oroERs | Lieut. Scott E. Peck, detached U. 8. 8. Los Angeles; to duty U. 8. 8. Akron when loned. Richardson, detached 3 atl; to temporary duty aval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Va. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Robert N. Al- len, detached receiving ship, San Fran- cisco, Calif.; to Naval Academy for duty. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Barron G. Lowrey, detached U. S. 8. Herbert; to duty U. 8. 8. Hannibal. Ensign James W. Rodgers, authorized rejoin U. S. 8. Memphis; acceptance of resignation_cancelled. Ensign Robert H. Taylor, detached Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.; to U. 8. 8. Penngylvania. Lieut. (Junior Grade) William A. New, detached Recelving Ship, San Francisco; to Navy Yary, Mare Island, Calif. ~ Lieut. (Junior Grade) Joseph E. ‘Wolowsky, detached, 12th Naval Dis- trict; to Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, IIl Medical Corps. Lieut. Comdr. William W. Hargrave, detached receiving ship, San Francisco, Calif.; to Naval Medical School, Wash- ington, D. C. Dental Corps. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Paul M. Car- biener, to duty U. 8. Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Calif. Supply Corps. Lieut. Charles W. Charlton, detached duty as officer in charge accounts of - | to Asiatic station. e i Auxiliary Craft, Navy Yary, Portsmouth, N. H; to duty U. 8. 8. Hannibal. Lieut. William G. Conrad, detached or duty at the eiving 3 San Francisco. i Lieut. Clarence A. Miley, detached URi. 8. ‘Hl?nlb'l: to duty connection settlement of accounts, 1 - tion, Phuldelphln,m#:.‘ Wi s Warrant Officers. Chief Boatswain Harry B. Roml 3 detached command U. 8, 8. Uhlfl!n‘!m; Chief Boatswain Raymond V. Svend- sen, detached U. B, S. Reina Mercedes; to Asiatic station. 3 Chief Pay Clerk Charles C. Jordan, detached U. S, 8. Trenton; to Navy|748, Yard, Charleston, 8. C. - b Wiy C. Orders Septem: Chief Pay Clerk Merle W. Shumate, orders September 3 revoked; to continue duty U..8. S. Antares, Chief Pay Clerk Charles T. Stan- worth, detached U. §. S. Antares; to U 8. 8. Whitney. Pay Clerk Ollie Z. Whitt, detached U. 8. 8. Idaho: to Naval Station, Guan- tanamo Bay, Cuba, Chief Boatswain Perey H. Bierce, detached U. 8. 8. Rochester; to Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. Chief Boatswain Lester R. Kalden- bach, detached Naval Training Station, San Diego, Calif.; to Asiastic Station. Chief Boatswain George B, Llewellyn, detached 5th Naval District; to Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. Asiatic Dispatch ;.S;-l-' September 14, Lieut. George M. 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