Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 11

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(@VERNOR (LINTON sone of New lorkis Finests glves more for your Money than any other Hotel . 1200 ROOMS, EACH WITH RADIO, BATH, SERVIDOR GRCULATING ICE-WATER DALY OPPOSKE PENNA RR STATION £.40. BUSES STOP AT DOOR 15 STREET and, 7t AVENU! NEW YORK | T COAL DEALERS REST FIGHT FOR RATE CUT Carriers to Argue Reason- ableness of Charges Be- fore Commission. Washington coal dealers who are fighting before the Interstate Commerce Commission for a reduction in the rates from the a ite fields of Pennsyl- vania temporarily rested their case at the heartng here yesterday, and the| carriers began arguing the reasonable- ness of the rates protested. John T. Money, counsel for the coal men, said additional direct testimony might be put on depending on the na- ture of the defense set up by the rail- roads. While the coal dealers are protesting the entire rate structure, the principal tariffs attacked are these three: Pre- pared sizes, $3.28 a ton; pea, $3.02, and smaller sizes, $2.60. far the local coal men have asked only that the commission estab- without specifying id it might be r, in briefs, to set out the exact amou The coal men also ask T charges in the two- period Along with the Washington coal deal- ers, the Baltimore Coal Exchange is from the anthracite fields. wore rates due to the reduc- wh shippers obtained there in are lower than those to Washing- with which they were previously in rations for ar statutory tio} is being held before Ex- J. Williams. It started rd Hotel yesterday morning o be concluded today. The f the Baltimore coal dealers was ated at hearings there last week. MUSIC SCHUBERT CHORAL CLUB. AN unusually large snd enthusi- 4£X astic audience received the fourth program of music offered by the Schubert Choral Club at the Hotel La Fayette last night. This woman's chorus, whose president is Beatrice Taylor, has built up stead- ily since its organization a few short seasons ago, and, under the skilled guidance of W. E. Braithwaite, con- ductor, and Mrs. Apolline M. Blair, guest, conductorf shows fine com- mand over all the essentials that make for excellent ensemble singing. Their tonal blending is well done and beautifully balanced and their is remarkably clean- vet natural. Above all, they seemed to have command of that elusive quality, insight into the real spirlt in each song presented. Par- ticularly beautiful and appealing were the two Schubert numbers, “Whither” and “Serenade,” the lat- ter with soprano solo by Virginia Sellars, as well at Treharne's ar- rangement of the song “Estrellita.” A very welcome mood of fun and lightness was introduced by the club in R “The Snowstorm,” in the This won such persistent_applause that it was re- peated. “Indian Summer,” also in up, was an interesting work ns, dedicated to Mrs. Blair. ing the club was the Radio e Quartet and a violinist, onson Logan. The quartet iis Annis and. W. E. tenors; Edwin Steffe, William Abernethy, Robert Gotta, accom panist group was well T ceived also and had to repeat the ham song, “The Old Wom- hoe.” Mrs. Logan played solo, Wieniawski's “Leg- and also ved the obbligato Gulesian’s “Summer Night” for > chorus Robert Ruckman, pianist, and reg- accompanist for the club, won rscnal laurels for his fine work last night. “The Star Spangled Banner” patriotically closed a pro- gram well given and well received. H. F.C. Mexican GROSNER'S, 1325 F STREET Reduced-- ® Group of Kuppenheimer and Grosner UITS and Or’coars Choice of the separa matec band silks. V I VO VU VY O T T VT VP VY VY VY YY 1325 F Choice of the House Any $3.50 to $5 SHIRT or TIE $ 247 l Were $40 dnd $45 | $7to S15 Accounts Regular charge account or Ten- Payment Plan. No charge for extended pay- ments. GROSNERSY STREET THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. ¢; TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1932, A-l11 Weird But.terfly Here Fenisca Tarquinius an Insect Gypsy That Eats Meat Instead of Plants and Is Hard to Find. Hides From Ants. Meet Fenisca Tarquinius. | It's only & butterfly and very inno- | cent-looking at that—but when one inquires into its private life, as has | been done by Austin H. Clark, Smith- | tution curator, it turns out to be about the weirdest insect in Washington &iork found, hidden away on of leaves, some curious s. They were shaped and like monkey faces or death’s- except for the fact that nicely hidden few per- ave seen one, doubtless long have been objects of su- ». Clark observed them they were the pupating | sca Tarquinius—among alder butterfly. It is of its kind in the Close relatives live in | southern Asia and & few are found in | Africa. It is und in the Di marked heads a they are s sons ever since would perstitiou: and found t robes of dly a common butterfly Clark says, but its gypsy-like of changing its haunts necessitated by the vicarious nature of its food supply makes it dif- ficult to locate t any given time. It 15 black and brownish gold in color. It may be found about alders, beeches or | other plants growing along running water & tested with wooly aphids. bte Last Summer it was very common along Rock Creek just west of Silver Spring. Ment Diet Instead of Plants. Its greatest pecullarity, Clark says, 1s during its life as a caterpillar before it spins its death’s-head silken robe for its metamorphosis into a butterfly. It is the only butterfly caterpillar which live on meat instead of plants. It lives among colonies of the white wooly aphids and is_extremely ferocious and destructive. Every caterpillar devours enormous numbers of the little insects during the Summer. These aphids happen to be the “cows” of certain large and savage ants, turned out to pasture for the Summer. The ants frequent the leaf pastures in great hordes because of the sweet ‘“honey-dew” excreted by the aphids, of which they are inordinately fond. ‘They do their best to protect the aphids and ordinarily a caterpillar | would be no match for them. When they catch sight of one they attack fe- rociously. But the saterpillar avolds them by a curious device—spinning & silken tunnel underneath the leaf By this means it can devour the aphids above it with- out being seen. It is because of this habit, Clark says, that few people ever have seefl one of the caterpillars. When fully grown they can throw away the protection of their tunnels because they are covered with long, stout bristles through which an attacking ant can- not penetrate. Badly as they hate the caterpillar, Clarke says, the ants will not touch the buiterfly eggs from which it emerges and they exhibit a curious fear of the butterfly itself, although appar- ently it is powerless to harm them. | Once the habitat of the butterfly is lo- | cated, he says, it often can be seen fly- |ing in great numbers between 10 a.m. |and 3 p.m,, on hot, sunny days. About the middle of the afternoon the butter- flles suddenly disappear and nobody knows where they go to. Its flight about food plants is rapid, nervous and highly irregular, with frequent rests. It is fond of flying up and down paths thraugh alder thickets or nearby woods. apparently for amusement. When badly frightened it flies away very spiral. terfly sits on the upper surface of & horizontal leaf with the head outward and the tail towards the center of the plant. It sometime: n be seen pe |ed on an alder branch enjoying with the ants the honey coming from thc bodies of the aphids. It is fond of sucking moisture from demp mud along the sides of streams. It has the curious habit when sitting in the sunlight of | turning at right angles to the sun's | rays and then tilting its wings so that | the sunlight falls perpendicularly upon | them | _The mystery of Fenisca Tarquinius | Clark belleves, is due almost entirely | to its very elusive habits, and the best way to obtain the butterfly in quanti- ties is to gather caterpillars and raise them. They can be found by scraping the aphids off a leaf. Sometimes the larger caterpillars built homes for them- selves by fastening two leaves together with silk Search for the monkey-face cocoons rapidly in a straight ascending line or | ‘When resting, Clark says, this but-| ‘ Clark points out, is like-looking for the | needle in the haystack because they are [ found only on the underside of leaves | that have fallen to the ground and even in a locality known to be infested with the insects thousands of leaves might | bé examined without finding a single | specimen. The female of the species is very re- | tiring, running almost always in partial shade or fluttering about among low bushes. JAMES D. LACEY DIES; | TIMBERLAND FACTOR New Yorker, 82, Succumbs in South After Illness of Several Months. By the Assoclated Press. | NEW ORLEANS, January 26.—James | Dixon Lacey of New York, prominent timberland factor of the United States and Canada and widely known here died Sunday in the Roosevalt Hotel following illness of severa! months. He was 82 years old and & native of Riley- ville, Pa. The body will be sent to | Grand Rapids, Mich,, tonight, following | brief funeral services here. Mr. Lacey was president of James D. | Lacey & Co., timberland factors and | forest engineers. He also headed the | Lacey Securities Corporation. His tim- ber interests were in the South and on the Pacific Coast and also in several Central and South American countries He was both a director of the Michigan Trust Co. of Grand Rapids and the | Interstate Bank & Trust Co. here. e RETURNS TO CAPITAL Capt. Stott Will Come Here Soon | for Navy Department Duty. Capt. Arthur C. Stott, U. 8. N., chief of staff. destroyers, battle force, United States Fleet, will come to Washington shortly on duty as assistant chief.of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Depart- ment. Capt. Isaac C. Kidd, U. 8. N., chief of staff, commander base force | will come here for duty in the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department. During the World War Capt. Stott | served in the Bureau of Ordnance from September, 1918, to October, 1920, and again was in the National Capital, in | the Office of Naval Operations at the | department, from 1828 to 1930. Dur- | ing the war Capt. Kidd served at the | Naval Academy until_January, 1918, | when he went to New York in connec- | tion with the fitting out of the battle- ship New Mexico. Wednesday, Jan. 27, 8 P.M. COME—LISTEN—LEARN HEAR THOMAS ROBERT GAINES #The man who has improved the lives of more than 100,000 Americans, 5 LIFE-TRANSFORMING FREE LECTURES Wednesday, Jan. 27—The Food Thursday, Jan. 28—Building Better Bodi Way to Radiant Health Always. —Breathe and Be Young. Friday, Jan. 29—Sure Steps to Succes —Valuable Success Secrets. Saturday, Jan. 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