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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHI JURY 0 GET JUDD CASE TOMORROW Evidence Which Will Hang, Imprison or Free Woman Completed. Starling—Prize Stunter Scientists Unable to Explain Why Immense Flocks Carry on Aerial Maneuvers Before Roosting for Night; Flock Instinct Held Possible Cause. days (1605-1682) to our own, and ex- ist’ in many places throughout the kingdom.” Flocks Increase Tenfold. Yarrell speaks of starlings which roosted in the Zoological Garden, Dub- BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. One of the prime sights of Washing- ton is the evening flight of the star- lings. An unpopular bird, as compared th his more mannerly contemporaries, | the starling nevertheless is beyond all lquestion the prize gymnast of | Iin Ireland. When the birds first were ornitholcgical aeronauti nd it is not | noticed, uncommon to find human audiences | at from 15000 to 20,000, but Within | numbering hundreds watching him and | three years it was observed that they his multitude of brothers and sisters as ' had increased approximately tenfold. besque the sunset sky. The | Crowds gathered to watch them fly. inevitable question is: “How do they | ~ But perhaps the best description of {do it?” the starling’s aerial peregrinations is | The starling spends his time and |that of Edward Stanley, Bishop of Nor- crgy curing the sunny hours of the |wich (1779-1849). His “Familiar His- 1 the fields and marshes of the | tory of Birds” (1835) contains the ol untry about Washington. But he |lowing passage: “Not far from the | | !\\1 Ariz, h will hang, ie Ruth Jud the end of the ling for her e declaration Dr. Jose and late in the after- | considerable sheet of water, occupying > comes back to town to settle |nearly 30 acres, flanked and feathered usly on the upper faces of pub- [on the eastern side by the old beech- like the City Post Office, | wood already spoken of as the abiding bly he finds the comfort | place of the jackdaws. Its western mai e comes back alone, or |gin is bounded by an artificial dam, er of a little group, but be- | which, as the waier is upon a much ning to settle for the night |higher level, commands an extensive exercises, apparently for the sheer |view over a flat rich country, the hori- of excrcising. And he performs his zon terminated by the faint outline of al evolutions, not alone but as a [the first range of Welsh mountains. ¢ of a company which may con- | This darn, on the finer evening of No- 50 or 500 or 5,000 individuals. |vember, was once the favorite resort of | many persons, wko found an additional Leaders Are Tempermental. attraction in watching the gradual as- In such a group there appears to be semblage of starlings. About an hour ne, two or three leaders. These cap- | before sunset, little flocks, by twenties ta tempermental. They alter |or fifties, kept gradually dropping in, * | their with amazing frequency |their numbers increasing as daylight | and with startling abruptness. In full | waned, 'till one vast flight was formed, ! r. they will seem to halt, stand |amounting to thousands, and at times, . drop, turn about, all in a flash, | we might almost say, to millions. Noth- nd miraculously, every ather bird in | ing could be more interesting or beauti- » flock will unfailingly imitate the |ful than to witness their graceful evolu- of the leaders. There is no dis- | tions. At first they might be seen ad- The entire group moves as an |vancing high in the air. like a dark The trick seems to be|cloud, which in an instant, as if by character. - The | magic, became almost invisible, the al in the extreme. | whole body, by some mysterious watch- Science s yet no satisfactory |word or signal, changing their course, 5 | explanation of how or why the starlings |and presenting their wings to view edge- these “drills.” The flight of birds | ways, instead of exposing, as before, time immemorial has been a rid- | their full expanded spread. Again, in The author of the Proverbs of |another moment, the cloud might be | "“in the Bible, speaks of “the |seen descending in a graceful sweep, £o . in the air’ as being |as almost to brush the earth as they him, and his puz- glanced along. Then once more they been echoed by ob- | Were seen spiring in wide circles on modern, profes- | high, till at length, with one simul- taneous rush, down they glide with a an roaring noise of wing 'till the vast mass | ints of Flock Instinct. | buries “itself unseen, but not unheard, . assistant sec- | amidst a bed of reeds projecting from e Smit Institution | the bank adjacent to the wood; for dy of bird migration, | N0 sooner were they perched than every such a thing as |throat seemed to open itself, forming tain birds have an |one incessant confusion of tongues. If certain way. Their |nothing disturbed them. there they :d to mass be- | would most 1l remain; but if a y to the |stone were thrown. a skout raised, or sment be | more especially if a gun were fired, up perfect. Birds | again would rise the mass, with on un- ular movements | broken rushing sound, as if the whole soldiers on a pa- | body were possessed of but one wing to gre the technique of bear them on their upward flight.” Birds sometimes do collide in the 5 L ITEL T SYNAGOGUE MEETING | TO PLAN OBSERVANGE do. They have mar- Bicentennial and Installation to Be ber 16. Jug of whose t Leroi will | eflect [T badgering | fro 4:35 pm., | gle and both sides kman | informed the jur s could be cc "All day the el serve i i“.xd and | sional and q | sto who us | retary of i | and author of a stu 1 fsays: “There ma S| flock instinct. C { | impulse to fly in a | companions are so attur | havior that all react | suggestion that a made. Practice m {learn to e of vision. They are this respect Most re does not think there T rlings. 2 ) a gi individual be a temporary r. One bird just happens to be a trifie more aggressive than another, and for the time being he is a captain. | When the group settles, he is again just o srcs one of the multitude. Birds are group ' A special Bicentennial program and They act as they do for that the formal installation of newly elected i officers of the Adas Israel Congregation of Agriculture has will be held at the synagogue, Sixth Adas Israel Congregation Features. creatures reason.” The D their number was estimated ors to spend the night in a warmer |church we have mentioned there is B‘gahamcr Building on February 22 and | Department of Agriculture; Dr. Ella Op- | eye, Department of Agriculture 'SHIFT IN PRISON NGTON, D. FCONONIS TP FOR DUCATORS Relations to Home Will Be Discussed at Two-Day Session in Capital. The present economic situation with relation to education, particularly in the field of Fome economics, will be the main topic at the annual meeting of the department of supervisors and teachers of home economics of the Ns.tional Edu- cation Association here concurrent with the department of superintendence con- vention February 20 to 25. Nutrition courses in the public schools also will be prominently discussed at the | two-day session, which will be held at | service hall, in the District Red Cross | Among prominent educators who will discuss the economic phases of educa- tion will be Dr. Benamin R. Andrews, professor of household economics; Dr. John_Dewey, professor of philosophy, and Dr. Harold F. Clark, professor of education, all of Teachers College, Co- lumbia University; Dr. Lewis L. Lorwin, Brookings Institute, and Dr. William F. Notz, dean of the Georgetown Univer- sity School of Foreign Service. Nutrition will be treated by the fol- lowing speakers: Dr. Mary Swartz Rose and Dr. Henry Clapp Sherman, Co- lumbia University; Dr. Lydia J. Roberts, home economist, University of Chicago; Miss Carlotta Greer, head of the de- partment of Fome economics, John Hz High School, Cleveland; Miss M. Lucille Davison, head of the bureau of home econcraics department, Garfield High School, Akron, Ohio; Dr. Hazel Stiebeling, burcau of home economics, penheimer, children’s bureau, Depart- ment of Labor, and Miss Miriam Birds- The convention program will be in charge of Miss Helen C. Goodspeed, as- sisetant _director of home cconom: Philadelphia public schools, and pres dent of the department of supervisors and teachers of home economics, National Education Association Miss Emma Jacobs, director of home |4 economics in the city public schools, is chairman of the Washington committec in charge of the meeting. Others on Miss Jacobs' committee in- clude Miss Emeline Whitcomb, United States Office of Education; MIs§ Esther H. Jonas, Eastern High School: Mrs Ola D. Rush, Central High School: Miss Gertrude ook, Dennison Girls' Voca- tional School, and Miss Alice Cushm: Van Buren School e € OFFICIALS HINTED| Zerbst Considered to Succeed White as Warden at Leaven- worth, Newspaper Reports. By the Associated Press. LEAVENWORTH, Kans, Februas —The Leavenworth Times says it b learned the Department of Justice is considering reorganization of the Fed- eral Prison here with Fred Zerbst, warden of the narcotic annex, succeed- ing Warden T. B. White, who would be | It] transferred elsewhere. Warden White was kidnaped and wounded by seven convicts who escaped from the prison last December 11. He applied several months ago for with considerable and I streets, February 21 at 8 o'clock. ts render available | Representatives from local Jewish or- | department invcsti- ganizations will be present -dt this| is: “The flight | meeting. The Sisterhood, Brotherhood | characteristic, and junior groups of the congregation Iy recognized. Wwill take part in a patriotic program | rs, at times trav- honoring the Bicentennial. A buffet | iour with supper will be served in the vestry +hange | rooms. are_often | Officers of Adas Israel Congregation | cvolutions | elected for 1932 at a recent meeting cision of a | will be installed as follows: sldiers Joseph Wilner, president; Alexander derable | Koplin, vice president; Joseph Blumen- bit similar | thal, treasurer; Abe Sheflerman, record- i re |ing secretary; Falk Harmel, financial and vigorous flight di shes ' secretary; trustees, Joseph Mazo, J. B “tarlings.” The latter bookict favs: | Stein: Solomon Metz, rabbi, and Louis e ‘r'\m”g;glma’\f‘\?gr;nni\:];:fi S eraices atithe Iboard elested for the ith w other of T 'S 'rp‘nn’nm s‘;)(rlrs with which they | year 1932 are as follows: Mrs. B. Weiss, en associate, starlings may be Mrs. Henry Oxenberg, Mrs. George W. st erful co-ordina- | Levy, Mrs. Morrls Gewirz, Max Zweig » of action between individuals of the Morris _Wittlin, William Weinberg, rapid wine b-ats. great | Julius Weinberg, Harry Viner, Morris and ability to alter direction in- | Stein, Charles Stein, Charles Sislen, b Herman Schrot, Leo Schlossberg, Max : | Rosenthal, Sol ~Rosenthal, ~William Flights Are Described. Rosendorf, Edward Rosenblum, Herman William MacGillivray, Scottish natu- | Robbin, Louis Rosenberg, Joseph B. ralist (1796-1852), in his “History of | Stein, Nathan Plotnick, Charles Pilzer, British Birds.” wrote d'sm.-nm]z; :;115« Alfred Pasternak, Moe omnm&g] H keep in flocks and generally Y | Nelson, D. A. Miller, A. Mendelson, in a compact body, which frequently paul Himmelfarb, Samuel Livingston, appears to undergo’ a kind of Tolary | phul Harmel, Louls Grossberg, Arthur Ation as the individuals shift theil | Gottlieb, Morts Gewirz, Isadore Freund, position. When in haste, however, they | Leopold V. Freudberg, S. Freedman, | v in a dvr(‘(‘Lhm:mmvr, “ulhmr‘rfip‘!omydxx- | [o);{ Euasl mm\:‘xa‘;marg MDanzansky, ons and with great speed. el ying | Oliver Atlas and I. Joseph Mazo. regularl timed beats of their WiNgs.| =~ The committee in charge of the above They alight in the open pastures arrangements are Edward Rosenblum, | abruptly, without preparatory recon- | chairman; Alexander Koplin, Nathan Soitering. immediately disperse, Tun | plotnick, Abe Shefferman, Joseph Wil- along very nimbly, and diligently search | ner and Mrs. Frances Gewirz. for mollusca, worms and other objects. A contemporory observer, William Yarrell (1784-1856). in his book of the | title s: “Though the ordinary flight of starlings is very swift and well ustained, it would not need special Te- it not for the wonderful rformances of the muititudes * * jor to their going to roost for the and occa y during the day | especially when dis- | but sometimes, paLll'- | ' apparently | Pbsscss‘:l:ég '\-er?pcon;m-‘ A portrait of Dr. William Carl Rue- erable powers of wing, these are turned | g;sg;’o de:n ng ;l?eg?chognafefi%\;ca;fin to accoun xtraordinary man- | TR ashington 5 - né»r 1()(\ m; ‘l?n(?sn czmposmg u?; flock. iiontetli tto thfnuniversny bytghe Alrur?}x]u - ey C] n out., rise ssociations commemoration of e ey e, onch were obeving a | dean's twenty-fifth year of service, will | commander, and all this is done with |be formally unvelled there on February the most marvelous precision while the a0 esri_‘a' ng wul one by ehx flock is procecding at a rapid pace nigh| Cunradta cw\;lzo\r;,a:gu;;g;;;;:&; e o oS iraight thread: sud- |numerous' professors at the school. denly an undulation is \'tibihlc L‘;nl)r(’g:; the m;\;u}r‘x::; a;ngrgi‘:x;,d% :°€h°§‘§o untversity 1‘23%. ‘x}d'n Bhin nd smokelike cloud: | fore its unveiling by applying at Provost another moment, and it is a dense and | Wilbur’s office, 2100 G street. almost perfect globe; then, possibly | having preserved this appearance for a | perceptibly longer time, it becomes | pear-shaped and, in another instant, assumes a spiral figure; an instant| : it has spread out like a sheet, ts members are seen streaming along the ground, perhaps to ht or perhaps once more to mount oft and circle as before. Become Partly Invisible. “These performances are varied also by the flock becoming momentarily in- | visible or partly so, through the birds as they wheel turning their wings edge- ways to the spectator's eye, and then, [of & calm day, the noise caused by the | udden change of direction will reach his ear from the distance like the rum- bling sound ot a heavy carriage on a ard road . the organization of the | seems to be perfect from the ment they leave the ground and they ot ahead and across the flight of the with which they associate) : wheeling 'round, pass through the com- | ely uniformed ranks without the est disturbance of their own array 5 g approaches they may be n high in air, flying ste: y toward points (of congregatian), after night, and year after year me season, the same station is ied, the different bands, com- collecting, as the afternocn ad- va on the tops of tall trees, where they sit and chatter tumultuously for a studied direction observed to execute h the U y at of the purple m sercentage of cases.” | questio of ¥ lat- nission n |t ning thei from any reference bool ir cited to him. ROOSEVELT SAILS FOR PHILIPPINES New Governor General, Who Will Stop in Shanghai for Day, Is Silent on Far Eastern Tangle. h By the Assoclate SEATTLE, Wash., Pebruary 6 Theodore Roosevelt, new Ge General of the Philippine safled today for Manila witk daughter and official fam American mail liner Presid During his thre attle Col. Roosevelt hands with between persons He of fighting in to the isla The Governor have a day Col.| ernor G. W. TO UNVEIL PORTRAIT |OF DR. WILLIAM RUEDIGER Painting of Education School Dean Is 500 Presented by arrived to Alumni. for mere joj e stop-over ir B newspaper You know I reory of co- plied bout_that.” to have the in from the Havoc Expected In New Plague Of Grasshoppers f the party. FIRE SWEEPS CENTER | OF NEW YORK TOWN Buildings Mayville De- Fireman Hurt as Cart- By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, February 6. —It may be a little early to say, but Prof. A. G. Ruggles thinks this will be a great year for grasshoppers. His prediction, based on the supposition that Spring weather conditions will be warm and moist like they were in 1930 and 1931, is that there will be hundreds of thousands of the pests for every penny of the $1,- 450,000 President Hoover has urged Congress to approve for extermination work in the North- fentral and some Western locali- fes. Billions of grasshoppers can be expected to swarm in Minnesota, Northeastern North Dakota, South Central South Dakota, Northeastern Nebraska, Western Iowa, Eastern Colorado, North- eastern Wyoming and Eastern Montana if such conditions pre- vail, Ruggles said. Then, unless effective meas- ures are taken—the spreading of in fire, it v e damage! 50.000. ir of fire- | tauqua and | unchec » the combined eff men from Mayville, Chs Westfield, the fire burned until it reac v the Masonic Temnle. The fire started in and was discovered wh opened the store for the d Families in nents the position of warden of the new Fed- |t eral farm for narcotic addi be built at E! Reno, Okla. The Times & | he was being considered for that assig ment. Sanford Bates. directgr of Federal prisons, has concucted an ‘avestigation of the prison break, in which three convicts were killed and the remainder | recaptured. He declined to make a|! statement today, but said he expected | to make one tomorrow. | LEAGUE FAILS TO DEAL |: WITH CRISIS IN CHINA i Council Delays Action Pending | Powers’ Negotiations to Restore Peace. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, February 6.— The League of Nations Council met | briefly tonight, but did not deal with | the Sino-Japanese problem pending the | erating powers China. The session was taken up entirely by discussion of charges that persons who testified at the recent League inquiry into allegations of slavery in Liberia | hatl been subjected to reprisals. No action was taken pending a re- | port of experts, who are considering the suggestion to create a committee for reorganization of Liberia’s adm tration, finance and health depa ments. to restore peace in |1 1 ALASKAN FLYER NEARS LOST TREASURE SHIP Reaches Anchorage on Search for Abandoned Fur Vessel Miss- ing After Gale. By the Associated Press. i ANCHORAGE, Alaska, February 6.— | Word was received here today from Point Barrow of the safe arrival there of Frank Dorbrandt, who is on an aerial search for the steamship Bay- chimo in hope of salvaging its fur cargo. He expected to start an immediate search for the Hudson Bay Co. vessel, abandoned last November after an Arc- tic_gale. The fur cargo is sought also by Wil- ' liam R. Graham, Alaskan pilot, and Mrs. Edn. Christofierson of Portland, Oreg., who are flying northward from Seattle. Dorbrandt said Charles Brower, Point Barrow trader, told him the Ix];ayc;luxgobhatdhu ilarge hole in her side, unched by the ice, and had y sunk before this. BEChaDly pe Marriage Licenses. { Edward J. Neaion, 22, an - ershausen, 21 Rev. Baward o Moo Warham H. Conkling, 25, Baldwin, Md. and Mary E. Guckert, 23, Baltimore; Rev. J. C.Eyl\llp‘li‘l\"r 29, R ward Toney. 29. Richmond, A e, 26, Lynchburg, Va.; Rn:‘\d \ldi.ytille Norton H. Lang, 26, and Jennie Five, 24, both of Baltimore: Judge James A. C‘(:lsb & in”nhn-t'anRl SR{RYV;{QSV. 2]2." b(s)ndun Gm\'e.] iy ulia M. Rouse, 20, Silv ring, : Daniel N. Shoemaker. lver ASpring hr:'nd Thelma Cooper, . this city, and Baltimore; Rev. F. 1y, 22, and Lucy Blalock, 21; Myrtle W. B. Williams, 18, stork. William Grego e A ok 41, N amuel A, Johnson, 41, New Yori Mildred A.”Shocmaker, 35, Fnyu.levxll‘;l e Rev. J. Harvey Dunham. : Willfe Ficlds, 28, and Margaret Guy, 38 Rev. John M. Meskell John P. "Waring. this city, Pinkie Harris, 29, Rev. A. Murphy. Claude A. Jones, 31, and Helen A. Marcel, William J. Sweeney 34 Rev. am . Alfred M. King. 30, Brookiyn, and Anna M. Serlo, 20, this cityi Rev. Charles J. Trin- ir., 42 and ‘Baltimore; William Stevenson, 41, and Margaret ev. James H. Randolph and Lola F. Knott, 0 aus. Clarence D. Holland, 40: Re lia the stores were rushed to safety by vol- poison bran mash for which the Rev. ~7il] . Har1y A. Sterling, 26, and Agnes A. Busch- : “Rev. John J. Fiem| Chairman of the District of Columbia Commitee on Arrangements for the con- vention of N.E. A LDUCETOMEET First Visit Will Be Made to mier Mussolini will meet Pope Pius for the first time to the way Summer. be ve |1 dren of | might take the form of public excom- | | munication children without s the marriage is subject to annulment and the parties will be free to marry c cer outcome of negotiations by the co-0p- | m, on: marriage shall be invalid in case of v 'YOUNGSTOWN STEEL Dalton said. | now known as Sheet and Tube, with a {won himself a place with Pickands, | Would Keep Many From Operat- C.,. FEBRUARY 17, 19 20 o2 —PART ONY, Plans Meet MISS EMMA JACOBS, home economists of the POPE THIS WEEK Conclude Vatican Pact Formally. ted Pres CITY, By the Assoc VATICA! February 6.—Pre- Vat of fi lieved by [ | when he gees | t of state by | ac d state last visit tentatively | for t the | ng of the Lateran | ) m in_celebration | nt already is filled s before T Duce that he first saw the the Pontiff ap- fter his coron ore than | for | nce ach ot Pope Reccives Visitors. Today the P ed the tenth going to announce- | uni- | amed hat, and eet him when He and sev- bestowed | symbol of elation: upon hi he re-e nt of good Ruling Not Retroactive. he Vatican's new rulin: il | d_yesterday by | Sacred Office if the chil- reared chur n the In extreme cases punishment age that the is made f fulfillment If the promise at ma shall ious intention again If the promise is made seriously, the ) will consider the marriage’ sin- v contracted and forbid remarriage. The language of the decree provides erely that the d fon for the ation of nuptial promises as to the re igion of the children. FIRM HEAD RETIRES, J. A. Campbell, Sheet and Tube Founder, Is Succeeded by H. G. Dalton. By the Ass YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, February 6.— James A. Campbell, white-haired vet- eran of many . battle in the steel in- dustry, stepp®l down today from chairmanship of the Youngstown Sheet | & Tube Co. and was succeeded by | Henry G. Dalton, senior partner of | Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland. Campbell’s retirement’ removed the guiding genius who directed Sheet and Tube's climb to third place among the Nation's steel corporations. Dalton, as partner in Pickands, | Mather, and president of the Interlake ! Steamship Co., long has been dominant in the Great Lakes industrial empire of ships, ore and pig iron. He stood back of Campbell in advocating the now abandoned billion-dollar merger of Sheet and Tube with the Bethlehem ! Steel Corporation. | There will be no change in policles. Recently Dalton resigned as a director of Bethiehem. The condition of Campbell's health | was given as the reason for his re- tirement. He is 77. Directors made Campbell chairman: emeritus. Both Campbell and Dalton made their way up from the bottom. Camp- bell in 1901 organized the company capital of $1,600,000. From 1906 to 1930, while he was president, the com- pany never missed a dividend and be- came a $300,000.000 concern. Dalton started out at 16 as a worker on Cleveland docks and five years later Mather. From then on, he worked his way quietly, but steadi y, to the top. U. S. GAS TAX PLAN HIT ing Their Cars, A. A. A. Says. The American Automobile Association said yesterday that imposition of a Federal levy on gasoline “would greatly inerease the number of motor vehicles already out of use because the owners cannot afford to operate them.” “A check-up of registrations for 1932, Thomas P. Henry, president of the as- e APPEAL FOR FREE COINAGE OF SILVER Delegation of 70 Farmers Urges 16-1 Ratio in Sen- ate Hearing. By the Associated Press. The shadow of William Jennings Bryan was cast before a Senate com- mittee yesterday as representatives of half a million farmers pleaded for free | coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold. Many of the arguments that punctu- ated the presidential campalgn of 1896 were raised again as the National| Farmers’ Union asked a Senate finance subcommittee to approve the Wheeler bill for remonitization of silver at the Bryan ratio. ¥ Heads Delegation of 70. John Simpson, national president of the union, headed a delegation of 70 farmers from nine Western States to ask for the bimetallic standard to bring back good times. Remonitization of silver, they said would make it possible for the farmers to pay their debts with the same value Wife of Hungary’s Former Premier to Be Church Elder By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 6.— Countess Margit Bethlen, de- scendant of a Protestant martyr and wife of the former premier of Hungary, will be ordained as a Presbyterian elder at the Sun- day morning services in the First Magyar Presbyterian Church. The countess, who is sailing for Europe Monday following a lecture tour in this country, will be one of the few women 50 or- dained since the Presbyterian Church adopted a rule permit- ting them to become elders two years ago. REPUBLICAN CLUB BANQUETS FRIDAY Mrs. Gann to Be One of Prin-, cipal Speakers; Hatfield Will Be Toastmaster. | United States Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister ¥ B3N 1100000 FARM RELIEF APPROVED H Committee Reports Bifis # Senate; Federal Jobless - Aid Hit by Strawn. By the Associated Press. Three bills carrying more thar $110,« 000,000 for aid to the farmers were B proved yesterday by the Senate Agricule ture Committee and meanwhile the Senate prepared to resume its battlg over legislation to help the unemployed. The committee laid before the Senata ills to create a revolving fund of $100,« 000,000 for loans to drainage, levee and irrigation districts; to set up a $10,000,« 000 fund for loans to agricultural credit corporations, and to extend the 1931 drought loans for a year. The Senate was in a week end recess, but plans were laid for debate tomorrow on the Costigan bill to appropr for Federal unemployme Strawn Opposes U Silas H. St pr of amber of Commerc te- 000,000 rawn, C against an | ing. of dollar they borrowed. ettt be The $100,000.000 “This group is here,” Simpson said, | and hostess of Vice President Curtis, u “to sponsur[élns bill for llk;l? Teascy | will be one of the principal speakers at that, more than any one thing tha ; Otrots can do, passage of this meas | the Lincoln day dinner, to be held at ure would take from the international | the Willard Hotel next Friday night, bankers control of the.volume and|under the auspices of the National value of money.” | Capital Republican Club., Simpson testified money was the, Mrs. Gann will relate same as a crop, its value decreased|tions and experiences on as its quantity increased, and said in- | speaking tour through the Middle flation of the currency would bring | West. During her trip she addressed farm prices back to normal. audiences in_ Chicago, Kansas _City, Rubber Money; Iron Debis. Qmaha, o) Mrs. Gann will be introd “We have rubber money and iron|Senator Henry D. Hatfiel debts,” Simpson said | Virginia, who will be toastm “I'd like to get a little of that rub- |ator Hatf ber money and stretch it.” Senator |James E. Waison of Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, re- Lyman Wilbur, arked | Interior. t won't stretch your way now unless | While youre an international banker,” the witness replied Senator Wheeler, tana, author of not enough m of world comr her observ: be set up nediate credit b Offered by Barkley. Federal in! Democrat, Mon- bill, said there was to v the needs and asserted “the Federal Resc Banks today are to| a large exte if not totall: nated by the big banking institutions.” World Would Follow U. Simpson said bimetallism was nceded | 71y more country because of the a the gold stand- | ard in other nations. He predicted every country in the world would follow if the United States led tthe way William Lemke of Fargo, N. Dak, testified the country was “rapidly be- ing reduced to a nation of Indians’ because of the shortage of money. He told of a North Dakota college accept- ing wheat for tuition because of the k of currency. Others who testified for the Wheeler bill were C. H. Hyde of Alva, OKla,, and Joe Plummer of Akron, Colo. FIVE BLAST JAIL OFFICER KILLS ONE | Second Prisoner May Die in Mis- | mountainside and 3, near here tod body has not bee THERMAT HEATING PAD The Dry Hot Water Bottle Special this week, *1.00 SPIRE’S PHARMACY MT. RAINIER HYATTSVILLE BROOKLAND, D. C. Hyatts. 1110 Hyatts. 2 North 3244 ANACOSTIA Biggest Bargain of the Year! A Beautiful Double-Thick Rubber TEA APRON Usual Price—50c and a Fall Sized Can o MARBLICA The Lubricat cleaning porce Usual BOTH FOR ONLY.... A 65c VALUE J. Frank Campbell souri, But Three Escape After Explosive Opens Hole in Wall. FARMINGTON, Mo., February One prisoner was shot to death and other S wounded when five inmates of the county here attempted to escape after a bottle of nitroglycerin had been thrown through a window to make an open- | Special! Gainaday Electric Washing Machine Jai Deputy Sheriff Dewey May, who shot the prisoners. said three others escaped over the jail fence. | ‘Woodrow Downs, 19, died a few min- utes after he had been shot John Vranic, 35, W through the right v hospital at Bonnie Terre, Hyattsville Hardware Co., Inc. Gainaday Dealers Phone Hyatts. 205 " Price—15 $150.0 was shot [IS 75 MILLION { has little chance of recovery, physicians The prisoners who escapec were Joe Downs, 5 Underwood, 24, and Rober All five were being held on charges of | first-degree robbery at Flat River. SURPLUS U. S. WHEAT GAIN| BUSHELS 304,000,000 Estimated as Avail- able for Export: 74,000,000 Shipped Out in Six Months. | | By the Associated Press American wheat bins are overflowing | with 304,000,000 bushels available for | export, about 00,000 bushels more than last vear. The Agriculture Department yester- day made this estimate, at the same time placing the surplus available for export and carryover at 429,000,000 | against 355,000,000 at this time last | year. “ Included in the 304.000.000 figure are approximately 180,000,000 bushels of Farm Board - controlled wheat. The board has agreed to limit its sales to| 5,000,000 monthly or 30,000,000 for the | period from January to June. | ‘The total amount of wheat available | for export and carryover i four major producing countries — United States, Canada, Argentina and Australia—i estimated at 970,000,000 against 961,- 000,000 a year ago. Stocks in European importing countries are small, except in the United Kingdom About 74,000.000 bushels were ex ported by the United States from Jul 1 to December 31. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Board of Trustees, American Ceramic Society, Willard Hotel, after- nocn and evening. Hike, Red Triangle Outing Club, meet Connecticut ~avenue and K street, 2 pm. FUTURE. Meeting, Society of Sponsors, U. S. Navy, Willard Hotel, tomorrow, 10 a.m. Luncheon, 1 p.m. Luncheon, University of Michigan, University Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi, Univer- sity Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Izaak Walton League, | Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Typothetae of Washington, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. i Meeting, Optometric Society, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, all day. 1 Annual dance, Boveglio Club, Almas Temple, Thirteenth and K streets, Tuesday, 9 to 1 p.m. Meeting, Esther Rebekah Lodge No. 5, usual place, tomorrow, 8 p.m. Supper, benefit of St. Stephen’s School, St. Stephen’s Auditorium, Twentycfourth and K streets, tomorrow and Tuesday, 4 to 9 p.m. Meeting, Alph Xi Delta Alumnae Club, 3625 Sixteenth street, tomorrow, “Ihe place to get good hardware, Daints and seed 1300 Good Hope Rd. S.E. Phosphatic Emulsion Cod Liver Oil 90c pint 50¢ half pint NATHAN S. HEALY Drugsist 1907 Nichols Ave. Anacostia, D. C. 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Shepherd 2000 Wisconsin 265 ' SILVER SPRING [p.C | EXPECTORANT COMPOUND Special 59 c Qur Cough Remedy for the Reiief of Stubborn Cougis and Colds Dudiey and Kiefer longer or shorter time, preparatory to As the flames reached quantitics of | their final departure for their. night ammunition stored the Tear of thel quarters. These starlings roost, as hardware store, cartridges exploded and varied jn character as in magnitude, bullets flew. One fireman was shot in have excited the wonder of many ol W% hand. servers, from. Sir Thomas Browne's v :“Rey. . Fleming. 1 Brown. ‘27, and Mary Rosanno, . William Pierpoint. gess M. Hayward, 22, and Ruth Hege, Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson. linm H. Mullaney. 30, and Audrey E. Elder. 21, both of Ealtimore; Rev. Edward H. Roach, e am If you are not taking advantage of this regular service at this low rate, telephone National 5000 now and service will start tomorrow. sociation, said “discloses wholesale de- linquencies in many sections of the country where the owners of vehicles are not able to pay the costs necessary to get tags.” 6:30 pm. Meeting, Washington Chapter, Alpha Delta Pi, 2145 California street, ‘Wednesday, 8 p.m. proposed Federal appropriation | would be used—millions of acres of grain would be destroyed at great loss to farmers. Phcrmacists s Silver Spring, Md. Phone Silver Spring 762