Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1932, Page 31

GRAVE OF FLYER | STILL UNDEGIDED Telegram From Stimson Dis- pels Mother’s Last Hope That Short Still Lives. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash, February 26— Whether the body of Robert Short, young Tacoma aviator shot down by Japanese planes, will be buried with military honors in Shanghai or brought here is still undecided by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Short. A cable from L. E. Gale, of the Shanghai aircraft company employing the fiyer, read: “My deepest sympathy and regret for your great loss. Chinese government proposes burial in Shanghai Foreign Christian Cemetery with full military honors and confer military rank, but will follow your wishes and send him home if you desire. Please cable in- structions immediately to Gale, Shang- h‘}lrs. Short said “I suppose a military funeral and honors would be fine in a material sense, but they won't do Robert any good now. He loved his home and hu{ native land. I don't know what toi atd A telegram from the State Depart-! ment at Washington, D. C,, dashed the last hopes of Mrs. Short that it was not her son who was killed. The telegram, signed “Stimson,” fol- lows: “The Department regrets to inform you that, in a telegram dated Febru- ary 24, the American consul general at Shanghai reports a representative of the Chinese Ministry of Finance orally informed him that Robert McCawley Short, while in the service of the/ Chinese Army, lost his life near | Soochow on February 22. The consul | general stated no doubt with regard question of identity Robert Short, but that an official report is being called for.” CHECK ON S. FLYERS DENIED. A’tempts to Keep Them Out of Chi- nese Ranks Refuted. SHANGHAI February 26 (#£).—United States consular officials today denied reports that they were attempting to identify additional American aviators who were reported joining the Chinese air service and to prevent their partici- pation in the Sino-Japanese conflict. The reports have been in circulation since the news reached here of the death of Robert Short, an American fiyer, in a clash with Japanese planes at_Soochow. Following reports of Short's death, local newspapers obtained from the United States consulate copies of the American law covering such cases, which the consular officials furnished 50 that the publication might act as a deterrent to any other Americans who might be considering flying Chinese planes. AUSTRIAN RADIUM RUSH PROVES ONLY SWINDLE Mentally Deficient Farm Boy Is Instrument of Practical Jokers. VIENNA, Austria.—Again the hope- ful Viennese have been victims of & sad, sad swindle. A farmer in the village of Muhlvierte on the Danuoe near Vienna sent out a boy, Hans Niegl by name, to look for & new spring for water on the hillside near his property. Niegl, who has been described as mentally defi- clent, reported that he had found, not ‘water—but radium! His friends were incredulous, and so, with the complicity of a friend, he pro- duced what appeared to be a genuine report from the government asserting that samples of earth he had submitted contained 1 gram of radium per 11 tons of earth. This could have made the “deposit” far and away the richest in the world. And a great radium rush began. Editors of foreign newspapers rushed their correspondents there. The village of Muhlvierte became overnight the most famous in Austria; many were the envious congratulations showered on the farmer and his boy. And then the great radium rush | ended. | Police investigated — found the boy had been the victim of a practical joker. | (Copyright. 1832.) i CANADA CARES LITTLE AS TITLES DISAPPEAR Majority of Remaining Knights in Dominion Are Outside Ranks of Polities. OTTAWA, Ontario.—Canadians, it seems, do not fall for titles. They are democratic, much like Americans. The majority of Canada’s remaining knights are outside the ranks of poli- tics—business men, soldiers, education- alists. Seven of these are soldiers, be- | ginning with Sir Arthur Currie; one of | them—Sir Robert Falconer—is an edu- | cator, the remainder of them are either | Jjudges or bankers. | Five barons remain — Atholstan, | Beaverbrook, Greenwood, Shaughnessy, | Strathcona—but of these three live per- B THE EVENING S STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, I.u Memories of Local Boy, BY JAMES MORGAN. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. February 25 (N.AN.A).—This 15 the old home town of the young Washington, where folks “remembered him when” . he cut down the cherry tree and threw that silver dollar clear across the Rap- pahannock his many visits in after life, when he relaxed among his old fellow-townies and fondly they dwelt on a gay occasion at the Indian Queen, when he laughed at a “Bachelor's Song” till the tears ran down his cheeks. Memories of that loeal boy who made the main stock in trade of Predericks- burg, though history is piled up here in layers. Here is the treasured Bible on which the 20-year-old Washington took oath when he joined the Masons in this town . . . There is the antique apothe- cary shop kept by his friend. afterward his” companion in_arms. Gen. Mercer, killed in the battle of Prince- ton . . . Here is the Rising Sun Tavefn, where the boys Were too smart for him, as he ruefully admitted after an evening at cards in that hostelry. whoss landlord was to serve under him as Gen. Weedon in the Revolution. Other Historic Memories, Here is an old house from which ad- ventured forth hic gallant supporter on the sea, John Paul Jones . . . There is the one-story brick law office where one of his successors, James Monroe, first hung out his tin shingle, under which visitors pass to see the desk on 'The bridge across the Rappahannock is the gateway to the land of Wash- ington's birth and boyhood, where he lived the mighty youth that has passed mark you! Half a mile below the farther end of the bridge is an ancient cheery tree, traditional offshoot of the one that fell with such a resounding crash under the blows of the little hatchet. ‘The man who now farms the acres that once were the patrimony of Wash- ington smiles perhaps a bit irreyerently as he relates that even the birds of the air respect its sacredness and never peck one of its cherries! manently in England. ) Knighthood will never flower iIn Canada, as there is no indication that ! Parliament will rescind its decision of | 13 years ago, when titles were banned. | (Copyright, 1932 WILLING TO GIVE THIEF HALF OF SHIRTS TAKEN Czech Composer, Left With Only One, Inserts Ad in Prague Paper. i I PRAGUE.—With but one shirt to his back, Karl Weiss, Czech composer, is perfectly willing to share half of the 13 that were stolen from him. This urbanely worded advertisement amused Czechoslovakia when it appeared in a Prague paper recently: “Will the gentleman who last Priday afternoon borrowed my 13 shirts with- out my permission treat me like a brother and return at least half of them? It would be most undemocratic of him if he kept them all. He couldn't show himself in decent society with them without blushing and—minus the shirts—neither could 1! (Copyright, 1932.) BUTTERMILK FOR FEVER Old-Time Treatment Revealed for Dangerous Malady. In the midst of the prevalence of scarlet fever, observed an article in the New York Evening Post a century ago, & gentleman of venerable appearance | called to say that Gen. St. Clair, who was once a physician, was wont to cure the scarlet fever by causing the patient to drink several times each day of but- termilk, and as much buttermilk whey | as the patient could take, and that this rarely, if ever, failed of working a cure. TUnused Stamp Brings $1,100. An usused 3-cent stamp, intended £ Aiantie Right in- 1916, was. soid 1n tic 5 ~x-l-. Mm recently for $1,100. These Prices Prevail in Washington & Vicinity Long they kept in recollection, too. good in the big world continue to bc, Hugh | which the Monroe Doctrine was written. | into the legendary of our country. And | | (Copyright Along Washington’s Path ] Who Made Good in Big World, Still Chief Stock in Trade of Fredericksburg, Va. { |. There is another story that is not| | legendary, but is written in the records. | | When the cherry tree hero. in his 20th | year, was taking perbaps his last wish as he called it, in the river, his clothes were stolen by a passing girl and he was left clad only in his 22d of Feb- Tuary suit_ It is a relief to know that |he was off on a vovage to B woefi the penaky of 15 la visited upon the bare back of the wretched offender. | Only three years after Father Au- | gustine brought his family from Mount Vernon to live beneath a lowly roof on | this pine grove farm, he came to the | end of his commanplace life. Only a Visitor Thereafter. As the wife was left to carry on the farm alone and rear five children, all under 12, she sent the oldest of these George, fo live with his_half-brothers. first with Augustine at Wakefield and then with Lawrence at Mount Vernon Never again was he to be more than a visitor in_his mother’s house. In the course of all that moving about the boy picked up along the way the only schooling he ever was to have from books, which was scant inde 1One of his two teachers was the re | nowned Hebby, probably a deportee from an English jail. and the other a pa ‘Whichever taught him p: | manship and arithmetic deserv monument, but his spelling reflects credit on either. For he was | Revolution’s worst speller. The plain cottage house at Pine | Grove, where the widow Washing | toiled for 30 years and more, went up |in¢smoke long ago, and the place now |is a modern” dairy farm, with mans | cow barns in the yard where the young eagle fledged. Only one building, | posed to date from George's time, has | been spared. | Down the steep side of the slope t the river still purls a spring, for wh he may have thirsted in the heat battle as King David fhirsted for | érink of water out of the well at Beth- | lehem. But we cannot be sure of that !for Washington was no psalmist. 1932. by the North Americar ewspaper Alliance, Inc.) the The word silhouette is derived from Etienne de Silhouette (1709-1769). a | distinguished French amateur in this profile portraiture. ANITARY & PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES! Never Before at Such a RITTER WITH TOMATO SAUCE Low We have sold Ritter Beans for years...at prices as high as 10 cents a can...but never as low as the prices quoted here. There is a surplus of all food products, beans included. We want to do our part by distributing this surplus at a mini- mum distribution cost. The sooner the surpluses are used up the sooner will normal conditions return. We purchased these beans at the lowest price in the history of our business...the savings we pass on to you. ONLY 5,000 CASES They won’t last long at these prices—fill your wants tomorrow RITTER PORK and BEANS Beginning tomorrow morning—we quote the lowest prices ever Eat Up the Surplus and at the Same Time Save on Your Food Bill SANITARY&PIGGLY WIGGLY FOOD STORES GROCERY CO. INc. S\ SANITAR bados | 5 was | PORK AND AMERICAN IS HONORARY | CITIZEN OF FRENCH TOWN | Corton, in Burgundy, Gives Honor to Cornell Professor, For- merly in A. E. F. PARIS.—An American is now honor- ary citizen of Corton, in Burgundy, where a celebrated wine is produced, and the pride of his fellow citizens is that when he visits them he does jus- tice to the best vintages. He is Louis | Boulter of the faculty of Cornell Uni- versity. After the armistice Mr. Boulter was | = | a professor = the ?1'1 fi' tFA Unrll\'ersn\" vorld co-operation must be at Beaune, from which town he was| bc}* e a proper ratio between ?.?:Eimfigun the habit of hiking to_villages in 2 be restored, the H. d1the vicinity. amittce Ivestigating the - | know Corton. em reporied last night. made the personal acquaintance of smmittee held number of the inhabitants and pre- brepared for the poicacled | served contact with them after he was | o will be called during its |demobilized. such co-operation 15 essen. | Since the war he has revisited the Lial. Tt was signed by Chairman Somers m::ewm{'g “l'i":‘?inmml&z:‘;fg; "x?'g! and Representative Kemp of Lou'siana | "% VelIS: o the village and being | | Flesinger o Oy Demoerats, and | benefactor of the choral soclety, he | it Vi Thurston Of |}ya¢"heen made an honorary citizen. and Amlie of Wisconsin, Repub- | (Copyright, 1932.) nesses of what information the commit- | esires,” Somers said, “so that they | “BOCK BEER” F_ESTIVAL work along the same lines of | Reich to Celebrate 100th Anniver- sary of Brewing. BERLIN—This year's celebration of | the “bock beer” festival, which is a pic- | turesque annual affair in the southern | section of the German capital, will also | witness the hundredth anniversary cf | the first brewing of bock beer in the | Reichland. The celebration will take | place soon. The Einbeck brewery in Hanover, | noted for manufacturing the best beer | in northern Germany, is among those | very active in preparing the gala beer | festival. This company likewise was re- | sponsible for having suggested the term | “bock beer.” i DR. TINDALL TO SPEAK Oldest Inhabitants to Hear Talk on Street Naming. v Dr. Willlam Tindall, who has been | LD o o i | officially connected with the District | R | Government for many years, will de- HAS DIMINUTIVE BIBLE |liver an address before the Association | | of Oldest Inhabitants at the regular — | meeting next Wednesday night at the A Bible, little larger than a stamp.| Oid Union Engine House, on the sub- is owned by George B. Lampson of | ject “Naming Streets and Numbering Penn Yan, N. Y | Houses of Washington, D. C." The letters are plainly legible under| The session will be called to order a magnifying glass. | promptly at 7:30 o'clock. REPORT OFFERED ON SILVER RATIO World Co-operation Neces- | sary, House Subcommit- tee Declares. This statement is to advise the wit- | atement said in part: | quality of money is destroyed ¢ metal, mankind will desert the | and reach out to the other to which value is attached. Hence the universal rush for gold or gold exchange, which explains maldistribution. hoard- d all those attendant evils which Tor the destruction of values. ‘monetary cation which has ¢t in motion the vicious vortex of de- flation. We have abundant evidence of the failure of palliatives everywhere, we persist in treating effects and oring the cause - It is time to call a halt and to recognize the urgency of re-establish- ing a proper relation between the two| world yardsticks of value, because ‘~lis | s indispensible to proper equilivri.m | in _international trade. Any serious| dislocation of a reasonable relation | calls for immediate correctives by co- operative action because it disturbs the | mndamental basis of world trade in| hat readjustment must be effected in Price! BEANS C ORIGINAL CASE (24 Cans) $1.00 These Prices Prevail in Washington P, & Vicinity RY 2B, 1932, COFEEE Ve a s 7 PRICE || OCERY ¢y QUALITY LNI ' ALSO owumcc y N\ AND OPERATING .2 Prevail in ‘Washington and Vielnity ore Bi ¢ Values! Country-wide food surpluses, competent buyers, ready cash, plus low distribution cost make the prices possible. RIPE TOMATOES, 2--19c voeess e 15e -3 10c Broccoli. Kale. ... " New Turnips 2 »~= 15¢ Beets.........2bumne]5¢ Peas: .. ...noo 2 35¢C Carrots.......2=]19c Spinach. .......3" 19¢ Bulk Turnips. .. .4 10c Yellow Sweet Potatoes..............10™19c STANDARD SANICO FRESH CORN EGGS 19¢ 2 11c¢ 18¢ Phillips Delicious Black Eyed Peas. Phillips Delicious Prepared Spaghetti. .. == 5¢c Phillips Delicious Tomato Soup.........=5c Musselmans Apple Sauce. ............3 =~ 25¢c Honey Dew Sliced Pineapple........ "« 15¢c SLICED BACON - 15 Pure Lard....:.2%15¢c Sanico Flour. .. 35¢ Gran. Sugar. .10 ™ »45c Gold Medal Flour. . .5 45¢ Wisconsin Cheese ™ 19¢ Swansdown Flour. . == 25¢ Sealect Milk. . . .3 =~ 20c Baker’s Chocolate . . * » 23c Andy Loffler’s Skinless Franks.........™20c MAXIMUM MUSSELMAN’S PEACHES APPLE BUTTER e z Big Cans 39c Big 17-0z. Jar IOC Gold Medal Salad Dressing. .... *» 9c¢; » 15¢c Sanico ™Nomerroons . Mayonnaise * » 15¢; » 29¢ Nucoa Nut Margarine................. "™ 15c Safe Home Matches v surmins . ..... .. 2 boxes }gc P. & G. or Star Soap ™su™. Pound Loaf 5c JUMBO BREAD Evap. Peaches. .2 ™ 23c Evap. Apricots. . . »15¢c Carton Dczen Locse Dozen SWIFT’S CLOVER 12-1b, bag 12-1b bag Large, Special Coffee...."17c Green Bag Coffee» 25¢ Sanico Finest Coffee. . ™ 35¢ Med. Prunes. ...4™ 25c Mixed Tea..... " » 10c White Beans. .. .4 17c Sanitary’s Special All-Pork Sausage....™20c DOMESTIC SARDINES 3 cm 10¢ Jumbo Country Style Roll Butter..... » 29¢ Sanitary Creamery Butter............. ™ 30c Land O’Lakes Sweet Cream Butter. ... ™ 33c Alderney Milk and Cream ... &t trsm. . 27C Kraft Velveeta (specia) | | i CHUCK ROAST- 13: Prime Rib Roast » 21c Breast of Lamb...»7c 3-Corner Roast. .. » 19¢ Pork Liver....... ™ 8¢ Hamburg Steak. . ™ 15¢ Fat Back.........™ 8¢ Boiling Beef. .... ™ 10c Strip Bacon.... .»13c PORK LOIN ROAST Yac Whole or Half Lb. i