Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1932, Page 26

"' B—10 STORYOF SO0ON SOLEHT N ROME Language of Sinful Cities May Unravel Tale of Destruction. BY the A ROME. Sodom and Gomor- rah's tragic end, and perhaps the pro<" 1cgue of their tale of sin will probably oge day be depicted from their own ress of efforts nstitute here depends on the st Pontificial Biblical in_deciphering the language objects found in excavations conducted by Jesuit archeolog of the institute the site of a once great city just A of the Dead Sea, which they be- to be probably that of the cities ved by fire and brimstone. r studies have given them the by lorg. detailed hieroelyphics with guag aypt. Chaldea te they will eventually recon- &truct the ge of the sinful cities. Seek Destruction Story. Tt is poss t the dramatic events of the night e the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah were chiseled or scratched out in stone by some scribe » he lay down h. In that Jesuit s be able the that’ dramatic tragedy as seen by the people m y may read, first hand. how two came to the house of Lot in the of young men: how the men of m gathered before Lot's house and | out and show eaded with the how they rushed down the door | two young men | stretched forth their hands and blinded | the crowd outside | The excavators of the supposed Sodom and Gomorrah have found than 500 different objects of 3t these signs of | g are vases. bricks. | t picces of pottery, arms | | Find Resemblances. iready the translators have found| e resemblance between their hiero- | s and archaic cuneiform or the ancient Assyria and Cretan | phics. 5 ¢ came upon many combinations | twig alongside a cross. This | cunciform is a to 1! hich in cuneiform ned these edibles. | overed represent- an_hieroglyphics: | There were de- | and stars. | | Second, language signs in daily use| ideas. 1 the signs are made bv Curves are rare. This v the hardnes which the writing was don t A flint point was used!| to trace the lines. HYDE HITS EROSION AS RUTHLESS COST Vegetation on Watersheds Urged' to Combat Expense to s | May 27—Secretary of | r M. Hyde, speaking of the fifty- of the Ameri-| on, urged the ional policy to| nce of a dense| n_critical water- | al or national im-| | * he said, “is merely the | country is paying | king exploitation of | its land resources. All the crops in the | United States annually remove about | 6.000.000,000 pounds of plant food from the soil. Erosion removes about 21 r as much.” E I Kotok. director of the California Forest Experiment Station, said that £oil scientists estimate that erosion is costing American farmers at least $200,- 000,000 annually in loss of plant food. SOCIETY __ (Continued From Third Page.) C. S. Fensom and Mrs. J. F. Wood, also | of Richmond. | Mr. and Mrs. James J. Donovan of | Long Island, and Mr. and Mrs. | ies B. Slaughter of Buffalo, N. Y. taken an apartment at Wardman Park Ho | ety i Mrs. Jesse L. Smith and | son. Jed, motored to Wash- | from their Winter home in | Beach, Fla, and are at the Shereham for a days on their way 10 their Summer home in the Thousand Xslands. Mrs. J. Robert Bazley motored to| Washington from her home in Potts- | ville, Pa., and is stopping at the Carl- ton. Mrs. Amafa M. Rust of Saginaw,| Mich., motored to Washington and is #pending a few days at the Shoreham. Miss Orpha Cummings of Berkeley, (Calif,, is at the Dodge for & stay of several days. Miss Cummings is libra- rian in the Giannini Foundation Library, University of California. Don't : suffer a 7 PP” minute from 7 painful fect. Allen’s Foot=Ease, the Antiseptic Powder, / shaken into the shoes, m: 2 Sizes now sold. For ddress Allen's Foot= F:)ot=Ease SWAT THE FLY Use Star Fly Swatters to con- tinue an aggressive war on the fly throughout the season. L ¢ i $ The Star has for free distribu~ % tion wire-handled fly swatters. Ask for one at the main office o{v:'rhe Star, 11th and Pa. Ave. N signs on | EXHIBITION TEA TODAY {Affair Will Close School of Art Ap- | | preciation Term. An exhibition tea at 183 Phelps place today will close the fourth year lof the School of Art Appreciation for children here, it was announced this morning by Miss Margaret Yard. Prizes will be awarded to the follow- ing students: Margheretta Sterling, Elaine McDowell, Nancy Lydia Ansell, Wilma Dinowitzer, Eleanor Hempstone and Jack Youngquist. PLAN COMMENCEMENT By u Staff Correspondent of The Star. PLANE AMBULANCE THE PARACHUTE SOUGHT Army Seeks Method of Low- ering Sick or Wounded in Case of Crash. The Army, which transports more of | its sick and injured by air each year, | is secking to develop a parachute which BALLSTON. Va, M —Com- | mencement exercises at Washingten- Lee High School will be held on June {5, 6 and 7, it was announced today by Principal S. P. Vanderslice. On Sunday, June 5, the class ser- mon will be delivered at 3 o'clock by Rev. Dr. John Compton Bal tor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church of Washington. Senior class_ night will | be held the following night and the commencement program will be held on the night of June 7. Dr. F. P. Col | lier, president of American University, | will deliver the principal address. i will lower a bed-ridden man to safety EVE NG STAR. ship, although it meant his own duth‘ as well as that of his helpless passen- ger. Last year, it was said, the Army car- ried 100 stretcher cases by airplane, and indications are that the air ambu- lance will come into increasing use. A solution to the problem may lie in a parachute loosely harnessed to the patient before the take-off, so he might be thrown through the door by the pilot in event of an impending crash. May Lower Cots as Well. Tt is possible that equipment may be devised for lowering the patient prone on his cot, although this would entail considerable difficulty in an emergency where time is short. | ~ Harnesses have been developed at Waler Reed Hospital for strapping patients to cots in air ambulances, in- | suring unconscious men or those suffer- ing_from broken bones against injury from the motion of the airplane. from a crippled airplane ambulance. Air Corps technicians, in co-opera- | tion with the Medical Corps, have be- gun studies of the problem at Randolph | Field, San Antonio, Tex., and at Wright | Field. Dayton, Ohio. Although plans have scarcely reached the experimental stage, the Army hopes |to find an answer to the question— | what should an ambulance pilot do in event of fire or structural failure? Pilot Has No Choice. 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Freckles also extends an in- vitation to every mother in Washington to bring her chil- dren (whether they are red- headed or not), to meet him at Goldenberg’s, in the Chil- dren’s Departments, Third Floor. Monday and Tuesday, May 30th and 31st: Wisconsin Avenue and S Street N.W. Wednesday, June 1st: Georgia Ave. and Military Rd. N.W. Thursday, Md. June 2d: Silver Spring, Friday, June 3d: Wisconsin Avenue and Yuma Street NW. Saturday, June 4th: Rhode- Isl Avenue and 15th Street N.E. Monday, June 6th: Streets S.E. 18th and C Saturday Will Be Freckles Day at Goldenberg's! “Hey, Fellers! You’ll Want a Pair gf These White Longies for Decoration Day,” Says Freckles! Boys’ $1.50 Long Pants. .....$1 Pr. “Oh, boy—are they cool and comiortamle! Il say they are!” White Drill Long Pants, with cuff bottom; sizes 8 to 20 years. 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Suits, belted model, in red, blue, Sizes 2 to 6 $1 49c 39¢ Tots’ Sheer Wash Frocks, of tub fast colors, with touches Sgc of hand embroidery, Sizes 3 to § years. Special at......ee Remember, Freckles Wants to Meet All His Boy end Girl Friends in Goldenberg’s Children’s Departments, Third Floor, Saturday. of soft combed cotton, in S T G s o Tots’ Floppy Hats, of sheer organdy, in maize, blue, pink, green and white.-Sizes 20 to 22. Special at..