Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1935, Page 7

FIGHT ON UTILITY RATES IS MAPPED Foxhall Village Citizens Plan Joint Meeting of All Groups. The Foxhall Village Citizens’ Asso- clation last night authorized a repre- sentative to canvass other citizens’ groups here with a view to calling a joint meeting to hear experts discuss the possibility of lower gas and elec- tric rates. The session would be held some time next month. Among those who will debate on publicly owned utilities and the pres- ent gas and electric rate system will be People’s Counsel William A. Roberts. After assailing the use of old busses for Foxhall Village, it was disclosed that the association, through its pub- lic utilities chairman, Edwin C. Reed, has had assurance of improved trans- portation. ‘The association adopted a resolution seeking improvement of the play- prounds of the Rose Lees Hardy | School. | For the second year the group re- affirmed its opposition to sale of liquor in a delicatessen in the vicinity of Conduit road and Forty-fourth street. | Members of the association will appear | before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on March 19 to voice their ob- | Jjection to the establishment obtaining | an off-sale license. | Charles F. Miller, sr., president of the association, reported that neither the Highway Commission nor the Na- tional Park Service had acted on the repairing of a dangerous embankment near Forty-fourth street and Green- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, War—to Save Ducks More Than 700 Face Federal Penalties for Slaughter. BY GEORGE HURD. WHE Ugly Duckling is getting a break, so don't be peeved if your favorite caterer dishes up roast duck hash—he probably will just be doing the best he can with what he has. The duck supply on the tables of hotels, night clubs and restaurants is going to be curtailed. More than 700 of the men who obligated them- selves to supply the demand have been apprehended and are facing fines and prison sentences. The Biological Survey, known as the “wild Life Service of the United States,” is out to get the “flyway robbers” who reduce the duck tourist ranks by millions every year. An armed escort of several hundred men is acting as bodyguard for the old hens and drakes as they wing their way northward to propagate a fresh supply of roast duck for next Winter. This contingent of protectors wich parkway. Although the group decided at its | January meeting to hold only one meeting annually, the meeting last night was called by the Executive Committee to outline some method of | attack upon the present public utility rates. CUBAN OFFICIAL JOINS COUNTRYMEN IN MIAMI | is going to see to it that mamma and papa duck get safely back to their breeding grounds in Canada. “These waterfowl are our guests Chiet of Public Works Says 25 |3 Killed in Fighting Since Saturday. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 13.—Miami’s Cuban colony was swelled last night by arrivals by commercial airplane from Havana. Luis Martinez Saenz, chief of Ha- vana Province’s Public Works De- partment and brother of the A. B. C. Society’s head, was among those who came here. Also aboard were three members of the staff of the A. B. C. newspaper Accion, City Editor Eduardo H Alonso, Reporter Luis Bonich and Photographer Julio Bower. Dr. Fernandez Fiallo and Dr. Ino- cente Alvarez, members of the Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin faction, were also greeted by Miami Cuban colonists. Saenz, relating wild happenings in Havana, estimated 25 persons have been killed since Saturday morning. e ‘Works for 75 Years. Thomas Chalmers has worked 75 years for a Newmains, Scotland, con- cern. [ and must be treated as such,” Stanley P. Young of the bureau said. “We are concentrating all our efforts to re- establishing our own great breeding grounds in the Northwest, but we must also preserve a breeding supply for the grounds when they are ready.” Wwild Ducks On the Wane. Wild ducks have been fast “petering out” during the past five years. Not much wonder, either! Reclamation projects have turned 17,000,000 acres into dry land—just Saharas to any family. And, too, the burecau says hunters have been killing too many ducks. When grandfather wanted a duck dinner, he hitched up the old plow horse to the wagon or buggy and took a day off. If he went by boat, he paddled his own canoe and he gave the ducks a fighting chance with his single-barreled shotgun. When the modern nimrod goes out for the kill, he hops in his speedy automobile, fast blind or baited spot, shoots as many ducks as grandfather would in a week and is back home in time for break- fast. These moderns are about six times as efficient as was grandpa. a A STAR HOTEL 1400 large rooms...each with bath (tub and shower) Servidor and radio ... from $250 $7350 SINGLE DOUBLE TWO-ROOM SUITES from $7.00 Special Rates For Longer Periods self-respecting duck trying to raise a | speed boat or airplane, gets to the | ‘The ranks of the “flyway robbers” | tery have grown, too, increasing from a |barrels, all fired at once, are used by half million 50 years ago to nearly |the market gunners. 3,000,000 now. Millions of duck are ing grounds, but the increased kills, without ducks. must be allowed to lay the golden eggs of reproduction. sportsmanlike lady, but gunners” are not giving her a fair break, the bureau officials say. Many hunters claim they saw more ducks the last hunting season than ever before. This, according to the Blological Survey, is about as en- couraging as the flush on a patient’s face who is dying of tuberculosis. So long as there are any ducks left they will be seen in their favorite resting places, just indicating, the bureau claims, that they must congregate on a few chosen spots. Hard Times for Birds. What with the drying up of his nesting and breeding grounds, the severe drought and the efficiency and ruthlessness of gunners, the little wild duck is having a hard time keeping his feet wet, his belly warm and two good wings to fly with, Young todey exhibited at his office some of the modern blunderbusses |used by the “flyaway robbers” to | slaughter ducks in large numbers. | One of them, 10 feet long, with a 1%- | inch bore, is used as a market gun. |1t is loaded to the muzzle with pow- der and shot and fired into a raft of ducks or geese, killing hundreds with one discharge. 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Whereas the ducks have hereto- fore been forced to run a 1,000-mile gauntlet of popping guns, their ranks thinning with each advancing mile on their flignt northward, this year they are being accompanied by the “flying squadron” of armed guards, whose duty it is to arrest any who raise gun against the visitors. “The ducks which come to the United States each Winter are our guests, and we must show them some little bit of consideration,” J. N. (Ding) Darling, chief of the Biolog- ical Survey, said. “We do not breed any ducks of our own, because we | have dried up all their nesting | grounds. We are attempting to re- store these grounds, but what is the THURSDAY FRIDAY and SATURDAY Single Vision Lenses, white or pink Or Kryptok Invisible Bifocals (lenses only,— SPECIALLY PRICED FOR THURS- DAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY ONLY Astigmatic lenses are prescribed and prescription for glasses without extra charge. Save 259, t050% use if we stock them?” American sportsmanship is of the highest where the crowds cheer. Why not in the marsh lands, where plaudits are lacking? . ‘The Biological Survey just wants the ducks to have a fighting chance, so that they can be induced to re- turn to their nesting grounds in the United States when the “nests are feathered.” LIQUOR FIRM UNDER FIRE Federal Trade Commission Seeks to Ban “Distilling” in Name. The Federal Trade Commission an- nounced today that it had lodged a complaint against the Chesapeake Distilling & Distributing Co. of Bal- timore to prevent further use of the word “distilling” in its trade name. The commission said the company ‘e no ducks left to re- carried on no distillery operations, but | was engaged only in the rectifying, blending, bottling and distribution of liquors. 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