Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1935, Page 18

A—18 ARKANSAS FLOOD MENAGE GROWS Fear of Levee Blasting in Mississippi Lessens as Waters Roll On. By the Associated Press. GREENWOOD, Miss., March 22. Irate farmers apparently had put away today levee-blasting dynamite which brought militia rule to this area, and the major flood threat shifted to Arkansas. The rampaging Tallahatchie River still flowed through holes blown in the levees north of here Wednesday night by farmers, inundating approx- imately 25,000 acres, but Gov. Sennet Connor, after a trip here yesterday, | sald the danger of further dynamiting was ended and the 300 Guardsmen probably would be withdrawn soon. The St. Francis River in Arkansas temporarily broke through iis barrier near Lake City yesterday afternoon, threatening to inundate that town of 1,000 inhabitants. Engineers succeeded in repairing the break. Clyde Crosnoe, 33, assistant United States fleet engineer in the Memphis district, drowned in the St. River when his speedboat struck a snag and threw him overboard. Albert Evans, Red Cross relief di- | rector, said the condition of the levees near Lake City made the Arkansas situation serious. Relief workers were sent there to help residents evacuate the town. Engineers, however, expressed the opinion the dikes would hold unless fresh rains brought aaditional rises. MEXICANS HIT REICH MEXICO, D. F., March 22 (#)—A protest against a scheduled parade of German sailors from the cruiser Karlsruhe, which will arrive here shortly, was made yesterday by the General Confederation of Workers and Peasants. Calling the German regime “emi- nently contrary to the aspirations of the working classes,” the federation said Mexican workers could not per- mit that “military contingents of that regime march through the streets of Mexico.” Francis | TIRED CABLES. HE common, garden-variety of fatigue is noi limited to ani- mate objects, according to R. H. Davidson, commercial representative of the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. It extends into the inanimate kingdom— to telephone cables, for example. “Did it ever occur to you,” he asked in a recent interview, “that telephone | cables get tired. suspended as they are | on poles stretched across the country | | or along the roadside? “If the metallic sheath which pro- | tects the hundreds of tiny wires in a | cable had ears, and could in some | | mysterious way tune .in one of the millions of conversations that pass | over those tiny wires, undoubtedly it would grow very, very tired. Dis-| illusioned, as well, perhaps.” As far as any one knows, including the engineers of the telephone sys- tem, cable sheaths do not have ears. According to these same engineers, however, they do grow tired, literally, swinging from the poles. Experts have a name for this cable lethargy: They call it “intercrystalline fatigue.” | Telephone engineers have known{ about this cable fatigue for a long | time. They have spent already much time and money in developing a lead alloy for cable sheathing which will stand the stress and strain for the, longest possible time. At present the normal life of a cable sheath is more than 15 years, which sounds like a | long while to be strung up on a tele- | phone pole without getting worn out, | physically. This long life, of course, | has been made possible only through much scientific study along metal- | lurgical and mechenical lines. | * K kX BUT NO KINGFISH. { TTORNEY GENERAL CUM- | mings recently announced the establishment of a “Division of | Fisheries” in the Department of Jus- Special Saturday Only— 34.85 —Wear them these mild Spring days for sports, motoring, riding, golf! You'll find them ever so comfortable and de- cidedly smart. Reindeer, gray and cocoa suede with knitted collars, cuffs and waist band. Sizes 36 to 46. Men's Sports Sweaterss —Short zipper slip- over style in the new brushed finish. White, green, heather, pow- der and oxford. Also slip-over crew neck style in oxford and powder. Sizes 36 to 44, Kann's—sStreet Floor. BOYS' OXFORDS. with "Gil-ash” Soles Guaranteed 60 Days THE EVENING STAR, WASHI NGTON, D. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935. Washington Wayside || Random Observations of Interesting ‘ Events and Things. tice and the appointment of Alex- ander Wills as “director.” The announcement, made in se- rious tone to press representatives as- sembled in his office for their semi- weekly conference, was received with considerable surprise by the reparters until Cummings motioned toward an aquarium near his desk.® “That,” he explained with a smile, “is our new Division of Fisheries. Di- rector Wills will be the chief cus- todian. fish eat thé moon fish, the moon fish eat the guppies and the guppies eat the fleas. “Now, if we only had a kingfish in | there, he would clean up the whole assortment.” Director Wills is the husky colored messenger who presides over the at- torney general’s mail room across the hall. * K ok % OLD FAITHFUL. HE Gayety, Ninth street burlesque house, has had the same bald- headed, first-row customer (second seat in from the right center) for more than two years. * ok ok K DID YOU KNOW—? HESTER A. ARTHUR, twenty- first President of the United States, was the first President who ever took & bath in the White House in what we know now as a bath tub. They We have in there angel fish, | — moon fish, guppies and fleas. I| think the idea is to have the angel | weren't installed | there until 1881-2. Today there are 14 private baths and 10 lavatories, * ok k% THAT AIR VENT. EONE guess was as good as another from the baker's dozen of men when asked “What is that round, red- brick affair in the west end of Ju- diciary Square?” Twelve men didn't know. Neither did we. One said, “You've got my curiosity aroused. Why don't you find out what it really i1s?” s So, it is a ventilator shaft, relic of an air-conditioning system at least | two decades old. Ten feet down in the earth it curves through a tin pipe toward the east, into the Noah's | jark of a basement beneath the court | house. A giant fan, with blades re- | atmosphere and churns them for- ward over the skeleton of a dismem- bered automobile (condemned prop- erty of the year 1916). Up to the ceiling of the first floor goes the| agitated air where, split in two sec- | tions, it continues through the walls. | Eventually it finds its way to the nine court rooms of the building, by way of an antique system of checks and vents. And that is the whele story—ex- | cept that the vine-covered shaft in the court house yard is mainly a trellis for the vines. The whole sys- tem, of which it is a part, is so un- satisfactory that it is seldom put into operation any more. "Look’'t m'new SUIT-2 pants How dyou —It’s a sport style with the new Clark Gable yoke back,* that like it?” *10.95 young men have fallen for in such a big way. It’s comfortable and s mart. - The fabrics are the new Spring woolens in grays, blue grays, tans and oxfords. Sizes 12 to 20. TOP- COATS for well-dressed PREPSTERS —They've all the “snap” versed, sucks in huge droughts ol‘ Super-Value Salel You'll Like The New SPORTVILLE CREATIONS We're Showing in Our TWO-, TROUSER SiLliEE S 29 .50 —Sports-type clothes will be as popular for busi- ness this Spring as they will be for sports. You'll see them everywhere . . . offices, clubs, dancgs . . . and the ones you'll see most often Wwill be the midswing, the inswing and the shirred back styles. 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