Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1935, Page 18

"B-2 % SHORTAGE PERLS " OB INDLGTRY Plants Idle as State’s Sci- entists Seek to Increase Supply. BY GEORGE PORTER. An acute shortage of crabs this Summer has brought one of ‘South- ern Maryland's famed industries al- most to & standstill, while the best scientific brains of the State are at work on the problem of increasing the supply. New Deal brain trusters, weary with schemes for pla.m'l‘.nngd under wheat, slaughtering hogs otherwise re- ducing surpluses, would find delight in turning to the crab “crop” of the Chesapeake Bay this season. For instead of the up-to-date prob- lem of keeping the supply down to the demand, Chesapeake crabbers are faced with the old-fashioned task of making two crabs grow where one grew before. No crabber will be in line for benefit payments for the number of crabs he threw back in the bay. While most of the crabbers are turning to other forms of livelihood, and all of the packing plants at Solomons Island are standing idle, University of Maryland scientists, con- fident that, through the co-operation b of lawmakers and conservation au- thorities, the supply can quickly be replenished, are conducting experi- ments which promise to bring & great- er measure of prosperity to the crab- bers than they have ever known be- fore. Supervising Experiments. Prof. R. V. Truitt of the university, who, as director of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at Solomons Isiand, spends his Summers living among the crabbers, is supervising the experiments. Their purpose is to determine the food value of crabs. Oddly enough, this has never been definitely known, sccording to Dr. Truitt. Through the use of a colony of rats, and in co- operation with the Bureau of Fish- eries laboratory at College Park, it already has been established that erabs are rich in vitamin “A" the one that controls the condition of the skin, eyes and hair, he says. If it also can be shown that there is enough iodine, copper and iron in crabs to produce a marked effect on persons who eat them, crabs can be advertised as having those essential food elements and may soon become much more widely used than ever be- fore. “Physicians tell us there are 48 000,000 people, many of them chil- dren, who get ‘that tired feeling’ eas- ily, and need more iodine, copper and iron in their diet. Possibly we can prove that what they need is a few crabs once or twice s week,” Dm Truitt says. While the scientists in the labora- tories at College Park are experiment- ing with crabs on rats, Dr. ‘Truitt, on the shores and waters of the Chesa- peake and its tributaries, is collecting data to be used as the basis of recom- mendations for the conservation and increase of the erab supply. Handsome Laboratory. Some feel that the brick biological laboratory, largest and handsomest building on Solomons Island, may be looked upon as a monument to the failure of science if, for very many months, three crab packing plants, almost within its shadow, that nor- mally employ more than 100 people, have to remain closed. ‘While the effect of the crab short- age is only too apparent in idleness here, part-time work in the packing plants at Crisfield, on the Eastern Shore, the crab center of the world, and higher crab prices in the citles, Dr. Truitt believes he knows both the cause and the cure of the condition. They involve co-operation between the crabbers themselves and the leg- islators of Maryland and Virginia, he #ays. y'nu causes he lists as over-crabbing, due to too-long seasons; capture of sponge crabs at the Virginia capes, too small & size limit, and use of erabs to “chum” other crabs. Most of those things are not very bad in themselves, he says, but combined they have produced a condition that, in the opinion of some Chesapeake Bay crabbers, threatens their in- dustry. Today at Solomons Island only ebout 30 men are earning their living at crabbing, an occupation which normally attracts 150. Fortunately for that town, which presents a pros- perous and attractive appearance to visitors, the crabbers can turn to conducting fishing parties, made up principally of Washingtonians. One Barrel to Five Before. Those who are still casting their trot lines and catching what crabs are available, say they get only one barrel now to five barzels in previous years. Because all local packing plants are closed, they sell to “buy boats” from the Eastern Shore and recelve 3 or 3% cents a pound for the crabs, which partially compen- sates for the small supply, as the usual price has been 1 cent a pound. The decline in the crab supply, no- ticeable for several years, but reaching an acute stage this year, has pre- sented the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory with its most important problem of this season. As a barometer of the extent of the shrinkage of the crab ‘“corp,” the Maryland Conservation Commission reports that in 1934 only 619,216 bar- rels of soft crabs and “peelers” were brought to Crisfield as compared to 1,416,861 in 1933. The hard shells brought to that crab center totaled 2,130 barrels last year, while the 1933 «“production” of hard shells was 6,707 barrels. As the first step in restoring the supply, Dr. Truitt believes Maryland and Virginia should co-operate to shorten the season. Maryland now permits the catching of crabs from May to November. Virginia allows them to be caught the year ‘round. During the Winter dredging, un- fawful in Maryland, is permitted in sponge gathered to spawn—is legal in Vir- ginia, but not in Maryland. Sponge Crab Season. Realizing the capture of sponge erabs, which gather off the Virginia capes, is one of the important factors causing the present shortage, Rich- ard Armstrong, Virginia conservation CENSORS LBERAL ATARTTS BAL Dawn Really Stops Party as Provincetown Goes Gay on Garb. PROVINCETOWN, Mass., July 27. —The dawn, not the censor, stopped the artists' ball. But that doesn't mean that the scanty attire promised for the beachcombers twentieth annual event was not prevalent. One couple wore nothing but towels. The girl woer two, her escort one. As dawn spread a warm glow over Provincetown's sand dunes, guests, who had followed the admonition of Richard Miller, the beachcombers’ skipper, “let’s be gay,” disappeared. From the Town Hall doorway scampered figures clad in tights, togas, Chinese mandarin costumes, Tahiti bathing suits, pirate costumes—and towels. Pire sirens and whistles announced the beginning of the party attended by the artist colony, the townfolk and Cape Cod's society set. As the merry- makers entered the hall they were greetd by two censors wearing dark | glasses and carrying tin cups and signs “please help the two blind censors.” One of the censors was Miller, a former 8t. Louis, Mo, artist. The other was Merle A. Higgins, a Prov- incetown business man. Prizes were awarded for the cos- tumes. Miss Anne Mahoney, as a Hindu goddess, was declared the most artistically garbed woman at the party and Gregory MacDougal of New York —=a& gypsy—the most artistically dressed man. VETERANS TO HONOR VICTIMS OF MARCH Graves of Two Slain Here in 1932 Bonus Campaign Will Be Decorated. Buddies of the 1935 soldiers’ bonus campaign will make a pilgrimage to Arlington National Cemetery today to conduct memorial services at 10:30 am. at the graves of Willlam J. Hushka and Eric Carlson, the two members of the 1932 bonus army who were killed in the street fighting on Pennsylvania avenue three years ago today. The veterans will assemble at 9 a.m. on Pennsylvania avenue at Four- and-a-half street, where the bonus marchers were killed in resisting po- lice efforts to drive the marchers from their camp. They will leave at 9:30 o'clock in trucks and automobiles for the cemetery, where the superin- tendent will meet them and conduct | them to the two graves. The 52-piece band of the Marine Reserves and a standard of colors will accompany the contingent. After “Taps” and the placing of wreaths on the graves, the veterans will proceed to the Tomb of the Un- known Soldier, where & similar cere- mony will be held. Members of all veterans’ organizations will make up the delegation. Howard W. Tower of California is chairman of the joint group of the 1935 bonus campaign in charge of the services. The wreaths were donated by George C. Shaffer, Inc., and Black- istone, Inc. The committee making arrangements was composed of Jack Saegel, bugler; Robert E. Guyton, W. D. Sharples and George Cites. “GROOM” MORE FEMININE Girl, Who Posed as Man and Wed Another, Compromises Dress. PICHER, Okla., July 27 (#).—Alice Delores Hayes, 21, whose “marriage” to another young woman was annulled after her male disguise was learned, returned to work at a shoe store to- day wearing slacks, & backless waist and low-heeled slippers. The attire apparently satisfied Al Manes, Picher chief of police, who had threatened to “run Alice out of town” if she persisted in dressing like a man. for crabs which may be caught legally is 5 inches, from tip to tip, for hard crabs, and 3% inches for “peelers” or hard crabs ready to turn soft. Dr. Truitt believes both of these sizes should be increased half an inch. Many crabs under the size limit are cut up and thrown back into the water to “chum” or attract other crabs. This practice, Dr. Truitt says, should be stopped not only because it destroys small crabs before they have time to become marketable, but also because it fails to “chum” the “peel- or e THE SUNDAY BTAR, WASHINGT Crab Shortage Hits Chesapeake Bay Area Party Dress Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. SALLY NYE. The New York girl exhibits at Provincetown, Mass, the costume which she planned to wear last night at the all-night twentieth annual artists’ costume ball. It is an Indian print bathing costume, with sandals revealing painted toe- nails. COLORED POLICE TO DINE Firemen Also Will Be Honored at Testimonial Banquet. A testimonial banquet in honor of colored policemen, policewomen and firemen will be held Wednesday eve- ning at the Lincoln Colonnade, 1215 U street, by the Progressive Consumers League and a group of interested citizens. Lieut. Samuel J. Battle, New York City's first colored policeman, will be guest of honor. Officials in charge announced guest speakers will include Commissioners Hazen and Allen, Police Supt. Brown, Fire Chief Schrom, Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, Judge Armond W. Scott and Dr. William J. Thompkins. THREE TO GET TRAINING D. C. Candidates Are Chosen as Aviation Cadets. Three Washingtonians are among the 110 candidates chosen yesterday by the Navy Department iy the third class of candidates for flight training and appointment as aviation cadets in the Naval Reserve. The three—W. C. Neuenhahn, 1000 Massachusetts avenue northeast; J. 8. Martinek, 2000 H street, and H. R. Bogusch, 1736 Columbia road—will re- port on August 12 to the Naval Air Station at Anacostia. ' SWAT THE FLY § The Star has for free dis- tribution wire - handle fly swatters. Ask for one at the Main Of- fice of The Star, 11th & Pa. Ave. N.W. 1. Interior of a crab packing house at Solomons Island, Md., which &— formerly employed 50 persons, now closed because of the shortage of crabs. Linwood Langley shows how the packers used to work. 2. Showing the contrast between the large crabs normally found in the bay and the small ones being taken this year. 3. Howard Lusby operating a “trot line,” conventional method of catching crabs by commercial fishermen. 4. Dr. R. V. Truitt, director Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at Solomons Island, who is in charge of a study of methods of replenishing the supply. The laboratory is operated in co-operation with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Goucher, ‘Western Maryland and Washington Colleges, Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland and the State Conservation Department. 5. An exterior view of the closed packing plant. -—Star Staff Photos. { KLEBERG’S AIDE MADE TEXAS YOUTH DIRECTOR Secretary to Representative Will Take New Duties With Na- tional Administration. Lyndon B. Johnson, secretary to Representative Richard M. Kieberg of Texas since 1931, is to take up new duties as director of the National office of assistant to the supervisor of the district. He resigned then to work his way through the Southwest Texas Teach- ers’ College and was appointed secre- tary to the president of the college. In 1930 he was graduated with a B. S. degree. Johnson served as principal of both elementary and high schools and while in college taught the science of gov- ernment. When Representative Kle- berg was elected to Congress he brought Johnson with him here as his secretary. Youth Administration for his native e State of Texas. Johnson was born in Johnson City, Tex, in 1908, and after entering a Los Angeles law office returned to Texas in & few months to enter the employ of the State Highway Depart- ment as & laborer. He progressed through the laboring ranks to the THE FORMAN & BILLER TREE EXPERTS Offer Prompt Service Reasonable Rates Phone Clarendon 567 GREAT NATION-WIDE FACTORY INDUSTRIAL DRIVE Returning to Work Hundreds of Skilled Piano Craftsmen Unparalleled Retail Discounts On Pianos Throughout Entire Store Never a Chance Like This Again PAYMENT TERMS ENTIRELY FREE From Finance Companies’ Excessive Interest Charges KIMBALL AMERICA'S FINEST PIANO VALUE FOR 78 CONSECUTIVE YEARS bbb ht Kimball Pianos are not supplied by our factory to any local retail dealer, store or agency. They are sold in Washington direct o consumers at our own Store. 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OKLAHOMA CITY, July 27.—The scene again tonight. m) ent has had its day in six of the eight administrations since Statehood, and it came in for a round of excitement at the last session of it no confirmation today. C. Phillips, blunt-spoken, cigar-chewing speaker of the House, said the Governor made the assertion to draw sttention away from “all the CAPTALS EWRY FRHTSNAZIDRNE Mass Meeting Is Planned Thursday—Intervention of U. S. Sought. A Washington mass meeting of pro- test against the Nazi government's “vendetta against its Jewish citizens” will be organized Thursday night. A group of leaders of the Washington branch of the American Jewish Con- gress are to meet at the Jewish Com- munity Center to plan for a huge con- ference here for early August. “We are seeking means of having the American Government intervene ,| in this crisis,” Rabbi J. T. Loeb of Southeast Hebrew Congregation, de- clared. He will read at the Community Center meeting a scathing report drafted by the American Jewish Con- gress in New York, which states: “This emergency conference of na- tional and local organizations, com- posed of all shades of opinion and various communal interests, directs public attention to the culminating tragedy in Germany which, if un- “The Governor’s got the jitters— the heat’s bothering him"—Phillips “It would be & mistake to im- peach him. He'll be completely done in this State if we'll let him alone.” Marland told the women that oil | checked, will lead to the destruction | of the foundations of domestic civili- zation, and which calls for the or- | ganized resistance of all American citizens, regardiess of faith or race. “Against this immoral power the oice of civilization must be raised. and utility lobbies were after him | The influence of public opinion must because of the defeat of 80 younger be organized in order that a wall of members of the Legisiature, saying | resistance may be created against this menace.” they were won over by “big business lobby” parties. One of the younger Ilegislators, ‘William O. Coe of Oklahoma City, de- | nied the lobby influence today and | said: | “If he keeps on making these| blunders he will get some of us who don’t intend to run again mad enough | to go back there and impeach him.” | LONG VIEWS SOUGHT Asks | Tenant Farmers’ Leader Senator to State Stand. MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 27 (P.— H. L. Mitchell, executive secretary of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, | said today that he had dispatched a letter to Senator Huey Long asking the Louisiana “dictator” to disclose | his views on the sharecropper situa- tion. Informing Long that Norman Thomas, Socialist party leader, and | The five-point program for the con- ference includes: 1. Boycott of German goods. 2. Application sgainst Germany of the League of Nations clause dealing with economic sanctions and refusal of all nations to enter into trade agreements with the Hitler govern- ment. 3. American refusal to participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games. 4. Refusal of American educational institutions to permit exchange of professors and students from Ger- many. 5. Consolidation of all civic agencies to intensify the boycott. Members of the mass meeting Plan- ning Committee include Dr. Loeb, Dr. Harry Spigel, Leopold V. PFredubers, Zalmon Henkin, Dr. Alec Horwitz, Albert Schiller and Hyman PFreehof. - Judge Becomes Flyer at 69. OAKLAND, Calif., July 27 (®.— & number of officials of the share- i cropper union would visit Louisiana {R::? Tglm;?v:mm;‘fi;:’ :::;;: about October 1, the letter continued: | yosterday as a licensed aviator. C. D “At that time, my dear Senator, We | Dogie, Department of Commerce aero- | are going to investigate the situation nautics inspector, put him through his | among the farm workers, especially the sharecroppers on the cotton plan- | tations, and we will be pleased uuoeJ the results of sharing the wealth | among the exploited sharecroppers of | your reslm, where your power is re- | ported to be supreme.” . CRUISE FESTIVAL SET The District of Columbia division, Intercollegiate Organizations of America, will hold a “youth festival” | : fiying tests. 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