Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1937, Page 14

A—14 WIDESPREAD SCALE ERRORS DISCLOSED Weights and Measures Par- ley Told of Bureau of Standards Tests. Ralph W Standards National ‘Measures ay th ina found in per cent of 343 scales tested by bureau equipme! five Soi Atlantic States g last six months. The tests wer e in co-opera- tion with St f 1s of Virginia, North C: C: ina, Georgia & da to demonstrate equipment developed by the bureau to check on the accur and truck scales. Most of the scales tested, Smith 8aid, were used to weigh coal in truck- load lots, and 50 per cent of them Smith of the Bureau of d the Twenty-seventh s and was icle vy of wagon | 'R. A. Unit Spends $20,941 More for Shenandoah Land Adds to Rockingham Holdings With 327 Acres at Elkton. Brecial Dispatch to The Star. HARRISONBURG, Va. June 3.— | The Federal Resettlement Adminis- tration acquired 327 acres north of | Elkton, in Rockingham County, yes- terday. | The tracts, described by L. Ferdi- he | Dand Zerkel, R. A. project manager, |are in the best farming country in ;Enst Rockingham. The 327 acres | cost $20.941, or approximately $64 an acre. Previously R. A. purchased the Omer Hopkins farm of 400 acres for | 830,000 and another farm of 60 acres for $2,310. The Elkton unit of the resettlement i project will be divided into four sec- | tions in a radius of five miles because | 1and owners between units would not THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY agree to sell at the appraised value. These sections, Zerkel said, will be subdivided into farms of approxi- mately 35 acres each. Zerkel said the land was bought at prices appraised by V. P. I. farm ex- perts and the Federal Land Bank. Work on construction of buildings is due to start the end of this month. SEA “FIREFLIES” FOUND Four New Species Reported Ac- quired in Caribbean. Acquisition of four new species of “fire flies of the deep” resulted from a recent scientific expedition through the Caribbean Sea, Dr. Paul Bartsch of the Smithsonian Institution said | yesterday. The “fireflies” are luminous fish which ordinarily live at about 1,200 | feet below the surface of the sea and |are difficult to collect, he explained. | On the recent expeedition they were | found near the surface. ; Sweden Buys Pig Iron. For the first time since the World War Sweden is buying pig iron in the United States. had been used to wejgh loads in ex- ess of their capac ich gave re- $ults “not to be depended upon.” Error Up to 40 Per Cent. He said the bureau tests disclosed that 37 per cent of the scales were ol | LESTER-HALF A CENTURY SixRofliie soalee it LOF FINE PIANO BUILDING | ve abnormally large per- from 14.67 The aver- v all the 343 s of 1 per cent We believe that the te: ch we have been losed conditions un. 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