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PRESIDENT SCANS
OUTLOOK FOR JOBS
Re-examination of U. S. Ac
tivities Being Made in
Economy Program.
President Hoover, while calling for !
rigid economy in the new budget esti
mates, has ordered a re-exafnination of
all Federal activities to determine
whether it would be practicable for the
Government to undertake further public
Works projects to relieve unemployment
In recent weeks, as the depression |
hung on, the administration has re- j
reived complaints that the Governtnent
was not creating as much work as it
could. Insofar as the protests called
for additional projects, the President’s
response in many instances has been
to ask complainants to suggest where
in the Government could do more.
Among the various resulting proposals
was one for creating a system oi four
transcontinental motor highways. An
other called for “cleaning up" the
national parks. A third proposed a
national home-building movement.
Project Found Impractical.
The four-way highway project was
studied, it is understood, anu found
impracticable. The President is said to
have been convinced its value to the
Nation would be far from commensu- j
rate with the enormous cost. Figures !
are understood to have been laid be- |
fore the administration showing not
more tran 20,DU0 motor cars cross the
continent annuahy. As trunk line
highways, it was estimated, these roads
could not be expected to serve an area
cf more than 30 miles on either side.
The clean-up of nctional parks is
understood to have involved changes,
such as removal of underbrush, which
park authorities thought would destroy
the nature of the parks. Whether the
President passed a final judgment on
the heme-building project, high ad
ministration officials declare it would
be uneconomic. Some of these offi
cials believe a project of the kind pro
posed would tend to impair permanent
economic rehabilitation.
The exact nature of the projects
proposed has not been stated; in fact,
there has been no official announce
ment about any of them or of the fact
of the President’s study.
Job Possibilities Studied.
Mr. Hoover, meanwhile, is pressing
his examination of the gtneral field cf
governmental construction activity to be
sure that the administration is over
looking no possibilities for providing
Jobs. At the same time, the President
has ordered a complete check-up of the
progress on all projects authorized in
• the Government's $700,000,000 emer
gency program. This is to ascertain
whether there have been any unjusti
fiable delays and, if any, the reason
therefor.
It follows criticism, shared by even
«uch staunch admimstra Jon supporters
as Senator Hiram Bingham,
lican, of Connecticut, that Government
red tape has slowed up much of the
work Congress and the President au
thorized, so that all the additional em
ployment that was expected has not
materialized.
The President, it is learned, means to
take action to break through such red
tape wherever possible.
In his letter to Government Depart
ments and independent establishments
calling for reduction in expenditures be
low the original estimates as of July 1,
the President specifically excepted those
directly contributing to the public wel
fare in time of depression. On the
other hand, the need for meeting the
demands of hard times is bringing
stronger administration pressure foi
economy in other directions.
Speculation in Navy.
Whether the renewed economy drive,
occasioned now by the preliminaries ol
preparing the budget for the fiscal year
to begin July. 1. 1932, will seriously af
fect projected naval construction was
a subject of speculation in naval quar
**While the budget officers at one end
1 of the Navy Department Building are
working vigorously to meet the Presi
dent's demands for further economies,
the Navy General Board is meeting
daily at the other end to complete their
recommendations for .beginning the
construction of the new vessels the
American Navy is authorized under the
London treaty. . .
The modest one-year program which
was sent to Congress last Winter never
reached the floor of cither Senate or
House Naval officers contend that if
the Navy is to try to attain parity with
Great Britain the forthcoming session
must authorize the Navy to build at
least part of that program and of a sec
ond-year program in addition.
It was said at the White House yes
terday that the President’s letter re
ferred only to savings in the present
fiscal year.
GLEE CLUB ENTERTAINS
KIWANIS AT MANASSAS
Telephone Employes Furnish En
tertainment —Edwin F. Hill Tells
of Work Among Children.
■pedal Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va.. July 25.—Wash
ington night was observed by the
Manassas Kiwanis Club at its dinner
meeting last night in the Prince Wil
liam Hotel, with Edwin F. Hill, former
lieutenant governor of the Capital dis
trict and now vice president of the
Washington Club, as the guest of honor.
Following a brief address by Mr. Hill
in which he outlined some of the ac
complishments of the organization in
work for underprivileged children, the
speaker took charge of the meeting
i and presented a delightful program of
entertainment by members of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
Glee Club. i
Song numbers were rendered by Miss <
Dorothy Reddish and Frank E. Kings- i
bury, accompanied at the piano by |
Mrs. Margaret Morgan Harry, while,
George A. Small, introduced as the;
• one man band.” captured the fancies
of the local Kiwanians with a repertoire
of lively tunes on banjo and haromnica.
PROPERTY SALE STOPPED
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Restraining Order Issued Against j
Doctor in New Market. Va.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va.. July 25.—Mr*.
Lola B. Walton has been granted an
order of injunction in Shenandbah
County Circuit Court restraining her
husband, Dr. L. E. Walton, New Mar
ket, from selling his property in that
county, and has also filed suit for
divorce, alleging cruelty.
Her action followed the arrest and
incarceration of Dr. Walton on a charge
of operating an automobile while in
toxicated after his permit had been
Sreviously revoked in Luray on a sim
ar charge.
Tires Inflate Selves.
Tires may always be kept full by a
device being demonstrated by an in
ventor In Germany. The idea is being
tried on bicycles and may eventually be
i extended to automobiles. The device
consists of a small pump built into each
wheel and driven by a cam on the hub
•sf the wheel. It automatically goes into J
, aAt ion when the tire pressure falls be
ll-# normal and stops when proper ln
£Akpa Is reached.
SOUTH AMERICAN BUSH INDIAN
TRACED TO JUNGLES OF CONGO
Relics Brought to Museum by Maryland
Former Student Reveals Trans
planted Culture.
Tsansplanting of an aboriginal culture
half way Bround the world is revealed
in an unusual collection just received
i by the National Museum from an almost
, unknown people, th? bush Indians of
Northern South America.
This collection of articles of magic
and of decorations and household im
plements was brought to Washington
by W. A. Archer, former University of
Maryland student, who went to Co
lumbia as an agricultural teacher and
took up jungle exploring independently
I when his contract expired. Archer
I pushed his way up the Choco River, a
* largely unknown country, where the
bush Negroes, descendants of slaves, are
the principal inhabitants.
The collection shows, say National
Museum ethnologists, that these people
preserved almost Intact the art and
folkways of the Congo Jungles, in spite
of their violent transition. The deli
cate wood carving, considered highly
artistic, is almost a duplicate of what
might have been found in the Congo
villages of 200 years ago. The magical
implements show th’ peristence of the
same fundamental ideas of nature.
Clash With Indians.
When the bush Negroes began to
establish themselves in the Choco coun
try, it v.as pointed out, they clashed
with the Indians and evidently came
out ahead. They took over everything
• worth while in the Indian arts without
{ giving up anything of their own. This
I indicates, it was pointed out, that they
! probably wer? a people of superior in
telligence and development.
This culture, according to Herbert
Krieger, curator of ethnology, appears to
be far purer than that of the Negro
population of Haiti, which is overladen
with Ideas derived from the white men
and w hich has attracted much attention
of late years because of Us sensational
religious and magical rites. In the
Choco country, h? explained, the bush
Negroes app ar to have set up again the
identical Congo gods.
A notable object collected by Archer
is a medicine boat filled with figurines
w’ho are believed to carry awaj* the
spirits responsib'e for various illnesses.
This he recovered in the hut of a native
whose children were using the figurines
for dolls and already had lost some «f
them.
Accessions of Significance.
Some of the most significant of the
recent accessions to the museum collec
tion have be°n- found in the material
gathered by the late Victor J. Evans.
Among the articles are plaster models
tak'n from life of Two-Guns White
Calf, famous B’ackfoot Indian, and of
LUKE LEA’S TRIAL
BEGINS TOMORROW
Proceedings at Ashsville to
Be First in Long Series
Over Bank Dealings.
By the Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE, N. C.. July 25.—Luke
Lea, Tennessee chain newspaper pub
lisher. will go to trail here Monday in
the first of a long series of criminal
actions growing out of his dealings
with banks in several States.
He is one of a group of five men
indicted far conspiring to defraud the
Central Bank A; Trust Co. here of
slightly less than $1,300,000. The oth
ers are his son, Luke, jr.; E P. Thar
let of Nashville, Tenn., official of the
Tennessee Publishing Co., owned by
Lea; Wallace B. Davis, who was rresi
dent of the Central bank' before It
failed last Fall, and J. Charles Brad
ford, cashier of the bank.
Bradford, under treatment in a Phil
adelphia hospital for mental disorder
following an attempt at suicide, will
not be brought back for trial. Solicitor
Zeb V. Nettles has announced.
The charges against Lea were for the
most part outgrowths cf his connections
and dealings with Caldwell Sz Co., giant
financial concern in Nashville, which
dragg’d urdreds of banks down with
it when it iailed last Fall. Rogers
Caldwell, its president and partner of
Lea. is already under sentence in Ten
nessee for some of its transactions.
Members of prosecution have never
made public detailed accusations against
the five in the case, which is to be
called Monday. However, securities
substitutions, cashing of personal notes,
overdrafts and issuances by the bank
to Lea of hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of blank certificates of
deposits are known to be alleged.
Judge M. V. Barnhill of Rocky Mount,
who presided over the first series of
trials growing out of the Central Bank
failure, when DavLs was convicted and
sentenced to five years in prison for
making a false report of the bank's
condition, will preside.
Solicitor Nettles indicated today that
he would follow his previous policy in
the bank cases and ask Judge Barn
hill to call a special venire from an
other county to provide a jury. At
previous trials he described feeling
against the bankers in Buncombe
County as likely to interfere with jus
tice. 1
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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. P. JULY 26, 1931—PART 1 ONE.
the famous Sioux chieftain. Sitting Bull.
The latter is now dead, but Two-Ouns
still comes to Washington aqd visits tae
museum occasionally. His chief occupa
tion now, museum officials say, is ad
vertising Glacier National Park.
Another valuab’e part of the Evans
collection is composed of the sacred rel
ics of the Delaware Indians. These in
clude a silver pipe given to the chiefs
of the tribe, then inhabiting Ohio, as
a peace off eying by Gen. William Henry
Harrison, later to become President. In
addition there are other ceremonial
pipes, war clubs and tali3men. There
is also a va’uabls collection of Indian
Jewe’ry gathered from the Navajo,
Pueblo and Aracanian Tribes.
Collection of Dresses.
Miss Frances Densmor? of the Bureau
of American Ethnology has’just sent to
the museum a collection of the dresses
of Seminole women which she gathered
while studying the native music in
Florida last Winter. It is curious. Mr.
Krieger points out. that this swamp
dwelling people have developed so r.e
thlng strikingly like the costumes oi
European peasant women, embroidering
highly colored cotton cloth with geo
metric figures which look like picto
graphs. Tills is largely a development
of the recent past, since the Seminolss
split off from the Creek tribe when the
latter were removed to the Oklahoma
reservation.
The museum also has just received a
unique example of highly artistic Imita
tion bead work made of porcupine
quills by some Indian tribe in the in
terior of British Columbia. This. Mr.
Krieger says, was an independently de
veloped American art which hitherto
has been practically unknown to science.
The resemblance to bead work Is so
close as to puzzle experts and the secret
of how the porcupine quills were strung
together was found only after close ex
-1 amination.
Honduran Coast Materials.
Another valuable recent accesion Is
a quantity of material from the almost
mythical Mosquito Indians of the Hon
duras coast. This consists of decorated
gourds, hammocks, fish arrows and
spears, believed to be quite similar to
I those in use among the West Indian
I natives when they were first seen by
I white men.
The museum also has received a large
j amount of material from the Bagobo
i tribe of the island of Mindanao In the
1 Philippines, consisting of brass lmpl?-
! ments, betel nut boxes, rice chow pots,
j and some wierd baskets used by the
1 head hunters to carry their gruesome
1 trophies.
Staunton Children
Equip Playground
After Town Fails
| Homemade Apparatus
Erected on Vacant Lot.
SSO Raised at Benefit.
Spi-ei»l Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON. Va., July 25—The
city having failed to make ap
propriation for a public playground
in that community, children of the
residents of the Sears Hill section
I of this city have seized and equipped
I their own playground.
Appropriating to their use a
vacant lot. the children, under the
leadership Miss Janie V. Hall, have
built several small play houses, i
j several seesaws and slides and a
homemade merry-go-round. Sur
rounding the lot is a stone coping
which they built themselves and
have whitewashed.
I Last week the children staged a
lawn party, realizing more than SSO,
| t which they spent on materials for
1 equipment.
This playground is called “The
Greenspot,” and compares favorably
with those equipped by the city.
•
CONFEDERATE REUNION
TO BE HELD AUGUST 1
; Annual Events at Fishers Hill to
I Be Continued as Memorials j
to Men in Gray.
Special Dispatch to The Star,
t WINCHESTER, Va., July 25—The
Fishers Hill reunion of Confederate
. veterans, which formerly drew thou
• sands of veterans and theii friends
: until the “thin gray line’’ has become
l j almost extinct, will continue as a me
' mortal to the former Southern soldiers.
> and will be held August 1. it was an- i
* nounred today, on the Fishers Hill bat- ■
; j tlefield near Strasburg. J. W. Estep. 1
i the owner, will be host to all veterans
•: who attend, and will entertain them j
at dinner.
.; Others are to take lunches. A pro
; gram of outdoor entertainment is being
provided. The picnic usually is an !
occasion for reunions by hundreds of j
I Virginia Valley families.
1931 CIVIC ANNUAL
OF WIDE INTEREST
Third Edition Being Distrib
ft
uted —Foreword by Sec
retary Wilbur.
With a foreword by Dr. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, the
third annual' edition of the American
Civic Annual, ailtcd by Miss Harlean
James, executive secretary of the Amer
ican Civic Association, is Just being dis
tributed to members.
Approximately 40 Government offi
cials, city planners, road officials and
legislators have contributed to make
this a record of recent civic advance
throughout the country. Each year the
annual takes up a new range of topics
and this year it emphasizes, on the
one hand, some of the more stupendous
I beauties of nature unspoiled, as in the
great national parks, and on the other
side, the necessity of making the cltier
more useful, more w+iolesome and more
enjoyable by intelligent planning.
Introduction by Delano.
In the introduction to the volume
Frederic A. Delano, president of the
American Civic Association, said: “Wi
want to see eve:y village and towr
preserve all it can of the natural ad
vantages of Its location. It is clearly
right that New York should make the
mast of Its water front on the majestic
Hudson, and also of its rocky hills and
promontories; that Chicago should play
up its wondeiful shorn-front on Lakr
Michigan; that Washington should con
serve its hills and forested valleys and
Its river front. But this is equally
true, to a greater or less degree, of
every town and hamlet in our broad
land. Intelligent planning should
know how to make the most of thesr
natural resources of our country and
preserve the individuality which distin
guishes one town from another. Let us
never suggest that standardization be
carried to the absu:d extreme that, one
cannot tell one town from another.”
Variety of Discussion.
The netional forests. State reserva
tions, the aroused consciousness in the
matter of roadside beauty, are all dis
cussed In the annual by the Civic As
sociation family. Secretary Wilbur, in
his foreword, discusses briefly the
national parks. There are other arti
cles by Horace M. Albright, director of
th' National Park Service, and other
officials of the Interior Department end
State conservation boards, all dealing
with the gieat park system.
What Maryland has done to protect
the natural beauty of its roadsides by
legislating to tax and otherwise reg
ulate billboards and ether forms of dr
secreting outdoor sdvertlslng is told In
articles by Lavinia Engle, member of
the Maryland House of Delegates, and
another member, Oliver Metzerott,
through whose combined efforts the
legislation was passed. Albert S. Bard
vice chairman and general counsel of
the National Council for Protection of
Roadside Beauty, has also contributed
an analysis of the progress in billboard
control through court decisions.
CORNER STONE LAID
FOR LAW BUILDING
Sealed Papers Placed Inside Stone
for Clark Memorial Structure at
Univeraity of Virginia.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON, Va.. July 25 —The cor
ner stone of the Clark Memorial Law-
Building of the University of Virginia,
which was made passible by a gift of
$350,000 from William Andrews Clark
of Los Angeles, Calif., an alumnus of the
class of 1899, was laid thus week.
Inside the stone was a copper box
Into which had been sealed copies of
the University of Virginia publication
for this session, the new directory of
Virginia alumni, a copy of the Char
lottesville Progress, pictures of the early
stages of construction of the building
and a few small coins dated 1931.
The new bui'ding will not be ready
for use until the opening of the session
of 1932-33.
PICHX IS POSTPONED
Carroll County Group Will Hold
Fete August 19.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MOUNT AIRY, Md., July 25—The
annual picnic of the Carroll County
Homemakers' Clubs, which was sche
duled to be held here next Wednesday,
has been postponed until August 19. It
was decided by the committee in charge
to choose some other location than the
one previously selected.
The committee on arrangements in
cludes: Mrs. Rnndall Spoerlien. chair
man, New- Windsor; Mrs. Chester R.
; Hobbs. Mount Airy: Mrs. Edgar Myers,
Westminster, and Mrs. J. J. Sanders,
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I j The intrepid young American couturiere,
' j who was the first American to show
• native fashions in Paris, France, re-
I tinning to New York on the 8. S. Aqul
tania. July 24, after a six-week trip
abroad. Evcrying about the Hawes'
■ showing was American, even to the
date —July 4. Her exhibition was at
tended by many well known Parisian
fashion fxperl*. Miss Hawes, 26 years
old, hails from New York City and is
■j a Vassar graduate. She began her
' | dressmaking activities when she was
• only 12 years old. ’ —A. P. Photo.
: TWO DROWN FLEEING
• STRANDED RUM BOAT;
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Bodies Found Following Seizure
of Crew and Liquor Off
Florida.
ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., July 25 (IP)
Two men drowned in trying to escape
from a liquor-laden boat stranded on
a bar near here yesterday, it was dis
c’.csed tod’y with the finding of their
bodies in the Mstanazas River.
They were identified as Sam Casper
and O. Bowlin of Fitzgerald, Ga.
Auihoriti-* said they Famed the men j
leaped from the boat into the water j
as Sheriff E. E Boyce and a group of i
deputies approached. Three men. who
gave their names as Earl Shelton of
i St. Louis and W. R James and Frank ;
! Stewart of Jacksonville, made no effort
, to escape and were arrested. Eight I
hundred and thirty sacks of liquor were
seized.
WAYNESBORO WILL GET
FREE LIGHTING SYSTEM
I
Powar Company to Donate “White
Way" for Downtown as Model
for Other Towns. .
Special Dispatch to The Star.
, j STAUNTON. Va.. July 25 —Within
60 days the business section of the
nearby tow-n of Waynesboro will be !
Illuminated by a lighting system equal \
to that of any city in Virginia.
I The project, which will cost the I
j Virginia Public Service Co. approx
| mately $25,000 and will be donated to '
the town free of cost, will be the culml- j
nation of a movement started by A.
| W. Higgins, president of the Virginia
J Public Service Co. who declares it will
be n model for other unlighted towns
j in Virginia.
1 ENTRIES FORHORSESHOW
Special Dlapatch to The Btar.
■ BERRYVILLE, Va., July 25.—Among
r the early entries listed for the Berry
ville Horse Show, August 13 and 14,
, is the stable of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay
: Whitney of Uppervllle, which Is ranked |
; as one of the best in the State.
• All of the hunter classes are filling l
up rapidly, and indications are that j
■ this year’s show will be one of the big- >
• gest ever held here.
The local association has installed.)
, starting stalls for its race course, which
, is a grefft Improvement over tire old 1
system. * |
WHIRLPOOL THROWS
SHIP OFF COURSE
Outward Spinning Oddity Re
ported by Geodetic Ves
sel Hydrographer.
Discovery of an outward spinning
whirlpool in the Atlantic Ocean is re
ported by a vessel of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey. While charting the
Georges Banks, 150 miles East of Cape
Cod. the survey vessel Hydrographer
encountered the strange whirlpool,
I which was strong enough to throw the
i vessel off its course. The cause of th:
I phenomenon is unknown, but further
1 Investigation will be made. It differs
I from other whirlpools known to navi
gators in that it spins outward Instead
of toward its center.
"An outward spinning whirlpool is
another oddity added to the long list of
unexplained mysteries of the sea,” says
a bulletin from the headquarters of the
National Geographic Society. "It is
half in jest and half in awe that old
tars refer to the bounding main as
‘that old devil sea.’ In olden days the
sea was believed to be peopled with
strange monsters which devoured both
ships and men. Even today, with all
the safeguards and comforts of modern
travel, a ship voyage is not without its
hazards. Mother ocean constantly plays
new and unexpected tricks, because
man's knowledge of the sea, for all his
centuries of study and experience, is
extremely meager.
"Explorers and geographers who have
been sighing for new lands to conquer
may find their best field, paradoxically,
in the sea. When it is realized tffit
nearly three-quarters of the surface of
the globe consists of water, it is rather
remarkable how litUe we know of ihc
vast surface of the solid sphere which
lies beneath this screen cf liquid.
Ocean Bed Uncharted.
"The greater portions of our con
tinents are mapped, even to the cma'l
est details, and our harbors and the
shallow waters close offshore are fairly
well charted, but once the edges of the
continental shelf are oassed the fea
tures of the sea bottom, and what
3trange phenomena may be found
there, are but vaguely represented by
a few contour lines laid down between
rather infrequent points of soundings.
"Imagine men in airships cruising
ever a strange country, flying above
miles of clouds, and once in a while
dropping a sounding line down to earth
rnd now and again letting down a
< redge or a trawl. Under such condi
| tlons they probably would learn little
. about what was happening down oelow
I "The most Impressive thing about the
' sea is its shallowness as compared with
the size of the earth, and its deptn es
compared with the helgnt of the land.
If one were to take a globe six feet in
diameter and excavate the deepest
trench of the ocean the:eon. it would
be a bare pin acratch deep—about one
twentieth of an inch.
“Among the sea s unexplained mys
teries are the origin and actions of
storm waves, commonest of nautical
phenomena. Often storm waves travel
much faster than the storm itself—
meaning the storm as a whole—and
1 sometimes they break with great force
on a shore line v here conditions other
| wise are vary ou.et and serene.
Currents a Mystery.
| "There is a curious superstition,
varying in various parts of the world,
that every seventh, or every ninth, or
every tenth wave is larger than the
! ones that precede it. Writers often
; take advantage of this belief, not sup
ported by scientists, to Illustrate defi
nite periods or sequences In ideas or
lives.
"Much is still to be learned about
the vagaries of ocean currents. Ves-
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I eels and debris caught In these natural
sea lanes often play uncanny tricks,
t In 1005 the Stanley Dollar, an Amer
t lean freighter, went upon the rocks at
the entrance of Yokohama Bay.
• “In 1911 two of her life preservers
were picked up along the shores of
‘ the Shetland Islands. How they
m reached there is one of the puzzling
questions that so often arise about the
sea. Did they sweep up the Asiatic
coast, through Bering Strait, and then
„ through the Northwest Passage and
Baffin Bay, and thence by Iceland to
the Shetland Islands? Or did they,
after floating through the Northwest
Passage, get into tne Polar Current
and float down the Atlantic to the
Ou>f Stream, to be picked up and car
ried north again to the Shetlandsf
g Ships Ga m fcoUoiti.
“A question often asked la whether
i a ship, sinking in deep water, goes to
e the bottom, or whether she finds her
e level in some vertical depth zone and
r drifts on forever. This question
1, sprang into great prominence when
e the Titanic went down and was asked
; again frequently during the World
War. The answer is, she goes directly
3 to the bottom, else how could a dredge
. or a trawl be sent down five m'les?
1 “One of the strange things that
happens when a ship sinks is that lm
g plosions occur. These are Inward
f | burstings, due to pressure, often with
s a force as tremendous as the outward
e burstings caused by explosions of gun
s powder. A. scientific expedition low
i ered a thermometer in a cloth into the
s depths. When they brought the cloth
» 1 up It contained nothing but a lot of
i lmpalpeb'e white stuff resembling
i rn rw. The imp’osion had transformed I
] the thermometer into dust,
i "Another mystery of the sea this year i
s is the complete absence of icebergs In 1
s the North Atlantic shipping lanes. A j
> cutter of the Ice Patrol has been sent !
i north to look into Greenland's 'frozen !
i assets’."
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j Homemade Shaft Sets New World 1
Flight Record.
i PORTLAND. Oreg., July 25 (/Pi.—
Homer Prouty, Portland, fitted a home- j
made arrow' to a homemade bow at the
Western Archery Association’s tourna
ment here today and sent the missile
1 ■ singing through the air more than 466 I
yards—over a quarter of a mile and a !
1 : new world flight record.
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CUMBERLAND FAIR.
TO OFFER $25,008
$15,000 to Be Disbursed jn
Race Purses—Exhibition:
Opens August 25.
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Md„ July 25.—The
fourteenth annual Cumberland fair la
offering a total of $25,000 In prizes
:to exhibitors and horsemen this year.
The five-day racing program opens
August 25. \
The fair proper opens the previoi£
day.
Fifteen thousand dollars will be dis
tributed among the horsemen as purses
for the seven dally races on the five
day program The remainder. $10,000)
will be given a* prizes to exhibitors of.
livestock, farm products and household
articles. '»
The program for the running races
and the premium lists have been issued
by Oeneral Manager Harry A.
The list for the dog show, which will
. be a feature of this year’s fair, win
be published later.
Os the 35 races listed on this year's l
i card, three are at a mile and a quartet,
j two at a mile and 70 yards, seven at
| a mile and one-sixteenth, 12 at 6 I P
■ furlongs, six at 6 furlongs and five at
i 5 furlongs. The majority of the race®-
! are for 3-.vear-olds and upwards, many.
I with apecial conditions Four events
for 2-year-olds are carded. The
j race Thursday is for horses foaled in
I Maryland.
I wight pieces of plate are offered tot,
i the stake races, the donors being the
| Cumberland Fair Association. thp.
Potomac Valley Jockey Club, the Fort
Cumberland. Algonquin. Windsor and.
National Highway hotels. William IL.
•Robertson and Phillip J. Arendes.
Mr. and Mrs. James Walk! ns haw o<
Mlllerhill. Scotland, who recently cele*-
bra ted their ruby wedding, have il chil
dren. 50 grandchildren and 38 greats
grandchildren.