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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
WIDOW OF AIRMEN ILL.
Two Husbands Were Killed in
Dirigible Accidents.

PHILADELPHIA, March 80 R.-
Mrs. Joy Bright Hancock. who lost
two husbands in successive dirigible
disasters, was yesterday admitted to
Jefferson Hospital here for observa-
ton. Her condition was said to be not
serious.
Her first husband, Lieut.. Charles G.
Little Of Newburyport, Mass, was
killed when the ZR-2 fell at Hull. Eng
land. August Is, 1921. Lieut.. Comdr.
Louis Hancock. jr., of Tomas River, N.
J.. her second husband, was killed on
September 8, 1925, when the Shenan-
doah crashed in Ohio. Mrs. Hancock
now lives with her father, State Sena-
tor William H. Bright at Wildwood,
n. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
COURT ISSUES RULE
IN WARE VOTE CASE
Delaware County Authorities Given
Until April Is to Make
Reply.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, March 3O.-A
Federal Court rule was issued yester-
day on Delaware County authorities
to show cause why they should not
turn over ballot boxes and other rec
ords in their custody to the Senate
special committee investigating the
election contest brought by William 3.
Wilson, Democrat, against Senator.
elect w. S. Ware, Republican.
The rule is returnable April! IS, the
Delaware County officials having Is
days to file answers or demurrers.
The rule is directed at Harry M.
Birney and Thomas NJ. Feeley, county
commissioners of Delaware County;
William Ward, jr., prothonotary of
the Delaware County courts, and John
J. Sailing, justice of the peace in
Upper Darby, custodian of some of
the ballot boxes. They had declined
to turn over the boxes and records
without a court order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
LONGER NORMAL
COURSE |SL|KELY
Board of Education Meets to
Consider Making Three
Years Necessary.

Extension of the normal school
course in. Washington from two to
three years is expected to be finally
ratified at a special meeting of the
Board of. Education this AFTERNOON
which will be devoted to concluding
action on the 16 recommendations for
Improvement in the normal schools
as submitted to the board by United
States Commissioner of Education J..
J. Tigert
The board has been discussing the
recommended tons and taking tentative
action on them over period or many
weeks, and today's meeting will wind
up its deliberations and result in the
adoption of new rules, regulations and
policies concerning the two local nor
NAL schools.
Stand by Action.
1t is expected the board will stand
by it's tentative action of approval
on all of the recommendations which
have been considered, except one.
This is the one which would limit
the automatic admission to the nor
NAL schools of 1.-The upper half or a
graduating class.
1t was maze plain IOudN lIldL LII
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent, ana
other school officials now believe that
the extension of the course and the
fact that few of the normal school
graduates will be placed in position
next September will have a sufficient
deterrent effect on the enrolment in
the schools to make it unnecessary to
impose the additional upper half"
restriction.
Two New Positions
One of the recommendations of the
Bureau of Education which will be
acted upon today has caused criticism
among civic groups.
1t is that ito mitigate the deleteri-
Gus effects of inbreeding,' a certain
proportion of the supervisors and
principals hereafter needed should be
from outside the District of Columbia
school system" A number of citizens
groups are opposed to the injection
into the local system of outof.town
supervisory officials, and have gone on
record as in favor of the promotion to
the higher posts of Washington men
and women.
Two new positions would be created
II the board finally approves a recon-
mendation that lat least one super
visor of practice teaching should be
provided for each of the normal
schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
SUPPORT SUIT FILED
AGAINST STEPHENSON
$4,000 Asked for Daughter as
Former Indiana Khan Dragons
Attorneys Seek Release.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, March BOD. c.
Stephenson, that mysterious figure
who is alleged at one time to have
controlled the political fortunes of
many in the Hoosier State, but who
suffered an eclipse after being SEN
fenced to life imprisonment for MUIR
der, received two brief fiickers Of the
news spotlight yesterday.
Superior Judge James M. Leathers
issued a forthwith subpoena on the
warden of the State Penitentiary or
dering the former Khan dragons ap-
pearance here. The summons was is
sued in behalf of Mrs. Mettie Stephen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30

Whales were once land animals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
COUNTESS IMPROVES.
Deemed Out of Danger With De
Trafford Near Death.

PARIS, March 80 R).-CounteSs de
jane, the former Alice Silverthorne
OF Chicago. who shot and wounded
Raymond V. de Trafford and herself
last Saturday, improved overnight
and was considered today to be out
of danger, barring unexpected compli-
cations. Her physicians said she
would be able to see her lawyer and
members of her family for a few
minutes today.
De Trafford, young Englishman,
who was bidding the countess good
by at the railway station when the
shooting occurred, is still lowering be-
tween life and death. His condition
this morning was stationary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
L0WDEN EXPLAINS VISIT.
Farm Problems Discussed With
Iowa Delegation. He Saws.

OREGON, Ill.,, March 80 R.-For-
mer Gov. Frank o. Lowden, visited
by a delegation from Iowa that left
Des Moines avowedly to urge him
to be a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination, received them
at his Sinissippi farm here yesterday.
But when they left at noon he said
there was no significance to the meet.
ing.
There was general discussion of
the farm situation" the former gov.
ernor said there was no special sig
nificance to the visit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30

Estate in very center of Virginia Hunt Club
section with its brilliant social life, coorful
horse shows, fox hunting, cup races, steeple-
chases, polo prize cattle and prize crops.
Midway between Warrenton The Plains and
Marshall, paved State highway between
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
Sister Has Long Vigil.

Believing that her 70-year-old sister,
Mary, was only in a trance and would
recover, Caroline Raywell, IS, guarded
the body for three weeks before the
two were found recently in Hull, Eng
ting before a roaring fire, and was
surrounded by loaves of bread and
other food.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
Alumnae to Meet.

The Washington Mount Holyoke
Association will entertain at luncheon
honor of alumnae of the college who
are attending the convention here of
the American Association of Univer-
sity Women. Among the guests will
be Dean Florence burlington of Mount
Holyoke Dean Sarah Lovejoy of Hood
College, Miss Katherine Arnold, reg
istrar Of Hood Coolege; Dean Amily
Hutton of Sweetbriar College and Miss
M. I. Park. Mrs. Frank G.. Wilkins,
alumnae trustee of Mount Holyoke,
will be hostess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
Hopes for Best i'm Desert.

He was not sure what would hap
pen when he tried to cross a desert
in seaplane, the task which faces
him before he reaches the Pacific
Coast.
If he has to come down in a sand
pile, he doesn't know what he will do
except come down. The only answer
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27
RADICAL FLUCTUATIONS IN
BIDDING FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS

to the housewife in retail delivery,
Seattle uses about $4,000 gallons of
milk daily, round $4,000 gallons is sold
by the Seattle Milk Shippers Associa-
ton to distributors, $500 gallons is
sold by the snohomish Dairymen's AS
ISOLATION, $500 gallons is distributed
by the Raw Milk Distributor-Pr oduc-
ers, and 5000 gallons is bought by in
dependent distributors from independ-
ent un-organized producers. With SO
many agencies furnishing this volume
of $4,000 gallons of milk the POSSIBLE
ity of any group Of individuals getting
control of this market is very remote.
The average spread over condenser
prices for the past six years is as
follows. For 1921, 1922, 1928. the
three-year average was 70 cents, or
SO As per cent; individually 1921,
691a cents or IS per cent; 1922, 76h
cents or 80 per cent; 1928, 641a cents
or 81 % per cent. 1924, from January
list to September 18th, 70 cents, be-
tween Sept. 18th and January 18th dur
ing the famous Fisher-Terrace battle,
condenser prices stood for city mar
kets: 1925, 541A cents; 1925, 561A cents
this shows general average for the
six years of IS cents over condenser.
1925 and 1925 being the lowest years,
during this period the milk was sold
on 3.S butterfat basis, this basis
works out only to the advantage of the
man shipping 3.6 milk Of better. Now
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27

The price of butter fat advanced 2
cents in the Seattle market April LIST,
at the same time the price Of milk for
condensers declined 10 cents per hum
bred, also the price of Fluid milk for
the City market. This is one of the
things that the average man who milks
COWS does not understand. 1t will be
remembered that March 18th, 1926, the
bids for condenser milk dropped is
cents per hundred pounds, at the same
time the price of case milk advanced
Is cents, at the time butterfat did not
make any move. May LIST, 1925, the
price of milk to consumers in the Seat
tie market was raised one cent per
quart, at the same time the price to
the producer did not advance, and with
number of declines in the buying
price of this milk, there was no
marked difference in the price the con-
sumner paid. The sale price remaining
stable from May list, 1925, to October
IL, 1926. Now approximately 40 per
cent of the milk sold in the Seattle
market is bottled, the remaining go
per cent is sold in two wholesale
forms, through grocery stores. The
difference in the price of that sold to
the grocery man, and that delivered to
the home by the dairy, is just the ad-
ditional cost of making delivery of
a single package against number of
packages, plus being paid for the con-
tanners (bottlesl which are just loaned
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27

as the average per cent Of butterfat for
all the available milk for the Seattle
Market according to the division of in
spection of the milk inspectors office
is only 3.4, therefore the large number
of shippers who cannot see the differ
ence in or against their favor on the
advance of the buying basis from 3.6
to 3.S is they are suffering a loss of
from to 3 cents per point on the milk
shipped that tests below 3.6. A num-
Der of illustrations have been present
ed to the shippers showing how this
works but nothing demonstrating how
it affects the fellow shipping milk
testing below 3.6 per cent. Where, as
matter Of fact, when the general
average is below that figure there is a
loss taken by the farmer of to 8
cents per point over the basis of 3.6
and cents per point up or down.
With this bit or history of the Seat
tie milk market I fail to see where the
so-called merchants law of supply and
demand has had any thing to do with
the price adjustment for buying or
selling of this product in this market.
AS one of the largest distributors told
the members of the shippers associa-
ton several years ago when talking
to them, he opened with the statement
that 1--WE are in the milk business, it
is our business to buy milk for as low
as wes can and sell it for all it will
bear"
am of opinion that farmers organ
izations should follow this rule also
and sell their milk for all the traffic
will bear, or the best bargain that can
be obtained rather than market
which as shown in the opening of this
article is subject to fluctuations of the
whims individual rather than natural
laws of supply and demand.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27

IF we had more Of the right kind
of parasites in the United States,
we wouldn't need SO many
chemists. But, as matters stand
now, the chemists who make the
proper insecticides and fungicides
to protect our fruit crops are one
Of the principal reasons why we
have any fruits to enjoy. The par
asites we lack are those which prey
upon the insects and fungi which
attack our fruits. Unfortunately,
we were so ignorant of the sub
ject of the enemies of our fruit
crops that we did not know how
to take the proper precautions at
the time when they were imported.
Most of our common fruits were
brought to America before the nm
portance of quarantine measures
against fungus and insect pests
was appreciated, so the introduce
ton of the fruits and the intro
duction of their major fungus and
insect pests were made simultan-
eously. If we had known as much
as we know now about this SUBJ
ject, the history of fruit growing
in this country might have been
entirely different. But fortunate
", the chemists were able to come
to our rescue with chemical substi-
tutes for the parasites which we
would otherwise sorely need.
A good example of what Knight
have been" is shown in the expert
ence of the peach in New Zealand.
The fora as we'll as the fauna of
New Zealand, like that Of Aus.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27
Saving Our National Fruits

native land. Although the United
States Government has done won
ders in the introduction Of para
sites of introduced insects, many
of the foreign parasites cannot live
in America owing to the absence
of secondary hosts, climatic con-
ditions, etc. On this account the
fruit growers of America have to
exert more energy and intelligence
in combating insects and fungus
diseases in order to. grow a per-
feet crop of fruit than any other
fruit growers in the world.
In this connection the ingenuity
of American chemists and Ameri-
can mechanics has come to the
resuce and has supplied to the
fruit growers of the North Ameri-
can Continent better spraying and
busting chemicals and better ma
chinery for applying them than are
supplied to any other fruit grow
ers, thereby more than overcoming
the handicap that they are labor
ing under through the insects and
diseases of fruits in America be-
ing more virulent than in any other
portion of the world.
The fruit grower of America who
takes advantage of the means sup
piled to him by his insecticide
chemists has an advantage over
the fruit growers of any other por-
ton Of the world in the control Of
fungus and insect pests and the
growing Of clean crops of fruit, in
spite of the disadvantages that
unwise importations by his an
cestors have forced upon him.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27

heard that evil cry and was not afraid
But here it was different. A gaunt,
gray timber wolf here was out of his
element and might do anything. And
Davey with only a pocket knife was
somewhere on that white road alone
Again the awful howl and this time
she saw him. Not two hundred yards
away, across the road on knoll he sat
with nose pointed at the moon. With
her white face pressed tight against
the window pane the mothers mind
loosened and she. remembered Don
Paul's gun.
Too late. The beast stood up sud
denly, shifted to the east, the direction
the boy had gone, then vanished. The
seconds sped and she saw him gain the
road fifty yards east of the house. Up
in her mind famed a sickening picture
of what would happen somewhere
down that lonely road. Then through
her frenzy sprang the only hope.
king! King!" she sobbed, where's
Davey? Get him, King. Go to Davey!"
The dog whined excitedly and leaped
on the doro as she fumbled with the
latch. "Go-go get Davey!" she
screamed as the great dog shot
through door when it yielded.
With a zip and a growl his nose
sought the ground in the roadway,
found the scent, then with gigantic
bounds he was away, running as only
he could run, belly close tothe ground,
nose and tail straight he seemed a
flying gray shadow. With parted lips
and anguished eyes the woman
watched and prayed.
In a moment there came to her ears
savage snarl of rage, implacable
anger, and her heart leaped-King had
caught the wolf scent. Now he would
run!
(To be continued)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27

tralia, is several hundreds of thou
sands of years out of date as COM
pared with that of the remainder
of the world. The peach was in
troduced by means Of pits taken
there by missionary monks, so no
insects or diseases of the peach
were introduced with them and the
native insects and diseases being
adapted to an ancient flora did not
adapt themselves to it. The peach,
being so much more modern than
the native trees and, SO, better
adapted to gathering food and in
addition being free from all insects
and diseases, grew so luxuriantly
that it soon began to crowd out
the native forest trees and grow
wild in the fertile valleys of the
island. About a century later an
Englishman, desiring some variety
to which he was accustomed at
home, brought in a shipment of
budded trees and with it number
of common insect and fungus enc
mics of the peach, with the result
that the New Zealand peach grow
er now has to work as hard to
make his crop as does the peach
grower of any other portion of the
world.
In their native haunts and on
their native host plants, most in
sects are to a greater or less ex-
tent controlled by parasitic insects
Unfortunately for the fruit grow
ers of America, most Of the insect
enemies OF his fruits have been
imported without the parasites
which keep them in control in their
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27
Continued from Last Week,

49, 1890
A stream of profanity broke from
Hobe's' lips. Lord, yes!" he roared,
and stamped up and down the room.
Presently he smot the table with a
great fist and began barking orders
dole, you an Pap hitch up my team
to tn bobs an drive down to that big
oak just this side O. Paul's place-they
can't see you there-an' wait. Jake,
you come with me. Well have to work
like lightnin', but if that Internal dog
is shut up we can do it yet, an I'm
thinkin' by tomorrow the Pauls will
have enough. AS he talked he slipped
into a heavy coat and pulled on his
boots. "When you git there" he add
ed to Dole, "let Pap hold the horses
an you get around back to help with
the stuff. There's near fifteen hundred
pounds of it an that means eight or
ten trips apiece. And hurry! The
moon is full and it'll be up about sew
en-thirty. Come on, Jake" They went
out through the kitchen and Hobe
caught up quart jar of kerosene as
they left. Behind them old Pap was
chuckling and cackling, and rubbing
his palsied hands "Ho, ho!" he
squealed to John Dole, "this nightll
fix 'em. / knew Hobe'd think O. some
Ho, no, no! They amt goin' to git
Old Pap after all! Too smart for
'em" he croaked and hoped about,
thin. Well soon be rid of 'em now.
getting into his grimy clothes
Meantime, down the road like drift
ing shadows went Hobe and Jake. At
the great oak tree, not twenty rods
from Don PauPs house, they left the
road and plunged into the swamp that
veered out close to the road at that
point. From there they circled out
and then threaded back to approach
the fur shed from the rear.
With scarcely sound they reached
the shanty and peered around it's cor
ners at the house. All was quiet
there Through window they could
see Lois bending watchfully over the
crib of her sick baby
1.-The dog must be inside or we'd
! never have got this far" whispered
| Jake.
yes" replied Hobe. Lets get
busy. Pap and JOHN must be there
by now and we gotta work fast"
| From his pocket Barrett drew a
small saw, found crack in the boards
and set carefully to work, smothering
the noise with an old sack. In less
than five minutes he removed two
boards, thus making an opening large
enough for man to slip through.
Don't dare use light" he whis
pered "but / saw 'em this afternoon
They're most all bundled an / kin find
em in the dark" Another dark figure
appeared at the opening. "That you,
John?" queried Hobe.
| "Yes," came Dole's heavy whisper.
Hurry up. The moons comm up"
"All right Here they are. Grab 'em
now Carry all you kin. Keep still,
but go fast" And then, out through
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-05-27
DEVILTRY ON RAT ROAD
By GEORGE F. PEABODY


the hole went Don Pauls winters
catch, and snatching up all each could
carry, the three set off for the waiting
bob sled.
"Ten trips oughta do it," muttered
Hobe. "An' forty-five minutes will be
enough. Then the fireworks"
"Ahuh," grunted the other two.
Within the house, undreaming of the
dark work beginning in the fur shed,
Lois bent anxiously over her baby's
crib. Fear and grave concern had
entered the woman's dark eyes and
her heart was fiuttering on the edge
of terror. Low, piteous, means came
from the tiny bundle in the crib as
though pain accompanied every labor
ed breath. But in the moment a
change came. The means ceased, the
futtering fingers were quiet, and on
the flushed brow the mothers touch
found cool damp. Real terror struck
then and a long wall was wrung from
her. Her eyes were first wide with
horror as she listened frantically for
the short breaths, then flooded with
tears at hearing them. Decision came
quickly after that.
"Davey! she called, "Davey, darling;
you are brave aren't you? Sister is
terribly sick. Il am afraid she's
dying, Davey. We must have a doc
down to Sarr's and have them tele-
phone for Doctor Parks are you,
Davey? You'll go for Baby Sister and
Mother, won't you, Davey? Nothing
will hurt you here"
The boy looked once at the dark
window The young mouth, scarcely
more than babys, pressed into a
grim little line "King?" he asked.
The mother shook her head. 1--WE
dare not let King out, Davey. But the
moon is coming up. And Sister is dy-
ing" Her voice broke in sob, then
struggled on. you're not afraid,
Davey? You're brave like Papa?"
The small figure straightened "im
not fraid," he said simply, Give got my
knife" and he fished in pocket for
the stubby jack knife. His mother
dropped to her knees and gathered the
sturdy little figure to her bosom.
"My boy, my boy, my Davey!" she
sobbed and then rose to get his coat,
cap and mittens.
At the door she Rugged him again
of his collar Don't run, Davey; it's
while her tears rained down on the fur
too far for that, but walk fast. And
have Mrs. Sarr tell the doctor to stop
for you when he comes along Don't
be afraid, Davey."
"I'm not" he declared bravely, and
added, "I'll go fast, mamma"
Through mist Lois watched the
twee figure go stalking off in the dark
ness.
With Davey went also peace of mind
for King. He left the fire and stood
beside the door. This was all wrong;
small boys shouldn't go out alone in
the dark. The dog whined and with