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Who's Who Among
The Winds

The National Geographic Society
issued thu following statement today
in explanation Of various types of de-
structivc winds:
\ gale is Il strong, straight wind.
Whirlwind-~An eddy of air, which
whisks up dust; or a stronger Whirl
of air. such as that which strips leaves
from n corntield and sends them hun
dredS of feet aloft.
Tornado--A violent. powerful whirl-
wind. covering small area; that
sucks up heavy objects or twists them
from their moorings. Its vertical
forces are more important than its
horizontal ones.
Hurricane-A violent circular sys-
tenn of winds in the tropics and semi
tropics of the Atlantic and Caribbean,
covering n considerable area and mov-
ing long distances. These are tho
strongest of the predomina ntly hori-
znntal winds One hundred miles an
hour is their usual ma aXimum toward
the center Of circulation.
Typhoon--A hurricane in the tropi-
cal waters of the Pacific.
Cyclone A continually misused
term. In popular parlance. any de-
structive wind is a ''cyclone.' Prop
erly. cyclone is a circular system
Of winds covering a great area tsome.
times 600 miles across), and inclul-
ing gentle breeZes, as we'll as stiff
winds. Cyclones are beneficial rather
than harmful. They give MS most Of
our weather changes. Each low on
the daily weather map has its cyclonic
system Uf winds circulating around 1t.
When Nature dips her spoon in the
weather brew and stirs, the result is
cyclone.
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HEADS PHI GAMMA DELTA.

Edward l.. Bacher. Williams IL.
manager of the foreign commerce de-
partment of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce. was elected prcsi-
dent Of the Washington Graduate
Chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta Fra
ternity at a luncheon meeting at the
University Club yesterday.
Other officers chosen were: Will
liam r. Willard. Dartmouth 90. vice
president; Andrew G. Scarborough,
Alabama 10, vice president; John J.
Reinhard, Indiana OF. vice president
Maynard C. Burrell. Lehigh 10. sec.
retary-treasurer. and Cecil j. Wilkin
son, Ohio Wesleyan II. chaplain.
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the station private dump, few hun
dred yards south of the base.
Planes Are Damaged.


dred yards south of the base.
Planes Are Damaged.
The following aircraft We're dam
aged: Ford three-ea@ine .ali-m2t1l mon
nrl3ne, tai and wing demolished. leaV-
/ inn the tt@rtage tpr posS.b = savage;
; TO tWo-$oajcu observation plane. Spc-
I cially prepared Tor the use Of Rear
AGmirai AiolTett. chief ot the Bureau
/ OF -AeIonautics. fuScla@c cut in half;
radio De HaVilaHd, totally demolished,
and l;oeing slnClc-Seated fighter, like
/ wise demolished
Five others. Il Deflaviland, belong.
/ in@ TO the photo unit, and Il Hawk
/ ii&hter. ASS. .Gned tn Mai. Edwin H.
| Blnlnard chief of Marine Corps lVia.
| tion, Deiiaviland also assigned for
! his exclusive use. and Nought Cor
/ sair, newest of the Nays model OBJ
/ SerVatlon planes, were damaged more
| or less seriously, but it is thought
/ they can be saved.
At least u automobiles belonging to
enlisted men on the station. were bad
/ ly damaged by the storm. Several Of
the lighter ANA smaller types were
blown about the held along with The
other 4 briS.
No forecasts could be made today
on Just Y nat steps would lie taken to
rebuild the station. but general tCe-
ing, especially among those who were
in the teeth of the storm, was that
concrete and steel buildings and han.
ears OF secure foundati ton and
structure should replace the wartime
structures that have housed the inn
poftant activities Of the station. I'm
der appropriations authorized, S250,-
! goo Is allotted To the station tor per.
manent barracks of concrete and also
for Z permanent administration build
ing, but construction is not authorized
| before the Fall of 1929
1naSmuch as all the telephone wires
connecting various points about the
Graped over partially destroyed build
ing.s the argument was advanced that
these wires should he underground.
The location of the air station makes
it vulnerable 10 all storms approach
ing from the southwest. the usual di-
rection in which they cmanatc. Re
Gently mammoth steel doors replaced
canvas doors on two of the three sea-
plane hangarS and, as these doors
were locked when the storm struck,
he comparative small damage to those
hancars is attributed to the presence
of the doors. The third hangar, des-
| lgnated to have similar doors, was
| open and exposed 1t was thought at
| the station that had the storm occur.
! red three months ago all three han.
gars would nave been blown to the
| ground.
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had gathered thu youngsters to their
breasts, or when neighbor aware
OF their anguish had assured them
by telephone that they were harbor.
ing the children in safety until the
storm abatsd. these mothers turned
their sympathies to the children OF
other women.
In the confusion OF the hour three
schools We're reported demolished.
stories abounding with vivid de-
tail Of large brick school structures
collapsine were paramount.
Newspaper men surveying the storm
area perhaps more completely than
the residents plight would permit
them to review it. somehow were rec
ognized and sought out.
Have YOU been over to the Crancn
Schooi YETI Yes? Then tell me. is
- II really blown down" a mother at
seventh and j. streets demanded
little hoarsely in her concern for that
school. at Twelfth and G streets.
ANA the assuring report that al
though smokestacx was hurled from
an adjoining baker, building il foll
harmlessly TO the payyard ~ the
school. While the Cranch structure
survived the storm, would be acrcp.ed
with passionIcSs nod Of the head ana
q seemingly vacant stare.
.Iother Is Anxious.
As the concluding example in this
story of mothers. there was the little
woman who stood outside 81. Cypriar's
Church at Thirteenth and G streets
southeast. Her Yeas We're enough 10
put her own children into the world
as men and women. She had heard
/ that serious damage had been suffered
by the Bryan School, on e street be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets southeast. and she was on her
way there. she said. to see for herself.
But she heard it from the reporter
how the main building OF the BRYAN
School withstood the tornados rayagcs
and how one of the two frame portable
structures erected on adjoining ground
had it's gabled roof ripped open and y
section plucked bodily from it's perch
above the heads of the 3S children
gathered beneath with their teacher.
Miss Margaret T.. Murray. The roof
was deposited in shattered heap
Continued on Fifth Page)
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Windows Blown Out.

On the north side of J. street south
cast windows were blown out. rain
cutters torn from the caves and rail-
ings were snatched by the wind from
one of the porches.
One of the most curious events of
the tornado occurred at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Brown. colored,
of ESQ l. street southeast. where one
side of the two-story brick structure
was torn away. as il chopped with
giant cleaver. Flower pots on bench
outside the door were untouched The
furnishings of the rooms were ex-
posed To view.
Frank Diggs. colored. 634 l. street
southeast. huckster. declared he was
packing fish when the fury of the
storm broke. He grabbed his white
horse. but the gates closed by the
force OF the wind and the wall of the
Brown house fell blocking off the
frightened horses exit to the street
Diggs declared that the blackest cloud
he ever saw appeared to he on the
ground, whirling round and round,
and when it hit the Brown house. he
said, it raised up and then went on
its way TO rip up roofs.
While wild rumors flew about among
the stricken groups surveying their
torn homes and business places yes
terday. mothers queried desperately
for truth concerning the welfare Of
the schools in the storm area. Beset
with visions of the motor car caval-
cade. which year ago sped through
their community bearing the % in
iured children from the debris of the
tornadowrecked La Plata School, to
local hospitals and medical aid. scores
of mothers yesterday ran through the
binding rain and flying debris to the
school buildings in which their chill.
dren were housed.
Their hySteria calmed when they
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Furnishings Saved.

Some had procured closed moving
vans. but others were carrying fur
niture and personal effects into the
homes of more fortunate neighhcrs
who had escaped the freakish course
of the storm. Inspectors IIeadlev end
Stoll, supervising police activity in
the neighhorhood of Fourteenth and
East Capitol streets. sent for food
lights to aid several families i'm mDv-
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from houses that were no longer

ing from houses that were no longer
habitable.
During the first hour or two after
the storm struck residents of the
damaged areas were so thankful for
having escaped alive that they bore
with fortitude the sight of ruined
household possessions.
After the excitement began to sub
side and night had crept on. fathers
and brothers could he seen striving
to shut the rain from shattered win.
tiows and other gaps. while women
hustled about to make the interior as
comfortable as possible
Pedestrians hurryinG along the
streets in the rain had Ia keen one
eye skyward every time they passed
under tree, for there were scores
OF tin roofs tangled in the branches.
'lkelF to fall with a puff of wind.
Boiler Hung in Tree.
In one tree. near Twelfth and &,
streets n metal wash boiler hung at
a rakish angle from an uppermost
. ranch. where it had landed whom
blown from nearby porch.
Tlnners working on roofs. mon fix.
ing windows that had been shattcrcd
telephone repair mon knitting broken
''''''7 anu ~Aifft SAtPptfS G1fnarIny
IN the aftermath in the form Of lin
glass and slate, today attested tn the
damage wrought by the storm during
Yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of
tn" Navy Yard.
NJ, Engel Of 1908 Eighth street
sout beast, a shoemaker, said that he
had worked during the period OF the
storm and then FASTENED to cover his
roof. which had been stripped of tin
with block tarpaper to make the house
dry last night. The building shook
and the plate glass in his shop win
dow was knocked out. he said, and
some of the lights went out The
first he knew of the tornado was when
he saw leaves flying around and his
iou-Story structure shivered under
the stress Of the gale. The people liv
ing on the fourth flonr of the building
could not sleep there last night as
that part Of the house was drenched
\ wan November sun looked dowr
today on the nailed-up windows of Mr.
En@efs place.
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league" game which took place
each month. when two periods
were devoted to the match and
nine innings were played to a
finish.
The words for the big game
were chosen from the lessons of
the whole month--and great was
the studying thereof on the days
preceding the big game.
In order to make sure that each
child was given a chance to re-
cite his spelling lesson every day.
the teacher gave out" the words
to the class and the children wrote
them In their spelling blanks.
And because spelling IL such an
important thing to learn and is
so often neglected, no one thought
that Miss Meade was giving too
much time to that subject.
Teachers who devise entertain
ing methods of presenting dull
subjects in school achieve results
which others can never hope to
equal. In addition to the effec-
tive drilling in that particular SUBJ
ject- valuable traits of character
are thereby developed In those
children.
To find work pleasant. to be
able to attack it with zest and a
relish is a distinct blessing to any
child. And mothers or teachers
who bring about a feeling of en-
thusiasn and genuine interest in
learning are wise. and kind and
inspiring.
on the last Friday afternoon in
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The long train was pulling into

The long train was pulling into
Los Angeles.
From the window in the Last
car, Bobbie gazed out with eager
eyes at the tiers and tiers of hill
side houses. Their roofs were as
bright colored as Christmas candy
in the afternoon sunlight.
Above them was sky that was
like Chinese blue enamel. Across
1t clouds sailed like ships.
The train crossed a dusty street
OF Los Angeles Chinatown, and
slid into the station.
Well, here we are, old kid!"
after a moment she added:
I'm glad / came. I'm not afraid
now that I've made the break
and I'd have died on the vine If
I'd stayed at home"
She thought of the house on
Locust street as something far
away-something that was only
part Of dream and nothing more.
Dad and Aunt Gertrude-their
faces passed before her inward
eye. Good. dear people. But she
wasn't lonely or homesick for
them.
1T would have been different il
I'd had a mother" said Bobbie
Ransom to herself, and got out OF
the train.
She looked around the crowded
station. with its gayly dressed peo-
pie. with its palm trees thar give
1t a look OF the tropics, with its
hurrying red caps.
One OF them picked up Boobies
bags. Walking in dream she fol
lowed him to the front of the sta
ton. where he thrust her luggage
into a cab.
Hollywood. The magic name
fell from Boobies lips like a pearl
of great price-Hollywood, the
most wonderful words in the Ian
guaEe.
Amy address, asked the
driver, without turning his head.
''Of counsel" Bobbie found her
self blushing foolishly. She
looked quickly down the column
Of Rooms for Rent ads that
she had found in a newspaper on
the train.
She had marked one Of them,
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By L. Lamar Matthews

MISS MEADE's pupils came
1HA marching in from recess
heads up. shoulders back eyes
bright. They didn't care so much
that recess was over nor that
they had to come back into the
school room.
For the very next period would
be their baseball spelling game:
and. according to one little boy.
that was more fun than any
thing"
While the rest of the children
were outside. Miss Meade had
allowed two Of the boys to outline
upon the classroom floor a base
ball diamond. The made cross
marks with chalk at the point
where the home base, the first
base, the second base, and the
third should be. Then another
cross mark designated the pitch
er's stand
The pitcher" was the child
who gave out" the words. He
stood in the pitchers box with
his spelling book in his hand.
. If he niispronounced or FUN
bled" the words he was replaced
by another pitcher. This induced
faithful practice in the matter of
pronunciation and good tones.
The first batter came to bat,
but instead of knocking a ball he
spelled word. If No. spelled
his word correctly he went to
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Her Folks Thought She Had Lost Her Mind When She De-
cided to Give Up Everything She Loved and Seek
Career in the Moving Pictures

to Hollywood any more-that he
had no right to keep her from a
career where she would probably
succeed gloriously.
But within five minutes he had
forgotten his resolve, and with
Bobbie in his arms. he was beg
ging her not to go away.
i can't let you co." he kept
saying over and over. His hands
went over her smooth hair. over
her face, and locked themselves
around her slim waist.
Now, before that Andy never
had kissed Bobbie Ransom the
way he wanted to. He had al.
ways touched her lips reverently
and respectfully, partly because
he was afraid of himself and
partly because Bobbie always took
him in such a sisterly natter-of.
fact way.
Perhaps it would have been bet
ter for him IL he had been little
more natural and gusty in his
love making. He might have
Weakened Bobbie to the fact that
she loved him with her senses as
well as with her heart. To tine
fact that he was a man and a
lover as well as a tried and true
friend.
But he never had.
Now, tonight, all at once he was
swept off his feet. Perhaps be.
cause he knew that she was going
away-and that tomorrow night ali
the warm loneliness that he held
now in his arms would be lost TO
him, for six months at least.
He kissed her as he never had
kissed her befOre-as il she be-
longed to him. Until her mouth was
hurt and bruised when she tore
herself away from him and faced
him, flushed and painting, under
the dim hall light.
Don't ever do that-aga in"' she
said. She said 1t in a whisper be-
cause her father was just benind
the closed door of the living room
II won't have 1t. don't want to
be made love to.
But while she was saying 1t, she
could feel herself trembling under
the warm wave Of tenderness and
longing that was sweeping over
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PROPER WAY
TO ROAST

THE proper way of roasting
small cuts of meat il de-
scribed in an article in this
weeks Liberty by Ethel Somers,
who explains that, 1.-THE smaller
the roast, the more easily 1t is
spoiled in roasting.
Select meat in cuts as small
as one pound" the writer Elk.
plains further, may be roasted
successfully uncovered. The
secret of success with tiny roasts
lies in perfect and minute oven
control, enhanced by meticulous
basting with the hot, soaring fat
as the roast goes into the fiercely
heated oven. and in fact through
out the roasting process.
This basting, aided by the
properly controlled oven heat"
the writer continues. Quickly
sears the outside of the meat be.
fore the heat has a chance to
penetrate and tougher the center.
The danger with small roasts il
that a too slow oven causes the
consecutive layers from the out.
side to the very core to shrink
and tougher as the roasting pro.
crosses. An unpalatable, dry,
fought product results"
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an address on Las Palmas Street,
where room and cooking priv.
leges were offered for the modest
sum of So a week.
She gave the driver the adj
dress, and with a Jerk and a
thrOb of the cab they were off.
Through narrow, mean streets to
wide shining ones that were lined
with all sorts of glittering shops.
Then suddenly they turned into
q broad boulevard that swung up
q hill. AT the top. low almost
flat plain opened out before them
land beyond that law-lying
crescent of purplish brown hills.
What big town Los Angeles
Isl" Bobbie exclaimed, moving
into one of the iumpy seats of
the cab so that she could talk to
the driver. She was too full Of
excitement to keep silent.
Magic Name
This amt Los Angeles" the
driver answered. 1--WE just left
L. A. when we came through the
Tunnel. This here is Hollywood. /"
LL04Ay FNOOus I9O0DAG GGADGus
She wondered IL. the sight of it
had ever meant so much to any.
one before as it meant to her at
that moment. She was sure it
never had.
She glanced at the meter of the
cab. 1t registered almost two dol
lars.
But with a sudden toss of her
head, she made up her minds to
forget to pinch pennies on this
day of all her days.
Before you take me to Las
Palmas Street." she said, drive
me past one of the movie studios.
I've never seen one in my lifer
We're going TO p9ss one right
up here on Sunset boulevard in
Just q jiffy." the driver tossed
back to her. so keep your eyes
peeled-right here on the left.
See?"
Bobbie looked. The long low
white building looked more to
her like an art museum than
anything else. Before it stretched
a smooth green lawn.
1t was a big handsome building,
and that was all. But to Bobbie
Ransom 1t was d place of magic
and mystery holy OF holies-a
wonder and q terror all at once.
Her heart beat like mad long
after 1t was out OF sight. and the
driver was turning into Las Pal.
mas Street.
CHAPTER VIII
The yellow cab pulled UP In
front of q house that did not look
at all like an ordinary rooming
house.
1t was large and spotless with
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NOlU Go On With The Story

herself, and started down the long
flight Of stairs that led into the
front hall.
The light from below struck up
at her as she came down, and
Andy Jerrold. standing at the bot
tom of the stairs, seemed to see
Bobbie for the first time that
night.
That is, he saw her then not
as Bobbie Ransom. the woman he
wanted for his wife-but as Bob
bic Ransom, who was going to
Hollywood to break into pictures
If she could.
A Beautiful Girl
He had long been used to the
fact, that Bobbie's hair was golden,
and that her brows and lashes
were black. But all at once he
realized how strikingly beautiful
such coloring can be in a woman.
He saw, too, how beautifully
were-the level brows, the delicate
nose that tilted ever so little, the
big shadowy eyes, the perfect
mouth, and the round chin with
it's deep cleft. The kind of face
that would doubtless show flaw
less and enchantingly lovely on
the silver screen.
why. she'd be a knockout in
the moviese' 1t came to him like
blow between the eyes.
He made up his mind then not
to try to keep Bobbie from going
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DANCING IN
THE AIR

DRITIsH airship designers have
~ drawn up plans for a new
dirigible. the "R-1O1,' which will
carry 100 passengers with their
baggage, together with 10 tons of
mail. The plans for the upper
deck of this ship of the air re-
semble those of a lounge saloon
Of a large ocean liner.
Provision is made for a prom.
enade deck, a DINING room to
seat SO. a large lounge and ade-
quate sleepinc accommodations
Passengers will be able to dance
on the deck and also, if they de-
sire. to indulge in card playing.
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HURT ARM IN FALL
FROM BOX CAB.
Sustains painful injury
but gets quick relief

In fall from the top Of a box car
a freight brakeman on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway badly
sprained his left arm and tore some
of the ligameIltg.
II suffered great pains he writes
from Belle PLANE, Iowa. "Then
got bottle of Sloan'S Liniment
and 1t relieved the pain right away"
Sloan's gets results because II
doesn't just deaden the pain. Il
stirs UP the body to throw off the
cause.
just pat It on lightly. No need
10 rub. Eloan's does the whole Job,
Get Q bottle t0days Al dyusgists-s
y eants.
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Making Career for Ones Self Is Not All Peaches and
Cream as BObbie Ransom Found Out When She En-
tered the Movies at Hollywood

white paint. In all of its shining
-square-paned windows were clean
white curtains. and before It
stretched smooth green lawn
bordered by a three-foot hedge Of
geraniums with big velvety red
blooms glowing among its green
leaves.
On the porch were willow rock
ers and a willow settee piled with
soft-looking cushions of lowered
cretonne. There were magazines
on wicker table.
Only one thing--a small square
sign tackled beside the street nun.
er-betrayed the fact that the
house was anything but a privat4
home. That sign read simply
Rooms"
Bobbie went up the steps, after
short look around her. and rang
the doorbell.
It was answered by a middle
aged woman who wasn't so tall AZ
she looked to be. Her hair was
gray. So were her tired eyes. So
was her house dress, and even her
skin seemed to have taken on q
faint tinge of gray. She was as
colorless as her house was gay
and cheerful.
Robbie glanced from her to the
folded newspaper in her hand,
came about room to rent. =
she said, her voice faltering a lit.
tie.
Its up here" she said. Eat the
head of the stairs. Come right
along"
There was a fresh, airy. clean
smell in the house, and the stairs
and the upper hallway were inst
as spotless as the outside of the
house had been.
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
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HOW DISEASE
SPREADS

WITH tuberculosis and with
w all infectious diseases the
danger lies not in the home or
surroundings but in the contact
with human beings who spread
infection, says an editorial in
Hygeia. The idea that some
houses are breeding places of
tuberculosis and that dark and
unclean houses are a good ground
for the tubercle bacilli must be
given up.
Overcrowding and bad nutri.
ton, conditions that are much
more common among the poor
than the rich. are important con-
tributing factors IN the spread OF
this disease. A person with
tuberculosis or any other active
infectious disease should be
isolated and arrangements should
be made for preventing the
spreading of his excretions among
those who are well.