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Evening star., 1927-05-29
Great Virility of Boil Weevil Is Shown
By Use of 100 Poisons In Experiments

More than 100 possible poisons and
poisonous mixtures have been tried
out on 100000 boil weevils, according
to progress report made yesterday
by II. w. Walker and J. E. Mills of
the Chemical Warfare Service at the
American Chemical Society.
The tests proved, among other
things, that the cotton pest is ex.
tremely difficult to kill. 1t can en-.
dure concentrations of unbelievable
amounts of poison gas. The crea-
lures were found to survive after II
hours exposure in pure carbon dioxide
and hydrogen. Four out Of seven re.
covered after IL hours immersion in
water.
This confirms the belief of the
chemists that the weevil can suspend
breathing for long periods, If neces-
sary, without bad effects. Better re-
suits were obtained by long exposures
Of poisonous gas of low concentration,
but this would be impossible in the
cotton fields. There is little posi-
bility in gas war against the pests.
it was concluded.
Calcium arsenate was used as a
standard in the poison tests, and con.
trolls using imprisoned cotton were
Evening star., 1927-05-29
PURCHASE OF POWER
FIRMS IS REFUSED
Maryland Utilities Board Orders
Probe of Rates as Decision
Is Reached.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, May 2s.-Per-
mission to acquire a controlling in.
terest in four western Maryland
power companies was denied the E1ec-
trio Public Utilities Co. in an opin-
ion handed down by the Public Serv.
ice Commission today.
The four companies sought by the
Chicago concern are Antietam Elec-
trio Light & Power CO., Midland Elec-
trio Co.. Home Electric Light & Power
Co. and Emmitsburg Electric Co.
For 2.170 shares of stock in the
Homecoming, Emmitsburg, Antietam
and Midland electric companies, with
a par value of S45,375 the Electric
Public Utilities Co. proposed to pay
$46S.0O0 in cash and assume the out.
standing bonded Indebtedness of S5O,.
600 of the Lonaconing Co., making
the cost of the applicants for the
four properties $518,0O0. Each Of the
companies. except the Antietam, has
a generating plant of its own.
The application of the Electric
Public Utilities Co. declared that
through stock ownership it planned to
subsequently control electric and gas
corporations in Ohio. Kansas, Okla.
honla and Colorado. This was it's first
effort to get a foothold in MARYLAND.
AS the result Of statements made at
the hearing the commission will in.
vestigate rates of the four companies.
it was announced today. These are
branded as excessive, unjust and nm.
reasonable"
Evening star., 1927-05-29

that Mr.. Strauss "is a very sick man.
Mrs. Strauss. who has been his help.
mate in business and his, many phi.
lanthropies for more than So years of
an exceptionally happy marriage, has
spent most of her time 1T his bedside
since he became i'll. as has their son,
Nathan Strauss, jr.
Mr.. Strauss was born in Bavaria in
184S and came to America with his
parents in 1854. His successful busi-
ness career began in association with
his father in the firm of l.. Strauss
G Sons. importers Of rpttery and glass;
ware. In 1888 he became a partner in
r. III. Marcy's, and -four years later
entered the firm of Abraham & Strauss
in Brooklyn.
Retires From Business.
Mr.. Strauss retir ed from Macy's and
active business in 1914 and few years
ago resigned as chairman Of the board
of directors Of Abaaaham & Strauss, de.
voting his full time to philanthropy.
He has remarked he would leave his
family only a modest fortune.
In recent years the cause closest
to his heart has been restoration OF
Palestine as a national Jewish home.
land. and he returned from Jerusalem
only six weeks ago after establishing
there a s250.00D health center.
His milk depots were eventually
taken over by the city.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Campaign Against Immodest Fashions
Seeks to Revive Italian Sartorial Art

which gave to the women of the
Risorgimento the period of struggle
for national freedom in the ninetee nth
century, graceful elegance without
sacrificing feminine majesty and
dignity. In this effort we expect to
have with us all Italian women who,
through innate esthetic sense, know
the limits beyond which lie ugliness
and dishonesty"
Establishment Of a lottery for the
benefit of brides is promised by
Amedec Ballard, one Of the organizers
OF the campaign. He announced:
"We will hold contest among
Italy's 100000 marriageable young
women, giving each one who signs a
pledge to dress decently a lottery
ticket carrying a chance for a prize
consisting of trousseau, honeymoon
expenses, furnishings for a small
fat, and wedding dinner for 12."
Evening star., 1927-05-29

were found which equaled or sur
passed calcium arsenate in deadly
effects.
Twenty-Five of these caused little
or no plant injury. Only five, how
ever. seem to offer commercial possi-
bilities. They are sodium fluosilicate,
barium fiuosilicate, a special calcium
arsenate, barium fiuoride, and cryo-
lite. Forty Of the compounds were
definitely harmful to the cotton.
No substances were found which
definitely attracted or repelled the
boil weevil or which irritated it suf.
ficiently to make it fly
Evening star., 1927-05-29
FRANCE AIDING VILLAGES
TO INSTALL ELECTRICITY
10000 Towns Getting Use Of Cur
rent at Cost Of 1900, 100000
Francs.
By the Associated Press.


PARIS, May 28.-Electricity is be-
ing taken into 10000 villages of
France at an expense of about 1900
100000 francs.
Much of the work is done with state
aid, and the results, many believe.
justify the governments policy of urg.
Ing villagers and farmers to electrify
everything possible.
Considerable work along this line
was done In rebuilding the devastated
regions. The government tried to get
an factory owners to run their plants
by electric power and helped every
community to rebuild with provision
for electric distribution.
The cost of electricity in rural COM
munities is about double the average
cost in the United States, but as more
farmers are converted to using power
1t Is certain that costs can be reduced.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
WALTER REEDS HOME
WILL BE RESTORED
birthplace in Gloucester County,
Va, to Be Rebuilt by Me-
mortal Group.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va. May 2S.-
The Walter Reed Memorial Assooaa-
tion has decided to begin the restora-
tion of the birthplace of DIR. Reed in
Gloucester County at once. A New
port News contractor has been award.
ed the contract for the work now nee
essary to preserve Belroi as a shrine
for all those who would memorialize
the public service Of DIR. Walter Reed.
DIR. Walter Reed. the son Of a Meth.
odist pastor in Gloucester, was born
in the parsonage Of his fathers cir
cult, very humble cottage, about
s miles from Gloucester Court.
house. In the courthouse. erected a
year after DIR. Reeds death, is a
tablet to his memory.
In his early childhood, his father
becoming the minister of the Meth
odist Church in Harrisonburg, Va,
DR.. Reed lived in Stoneleigh. in that
place, which fact has caused it to be
sometimes enormously stated that DIR.
Reed was born in Harrisonburg.
DIR. c. p. Jones of Newport News
Ia the active head of the local move.
ment to have Belroi restored.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
EUROPEAN VETS PLAN
STRENUOUS DRY FIGHT
France Approves Plan for Interna-
tional Wine Bureau to
Safeguard Industry.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 2s.-European inter.
national "wets" are almost ready to
make war on both prohibition and
drunkenness.
France finally has approved plans
for an international Wine Bureau"
to supervise propaganda and stand
ardize methods Of production, regu.
lation and trade practices.
Primarily this bureaus job is to
protect and develop the wine indus
try. both by counteracting dry move.
ments and curbing alcoholism, which
the French regard frankly as a great
danger.
Greece, Hungary, Italy, Tunis and
Luxembourg adopted the plan at a
meeting here in 1924, with Spain ad-
herring under reservations. Five rati-
fications are required and the plan
is expected to become operative by
the end Of the year.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
By the Associated Press.

VERONA, Italy, May ga practi.
cal campaign against inlmodest dress
and to free Italian women from the
sartorial domination of Paris has been
started here by the local branch of
the national committee for correcting
fashions.
With the blessing of the church and
the approval Of the government, the
committee has founded a fortnightly
official fashion magazine. Bishop
Cardinale, head Of the committee, has
issued a manifesto setting forth its
aims.
I'VE, who have great treasures of
sartorial art, have asked too much of
our foreign neighbors," says the
manifesto. Now we want the art of
dressing again. to become ours-to
become the art which adorned and
beautified the purity of Beatrice and
Evening star., 1927-05-29
NATHAN STRAUSS
IS SERIOUSLY I'LL
Famous PhiIanthropist Rush.
ed to Hospital in New York
With Appendicitis.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. May 2S.-Nathan
Strauss. international philanthropist,
is seriously i'll of acute appendicitis
at Mount Sinai Hospital, whittier he
was rushed late Friday evening, after
a sudden attack at his Summer home,
Driftwood, at Mamaroneck.
DIR. Albert A. Berg, the Strauss fam
lily physician. late tonight was sti;l
postponing operation in the hope that
his patient could survive without 1t.
He is nearing 80 years old. The last
word from him was that "Mr. Strauss
is resting comfortably"
DR. Berg called in consultation sew
eral other physicians and surgeons.
Their verdict was that every effort
had been made to save Mr.. Strauss
from the dangerous shock of an op-
Grafton.
Throughout Friday night and today
the patient appeared at least to be
getting no worse. DR.. Berg admitted
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Wins Fiddling Contest.
pecial DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LONACONING. Md. May Is
James Cathcart of Frostburg was
awarded the first prize of SIS in cash
at the old-time fiddlers' contest held
in connection with the Old Home
week benefit dance at the Knights
of Pythias Armory. James Cunning
ham of Ocean and ]. o. Wilhelm of
Avilton were declared deadlocked by
the four judges for the second prize
of $40, and each was given IS.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Man, 80, Slain in Mexico.

NOGALES, Ariz, May % P).-The
Nogales Herald received a report to-
night that Thomas E. Hardy, 50, a
British subject prominent in Sonora.
Mexico, mining circles. was killed sew
eral days ago by his Mexican man
servant while en- route to his property
100 miles south Of Hermosillo. Hardy
is survived by his widow and six chill.
dreA, al living in Hermosillo.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Picture Guides
Letter in Lieu
OF ANY: Address
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. IS
CHICAGO, May 28.-Did ycu
ever hear Of Mitchell v. B. Ken.
nedy?
Well, he is so we'll known in
postal circles that his picture on
a letter brought the missive to him
here. Kennedy is postal clerk
of II years experience.
j. NJ. Starmer. a railroad postal
clerk, a friend of Kennedy, to test
the efficiency of the mail service.
clipped Kennedy's picture from the
postal mems magazine, pasted it
on the envelope and sent it on its
way. 1t was mailed at Efingham.
I'LL. rssF ts&
Evening star., 1927-05-29
GEN. SMITH ASSIGNED
TO NEBRASKA CORPS
Assistant Chief of Staff to Assume
New Command This
Week.

Maj. Gen. Harry A. Smith, assist
chief of staff. in charge of the
War Plans Division, since July /, 1925,
has zeen assigned to the command
of the 7th Corps Area with head
Evening star., 1927-05-29
FARMER FOUND DEAD.
Milton sager, 56, Survived b.
Widow and Four Children.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, May 2S.-
Milton Sager, Sc, farmer, was found
dead in bed at the home farm of
Ashby Graves, by whom he was en-
ployed as manager.
He was a native of Hardy County,
w. Va. and is survived by his widow,
formerly Miss Dorothy Williams, and
four children. A brother. Lorenzo
Sager, lives at Seneca, Md.
Evening star., 1927-05-29

quarters at Fort
Omaha, Nebraska.
Maj. Gen. Benja-
min A. Poore now
in command of
that corps area,
has been ordered
to his home to
await retirement
at the convenience
of the Govern.
ment. The change
will take affect
Tuesday, but Gen
Smith will remain
in this city for
several days there.
after in attend.
dance on the gen.
eral conference of
III A.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
DR.. ]. Russell Smith Talks.
Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
PURCELLVILLE, Va. May 2s.-
DIR. j. Russell Smith, professor of
economic geography, Columbia Uni
versity, New Yor. addressed the
graduates of Lincoln High School al
their commencement exercises Wed
uesday evening. 81. s(azesk ~.,A.A
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Will 0ren Bids June II.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. Va. May 2s.-Bids
for highways in the State are to be
opened June II in this city in the
office of the State highway COM
missioner, the estimated costs of the
projects being $500, 900.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
SCHOOL OFFICIAL QUITS.
Norfolk Principal to Succeed d. p.
Hurley at Waynesboro.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON. Va. May 2s.-D. P.
Hurley, who has been principal of
Waynesboro's public school system
for several years, has resigned, and
next session will fill similar posi-
ton in Charles Town, w. Va.
Mr.. Hurley will be succeeded by
Robert c. Jennings. who Is resigning
as principal of the graded schools
In Norfolk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Know Thyself'

4 MYSTERIOUS philosopher, who
might have graced the academic
groves of Ancient Greece, has bobbed
up in Movieland. No one seems to
know whence he came or whittier he
is bound. But that he is a close OBJ.
server seems to be never in doubt.
He has been observing the movies,
and he has announced that he finds in
them the greatest movement Of ali
time, an irresistible effort on the part
of humanity to find and to understand
itself.
1t was Greek philosopher who de-.
clared that to know myself was the
sum of all wisdom. The Hollywood
peripatetic has declared that only
the modern movie industry, in all the
world, is seeking to aid humanity in
the task.
observe" he says ''the various
stories of the, pictures, the develop
ment and unfolding of themes, the
probing of character types and the
like, the range of appeal from a spec
tacle of beauty to the ugliness of the
underworld. All these point uner-
ringly to an effort to picture human
ity in its every phase of life and liv-
ing.
How may one better know thy
self" than In this?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
COLUMBIA-"The Scarlet Letter"

Lillian Gish, emotional star of
many fine photoplays, will be the
picture star at Loew's Columbia this
week, beginning this afternoon, in her
newest romantic drama, The Scarlet
Letter" from the Nathaniel Haw
thorne classic, at it's Washington
premiere.
Victor Seastrom, Scandinavian di-
rector of HE Who Gets Slapped"
produced 1.-THE Scarlet Letter" for
Metro Goldwyn Mayer release. The
cast includes also Lars Hanson. the
Barrymore of Sweden who makes
his American debut in this picture;
Henry B. Walthall, who was fea-
tured with Miss Gish in Birth of a
Nation" and Karl Dane, the famous
Slim of THE Big Parade"
THE Scarlet Letter" is a romance
of Puritan New England, in which
Miss Gish impersonates Hester
Prynne, the New England Puritan
seamstress, whose gay light-hearted-
ness brings her under the discipline and
romantic interest of the young Puri-
tan pastor. Dimesdale. From Testers
short confinement in the stocks springs
a romance of almost tragic intensity.
The picture, with New England
settings and costumes, depicts the
morals and manners of Puritan New
England in the early part of the
seventeenth century. The Columbia
Symphony Orchestra, under Leon
Brusilof, will provide an appropriate
overture and atmospheric accompani-
ment. The Pathe newsreel, Topics of
the Day and other features will lend
variety to the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

WITH the completion of the struc'
Press Building, it is reported, the
theater portion of that building has
assumed definite shape. The frame
work of the remaining part of the
building will be of reinforced con-
crete, which is now rapidly arising.
The theater, which will occupy the
rear lower portion of the building,
has been taken on a 35-year lease by
the Fox Theaters Corporation at an
annual rental in excess of 100000.
The theater will seat approximately
$500 people and will be not only one
of the largest in the country, but also
one of the most beautiful. 1t has
been designed by the architectural
firm of c. w. & George l.. Rapp OF
Chicago, whose artistic work In this
particular field of design has given
them a well earned national reputa-
ton.
The interior of the theater will be
of extreme richness, with imported
damask Grapes, crown furniture, mir
rors, crystal lighting fixtures, and so
forth. Within the next few days this
portion of the building, whose roof Is
now being laid, will be entirely In
closed and work will start on the in
terror decorations. A large part OF
the artistic ornamental plastering
which is to go into the theater already
has been made and is ready to put
in place.
The entrance to the theater will be
on F street at the eastern end Of the
building.
The grand and petite Hobbies, as well
as the ticket lobby, will be done In
1.YSn n
and color veinings, with decorations
of pure Rapp design fitting into the
artistic ensemble. The high lights Of
the ornamental plastering will be old
gold and bronze treated in polychrome
effects. with background in rich col
orings
There will be loungipg rooms, smok.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Man Proposes, But

HARRY LANGDON. tireless come
= dian that he is, like his little sister.
the Movies. recently made slide for
fame, but slipped.
xxx, which is known as the radio
Voice of Hollywood" engaged Harry
to broadcast the recent swimming con-
test from Catalina Island to the Cali.
fornia mainland. Think of the oppor-
tunity for making himself known to
the Nation!
But just then" says Graham Nc
Nance, than whom, except Philip Car.
lin, there Is no other. "along comes an
unknown Canadian boy of II, without
money, motor or much of anything;
rides to the Golden State with a kind
of friend who owned a motor cycle,
gets over to Catalina, begs the rich
Wrigley, who staged the contest. to
send a tug behind him to see IL he
drowned, and then sweeps in ahead of
them all, hundred and fifty-odd, the
sole swimmer to make the course. Oh.
yes, there IL more. This kid won the
$25, 900 prizes and right in the heart of
movielan0.
Can you imagine what more he won?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Scarlet Letter"
Incidents


VICTOR SEAsTRoM, the famous
Scandinavian director, in his
production, for neutrality-suspicious.
of Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scar
let Letter" wished to convey, with
unmistakable emphasis, the thoughts
of an early New England colonial
governor, as he reads from a book Of
the law the penalty for an offense
which Hester Prynne has been &C
cused.
William H. Tooker. in the role of
the governor, is seen reading the book,
and as he reads his figure dissolves
out and, instead, one sees the penal
ties he visualizes in a highly graphic
manner The device carries out with
astonishing emphasis this strong dra-
matte episode of the picture.
Incidentally. Seastrom explains that
one of the greatest difficulties he en-
countered in filming this famous clas-
sic of Puritan New England was to
find, in present day America. types
whose faces were serenely at rest.
Miss Gish had this desired serenity to
a high degree, but her supporting
cast was difficult to secure. to carry
out the peculiar feeling of repose that
was so characteristic of the Puritans
of both sexes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
PALACE-"Stranded i'm Paris
Irene Franklin.

The program at Loew's Palace this
week, beginning this afternoon, will
present Irene Franklin, international
singing Coincidence, as the feature of
the stage BILL with Bebe Daniels
in her latest Paramount comedy,
STRANDED in Paris" as the chief
screen attraction. An added number
will be the Nelidoff Russian Quartet,
and supplemental offerings will in
clude an orchestral overture, Dick
Leibert's organlogue. Topics of the
Day, Loew's Palace Magazine and an
Aesop Fable.
Irene Franklin, ''the girl who made
a red head famous" is presented here
this week for the first time at popu-
lar prices. She will sing a cycle of
old and new song favorites, with
Jerry Jarnagin at the piano.
STRANDED in Paris" Arthur Ros-
sons production for Paramount, in
which James Hall, Ford Sterling, Iris
Stuart and Mabel Julienne Scott also
will be seen, pictures Miss Daniels as
timid shop girl who wins a trip to
Paris, loses her funds, is mistaken
for a countess and passes through
many adventures, comic and roman
tic, before true love straightens out
her affairs.
The Nelidoff Russian Quartet are
soloists from the Imperial Russian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Loew s Palace Radio
Club

THE Radio Movie Club will meet"
regularly at Station WRC every
Tuesday night at 11:SO pm, as a part
of the weekly entertainment hour
from Loew's Palace Theater. Nor
man W. Pyle, publicity director, and
Colby Hartman, production manager
of Loew's Palace, are planning an in
novation in this feature, whereby the
meetings will be staged in honey
fashion and the latest news of the
studios will be discussed. Attention is
also calledsto the fact that the Loew's
Palace hour has been changed from
Monday to Tuesday night of each
week and the hour from II to 1870
o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Theater Portion of the
National Press Building

ing rooms and other conVaniences.
The edifice Is being erected by the
George A. Fuller Co., one of the old
est and best known structural con-
Germs in the United States, and is
promised completion by the middle of
this year, with the theater ready for
occupancy several months ahead OF
that time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Observation-Disclosures
Bachelors"

Today marks the resumption Of its
former policy of a strictly photoplay
program at Crandall's Metropolitan
Theater, with admission charges re-
duced.
The entertainment this week, begin
ming this afternoon, will offer as the
major screen attraction William Fox's
special production of Summer
Bachelors" by Warner Fabian, author
of Flaming Youth" with also a
three-reel Hal Roach comedy, star
ring Mabel Normand, long absent
from the local screen; the Metropoli-
tan World Survey, short reels and
musical contributions by the Metro
politan Symphony. under Daniel
Breeskin.
Summer Bachelors" is described as
a scintillant picture play. it's action
spirited throughout and the situations
nance. The production lis elaborate
and the story has it's locale in gor-
geous play places of New York City
and in the Adirondacks.
In the role of the single young
woman who is convinced matrimony
is not for her because of the many
unhappy marriages in her family.
Madge Bellamy heads a cast that in
cludes Allan Forrest, Matt Moore,
f1ale hamilton, CndTleS w lIlHiIlSeI,
Walter Catlett, Olive Tell, Leila
Hyams and Charles Esdale. The pic
ture was directed by Allan Dwan.
In Tragedy Rose Mabel Normand
appears in a comedy hilariously funny
| but with it's moments of romance, the
narrative centering in a little rag
| picker of the alleys, who finally meets
her Prince Charming while in a des
perate quest of food.
The Metropolitan Symptoms over.
| ture will be a potpourri of selections
from Countess Martha" by Kalman
and in the interpretative score ar
ranged by Mr. Breeskin will be found
"You Will, Won't Your" from Fred
Stones current play, "Criss-Cross,
! by Jerome Kern.