davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1927-05-06
We See EN-, But Don t Believe IT.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE of
Twin Falls, Idaho, brought here this
sample of Idaho potatoes, each averag-
ing over one pound in weight. An
thony Giacofici, new Willard chef, re-
ceived the consignment from Asher B.
Wilson, president of Twin Falls cham
Der.
The Washington times., 1927-05-06
PARENT-TEACHERS MEET

DR.. Joseph Murphy, District
school health officer, addressing
the summer roundup chairmen Of
the District Parent Teacher Associa.
tions in the Franklin School Build.
ing last night, urged that an anti
diptheria toxin be administered to
every child.
The Washington times., 1927-05-06

WASN'T SPEEDING, ANYHOW
1T wa q tight Squeeze" adj
mitted the driver OF the car who
was hugging his girl when the nc
cident occurred.
"Didn't yOu see the sign, Go
slow-Curye'? asked the traffic
con.
.'NO," said the boob, "hut was
going slow ON the curve
HAMBoNE HAL
The Washington times., 1927-05-06

A Columbia Is. CO paper
says: "He WGs born IN early
life" Thank heaven he didn't
Wait untit old age to be born.
The stork might haze had
trouble. Able.
The Washington times., 1927-05-06
TENNIS CLUB DANCE

The Tennis Club win hold dance
tomorrow night in the Recreation
Hall of the Government Hotels.
The Washington times., 1927-05-06
COULDN'T FOOL COHEN

ships Officer-There goes eight
bells. It's my watch below.
Cohen (emphaticaIIy) 49, He's a
Har. No watch ever made strikes
as loud as that.
The Washington times., 1927-05-06
.MOTHER

The lines sink deeper In her face,
As swiftly the years gOs
And in her brown hair we can trace
The gath'Fing drifts of snow;
The rose IL fading from the place
Where it was wont to glow
And in life's weary, t0ilsOme race
Her steps are growing slow.
Yet ev'Fy day she sweeteF grows
And Is % gentle, calm,
The twilight only clearer shows
: Her beauty and her charm;
Her love, no matter what arose
To cause cur hearts alarm,
Has been ouF fOrtress 'gainst all foes.
Our haven from all harm.
And though the deep'nfng lines we
Made BY Times rapid flow
Unto our hearts she'll always be
The dearest one we know.
/, 3. D.
% 49,
In Dallas, Tex, Claire Fly
got a divorce from w. E. Fly.
There was no evidence that w.
e. swatted Claire.
~
Yes. Leander swan the HeIIespOnt,
And Paris carried Helen off TO Troy,
ssDaddy' Browning got his Peaches"
But she didn't prove much Joy.
a a
The Washington times., 1927-05-06
&c us.eAr offIeE

! S 3 ( Z
General Thank For Chun has A.
rived from China and will lecture here
IN the LlmpWallet ballroom Wednea-
day evenings for the next few weeks
n the lHtereat 81 the doWntrodden
ants Of Ding Dong. General Shun q
lures are looked forward to by our
best people without any great appre-
hensiOn.
MRS. Arriving PullenhaIl will enter
tain with q box party at the NOjazco
for the assistant naval attaehe Of the
Gindtan legation, III. LaffltOn MeF-
ralhe; DR.. OpenWith PFayre, DR.. Mum
Candy Welser, former dean Of Long
bow University: Nine. y0n. RRuun, wife
Hrs. Q. !. sWayre.
MIR. and Ms. Taskett Eezee, whose
soestHer with their BRIDAL party, were were
given . wedding breakfast nc the
GOllelgh By the brides sisters. Miss
Pyckn Pimpel, Miss PyddelOn Pimpel
and Mrs. Phil n. Fuller. After -
Mr.. and Mrs. Eexee will be at the
Bulgen apartments, 46th and NOh
Place. N. W.
Mrs. I. b. Hickey has returned to
her palattal manaiOn ON WhOGIId
Street after passing Raster with her
son. Mr.. Moran Hickey, In Boston,
where he II . student nc the Haricot
GENE BLOSSOM.
CASH ON DELIVERY
Verse in a Virginia grocery store:
To trust Is to bust;
70 bust is he'll;
No trust, no bust;
No bust, no hell.
H 49,
COULDN'T FOOL COHEN
The Washington times., 1927-05-06

The sOeH- formed aoomon,
nth much CAB attGcked,
might safely be called d fig
ure of speech.
AUNT DEDA.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Trappings of Kings Of $500 Years Ago,
Found at Ur, May Rekindle History

these two chisels and a spearhead oi
bright gold. IS
1--WE followed up the mating over
an area vastly greater than that ol
any tomb yet found by ur and can't
upon increasing quantities of coppel
weapons. more spears. arrows by tht
quiverful, lance points, a mace. axe
heads, parts Of bows and other thingi
which we could not identify. Then
there lay. scattered In the soil, beads
and pendants of polished carnelian.
lapis and gold, some of them exquisite
ly worked: then the gold binding of
bow; then an adze of solid gold. It's
handle of wood covered with gesso.
painted red and bound with thin gold:
and lastly, lying apart, silver baldric
to which was attached a golden van.
ity case enriched with filigree work
and containing intact it's tiny tweeZers.
spoon and stiletto, all of gold hung on
a silver ring. and dagger which was
the seasons crowning reward. The
hilt is Of one piece of deep-colored
lapis lazuli studded with gold. the
blade is of FURNISHED gold; the sheath
is of solid gold, the back plain except
for two lines Of simple beading. but
the front entirely covered with an
intricate design in filigree. 1t Is I'm
perfect condition, and to see 1t gradu-
ally emerging from the heavy cling
ing soil, was well worth a years labor.
Produced at any date it would have
been a marvel of design and workman
ship: 1t is astonishing indeed when we
realize that 1t was actually made
nearly $500 years ago and Is one OF
the oldest known examples Of the
goldSmith's art"
Evening star., 1927-05-29

Names of Eastern kings who ruled
in Mesopotamia more than 5000 years
ago and returned to the dust leaving
no trace of their reign may be re-
stored to the record of history as
result of excavations at Ur OF the
Chaldees, the early home Of Abraham.
A report just received from T..
Leonard Woolley, director of the joint
expedition of the Museum of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and the Brit
ish Museum at Ur. states that seals
bearing the names of kings unrecorded
in any history were among the last
finds of the seasons work.
The graves in which the seals of the
unknown kings were discovered be-
long to period as early as $500 B. c.
LAS for their richness" Mr.. Woolley
writes, ''it is enough to say that for
three weeks, not a day passed without
gold objects being found. The rich
est grave-if indeed it is all one
grave-was found at the very end
of the season." he states, 80 late
that to finish 1t we were compelled to
keep 10 men on at work after the rest
of the gang had been dismissed. AT
depth of IS feet we came on a hoard
of copper tools and weapons lying
between two of the filmy streaks OF
white which indicate mating; there
were complete sets of chisels and
bundles of heavy spearheads and with
Evening star., 1927-05-29

one and one-half per cent of Britain's
exports.
After all, the art of mendacity, of
which Moscow is the greatest eX
ponent the world has known, may be
cultivated too passionately, too eXclu.
sively.
One is not surprised to learn that
M. Chicerin, the Russian foreign min
ister who had been taking the waters
in southern France, has hurried back
to Moscow.
On Thursday the Commons re-
jected, 376 to 11S, Labor motion
protesting against rupture of diplo-
matte relations with the Soviet with
out previous inquiry by select COM
mittee, and at the same time approved
a Conservative amendment embodying
Mr.. Baldwin's proposal quoted above.
The opposition. led by J. r. Clynes
Ramsay Macdonald being too i'll to
fight. made a poor showing in the
exchanges. At the end of a most
ingenious but non-committal speech
LLOYD George asked, After the break,
What?" Almost anything Is possible
of course, but. as Sir Robert Horne
pointed out, the loss Of the British
market would be so serious a calamity
to Russia that one should not be sur
prised to find no important diminution
of Russo British trade resulting from
the break.
An eccentric Briton named Dennis
Rookie, former member of the Royal
Air Force, stepped into moth De
Haviland airplane at Croydon the
other day and hoped off for Aus
tralia, proposing to make the flight
by easy stages as you'd make a walk
ing trip through Wales. His luggage
consists chiefly of collapsible bath
tub. "All this fuss and feathers and
heroics about flying says he, "its
all poppycock."
1.-THE new English dictionary" work
on which began 70 years ago, is to
be completed this year. The COM
pleted work will contain 407 ,134 words.
illustrated by 1.7S0.5 .526 quotations. It
is not merely a noble. it is a delight.
full monument of scholarship. almost
inyulnerable to carping criticism. The
owner thereof has an infallible refuge
against boredom.
* * X s.
Italy.-On Thursday Mussolini made
a very Mussolinistic speech to The
Chamber of Deputies. In the lustrum
| 1935-1940. he declared. Italy will be
| in position to assert her rights, having
a powerful navy, a magnificent air
force and ability to mobilize an
adequately equipped army of 5000, 900
men. He announced that the end of
this year would see the transforma.
tion of the Chamber from a body
popularity elected to body elected by
the national corporations created by
the charter of labor To-day, May
| 26" he exclaimed. 1--WE solemnly bury
all the lies of universal democratic
suffrage" For those who like this
sort of thing this is the sort of thing
| they will like.
Every one must regret that the gal
liant Comdr. de Pinedo. while flying In
his hydroplane from Trepassey, New
| foundland, for the Azores, was forced
by dense fog to descend to the ocean
when nearing his destination. Happily
q Portuguese schooner was near.
Evening star., 1927-05-29

Canal. The time of transit would be
something like three times as great
as for the Panama states. A great
deal of harbor improvement would be
required at Greytown and Brito.
The Bryan.Chamorra treaty of 1916
grants us, should we undertake the
great enterprise, not only a 99-year
canal strip lease, renewable for 80
years, but also important naval bases;
Great Corn and Little Corn Islands in
the Caribbean off Bluefields, and
Fonseca Bay on the Pacific.
Charles A. Lindbergh.-Any but
the briefest comment on the per-
formance of Charles A. Lindbergh
would be superfluous. The world is
of one opinion that it has not been
surpassed by any other individual
feat of derring.do in human annals.
The distance fiown-New York to
Paris over Nova Scotia, the southeast
corner of Newfoundland, the Atlantic.
the southwest corners of Ireland and
England-is about $500 miles; the
time was 3312 hours. Everything
about the episode was happy-its 'ele-
SdHL SlIlpllCltS, tIc SiHS uiaIiy ci-
gaging personality of the hero, the
and it's felicitous name, "The Spirit
of st. Louis" and, not least.
the magnificent welcome by the
French, giving the lie to certain fool
ish reports. One is delighted to hear
that Capt. Lindbergh refuses to cap
italize his glory by going into the
movies or vaudeville. Nor should
one fail to join Capt. Lindbergh in
praise of the designer of the plane Ga
Ryan monoplane), the designer of its
engine "a Wright Whirlwind) and
the inventor of the Earth Inductor
compass (Maurice Titterington of the
Pioneer Instrument Coz, by means
of which last he "hit the Irish coast
only three miles from the theoretic
point he might have hit had he had
a navigator"
1t is important to note that enough
fuel was left on landing for several
hundred more miles, and that the
engine never missed lick"
On the morrow of the arrival of
"The Spirit of st. Louis" at Paris, the
great BRAND sent one of his suite to
inform the new prince of the air that
an American flag would fly all day
over the foreign office. an honor never
before bestowed on any but chief of
state.
The fastest ships time New York
to Cherbourg is 5 days, hour and 49
minutes. The average speed made by
Alcock and Brown in their epoch
making flight from st. Johns, New
foundland, to Clifden, Ireland, in
June, 1919, was slightly greater than
that made by Capt. Lindbergh.
n n " X
Notes.-The International Economic
Conference. under League auspices,
ended on May %. The dispatches in
general give the impression of meager
accomplishment: but perhaps the full
conference report will happily falsify
this impression. II the conferees did
no more thin clearly to set forth the
essential FEATURES of the chief prob
lens. making up the grand problem
Of internati pnal economic cooperation,
Evening star., 1927-05-29
BY HENRY w. BUM.
~ HE following is brief summary
of the most important news
OF the world for the seven
L days ending May 2S:

Great Britain.--Last Tuesday Sir
William Joynson-Hicks, the home
secretary, was to have made to the
Commons his deferred statement
concerning the results of the search
of Soviet House. He did not make 1t.
The prime minister, Mr.. Baldwin.
himself undertook to relieve the in
tense curiosity of the members. He
explained why the raid was under
taken; namely, to recover an i'm
portant document relating to the
British armed forces which had dis
appeared and which the strongest
evidence indicated to have been stolen
by Russian agent and taken to So
Wet House.
The document had not been found,
Mr.. Baldwin announced, but the
search had uncovered overwhelming
evidence (whereof he cited sundry
convincing items) that Soviet House
containing the Offices of the Soviet
Trade Delegation and Areos, Ltd,
sole selling and purchasing agent In
Great Britain for the Union Of So
cialist Soviet Republics") had been
used as headquarters for Espionage
and subversive activities throughout
| the British Empire and North and
cult to believe that the Soviet mission
in London and the Soviet government
| itself were not parties to these pro-
! ceedings"--it would, indeed. He
| further cited evidence showing that
| Comrade Borodin has been carrying
| on his anti-foreign, Gn particularly
anti British activities in China as the
authorized agent of the Soviet gov
ernment and directly under their or
ders"; thus giving the lie direct to
statements by that government. And
more to like effect exhibiting the
mendacity and bad faith of Moscow.
"The government, therefore" con-
cluded Mr.. Baldwin, "have decided
that unless the. House expresses dis
approval on Thursday, they will ter
inmate the trade agreement and re-
uuire the withdrawal of the. Soviet
| trade delegation and the Soviet
mission from London, and recall the
British mission from Moscow" He
added, however, that, though the spe-
cial privileges conferred on the Rus
slams by the Russo British trade
agreement of 1921, would (the Com
mons assentinS) be terminated. the
government would facilitate ordinary
| trade relations between Great Britain
and Russia.
| Earlier in the week the Russian
commissar of trade and director of
the foreign trade monopoly had issued
decree ordering Soviet agents to
J cancel all licenses issued for trade
between Britain and Russia, $50 far
as may be legally possible" even to
cancel orders already in process OF
execution, "unless technical reasons
render this impracticable," but there
is disposition to regard that decree
either as a piece Of silly bravado or
an extreme instance of biting off the
nose to spite the face. seeing that
Britain takes one-third Of Russia Is
exDests. whereas Russia takes only
Evening star., 1927-05-29
Redwood Export Gains.

Exports of California redwood lum.
ber from the United States increased
from $4,000, 900 feet in 1925 to 1880.
900 feet in 1926. although the value
of the exports dropped from slightly
more than S3,000.000 to about $2.600,-
600. Australia, the largest market for
this commodity, took 69 per cent OF
the exports.
Because Of its durability. number
of South American countries use red
wood for railroad ties. Among these
are Peru, Salvador and Mexico. 10
Australia and New Zealand redwood
Is used mostly for millwork and ia:sh.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
hey have done something of no mean

they have done something of no mean
value.
A recent census gives the popula-
ton of Leningrad as 1,611.000, twice
what it was three years ago, but less
by 100000 than in the pre-war days
of ST. Petersburg.
Comment on Chinese developments
of the past week is scarcely worth
while. However, seriously threatened
from sundry quarters. the Hankow
government still survives. and Eugene
Chen, it's chief spokesman, is as vocal
as ever. Both the Marking and Han
kow governments claim victories
against the Northern forces. the
latest dispatches indicating that Feng
Yuhsiang, the christian general" is
affiliated to Hankow instead of to
Nanking. in contradiction to previous
dispatches: but Peking reports in the
opposite sense.
Evening star., 1927-05-29
The Story the Week Has Told

which took the plane in tow. The
commander suffered no injury.
X X * y
United States.-The break in the
ievee at McCrea on the east bank of
the Atchafalaya River extended the
area of flood inundation in Louisiana
to the rich group of parishes between
that stream and the Mississippi. But
this is the floods last first-class dis
play of sinister power. New Orleans
is now perfectly safe, thanks to the
diversion of SO much water through
the many crevasses.
Mr.. Hoover very happily observed
the other day as follows: 1--WE are
now entering into the phase of recon
struction and this means that we have
before us, perhaps, the most difficult
and discouraging phase of the prob
lem. No longer is there the excite
ment Of catastrophe. the stimulation
of herOiSm; reconstruction is always
the most trying period of disasters. l
have used the word Reconstruction"
advisedly, because 1 believe that we
may give to it a new significance in
the relations of the North and South.
With our joint action We can demon
strate once again the real solidarity
of our Union.'
1t should be borne in mind that the
battle against the microbe Is likely to
prove even more bitter, more impor.
tant, than the battle against the flood.
Medical and sanitary forces have been
heavily modified for the struggle.
The Red Cross relief fund now totals
hnv Nnf
not nearly enough.
Henry f. Huntington. nephew of
the late Coils p. Huntington, retired
director of railroads and one of the
greatest book collectors the world has
known, is dead at n. His glorious
collection of books, paintings. etc. is
housed in beautiful building at San
Marino, Calf.
John d. Rockefeller, jr., has made
a further splendid gift of $1,60O,OOO
! The gave million several years ago)
toward restoration or rehabilitation of
French historic monuments injured
| in the war or fallen into disrepair be-
cause of lack, consequent upon the
! war, of funds necessary for their up
, keep. The first gift was expended on
Versailles, Fontainebleau and Rheims
Cathedral. This is the sort of thing
| to warm the cookies.
Four years ago board of Army
| engineers, after a careful survey, esti-
mated the cost of a canal across
| Nicaragua at about one billion dollars.
This would seem to be conservative
estimate. since the pre-war cost of
constructing the Panama Canal turned
out to be $373,000,000 Original esti-
mate $144,000,000). The route ap-
proved by the engineers is. I under
stand, as follows: From Greytown on
the Caribbean (San Juan Del Norte) a
canal roughly parallel to the San Juan
River to a point on that river (Ochoa
or Punta Gorda). thence via the i'm
proved San Juan River to Fuerte San
Carlos, on Lake Nicaragua: thence
| across the lake to La Virgen. on the
| western shore; thence canal across
| the "Western Divide" to Brito, on
the Pacific, the western terminus.
Eight double locks would be required
! as for the Panama states. A great
Evening star., 1927-05-29
British Scientist Fears Greater War;
Thinks Cannon Could Shoot to Moon

fContinued from First Page)
worlds food problem. Nowadays bio
chemistry reacts mostly on medicine,
and in a way rather remotely. AS an
example, let us take some specific
bacteria. Certain biochemists try to
treat these bacteria decently; that is,
to study their feeding and breathing
like that Of guinea pigs and rabbits;
they try to see what food they like
best and what things put them off
their feed; that. one hopes, perhaps
wrongly. is going to react on methods.
saw. of killing them inside the body.
1t Is of no use just flooding person
affected with, say, tuberculosis, with
antiseptics, because you will XIII him
before you kill the bugs. Such work
Is only one aspect of medicine. The
problem I am working on at present
is an experiment which / hope will
make the treatment of some diseases
a little more rational"
Presumably he was referring to the
"viVisection' experiment which had
him as its subject while he was fully
conscious, though the law in England
forbids vivisectiOn on dogs unless an
anesthetic is used. The operation was
performed at st. Bartholomew Hos
pital, London. The surgeon was Prof.
Fraser.
What will be the possible effect of
biochemistry on crime?" querled Mr..
Haldane. who answered his own ques-
tion. Il do not think that is the
sort of question ! can say anything
about.
Some things one can see blocked
out in detail. For example. the prob
lem of sending a projectile to the moon
is just a problem of getting she'll
with a certain velocity and sending it
from a mountain such as Pixies Peak
or rather from an altitude that will
cut out over half the air resistance,
l. e.. $4,000 feet pixies Peak would
cut out only about one-third of the
air resistancel; make your shell fair
ly tough, have il full OF something
that will give a good flash that you
would see hundreds of miles off, and
q good telescope brings us nearer than
that to the moon. 1t is as much worth
doing as spending 100000 on building
O. yacht TO make sailing record"
"You mentioned spirit communica
tion Just now" said the interviewer
do you take any stock in spiritual
isln?"
Not very much. Let me tell you
why. am fairly busy man. have
Evening star., 1927-05-29

got certain technique. If the spirits
would do anything that comes within
the range Of my technique / would In.
vestigate it. They are said to move
things and make noises at distance.
that is, to contravene the laws OF
physics. When they start doing
things contravening the laws of chem.
istry / will investigate. p
X y y y -,.t
81 think my mind is relatively open.
I am an honestly skeptical person; by
honest skepticism mean refusal to
make up ones mind. am skeptical
in the same way about other matters.
for example, economies. I resolutely
refuse TO make up my mind whether
socialism is better or worse than the
present system until I see something
Of it's workings. In Russia COM
| munism has not been a bowling sue
cess, but / do not think the people
are much worse off than they were
under the Gar.
II feel the same way about spiritual
| ism, am afraid. I see no cogent
arguments one way or the other why
| should perish completely when / die
1 L1OuRn i lDlHh tudt i'll uo 81 oiA
! shall be not very obviously recog
nizable, shall / say? But until these
people come within the range OF my
| particular technique / do not think
should do much good In investigating
them.
There are a whole lot OF organic
compounds which, IL any medium viii
make, will go right along and spend
a year finding out how he did it. II
/ the medium himself did it he Is one
of the worlds greatest organic chem
lists. AS far as ! can see, there is
nothing harder than making what one
may call looking glass sugar or any
Of the numerous organic compounds
whose existence is theoretically known
but which have not yet been syn
thesized. A thing of that kind would
be much harder to fake than moving
a trumpet on the next table"
Saying this. Mr.. Haldane hoisted hi:
"Nordic" six feet one out of the chair
and gathered his cards together. Il
was obvious that the game OF pa
tience" was at an end.
| (Copyright 1927. in all countries by thu
North American Newspaper Alliance.
Evening star., 1927-05-29

Canberra, the new capital city OF
Australia, was designed by an Amer
lean architect, Walter Burley Griffin
Of Chicago. ,....--
Evening star., 1927-05-29

This is the first of several special articles
Liuet. Col. Davis will write for The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance. He
VIII send an article of comment and analysis
following the Geneva Radio Conference and
he will write also. as an aerOnautical expert
on the International Aeronautical Exposition
az Prague. the Aviation Conference at Mar
seille and the Disarmament Conference in
Geneva.l
Evening star., 1927-05-29

fContinued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1927-05-29
BY j. O. O'LEARY.

" HE second step in an unusual
d. experiment in the building up
of friendly relations between
nations will be taken at
Evening star., 1927-05-29

and surgeons, from every
State in the Union. leaders in