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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
NEW VIRGINIA CAVE
OPENED TO PUBLIC
Blue Grottoes Is Famed for
Part Played in the
Civil War.
special Dispatch to The star.

Special DlSpatCh TO Inc StHr.
HARRIsONBURG, Va. June a.
Another beautiful underground world
the Blue Grottoes, the caverns used in
part by soldiers Of the Civil War as
hiding place and camping site and on
the walls of which are inscribed the
names of thousands of Confederate and
Union warriors from Ohio, Iowa, In
diana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia-was formally opened this
week by Col. Z. T. Brown and his son.
Maj. Edward M. Brown, who have spent
cave.
The opening Of the Blue Grottoes
makes six caverns in operation in the
limestone country Of the Shenandoah
Valley. More than 81 ,000, 900 have been
spent In developing these caverns for
sightseeing purposes and it Is known
that $4,000, 900 has been refused for
them from Northern capitalists seeking
TO operate the group rs one chain.
The Blue GrottoeS was developed by
the Brown interests, which have ex-
pended more than 81 ,000, 900 in develop
ing the Endless Caverns near New Mar
ket. the Natural Chimneys and Sap
phire Pool near Mount Scion, Va.
DcAWtHIWA OF MAthUMBs
! Chief interest In Blue Grottoes cen
tiers around the thousands Of names Of
Civil War soldiers which are inscribed
upon Its walls and which can easily be
read today. The caverns also have the
vari-colored formation peculiar to places
Of this kind and which are formed by
drops Of water through limestone for
nations extending over thousands Of
years. The caverns are located miles
north of Harrisonburg on the Valley
pike and run under q huge limestone
knoll on the Moore farm.
During the Civil War both Confeder-
ate and Union soldiers made part of
these caverns, running back under the
knoll, q hiding place and q camping
site, especially In stormy weather. The
mouth of the cave was large enough
for many horses to enter. In fact, the
first opening was used as stable for
horses. The soldiers would go back
further into the channel where, safe
and unmolested from the enemy, they
carved their names on the sides Of the
walls.
Natural Tunnel Described.
In seeking another entrance to the
caverns, engineers discovered . natural
tunnel, arched as II made by man,
which for 80 feet burrows back under
the huge hill Blasting quickly tore
down q small wall Of stone separating
this tunnel from the rooms In the main
cave. <s.- ~,
The old stone stairway, built by the
soldiers and known as the soldiers
stairway for so years or more, has been
preserved. This stairway led from the
old entrance into the main cave.
There has been talk for years that
a large Federal pay roll was buried in
the caverns, and natives have spent
many day digging In futile effort to
find 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
SHORT COURSE OVER
FOR RURAL WOMEN
"Graduation," White House
Reception and Tour of
City for Members.

6y stan correspondent OF The star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, June ga
Elaborate graduation" exercises for the
SO members of the class of 1929, q
reception at the White House. a sight
seeing tour of the National Capital and
a picnic supper in Rock Creep Park
yesterday brought to close the sew
enth annual rural women's short
course conducted this week at the Uni.
versity of Maryland.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture r
W. Dunlap delivered the principal ad-
dress at the graduation" exercises In
the morning in Richie Gymnasium
The certificates were presented by DR.
Raymond A. Pearson, president OF the
university. Musical features were given
by John Mcdonald, Mrs. Laura Rogers
and Mrs. Louise Young. Rev. Ronalds
Taylor pronounced the invocation and
benediction. Mrs. Ulysses Hoge OF
Mount Rainier was president OF the
class.
Greeted by Mrs. Hoover.
The women were greeted by Mrs
Hoover at 2:30 o'clock in the White
House gardens, after which they made
a tour of the city, 20 buses being re-
CURED to transport the party, which
numbered more imam oOU.
Inestimable benefits will accrue to their
State and Nation If they give their per-
manent support to movements for more
agricultural research, DR.. A. F. WOODS.
former president of the university and
now director of scientific work at the
United States Department OF Agrtcui-
ture. told the women at exercises held
in recognition of the Master Farm
Homemakers Thursday morning.
Others on the program were G. W.
warburton of the Department OF AgTl-
culture. DR.. Pearson. Mrs. j. W. Smith,
n former Master Farm Homemaker. ana
Miss Bess M. Rowe.
The title Master Farm Homemaker"
Is given by farm publication IN CO.
operation with the extension service OF
the University of Maryland IN recogni-
ton of distinguished service to their
families, their communities. and their
State
The MARYLAND rural women so rec
ornized Thursday we're Mrs. w. B. Har-
rison of Annapolis, Mrs. r. G. Spoer-
Iein. New Windsor; Mrs. j. @. Grouse,
Queen Anne; Mrs. j. e. Lippincott,
Colora. and Mrs. j. G. Mckinney, WOOD
bine.
Awarded Certificates.
Those who received certificates as
members Of the class Of 1929 yesterday
follow:
Mrs. Ulysses Hoge, Mrs. Mary e.
Rarth. Miss Satie C. Cunningham, Mrs.
Cornelia M. NJ Flack. MRS. George +.
Feeser, Mrs. E. Elzey Leitch, Miss
Monita Akehurst. Mrs. Harry A. Doane,
Mrs. L. Edwin Grimes. Mrs. w. g. Jack,
Mrs. Leora Edna Little, Mrs. l.. p.
Bankert, Miss Mamie Elizabeth Farver,
Mrs. Harriet Graves, Mrs. A. F.. Lam
bert, Mrs. Horatio M. Loats, Mrs. Mar
shall Nusbaum, Mrs. Marion Runkles,
Mrs. M. e. Gray, Mrs. Raymond Cork
ran, Mrs. Ronald E. King, Mrs. Gabe
Lawson, Miss Ellen Joyce Smith, Miss
H. Madelynne Smith, Miss Rhudelia G.
Zimmerman, Mrs. T. E. Zimmerman,
Mrs. C. c. Beachy. Mrs. Caroline Dewey,
Mrs. Charles Z. Mullineaux, Mrs. Sandy
Mullinix, Mrs. Viola r. Harkins, Mrs.
Anna NICK. Uric. Miss Julia Beall, Miss
Pearl e. NARROW, Mrs. Clarence G.
Offutt, Mrs. Marguerite L. MacNeA,
Mrs. Alice M Gardiner and Mrs. Frank
wilkins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
five SCHOOLBOYS
| FACE EDISON TEST
Will Compete in Semi-Fi,al
Examinations for Virginia
Candidate.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, June 22.--Five Viz
ginia high school boys have been Sc
lected to compete In semi-final exam
nations for State candidate for the
four-year technical school scholarship
being offered by Thomas A. Edison, 1t
was announced today by State Depart
nent Of Education officials.
The five students are Jerry Lyttig Of
Richmond, William Frank Richmond,
jr, Of Wise; Raymond Arthur Dillon
of Roanoke, Harold Lee Beamer Of
Pulaski County High School and julius
Halpern Of Norfolk.
Semi-final examination for these five.
which will determine the student to
represent Virginia in the final examina-
ton for all the States candidates, will
be held at Richmond on June IS. An
alternate for the State will also be
selected from the five.
The candidates from the 4S States
and the District Of Columbia will be In
vited by Mr.. Edison and at his expense
to visit the laboratories at West Orange.
N j., where they will personally meet
Mr.. Edison and by him be given an
examination to determine the ultimate
winner. .....---..-
The selection of the five boys to enter
the Semi-flnal examinations was made
by State Board of Education ofocias.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Excursionists Held
On Boat for Failure
To Tell of Coming
[By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WINDSOR, Ontario, June "a
Because they failed to notify
Canadian immigration authorities
that they were coming, 1000 ex-
cursionists from Ashtahula, Ohio,
have been prohibited from land
ing tomorrow from the steamer
Chippewa, =
The Windsor Police Department
was notified today by District
immigration Inspector Orvsl
Adams that he had received no
written notice Of the excursion.
A long distance telephone call
had been received ut the local
docks that would be insufficient,
Adams said.
Windsor police understood the
excursion probably would be can
celed or diverted to Detroit or
another American port.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
INSURANCE RATE FOUGHT,

BEATRICE, Nebr., June 20 CP.-
Edward McAllister, consul Of the Mod
ern Woodrnen of America here, an.
rounced today that plans are under
way to institute injunction proceedings
against new insurance rates fixed by
the Head Camp at Chicago earlier this
month.
The new rates will affect all but 80
Of the 400 members here, McAllister
said, adding that there are possibly
100000 Woodmen who would be af-
5ected."
The lodge is chartered in Illinois and
McAliister said he was not yet sure
whether the court proceedings would be
Instituted here or at Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
EUROPEANS SUSPECT
DOMINATION BY U. S.
Fears of American Alternative Su.
premacy Abroad Expressed
ut Paris Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 22--Intensive produc-
ton and higher wages for women were
the questions discussed today by dele
gates to the Fourth International Con-
gress for Scientific Management at the
Sorbonne Many delegates took the
view that higher wages for women
would destroy the benefits reached by
intensive production.
There was an underlying fear on the
part of some delegates that the en-
trance of American automobile manu-
facturers into the French field would
cause an upheaval in French automo-
bile manufacturing methods.
American delegates argued that in
creased pay for workmen, far from dis
rupting American labor conditions, had
made the American working man the
most prosperous and the most produc-
tive in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
DORMITORY WORK BEGINS.
New Addition to Hood College will
Cost $175, 900.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
FREDERICK, Md. June 22.-WOrk
has begun on a new dormitory for
Hood College, the leading education in
stitution for women of the Reformed
Church in the South, and when COM
pleted will house 140 students. 1t is
the third dormitory of a group OF
buildings, valued at several million dol
lars. The cost of the structure will be
about $l75,000.
Erection of the building is under the
direction of the building and finance
committee of the college, composed OF
Emory L. Coblentz, chairman; A. r
Brodbeck, Hanover, Pa; Theodore M
Wood, Chambersburg, Pa; DR.. T.. p
Sykes, Cumberland, Md, and Jane.
II. Gambrill, jr., this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Daughters Of King to Visit.

FALLS CHURCH, Va, June 20 (Spe-
iaD The washington diocese, Daugh-
ters of the King, will pay visitation
to the Falls Church branch Tuesday
evening. The meeting will be held in
the Parish Hall at o'clock, and will
be In charge of Rev. Calvert E Buck
superintendent ofathe Washington Epis-
copal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
FIsHB0NE IN APPENDIX;
CHILD UNDERG0ES KNIFE
Case Of 3-Year-old Son Of shep-
herdstown- Minister Is
Unusual One.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
! MARTINsBURG, w. Va, June a.
A nshbone lodged in the appendix was
blamed for a forced emergency opera
ton on 3-year-old Edwin Lowe. son
of the Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Lowe. Shep-
herdstown. at local hospital yesterday
the first time, to the knowledge of local
surgeons, that an appendectomy has
arisen from this cause.
Surgeons, anxious after the opera
ton to know the cause, found the bone
in the appendix. His father recalled
the boy having recently eaten Ash.
The boys condition is favorable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

wealthy, his property including farm
lands in this county and bank stocks
Friends said the estate had been some
what dissipated in recent years. A To-
cal attorney qualified as administrator
today. The body will be brought back
here for burial
Surviving are three children, John r.
Viewer, this city; Royce Viewer, Cham
bersburg, Pa, and Mrs. Viola Taber
Los Angeles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
SAMOAN Natives Attack Police.

APIA, Samoa, June % GA po-
lice inspector and two constables
proceeding to make an arrest, were at
tackled here yesterday by consider
able body. of natives who were armed
with knives and sticks. The officers
held on the attackers with revolyers
until police reinforcements arrived and
found they had dispersed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
FLOOD Meeting CALLED.
Memphis Session July IL Substi
tute for Annual Gathering.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, June 20 CR.-
Flood control leaders In every State of
the Mississippi Valley were asked to
meet here July IL on call announced
today by w. H. Dick, president Of the
Mississippi River Flood Control Asso-
citation.
The meeting originally was called for
July 4. Mr.. Dick said the gathering
would substitute for the usual annual
meeting Of the association, which has
been twice postponed because Of high
water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
FESTIVAL SCHEDULED.
Special Dispatch to The star

Special Dispatch to The Star
coLvIN RUN, Va, June 22.-The
Colvin Run School and Community
League will hold It's dance and ice
cream festival next Friday. Mrs. j. H
Coulter, Mrs. Bernard Roberts, Mrs
Lucy Brown and Mrs. VIII Oliver are
the committee arranging for the festi-
val ut the school. Mrs. q. A. Money,
william Cockrill, Marvin Sanders and
Miss Marie Keane will manage the
dance.
The Ladies' Aid Of Browns Chapel
will meet Tuesday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Students on Long Tour.

BLACKSBURG, Va, June "a CP).--
A party of 10 students of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and others left
here today on an 18,000-mile tour that
will touch 20 States, Mexico and Can
ada. The purpose is to study geology
in the various sections. Five cars are
in the caravan, each lettered virginia
Tech Geological Excursion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June AZ
Rl.-King Fuad Of Egypt on next
Thursday will receive an honorary de-
gree Of doctor Of philosophy from Karls
University here, which he had once
attended for several years. The de-
gree viii be bestowed in the presence
OF President Masaryk and the diplo-
matte corps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
WEIGH GUARD STATUS.
Would Keep State Control, but
Place Units in U. s. Army.

GERS from eight Army corps areas met
in committee here today to study
means to make the National Guard a
component part Of the United States
Army without removing them from
State control.
Maj. Gen. Benson Hough of Co
lumbus, Ohio, chairman of the COM
mittee appointed by the National Guard
Association, declared members Of the
Guard should not have to be drafted
in time of war. AS part of the Regu-
be unnecessary, he pointed out. but II
was regarded as a difhcult problem to
place Guards In the Federal Army
without removing them from State
control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

The city of Glasgow, Scotland, has
purchased for $4,750 the picture 1.-THE
Wind in the Grass" by the well known
Scotch artist, M'Taggart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

Nearly $4,000 00s square meters Of
glass are being produced each month
In Belgium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Storm Relief Fund Raised.

FREDERICK, Md, June % Especially
The campaign for $1,000 by citizens
committee, under the auspices OF the
Frederick County Chapter of the Red
Gross. for the relief of sufferers in
recent tornado. closed yesterday with
an over-subscription of S207.92. One
property. that on John w. Fout. nea,
Harmony Grove. and the birthplace
the late Admiral Winfield Scott Schle,
was wrecked. The loss of Fout Is est
mated to be about $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
w. VA. BANKER DIES.
c. Allen Viewer, Former Bank Elk
aminer, Was Ill Several Years.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG. w. Va. June a.
c. Allen Viewer, 66, native of this coun-
ty, former bank examiner, president OF
one local bank and director of another
died at sanitarium at Relay, Md, Fri
day, where he had been a patient since
his mind gave way several years ago.
AT one time he was regarded as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

Sports are booming in Egypt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
Prohibition Gone Mad

American officials, by using the prohibition law
to violate rights of other nations making our
country ridiculous in the eyes Of the world. We
are laughed at, and actions are resented deeply
Within the last week we have been guilty of two
such violations.
In Washington dry agents seized consignment
Of liquor belonging to the Samese legation. In so
doing they violated the specific pledge of diplomatic
immunity by which the United States and every civil
liked nation is bound.
Under the recognized right of diplomatic immunity,
the person and property of properly accredited for
egn diplomatic representatives invoIate. Ameri-
can agents had no more right to seize that Siamese
liquor than Samese would have to enter the White
House and steal the silver That unanimous diplo-
matte dispieasre forced return of the Siaese prop
erty and ruling by the treasury department for
the transport Of such immunity liquor does not make
the original violation any less ridiculous.
Now our coast guard has sunk a British ship Ac-
cording to the British that ship on the high seas
outside the twelve-mile limit or one-hor sailing dis
lance from shore covered by the Anglo-A1nerican
liquor treaty.
Whatever the facts in this case the coast guard
repeatedly has interfered with foreign ships on the
high seas Sir Esme Howard the British ambassa-
dor, has asked the state department an explana-
Glon. 10 ne sure, the snip was probably rum
ner, but the seas are free We do not own the seas
yet, and we not dry them up under the Volstead
act.
This business of sinking foreign ship on the high
seas is no small matter It is of the few things
that the United States will not suffer at the hands
of another nation. We went to war with Great Brit
ain once on that issue. We entered the World war
against Germany on that issue.
49,
armament with Great Britain largely because of
that issue of freedom of the seas. And yet we are
the first to violate this principle, which from the
beginning America has tried to make the corner stone
of international law.
This American hypocrisy becomes positively
odorous, because Great Britain has gone out of her
way in the interest of friendship to help us enforce
our local lava law alien to her spirit and destructive
to the commercial interests of her own people. She
has co-operated in reporting to American officials
suspected runners; she has imposed and enforced
regulations in the Bahamas and elsewhere to aid our
coast guard; she has gone much farther than we ever
have gone to aid her IN similar circumstances
Our officials will do we'll remember in the future
that there is a higher human law even than the
Vostead act 1t is that shall respect the rights of
other nations, and neighbors be decent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
II knoxville. Tenn, March 25.-

II NOXVILLE. Tenn, March 25.-
IA Disaster shrivels the horizon.
The family afflicted with death,
sickness, or misfortune loses interest
in outside affairs. BY the same
token outsiders take more interest
in its affairs. This law of compen-
sation has dominated the human
attitude from time immemorial. We
merely are enlarging its sphere of
operations.
For the moment, at least, Tennes-
see is too wrought up over the flood
to think much about what is going
on out yonder. Out yonder, people
are thinking more about east Ten
nessee.
Tomorrow when the skies have
cleared and the water drained off,
east Tennessee will be ready to re-
sumo interest in distant events and
do its bit in case of emergency.
Confucius once was asked by a
pupil to sum up the ideals of human
conduct in one word, and replied,
reciprocity"
Right minded people always have
practiced reciprocity. Modern civ
ilization merely makes it possible for
them to practice it on a larger
scale. In that, and that alone, lies
its advantage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25
Foch and His Unknown Buddy

There is something inefably beautiful in the
scene about the Arc de Triomphe in Paris today,
something beth dramatically and POLITICALLY beauti-
ful-.and fitting.
Under the colossal arch that tops the crest of the
hill where the Avenue of the Grand Army ends and
the Avenue of the Elysan Fields begins lies the body
of the most famous military leader of modern times,
side by side with that of the inconspicuous poilu
whose very name nobody knows-Marshal Ferdinand
Foch and the Unknown Soldier.
Unseen by the vast crowds gathered about in
homage to the illustrous dead the spirits of these
two. the best known and the unknown. must be
lowering above watching the goings-on What thrill
poor mortals doubtless would get were it possible
for us to listen in over some spiritual radio or tele
vision and hear and see what they are doing and
sayingl
$50 you are so-and-So. are you'll" Marshal Foch
must be exclaiming to the poilu whose identity he
now has discovered. well, WE'LL" he exclains again.
grabbing the humble fellow by the hand and giving
him fatherly pat the shoulder. "You know, I'd
often wondered"
Mon marechal" the unknown murnurs in
sort Of ecstacy. ITO think have seen you at last
and had you take me by the hand and talk to me
like this! never dreamed I'd ever have that honor
back there in the trenches. Even my lieutenant
was way above me :"
tut tut, mon enfantl" the great marshal replies
natting the unknown on the shoulder some more
THE honor is mine"
NO. no. mon marechall" the unknown protests
I was but common soldier. while you, you were
the commander of all the allied armies I did moth
ing, while you -
'Afon petit" interrupts the marshal soft light
shining in his deepset eyes none is greater or does
more than he who anonymously gives his life for his
country Who serves well while the world looks
deserves praise but he who suffers and dies for
principle when no one is looking and knowing that
nobody ever win know his name is the perfect
hero. It is the most sublime sacrifice. the most per-
fect service. that mortal can render"
sAn the same. mon marechal
Again the marshal interrupts
= am your brother" he says, and, putting his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-25

arms about the unknown soldier. he gives him the
accolade.
The unknown does not reply. He simply stands
there looking unutterable JOY.
I'VE are peers" the marshal goes on. And he
smiles ethereay, like you see sometimes on the faces
of saints in a cathedral window.
"see!" he suddenly exclaims, as he and the I'M
known turn again to observe the procession as it
moves slowly through the arch. Look! You are
sharing honors with me down there, for somehow
even those mortals have OWNED that without you
could have done nothing. was just a leader, while
you you were the embodiment of unselfsh and
unf1inching devotion to a causel"
Putting shadowy arm, wrapped in the great
cloak of marshal of France, tenderly about the
shoulders of the unknown, clad only in the shabby
faded-blue turic of simple poiu caked with mud,
Foch and his buddy lapsed into silence as together
they watched the endless file move past-on and
on-and on