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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
CHEST ORGANIZERS
FEEL ENCOURAGED
Pledges in District of Columbia
Campaign Reported to Be "Un-
usually Good"

Collections of pledges to the Com
munity Chest fund, resulting from its
initial campaign here, have been "un-
usually good" as compared with the
experiences of chest organizations in
other cities, Maj. Julius I. Peyser, vice
president of the Community Chest or
ganiZation, declared last night in a
radio address over WMAL, given under
auspices of the Washington Chamber
of Commerce.
Pledges were $1,488, 68981 and coll
lections up to July l were $979, IS,
or 65.8 per cent of the total, Maj.
Peyser reported. This is fine record
and we hope at the end of the year to
discover that the Washington Com
munity Chest has one of the best COL
lection records of a community chest
anywhere" he continued.
This money is going to be needed
because the budget committee is finding
emergency needs which have to be met
and every penny which has been sub
scribed should be paid.
Costs are being kept low. The ex-
pense for the first six months Of the
year, including the cost of the cam
paign, was $1,000, or about As per
cent of the total amount subscribed.
The Community Chest expects to keep
its cost for the year down to per cent
of the total subscriptions. This means
a saving of at least three-fifths under
the former average cost Of raising
money for the 81 member organizations
in the Community Chest. 1t formerly
averaged from Is to 20 per cent. This
means that at least $135, 900 has been
saved for human service by the Com
munity Chests one cooperative cam
paign which has replaced the former
separate campaigns Of Its member
organizations"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
Fl. HOYLE c. N. I. c.
PLANS OATH RITES
Citizen Soldiers to Be Sworn
in at Ceremonies at
Camp Tomorrow.

Approximately 1000 young men will
take the oath Of allegiance and become
temporary soldiers at a swearing-in
ceremony at Fort Hoyle, Md, tomorrow.
The exercises are expected to be the
most colorful and impressive ever held
at the fort since the C. M. T. c. has
been camping there, and number of
prominent citizens and Army officials
are expected to be on hand. The Army
Band will play.
Senator Reed Of Pennsylvania, a firm
supporter of the G. M. T.. c.. will adj
dress the gathering, and the judge
advocate general of the Army. Maj.
Gen. Edward A. Kreger, will admin
lister the oath.
For the past few days trains and
buses have been bringing in young
of the service and get taste of Army
life" A majority of them are high
school and college boys from Western
Pennsylvania and about half of them
are enrolling for the first time. The
newcomers will be instructed in the
basic course and the other half divided
in the reds, whites and blues, the Sec
ond, third and fourth year classes,
respectively.
Officers from the Regular and Re-
serve Army and from the fort, which is
occupied by the 18th Infantry, under
command of Maj. A M. Patch, will have
charge of the recruits and will instruct
them In military curriculum.
outside of the regular military work,
which consists of drilling target prac-
tice and instruction in war tactics, the
young soldiers will engage in various
athletic contests and will be allowed to
make sightseeing trips to points of his
toric interest in nearby Maryland and
Washington. Their month will termi-
nate August 6.
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into a long slide, which gave me a
chance to shout instructions back to
him. tried to climb back in the rear
cockpit, but couldn't make 1t, so re-
turned to the passenger cockpit and
continued to shout instructions.
We flew around blind for about 10
minutes. Every once in while would
tell my companion either to. cut the
motor down or give 1t more gas, or to
point the nose higher OF lower. A few
more minutes and he had RECLAIMED his
sight enough to land.
Flares Burn Out.
This wasn't the last of our troubles,
though. We had a makeshift landing
field two miles away and my own men
had set the gas flares burning as soon
as the act was completed.
While we were flying blind these
flares had burned out. When we finally
got ready to come down they had to get
new lights to mark the exact location
Of the field. 1t was another half hour
before we were able to make a landing.
I have run into tough weather fly
ing the mail and have had few mar
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discovery. The tortoises which re-
manned upon the mainland long since
were devoured by hostile wild life,
while those upon the isle houished
unmolested, reproduced, and lived a
life of contentment which saw their
race increase to countless thousands.
Thousands Of them wandered over the
isles through those centuries OF Sc
curity, wearing in the stone and rock
the tortoise trails" which survive them
today. Then men came into their world
to learn the sweetness of their flesh, the
richness of their oil and sweetness of
the water they carry in bags under their
shell near the back Of their necks.
$4,000 Of Species Slain.
Machetes swung and fell! Ships were
provisioned and traders thrived. One
vessel which sailed from the archipelago
carried 5000 Of the giants on one voy-
age, while other figures show that in
an 18-month period 10000 of the biz
animals were slain and converted to
mans use. Today the capture OF a
single giant tortoise is reported by WIRE
less as a find"
The Geological Park here already has
six specimens representing three species
of the giant. Testudo ephippium,
testudo porteri and testudo vicina is
the way DR.. Mann and his associates
describe them and data compiled II
years ago by an expedition of the Cali
fornia Academy of Sciences fails to list
any of these as particularly rare. The
only available information in Washing
ton as to the actual identity of the big
fellow now headed this way, is that he
was taken on Duncan Island. This isle
is one Of the smaller formations Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
Gift OF TORTOISE
PLEASES DR.. Mann
Clifford Pinchot Expedition
Will Present Member OF
Fast-Fading Race.

From far-off Duncan Island, blister
ing on the equator in the center Of
the Galapagos Archipelago that long
was known as the Enchanted Isles. is
coming to Washington q member Of a
fast-fading race-a giant tortoise OF
breed that has fought extinction by
man and beast for 500 years.
Word Of the tortoise's capture was
received here by Nature Magazine last
week when Howard H. Cleaves, field
photographer for the publication, dis
patched a radio message announcing
the find by the Clifford Pinchot expe-
dition. Only the bare statement that
Duncan Island tortoise, weighing 100
pounds and the suggestion that the
animal Is OF supposedly extinct species
was contained in the crypt message.
But II detail, which might satisfy
the curiosity of the layman is lack
ing in the announcement, the promise
Of another Galapagos tortoise anlong
the tenants of the National Geological
Park brings genuine appreciation on the
part Of the men who know their natural
history.
Pleased Over Prospect.
DR.. w. M. Mann, director of the Zoo,
is highly pleased over the prospect OF
adding the tortoise to his collection and
he said yesterday that the big fellow
will be among the first residents If he
new reptile house which will be erected
In the near future.
TT is without a doubt the most
valuable thing which Clifford Pinchot
could bring us from that quarter of
the world" DIR. Mann said, land the
new fellow will take up his residence
here in the Geological Park in the tropi-
I'll g. En.AI< -
in the south end of our new reptile
house." And then the doctor unused
upon the rapid passing Of the great
tortoises which roved the sun-baked
orators Of the cold VOLCANOES Of the
Galapagos.
Situated $50 miles out in the Pa
cific Ocean, west of Ecuador, South
America, the Galapagos have been
sung in song Of adventure as the En-
chanted Isle. The first definite record
of the archipelago was dated 1885, but
there were tales In South America of
Indian chiefs visiting the barren forma-
ton many, many years before that
time. In all Of the accounts Of those
early visitors are reports Of thousands
of giant tortoiseS, many Of them weigh
ing $50 pounds, some reaching 400 and
500 pounds, and, In one instance dis
coverer swore his giant would tip the
scales at 700 pounds.
Giants Rove Islands.
While thousands Of the giants roved
the islands of the Galapagos group,
they were unknown on the mainland of
South America. How they reached the
far-flung bit of extinct volcano none
knows. Swimming the intervening
miles Of ocean was impossible. The
tortoises of the islands drown in q few
hours. Accidental transportation was
out of the question. And 50 1t Is as
sued in the -7orld of science that the
tortoises inhabited the land that now
forms the Galapagos when that archi-
pelago was q part Of the mainland.
centuries upon centuries before their
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archipelago and is directly in the center
of the group.
Goes Months without Water.
Since Duncan is drier than its fellow
islands, the tortoises which dwell upon
1t sometimes must go months without
water. The species accredited to Dun
can by the California expedition is
testudo ephippium and If the Pinchot
find is Of this breed, he has a predeces-
sor among the tortoise resident already
here. However, that speci Is considered
fairly abundant" as giant tortoises go,
and the Pinchot specimen Is reported
one of variety believed extinct" So
he may be one of seven other species
found in the island group
The big fellow is reported to weigh
100 pounds and If that is correct it may
be guessed that he has celebrated his
one hundredth birthday anniversary.
On Duncan Island, the future Wash
ingtonian ate cactus for the most part,
adding another bit of wonderment and
interest in him. Scientists have puzzled
how soft-tongued animal such as the
tortoise can eat a growth OF the cactus
type. But they do and with a relish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
MURDER SUSPECT HELD.

Homicide squad detectives yesterday
afternoon arrested John Samuel Jen-
kins, colored, 81 years old, in the base
ment Of an apartment house in the
2700 block of Wisconsin avenue. and
are holding him for police at Greenville,
S. c., where he is wanted in connec-
ton with the murder Tuesday Of a
man named Davis in that city.
Although Jenkins denies having come
from South Carolina, detectives say he
fits the description given them by
Greenville authorities, who are expected
to send a man here tomorrow to begin
extradition proceedings.
The arrest was made by Detectives T.
r. Sweeney and J. F. Waldron, led by
Edward j. Kelly, chief of the squad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
FORD URGES CENTRAL
ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY
All of Nations Power Facilities
Should Be Like Postal Unit,
Auto Magnate Says.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
NEW YORK, July 6.--The Electrical
World, in its current issue, quotes
Henry Ford as advocating control of
all the Nations power facilities by a
single central directing organization"
Such a monopoly, the automobile man
ufacturer said, would be the best means
to reduce the rigors of human toll and
give the people cheap light and power.
ut has got to come as the one Eeces-
sary and economic method of power
production" Mr.. Ford continued. Our
national power system will become a
unit, just as our postal system is. This
would nightly speed the day when
electric power would fulfill its destiny
as the bearer of mankind's burdens"
Critics Of the power industry, he as
serted, have overemphasized the profit
aspect Of the problem, losing sight Of
the tremendous service rendered to the
people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

play. Things were going fine and several evenings
went by without a hitch.
Then one day an old pilot friend Of mine heard
I was in Des Moines and came out to see me- He
had not flown for some time, but knew he was
a good pilot and didn't oppose his request to
go along with me that evening. let him have
the controls riding along as passenger SO 1
could enjoy for the first time the fireworks show
I was putting on
lnstinctively Cuts Motor.
We went up and things ran smoothly until the
last event, the dropping Of a huge magnesium
flare.
My friend pulled the release cord and as usual
the sky blazed with binding light. had for
gotten to warn him 10 protect his eyes from the
strong light and result he became blinded
There we WERE thousand or more feet above
thousands of people, innumerable automobiles and
buildings and other distractions, with the landing
field two miles away.
was a passenger in my own ship with blind
pilot at the controls.
ctiyely cut the motor and nut the shin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

Sometimes he may have varied his diet
with bits of leaves or dwarf shrubs
he will have a cactus, but his menu
generally will include carrots and pota-
toes. That's what his fellows eat and
1t should please him.
No word has been received at the
Geological Park here as to the probable
date Of the giants arrival and, since
work will get under way on the new
reptile house almost Immediately, thu.
permitting the frame of the structure
to be up by Christmas. the new HON,
may be nearly ready when he does pu
IN his appearance here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
HIGHWAYMAN GETS So.
2obs Colored Woman After strik-
ing Her with Brick.

Fannie Thompson, colored, As, Of IA
I street northeast, was the latest victim
Of highwaymen known to Turk in the
vicinity of the K street viaduct, near
First street northeast, where several
women have been attacked recently,
while crossing there after nightfall.
The woman was struck suddenly on
the head with brick, by a light
skinned colored man who seized her
pocketbook containing 50, and escaped.
The woman was taken to Casualty Hos
pital, where she was treated for lacera-
tons about the head and shock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
PHILIPPINE AUDITOR
WILL RESIGN POST
Wright, Involved in Recent Fight
With Insular Supreme Court,
Gives No Reason.

MANILA, July CP).-Insular Audi
tor Ben F. Wright today cabled his
resignation to President Hoover. No
reason was offered, but the action fol-
lows closely Wright's fight with the SUI
preme Court to prevent payment of
public funds to Chinese contractor
who is building a wharf at noilo dur
ing which Wright nearly went to jail.
ordered by the court to pay the con-
tractor, Wright refused, claiming that
the contractor was unable to do the
work properly. He was held in con-
tempt of court by vacation judge, Sit
ting during the Summer recess, fined
$3.50 and sentenced to short term. He
kept his freedom on a writ of habeaS
corpus obtained from another justice,
but when 1t was argued last Monday
the court held its original order should
Y,rovail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
FIREMEN EXTINGUlSH
EARLY MORNING BLAZE
Search for IS Minutes Before
Locating Fire in Shoe
Store Basement
Store Basement.


After searching for more than Is
minutes to locate the source Of dense
smoke clouds, firemen donned gas masks
early today and extinguished a blaze
in the basement of the Metropolitan
Shoe Store on street near Tenth
street. The fire had gained considerable
Roadway and damage was caused by the
flames, smoke and water.
The smoke was noticed by several
men working late over the air-cooling
plant in the Metropolitan Theater, and
they turned in an alarm. Firemen
searched several buildings in the neigh
borhood and finally located the blaze,
but were unable to reach it until they
found a small areaway communicating
with the basement from the foyer of
the theater.
There was little or no ventilation in
the basement and firemen of No. En-
CINE Company used gas masks and came
from the basement at frequent inter-
walls to revive themselves with fresh
air. Several of them were weakened by
the fumes, but none reported for hos
pltal treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

More than 100000 pounds of rice
grown In this country were eaten in
Germany in three months of this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
BY EDMUND MATUCHA.

r Sat AR a5a @ Moth h Alliance,
exciting experience in flying day when didn't happen
to a
for after
fireworks dis
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row squeaks, but that night in the
plane with the blinded man at the
stick remains the worst experience I've
ever had.
Next: E. L. Remelin-a lost pilot in
the fog)
copyright, 1929. by North American News
paper Alliance)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
TOWN HUNTS CHILDREN.
Liverpool, N. s., seArchers Comb
Woods for Three Little Girls.

LIVERPOOL, Nova Scotia. July LP).
Almost the entire town of Liverpool
yesterday was engaged in q woodland
search for three girls, the oldest z, who
left their homes Thursday and failed to
return.
Two hundred men secured the woods
back of Milton by lantern light through
out the night, but found no trace OF
bred Martin, A. This morning the
searching parties were augmented by
men who left their work to assist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
Rough Riders OF the Air Mail
Hauling Fireworks Is Fine, Until Flare Blinds Pilot, Says
Flyer Describing 1ONinutes of Terror and Fear Above
Crowded Fairgrounds, Trying Avert Serious Crash.

thrilling
mind
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTs
contracted by any one other than myself.
Floyd Burleigh, Gen. Delivery, Ballston, Va.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-21
Legal Notice
NO. 54864

NO. 54864
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
BY GUARDIAN.
In the Superior Court of the State
Of California, in and for the Coun-
ty of Los Angeles.
In the matter of the Guardianship
and Estates Of Betty Nichols and
Galen Nichols, Jr., Minors.
Notice is hereby given by Harry
]. Nichols, Guardian of the persons
and estates of Betty Nichols and
Galcn Nichols, Jr, minors, that he
will sell at private sale all the right,
title, interest and estate of said
minors in and to the following des-
cribed real properties situated in
the County of Imperial, State of
California, towit:
Lot 3 Block 80, City of Ell
Centric.
Bids in writing will be received
by said Guardian in the law office
of E. A. Lane, 200 Lane Mortgage
Building, Eighth and Spring Streets.
in the City of Los Angeles, County
of Los Angeles, State of California,
for the purchase of the above des-
cribed property. The sale will be
made on or after the 25th day OF
Novem Der, 1929 and will be subject
to confirmation by the Superior
Court of the State of California in
and for the County of Los Angeles,
in which, court proceedings in the
matter of said Guardianship and
Estates are pending.
The terms Of sale are $4,000 cash
Of the purchase price, shall be paid
at the time of the acceptance of the
BID and the balance upon confirma-
ton by the Court by Trust Deed
payable $4,000 per month with inter
est extra at so per annum, payable
monthly, total unpaid balance pay
able three years from date.
Dated November 6, 1929.
HARRY j. NICHOLS,
Guardian of the Persons and
Estates of Betty Nichols and Galen
Nichols, Jr., Minors.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-21
Legal Notice
NOTICE OF SALE OF STOCK IN
TRADE

Notice is hereby given that GEO.
g. ERICKSON whose address and
place of business is No. 400 State
street, Ell Centre, imperial County,
California, owner of the Black
smith shop, stock of merchandise
and machinery now at said place Of
business, intends and is about to
sell the said Blacksmith shop, mcr-
chandise and machinery at private
sale to r. II. Jackson, whose address
is No. 400 State St., FL Centre, I'm
perial County, California, and that
the purchase price of said stock in
trade is to be paid on the 2sth day
of November 1929 at the hour of
1000 o'clock A. M. at Edgar Bros.
Realty Co., office at No. COS Main
Street, FL Centre, Imperial County,
California.
Dated at Ell Centre, Imperial
County California, this 18th day of
November, 1929.
GEO. G. ERICKSON.
1910
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-21
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROP
ERTy AT PRIVATE SALE.

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROP
ERTy AT PRIVATE SALE.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL,
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE Of SILAS II. BRYANT, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given that under
and pursuant to the law made and
provided, the undersigned, Grace
Arnold, ADMINISTRATORS with the
Will Annexed Of the Estate of Silas
II. Bryant, deceased, will sell at
private sale, to the highest and best
bidder, subject to confirmation of
said Superior Court, on and after
the 25th day of November, 1929, at
the office of r. B. Whitelow, Siyth
and Main Streets, El Centric, Cali
fornia, or at the office of Lovett,
Hervey & Scott, 910 Security Title
Insurance Building, Los Angeles,
California, all the right, title and
interest of said deceased at the time
of his death, and all the right, title
and interest that the estate of said
deceased has acquired by operation
of law, or otherwise, other than or
in addition to that Of Silas H.
Bryant, deceased, at the time of
death, in and to all that certain real
property particularly described as
follows, to-wit:
Lot and the Southerly Half
of Lot 10 in Block l of the
Bryant Subdivision, County of
Imperial, State of California, as
per map No. 244 thereof record
ed in the Recorders office OF
said County.
Terms of sale. cash in lawful
money of the United States, on con-
firmation of sale. Ten per cent of
amount bid to be deposited with bid.
Bids or offers to be in writing and
will be received ut either of the
aforesaid offices at any time after
the first publication hereof and be-
fore the date of sale.
Dated this 18th day of November,
1929.
GRACE ARNOLD,
Administrators with the will annex
cd of the Estate o" Silas IL.
Bryant, deceased
Il. b. WHITELAW and
LONETT, HERNEI x SCOTT,
BY EDWARD HERVEY,
Attorneys for ADMINISTRATORS with
the Will Annexed. lots
Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-21
Legal Notice
Legal Notice
NOTICE TO ASSESSMENT (TAX)
PAYERS
IMPERIAL, IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT ASSESSMENT FOR 1929
NOW DUE.


IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT ASSESSMENT FOR 1929
NOW DUE.
Office of Assessor and Collector
of mperIal Irrigation District.
November l, 1929.
Notice is hereby given that I lave
received the assessment books for
the year 1929 and that the assess
ment for that year IS now due and
payable. The Directors of the Impe-
rial Irrigation District have deter.
mined by resolution that the said
assessment shall be payable in two
installments.
Pursuant to law and the said reso-
luton the said assessment levied
within the said District is due and
payable on the first day of Novem-
Der, 1929. The first installment there
of (oHe-haif Of said asscssmentl viii
become delinquent at six 5000
o clock 2. NJ, on the last Monday in
December, 1929, and unless paid
prior to that time, ten (10Go) per
cent will be added thereto. The sec
ond installment of said assessment
(the remaining onc-half of the en-.
tire asSessment) will become de-
Iinqueht at six 5000 O'Clock p. NJ.
on the last Monday in June, 1890,
and unless paid prior to that time,
ten (l0co) per cent will be added
thereto.
Said assessment will be received
ut the office of the Assessor and
Collector of the said Imperial Irriga-
ton District located at l43 South
Sixth Street (Masonic Temple Build
ing) in the City of Ell Centro, Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
every day from the date of this
notice (holidays exccpted) during
legal business hours.
C. w. BARRY, Assessor and Col
lector.
Nov. Z, 1t, p