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Also Episode No. 3
ELEE

STORE BUILDING FOR RENTAL
ter Nov. Is. See John Palubicki. 10
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-11-07

FOR SALE-Blue and white kit
chen cabinet. Inquire of Mrs. Robt.
Rookie.
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a. Q Opgrande came home Mon
lay from his hunting trip in the Kali
spell country. leaving the Larson
arothcrs and Jessie Hedges who wish
cd 10 continue the hunt.
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knute Norgaard vas here from
Trskin. Mimi. to look after business
affairs. Norgaard worked with the
5Iontana Dakota Power Co. for about
MO years with Headquarters at Plen-
wood.
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Miss Gwen Matkin, who is teach
my NJ Redstone was here 10 visit her
lister Miss Edie over Sunday.
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Dainty pastel-col-
ored Handkerchief of
soft chiffon, finished
with h a n d rolled
hens. In colors to
match afternoon and
eve n / n 9 costumes.
Splendid value.
Kann's-Street Floor.
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Sun.bGck StUeaters
The focal point of interest In the
new lght-weight zephyr sweater Is the
green and flesh, also white. ..... $500
The Cilda Gray
---sun-back bathing suit is new two
piece style-black trunks with con-
trasting shirts; in plain colors or
stripes. Sizes 81 to .$3.95
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Cti1dren's
Play Oxfords
S1.OOPr.

Sturdy, comfortable
oxfords OF light and
dark colored feathers.
Smart and practical.
Soft and flexible. the
ideal shoes for Sum-
mer. In all sizes from
children's 8 to miss
es' 2. t
Kann's-street Floor.
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SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. c. JULY g. ,s2e-pARr T.

That the honess was wounded knew, and
do not like TO let wounded animals escape to die
lingering and painful deaths. 1t was up to us
to follow. must say that 1t was not pleasant
task. That IL lions were about we knew per-
fectly. That one was wounded we knew as
well, for we had sooner started following
her than we found blood stains. Furthermore
my wife was with me- and this was her first
trip to Africa. But fortunately we were ac-
companied by a man whose nerves were either
completely missing or were made Of steel, for
though he was still suffering from the effects
Of some serious wounds given him by lion
that had maued him only a few weeks before,
he had taken the job we offered him as our
professional hunter. He was Capt. Hurst who
had on several occasions approached lions and
"booed' at them to see If they would run.
With such man as our companion dared
permit my wife to run a risk that might have
been more hesitant about alone or with less
remarkable company, and so we followed, push
ing our way through the bushes, parting the
branches as we advanced, peering this way
and that at every step for fear our wounded
liOneSs-pOSSibly with dozen or more others
might be lingering in some neighboring thicket.
I was as tense as could be, and wondered
about the front sight on Hurst's gun. He hal
made sight out of a piece OF ivory and had
put 1t loosely in place. 1t had an unfortunate
faculty ol idLlne uCtie 10 one SlOe, SO CnaC ne
always slapped it back into place just before
he fired.
remember thinking that if lion came at us
there Hurst would have to act quickly indeed
If he was going to slap that sight before he
pulled the trigger. But apparently he was far
less disturbed than /, and I suppose that sight
of his worried him less than not at ALL He
was accustomed to it. Neither did his partly
healed wounds seem to bother him. for he
moved steadily along, looking this way and that,
apparently no more afraid Of a lion catching
him than he was of catching cold.
For strenuous three-quarters of an hour
we searched for that lioness and finally were
forced to give 1t up. I would have been less
willing to do so than was had the>signs of
blood not been growing less. And anyway, that
lioness had made her way over such rough going
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Billy Pierce Negro Boy, Ar,anges the Dance Routine TO,
B,0adocay Successes-He Game From Puycell4alle Too

In this rush, next Winter. when you pay $3.50
or Whereabouts for tickets to Ziegfeld's "Show
Girl" give the little Negro boy from Loudoun q
hand! He's worked hard. All the dance num-
bers are his. This years Earl Carroll "Vani-
ties are rolling and rollicking with the young
Negro artists amazing revues. He also has set
the dances for Clifton Webb and Libby Holman,
starring In the Little Show"
Washington recently enjoyed the movie
Broadway Melody" so that it will be Of interest
to know that this same Billy Pierce "set" all
the routine" of this screen success It is with
musical comedy folk that he Is most successful
and he has schooled hundreds of them The
Sugar Foot Strut" danced by Miss Ada May
in Rio Rita" Is to his credit, as is the Varsity
Drag of zelna O'Neal in Good News" Miss
Delroy for her FIRST lesson at the Pierce studio
paid the sum of 81. His price now is $3.50 for
routine and last year he originated more than
thousand. Genius usually develops peculiari-
ties; Pierce still insists on waxing the dance
hall floor himself.
This dancing master is modest, as behooves
the artist, and in an interview last week simply
stated:
AS you know, was born at Purcellville Va
My fathers name was Dennis Pierce. He
trained horses; was owned by Dr. Keen of Uni
son, in Upper Loudoun, and was the body serv-
ant OF Col John Mosby. Until dads death.
some years ago. he raised and lowered the flag
daily at Balls Bluff Soldiers Burying Ground,
near 1eesburg The only person ever worked
Tor in Loudoun was Mr.. Rodney Purcell, for
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whom the town of Purcellville was named.
carried the little bag Of mail to and from the
depot and did chores around his combination
store and post Office
II could always dance, even as kid, and
attribute my success in the show world to study
ing each artist and giving them individual rou-
tines of Negro dancing. am about the only
one in New York City OF, in fact, anywhere for
that matter, who has developed system that
is successful.
Il have over 600 registered pupils. The walls
Of the studio rooms have scenes depicting
Southern life. In the large classroom there is
picture in oil on canvas of Col Dick Delaney's
old home at Melbourne. Some Of the studio
frescoes show wheat fields at harvest time, corn
shocking and activities in Loudoun home life.
We also have two beautiful scenes of the Negro
dance as seen at country 'shin-dig' dances, in
the woods, at picinc time, with the typical coun-
try bands. These pictures three -fourths size,
were painted by Helen Smith, o diminutive
brown artist who authenticated her subject mat
ter and was three years accomplishing the
work.
II travel all over the South in quest of new
material for Broadway, visiting all the rural
communities and attending small town dances
The ideas that get are new to Broadway but
old to the Negro. No, I haven't acquired any
sort of completes since coming to New York I
visit my aged mother at Purcellville once
month.
The Negro Elks' Lodge Of Purcellville had
The pleasure of organizing and was able to pur-
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lice Of the Mountzes

living being but the two Eskimo families at
the post
From the time that the sun went down be-
hind the mountain at the back of the station
on October rs until it showed itself again on
February 10 they were In darkness. One hun
dred and nine days of Arctic night with the
wind bowling outside and the snow piling up
in mountainous drifts
For 81 days on end the billiards ragged out
side the cabin SO fiercely that most of that time
the officers could not reach their supply cache
three miles away. The thermometer hung
around IS below zero. It reached 81 below in
March. And still the wind howled 1t blew
gale for 221 days of that Winter.
INSPECTOR WILCOX Is enthusiastic about
radio. He recalls long Arctic days which
were as nights when the sun had disappeared
and when from his loudspeaker would come
concerts and dance music originating in far-off
Germany, England, United States and Cana
dian cities.
At Pond Inlet one year. he heard stations
at Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel, Breslau, Silesia,
Frankfort-on-Main London, Birmingham, New
castle-on-Tync, Pittsburgh, Boston, Springfield,
Chicago, New York. Cleveland Cincinnati and
other American cities along the Pacific Coast
and in the South, as well as from Vancouver.
Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg and Toronto.
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had abruptly and completely been forgotten.
They are strange looking beasts too as every
one knows. They are antelope, OF course ana
yet they look more like cattle or buffaloes than
do any of the other antelopes. Their horns
are strangely kinked, their faces are strangely
elongated. and their noses look for all the
world aS II they had inquisitively poked them In
ut some barn door which had closed abruptly
and had squeezed them out fiat. Their nostrils
too are interesting, and are subject to much
more dilation and contraction than are those
of most animals. At times-particularly when
some storm is filling the air with dust-their
nostrils contract until they are hardly more
than Sits, thus making 1t possible for them to
strain the dust laden air through the hairs with
which their nostrils are lined.
Certainly no other animal seems to have half
the stamina that these wildebeestS have when
they are running Most animals can be run
down on horseback If the going is good. But
no horse 1 ever saw could keep up the pace
wildebeest sets. Of across the plains they go,
and long after a horse has been worn out they
can gallop on, apparently as fresh as ever.
1t was interesting to learn that We could
easily tell when lions were wandering about
over the crater bottom, even when they were
too far away for us to make them out So ire
mendous Is the number of animals there that
when one chooses position up the side Of the
crater from which he can see a large section
of the bottom, an opening among the animals
is very noticeable. There are large stretches Of
open plain in the crater in addition to the two
forests, the swamps and the lakes, and so ire
mendous is the number Of animals on this
plain that spot not covered by them is very
apparent indeed. So We learned to choose points
of vantage from which we could look out and
down upon the herds
Whap M lions wara IN tho opoy fha k,arGc
were scattered more or less evenly over the
entire surface, but when a lion appeared and
made his way along the other animals gave way
before him, and closed m calmly enough be-
hind, leaving telltale circle 200 yards or so
across wherein we could often make out
nothing whatever With the glasses, however,
we invariably found the cause of the opening,
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that r was convinced that she was not hard
hit Certainly hope that she was only super
ficialIy wounded and I suspect that she was, for
during several days thereafter I watched for
signs of vultures in that vicinity and saw
none Had she died believe that that telltale
sign would have told me of 1t.
HURST was not man to enlarge particularly
~ about his adventures but I did get him
to tell me about the hon that mauled him.
1t had happened only q few weeks before he
joined our party, and thought that he would
not be able to come on account OF his injuries,
but he insisted that he was all right, though
he still wore some bandages. AT.
He had come upon o lion In the open and
the beast started of. Hurst shot and missed
and the lion made flying. leap TO get into
some bush Hurst let 60 again and hit the
beast while 1t was in mid-air. At that the
animal actually turned before 1t struck the
ground, and the moment 1t lit 1t came for the
hunter. Hurst was using typical elephant gun
"a double barreled rihe-and, of course, both
shots had been fired. So sudden was the attack
that he had no time to reload So, realizing the
seriousness of the situation, he thrust the
muzzle into the lions mouth.
The force behind the lions charge was 90
great, however, that Hurst was borne over back
ward on to the ground; the rifle stock snapped
in two, the lion spit the gun barrel out of its
mouth and stood above aim for a moment.
Then it stopped seized him by the hip In its
teeth and started on with him. 1t took two or
three steps, dropped him to the ground, coughed
and fell dead directly beside the hunter. When
lie had dragged himself away and looked to his
own wounds, Hurst examined the lion and
learned that the one bullet that had struck the
beast had cut through one side Of its heart,
and yet the animal had strength enough left
almost to kill the hunter.
After Hurst left us, I am very sorry to say,
he was charged by wounded elephant and
killed. So vast is the difference between the
courage of such men as Hurst and the actions
OF some men who take the field in Africa, that
it is doubly tragic when. men of his kind are
killed
Copyright, 1922
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Continued from Fourteenth Page
The weather was getting warm, with the
result that during the day the interior surface
OF the igloos was mass of icicles The floors
were covered with about six inches of slush
To add to their discomfort the natives were
without oil for their lamps found three of
the women were running temperatures of los
and lO6"
For all the ailing Eskmos Inspector Wilcox
prescribed his medicine and hot tea and biscuits
All recovered.
THE following morning" to continue his re-
port Il proceeded to whsEe the Arctic Bay
natives had made their camp. I found con-
ditions the same as at the camp of the Igloolik
natives-igloos covered with slush on the floor
and icicles on the ceilings, the interior Of each
being cold, damp and evil smelling.
Il remained three days and treated them as
I had done with the other band. They re-
covered"
But sometimes the Winters as not so active
Sometimes no human being is seen for whole
Winter Even such year comes in the in
spectors experiences
He will tell you that from the time the supply
ship Beothic had landed him at Craig Harbor,
Ellesmereland, in August, 1922, until it came
again in August of the next year, neither he
nor the two constables with him saw another
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and on one occasion ut sunrise, when the OPEN
ing was larger than usual we were amazed to
be able to count II lions as they solemny filed
through the yielding herds.
That was surprisingly unusual. Larger packs
have been seen, but they are very rare, and we
determined to see what we could do in stalking
them. We made our way back from where we
had been watching and headed carefully in q
direction that would make 1t possible for us to
intersect the route on which the lions appeared
to be travelling. They were bound, apparently.
up TO the BUSH covered slopes in order to rest
for the day. and toward these bushes we made
our way. Yet when we reached the spot that
we had chosen there were no lions to be seen.
WE lay still for q time, watching carefully
and then, quite suddenly, two little cubs
playfully appeared in plain sight upon a rock,
and inquisitively sat there like great big kittens,
staring In our direction. That the pack knew
we were about was obvious. Even the cubs
knew 1t, but only the cubs were foolish enough
to appear in the open. We could easily have
gotten them, but We were not after cubs, and
SO we lay there watching. hoping to see one of
the larger animals as 1t moved about But
watch as we would, none appeared. and that,
to me, is proof that experience is something
from which animals profit greatly
Had they instinctively hidden from us the
cubs would have done as their elders did. But
there were the cubs within easy gunshot,
wondering what on earth we were and why we
were about, while the grown animals remained
cannily hidden, not at all certain, of course,
that we were enemies. but more or less sure
that We were not friends
I don't know how long we lay there waiting,
and then my wife through her glasses saw the
shoulder of honess among the bushes She
pointed 1t out to me and took aim while she
continued to tell me what she saw with the
aid Of her binoculars. I knew that we were
not likely to get better shot, and I finally
pulled the trigger. There was grunt that told
me had hit. The cubs disappeared in series
OF awkward Jumps, and instantly everything
was gone.
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BY JOSEPHINE TICHE.

DANCING fool! That's what he was
That's what he is. That's what ne al
ways will be, this Billy Pierce, young
Negro of Loudoun County, Va. Just 8
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VENEZUELA ELECTS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Or. Perez Succeeds to Office
Held by Gomez for
20 Years.
Rr The Assnciated Press.

Nv the Associated P1eSS.
CARACAS. Venezuela, May 31--Dr.
Juan Bautista Perez, president of the
Federal High Court of Cessation and
temporary President Of Venezuela, was
elected President of the republic by
Congress yesterday. He was chosen for
the seven-year term expiring in 1885.
Dr. Perez will succeed Gen. Juan
Vicente Gomez, who surprised the
country on May by declining re-
election to the post which he had held
fer 20 years. This unexpected develop
ment caused delay in filling the offlce
of chief executive until today
Gen Gomez expressed willingness
10 become COMMANDER in chief of the
Venezuelan Army Shd Congress today
carried out that wiz by choosing him
for that post.
Dr. Perez will takS the oath Of office
before Congress today.
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been released last night. The condition
OF Mrs. George Higginbotham, wife of
the Muskogee fire chief. dangerously i'll
for several hours, was reported i'm
proved.
The Muskogee Fire d partment force
vas so weakened by the ptomaine at
tacks that volunteers were recruited to
fill the places of the Ill f1remen.
Closing sessions of the convention
were cut short as a result of the greatly
attendance
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sons who were recovering tonight from
effects of ptomaine poisoning.
The victims, most of them firemen
and members of their families, were
stricken shortly after the supper. Many
became i'll at a dance which followed.
Others. most of whom returned here
for treatment, were attacked after leav-
ing Muskogee to motor to their home
cities
All who were taken to hospitals had
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Marriage Licenses.

.zscharih Sargent, "a, and Mary Basker-
viii. %; Rev. Stephen q Lambkln.
Jackson. 10; Rev. G. c Williams
Percy Goody. 28. and Mary Campbell. 90
Rev. L. l. McDougle
Wallace r. Florancr. "a, and Viola s
Benedict "a Rev. Charles b Austin
Louis A. PawlowSki, "a, and Irene P.
Parker, 81: Rev. T, Vincent FITZGERALD.
Charles E. Raeder. IS. and Marie l.. Bras
well. %, Rev. p. c. Gavan.
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Two Get Lieutenant's Commission

Staff Sergts Harry l.. Gosnell and
Joseph w. Mollaun. Army Medical
Corps, stationed at the Army Medical
Center, have been commissioned by the
War Department as second licutenants
in the Reserve Medical Corps.
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In order to be present at a musical
party given recently at Neuilly, France.
by John Brownlee, leading baritone of
the Paris Opera, Nine. Melba made the
S00-mile trip from Paris in a single day.
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Mr. and Mrs. Howard C.. Rowley of
San Francisco are spending this week as
guests at the national headquarters of
the Sons of the American Revolution on
Sixteenth street and Scott Circle Mr.
Rowley was elected president general
at the annual congress of the Sons
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PTOMAINE POISONING
HITS 200 PERSONS
Firemen's Convention Cut Short
by Tainted Sand
witches.

Ry tho Associated Press.
MUSKOGEE, Okla, May 31.-Meat
sandwiches served at box supper here
Wednesday night for delegates to
State firemen's association convention
were blamed for the illness of 200 per-
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The exhibition and tea at St. Ger
trudes School of Arts and Crafts to-
morrow afternoon will not be post
poned in the event of rain. The pro-
gram as announced will be carried out
in the spacious school building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31

The first annual dance OF Victory
Council degree team, National Union
Assurance Society, will be held June S
at Pythian Temple, 1912 Ninth street,
8 to IL o'clock.
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Mr.. and Mrs. A S. Coburn of Leba-
non, N. H., are at the Grace Dodge
Hotel for an extended stay. They are
accompanied by Mrs. A. E. Cutting, also
of Lebanon.
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Brightwood Chapter, No. a., o. z. s..
Will hold card party tomorrow night.
$50 O'Clock. at the Northeast Masonic
Temple. Eighth and F streets northeast.
Public invited.
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FUTURE.

Washington Open Forum will hold a
picnic Sunday at l pm. at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. James Kelley, River
dale. Md. 1.-TWO blocks west and two
blocks north Of Riverdale trolley sta
lion. Autoists should turn off Balti-
more Pike at Jackson avenue)
The picnic will be held jointly with
that of the Single Takers.
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:. The District of Columbia Public
School Association will meet Wednes-
day from to 10 o'clock in the board
room Of the District Building Dean
w. C. Ruediger of George Washington
University will speak on "The Broad
ening and Reorganization of the Cur
riculum''
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Col Martha Hamon of the women'S
social section of the Salvation Army for
the Southern Territory will speak to-
night at the Salvation Army Temple
Corps. 606 street northwest. AL
though Washington is in the Southern
territory and Col. Hamon has been an
officer of the Army for IA years. this
will be her first visit to the Capital.
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Mr.. and Mrs James o. Watson have
with them at the Wardman Park Hotel
their daughter, Mrs. Logan Carroll of
Fairmont, w. Va. Mrs. Carroll will
spend several days with her parents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31

Miss Mamie Burroughs. head of the
National Training School and daughter
Of the Elks' Columbia, No. IS, will pre-
sent Ethiopia at the Bar of Justice"
tonight at the Third Baptist Church,
Fifth and @ streets northwest.
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of the American Revolution, held re-
Gently at Springfield. Ill. Mr.. and Mrs.
Rowley have received many social at
tentions during their stay in Wash
ington and will visit New York and
several Eastern cities before their re-
turn to San Francisco.
The Lucy Holcombe Chapter, Daugh-
ters Of the American Revolution, has
issued invitations to a garden party to
meet Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart and
Mrs. David D. Caldwell Thursday. June
g, from ) to 7, at the home of Miss
Cornelia Cotton, Davidson drive, Be
thesda, Md.
The senior play at the National Cath
edral School Will be held in Whitby Hall
this evening instead of in the Wood
land Theater as previously announced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31

The National Woman's Party will
give a garden party In honor Of the
tenth anniversary Of the passage by
Congress of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment Tuesday afternoon at 4 80
O'Clock. Senator Watson will be prin-
cipal speaker.