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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Now and then you need sled that is
really serviceable; one which will carry
a load easily and without danger of
breaking down. Boys living along the
shores Of lakes and streams viii find
frequent use for such a sled because
1t will tote overnight camping or trap
ping equipment, haul supplies to and
from town and, in short, help out on all
sorts of erands.
It is easily made, too Get dry
goods box somewhere near the dimen-
sions shown, with tight corners and a
good bottom. Get an old iron cultivator
wheel and cut of the spokes. Then cut
the tire into two pieces of equal size.
Bend over the ends Of each half for 2
inches and drill either one or two holes
in each end. These are for bolts which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

If you are more than a step away, of
course, you cannot guard effectively.
so that one-step distance Is very Inn
portant to remember.
Alertness Is one of the best virtues
that any guard can have. Be ready to
break for your own basket the moment
one of your own players gets the ball,
and be just as ready to go back to your
own part of the floor as soon as the
other side gains possession Of the ball.
In guarding 1t is well to imagine line
across the middle of the floor. dividing
your half from the opposing teams
half. Never guard past the center of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
THE PUZZLE CORNER

Here are two word chains that
should stop you for moment. Re-
member to change only one letter at
a time, and make real word with
each change.
Change STEP to LEAP In five moves.
Change KING to RULE in five
moves.
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The picture puzzle below represents
the name of a man with whom Abra-
ham Lincoln held famous debate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Long before Columbus discovered the
New World, many years before william
the Conqueror landed in England.
many years even before Christ was
born there lived in Egypt people who
were far advanced In civilization.
They possessed knowledge Of the arts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

Nov. Tommy, want you to be good
while I'm out"
I'm be good for a nickel"
Now, Tommy. you never can be q
real son OF mine unless you are good
for nothing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

The fever of adventure sent Dan
Streeter, eX-cotton manufacturer,
from his home In Buffalo, N. Y,
to the heart of the big game coun-
try in British East Africa. There ne
made headquarters at the farm Of
a settler named feathers and started
into the wilderness under the guild
ance Of two veterans hunters, Flint
and Gregg, leaving his 13-year-old
son at the farm. His first meeting
with a buffalo made him realize his
equipment as a big game hunter
consisted primarily Of a sense of
hunor and a gun that he was not
much good with.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

This is the month In which Abra-
ham Lincoln was born, and in his
honor we are giving you this cross
word puzzle within the Great Emanci-
pator's Silhouette.
Honest Abe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

without a guide, knowing always where
ne is and how to go straight back to
the point from which he started.
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the floor-that Is, In the other teams
defensive territory. When you lose the
ball all five men on your team should
go back to your half of the floor to
guard.
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WINNING BASKET BALL

BY TOM F. McMULLEN
College Star and Coach of Basket
Ball at State Teachers College, San Diego, Calf
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and sciences such as many people of
today do not have. They built the
enormous Pyramids which stand even
now, they built the mysterious Sphinx,
irrigation systems, beautiful houses.
large temples; they were traders in all
the world known at that time; they
we're philosophers. poets. astronomers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

(Can you find the letters in the
drawing that make word completing
the rhyme?)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Picture Puzzle Poem

Whenever we play soldier,
We draw battle map,
And carry spears like privateers,
And wear q soldier -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03

The definitions ar.
Horizon!
/. Lincoln's nickname.
4. Straightforward. Fl
6. A girls nickname.
8. Masculine pronoun.
9. The Great Emancipator.
II. A girdle.
Is. Those. whom Lincoln freed
16. A canvas shelter.
II. Snakehke fish.
49, Either
10. You.
/. In the Year of the Reign (Abr.).
2. Prohibit.
8. Half an EN-.
4. A buccaneer.
S. The bottom timber of a boat. 49,
6. Flemish (Abr.).
Z. A number.
8. Warm.
10. Neat. esq.,
II. You and I. -
ID. Famous Civil War General.
is. A New England State (Abr).
,
Each of the following queer looking
words is the name in jumbled order
of a former President of the United
States. Can you rearrange the letters
correctly?
/. TARGN.
2. SILNOW.
8. MADAS.
4. FARIDELG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

RUT If, as Prof. Hart says, there is an absence
Of Semitic features, the individuality of
Characterization Is SO clear that the theologian
easily recognizes each figure at the board.
HesseliuS was a master at hands and in his
Last Supper he chose to convey a great deal
of meaning by the hands Of the men gathered
for the solemn feast. The lawyer the fisher
man, the tax gatherer-each has hands which
help denote his manner Of life work and,
adding the impression from the features, it
becomes an easy task to name each at the
board.
HeSSelius has treated his subject after the
manner Of the Northern European painters,
with respect for time, place and individuality.
The dim light coming through one window
beyond which is a twilight dusk, the unlit
candles indicate that day is over but that night
has not yet come, and the simple room conveys
clearly that the faithful are gathered in the
upper chamber" Of home in Palestine al
most 1000 years ago. Christ, it is plain has
just ceased to speak. Each of those with him
reacts to his simple statement that he will be
betrayed by one Of them. The expression, the
astonishment in some eyes, the attitudes of all,
indicate that no one of them can believe the
Master will be betrayed except Judas, whose
eyes convey establishment and fear
There are no fine proportions of architecture,
no decorations. The costumes are simple but
colorful the room is bare and simple. In this
HesSelus has departed from tradition and
StudiouSly avoided the methods Of most of the
old masters who have left their impressions of
the Last Supper"
Gustavus Hesseus was born in Sweden in
1882 and came Of family distinguished for
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ing eyes were omitted as submarines increased
In weight above few hundred tons.
Consequently, on the Ssh and the Sd, the
only means of taking the lifting pull of the
pontoons lay in passing cradle of heavy chain
sings under the boats. To do this tunnels had
to be dug under the submarine, and the cold
blooded courage required of the divers in these
tunneling operations at the bottom OF the sea
can hardly be imagined
THE danger and the delay of this method
resulted after the Ssh job, in the recon-
mendation by the salvage officer there of an
entirely new system of lifting eyes on subma-
Tines-eyeS spaced evenly along both sides of
the boat, SO that each eye. instead of having
to lift half the boat as in former installations,
would have to take the pull of only half
pontoon, a strain which does not exceed 40
tons
BY this device the use of lifting eyes again
became feasible set was recently installed
submarine at Portsmouth for testing pur-
poses and was demonstrated as capable Of
lifting Sunken submarine quickly.
But the most important requisite for quick
salvage work Is an adequate supply of skilled
divers. When the S-4 sank, the Nays solitary
rescue ship had in her crew only one deep-sea
diver; the others who had raised the Ssh were
either out Of the Navy or scattered far and
wide through the service.
This defect Is being remedied. In Washing
ton today under the supervision of Lieut. Hart
ley former captain of the rescue ship Falcon,
there is now In operation a deep-sea diving
school, where men are trained for work in
depths far beyond those in which We struggled
to raise the Ssh and the S-4. The graduates
of this school will man the four sister vessels
Of the Falcon.
Most important of all, these ships are now
a.
their primary function. Drills with pontoons
and rescue rehearsals with divers and subma-
rines on the bottom will be their daily work.
No longer will it be necessary when Subma-
rine sinks to scratch up crew of divers, fran
tcally start building pontoons, and then at
tempt to raise q Sunken boat with men who
have not even seen salvage gear for a year or
more and must start digging tunnels on the
bottom as their first operation.
Instead of this the Navy is fast preparing
its equipment so that when the next subma-
rine sinks she will be provided with the new
lifting eyes, there will be close at hand a set
of salvage pontoonS, and within a few hours
there will be on the scene rescue ship which
will swing into action against the sea crew
of trained divers with all the speed and pre-
Cision of our batteShipS going into action
against the enemy.
proper equipment the men who struggled for
months to raise the Ssh and the Sd with
their cargoes Of dead, will in few brief hours
after starting work bring up the next suDma-
rine with her crew still alive.
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BYJOIIN T. GOODRICH.

"V HERE are strange stories of paintings,
> known to exist, which have dlsap-
+ peared for years only to be discov-
~ cred by accident, hanging on some
tavern wall or stood in a garnet.
But among these is no more curious tale than
that Of the Last Supper" of Gustavus
Hesselius painted by commission for ST. Barna-
bus Church in Prince Georges County, Mary
land, in 1922, lost for 100 years, and recognized
by the late Prof Charles Henry Hart of Phila-
delphia, the picture hanging beneath well placed
lights in the hallway of an old Virginia home
near Fredericksburg.
Prof. Hart discovered years ago that such
painting had been made by Hesselius as an
altar piece and began a search for it, without
avail. His interest led him in his art criticism
to depart now and again from his subject and
enter into speculation as to what had become
Of the painting, which he knew to be the first
commissioned painting, not a portrait, which
had been done for public building in America
by resident artist. It was his opinion that
1t had long ago been destroyed in one o. the
wars which touched Virginia soil from the
Revolution to the Civil War. No one was more
surprised than he when he found the lost
'Last Supper" almost by accident
He had written several articles, beginning as
long ago as 1908, and one Of these, being read
by Mrs. John GaSSaway of Rockville. Md,
caused her to write to Mr. Hart and tell him
of an old painting left to her by her father.
which he had bought in Georgetown Va, in
184S. The painting was in her possession. At
that time Mrs. GaSsaway had left the painting
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with Rev. John r. Henderson, the pastor Of her
church, and In Mr.. Henderson's home, after
hurrying to eagerly examine the painting, Prof.
Hart found the original altar piece which had
disappeared from st. BarnabaS Church prior
to the Revolutionary War.
Writing Of his discovery In 1914, Prof. Hart
thus, In part, described it: I'm a low-ceilinged
room, at the back Of long, narrow table,
covered with linen CLOTH bearing a frugal
meal sits Christ, In red robe, facing front, con-
and John, to his left, in white, resting his
head upon the Savior'S shoulder. The remain
ing faithful friends are seated on either side of
the central group, one disciple being placed at
each end OF the board. Opposite in front of
the table, Judas Iscariot sits sideways, alone,
with heavy brow and head averted from the
Master. The disciples are engaged in earnest
conversation, without excitement or any Sug-
gestion Of the theatricalism so frequently ex-
hibited In paintings Of this subject by many of
the old masters. HeSSeliuS, coming from a
family Of theologianS (Swedenborg was his
couSin), was possessed Of the full religious sig
ntfcance Of the act he was to commemorate
and gave it the proper subdued fervor OF the
occasion. The color scheme is suitably quiet
and harmonious, the drawing and placing of
the figures on the canvas excellent and we'll
balanced, the proper proportions carefully pre-
served and the heads, doubtless drawn from his
neighborS and acquaintance are full Of the
individual character, with an absence of
Semitic cast Of countenance that Is very
noticeable"
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piety and learning two of whose members
were sent by Charles XII to America to preach
to the SwedeS along the Delaware. AndreaS,
the eldest arrived at Cristina, now Wilmington,
Del, in May, It'll. With him was his brother,
Gustavus HeSselius, the artist The latter
became painter Of portraits in Philadelphia,
but. probably lacking subjects with sufficient
funds to assure him livelihood GustavuS went
to Maryland about 1890 and thus brought
about a significant incident in the history of
art in America.
In Maryland in 1705, there was created in
Prince Georges County a parish known as
Queen Anne'S, wherein was built three years
later a brick church, known as st. BarnabaS
Church. OF the new church the Rev. Jacob
Henderson was pastor, and in the records of
the old parish he made among many other
quaint entries, several which had to do with
GuStavus HeSselius, who, it appears, was not
above doing what is now called interior decorat-
ing when such work was offered:
June We 7th., 1870; Ye Vestry agree to have
We Church painted and orddyt Mr.. Hesselius,
We painter, have notice to attend We VeStry
meeting at their next in order to agree with
YIN for We same.
tues 7mbr. We 5th 1921. Ye Vestry agree
with Mr.. GuStavus HesSeliuS to draw We history
of our Blessed Savior and We twelve Apostles
at ye Last Supper ye institution of We blessed
Sacrament of His Body and Blood, Proportion
able to We space over ye Altar, to find We cloth
and all necessities for We same, We frame and
gold leaf excepted which Mr. Henderson en-
cages to procure and beStow on ye Church, Mr..
Continued on Sixteenth Page
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THE STAR, WASHINGTON, D. c. JULY T. ,qea-pARr

and allow the oxygen (Which even the crew Of
the S-4 did not use up) to keep the crew alive
till rescued.
The second step is to ventilate the boat
from the outside, admitting fresh air and re-
moving the foul air. To this end each subma-
rne is now fitted in each of its compartments
with separate inletS and outlets, to which divers
can attach hose to supply air and liquid food
to the men inside, while the bad air escapes
through second hose without building up
pressure the imprisoned crew.
In the past there has been only single
airline connection on submarines, in the side
of the coming tower, with a system of pipes
inside the boat to distribute the salvage air to
all compartments. On the SSH this line was
cut in half by the stem of the ship which sank
the submarine. On the S-4 no connection to
this line ever was made by the divers in the
brief time they could work, but it wouiu have
been useless even if connected because while
the salvage piping system in that boat allowed
air to be forced into compartment 1t was
impossible to exhaust any. AS a result, If the
air connection had been made the men in the
submarine would quickly have been placed I'M
der heavy pressure, which would have resulted
only In killing them more quickly.
THIS has now been rectifed. On the next
- submarine sunk a diver can connect the
supply and exhaust air lines directly to the
room where men are alive. These connections,
which can be made quickly, will keep the crew
alive until the salvage gear arrives.
In the open sea submarines can best be lifted
by submersible pontoons There are numerous
and adequate technical and financial reasons
which rule out Of practical salvage system
the many fantastic types of catamaran and
twin-hulled lifting ships which those unac-
quainted with deep-water salvage in the open
sea are continually proposing. Our Navy is
providing SO pontoons of an improved type
invented after the Ssh salvage job which
avoid the dangers and difficulties of pontoon
handling experienced on the Ssh operation.
These so pontoons divided into groups Of
10, viii be sent to central points in the five
main areas of submarine operations and held
there in readiness. These bases are New York,
Coco Solo, San Diego, Hawaii and Cavite.
To handle these pontoons and act as rescue
ships, five vessels are being fitted out and
specially assigned for submarine reScue-the
Falcon, the Widgeon, the Ortolan the Mallard
and the Pidgeon.
Into this equipment is going the major
amount Of the Nays salvage allotment. The
pontoons represent an investment Of over
$500, 900; the five rescue ships, when QUILTED
win represent an investment considerably in
excess of that sum.
The major difficulty in lifting submarines
has been to provide some means of applying the
pull to the vessel. In the early days, when
submarines were tiny, ring was secured at
bow and stern by which a derrick could hoist
the boat If necessary. The Intelligent Whale.
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. 50-ton submarine built during the Civil
War, and now ON exhibition at the New York
Navy Yard, has these lifting rings as its most
prominent feature. But when submarines grew
above zoo tons, difficulties multiplied. The
weight to be lifted exceeded the capacity Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
RETAIL BUSINESS
HAVING BIG YEAR
Department Stores to Pass
1923 Record, Says Alfred
B. Koch at Survey.

An optimistic view of the department
store trade was presented yesterday
afternoon at the national business sur
Fey conference by Alfred B. Koch, presi-
dent of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association, who ana!;zed the situation
as indicating that the annual volume
of business this year will surpaSs the
volume of 1928 on dollar basis.
With the holiday business of to a
good start, Mr.. Koch pointed out, it is
generally believed that retail trade will
be up to normal expectations. The
spread of increased business, he pre-
dicted, would be general. except posi-
bly, in those districts which may ex-
perience local depressionS due to I'M
foreSeen industrial conditions.
Since 1920 department stores have
seen the wisdom of adopting a policy
of conservative merchandising, because
of changing conditions. particularly in
the realm of consumer demand and the
importance of the style factor in mer-
chandise" said Mr.. Koch. THE result
has been that during this interim
manufacturers. wholesalers, jobbers and
retailers have adjusted production
schedules and stocks of merchandise on
hand to meet these new conditions.
Hence. at the present time while there
are ample stocks on hand to satisfy the
normal wants of consumers, our dis
tributive outlets are not carrying in
their warehouses the large inventories
of merchandise which proved to be so
disastrous to them in 1920. We believe
that this is condition which will be an
important factor in the stabilizing of
general business conditions and in the
maintenance of our national prosperity.
October Sales Larger.
"The latest figures available, showing
the trend of department store sales,
issued by the Federal Reserve Board on
November %. show that sales for the
month of October for the country as a
whole were 80 per cent larger than in
October, 1928. This figure was COM
piled as the result of statistics received
from 523 stores located in 22o cities.
inventories of merchandise of reporting
department stores at the end of october
were at the same level as year ago, ac-
cording to reports from 433 stores.
During the past week reports indi-
cate that many lines of merchandise
have shown substantial increases in
sales, resulting from cold weather and
also due in part to more general con-
fidence, in the business outlook. The
holiday business is off to a good start,
and 1t is now generally believed that re-
tail trade will be up to normal expecta-
tons. The distribution of Christmas
savings funds to the extent Of six hum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-06
WIFE GRANTED WRIT
AGAINST DIVORCE SUIT
Justice Wheat Accepts Plea of Mrs.
Walter HUMPHREYS That She Had
Brought Action Herself.

Justice Alfred A. Wheat in Equity
Court yesterday signed a temporary re-
straining order enjoining Walter Hum
phries, manager of a local automobile
accessories store, from continuing the
prosecution of suit for divorce which
has been filed in the Circuit Court of
Arlington County. Va, against Mrs.
Irene Myrtle HUMPHREYS, 215 street
southeast.
In petition for the restraining order
Mrs. HUMPHREYS, represented by Attor-
neys Raymond Neudecker and William
c. Ashford, told the court she filed suit
in the local Equity Court a year ago
for n limited divorce on the grounds of
cruelty and desertion, and the case is
expected to be reached shortly for trial.
She stated that she came to the Dis
trict with her husband 10 years ago
from Fredericksburg, Va, and Hum
phries deserted her in 1928. She fur
ther claims that the Circuit Court Of
Arlington County has no Jurisdiction
over the marital differences between
them.
Justice Wheat's prohibition against
proceeding in the divorce suit is effec-
tive at once, and the court will later
hear argument on the question of max
ing the injunction permanent.
Seville, Spain, is constructing a large