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EACHANGE.
WILL TRADE $4,000 EQUITY IN BROOM,
2-bath brick house for clear lots in Vir-
WILL TRADE MODERN HOUSES SUBJECT
to one trust for apt. house; no cash; will
give back second trust. Address Box 5000,
2I5 ACRES, FAIRFAX COUNTY, MOSTLY
young timber, small trust, for apartment
house, lots or going business. Cleveland
$3.50.
SEVERAL EXCELLENT VA. FARMS TO EX-
change for D. C. investment property. AID.
dress Box 1870, Star once.
SEVERAL CLEAR AND FrRsT-TRUsT
houses; exchange on apartment house; not
over 100000. Address Box 4S7-C, Star Of
fee.
COY GROOM HOME IN VA. HIGHLANDS.
ami, large lot, for D. c.. home. Address
Box 3lB-C. star once. 17s
WILL TRADE GROOM MODERN HOME IN
D. G. for Florida home vacant ground.
Address Box 324-C. Star ONCE. I7s
CoLoRED HOUSE.
Close to i4th and You SITS; 2-story brick.
$1,000; will trade for one or more lots or
small. acreage. Address Box S26-C. Star
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Phone FAILS Church tVa.l 81
FALLS CHURCH, VA.
front and back. barn, henhouse: close to
stores. schools and churches; ia acres land.
fr1it and shade All for $500: terms.
and back. garage. nice lott close. to stores.
schools and churches; good road. All for
$500; a bargain and terms.
New lI2-story, T-room house anil; Green
way Downs, on Lee Highway; lot 50xl45;
bargain at s7.5O0; terms.
Lots OF nice acreage on hard road that
nds Of at s prees little
and big win trade farms for suburban
houses and lots or city property clear or
ness Phone Falls Church SO once. Tell
Fl Fl ANDERSON. e. co
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LOTS. $40 MONTH.

BENEDICT, MD,
VIII sell few lots to parties. with sood
references Size about 40x70 It. $250 to
$3.50 Located in very best section, next to
Horsmons About 200 it, from water front.
H H MILLER. sos Argonne Apis, Wash,
ID C. Phone Col. 4630.
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- COLORED.
=. F0r Satisfactory bay-window brick on Z
81 ne near End. real bargain, and easy
terms. From OWNER. iil2 Euclid st. ls'
C S;oLt BLOCK HARVARD; PRICED
porches: excellent condition. Pot. aosT
CoLoRED-s ROOMS, TILE BATH: H.-W.H.,
eiecIlclty; garage; r. I. ave. near Srd St
NV, your terms. North 970e.
lty; 3 porches: cellar tubs etc: only 81, S50;
near lst and w. Dec 1850.
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WANTED--LOTS.

WANTED-LOTS
i00-FT OR MORE FRONT IN CHEVY
Chase, d. c., or Nd: pay cash IL bargain;
state lot square and price. Address Box
sole. Star ONCE.
WANT LOT. SO OR 60 Fl. FRONT. CHEVY
Chase, Wocdside or NV. d. G. traded in on
new, modern hunealow, Silver Spring. Adj
dress Box Csc, Star once.
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EXCHANGE.
(Continued.)

in one house in Silver Spring and two in
Kensington for farm in Montgomery County.
Address Box 275-C, Star once. IT.
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RENTS $2.O58 YEAR.

PRICE. s10,50O.
white owner leaving city. hence sacrifice.
5-story brick, splendid northwest section
Fully occupied by colored Easy terms
Address Box 259-C, Star ofice
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WANTED-FARMS
SALE-ACREAGE.

RIVER ROAD, NEAR
Western ave. & Govt. park, about acres
OF fine, level ground; price less than $500
acre; TERMS Mr.. Schaefer. Main $751;;
evenings, Shep. 264i.
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SALE-STORES.
WATER FRONT PROPERTY.

WATER FRONT PROPERTY.
TWO LOTS, SO FEET ON NEW BOARD
walk, Herald Harbor; most beautiful view at
beach; suitable for business and Summer
home; owner leaving city; sell reasonable.
Call Hyattsville 96-R.
WE HAVE FOR SALE SEVERAL. VERY At
tractive old colonial and modern water front
estates priced from $4,000 to $4,000. For
particulars phone Decatur 4700. BAUMAN &
HETNZMAN. / Thomas Circle.
FOR sALE-LARGE HOUSE, WITH AT
tractive grounds, on salt water, 80 miles from
d. G. Good for Summer hotel, club or or
Rani2ation. Phone Decatur 4700. BAUMAN
e. HEINZMAN, ! Thomas Circle.
BEAUTIFUL SHADED LOT, 5oxloo. ON SALT
water. round bay. so minutes drive from
city; city conveniences. Owner must sell at
once. Sacrifice price, $500. Phone Main
1922 18e
SOUTH RTVER-4O0 ACRES, $500 FEET
water frontage, 1900 feet State road 'front.'
age near Annapolis; 81 miles from WASH
ington. Address Box 227-C. Star once IT.
RECENT FORECLOSURE ENABLES ME
to sell at slightly above the former frs.
mortgage. one Of the most picturesque water
fronts on Chssapsake Bay; $50 ACRES;
q MILE WATER FRONT, Ia MILES FROM
STATE RID, SIS MILES FROM DISTRICT
LINE. SIx-ROOM. OLD COLONIAL FRAME
HOUSE, in fair condition. 2 fireplaces. beau
ttful yard, fine view over the bay. All at
$40 per acre. Only $4,000 cash required
Address BOX 1850. Star once.
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SlO5m

Nice home of rooms and 2 baths: de-
tached tile garage. Situated on q beautiful
northwest residential street. A wonderful To-
cation Tor either boarding house or To rent
rooms. Has all modern conveniences and Is
A. least $4,000 underpriced to effect immedi-
ATE SAFE Reasonable cash and terms to suit
II: B. BYRD, JR.,
s23 18th st. NV. Main s4sf. (.
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FEAT OF COTTON KING Is
TWO BALES TO ACRE
Credits Success on Texas Farm to
Improved Methods in Use
of Fertilizer.

PALESTINE, Tex. P).-Two bales to
the acre is the average yield produced
by John w. Mcfarland. the cotton
king Of East Texas" His 40 acres yield
ed 80 bales last year, whereas in many
sections farmers got only one bale from
two or three acres.
The winner of several prizes in more
and better cotton on fewer acres" con-
tests, Mcfarland credits his success TO
improved methods OF farming, includ-
ing the intelligent use OF commercial
fertilizer.
On his record crop he applied $50
pounds of 4-12-4 fertilizer in the bedded
rows, which were approximately feet
apart After the cotton was planted, he
added side dressing OF $50 pounds of
nitrate Of soda per acre Later in the
season he added another $50 pounds to
the acre.
Weeds were kept down and proper soil
mulch was maintained by cultivation.
Most of the plants fruited heavily, some
having as many as 100 bolls to the stalk
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DEAUvlLLE FAVORS
WASH SILK SUITS
Two-Piece Costumes Are Leading
for Daytime Wear at French
Resort.

DEAUVTLLE (P.-Two-piece cos
tunes again are leading everything else
for daytime wear here But this time
the two pieces are not skirt and pull
over as formerly, but one-piece dress
and short jacket.
Striped and checked wash silk sleeve
less dresses with matching coats are
the uniforms of the morning crowds
on the boardwalks and tennis courts.
In the afternoon one-piece dresses of
the same type. except that the dresses
are apt to be long Sleeved and the
jackets sleeveless, are worn.
White SO far leads everything else
for evening wear, with black a close
second. White frocks are apt to be Of
chiffon, satin or faille, but, the major
tty Of the black dresses are tulle.
Against the black and white costumes.
diamond jewelry stands out conspicu-
ously, and there seems to be more and
finer jewelry on display than ever be-
fore.
Quite few yellow frocks, especially
In blended shades of buttercup yellow
and citron, appear at gala dances.
Shaded blue tulle and gowns which
combine tints of pansy and petunia,
also have created admiring comment.
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thread and cuts off the thread and the
seed thus prepared is next placed in
side the living oyster at a certain place
where it will get the fullest deposit of
nacre without harming the creature.
The wedge is then removed, the oyster
snaps its jaws tight. and 1t Is placed in
water. TO be later put into tray in
closed in wire cage and sunk IL the
sea few feet, there TO rest for seven
years, with occasional trips 10 the sur
face for cleaning.
Out in the bay are several "tows" of
small households, in pairs, each pair
being the headquarters of about 20 girl
divers. These girls, who are from 10 to
20 years OF age and are natives Of the
nearby villages, are expert divers, Capa-
BILE of going into deeper water than the
men. They really do not dive" for the
oysters. They jump into the sea, feet
first, from their scows, each with
small tub, and each with a pair of large
goggles" over her eyes for protection
and better vision. They paddle around
a bit and then suddenly turn over
quickly and plunge head down, their
legs Tipping in the air in comical
manner They descend ny means of
their arm strokes. They wear simply
thin white costume, which gives Them
perfect freedom OF action, with white
caps.
They are jolly girls. In the water
they Skylark with one another, and
when our boat approached they whtS-
tied cheerily, diving from time 20 time
and giggliny as they chartered back and
forth while padding around on the sur
face. They are perfectly at home in the
water They work for one hour at
time and then rest for an hour, and at
the end of the period Of light they come
back to shore and go none. none the
worse for their days task in the sea.
1t Is said that they are perfectly healthy
and that they are thrifty and save their
earnings and are much sought after as
wives when they have reached the age
Of retirement from active diving, which
is in about 10 years.
All this work Is perfectly managed
the wire cage makers the cage placerS,
the oyster cleaners, the divers, tie
laboratory workers, those who test the
seeds and who examine the oysters for
diseases and who finally impregnate the
culture pearls.
They speak at Toba and at the cul-
ture stations OF Mr. Mikimoto with the
greatest affection. For he has brought
great industry into being and las
caused prosperity to prevail at all the
places where he has taken up land and
water rights and established his remark
able enterprise. Some years ago he
bought an island quote close to shore
at Toba-he already owns half dozen
islands in the bay-and called it Pearl
Island in honor of his industry. He
had given it to the people of Toba as
park, and today it was formally
opened" in honor OF our visit, We Icing
the special guests.
I must confess that do not care for
the sort Of flahing that was provided for
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Of course all sales must be for cash; and none
can be sent G.. 0. D.-exchanged or returned
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MARA, Japan, May %, 1929
What Henry Ford has been to the
motor car in America, Kokidti Mkt
motto has been to the pearl industry of
Japan. Ford found way to make cars
in quantity. Mikimoto has found way
to make pearls by the tens Of thousands.
Ford's cars are real motor cars. Mkt
moto's pearls are real, genuine. natural
pearls grown in the oyster. They have
been so adjudged by court in Paris.
Our party just came an hour or so
ago from a trip to the Mikimoto head
quarters of pearl culturing at Toba,
which lies on the southern coast of
Japan, quite out of the beaten track.
This visit was arranged for the purpose
of enabling us to see the process where
by pearls are actually implanted in the
living oyster and then allowed to de-
velop by the natural process during the
remainder of the oysters life, about
seven years.
We rode by train from Nagoya to
Toba, a trip of over four hours. The
day was wet and dreary, i'll suited for
any sort of expedition, but mattering
little so long as We were under shelter.
Incidentally. l was rather glad to travel
through rural Japan on rainy Gay.
The scenes that flashed past the car
windows were precisely such as are to
be seen in the old Japanese prints,
which show the farmers at work in the
rice paddles with the rain Slanting down
upon them and making ripples in the
water in which they are planting the
tender young rice sprouts. There they
were, just the same as in those old, old
prints. with their conical straw hats
and their. clumsy straw waterproofs,
just the costume that the ancient art
let's drew Hllt FIR the railroad the TEL
egraph wires and an occasional adver-
Using sign this might have been the
Japan of thousand or more years ago.
Trip to GOkashO.
At Toba we were transferred from the
train to motor cars and Speeded at once
over the road to Gokasho, where one of
Mr.. Mikimoto's eight culture farms" is
located The distance is said to be l6
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/ opened slightly and q tiny seed pearl
! is first prepared and then placed in a
| certain position in the oysters anat-
| omy and the bivalve is then returned to
the sea, ENGAGED, of course. Two or
three times year it and its immediate
companions are raised to the surface
and cleaned of seaweeds and slime ana
returned. This goes on for from five to
seven years or until the oyster is about
at the end Of its natural life. 1t is then
brought up and opened" and examined
| for pearl.
7 have heard several versions Of the
ratio Of pearl yielding for thousand
oysters; but there are enough good
pearls forthcoming to justify the con-
duct of a very extensive business on
large scale I do know that yesterday
afternoon when we had returned to
shore and had tea at the Gokasho villa
OF our host we were summoned to the
front of the veranda--I do not know
what they call such a thing III japan,
but that is what it iS-and asked to
select each shallow basket of oysters.
dozen in basket. Then men went
along and opened those oysters, and all
the pearls that were found in them be-
longed as a gift, to the person whose
name it bore. The find" ranged from
five to nine pearls, almost all of them
beautiful in color and shape and luSter
and of good size. My oysters yielded
seven.
We saw the workers impregnating
the oysters with seed. 1t is most deli
cate operation-veritable surgery on an
almost microscopic scale. Before the
expert is a tray of slightly opened
oysters, each with wooden wedge be-
tween its shells to keep them apart.
There is also tray of other oysters
and small dish of seed pearls, each
about q thirty-second of an inch in
diameter, perhaps slightly larger. Be-
fore the worker lies a fully opened
oyster. He takes up seed pearl be-
tween tweezers and places it inside the
tissue of the fully opened oyster In
such a way as to cover 1t with a men,
brane Then he literally ties that men,
brane on the tiny seed with q silk
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WOMAN EXPECTS
TOF|GHT LIKE MAN
New York MayoraIty Candi-
date Asks No FavorS
Because of Sex.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 29.-If Mrs. Olive
johnson, SocialiSt-Labor partys nomi-
nee and the first woman candidate
for mayor of New York, is elected
next Fall, she means to tackle the duties
of her Office hammer and tongs like
@ man."
Il don't expect any chivalry from
politicians because I'm a woman" said
Mrs. johnson, who is only five feet
three and wears her sandy grey hair
in a close clipped bob
1--WE fought a mans fight ever since
I was a girl in Sweden and expect
to go on. Politicians will oppose me
because I'm woman and Socialist
ask any quarter"
Persons, Not Sex"
Mrs johnson is no feminist She
doesn't believe q woman would make
any better mayor than a man. In
her opinion 1t is matter of persons,
not sex"
She hopes, however, to make a
change in the educational system, SO
that the younger generation will get
clearer idea of the principles of
socialism," and she hopes Ito give the
transportation system little jolt which
will put more speed into it,
Every morning Mrs. Johnson, who
at Sd is editor of the Socialist-Labor
paper, The Weekly Paper, with her
home in Brooklyn and her office
in Manhattan, walks across Brook
Ign Bridge to her work, after the
fashion of the late Mayor Gaynor. And
every morning she beats the Manhat-
tan transportation system across the
bridge"
Once Was Waitress.
Mrs. johnson was reared in a So
cialist home in Sweden and at 19 deter
mined that the place for her and her
ambitions was in America
She came to the United States and
made her way to Minneapolis. She
operated a machine in factory, washed
dishes and waited table in a res
taurant, worked as a housekeeper in
private homes and on the side managed
TO acquire high school education.
After her marriage to Oscar John
son and his subsequent death, she came
to New York. entered Hunter College
and gained the college degree she had
always coveted.
Meanwhile she has plunged into the
activities OF the Socialist-Labor party.
Eleven years ago she became editor
OF The Weekly People.
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place without disturbing the cere-
monials.
The other shrine, dedicated to the
founder of agriculture in Japan, is less
important, as it is likewise less aged.
being only 1900 years old. It. too, is re-
built every 20 years. These shrines are
chiefly interesting to the visitor for the
giant cryptomerias that surround them
Also, at Ise shrine is stabbed the horse
that the goddess rides whenever peril
menaces the empire. It is a placid
looking steed with highly polished hoofs
But here we are at Nara, the city Of
shrines, which we will inspect tomorrow
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THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON c. JUNE 1929-PART

of Columbia University, speaks perfect
English. This was our first experience
as house guests in a Japanese home,
and it was decidedly interesting to find
cur way about in the different environ
ment But with the aid and advice of
Miss Tanaka we managed pretty we'll.
though we had to do a great deal of
shoe changing to conform to the rule
of every Japanese house that hard foot
gear must not be worn within doors, on
account of the delicate flooring and
straw mats or tatami that take the
place of carpets and rugs.
We left Toba after lunch and drove
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hook and some were Speared. Poorer
fortune was enjoyed by those who fished
in another pool, artificially formed, on
shore. where fish had been placed.
This was rathed too much like fishing
for the inmates of the glass aquariums
In our houses. I preferred to go camera
hunting, and found my subjects among
the fishermen and the interested towns
folk, who came over in large numbers
to see the new park and the sport"
Mr.. Mikimoto was a most perfect host,
and Miss Niche Tanaka, his house
keeper secretary, was an ideal hostess.
He speaks no English. She, graduate
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to Yamada by motor TO see two great
Shinto shrines, first the oldest and most
venerated in Japan, that of Else" from
whom the Emperor is lineally descend
ed. This shrine, founded about 1000
years ago, is, in strict accord with a
tradition originally established, entirely
rebuilt every 20 years, so that although
very ancient, its buildings are never in
about to expire, so that building opera
lions are already in progress. The shrine
is "duplex''-that is, there are accom-
mediation for all purposes in duplicate,
so that the reconstruction can take
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our delectation at Pearl Island. A pool
about IS feet long by dozen wide had
been constructed of booms and wire
netting, and in 1t were swimming, when
we arrived in barges, several score of
fish OF all kinds, principally "tai," the
big red snapper, much liked by the
japanese as food. There were also lob
sters, a sort OF mackerel, sting rays and
other varieties. AS soon as we came
poles were given out. with shrimp as
bait and in a few minutes 20 or more
lines were in the water. The fish, thus
entrapped, were not interested in the
bait, but a few were caught with the
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miles. 1t really seemed 90. The road
is very narrow, very crooked and in the
rain, very slippery. But our confidence
in Japanese drivers has been fully
established since our climb and descent
OF the 38-hairpin-turn road west CT
Nikko and our drives around Miyan-
oshito. along the edges OF precipieS. So
We were not disturbed when the mar
gin between us and flooded rice pad
dies or deep ravines was only q matter
of half dozen inches, with the rain
falling steadily.
AS for the rain, our philosophy as
sured us that 1t would not interfere
with the work of the pearl culturiSts or
the girl divers, of whose skill We had
already heard. A little more water
would not disturb anything at a purely
aqueous business establishment. So We
went ahead confident that the show
would be ready for us. And it was. In
deed, I cannot imagine more perfect
preparation. Mr.. Mikimoto, who is
about II and spry as cricket, and who
was waiting for us at Gokasho. had
done everything possible to make US
comfortable despite the rain. He had
had finely crushed stone spread over all
the walks, at GokaSho and at his villa
at Toba He had had the launches that
were to take us out TO the culture beds
fitted up with shelters. He had even,
at Toba,. In preparation for the "tal
fishing today, had sheet iron fastened
under the railroad tracks under which
we had to pass in an open launch.
The wind was whipping the bay at
GokaSho into white caps when We put
out i'll a barge that had to be pulled
along by Wading men until 1t could
reach water deep enough Tor Sculllng.
We were thus taken out to the motor
launch, which danced around rather
bFiSkly as we set out for the beds, a
half mile or so distant.
Now for q very brief account OF this
pearl "culturing." Some 80 years ago
Mr.. Mikimoto conceived q great idea
that II the oyster can deposit nacre, or
pearl-making material, around a gram
of sand, or some other intrusive mat
ter that gets into Its shell, 1t can do SO
IL that bit OF matter is put into the
shell by man. So he began expert
menting. He got half-round pearls at
first, fine large ones. with good luster
, and quality, but miSshapen. Then he
found a way to get round pearls. Now
he is turning them out of the oysters i'll
quantity.
Catches Young Oysters.
First he catches young oysters, very
young ones, barely more than spawn, by
means OF collectors" lowered into the
sea In wire baskets. These he develops
| into growing oysters. Meanwhile he
sends divers into 5 and 6 fathoms OF
water to get the oysters from the beds
at the bottom. Then when the oysters
! are about years old, having been
carefully preserved in their natural
element in cages for that period, they
are taken out and gently, carefully
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Birds in "Talkies. :"

GLENDALE, Calf. (P.-Training ca
naries to "act" in talking pictures is
one of Mrs. Jean P. Kosht's avocations.
She has 100 song birds, one of which,
Tinker Bell, has been taught to help
feed the fledglings. Tinker Bell mothers
IA young ones.
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GLIMPSINC THE FAR EAST
MARA, Japan. May %. 1929.
BY GIDEON A. LYON,

Member Of American Journalists Touring orient Guests
OF Carnegie Endowment International Peace.
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Paris is estimated to have 10000 res
taurants.
The Washington times., 1929-08-02
Fairfax County Fills
Vacancies for Teachers

FAIRFAX, Va, Aug. 1.--vacan.
cies in the list of teachers appoint
ments in Fairfax county have been
filled by w. T, woodson. division
superintendent of schools. and the
several trustees on the school board
as follows:
Pope's Head. Emmet M. Day;
Vale. Miss Dorothy Yates, of Vienna;
Colvin Run, Miss Sara Loeb, of
Alexandria: Merrifield. Miss Velma
Turner, of Fast Falls Church; Fair
view. Miss Virginia Hawes, Of Fair
fax Station; Oakgrove. Miss Minna
Berry, of Ambar: PohiciS. Miss
Helen Yates. of Vienna: Chester.
brook, Miss Iva Fairfield. OF Provi-
dence Forge; Vienna, third grade,
Mrs. e. L. Wright, Of Vienna:
Idylwood. Mrs. r.. c. Mann Of
Veitch; Colchester Miss Evelyn
Clark Of Springfield; Mclean, Miss
Eleanor Appiek of Washington;
Herndon, sixth grade, Miss Louise
Meador, of Cumberland; Oakton
Miss Janet Tavener, of Herndon:
Miss Elizabeth Buckley. Of Clifton;
Miss Helen Yeratt, of Disputania,
and Miss Rose Butts, Of Fairfax.