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The Washington times., 1930-02-24
GOOD Ne We!

District of Columbia and 10
States set new records in re-
duction of infant mortality in
1928, children'S bureau of De-
partment Of Labor announces.
National wealth of United
States now more than $360,O0O,-
100000. or $4,000 for every
man, woman and child. The
per capita wealth in 1922 was
$2,912. In District of Column
bia the per capita wealth is
$3.50, exceeding that of 81
States.
Representative Louis C. Cram.
ton (R0 of Michigan announces
agreement between Federal and
Maryland authorities on his bill
for acquisition of park areas in
nearby Maryland.
Conferences with Federal Of.
ficialS planned by Advertising
Club of Washington in effort
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
B. { D, MERGER
PLAN DROPPED

The Baltimore and Ohio today
withdrew its application to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
for authority to acquire a num-
of railroads, including the West
ern Maryland. in the formation
Of new Eastern trunk line sys-
tenn.
This action was taken in re-
spouse to suggestion from
Charles D. Mahaffie, finance di-
rector of the commission, to the
Baltimore and Ohio. Chesapeake
and Ohio. Wabash and Delaware
and Hudson that their pending
applications for authority to &C
quire certain roads in contem-
plated merger plans contained no
definite statement as to the con-
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The Washington times., 1930-02-24

Roaring through the night
at a speed of more than
65 miles an hour, a pass
enger train of the Chicago,
North Shore and Milwaukee
railroad struck an automo-
bile which bounded into the
face of an on-coming freight
train. Those in the machine
were literally ground to bits.
The force of the impact sent
five coaches of the passenger
train hurting into q ditch and
the freight train careening
from the rails.
List of Dead
Those killed almost instantly
were:
Frank Tomczak. Milwaukee.
George Buday. Chicago.
James Fitzgerald, Manistique,
Mich.
J. G. Gogin, Chicago.
James B. Poteous, Racine, Wis.
Mrs. Evelyn MetZger. Chicago.
E F. Reibe. Milwaukee.
Elizabeth Shena, Chicago.
Norman E. Simmer, Milwaukee.
One unidentified white woman.
One unidentified negreSs.
Explosion Followed
Binding explosions followed the
crash. Sheets of flame enveloped
the mass of twisted steel. the
mangled bodies of the dying and
the wood splinters of the freight
train. The scene of indescribable
horror was revealed to rescuerS
by bursts Of blazing gasoline.
The cries of the dying, pinioned
beneath tons of debris, spurred
the work of men with acetylene
torches as others carried away
the injured.
BY dawn IS had been taken
to hospitals, many with but
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The Washington times., 1930-02-24
SOCIETY WOMAN
LEAVES JAIL

NEW YORK, Feb. "a 0.N.SD D.
Mrs. Esther de Forest Wilson,
Washington society woman and
co-adVenturer with her husband
on big game hunts. walked
through the gates at Welfare
Island today, on parole.
She had served more than a
year on an indeterminate SEN
tence of not more than three
years for shooting her husband,
Dallett H. Wilson, lawyer and one
time advisory member of the
Republican National Committee.
She sought to evade reporters.
When photographers attempted
to snap her picture she covered
her face with her hands and
finally escaped in a taxicab.
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
WAY KEPT
CLEAR FOR
TARIFF

Action on the various proposals
eor a sweeping inquiry into pro,
hibition enforcement was post
poned for two weeks by the
Senate Judiciary Committee to-
day to prevent the dry war inter
fering with passage of the pend
ing tariff bill.
Attorney General William D.
Mitchell and George w. Wicker
sham, president of President
Hoover's Law Enforcement Com
mission, will be invited to appear
before the committee Monday,
March 10.
Both To Be Questioned
Both will be questioned about
enforcement conditions, proposals
for improving enforcement and
prohibition conditions generally.
After hearing Mitchell and Wick
ersham, the committee then will
determine whether a separate SEN
0torial investigation is justified.
The delay was proposed by Sen
Ator Ashurst CD of Arizona
dry. He moved for postponement
Of action on the Wheeler and
Norris resolutions for two weeks
and suggested calling Mitchell
and Wickersham. The motion
carried overwhelmingly. It was
decided, too, that the conference
with Mitchell and Wickersham
should be held behind closed
doors.
Leaders Satisfied.
This disposition Of the inquisi-
torial resolutions met with the
approVa of administration
leaders who were fearful a dry
war might break out on the floor
on the Senate and block action
on the tariff. Once the tariff is
out Of the way, it is said, admin
iStration leaders will take more
kindly to dry inquiry.
The Summoning of Wickersham
was asked by AshurSt, it was said,
to learn whether confidential re-
ports from the commissions in
Quiry might be turned over to
the Senate committee, thus say
ing considerable labor. One of
the objections raised by drys to
the inquiry has been that it
would merely repeat ground al
ready covered by the Presidents
commission.
Real Fight Promised
The prohibition fight when it
does come. will be an epochal
event, according to all indications
with the vets and conservative
drys lined up against the radical
and professional drys. The for
mer group wants a probe that
will get at the fundamental rea-
son for the breakdown of prohibi-
ton enforcement while the latter
want the whole affair hushed UP.
Senator Wheeler, who intro.
duced the original resolution;
Chairman Norris, of the Judi
ciary Committee, and Senators
Borah of Idaho. Brookhart Of
Iowa. and Walsh of Montana. ap-
pear as leaders of the fight for a
thorough probe of everything
they believe is interfering with
prohibition enforcement.
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
CooHdges Giive Care
To Injured Cop -
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Los ANGELES, Calf, Feb.
"a 1.N.SD Former President
Coolidge today was catching up
with vast amount of correSpon-
dence that accumulated during the
weekend, spent sightseeing in
Santa Barbara.
On the return journey to this
city Policeman Charles Kanove,
OF the Coolidge's motorcycle
escort, was injured when he side
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
Grand Duchess Kira
Plans Visit In Capital

NEW YORK, Feb. "a H.N.SD.-
Grand Duchess Kira. great grand
daughter of Queen Victoria and
daughter of Grand Duke Cyril, of
Russia, will arrive in New York
today after visit in Washing
ton.
She is sailing shortly for south
ern France.
weather report on page 8.
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
Ride Murder Victim
Found in Hills

MAGNOLIA. w. Va, Feb. "A.
Police are seeking today to iden-
tify the body of a white man
found on a mountain road be,
tween here and Paw Paw yester-
day with a crushed skull and
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE!
TOSSES MOTOR INTO
PATH Of FREIGHT

KENOsHA, Wis, Feb. "a QNs.) -Eleven
persons were ground to death and 118 others
were injured, many perhaps fatally, in
double train and automobile wreck, it was
revealed today
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
rs Hurt as 3 Tr0Heys
Crash in Baltimore

from the Chesapeake Bay and
slowed up downtown traffic to o
SnailS pace.
The Washington times., 1930-02-24
HOOVER HITS SPENDTHR|FT C0NGRESS[!TT!T]
EXCLUSIVE NEWS SERVICE

The Washington Times Is the only afternoon
paper in this city publishing the news. dispatches
of international News Service and Universal Service
The Washington times., 1930-09-12
DR.. EDWIN BARNES
JOINS NEW SCHOOL

One of the Capital City's
best known song directors. DIR.
Edwin N. C. Barnes, for the
past eight years director Of mu.
sic in the D. c. public schools,
has become associated with the
newly organized washington
Musical Institute. at 1901 Clif:
ton st. N. w. and win head
the voice department of the
new school, which win enter
its first fan term September
Il. under the executive direc-
torship Of Weldon Carter. well
known American pianist.
A Canadian by birth, DR..
Barnes spent much Of his early
life In New England, and fol-
lowing music study in this
country and in London, be-
came well known as q recital
iSt in Boston. where he taught
voice for IL years. He is rec
ognized as an authority on
music education, hiTing served
as director of music for MaSSa-
chusettS from 1906 to 1914,
and Of Rhode Island from 1914
to 1922, when he came here.
In 1919 he was song leader
with the War Camp Commu-
nifty Service at Newport, and
conducted, the first Statewide
chorus Of children in Rhode
Island.
In addition to his voice
classes and private voice in
struction at the Washington
Musical Institute, DR.. Barnes
win be in charge of the study
OF public school music at the
institute, assisted by Miss Har-
riet Hine, o graduate Of Ann
Arbor University and Oberlin
Conservatory.
The Washington times., 1930-09-12
Music Staff
Is Augmented

A teaching staff of outstand
ing authorities and musical
artists is offered by the Wash.
ingtQn College of Music, which
entered upon it's twenty-Seventh
season in this city last Mon.
day at it's permanent new
home at 210T-21O9 s st. N. W.
In addition to q number OF
well-known Washington musi-
cal instructors headed by DR.
Hugh Rowland Roberts, preSi
dent, and Emanuel Zetlin, the
distinguished Russian violinist,
the college announces the en-.
gagement Of Norman Frauen.
helm as an important addition
to the faculty.
Instructors in the piano de-
partment include Nelson Ger.
tel, Of New York city: Sara L.
Becker. concert pianist, of this
city; Tamara Dmitrieff, of the
Petrograd Conservatory, in Rus
sia: Catherine Benson, teacher
OF piano in the District public
schools: Mary Frances Gross.
OF Philadelphia, and others.
The Washington times., 1930-09-12
Open Course
For Women

For practice in debate, argu-
mentation and parliamentary
procedure, the Hickman Con.
greSs was organized Il 1906 as
an adjunct Of the public speak
ing course of the Hickman
School. 1t holds meetings every
two weeks and has been in con-
tinuouS session since it's incep-
ton. 1t is conducted not as q
college debating society, but as
q legislative body. presided over
by Q member Of the faculty as
speaker Of the house. More
than one Representative from
the United States Capitol has
been a member Of it, and sew
eral from State legislatures.
For members Of the legal pro.
fession and Of organizations the
practice afforded is invaluable.
The Washington times., 1930-09-12
GIUin or G.. w. Staff
As SOciOLOuist.

In the department OF sociol.
ogy at George Washington
University. j. Blaine owin has
been appointed lecturer in
sociology. Gwin is a graduate
Of Indiana University and mas
studied at the New York
School of Social Work.
The Washington times., 1930-09-12
Interior Arts
Made Speciality


Realizing that this is an age
of keen competition requiring
specialized education and prac-
tical training to insure success.
the Master School Of Interior
Decoration, 1906 Eighteenth
st. N. W., ever since it was
founded has made the study
of the interior decorative arts
its only and exclusive master
subject,
The school. which occupies
three spacious floors. offers an
accredited course, and its in
structorS arc well known. prac-
tical experts. Domestic archi.
lecture, color. drawing. textiles,
period furniture, wall and
floor coverings. historical back.
ground and art history are
among the subjects taught.
Arrangements are now un.
der way for q new beginners
class which is to enter upon
actual studies on Thursday.
October 2.
The Washington times., 1930-09-12
The Collegiate Institute

Boys school esta blished 1854. 4
years preparatory and years Junior
College. Military training Health .
fuI climate Of Piedmont section.
Modern equipment and education at
low cost. Address Colonel q. r..
MeAlIisteF, A. H.. Box W, Mt.
Pleasant, N. C.. .
The Washington times., 1930-09-12

PRIVATE SCHOOL near MARLBORO. ND.
One hour from Washington.
Children LIE. Supervised study
and play. Backward or retarded
children a specially. Happy
home life.
Box T.1OO-Times. Herald
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Coldest Spot on Earth
in Small Texas Town

Natures cold spots. like the Arc
tic and Antarctic regions. are hope
lessly outclassed by a basement in
SOncy, Texas. Here there is lab
oratory OF the United States bureau
of mines. the business of whicl is
to produce helium for initiating di-
rigibles and balloons. The phrase
Zero weather" would mean a
scorching hot day in comparison to
the temperature daily produced in
this plant, for the production of he
lium requires a temperature of 300
degrees Fahrenheit below zeroi
The helium is made from natural
gas. II is produced by cooling
the gas to 800 degrees below zero,'
at which low temperature all the
elements in the gas except helium
are liquefled. The hellum may be
drawn Off as a gas. The rest may
then be thawed out. after which it
can be used for Illuminating or heat
ing purposes just as If nothing had
h~~- A~'-~- &c., II
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Person of Unusual Size
Ciassed as Monstrosity

Many persons admire giants, per-
haps envy them, and imagine that
they are examples of superior hu-
manity. A complete error; for
ggantism is an anomaly, mon
strositS, as much SO as dwarfism.
1t is really a disease. The work
OF anthropologists has shown that
the giant is a man that is still a
child, In whose case growth does
not stop at the age when normally
he ought to have ceased to grow.
The giant is rarely well-propor-
Toned; his hands and feet are al
most always too large, his face is
generally distorted.
Physicians who have studied
gigantism say that giants are all
diabetic. Professor Landouzy says
also that almost all of them are
candidates for tuberculosis. They
are subject to all sorts of other
morbid troubles; they tire sooner
than normal persons; they are I'M
fit for all violent labor; their mus
cles are weak in spite of their size;
their nerves lack resistance, and
they are often affected with neuras-
thenia. Handsome giants are rare.
Jean Lecoq in LIE Petit Journal,
Paris.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Roger Bacon First to
Use ''Magnifying Glass

"Spectacles" is the name given
to lenses OF any required form
which are supported in front of
the eyes to assist vision. In the
early days when it was not easy to
obtain glass Of good quality, they
were also made of quartz or rock
crystal, as it was called. Some
years ago quartz lenses were re
vived by opticians and sold at
fancy prices on the erroneous plea
that they were cooler to the eyes.
Prof. NJ Won Rhoh says that
Roger Bacon explained how to mag
nifty writing by placing a segment
of sphere of glass on the book
with its plane side down. Demand
for spectacles increased during the
Sixteenth century with the advent
of the printed book, especially in
North Italy and South Germany.
where there were glass workers.
The early mounts were made of
horn and leather, and about this
time metal began to be used.-Kan-
sas City Star.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Telescope Traced Back
to Seventeenth Century

BY the aid of grant from the
Rockefeller foundation to Leyden
university enough funds have been
collected to enable the university
observatory to build its own tel
escope a. johannesburg, in South
Africa. AS we know, many of our
scientific instruments had their
origin in far-off centuries, but sur
prisingly enough the telescope does
not seem to have been developed
until the Seventeenth century. Al
though the famous traveller, Sir
Richard Burton, claimed that the
telescope was known to Arabian
scientists many years before this
time, the father of the modern in.
strument was produced in 160S by
Hans Lippershiem of Middleburg.
At once the Importance of the in
vention was realized, and tel
escOpes were on sale in Paris with
in a year. Galileo, the famous as
trOnOmer, heard of the Dutchman'S
invention, and Immediately made a
telescope himself, and on the first
night that he used it, in 1910, dis
covered three of Jupiter's moons.
A year later Kepler invented the
astronomical telescope.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Rare Art Treasures in
New York's Great Museum

Many visitors to the city of New
York 20 to gaze at the wonders in
the Metropolitan Museum of art.
This great repository of art treas
ures, however. can admit to its col
lections only works that have stood
the test of time Modern art has
no representation.
This shortening has now been
remedied. There is to be an ac-
cessory Museum cf Art, where con-
temporary works may be displayed
until such time as their worth may
have been proved sufficiently to ad-
nit them to the Metropolitan mu-
scum.
A museum, says Webster's New
International dictionary, is "a re-
pository or a collection of natural,
scientific, or literary curiosities or
objects of interest, or of works Of
art" Thus, the Museum of Nat
ural History contains mounted
specimens of animals, birds, rep
tiles, etc. In America, large col
lections of books are called libra
ries; but in London the largest
library in the world is known as
the British museum. The word
museum meant in ancient Latin
1.-The temple of the Muses.; in
classic mythology. the Muses were
nine goddesses who presided over
song and the different kinds of
poetry, and also the arts and
sciences.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
ST. David's Day Holiday
for Crecian Youngsters

The Welsh are not the only folk
who keep holiday on st. David's
day, says an article In the Mont
real Family Herald. In Greece it
is called Swallow day. the festival
of spring, when the children go
from house to house gathering
small gifts and carrying wooden
swallows, which they spin around
to the accompaniment of folk songs.
Some of these swallow songs"
have a long history. One of them
has been traced back, indeed, more
than 1900 years.
Jesus college, Little Wales in
Oxford" as the facetious have
called It, because of the prepOn-
derance of Joneses there, has its
own method of celebrating st. Dav-
ids day. For one thing there is
the toGsting of st. David in ''swig,"
an exclusive and potent Jesus col
lege brew. This is dispensed by n
ladle that holds half a pint, from
n beautiful silver bowl presented
for the purpose by Sir Watkin Will
liams-Wynn In 1882.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Crafty Andy Carnegie
Stirred Up Students

Once when Andrew Carnegie
was visiting his sister-in-law on
Jekyll island she told him she
could not get any letters from her
sons who were at Yale. She was
anxious about them. Carnegie bet
her he would have a letter from
them as soon as the mail could
reach New Haven and return. The
bet was accepted.
He wrote the boys that their
mother was worried about them;
that he was visiting her; that all
were very well at their home; and
gave them other news that would
interest them. Then he added that
he was enclosing So for each, and
he signed himself their affectionate
uncle.
But he did not enclose the $40.
AS he told the story himself ire
calls Mr.. Morris), his twinkling lit
tie eyes enjoyed the slyness of it
immensely.
Then, in two or three days a re-
ply came 1t revealed the atrocious
fact that he had forgotten to send
the So bills. He should send them
at once, as the boys were nearly
dead broke.
He had outwitted his nephews
and won his bet; the power Of his
money was Observation-Disclosures
City Star.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
English Sheep-Shearers
Make Festival of Work

In the rural districts of England,
sheep-shearing time is made the oc-'
casion of festivity and merrymak-;
ing. In Devon particularly it is an,
age-old custom that all neighboring
farmers should unite to get work
done as quickly as possible. At the
same time they have merry eve
nings. Each farmer is served in
turn, all the other farmers troop
ing up to do the sheep shearing for
him. The 'host" of the day takes
no active part in the work, for it is
his job to see that the others are
happy and well served with bever-
ages. A shearer does about 20
sheep in a day. The days work IS
not finished until well after dark
But when the last sheep has been
shorn, a rams horn is filed with
liquor and handed round. AS each
man drinks. he cries: Here's health
to the flock" After this the eve,
ming is devoted TO feasting, drink
ing and merrymaking.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Clemenceau's Mind Saw
Beauty in Nothingness

Shortly before his death. "Tiger"
Clemenceau spoke quite freely on
his philosophy of life
Men do not amuse me any
more" he said 81 find that they
attach too much Importance to
themselves. A man concentrates his
entire life to beetles and in the end
never sees anything in the world
but beetles"
Asked what he thought about life
after death he said:
'I don't know who had the first
idea of Paradise. He must have
found life too short. that fellow.
Happy mani He wanted TO go on,
with less stupid government and
with more amusing diversions
"But nOthingness is really supe-
rior to Paradise. Paradise is an
ent-nothingness is per-
fection. With nothingness. every
thing arranges itself perfectly"
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Activity of Small Use
If Not Wisely Directed

Aeschylus, one of the greatest of
the Greek poets, tells us that "a
child pursues the flying bird" and
the old Greeks who heard him un-
derstood just what he meant. We
have often seen a dog go after a
flying bird with all possible
eagerness; and we smiled at his
folly. The dog might be good
runner, but the bird had no need
to fear his speed. We have seen
a dog chase a railway train and if
the dog could think, no doubt when
the train had passed beyond its
ken it would say to itself, II chased
away that great monster"
Activity is little use unless it is
wisely directed. A man may spend
a lifetime chasing flying birds, or
attempting to catch something
which he has never the remotest
chance of securing. Men have
spent many years trying to dis
cover the secret of perpetual
motion, but the secret still eludes
humanity. Youth is usually busy
at something or other which is per-
fectly practicable, but occasionally
we find a wild chase after the i'm
possible. And, even if the child
caught the bird, what would he do
with it? Suppose we get what We
are after, what good will 1t be to
us? We have seen men catch some
thing which they have been seeking
for months, or even years. and
when they have secured it they
were no farther ahead. The thing
was not worth the effort.-London
Times.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Couldn't Pass Up That
Chance for Easy Money

Zone reason why auto insurance
rates are no cheaper than they
are" says an auto club official, sis
the tendency of most people to
magnify minor accidents in the
hope of obtaining larger adjust
ments. Most of the insurance
companies give the policy holder
the benefit of the doubt and there
fore base their premium rates ac-
cordingly.
81 am sorry to say that the ma
jority of policy holders seem to be
like Jones.
"Jones, you know, had been in a
collision but it was so Insignificant
that he passed it up without a
thought. Next day, however, he
met a friend who asked:
Hello, Jones. I thought you
were seriously injured in an acci-
dent yesterday?
$50 I discovered when read
the morning papers, admitted
Jones, adding, I'm on my way
home to bed right now and have
sent for my lawyer"
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Salt Superstition

The story which gave rise to the
belief that to spill salt is unlucky
is this: For some reason salt is
thought to be a mystic substance.
To spill it places you in the power
Of evil spirits. Your good angel is
posted at your right shoulder. while
your bad angel holds forth on the
left. When you spill the salt, IL
you fling a bit in the bad angels
eyes, it blinds him so that he can
not take advantage Of your mfsad-
venture and saddle you with some
thing unpleasant
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Importation of Slaves

After 1908 the importation of
slaves into the United States was
prohibited by the Constitution, but
the smuggling in of Africans con-
tinued up TO the time Of the Civil
war.
Smyrna times., 1930-10-01
Nor Bulge

The best way to curb personal
and governmental extravaganza is
to construct budgets that won't
budge.-Nashville Times.