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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Nv th. Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, August 4.-"Pluto's
playmates," the annual shower OF
perseid meteors, are due Monday night,
August IL.
They are dubbed "Pluto's playmates"
after the newly discovered planet Pluto,
because the outer edge of their orbit is
believed to be close to the path where
the new planet swings.
A good show is promised-150 meteors
an four-for patient watchers who are
lucky enough to get the right sky con-
ditions. The public is invited to sit in
this year and help the astronomers by
getting hourly counts of the perseids.
These reports should be sent to DR..
Charles p Olivier of the American
Meteor Society and director of Flower
Observatory of the University of Penn
sylvania.
ut can always be truthfully stated
said DR.. Olivier, that is a person will
observe from a favorable locality and
with fine sky on any night from
August 9 to IS, inclusive, one will see
numbers of meteors. The maximum is
either August IL or August IL, accord
ing to unpredictable conditions and cir
cumstanceS. On the, best night, with
moon absent, from so to $50 meteors per
hour may be counted If the sky is per-
4CCC. 4AlC 4CdcO 4AdGC va ACoAIiCSO W q
city cuts down the numbers tremen-
dously, as the faint meteors are most
numerous.
The average amateur can aid by
hourly counts of all meteors seen. But
a good locality should be chosen. We
hope to have simultaneous work at sew
eral stations near here by persons
already trained. This will include care
full plotting of brighter meteors and
later the calculations of their heights.
Photography probably will be tried.
The perseidS give the best annual
shower and come at time Of year when
the nights are pleasant. They are
therefore the best stream for the casual
observer to watch for. Also in August
many other minor streams are in
activity"
Observers should look northeast, low
in the horizon early in the evening, and
fairly high up at midnight More
meteors are likely after than before
midnight.
Astronomers use the count and other
observations to study the earth's upper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

A band of IL auto thieves arrested In
Cologne, Germany, had stolen more
than 40 cars in the last six months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
INSPECTORS APPOINTED
Drummer and Riley Get Arlington
County School Work Jobs.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, August APP
pointment of Earl Drummer of East
Falls Church and z. L. Riley of Clar-
endon as inspectors for the Arlington
County school building construction,
recently authorized when the voters
approved a $500 900 bond issue, is an
nounced by the Arlington School Board.
The former has been assigned to the
work of inspection of the additions to
Washington High School, the
largest single project of the building
program, while the latter will take care
of the elementary schools. Work on
the high school has been started and it
is expected that plans for the elemen-
tary school additions will be perfected
in the next day or so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
RICHARD SUTRO DIES
Banker and Utility Leader Expires
at Age of 66.

NEW YORK, August 4 (P).-Richard
Sutro of the banking house of Sutro
Bros. & Co. and director of many
large corporations, died yesterday at his
home in Port Chester, N. Y. He was &c
years old.
He retired as senior partner Of the
banking firm July after 80 years to
become special partner. He was chair
man of the finance committee and a
member of the executive committee of
the Connecticut Electric Service Co.;
held similar Offices with the Connecticut
Light & Power Co., and was chairman
of the board of the Connecticut Electric
Syndicate. He also was on the boards
of the Pierce Oil Corporation. In 1922
and 1928 he aided in the reorganization
of the Pittsburgh g. West Virginia Rail-
road and was a director and member Of
the executive committee of the road.
He was born in New York City and
was married in 1889 to Ella Hunt, who,
with two daughters, survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Multilingual films are to be produced
in England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

Kalamazoo CMich), Vegetable Parch-
ment Co., went to the Chicago Detective
Bureau last night to report he had been
badgered for $4,000. Given a. file of
Bertillon pictures, he selected one
that of courtly gentleman wearing
Van Dyke beard, silk hat, spatS and
malacca Stick--as the likeness of one
of the alleged swindlers. Police told him
me had identified Joseph P. We'll, the
yellow Kid" who five months ago left
Leavenworth penitentiary with the an
nouncement he would henceforth de-
vote his talents to legimate business.
Kindelberger told Detective Chief
John Norton he came to Chicago to
complete the sale OF his factory to Well
and two associates, identified from
photos as Fred Buckminster and
George Lutz, after the trio had ap-
preached him six weeks ago.
In the ante room of the yellow
Kids" chambers. he said, he encounter
ed two taciturn Cinnamon whom We'll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
SHOWER OF METEORS IS DUE
TO REACH. EARTH AUGUST IL
pluto Playmates,' So Dubbed Because
of Nearness to New Planet, Frolic at
Rate of 50 to $50 Per Hour.

atmosphere and the mysteries of outer
space by these, the only concrete mes
sengers from the outside universe. There
is still much to be learned about the
perseids.
Oswald Thomas, the astronomer. esti-
mates their orbit as extending outward
about 5000. 600, 900 miles from the sun.
DR.. Harlow Shapley's latest figures on
the distance of the new planet Pluto
are $500 900 900 miles in 1888, when it
will be closest to the sun.
Perseids seem to travel In an endless
stream. with width calculated at about
70. 0OO, 900 miles. DR.. Olivier suggests
that certain meteors recorded HOO
years ago were perseids.
They seem to offer no threat of bodily
harm, for they ignite at about 70 miles
elevation and burn out usually by the
time they have dropped to SIS miles.
The effects of meteors on slowing or
speeding the earth's revolution, and on
heating the atmosphere have been
calculated and the amounts reduced
are exceedingly small. Strangely
enough their effect on rotation, If any
is to speed the earth because the fall
of meteor dust makes the globe heavier
and causes it to drop a little nearer
the sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04

pointed out as homesick Orientals en-
deavoring to sacrifice their rich Mon
tana copper mine for Just enough money
to carry them back across the Pacific
Kindelberger said his interest led him
to purchase $4,000 worth of stock in
the project The factory sale was for
gotten.
And so the search is on for the "Yel-
low Kid"-the handsome man with the
London clothes, glib tongue and
available fountain pen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
FlFTIETH VICTIM Is ADDED
TO FAIRFAX CRASH TOLL
Wife of Naval Officer, Resident of
Norfolk, Succumbs to In
juries at Boston.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, August 4.-The fiftieth
victim of the Fairfax-Pinthis steamship
disaster on June 10 was added to the
rolls today. She was Mrs. Katherine
Marsh, 25-year old wife of Lieut.. John
Marsh, U. S. N, a passenger on the
Merchants and Miners line steamer
Fairfax, which rammed the oil tanker
Pinthis off Scituate during q dense
fog. Mrs. Marsh died last night. She
was a resident of Norfolk, Va.
At the same time 1t was learned
that the Merchants and Miners line
planned to have Capt. Archibald H.
Brooks on the bridge of the Fairfax
again tomorrow when the reconditioned
liner makes her first regular trip since
the collision. The Fairfax will sail
from Baltimore for this port. Brooks
Is awaiting trial on charges preferred
by the Board of Steamboat Inspectors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Rumania Curtails Oil.

BUCHAREST, Rumania, August 4
R)-B. Madgearu, minister of trade,
today issued a communique in which
it was said the oil industry had decided
to curtail production by 100000 car
loads annually. Production has in
creased from 635 carloads daily in 1924
to 1850 carloads daily at present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
WASPS ARE RELEASED
IN DRIVE ON MOTH
Sixteen Colonies Expected to Elk
terminate Foes of Peach Crop
in Maryland.

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, August A.
Resorting to the strategy of controlling
moth pests with other insects, six
colonies of parasitic waspS were re-
leased in various parts of Maryland last
week. It is hoped the wasps will re-
duce the damage done to the peach
crop by the oriental peach moth.
Arundel, Worcester, Hartford and WASH
ington Counties. The parasites were
bred by the United States Bureau of
Entomology and the Department of
Entomology Of the University Of Mary
land.
In the last year Australia's popula-
ton increased by 77,5S7.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
YELLOW KID SOUGHT
BY CHICAGO POLICE
Glib Confidence Man, Recently Re-
leased From Prison, Accused as
Principal in $4,000 swindle.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 4.-They're after
the yellow Kid" again.
Authorities, informed of his latest al
legged confidence game coup, pressed
hunt yesterday for the Chesterfieldian
figure whose intriguing biography is
written on the police records Of the
land.
Joseph Kindelberger. president of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-04
Portuguese Honor Joffre.

LISBON, August 4 [P.-Portugal
yesterday decided to contribute to the
erection of a monument to Marshal
Joffe in his native town of Rivesaltes,
in the Eastern Pyrenees. Subscriptions
we're opened for the purpose.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
INSPECTION
TOBE MADE IN OCTOBER
First Three Weeks in October
Set for Annual Inspection

Plans are being made to hold the
annual inspection of motor vehicles in
Maryland this year at the same time
as Washington's save-a-life campaign,
the first three weeks in October, Off
Gals of the motor vehicle commission
of Baltimore announced on Friday.
Approximately 235,OO0 passenger
cars and trucks will be officially in
spected at that time, headlights
checked and brakes, steering mechan-
isms, mirrors and windshield wipers
examined.
Last year inspectors said, as a re-
suit of the campaign in Maryland,
22,500 motorists had headlights re-
placed; 10000 had lights adjusted;
1858 had brakes refined; 50,628 had
brakes adjusted and 10000 had new
horns installed. Five thousand cars
were found with license tags obscured
with dirt and 5000 motorists pur-
chased new windshield wipers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
POWER PERMIT FOR TWO
RIVERS is COMPLETED
Order Authorizing HydrO-Elec-
trio Plants Entered Yesterday

A formal order authorizing the
West Virginia. Power and Transmits
sion company to develop hydro-elec-
trio power on the Cheat and Black
water rivers, was ready Tuesday, l
Wade Coffman, chairman of the Pub
lie Service commission, said, and was
entered by the Commission yesterday.
The form of the order was agreed
upon at an all-day conference Of men,
bers of the Public Service Commits
sion, E. A. Bowers, representative of
the Western Maryland Railway, and
J. V. Gibson, Kingwood, representing
the Alpha Portland Cement company.
AS finally adopted, Coffman said,
the order conforms strictly to the con-
ditions laid down week ago by the
Commission in a report which ap-
proved the company's application for
eight projects on the main stream of
the Cheat and Blackwater rivers, but
withheld approval of five additional
proposed developments for Big Sandy
Creek, Gladly Fork, Shavers Fork and
Dry Fork.
The projects on Blackwater river,
near Davis, will be developed first.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
WORK is UNDER WAY ON
MINIATURE GOLF COURSE
Manager fowler Hoping to Have
Course Completed by July A

Work on the miniature golf course
is now under way with the hope that
it will be completed by July a, Mr..
James fowler, proprietor, has an
nounced.
About five men are being employed
now in shaping the course, and as
soon as the molding material arrives
several others will be put to work in
order to bring it to completion at as
early a date as is possible.
The course will consist of 10 holes,
and it is thought that the admission
price for one round will be 25 cents.
Clubs and balls will be furnished from
the entrance booth which will be cree
ted facing second street. The minia-
ture course is being built on the va
cant lot at the corner of Center and
Second streets, next to the William
James hotel.
The course will be modelled after
the one in North Madison, Ohio,
which is termed by many to be the
best in the state of Ohio. Miniature
golf courses have become extremely
popular among tourists and travelling
men, Mr.. fowler stated, and Oakland's
new amusement is expected to attract
great deal of attention.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
CANNING OPERATIONS AT
MT. LAKE BEGIN TODAY
Pea Crop Fairly Good in Places
To Employ Approximately
125 for Period of 5 Weeks

The Mt. Airy Canning company be-
gan it's canning season at Loeb Lynn
Heights this morning, according to
Howard Reinhardt, manager, and will
operate for a period of four or five
weeks.
The plant is employing approx
mately 1875 men, women and boys, as
has been the case for the past three or
four years. The efficiency of the plant
in the quick handling of the product
was materially increased last year and
this years crop is expected to be
easily handled.
Every department of the plant will
be kept going continuously due to the
addition last year of larger bins and
speedier operation of the machinery.
The plant will probably have a
straight run of thirty days or more in
canning peas, after which time the
corn crop is expected to be ready for
harvesting and canning. The pea crop
is considered fair, according to Mr..
Reinhardt.
About $50 acres of land were plan
ted in peas, 400 acres in corn, 20 acres
in cabbage, and Is acres in carrots.
The cabbage and carrots are being
grown as an experiment and if found
to be satisfactory, the plant at Loeb
Lynn may be kept open for longer
period of time, in order to take care
of the canning of these two vege-
tables.
Mr.. Reinhardt will superintend all
operations at the plant.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
Oakland is Ideal Spot In Which
to Spend Vacation, Many Tour
lists Voluntarily State

That Oakland, with its natural
beauty and invigorating climate, is on
a par with any other resort in the
United States, is attested by number
of visitors who have called at The Re-
publican office in recent days. Their
first impressions are that no one need
go further than Oakland in looking
for an ideal place in which to spend
their vacations, their summers or the
weekend.
Rev. Jabez Backus, a retired Epis-
copal clergyman of Washington, D. G.
who arrived in Oakland one day last
week, is delighted with this country.
He is an elderly gentleman and has
spent many summers in the White
Mountains and other parts of New
England and says that he has not
found anywhere the scenery offered
in the immediate vicinity of Oakland.
He is spending the summer in Oakland
with his sisters, Mrs. Mary E. Moses
and Miss Clara Backus, occupying DR..
Selby's residence on Alder street.
eve came up here from Washing
ton, D. G., last week." Rev. Backus
said. II am convinced that if one is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
BOOKS ARE ORDERED FOR
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
Different Phases of Scriptures
Will Be Taken Up By Students

The curriculum for the Daily Vaca-
ton Bible School was mapped out and
text books ordered at a meeting of
the Community Council of Religious
Education and members of the school
faculty held last Friday evening in
the Lutheran church, Oakland. The
school will be conducted this year in
the Grammar school building from
Monday, July Z, to Friday, July 10.
The books were ordered from the
Standard Publishing Company at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, and the studies will
cover subjects of interest to children
under pre-school age up to and includ-
ing the children of seventh grade age.
Students will be divided into pri-
mary, junior and intermediate classes
and different phases of the Bible will
be taken up by each class.
Miss Marion Leary will be princi-
pal of the school and will have a
group of efficient teachers under her
direction whose names will be an
nounced in The Republican Thursday
of next week.
Classes will be conducted each
morning from until IL o'clock, ex-
elusive of Saturday and Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
New Election Precinct Formed
In District No. 3.

Acting under the authority vested
in them by an Act of the General As
sembly of Maryland, the members of
the Board of Election Supervisors
have created new voting precinct in
Election District No. 8, and the vot-
ing place will be established at Jen-
nings.
This action on the part of the SUI
pervisors was taken on last Tues
day when the members of the board
with their clerk, Mr.. Charles F. White,
went to Jennings and established the
lines for the new precinct, which will
include a small part of the territory
lying in Election District No. IL.
A petition, signed by nearly two
hundred voters of the territory in
cluded in the new precinct had been
filed with the board, hence their ac-
ton in the premises. At present two
voting places are provided in the town
of Grantsville to accommodate the
voters. With the establishment of the
voting place at Jennings one of the
Grantsville polling places will be abol-
ished.
Following the action of the Super
visors the regularly prescribed notice
to voters is printed in today's Repub-
lican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
Union Young Peoples League
Is ReOrganized

At a meeting on Monday evening
the Young Peoples League, consisting
of members of the young peoples
leagues of the various churches OF
Oakland, was reorganized for the
coming summer.
The following officers were elected:
William McRobie, president; George
Altstetter, vice-president; Helen Sol
lars, secretary and treasurer. Some
committees were also appointed.
The first meeting will be sunrise
session and breakfast at Table Rock
on the morning of July 6. All the
young people of Oakland are cordially
invited to attend this and following
meetings. The program committee is
preparing something different for
each meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26

Active Church Worker of Mt.
Lake Park Succumbs to Illness

Mrs. Charles w. Baldwin, aged wife
of DIR. C. w. Baldwin, retired Metho-
dist minister and one of the founders
of the Mt. Lake Park Association,
died at her summer residence at the
Park Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Death was due to pneumonia.
Funeral services will be held from
her home at 226 w. Lafayette Ave-,
Baltimore, on Friday.
The deceased was active in the
work of the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which her husband had
been a pastor for Ga years, having
been the active secretary of the
Women's Foreign Missionary society
of the Frederick district of the Balti-
more conference for many years.
DIR. and Mrs. Baldwin began their
summer residence at the Park in 1882
and since then have been largely in
terested in its various activities. They
celebrated their fiftieth wedding ami
versary few years ago. Her hus-
band was president of the Mt. Lake
Park association for 80 years and
passed his Goth milestone on March
23.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
Arthur Resi-, Grantsville Dis
trict, Seeks Nomination for
County Commissioner.

Arthur Resi-, merchant and saw mill
operator at Casselman, near Grants
vile, in Election District No. 8, an
nounces his candidacy for the Republic
can nomination for County Commits
sioner in the current issue of The Re-
publican.
Mr.. Resi-, according to good author
ity, has been a successful business man
in all of his undertakings, his gen.
eral mercantile store at Casselman
and his saw mill operations being con-
Quoted along good business principles.
He is an ex-service man, having been
trained as a heavy artilleryman at
Camp Meade but did not have the OPP
portunity of going overseas. He has
been a resident of the county all his
life and is man we'll liked by all in
his community.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
GARRETT COUNTY TIMBER
TRACTS BEING SURVEYED
State Forestry Department is
Marking 16,OOO-Acre Preserve

The State Forestry departments re-
Gently acquired timber tracts in Gar
rett county are being surveyed and
permanent boundary markers estab-
lished, it was announced by F. w. Bes-
ley, State forester.
The work of surveying the tracts
which cover 10000 acres, in the Saw
age and Meadow mountains district of
this county, is being undertaken by
Karl E. Pfeiffer, assistant State fores-
ter, Mr.. Besley said.
Although some preparatory work
along this line was completed last
year there still remains the problem of
placing the boundary markers and
settling disputes with residents who
formerly used parts of the region for
grazing purposes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
Scouts to Hold Court of Honor
Meeting Monday

The regular monthly meeting of the
Court of Honor, Oakland Troop No. /,
Boy Scouts of America, will be held
Monday evening in the Masonic club
room, Third Floor of the First Nation
al Bank building, Mr.. Harland Jones,
chairman Of the court, announced.
A. number of first and second class
scouts will be examined and awarded
merit badges at this time. At the
regular weekly meeting of the Scouts
on Friday distribution of tickets for
the benefit picture to be held on July
% and %, will be made. Plans for
an overnight on Saturday and Sunday
will also be discussed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
VISITORS HERE PROCLAIM OAKLAND AND VICINITY
CHARMING SPOT FOR GOOD AIR AND FINE SCENERY

looking for good air and fine scenery
he need not go further than Oakland.
We are delighted with this place and
it's surroundings.
"Seldom have I seen such splendid
oak trees anywhere outside of the
great parks in England. The rolling
hills and green valleys are restful
delight to the eye. Roses seem to
bloom with little care and for the very
pleasure of it.
eve have as yet seen little of the
outlying country or of the people. If
the members of the graduating class
at the high school that we saw the
other evening are fair specimen, the
people are as fine as the scenery itself.
So my first impressions of Oakland
are most favorable"
Other tourists who have seen for
the first time the beauties of Keyser's
Ridge and the country lying adjacent
to the National Highway, the Cove,
Deep Creek Lake, Cheat Mountain and
Table Rock on the Northwestern
Turnpike, Swallow Falls and Muddy
Creek Falls and the natural and en-
trancing beauty of the entire section,
have proclaimed it as beautiful a
country as they have ever seen.
Hundreds of tourists can't be wrong.
Oakland and Garrett county is an
ideal place in which to live.