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out Of the prison building. through a window.
perilously along q ledge and TO a roof while the
guards Immediately below in the moonlit street
were held in conversation by another prisoner, a
RUSSIAN ofncer who had volunteered to aid tbs
two in their night. After a while of lodging In
the house Of sheltering Christian Yeats
Browns companion left to escape by land into
Greece. He was recaptured
Yeats-Brown, at the command of Miss
Whitaker, arrayed himself as a woman SO as to
pass as German governess. He made gawky
specimen Of femininity, but that was not en-.
tirely out Of the character of German gov
erness. He was rather excessively painted but
then, even German gOvernesses sometimes want
to look younger than they are. What he could
not disguise was the distinctly masculine cut Of
his hands, and 70 he was condemned to Der.
petual gloves. As for the voice the German
governess had consumption, whsnce it came
that she spoke in such low, husky tones
He lived In comfortable lodgings as a staid
and somewhat eccentric lady. The chief dif.
hcuties Of his life in petticoats lay in the atti-
tude Of the men about the streets of Constant
tinople toward the painted and none too deli
cate looking governesS They pursued the lady
with an undaunted persistence and generally
made life wretched for the disguised British
airman. Likewise, It was rather embarrassing
for the stately Miss Whitaker to be seen in pub.
lie with the gaudy hoyden. 1t was relief both
to her and to him when Yeats-Brown was able
10 get BACK INTO mems clothes again, which he
did Tor the purpose Of going down to the docks
to negotiate for o ship to take him away. 1t
happened that at this time he was recognized
by the Turkish secret police and taken to prison
again.
But he made q second prison break, disguised
himself as an Austrian mechanic this time and
then did secret service work in Constantinople
until the war ended. After a year OF so in Lon
don, during which found him helping edit q
magazine to promote the League of Nations
idea, he sailed for India to become a Bengal
Lancer once more.
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became fast friends. Their drugged parties oe-
CURED regularly. The prisoner pretended an
extreme slavery to the drug and seemed TO
grow daily more hstless. The prison authori-
ties looked at him with cynical smiles and the
guard over him relaxed
One day, while they reclined with their pipes
the officer told him in friendly fashion that If
he wanted q vacation in Constantinople II
would not be difficult to arrange If he pre-
tended to be ill it would be possible to have
him transferred to a hospital in the capital.
SO Yeats-Brown fell Ill. He seemed scarcely
able to stand, and filled the doctors ears with
descriptions Of his symptoms. Within a month
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cursions he met Miss Whitaker, now Lady Paul,
who was a kind of Edith Caven in Turkey. She
aided him in arranging for an escape from the
prison and for a place Of refuge in the city until
he could get away by sea. The soldiers who
watched him on his shopping trips were amiable
and easily deluded. Glasses of beer, which the
prisoner sailed with sleeping powder, left them
drowsy and doing on benches or at tables
while he carried out his missions. He could
easily have given them the slip, but had his
scruples about that. They were friendly enough,
and he did not want to get them into Difficult
ties Instead, he and fellow prisoner, likewise
British officer, effected an elaborate escape
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-07
Gloomy Prophecy Upse.

PRoPHETs Of gloom are won't to give tia
general public few uncomfortable mo-
ments and then when other affairs divert the
mind the prophecy Is forgotten and seldom
comes to light again.
This year, however, was to be the year when
one Of the doleful predictions was to be borne
out, but decidedly were the predictions wrong.
DR. o. G. Slime of the Bureau of Economics
of the Department Of Agriculture has pointed
out that 30 years ago Sir william Crockes, o
leading British scientist, warned that by 1891
there was to be . serious shortage of wheat
unless some means were found to greatly i'm
crease the yield per acre. Sir Williams pre-
diction was based on the course Of the wheat
market from the Civil War on. .....s
For time after the war the wheat CROP
increased rapidly until finally the price dropped
When the crops were found to be greater than
the market could consume, the acreage fell or
and naturally the production. This brought
about lessening Of exports and turn upward
in the prices.
With this situation in mind Sir William
wrote 80 years ago:
Practically there remains no uncultivated
prairie land in the United States suitable for
wheat growing. The virgin land has been rap
idly absorbed until at present there is no land
left for wheat without reducing the area for
maize, hay and other necessary crops. It ID
almost certain that within a generation the
ever-increasing population of the United States
will consume all the wheat grown within its
borders, and win be driven to import, and Hike
ourselves, viii scramble for lions share Of
the wheat crop Of the world"
Sir Williams limit wheat acreage has
been found to fan far below what is actually
available. Already the worlds wheat area has
been increased by. more than the 100 million
acres over what Sir william set as the limit
It is probable that unbreken land i'll the United
States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Russia
and China could turn over many more hum
dreds of millions Of acres to wheat production.
Statistics gathered by Dr. Slime show that the
yield per acre Of wheat has increased only about
IA bushels to an average of 14.1 bushels, since
Sir William made his forecast.
Just as the invention of the reaper and
binder after the Civil War gave impetus to the
expansion of the wheat growing, so has the
tractor, combine and other equipment brought
about expansion since the World War
The acreage now used in wheat production
Is below the high mark of &c, 1000 900 acres under
cultivation in 1919, but since 1924 has been on
the increase.
Since Sir Williams prediction, wheat and rye
production in this country has increased 40
per cent, while the population has increased but
20 per cent In addition to this and contribute
ing to a surplus rather than a shortage per
capita consumption has dropped of in this
country by more than q busheL
So, with these figures in mind, it seems that
the specter Of wheat famine may be laid for
q while at least
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81 Excelsior Plants Running

ExCEIS IoR. which is taken more or less as
matter Of course and something which
rouses the ire Of many housewife when her
husband unpacks packages in the living room,
is produced in Ga factories in the United States
and represents q sizeable industry The total
output last year was valued at nearly IS 600 OO0.
There was slight increase over the 1927 ng-
ures, indicating, perhaps, that shipments OG
fragile articles were on par with those u
that year. ~
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She K eturnS.
By T h e d a K enyo IN.

She has returned: the old house o
To greet her, standing in the dooyqUay there;
She does not see the shabby, faded room,
She does not smell the mnSty sll4t-n air:
Her hand is Ike a IoVer's the LATCH
Her feet go lightly pacing oId-tinc tunes;
She takes candle do1Un and strikes a match
Stretches aide "Dedr she cYooMs
Delicate sounds and droOSy shado7US stir
To mystic life; clothed in forgotten grace
Her P0int-Gce grandmother stands aCatcHing her
The scent of Lavender fIooos through the place.
Il clipper model on the mantct credks
Beneath her touch, a refreshing breeze;
II Pointed gentleman bous lozU, speaks,
Li0ing again ~ her rich
Outside, neighbor stops, fr0anS, passes BY
Seeing her ~ the candles dredry
OF hight: II 7vomd return, If I
" Were she! No ought 10 IfvcG lonet"
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that was not simulated, for it had made me
feel giddy.
You prepare a most perfect pipe"
coughed through the acrid fumes.
But had realized Immediately that had
not an opium temperament. In ALL smoked
ten pipes that first evening without feeling any
Ill effects beyond heavy lassitude which lasted
all through the following day. was disap-
pointed and disguised by the experience The
beautiful dreams are q myth. So also is the
deadly fascination Of the drug I loathed it
more each time tasted it."
Yeats-Brown and the opium smoking offcer
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IN the hospital plans Of escape were made and
developed later at q prison camp in the
suburbs Of Constantinople, to which he was
transferred when, after a while, the doctors
said there was nothing the matter with him.
Having money, he was able to buy privileges,
among others, that Of going under guard to
shop in the marts of the capital. On these ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
WESTERN SENIORS !
GIVEN DIPLOMAS
Girls Win All HonorS in High
School Class of g.
Graduates.

Thirty-four Western High School SEN
Tors were awarded diplomas of grad
uation in commencement exercises this
afternoon, which we're marked by the
capture of all honorS by girls.
DR.. Abram Simon, who was recently
appointed to the Board of Education,
presided, while Henry Grattan Doyle,
dean of the lower division of Columbian
College, George Washington University,
delivered the commencement address.
The program was completed by musical
selections offered by the orchestra and
soloiStS of the class William Rodier
played a violin solo, while Miss Burley
Martin was his accompanist. Margaret
Hobart Cromwell delivered the valedic-
tory.
Rev. James H. Straughn, in charge of
promotion work for the Methodist Prot
estant Church, delivered the invocation.
Miss Burley Martin was presented
with an honorary wv" for her work In
music as member of the orchestra.
Honorable certificates for meritorious
academic work were given to Miss Mar
TIN, Polly Mutton, Evelyn HaineS, Louise
CappS and Virginia Bash.
westerns graduates are as follows:
Virginia Balance Bash, Freda Mae
Brown, Louise Carleton Caps, Frances
Eleanor Chambers, Margaret Hobart
Cromwell, Helen Bennett Fulton, Mary
Louise Gleason, Evelyn Virginia Haines,
Evelyn Ruth HouSer, Dorothy Howes,
Anne Louise Lee, Margaret Frances
Luers. Helen Elizabeth Maier, Burley
Martin, elisabeth Erbe Morris, Margaret
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FOUR PLAYS TONIGHT
END PRELIMINARIES
Larger Audience Witnesses Fourth
in Group Series, Given
Last Night.

Despite inclement weather, a larger
audience witnessed the fourth of q
series of play groups, included in the
washington Community Drama Guild
one-act play tournament at the Wilson
Normal School, last night, than at pre-
vious performances.
Tonight's presentation of four PLAYS
making a total of Is, ends the prelirn-
mary contest. The judges, Capt George
A. Bentley, u. s. A.; Prof. William /,
Corbin, Mrs. Alice Sigworth Morse
Mrs. William j. Peters and Miss Kath-
crime Riggs, will select the four best
plays, taking the choice of play, acting,
direction and stage business into con-
sideration.
The chosen plays viii be repeated in
the final contest at Mckinley Audi
forum, February T.. Sis pm. The
actor giving the best performance and
the one excelling in diction viii receive
individual awards.
Daughter of Allah" acted .by the
washington Readers Club, the first
presented last evening. peers into the
nearC OF q girl reared III Arabia by her
grandfather and sought by her English
father and a sutton.
Russia is the background for sThe
Little Stone House" given by the lew
1sh Community Center Dramatic So
clety, in which an ideal meant a moth
er's struggle for life and its destruc-
ton, her death.
touch OF old England was brought
cut In 1.-THE Followers" selected by
the Masks. From the experience of an
unfortunate maiden, who al1swefed
mo" when she meant Eyes" two youne
souls prof1ted.
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BUSINESS IS ASKED
TO DELAY OPINION
Chamber of Commerce Urges
That Judgment of Farm !.
Aid Be Deferred.

Organized business should defer judy
ment on the operation of the farm aid
act the agricultural service department
committee informed directors of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States yesterday.
Regarding resolutions urging the
chamber to protest against the actiyi-
ties of the Farm Board, the committee
recommended that no action be taken
at this time. It's report was approved
by the directors.
while this committee is not
united on the provisions of the
act itself or on the Interpretation
OF those provisions as thus far con-
strued," the report of the committee
said. nevertheless It feels that in all
justice and fairness to- the act and to
the Farm Board 1t would be premature
for this committee to make recommen-
dations to the board of directors on
chamber policy In relation thereto"
The committee said it had held four
sessions during the past two days "pri-
marty to consider questions of cham
Der policy with respect to Federal Farm
Board activities"
A statement from the chamber last
night said that its officers feel that it
is the present desire of organized
business W CAOSAlu SylHPatIletlC dlO 10
the Farm Board in. working out
through this formative. period its poll
cieS of helpfulneSs to agriculture
julius H. Barnes, chairman. Of the
board of the chamber addressed to
member organizations which had OBJ
posed the activities of the Farm Board
q letter saying that the chamber lis
vitality interested in this whole question
and through very able committee is
following developments from day to day
in order to place itself in proper posi-
ton to deal intelligently and con-
structively with the question"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
Three Groups In the
Won1en's and Misses
Coat Shop

Every coat in this group is a re-
cent Special PURCHASED Fine broad
cloths, modelled on the longer sill
houette,. with Jared, wrappy or
straight lines. All black, the sea-
sons smart combination, or black
with contrasting furs; also brown
and tan. II to 20, So to IS, AN TO
461S.
=. &r
A medium-priced group that con-
tainS many of our coats reduced
from much higher prices! That as
sures the thrifty woman fine broad
cloth fabrics, smartness, and Iuxuri-
Gus furs, such as kit fox, fox, wolf,
and skunk. Black, brown, green,
and tan. Complete size range!
There are the most OUTSTAND-
ING ECONOMIES in this SroupI
Handsome broadcloth coats, laden
with rich fuFs, styled with lines be-
coming to every 6gurel Plenty all
black coats-fared and straightIine!
Fur sets that label these as coat
aFistoerats!
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HALL FUND CLOSED:
TOTAL is So, 1880
s57.25 Comes in After Relief
Contributions Formally
End.

Although the fund, collected for thu
family Of John Hall, three of Whose
children were killed by a bomb exnIo~
SION New Year day. was offciallv closed
last week. contributions totaIing Ss7 25
were received yesterday, bringing the
total up to $2,149.5o.
Part OF the amount received yesterday
was collected by Mrs. Henry L, Morris
OF upper Marlboro. wife Of H. L. Nor
[Ls, a Frlnce Georges County Repre-
The case was one which does not
come within the Community Chest. The
latest donations follow:
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be made tomorrow by an Iowa delega-
ton Of war veterans headed by former
Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Charles
B. Robbins, Senator Smith w. Brook
hart and Senator Daniel r. Steck.
All Iowa legionnaires have been re-
quested by Col. Robbins to be at the
tomb at IL O'Clock tomorrow morning.
The departments throughout the
country were directed at the last Amer
lean Legion convention to hold these
pflgrimages. The pilgrimage committee
Of the legion is In charge of the af-
fairs. H. EdWund Bulls is chairman,
Clyde B. Stovall vice chairman and
Edgar r. Baker is secretary.
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s. IA
s2:3,74
$ 322.74

Inexpensive shOp-secOnd Floor

Lovely dress coats of broadeloth
with collars and cuffs Of French
beaver, Manchurian wolf and mar
mink! And smart school coats of
rugged tweeds-furred and tailored
styles! Plenty of black and brown.
Sizes Is to -.
Coats for every type JuniOr!--
Dressy styles of broadcloth luxuri-
ously trimmed with French beaver,
Manehurian wolf and cat lynx.
Sports styles of colorfuI tweeds
with high standing wolf collars and
novelty cuffs. Sizes IS to 10. AL
silk lined.
s. Distinctive models sure to appeal
TO the modern Juniorl Bright
Spring-liks tweeds-and rich broad.
cloths with huge mushroom or
shawl eollsrs Of wolf, marmink and
muskrat. Flared and straightline
styles. Plenty Of smart aIl-blaek
coats. Sizes IL to 10.
Jr. Misses shop--seeol
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Cromwell Nyce, Elizabeth Katherine
Rheinbold, Helen Repp Ridgely, Bet
tina Frances Sergeant, Edna Lane
Schofeld, Dorothy wit Shaffer, Elisa
Francis Curtain, Dudley Harden Digges
Irwin Sawyer Dyke, John Schneider
Fletcher, Robert Cary Heterrick, James
Luther Humphrey, Walter Aloysius
Lipscomb, Thustin Pearsall Mcnamara
Norman Randolph Pond, jr.; Turner
Taliaferro Smith and Paul Lee Sweeny.
DR.. Elmer S. Nevgon, principal, as
sisted by Miss p. Edna Thomson and
Norman J. Nelson, assistant principals,
made the presentations.
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Two Candidates
Wait Gin Line" to
Get Names First
Neither Is Sure of VIM
ming Preferred Position
on Ballot.
BY the Associated Press.

CHARLESTON, Ill, January 81
Dan Williams and Horace Mcintyre
both aspire to be clerk of Coles County
and they both believe that many voters
who do not know the candidates merely
put an TX" after the first name on
the ballot, no matter whose name 1t is.
So Wednesday they parked them
and announced their intention Of re-
naming until February 3, when petit
tons for the primary election may be
filed.
But even IL one Of them does outlast
the other, neither williams nor Nc
Intyre can be assured Of first place
on the ballot. County Clerk Elston
has announced that he reserves the
right to file his own petition for re-
election before any one else.
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AUTO SHOW CONTINUES
TO DRAW LARGE CROWDS
Committee Believes Attendance
Record of $4,000 Last Year
to Be Surpassed,

Despite inclement weather, yesterday
was one Of the best days in point of at
tendance at the annual automobile
show of the washington Automotive
Trade Association at the Auditorium.
The two exhibition floors were thronged
throughout the day.
With the closing day set for tomor-
row, the show committee predicted to-
day that last years attendance mark of
$4,000 would be passed this year.
The series of radio talks sponsored
by the show to describe the exhibits of
automobiles, shop equipment and ac-
cessories, was concluded last night with
two addresses, one by Rudolph Jose, d.
rector Of the show, and the other by L.
S. Julien, treasurer of the Washington
Automotive Trade Association.
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Man Critically Wounded.

Fred Brewer, colored, 80 years old,
today was reported in a critical condi-
ton at Casualty Hospital, victim of a
pistol bullet. Ninth precinct police are
holding his wife, Mary Brewer, 65l Sec
ond street northeast. They say she
used the pistol during an alteration in
their home last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
FREEDOM TO BE BRIEF.
Bad-Check Suspect Faces Arrest on
Release in New York.

When he is released from q prison
In New York tomorrow morning after
checks, Walter r. Roberts, 20, will be
arrested by Headquarters Detective B,
w. Thompson Of this city and brought
back to Washington, where he is al
legged to have cashed $40 bad check
in October, 1928.
According to local police, Roberts is
wanted on similar charges in several
other cities.
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TEACHERS MEET MONDAY.
Northwestern Psychology Professor
Will Make Address.

Hearing Through the Fingers" will
sc the subject of an address hy Or. Rob-
ert Harvey Gault, professor of psychol-
ogy at Northwestern University, before
a meeting Of the High School Teachers
Association at o'clock Monday night
in the music room Of Central High
School. smlvMWW
DR.. Gault is editor of the Journal Of
Criminal Law and Criminology and, in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31

addition, scientist Of considerable
note, having conducted researches for
the Carnegie Institute, Smith Colleges
the Clark School for the Deaf and the
National Research Council.
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When Smart Winter Coats Are So
Economically Priced Why Tolerate

Worm sadlookg that weathere
not fitting companions for the bright coOrfu fOc
And there for forcing them such charming
When these be met economically Most of
these the distinction best
besides giving unquestonabe right now!
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IS 5
81 5
ST. -

wOm.n's Coat shoD-s.eond rlosr
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DICTIONARIES TO VISIT
TOMB AT ARLINGTON
Iowa Delegation First of So to Go
to Resting Place of Unknown
Soldier.

The first of So pilgrimages Of Ameri-
can Legion departments of the country
to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
at Arlington National Cemetery will
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cts Inexpensive to
Be Questionable"

Here's the group from
which to select your "seeon,
best" coat-for sports, 70
driving, etc. Broadeloths an,
tweeds or brown broadeloth
blue, red and brown tweed
IL to a..
For conservative women
we recommend one of these
mex p enSive straightline
coats - black or brown
broadcloth, with Manchu-
Fian wolf collars and cuffs
-furs of surprisinR
quality! IL to 20; 80 to As.
In this low-priced group
are Misses and Women
Black Broadeloth Coats,
elk lined and furred with
beautiful Manehurian wolf
sets-big shawl collars and
elbow euffsl Sizes - to 46.
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It's the Soup.

The reason men are so much less
frequently troubled with blackheads
than women is because men shave their
faces and women do not. The girl who
gives "facials" in a popular barber shop
told me that the only place these un-
pleasant little blemishes would Care to
appear in mans face would be the
nose or forehead-certainly never on
chin or cheeks And the reason for
this, this maSseuse was convinced, was
because men customarily shave at least
once a day, and part of the shaving
process consists Of a very thorough
lathering with shaving brush and real
soapsuds.
And so" said this masseuse, when
ever a woman tells me that she is
troubled with blackheads, / just advise
her to get a nice soft shaving brush
and a tube or a cake of good shaving
soap. Use the soap precisely as a man
would in getting ready to shave, only
use 1t on the nose and forehead MS
we'll 1t is surprising what wonderful
results may be sained in this way"