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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
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POSERS

Now that school Is once more IN session. boys
and girls are learning new things every day.
Perhaps some Of the facts you learn In classes
win helm you answer these poseTs:
l. what two famous explorers made an ex-
pesaitiOn into the Oregon country during early
United States history?
2. How many rows Of keys are theTs on
standard typewriter?
3. What European city has canals for streets?
T. In what country IL the city Of Brussels
located?
S. How many ships did Columbus have when
he discovered America?
g. what is the rate for airmail IN the United
States?
2. How were city streets Illuminated before
the cay Of electricity?
g. What is the normal temperature Of the
human body?
ANSWERS.
/. Lewis and Clark. 2. -Four. Venice
T. Belgium. S. Three. 6. Five cents for tho
first ounce and 10 cents for each additional
ounce. Z. Usually with gas lamps. Q. ESQ de-
Rrees.
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Juggling Act.

JUGGLING is great fun and besides beina
entertaining to other people it serves t.
strengthen your eyes and coordinate your
muscles.
One of the easiest branches Of Juggling is
balancing" simple example of this is the
common balancing Of long fishing pole on
forefnger or chin. more advanced effort Of
this type Is Of great interest. In performing
this you win need an assistant to pass the
various articles to you. The frSt move 10 to
balance q bottle on the forehead; then = plate
Is set on top, next . bottle, and finally four
glasses, setting them In place equidistant
around the plate. In performance it looks very
difficult but you win never know how easy 1t
is until you try it. Use an enameled plate or
pie plate and cheap glasses, so that if you slip
when practicing the loss win be negligible. You
can make the effect easier by FASTING q round
bit Of cloth to the two sides of the plate SO
that the bottles will be less liable to slip.
Another popular division Of juggling is with
balls, and the three-ball juggles are very easy
to perform. Try the cascade first. To COM
mence take two tennis balls in your right hand
and one in your left. Toss ball No. upward
from the right hand, with q slight inward mo-
ton. As ball No. is about to descend, ball
No. Cleft hand) Is thrown into the air. AS
ball No. 1 comes down IN the left hand ball
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Nee0 Meighbor in Hea0ens.

VOC and and all of us have been taught
that there are only eight planets iourneying
shout the sun: Mercury, the Earth, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
What cur teachers and our school books meant
when they taught us this Is that there were
only eight 10 far discovered. For scientists con-
tinually discover new things and astronomers
are ever On the search for new planets. new
stars comets and happenings in the skies above
us. It is very seldom, however, that they make
such . great discovery as that which took
place several months ago In the Lowell Observ-
atOry. For the scientists there discovered q
new planet, q new neighbor in the heavens,
the first discovery Of this sort since the finding
Of the planet Neptune in 1876 And they have
just given it n name, Pluto
We know very little yet about this new
planet Its size is perhaps about seven times
that Of our earth, though we are not yet sure
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through the door and probably never would
have been found.
During his many hunting trips Hill has shot
some so rattlesnakes with bow and arrow. And
he refuses to shoot these deadly reptiles any
where but in the head. That is because the
Gkins have q market value Of 81 per lineal foot,
and Archer Hill believes in collecting the
bOunties and rewards of his shooting skill
wherever possible in addition to bringing home
the bacon.
One morning when the archer was returning
to camp On horseback after an all-night hunt
for Wildcats he almost met his cunning
waterloo and rattesnake was the core of
the thrilling experience. The bowman was tired
after his long vigil and had slumped forward
In the saddle for q cat nap. All of q sudden
his horse SHE'D violently in passing a clump Of
bushes and almost unseated the rider. BY the
skin Of his teeth Hill kept his seat and escaped
q nose dive into the thicket. Dismounting, he
returned to the underground and found a six
foot rattlesnake enjoying o sunbath If his
horse had thrown him Hill would have dropped
on the snake. As 1t was he shot the RATHER and
prUfited by the experience.
Once while hunting wild turkeys with the late
Glen H. Curtiss, one Of the pioneers of Ameri-
can aviation, Hill proved that the bow is better
than . shotgun for distance shooting. And
also that the archer can shoot two to three
times ct the same game which Is available to
the gunner for but single shot, large owl
sat on the limb of q tree some 30 yards from
the nfmrods. TOO far for my gum Howard,
what can you do with the bow?" said Mr..
CurtiSS. Whereupon Hill loosed an arrow at
the owl on his distant perch. The first arrow
was dangerously close yet the bird did not move.
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of this. 1t travels about the sun once in every
289 years, and its years are, therefore, almost
800 times as long rs are ours. 1t is perhaps
tremendously cold planet, colder by far than
anything Of which we know, and so there Is
no life there. And how far is it from the sun?
We know that fairly well, and astronomers tell
us that the distance is about four billion miles
1t is therefore the most distant planet in the
family. How far is four billion miles? Well,
that is difficult thing for you to appreciate,
but it is so far that an airplane travelling 100
miles hour would have to go at that speed
for $500 years in order to reach it.
And so, while we know but little about
Pluto, we must remember that there are now
nine planets revolving about the sun and not
eight as our school books tell US. We shall
learn more about this new planet in a few
months, for scientists all over the world are
studying it every night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

No. 3 fright handD should just be starting its
upward flight Do not throw the balls too
high. Five or six feet is the limit and do not
think that you must go fast. If you count each
ball you throw it into the air, you will find
the going much easier.
''Showerirg'' three balls is little more diff
cult. Start with two balls in the right hand
and one in the left as in the cascade. Ball No.
1 and ball No. Cloth right hand) are thrown
into the air in quick succession. BAN No 8
Cleft hand) is then shot down to the empty
right hand, which catches it just as the first
ball Is about to plop into the left hand. The
movement is kept up indefinitely.
Cascading and showering four and five balls
will come to any boy who will give this excel
lent pastime the proper amount of per
severing practice each day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

tering his second Kid on his next turn. He
then moves them around the board as indicated
by the arrows, all the way to his starting place
and then up the next center path to Home.
After each player has started his two Kids,
the Wolf starts. He may capture a KID ON any
white space, sending that Kid back to start over
on the next turn. The Wolf keeps going around
the board until one player gets both his Kids
home, that player then being the winner of the
game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Definition.

Mary was asked to define spine" in physi-
caogy class Said Mary, "a spine is a long.
timber bone. Your head sits on one end and
you Sit on the other"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

Columbus day In celebrated in honor Of the
@ABoOveTy Of America, SO now we give you .
word diamond to at the occasion. The second
me ID an abbreviatiOn for American Medical
Association, the third b an amphitheater. the
nth In q havoring substance and the sixth
% playing card. Form the diamond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
PUZZLES
4

(<O1LEoES wen known dnring foot bah sea
son are found I'm this picture puzzle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

many IS four children can play
III tAis game, counting out to see who
~ Is first and who last. Each player
has two pins tied with bits Of coll
ored ribbon as his two Kids, ex-
cept the last player, who has one big black pin
% the Welt.
penny Is tossed in q small box Lid to de-
texmine the number of moves; heads mean two
moves, tails one Each player starts from his
oMm caEner and enters one Kid at a time, en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

AMER1cA
And here h another Of these tricky sentences
with letter left out and the words run TO-
6ether. Can you read II?
Observation-Disclosures
BeheAS timepieee and get part Of door.
Dehead piece Of wood and get the noise made
~ clock.
CR0SS-WORn PUZZLE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
Campaign Extended to Mon
day in Order to Raise Sum
of $325,911.49.
HOOVER DOUBLES GIFT
AS EXAMPLE TO OTHERS
Number of Donors Drops to 4S, 647,
as Compared to $4,000
Last Year.

Unbeaten in spirit, the army of Com
munity Chest workers returned cheer
fully to their extended task today, de-
termined to wipe out before Monday
night deficit of 1925, 91l49 that stands
between them and the ultimate goal of
81, 1856, 73707 for the 1880 Chest.
Confident that last nights failure of
Washington to reach the objective on
scheduled time would be turned into a
postponed victory celebration, off,
Gals of the Chest were taking stock
this morning of the various factors that
compelled an extension of time in the
second annual campaign. With new ele-
ments appearing to tighten the job. they
were anything but dismayed after the
first disappointment given by the tenn
porary setback.
Lacking an official audit of figures,
Director Elwood Street announced today
that the gifts reported last night ac-
counted for $282, 893.99. This makes a
grand total of $1,46O,825 raised
toward the budget. Included in the
amount is the sum of $23,383.43 con-
tributed by the colored population of
Washington, who last night pledged
themselves through their regional lead
ers to raise a total of $4,000.
Hoover Doubles Gift.
With President Hoover pointing the
way to final victory by doubling his
already generous contribution to the
Chest fund, the $500 volunteer workers
set out today to obtain increased pledges
and as many new gifts as can be
obtained.
The total of nearly million and
half dollars was given by 48,647 con-
tributors, compared with approximately
$4,000 persons who contributed to the
cause last year. Therein, it was said,
lies one of the reasons why Washington
failed to raise the 1880 budget on time.
$4,000 to Get Cards.
contributing factor in overcoming
the 1925, 900 gap in the budget will be
the distribution of 10000 cards and
pledge envelopes in the Government
departments this afternoon. There will
Street explained, and the cards viii be
collected Monday afternoon in time for
the final report meeting.
The arrangement which caused much
enthusiasm in the ranks of the Metro
politan Unit last night was made
through E. w. Libbey, chief clerk of
the Department of Commerce and
president of the Chief. Clerks Asso-
citation.
The 10000 cards will be turned over
by the Community Chest to the chief
clerks in the various departments. Each
card will contain an envelope in which
the employe may deposit his contribu-
ton or pledge, so that no one else will
know the amount given. The individual
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10 KILLED IN MINE
BLAST, 5 ENTOMBED
Five Others Taken Out of
Utah Shaft Alive After
Explosion.
SALT LAKE CITY, February 7 Dr.

SALT LAKE CITY, February (R).-
Five of the ten entombed miners in the
Standard Coal Co.'S mine at Standard
vile, Utah, were rescued alive today.
The five rescued this morning had
barricaded themselves against the dead
ly fumes of the carbon monoxide gas
and had not suffered any i'll effects,
it was stated at the Office of the mining
company. One of them was reported
to be "a little shaky" but this was be-
lieved to be the result of bad air rather
than gas fumes.
The No. slope, where the rescued
men were found, was reported to have
been free Of gas.
Deaths Caused by Fumes.
With the mine cleared of the gas
fumes through the restoration of the
ventilation system, and with very little
debris thrown down bS the explosion, it
was said the reScuerS did not find their
way in the mine seriously impeded. The
explosion was not violent, it was said,
and the deaths so far disclosed are as
sumed to have been caused by the gas
fumes.
A strong possibility was seen that the
remaining five men might also be found
alive.
With Is bodies located in the mine,
which was swept by an explosion late
last night, the fate of five men re-
manned undetermined this morning.
-Four other men came out of the mine
after the explosion of the total Of 80
who were working on the night shift.
The dead:
Angus Barney, r. T. Springer, ]. L.
Jensen, Carlyle Smith, Roy Briggs, T.
L. and F. P Pritchett, brothers; William
MCGUIRE, lobe Wimber, Frank L. James,
Cy Brady, Udell FoweeS, j. D. Duke,
Barney johnson, William Watson and
ClaWson Elliott.
Those rescued early in the day
were Rubio Monroes, Andy Dough-
erty, Gerald Banasky and an un-
identified man who was overcome
by monoXide gas, which flooded the
mine after the explosion. The bodies
were not Immediately taken from the
search deeper in the workings in hopes
of finding additional men alive.
Cause Is Undetermined.
Dougherty, one of the four men to
escape, said the explosion was deafen-
ing and that the walls OF the tunnel
crumbled. He said T. L. Pritchett, one
of the men found dead, was working in
the main tunnel of the mine with
Rubio. BanaSky, Pritchett and the other
man who was rescued alive, but when
the explosion occurred he dashed deep
er into the mine to rescue his brother,
F. H. Pritchett, and never returned.
His body was found later by the res
cuers.
Dougherty said that in their flight
from the mine Rubio, Banasky and he
were forced to crowd between piles of
debris shaken from the walls of the
cavern by the blast. He said gas fumes
Immediately filled all parts of the mine.
State mine officials and officers of the
Standard Coal Co., owner of the mine,
left Salt Lake City Immediately for the
scene of the disaster and assumed
charge of the rescue crews. AS news
of the blast spread relatives of the vic
Tins gathered and watched with anx-
; ious eyes as the bodies were carried
from the mine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
FLYNN DEMANDS OPEN
HEARING OF CHARGES
Suspended Prohibition Law Clerk
Was Accuser of Col. J. F. J.
Herbert.

Capt. Frank S. Flynn, prohibition
law clerk, has demanded full, open
and unbiased public hearing on the
charges upon which he was suspended
from duty by Prohibition Commissioner
James M. Doran, following Flynn's fail
ure to report for duty, as ordered, at
the Baltimore prohibition Office
Flynn was the accuser of Col. John
F.. j. Herbert, former prohibition adj
ministrator, who was attacked by Sena-
tors Borah and Wheeler on the Senate
floor, but who has been completely
exonerated by high prohibition officials,
and ordered back to duty at his post in
Helena, Mont.
Prohibition Commissioner Doran,
while non-committal is understood to
be taking time in the matter of the
Flynn suspension, which he intends to
make a dismissal The civil service
rules, it was explained at prohibition
headquarters allow the suspended en-
ploye to reply "in writing" to charges,
and it is then for the head of the
Office TO decide whether the employee
shall be dismissed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
ASSISTANT CHIEF OF AIR
CORPS WILL BE RETIRED
Brig. Gen. William E. Gilmore to
Quit Army in June After
More Than 80 Years.

Brig. Gen. William E. Gilmore, who
has been assistant chief of the Army
Air Corps since July IT, 1926 will be
placed on the retired list of the Army
June 80 on his own application, after
more than 30 years active service. The
President approved the application
yesterday.
Gen. Gilmore is from Ohio and is
in his 57th year. He was appointed to
the Military Academy in June, 1896,
and served in the Spanish War of 1898
as a first lieutenant in the 5th Ohio
Infantry. In August. 1901, he was ap-
pointed second lieutenant in the United
States Infantry and reached the grade
of major in August, 1917,
During the World War he served first
as lieutenant colonel in the Signal
Corps and then as colonel in the Ma
tional Army. Since August, 1920, he
has been attached to the air service,
with the rating of air pilot. He was
graduated from the Air Service Pilot
School in 1921 and from the Air Serv-
ice Bombardment School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
EFFICIENCY PROBE
PRECEDES GR|LL|NG
ON DISTRICT FUNDS
Simmons Subcommittee Aid
ed by Secret Investigators
Reports on Officials.

Working in cooperation with Chair
man Simmons of the subcommittee on
District appropriations of the House
appropriation committee, Bureau of
Efficiency Investigators have been max
ing exhaustive inquiries into various
branches of the municipal government,
it was disclosed today with the an
nouncement that the heads of many
departments will be called before the
committee for questioning in the hear
ings on the current budget.
Among those who will be called will
be Lieut.. Nina Van Wrinkle, chief of
the Woman'S Bureau in the Police De-
partment, who will be asked to explain
why approximately 80 employees are re-
quired for her bureau to take care of
an average of seven inmates at the
House of Detention. These figures are
said TO have been furnished by one
of the investigators.
When the District officials came be-
fore the committee they will find Mr..
Simmons primed with information.
Attitude Of Committee.
This subcommittee attitude, it was
explained, is to give the District gov
eminent all it really should have for
an efficient administration of the Ma
tional Capital, but at the same time
to protect the taxpayers from any
waste of funds. Some of the depart
mentS have become lax, Mr.. Simmons
feels, and he has been devoting the
last few months to check-up.
With legislation pending for addi-
tional judges, Chairman Simmons called
Acting Chief Justice Wendell P. Stat
ford and Associate Justice Frederick L.
Siddons and more than a dozen other
court employees before the committee and
told them that they were not spending
enough time on the bench. The hear
ing on this subject lasted for nearly
two hours.
Chairman Simmons disclosed that
the courts had been under close sur
VIGILANCE and confronted the justices
with time schedule for one week
the hour they went on the bench, when
they recessed for lunch, when they re-
convened court and when they adj
journed court for the day. He ex-
planned that this study had been made
after a man called for jury duty had
protested because he had to "cool his
heels" waiting for the judge to take
his place at the bench. 1t was shown
by this study that the average time
spent per day on the bench by the
judge was three hours.
Records for One Week.
1t showed the following records for
five judges for the one week:
Justice Gordon, Is hours and min
uteS; Justice HitZ, z hours and 43 min
uteS; Justice Siddons, 20 hours and z
minutes; Justice Bailey, Is hours and
80 minutes, and Justice Wheat, II hours
and SIS minutes.
Addressing Justices Stafford and Sid
dons, Representative Simmons said: 81
had just as soon tell you that if 1 can
stop it, there will be no more judges
until we get some evidence that the
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Pennsylvania Republican Wet
Recognizes Difficulties of
Taking 18th Amendment
Out of Constitution.
SEES DOOM OF PARTY
THROUGH PROHIBITION
Advocates Letting Entire Matter
Revert to States for Adjustment
According to Local Conditions.
Calls Act Compound of Iniquity
and Folly"
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Repeal of that "monstrous COM
pound Of iniquity and folly, the
VolStead law" was the way out Of
the present prohibition tangle ad-
vocated by Representative James
M. Beck of Pennsylvania in the
House today.
Mr.. Beck admitted that the
direct way to end this system of
tyranny and hypocrisy (prohibi-
tom would be to repeal the eight
zenith amendment and thus leave
to the States the adjustment of
the problem, in accordance with
their local conditions and several
necessities"
But Mr.. Beck also admitted that
it was not now possible to OBJ
tain the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment to the Constitution.
IT appreciate the present and in
superable difficulties Of securing such
reptal," he said. Fortunately, the
American people are not so impotent
that they cannot undo this gigantic
folly without first securing the consent
OF three-fourths of the States. To
make formal addition to the Constitu-
ton, such consent is necessary, but the
enforcement of any clause of the Con-
St1tution, which is not Self-enforcing,
depends upon the preponderating will
OF each living generation, for, as Jeffer-
son well said, the Constitution is for
the living and not for the dead"
Wants Enforcement Repeal.
In plain English, what Mr.. Beck ad-
vocated was the repeal Of the enforcing
act, leaving the eighteenth amendment
to be deal with later, If at all.
He predicted that when the Aneri-
can people recognize that the non-ex-
erciSe Of a power is not necessarily a
challenge to the Constitution, they will
In due time wholly sweep away the
Volstead act
They will recognize" continued Mr..
Beck, that the normal use of light
wines and beer not only does not lead
10 ln6oXication, but promotes temper
ance by preventing hard drinking and
the use of narcotics"
=. The death of the Republican party
II 1t remains tied to the prohibition
cause was predicted by Mr.. Beck, him
sell Republican and wet"
Inc Wing party, he said, of which
Clay and Webster were leaders, fell in
the turmoil over slavery in this country.
and Webster simply DESTROYED himself
In his honest effort to save the Union
ny making the fugitive slave section of
the constitution more obligatory.
Sees Sinister Omen.
The result" said Mr.. Beck. "is a
sinister omen for the Republican party
even in this day of its great power. The
Wing party persisted and the Republican
party came into being. I say it with
regret. but say it as necessary warn
ing, that the Republican party cannot
longer afford to sell its soul to the
fanatical dryS, and if it does, and thus
becomes the party of prohibition. it
may have like fate.
THE party did not emancipate the
slave to put the white man in the
chains of an intolerant policy.
The Democratic party can retain
its hold upon its rank and file by the
Wis inertlae of invincible prejudices," he
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