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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
RESCUED PRAISE GUARD
Shippers Wife and Children Call
at Headquarters Here.

Saved from being wrecked of Cape
Hatteras, when their four-masted
schooner nearly foundered in a storm
January Is, Mrs. Elizabeth Fink, wife
of the schooner's master, and her two
children, today called at Coast Guard
headquarters to express their personal
appreciation for the aid rendered by
the cutter Mendoza.
Evening star., 1931-06-21
SIl.0S

Universal Ape. Eec-
trio Urn Set with 6~
cup silver-lined urn
gold lined sugar and
creamer and scratch
less bot to N tray.
s24.50 value.
Evening star., 1931-06-21

$l.l9

r egular e S1.79
Metal Wall Cabinets
in green or ivory
finishes. Two-hinged
doors, towel rack
and hooks.
Evening star., 1931-06-21
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Folding In Aid
Trays, finished in at
tractive colors. Metal
braced. col Ia psible
legs.
Evening star., 1931-06-21

-27-pc. Luncheon
Set of green glass In
the attractive seal
loped design. Serv-
ice for six,
Evening star., 1931-06-21
$l.08

-25-ft. Corrugated,
non-kink garden hose
with standard brass
couplin gs. $3.50
value.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
HOLDS RUM MAKING
rowing BUSINESS
R. @. MerriCk Says Added
Agent Per County Would
Make 1t Improbable.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, January al
Terming the manufacture of liquor in
the Middle Atlantic States . rowing,
makeshift business Of frequent and
hurried moves, r. @. Merrick, Federal
prohibition administrator, today ex-
pressed the opinion that it would be
highly improbable business If the
Federal force was increased to one
agent for each county.
The guerilla-like campaign now con-
Quoted, he said, leads to suppression of
distilling in one locality only to have
q fresh boom in the industry in
another section. The frequent shifting
Of operation bases, the administrator
added. has become characteristic in
recent times, even to interstate mi
grations.
The 80 agents employed in Virginia,
in cooperation with local authorities,
gain practically complete law enforce
ment control in some sections, he said,
but could not continue such control
while concentrating on suppression In
other parts Of the State. He said the
still operators charged their frequent
loss Of stills to overhead expenses. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
COUNTRY POWDERS
REPORTS MEANING
Commissions Intent Studied
as to Modifying Law or
Standing Pat.
Continued From First Pase)

sentative La Guardia, Republican, New
York.
Smoot said If enforcement were proved
impossible under present methods, he
would be willing to consider plan for
Government control. AS for the COM
missions conditionally- proposed plan,
however, he said 1t would be "imprac-
ticable and unavoidable because it would
simply mean that every Congressman,
every Senator, and every President for
all time will be elected on the sole issue
of prohibition and this issue would
overshadow every other public question.
I'VE would in effect have a referen-
dunn on prohibition every two years.
The one quality of any solution that is
required for this whole business is that
1t should be gotten out of politics and
made stable"
A Senate inquiry to determine how
the Wickersham Commission arrived at
its conflicting conclusions" and
whether advice was received from out
side the commission was proposed in
the Senate by Senator Tydings, Demo-
crat, Maryland, an nti-prohibitionist.
He introduced q resolution to direct
the Judiciary Committee to question
Chairman Wickershan.
The resolution said the report was
confusing and contradictory and that
an 1nVeSClgaClOn SnOulo De mace because
Congress may be called upon to enact
legislation on the basis of the report.
Just after meeting, the House author
lied the printing of $4,000 copies of the
commissions report.
The House would receive $4,000 copies,
the Senate 1000 and each of the SEN
ate and House document rooms 1000
each
Introduction of the Tydings resolution
followed brief discussion on the report
in the Senate, during which Senator
Bingham, Republican, Connecticut,
asked Chairman Norris If the judiciary
committee planned soon to hold hear
ingS to determine whether the alcoholic
limit fixed by the Volstead act should
be raised to per cent. Norris said not.
Bingham read to the Senate a state
ment by q Yale University professor
declaring or 4 per cent beer is not
intoxicating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
BLOODY VIOLENCE
CHARGED TO POLES
Germany Protests to League Coun-
Gil Over Alleged Oppression
of Minority.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, January 21.-Charges of
"menaces, acts Of terrorism and bloody
violence" were laid before the Council
Of the League Of Nations today by
julius Curtius, German foreign min
lister, in q formal protest at Polish
treatment of German minorities in
Upper Silesia.
German-Polish relations growing out
of the minorities question are regarded
in Geneva as one Of the greatest threats
to the peace Of postwar Europe. II
has been feared for weeks that the de-
bate begun today viii set on interna-
tional antagonisms of far-reaching con-
sequences.
Herr Curtius charged that not only
had Germans been mistreated but that
other racial minoritieS, particularly
Ukrainians, had suffered during the
November election period. Not only
were they robbed Of their electoral
rights, but they were threatened in
menacing letters and made victims Of
other methods Of intimidation and
abuse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
OFFICIAL DRY DEBATE A ZEPHYR
COMPARED TOEDITORS' TORNADO
Headline Writers, Handling Wickersham
Report, Faced Major Problem in
Telling What It Said.

made it "wickersham Body for Dry
Law, but Majority Favor Revision. -
And under this banner" headline
across the top of the page there was
another, in parentheses, which said
Figure It for Yourself, We Can't
Ed"
The New York Times-"Wickersha
Report Opposes Repeal of Dry Law;
Majority Favors Revision; Hoover
Stands Firm on Enforcement"
The New York Herald Tribune
"Wickersham Board for Dry Revision
Hoover Against: Commission Split
With Majority for Notifications"
The New York World-"Dry Law Re-
port Bars Repeal, Though Board Fa-
vors Revision; Hoover for Strict En-
forcement."
The Baltimore Sun-"Report Puts
President Definitely on Dry Side; New
Amendment Sought"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21

to cover the meat Of the report in q
headline-the headline confined draS-
tically and arbitrarily to certain num-
Der Of letters and spaces beyond which
grim printers and tyepSetting machinery
refused to bulge one comma.
But that is an old story, the writing
of headline. The big problem was Of
fered by the nature Of the Wickersham
report.
"Wickersham Report Dry" that will
cover it, suggests one.
Was 1t Wet or Dry?
"But it isn't dry-it's wet as water"
says another, "for six or seven of the
signers of the report, more or less, say
that the eighteenth amendment should
be modified"
Make it-'Wickersham Report for
Modification and you'll tell the story"
suggests another.
But the report isn't for modification.
The report is against the repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment" shouts another,
his eyes on the clock.
We'll, how about making 1t Report
Is Dry, But SignerS Wet y?
THAT couldn't be true. II the report
is dry, the signerS are dry. If the re-
port is wet, the signers are wet"
Look at Newton Baker"
What did he do?"
'He signed the report against repeal
of the eighteenth amendment, but says
he is for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment"
But he can't do that"
But he did it."
"Oh, go jump in the lake Make 1t
Members Favor Modification; Report
Against Repeal"
why not make it Report Against
Repeal; Members Favor Modification'?"
Because If dog bites a man, that's
not news. But when a man bites q dog,
that's news. When the revision of the
eighteenth amendment Is suggested
that's the case of the man biting the
dog"
"But we've got to 60 to press. What's
that got TO do with q man biting .
dog?"
How 1t Was Handled.
The newspapers solved the problem in
different ways, each with the hope Of
telling the news and being truthful
* a. rFT.l@s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21

average life Of a sttll, he estimated, ID
week or 10 days.
Mr.. Merrick, whose territory includes
Maryland, the District OF Columbia,
West Virginia and the Carolinas. said
smuggling was not so much Of q prob
lem here as in the Carolinas, where the
irregular coast line offer numerous bid
ing places.
The prohibition ofiicials. he said. rec
ognize control Of distilling as the great
est problem and are employing 30 per
cent of the force in the work. About
10 per cent OF the force is being used
to suppress transportation and the re-
naming 10 per cent Is engaged in IN
dercover work against large operators.
He promised no immunity to hip
pocket" violators, but said the activi-
ties of the force was directed against
big business"
One of the main problems faced. he
said, was prevention Of distilling IN
the mountains, where whisky has been
made for generations by the same fam
lilies. Sons follow their fathers in the
business. he said, and dodge prohibition
agents as their fathers lodged revenue
ofncers. At the same time he said the
coastal sections had their full share Of
stills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
TWO HERE HONORED
BY KING OF RUMANlA

Very Rev. w. Coleman Nevis, presi-
dent Of Georgetown University, and VIII
liam Hard, newspaper correspondent,
were presented with the insignia Of the
Star Cf Rumania following a luncheon
in their honor at the Rumanian Lega-
ton today. Presentation of the insignia,
which was bestowed by the King Of Ru-
mania, was made by Charles A. Da-
villa, Rumanian Minister.
Attending the luncheon were Wallace
s. Murray of the State Department, Dr.
T. H. Healy, assistant dean of the School
Of Foreign Service: DR.. H. Cloyd Mar
vim, president of George Washington
University; Harold Koran, F. w. VILE,
c. Brown, G. p. Williamson, Carroll
Kenworthy and members of the legation
Staff,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
WOMAN FATALLY SHOT
ON APARTMENT PORCH
Sweethearts' Quarrel Blamed for
Staying and
Two Witnesses Held.
BY the Associated Prens.


LOUISVILLE, KY, January 21.-MiSs
Mildred Meyer, "a, whose home is near
New Albany, Ind. was shot and killed
as she stood on the front porch of an
apartment house here early this morn
ing. George w. Newt" McCasland, ex-
pugilist, who police said was with Miss
Meyer at the time, was arrested and
charged with murder.
Two Chicago youths. Gordon c. Keith
20, and Donald Huck, "a, who were
stopping at the apartment house, were
held under charges of accessory to muir
der. Police explained, however, the
youths were not held because of any
direct connection with the staying, but
because they were needed for witnesses
Police said the killing was the result
Of q sweetheart's quarrel and that Nc
Casland killed Miss Myer in a row over
date she had with Huck recently.
Huck and Keith came here q short time
ago as representatives of . Chicago
candy company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21

the newspaper
they unwittingly
passed the buck"
to newspaper head
line writer's on one
of the hardest parts
Of the job-telling
the story in the
headlines.
All morning yes
terday and late into
the night the same
scene must have
been enacted In
newspaper ofaceS
throughout the
land. A group Of
frenzied copy edi-
tors, with pencil
and paper before
them. endeaVoreo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
LONDON PRESS LAUGHS
Post Holds Wickersham Report
"Ludicrous Babble."

LONDON. January 81 Cp.-The Lon
don Post SAYS that il President Hoover
were to derive any enlightenment from
the Wickersham prohibition report "he
will have to perform q series Of meta
physics which would baffie any meta
physician"
1.-THE righteousness of this babble OF
conflicting counsel is only equaled by
the ludicrousness Of the law itself" the
Post said.
Cabled summaries Of the report Al
considerable space In the morning
papers. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21

The members Of the Wickersham
Commission labored long and arduously
on their report on prohibition, but when
they completed it and dumped it on
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
FRENCH SEE DRY FAILURE

PARIS, January 81 [P.-Reading Of
the Wickersham report on prohibition
here has strengthened Frenchmen in
their belief that prohibition has not
been completely successful in the
United States.
There was appointment here that
the report did not reinstate light wines,
big wine interests having hoped they
would be given back their American
market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-21
How be WAC Handled.

The newspapers solved the problem in
different ways, each with the hope Of
telling the news and being truthful
about 1t. The New York Telegram
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03
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Sue nodded understandingly. Don't tell me anything you don't want to. But you'll make up. I'm not worried about you. Not when he sends your car to you."
 I'm being shadowed by the secret service so l won't get in touch with Clifford Becker. Does that sound as though we're just putting on an amateur quarrel?"
 But what did you and Clifford do?" Sue asked. l Staged robbery !. took your emerald somebody did, and Harrys strong for circumstantial evidence when I'm the party involv- ed" Before she quite realized it Corrinne had told Sue the whole story, and Sues dark blue eyes were black with indignation. "Oh, Corrinne. he can't mistrust you like that. Only why were you so silly? You make me disgusted. both of you. You are acting like idiots. Only :"
 "Yes?" Corrinne's voice was so meek Sue smiled.
 You did give him reasons to doubt you, you know"
 Corrinne had intended to tell Sue about her need for money and the application for a job she intended to make, but she decided not to. And Sue made up her mind about a course of action.
 The next morning she went down town to the building which held the offices of the leading steel mill owned by Harry's father. She had never before been in Harry's s office.
 Harry was openly glad to see her. courteous and friendly. but quiet. Sue glanced around, looking for a picture of Corrinne, and didn't find one. oh, well, she decided, since she didn't know if he had ever had one on his desk or not. it didn't mean anything not to find it there now
 She came straight to her point.
 "Harry, once uron time you gave me a beautiful stone and made me keep it as a gift . in case need. ed money some day. It isn't fair for you to go on the bond and do every thing. Not but what you're safe. But it hurts my pride. I'd like the stone, please, and then I can repay you a little."
 She waited for his answer. Would he tell her about the incident connected with it. or would he mere ly be politely chivalrous and insist that it should stay where it was?
 Some time soon I'll give it back
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03
SISTER MARY'S KITCHEN

The following rule makes twelve popovers of two-inch iron gem-pan size.
 POpovers
 Two eggs, cup bread flour, 1 scant cup milk, Ia teaspoon salt, 1-2 teaspoon melted butter.
 Heat oven to 450 degrees Fah- renheit.
 Mix and sift flour and salt. Add milk gradually. beating to make smooth. Beat eggs until light with dover beater for two or three minutes. Heat muffin pans until hissing hot and grease them thor oughly. Fill each pan half full with popover batter and place at once in the hot oven. Bake for 70 minutes at this temperature, then lower the temperature to $50 de- grees F. and continue baking for 20 minutes. Turn off heat and let stand in the oven for five minutes. Serve at once.
 Daily Menu.
 Breakfast-Stewed dried peaches, cereal, cream waffles, syrup. milk, coffee.
 Luncheon-Left-ov lamb baked with rice, creamed spinach, stale cake pudding, milk. tea.
 Dinner-Cream of tomato soup. cheese souffle, creamed cauliflower, onion and orange salad. steamed date pudding, milk. coffee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03
NEA Service Writer.

Popovers offer a happy change from the mullins and rolls so gen. erally served. Strangely enough, however, they bcspeak an unknown realm to many a housewife and she hesitates to include them in her menus. Yet the secret of delicate popovers lies in the simple factor temperature.
 The materials required to make popovers are always at hand milk, flour, eggs and salt. Since milk contains a large percentage of water, the sudden application of intense heat to the popover batter causes the water rapidly to change to steam. Steam is of course, many times the volume of water and stretches the gluten walls of the flour to their utmost, and with the help of the eggs forms the hollow shell of the popover. This explains the necessity of preheating the pans as we'll as the oven.
 Iron or cast aluminium gem pans and glass or earthenware cuStard cups are suitable for popover mak- ing. The lighter weight gem pans may be used, but the popovers do not always pop as they should.
 Popovers can De served as a case for creamed chicken or fish or used for a dessert with a filling or a sauce poured over them. make a deliciously seasonael early spring dessert,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03
NANCY PAGE A February Party-Is a
 Jolly One
 By Florence La Ganke.
By Florence i.n canke.

A group of young married folks were planning a February party. They realized that it could be a Lin coin, a Valentine or George Wash ington affair. But none of those dates happened to fit their schemes so they planned to have just par ty'' with TO special significance.
 One stunt they worked out af- forded the group much amusement. The hostesses hunted through maga- zines for illustrations of people do- ing things. Then they secuted around for snapshot photographs of members of the group. The heads of the people in the illustrations were shipped out or when that could not be done, pasted over with a snapshot head.
 Such incongruous attitudes as the guests were forced to take. A man who detested dogs was made part of picture of child who was em- bracing 8 dog with fervor. And the laziest woman in the crowd was golfing on a hot summers day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03
YOUR CHILDREN.
.Mp&be7sRal1dn
 NOi0olBY NtA SERVICE, INC. L

Is there a baby at your house? If there is I suppose you receive a lot of gratuitous advice about handling him-or her.
 Grandma says, Well, when you were little I picked you up when ever felt like It. rocked you and played with you and passed you around ito be admired. When your father came home he would not eat his supper until he'd had good romp with you, tossed you up to the ceiling, and had general rough house. No nonsense about this pick ing up business then, I tell you"
 The family doctor may say, "No baby needs to be picked up unless it is absolutely necessary. The best way for a baby to grow is to lie quietly on his back in bed. No rocking, no walking. no unnecessary handling"
 A few years ago you would prob ably have listened to Grandma more recently to the doctor. Now the new books on child-handling will advise you to listen to them both. for as is usual in all real progress, a happy medium is found to be the best
 There Are Two Extremes
 I think I myself might lean a bit to the doctors side still for if we followed Grandmas advice to the letter, not only would the young Ma poleon conquer everyone around him and demand laps and rocking chairs and encircling arms instead of his crib. but it might be that someone's $ clutch would slip sometime, fathers for instance, in that circus act, and then what?
 On the other hand. if Dr. Solo, mons ultimatum is followed to the letter, the baby might just as well be log of firewood reposing in it's | box in the hall as far as the family | is concerned. Goodness knows if a woman has a baby she ought to be | allowed to enjoy it little.
 Sentiment aside, however, a cer- tain amount of handling is a good thing. for both his physical develop ment and his feeling of happiness and security in the family.
 Changing his position in bed every little while is good for him, from and over on his tummy. Bones are soft and develop more evenly this way. I've seen babies with flattencd heads that resulted from lying toe long in one position. It is agreed, too that picking a baby up occasional ly for feeding, changing, bathing dressing to go out, or merely for a short friendly visit to the rest of the family all help in strengthening hirl and in making him happy. Of course rocking is a bad habit, SC is walking. These are out to stay Tossing is crime. Never permit anyone to do that if you have to get out an injunction against the | offender.
 Always be sure that the baby's back, head, and hips are firmly sun. ported by the hands. A baby car be made very nervous and ever badly hurt by wrong handling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03

Lurking in the back of her mind was the memory of that profitab ble and entertaining enterprise. She realized that in her own case the project would work itself out along somewhat different lines, but of one thing at least she was sure-if the youth of the community would just cooperate to clean up the old place they would presently be in possession of cheery rendezvous all their own, free from family en- cumberances.
 Having Ben and Jenky in charge would disarm all conventional ob- jections, for certainly married. middle-aged school-teacher was a chaperon to the satisfaction of the most unreasonable parent.
 Ginger did not look very far into the future. Her immediate requirement. was something to do, something to think about She had $5,OO0 just eating itself Up with in- terest in the First National bank, as she often complained. And every body said that Iowa farm land even if it was all grown up to weeds and brush on the bank of Rabbit river--was a good paying invest ment.
 And there woulo be work. brisk, vigorous work for strong young arms-there would be raking and digging and burning of brush, ther0 would be scrubbing and paint ing and the hanging of swings Ginger's memory swept back in a great torrent to the crowded, happy, haphazard parsonage days, and she smiled COntentedly
 When she reJoined her friends under the naples her expression was divinely seraphic
 "a Junior Country club,' she said succinctly. That's the ticket. No parents allowed, on preachers admitted and the first member that has baby gets chucked out on his head"
 "Oh. Ginger, that's just priceless" :" said Patty warmly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-03

They did many things contrari- wise that evening. The games start ed with contract tridge and became progressively simpler until they ended with lotto. But the great sport Of the evening was charades. They were all keen witted young folks and the way in which they manipulated the syllables of word was great fun. They worked hard over the word ''in-dig- tion". There were four perfectly good syl- la bles to be acted out and seemingly they bore no resemblance to the whole word when that was acted. Another stickler was 'in-co-he- rent"
 The refreshments were long sticks of candy, ice cream in hatchet shape with cherry sauce and Washintgon pie, so they felt they had combined all the significant features of the three February holidays in one oc- casion.
 Nancy Page has a Ieaflet on Dcs- serts men like. Write to her care of this paper, enclosing a. stamped seIf-addrcssed envelope with your ecCpyright isa1 publisher's syndi-
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