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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
By ANDRUE BIRDING

SORRENTO, Italy, Jan. l0.- Maxim Gorky, Russia's most fa- nous living writer, is rounding out his 68th year here on the Bay of Naples by working from nine to IA hours a day.
 A bullet in his body from an at- tempted suicide in 1888, and his lungs worn by consumption, he is more vigorous than he was 20 or 30 years ago.
 This correspondent found him seated behind his desk in the h- brary of his villa He was wearing a blue flannel shirt buttoned at the collar-without a tie-and a light brown, pull-over sweater.
 His hair, now iron-gray. was cropped in Prussian fashion. His face wore look of perpetual worry, with heavy lines between his eyes. His sandy mustache dropped far below his mouth.
 1iC Wdo WAltiliS tllC 1OOl VI VO4uiuC of "Bystander," which he wants to make the monumental work of his life.
 Works Long Hours
 Speaking nothing but Russian, he talked through his son Alexis, who spoke Italian.
 Gorky told how he rises at 7:30 every morning, begins work at eight and finishes at one, reads from two to four and works from four to five.
 He resumes work at 530 and works until eight. Then he often works from 9:30 until midnight or one.
 Such is the man whose health is considered so delicate that he can- not live in Russia's rigorous climate and is one of the few soviet citi- zens permitted to reside abroad.
 Half his time is devoted to his novels, the other half to the writ ing and supervising of soviet propa- ganda. He is an ardent bolshevik. Wants U. s. Recognition Ut is time" he said, flor the United States to recognize the So- viet republic.
 Both countries have a great deal to gain from an exchange of their experience and products. Russia has need of American industrial and commercial organizers. America has need of Russian products.
 This is my special message to America. wish you would convey. ?
 Twenty-four years ago he visited the United States. Society, which at first idolized him, treated him as an outcast when it was learned that the woman with whom he was travelling was not his wife. A year later he married her. q have no wish to return to the United States" he said with a half i smile.
 i Mime. Gorky lives in Moscow, but visits her husband twice a year. ] Lauds Russian Literature [ He said Russian literature after the revolution is showing consider able promise.
 Russian modern literature,' he said, lis distinguished from Euro pean and American because it is positive instead of negative-tries to construct instead of to destroy.
 Tt is a literature of work, of the unification of Russia, of her awak- ening literary consciousness. now that Russia's 57 languages are fus- ing and illiteracy is waning.
 Russian drama, however, j. worse than before the revolution Only good comedies are being pro- duced."
 Gorky replied negatively to tn
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER

BERLIN, Jan. 1o.-German poli- tics during 1930 was dominated by the separations question.
 The year began with The Hague conference from which emerged the adoption of the Young plan, and ended with the promulgation of Chancellor Heinrich Bruening's program of economic and financial reform
 The BrueniEg program is regard ed by most observers as forerun- ner to request for morator- ium.
 Neither the revolution of 1913
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
BALBo FLYING
 AGAIN SUNDAY
Italian Squadron toResume Flight Down Braz-
 ilian Coast

NATAL, Brazil. Jan 10.-General Italo Balbo has postponed until Sunday continuation of the flight of the seaplane squadron down the Brazilian coast.
 Gen. Balbo hopes to fly twelve seaplanes instead of eleven now here. One that was forced down at sea is expected to arrive today in tow of a destroyer.
 The next stop of the squadron is at Bahia. From there the flight continues to Rio de Janeiro.
 Bert Green, travelling man with headquarters in Juneau, is return ing north aboard the Alameda.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
PRINCESS LOUISE. IS LAID TO REST
AsSoe,atea A p'tss rsoto
Associated Press Photo

WINDSOR, England, Jan. 10- Princess Louise, who died last Sun- day, was today laid away in the Royal Tomb. Scottish Pipers and the Military Knights of Windsor accompanied the body.
 King George, Queen Mary, Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of York and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester had the little chapel virtually to themselves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
HOLY LAND AIDS JOBLEsS

JERUSALEM, Jan 10.-A buy home products" campaign has been started in the Holy Land. Mass Meetings, lectures and space in newspapers are being devoted to the drive which is aimed to increase employment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
TRADE WIND IS
 OFF TO AZORES
Mrs. Hart and Lieut.. Mac Laren Start on Second
 Leg, Ocean Flight

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 1O.- The monoplane Trade Wind hopped off for the Azores at 8:15 o'clock this morning Paeific Coast Time) on the second lap of the pay load flight for the United States to Paris.
 Weather was favorable when Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut.. William MacLaren took the air.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
GERMAN POLITICS IRE
 ROCKED BY ADOPTION
 OF THE YOUNG PLAN

nor the collapse of the German mark in 1923 stirred Germany more deeply than did the events fol- lowing the acceptance of the Young plan by the German delegation.
 One section of the German peo- pie was satisfied, feeling that at last a definite settlement of the separations proble m had been agreed upon.
 Money Question Arises
 This was offset. however by the disappointment of another section over the fact that for 57 years to come future generations are to be
 iCnptiruad 0p PaC~. Eipbfl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10

M. D. Williams, District Engineer, United States Bureau of Public Roads, is returning home from an extended trip to the States, and will arrive next week on the Ala meda.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-10
PRESIDENT TO REPLY

WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 10.- President Hoover said he was plan ming to reply without delay to the Senate resolution requesting the re- turn of the nominations of three Federal Power Commissioners.
 The President said the procedure calls first for conference with the Attorney General on the right of the Senate to follow the course which is questioned on constitu- tional grounds.
 President Hoover has not indi- cated his stand on the issue.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
SEEK MORE MONEY
ON SEWER PROJECT
1888 Budget Estimates Carry
$1,672,62O to Include
Rock Creek Survey.

The 1888 budget for sewer work of
81 l,672,62o shows a slight increase over
the 1882 appropriation of sl,5s4,620.
OF this sum $3.50, 900 Is for cleaning
and repairing sewers, s248,000 for SAL
aries, $4,000 for new sewers, $3.50 900
for suburban sewers and s25o,ooo for
assessment and permit work.
For beginning a survey of drainage
into tha Rock Creek area there is an
estimate Of s25,o0o. This will furnish
the start Of an effort ultimately to
eliminate sewage In the waters Of Rock
Greek.
There also is an item of $40, 900 to be
used jointly with the director of public
buildings and public parks and the
Public Health Service for the control
Of mosquitoes.
For the Water Department the 1888
estimate is 81 2,091 $50, a substantial drop
from the $2,354,22O appropriated for
1882. Several important projects will
nevertheless be undertaken. One of
them, a 48-inch main from Fifth
and Upshur streets to Georgia avenue
and Military road, viii cost $345, 900.
There Is an estimate OF 1865 900 for
maintenance. $275,000 for extension of
the distribution system, $130,000 for
continuation Of the program OF replac-
ing and installing water meters, $25, ,00o
Tor installing fire and public hydrants
$3.50 600 for replacement Of old mains
where the condition OF the pipe Is bad
and other smaller appropriations.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
5000 NEEDY GIVEN
SERvICEABLE SHOES
Committee Hopes to Garry on Work
Throughout Cold Weather
Period.

With 5000 pairs of serviceable shoes
already distributed among the needy
during the first three weeks of it,
operation, the committee in charge of
the charity has taken steps to perfect
a permanent organization to carry on
the work through the first of January
and perhaps longer, depending on
weather conditions.
F. Regis Noel, originator of the idea
by which old shoes are solicited from
the public, reconditioned free of cost
and distributed among the UNEMPLOYED
was elected chairman OF the grouu to
be known as "The Old Lady Who Lived
In Shoe" George E. Fleming was
named treasurer, and Charles L. Par
sons, chemist.
Donations OF shoes for men. women
and children are solicited Of the public
for delivery at the committee head
quarters, 1914 H street. The shoes are
then sent out to be repaired, returned
and classified and fitted to persons who
call Tor them at the headquarters.
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson. editor of the
Washington Herald, spoke in behalf OF
the undertaking Monday night over
station WMAL. She was given perrnis-
sion by Mrs. Hoover, the speaker said
to express the First Lady's approval OF
the charity project.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
HIGHWAY
PROGRAM PLANNED
District Budget Carries kn-
portant Bridge and Road
Developments for 1888.

Many important new projects Affect
ing all sections Of the city are carried
in the 1888 budget of the Highway
Department, which shows an increase
from an appropriation of $4,312,s10 In
1882 to an estimate Of $4,435,5l0 for
1888.
The new projects include bridges,
street widenings and record total of
$4,000, 600 new paving under the gaso-
line tax.
There is an estimate of 100000 for
the construction Of new bridge across
the Eastern Branch to replace the
present Benning Bridge, and of $3.50, 900
for new bridge over the proposed
Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway In the
line OF p street to replace the present
P Street Bridge. Construction of new
bridge to replace the old Calvert Street
Bridge also is forecast by an estimate
OF $4,000 for drawing plans for the
new bridge.
The most important street. widening
project Is that involving Constitution
avenue from North Capitol to First
street, which will be made 80 feet wide
and repaved, partly at the expense of
the District of Columbia and partly out
Of the appropriation for the approach
to Arlington Memorial Bridge. The to-
tai estimate is $203, 600, Of which $l26,-
200 is to come from District funds
This item is on the Immediately avail
able list, so that work may be started
early in the Spring.
e street viii be widened from Fifth
to North Capitol street at cost of
$l55, 400.
Among the larger items in the street
o. fov Iyn%n
street southwest from N to Eleventh, at
q cost Of $4,000; Virginia avenue from
Twenty-sixth street to Rock Creek and
Potomac Parkway, $4,000; Fifteenth
street from Florida avenue to Euclid
street, $37,500; Thirty-third street from
Northampton to Rittenhouse street,
$18,700; Fourth street northeast from
Franklin street to Michigan avenue,
$4,000, and Good Hope road southeast
from Minnesota avenue to Naylor road,
$96, 800.
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INCREASE IS GIVEN
FOR POLICE FORCE
Budget of SO, ,568, ,O80 Sought,
With $2,560,O2O Listed,
for Fire Department.

The estimates for the Police Depart
ment show a very slight increase from
$3,488,900 appropriated for 1882 to
$3,568,080 estimated for 1888.
The principal item of expense In this
department is salaries, the estimate for
which Is Increased from a 1889 figure
of $3,110,220 to $3.163,000, largely be-
cause Of automatic increases in the pay
Of privates under the new salary law.
The department also Is given two
extra telephone operators and nine ex-
ira clerks to relieve policemen now en-
gagged In clerical duties. The depart
ment will be able to increase its fest
of scout cars under the estimate of
$4,000 for purchase and maintenance
OF automobiles and replacement Of those
worn out in service, as compared with
similar appropriation in 1882 OF
$72,500.
New Fire House Planned.
The proposed bill carries an authori-
zation for the War Department to fur
nish the Police Department, in its dis
cretion, with such worn mounted equip
ment as the Police Department requires.
The Fire Department will get g. new
house at Fourteenth street and Rhode
Island avenue northeast, at a cost of
$83,500. The total estimated for this
department is $2,5o6.o20, as compared
with q 1882 appropriation Of $2,583, 800.
OF the appropriation S2,1e8,000 Is for
the pay Of members Of the department,
an increase Of $3l 900 over the 1882
appropriation.
New Truck Proposed
The department will get one aerial
hook and ladder truck for SIS, 900, two
combination hose wagons at $4,000 each
and one pumper for $l1 900.
The estimate for purchase OF hose
suffers a sharp reduction from $4,000
in 1882 to $1,000 for 1893.
There is an estimate Of $4,000 for
repairs to buildings and grounds, $33,-
500 for uniforms and equipment and
$4,000 for repairs to motor apparatus
ana vehicles.
There is an estimate of $4,000 car
ried in the estimates for the electrical
department for fire alarm and police
patrol systems installation and mainte-
nance.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
DETROIT LOST ON LEGION
Convention Cost S23s, ,65s, Deficit
1elng 942, 900, Council Is Told.

DETROIT, December 8 P).--It cost
ths American Legion Convention Cor
poration sass, ,558 to entertain the Ma
nonal Legion Convention here last
September and the corporation now has
q deficit of S42. 1000.
Those figures are contained in the
financial report of the corporation to the
City Council yesterday. No plans for
neettng the deficit were suggested
Evening star., 1931-12-09
$4,000 REQUESTED
FOR LIBRARY BRANCH
Construction of Georgetown Build
ing Included in Total Of
$497 ,240.

The main new item included In the
1888 budget for the Public Library is
S75, 900 for construction of a branch
library in Georgetown. The building
ultimately will cost $500 The
branch will be in the filled site of the
old Georgetown Reservoir.
The total budget Of s497,24o shows
only slight increase over the $463 $50
appropriated in 1882. OF the budget
$Sis,440 Is Tor salaries, rs compared
with $295,550 in 1892. The appropria~
ton for purchase of new books. etc. is
reduced from $84, 500 in 1882 to an estf-
mate Of $54,500 In 1888,
Evening star., 1931-12-09
SENNETT SEEKS STARS
FOR FEATURE COMEDY
Negotiates With Clara Bow, Lupe
Velez, Jean Harlow and Others
to Appear in 15-Reel Film.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Calf, December g.
Plans for q l5-reel comedy. with a cast
Of at least q dozen stars, were an
nounced yesterday by the veteran pro-
ducer- director, Mack Sennett
Sennett said he was negotiating for
the services of Clara Bow, Lupe Velez
Jean Harlow, Dorothy Burgess, Edmund
Lowe, Roscoe Ates and w. G. Fields He
has made arrangements for Moran &
Mack, Andy Clyde, Mack Swain, Ben
Turpin and Lloyd Hamilton to appear
In his super spectacle"
The story has been in preparation for
a year. Sennett, whose last feature
picture was made six years ago, Is .
leader in the two-reel comedy field.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
AMENDMENT IS URGED
San Francisco Supervisors Adopt
Resolution on Dry Law.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 9 tP.
The San Francisco Board of Super
visors Monday unanimously adopted
a resolution urging amendment of the
Volstead act by Congress.
The resolution said:
"The Board of Supervisors Of the
City and County of San Francisco
does hereby memorialize Congress and
does urge that the law be amended to
permit the sale, distribution and con-
sumption of beverages with an in
creased alcoholic content"
The resolution was adopted without
comment and without q dissenting
vote
Evening star., 1931-12-09
Noted Artist Dies.

PUEBLO, Colo, December . R.-
George J. Stone, 72-year-old New York
artist, one OF whose paintings, 'eThe
Dawn" occupies q position In the Mu-
scum OF Art at Paris, died here Mon
day. He came to this city four years
ago for the benefit Of his health.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
WHEAT FOR HUNGRY

Indiana Democrat Proposes TO-
OOO, 1000 Bushels Be Used for Relief.
Ten million bushels Of grain stabiIi-
zation wheat would be donated to feed
the hungry under resolution by Rep
resentative Ludlow, Democrat, Indiana.
He said the Farm Board would make
no objection when sufficient showing
of acuteness is presented"
Evening star., 1931-12-09
Roosevelt High Equipment.

In addition to the general furniture
item, however, t200, 900 Is included for
furniture and equipment for the new
Roosevelt High School. This amount
would embrace the purchase Of pianos
and window shades Is well ~ general
pupil and teacher furniture.
The Budeet Bureaat continues ~ D.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
SOVIET ACCORD URGED
Russian Commerce Treaty
Sought by C. Of c. Association.

~ S' 0H % As6UCKdEIUu.
LONDON, December Q tR.-A COM
mercial treaty between Great Britain
and Soviet Russia Is strongly urged
by the Executive Committee of the
Association of British Chambers of
Commerce in Q report Just issued.
Soviet Russia within q few years
may become one Of the greatest pro-
ducers In the world and may be able
to undersell any other country, the re-
port says.
Evening star., 1931-12-09
Pays All but 145 Bills.

Maj. Gen. r. L. Carmichael, chief
OF finance Of the United States Army,
said In his annual report that the Army
had only las bills outstanding out Of
100000 presented for payment during
the last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28

The person who embroiders should
be careful to have the material worthy
Of the work put upon 1t. This was
brought forcibly to my, mind recently
when q woman showed me a quilted
spread she had just completed and
which was on her guest room bed. The
pattern was good, one OF the old-time
fayorttes. The colors were well chosen.
The material for the applique was fair,
but the foundation was a cheap grade
of ordinary cotton cloth or muslin, as
this textile is called in some parts of
the world. This foundation cheapened
the whole quilt. It was tawdry. The
woman could well afford to use better
material. She was either Skimping or
else she was careless.
I remember one deliberately embroid-
cred pillow top which was sent in to
me when I was judging needlework
contest. The stitchery was excellent,
and the medium was silk. The back
ground was impossible it was so Sleazy
It was pitiful that so much work
should be put onto a textile that spelt
failure Immediately.
II is said of hooked rugs that their
wear is limited to that Of the founda-
ton. II that Is poor, it matters not
how fine the work put on it, the rug
Is doomed TO a short life. This can be
said Of other forms of needlecrsft. Not
only does a poor grade of material
make an unworthy article, but 1t
shortens the life of the thing.
There is a suitability which should
exist between a foundation and the
embroidery medium. A handsome
background calls for high-grade Of
embroidery medium. A simple but
durable background implies a less
handsome medium A satin bedspread
should be embroidered In silk. The
strands may be heavy or fine, but silk
should be used, not cotton, even though
1t Is mercerized. On the other hand,
bingham may be of sufficiently good
grade to be embroidered, but cotton or
linen is as well, II not better, suited TO
the purpose Of medium as is silk.
Cross-stitch canvas, although COM
pletely covered with stitchery. should
be stout and firm unless 1t is to be
cut and pulled out from stitches taken
| through 1t where the design Is thus
| transferred to the foundation fabric.
Initials on towels should not be in silk,
| but In linen or cotton.
Satin finished WOODEN goods calls for
wool or silk as the embroidery medium.
Wool as an embroidery medium is
used on silk, cotton, linen, etc. It calls
for - good grade Of whatever It Is used
upon Is q background. It Is used on
the tubular "carry-alls" with a. much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
N A T u II E S
CHILD II E N
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
Illustrations by Mary Foley.
CXXII.
CLOTHES MOTHS.

- NOWN all over the world as the
" destroyer of your best coat and
n fabrics. the child of the moth
4 y or miller, as she is known,
has been the bane of house
wives since Bible times.
Even in those days people were
warned against her. yet she has not
been wiped out of existence and she Is
not formidable in her looks or acts:
Millions of dollars could be saved II
a whole State would have moth day
and exterminate her whole tribe.
The moth mother never touches food
or fabric Her children do all the
harm. They are tough creatures, too.
Some of them can stand freezing tenn
peratures. They have been known to
remain In the egg state for years, when
the fabric was in cold storage or in
very cold climate, and when the right
conditions were present the eggs
Matched
The mother is a buff-colored creature
net over an inch across the wing tips.
She flies about the house or runs over
the surface of the goods she expects to
one-tenth of the size of pinhead, are
laid on the selected spot. They are
seldom laid in groups but are scattered
over the material. One moth will lay
as many as $50 eggs.
The youngsters, when first Matched,
are only one-sixteenth of an inch long.
They begin to eat the food set before
them, be it WOOL hair, feathers, furs,
upholstered furniture or whatnot. If
the weather conditions are just right
and the infant undisturbed he will be
grown up in eight weeks. One set Of
children lives in silken cases which
they drag about with them like baby
with his crib blanket. When the young
ster decides to grow up he merely
adds to his blanket more silk. Wrap
ping himself in this robe, a tough cloth,
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Browns Boy Gets a Thrill.
So long as there results no Ill
There's stimulation in a thrill.
Farmer Browns Boy.

Whistler the Marmot had waited un-
til the last minute before diving to
safety under the rocks as Talons the
Eagle swooped at him. He was sput-
tering angrily as he disappeared, yet
he was enjoying the experience to a
certain extent. 1t was a sort of game,
the game OF life. He was angry be-
cause he had been disturbed in the
midst of meal, and because he felt
it the right and proper thing to be
angry with any one who tried to catch
him. At the same time he always got
a thrill from seeing how long he could
wait, yet escape, for Talons came that
way frequently and had tried nany
times to catch him. He is very fond
of Marmot.
Now always before when Talons had
missed Whistler he had at once
checked his swoop and kept on MS
way to look for some other less wary
Marmot, but this time he didn't do
this. This fellow thinks he is very
smart and needs a lesson" said Talons
to himself. "I'll try giving him sur
prise. 1t won't cost me anything and
1 may get a dinner out of 1t. Anyway
it will be some satisfaction to give MN
a real scare He needs 1t"
SO instead of continuing on his way
he dropped down on rock just back
of the place where Whistler had dis
appeared. In order to see him there
Whistler would have to come well out
OF his hole. There was another rock
which would prevent his seeing Talons
by just poking his head out.
ct won't have to wait long" thought
Talons. eve watched him many times
from high up in the sky. He always
expects me to go on and he always
pops out before I am out OF sight and
the first thing he does is to look up
in the sky to see which way have
gone. Well I hope he'll do the same
thing this time"
Now all the time Farmer Browns
Boy was watching with excited inter
est from hiding place he had bull:
among the rocks close by. He had hao
something of thrill when Talons hao
swooped and Whistler had waited until
| the last minute, but now when he saw
| Talons alight on that rock he got
more of a thrill for he guessed just
what Talons was planning.
Was he about to see the smartest
Waterman of the heights outwitted
Was he to see the end of Whistler the
Marmot? The very thought made him
uncomfortable. In the first place hi
IldQ UcCOIilC 80 HULL AAICtCSeSN AZ VAL
little fellow whose whistle had sc
fooled him the first tines he had heard
| it that he wanted to know him anc
his ways better. Then, too, he re-
minded him of his cousin Johnny
Chuck, back home on the Greer
Meadows, and Johnny Chuck anc
Farmer Browns Boy are old friends
Johnny Is a favorite of his and hi
didn't like to think of Johnny's cousir
being caught by that great bird with
the hooked bill and great curved claws
"Of course" thought he, II can scare
Talons away. I wonder If ought to