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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
DECORATION WON
BY SERVICE HER0ISM
Col. Sultan to Be Honored at Fort
HUMPHREYS Tomorrow for
Work in Nicaragua.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
For peace-time service in Nicaragua
Lieut.. Col Daniel I. Sultan of the En-
gineer Corps is to be decorated tomor-
row at Fort Humphreys, Va, by his
chief. Mai. Gen. Lyle Brown. Already
the poSsessor of a Distinguished SerV-
ice medal. Col. Sultan will receive an
oak-leaf cluster in lieu Of a second
medal.
Saving lives rather than taking them
played a part in Col. Sultan's olstin-
guished service in Nicaragua, as he and
his men aided in the relief work In con-
nection with the Managua earthquake
of last Spring. Col Sultan was IN
charge of an Army unit investigating an
interoeeanic canal route across MICA
ragua. He and his men returned this
Summer after nearly two years In the
jungle.
The citation refers to Col. Sultan
services as exceptionally meritorious
and distinguished" 1t described ms
canal survey as having been conducted
with efficiency and with maintenance
of high morale among his troops under
conditions Of unusual hardship and I'LL
6culty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

underneath of which the rats are very
fond. While devouring them they
necessarily move one of these sticks,
by which the board suddenly falls and
brushes him to death
THE deer, wild turkey. canvasback
duck and wild goose, which inhabited
this place about so years ago, have all
disappeared. The shooting OF deer is
prohibited from the first of January to
the first OF August. The penalty is 400
pounds of tobacco. BY other acts any
master or mistress, owner of a family
or single taxable person is obliged to
produce yearly, to the justice of the
county, three squirrel ScalpS or crows
heads. The penalty in this case is
three pounds of tobacco premium
OF two pounds was given for every scalp
more than three. The reward for a
VOLTS head was 200 pounds.
AbOunds With Birds.
"Analostan Island abounds with birds
OF various kinds. The catbird is almost
tame. When its nest is in danger, it
makes loud noise and seems as If it
would tear the face of q person who
approached it. We saw In the garden
q partridge nest containing 10 eggs.
The humming bird freQuents this place.
When scared it feigns death, like the
opossum, and, by this means, escapes
from the hand. We saw one thus es-
cape from the pretty hand of Mrs. B.
The hooking bird does not frequent
the island, although y is seen on the
adjacent borders of the river. Perhaps
1t has been expelled by the crow black
bird. which swarms in this place. It is
a pity that SO enchanting spot is de-
prtved Of the notes Of this inimitable
songster"
This Is the picture that the wilder
ness has Striven to erase, the result of
which struggle Is the AnaloStan Island
of today. About the time of the Civil
War it passed out of the hands of the
Mason family. The mansion" fell
into decay. Squatters settled on the
island. Somebody erected a dance hall
there which used to attract large
crowds from Georgetown But there
used to be more fighting than dancing, P"
says the old boatman who rows to the
island from Georgetown. He used to
live there when he was boy. His ia
ther was a squatter and was driven of.
Later the island came into the hands
OF the Washington Gas Light Co., which
wisely left it in the hands of nature
while waiting to decide on what dis
posal to make of 1t. So it passes into
the hands of the Roosevelt Memorial
Association, with the feyerish recupera-
ton of the wilderness already making
good progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

Larne, Ireland. had daily AVERAGE
OF only 81 hours Of sunshine in the
last II months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
BUDGET SKlRMISH
Is WON BY WALKER
Board of Estimates Approves $751;
226, 2S7.97 Fund Over Con-
troller's Opposition.
ny the Associated Press.

6N the Associated RTeSSs
NEW YORK, October 81
ing the city controllers spirited oppo-
sition, Mayor Walker won the approval
tonight of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment for a 1882 municipal
budget Of 1851 ,266. 297 e7-the largest in
history.
Controller Charles w. Berry. who first
angered the mayor by statement that
q reduction of Sl4,o00.o0o was possible
carried his fight into a series of meet
lngs in which none Of his recommended
lions for budget SlasheS was accepted.
On motion Of the Mayor the board
Endorsed the budget over a negative
vote by Berry and directed 1t sent to
the Board of Aldermen for Anal adop-
ton. The latter board must pass on
It rext month.
The board also defeated an amend
ment sponsored by Aldermsnic Presi-
dent Joseph V. Mckee and Berry which,
would have effected a Ss,l7s.444.S so re-
duction.
Mayor Walker said he Sympathized
with the purpose OF the Mckee amend.
Ment. but declared some one must take
It on the chin" and insist that cur
rent obligations be met. He attributed
high budgets OF the present TO correct
ing mistakes for 30 years before 1926.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
PLAN BIG INCREASE
Construction Program Anticipates
Double Consumption in Ten
Years, Says Survey.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. October 31.-As evil
dence of their faith in future prosper-
ity, the electric utilities of the country
are shaping their construction programs
for 100 per cent increase in the do
nestle consumption of power in the
next 10 years, the New York Stock Ex-
change firm of Wood. Struthers e. Co
said in survey issued today.
The Increase will mean an additional
load of ii ,584, 900 900 kilowatt hours
To bring it about, the electrical in
dustry is looking not only to the natu-
raj increase in domestic lighting. but
also to sharp increases in the use of
utility appliances such as refrigerators
ranges, irons and other devices.
Average consumption of electric CIR
rent by domestic users has increases
from 426 kilowatt hours in 1926. to $50
kilowatt hours for the IL months ended
September /, last, the statement saws
This indicates an average annual pain
of IS kilowatt hours, but the survey
points out that the gain in 1929 over
1928 was 81 hours, and the gain last
year over the previous year was IA
hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

warrant the eternal wandering in search
of employment which he has encoun-
tered IN every State.
Each community" Loewenstein went
on. has its hands full, with institutions
crowded, with every agency taxed to the
utmost, just taking care of the needy
Of that particular community.
Plight Is Pitiful.
1.-THE plight of the fioater, the man
who drifts in, perhaps with q wife and
family, looking for work, Is pitiful
thing to see.
IF he stayed at home, If he de-
termined to make the best of things at
home. the result would be better for
himself in a personal way and better
for the country at large, once the whole
result could be felt"
Stay at home" afirmed Loewen-
stein, planning new trips for himself,
- that's the place for the ex-service
manp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
BOUGHT DEAD WOMAN
POISON, GIRL ADMITS
Servant Held With Victims Hus-
band, Tells Police She Got
Ether and Razor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, October 31.-A strange
story of how she purchased q razor and
q can of ether for Mrs. Reba Maddux
whose almost decapitated body was
found near Kirkwood, a suburb, last
night, was told by Miss Clara Fish, %
year-old boarder at the Maddux home
to police tonight.
In her statement to the police, Miss
Fish said Mrs. Maddux argued with her
over her relations with Mrs. A1addux S
husband, Walter, who was also held by
police in connection with the Staying.
The girl said Mrs. Maddux had COM
planned Of i'll health and threatened to
commit suicide. After the purchase of
the razor and ether, Miss Fish said,
she and Mrs. Maddux went to a woods
near Kirkwood. Here, the girl said,
Mrs. Maddux told her she was going
to kill herself, and requested the girl
to leave.
Miss Fish said she swore not to tell
Of the trip to the woods and then left
for home. The body of Mrs. Maddux.
who was IS years old, was found by a
Negro in these woods last night, with
the neck bearing violent wounds from
a razor which lay nearby. The ether
can, which had been cut open, was also
found lying near the body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
MINISTERS INVITED
TO HEAR CHOIR HEAD

on Emusic and the Church" We'd
nesday at $3.50 Pm.
Ministers OF Washington and nearby
Maryland and Virginia have been in
vited to attend a talk by DR.. John
Finley Williamson of Ithaca, N. Y,
Wednesday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
in the First Congregational Church on
Music and the Church Today" The
lecture also Is open to the general
public.
DR.. Williamson is the organizer and
conductor of the Westminster Choir,
which viii sing here Wednesday eve
ming at Constitution Hall. His address
will be in public forum on Church
Worship Through Music" during which
number of authorities from Balti-
more and Hagerstown will speak.
More than 40 church choirs viii an
pear with the Westminster Choir We'd
nesday night with a total of 800 singers.
A vested professional of choirs will
open the concert in honor of the visit
ing choir and later will join in the
singing Of Jesus, Lover of MY Soul /"
under the direction of DR.. Williamson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
BIND AND ROB MAN
Pair Take 81, Knife and Cigaretts
Case From Home.

Bound and gagged by two IN
identified men, Nathan Davis was
robbed OF So in cash, a knife and
cigarette case at his home, 40 o street
early yesterday
Davis told police he was asleep in HE
bed room when the men clirnhed
through second-floor window. fisd
him up with towels and then fed after
ransacking the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

See our window dis
play-note the large
pieces, burl walnut
tops, large mirrors and
heavy Poster Beds.
Note especially the nm
ish and general con-
struetien.
Come in and see the
numerous other sensa-
tlonaI offerings for
Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
WILL PLAY FOR PATIENTS
T. Guy Lucas, Church organist, to
Entertain at Walter Reed.

T. Guy Lucas. organist and choir
raster at st. Johns Church. will be
guest performer at the monthly organ
recital at Walter Reed Hospital Me-
mortal Chapel this afternoon at 4
O'Clock. He will be assisted in the
soloist.
The monthly concerts are made pos
sible through the cooperation Of the
city,s leading musicians In giving their
talent For the benefit OF those unable
to attend the concerts. earpiones and
ioudxfeakers are provided IN the vari-
nsak yards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
Depreciation of Rumanian Money
Allows Poor Army Officers to Wed

from the old. Both the f1ancee and her
fa-.ilv must bear honorable regulations
in iociety. The officer must be at least
Is years cid and have the approval or
his superior. Any officer who marrieS
without permission, which automatically
follows after all requirements have been
met, but not without all the customary
red tape of army life, is dismissed from
active service.
Same Laws for Non-Coms.
Rich officers may marry girls without
dowry, but others less fortunate must,
together with their future brides, give
proof of an annual income, not includ-
ing the officers salary, of 10000 lei, or
about $3.50. An officer widower with
children gets of a little lighter, at go
900 lei, and those marrying the daugh-
tiers of officers with certain high deco
rations need only $4,000 lei. Still
others may marry state teachers or
other state employees without any dowry
whatever If the annual salary of such
person be equal to 10000 lei.
Inferior grades, on-commiSSioned
officers especially, are subject to prac-
tically the same laws, with the excep-,
ton of the required dowry. which is
reduced to an annual income of 5000
lei or less than $35. The official grant,
ing the marriage license to any officer
without proper authorization Is sub
jected to fine and reprimand.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

other mans poison" "a place for
everything, and everything in its
place"
Holland has a play house that pro-
claims itself definitely and permanently
Cthere is a device cut in stone above
its portals: Not for entertainment
only" The overflow, or underfow,
enjoys a spacious resort almost across
the street. In Japan, from time i'm
memorial, there has been what Sheldon
Cheney calls "a sharp division between
aristccratic and popular theaters.
In English-speaking countries {.
especially in America ;. 20 years
ago we began frying all our dramatic
fish in the same pan. The Thalia
Theater disappeared, and its manager,
who had presented the spectacle of an
auction of half-dressed women at so
cents a seat and under the title of
Dangers of Working Girls" presented
the same spectacle uptown, in the
fashionable and luxurious Martin Beck
Theater (where its predecessor had
been a charming musical version of
Clyde Fitch's Capt Jinks'O, at $3.50
a seat and under the title of THE
Shanghai Gesture"
In the theatrical refrigerator the
onions were kept with the butter and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
BY FELIX RZEWUSKI.
BY Cable to The Star

BY Cable to The Star.
w YARSAW-On the eve Of the
n League of Nations Council
wv meeting, which opens in
Geneva on May 10. when
the complaints of the Uk-
rainians are expected to be taken up,
the problem Of the Ukrainian minority
in Poland is again exciting general
attention. The situation is all the more
tense, as some new acts of terrorism
committed by members of the secret
Ukrainian military organization" have
just been reported.
Attempts have been made by some
Ukrainian groups, especially by the
wealthy classes coveting governmental
credits on the one hand, and some
members Of the government party on
the other, to start conciliatory nego-
tiations. Doubtless the Polish govern
ment and the government party would
be glad TO come to an understanding
with the Ukrainians before the matter
Is discussed by the League Council.
Article Interrupts Negotiations.
Negotiations are being carried on
simultaneously, though Independently,
in the Hobbies of the Sejm in Warsaw
and in Lwow. An interval in these ne
gotiations was caused by publication
OF an article by Warsaw paper, which
revealed that the Ukrainians aimed at
establishing the control of the League
OF Nations over East Galicia, while
the Poles requested a parliamentary
declaration Of loyalty to Poland to be
pronounced by the Ukrainians, and
with withdrawal of the Ukrainian COM
plants from the League. Irrespective
OF whether this Is possible from the
point OF view OF the Leagues proce-
dure, the Poles certainly would not
insist upon this point. as it is advan-
tageous to Poland to have the problem
discussed and give Foreign Minister
Ialeski an opportunity to explain why
drastic measures were resorted to.
This premature revelation caused
great alarm among the Conservatives,
both Poles and Ukrainians. The
Ukrainians published in their paper,
DID, communique emphatically stat
ing that the withdrawal of the COM
plants was impossible" but the nego-
tiations were resured shortly after
ward.
Great interest In the progress Of
these negotiations was shown by the
Ukrainian Episcopate. A pastoral let
ter was published by Mgr Chomiszyn,
mead OF the Uniat Diocese of Stani-
sIavoV, causing great sensation in
both camps. Mgr. Chomiszyn said:
Tine UkrainianS had not sufficient
national self-asSersion to create their
own state during 1888, when so
many nations gained their independ-
ence, proving they must be loyal to
Poland and respect the Polish govern
ment, which obviously rules them by
wish OF Providence" Mgr Chomiszyn
does not abandon the idea of an indie
pendent Ukrainian state in future, but
reproves violence and disloyalty.
Claims Carefully Investigated.
The bishop also warns the Ukrain-
ians that II the Poles left East Galicia,
this country would be invaded the same
day by the bolsheviks, which, of course,
could hardly satisfy even the bitterest
enemies of Poland.
AS regards the immediate future, the
Polish government is carefully investi-
eating all the Ukrainian claims in con-
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ing bound and laid before the midnight
express or doused with the contents of
a seltzer bottle. The sixth satisfied
those of us who were entertained by
watching a lady tie herself into true
lovers knot, or by listening to a gen.
tleman play I'll Trovatore" on sleigh
bells, and the seventh was devoted to
burleSque.
All seven had fixed and famous limi-
tations CT mental, moral, financial and
sartorial requirement. The men who
wanted one kind of Utilization or the
other knew just where to get it. Our
audiences disclosed few round pegs in
square orchestra chairs. The same
thing was true in San Francisco and
Chicago and New York.
Just What Is Meant?
It is still true in most of the older
centers of civilization. When you say
the theater" in Paris you mean the
Odeon and the Opera; the Ccmedie
Franchise and the FolieS Bergere.
There is no disposition to compel every
one to like Mayol or Mcliere; or to mix
up the two or to insist that drama Is
dead issue because business is good
at the Casino de Paris. Live and let
live" whats one mans meat is an
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BUCHAREST other things
and institutions which deprecated rates
CT exchange or currency have left in
their paths of destruction throughout
Europe before the avalanche was finally
checked is the dowry law governing
the marriage of Rumanian army Off
GERS. However, just as an Ill wind
seldom fails to bring good fortune to
some one, the depreciation of the Ru-
manian leu permitted many an other
wise poor officer doomed to bachelor
hood to become the posseSsor of per-
fectly legitimate wife.
The old requirements in pre-war days
for an officer of the junior grades was
that he or his fiancee have capital of
at least 10000 lei before the authori-
ties would even consent to consider
ether requirements. But 10000 lei Is
now less than 5000, and for long
while was even less than that.
Future Weddings Stabilized.
The Rumanian Parliament evidently
has decided that too many officers are
taking advantage of this low rate of
exchange, and therefore has stabilized,
or put on a gold basis, all future army
weddings.
Certain parts of the new law which
already has become effective, differ little
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
"He's an A gnostic, at
Present.
BY BRUCE BARTON.

some things In it that you
would prefer to have forgot
ten? Yet your father and
mother did not lose faith in
you. The race moves forward,
but 1t moves on the wheels OF
confidence"
Often he has watched
young couples in his churches,
wondered whether they would
be successful in holding the
hot passions of youth in
check. Sometimes he wor-
ried.
But pretty soon the boy
who seemed so wild and ire
sponSible comes around to my
house and says, Doctor, will
you marry us?'
Sure, I'll marry you,' I
answer.
"a year passes, and the boy
calls again.
Doctor, will you come and
baptize our baby?'
"'Sure, I'll come I say.
$50 I go around to the new
little house or apartment"
he continued, land meet the
girl mother, and tell her it is
the handsomest baby I've ever
laid eyes on. And all that
time that wild young man is
blushing and stammering,
and standing first ca one foot
and then on the other. All
his wildneSs is forgotten. He
has only one idea-.how can
he be the sort of father that
that baby ought to have!"
DR.. Boynton chuckled, and
bit the end of a fresh cigar.
I'm IA years DID," he said.
"And my motto is, The best
is yet to be-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

when, as was inevitable, people stopped
going to the refrigerator for their fare,
we announced that they had lost in
terest in eating. The drama was dead.
1t had been killed by 1.-The movies"
CRecently it has been killed all over
again, and much more completely. by
the talkies.O There was place
Or there were several thousand
places for Cecil De Mile and
Herbert Brenon, so, obviously, there
could no longer be place for George
Bernard Shaw and John Galsworthy.
"Greta Carlo talks" and in the face
of that phenomenon the rest Of us
might as we'll be silent
Mark Twain once said a report of his
death was greatly exaggerated" and
to see how that applies to the drama
let us imagine parallel case in one of
the other arts. Suppose our opera
companies and symphony orchestras
have long been offering a mixture CT
Wagner and Victor Herbert and Bee
thoven and Oscar Straus. All over
town are cabarets and dance halls de-
voted to jazz. A powerful commercial
combination acquires a machine by
which tunes . and tunes only. q.
can be timed and delivered at your
Continued on Sixth Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
POLAND AGAIN ACITATED
BY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Cancellation Efforts Made on Eve of
League Council SessiOn-New Wave
of Terrorism Feared.

nection with the qualification" and GER
tainly the guilty will be punished. I'm
fortunately there are indications that a
new wave of terror is coming. The
present lull is not expected to last be-
yond the session of the League Council
and the three-power conference in
London. The Ukrainian leaders ars
asking their. followers to keep quiet for
the moment in order not to impress
unfavorably those who will shortly dis
cuss their interests.
Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
BY G. H. ARCHAMBAULT.

NARIS.-Even quieter than the
- revolution in Spain has been the
revolution in France. So quiet,
l. in fact, that many people are
not aware of it. Yet it may
prove to be the most important political
event of the last 80 years. In brief, It
is the unmasking Of socialism, or al
least of the Socialist leaders, who have
been shown seldom to practice what
they preach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

\ ny good friend DR.. Ne
M hemiah Boynton told
vi me about a clergyman
4 \ who was famous in
Boston half a century ago.
Rigidly orthodox himself,
he sent his son to Harvard
College, which was at that
time suspected of being much
too liberal.
Meeting him on the street,
DR.. Boynton asked: How is
your boy getting along?"
The preachers wise old eyes
twinkled. We'll, Boynton,"
he answered, hes an agnos-
tic at present."
In due time the son was
graduated and married and he
subsequently became not only
a successful citizen, but one
of the leading laymen in the
Presbyterian Church.
DR.. Boynton is now IA years
old. 1t would be difficult to
discover a greater optimist,
or a sanchez believer in
the fundamental soundnesS of
American youth.
Hundreds of parents have
come to him to confess their
worry about their children.
When they have finished their
recital he asks:
"Are you sure you have told
me everything = you haven't
held anything back? No?
Well, then will give you the
recipe. The first and most
important thing is don't get
scared. If your children sus-
pect that you distrust them
your influence will be gone.
Think back to your own ado
lescent& period; aren't there
~,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

(Note-Poland is again deeply agitated
by the Ukrainian. problem on the eve Of
the League OF Nations Council session,
minority race living in East Galicia.
Felix RZewuski, warsaw correspondent
of The Star. reports that the Poles and
Ukratnians have been trying to conduct
conciliatory negotiations. but that new
wave Of terrorism is feared after the
League takes action)
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If he does he certainly will go to the
Quai d'Orsay in the near future and
possibly become Brands successor at
Geneva, where he already has had ex-
perience as a French delegate, and he
will be in a position to run for the
presidency of the republic seven years
hence. ,
CCopyxight, 1ea1.l