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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-31
rifle FINALS HELD
/: AT CAMP POLLARD
Tries for Record Scheduled
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Show Training.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
a. CAMP POLLARD, Virginia Beach,
sVa., August 31.-The final round Of
preliminary rifle firing takes place on
the range today. Firing for the record
begins tomorrow, when the 1st Bat
Stallion, goth Marines, moves onto the
firing line.
A fine tribute to the coaching Of the
sold timers lies in the fact that green
Youngsters who, until few days ago,
never had a rifle in their hands. are
turning in scores of from 40 to A out
OF possible 50-point strings.
Yesterdays sunset parade, widely
advertised by the Norfolk Portsmouth
Chamber of Commerce, saw thousands
sof spectators from Norfolk and vicinity
Corps brigade camp rapidly secame one
sof the beach show places.
rruternal Feeling Felt.
During the encampment Of the 12lst
Engineers here the finest Of fraternal
feeling was in evidence and each or
eanization co-operated with the other.
Both Col Stanley, commanding the
Marine brigade, and Col. Oehmann.
commanding the Engineers, expressed
the wish that next year the two or
CARNATIONS might function in training
to cooperate on training problems in
svolving Army engineers and Marine
Corps landing forces.
The week end saw the first presenta-
ton of a musical variety show with
brigade talent. Jim McWilliamS, for
smer Keith and Orpheum star, volun-
tered to stage entertainments. He was
sappointed honorary morale officer and
assigned a tent on Officers Row. His
first show staged Saturday night, ran
for three hours. Gen. Fuller. COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, and Mrs.
Fuller were honor guests.
Overlooking With Talent.
The brigade is overlooking With tall
sent ranging all the way from mountain
harmonica players to campus vauce-
vile teams from the various universe
ties and colleges represented in the
ranks of the brigade.
Beginning tonight, the championship
elimination boxing bouts will continue,
the semi-f1nals taking place on Wednes-
day and the final on Friday.
The health Of the brigade personnel
remains excellent. the sick list being
limited to cases of blistered feet and
similar average training camp causes.
Thus far the brigade shows perfect
score as to behavior, both in camp and
on liberty" no disciplinary cases oc-
curing. The brigade employs neither
shore patrol nor military police. the
!'honor system" governing the mems
conduct at all times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-31
the killing and were held under $3.50, 900

the killing and were held under $3.50, 900
bail.
Atlantic City has been o truce zone
for gunner under an unwritten agree
ment, and Duffy was without his body
guard during his stay there. He had
sent for his guards shortly before he
was slain.
Duffy had known for several weeks
that he was ION the spot" Twice dur
ing the past six weeks he had been
the target for bullets that missed
Police Threaten Expose.
Philadelphia police took control Of
the Duffy suite in the RitZ-Carlton
Hotel and obtained papers which they
said would rip open" the underworld.
Names, addresses and telephone num-
bers, many of those of prominent social,
business and professional persons, were
found.
Police said they sought Albert Skali,
Duffy's confidential aide; Sammie
Grossman, Philadelphia gangster; Rob-
ert Perkins, Duffy's Gloucester, N. j.,
beer manager; Dave Silverburg, Phila-
delphia gambler; Dutch" Schultz, New
York beer seller; Joe Jacobs, formerly
Duffy's chauffeur, and Johnny Shea,
gambler. Skali is believed by Ralph
Gold, Atlantic City detective chief, to
have fired the death bullets with Gross
man and another man present.
S. Cameron Hinkle, assistant prosecu-
tor of Atlantic City, said Duffy was
shot because 1t was absolutely neces-
sary he be shot that day wherever he
was"
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GANG LORD KILLING
AT RESORT PROBED
Police in Three States Seek
SIayers of Duffy, Who Left
Wife $4,000
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 31.-Police
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New
York today sought the killers of Mickey
Duffy, South Jersey racketeer chief,
slain Saturday In Atlantic City.
He had set up trust funds totaling
100000 for his wife.
Released in $4,000 bail after arrest
as a material witness, she was guarded
by six gunner in her Philadelphia man.
sion.
Duffys henchmen were searching I'M
derworld hangoutS for the killer Both
police and the gangsters held the theory
that Duffy was slain by his own men
as he slept.
Slain in Gang Truce Zone.
Harry j. Green, Duffy's gambling
manager, and James Richardson. ex-
pugilist. were arrested at Berlin, N. j.,
on suspicion Of having knowledge of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-31
Woman's Skeleton,
Buried 5000 Years,
Found Amid Riches
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 81.
-Offlcials Of the University of
Pennsylvania Museum said yes
terday that q complete skeleton
Of a woman, surrounded by rich
burial gifts, all dating back to
5000 B. c., has been found In
Persia by museum excavators.
Eric Schmidt of the university
museum expedition discovered a
sarcophaguS containing the skele-
ton at Demghan, Persia, the
statement said.
Word of the find stated 1t was
among the most important in
recent Persian archaeological re-
search and that from the orna-
ments surrounding the skeleton
a high state Of civilization of
the period was shown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-31

The great American literary names,
Hawthorne. Emerson, Poe, Thoreau,
Whitman. Twain, all protested against
the way the America Of their day was
going.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-31
ROME HAS 1,OO3,881

Ancient City on Tiber in 5S5 B. c.
Had Only $4,000 Population.
Rome is almost seven times as large as
julius Caesars and has gained 250,000
in population under the rule of II Duce.
First Italian city in rank, Rome had
a population of 1,003,88l on May 81, it
was announced yesterday. In ancient
times. Rome's greatest population was
$4,000 in 585 B. c.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-03-05

Yuma, Arizona, could enjoy CameIs a much
. We do here af Winston-SaIem.
We knew what We wanted. We tired mzuv
ihins=- Wea=ked the Pittsburgh Testing Lzbo-
rztOry 10 help u
After manyexPerimenfs and humidity tests
covering all methods Of packing ciearette~ came
Inc detailed report of which this i the net:
a. 70 existing cigarette package, including
those 'croPPed IN giGssiHe paper or ordinary
c~eloPh0ne, gives anything like adequate pro-
lection against evaporation
OBJ Al cigarettes 80 packed tend 70 dry OUT
rapidly from the day they are released from
the factory
~ Only a waterproof material trith a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16

it is fastened to the cell wall Is readily d
cernible.
Later, when the egg matches, the habits al
movements of the tiny larva can be observ
and. what Is Of still more interest, the exs
manner In which the nurse bees look aft
the larva"
fact that the queen bee regularly practices pr
determination of sex. She produces countIe
thousands Of offspring in her four years of Iii
but she always knows in advance what sex cad
one viii have.
| IER ability to do this places her in a cla|
! apart SO far scientists know there
not another living creature, large or small thu
possesses such power in regard to its progeny
Probably no one knows any more about qned
bees than Jay Smith Of Vincennes, Ind, wi
has about 400 stands Of bees and is primaril
interested in raising queen bees for the intel
national market A former employee of ti
U. s. Department of Agriculture, he has bed
watching the queen bee for years and know
most of her tricks.
IT suppose it is generally known" he saw
that there are three kinds of beeS-tEe worke
the queen and the drone
The drone, of course, is the male, and til
queen is the female. The workers are female
too, strictly speaking. but their sex characteI
istics are not developed and they are almost a
intermediate sex.
About five days after the queen is hasche
she goes on what is called her wedding flight
high in the air. Drenes from the hive pursu
her. The strongest catches her and mates Wit
neEe the queen retRlrps taethe hive and th
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persisted in sand storms or as q result Of dam
gerous headwinds. Carrying heavy cargoes,
they were often forced down to rest particu-
larly days when the air was bumpy or the
weather cold.
pEES, IN common with other winged insects,
- have . reputation for precision flying, but
after such long flights they often made bad
landings. sometimes pulling up quite q dis
lance from the hive.
The research which the departments inves-
tigatoEs are carrying forward leaves the poor
bee with very little privacy. The bees that are
being studied have hardly been able to call
their lives their own
They have been obliged to live In glass
houses which enable Q scientist to peer at
them curiously through . microscope. They
have 70 punch time clocks like any factory
workers, and weigh IN before and after their
flights 30 that the extent Of their diligence
may be measured and put down in black and
white.
1t is as a result of the data gathered in this
manner that the scientists have decided that
1t should be possible TO breed new varieties Of
honey bees that win do more eficient job.
What constitutes the ideal bee? After dag
nosing the strong and weak points Of various
races, the experts have their suggestions right
tap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16

Finding out
hOlU the heat
or, perhaps, the
humidity, affects
the field tOork of
the busy bee. !,
A scene at one of
the Department of
Agriculture
stations.
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Tney nave found JnaG the Dee,
industrious he is doesn't quite live up to
his reputation He keeps on the job but he
hasn't the efficiency that he should have
His faults are most obvious in the field where
he would be supposed to be at his best-the
field of aviation. AS a flying machine, he
leaves good deal to be desired
Extensive research has been conducted on
bees at the bee laboratory which the United
states Department of Agriculture operates
near washington d. C. James + Hambleton,
head of the laboratory, points out that the
specialists arc so dissatisfied with the present
run OF bees that they are about the business
Of breeding new varieties that can meet the
requirements Of big business with q greater
degree Of efficiency
The washington bee laboratory is not the
only one. There are branches at Laramie,
WYo, and Baton Rouge, La, and intricate
tests performed at these places have brought to
light some facts of singular interest
Out Laramie way, for instance, it has been
found that the bees are pretty hard workers,
whatever their other deficiencies. In o locality
where irrigated alfalfa Is the only source Of
honey, the specialists placed some hives 8
miles from the nearest supply Of nectar. II
the alfalfa, returning each time loaded with
honey.
Some one figured that, under such conditions,
q single pound Of honey represented about
$4,000 trips Of l6 miles each, or some 100000
miles Of flight. Since the course was flown
regularly in all sorts of weather, it was assumed
that the bees might make even farther flights
II necessary.
However, the strain Of such long arduous
flights told on the tiny pilots Some of them
failed 70 make port. 1t is assumed that they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16

OVERNR4ENT efficiency experts have
been looking into the matter of the
busy little bee. with the idea of
seeing just how well he improves
each shining hour.
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Wyoming bees fe,U total of 100000
miles, equal to u flights around the
UOrld, to make pound Of the deIicacy.
Evening star., 1931-12-13
SIX STATIONS FIGHT
HIGH-P0WER ORDER
Ask District Court of Appeals to
Reverse Commissions Limi-
tation Order.

Challenging the validity of the radio
regulation which rigidly limits the
number of stations which may broad
cast with the maximum power of
$4,000 watts, half dozen of the Ma
tons leading broadcasting stations
converged on the District Court of
Appeals last week with pleas that the
Federal Radio Commissions recent de-
NAL OF their high-power request be
reversed.
The broadcasters, numbered among
the two dozen applicants who partici-
pated in the year-old high power
melee, did not contest the grants of
the maximum power to the nine sue
cessful applicants. No effort was
made to have the court restrain the
commission from making the grants
effective. AS unit the six aggrieved
stations asked the court simply to find
that the regulation, which permits only
one-haf of the 40 clear channels set
aside for high power to use the maxi
mum power be adjudged "discrimina-
tory. arbitrary and capricious," and in
conflict with the requirements that all
radio facilities be put to maximum ad-
vantage in the interest of the public.
The stations which went to the
court with their plants were
WGN and WMAQ, Chicago; WHAM
Rochester; WTMJ, Milwaukee; KGO,
Oakland, and WIZ, New York CITY,
While the facts were different in the
various cases, the legal points raised
were practically Identical. The court
is not called upon to take injunctive
action, and therefore the stations
which obtained the nine 50,0OO-watt
assignments, as well as the seven given
25,0oo-watt construction permits. NAV
go forward with their installations un-
molested by the litigation.
Stations now proceeding with the in
stallation of 50o00-watt transmitters
are WOR, Newark; WCAU, Philadel-
ph1a; WSB, Atlanta; WSM, Nashville.
WCCO, Minneapolis; WHO-WOC, Des
es-Davenport, Iowa; KSL Salt Lake
City; KOA, Denver, and KPO. San
Francisco. Those granted increases to
"a, 700 watts are WHAM, Rochester:
WBl-WBzA, Boston-S pringfield
WHAS, Louisville; WBT, Charlotte:
WAPI, Birmingham; KVOO, Tulsa,
ana kFAB, Lincoln. Nebr.
Evening star., 1931-12-13
SHORT-WAVE RADIO FANS
CAN GET PHONE TALKS
Heydey of DIX Hunters Appears to
Be Returning With Popularity
of All-Wave Sets.

Besides the score or more of relay
broadcaSting stations in the United
States that are sending out programs
on short waves for reception in the far
corners of the North American CONT
nent and abroad, there are now nearly
ITS 'radiotelephone" stations of varying
powers in all parts of the world whose
transmissions can often be picked up
by short-wave fans in this country,
With all-wave radios coming into
greater vogue, enabling owners of short
wave receivers and broadcast receivers
equipped with proper coils to tune in
below 200 meters, the heyday of DIX
appears to be returning for those who
like to hunt for distant stations For
eign short-wave broadcasters are on the
air through all the hours of the Ameri-
can day due to time variations, and
there's many thrill today on the short
waves similar to those of the early days
of American broadcasting.
Evening star., 1931-12-13
'OCEAN BROADCASTS
USE 4 FREQUENC|ES
0uadrupIed Signals Co. .ordi-
mated to Bring Talks :
Across Sea.

When q European statesman broad
casts from his capital to America In
the SUNDAY series of international pro-
grams scheduled regularly on the Co
Iumola network two high-power trans
mltters, employing four different wave
lengths, are used to span the Atlantic.
and two receivers are used on this side
OF the ocean to pick up the signals be-
fore they reach Columbias master con-
troll room in New York.
speaker from England, such as Sir
John Simon or Viscount Cecil, ad-
dresses microphone In the Iondon
studios of the British Broadcasting Cor
poration. For the Sunday broadcasts
at 1890 pm, Eastern Standard time.
there Is no English audience, as the
events are specially arranged for the
american network. In many cases.
however, Columbia rebroadcasts ad-
dresses which form part of the B. q.
C., program, and then there NAV be
as many as l6 stations linked In the
British network.
Sent to Long Distance.
From the B. B. C. master control
room the signals are passed to the long
distance department of the British post
once telephone service, regardless of
Wnetner the program is to be sent 10
British stations also.
From the London telephone head
quarters they are relayed to Rugby.
Where the transmitters are located for
lransoceanic radio telephone. The i'm
pulses are passed to four transmftter
antennas, three operating on short
wave lengths, Between IA and 80 me-
terS, and the fourth ON 5000 meters.
ana radiated simultaneously toward the
united States. All of the antennas are
dlreetlonal, so as to obtain the maxi
mum possible efficiency with the power
input used.
AT Netcong, N. j., the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. has a
number OF receiving antennas, also di-
rectional. and pointing toward Rugby.
IheSe are specially constructed for
snort wave work of this kind. This
The signals which they pick up, great
~ weakened in power after crossing
the Atlantic, are amplified enormous
~, and passed by land wire to the
long lines hea5ou; rtars of the A. r
& I. in New York.
Four Signals Received.
The long wave signal, on 5ooo ms
ters, Is not received at Netcong, but
at Houlton, Me, where special eo,iin-
mept for work on this wave length
is installed. Reception on this chan
mel also is pipei down to the long
lines office, so that four different sig
mails are being received there sirnul-
taneously The best of these is Sc
lected and relayed to Columbia's mas
ter control room on Madison avenue.
From this point the American dis
tribution begins-to WABC's trans
mitter; to the short wave station.
W2XE, and to the line which ioins
the 81 stations on the network.
II the pickup is to be made on the
continent of Europe, studios of the
local broadcasting service generally are
employed-those of the French gov
ernment system in Paris, and of the
Geneva broadcasting station for
League of Nations events. From these
points the signals travel by land line
to London, before being passed on to
Rugby for transmission in the usual
way.
Evening star., 1931-12-13
INTERFERENCE PROBLEM
Is GROWING IN EUROPE
Separation of Only Nine Cycles
Causes New Troubles, With Union
Unable to Solve Them.

Interference already rampant on the
oroadcasting wave lengths in Europe.
where the separation between channels
IN the $50 to 1,500 kilocycles band is
only cycles as compared to the lO-
kllocycle separation in North America.
is leadlng to many serious complications.
Even the recent conference of the Inter-
national Broadcasting Union in Rome,
a meeting of European broadcasters
called by the Italian radio administra-
ton, failed to find a way out of the
dilemma, although mutual arrangements
nave been effected between some of the
stations voluntarily to widen separations
to 10 and II kilocycles
Inc latest source of interference re-
ported In Europe comes from RV3e.
0therWise known as Moscow-Stalin, In
Russia. 1t is a 00,000-watt station,
Whlcn recently went on Radio Madrid's
wave length of TOT kilocycles (about
40 meters). The report is current In
europe mat the Russian station is about
10 go-n 1t has not already gone-to
5oo,0O0 watts, which would make 1t by
Lar tne most powerful regularly operated
broadcasting station in the world
Moscow-Stalin is on the air contir,,-
ousiy from l to IL pm, Greenwich
mean time, which is am. to n,m
eastern standard time. 1t does not
transmit music, being devoted almost
enIlrely to speech programs of an edu-
Catlonal character. For those American,
hsteners whose sets may be sensitive
enough and locations favorable enough
10 tune in the Russian station, 1t can
be Identified by it's call: "Allol AlloI
:. Govoreet Moska Stanziji imenij Sta
lima"
Evening star., 1931-12-13
FINER COTTON STRAINS
SOUGHT IN OKLAHOMA
Crossing and Segregation Expert
naents TO Improve Quality Carried
On With U. S. Help.

OKLAHOMA CITY LP.-Like scien-
tAsts mixing chemicals in a laboratory
IN search of new formula. workers at
the Oklahoma experiment station are
crossing and segregating strains of cot
ton In an attempt TO find types with
longer lint, higher yield, uniform fiber,
large bolls and resistance to drought.
In the gigantic cotton laboratory this
year are l,l60 rows Of plants undergo
ING experiments. Fourteen strains of
AcaIa cotton, none of which has been
placed with growers, are being de-
Veloped.
One Of the chief accomplishments
OF the station, which has been in ex-
lstence 20 years and is assisted in its
work by the United States Department
Of Agriculture, is the development of
the famous Oklahoma Triumph A
strain by the individual plant selection
method
While the experts employed by the
State and Government cross the strains
Dr. L. l.. Lyon, head of the station,
urges farmers to keep the types pure
after they have been developed.
Evening star., 1931-12-13
Folks Behind
The Microphone
By THE RADIO EDITOR.

TIME old songs are the best songs
So declares Jesse Crawford
Poet of the Organ" after
i studying public taste in music
over a long period.
The pendulum Of popular taste is
definitely swinging backward through
the years rather than forward" SAYS
Crawford. "A few years ago-and even
up to a very recent time-the song
writer's were always looking for new and
novel forms of expression But today
I am convinced that the trend Is in the
other direction. The songs of next year
are going to be built upon old patterns. =
1t was public taste that recently
caused Crawford to include fewer of the
modern tunes in his nightly N. B. c.
brOadcaStS.
Correspondents everywhere have
been asking for the old-time songs in
preference to the late Broadway hits "
says Crawford. For this reason I have
practically excluded the show songs
from my radio repertoire. The public
wants old Kentucky Home Some
where a Voice Is Calling Dear Old
Girl, Song of Songs and other old
favorites.
I can't entirely explain this new
trend. Or perhaps it isn't a trend at
all. have a feeling, however that
the public, because of adversitv has
been drawn back to old STANDARDS and
old PHILOSOPHERS. In troublesome times
| believe people always look to their
lolk music for solace and inspiration
What could be more consoling than the
warm simplicity Of old Kentuckv
Home Just Song at Twilight and In
the Gloaming?" N AA'
MAT BRUSILOFF, the fiddling Or
cheStra leader, can't be inter
viewed; that is, he won't respond
70 serious questioning, such as "Where
were you born?" But If the ouerv in =
cIuoes And Why?" he perks up. Br,Isi-
Ioh admits, however, that he started
as vioirnist at the age of S.
WELCOME LEWIS, the "blues"
w cIooner, was visiting her father in
hollywood when she got a hurry
up cali TO return to New York for a.
program, and left without making a
screen TEST which had been arranged
r An Ihe members of Guy Iombardo's
band are tennis enthusiasts. even nIav-
ing the game indoors in the winter
connie Boswell and her sister, Vet do
a mIho-reading trick that has baff,ed
the executives of both broadcasting
chalns. James Melton recently made
tour with the Revelers to Flint, Mich
6uHalo and Ann Arbor. So his wife
viSising IN Cleveland, boarded the train
ana rode to Toledo with him lust to
nave chat. The Boswell sisters have
ADOPTED taxi driver in New York who
TAX; taxes them everywhere they 20, He is
,y Snoity Maxwell, and nobody else can
ihre MS cab for love nor money.