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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-29
TEMPERATUREs.

Washington. July 29.-UP)-- Highest temperatures yesterday and lowest last night in 20 cities were reported by the weather bu- reau today as follows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-29
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS

Arcangelo TeSolini, baker, 136 Bank street; Mary Grace Longo. occupation none, 52 Canal street.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Fox New Bill--Earl Sande,
Riders of the Purple Sage"

EARLE SANDE, the famous Jockey,
II heading the stage bill at the Fox
Theater for the new week beginning
Friday, may add luster to the screen
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Gayety,
silk Stocking Revue.

IRURLESQUE will be represented in
~ Washington for the week commenc-
ing with a Sunday matinee, at the
Gayety, by Frank x. Silks Silk Stock
ing Revue" which is described as hot
shot burlesque, with rugged trimmings" F."
Wanda De Won, with a beautiful voice,
will be conspicuous among the enter
tainer7 who include Wilma JOEY. dy-
manic dancN Sammy Spears, Eloise
DWan, Al ann Buster lie Roy. Frank
Du Frame, Mary Joyce and Milt Bron-
son.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
COAL TRUCKS BRING
RELIEF THROUGH SNOW
Fuel Bins Of Indian Mission Filled
Again, but Wood Is Burned
as Economy Measure.

BY the Associated Press.
GALLUP. N. Mex, December 16.-
Coal trucks are plying over q snow
packed highway between Gallup and
the Presbyterian Navajo mission at
Ganado, Ariz., to fll the bins emptied
soon after blizzard swept the region
last Wednesday.
Salvaged wood, however, was burned
to heat the mission while the coal re-
serve was built up as insurance for the
comfort of the $50 residents, including
l25 children. The trail was broken by
two trucks which reached Ganado
Sunday night.
DR.. G. G. Salisbury, head of the mis-
sion, said there was no suffering among
the Indians. All Of the children have
been placed in one warm dormitory,
he said.
"A few sheep corrals remain and
there are plenty of scrub pines and
small cedar trees" DR.. Salisbury said.
I'VE have burned few small buildings,
but We have not had to wreck any
major building on the mission campus. "
The maximum temperature there
yesterday was zero.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
HITZ REVERSES DECISION
OF MUNICIPAL COURT
Holds Plea Of Set-of in Replevin
Case Was Within Meaning
of Code provisiops

The District Court of Appeals, in an
opinion by Justice William Hitz, yester-
oay reversed the Municipal Court which
nad refused to permit r. M. Marks to
,nterpose set-off in a replevin suit
Drought against him by the Frigidaire
sales Corporation for the recovery of a
machine.
The machine had been delivered to
the purchaser under q conditional sales
Agreement and when default was made
IN the payments the suit was filed.
Marks pleaded set-off based on an al
ieged breach of warranty, which was
disallowed and judgment rendered for
the return of the machine.
r. The appellate court held that, under
the circumstances, plea of set-off was
within the meaning, the reason and the
purpose OF the Code provisions and con-
sequently should have been considered
by the court and the defendant given
an opportunity to prove it to the jury.
Justice HitZ also rendered the opin-
ion of the Court of Appeals in the case
Of Florence B. Evans against Marian E.
Evans and others. 1t affirmed the de-
cision of the District Supreme Court
that under the will of George w. Evans
his widow took only life estate and
could not sell the property and divide
the proceeds with the children.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
What's What and Where
Attractions Soon to Be Seen in Washington Theaters
Y y Y |

YIN IIe ieSltlLldIc tlicoeeiS
n darkening their auditoriums
wv next week the world, never
theless, will not be left in
darkness, for the amateurs
will take up the white mans burden
and provide some original plays and
real excitement, and the talking pic
lures will be putting their best feet
forward for joyous time.
Columbia Players.
Three Original Plays, Friday.
THREE original plays by members of
IL the rganization-"What's in That
House" by Mrs. Edith Armstrong;
1.-THE Scarlet Shawl" by Dorothea
Lewis, and an untitled farce, by H. R.
Baukhage, will be presented Friday
evening by the Columbia Players, at
the Wilson Teachers College, Eleventh
and Harvard streets northwest. To
add to the JOY of the occasion the
audience will be invited to vote as
early and often as it likes on title
for the Baukhage offering and the
fortunate voter will receive reward.
Evening star., 1931-12-16

l Z h u u / Z, odllC
Grey's Riders of
the Purple Sage VI
with eorg e
O'Brien as its star
.ad Noah Beery
as the man who is
after him. with
M a r & u e r 1 t e
Churchill helping
out in the ro-
nance.
Stanley Fields
heads the support
ing cast, and
Hamilton M q c.
F. a d den directed
the picture.
Mr.. Sande not
only knows how
to ride race
Evening star., 1931-12-16
"Bcn Hur"
At Columbia Friday.

Gen. LEW wALLAcE's famous old
story of Ben Hur," newly syn
chronized. with Ramon Novarro, Es-
telle Taylor Francis X. Bushman and
Betty Bronson. will be the Christmas
call at Loew's Columbia Theater start
ing Friday of this week.
Here we will have, with sound,
the familiar old battle of the galleys,
the famous chariot race, the finding
of the Hur family among the lepers and
all the old familiar but ever stirring in
cidents of one of the most noted sto-
ries that ever had stage presentation.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
RialtO Announces
Tourney to He'll"

WALTER HUSTON will be presented
w at the Rialto Theater during
the week starting Friday, in Journey
to- He'll" which has for its setting the
awe-inspiring' beauty of the Northwest
Pacific Coast, an unusual picture in
which Mr.. Huston will be supported by
Kent Douglass, Helen Chandler, Wv
ian Oakland, and Frank Hagney. 1t
was directed by William Wyler from
a story by Olive Edens.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
AILMENT undetermined
Pola Negri Suffering Either From
Ptomaine or Appendix Trouble.

SANTA MONICA. Calf, December
l6 R.-Uncertain whether Pola Negri
Is suffering from ptomaine poisoning or
recurrence of an appendix ailment,
physicians had the Polish film actress
under observation at the Santa Monica
Hospital today.
Miss Negri's condition Is not criti-
CAL" the physician said, but she is
rather seriously Ill. It will be neces-
sary to keep her in the strictest seclu-
sion for q time"
Evening star., 1931-12-16
R-K-O Keith'S. Friday,
Men in Her Life"

I OIS MORAN, Charlss Bickford and
IL Victor Varconi will contribute i'm
poftant action to the screen feature.
Men in Her Life" which Managing
Director Hardie Meakin announces as
the Christmas week fare at RKO
Keith's, starting Friday Of the current
week. Manager Meakin states that the
story is taken from the Warner Fabian
novel and concerns "unforgettable dra-
too late" Donald DilloWay, Barbara
Weeks and Oscar APPEL will round out
the cast of the William Beaudine pic
ture
Evening star., 1931-12-16
working Girls"
Metropolitan, Saturday.

HWORKING GIRLS" Paramount
picture featuring Paul Lukas.
Dorothy Hall, Charles Buddy" Ro-
gers and others, will be shown at the
Warner Metropolitan Theater until
Christmas day, when it will be super
seded by new attraction. 1t is the
story of two girls who go to the big
city to win fortune.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Warmers Earle,
"His Woman'-Trixie Friganza,

Warmers Earle.
'His Woman'-Trixie Friganza.
TRIXIE FRIGANZA, known to all
who know their theater, will head
the stage program at the Warner
Earle Theater during the new week
starting next Saturday, with Gary
Cooper and Claudette Colbert starred
in the screen feature, His Woman"
the story of young girl and a tramp
freighter captain. who are drawn to-
gether in caring for a motherless waif
TriXie Friganza takes her audiences
on a trip to Hollywood, with both real
and imaginary experiences-and there
is a fine supporting program besides.
''The False Madonna
Palace, Next Friday.
KAY FRANCIS, in her first title role,
AN with THE False Madonna" as
the picture, will be the screen attrac-
tion at Loew's Palace Theater for the
week starting Friday. William Boyd
and Conway Tearle will be her chief
support in this story of two crooks who
seek to rob young American million
aire of his fortune-"The Heart Is
Young" as it was known to literature.
The Yuletide stage program will fea-
ture Jade" a New York Capitol Thea
ter revue, with many popular Loew
vaudeville acts.
Evening star., 1931-12-16

Secure a Receipt and Ship Christ
mas Packages the Responsible Way
Railway Express Agency."-Adyertise
ment.
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Two Concerts This Week
by National Symphony.

THE National Symphony Orchestra
l. of Washington, D. c., Hans Kinder,
conductor, will give its third symphony
and its third childrenS concert this
week at Constitution Hall and Central
High School Auditorium, respectively.
The symphony concert will be given at
Constitution Hall tomorrow afternoon
at 4;45 o'clock with Sylvia Lent, IA
nous young Washington violinist, as
soloist The childrens concert will be
given at Central High School Audi
torium next Saturday morning at II
am, with Charlton Meyer, 6-year -old
pianist as the principal soloist.
Miss Lent will play Mozart's "A Ma
jor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"
tomorrow, while Conductor Kinder will
offer two numbers new to Washington: ::
the HandelAleinikoff "Passacaglia"
and two Indian dances by Charles San
ford Skiton. Wagner's "Egmont" over
ture will be the opening selection, with
Sibelius' "Finlandia" closing the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1931-12-16

The warmest Christmas Of the pres
ent century was that Of 1918. In Eng
land there had never been Christmas
rks it in 16a years.
Evening star., 1931-12-16

horses, but he is called "the saddles
gift to song" and the Fanchon-Marco
Roxy Theater Revue Idea" will share
honorS with him in the stage program
Evening star., 1931-12-16
Columbia Players.
Three Original Plays, Friday.
"The Other Wise Man"
by the Chapel Players, December 27-29.

DR. HENRY VAN DYKES impress
IL sive legend of yuletide, THE Other
Wise Man." a drama with music, will
be presented by the Chapel Players at
Luther Place Memorial Church, Decem-
ber 27-29. 1t depicts stirring events in
the life of Artaban, the Median, who
"saw the star in it's rising, but did not
arrive with the three wise men at the
manger cradle in Bethlehem" The
play is presented under the joint di-
rection of Denis E. Connell and Bess
D. Schreiner, with Katharine Riggs,
harpist, directing the music.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Land Once Considered ,
Only Source of Wealth

Trade, the great adventure Of today,
once was considered a degrading oc-
cupation, unfit for ''gentlefolk." The
ambition of the msrcantile class of the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries
was to become landed proprietors.
Thus investment Of their surplus funds
almost invariably ran to landed estates
to which they or their heirs eventually
might retire and, as one historian puts
it, shake the slime of trade from their
feet" .l saua s
Gradually there came change, how
ever, as trade became more and more
necessary in the scheme of things, as
explorers opened up ever greater and
richer territory. AS early as the Six
tenth century the efficiency Of united
effort and capital had become demon
strated and the organization of such
great companies as the Levant, the
East India and the Hudson's Bay
proved that fortunes could be made in
something besides land. These COM
panies, developed principally by the
mercantile classes, soon became EN-
pires in themselves-in which even
royalty might participate without
counting the usual stigma attached to
trade.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Why Hurry to Dentist
Here's Toothache "Cure'

Here is a sure cure for toothaehe,
according to those who have tried 1t:
Catch an ordinary green snake, hold
II horizontally extended by the neck
and tail, and run it seven times back
and forth between the teeth. Then
turn it loose. Eat no food containing
salt for four days afterward.
DR.. Frans NJ. Olbrechts of the Uni
versity Of Brussels, who reports 1t to
the Smithsonian institution, of which
he is a collaboration, is not so sure
OF the efficacy Of the treatment, which
he found among the Cherokee Indians
of the Carolinas. But 1t is the sover
eign remedy of the medicine men, not
only relieving pain, but protecting the
teeth in the future.
Magic dentistry, Doctor Olbrechts
reports, is about the most colorful
phase of Cherokee medicine and surg
cry. The snake is supposed to carry
the toothache away with 1t. Tooth
ache, the medicine men hold, Is in
tlmately bound up with various nat
ural phenomena and can be kept
away entirely II person observes
proper precautions. Whenever one sees
a shooting star, for example, 1t Is
necessary to spit at once. Otherwise
a tooth will be lost in the near future.
Also one must be careful not to spit
anything that has been in the mouth,
such as tobacco or the peelings Of ap-
pies, into the fire. They have been in
contact with the teeth and sort of
magical connection is made between
the teeth and the fire. The latter will
"eat out" the former.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Yacht of Viking Queen
Preserved in Museum

In the Oslo museum can be seen the
best existing specimen of the old
Viking ships. This is known as the
Oesberg ship. 1t was discovered in
1903 in a mound about 20 feet high
on the Oesberg- Odegaardon farm in
the county of Vestfold, near a little
stream about four kilometers from the
sea. 1t was covered by stones and
peat, which aided in its preservation.
The ship was the pleasure yacht of
queen during life and the burial cham
Der for herself and her personal eff
fects, as was customary in those times,
after death. The queen and her ac-
cOmpanying bondwoman were laid In
the burial chamber about the middle
of the Ninth century.
The ship is an open clinker-built
boat constructed of oak, 21.5 meters
long and a maximum width of 5
meters. She was supplied with
rudder at the starboard side of the
stern. From the prov ornamental
ton it is believed that she was built
about the year 800. She was of the
Femtansessa class, l, e., rowed by 30
men.
She was robbed, presumably in the
Eleventh century, and the gold and
silver ornaments removed, leaving the
less valuable ones behind. Being COM
paratively shallow and setting low, it
seems she was intended for cruises
in sheltered waters rather than a real
Viking for crossing the ocean.-Med-
ical Journal and Record.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
perfect Road" So Far,
Beyond Reach of Man

When you happen to be driving over
a stretch Of modern road and you
find 1t Is a little bunny" do not
blame the contractor for doing a poor
piece Of work, because 1t may not be
his fault. In fact, the really perfect
road has not been invented and the
highway engineers are looking for
Just this article at the present mo-
ment. You are more likely to strike
the right lead IL you place the re-
sponsiblllty upon nature, for she is
beating us, despite all we have learned
about building highways.
Not one Of the many types of roads
we have built Is an absolute success.
All have their drawbacks. The asphalt
road has a bad habit of walking
and walking backward. Our heavy
Kindergarten than any previous
civilization has had to cope with
acting upon a sun-baked road, causes,
first of all, waves In the road. Frlc-
ton Of wheels then causes these rip
pies to move backward, so that a road
may walk" several inches in a year.
Wood block roads are susceptible
to weather conditions. The rain works
between the blocks and undermines
them. Perhaps the best type of road
is the concrete, reinforced with steel
mesh. Yet there is drawback here.
Heavy rain may cause flooding and
washouts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
EFFT TTTTTTTE
How Wood Came to Be
liai Used for Making Paper

1t is hard today, when forests are
being demolished to provide paper,
to realize how lately paper was first
made from wood, writes Mark S. Wat
son in the Baltimore Sun. The
Chinese had used fibers and the early
European papers were made from
shredded rags, which, of course ex-
plains why paper Of that day was so
much more durable. But not until
1719 did Reaumur, the eminent French
physicist, propose that wood be used.
And oddly his inspiration came from
the humble wasp, whose nests form
very fine paper.
"They extract the fbers of COM
mon wood" he writes "They teach
us that paper can be made from the
fibers of plants without the use of
rags and linen, and seem to invite
us to try whether we cannot make
fine and good paper from certain
woods"
In succeeding decades Reaumur's
advice (and the undated demonstra-
lions by the humble wasp captured
an increasing amount of attention,
but it was in 1865 that there started
the most notable developments In the
use of new materials as substitutes
for rags These were the work of
Jacob Schaffer, a Saxon clergyman
then resident in Bavaria, who, like,
Gilbert White, of Selbourne, is better
known for his scientific contributions
than for his clerical labors.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Earth's Weight Exchanging

The weight of the earth does not
change in any material degree. 1t has
been thought that the vast quantities
of coal and other minerals taken from
the earth would affect it's weight, but
it does not, because such materials
are merely changed in form and are
eventually returned to the earth's sur
face. In order to affect the weight Of
the earth it will be necessary for such
materials to pass out into space be-
yond the atmosphere, and this is not
possible. The only possible manner in
which the weight of the earth could
be affected, even in the slightest de-
gree, would be in the acquisition of
meteorites, which occasionally fall
upon it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07

Deer and elk shed their horns once
year. THIS nccrrs soon after the
breeding season. The horns begin as
single points on the young deer dur.
Ing the second season AMI generally
Increase in size and number of points
with each renewal l:ut the Increase
in size and number Of points Is not
strictly progressive. So ii is not pos
s!hle. rs popularity supposed. to tell
the age of u deer or elk by the num-
her OF points on its antlers. The
growth Of the ant!ers Is dependent
upon number OF circumstances, such
as physical condition of the animal
and its virlity. There is a tendency
for the horns Ia become smaller with
fewer pants as the deer grows old.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07

Solid" Security Behind
Old Continental Money

Many and varied were the paper
dark days Of the Revolutionary war.
One Of the earliest was a note issued
by the Sons Of Liberty in Boston,
brought out in 1915 to finance the
cause of liberty, with face value of
"a shillings. fa65 att Hs..f ~
Paper money was in common use
in the Colonies from its enforced use
in Massachusetts In 1000. One Of the
most interesting Of the Continental
paper moneys was note issued in
Massachusetts in 1880 for the purpose
of financing the states quota in the
Continental army.
The note was backed up not by bull
lion, as at the present time, but by
definite measures Of existing commodi-
ties. Thus 1t carried this inscription:
PAY 250 pounds on the first day of
March, both principal and interest to
be paid In the then current money Of
the said state in greater or less sum
according to s bushels Of corn, 6S
and 4-7ths pounds of part of beef,
10 pounds of sleeps wool and 16
pounds of sole leather shall then cost,
more or less than 100 pounds current
money at the then current prices of
said articles, the same being 80 times
and " what the same quantities OF
the same articles would cost at the
prices affixed to them in law of this
state in the year Of our Lord 1777."
From this old note it appears that
the idea of stabilized currency is not
new.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07

Some Cor,nhiuu coins. 100 years
Old. have recently been put through
test alongside ~ some modern mint
productions and In the opinion OF the
eStigators the oil pieces were far
superior To these OF the present day.
The analytical study was made In the
department of chemistry Of Princeton
university. Corlnthian bronze was, for
the use for which II was intended.
much better, since II was extrnordi-
nnrlly hard and. in this respect, dis.
tlnctly superior to the present United
States bronze coinage. although the
latter Is made with special reference
to this quality and in accordance with
the most modern maialurgical knowl-
edge The report reveals that coins
~ the city Of Slcyon were made by
mass production methods. As In mod.
ern minis. the metal was hammered
out into sheets and the design later
stamped with a die.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Still Goinp Strong

One by one the great fairs of Eu-
rope have passed away, but Leipzig
is greater than ever it has been. 1t
is the worlds one annual international
fair. 1t has been held since before
the Twelfth century, and when there,
Leipzig always provides more than
fair, for it is city of unusual in
terest, and every tourist seeks out
Auerbach's keller on Grimmaisches-
strasse, to do honor to the episode so
famous in Goethe's Faust"
The city has one exhibition hall
twice the size of the old Madison
Square garden, and there are so other
halls. During the fair week the whole
city is given over to suitable festivi-
ties, chiefly of the nature of pageants.
The Napoleonic wars and the
World war failed to interfere with
the Leipzig fair.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Ancient Wood

seven-foot piece of timber recent
ly taken from the bed of the Yakima
river in Washington is thought to be
twelve million years old 1t was tax
en- from log encountered when q
United States reclamation service tun-
mel was being driven under the river,
and was in solid basalt believed to
have been poured out of one Of the
Columbia plateau volcanoes twelve
million years ago 1t is a species Of
the Sequoia redwood, the giant
growths of the Pacific coast. The red
woods have not always been confined
to a narrow strip in California, but
throye at one time throughout what is
now the United States, Canada, Alas
ka, Greenland, Europe and northern
Asia. Fossil Sequoia cones were
found in rocks and swamp deposits
in Europe in the Nineteenth century
before the only living representatives
of the species were known to the white
man.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Pancake Bell

Many of the ancient customs and
curious anniversaries of England are
recalled in a book recently from the
press. One of them is the Pancake
Bell. In old days this was rung on
ShrOve Tuesday to call the people to
church to confess their sins. It is still
rung on Shrove Tuesday at Olney, in
Buckinghamshire. At the first chimes
of the bell the makers of pancakes mix
their materials. Then, after sufficient
time for cooking the dainties has been
allowed, big bell tolls as n signal to
eat them. Immediately girls rush to
the church with frying pans in their
hands and the pancakes merrily siz-
zling within. The reason for the race
Is to have the honor Of being the first
to serve pancakes to the ringers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-07
Good Illustration of
"Horns of a Dilemma"

A '1emma" is thing taken for
granted (from the Greek word "lam-
bano," to take). A Dilemma" is a
double lemma, two-edged sword
which strikes both ways, or a bull
which will toss you whichever horn
you grasp. A classic illustration of a
dilemma is given in the following
ancient story: A young rhetorician
said to an old sophist, "Teach me to
plead and I will pay you when I gain
a cause" The master sued for payment
and the scholar pleaded, "If / gain
the cause, shall not pay you, because
the judge will say 1 am not to pay;
and II lose my cause / shall not be
required to pay, according to the
terms Of our agreement" To this the
master replied, mot so; If you gain
your cause you must pay me accord
ing to the terms of our agreement, and
If you lose your cause, the judge will
condemn you to pay me-"