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MARINE CORPS NEWS

First Lieut.. James D. Waller Will be
detached from the Quantico base on
August / to the Army'S Field Arullery
School, Fort Sill, Okla.
Capt John Halla. former aide TO the
major general commandant, has been
detached from the local Eighth street
barracks to duty with the LIST Brigade
department from Hampton Roads via
the U. s. S. Kittery approximately Au-
gust 5.
Mai. Archie F. Howard will be de-
tached from corps headquarters August
8 to the Armys Command and General
staff School, Fort Leavenworth. kanS.
Capt. Thomas E. Bourke was de-
tached from Quantico yesterday to
corps headquarters.
pointed a Marine gunner and assigned
TO duty at the air station base Of the
Quantico base.
Capt. Thomas E. Kendrick, now at
the Norfolk navy yard, will be detached
therefrom about August Is TO duty at
the Quantico base.
First Lieut. Frank Hanlon will be de-
tached from the local navy yard on Au-
gust Is and thereafter is to be stationed
at Quantico for duty. Lieut.. Cummings,
in charge of the post exchange of the
local barracks of the navy yard. will
also be detached to duty at Quantico.
First Lieut.. Harry E. Darr one of the
older commissioned officers in age in
his grade will report at Quantico about
August Is for duty.
Second Lieut. Michael NJ. Mahoney,
heretofore assigned to duty at Annapo-
lis, Md. has been ordered to duty at
the Quantico base instead.
The Marine detachment attached to
Naval Hospital, this city. will begin an
nual practice and record target firing
during the coming week at one of the
nearby rife ranges First Sergt. Carl
ton, a veteran of the World War, who
saw action at the famed Chateau
Thiery scrap, is in charge of the Ma
rine detachment.
The Veteran Marine Corps Legion
will hold an excursion to Quantico via
steamer City Of Washington, $50 pm.
tomorrow Col. F. M Wise. national
commandant of the organization, will
head the veterans.
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lowed to an ordinary mortal Of British
birth" Louis Colman.
The Bedrock Of Travel, by r. L.
Wright. 1881. GIVES.
"a very charming, vivaciouS and en-
tertaining book, q book full Of Sugges-
tive ideas, astute observations, and es-
pecially of WITNESSES. It is the WITNESSES
that make it so entertaining and render
1t so suitable to read, little at time,
when one is preparing for sleep"
Travellers of other Days.
A Selection Of the Principal Voyages,
Trafiques and Discoveries Of the
English Nation, by Richard Hakluyt,
set out by Laurence Irving.
1927. G12.Hl26pa.
ANNOYED by the accounts of the voy-
ages of discovery made by the Span
iSh, Portuguese and Italian travellers,
Hakluyt sought to bring together stories
of the voyages Of the English Seamen
who had brought renown to Great Brit,
ain. In these selections the rugged old
English spelling has been retained, along
with peculiarities of punctuation, which
will be found of great assistance to any
one wishing to read aloud from the rich
fare here provided.
The Travels Of Marco Polo, the Vene-
tian, 1928 GEO P766.E.
ct is difficult to read Marco Polo as
one reads historical facts. One READS
him as one reads romance, as one would
read. for instance the Eve OF st. Mark
or the Well at the Worlds End. From
the introduction by John Masef1eld.
Travels and Adventures OF Pero Tafur,
1435-l439, edited by Malcolm Let's.
1925. Gl2.T124.E.
Tafur was born in Cordova. Spain,
about 14lO and set out on his travels
through the Near East about rs years
later. He was remarkably well educated
for a tradesman Of the pre-Columolan
period and, in spite Of a somewhat
stilted style, has warmth and color IN
his pictures of society as IT emerged
from the Middle Ages.
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American Legion

ance at a much higher rate of premium
Mr.. ONeil declared "in this time of
depression a large number Of veterans
are unable to convert this policy be-
cause of the additional premium in
volved, and it is only fair that he be
allowed an extension of three to five
years until he is financially rehabili-
tated."
He urged that the Legion press for
early amendment to the War Risk In
surance Act (section BOD, so that the
sentence may be eliminated from the
law which prevents the reconversion of
the five-year term policy. He said it
is necessary that this amendment be
secured several months prior to July 2,
1892, so that all veterans may have
ample time to reconvert.
Four blocks of the Rue de Rivon in
Paris will be reproduced in Detroit next
September, when the American Legion
holds its thirteenth national convention
there. An Art Committee has been
working for months on the decorative
scheme for the convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
BRITISH WAR WIDOWS
FIND new HUSBANDS
Half of Them Have Rewed Despite
Surplus of Women in
Islands.
BY Gable 70 The Star.

BY Gable 70 The Star.
LONDON, July 25.-The war widow in
Great Britain seems to have found an
ally in Cupid. For despite the fact that
there are approximately 1000 900 sur
plus females in these isles, fully so per
cent of the war widows have remarked,
and many of them have found SpouseS
for the third time.
In 1919 official statistics stated that
there were more than 189,487 war
widows in Great Britain. Owing to
deaths later of wounded or disabled
service men pensions were paid by the
state to 258,000 war widows. But &C
cording to the latest official returns
only 140550 war widows are now re-
ceiving pensions.
The ministry of pensions discontinues
It's allowances to a war widow on her
remarrying, but the allowances for chill
dren are continued until each child
eraches the age of 16. A capital grant
OF f2O0 is also handed to the widow
when she goes to the altar for the Sec
ond time.
At the present time the number Of
war widows receiving pensions is 14o,-
800. In the view of some socioIoetsts
the war widows marital chances have
oeen improved because Of the f1ightinesS
OF SO many spinSterS.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

The members Of the local department
Of the American Legion have been in
vited through the department COM
mander, DR.. B. C.. MacNeil, by Col
H. N. Cootes, commanding oficer, Fort
Myer, Va, to attend a review of stu
dents Of 1891 c: M: T; C., to be held on
the post polo field at Fort Myer, Va,
Tuesday at pm.
The Washington Boys independent
Band will be presented with colors on
the polo field, Potomac Park, on Tues
day by department commander of the
American Legion, DR.. B. C. MacNeil,
and Department Comdr. Jennings of
the Veterans OF Foreign Wars.
The Department Convention Commit
tee of the American Legion was con-
vened Wednesday at department head
quarters, $40 Shoreham Building. by
Chairman William N. Morrell and q
joint meeting was held with the South
east Business Mems Association on
Friday evening at Walker Hill Dairy
Hall, $50 Seventh street southeast, in
order to complete plans for the annual
Department Convention of the Amer
lean Legion to be held August ST at
Buchanan School Auditorium, Thir-
tenth and B streets southeast.
A meeting of the Department Execu-
tive Committee of the American Lee
gion was called by Department Comdr.
DR.. B. c. MacNeil, and held in the
board room of the District Building
Thursday evening.
The last date to apply for the Mich
igan soldiers bonus is December 81,
1881, according to word received at local
American Legion headquarters. New
claims filed on or before that date must
be paid or diSallowed before Deem
Der 81, 1882. Disallowed claims may
be reopened by submitting new evi-
dence which can be considered before
December 81, 1881.
National Comdr. Ralph T O'Neil of
the American Legion has called atten-
ton to the five-year convertible term
Government insurance policy which
many veterans are carrying, and which
specifies that either it must be changed
within five years to another form, at a
higher premium, or that 1t will auto
matically become ordinary life insur-
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mental surgeon from the goth Marines
is Lieut.. Howard H. Strine: executive
ofncer, Lieut.. (Junior Grade) Philip A.
Caulfield, and Lieut.. (Junior Grade
Lester M. Lucas, dental ofhcer. The
first sergeant is Robert L. jenkins, the
regimental surgeon of the 23rd Marines
Is Lieut.. Lyman B. Tibbetts. Execu-
Lieut. (Junior Grade) A. Victor Ger
cell and Lieut.. (Junior Grade) Martin
j. Keane are dental officers. The first
sergeant Is James N. Shippee. The medi-
cal troops will mess as unit, but the
medical detachment OF the Goth Ma
rines and the medical detachment of
the 23rd Marines will each run its own
regimental field hospital and dispensary
and train and maneuver as a unit.
Any recruits wishing to affiliate with
this organization can do so by report
ing to the 9Th Marine Brigade Armory
on Monday and Friday evenings at
8 o'clock at 458 Indiana avenue.
Col. Julius S. Turrill u. S. M. c.,
inspected the 9Th Marine Brigade Ar
mory offices and rife range at 458
Indiana avenue and 315 John Marshall
place last Monday evening and ex-
pressed appreciation of the appearance
of the units.
The third voluntary Sunday morning
formations will take place at Area &C."
Anacostia, today at $50 am. until
noon. Company close order drills will
be followed by brigade parade forma-
ton at 1870 am. All companies and
units will report with their new guidons.
Several recently discharged members
OF the Quantico Marine Band have
joined the 9th Brigade Band. There
are existing vacancies in the band in
both the brass and reed sections.
Marine Corps sharpshooters are join
ing the Brigade Rife Range Detach-
ment, which is in command of Capt.
Francis r. Geraci.
There are vacancies in the Brigade
Medical Detachment and for cooks,
clerks, trumpeters and drummers.
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Marine Corps Reserves

With scarcely a month left before
the 9Th Marine Brigade, Washington
Marine Reserve organization, leaves
for camp, there remains a few vacan-
cies in the medical detachment Of
both the 23rd and goth Marines. The
medical troops comprising the above
outfits are young men gathered from
Washington and nearby communities,
Georgetown medical students, George
Washington Medical School, a group
from Georgetown Dental School, a good
representation from the local high
schools and a nucleus Of former serv-
ice men, former soldiers, sailors and
marines.
The enlisted personnel comprising the
brigade medical detachment receives
instructions in flrst-aid, bandaging
surgical technique and the care of the
sick and offers opportunity for train
ing at Virginia Beach from August %
to September 6.
The organization consists of officers
and so men. The brigade surgeon is
Lieut.. Comdr. Don s. KnowIton, regi-
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Airship Cheap at Auction.

Scrap prices prevailed at the auction
sale of an airship, the property of the
Alrship Development Co., Ltd, held re-
Gently at Cramlington, England. The
craft was built in 1929, was 1877 feet
long and similar in type to the R-l0o.
Several hundred people attended the
sale. A 75-horsepower Rolls Royce en-
CINE which cost $4,000 and had only
seven hours flying, went for $3.50, and
the SIS 600 envelope brought only S62.
The gondola, fitted with valuable in
struments, was sold for SO to an engi-
neer who planned to put it in his garden
as a plaything for his children
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Dead Wife's Ring TO No. Q.

When Miss Muriel Bruce becomes the
bride Of the Rev Francis John Lys,
aged SO, provost of Worcester College,
oxford, England, she will receive the
ring OF the bridegrooms first wife as
wedding gift. Wife No. l of aged
Rev. Lys died last September. She left
her $62,500 estate to him and be-
queathed: my diamond ring to his
wife should he marry after my death,
as I hope he will" Youthful Miss
Bruce lives at Adelaide, Australia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

C1r Sn, body a1es $685. $685. C1r 20, body Styles $1745
$95 C1ar Eight De Luxe body ay tI575 $685. C Imperial
$274 $45 factory SPECIAL equneut exa
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PUBLIC LIBRARY

Diverting Voyages for Summer
Readers.
To those VINO must do their vacation
voyaging at home the whole world is
accessible through books. The Public
Library calls attention to the following
volumes of around-the- world travels
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Executive offces and Service
1922 u St. NV.
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For Better VaIue-Get q ChrvSler

Investigate. Decide for yourself. Simple
comparisons that anyone can easily
make lead straight to this conclusion:
That Chryslers all Chryslers have
the advantage of smarter design; that
Chryslers reflect more skill in engineer
ing, that Chryslers are built to more
esactlng limits OF precision; that Chy-
slers are livelier in pickup, smoother
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
SAYS POLICEMAN
SHOULD Be HERO
Shifting From The Grim
inal To The Policeman
The Role Of Popular
Hero, Is Need, Hoover
Says.

Washington.-A change in pub
lie sentiment, shifting from the GRIM
inal to the policeman the role of
popular hero, was advocated by Pres
ident Hoover as one means of stamp
ing out excessive crime. .
In a radio message to the opening
meeting of the International Asso-
citation of Chiefs of Police at St. Pc
tersburg, Fla, he condemned the "glo-
%rification of cowardly gangsters." The
President spoke from the cabinet room
of the White House.
IF the police had the vigilant, uni
versal backing of public opinion in
their communities" he said, eff they
had the implacable support of the
prosecuting authorities and the courts,
if our criminal laws in their endeavor
to protect the innocent did not fur
nish loopholes through which irrespon-
sible yet clever criminal lawyers daily
find devices of escape for the guilty,
| am convinced that our police would
stamp out the excessive crime and re-
move the worldwide disrepute which
has d~isgraced some of our great cities"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
Negroes Unwraps
Wad Of Cash And
Buys A New Auto

Durham.-Eleven hundred dollars
in United States currency, mostly 81
bills but all cash, went back into cir
culation here after many years of hi
bernation when Rose Stokes, 70-year-
old negress, suddenly got tired Of
walking.
With a bundle incased in musty
newspapers under her arm, Rose shut
fled languidly into an automobile
agency and called for service. When
she said she wanted a new car the
salesman looked dubious. He looked
shell shocked when she unwrapped her
bundle.
1t contained a small arnful of
greenbacks.
Rose said she had been saving 81 a
week for many years in order that she
might %enliven the twilight Of her life
by showing some tony" neighbor:
in Hayti (local negro %section) a thing
or two. She couldn't drive, but wa
willing to try.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
BIG RAILWAYS
AGREE TO AID
WEAKER ROADS

Atlantic City, N. J.-America's big
brother railroads here pronounced
themselves willing to help their little
brothers meet the vicissitudes of bust
ness.
Accepting in principle the plan of
the Interstate Commerce commission
to pool revenues resulting from freight
rate increases to be granted by the
commission, the Association of Rail-
way Executives appointed a commit
tee to confer with the commission to
obtain a more definite understanding
and to suggest certain notifications
The freight rate increases, not gen
eral in character, will be allowed by
the commission only if the earnings
resulting therefrom are utilized for
weaker roads.
As explained by a railroad executive
who attended the closed sessions, the
rail chiefs agreed:
THAT the commissions pool plar
should be adopted II certain obstacles
can be surmounted.
2.-That the increased earnings re-
sulting from the rise in freight rates
should be pooled, the pool to be ad-
ministered by the railroads, not a gov
eminent agency.
3.-That while weaker roads will bt
granted funds from the pool the fund
will be loans, not gifts.
4-That railroads accepting sucl
loans will lot pay dividends.
5.-That the association cease con.
sideration of the plan until their ap.
pointed committee has conferred will
the commission and pronounced itsel
ready to report.
The important issue was described
as the determination that the fund
shall be loaned, not given and that tn
railroads administer the funds, not IT,
government.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
DELIVERS fine
ADDRESS HERE
TO CIVIC CLUBS
Candidate For Governor
Saws Relief Must Come
From Reduction In Cost
OF Government.

l am opposed to all forms of sales
tax.
l favor a reduction in the S of
government in this state.
Briefly summarized, these were the
two outstanding points stressed by
Allan Jay Maxwell, commissioner OF
revenue and candidate for governor.
in his address last Friday night before
the three civic clubs of this city. r.
Two types of sales tax were propos-
ed at the last legislature, Mr.. Maxwell
stated:
/. The genefal sales tax.
2. The luxury sales tax.
Either form, he stated, would be
detrimental to business and would
throw the business of the state into
interstate channels instead of state
channels. He also stated the luxury
tax would place an additional burden
on those least able to pay.
Reductions in the cost of govern
ment should be made, he said, in the
operating expenses of the following:
l.. State.
2 County.
;. Municipalities.
The general assembly helped reduce
the tax burden on property, the
speaker continued, but further relief
must be found as much property will
not even pay taxes this year, he said.
The total cost of government in this
state is 102 millions of dollars; while
the present market value of farm pro-
ducts is only about 100 millions of
dollars in a state predominantly agri-
cultural.
The state can not stand such a cost
of government, he said, and other
plans must be adopted. The cost as re-
lated to business shows a similar con-
dition.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
SWEET POTATOES
PROVE PROFITABLE

Washington.-Sweet potato grow
ers of North Carolina who called up
on the United States department of
agriculture and the state experiment
station for help in solving their fer
tilizer problems are now profiting by
larger yields and more economical pro-
duction since adopting fertilizer meth
DDS recommended by federal and state
scientists.
DR.. J. J. Skinner, senior biochemist
of the bureau of chemistry and soils,
reported the results of a six-year ex-
pertinent by the bureau and the North
Carolina experiment station in Curri-
tuck county, N. c., on the principal
sweet potato soil of the South Allan
tic seaboard.
Potato growers of Currituck county
who experienced difficulty in getting
newly set plants to live, suffered from
broken stands, from crops maturing
too late for the most favorable mar
ket and from reduced yields asked
the federal and state governments to
aid them.
The investigators found the farm
ers were using fertilizers with nitro
gen derived from mineral sources, or
with potash from low grade potash
salts. When applied in quantities of
1000 or more pounds per acre, under
the plant row, these mixtures caused
injury to the young plants, resulting
in plant loss, retarded growth, poor
for plants which survived.
Similar injury was not observed
from fertilizers having the nitrogen
derived from organic sources of veg
etable and animal waste origin or from
fertilizers having nitrogen derived
from a mixture of mineral and organ
ic sources.
Many experiments, in which meth
DDS and time of applying fertilizers to
sweet potatoes were compared, also
showed that broadcasting the fertiliz-
ers over the row after the plants had
been set and become well-rooted gave
larger yields by an average of Is BUSH
els per acre than when the fertilizer
was applied, as commonly, under the
row before transplanting the plants.
The experiments show that f%ertiliz-
ers containing ; to 4 per cent nitro
gen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid, and
8 to 10 per ZEN potash, produce the
best results. Compared with the aver
age yield for North Carolina Of about
100 bushels of sweet potatoes per acre,
some yields of 24o bushels an acre were
obtained this year with less costly mix
lures containing fertilizing materials
that are quickly available.
Many sweet potato growers Of the
section have generally adopted the
methods recommended. The result wa
that they have suffered less from in
jury to young plants, and had better
stands, larger yields and greater prof
its.
In 1880 North Carolina became thu
principal sweet potato producing STATE
and the department of agriculture ans
the state are now cooperating in ex'
periments in four counties.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
Gotham Is Given
Army-Navy Game


Washington.-New York city has
been definitely decided upon for a
post-season Army = Navy football
game for the unemployed. December
II has been agreed upon as the date.
The War Department has advised
representatives of Cleveland, Chicago
and other cities to this effect.
The Yankee Stadium will probably
be the arena, although definite deci-
sion to hold the game there rather
than at the Polo Grounds has not been
made. The post-season service game
last year was played at the Yankee
Stadium, which seats about $4,000.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
German Pilot
Flies With Kite

Borkum, Germany.-When Pilot
Mertschat flies his kite he goes up
with it. Attaching a 5oo-foot length
of light stetle cable to his sail plane
and anchoring the other end to the
ground, he climbs into the plane and
waits for the breeze to lift him. Then
he cut loose and makes a flight.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
PIG-TAIL ECONOM

South Charleston, Ohio.-About the
only virtue of pigs tails is that they
furnish ammunition for wise cracks,
according to E. E. Walker, who as
serts that it takes a bushel of grain
to make the tail grow. Walker declar-
ed he saved a bushel of grain for each
pig by cutting off the tail.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29
FAMILY

Westcliffe Col.-What should be
the hghting's-family in the world
lives at Westcliffe. Four boys, sons of
John and Mrs. Coleman, have been
named, in order of arrival, James Jeff
cries, Stanley Ketchell, Jack Dempsey
and Gene Tunney.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-29

of Labor in 1886, and as Andy would
say LET that be a lesson to you"