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Evening star., 1931-05-07
Friday Bargain in Our May Underprice Sale!

$1.9S Printed Bed Spreads
Friday, 81 SO
Colorful printed spreads, neatly tai
lored with bound, scalloped edges;
soxloS-in. size.
S2.9S Linen-and. Rayon Cloths
Friday. S22S
A Iustrous mixture of linen and
rayon, woven in smart patterns; plain
colorS; nicely hemrned; 64x54-in. size.
5lx70-in. Size. Res. $3.50. 90 IN
3Sc Turkish Towels
Friday, 2Sc
Big, soft, thick towels, 22x44 inches.
In absorbent double-thread weave, with
colored borders.
Palais Royal-Second Floor
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Clearance!
Felt Hats
Form erIy, IS O.
Friday ~aO
Slightly soiled. Various styles

Slightly soiled. Various styles
and colors.
Palais Royal-Third Floor
Silverware
$3.50 Sterling Silver Sherbet Sets
Friday, S4.05
etx sherbets in case with cut
glass inserts; only.
81 Pcs. Sterling Silver. Deposit
Ware
Regularly, $3.50; Friday, 81
plates; roll plates. salad bowls. etc,
Of onyx glass, decorated with sterling
l2S Pcs. Silverwsre Reduced
Many at u Price and Less
Friday, 2Sc TO S1.05
table mats relish hI dishes. Ss'eir eeiEarstts
Palais Royal-Main Floor
Children's 29c Rayon Plated
Anklets
Friday Only, 3 for Soc
.PPlIain PPlain .EEhite and coIored eun tep
t,ItL ankiets tnat look 80 very, smart with
ity; sizes to 8i2.
Palais Royal-First Floor
90 Dark Print Dresses, Were $29S
Friday. Sl.69, 2 for So
Neatly tailored STYLES in small prints
contrasting TRIMMINGS.
Palais Royal-Third Floor
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Developing, printing, enlarging
 and framing at SYLVIA'S.

Take advantage of the Seward Steam Laundry's offer for 50 per cent off on all cleaning and press ing jobs received on Monday. Sew ard Steam Laundry.
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ALASKA FISHERMEN

Bargains in boat equipment. Stuf- fling boxes, bearings, propellors (new and used), gear pumps, etc. Wm. H. Baker, 59 Pond St., Quincy, Mass.
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Fresh Apples S2.25 to $500 per box. Matanuska Potatoes $500 per Cwt. Brown & Hawkins Corpora ton.
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Such happy dessert for all ap- petites HORLUCK'S Danish Ice Cream. For sale at the Candy Cot tage.
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whenever there is any use for :

whenever there is any use for . siding.
 * x * >:
 MT. Hart, 9 new man, arrived a. Chulitna a week ago and is stop ping with Elmer Boedeker on Pass Creek. He brought an outfit and is looking for a place to trap. The boys left on the freight November 6, for a caribou herd up at the summit of Broad Pass.
 * * a;
 There aren't many fur signs around this fall so far and if it wasn't for the beaver the trappers would all be out of luck this win ter; it will be harder to get the limit of beaver this winter as they are getting thinned out Also, there are a few grouse and ptar- nligan around here now, but no sign of any rabbits, and this dis trict as usual is all taken up with trappers.
 j. X
 Jim Williams, fur farmer at Canyon, Mile 269, was lucky to get a nice bull moose about one mile from his place up on High Ridge. Mrs. Williams went to Anchorage to visit with Mrs. Evan Jones for a month. Jims nink are all doing fine and he will also trap at Canyon as usual this win' ter.
 Steve Nicholas, section foreman at Chulitna, with Jim zorcas, his helper, have their section in good shape for the winter. There is not much work to do at present. only shovel a little snow and walk track till the snow starts which will be soon as cold weath- CT is starting to set in
 < & <
 Tom Papatious, section foreman with one man, is still at Hurricane Mile 2S1, and they have their sec- tion in fair shape for the winter. Hurricane section is on the sum- init of Chulitna Pass and is the closest to Mt. Mckinley of any place along the Alaska Railioad, being just 40 miles away from Me kinley. 1.
 MT. Van Kirk, section foreman ot rYa~,nl,,Y., coc+inn AS;lo 0QC and
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LEcAl NOTICE

Tn the District Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, Third Division. SUMMONS
 VIOLA s. WORTHINGTON,
 Plaintiff,
 CARL V WORTHINGTON,
 Defendant.
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
 STATES OF AMERICA, To the Above Named Defendant,
 GREETING:
 You are hereby required to ap- pear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Division, within thirty days after the last publication of this summons, name ly, within thirty (30) days af- 1 ter the 7th day of December, 1881, in case this summons is published, or within forty days after the date of it's service upon you, in case this summons is served upon you personally, and answer the con- plaint of the above named plaintiff on file in said court in the above entitled action.
 The said plaintiff in said action demands the following relief: A judgment of said court forever dis solving the bonds of natrimony now existing between you and said plaintiff; that said plaintiff be au- thorized to resume her maiden name, and for such other and fur ther relief as to the court may seem right and proper in the premises.
 And in the event you fail to so appear and answer, the plaintiff will take judgment against you for want thereof, and will apply to the court for the relief demanded in his complaint and as hereinabove stated.
 The date of the order for service of summons by publication in this action is October 27, 1881.
 WITNESS, the Honorable E. Coke Hill, Judge of said Court, and the Seal of said Court hereunto af- fixed, on this 7th day of November, 1881.
 N. H. CASTLE, Clerk. (Seal) By VIM. H. WHITTESEY
 Deputy Clerk. Publish November g, IS, g, 31, De- cember T.
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Jim Herdman did a lot of de- velopnent work on his Big Base ore lead on Treasure Creek, 13 miles east of Chulitna, and a tri- butary of Portage Creek. The big ore body is 30 feet wide and car ries zinc, antimony, molibdenum, silver and some gold. He has driven his tunnel in 72 feet now and is still in solid, massive ore.
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CHuLITNA NOTES

Moose Johnson arrived back at Chulitna with winters trapping outfit on November l and will trap his old line as usual. \ * * * *
 Roy Boedeker left Chulitna for Willow Creek and went to work for w. E. Dunkle at the Big Quartz Mine October 1. Elmer Boedeker is stopping at the boys railroad camp on Pass Creek, Mile 2761a, where he will trap between there and Hidden River, 26 miles The Boedekers opened up a nice showing of the free gold quartz on their Hidden River property this past summer, some of their high gade samples going as high as s16O0. The ore runs around $50 a ton on the main Big Vein; the highest grades comes off of the smaller veins.
 a; *
 The rails and ties on the Big Siding at Chulitna were taken up and shifted north during the summer; the same thing was done on other sidings along the main line north and south of Curry to economize on the tie question. Ties and rails will be replaced
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Mrs. Van Kirk, went to Anchorage for two weeks vacation the last part of October.
 < < <; #.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. J. Shannon, proprietors and trappers on Homo lulu Creek, Mile 283, have moved over to their last winters trap ping ground around Copper mountain, where they made fine catch of fur last winter.
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FORD DENIES ANY ONE
CAN PREDICT TIME
OF BUSINESS UPTURN
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the inventor wasn't very well just after
his return from Florida"
But to say that Mr.. Edison has re-
tired" he added, lis all bosh. The heat
affects him little. but he is as ever
absorbed in his experimentation work. -
While in New Jersey. Mr. Ford visited
the Edison Cement Works at New Viii
lage, where he became deeply inter-
ested in an old locomotive, a bi-polar
electric motor, several grinding ma
chimes and other equipment which Edi-
son used long ago or still is using in
his researches with cement manufac-
turing processes.
The locomotive and the dynamo, the
latter in use, will be presented to Mr..
Ford for his Edison Museum in the
Edison Institute Of Technology at Dear
born
The dynamo, small type is about So
years old It is one of the oldest in
existence of the types Edison perfected
and will complete the series of "a doZsn
or more" which Mr.. Ford has collected
and placed in the museums.
1T will be quite a contrast" Mr.. Ford
said, Ito the newest one we have, the
only one of its kind in the world, $780,
000-horsepower General Electric genera
tor installed the day before I left"
The locomotive in which Mr.. Ford
was interested is about 40 years old
and first was used by Edison while ex-
perimenting with methods of extracting
iron from ore in the mountains of
Northern New Jersey in 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

it got on any part of the track and were
also ringing at the time the accident
occurred. The jury also seemingly
ignored the fact that there is also at
this crossing wig-wag signal that
was signaling danger in full view Of the
approaching motor car.
"The driver of the motor car ignored
both of these danger signals and con-
tinued over the crossing, running under
one gate while 1t was being lowered
This lowering of the gates did not
ing bells started to ring and the wig
wag signal started to fash its warning
Of danger to the approaching motor
car.
Serve Long Apprenticeship.
IF locomotive engineers we're ex-
pected to stop their trains every time
they saw a trespasser on the track or
an automobile attempting to cut a
train off at crossings, it would be i'm
possible to successfully operate the
trains. Such conduct on the part OF
motor vehicles is a daily occurrence.
In this connection, the relative re-
quirements Of locomotive engineer
and Of person being licensed to oper-
ate a motor driven vehicle land in
many States no license or examination
at all is requiredD is of interest. 1t
requires on the average about 10 min
uteS to make a motorist to operate a
machine capable of speed equal to
that of the average locomotive, and
all over the highways at the will OF
the operator AS against this, we
have the locomotive engineer, who the
records will show has put in an ap-
premiership in junior service Of some
thing between IT and 19 years before
running a passenger locomotive. not
withstanding the fact that locomo-
tives run on tracks that guide them
and their movements are governed by
signals that. so to speak, talk to them
telling them what they can and car
not do.
1T is significant in considering the
question of competency of motor We.
hicle operators, I am informed, thai
the operators license card issued t
the driver Of the motor car in thi!
accident gives her a drivers expert
ence of less than 100 days.
whoever is responsible for this &C
cident, the management of the Balti.
more & Ohio is definitely positive thai
it IS not Engineer Ward"
DRIVERS PERMIT SUSPENDED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
FIRE TOLL REACHES
%, WITH 210 HURT
Fifteen Victims Unidentified
After Pittsburgh Home
: for Infirm Burns.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, July 25.-Bereft of
she home that was transformed from
. merciful shelter to an inferno of death
and terror, scores of elderly men and
women were in hospitals here tonight
and the bodies of 80 others lay in the
county morgue.
They were the victims of fire that left
m ruins the Little Sisters Of the Poor
Horoe for the aged, a charitable haven
70, $50 inf1rm persons, none of them
under go years of age.
Two hundred and ten men and
women were in the hospitals. Many of
them were racked by me rory of night
of horror in the f1re-Swept four-story
brick building at Penn and Aiken ave-
nueS. Some of them were valiant volun-
teer rescuers, policemen and firemen
who labored to save the helpless in
mates.
Seven More Victims Die.
The number Of dead rose to 80 to-
night when seven victims of the fire
succumbed in hospitals. They were
Samuel Berry, 70 years old; Mrs. Rosie
Lang, II years old; Mrs. Sarah Ludden,
10 years old; Mrs. Kate Isaacs, 60 years
old; Mary Burns. Mrs Mary McAvoy.
and George Becker.
Some Of the inmates of the home
were close to so years old and suffered
from shock and exposure, in addition 10
burns.
Seventeen of the dead were not even
partially identified. Although some
were burned badly, making Identified
ton difficult, 1t was believed all were
inmates Of the institution.
Oil Mop Clue TO Origin.
Besides the 230 men ard women, the
home housed 16 nun attendants. All
had retired to rest when the alarm was
sounded late last night.
Fire Chief Richard l.. Smith. who
estimated the property damage at be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. said the
cause of the fire had rot been estab-
lished. He said the floors were oiled
and polished yesterday and that mop,
possibly soaked with oil, had been LETT
on the first floor, and may have caused
spontaneous combustion.
Four Inquiries Started.
Four investigations were started by
city and county authorities and repre-
sentatives of the Fire Underwriters
Association. Chief Smith said much OF
the loss of life and damage would nave
been averted if there had been proper
safeguards in the old building.
The fire started in the basement,
Whirled up an elevator shaft and burst
out on the third and fourth floors IN
sections where crippled and belfast in
mates lay. Some Of the victims died at
their beds. Others were carried out by
police, firemen and volunteers.
Dead Unidentified.
The death list
Mrs. Mary Waldier.
Mrs. Mary Thomas.
Mrs. Martha Tilley.
Catherine MCGUIRE.
Mrs. Mary Jacobs.
J. Stewart (tentative).
Fred Eddelman.
Andrew Watermeyer.
Cornelius Moore.
Samuel Berry.
Mrs. Rosie Lang.
Mrs Sarah Ludden
Mrs Kate Isaacs.
Nary Burns.
Mrs Mary McAvoy.
George Becker.
Ca herine Carraher.
Gustave Moll.
Fifteen unidentified men and women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
COLLEGE COUPLE
DIE MYSTER|OUSLY
Poison and Marriage Secret
Believed to Figure in
Affair of Texans.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Texas, July 25.-An ap-
parent marriage tangle was disclosed
tonight as the possible explanation Of
the deaths of two 19-year-old Rice
Institute students, Miss Hazel Glover,
freshman beauty, and Dan Powell
Stratton, junior.
The two were found dying in an au-
tomobile parked on a street here early
TODAY. Authorities expressed the belief
they had taken, poison. An autopsy
was ordered.
Screams Rouse Residents.
The students we're found by resi-
dents awakened by screams. MISS
Glover, one of the most popular of the
institutes first-year students and Sc
lected for the year book beauty section,
died en- route to hospital and STRAIT
ton died two hours later. Neither was
able to make a statement.
Officers were told by Mrs. E. c. Smith,
aunt of the youth, that he had con-
fided yesterday that he and Miss Glover
were married June rs. A letter found
in Stations effects from Miss Glover
read: IT really can't wait cause I'm
going to break the news" and told OF
wearing ring.
Record Of a Marriage.
The Investigators also found record
of a marriage performed in Fort Bend
County in March in which Stratton
and another Houston society girl were
named as principals A check of sur
rounding counties showed no annul-
ment of the marriage, and members
of the family of the young woman
named denied knowledge of such a
ceremony.
Stratton and Miss Glover. members
of prominent Houston families, were
last seen by friends on a roof garden
They were said to have danced to-
gether several times, but for the most
part spent most Of last evening In
conversation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
SENATOR QUER|ED
ON LOWER TARIFF
Watson Says Democratic
Critics Are Not Specific
in Their Replies.
BY the Associated Press.

The first of a series of open letters
to Democratic Senators asking whether
they would favor downward revision of
the tariff on certain commodities Was
made public today by the Republican
National Committee.
In the communication, Senator Wat
son Of Indiana, the Republican leader,
renewed a tariff exchange with Senator
Robinson Of Arkansas, minority leader,
by asking him If he would favor a re-
duction on several important Arkansas
products.
Robinson Is Queried.
Senator Watson recalled that the
Arkansas Senator had said there would
be an effort for revision of the tariff
in the next Congress.
I therefore ask you whether, in the
congressional revision which you pro-
pose" Senator Watson continued, sis
it your intention to urge a reduction in
the tariff rates on bauxite, the ore
winch forms the base for aluminium; on
kaolin or china clay; on casen; on
rice, on long staple cotton, on cattle,
and on vegetable oilS?"
Senator Watson said he had address,
ed an open letter to Democratic Sena-
tors who had assailed the tariff asking
them to specify what tariff rates they
would reduce lin the general revision
Of the present law which they have so
persistently urged"
Senators Not Specific.
None Of the Senators so addressed"
he added, has come from behind the
bulwark of generalities where they have
been standing throughout the months
Of sniping at the new tariff law"
The Republican Senate leader said
revision of any specific rates would
mean general revision of the tariff
Our stand is definite" he said I'VE
are against any tinkering with the tar
i'll at all in the next Congress and are
quite content to permit revision to be
scientifically made by the Tariff Com
mission"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
TIBBETTS TO SEPARATE,
WIFE BLAMES "FAME"
Opera Star and Mate Eat Parting
of Ways" She An
nounces.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, July 25.-Mrs.
Grace MacKay Tibbett tonight an
nounced her separation from her hus-
band, Lawrence Tibbett, Metropolitan
Opera and movie singer, with the COM
ment that fame and family happiness
are not consistent"
The Tibbett twins, age TO- are at a
mountain vacation camp near here
Lawrence and I have come to the
parting of the ways" said Mrs. Tib-
belts statement. 1T was inevitable
1t was a case of incompatibility and
mental cruelty over period of years
Fame and family happiness are not
consistent Neither Hollywood nor
another woman have played any actual
part in our difficulties. UnSpectacular
but true"
Mrs. Tibbett was the former Miss
Grace MacKay Smith of Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
CAROLINA POLICE TRACE
SUSPECT IN MURDERS

By the Associated Press.
AsHEvILLE, N. c., July 25.-Police
tonight sought to trace C. Rex Kings
movements during the past nine months
while holding him for Arkansas author
tiles, who have charged him with killing
two North Carolina youths near Ma
rion. Ark, last Fall.
The youths were Burton Hensley and
Woodrow Wilson, both of Yancey
County N. C. They were found dying
on the embers of camp fire near
Marion, Ark. last october %.
No valuables were found on the bodies
of the two youths and police were try
ing to learn whether a watch found in
Kings possession was that carried by
one Of them. Relatives Of Wilson and
Henley, who examined it, were un-
certain
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at more than 1000 miles. and only
two Of the projected IL legs on the
flight from New York to TOXIC run
more than 1000 miles in direct air line.
They will have the shortest Jump on
the first leg to Ottawa, if they start
from New York, a distance of 1886 miles.
Their longest will bring them from
the Temperate to the Frigid Zone in a
l.115-mile flight from Baker Lake. near
Hudson Bay, to Aklavik, on the Cana
dian airmail route to Arctic shores. A
deviation to Great Bear Lake, however,
VIII leave the longest hop from Nome,
Alaska, to Karaginsk, Siberia, a dis
lance of l,067 miles.
The route is fairly well within the
range of radio stations, but in Siberia
the vacationerS may be somewhat iso-
lated unless surface ships are plying
near enough.
The coming week bids fair to be a
busy one in aviation history.
On world flight, scheduled to start
o'clock tomorrow morning, Clyde
Pangborn and Hugh Herndon hope to
lower the Post-Gatty record of days
Is hours and 81 minutes.
Before the week is out Miss Laura
ingalls, may begin her solo flight to
Europe. She was aloft today making
fuel consumption tests, one Of the last
preparations for the ocean hop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
RUTH MCCORMICK OUT
AS HOUSE CANDIDATE
Eliminates Self from 1882 Race in
Announcement to
Publishers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCKFORD. Ill. July 25.-Ruth
Hanna Mccormick, defeated by James
Hamilton Lewis in last November's
senatorial campaign, announced tonight
that she would not be a candidate for
Congress in the 1882 Republican pri-
maries.
Setting at rest several weeks of
rumors. the former Congresswoman-at
large's declaration was made at a meet
ing Of editors and publishers Of the If
tenth congressional district.
Mrs. McCormick's announcement was
not. however. an indication she is
through with politics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
FAITHFUL GIRLS FATHER
IN APPEAL TO GOVERNOR
Sends Two Special Delivery Let
ters to Roosevelt for Help
in Mystery.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 25.-Stanley E.
Faithful, stepfather of Starr Faith
full, whose body was washed ashore at
Long Beach, on Long Island, June g.
appealed to Gov. Roosevelt today for
help in solving the mystery of her
death.
Faithful sent two special delivery
letters to the State executive one adj
dressed to his New York City home
and one to Hampton Bays, where the
Governor is passing the week end. He
refused to dfvulge the letters contents
The grand jury will investigate the
case next Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
DRIVERS PERMIT SUSPENDED.
Miss Ethel Thomas License Withdrawn
Pending Investigation.

BY a staff Correspondent of The Star.
BERWYN, Md, July 25.-MiSs Ethel
Thomas, driver of the car which stalled
in front of Baltimore & Ohio express
here Tuesday, resulting in the death OF
two members of the trains crew, yester-
DAY had her drivers permit suspended
by the Maryland Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles.
The permit was suspended without
prejudice" pending the completion of an
office
State police explained it is customary
to revoke a drivers permit without
prejudice" for about 10 days in fatal
accident cases, and to restore the mo-
torist's driving privilege If no charges
are preferred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
WOMEN GIVEN CREDIT
FOR IMPROVED SPEECH
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 25.-Woman's
tongue is credited with smoothing bad
pronunciation from American speech,
In an announcement tonight from the
American Council of Learned Societies.
Women, more eager for culture than
men, are easily influenced to change
their pronunciation" says the state
ment, which is made by DR.. Hans
Kurath of Ohio State University, spokes-
man for the work. Every member OF
women's club wishes to speak like
the leader. Women are the ones who
give strict attention to radio an
nouncers"