Evening star., 1933-06-23

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@. How many railroad officials in the
United States have salaries of $4,000
or more?--J. J. Y.
A. As Of March /. 1892, there were
l,343 positions In class one railroads
paying high salaries OF this number,
336 paid less than $4,000.
@. Have any of the camps for un-
employed women opened?-H. H.
A. Camp Terra in Palisades Interstate
Park. N. Y. the first experimental camp
for unemployed women, Is now open.
@. Where were the desert scenes for
Rex Ingram's Garden Of Allah taken?
r. S.
A. They were taken at Biskra. Alsiers.
said to be the locale Of Robert Hichens'
story.
@. Please give biography of Pecora.
who was prominent in the Morgan
hearings. F. r.
A. Ferdinand Pecora was born in
Nicosia, Sicily, in 1882. He was brought
to New York State at the age of by
his father After passing through the
public school he spent year at st.
Stephens College on scholarship. He
gave this up at the age of Is to help
his father support the younger six chill
dren. He worked in law Office until he
saved enough to pay his way through
the New York Law School. He was ad-
| mitted to the bar in 1909, at the age of
27. He was vice chairman Of Theodore
Roosevelt's Progressive Republicans in
| the State of New York. Later, however,
he affiliated with the Democratic party.
In 1918, he was made deputy assistant
in the district attorneys office In 1922
attorney. In 1880 he established him
self in private practice.
c. Where Is the headquarters Of
hay-fever organiZation?-J. S.
A. The American Hay Fever Associa-
ton Is located in the Audubon Building,
New Orleans, La.
| O. How did the founder of Reuters
News Agency become baron?-J. H. L.
| A. Paul Julius Reuter- was in 1871 given
| the title of baron by the Duke of SAKE
| Coburg and Gotha, and by a special
grant of Queen Victoria he and his heirs
we're authorized to have the privileges
of this rank in England.
Q. What does the word Tammany
mean?-J. T. G.
| A. 1t was originally the name of the
chief of the Delaware Indians. In the
aboriginal language the word means
''the affable"
@. How much maple sugar can be
made each season from the sap from
one trees. D. F..
| A. The Bureau of Plant Industry
says that from S to 40 gallons of sap
| is obtained from tree during sea-
| son; on an average between 10 and 20
! gallons. Normal sap of an average year
contains about per cent of sugar.
although it may vary from 05 per cent
| to as high as 7 or even 10 per cent.
| The sugar content varies greatly with
the tree, its location and its past
| growth. One tree can be counted on
| to give from l to pounds of sugar
| per season, or, expressed in sirup of
| standard density, from l pint to gal
lon, although the average from year to
| year and from tree to tree Is about 3
| pounds of sugar or pints of sirup. In
a normal year, then, / barrel OF sap