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Evening star., 1934-02-11

and ends his letter by regretting that he did
not let the fish grow to It's full size.
Bertan Rodgers, Harrisburg, Pa, also gives
fishermen a mark to shoot at, with his tale
of giant trout Seeing the fish, he cast out to
1t, and in the twinklng Of an eye so feet Of
line was stripped of his reel-then everything
went slack Thinking he had lost the fish, he
walked to the bank to peer in when, to his
astonishment he saw the fish lying in the same
spot where it had been sighted. His explana-
ton is that the trout had just been swallowing
the bait.
And then along came Schuyler Wiltfang,
South Bend, Ind, with tale of the terrific
fogs in Indiana. Schuyler carpenter by trade,
vowed that while shingling a roof one day
during one of the rather light fogs, he went the
length of the building, and then laid 10 feet of
shingles out onto the fog before his discovered
his mistake
Another natural phenomenon was called to
the attention of the judges by an anonymous
contributor from Kansas, who informed the
committee that in his home territory the wind
blew so hard that after moderate windstorm,
the farmers built roofs on their wells and used
them for silos.
Harry Zatorski, Chicago, H., with all the
veracity of sailor to back his story, related an
experience on voyage from New York to
Key West aboard sailing vessel. On the way.
- -'''n sailed into what was thought
Evening star., 1934-02-11

even tried the experiment of burning electric
lights in q chicken coop to delude poor Biddy
into laying more eggs, but It took Clark
OHanlon, jr, Blair Nebr. according to his
entry, to devise the clever idea of crossing
bees with lightning bugs to increase their
honey production
And while on the subject of inventions, the
ladies are not far behind. Mrs ]. L. Hart
zell Kokomo, Ind, wrote the club of an in
vention in the form of a pair of rubber boots
for window washers, so constructed that II
the wearer fell he would bounce instead of
being killed by the impact of his fall Sad
to state, the invention will rot go on the
market for Mrs. Hartzell concluded her letter
by stating that in test made from the
Masonic Temple in Chicago, a man wearing
q pair of these boots bounced up and down for
three days, and had to be shot to keep him
from starving to death.
John BOOKHARDT, Virgins, Mss, gives
- the anglers something to shoot at in his
letter to the club, wherein he relates the cap
ture of a fish on the Tensaw River.
BOokhardt vows that after machine cunning
and dynamiting the finny monster, it took 100
men and 200 boys to haul 1t out of the water;
that there we're no scales in Alabama big
enough to weigh it on, but that 1t measured 90
feet between the eyes; that it took 48 hours
for the hole made r. - -~ ~ -
Evening star., 1934-02-11

ting the biggest whopper of the year to the
famous Burlington Liars Club of Burlington.
Wis, a cheerfully mendacious outfit which
annually undertakes to discover which Ameri-
can citizen is the most gifted at plain and
fancy story-teling.
The club has been doing this for some little
time and bigger and better liars contests seem
to be in the ofing. In 1888, for instance the
club received entries from residents of Al Of the
48 States in the Union, getting total of 2,500
letters from assorted liars. The only States not
represented were Oregon, Alabama, South Caro-
lima Delaware, New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Maine.
The new champion won his title of biggest
liar with the following gentle anecdote:
My grandfather had clock that was 20
old that the shadow of the pendulum swinging
back and forth had worn a hole in the back
of the clock.
II will challenge any one to tell a bigger one."
Short, artistic and to the point-thats Mr..
CereSa's motto.
Evening star., 1934-02-11

GENTLEMAN named B. Ceresa Of
I.ange1oth, Pa, is the biggest liar in
the United States-and he's proud
of it. Anyway, Mr.. Ceresa was the
Nations biggest liar in the year
1893 He won that title by submit
Evening star., 1934-02-11

hole in the casing ,UOn the liars cham
pionship for Mr.. Ceresa.
10 be cloud but which turned out to be
cloud Of mosquitoes
The mosquitoes cleaned the ship of every
stitch of canvas and tarred rope from stem to
stern, and from truck to keelson. A month
LATER Zatorsh declared, they ran into the same
cloud of insects near Vera Cruz He identified
them through the fact that every mosquito In
the flock was wearing canvas overalls and tar
rope SuSpenderS.
\A/HILE there may be big liars in Burlington.
w avowedly the liars capital of the United
States, it remains for Minnesota to produce
men with big feet, If the entry of Emil Miklas,
Owatonna, Mimi, be credited. Emil re-
1ates that man living next door to him has
such large pedal extremities that his shoes
have to be manufactured during the Summer,
when the shoemaker can work outside
In line with their policy of trying to do
good turn wherever possible, the club officials
pass on to agricultural experts the yarn of
Woodrow Wilson (not the one you are think
ing of, who lives at Miller, S. Oak. Wilson,
in his youth $50 he says, started creamery
out in Washington. He put in 29 churns, but
after the first three weeks stopped trying to
keep track of the output
In partial explanation, however, he assured
club officials that the buttermllk, which was
dumped at the creamery, spread across the
valley for a distance of 3 miles, necessi-
tating the of ferry boats at the State high
way, and that 2 miles down the valley a
man set up new Sawmill and used the butter
milk for water power to operate his mill
Local members of the club elated
the success of the 1888 contest, since they
consider it a vindication of their avowed pur-
pose of preserving that well-known bit of
Americanism--the art of telling tall stories,
which flourished in the days of the corner
grocery where grandfathers of the present
generation matched wits and spun cleverly
concocted and carefully shaded bits of imagina-
ton which gave American life distinctive
flavor
The corner grocery, with its ro,snd oak stove,
its ring of chairs and boxes the hospitable
poor box where a man might fill his pipe.
and the convenient sawdust box for the benefit
of those who preferred "eatin' tobacco" they
point out, is thing of the past, but the Bur-
Iington Liars Club provides literary meeting
place for those who still wish to exercise their
own particular type of humor
I'VE have been criticized and laughed at;
we have been cussed and discussed" said
President Huett, but after all, we have not
harmed any one. In view of the fact that
out of all the lies we have received there has
Continued on Thirteenth
Evening star., 1934-02-11


Ceresa's motto.
D INNER UP to Mr.. Ceresa was B. J. Franklin
II of Highland Park, Ill His sacrifice on the
altar of veracity went like this
It was talking to fellow of the sights to be
seen at the World Fair in Chicago, and he
said he was at the last World Fair in 1893
and that they had a turtle on exhibit that
had to be shipped to the fair on fiat car.
Now that was only baby turtle compared to
the one I caught In the Mississippi River. He
was so large he was pushing all the water IN
front Of him and kicking up dust with his hind
feet"
the 1892 contest and holder of the clubs medal
during 1888, was not among those cOnteSting
this year.
Il do not choose to rum" was McCarthy's
comment. Pressed for reason, he avowed
that it was too much Of an advantage to a
man to hold the title more than one year. To
prove his point, he took solemn oath that no
lawyer in Denver would have him on a jury,
that tax collectors no longer sent him bills,
and that speed cops, on seeing his medal tore
up traffic tickets, and vowed they would have
the speedometers fixed on their motor cycles.
And here is good news to amateur prevari-
Gators throughout the land. Club members
have voted to remove the age restrictions,
hitherto imposed, and throw the 1884 contest
wide open.
I'VE do not want to stifie budding genius"
said O. C. Hu]ett, president of the Liars Club,
"and further we are doing all we can to cut
down unemployment We have put on SO many
new members in the last three months that
we are thinking of applying to Gen. johnson
for our Blue Eagle
"Suggestions that the contest be made an
international affair were voted down, despite
the fact that letters were received during the
year from Colin B. Faulkner, Noel, Nova
Scotia, and A. M. Churchill, Lvelone, Sas-
katchewan."
NOU might think it quite task to pick
] winner out of list Of $500 entrants-and
If you ask officials of the club, who act as
judges, they will tell you that it is, especially
SO, considering the high talents Of the liars
who apply for membership.
For instance-Harold P. Cole, Long Beach,
Calf In his offering related his experience
on the day, the only day in history, when San
Francisco Bay actually froze over.
There are, Cole AYERS, millions of bullfrogs
In and around the bay. Some of them, of
course, small, only big enough to tip over
ferry boats, but they count Just the same
Well, when the bay started to coat with ice
the frogs, sensing danger, dove in, head first.
But the bay was freezing so rapidly that they
were all caught with their hind legs sticking
Evening star., 1934-02-11

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Evening star., 1934-02-11

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The Washington times., 1934-12-08

Beach at Trouville," by Bou-
din. and a still life by A. Vollon.
Through the hall are two
sitting rooms painted a pale
almond green. In the front
room, over the mantel Is a
harvesting scene, simply, rhyth-
mically painted by Maurice
Sterne. There is a clear oil OF
Notre Dame by Rousseau and a
fresh little still life, Pink
Candle" by the same painter.
Clifford Beal has two pictures,
gay painting, Polka with
red military coats and tarletons,
chandeliers and crimson dam
ask curtains and a strong oil,
"Quarryman."
Per Krohg has a picture here;
there is a quiet landscape,
Town BY a River" by Vincent
Canada, and among others, a
charming interior, INTIMACY
by E. WILLARD.
In the back living room are
light, OFFICIALLY fragrant oils.
There is a beautiful landscape
by Cezanne, Mount Saint Vic
toire," four varied and fine
Bonnard'S, two pictures by
Marjorie Phillips, a still life,
Little Bouquet" a land
scape with notable perspective,
THE Open Road" and an en-
chanting painting by ElshemuS
called Cabs for Hire"
Second Floor
After this the art lover will
stroll up the stairway. past two
superb abstract panels, by Au-
guStus Vincent Tack, to the
second floor. Here the rooms
are differently arranged. There
is less furniture In two of
the rooms the lighting comes
from the ceiling and the walls
are covered in neutral colored
linen. 1t gives more the ef-
feet of gallery less that of a
home hung with great paint
lngs.
Space does not permit a room
by room description suffice
to say that no one who loves
painting should fail to see
Robert Specer's "The Evange-
list" the six small. fine,
bawdy pictures of Daumier.
Whistler's portrait of Miss
Lillian Woakes," Utrillo's "Snow
in the Suburbs" Matisse's
Torso" and "Anemonies and
Mirror" PicaSso's incandescent
Blue Room" and the angular
modern conception of Messrs.
Kantor Dove, C. Brague, Karl
Knaths and Stefan Hirsch.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Repeaters Sign
For Cruise

Elliot Liman, in charge of
cruises of the Holland-America
Line, who has just returened
from a trip to Mexico and Cali
fornia. reports that there is con-
siderable enthusiasm and inter
est in winter cruises for the
coming season, and that even on
his return through the drought
sections of Kansas and the Da-
kotaS, he found the travel busi-
ness much better and a more
optimistic feeling prevailing.
Mr.. Liman stated that one
of the best barometerS of the
coming cruise season is the fact
that on the S. S. Statendam. due
to sail on her third annual Medi-
terranean cruise from New York
next February 7, are already
booked Is repeaterS-people who
were on the trip last year and
70 Motpg again.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

of his wealth and prominence,
is on the death list.
Then the courage of hundreds
Of years of persecution rises IN
this man, who heretofore had
been an intellectual, collector
of antiques. After beaten and
crippled refugees from other
villages come hobbling into
Yoghonoluk. Bagradian con.
suits with the elders of the vii
lage.
Together they persuade por-
ton of the villagers to retire to
the faStneSs of Musa Dagh.
The story of the siege of 40
days, of the final rescue by
French battleships of those men
and women and children who
lived through the spotted
fever; the ghastly ravages Of
starvation and madness; Of the
effect upon his French wife
and the changing of his own
character from an observer Of
life to a patriarch of super
human endurance; all these are
written into the chapters that
form a great book.
Here are two verses of a
song, called The Song of Com
ing and Going" the working
song" of the seven villages
whose men, women and chill
dren fought the Turks from
the Mountain of Moses.
Days of misfortune pass and
are gone,
Like the days Of winter, they
come and they go;
The sorrows of men do not last
very long,
Like the buyers in shops,
they come and go.
persecution and blood lash
the people to tears
The caravans, they come and
they go,
And men spring up in the
garden of earth
Whether henbane or balsam,
they com e and they
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

ship much water in rough
weather.
The Queen Mary apparently
must be content with being the
worlds speediest ship, rather
than both that and the worlds
largest.
While British interests are
maintaining that the Queen
Mary will be the largest liner,
the French have announced a
set of figures to prove it will
be their Normandie.
More than 5000 men are at
work on the Normandie so as to
get it ready in time for it's trial
runs in the Bay of Biscay next
May. The first transatlantic
run will be early in June, thus
she will have a start of six
months on the Queen Mary in
establishing itself.
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

He may sit in an arm chair,
with an ash tray at his elbow
and revel in good and beautiful
paintings.
After he has entered the dark
panelled entrace hall and left
his hat and coat in a small re.
Ception room where reproduc-
tions of paintings may be
bought, he will walk into what,
at one time. must have been the
dining room.
Facing him, hung over the
fireplace is magnificent Renoir.
1t is called Boating Party at
Lunch" and is beWitching,
gay. brilliant picture of a group
of men and women eating in
little French restaurant over
hanging the banks of a river.
Also, in this room are two oils
by Derain. a fine. sombre land
scape, with feathery trees in the
foreground. Southern France"
a portrait, "Mano the Dancer"
and a sunny interior by Berthe
MoriSot.
The Library
Beyond the dining room is the
great library, a T-shaped room
with panelling some four feet
high of nut brown wood edging
the walls. Over this panelling
are hung a luminous Ell Greco;
two gentle and decorative pan
els by Puvis de Chavannes; a
vital landscape by John Consta-
BILE; Ballet Espagnol" by Ed
Guard Manet; a delicious small
ballet scene by Degas; "Upris-
ing" the horrors of maddened
crowd. by Daumier; a superb
painting of a mountain land
Scape by Courbet, and others.
Then this art lover will prob
ably Saunter back through the
dining room and entrance hall,
on whose walls hang a lovely
tranquil picture of Alfred Sis
ley, Snow at LouvecienneS,"
the Emerald Pool" by John H.
TWachtman; a delicate oil,
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

While we Occldentals we're
reading of the horrors and de-
struction of the Western front,
the young Turks" under the
leadership of the heavy-lidded,
Immediately dressed, Enver
Pasha we're slowly but sys-
tematically and brutally slaugh-
tering the Armenians.
Systematic Horror
Now, through the skill of
Franz Werfel, what seemed to
us a minor horror in the vast
kaleidoscope of bloody abomlna-
tions, becomes as vivid as a
daily street scene. The latent
courage, the sensitivity of the
Armenians, the frightfulnec, of
the slow persecution of a help
less people is painted in words
of crystal.
The story is centered around
Gabriel Bagradian, an Armen-
ian of wealth who has passed
twenty-three years in Paris,
looking after the interests Of
the great merchant firm of Ba-
gradian in Europe.
In middle life, just after the
outbreak of the World War,
due to the death of his brother
Avetis, he comes back to Asia
Minor, accompanied by his
French wife, Juliette, and their
fourteen-year-old son Stephan.
Death List
Here they settle, lulled at first
by the beauty and peace of a
home which is far from the war
torn areas of Europe. Grad
ually, however, it becomes evi-
dent to Gabriel Bagradian that
the Turks are planning to mas
sacre all Armenian villagers,
priests, women and children.
Having once served with dis
tinction in the Turkish Army
he believes that his family is
safe, that it is just a question of
conveying them out of Asia
Minor. 1t is made clear to him,
however. that he, more def
nitely than most men, because
The Washington times., 1934-12-08

Will 4CSP0NG w Sp0CO'
One hundred and II hours
is the present record for the
Cherbourg-NeW York passage,
made a few weeks ago by the
North German Lloyd liner
Bremen. The actual Atlantic
record is held by the Italian
liner Rex, which in August,
1888, covered the 3,181 miles
from Gibraltar to New York
in 100 hours at an average of
1892 knots.
To make up for delay due to
fog or bad weather the Queen
Mary, if the 96-hour schedule
is to be maintained, will some
times have to travel at a con-
Siderably higher speed than
3212 knots.
1t is asserted, however, that
the reserve of power in the
propelling machinery is great
enough to drive the giant at
"a to 35 knots, without causing
undue vibration or making her
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
New Giant Ships Will Set Fast
Pace in Ocean Travel

LONDON, Dec. 8 (IN.S)-New York will be brought
within SO hours European continent when the giant
British liner Queen Mary launched September last takes her
place in the Atlantic steamer service in the spring of 1886
The schedule being worked out for the liner will pro-
vide for 96hour passage between Cherbourg and New
York average speed of 32 approximately four
knots than the average for the fastest Atlantic
crossing made This would bring her drgbes
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
BY GRACE HENDRICK EUsTIs

fine book has come out this week. It is "The Forty
Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfe translated (magn
centy by Godfrey Dunlop and published by the Viking
Press.
1t is the story told in novel form, with rich and
wealth of historical background of the Armenian
massacres during the World War
The Washington times., 1934-12-08
Duncan Phillips Gallery Houses Story of Armenian Massacres
Unusually Fine Pictures Is Told in Vivid Style
By GRACE HENDRICK EUsTIs

The Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery contains finely
hung scrupuouy chosen collection of pictures
be found throughout the length and breadth of this country
Any art lover may enter the big, red stone house
Twentyfrst Street during the week Sundays and
wander at leisure through the furnished rooms where pic
lures hung mantes, stairway walls, above
hnokc
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-03
Winter Returns To
Mountain District

DENVER, Colo, April 3. U.P)-
Winter played return engage
ment in the Rocky mountains to-
day
A storm which breWed in the
north swept over the mountain
states last night and snow con-
tinued to fall today. The storm
spread from Canada and covered
Montana, Wyoming and Colorado
with a blanket of heavy snow
One death was attributed to
the storm in Wyoming. j. Kent
Kinniburgh, secretary of the Cas-
per, Wyo Chamber of Commerce,
died from injuries when the auto
mobile in which he was riding
skidded and overturned near Doug
las, Wyo, c. A. Hilliar, the driver
of the automobile was not in
jured
A high wind accompanied the
storm in Wyoming and Montana
and piled the snow in drifts. High
ways were blocked throughout Mon
tana by 10 foot drifts and air
travel on the transcontinental lines
through Wyoming was halted.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-03
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE BOB
CAT

While Uncle Wiggily was sitting
on a warm stone at the edge of the
brook, catching a funny fish, as you
heard in the story last night, some
thing was happening in the woods
behind the rabbit gentleman.
So now we have two things to
find out about. One is what kind Of
q funny fish was fast on Uncle Wig
gilys hook. And he, himself, Won
dered about that as he sat there,
pulling on his pole and line. But he
could not seem to haul the fish out
of the water.
1T certainly must be big one, y
said Uncle Wiggily.
The other thing We must find out
about is what was happening in the
woods behind the rabbit. I shall tell
you Of that first.
Early on the same morning that
Uncle Wiggily had started to go
fishing, the Bob Cat, with his sill
" little tail, hoped out OF his bed
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-03
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
RUMOR HOUNDS BUSY

Readers will notice a short item in the
news columns today from New York, re-
porting that Wall street Is manufacture
ing rumors that the President is i'll
aboard the Nourmahal, on which he is
cruising in southern waters.
The brief report says the rumor IS
magnified as it passes from mouth TO
mouth which is nothing more than the
truth about all rumOrs. They have way
of growing rapidly.
Wall street has its own desires for man.
ufacturing such a rumor. Stock man.
ipulation, which brought about the crash
of 1929, did not die with that debacle
There has been considerable of 1t going
on all through the depression and there
is nothing better to serve the purpose OF
those wishing to manipulate stocks Tor
their own gain than to circulate rumOrS
about somebody or something which
have an effect Though only heaven knows
WHY upon the price of stocks.
No other person has a greater effect
in this respect than the President. Not
personally, of course, but because OF the
office he holds.
While he is in Washington it is diff
cult for the rumor manufacturers to ac-
complish much. He is too close to the
public, thanks to the newspapers. But
away from the capital, and on the high
seas, the picture is changed. Some busy
body can start a rumor and that Is all
that is necessary. Human nature, IN
spired chiefly by the desire to be consld-
cred ''in on the know" does the rest.
There is a chance of course that the
President may be i'll. But it is remote
one. Although no newspapermen are
aboard the boat on which he sails, they
are in close contact with him and know
better than anyone else Just what is the
truth.
There have been no reports coming
from them that there is anything wrong
with the President If there was, the
public would be told about it. We know
that crisis was hidden from the pub
lie during Cleveland's second admins
tration, but many things have been
changed since then and methods of COM
munication have progressed so that it is
difficult to hide anything which one may
desire to hide.
Wall street has manufactured this par
ticular rumor for its own ends. It is not
likely that one person in 10 outside Of
Wall street will pay any attention to it.
They shouldn't either.