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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-27

known rainfall in the country,
averaging only las inches a
year. Both Azizia and Death
Valley are cool in winter.
Turning to the opposite ex-
tremeS of temperature, it may
be said that the worlds coolest
weather probably occurs where
there is nobody to take the
temperature. We can be reason
bly, sure that it does not occur
at Verkhoyansk, in North--Cen-
trail Siberia, that has long en-
joyed the reputation of being
the winter cold pole" of the
globe.
The official weather station
at this place has registered 80
degrees below zero and some
believe it is really 81 degrees
below. But in Siberia there is
a place said to be colder even
than Verkhoyansk, 400 miles
southeast of Verkhoyansk and
we'll inside the temperate zone.
Stories of the terrific cold at
Oimekon-more than 100 de-
grees below-have long been
current in Siberia.
There is, however, every rea-
son to believe that the coolest
winter weather in the world
prevails on the summit of some
lofty mountain, possibly at the
top of Mt. Nilsen, $4,000 feet
above sea level in the interior
of the Antarctic continent.
It has been calculated that a
temperature of 100 degrees be-
low zero is possible on the sum-
NIT of the great Greenland ice
cap. An actual thermometer
reading much lower than any
ever obtained at Verkhoyansk,
was obtained under romantic
circumstances on a lofty slope
of Mount Mckinley, in Alaska.
Wettest and Driest
When the late Archdeacon
Hudson Stuck climbed this
highest North American noun
tain in 1918, he cached on
Parker Pass, at an altitude of
$4,000 feet, an accurate mini
mum thermometer graduated
down to SO below zero.
Nineteen years later, in May
of last year, Sucks thermom-
eter was found by another
climbing party. It's index had
gone beyond the lowest gradu-
alton of the scale and was
projecting into the bulb, indicat-
ing a minimum temperature of
at least 100 degrees below zero.
The rainiest place on the
globe is Cherrapunji in the
Khasi hills of Assam. 1t lies
400 feet above sea level.
The drieSt known place in the
world is africa, Chile, with an
average annual rainfall of only
.02 inch, from 17-year record.
During all that period there
were only three measurable
showers.
Copyright. 1884, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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No Nudes, Good Nudes
One Collegian Who Barred All in Lake


College professors may have the brains which the Gov
eminent needs. But they don't always them
Take the of Julian Ashton Ripley He's at Yale
before the faculty of which President Roosevelt made some
kindly remarks the caliber of professional brains
His title Sterling Research Fellow in Social Science
It's an imposing ts and he must know awful lot about
what's good for society," for human beings living together by
rules intended to their common interests.
Sterling did not, however his knowledge when
he his wife and two young friends swimming stark
naked in Lake Whitney He WASH using his brains when
he led his companions water which is part of New
Ravens city water supply.
He and his friends escaped with fines for their oense
although they almost went to jail
But college professors in general pay brilliant
exhibition of professional brains
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intendent of National Capital
Parks, heard that the boys were
unable to furnish a craft for
the Secretary so whispered in
the ear of DR.. Roy Sexton who
owns fine cruiser which he
keeps moored at a local yacht
club.
Sexton was willing that the
boat be used for good purposes
and has offered it to the boys.
Plans have been made to take
Ickes and Harry Hopkins, Fed
eral Emergency Relief Admin
istrator, down the river for a bit
of Izaak Waltoning, sailing and
swimming.
House leaders who forced that
strenuous gag rule down the
Threats of their unlucky col
leagues in the closing days Of
the last session may have time
to ponder the words of Uncle
Joe Cannon, the last of the
GEARS" who had two pet utter"
ances.
Uncle Joe used to opine:
"A majority can do any,
thing"
But he also observed:
"The pendulum will swing
back"
Into a barber shop rushed
one of the boys who has been
around Washington for a few
years.
While in the shop he con.
verSed with the manager who
discussed people in political life,
After a time the manager pro
duced one of those bowls that
manicurists fill with water and
give to persons to dip hands
into while being manicured. In
the bowl were two large marbles
such as the boys use on vacant
lots.
Said the manager:
"They are for the Sergeant-at-
Arms of the Senate, Chesley w.
Jurney. He likes to have marbles
to play with while his fingers
are in the BOWL"
Before a subcommittee of the
House Military Affairs Commit
tee, Col. Joseph McMullen ad-
mitted that he accepted fees
from a private manganese cor
poration although he was on
the active list of the Army. The
corporation desired favors from
the Tariff Commission and
wanted McMullen to act as
liaison officer.
Regardless of McMullen'S
guilt or innocence, there is one
interesting phase of the case.
The colonel had sought re-
tirement.
Some time ago, Army reduc-
tionists on the House Appropria-
tions Committee provided for
the retirement of 1000 officers
according to age. The provision
was protested because, it was
pointed out, there were excel
lent officers in the Army who
had attained an age over that
listed in the committee retire
ment provision. InjuStices Of
an unlimited number we're con-
tanned in the committee pro-
vision.
For the benefit of the Army,
defense advocates say, it would
be better to retire men like
Colonel McMullen who seek re-
tirement rather than to curtaiI
the number of efficient men by
following a strict rule of age.
Copyright, 1894. The Washington
IN.
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Blu John SnUre, J.

Postmaster General James A.
Farley is reported to have con-
ferred with the President re-
Gently about jobs for deserving
Democrats.
Luckily, he didn't have to talk
to the Chief Executive about ap-
pointing % new officials of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation.
A bunch of the boys were
driving golf balls around the
Caledonia course in Pennsylva-
mia the other weekend and after
the game started for home in a
chartered bus. On the way a
front tire blew out and the bus
careened into a culvert. The
driver is credited with having
saved his passengers from Seri-
GUS injury or worse.
The only serious injury was
suffered by Fred Penniman, as
sistant general manager of the
Hole, who broke his ankle.
Others on the trip escaped dam
age.
Those in the party included
board members Walter Newton,
former secretary to President
Hoover; Fred Catlett, newly
appointed general manager;
Preston Delano, George Dock,
jr., assistant financial direc-
tor; Horace Russell, gen.
eral counsel; Robert Nagle,
secretary; Charles A. Jones,
chief of loan reviews; R.
r. Burklin, comptroller; Nugent
Fallon, Ormond Loomis, John
w. Childress, Paul Frizzell, Don
aid McNeal, w. T. Stockton,
John Ellingston, R. R. thinner
man, R. D. Andrews, o. B. Tay-
Tor, D. c. Hair, Alfred Wilson,
James Roundtree and Colonel
Harold Lee.
The bus poised on the edge
OF an embankment at the foot
of which was a steel picket
fence so that the boys narrowly
escaped when the vehicle failed
to roll down the hill.
Had the bus toppled over, Mr..
Farley would have had % more
jobs to fill.
Since President Roosevelt
took over the New Deal, mem
bers of Congress have been
fighting around Washington to
put over the people they wanted
appointed postmasters through
out their States and districts.
It was considered that Capt.
tOl corridors were the place to
drop the hints about the quail
fications of men and women for
whom they were seeking jobs.
Strangely enough, Represen-
tative William B. Oliver, of
Alabama, was seen several days
after Congress adjourned has
tening around Washington
buildings.
He said that he was in a
hurry to get home to get several
pOSCH1dSIeTS111pS Strengthened OuC.
When President Roosevelt
wants to take a cruise or Secre-
tary of State Hull needs a sea
trip, the Navy usually furnishes
a craft for their use.
Consequently, the correspond
ents at the Interior Depart
ment thought that the same
courtesy should be given to
Secretary Ickes.
The newsmen wanted to take
the Secretary on a cruise down
the Potomac and appealed to
the Navy for use of a boat. The
Navy was courteous but failed
to provide the ship.
C. Marshall Finnan, super
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at DrlIllduC pdrG1CS anu G1lCu JuSL
gracefully fades out of the pic
ture.
Lots of lawyers are kept work
ing overtime, these days, solder
ing up broken hearts with gold.
This will go down in history as
"the heart-balm decade"
Marriage should never be
monotonouS. A bachelor finds
all women in the same gracious
mood-but a married man gets
the benefit of ALL a Woman'S
moods and never knows what
fresh surprise is going to be
sprung on him.
Add SMILES: AS secretive as
the attendant who answers the
club telephone when the wives
begin calling up.
Even when a woman loses all
her other interests in life, she
can still fill in the time by wor-
rying about her weight or what
to do with her hair. But, by
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When President Roosevelt
goes aboard the U. S. S. Hous-
ton at Annapolis for his Allan
tic-Pacific cruise, he will blaze
a new trail and follow several
trails blazed by other Presi-
dents.
Mr.. Roosevelt will be the first
President to visit the Hawaii
an Islands during his term of
office. He will not be the first
President to visit Puerto Rico
and the Panama Canal, nor the
first to visit foreign countries.
Theodore Roosevelt was the
first President to pass outside
the territory of the United
States while holding office. In
November, 1906, he paid a visit
to the Isthmus and made a
thorou ugh inspection of the
canal then under construction.
He also went on a cruiser of
the Navy and spent three days
on the Isthmus "devoting nearly
every daylight hour to the in
spection of canal work from
one ocean to the other"
The canal was then in charge
of the Second Commission and
the secretary of that commits
sion, who was later to write a
book about Theodore Roose-
welt and His Time"-Joseph B.
Bishop, of New York--says of
that famous visit:
every portion of the work,
including engineering plans,
sanitary arrangements and reg
uIatiOnS for the civil govern
ment of the Canal Zone was
subjected to minute scrutiny.
The zeal and tireleSS energy of
the President put to a severe
strain the physical strength of
more than one of his cOmpan-
IONS"
Words Approved
Responding to an address of
welcome by the President of
the Panama republic, DR.. Man
uel Amador, President Roose-
welt, having in mind the revolu.
tionary record of Panama.
record of more than so revolu-
lions in SO years, said:
"The sole desire of the United
States as regards the Republic
of Panama is to see it increase
in wealth, in numbers, in i'm
pOrtance, until it becomes, as
SO earnestly hope it will be-
come, one of the republics
whose history reflects honor
upon the entire Western world.
Such progress and prosperity,
Mr.. President, can only come
through the preservation of
both order and liberty; through
the observance of those in
power of all their rights, Obliga-
tiOnS and duties to their fellow
citizens, and through the reali-
zatiOn of those out of power
that the insurrectiOnary' habit,
the habit Of civil war, ultimately
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MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

The Sweet and LOwdOwn
The husband of the average
celebrity is a vague, nebulous,
semidetached person, who ap-
pears beside his glittering wife
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1917
L EEnairik mannKing
Nogales international., 1934-02-03
NEW CHEVROLET
NOW ON DISPLAY

A carload of new 1884 Chevrolets,
al~o a shipment of trucks, arrived
yesterday at the Salesroom of the
Cheshire Brothers Motor Company
and will be on display today.
The Chevrolet has turned out
many excellent automobiles but the
1884 car is admittedly far superior
to any Of it's models, Incorporating
as it does, about all of the factors
of mechanism, body and conven-
ienceS any car could possibly have.
Officials of the Cheshire Company
described the new Chevrolet as a
dream, and a dream it is with its
knee action wheels, with a longer
wheelbase of 112 inches; larger
Fisher body with four inches more
of room; a Blue Streak engine with
30 horsepower and capable of trav-
cling at the rate of 80 miles an
hour with faster acceieration; II
per cent greater economy at tour
ing speeds; increased smoothness
and quietness; new all-weather
brakes, and smart new styling.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03
Manuscript Given
TO School By Hunt

TUCSON, Ari :, Feb. 2-Former
Governor George w. P. Hunt has
donated to the University of Ari-
zona Library the original manu-
script of "The History Of Arizona"
by Thomas E. Parrish.
The manuscript, which consists
of eight bound volumes of typewrit-
ten material, was given to Cover
nor Hunt at the time the work
went to print in 1914. The late
Thomas E. Parrish was for many
years state historian, and his work
the History of Arizona, is recog-
nized as the most authoritative work
on the history of Arizona. The IL
brary also has copies of the printed
work, which is also in eight VOL
umes, and contains certain illus
trations which the original manu-
script does not have. They were
printed in Phoenix under author
ity of the state legislature.
According to Rudolph Gjelsness,
University librarian, the donation is
a valuable addition to the library's
collection of rare manuscripts, as
we'll as of Arizona history. and the
volumes are especially valuable as
they contain the autographs of both
the author and of Governor Hunt.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

Jack Everhart motored to Nogal-
es Saturday.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03
Scrambled Slogans

Here is a nice parlor game. Write on slips Of pap
er certain advertising slogans On another set of slips
write the names of the various advertisers concerned
Mix each set in two hats other receptacles and
draw one slip from each and compare Here are some
OF the results reported by contemporary:
Eventually, Why Not ow?"-Nationa F1ner-
al Directors Association.
Good to the Last rop"-Haviland China
"Has the Strength Of Gibraltar" - Brookfield
Butter
Hams What Am. Famous Lasky Players.
The Danger Line PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
1.-The Flavor Lasts s.'-Squibb's Tasteless Castor
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

Misses Jewel Burris and Eloise
Redding spent Saturday in Nogales.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03
q Governors Join
Historical Societ,

TUCSON, Feb. ALI four Of
Arizona's governors, past and pre-
sent, have accepted honorary mem
bership in the Arizona Pioneers
Historical Society, according to
Mrs. George Kilt, secretary of the
society.
Each of the new members, Gov
ernor B. B. Moeur, George w. P
Hunt, John G. Phillips, and Thomas
E. Campbell, is fully entitled tc
membership in the Society by vir-
tue of having lived in Arizona over
thirty years. @a@A III
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

F. Aguilar president of the Con-
federation of Growers in the state
of Sonora, and Ignacio PeSqueira
of Obregon City, have been here
the past few days.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

Robert Davis, who has been ill
in the hospital at Fort Huachuca,
returned home Monday, much i'm
proved.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

Sheriff J. F.. Bolton and Under
sheriff Jake Faarrar of Pima coun-
ty were here Wednesday on court
business.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

Nogales basketball teams played
the Patagonia basketball teams
Friday afternoon. The Patagonia
freshies tied Nogales freshies, so
had to play three minutes longer
giving the score to Nogales 5-3.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

Patagonia's first team beat Nogales
second team 21-15.
Nogales international., 1934-02-03

CINCINNATI \ .~.~.~ "Bob"
O'Farrell, above, gets his big chance
a. manager Of a major ieagne base
bah club this year at the helm Of tho
Cincinnati Reds. With O Farrell here
and Jimmy Wilson at Philadelphia,
the National league will have TWO
eatchess N manager jcbs..,
Nogales international., 1934-02-03
ELCIN-SONOITA
NEWS ITEMS

Misses Jewel Burris and Eloise
Redding spent Saturday in Nogales.
Mrs. Henry Wood and children
were Nogales visitors Saturday.
Invitations are out for the dance
to be given Saturday mite, February
3rd at the Patagonia Woman's
Club house.
Misses Grace Ramsey has recOv-
cred from a tonsil operation and
able to attend school.
Troy Ramsey sent a truck load
Of cattle to Los Angeles, Monday.
The Patagonia high school is
planning a dance for February 10th
in the Opera House.
Jack Everhart motored to Nogal-
es Saturday.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Princes Feather

the best soil on the farm for onions.
A sin and shame not to give 1t to them!
But it is time you were in bed, for you
have to be up early to catch the milk
train to East Dorset to get Dexter.
I'll have to sit up the rest of the night
with that COW, suppose"
I'm not going to bed at ALL" pro-
tested Anabel. I'm going to make coffee
and bring it out to you every hour to
warm you up"
"Pshaw," demonstrated Luther In q
pleased voice. He stopped and carefully
reset the tiny slip Of Princes Feather.
There" he chuckled, you worthless
little rascal, using up good soil that
might grow onions!"
tcopyright 1eS4)
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Fesser Chickens Costnted

THE poultry industry Is attaining eurtailed
production at Q rate which Offers some
hope Of better prices for the raiser On the
1st Of July the Bureau Of Agricultural Eco
nomics estimated that there were about 10 per
cent fewer chickens in the farm fiocks with
. reduction in the number Of hens about q
per cent.
Should prices improve to any great extent,
undoubtedly more layers would be retained,
with the result that egg production would b
stimulated. But despite such stimulation, It b
considered doubtful If production would reach
the average Of the past several years.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Continued From Ninth Poge.


settings. They were the last thing
couldn't bear"
Onion settings!" Luther's voice was
amazed.
"Yes," continued Anabel, "I couldn't
bear to think you'd take up your
mothers Princes Feather she'd loved
for years, just to get good soil for
onions"
Luther snatched the lantern from the
hook. Come" he said. He led the way
to the old garden. Dropping to his
knees he began digging into the soft
loam.
Here" he said. 'Look!"
Anabel looked. In Luther's hand was
no onion setting, but tiny plant with
tender green shoots.
"I meant them for your birthday" he
explained, "but this morning was Just
right to set them out-rd had the SET
tings a fortnight-and I was hoping
you'd be so busy you'd never notice.
The old ones had run their day, but
mother was so fond of them couldn't
bear to throw them out. So made q
bed for them down in the pasture, to
live out their old age as comfortable
as possible"
"But you said that onions"
"The TRUTH" laughed Luther, this Is
Evening star., 1934-09-02

make series Of tests to determine whether
this suspicion was correct. First Of all, the
engineers, equipped with rock k-boring instru-
ments Of unusual sharpness, bored tiny holes,
each about an inch in diameter deep into
the granite rubble." Next they placed pipes
into the holes and when the pipes were tightly
sealed with mortar, compressed air was forced
into them. Close observation revealed that there
were indeed. as was at first suspected, many
hollow places in the masonry facing that would
account for unequal distribution of weight,
throwing the greater part Of the load Of the
monument on the marble facing, resulting in
turn in chipping away of the outside marble
at its weakest points, the joints.
Following these air tests, water was forced
into the tiny pipes, with similar results. At
numerous points the water flowed out very
freely, just as the compressed air had done.
Having found out the main cause Of the
Monuments deterioration, the Federal en-
gineers called upon DR.. D. w. Kessler, building
stone specialist Of the Bureau Of Standards, for
Evening star., 1934-09-02

A LUM MARBLE" DIR. Merrill said, 'was
used in the lower $50 feet of the WASH
ingtou Monument, but Is on the whole, not
well suited for structural purposes" It is in
teresting to note that it Is this same alum
marble. criticized so specifically by DR.. Merrill
many years ago. that today is deteriorating to
the extent as to be the direct cause of the Fed
eral investigation. The other two grades, built
into the upper sections, above the 150-foot
mark are enduring time, wind and weather
without noticeable degeneration
Inside the Monuments shaft Is q layer Of
granite, possibly four feet thick. Between this
layer and the outside layer of marble Is . sec
ton about IL feet thick at the base, known
to the building fraternity as granite rubble"
This simply means group of rough-hewn
blocks OF granite cemented together with
generous amounts Of mortar. At the outset
OF the Federal test program it was suspected
that poor distribution of weight was q major
cause of the widespread chipping away of the
lower section Of marble. So it was decided to
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BY RANDOLPH ROBERTS.

low that the Washington Monument
is having its face lifted" it is in
teresting to note the why's and
wherefores back of all this elaborate
cleaning and repair work. Is the
structure actually crumbling? Are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-18

This is the first of three stories on ''production relief," the plan which Is sweeping the country, and which is the most important move in the past two years to-
 ward solving the relief and un-
 employment problems. BY WILLIS TORNTON Democrat NEA Service Writer) Cleveland, Aug. 1S.-A new at-
 tack on the nations relief prob
 lem is under way. The name for il is production relief" This plan is being so widely adopted all over the country that
 it is bound to have big effect on the national life within six months Here's how it works:
 Take a town-any town. It has a half dozen factories stand ing idle, deteriorating, delinquent
 in taxes. It has hundreds or thousands of unemployed on re- lief; mostly the people who used to work in the now-empty fac tories.
 The governments. local, state and national, are supporting these people, paying them a weekly re- lief allowance in money or food. Maybe they get a little made work" like the CWA, of doubtful value.
 They can buy nothing, the state can furnish nothing beyond bare necessities, on account of the ris- ing cost of relief.
 Production relief brings the two together. Relief authorities rent the vacant factory, equip it Then they say to workmen on re- lief, There's factory. Go into it and work for your relief allow ance, and keep the products of the factory, shoes, suits, dresses furniture, for yourselves.
 EARNS NEEDED ARTICLES The workman goes into the
 plant. If skilled at the trade, he
 starts right in. If not, he is | taught.
 He works enough hours at the going rate in the trade to carr
 hsi relief allowance. Then he is
 allowed to work a number oi hours more. That gives him cred it's which he can exchange for the products of the plant, say shirts. When he has earned as many shirts as he is allowed to reseivc (the number will be strictly linn ited, because otherwise he might
 be tempted to go outside and sell them), he may exchange his cred it's for other things such as shoes, kitchen chairs, a dress for his wife.
 Where did these things come from? They were received in an
 exchange with another city which was making them. After our typical city has made the re- quired number of shirts for all relief clients, the rest will be sent to another town where relief people are making shoes, and a swap made.
 HOPE, SKILL COME BACK Skill and hope are regained. A sense of self-reliance comes