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will also be the guests Of the WASH
ington Girl Reserves. The program
will be devoted TO different kinds Of
music, with Mr.. James Garrioch. in
full Scotch regalia, playing his bag
pipe, a whistler, music of the noun
tain regions, and several selections by
the Girl Reserve Glee Club.
Mrs. william Foster Burdick, newly
elected vice chairman of the Girl Re-
serve Committee, will preside at the
tea table, and will be assisted by Miss
Eleanor Graves, chairman Of the
music conference. Others assisting
include Misses Helen Sherwood, Joan
Faulkner, Frances Owens, Helen
Kusenburg. Marietta Klee, Ann Ly-
dame, Mildred Craig, Dorothy Whit
tlesey, Margaret Petersilia, Eva
Smythe, Phyllis Gordon, Alice Lewis,
Ruth Mohundro, all music chairmen
Of Girl Reserve clubs.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Kingsley
Of Philadelphia will arrive in Wash
ington this evening and will be at
the Shoreham, where they will enter
tnAAl az OiuACl Giidoy'
Miss Janet Richards will be the
guest speaker at the Congressional
Club at the Friday tea. Her subject
is Affairs Political at Home and In
ternational" Those who have heard
the lectures are looking forward to
an unusual treat, for few people have
so great a grasp of world affairs as
Miss Richards. She has had three
personal interviews with Premier
Mussolini and many other European
statesmen on her annual trips to
Europe. The lecture will be preceded
by group of songs by Mrs. Elsa
Coppel, soprano. Mrs. Emily
Goldenberg will accompany Mrs.
Coppel.
Assisting at the tea table will be
Mrs. Elmer o. Leatherwood, Mrs. Clar-
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SOCIETY

Continued From Second Page.)
Mrs. Kincheloe of Fairfax Va, Joined
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Ellis
in Washington yesterday, and Will
motor with them to Detroit, where
they will visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. j. S. Lafferty of Chi
cago, ILL.,. are stopping at the WIZARD
during their visit in washington.
To the carefree strains Of Irish
music, the Massachusetts Society OF
Washington, will hold its annual st.
Patrick day dancing party In the
main ball room of the Wardman Park
Hotel tomorrow evening. A special
program of Irish ballads Will be
rlayed by the orchestra and a num-
Der of special favor dances has been
arranged by the committee under the
chairman, Miss Louise Hill. Through
the courtesy of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road the entertainment for the eve
ming will be given by the Keystone
Ouartette, assisted by their comedian.
All former residents of the Bay State
now residing in Washington are
cordially invited to attend and are
assured of a hearty welcome by the
chairman of the Reception Com
mittee, Mrs. John R. Holt, assisted by
Miss Gladys Anderson, Miss Fanny
Buck, Miss Frances Adams, Mrs. Leon
Chagnon, Miss Josephine Wunder,
Mrs. w. j. Byrne, Mrs. John H.
O'Toole, Mrs. Paul Naefe, Miss Anne
Brewin, Mrs. j. Chase Mckenzie. Mrs.
Robert H. Kempton, Miss Dorothea
M. McElholm, Miss Adelaide Harris,
Mrs. Eugene Kinnaly. and Miss Flea
nor Carleton. Guest tickets may be
secured from the secretary OF the
society," Mr.. Robert H. Kempton, 1905
East Capitol street.
M. Andre Liotard who gave series
of Lenten lectures last year, will begin
tomorrow a new series of lectures
treating the "nouveautes litteraires de
Paris" The first lecture in the, series
of four will be presented at II o'clock
tomorrow morning i'll the home OF
Mrs. Thomas H. c. Reed on Connecti-
cut avenue. Among the interesting
books M. Liotard will discuss in his
first lecture. Mon Grand Ami,
Shakespeare, written by Countess de
Chambrun, will be of special interest
TO Washington society.
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entertained at dinner last night In
their home in Sligo Park Hills. Md,
In honor OF Mr.. and Mrs. Frank J.
Naumann OF Boston. Mass. Other
guests were Prof. Claire Wilcox Of
Swarthmore, Pa; Mr.. Albert Sawyer
of Boston, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. ROLAND Severy
of Washington and Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Shields.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Mccullough of
Charleston, w. Va, have returned to
WASHINGTON for a short visit and are
staying at the Mayflower. Mr.. McCul-
Tough is State director of the National
Emergency Council Of West Virginia.
Last year he was in the legal depart
ment of the P. w. A. and made his
home In Washington.
Mrs Everard Robinson Todd, Mrs.
wentworth Willis Peirce, Mrs. Edgar
H. Lynham and Mrs. William Thomp-
son Clerk will be hostesses at the
meeting of the Washington branch
of the Association for the Preserva-
ton of Virginia Antiquities, Friday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the
willard.
Mrs. j. r. Harris entertained at
lunch Tuesday at her home In Edge
moor, Md, in honor of her sister, Mrs.
Andrew Cobb of Auburn, Me-, who Is
spending a few weeks In Washington.
Mrs. Frederic P. Lee of Edgemoor,
Md, left today for Rutherford, N. j.,
where she will spend a week with
her mother, Mrs. S. E. Armstrong.
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor of the
National Symphony Orchestra, will be
the guest of honor at a musical tea
party Saturday afternoon at the Y. w.
C. A, given by the Girl Reserves of
Washington. Girl Reserves from Will
mington, Baltimore and Richmond
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ton of Costa Rica; Sonora Henri De
Bayle, the wife of the charge d'affaires
ad interim of Nicaragua, and Sonora
Juan D. Chevalier, the wife of the
secretary of the Legation of Panama,
will assist Mrs. Lloyd Morrison the
chairman of hospitality, at the tea
tables.
Mrs. Tilman Bacon Parks, the
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chairman of program. will have as
the speakers Miss Nina Strandberg of
Finland and Mrs. McNeese.
A musical program. under the direc-
ton of Flora McGill Keefer, the chair
man of music, will be given by Vera
Meeley Ross. contralto, accompanied
by Miss Charlotte Klein.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Wahrenbrock
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Diplomats Wives to Assist
At Political Study Club.

The Minister from Finland and
Nine. Zero Jarnefelt and Nine. Nor
genstierne, the wife of the Minister
from Norway, will be in the receiving
line with Mrs. Frank NJ Shortall. the
president of the Political Study Club,
at the meeting to be held Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the WASH
ington Club.
Sonora Manuel GonZalez-Zeledon,
the wife of the counselor of the Lega-
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ence F. Lea. Mrs. william II. Lar
rabee, Mrs. James U. McClintic, who
will pour.
To assist In the dining room are
Mrs. Henry c. Luckey, Mrs. Charles
F. Mclaughlin, Mrs. Ernest Lundeer,
Mrs. Scott w. Lucas, and associate
members assisting are Mrs. Jack Mar
shall and Miss Margaret Oldfield.
Mrs Miller, wife of Lieut. Col. B. F.
Miller Of Glebe road, Arlington Coun-
ty, Va, entertained at luncheon at the
Army and Navy Club today, when her
guests included Mrs. Theodore Judd,
Mrs. Hunter Laughton, Mrs. w. Lester
Baker, Mrs. c. w. Thompson, Mrs.
Henry T. Miller, Mrs. H. p. Simpson
and Mrs. Thomas c. Barr.
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Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn will be
hostess at the dinner at the Arts Club
this evening. after which Mr.. James I.
Humbleton. guest of honor. will give
talk entitled "Honeybees and Flowers"
with moving picture illustrations. Mr..
Humbleton is senior apiculturist of the
Bureau of Entomology, Department Of
Agriculture.
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Mrs. Garland w. Wolfe, matron
of the Silver Spring Chapter Of
the Eastern Star, and DR.. Rudolph
Snyder, patron of the chapter.
will entertain a company of As at
a dinner party tomorrow evening in
the Masonic Temple at Silver Spring,
Md. Guests at the affair, which is
CONTINUED on Fifth Page.)
Evening star., 1935-11-28
A Ship Finding Herself

Memory of Rudyard Kiplings short
story, ''The Ship That Found Herself" is
revived by the announcement that one
of the great transatlantic liners that
had to be withdrawn from service because
of excessive vibration In the structure
has been placed under treatment for this
aff1iction with such prospect of success
that it is expected she will resume her
sailings in the Spring. She was recently
taken for four-day run in European
waters, during which engineering experts
conducted tests to find means of syn
chronizing her huge propellers, which will
mean the elimination of the tremors.
Kipling's craft had case of jitters on
her maiden voyage. Every part of her
Jared on every other part. There was a
complete lack of coordination. Each
section of the structure and the mechan-
ism had iti own vibration, it own way
of working. Finally degree Of common
sense caused these jarring factors to get
together in teamwork and then the ship
found herself" and everything was
smooth and placid and efficient.
In that tale the moral was, of course,
obvious. In composite structure or or
ganization there must be coordination.
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currency issue, and painted dark pic
ture of catastrophe possibilities" If the
franc is not saved" but two other con-
siderations weigh heavily in M. Lavals
mind, neither of them connected with
monetary matters. One is the internal
menace constituted by the Fascist vet
erans' organization known as the Cross
of Fire. The premiers supporters de-
mand the vigorous suppression OF these
forces, captained by the militant Colonel
de ia ROGUE, contending that he aims at
the overthrow of the Republic and es-
tablishment of a dictatorship. M. Laval
has pledged that if he retains office and
his program to sustain the franc is safe
guarded he will forthwith consider meas
ures to curb the Cross of Fire.
The other factor perturbing the pre-
mier is the delicate international position
in which France finds herself. She has
formally identified herself with League
sanctions against Italy, and, under Brit
ish pressure, has just agreed to discuss ex-
tension of them so as include oil, cotton,
steel and other essential war materials.
But it is notorious that M. Laval has re-
luctantly accepted aggressive British
leadership in Geneva's anti-Italian policy,
and is particularly hesitant to join in
the more drastic economic penalties now
proposed.
French doubts and fears in this con-
nection will not be mitigated by the an
nouncement that Mussolini has ordered
new and mysterious military moves with
a view to European complications that
might be caused by an Oil embargo
With the German peril almost uppermost
in the French mind, virtually to the ex-
clusion of all other considerations, M.
Laval does not contemplate without
anxiety the possibility of alternating Italy
and driving II Duce into Hitler's waiting
arms.
Evening star., 1935-11-28
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

without the slightest injury to the soles
of the feet. Seldom has any trickery
been detected. The Shamans themselves,
of course, claim that the feat is an evi-
dence of their supernatural power. The
trick has been witnessed too often for
the slightest doubt that it actually can
be done
A few weeks ago Hindoo performer
in London named Kuda Box. who
claimed that his immunity to burns was
due to the peculiar mental gymnastics he
practised offered to make a scientific
demonstration and performed the trick
in the presence of several members of
the Royal Society and some eminent
physicians. He walked down trench
of live Goals IL feet long with four light
and apparently unmarried steps. The
temperature Of the Goals was 800 degrees
centigrade. His feet were not burned
and he repeated the performance three
times.
But measurements with that super
delicate heat measuring instrument, the
thermocouple, throw considerable light
on the trick. When the thermocouple
was applied to the Goals three times in
fairly rapid succession the heat it reg
istered was not 800 c., but only that of
fairly hot water. Thus, it was demon
strated. the heat of the contact points
between the Feet and the Goals was not
sufficient to cause any very bad burns:
But when two Englishmen tried it their
feet were quite badly blistered. The
only detachable difference between the
soles of the Hindu and those of his imi-
tatorS was that, both at the beginning
and end of the ordeal, those of the former
were exceptionally dry. There was not
the slightest indication Of sweating. 1t
is very likely, according to the report
of the experiment in the British medical
journal, Lancet. that thin films of mois"
ture on the soles of the Englishmen
caused the live charcoal to adhere to
them the fraction of second longer
required for burning. The Hindu's feet
didn't stick.
When the performer saw measure
ments being taken with a thermocouple
he objected Strenuously. This amounted,
he claimed, to a pollution of the fire.
or questioning of the good faith OF the
flame. He would not repeat the per-
formance in the same trench.
Evening star., 1935-11-28

Some Of the worlds richest deposits Of
pitchblend, the uranium ore from which
radium is extracted. have been located in
the Canadian Northwest-by smell.
The story Is told by Dr. H. S. Spence
in the annual report of the Dominion
Department of Mines. The first uranium
veins were located about three years ago
on the eastern shore of Great Slave Lake.
A wandering band of Cree Indians camp
ing near the site noted a peculiar odor,
undetectable to anybody else, permeating
the neighborhood. They had always
known of it, but had made no effort to
explain it.
The Indians were surprised by the ex-
citement of the white men over the pitch
blend. Last Winter they sent runners
into the mining camp from spot nearly
100 miles away where. they claimed, they
had picked up a faint trace of the same
odor. 1t seemed almost unbelievable
that they actually could smell radium,
even with noses trained from childhood
to detect the faintest aromas of the
wilderness.
When the prospectors arrived on the
shore Of Beaverlodge Lake they found
the ground covered with feet Of snow.
The Indians pointed to the spot from
which the aroma seemed to be strongest.
The snow was cleared away-and there
was a large pitchblend vein.
From the three pitchblend deposits
now being worked an average Of about
six grams of radium per go tons Of the
ore is being obtained.
~
The black locust-a tree which shows
q fondness for poor soil and waste places
like abandoned dumps-may be an i'm
portant factor in reforestation with the
discovery by Department of Agriculture
workers of a new variety whose growth
is straight and whose wood is very
durable.
Hitherto this tree, which is found in
New England, New Jersey and in parts
of Long Island, has not been distin-
guished from the ordinary black locust.
But it has been subjected to an intensive
study, reports B. Y. Morrison of the
Agriculture Departments Bureau Of
Horticulture, with the result that its
good qualities have been found to be
inherent in the species. Thus, with the
fast-growing property of the black locust
family, it becomes highly desirable tree
for planting on lands which have been
wasted by erosion.
For centuries travellers have been
amazed by the art of "fire-walking. y
practised by the magicians of many
primitive peoples.
They walk barefoot over live Goals.
apparently without discomfort and
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Christmas Seals.

TIL campaign against tuberculosis is
meeting with success. Such is the
verdict Of physicians and of statisticians
whose business it is to study mortality
rates. But the battle is not yet won.
Rather, it is indicated that, because
of widespread poverty resulting from the
depression, some of the gains of recent
years may be lost. The white plague
always has been a poor mans disease.
1t has a definite relation to economic
stress. When times are hard it prospers.
It's allies arestension, under r-nourishment
and decreased resistance, overcrowding,
tardy recourse to medical help and made
quate nursing care. In brief, it takes
advantage of conditions which lower
social and individual standards of life.
So it well may happen that there
will be a rise in the tuberculosis death
rate this Winter. Also, it is not unlikely
that the disease will manifest itself in
renewed virulence later on. There is
reason to suppose that it is making un-
disclosed inroads on the Nations health
right now-attacks which will be obvious
enough in their effects a decade hence
But the danger should not discourage
any one. On the contrary, it can be
met with optimistic confidence. The
little Christmas seals annually distributed
by the National tuberculosis Association
and its two thousand afhliated societies
provide q means for continuing the
campaign. At penny each, they bring
the money required for the war against
the scourge. This season 1t is hoped
that they may be especially popular
Perhaps never before has there been
greater need for their sale.
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An Envoy i'm Irons.

A case of duplex immunity has arisen
at Elkton. Md where the Minister TO
the United States from Iran, formerly
known as Persia, has just had an en-
counter with the law in the person OF
a town constable through the undue
haste of his chauffeur. BY virtue OF
his status as the representative Of
foreign government the envoy is immune
from arrest, and by virtue of his strictly
local Office the town constable is immune
from Federal jurisdiction, which alone
governs in the event of trespaSs upon
the diplomatic prerogative of immunity.
The whole case is a complex, out of which
nothing serious is likely to result, how
ever embarrassing it may be to the envoy.
Diplomatic immunity does not warrant
the violation of the laws of the land to
which a foreign representative may be
sent. And this comprises the laws and
the regulations of the subordinate and
semi-independent communities that con-
stitute the United States. The very
privilege of immunity from arrest and
direct penalty involves the obligation of
scrupulouS regard for those laws and
regulations, thus becoming higher law
of compliance incident to the diplomatic
status.
In the Elkton case it appears that the
envoy's chauffeur was driving at high
rate of speed, owing to the urgency Of
the errand. Technically, under the rules,
he was the offender. Immunity did not
apply to him. Yet his detention involved
that of the envoy, who was immune. Incl
dentally there occurred an ebullition OF
temperament which resulted in the actual
arrest of the envoy, with mention in the
descriptive dispatches of the use of hand
cuffs. 1t may be doubted If ever before
in the history of American diplomatic
relations has foreign envoy been hand
cuffed. Naturally, the Iranian govern
ment may be disposed to demand an
apology for this trespass upon the diplo-
matte prerogative of immunity and this
Government would in such event be re-
quired to express its deep regret that
local constable should have so far violated
the immunity of the envoy as to use
"irons," however rudely the envoy may
have resented the interruption of his
journey.
Washington has suffered severely in
the past through the fast-driving ten
dencies of representatives of the foreign
governments, chiefly the minor members
of the embassies and legations. 1t has
had no remedy other than polite repre-
sentations that such conduct on the part
of official guests of the Government is
not suitable, which have invariably re-
suited in corrective action by the prin-
cipals, the governments whose repre-
sentatives, major or minor, have been at
fault. Elkton can make no direct repre-
sentations to Teheran and will probably
make no representations TO Washington.
But the incident of the speeding car and
the concurrent incident of the hand
cuffed envoy will in all likelihood never
be repeated, there or elsewhere, at least
not for long time to come.
Evening star., 1935-11-28
Another ssFranc Crisis.

French politics and politicians being
what they are, it is difficult to
determine the true inwardness of the
latest parliamentary crisis. Throughout
the years of depression and worldwide
monetary dislocation hard-pressed pre-
miers have periodically taken refuge in
the cry of Save the franc!" Generally
1t was their governments skin rather
than the franc that they were bent on
saving, but the distress signal served its
purpose and the threatened fresh devalu-
alton of the national currency unit was
averted.
Today, facing a newly returned Par
lament after an interval Of five months,
Premier Laval confronts situation peril
Gus to the existence of his cabinet. He
has staked his governments continuance
on maintenance of the gold franc and
on adherence to the program of rigid
retrenchment which he has been pur-
suing. Late accounts foreshadow that
mainly with the support of M. Herriot's
Radical Socialists Laval will obtain the
vote of confidence in the Chamber neces-
sary for his retention Of power. The
premier seeks approval not only of hun
dreds of internal DEGREES designed to cut
government expenses and bring down
prices, but also to balance the budget,
so as to defend the franc against devalu-
alton and arrest the disastrous flow OF
gold abroad. In addition, M. Laval de-
sires support of his policy in the Italo-
Ethiopian conflict and of the recently
concluded Franco Soviet pact.
The premier has made fervent ap-
peal to the nation to stand by him on the
Evening star., 1935-11-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

where neat mound Of mixed seeds had
flown down from the interior OF the con-
traption.
Half a dozen of his fellows winged up
quickly, seized bite, and flew away.
The first bird to stay ON the rim for
any particular time was song sparrow,
sometimes called the white-tnroated
sparrow.
This is a larger, and more vigorous
bird than the junco. or perhaps we
should say more bell1coSe,
Like all sparrows, it is Of pestifer-
GUS, fighting nature.
Once one of these birds spied the food,
and tasted it. nothing could drive him
away.
Nor was he willing to share.
Though the platform, with its rim, was
easily large enough for three birds, it
was meant for only one sparrow, he evi-
IDENTIFY had determined.
Even when one OF his own companions
came up 1t was driven away promptly.
y +
The nuthatches, with their queer way
of walking upside down on a tree, were
not so easily ousted.
Although they never disputed the pos
session of the rim they invariably man.
aged to get something to eat.
Here is the way they do it:
The nuthatch flies to the tree and
alights on the opposite side. some two
or three feet above the feeder.
Then he proceeds to walk, head-down,
to the side of the feeder platform away
from the bird that may be feeding. TN
almost every case that first day it was
a song sparrow
The nuthatch waits his chance, and
when the other birds peck forward at the
seeds 1t dips in, too, on its side.
Before the other bird can spy it, the
nuthatch has seized all it wants, and
starts down the tree again.
So busily engaged is the bird in walk
ing up and down, in it's peculiar way. by
folding one foot up under its head, that
the more greedy and quarrelsome bird
cannot keep up with him.
In the end the nuthatch manages to
get all he wants.
Although female cardinal came down
to investigate. she did so but once, and
evidently ate nothing.
Perhaps there are too many berries
on shrubs for her to patronize a feeding
station so early.
She probably was looking for suet, Of
which this particular feeder supplies
none. That will have to be put Up sep
arately, in a wire cage.
All Sunday afternoon there was a pro-
cession Of songsters.
The onlooker could not help wonder
ing what the birds thought of finding so
many sorts Of seeds gushing out of the
side Of tree, as it must have seemed
to them.
The next morning the first arrival. a
nuthatch began feeding at 7:l0 m
A bluejay, almost filling the platform,
added a fine dash of color few minutes
later
The use of bird feeders is an interesting
and good way to help the birds which
Winter here.
Many persons have hesitated to get
them, in the belief that no birds will
patroniZe them.
Let this real story of the great out
doors in ones own backyard set that
fear at rest.
The birds will do their part If you will
do yours.