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The Washington times., 1938-03-14

M It's. ROBINSON, W h o m
NA everyone knows as Inez
introduced Mrs. Gunnison as
"Effie," and very promptly Effie
walked right into our heart and
sat down-for keeps. She is q
fascinating person with white
hair, bright eyes, charming
smartness in clothes and she has
been everywhere and knows
practically everybody. Her late
husband was a newspaperman
and a well known publisher, so
Effie knows nearly all of the
craft. She lives all the year
around at her country place, in
the Catskills, has about decided
TO have a flying field put in, be-
cause her young nephew thinks
II would hasten his arrival from
college.
Told us that Arthur Brisbane.
whom she adored, as well as his
wife, Phoebe Brisbane, never in
his whole life made an unkind
remark about anyone. She hon.
estly believes that no one. no
matter how brilliant, can ever
take his place and backs up her
statement with an opinion of
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
who said that there can only be
One OF anything! When Effie
talks she uses her hands with
exquisite gracefulneSs, and her
heavy silver hoop earrings tin
gle with the emphatic nod of her
head.
HERBERT COREY, columnist.
II author, arrived with his at
tractive wife and he and Effie
Immediately took up their con.
versation from a few years back.
Mr.. Corey has been hard at work
on q biography, to be published
in the spring, Of" Simon Lake,
whose ideas about the submarine
have revolutionized modern war
fare.
\ 4
COMMANDER AND MRS. HO-
" MER GRAFT, Mrs. Ralph
Hunt, wife of Commander Hunt,
who Is at the moment on the
West Coast. Mrs. Hunts nick
lame, and everyone calls her
hat, is "Pet,"7and she is q dar-
ing. Tall, slim and very golden
IS to hair and fair as to skin and
With a smile that fingers very
definitely in ones memory. The
)aviSeS, the first name and rank
>Scape us. but he has just re-
,urned from Singapore; Com
mander and Mrs. Frank VenseI,
Lii eu t enant Louis Mitchell,
young Navy doctor, and one i'm
agines it would be a pleasure to
be so very i'll.
'HE John Dwight Kendalls,
l. with Mrs. Kendall in cocoa
brown, trimmed with a huge col
lar of ermine, and being so en-
thusiaStic over the addition put
on by Inez, because Mrs. Kendall
calls herself the "godmother" of
this house, on account of she
and 1nez Spied it for the first
time together, and then Inez
and Comm nder Robinson
bought it. Frances Page and
The Washington times., 1938-03-14

her pretty daughter, Ann Page.
ana Ann wearing a stunning
sapphire blue gown, fashioned of
myriad accordion pleats, and
young Tai Turner with her.
DOGGY BAXTER, in blue also.
l. with reddish waves of hair
peeking from beneath her tiny
beret. Peggy, who is the daugh-
Ter OF an Admiral and has q bit
OF Scottish ancestry, is a real
personality. Possessed of a droll
and dry humor, her comments
are priceless, her twinkly eyes
never miss a trick and some of
her phrases are well worth re-
memoerlng. For instance, she
never says II dislike somethinp,"
instead she says Il try very hard
to avoid that"
***
GOMMANDER FRANK
" OBRIEN, and how he has
managed to stay a bachelor All
these years is the wonder of
Washington, Paris, London and
a lew other places which have
known him well, arriving and
then Mrs. William H. P. Blandy.
Che George Beans and Hilda
Yen, whose father was one time
Chinese Ambassador to che
United States (She is a famous
aViatrix) and beautiful in the
exotic manner.
Lieutenant Eddie Pearce. who
seems very happy about life and
living and has an impish smile.
came in trifle late, but said he
was going to stay late, so evened
Things up nicely. He pops out
with amazing remarks, and
having just met us, he gave one
long deliberate look and said.
We may like you, YOU have a
very kind face" Up until now
no one has, ever accused us Of
that. So 1t is highly probable
That we may like him, even more
so.
A N inviting tea table, with va.
"A rled cold meats, a tempting
paste, sent from Siam, which is
Tried In deep fat and tastes
somewhat like potato chips.
thlnly sliced brown bread, olives,
and pickles. Very, very late, our
farewellS, to Inez and Com.
mander Robinson, and we hated
to leave in the words of the song,
More Than You Know"
.oodards Here
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley P. Wood.
ard, Of Greenwich, Conn, are
passing several days at the Shore.
ham. Mrs. Woodard is a mem
Der Of the board Of directors Of
the National Council Of Women
and life member of the Interna-
5ional Council Of Women, and
she is in Washington in the in.
5erest Of WOmen'S work.
Mrs. Rees E. McDuffie is pass
ng several days at the Shoreham
after a visit at Daytona Beach,
Fla. She will continue from
Washington to her home in Gull
ord, Conn.,, and expects to re-
urn to the Shoreham in April,
The Washington times., 1938-03-14
Polish Ambassador Entenains at Dinner :
Brazilian Naval Attache and Wife
Will Be Hosts This Afternoon
At Cocktail Gathering
By Flora Macdonald

The Lenten lull-so far as society is con-
cerned-is most evasive! Each week seems
to have its quota of parties and those who have rekked
South search of rest and sunshine keeping up merry
pace.
Last night the Polish Embassy the scene of iolv
gathering for the genial Ambassador Count Jerry Potock
but recently returned from the South and boasng most
healthy tam had invited "a personal friends for an
informal dinner.
Countess Potocka is remaining indefinitely at their home
Poland but another member of the family Count Alfred
Potock who in Florida, will join his brother here
time in April.
The Washington times., 1938-03-14
Luncheon for Jules Henry

Farewell parties have kept Jules Henry retiring Counselor
OF the French Embassy busy and of the to be given
was luncheon today at which the Spanish Ambassador
Senor Dr. Don Fernando de los Rios host Mr. Henry
will leave Wednesday for New York, but will return for
pref unofficial visit on March % and % before sailing
France
This afternoon the Naval Attache of the Brazilian EN-
bassT and Nine Refs will be hosts cocktail party at the
AaytoTer, entertaining from until o'clock in the East
end of Presidential Dining Room
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Navy Dance.

The second and final Junior
Dance OF the year will be given
IN the Sail Loft, Navy Yard, on
Friday evening, April 8. Dane.
ing will be from 9 to l o'clock,
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GOLF CLAIMS Mrs. Oscar Coolcan the former Suzanne
Chase, on these bright sunled days She has been play
ing the aud Scotch game for five years and is captain of
the third team at the Chevy Chase Country Club Mrs
Coocan and her husband have the unique distinction of
dwelling in one of the Twentieth Century Innovations
penthouse Theirs is delightful spot 2101 Connecticut
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Head-Hunter Doctors
Are Good Bone Settlers

Observation-Disclosures of the
Jivaro head-hunting tribe on the
Amazon are good bone settlers, and
use casts of chicle-basis of chew
ing gun-to hold broken bones in
place.
What a family doctors life is like
in this tribe, famed mainly for it's
head hunting, is reported by Mat
thew w. Stirling, chief of the bureau
of American ethnology, who ven
tured successfully into their sup
posedly dangerous communities.
A Jivaro doctor, called a wishinu,
has to study one month before he
is considered ready to practice,
but there are only six kinds of dis
ease spirits supposed to cause most
human troubles. He also has to
learn to treat cold, fever and dysen-
terry with specific herbs. His rigid
code of medical ethics requires him
to answer a sick call at any hour
of day or night through trackless
jungle. If he fails to cure he may
be "sued" for malpractice, which
in Jivaro legal machinery means
he may lose his head or be required
to pay the value of the lost pa
tents life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Ears Reveal Paternity,
Saws a German Scientist

FRANKFURT-on-the-MAIN, GER
MANY.-Possibility of determining
a child's paternity from the shape
of his ears appears in a report from
DR.. Thordar Quelprud of University
Institute for Heredity and Race Hy-
giene. The shape of the human ear,
DR.. Quelprud says, has a number of
personal peculiarities which appear
well-developed in the infant. Left
and right ears of the same person
are often markedly different, so DR..
Quelprud examined both ears in his
study of 5000 persons. Twin and
family studies, including studies of
fraternal and identical twins, were
made to determine hereditary char
acteristics. Shape, length and
breadth of ear, height of concha,
length and form of ear-lobe, helix
and tragus, Observation-Disclosures of
the ear, scapha and other charac-
teristics were investigated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Severe Tests Give Top
Rating to New Type
OF Concrete Block

CHICAGO.-A new type con-
crete masonry block has re-
ceived a stop" rating after Sc
we're fire, water and pressure
tests in the Underwriters lab
oratories here. The eight-inch
thick wall was given a 31z-
hour fire classifcation-a rat
ing of half an hour longer than
any previous eight-inch wall of
concrete masonry units has
been able to secure.
A laboratory inferno was the test
ing ground for the new hollow build
ing block. A specially designed
furnace was built which burned
10000 cubic feet of gas an hour-as
much as small city.
For four hours the II by 10 foot
experimental wall of blocks was
subjected to fire. In the first five
minutes the wall reached a tenn
perature of 1000 degrees Fahren-
heit At the end of one hour the
exposed face was up to 1,700 de-
grees; at two hours, 1850 degrees;
and at the completion of the test a
temperature of 1000 degrees Fab
renheit was recorded.
Wall Remained Intact.
All this while great hydraulic
jacks were pushing down on the
wall with pressure averaging ITS
pounds to the square inch.
At the end of the four-hour ordeal,
the wall was removed from the fire
blast and its incandescent face was
washed with a stream of cold water,
from a fire hose, under a water
pressure of As pounds to the square
inch.
Great clouds of steam obscured
the wall. Swapping and cracking
noises were heard as the wall I'M
derwent it's rapid cooling and con-
traction.
The wall remained intact after
this whole series of destructive &C
tions. Architects and engineers
examining it later expressed
amazement at the slight effects of
the severe treatment.
Temperatures recorded on the I'M
exposed surface of the wall during
the tests resulted in the priced 312-
hour classification. This rating can
be increased to a four-hour CLASH
f1cation when such walls are sur
faced with three-quarters of an inch
of gypsum plaster.
Greater fire protection at lower
cost is the objective of the research
which developed the building
blocks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Keeping Up
WNj5l6Seien{e
&SeAoYS2e r14e
Dosing of Oil Wells
Produces Salts That
Ruin Refinery Units
. Science Service.-WNU Service,
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. = Widespread
use of acids to boost production
from oil wells has brought in
its wake a major trouble for
the petroleum industry in the
form of thousands of miles of
ruined pipelines and hundreds
of ruined refinery units, petro-
leum engineers report here.
Salts, 5O,0OO,OOO pounds of them,
produced largely as by-products of
the acid dosing" of wells, are eat
ing the walls of expensive pressure
piping and plugging refinery tubes,
exacting a stupendous economic
toll, they reveal.
They are in addition lowering the
value of residual oils and tars, eat
ing up in waste a considerable por-
ton of the increased income earned
by the use of the acid process which
increases the wells yield.
Greater even than the cost of re-
placement parts and labor is the
loss caused by equipment being out
of service while repairs are made.
Petroleum engineers are turning
increasing attention today, however,
to this problem and report a num-
Der of desalting methods.
Methods of Removing Salts.
Heat, pressure and the addition
of fresh water remove some of the
salt from commercial crude oil, in
creasing the life of piping and re-
finery equipment greatly at low
cost. A Michigan installation, de-
scribed in Petroleum Technology by
DR.. Gustav Egloff and a group of
petroleum engineers of the Univer-
sal Oil Products company, reduced
the salts in the incoming crudes
from 200 to pounds per thousand
barrels.
Incoming oil was mixed with
about 10 per cent of water, then
heated to $50 degrees under a pres
sure of go pounds. The salt re-
moval, 212 pounds for each 1000
Od1 C1S VI OI4 1CuOSCO SOL
rosion from a continual cause of
breakdowns to a very minor main
tenance factor.
Chemicals to break up the shell
of emulsion which protects brine
globules from the surrounding oil
have been used with some success.
Once this protective coating is de-
stroyed, water particles settle out
of the mixture very rapidly, carry
ing the salt with them. Different
chemicals are needed in each oil
producing area, and the search for
a general desalting chemical agent,
suited to all types and mixtures of
oil coming to refinery, is still 60
ing on.
Electrical desalting, in one plant,
decreased the salt content of the
crude oil from 200 to 8 pounds per
1000 barrels. This particularly cor
rosive crude oil, from an Arkansas
field, was mixed with water, then
subjected to an alternating poten-
tial of $4,000 to $4,000 volts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Making Forests Too Tidy
Is Bad for the Soil

GENEVA.-Don't tidy up forests
too much, by removing fallen tim
Der and otherwise clearing the
ground, is the advice of a leading
Swiss ecologist, DR.. Arnold Pictet.
If you clear away all such accumu-
lations of rubbish" you deprive the
forest of much of its biological work.
ing capital.
Trees are a soil-exhausting crop,
DR.. Pictet points out. They with
draw large proportion of the soils
original store of nutrient substances
and lock it up in their stems. When
they fall, the swarming destructive
life of the forest fioor-insects,
worms, fungi, bacteria-unlock
these boards and return the accu-
mulated capital to the soil as hu-
mus.
LAUNDERING operations inevitably
carry off a good deal of this capital
to market. Fire destroys it, not to
be replaced for centuries. Fallen
trunks, and forest litter generally,
can re-invest part of it in the
soil, if only they are permitted to
return, as dust to dust.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Supersonic Waves Break
Solids by Vibrations

PORT HURON, MICH.-Superson-
ic waves-sounds too shrill in pitch
to be heard by the human ear
will soon be used to break up solid
particles into new degrees of fine
ness.
Sounds new use has been devel-
oped from research of DR.. Karl
Soellner of the department of agron-
omy at Cornell university. He found
that high-frequency sound waves
not only make sediments, gels and
precipitates disperse-as previously
had been known-but also that GER
tain solids having a Illuminated
structure could be broken into fine
bits by the intense vibrations Gre
ated.
Materials on which the supersonic
waves work well include graphite,
mica and steatite. AS soon as pro-
duction changes are completed, col
loidal graphite will be made of
much finer particle size and longer
suspension than has heretofore
been available to industry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
AROUND THE BASES

Bug lin disgust)-We'l have to
call the game on account of dark
ness by the time that snail player
reaches base.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
War on Caterpillars

SYRACUSE, N. Y. - Organisms
that cause deadly disease to tent
caterpillars are being cultured at
the New York State College of For
estry here, to be released in an eff
fort to control the forest tent cater
pillar, which has developed into a
major pest. The disease has been
known for a long time, but this is
the first attempt that has been made
to propagate it artifcially and use
it as a means of forest defense.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
WISE CRACK

Johnny-Yah A little bird told
me the kind of lawyer your pa is!
Tommy-Yeah? What'd the bird
say?
Johnny-Cheep, cheep!
Tommy-Huh! Well, duck told
me what kind of a doctor your ia
Their Washington Post.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Wool From Fish

MUNICH.-A ''wool" fabric, con-
sisting of 80 per cent cellulose fiber
and 20 per cent fiber derived from
fish albumin, has been developed by
DR.. Otto Mecheels, head of the Ger
man Research Institute for Textiles
at Munich Gladbach. The new fiber
is durable and does not tear easily.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
REINSURANCE NEEDED

A Chinaman was worried by a
vicious-looking dog.
Don't be afraid of him." said
the owner. "You know the old prov
erb, "A barking dog never bites. :"
EYES," said the Chinaman. "You
know ploverb, and me know ploverb,
but does the dog know ploverb?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Find Soaring Site

PHILADELPHIA soaring site
rivaling Germany's famous Horn
berg, which has been the envy of
glider enthusiasts the world over,
has been located near Monteagle, a
town near Nashville, Tenn, Levin
B. Barringer, editor of Soaring mag
azine and premier motorless fight
pilot, reported.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Soon Over
By c. NJ. PAYNE

Lily-So yo' done mortgaged our
home?
Mose-Jes' tem-rarily, honey, till
de mortgage am foreclosed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
Had Him Marked

Mother-Don't cry, dear. Which
one of the naughty boys hit you?
Tommy-The one with the black
eye.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28

White House Grounds
The building and grounds of the
White House cover about 16 acres.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-07-28
College Of New Jersey

Until 1896 Princeton university
was officially called the College Of
New Jersey.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-23
pact, pretty and low-priced.

pact, pretty and low-priced.
The smaller package contained twin
bracelets pour la jeune fille," each
consisting of carved crystal plaque
two inches square, united to three
rows of gaily-colored metal beads.
"S'pose I ought to take them TO
Miss Selz in the Gift Shop, since Mr..
Bradley introduced me there Z
thought Ann, little chagrined.
Or she could take them to him, dl-
rect? Hadn't he said so during their
brief but satisfactory interview IN
his office?
Diplomacy is needed, young wo-
mani" Ann sternly told herself.
Much as she would have loved a
second chat with the handsome mer-
chandise-manager wouldn't it be Det-
ter policy to play up to the buyer OF
the Gift Shop?
But Brenda Selz had gone to lunch,
she was informed.
It was then that Ann realized that
she herself was healthily hungry. On
being told there was restaurant at
the top of the building, she went up In
the elevator.
And the very first person she en-
countered was no other than Gordon
Gavin, Society boy from her own
milieu who had had to leave Harvard
two terms before his graduation, due
to his father, Wall Street financier
leaping, as had many others, from his
high office window.
From the time they had attended
the Junior Holiday Dances, Ann ther
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-23

being in her early teens, Gordon had
admired the youngest, pepiest Della
field daughter. There was a strength
in her he lacked. He was mad about
Ann, but since his family fortune
crashed with Wall Street, he had COM
pletely removed himself from the old
crowd.
He had to.
A proud and moody youth, whose
deep-set eyes looked broodingly out
on new world he detested.
From a gilded only son at Harvard,
living in his own suite of rooms at
Clavering Hall, complete with valet,
to advertising copy-writer in the de-
partment store of Barclay & Weiss,
and at nights returning to his single
room in a cheap rooming-house was,
he considered, something of an anti
climax!
Gordon! How perfectly marvellous
to run into you here!"
Dropping her parcels on the first
table handy, Ann held out her two
hands to the good-looking youth.
"Why, Ami" he stammered, flush
ing, "You-you're shopping here?"
Eyes. No. mean, I've got job.
I'm wirking. I'm thrilled about it,
Gordon. Let's eat together, shall we?"
'I'd love to. I say, can't believe
you're real. Can you imagine, I have
mt seen you since the last Junior AS
sembly-last February, wasn't it?"
He sat her at the little table where
her packages rested, leaning across
it towards her with his whole soul in
his eyes. He was thinking, with Bit
ter-sweet longing, how lovely she
was!
), Forget the silly old Assemblies
and the old dowagers who chaperon
them The workaday world is heaps
, more amusing!" Ann told him.
) He didn't find it so. He was q
: moody boy, was Gordon Gavin. A
square peg in round hole.
"You mean you're doing Settlement
, Work with the Junior League?"
+, Junior League bunk! Little AIMS
out for cash, old dear-hard cash
, she needs it," said little Ann gaily
"And what brings you here?"
"My job. My divine new job of COM
parison-shopper! I'm a girl snooper
Ia sweet girl-spy-a second Mata
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(TO BE CONTINUED)
1888 SHOWS DECREASE
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS

During the first eight months of
this year there were 118 less deaths
than the corresponding period of last
year, the monthly report of the Safe
ty Department of Commissioners OF
Motor Vehicles disclosed. The month
of August this year with 33 deaths re-
sulting from auto accidents also is
a decrease over the same month o1
last year when 80 were killed.
AS usual, passenger cars, with ap
parently no defects, operating too fast
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-23

had any real zest in STOPPING to con-
quer"!
Women of Rentals type were SC
possessive!
They lacked, thought he, the we'll
bred reticence that was charm in
girls like Ann. 1t was impossible for
them to hide their emotions. Blazon
them around, they would, knowing
full we'll that department store was
nothing but sounding-board for gos-
sip!
Renita was a house-organ when it
came to spreading news. He should
never have introduced her to Ann, he
thought snobbishly, annoyed at him
self.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-23
Women I'm Love Mv&1ip
Hari, darling!"

Hari, darling"
So intent was he on her that ne
failed to see a green-eyed, auburn
haired girl passing the table. She had
a ripe red mouth whose underlip she
suddenly bit with her strong white
teeth as her slanting eyes swiftly
took in the young couple.
But Ann, who was intuitive, glanced
up and caught the look. "Gordon,
who's that ?" she asked of him.
He shrugged. Nonchalantly. "That's
Renita Parrish. Head of stock. Not
bad egg, in her way"
"You work here?"
"Certainly l do. 1 jingle!"
"You what?"
He grinned. 81 jingle! Panties OF
the ieune file will bloom in the
Spring, ira la la! write of the thrill
ing spiritual qualities of one-piece
combinations! 1 grow lyrical on little
lace brassieres, my dear! And posi-
lively Shakesperian on little pink silk
step-ins."
She laughed. AIMS laugh was like
freshet of delight. He glowered at
her.
"You think it's so funny for one who
planed- poor fool that he waste
write the great American novel;"
GLORIOUS training, old boy, since
the American novels fairly sizzling
with (shall I say)? intimate facts!
"Pink pajammer stuff? live i
and eat it and sleep it, demmit! Ane
I go half insane over what they cal
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-23

for conditions, headed the list of the
type of vehicles involved. Th drivers,
in most cases were white, in normal
condition between the age of 20 and
20 and from 80 to 80. They had an
average of five years experience, and
were residents of the counties.
Ten of those killed during the
month of August were pedestrians.
Three of this number were children
one was playing in the road, one was
hitch-hiking on a vehicle, and one was
crossing the street not at an inter-