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Evening Star, Issue 21974, 9 March 1935, Page 2

Fifty unemployed men at Washington, U.S.A., have just been given the queerest job in the world. They have to prevent starlings from getting any sleep. Every winter the U.S. capital suffers from a plague of starlings. Tho birds roost on Government buildings and in the tall trees near the White House, President Roosevelt’s official residence. Their chatter and noise disturbs the men who are trying to put over tho Now Deal. So the fifty unemployed stay up at night rattling stones in tins. The theory is that if the starlings are deprived long enough of their sleep they will seek quieter quarters for the winter. A battle to the death has just been fought on a faim at Leeton, New South Wales, between a large cat and a. six-foot snake. Tho cat encountered the snake in the bush, circled around it cautiously, and tire slashed with its claws. The pair rolled in the grass in fierce battle, 'the oat clawed and bit furiously, and after a few minutes the snake relaxed its grip. It was dead. The cat staggered for a few yards and colapsed. In a mimitejjr so: it, too, wag dead,;