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Evening star., 1925-02-07
VIRGINIA MANSION SOLD.
Detroit Manufacturer Acquires
Historic Estate Near Casanova.
Sn.cjal Disn.tch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WARRENTON, Va, February 81
j. NJ Hibbard, manufactures of
Detroit, Mich, has recently purchased
the handsome and historic Melrose
Castle estate near Casanova, Va,
from Mrs. Z. Scott Carter.
This mansion, reproduction of
Melrose Castle, Scotland, was built
by DR.. Murray long before the Civil
War and during the war was alter
nately in the possession of the Fed
eral and Confederate forces, the
Federal troops using il as a barracks
for a considerable time.
Cp TO the present the castle has
been the headquarters of the Casanova
hunt
Evening star., 1925-02-07
RULE REQUIRES VOTE
ON POSTAL PAY BILL
Resolution Brings Kelley Measure
Before the House on
Tuesday Next.

A resolution under which the Kelly
postal pay and rate increase bill will
be brought to a vote in the House
Tuesday was reported today by the
House rules committee.
The resolution would make in order
on Tuesday a motion to suspend the
rules and pass the bill prohibiting
amendments from this floor.
Representative Ramseyer of Iowa, a
Republican, on the post Office COM
mittee, obtained consent today TO file
minority views on the House proposal.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
Katz Closes Exhibit Tomorrow.

Leo Katz, Austrian painter, will
close his exhibition of art at the Ma
tional Museum of Art, Smithsonian
Institution, tomorrow. instead of
on February 15 as was originally
planned. The change was made nee
essary by urgent requests for the ex-
hibition in other cities. Mr.. katz
will be at the gallery on Sunday aft
crnoon.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
DOG SAVES BOY IN POND.
Holds Child by Collar Till Help
Comes-Rescues Pup Also.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

kncClaI U1spdtch 10 The Star.
LYNN. Mass. February Ernest
Lang, IS. was rescued from drowning
In Sluice Pond water by Afra, a police
dog, who also dragged out her three
month old pup. Alto, wh .ch had fallen
into the water during. the excitement
of saving Lang. &
Gus Clough, 16. and Howard Condos,
Is, were attracted by the cries of
Lang struggling in the water.s where
ice bad recently been cut. HeIwas
close TO the shore, but at a rofnt
where the bank drops abruptly about
J D feet. The dog ran ahead reached
the drowning lad, grabbed his coat
collar between his teeth and held him
until Clough and Condos came up.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
COLLECTORS ASSIGNED.
Will Aid Maryland Citizens With
Income Tax Reports.

The Internal Revenue Service. wi tn
view TO assisting citizens of vari-
Gus sections and communities of
Maryland in filing out income tax
Blanks, have assigned deputy
sCollectors to those districts. Col
iectors will visit the following COM
munities on the dates given.
2 Annapolis, February 16- March IA;
Cumberland, February 26-March IA:
Frederick, February 24-2S: Hagers-
town. March 1March IA; La Plata,
February 1920; Prince Frederick,
February 2527;' Hyattsville, Febru-
ary 2S-March 8; Laurel, March As,
and Rockville, March I'll.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
A. ]. GLEASON HELD SANE,
Wife Had Questioned Mentality of
Business Colleges Head

NEWARK, n. J., February AL
bert j. Gleason, head of the Drake
Business Colleges, was declared sane
by Jury of "a men last night, after
an inquiry which was instituted bv
Mrs. Gleason. and which had been in
progress several days. 1t had been
contended that Gleason was unable
to take care of his business and
himself
Experts, testifying in behalf of Mrs.
Gleason, had said that Gleason suf-
fered from paresis, but this was con-
tradicted by the testimony of other
experts.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
Slip Costs Brakeman Leg.
ial pisnatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, February q
Earl r. Trenton, Keyser, w. Va, brake
man on an extra westbound Baltimore
and Ohio freight train, slipped from the
top of a car last night, near Swanton,
Md. and his right leg was crushed off.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
Reserve Officers Named.

Edwin B. Hesse, chief clerk of the
District Police Department, has been
appointed. by the War Department a
captain in the Finance Department,
and Franklin I. Winter, $40 Maryland
avenue northeast, a captain in the
{ ,ha plains Corps, both in the Officers
Reserve Corps of the Army.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
DOGS DEATH GRIEVES SEPALLA.
+ HERO OF 245-MILE MUSH TO NOME
Scent of Reindeer Starts animals at Sleds to Fight
ing-Biter Blizzard Adds to Hardship
Driuer Proud of Part Played.

Of the reindeer and were fghting all
the time. The wind was coming
strong from the direction I had ira
versed. I had made one and a half
days mush In one day then, but I
turned without rest and went all the
way to Bonanza lighting Is dogs
crazed because of the reindeer scent.
couldn't manage to keep the serum
warmer.
(The Bonanza of which he speaks
is not Bonanza River. He has not
yet recrossed Norton Bay)
Make Dash in High Wind.
When I arrived at Bonanza I COW
cred the parcel and took Is minutes
struck across Norton Bay and went
25 miles before IL got dark, with a
strong wind blowing in my face.
That's kind Of a mean drive.
On the S2-miie run from Shaktolik,
across the bay, I made an average of
8 $40 miles an hour. The blizzard
froze my left cheek. But that's little
or nothing In the life OF a musher.
I was lucky it didn't freeze one of my
is dogs.
got to IsaaCs Point at 7:45 o'clock
and the blizzard was gaining strength
Here I examined the log of the other
musher, which had been handed
along, as we'll as read direction which
said / was to keep the serum inside
in the roadhouse between relays to
avoid freezing.
Rams Into Blizzard
After three hours l was fairly warm,
and, wrapped In furs to keep me from
the cold OF the early morning hours
which were coming. l got ready, to
leave. I had the sled in the house
ready and left at daybreak ran
into q bad blizzard crossing Greek
River, so named on account of the
delta, and was forced to stop between
the river and Elm to rub the dogs
TANKS to avoid freezing. That was a
hard blizzard,
While | was crossing Norton BAY
overlook and passed four teams, in
cludfng the mail. The trip to Golof-
min was uneventful except for the
, wind and cold. There l met Charlie
Olso. who. by the way. froze his hands
and fingers and got his cheeks badly
frostbitten while blanketing dogs
with rabbit skins to keep out the
terrific cold during the blizzard. His
relay was short. i think mine was
the longest.
On the first day | made 81 miles and
the second 81. Under good conditions.
though. and with dogs in training, /
have run loo miles day in the
sweepstakes. But this was my big
gest part in a real trip.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
Reports american
Offer to Buy All
Diamond Output
BY the Assoc ated Press,

by the Assoc ated Press.
LONDON, February TT h e
Capetown, South Africa, corre-
spondent of the Daily Express
quotes the South African National
ist member of Parliament, Mum
mix, as saying that an American
syndicate headed by J. p. Morgan
has offered to bny the entire out
put of the DeBeers and Premier
diamond mines for year.
The offer, he divulged, was made
a week ago. and the representa-
tive of the Kimberley Co. i'm
mediately cabled European head
quarters urging that il must bid
higher or lose control OF the market.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
Named to West Point.

The President has appointed Keith
Roscoe. San Diego. Calf: John H. Nc
Clellan, Manlius. n. Y, and Russell w.
Lyster. Los Angeles. as cadets-at-large
at the United States Military Academy,
subject to the usual examination.
Evening star., 1925-02-07

4 juniper tree, believed to be not
less thin 5000 years old, is still stand
jrg In the Cache National Forest in
UtaA
Evening star., 1925-02-07

did I20 miles. This champion. DlusheT
had to deal NTH fighting dogs as tncu
as Icith cold and storm. aud came otGt of
his greatest achievement tcith q great
grief. due to the loss Of Togo. his famous
lead dog, t1hich ran a1dy on the trdck
Of q reindeer.
BY NED LEONARD SEPPALA.
Special Dispatch to The Star and New York
World.
NOME, Alaska, February delay
od).-They told me to go slow-to
keep the dogs in good shape-when
i left Nome for Shaktolik, where I
was to get the serum and turn around
for the dash back. I had understood
that just one team was on the way
from Nenana instead of the relays.
l made Solomon tabout 40 miles)
on the first day. On the second day
the trails were in the best shape I'd
ever seen them, and i decided the
weather would permit me to make
double the run OF the mail sled each
day. I got to Elm by night, and
found the people were worried about
one child who had throat trouble.
When they heard the news of the
Nome epidemic from me they closed
the schools. Several small settle
monts were quarantined. From Elm
to Isaacs Point is 80 miles across a
point of Norton Bay, and then I had
to make my big drive across Norton
proper after stopping for an hour for
lunch and to feed my dogs. I had
made record on this run. The trails
over the ice were good
(The run was of almost 16o miles.
Seppala, speaking of a point of Nor
ton Bay. apparently refers to the
projection of land terminating in
Cape Darby. This was mush of
so miles. Elm, settlement so small
that it is not shown on the maps, is
on the westerly side of this projec-
tion and Isaacs Point on the easterly.)
Dogs Scent Reindeer.
Nearing Shaktolik the dogs scented
reindeer and became hard to handle.
Dogs go crazy when they scent REIN
deer. A quarter of a mile this side
of Shaktolik ! met the son of Ivanoff,
an old-ti Russian chief. He had
started the relay and had lot of
trouble with his dogs. They had been
fighting because they smelled rein
deer. CHere begiI the return jour-
ney)
1t was hard to transfer the serum,
as the dogs were still crazy because
Evening star., 1925-02-07

How much real value stands back
OF the stock you are asked to buy.
Evening star., 1925-02-07

Before you lnvest-lnvestisate.
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

feels that big portion of the heavy tax burden of the country is occasioned by heavy static and municipal expendi- lures. The government feels that the subordinate authorities should cooper ate to tighten the load.
 Lord& believes that governmental economy cannot be accomplished if every city county and state insists on new postofIices, federal buildings, locks and dams and other improvements that must be paid for out of federal appro- priations. No such expenditures will be approved by the director unless they appear to be essential to the local Oper- ation of the government.
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11
Budget Bureau Plans
 Slash of 300 Millions

Washington. - The administration plans to cut governmental running ex- penses at least $500, 100000 during the next fiscal year, it was learned today at she budget bureau. This cut can be accomplished and still permit F per cent slash in taxes which the admins sration plans to recommend to Con gress, it WAS declared.
 Estimated cost of the government for she year ending June, 1926, is S3,267,- 551, ,00O. This 6gure can be materially reduced, if federal departments will wield the pruning knife unsparingly against overhead and unnecessary ex- psnses, the bureau said.
 Among the reductions regarded as certain is cut of approximately $60, GOO, ,0o0 in interest costs because of les sening of the public debt.
 Officials declared there were no un- usual expendituresin sight to increase operating costs, and for that reason are hopeful that with strict economy all along the line running costs can be trimmed without curtailing any need- ful activities of the government.
 The campaign to reduce expenditures will be launched formally by President Coolidge and H. NJ. Lord, budget di- rector, at the semi-annuai business meeting of the government. During the summer, too, Lord will carry the economy drive to the country through 8 series of addresses. Aside from inn pressing the economy program on the people, Lord will suggest to the states the value of following the federal gov ernment's cost-cutting policies.
 Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11
Charges VOlstead Act
 Is Dead in Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.-Prohibition enforce ment in Wisconsin is 'up to the fed eral authorities, Herman Sachtlen, state prohibition commissioner, de- clared today. With members of the Wisconsin legislature in open rebellion a gainst the Volstead act, openly defy ing arrest for dry law violations, Sachtjen today ruled that possession of intoxicating wine and beer in the home cannot be prosecuted under the Sever- son enforcement act, state law for prohibition enforcement.
 Sachtjen frankly admits that the Volstead act cannot be enforced in Wisconsin. He threw the matter squarely up to the federal authorities.
 t'IJ is up to the federal authorities to investigate the case of Senator Gettel- man, Sachtien said. Il am not in terested."
 Sachtjen, who was appointed prohi- bltion commissioner by Gov. Blaiue in 1923, is speaker of the Wisconsin as- sembly.
 Informed of Sachtjen's ruling, D. L. McBriee. state superintendent of tbe Anti Saloon League. announced that his organization would take no action againet Senator GStelman, who earlier in the week told Senate committee be had cellar full of fruit wines and home brew in Milwaukee and was mot keeping it a secret.
 The Milwaukee solon's revelations featured hearings on the G9ttelman joint resolution to memorialize Con- gress to modify the Volstead act to le- galize ,. 75 per cent beer.
 Local enforcement officials have failed to do their duty" McBride de- clared "There is nothing we can do in the matter"
 The Anti-Saloon League is not a law enforcement body. Mcbride pointed out.
 "We will do all we can to aid in en- forcement of the eighteenth amend ment, the dry leader said, but we can do nothing where sentiment against prohibition is so fragrant that state offi- cials can openly encourage law viola tion and go unpunished."
 "Wisconsin is the wettest state in the Union," D. E. Cruea, head of the Madison Anti-Saloon Eeague, said. "In the East they may think they are wet, but there is no state where the Vol stead act is held in such contempt and violation is openly condoned as in Wis consn. The situation is deplorable. Juries refuse to convict for liquor law violations. Local offibals refuse to prosecute and citizens refuse to obey the laM. The Anti-Saloon League is powerless in the face of such opposi- tion."
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11
PRESS SQUIBS.

I D some families thrift consists of worrying about what became of last months money.-Anderson Herald.
 Even in cheap magazines there is good literature, but it is provided by the ad writers.-La Porte (Ind.) Argus.
 The only real obstacle to everlasting peace is that there are more dogs than bones.- (Que. Record.
 The price of wheat has droppec, but it will rise again when it comes in COZ
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

If all the mortgages in the country were placed end to end, it would seem scarcely possible there was enough gas oline in the world to run them.-Phil- adelphia Inquirer.
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

''To loosen fruitjar cap, soak it. " That is the orthodox method of making the taxpayer loosen, also.-Springtield State Register.
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

A defaulting Spanish public official has been sentenced to 308 years in prison, but we presume there will be the usual reduction of time allowed for good ehavior.-Columbu Dispatch.
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

tact with the yeast in the bread. Gin cinnati Enquirer.
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

tact with the yeast in the bread. Gin cinnati Enquirer.
 "To loosen fruitjar cap, soak it. " That is the orthodox method of making the taxpayer loosen, ,also.-Springtield State Register.
 If all the mortgages in the country were placed end to end, it would seem scarcely possible there was enough gas oline in the world to run them.-Phil- adelphia Inquirer.
 A defaulting Spanish public official has been sentenced to 308 years in prison, but we presume there will be the usual reduction of time allowed for good behaviour Columbus Dispatch.
 Perhaps, when they return home, and look back over their accomplish ments for the state of Montana, our two senators and our pair of congress men will send their g., 500 salary raise to the federal eonscienbe fund. Helena Independent.
 There's small choice. Refuse him ten and you lose friend; lend it and you lose the ten.-Huntington Herald.
 One trouble with the so-called pro- gressive movement is it's failure to pro- gress.-Rochester Herald.
 To make it perfectly fair, how'd it do to let Mellon and Couzens make out each others tax returns?-Dallas News.
 Another of the very desirable fea- lures of honesty is that practically no confederates are needed to carry it out. Detroit News.
 General Allen says Germany will re- main republican, but what the attenu- ated saints of an imperishable de- mocraev want to know is, when will this country go democratic?-H Houston Post Dispatch. -
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

There's small choice. Refuse hin ten and you lose friend; lend it anc you lose the ten.-Huntington Herald
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

Another of the very desirable fea- lures of honesty is that practically nc are needed to carry it out Detroit News.
The Kusko times., 1925-07-11

To make it perfectly fair, how'd it do to let Mellon and Couzens make out each others tax returns?-Dallas
The Republican., 1925-08-13
EVANSVILLE FAIR DATES
HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
Two Days, Thursday and Fri
day, September II and Is,
Have Been Fixed

The Grantsville Community Fair
Association has decided on the dates
for the Community Fair to be held in
that town as Thursday and Friday,
September 18th and 10Th.
The following are the officers of the
Association who will have active ad-
ministration of the fair: President,
Guy S. Stanton; president G. Fay
Shaw; secretary, A. c. Stanton.
The catalogue, according to an an
nouncement made recently, will be re-
vised and the premium list enlarged,
the rules and regulations changed and
these will be strictly adhered to this
year.
The committees for the various de-
paEtments are being appointed and
will be announced later.
New interest is being manifested
by the community and preparations
are being made in the women's and
girls clubs for better exhibits than in
past years and it is the desire of the
management that everyone will make
an effort to place this years fair far
ahead of the previous ones.
The Republican., 1925-08-13
Ninth Annual Reunion of The
Ashby Family,

Last Saturday in Ream's picnic
grove at Crellin the Ashby Clan cele-
brated their annual reunion. This was
the ninth annual gathering of the
family, the first one having been held
on September 10, 1917, at which there
was an attendance of forty-nine. The
attendance has been increasing each
year until last year there were more
than three hundred present. Last
Saturday, due to the threatening con-
dition of the weather, there were in
attendance but 231. The program of
the day included addresses by Rev. F.
L. Fultz, Rev. Brown, Rev. Frank Nc
Camic and others, music by the Crel-
lin Boys Band and Abel Browning,
and a baseball game between the
members of the Boys Band and the
seniors. Each year the attendance
and interest in this event have been
growing until now it is looked for
ward to with anticipations Of pleasure
by members of the family. Many at
the reunion this year came from dis
tant points.
The Republican., 1925-08-13
ABUNDANCE OF NATURAL
GAS FOR SEVERAL YEARS
Cumberland and Allegheny Co.
POstpOnes Erection of Arti-
fetal Plant.

There will be an abundance of nat
ural gas for this section in winter as
well as in summer for certainly at
least two years, and probably for
many more years"
This statement was made Monday
by j. A. Mayors, general manager of
the Cumberland and Allegheny Gas
Company, which company took over
the property of the West Virginia
and Maryland Gas Company last
year. When the property and fran
chise of the former gas company were
purchased it was the purpose of the
new owners to build an artificial gas
plant adjacent to the natural gas
field for the purpose of keeping up
the supply with manufactured gas in
the event of the pressure of natural
gas failing in cold weather. For sew
eral winters the periodic failure of
the gas pressure has given great in
conveniences to gas consumers. Mr..
Mayors says the development of new
gas territory by the present owners
of the gas company in the past year
and contracts that have been made
with other owners of gas fields in
the past year have abolished the ap-
parent necessity for plant to manu-
facture gas which would require an
investment of a half million dollars or
more. The cost of the manufactured
gas, he explained, would be far great
er than the cost of natural gas and if
a plant were built now it would be
idle and leave the investment in it
unproductive for at least two years.
Mr.. Mayors stated that the present
owners of the gas company have both
geologists and engineers who know,
in constant observation of the natural
gas field and wells and that the COM
pany will have ample notice of any
weakening of the supply. Then the
plant for the manufacture of gas
will be built. Mr.. Mayors cites as
certain assurance against any sud-
den failure of the gas supply the fact
that the company controls gas field
in BraXton county, the wells of which
are capped and the gas in them kept
in reserve for such an emergency as
the sudden failure of any portion of
the fields from which gas is now
drawn.
The Republican., 1925-08-13
MRS. FREEMAN D'WITT.

Mrs. Freeman Dewitt, of near
Hoyes, died at her home last Thurs
day afternoon at $40 o'clock, aged
63 years and 4 months. She was born
near Accident and was a member of
the U. B. church from the time of her
young girlhood until her marriage
forty-five years ago, when she allied
herself with the Methodist Episcopal
church at Hoyes. Mrs. Dewitt was
the mother of eight children, all of
whom survive her as we'll as her hus-
band, who is a progressive farmer
residing on the same place upon which
he was born more than IS years ago.
Mrs. Dewitt is also survived by three
brothers: Charles F. Glotfelty, Of
Oakland; Calvin H. Glotfelty, of near
Swanton, and Joseph T. Glotfelty, of
near Oakland; also by twenty-five
grandchildren. Funeral services were
conducted in the Hoyes NJ. E. church
Which were conducted by the pastor,
assisted by the Rev. Donachy, of the
Friendsville church. Interment was
made at Hoyes.
The Republican., 1925-08-13
Here's To The Six Year Olds

If a huge birthday cake could be
made for the youngsters in the coun-
ties of Maryland who will reach
school age this year, it would have to
be lighted by more than 10000 can
dles-if there were to be one on it
for each child. There would have to
be another about the same size for
the six year olds in Baltimore City.
Up and down the length and the
breadth of Maryland, in the highlands
and the lowlands, this army over 30,-
600 strong is mobilizing getting ready
for the great adventure Of going to
school. Half of it will advance in Bal
timore City and the rest on those in
the counties.
DR.. John S. Fulton, director of the
State Department of Health, sends
this message to each of the six year
olds: "The grown-ups will see to it
that you members of the infantry are
trig and neat and make a good ap-
pearance when you go up for enroll
men in the schools. But you want
something more than a spick and
span outfit. You want to be sure
that your eyes, ears, teeth, tonsils
and the rest of you are in good shape
for school life.
"Ask your mother and your father
to take you to your doctor, or to the
nearest Child Health Conference of
the State Bureau of Child Hygiene,
for careful going over before you
go to school. Don't wait; get them
to take you this week. The doctor or
the dentist may find something that
needs attention, and that if corrected
now, may prevent serious sickness
and much anxiety later on.
Another thing to remember, is
that our Maryland law requires every
one of you to be vaccinated against
smallpox before your name can be
placed on the school roll. Don't for
get that when you are taken to the
doctor.
Good luck to each of you as you
start in to school, but better still,
good health to every one of you"