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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
B. & 0. IS BLAMED
IN DEATH OF FOUR
Coroner's Jury Finds "NegIi-
qence" in Rockville Rail-
way Accident.

The death of four section hands run
down by a freight engine at Rockville
early yesterday was blamed by cor
oner's jury today on the negligence"
of the B. g. o. Railroad. States At
torney Robert Peter, however, char
acterized the verdict as too general"
and the jury was sent back to reframe
its findings with a view to specific
presentment for possible consideration
of the grand jury.
Taking the case under consideration
for the second time, the jury deliberated
an hour and returned shortly before l
O'Clock with substantially the same ver-
dict.
written statements of the three sur
viving members of the seven-man crew
were read at the hearing. 1t was
brought out that the crew violated a
regulation of the company when they
placed their gasoline work car on the
tracks without first notifying the train
dispatcher of the division in question.
The statements said the four men
who were killed were running beside
the car, getting the gasoline motor
started, when the backing locomotive
doomed suddenly from around a curve
behind and bore down down upon them.
The three who sustained lesser injuries
were riding on the truck and were
hurled clear by the impact.
Lookout Declared Kept.
Members of the locomotive crew tes-
titled they carried proper lights and
maintained the usual lookout, but that
they did not see the section hands
until after the collision. The engineer
said his first intimation of the tragedy
was when the fireman exclaimed I'VE
have hit Something!"
The foreman of the section crew, who
was expected to attend the hearing,
was unable to do so because of his in
juries.
William Thompson, 25, the fourth
member of the crew, succumber to a
fractured skull. internal hurts and
shock at Emergency Hospital early this
morning. He was married and a resi-
dent of Gaithersburg.
The inquest got under way at 10
o'clock, with Justice of Peace John
Jones officiating. Members of the
locomotive crew and surviving hands
of the section gang were to be ques-
toned.
Engine Backed Into Them.
The workmen had placed their
gasoline car upon the rails about am.
yesterday, when the locomotive backed
into them near Rockville station.
Five of the men were catapulted from
the light car Thompson told physi-
clans he made a desperate effert to
save himself by leaping upon the tender
as it bore down upon them, while a
companion-Millard Mobley, 20, Cal
thersburg-was caught in the wreckage
and instantly killed.
Two other men, Thomas Poole, %,
Rockville, and Marion Selby, 25, Cal
thersburg, were fatally injured. Poole
died en- route to Emergency Hospital
and Selby's death followed several
hours later at that institution.
The section crew was just leaving
for the scene of the derailment near
Georgetown junction, while the loco
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
GIRL IS ARRA|GNED
FOR Staying MAN
TO- ear-0Id Student Pleads
SeIf-DefenSe in Mary
land Court.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO Inc star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, October "a
Eula Robertson, 16-year-old Junior high
school student, went on trial here this
morning before a jury for the Staying OF
Thomas Sullivan, As, rejected sutton,
the girl having been indicted for man
slaughter. She entered a plea of self
defense.
Sullivan, who had a penal record for
attempted felonious assault, boarded
next door to the home of Miss Robert
son, who lived with her mother, Mrs,
Jasper Miller.
At the time of the shooting, Mrs
Miller was in Jail at Bedford, Pa, on a
charge of stealing an organ from an
abandoned Reformed Church at
Chaneyville, Pa, just over the Mary
land line and bringing it to her home
here. She was admitted to bail the
next day.
Sullivan threatened the girl, accord
ing to the defense, and was advancing
toward her when she fired.
Sullivan was said to have been angry
with Mrs. Miller and boarders at her
home. The day before the shooting. he
informed States Attorney William A.
Hustler. they had blamed him for telling
the authorities that Mrs. Miller and a
boarder named O'Neill had stolen the
organ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
Trolley Jumps Track.

NEW YORK, october "a (P)-A
trolley car carrying IS passengers, half
of them women. jumped the track in
Brooklyn yesterday and its rear end fell
8 feet into a 2O-foot excavation for
new subway. The passengers were
hurled into the rear end of the car.
where they remained. a screaming
scrambling mass, for 20 minutes, until
police rescue squads could get them out
All the passengers were slightly hurt
IL Of them requiring medical treatment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
CHICAGO'S MEDICAL
BATTLE NEAR TRUCE
Distinguished Physicians Agree to
Serve Health Institute
as Advisors.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, October 24-The quar-
rel between the city's medical profess
sion and the Public Health Institute
of Chicago, which resulted in the ex-
pulsion Of DR.. Louis Schmidt from the
Chicago medical society last Winter,
appeared on the verge of being amicably
settled yesterday.
Announcement was made by the
institute, an organization sponsored
by wealthy Chicagoans for treating
social diseases, that seven distinguished
physicians have agreed to serve as a
council to advise on medical and ad-
vertising policies.
The institute has been frowned upon
by the medical society because it
has advertised extensively. Schmidt,
a noted specialist was expelled be-
cause he was head of a charity hospital
that received funds from the Public
Health Institute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24

motive was to relieve dead" engine
on a side track in that vicinity.
Other men who sustained lesser in
juries were Leonard Coleman, 23-year-
old son of the foreman, and Frank Poole,
%, of Rockville, whose brother was
fatally hurt.
The locomotive crew was composed
of L. E. Spurrier, engineer: H. H. Huff
master, fireman, both of Bruncwick
Md, and G. A. Stewart, brakeman, of
Frederick, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
Old Bullet Is Removed.

PHILADELPHIA. October "a R)-
George Page, farmer of Newport, N.
j., has got rid of a bullet that hid in
side of him for 80 years. He was shot
by burglar and since then numerous
attempts to remove the bullet failed be-
cause of its inaccessible position. 1t was
finally been taken from the anterior
portion of the chest. Page is So years
old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
Dinner Honors Kreeck.

BY Gable TO The Star.
ASCUNCION, Uruguay. October "a
American Minister Kreeck was the
guest of honor Sunday at an official
dinner and reception given for him on
the eve of his departure for the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24
Gets Higher Political Post.

DIES MONIES. Ia, october "a P).-
r. F. Mitchell of Fort Dodge, chairman
of the Democratic State central COM
nlittee, Monday was named Democratic
national committeeman from Iowa, sue
ceeding Or. A. w. Reynolds Of Creston,
HAsiqned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-24

Building in Limerick. ireland, was
paralyZed for five weeks by a strike,
which has just been called of.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
Rodent Has Worn Out
Its Welcome in Hawaii


.0nose who know the mo only
through Kipling's i'm mor " of
may be SUI u
hear that Hawaii hunts the little
brown rodent as a pest. Originally
brought to the islands on the theory
that it would do battle with sugar
ane-gnawing rats. the mongoose has
become a nuisance which many people
feel is worse than the rats. Its de-
struction of birds, small poultry and
eggs is perennial and extensive. Some
years ago the legislature put bounty
on the mongoose in the hope that suf-
ficient scalps would be collected to di-
minish it's ravages. However, the
mongoose is both willy and prolific, and
his kind has not appreciably dimin-
ished. A bill in the present territorial
legislature proposes to do away with
the mongoose bounty on the grounds
that were the little chap welcomed and
encouraged instead Of chased and per-
secuted, he might cooperate with So
ciety more cordially in campaigning
against the sweet-toothed rats.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
Z776 1929

bit OF rest p" His song was hit!
The oldest American war ballad, ac-
cording to Lieutenant Dolph, was
"Lovewells Fight" written about 1925
in commemoration of Captain Love-
wells victory over the Indians at Pig
wacket on May of that year. Just
before the Revolution the Americans
frequently wrote ballads to express
their ideas about tea and taxation.
These ballads, however, were not near
ly SO popular among the soldiers of
the Continental army as were songs
which dealt with events of the war
itself, such as the famous Battle of
the Kegs Mad Anthony Wayne"
Brave Paulding and the Spy" II
NEARLY all Of these Revolutionary
songs were sung to tunes borrowed
from the British" says the author.
"This was natural, for soldier songs
are generally sung to old. well-known'
tunes, or to popular music Of the day.
1t was not until many years
after the Revolution that we began to
have a national music of our own"
1t is interesting to note that the one
outstanding song of the Revolution.
the one which has survived longest in
popular knowledge and which was the
basis for other songs during all our
wars, down to and including the Civil
war, was written originally by Brit
ish army surgeon. This was the famous
yankee Doodle"
Here is the story Of its origin as
Lieutenant Dolph tells it: I'm the sum-
mer or early fall of 1858, during the
French and Indian war, British army
surgeon, Doctor Richard Shuckburgh,
who had spent most of his time In
America, was encamped with General
Abercrombie on the old Van Rensso-
laer estate, near Albany. A number
of provincial troops were modifying
there. Their rustic appearance was so
ludicrous that Doctor Shuckburgh, who
was quite a wit, wrote song about
them and set it to an old tune which
we now know as Yankee Doodle"
To the men who served in France
a decade ago and sang Of "Madelon."
1t may be a surprise to know that
"Madelon" was a soldiers sweetheart
long before the World war. In proof
of that consider this stanza from
soldier song which appeared in one
of the earliest American songsters and
was probably sung in the War of 1872:
Could you to battle march away
And leave me here complaining?
I'm sure t would break my heart to stay
When you are gone campaigning.
All, non, non, non!
Pauvre Madelon
Could never leave her lover!
All, non, non, non!
Pauvre Madelon
Would go with you all the world over.
Although the War Of 1912 did not
produce many soldier songs-mainly
because the army didn't have much to
boast about until near the end of the
war! But there is one exception to
this statement and it is lone genuine
soldier song that win live as long as
the republic-'The Star Spangled Ban
ner.'" For this product of the inspira-
ton of a volunteer soldier, Francis
Scott Key, has become our national
anthem and had thrilled millions Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09

mot Clearly Explained

prepared by the United states Department
of Agriculture.)
Ond of the facts of plant life on
which, scientists would like to have
more complete information deals with
the relationship of plants within which
grating may be done. AS Guy e.
Yerkes. of the United States Depart
ment (of Agriculture, remarked recent
ly. the limits of this botanical rela-
tionsliip are not clearly defined. "Va-
rieties within the same Species" he
said, t'may be expected to unite; for
example. all varieties of European
pear will grow on French pear stock.
Often different species within the same
genus will make satisfactory unions.
AS an example, most botanical spe-
cies of apple (Malus) will grow on
each other. On the other hand, cherry
will not unite with peach, although
both are placed by many botanists in
the genus Prnnus. In many cases,
plants more distantly related may be
grated and will grow, as hawthorn
upon apple and firethorn upon noun
tain ash. The citrus fruits are related
closely enough so that it is by no
means uncommon to see a single
stock, which has been grated, pro-
ducing different fruits on different
limbs, lemons on one, oranges on an
other, and perhaps grapefruit and
tangerines as WELL"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09

Americans even though not one out of
hundred can sing it all the way
through.
Unlike the Revolution and the War
of 1912, the Mexican war produced no
great outstanding song which has sur
vived to the present time. In the
main, this conflict saw the revival of
the favorite songs of the two previous
wars mentioned, although the soldiers,
both volunteer and regular. seized up
on the opportunity offered by various
events in the Mexican campaigns TO
compose crude songs which were sung
to familiar tunes.
mo other war in our country's his
tory produced as many songs as the
Civil war;" says Lieutenant Dolph.
THE struggle lasted SO long and the
feeling on each side was so intense
that hundreds of songs of all degrees
of merit appeared" Some Of them
seemed destined to be sung as long as
the American nation lasts, for such
songs as Battle Cry of Freedom"
"Dixie," Battle Hymn of the Repub-
iic," Bonnie Blue Flag" Maryland,
My Maryland" have become an essen
tial part Of the American tradition.
"Not all of these songs were sung by
the soldiers, however-nor were they
intended to be-" writes the author of
Sound Off" "Many were wholly un-
suitable for camp or marching songs,
or were too far removed from the in
innate details and stark realities of
a soldiers daily life. AS a
rule, sentimental songs were not in
great favor. AS the first wave
Of feeling passed, and men settled
down to the serious business of fight
ing, marching, sleeping in the mud and
rain, and living on sow belly and
beans, their attention was more and
more focused on the immediate details
of their daily life. 1t was then that
true soldier songs were born"
For it was at this time that the es-
sential character Of the American SOL
der began to assert itself-his ability
to make jest about danger and hard
ship and to seek an emotional outlet
by singing satirically about himself
and his uncomfortable life. That quail
ity became even more apparent in tile
songs of the Spanish-American war
and those of the Philippine insurrec.
tion. And it reached its full flower
in the World war. The fact that
"Hinky Dinky, Parley-Voo" is the out
standing survivor of the soldier songs
sung "Oyer there" reflects as nothing
else can the spirit of the young man
who took part in the Great Adventure
of 1917-1S. And lest anyone deplore
the fact that the World war songs
breathed none of the crusading spirit,
let him consider these words of the au-
thor of "Sound Off" perhaps, after
all, it is blessing that these soldier
songs of IT and Is were light, nom
sensical, and even bawdy. AS long as
soldiers sing these kinds of songs they
do not become cynical and bitter, as
did the French, Germans and English.
The Americans came out of the war
with the ability quickly to regain their.
normal perspective. No feeling of hate
rankles in their breasts today. This
fact alone is worth more than all the
war songs that have ever endured"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
Fall Flowing Will Make
Enlarged Crop of Oats

On average land oats will usually
make larger crop when the ground
is plowed shallow in the fall. One is
usually less likely to get good stand
of clover when it is sown in oats on
fall or spring plowed ground unless
the land has been disked and rolled to
get it into a firm seeded, than when
the land was only disked for oats.
The surface of the plowed ground will
dry gut deeper than on disked land
and tie clover seed is not so likely to
have Das good moisture conditions for
terminating on plowed ground as on
disked ground. A good rolling will
overcome this tendency to large ex-
tent however.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
SLID Profit Is
in the Feeding
Dairy Farms and Live Stock
Feeders Declare Silage
Is Essential.

The proof of the silo profit is in the
feeding. Wisconsin has proved the
economy of this. If the value of 81
lage in the live stock ration was
known all over this land as we'll as it
Is in this state, where there is one
silo to every 80 head Of cattle, there
would be 100000 silos built in
America in the next three years. All
the evidence is in favor Of this feed
as a profit-bringing, milk-making and
bodybuilding ration.
Corn silage can be grown and put
into the silo for less than Sc ton.
Some reports set the cost figures as
low as So ton. This is crediting the
corn as being worth about "a cents a
bushel.
Value Of silaae.
Experts in different states claim
that when butterfat is selling for 40
cents pound, corn silage will bring
the dairy farmer $40 per ton, and
when fat steers are selling from SO to
$40 per hundredweight, corn silage is
worth from 81 to IS per ton. The own
err of silo with fair yield Of crop
can receive value from his corn
made into silage of $40 to $50 an acre
when fed to steers and 500 when fed
to good dairy cows.
1t has been proved that, with dairy
animals, the feeding of silage saves
from s to Is cents on the cost of pro-
ducing a pound of butter, and from
80 to so cents on producing 100 pounds
of milk. For beef production the saw
ing produced by silage is about 81 per
100 pounds of gain.
1t is true that the horse is decreas-
ing in numbers, but the cattle census
must be kept up and will be kept up
by the steady demand for milk and
meat. It is probable that the values
placed upon silage as given above will
be considered too low before next
spring.
Make Study of Silo.
It is just the time to make a study
Of their value and economy, watching
the feeding through the winter and
letting the facts stand as proof that
thousands more should be set to work
making money for stockmen. Expert
ment stations. dairy farms and live
stock feeders all over the United
States have proved that the silo is OF
highest Importance in the economic
production of stock and stock prod
ucts. The half-million progressive
stocE1earmers who are using silos ind
thu Indispensable. For many years
W. Ee urged the trial of the silo
honey maker. Wisconsin Agri-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
Tattoo Turkeys in Texas

IT'S campaign agulnst thieves. Ia
yised tattoo mark by which en-
member can brand his birds harms
lessly but indelibly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
Plant Food Will Make
Crops More Pleasing

OnSsoils that are full of plant food.
the crops will grow quickly and more
succulent. The individual plants will
grow larger and freer from fiber and
thus be much more desirable for table
use. This applies more particularly
to salad crops like 1cabbage. celery.
spinach, etc. The very best kind OF
root crops will be produced on such
soils. The radishes thus grown will
be less peppery and free from fiber
the kind that fairly snap when you
bite one of them. Beets and car
rots, too, will be tender because they
have made a quick growth
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09

had to eat and the shelter, or lack of
it, in which they slept, as well as any
number of other details OF their every
day life.
n TINS rgspgct the s0fdfers 81 me
American army, ever since there was
such an institution, have been no DIFF
ferent from the soldiers of other ma
tions. What is typical American SOL
der song? The answer is: there is
no such thing! The type of song that
was popular among our soldiers of one
period, the soldiers of another war
would scorn to sing. With but few
exceptions, perhaps, the songs which
were sung during one war are all but
forgotten by the time another war
comes along. For the soldier song is
one of the most ephemeral things In
the world.
Fortunately for our national ballad
ry, there has recently been collected
in one volume the greater part Of our
soldier songs from Yankee Doodle to
Farley Voo." which are published I'M
der the title Of "Sound or" by the
Cosmopolitan Book corporation Of New
York. The collector of these songs is
Lieut.. Edward Arthur Dolph Of the
United States Military academy at
/ West Point and two brother officers
on the academy staff have co-operated
with him in producing piece of work
which, aside from its inherent inter.
hsc<n
are Lieut.. Philip Egner, teacher of
music, who arranged the music for
many of the songs in the book, and
Lieut.. Lawrence Schick, instructor in
drawing, who made the illustrations.
In the foreword to the book, Peter
B. Kyne, a veteran of the Spanish
American and World wars, makes the
following comment: "a soldier song Is,
essentially, a song of the people. Its
melody must be simple, the words
either sad or humorous, and it must
have a resounding chorus in which
the tone-deaf can join without fear
of discovery. It is for this reason that
the most popular song of the Worli
war was All We Do Is Sign the Pay
Roll sung to the tune of John
Browns Body Then, too, it lent it.
self readily to improvisation. l re-
member a chief cook had. He had
a believing baritone and was one of
the funniest men l ever knew. One
day, after having passed through three
British rest camps, this fellow suddenly
roared forth: All we do is go to rest
camps. A joyous shout greeted this
opening line. The men knew instantly
what was coming and with mighty
vigor, indeed. did they come in on the
last line: And we never get id
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
First British FLYER Found

The first British subject to make
the first fight in a heavier-than-air
machine in the British isles has just
been determined by a committee of
three appointed by the Royal Aero
club. 1t was Col. ]. T. c. Moore
Brabazon, NJ. P. The flight was made
at some time between April so and
May 2, 1909. The airplane rose so
to so feet, flew for quarter to half
mile, and, turning. crashed, with
no injury to the pilot, says the com
mittee's report
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
Old Superstition

During the Middle ages the signs of
the zodiac were supposed to influence
human life and were distributed to
different parts of the human body.
Disease was supposedly cured by the
aid of the zodiacal power presiding
over that part of the body. The do
minion of the moon over the body as
she passes through the II signs Of the
zodiac is as follows: Aries, head and
face (ram); Taurus, neck and throat
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09

(bulD; Gemini, arms and shoulders
(twins); Cancer, breast and stomach
(crab) Leo, heart and back Qion);
Virgo, bowels and belly (virgin)
Libra, reins and loins (balance) Scor-
pio, secret membnrs (scorpion); Sagit-
tarius, hips and thighs (archer) Cap
ricornus, knees and hams (goat);
AQuarius, legs and ankles (water bear
cry, and Pisces, feet and toes (fsh).
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
When the Serpent Entered In

Mother-George, why are you strik-
ing your little sister?
George-Well, we were playing par
adise and l gave her an apple so she
might tempt me and then she ate it
all.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
Her BUSY Dax

The Supervisor-Why did you give
that party the busy signal? There
was no one on the line. Wv.
The OPERATOR was busy-doing
my nails.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09
sv ELMO SCOTT WATSON

v CIe SiIlCC Ike WOllu uSSu.i
men have gone to war and,
going, having sung songs.
Among savages the singing
of war songs was an es-
sential part of the prep
aration for battle, but in
so-called "civilized war
fare" soldiers have light
ened campaign hardships
or camp life monotony By
singing about their officers
fbo;, rons,poYofc what fhnv
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09

A doctor is up against stubborn
case when his patient comas of a
long-lived family.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-08-09

BY placing the speaking likeness of
a woman in a locket it can be shut
up.