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Evening star., 1929-12-19
ADD CANDY AND SHOES
TO CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Donors Continue Annual Custom of
Spreading Cheer Among
City Boys.

One hundred five-pound boxes OF
candy and 125 pairs of shoes will be
added gifts to the poor boys Of the
Capital who Christmas morning will re-
ceive overcoats from Saks 8, Co. Both
gifts are annual customs of the donors.
Bernard Harding of 800 Seventh street
promises to be on hand at his place of
business Christmas morning personally
to hand each boy the candy. The boys
will receive the shoes at the SakS store
through the courtesy of George D.
Horning.
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rial service to be held in Rock Greek
Cemetery this afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock.
Arrangements for the ceremony are in
charge of DR.. Nellie Hooper Barrett,
regent of the Deborah Knatt Chapter.
Mrs. David B. Caldwell, present State
regent for the District will accept the
marker in behalf of the local chapter.
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Rover to Speak.

District Attorney Leo A. Rover will
deliver an address on Law Enforce
ment in the District of Columbia" at a
meeting Of the Georgetown Progressive
Citizens Association in the Gordon jun
ior High School tonight at o'clock.
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GRAVE TO BE MARKED.

The officers marker of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution will be
placed on the grave of Mrs. James
Marshall Wiley, one-time State regent
Of the District of Columbia, at a memo
Evening star., 1929-12-19

Nearly 10000 tons of beans were
shipped daily during the recent bean
harvesting season in Southern China.
Evening star., 1929-12-19

A special sermon Will be preached
tonight at o'clock at the Vermont
Avenue Baptist Church by Rev. w. l..
Turley, pastor of Mounts Gilead Baptist
Church. His subject is God Was
There"
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FUTURE.

The program for the meeting OF the
Writer'S League at Thomson School,
Twelfth and L streets, tomorrow night
at 8 o'clock will consist of the reading
Of original short stories and verse by
nemb. IS. Meeting open to all writers.
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Christmas meeting of tine Society of
Natives, District of Columbia, will be
held to- lorrow night at O'Clock at the
Washington Club. Mrs. j. c. Kondrup
and Mrs Ella C. Robinson will be on
the program.
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Red Triangle Outing Club will hold
a Christmas Irty at o'clock tomor-
row night at the Y. M. c. A. Building,
172 G street. Short program. Christ
mas tree. Every one is to bring one
wrapped and unaddressed gift valued
at not more IT, 25 cents. Miss Lu-
settle Blevens in charge.
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY

Washington Academy of Sciences will
meet at 8:15 tonight in the assembly
hall of the Cosmos Club. DR.. l.. H.
Adams will speak on The Creation OF
the Earth and It's Early Development"
Evening star., 1929-12-19

Study class OF the United Lodge of
Theospohists viii be held tonight at
BIS at Seventeenth and Eye streets.
All welcome.
Evening star., 1929-12-19

Macfarland Junior High School Par
ent-Teacher Association will meet to-
morrow night at o'clock at the Mac
farland Junior High School Auditorium,
Thirteenth street and Iowa avenue
northwest.
Evening star., 1929-12-19

The first annual ball of Admiral Rob-
ert E. Peary Ship, No. 427, the allNavy
post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
will be held at the ball room of the
Elks' Club. 919 H street, tomorrow night
at 9 O'Clock.
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links joined together by rings. The
pulling handles are also shown, and
similar chains are in use today.
Since the beginning of 1929 other sur
veying pins of Washington's were driven
into the ground by his great-great-great
nephew to mark off the beginning of
7,500-yard runway for new airport to
be constructed between the old home Of
the Fairfaxes. at Belvoir, and Alexan-
dria, the town plotted by Washington
$50 years ago, perhaps with these same
pins
Who can doubt that the engineer
President who insisted that the bonds OF
union between the States could best be
strengthened by means of internal COM
munlcation, would see today in the
building of such airports a growing
bond of union between the nations?
(Copyright. 1927
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the newly opening West. His early
plans were interrupted by the Revo-
luton, but within year after he re-
signed as COMMUNICATIVE of the
Army he set out Ito obtain informa-
ton Of the nearest and best commune
cation between the Eastern and West
ern waters" This information he OBJ
tanned by travelling on horseback across
10 mountain ranges and covering dis
lance of GA miles in "a days.
When the Potomac Co. was finally
incorporated in 1785 by the Legislatures
of both Virginia and Maryland 1t was
the first great interstate commerce
corporation of the United States, and
the building Of canals and highways in
other States received decisive impetus.
THE masonry of one of the locks in
the canal built around the Great
Falls of the Potomac by the Potomac
Co. is still visible and is known locally
as "Washingtons Canal" If the oper-
atoms undertaken at that time seem
small in comparison with Mississippi
flood control for instance, 1t must be
remembered that the work accomplished
OIL Lie GObOIItdC WHO tlAC tAA 6SoS VA NAAN
kind ever undertaken in America up to
that date.
In the years intervening between the
war and before Gen. Washington be-
came President he again visited the
West and that he shared our second
engineer Presidents Partially for first
hand information is shown by the fol-
lowing notation after his return to
Mount Vernon II am we'll pleased
with my journey, as it has been the
means of my obtaining knowledge Of
facts-coming at the temper and dis
position of the Western inhabitants,
and making reflections thereon which
otherwise must have been as wild, in
coherent, or perhaps as foreign from
the truth as the inconsistency of the
reports which 7 had received even
from those to whom most credit seemed
due, generally were"
A careful review and estimate of all
his property occupied part of Washing
toms time during the last years of his
life, and at the age of 81 ne personally
ran surveys on land belonging to him
in Virginia "In April, 1899" writes
Mr.. Prussing, ain extreme cold and a
high wind he spent three days survey
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ing his land at Four Mile Run near
Arlington. In June. in the heat, he
personally surveyed three fields in his
Dogue Run farm, because after exam
lining lines run by his secretary, Mr.
Rawlins, he could not make them
close; and as late as the end of No
vember he made survey of his lands
on Difficult Run, near Potomac Falls
taking notes himself and then tran
scribing them into as careful descrip-
tons as he did SO or more years before
for Lord Fairfax and his settlers"
On his return from the November
trip to Difficult Run, Just a few days
before his DEATH Washington notes in
his diary that he came home by way
OF the Federal City," viewing his
building there and lodging at Mr.
Thomas Peters. 1t is to the engineer
President, with his experience in land
plotting as 1t is influenced by topog-
raphy, and his trained INSTALLATION of
an orderly future development, that our
Federal City owes much of the beauty
OF its plans. When the District was
surveyed he rode with the Commission
ers to see where the boundary lines
fell, and 1t was to him that they
turned in the selection of city design
and OF sites for public buildings. After
nearly $50 years of city growth, we
cannot be too grateful that President
Washington encouraged L'Enfant and
refused to allow the broad avenues
planned by the engineer to be narrowed
X X \ X
MANY Of Washington's surveying in
struments, as well as his maps and
surveys, are treasured by museums and
a few fortunate individuals. Mount
Vernon displays one of his surveyors
tripods and compasses, while the Ma
sonic Lodge at Alexandria owns his
pocket compass. There is also a large
compass in the National Museum but
the largest collection of authentic in
struments belongs to the Department
Of Education of the State of New York,
which has built a special Safe for its
valuable Washington relics. After Gen.
Washington's death these instruments
became the property of Col William A.
Washington, the generals oldest
nephew. and were purchased by New
York from one Of his descendants In
1871.
In the collection are various instru-
naents made Of brass, case Of pro-
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Washington as surveyor from Frost Pictorial Life of Washington

an appropriation of 100000 to erect
and garrison chain OF frontier forts
covering distance of about 400 miles
Gov. Dinwiddie advocated quite mod
ern community interest in raising the
/ taxes necessary for the payment of the
appropriation, saying that it could easily
be done If the people would do without
their rum "for one day" The prosecu-
ton of the work he turned over to Col
Washington.
The number of forts planned at this
time was %, or one for about every 10
miles, and the 24-year-old engineer in
chief found it was no small task to
obtain the necessary TOOLS material and
workmen, as well as to select the loca-
ton and supply the designs. His rough
plans of Fort Loudon, Winchester, and
Fort Cumberland, Wills Greek, are at
the Library of Congress, seven sketches
in all with explanatory notes. AS VIM
chester commanded the Shenandoah
Valley and roads to the West, Fort
Loudon, he said, should be 1.-The center
OF all the forts" and made it his head
quarters.
Over the Indian trails of the valley
terror and desolation often crept and
| 1t was no idle fear which caused the
turn to Washington for relief and pro-
lection, prompting him to write those
passionate words: THE supplicating
tears of the women and moving petitions
of the men, melt me into such deadly
sorrow that solemnly declare, if /
know my own mind, could offer myself
willing sacrifice to the butchering
enemy, provided that would contribute
TO the peoples ease" Tradition saws
that In order to hasten the construction
Of the fort he built a blacksmith shop
on a lot which he owned nearby and
brought his own blacksmith from Mount
Vernon to get out the necessary iron
work.
| The remains Of one of the bastions
I of the fort may still be seen at the rear
Of Fort Loudon Seminary Winchester
and in the water Of the i23-foot well
which was sunk for the use of the
garrison we may drink toast to Wash
.ngton. not only the soldier, but the
| engineer whose frontier line of forts
| represents prodigious amount of labor
accomplished under great difficulties.
The last fort on which he did any
| construction work at this period was
Fort .Dunuesne, located where Pitts
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burgh now stands. The fort was first
erected by the French, but at the APP
proach of washington and his Virginia
troops in 1853, the French garrison set
fire to the buildings and fed AS Wash
ington rebuilt the defenses and planted
the English flag above them, the defeat
at Fort Necessity was more than ball
anced, for the Ohio was now in the
hands of the British.
A score of years later, when the
British army is bringing some Of it's
best engineer officers to this country,
the Congress of the United States gives
Gen. Washington full power to raise
and appoint an Engineer Corps for the
United States Army, and that well
known corps owes its beginning to his
initial appointment in TIT of four engi-
neer officers from the French Royal
Corps
After telling Congress that the want
of accurate maps has been of great
disadvantage to the Army and that
he has had to make shift" with such
Sketches as he could trace out from
observation, he secures also the APP
pointment of Mr. Robert Erskine as the
first geographer and surveyor general
in the United States. Erskine's work
during the Revolution, as well as Wash
ington'S In this connection would have
been better known If the important part
taken by surveyors in wartime did not
necessarily come under the regulations
of secret service.
But Washington's genius and true
vocation are best indicated in his pro-
, motion of various peace-time enter
prises both before and after the Revo-
lutionary War. AS early as 1862, as
one of the Adventures" who organized
the Dismal Swamp Land Co, he per-
sonally explored the property of the
company in the Great Dismal Swamp
of Virginia, making notes and directing
surveys. The large drainage canals
planned were not made in Washing
toms lifetime, but the construction of
short canals and saw mills made profit
able merchandise of the fine timber
which still abounds in this mysterious
region.
One of the projects fostered for many
years by Washington, who agreed with
his distinguished successor that Sys-
| tenn of internal improvement was con-
ducive to the general welfare" con-
cerned the better navigation of the
Potomac River to its northern branch
in an effort to connect the East with
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Hardy Battlers of Water

MUCH has been said of the gamineSs
OF the trout. the foreclosures and
fight of the black bass and the SPORT
ing proclivities of other game fish. This
is to proclaim the patience of the pick
erel one of the most interesting of the
smaller game fish to catch.
Casting and trolling for pickerel have
their lure, and the quick strike. followed
by the battle of arm against fin, are
sport beyond doubt, but pickerel fish,
ing reaches its height when the angler
uses live bait and still fishes for the
tighter of the land waters.
one OF the favorite methods of live
bait fishing is te attach small fish.
ike perch. perhaps two or three
inches long, to the hook in such
manner that the perch can swim. The
DAFT f1sh viii run out his own line, and
not being badly hampered, by the hook
AMI line, will swim toward any group of
perch he sees.
The pickerel. out for his breakfast,
Will come flashing in toward the school
OF perch, which Immediately heads for
safety in the grass on the bottom.
The bait, being retarded by the line,
tails easy prey to the pickerel, which
seizes 1t In its teeth with the body OF
the perch crossways in its mouth This,
perhaps. will DC aCsse With scarcely q
perceptible tug on the line.
Then begins the battle Of patience
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by craftsmen today, and tripod made
to fold up for convenient carriage on
horseback or in tramping the fields, as
Washington was fond of doing. There
is also compass made by David Rit-
tenhouse, the famous astronomer, who
was born in the same year as WASH
ington and was president of the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society, whose select
membership list includes both engineers,
George Washington and Herbert Hoo
YER.
The two measuring chains in this COL
lection, the first used by Washington,
with their wooden marking pins are the
ones by which the colonial chain bear
ers swore to measure Justly and ex-
actly." AS shown in the picture, they
are composed of pieces of iron wire or
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The pickerel may swim around for as
much as half an hour with the fish
crosSways. and. of course. with the hook
out of its mouth, but finally it will turn
1t head first and swallow it, whereupon
1t feels the barb OF the hook and de-
parts with rush for parts unknown.
Then the angler has a fight that re-
wards him for the long wait. II the
pickerel is IS or so inches In length
a not uncommon size--the fight be-
comes battle royal, with the chances
all in favor of the fish If it turns to-
ward the boat and comes in with a rush
before the angler has a chance to haul
the line in taut.
Somestimes, to add to the uncertainty
and therefore 10 the thrill, the pickerel
will make two or three preliminary
runs before 1t swallows the bait, and, Of
course, tug ON the line at that time
costs the angler his fish.
But whether it Guns once or five
times, the angler is assured Of a thrill
when he hooks and lands one of these
hardy battlers Of the fresh-water tribes.
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Fifty years ago." Prof. Thorndike
said. 1T was commonly believed that
the masculine mind by Divine edict was
enormously superior to the feminine
mind. Nobody thinks so today. This
Is due partly to feminine uprising and
partly to the science Of education-s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-13
TWO DEAD, I HURT
IN WESTERN FIRES
Flames Continue to Spread
Through Oregon Timber
Despite Fight.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Ore, September 49,
Forest fires continued to spread in
Western Oregon after they had directly
or indirectly claimed two lives and
caused injury to seven others in the
State.
j. H. McCubbins of Eugene, was
killed and four others were injured last
night when a tree fell upon them
while fighting flames near Mable. The
injured are John Kinman, j. B. Cas-
terline, j. G. Kramer and Alvin Peoples.
Kinman and Casterline were taken to
a hospital at Eugene, where they were
said to be seriously hurt, while kramer
and Peoples were treated at Mable for
cuts and bruises.
James w. Fowler, vice president Of
the Eastern and Western Lumber Co.
here, died last Saturday from heart
disease, said to have been aggravated
by tour of the fire lanes near his
company's mill at Molalla. Mrs. Au-
gust Frank, who received burns the
same day when flames swept her farm
home near Mount Angel, was said to be
in a critical condition.
At least a dozen new fires were
burning in Western Oregon today.
Three had destroyed 900 acres of tim
Der in the vicinity of Horton, near
Eugene. Another had spread over more
than 1000 acres in the SlSk1you Ma
tional Forest Still another was burn
ing near Walterville. Several were re-
ported in the vicinity of Cottage Grove,
90 miles south of Eugene.
With the exception of the Rock Creek
fire. the situation in Coos and Curry
Counties was considered no worse. The
Rock Greek fire was burning over an
area of about 5000 acres of fir and
Port Oxford cedar.
Comparatively quiet but danger
ous," said Maj John D. Guther1e OF the
district forest Office in describing the
fire Situation in washington. A new
fire was reported in Eastern Grays Har-
bor county while the Duckabush tire
in the Olympic National Forest and the
Dole fire in Clark county were said TO
be still burning fiercely.
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RIOT HALTS C0L0RED
SOAP BOX ORATOR
800 Police and Hose Company Call
ed Out After Tirade Against
Jews in Brooklyn.
nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September ia COL
ored soap-box orator, who launched a
TRADE against Jews at a Communist
street meeting in Brooklyn last night,
precipitated a disturbance which ne
cessitated a call for 800 policemen and
q hose company.
One policeman was knocked uncon-
scious as he sought to protect the ora
tor from the crowd, several persons
suffered bruises of the head and IA per-
sons, two of them women, were arrested
charged with disorderly conduct.
AS the speaker, who said he was
labor organizer, started his harangue, a
member of the audience pulled him
from the soap box land tore his coat
from his back. Women began to pum-
mel him and in a short time 1000 per-
sons had gathered. Mounted policemen
charged the crowd and the speaker was
rescued. AS sticks and other missiles
flew through the air, policemen on
foot used their clubs freely. After an
hours struggle police succeeded in
clearing the street.
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OFFICERS Reelected
IN FREDERICKSBURG
All City Officials Retain Posts Elk
cept Police Heads-No Salary
Changes Made.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, September
13.-With the exception of the police
force, all city officers elected by the
city council were returned to their po-
sitions by the city fathers this week,
with no changes in salaries. Election
of police officers was delayed pending
recommendation of w. S. Chesley, di-
rector of public safety, who has been
Ill. Police officers will continue on
duty until the election is held.
The officers named by the council
were: A. G. Billingsley, clerk of the
council and city collector; city health
officer, DR.. j. N. Barney; city sani-
tary inspector and sealer of weights
and measures, r. E. Beckhan BOARD
Of health, DR.. Les Cockc, DIR. r. j.
Payne, Mrs. j. Conway Chichester,
Mrs. G. S. Hunter and E. G. Bell; city
school board, Mrs. George Freeman, jr.
and John w. Berry.
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BIG STILL is SEIZED.

ST. JAMES, La, September 10 (P).-
One Of the largest alcohol plants ever
raided in Louisiana, patterned after a
bonded diStillery, was seized here by
Federal prohibition agents from New
Orleans yesterday. at New Sarpie, near
here.
The still was of 800 gallon capacity.
It consisted of six 1,000-gallon vats
coils and 15-horsepower steam boiler.
More than 5000 gallons of fermenting
mash were taken. The outfit was new
and the Government said it had been
in use only about 10 hours.
Two men were arrested.
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Doulhobors May Be Put In Island
Penal Colony by Canadian Officials

The plan for prison colony on Darcy
Island, in Georgia Bay, has been placed
before DR.. j. II. King, Dominion min
lister of health, by provincial authors
ties, who contend that the disposition
of fanatical groups among the sect Is o
Dominion problem. The Doukhobors
were brought into the provinces of Brit
ish Columbia, Saskatchewan and Al
berta by the Ottawa government under
contract. None of the provinces, off,
Gals pointed out, could deal with the
situation adequately.
Darcy Island was suggested as the
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site for such colony because escape is
impossible.
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PILOT MISSING 10 DAYS
FOUND IN NORTH WOODS
Airman Forced Down in Wilds
Lives on Berries Until Sighted
by Fellow Aviator.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
THE PAS, Manitoba, September 13.-
Lost for Is days in the wilds of North
ern Manitoba after his plane was
forced down by lack of fuel, C. F. News,
youthful airman, was resting in Thicket
Portage last night.
He was rescued about 80 miles west
of oxford House, for which he was
heading, by v; Partridge. fellow avia-
tor, who sighted him from the air.
His clothes in tatters from scram-
bling through thick brush, News had
covered more than 100, miles, it was
estimated, before he was picked up.
He had lived principally on berries and
was thin and haggard.
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helm Benecke. city councillor. and Frau
Benecke; Jens Nydahl, superintendent
of schools, and Frau Nydaill, and Will
helm Mueller-Wieland, magisterial
councillor.
He viii visit New York, Chicago
Washington, Philadelphia, st. Louis,
Los Angeles and San Francisco. They
expect to be back In Berlin october 81
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Prolific Old Grape Vine.

LONDON, September IS R.-In
Hampton Court Place vine, 16l years
old. in glass Enclosure, is bearing some
500 punches Of grapes. The stem has
girth Of 6 feet inches at the base.
It costs 2 cents to see the vine and
$1.25 for bunch of grapes plus a
quarter for basket made by blind war
veterans.
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ITALIAN DELEGATION
| OF is SAILS FOR TOXIC
Washington on Route Of Noted
Party Which Will Attend World
Engineering Congress.

BY the Associated Press.
NAPLES, italy, September ia
delegation Of 10 noted italian engineers
and eight representatives Of large Ital-
ian industries left aboard the vulcania
today for. New York, on their way to
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Sep
TENDER Segregation Of fanatical
Doukhobors by the Dominion govern
ment in an island prison colony has
been suggested, by the authorities OF
British Columbia.
Disturbances arising from the prac-
tice of the Doukhobors OF holding nude
professions and their defiance of school
laws have resulted in nearly 200 Of
them being jailed and a number OF
their children being committed to pub
lie institutions.