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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
SOLDIER is KILLED
AS CAR TURNS OVER
Pvt. Donald Slater, 20, Of Fort
Myer, Dies in Alexandra
Hospital.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. February 9.-Pvt.
Donald Slater, 20 years old, Of the ma
chine gun troop. Third Cavalry, Fort
Myer, was fatally injured this afternoon
when an automobile in which he was
riding turned over near IngleSide, Va,
while trying to pass large van.
Slater was in car driven by Emmett
Upton Of Fort Humphrey and contain
ing w. H. Ward of Baltimore, T. C..
Snowden Of Hyattsville and two other
Fort Myer soldiers. They were driving
toward Alexandria and tried to pass a
van Of the Baltimore and Roanoke Ex-
press Co., which was going in the
same direction. Upton stated that the
truck was so close to the center Of the
road that his machine was forced into
the ditch where 1t turned over.
Slater was the only one injured and
he was picked up by r. L. Iusro, a
guard at the Lorton workhouse and
rushed to Alexandria Hospital where he
died few hours later. His skull was
fractured, one leg broken and he suf-
fered internal injuries.
Robert j. Smith, driver of the truck,
and Upton were arrested by Sheriff
Kirby and Deputy Walter Mitchell Of
Fairfax County and are being held for
an inquest which will be held tomorrow
afternoon. Slater's body was taken to
Fort Myer by the soldiers who were with
him at the time of the accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
ROAD PLANS HELD
NOT HANDICAPPED
Reid Says GIebe Fund Will
Not Cut Work on Lee
Highway.
BY LESTER N. INSKEEP.

CHERRYDALE, Va, February g.
The general belief that the widening
and repaving of the Lee Highway was
to be shortened because of the reallo-
cation of $4,000 from that fund to the
| Glebe road was dispelled today by
Hugh Reid, member of the House OF
Delegates from Arlington County.
The sum of 100000 tentatively allo-
Gated to the Lee Highway widening was
cut to 100000 when $4,000 was reallo-
Gated for the widening and paving OF a
part of Glebe road. The natural re-
was that the reallocation would result
| in the widening of the highway for O
much less distance than was originally
| intended.
Plans to Be Carried Out.
AS result of this assumption, Reid
today telephoned to Wade MasSie, State
road commissioner for this district. and
from him learned that the Lee High
way widening is to be carried to point
at Halls Hill, where it will connect with
relatively new section Of highway that
is much wider than that between that
point and the place In Cherrydale
where last seasons widening stopped, he
said.
AS explained by Massie to Reid, the
100000 was tentatively allocated to
the Lee Highway with the understand
ing that this entire amount would not
be necessary for that work and would
leave balance with which to carry out
some other important work in the
county.
At the time of the tentative alloca-
ton definite estimates of the cost of
the Lee Highway project had not been
completed and 1t was necessary for the
State Highway Commission to await
their completion before deciding how
much could be used on the Glebe road
project.
Provides for All Plans.
These estimates have now been COM
pleted, it is said, leaving sufficient funds
| with which to carry out the Lee High
way project as originally planned and
to build considerable portion of the
Glebe road
Today's announcement leaves Airing
ton County in the happy position Of
having sufficient funds with which to
carry out all projects planned by the
highway commission originally. with
| the added improvement to Glebe road.
1t Is expected that the $SOOUO allo-
Gated for the widening OF the Wash
ington- Alexandria pike, will be suffi-
Gent to carry this project to compile
ton during the year
The year of 1929 is decidedly the
largest road building year ever expert
enced by the county, since Supervisor
Edward Duncan of Jefferson district has
announced that Mount Vernon avenue
is to be widened from Hume Station,
Potomac, to Columbia pike, project
costing the district well over 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
PROMINENT FIGURES
TO GIVE ART TALKS
Hergesheimer, Helburn and Cop
land. Scheduled for Y, w. c. A.
Lectures Soon.

Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist:
Theresa Helburn, director of the New
York Theater Guild, and Aaron Cop
land, composer, are scheduled for lee
lures here soon on the modern trend
of art, under auspices of the American
Association of University Women at the
Y. w. C. A. auditorium.
Mr.. COPELAND, who will speak February
IS, is composer of Classical jazz
and an interpreter of modern music.
The purpose of his lecture will be to
explain what modern composers are
trying to say and the means they en-
ploy to say it, and to illustrate his
points he will play selections from such
moderns as Stravinsky, Schoenberg,
Milhaud, Poulenc, Hindemith, Bartok,
Chavez and Gershwin.
Mr.. COPELAND has written two choruses
for the Women'S University Glee Club,
the first tone poem describing the
bleak melancholy of Edwin Arlington
Robinson's THE House on the HILL"
Mrs E. G. Nourse is chairman of the
committee which is arranging the
course of lectures, which are open to
the. public as well as members of the
club. The other members of the COM
mittee are Mrs. F. E. Harrington, Miss
Jean D. Cole, Mrs. Karl Fenning, Mrs.
Ernest Lewis, Mrs. John E. Paul, Mrs
Harold G. Moulton, Mrs. A, E. Graupner
and Mrs. l.. Underhill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
200 WILL ATTEND
MASONIC SESSION
Annual Memorial Convention in
Alexandra Will Open
February 81.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, February g.
Approximately 200 delegates are ex-
pected to attend the annual conven-
ton of the George Washington Ma
sonic National Memorial Association to
be held here February 81, J. Claude
KEEPER of Washington, secretary-treas-
urer, announced today.
The convention will be called to
order by President Louis A. Waters,
past grand master of Pennsylvania. The
welcome address will be made by the
grand master of Virginia, whose ap-
pointment will be announced after the
annual meeting Of the Grand Lodge of
Virginia next week.
The response probably will be made
by Anthony M. Ittner, past grand mas
ter of Missouri.
A number of delegates are expected
to go to Washington the day before
the meeting here to attend the confer
ence Of grand masters Of the United
States to be held in that city on Feb
ruary 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
CLARENDON WOMAN
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Mrs. Ethel Boswell Brought to
Georgetown Hospital in Sc
rious Condition.
By a staff Correspondent of The star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The star.
Said by relatives to have been des-
pondent because of material difficulties,
Mrs. Ethel z. Boswell, 81 years old, Of
Clarendon, Va, this afternoon shot and
probably fatally wounded herself. She
was rushed to Georgetown Hospital in
where efforts are being made to save
her life.
Mrs. Boswell had been Ill for the past
several days and was in bed when she
sent the bullet through her abdomen.
Her two young sons were In the kitchen
when they heard the explosion and they
Immediately rushed to her aid, after
ward calling DR.. W. G. Welburn.
Upon his arrival the physician noti-
fled the police and Georgetown Hospi-
tal Her condition was SO serious that
he would not permit her removal until
the arrival of the ambulance.
At the hospital she was found to be
so weak that blood TRANSMISSION was
considered necessary, so Policeman G.
w. Carr took one of her sons to the
hospital to give his blood.
Deputy Sheriff Harry woodward said
that when he arrived Mrs. Boswell was
conscious and remarked 1.-The pain is
more than can bear" Her physician
said that her illness was comparatively
slight and that it could hardly have
caused her act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
SCHOOLS WIN HONORS.

90 in Prince Georges Had 90 Per
Cent Attendance.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, February
9.-Twelve merit cards for schools
having an attendance of 30 per cent
or better during the month Of January
were awarded yesterday by Miss Kath-
leen Shears, attendance officer of Prince
Georges County. Eleven others were
sent to colored schools.
The prevalence of the influenza cpl
demic caused marked drop in school
attendance during January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
MARRIAGE IS ANNULLED
AFTER 3-YEAR BATTLE
Mrs. Edith Bloodgood Wins Long
Fight From Husband, The
atrical Costumer.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, February 9.
After more than three and q half
years Of litigation, Mrs. Edith Webb
Bloodgood today was granted an annul-
ment Of her marriage to Henry Lewis
Bloodgood, New York theatrical cos
tuner.
The suit was started after Blood
good, in 1925, lost an action to recover
property worth $l35,00o, which, he
claimed. he had turned over to Mrs
Bloodgood. so that q former wife could
not attach it for alimony.
The second wife said Bloodgood had
falsely represented himself as having
been divorced from the former Matte
McCarnahan at the time of his Sec
ond marriage. on May /, 1903, in Chi
cago. She also charged that the cere-
mony was performed by bogus al
derman.
Supreme Court Justice Taylor, In rul-
Ing for Mrs. Bloodgood, said that al
though the first marriage was in force
at the time Of the second ceremony
and although the man who performed
the second marriage was not accredited
the union was valid at common law.
No financial settlement was men,
toned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
TESS SONS WIFE GIVEN
DIVORCE AT NEW YORK
Former Secretary of Senator Wins
Decree on Charges of Mis-
conduct and Drunkenness.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 9.-The New
York American will say tomorrow that
romance of Washington which re-
suited in the marriage of the secretary
of Senator Simeon d. Fess of Ohio and
the Senator's son, Thomas l.. Tess, has
ended in the divorce court.
Mrs. Marguerite Fess charged her
husband, to whom she was married i've
years ago in Greenup, KY. with drunk
enness and misconduct, in her action.
brought at a private hearing in Supreme
Court here some time ago, the paper
says. She said Fess had many parties
In his Greenwich Village apartment.
and she named a correspondent. The
decree, granted to Mrs. Fess, becomes
final March IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
GIRL S GIVE RECITAL.
Glee Club Benefit Is Held by st.
Agnes Students.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BRADDOCK, Va, February ga re-
cital of folk songs was presented by
students of the st. Agnes Episcopal
School for Girls yesterday afternoon a,
the school, under the direction of Mrs
Edward e. MacNoreland, as a benefit
for the glee club.
Mrs. MacMoreland gave several solos
The accompanist was Mrs. Henry
Stickney. Miss Eleanor Rust and Miss
Ellen Holmes were in charge of the
decorating, Ushers were under the d.
rection Of Miss Phyllis Kraft and Miss
Deane Lindsey. Miss Evelyn Davis and
Miss Jacqueliney Cochrane We're In
charge Of tickets. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
ART THEFT PROBE.

BERLIN, February CP).-Count
Schach Won Wittenau was arrested to-
day by police who were trying to trace
the ownership Of an original Rubens
painting which was discovered recently
in a pawnShop.
The painting came to light through
the arrest of Karl Kinder, head clerk
OF an insurance agency, on q charge OF
embezzlement. Kinder told police he
had been commissioned by Won Wit
tenau to sell the picture and had
pawned it for $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
OYSTER HEARING SET.

RICHMOND, Va. February 9 CP).-
Gov. Harry F. Byrd this afternoon set
February Is as the time of the court
review of the Gloucester County oyster
case. and appointed Judge Floyd H.
Roberts of the Corporation Court of
Bristol to preside over the hearing to
be staged at Newport News.
Judge Roberts Is to review the de-
cision Of the State Commission of Fish
cries giving oyster planters of the York
River near Gloucester Point, Va, two
years in which to remove oysters from
grounds declared public by a recent
survey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
FALL MAY PROVE FATAL.
Texas Woman Not Expected tt
Live After Plunge.

HOUSTON, Tex, February 8 CS.-A
woman, said to be Mrs. Jessie Scherif-
fius, about 40, was seriously injured to-
day when she leaped or fell from a
third-story window Of hotel here. She
Is not expected to live.
Police said j. H. Harper, So, an oil
worker, made a. statement explaining
that Mrs. Scherifius had been in his
room short time before she plunged
from the window. They had been
friends IA years. The woman's hus-
band, he said. was an invalid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
Copper Refineries Are Planned.

TORONTO, February 9 CP.-Follow-
ing closely upon the announcement that
Noranda mines was to erect a copper
refinery in Eastern Canada came the
Joint announcement today by j. j.
Warren, president of the Consolidated
Mining and Smelling Co., and Thayer
Lindsey, president of Ventures, Limited,
that these companies have completed
arrangements for the immediate erec-
ton of copper refinery and zinc
production works in the same section
to handle the products of the COM
paries' mines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
Diphtheria Clinic to Open.
al DISPATCH to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, February
9.-Dr. William S. Keister, Prince
Georges County health officer, will this
week inaugurate toxin -antitoxin clinic
among the pupils of the Woodville
School, near Aquasco. The clinic il
being begun at the request of the school
authorities following the appearance oil
case Of diphtheria there recently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
Phone Links Sweden and Argentina

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February 9
R.-Telephone service between Stock
holm and Buenos Aires was started to-
day, the first communication being be-
tween the foreign minister here and
the Swedish legation in the Argentine
capital. The rate is $35 for three
minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
Australian Arbitration Fought.

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 9
P).-The Council of Australian Trade
Unions has decided to urge all the I'M
ions to boycott the federal arbitration
court. The decision affects approx
mately 100000 workers in the common
wealth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

lives the attainment of an ambassador
ship, with a sense of leadership and a
pronounced faculty of knowing how to
get along with all sorts of people. Mr..
Herrick had failed to secure the sena-
torship from Ohio and he turned to
diplomacy as the next best way of serv-
ing his country AS an appointee from
New Jersey, Ambassador Edge has had
one predecessor, William L. Drayton Of
Trenton. who was appointed by Presi-
cent Lincoln in March, 1861, as envoy
to succeed Charles j. Faulkner of Viz
ginia, appointee Of President Buchanan.
President Won Hindenburg was a
leader in the strong crusade against
dueling in Germany which has recently
resulted in the act by the Reichstag de-
claring all participants in such en-
counters felons and liable to the ex-
IRENE penalty Of the law. Duels in
Germany were not the farces which
they are in France and italy. Too
often they resulted in death or in
permanent injury and even such
a few months incarceration in a
military fortress where the offenders
enjoyed all the comforts of home. This
law in Germany is not aimed at the
MenSur or student duelS which are a
sort of athletic sport, though these
also are declining in popular favor.
The young German of today does not
relish having his countenance Slashed
and disf1gured, ard he cultivates sports
which improve instead of diSflgure his
physical appearance. It is said that
more of Berlin's young men under 80
years old have permanently waved hair
than in any capital of Europe and that
the body cult, looking to superb health
and comeliness, thrive in classes.
The warrior President of the German
republic encourages all this and believes
that students can show their strength
and courage in a better way than in
having their faces SlaShed and then
putting salt into the open wounds All
that savors of the former imperial habit
also is frowned on by the venerable
Hindenburg. Everybody who visited
Berlin in the days of the empire Ie-
member how the approach of the
Kaiser to the Brandenburg gate was
announced by the silvery tones of
Siegfried's horn, and all pedestrians
stood at attention until the equipage
had passed. A few attempts to revive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

the custom was made when Gen. Won
Hindenburg became President, but he
sternly silenced the bugler as he rode
from his residence in Wilhelmstrasse to
the Reichstag.
X n *
Sis Charles Seymour, master of the
West Norfolk hunt and for three gen.
erations companion of royal hunters
from Britain'S reigning house, has re-
signed his honors into the hands Of
his nephew, Mr.. Oliver Birkbeck, who
has been his able aide for the past five
years. Edward VII was Prince of Wales
when the venerable master took over the
West Norfolk Hunt Club, the headquar-
tiers of which adjoin the royal resi-
dence, Sandringham, and the chase
often leads through its domain. All the
sons of Queen Victoria were members
of the West Norfolk aid pursued the
game under the leadership of Its retir-
ing president. But neither Edward
VII. nor King George was the ardent
huntsmen that the present Prince Of
Wales is. although they dutfully fol-
lowed the hounds from the West Nor
folk Club. The King has joined once
or twice the season just closing, but he
rode carefully and only for brief
period. His great joy is to mount the
turbulent waves in a sail boat and to be
dashed about at will. But he has been
allowed very little of this recreation.
The West Norfolk Club takes note that
Mr.. Birkbeck in assuming the ONCE is
exactly the age of the retiring master
when he took the reins. and that the
Prince of Wales, who became Edward
VII, and the present holder of the title
are approximately of the same number
of years as at that distant period. All
the members Of the British royal circle
are devoted to Sandringham for the
reason that the happy days of child
hood in the three generations since
Victoria, were passed there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

The London education committee re-
ports that there are 48,943 fewer chill
dren of elementary school age in Lon
don than two years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08


Lady Patricia Ramsay, so well known
as Princess Pat of Connaught, Is Eu-
ropes most accomplished royal needle
woman, especially in the exquisite en-
broideries known as "groS point" and
petit point" Lady Patricia draws her
own designs and then paints them, after
which she does the creWel work so per-
fectly she sometimes declares that If
evil days fall upon Briton's royalty as
it had upon the Romanoffs, she could
secure an excellent post with the Gobe-
lin tapestries. Queen Mary, spurred on
by the example Of her brilliant young
kinswoman. has spent many hours since
King George was so i'll year ago do
ing petit point. She recently completed
a dainty little woodland scene designed
by Lady Patricia, and which now COW
ers a Queen Anne footStool which has
been cherished possession Of the royal
conSort since her girlhood. Princess
Mary also has turned her hand to this
sort of embroidery, but, frankly, she has
no love of a needle, though she enjoys
knitting and crocheting. Britain's
Queen does not use frame for her
embroidery, something which those in
this city deem a prime necessity for
gros point Of the finer variety. Lady
Patricia Ramsay has a number of
frames, all made by the def hand Of
her husband, Capt. Alexander Ramsay
of the Royal Navy and heir of Earl Dali
housie and she changes them for the
more delicate work of her tapestry with
the skill of professional. She has
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-23
Northwest Senators and Repre-.
sentatives Agree to Back
Latest Proposal
FOUR STATES INTERESTED
Would Raise Duty on High
Grade Wheat, Livestock,
Glover, Sugar, Feed

Warrington, Jan. 23.-K}-A group
Of members Of congress from the,
northwestern states today approved
an agricultural tariff program sub
mitted by the Northwest Agricultural
foundation. and recommended its
presentation to the house ways and
means committee, now considering the
subject.
Tho program calls for increased
tariff rates on high grades Of wheat:
on livestock, clover seed, sugar. and
feed grains. n. w. Thatcher, chair
man Of the tariff committee Of the
foundation, laid It before senator's and
representatives from North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana. and Min
nesota.
Senator Nye Of North Dakota. as
chairman Of the capitol group,
authorised Thatcher to speak for the
members Of congress from the four
states when he appeared before the
ways and means committee later this
week.
The foundation proposes to MAIN
tain the present - cents = bushel
duty on wheat. with an additional ;
cents Z hushel duty on wheat contain
ing more than II per cent protein.
Three cents additional would be levied
for each half per cent protein above
tho II per cent level. Thatcher said
this would encourage the cultivation
Of higher grades Of wheat and would
stimulate crop rotations, which will
be necessary, he said, to get the
higher quality. He contended under
this system farmers would give greater
attention to quality than to quantity,
thereby reducing surpluses.
The foundation program also calls
70: duty OF one-half q cent q pound
on feed grains and cleanings from
al grains, m increase from IN cents
. pound to 3 cents . pound on live
| stock, . rate Of : cents . pound on
clover. Seeds yu6 III Increase n I'M
sugar tariff.
Preddent John Lee Coulter Of the
North Dakota Agricultural college,
who 10 also president Of the founda-
ton, accompanied the tariff commit
tee here for the presentation Of the
program to the ways and means COM
mittee.
Mr.. Thatcher said this was the first
time that agricultural interests had
united on . tariff plan, and assured
the congressional delegation Of the
support Of virtually every farm or
ganization In the northwest for the
program.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-23
GRAND FORKS DOCTOR.
LOSES DAMAGE SUIT.
Dentist Who Lost Hand in Hunt
ing Accident Sought to Col
lsct $26, 900 Insurance

Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 23-(F)-
A directed verdict In favor Of the
Zurich General Liability and Acci-
dent Insurance company was ordered
today by United States District Judge
Andrew Miller In the action Of DR.. q.
J. O'Keefe, Z dentist, to collect $4,000
for the loss Of . hand Ia . hunting
accident.
Ia taking the case from the Jury
Judge Miller. stated that insofar Is
the court and counsel knew, the pre-
cise question involved IN the case had
never before bean presented to q court
Ii the United States. In directing the
verdict Judge Miller said that both
the defeudant ana the plaintiff con-
|ceded that the plaintiff had made un-
true answers to certain questions In
h4 app1ication for insurance and that
the0o questions wero material 70 risk.
Thooo answers were named g fail
uro ~ Dr. OKeete 70 disc)oee Setec-
ton q applications Tor insurance ana
naming q pgevious indemnities that
he had oo1loctod. Theoe answers were
hel6 y be;uinteelal - tn riak ana .
paint q Inv.
An appeal win u taken 10 tho Unit-
a otatoe coutt q appoalD oocogding
e g. y. Murphy afemnag ~ ths
q. o1kse1s had naost Il his rieht
hand blown off II : huntine accidont
. year 80 NJ ooptesuhor when !
9on ~ voe coSSyin9 yns di1olosUod