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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22

Eddie over to them flung him at them and
danced of with Herb.
''Where'd you get Eddie?" asked Herb.
"Oh, he just turned up"
Gee, you oughta seen yourself dancing"
She stifened little at that: "Oh, he wasn't
so bad"
IT see" said Herb "'Scuse it, please
Then she saw him. He standing alone
in doorway, long, Longing, runpled figure.
He looked CHASTITY tired, he looked young and
poor and incredibly lonely.
oh geo." she said, there's Eddie Let's go
over and gather him in"
why aren't you dancing?" she asked Eddie.
Don't want to dance with anybody but you"
he answered.
THAT let's me out" said Herb. and with
bow was gone.
do you want to dance or shall we go some-
where and sit?" asked Connie.
Go somewhere and sit If you want to-"
''You like that Herb guy?" he asked her.
Herb? Heavens, no. He's Lucille's boy
wonder"
"oh. Wei. who do you like?"
"Me?"
yeah, you. Cause if I've got to beat some
bodys time, want to know who it is"
"Eddie!"
Il want to marry you. and I'm going to if
can" said Eddie.
Eddie YackeyI And don't have anything
to say about it?"
mo, not much. Course I want you to love
me, but you would if you knew how much
love you. Maybe it's supersttious, but be-
lieve that If somebody loves enough. the other
fellow just naturally win love back"
"Oh, Eddie"
$50 want you to play fair with me and
tell me who the other guy is"
Its Gerald Giddings."
who's he? Oh yes. Well are you crazy
about him?"
We'll sort Of"
"You aren't engaged, are you?"
I'm not sure. I've got his pin"
'Where Is it? I didn't see it."
IT wear it"-she hesitated and looked away
ION my-underneath you know"
Underneath what?'
my dress, of course"
ION your underwear" he asked
Underwear. He would say that. EYES,"
well. win you do me favor? win you
stop wearing it?"
mo- can't do that, Eddie. like Gerald"
"All right. Where is this bird now?"
"Hes away just for a day or two"
Gerald came back on Saturday, and was at
Comics in half an hour.
so beautiful" he said, $50 darling Faith
full to me?"
yves"
ST heard rumors."
'Well, Eddie Yackey was around"
Like me better?"
Maybe
Then his face was deeply grave. ~ do love
you Connie. You're awful darn sweet"
you're rather sweet yourself, you know"
Then she had to break the bad news Eddie
was coming out tonight.
"Oh, goshl"
ST know. It's awful. I'm terribly sorry"
GERALD stayed all afternoon, and when he
left. she almost hated Eddie. But not
quite, for she kept remembering him standing
alone in the doorway.
The LeacrOft house was rather full that
evening Of the wooing and the wooed. We'll"
said Connie, there's still pantry left Or
what about the attic?" They finally went out
and sat in q car, parked in the side driveway.
Eddie had brought her@a present
what is it," asked Connie.
"It's my high school pin. didn't have any
thing else. had to get it out Of hook. goe
50 cents for It once when was broke"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22
ILLUSTRATED BY HUBERT
MATHIEU.

ONNIE came down TO breakfast breath
less and hurried. She was late and
the parents had medieval ideas about
breakfast; breakfast, thought they in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29

small tracts from the Riggs and Gen. Beale
properties. Out Of this wilderness was Takoma
Park evolved
by the middle of January 1885, things be-
gan to assume q more cheerful appearance at
Takoma Mrs Veitenheimer, Henry Garrett,
l. l. Thomas, Col c.. G. Knif1n, Dr. D. w.
Bliss and Fred Dudley all had houses in the
park and we're occupying them. Since then
each succeeding year has seen the number of
buildings more than doubled. The six houses
have been followed by q hundred others, all
complete Thirty more are now in process of
construction, and arrangements are being made
for the erection of 20 additional homes, so that
the close of the building season will find Ia
koma with about 200 houses. These are not
being built by spectators. They are being put
up for homes by the persons who own the
lots-people who will live in them all the year
round.
"a very pleasant addition has been made to
Takoma by Messrs Lewis g. Heazelton OF about
six acres in extent. There are several buildings
upon it already and others will soon add to
the number.
zone of the most important of the many
improvements now under way is the Sanitarium
soon TO be erected by r. c. Flower of Boston
Its location will be on the higher grounds
in the northern end Of the park, and SO stu
ated that the Sligo will wind around the foot
of the elevation on which the main building
will be placed"
A N authoritative statement places the number
Of completed residences in Takoma Park
in 1889 as 10, and adds: . = "the cost ranging
from $1,000 to $4,000 each Four years ago
today there was not completed house In the
place"
Regarding the Sligo. the same writer says:
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was printed only a few years after the subdi-
vision was opened up to settlement. In part,
the story reads:
Five years ago Takoma was nameless and
unknown Farmers locked with sooTn at the
edges of the dense growth of forests which
covered the tract, and its local designations
were synonyms for all that was poor and worth
less. 1t was as wild-looking a region as ever
stopped the progress of agriculture or served
as q home for the animals and birds which
flee before the approach of civilization. To
penetrate the tangled underbr1Sh was in many
places only possible to squirrels. 1t was a viii
derneSS the only entrances to which ere either
by following the picturesque Sligo in its en-
chanting deviousness or by swinging the ak and
manipulating the grub-hoe. Such was the con-
dition of the region when. five years ago last
Thursday week Mr.. e T. Gilbert. his wife, two
children; Mrs Veitenheimer and her two chill
dren, entered an unfinished barn on a piece of
property which had been partially tern cut Of
the woods and made themselves as comfortable
the circumstances would permit.
THE original Talloma Park was about 600
acres in extent, but the numerous additions
which have been made from time to time
widened its borders until they now include
fully 500 acres. The first purchase was the
G. c. Grammar estate, Mr.. Grammar being
the old Washington citizen who is credited
with having said: fools build houses and G. G.
Grammar buys them Then portions of the
old Carroll estate (incIuding Sligo mill, which
was first erected more than a hundred years
ago), part Of the Francis P Blair estate, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29

''The limits Of the town include about two
miles OF a stream called the Sligo This flows
from some large springs, and its rocky bed and
rapid, clear current with the wild, thick sheds
of wood on either side, remind one Of the heart
Of the AIleghanies There is no end Of beau
tiful scenery along the Sligo. There are hum
bred places along its bank that make picture
over which one loves to lnger and which could
not be forgotten"
Mr.. Gilbert was evidently q prohibitionist.
There are two excellent reasons for believing
this One is that he conducted in partnership
with s. H. CroSsman temperance dining room
on r street between Ninth and Tenth north
west as early as 1865. The other is that he
provided against the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors in Takoma Park, and to
the casual observer, at least, there seems to
have been no let-up on this restriction-legal
or illegal.
In making money Mr.. Gilbert had few
equals. but in losing it was one of millions,
and though at one time he might have COM
manded an amount in dollars equal TO seven
figures, yet in the end he died poor. AS an
illustration Of the large amount OF money he
must have made in the first five years of his
Takorna Park sales is the statement that up to
1889 there were 235 purchasers of lots, which
included many people of note
COL. and Mrs. Knifin came on July g. 1884,
land built ON the corner of Carroll and
Maple avenues" according to Mr. Clinton, who
further says: 'Mr Henry Garrett and family
came in September and built on Oak avenue
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on the District side At first the streets on
both sides were known avenues; but when
the District Commissioners took charge of the
District side these avenues did not 1T into
the District system so they were renamed
streets, but otherwise in most cases were allowed
to keep their names. Mr.. Thomas also came
in September and built at the corner of Tulip
and Oak. DR.. and Mrs. Corey came in the
late Winter and built on the Maryland side at
the corner Of Eastern and Chestnut DIR. E. B.
Bliss came in the late Fall and built on what
is known as the Orchard lot, west side of
Maple avenue. The Ford brothers. Seth and
Byron came in the early Spring Of 1885 and
built the double house at the corner Of Tulip
and Maple.
Although this evidence of prosperity was no
doubt pleasing to Mr.. Gilbert, he showed what
vision of the future he had by buying large
tract in 1886, extending from Carroll avenue
over TO the Big Spring and TO Woodland avenue,
as it is now known This became known as
New Takoma Mr. Skinner, on Pine avenue,
the first to build in this tract, and shortly
after Gov. Warren built on the corner Of Pine
and Montgomery. Again, in 1889, Mr.. Gilbert
extended the towns borders by purchasing the
Jones and Naughton FARMS in North Takoma.
Mr.. w. G. Plat and Mr. Van Houton we're
among the first to make their homes in this
section"
or course, one of the earliest organizations
in Takoma, besides its religious and
fraternal bodies, its citizens association
This, we are told, had its beginning in
october. 1888, at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Byron Coon, on Sycamore avenue. Out OF this
and subsequent meetings a formal organization
took place in March, 1889, when the Takoma
Park Improvement Association came into
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
MISHAP V|CT I'M
UNIDENTIFIED

The body of the 6O-year-old man
who was killed last night when
he was knocked down by an auto
mobile operated by Senor Don
Jose Ricardo Gomez Acebo, first
secretary Of the Spanish Embassy,
at Dupont Circle was still uniden-
titled today.
Senior Acebo assisted a taxicab
driver in placing the man in the
cab and sent him to En- ergency
Hospital. The secretary then went
to the Shoreham Hotel where, af-
ter conferring with Count de
Montefuerte, counselor and charge
d'affaires of the embassy, formally
reported the accident to police.
Senior Acebo claimed diplomatic
immunity from arrest and agreed
to attend an inquest today. He
said he first learned he had
struck someone when he felt a
slight jar and looking back saw
the man lying in the street.
Papers in the dead mans poe
kets bore the names Of B. n. Far
rell, of Chevy Chase, Md. and
James M. johnson.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
SUSPECT Tells
Of KIDNAPPING

@T. LOUIS, Jan. 8 uNS).-Tn
q copyrighted article printed un-
dsr the name Of Harry T. Brun-
idge, crime investigator for the
81. Louis Star, that paper today
claims to have found Charles Y.
AbeEnathy, alleged kidnaper of
Adolphus Busch Orthwein, and
to have obtained confession
from him.
Abernathy, according to the
Star story, told Brunidge how he
ram off with young Orthwein,
scion of one Of the Midwest'S
Wealbhies and most prominent
families and great grandson of
the late Adolphus Busch, inter
nationally m Gus brewer, on
New Years Eve; held him cap
tive for 90 hours and then fled
after giving the boy back to his
family New Year Day without
attempting to collect any ransom.
According to the confession
printed in the Star, Abernathy
asserted that he had no confed-
crates in the kidnapping.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
\. !. UPHOLDS
VALIDITY Of
DRY LAW.
Court Denies Defense Plea
That Eighteenth Amendment
Was Illegally Adopted d

NEW YORK, Jan. 5 IN.S0.
The Eighteenth Amendment was
declared constitutions today by
the circuit court Of appeals In q
decision handed down in a case
virtually Identical with that in
which Federal Judge Clark, OF
Newark, held the dry law IN
constitutional.
The opinion, delivered by Judges
Madton, Hand and Chase, af-
firmed the conviction of Louis e.
Thibault, who had appealed from
the United States District Court
in Vermont
Gaze Is Test
JuCae Chase Is from VerEnont.
THE others are New York Judges.
The decision was unanimous.
Thibault was convicted in Yer
mont for violation Of the Volstead
act and was sentenced to one
year and a day. His case, chosen
purely as a test case, was taken
UP by a group of lawyers who
argued, as before Judge Clark,
that the Eighteenth Amendment
was unconstitutional because it
had never been adopted by the
people .'in conventions assembled
in their several States"
Article S Cited
Thibault's counsel claimed that
the Tenth Amendment limits the
power of article 5 of the Con-
stitution. Article 5 provides
for amendments by ratification
by the legislatures Of three
fourths of the States. But, under
the limiting power of the Tenth
Amendment. it was claimed, the
Eighteenth Amendment should
have been presented to the people
or the States, through conyen-
tionS.
The opinion, was written by
Judge Martin r. Manton and con-
Cured in by the others.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
DRY RAID BROKE
LAW, RULING
Times Staff Photo

The Supreme Court today
ruled that Federal prohibition Of
ficers violated the law in seizing
papers of the Go-Bart Importing
Company, 200 Fifth Ave. New
York. After warrants were issued
for the arrest of Philip D. Gowen,
William Bartels and SO others on
a charge Of conspiracy to violate
the VolStead law.
. The case was appealed by the
officials of the company after
they made unsuccessful efforts in
lower courts to suppress the
papers and force their, return.
They charged that the agents
exceeded their authority in con.
Quoting a general search of their
offices, and that the warrant on
which they acted was invalid
which view the court upheld.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
ALLOWS THEM
TO TRADE IN
ANY FOOD
Justice Bailey Modifies Old
Consent Decree ForbiddingI|
Deals in Unrelated Lines

The 10-year litigation between
the Government and the Big
Five" meat packers neared AN
end today when Justice Jennings
Bailey in the District Supreme
Court modified the consent de-
cree of 1920, to allow the packers
to manufacture, sell and deal In
the so-called unrelated food lines.
That portion Of the decree
which prohibited the packers
from retailing meat products and
owning stock I'm stOckyards and
stOcIyard newspapers, however,
was sustaincd by the court.
Packer I.aWye GFatified
While frank Hogan, coun-
sci for the packers, was nom
committal as to his future course
regarding these two objects OF
his petition, he asserte d his
clients had achieved what, they
most desired.
The litigation began in 1920
when the Government accused
the Swift, Armour, Cudahy. Nor.
ris and Wilson companies Of
monopoIizing the meat trade and
brought suit to halt their activi-
ties. Under a stipulation the
packers consented to the decree,
but when the time approached
for them to. withdraw from so
called unrelated lines, sell their
refrigerator cars and Stockyards.
they petitioned for a rnodifica-
tion on grounds that the large
chain store groups were per
mitted to do the very things the
packers were not allowed to do.
The litigation then became .
three-COrnered affair with the Ma
tiOnal and American Wholesale
GrOcers Association rs active in
tervenOrs.
Can Sell All Foods
Under the terms of today's de-
cree the packers are allowed to
engage in the unrelated trades
which include groceries, fruits
and vegetables, and to use their
transportation and branch ware
house facilities to do so.
The other portions OF the de-
cree are sustained and the
packers must dispose Of their
stock In stockyards and are for
hidden to retail their products.
Counsel for the intervening par
ties were not available for inter
views but it is considered prob
able they win appeal from the
ruling.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
WOMAN S BODY
FOUND IN MUD

The body Of an unidentified
woman was found today in the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, at
Thirty-fifth and K SITS. N. w.
under shed Of the Crystal Ice
Company.
The body, covered with mud,
was found by Ray Stevenson, an
eYnplOye, Of 724 Eleventh st. s.
e., when he entered the shed to
inspect the guard racks that keep
debris from entering the ice
plants machinery.
DisIOdged by Suction
The body apparently had been
dislodged from the mud by sue
tion of the machinery.
Members of the homicide
squad, Rescue Fire Squad Of the
Seventh precinct, and attaches
from Emergency Hospital were
called to the scene.
The body was left where it was
found awaiting the arrival of the
coroner.
Throng Visits Scene
Discovery of the body attracted
hundreds Of persons going to
work and the traffic over the
Key Bridge was for q time dis
rupted. ThrOngs of persons lined
the banks Of the canal and police
were forced to detail men TO keep
the curious away. 81
Examination is being made to
determine whether the woman
was a victim of violence.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Of Dead
Girl Barles
Night Life

Four naonblas ago, pretty ~
year-osd Beslah Limerick, usher
cite. began keeping a dairy. In
hit day by day, she described her
reaction to her many bog friends
the good timaes she had On parties
and taae raetAaods she eEaployed 70
obtasa ~ Tie pleasure lie ha
I'd her. Il Il 3. 8
Kanaexick kept her
~ iMaia the middle Of last De.
cember, just q few weeks before
she waS found IaaysterfousIy muir
dered In bod ct her drab little
basement rOom iM Is Nineteenth
St. s. e.
Detectives investigating the
murder are checking up the
names Of friends given IN the
little book and are hoping that
In soase one entry in the dairy
may be found the kev to the
identity Of the murderer.
SosMe oE the jottings made in
the dairy by the slain girl fol.
low: The names Of the girls
boy and girl friends are withheld.
September 8. Starting my
diary watga o t1ariN. --eanae
over. he was so sweet 50
Ma@edAa and I. We went down
town and tEaen to AAeMamdria.
took ~. Came home
and weSak OuE watbEa .. We
have just abOWt OOaaAe 20 the
paFt6mg Of the Ways. lad some
wtzAe and be0@.
Sep&exnRew .. On sea. Pm
staM thRiAseA. NEartEaa and /
wQ@Aed down town. CEsamed
the top fsose. Kahsl and baby
caaaae oWsR. Went 10 III. Rain.
ieE. MAA . wOsa&eefsHl time.
Gave nae 30 nsMeh hOOe A0r
my club and new 1aemsbeNg
Guk my bOosgs atEsi8saASSeAed and
baaAnOe&, $Aa.se.
Seqbsmhar 10. Gosh, I hope
ONr club W b.. q saeeess. Bmsy
al mOuninG. HID . Ic&6er from
--. Al6O one from -.
(GOmeaH~sA OR P0ee 2, 0o1. -
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Fog Blinds Pilot;
3 Cr0sh to Death

TYLER, Tex, Jan, S QNG0.
The victims of binding fog which
caused them to lose their course
and crash into q tree on q farm
a miles southeast Of here, three
men were dead today, killed when
their cabin monoplane was dernol-
ished.
The dead are: H. Addison Noe
yer, 26, pilot, Of Dallas; Horace F.
Clark, 40, president Of the United
Guaranty Securities Co., Of Dali
las. and Thomas Holcombe, 20. ct
Midland, Tex q student pilot
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Brings Home Liquor
Ard Is Shot Dead

LOS ANGExEG, Calf, Jan. u
QN.S) - Because he brought
home q bottle Of whisky, Frank
johnson, 81, was shot to death
By JaGnes 7. Bentley, police re.
ported today.
Mrs. Rose Bentley, ordained
evangelist Of Aimee Semple NO.
Pherson's Angelus Temple, and
mother-in-law Of johnson, up.
braided the latter for bringing
home the liquor, according TO
police reports. Johnson threat
ened her and her brother.in-laW,
Bentley, shot him. Bentley was
arrested and charged with mur-
der.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Soldiers Bonus Bill
Advances in Senate

A step toward enacting a bill
paying the World War bonus Ger.
tisicates in cash was made in
the Senate today when Senator
Caraway CD, Arkansas, served
notice he would move to dis
charge the Finance Committee
frona further consideration of the
nleasare.
Caraway asked unanimous con-
sent for a vote on his motion
but Senator Snaoot tR.) Of Utah,
ob5eeted. He gave notice he
wosld cell for vote On his mo.
kiA tOuaorTow.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
House Hit for Using
g Soldiers as MeniaLs

is done with the full knowledge
and approval Of the President
Of the United States, for when
I have the highest regard"
As a result of Mr.. Collins pro-
test, the committee declined to
approve the. item and said it
would be considered by the sub
committee handling appropria-
tions for the President. The ex-
penSe, it held, should be charged
to the White House and Executive
offices.
The item, 1t was stated IN
hearings, had not been requested
in previons yeax
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Poison Liquor Kills. .
Tenth Man in Omaha

OMAHA, Jan. S tIN.S.l.-
While police worked to cut off
the source Of poison liquor here
the tenth victim Of poison booze
was dead today. One other man
is on the verge of death.
Meanwhile authorities are
raiding every possible source Of
illegal liquor in their search for
those who have been selling
poison alcohol,
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
TIUO NeIU Concerns
GiUen Va. Charters

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. s..
The State Corporation Commits
sion has granted charters to the
Terret Realty Company and
Olympic Amusement Corporation
of this city.
The latter corporation will own
and operate theaters and amuse-
me1t places in Virginia and the
District Of Columbia.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Woman Playwright
Married Secretly

NEW YORK, Jan. 5 GN.S.).
Fannie Todd Mitchell, playwright,
and Leon Leonidoff, Theater pro-
ducing staff member, have been
married since october, 1880. it
was revealed today.
Mrs. L.eonidoff is q st. Louis
girl who gave up society to write
short stories and plays.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Rep. Fort to Succeed
AkerSOn Ts Denied

Reports that RepreSentative
Franklin w. Fort (R). Of New
Jersey. close friend of President
Hoover, would become his secre-
tary, succeeding George Akerson,
resigned, were denied i'll high Of
ficial circles today. Fort said:
That's the first I've heard Of
it. All Of my friends understand
and know that I've no intention
Of doing anything except re-
turning to my business" ;" y
Fort was defeated for election
to the Senate by Dwight w. Nor.
row.
The Washington times., 1931-01-05
Police Candidates
Get Test This Week

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 5.
Six men who have applied for
appointments to the local force
viii get medical examinations
this week. They win then be ex-
amined by Captain Campbell and
City Manager Lawrence. There
ere three vacancies
The Washington times., 1931-01-05

Detailing of nine Army privates
as chauffeurs for White House
cars has brought a protest from
Representative Collins (D0, OF
Mississippi.
The situation was discovered
by Mr.. Collins when his Subccm-
mittee was considering the War
Department appropriation bill.
The department asked $1,624 to
provide chauffeurs' uniforms for
the Army privates. Mr.. Collins
said:
Il IOathe the idea Of making
meniaIs out Of enlisted men In
the Army. ! cannOt believe this