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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25

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The Washington times., 1931-10-17
EXHIBITS
LINCOLN IDEA

One of the lesser known roles
played by Abraham Lincoln, that
of inventor, will be featured at
the Industrial Exposition at the
Washington Auditorium beginning
october 26.
A model will be displayed of a
device for the floating of steamers
and other large craft over bars
or through shallow river waters
on which Lincoln obtained a
patent in May, 1849.
The model is on display at the
Smithsonian Institution and ar
rangements are being made by
Washington Chamber of Com
merce officials for its use during
the exposition.
The device provides for adjust
able air chambers which, at
tached to the craft, could be in
flated and forced downward into
the water to make them more
buoyant and lessen their draught.
It is possible that if the steam
railroads had not displaced the
waterways as the principal means
of transportation, the patented
floating docks would have been
generally used by the steamboat
companies using the great water
ways,
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
NUTR|T|ONPLAN
OUTLINED

The nutrition program in the
Montgomery county schools. which
is under the supervision of Miss
Margaret Ansdell, Red Cross
nutritionist, was explained at yes
terday'S meeting of the. Mont
gomery County Chapter of the
American Red Cross in Rockville
by Miss Ansdell and Edwin w.
Broome, superintendent of schools.
Mrs. Katherine AIvOrd, prOduc-
ton committee chairman, re-
ported that 81 Christmas bags
have been filled with gifts and for
warded to national headquarters
for distribution in veteran hos.
pitalS. More than 100 garments
and a dozen sweaters have been
prepared by the branches, she
said.
Mrs. Robert D. Hagner, secre.
tary of the chapter. read a letter
from Frank B. Severance, of
Gaithersburg, relief chairman, in
which plans for unemployment
relief during the winter were out.
lined
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Battle Scenes Re-endcted
At Yorktown Fete
girls couldn't resist a dash o.
rouge, lipstick, and mascara.
Highways Are Crowded

girls couldn't resist a dash Of
rouge, lipstick, and mascara.
Highways Are Crowded
Highways and boat lanes were
crowded. Another large crowd
was at the wharf and most took
advantage of the invitations to go
on board the French cruisers Suf-
fern and Duquesne, and the Amer
lean ships, of which more than so
were anchored in the York River.
TIE historic frigate Constitution
also had it's place at the wharf.
The roads for miles about were
bordered by flags. State police
from all the neighboring States
aided in maintaining order and
unraveling traffic tie-ups on the
grounds.
Various State militia delega
tlons maneuvered. Probably the
best received was the corps of
diets from the Virginia Military
Academy, which drilled to perfec-
ton before the stands.
Dinner for NOtabIeS
Last night the celebration was
transferred to the Chamberlin
Hotel at Old Point Comfort, Off
cial headquarters of the Sesqui-
centennial. Here were gathered
probably as distinguished a group
IS ever met at a common board.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
FOLLOWS
BRAWL HURT

Members of the homicide squad
are investigating the death Of
Frank Edwards 81 of 152 Sixth
st. S. W.. who died today at
Gallinger Hospital.
Edwards was taken to the hos
pital Thursday suffering from
head cuts. DR.. George E. Wyman
said Edwards at the time was
semi-consciouS and was unable
to exulain how the injuries were
inflicted.
Later. however. physicians we're
told by Edwards that he received
his injuries IN a brawl in Phila-
delphia on october 4.
The coroner was notified and
the d elective bureau today
launched an investigation to learn
whether the injuries may have
been inflicted in the District.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
LETTERS TOD.C.
FRIEND TOLD
Of INTENT
As. Year : Old Ex-SeCretary
Believed Worried Because
of Loss of Her Position

Wilma Wigginton, 45-year-old
New Yorker, whose scantily clad
body was found yesterday in the
Putuxent river, near Milestone
Landing, committed suicide, ac-
cording to the verdict of a cor
oner's jury.
The verdict was predicated on
letters received by Harry B. Pitts,
1893 X st. N. w., in which the
woman said she intended to end
her life.
Mr.. Pitts was unable to assign
q motive for the act, but the pre-
sumption was that the woman
was respondent over loss OF he1
position as secretary to an Of
ficial of a New York corporation.
Mr.. Pitts went to Solomons,
Md, yesterday Immediately after
the body was found. He said
Miss Wigginton had visited for a
short time in Washington lid
when she left here had seemed
respondent.
The Rev. Samuel Bauer, uf
Vienna, Va, discovered the body
while preparing to go on a fish
ing trip. He and j. H. Bradley
brought it ashore.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Trap Is Discovered
To Snare Enemy
OF Oysters

The Bureau Of Fisheries an
nounced today that a trap for
the oyster drill, an animal with
a file-like tongue, which has
been for years the most bitter
enemy of the oyster, has been
found. The drill, experts say,
has destroyed thousands Of
oysters each year.
The bait, the bureau experts
said, is sand. Buckets Of sand,
they said, caused the drills to
accumulate in great numbers.
Then they are hauled in and
destroyed.
Traps are now being pre-
pared for use in the oyster beds
of Chesapeake Bay and the
adjacent waters.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
POOR TOP SOIL
USED, PLANT

Top soil placed on the new
Western High School athletic
field is not up to the require
ments of the specifications pre-
pared by the engineers office,
Dennis E. Connors. 1909 Eleventh
st. N. W., declares in a complaint
to the District Commissioners. The
complaint has been referred to
the Comptroller of Currency.
According to Connors, who is
q contractor. the dirt used as
topsoil is not the good garden
mold" required, but is of an in
ferior grade.
- Connors also charges that Major
H. L. Robb. assistant to the En-
gineer Commissioner knows of
the matter and "is doing anything
but protecting the District Gov
ernment'S interests "
However, Major Robb's office,
It is understood. has enlisted ex-
perts from the Department of
Agriculture to investigate indie
pendently.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
: in Upper Marlboro
Forfeit Collateral

Seven men forfeited collateral
ranging from $50 to $26.70
rather than appear for trial in
police court at Upper Marlboro
yesterday.
They we're: Daniel Berry, 37S9
Benton st. N. W., $26.70 for reck.
ness driving; Alphonzo Wheeler,
drunk and disorderly, $40; Her
man Hodge, Meadows, Md, speed
ing. $6.7O: Henry A. Lifsey. 921
Westminster st. N. W.; William
w. Vermillion, Upper Marlboro,
driving with no registration card
in possession, $6.70 each, and
John Cox. Baltimore, failing to
stop at boulevard sign, $6.70.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Institute to Hear
Walter DanlrOSch

Walter Damrosch, information
ally known maestro and authority
on Wagner, will be the guest
speaker Tuesday in the first of a
series of programs sponsored by
the Community Institute of Wash
ington, at the Central Community
Center, Thirteenth and Clifton
SITS. N. w.
In addition to Mr.. Damrosch's
talk, Louise Homer Stires and
Katherine Homer will be heard in
a joint song and piano recital.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
.BA[LOU REPORT.
LAUDATORY

City-wide expansion in school
construction and the elevation OF
teaching standards are praised in
the first chapter of the annual
report of DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of schools, made
public today.
Pointing out that during the
last school year, the appropria'
tions act provided for the largest
schoolhouse construction and
playground building in the history
of the public schools, DR.. Ballou
praised the Board of Education,
Congress and the District Com
missioners.
Congress made the money inn
mediately available on the pas
sage of the bill on February %.
This, he pointed out, made it pos
Sible to begin preparations for the
construction of the buildings in
March instead of in July, as is or.
dinarily the case.
AS a result of these efforts. DR..
Ballou says, 80 portable school
buildings were abandoned with
the beginning of the school year
and several buildings were occu-
rie on the opening day of school
rather than five months later.
IN Introductory statement to
t. e Superintendents' report pre-
pared by the late DR.. H. Barrett
Learned, former president of the
board. praises the efforts of the
school officials.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
PETA|N To GET
HONOR DECREE

ANNAPOLIS, Oct. IT. - st.
Johns College here will confer
the honorary degree of Doctor
of Science upon Marshal Henri
Petain october %, when the
hero of We: dun comes here for a
two-hour visit from Washington.
M. Petain will lay a wreath at
the monument to the Unknown
French Soldiers on the college
grounds. Governor Ritchie, Rear
Admiral Thomas c. Hart, of
the Naval Academy, and others
of prominence will be guests, and
the degree will be conferred by
President Douglas Gordon.
The degree was to be con-
ferred by st. Johns when Mar
shall Petain visited here in 1919.
but the French military leader
could not be present.
He will be accompanied to
Annapolis by Due de Broglie and
his sister, Comtesse de Pange'
DUO de Noailles, Gen. Conte
d'Oilone, and Colonel Pillon, also
perhaps by Gen. John j. Per
Shing.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Curry May Accede
To juvenile Bench

Although the committee Of
Montgomery county citizens ap-
pointed by Gov. Albert c. Ritchie
to recommend the name of a
county attorney to be appointed
as judge of the juvenile court
has made it's recommendation.
no member of the committee will
divulge the name sent to the
governor.
It is believed, however, that
Granville r. Curry, 35, is favored.
His offices are in the Southern
Building.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Mrs. Field Donates
AppLe Crop to NeedY

The complete crop of the apple
orchard of Mrs. Jane Field on the
Defense Highway has been do
mated to the Prince Georges
County Associated Charities for
distribution among needy families
The apples will be packed and dis
tributed later, according to Miss
Ethle Regan, home demonstration
agent.
Prof. K. j. Morris Ind Stanley
Jenkins, Of the Hyattsville High
School will superintend picking of
the crop by school boys in leisure
hours.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Gas Replaces Hay
On School BUdQet

The last horSe-drawn school
bus in Montgomery county has
succumbed to machinery. The
Parent-Teacher Association of the
Laytonsville School has succeeded
in obtaining a motor bus.
Besides accomplishing that, the
association arranged for and held
a dental clinic at the school,
where 1875 dental operations were
performed. Milk was provided
for children unable to purchase
it. The association also induced
patrons of the school to furnish
labor and material to construct
one and one-half miles of stone
road.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Volunteers Captain
breaches Tomorrow

Capt. Clyde Parker has chosen
THE Abiding Love" as the sub
ject of his sermon at religious
services of the Volunteers of
America tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock in the Mission at 471
Pennsylvania Ave. N w.
The services will be conducted
by 1t. Col. Frank H. Wise, re-
gional commander, assisted by
Staff Capt. Jennie Ingram.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Guns of Revolution Days
Stump Artillerwren

ern rifle, toppled over as the SOL
diers attempted to train it on the
American forces.
The costumes of a bygone day
proved as difficult for the present
day "colonials." While lettering
between scenes, many were forced
to borrow matches. Although
their pockets we're full of them,
they couldn't find the combina-
ton.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
West Virginia Boys
Win Cattle Contest

MARTINsBURG, w. Va, Oct.
17.-Three students of Martins
burg high school have returned
to their studies here after carry
ing off the national championship
as a team, in judging Ayreshire
cattle at the national livestock
exposition in st. Louis. The
students are James and Isaac
Van Metre and John Debaugh.
They were accompanied to st.
Louis by their instructor, G. o.
Mullan.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Thief Takes 10 BOlOs,
But ScOrnS ArrOLDS

A thief who goes in for archery
has made his appearance in
Washington. according to a re-
port made to police today.
Ten bows valued at $25 were
stolen from the Mckinley High
School, Second and T Streets,
Northeast, last night. A large
quantity of arrows were smashed
and left behind.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Sons of Revolution
Sail For Yorktown

Three hundred members of the
Sons Of the American Revolution
sailed yesterday from Baltimore
for the yorktown Sesquicenten,
nial Celebration on the Merchants
and Miners s. 8. Dorchester, char
tered by the organization.
Among Washingtonians on the
ship were Clayton Emig, Miss
Maud Burr Morris. Miss Mary C.
Oursler, Mr.. and Mrs. John Paul
Ernest, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry S
Jacoby. Miss Della D. Richardson.
George M. Beckett, DR.. Albert
Bushnell Hart, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank B. Steele, William Young
Brady and Edward w. Dom, jr.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Tipsy Driving of One
Auto CHARGED to TlUO

Two men accused of driving
the same automobile at the same
time while under the influence of
liquor forfeited a total of $225
when their cases were called in
police court at Upper Marlboro.
yesterday.
The men were Charles May. of
the 500 block of D st. N. E., and
Sylvester r. GoddonS, of the 1900
block of M st. N. E.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Accident Litigation
Moved From County

The $4,000 damage suit against
Kent r. MulliKi1., chairman of
the Prince Georges county dele
cation to the general assembly,
has been ordered removed to Har-
ford county for trial at the re-
quest of attorneys for the plain
tiffs.
The suit, filed in behalf of
Maxine. Cecil and Staten Landes
and Eugene P. Hubbell. is the
outgrowth of an automobile acci-
dent on the Baltimore Boulevard
several months ago.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Bureau Head
To Address Women

Charles G. Ross, Washington
head of the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch Washington bureau, will
address the Woman's Club of
Chevy Chase, Wednesday, in the
assembly room of the Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church, at
LAS p. m. Mrs. Karl Fenning
will preside.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17

YORKTOWN, Va, Oct. 17.-Sol-
dierS at Fortress Monroe, trained
to handle the gigantic coast de-
Tense batteries, found the old fash.
toned cannon that the British
used too much to handle when
trying to move them into position
for the Yorktown seSquicenten;
NAL sham battle.
One of the tiny cannon, which
had scarcely the range Of a mod
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Reckless Driving
Penalties Man $50

William H. Colbert, who gave
his address as 412 Florida Ave. N.
w., was fined $50 and costs by
Judge j. Chew Sheriff at Upper
Marlboro yesterday on a charge
of reckless driving.
Colbert was arrested after col
lision with Grayson Baden, of
Prince Georges county.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Miss Stringer Heads
Radio for Red Cross

Miss Katherine Stringer, of the
District of Columbia Red Cross,
will have charge of the radio
work of the staff assistance corps
during the coming winter. The
corps committee also includes
Miss Mary Henry, Miss Justine
Corby, Mrs. William B, Willard,
Miss Harriet Anderson, Mrs. ClaF
Stone Briggs, Miss Caroline San
derSon.
The group had special meet
ing yesterday. outlining plans fol
the season, including the ann'lsl
roll call.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
By WILLIAM H, DOHERTY

by WILLIAM n. DOAEnA
Washington Times staff Correspondent
RKTOWN, Va, Oct. II
Players of the Yorktown sesqui-
centennial pageant today re-
enacted the planning and execu-
ton of the battle campaign. After
a day spent colonizing the United
States and bringing it through its
turbulent relations with the In.
dianS.
OF course, the whole thing is
settled and England can't win
anyway. The autogiros and blimps
flying overhead, and the radio
loudspeakers amplifying the voices
of the speakers to make them
audible over several acres of
spectators, are but a few Of the
reminders that this country
emerged victorious and went
ahead to create a new era OF
progress.
Old Days Come To life
But with the state Settings and
costumes of the Revolutionary
era everywhere visible, those stir.
ring davs scented to come tR life
again on the plains of Yorktown,
but a few miles from Jamestown,
where cOlOniSts first set foot on
the American Continent.
With the whole thing salted
away for the United States, Lord
Stanley Wyckham CORVALLIS,
lineal descendant of the English
nobleman who here capitulated
before the siege Of 1881, at the
very opening of the ceremonies
rushed to place his eulogies be-
fore the memory of the victors.
He said:
"TO be compelled to yield to
General Washington in honor
able defeat was no disgrace.
We all recognize George Wash
ingtOn not only as the greatest
man in the history of this con-
tinent, but as one of the great
est men of the world"
"What is happening here
today could happen only in a
great and generous country"
New Blends With Old
Other visiting dignitaries con-
tributed their bit to the pageant
scene yesterday, and the evening
concert by the United States Navy
Band ended a day of spectacles
blending the new and the old in
a continuous performance.
Silent most of the time as his
tory was unfolded on the scale Of
three years a minute, the specta'
tors gave a hearty ovation to Gov
ernor Franklin Roosevelt, Of New
York, when the possible Demo,
cratic presidential nominee rose
t. answer an address of welcome
by Governor Pollard. of Virginia,
to Nicholas Martiau, first Ameri-
can ancestor of General Wash
ington and original patentee OF
Yorktown battlefield.
Episodes of the Yorktown cam
paign on the program included
the conference between Washing.
ton and Rochambeau in May
1871; : the battle of Green Spring,
with General Wayne. under the
direction of Marquis Lafayette,
and the. scene before the City OF
yorktown and the capture Of the
British redoubtS.
The grandstands, holding Is,
900 people. we're at no time more
than half filled, but as many more
wandered about the grounds
where the incongruous but ever
present ferris wheels, merry-go
rounds and booths did a thriving
business.
Hawkers walked about outside
the pageant field with strings Oi
balloons waving over their colon
iaI costumes, of which now and
then a detail was missing. But II
was all in the spirit of the Occa
sion, anyway. Even the cOlOnia
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
Thief Takes Money
From Church Dance

Montgomery county police to
day are searching for a thief
who stole $40 proceeds of a bene
fit dance given by the Ladies
Guild of the Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church at Woodside
Md, last night in the church
parsonage.
The money. according to com
plant made by Arthur C. Ryberd
jr., and Herbert Hendrick, was
in the pocket of an overcoat be-
longing to Ryberd.
The Washington times., 1931-10-17
PIT. A. FATHERS NIGHT

Fathers Night" will feature
the meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association of the East
Silver Spring ~chool on Monday
evening. j. j. principal Of
the Woodward School for Boys
in Washington, will speak on
"The Training and Management
of Boys"
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WAGE ACTION DELAYED

MONTREAL, Quebec, October / up.
Proposals for a 10 per cent cut In
wages of the running trades of the Ca
madam National and Canadian Pacific
Railways will not be acted upon until
mid October, j. B. Ward, general chair
man Of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers and chairman of the COM
mittee of representatives Of railroad
workers organizations, said Tuesday
night.
He declined to predict what action
might be taken.
Conferences in regard to the pro-
posed cut will be continued in the hope
OF reaching settlements satisfactory to
both the railways and the employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-01

CHICAGO, October Edwin r.
Embree, president of the julius Rosen-
valid Fund, says in a book, just pub
lished, that a new race Of brown
skinned people, has been found in the
United States.
The group. Of whom there are r.
100000 members, was formed Of the
fusion of blacks, whites and yellow
browns, and is new in biological make
up, the writer says in his Brown Amer
lea. the Story of New Race" The
family tree of the new race, he writes,
has deeper roots than that OF the May
flower descendants and has evolved IN
\ century, as compared with the aaons
required to develop the Egyptians,
Greeks, Jews or Chinese.
Mr.. Embree's researches, the book
says, have led him to the conclusion that
more than half Of the colored people
IN America have some white or Indian
blood.
"Black forefathers Of the new race
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NEW RACE OF BROWN AMERICANS
EVOLVED FROM MIXING DESCRIBED
Head of Rosenwald Fund Finds 100000 Members in
Branch Composed of Varied Peoples.

ne wrote, "were among the first white
settlers Of the new world. In 1919. &C
cording to John Smiths general his
torie, there arrived in jamestown "a
Dutch man of Ware, that sold us 20
Negars' So just - years after the
establishment in Virginia of the first
permanent British colony in America,
and a few months before the May
flower landed the Pilgrims at Plymouth
the beginnings of the new race were
made.
The diversity Of Africans brought in
during slave days, even with no adj
mixture CT white or Indian blood, che
author continued, would itself have
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Shaving Motive Cited.
Get Your sparrows or Paw,

Sparrows are causing so much damage
TO farm products in many parts of Bri-
tain this year that members of clubs
formed with the object of discriminating
the birds are fined If they do not return
a sufficient quota of dead" Wire traps
baited inside with corn, are used to cap
ture the birds. Gray squirrels are also
causing annoyance, particularly in Kent.
where an intensive war" is being waged
against them.
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single tribe In Africa. But white and
Indian blood began to be difYused with
the black.
mo special odium," he wrote, was
attached to the begetting Of mulatto
children in slave days. It was regarded
almost as a matter OF course"