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BV Ben Dixon MacNeill

IN three continents where they sell the
product of factory that he helped
to found, the recent death of Kin
chen B. Council was regretted. In
Cruesoe's Island, N. c., where none
of the tools made in his nearby factory
was ever needed, men and women wept
and looked backward over two decades
through which he had been their un-
firing friend.
Mr.. Council was figure of a sort that
is not rare in the post-bellum annals of
the Southern States, but about his per-
Sonality there was fertile individuality.
Before 1861 his family was powerful and
-acred After 1865 the family was
destitute. The era produced a new gen
Grafton of pioneers. When he was years
old Kinchen B. Council was sent to
school. BY noon Of the first day he had
reached the conclusion that the processes
of education were entirely too cumber-
some. He never returned to school,
But nowhere could there have been
found a man of wider general education.
He was at home with Greek, Roman and
ancient Chinese cultures. He wrote verse
in the classic manner. He hunted bear
in Alaska and parrots and monkeys in
the tropics. He was an astronomer OF
no mean ability, and he could navigate
ship. He knew the turpentine industry
probably better than any other man liv-
ing, and the tools that he and his brother
invented and manufactured for that in
dustry enjoyed and still enjoy world
monopoly.
But neither tool making nor bear hunt
ing nor ancient literature was his major
passion. His great love was for his
torical research in obscure places.
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4 French Colony, Descended From the only
W>hte Persons W>hoE scapedDeath mi Haiti
During the Slaves Rebellion in 1904, Has
Been FomdLiUing in The Carolina Sz0Qmps
Il Strange People, Long HlddenA70ayF>om
Modern Progress.

TWENTY years before his death, pur-
suing bear through the swampS of
the Waccamaw River, in Southeastern
North Carolina, he came upon old man
Buck Clewis and clew to an historical
mystery that provided him with hobby
lasting until his death. For the meeting
with Buck ClewiS enabled him to discover
a remnant of French aristocrats who es-
capped the black wrath of revolving slaves
in Haiti 127 years ago. Interminable
books have been written of the unparal-
leled butchery during the DeSSalines
massacre in Haiti, which followed the
French betrayal of Toussaint Lower
ture. In general, they agree that no
white escaped alive from the island to
tell the grueSome story; since that bloody
day the rebellious slaves have owned the
country that once was wet with their
masters blood
Twenty years ago few people ventured
into the wilderness that lay along the
Waccamaw River as it idleS through the
SwampS toward the sea after only the
most casual effort at draining Lake Wac
camaw. The lake Is a small inland sea.
and along its northern bank is much
favored of vacationistS. A gay colony of
Summer cottagers flourish there, and a
mile away is the Council Tool Co.'S fac
tory.
Seven miles across the lake the swamp
begins, and runs, tropically remote, for
40 miles toward the marshy shore of the
Atlantic Ocean. The swamp almost
touches the South Carolina line, but not
quite. It lies over good half of Colum-
bus and Brunswick Counties, and va
riable strip of higher land separates it
from the Cape Fear River. Here and
there through the swamp, usually near
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the meandering river, lie wide expanses
of hills that attain a relatively high ele-
walton.
Twenty years ago it was country to
be avoided. It abounded in all sorts of
wild game, especially bear and deer. But
it also abounded in strange people with
whom it was thought best to have little
to do. They lived almost wholly in and
by the swampS. People from The uplandS
dreaded any encounter with them;
Negroes could not be driven through the
swampS. The swamp people, so the stories
ran, were likely to go berserk at the sight
of black man.
Since the beginning of the colony the
Waccamaw swamp country was sup
poSedly the receptacle of fugitives who
could not maintain themselves decently
in the established settlements. The
swamp people were without schools or
churches or any formal civilization. No
good had ever gone into the colony, the
people round about said, and no good
ever came out of it.
Mr.. Council was an inveterate bear
hunter, and he was possessed of an in
satiable curiosity about people. Twenty
years ago 1lG OCCIOCu~IO tSIlGuTe 1ICO the
swamp in pursuit of bear His family.
of course, decried the venture, and gave
him up as hopeless He was gone even
longer than he had planned, and when
he came back he brought the skin of
a vast bear and face that glowed with
a secret satisfaction. A member of the
Board of County Commissioners, he sur
prised his confreres at the next meeting
with the declaration that something in
the way of school ought to be pro-
vided for the people on Cruesoe's Island.
Deep in the swamp, where his hounds
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were bowling after the bear, Mr.. Council
had encountered Buck Clewis Mr. Clewis
was naturally surprised and taken aback,
but In the face of very genuine friend-
illness he Overceme his obvious timidity
and miStruSt. There in the swamp q
friendship was born that continued UNI
haggingly until, recently, Mr.. Clewis
came at the head of great company Of
his neighborS and wept unaShamed be-
side newly made grave among the
ancient tombStones in the churchyard
where the Councils lie buried.
It was probably a year-Mr. Council
could not remember exactly-before the
elusive intimacy between him and Buck
ClewiS was strong enough to foster a
timid invitation for the hunter to come
up to the swamp mans house. The ap-
pearance of the house had something
strange, a little incongruous, about it.
To be sure, it was rough thing of un-
hewn logs, but there was about it an echo
of a grace, Shadowy charm that did
not belong in the dim swamps. For a
long time Mr.. Council was not able to
place it or to define it. Rather it was
something felt, something senSed.
AFTER he discovered that the some
l. thing he Sensed had clew in the
contour of the stick and-mud chimney,
the sort of primitive chimney that chron-
iclers of the American pioneer have made
familiar to everybody. But this chimney
was different. There was an artistry
about it. Instead of the raw sticks and
mud narrowing into fiue, the sticks were
completely hidden by pinkish white
plaster of native chalk, and the lines Of
the chimney were nodded into smooth
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In addition 90 d0c00e0R
Brothers, these WosASs0to1E
bwiIders also modeFRize
their homes Wstk g0as
L. E. Breuninger d SEN
Boss & Phelps
Breuninger & Phifer
Edison w. Briggs. Inc.
Cafritx Construction Co.
Casey Engineering COmpany
Columbia Construction Company
Henry j. Conner
Cooley Bros.
ID. J. DUNCAN, Inc.
Federal Construction CO.
ThOG. J. Fisher Co.
j. r. Fox
d. III. GFuver
Harvard Terrace Development
Co.
WIN. A. Hill Co.
Independent Investment Co.
Thos. A. jameson
Randolph L. Jennings
Kennedy ChamberIin Develop
ment Co.
MCKeever and GOSs
VIC. q A. N. Miller
Frederick B. Mills
G. w. Morris g. Som
Henry J. RObb, Inc.
Fred SCHNEIDER
Shapiro Construction Co.
Chas. L. Tankersley
Waverly Taylor
John B. Tiffey
Triangle Realty Company
Waple & James
Wakefield, Inc.
M. q r.. B. Warren
C. M. Wilcox
G. w. williams
Edward M. Willis
p. II. Willis Realty Co.
Young q OppenheimeR
Earl Warren
Walter Vaughn
MOIye Fillmore
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.S1O,A9,4S TOTAL
|. IN j. S. CONTRACTS
Awards for Month Include
Senate Office Building Wing
for $4,000, 900.

Various agencies Of the United States
Government awarded 40 building con-
tracts during October having total
cost Of $1O, 340, 40e, according 70 tabu-
lation made by the Bureau Of Statistics
Of the Department Of Labor.
Among these contracts awarded last
month was one for construction OF the
First street wing Of the United states
Senate once Building, 1T . cost OF
81, zoe, 900.
Fewer Projects IN Month.
In It's monthly survey, the bureau
received building permit reports from
343 identical cities having q population
Of $4,000 or over, for the months Of Sep
tember. 1881, and october, 1881. These
reports indicated that there was O de-
crease of SO per cent in the number
and an increase Of "a per cent in the
estimated cost Of new residential build
ings, comparing october with Septem-
Der.
In contrast, new nonresidential build
ings increased 6.S per cent in number
but decreased 1871 per cent In estimated
cost. Additions, alterations and re-
Der but decreased 2.S per cent in eSti-
mated cost.
Total building operations increased
IL per cent In number but decreased
81 per cent In cost. Dwelling units
were provided during October, 1881,
for 1881 families. This is an increase
of IL per cent Is compared with Sep
TENDER, 1881.
Total Cost Decreases.
Comparing permits issued IN 292
Identical cities during october, 1881,
and October, 1890, there was decrease
Of 1874 per cent IN the number and E.
decrease Of 34.8 per cent In the eSti-
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mated ooss Il total building operations.
New rn6identaal buildings decreased 3O!4
per cent In number and 42.2 per cent
In estimated cost comparing these tWo
New nonresidential buildings de-
creased 72S Per cent in number ana
sos per cent In egtimAted cost. Ad-
ditionS, alterations and repairs de-
creased 81 per cent In number and 20.S
Der Of family dwelling units provided
decreased $50 per cent.
OF STA cities and towns Of the United
States reporting building permits TO D.
w. StrAus q Co. during October, wash
ington ranks eighth, With o total q
81, 4T6, 70O, which does not compare well
With $2,1s1, 6eS for october. 1890.
Building permits In S72 cities and
towns Of the United States during the
month Of October, 1881, amounted to
SST, TS7 ,S44, according to @. w. Straua
IL Co. This figure represents 1875 pea
cent decline from September Of this
year, when the volume for these cities
was SlO3, e77, sos, as compared with q
normal seasonal expected increase OF
Sc per cent. Permits issued during
october, 1891, fell zoe per cent below
the same month Of 1850.
AS o group, the rs cities Teportne
the largest volume Of permits for the
month show an increase Of ass per
cent from September Of this year; q
decline Of 7T7 per cent from October,
1880, and o decline Of So.2 per cent from
October Of 1929.
Nine Of the cities made individual
gains over October, 1880. namely: AL
bany, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Syracuse,
Topeka, OAKLAND, Denver, Memphis
and Newark. Five Of these as cities
registered advances over October, 1929.
They are Albany, Fort Worth, Syracuse,
Topeka and Memphis.
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vided into Sunset patrol with virginia
Carter leader. ana 0enevieve Everett
corporal; Blueben Patrol, Norma Lloyd,
leader, and Mary Overholser, corporal,
and WhippOorwfll Patrol, Margaret Fla
dung, leader, and LiliAs Keim, corporal.
Miss Margaret Hall. 11eid secretary from
present 20 assist With organization.
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Economies Sought.
YOUTH GIVEN LIFE TERM
Refuses Choice Over Execution in
Murder Of Farmer.

ENID, Okla. November 81 Dr.
Marion Nelson Sage, 17-year-old slayer,
refused to choose between life or death
when he pleaded guilty yesterday 70
murder charges for the killing OF Joe
Goodrich, u, q farmer with whom ne
lived.
Il don't know" the boy answered
Judge j. w. Birds question as to
whether he thought he should be sen
fenced to life Imprisonment or death in
the electric chair.
Judge Birds imposed the life term.
The youth said he killed Goodrich to
obtain his property.
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Girls Form Scout Troop.

BOWIE, Md, November II Especially
Nineteen high school girls living ct
Bowie. Springfield and Glenn Dale met
ct the home Of Mrs. 3. 4. Perkins r.,
Monday and organized Troop No. IS,
Girl Scouts Of America, with Mrs. Per-
kins IS Scout leader. The troop Il d.
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ADVISORY COUNCIL
IMPROVES DESIGNS
Architects Board Effects
Economies and UphoIds
Capital Standards.

Private builders Of washington were
reminded today by the Architects Ad-
visory Council OF the free advice as to
the design of new building projects
made available each week by juries OF
this orwgnization, created by the local
chapter Of the American Institute OF
Architects.
A Jury Of members Of the chapter
meets each Thursday afternoon at the
District Building to study new plans
on file and to make suggestions for
changes, If deemed advantageous, both
as to improved design and economy.
Thus an owner Of q new project has
The benefit Of the work Of his own de-
signeY and the suggestions, free OF
charge, of . group Of disinterested ar
chitectS before q project Is started.
Owners are given the privilege at these
meetings Of hearing the discussion.
Jury Rates Designs.
A recent report Of the work Of one
of these juSies illustrates how the body
functions One group reviewed IL sets
of planA including those for private
dwellings, apartments and commercial
structures.
Four were graded as approved or
meeting the standards which should be
maintained for private buildings in the
ed to a board of review for q common
dalton If certain changes were made.
A commended" rating indicates the
opinion of the second jury that the
design meets exceptionally well the
standards which should be maintained
for private buildings in the National
Capital"
Six others were graded. as average,
with three Of these subject to higher
ratings If changes were made.
Typical Gases Cited.
The jury rated the design of the
front of one project as approved and
the side as injurious to the appearance
of the street.
Members of the jury, j. w. Adams.
Joseph Parks and Horace w. Peaslee,
found three typical cases Of needed
changes:
"A pretentious residence well studied
in the main, was marred by too-insist-
ent wing dormers and one or two other
items which the architect had over
looked.
"A row Of stores were found to be
group Of considerable size and poten-
tial dignity, but somewhat monoton-
Gus in ARRANGEMENT. Possible changes
and economies were pointed out.
"A small apartment house In gen
eral presenting q pleasing appearance
was spoiled by careless consideration
OF minor details Of window treatment"
Economics Sought.
The report Of the work Of the Ad-
Visory Council points out that 1t Is the
effort of the weekly juries to bring be-
fore owners and designers. before the
execution Of the work, possible econo-
mics and points that It believes would
be subject to subsequent criticism. II
changes were not made.
At a recent meeting plans forwarded
to the board of review by q weekly
jury we're given the commended rat
ing. They call for q reproduction OF
the Derby house at Salem, Conn, in
the Colonial village section Of Rock
Greek Park Estates by the Edison w.
Briggs Co.
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Corsica, the island birthplace Of Ma
polesu, Is to have its flrst telephone
connection with the outside world. It
win be by radiotelephone between Cal
inxana, Corsica, and La Turbie, France.
Operating tests have been successful,
and the service soon viii be inaugurated.
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Business depression has given the
fur-bearing animals at least q partial
holiday. Less demand for fur garments
naturally means lower prices for pelts
and smaller inducement for the trap
perS to hunt.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
REALE VERDICT
IS SET ASIDE

Under the rule of the District
Supreme Court that no person
having a contract with the Gov
ernment can sit on a jury, JUS
tice Frederick L. Siddons has set
aside a verdict and ordered q
new trial in the case in which
Paul Reale, a World War veteran,
was awarded $500 on his war
risk insurance policy.
Trial Of the suit, in which the
Veterans Bureau was defendant,
consumed several weeks. Attor-
ney Annabelle Hinderliter, who
represented the bureau, created
a mild snsation after the verdict
by presenting affidavits of several
jurors that they consented to
the verdict through fear Of bodily
harm at the hands of other
jurors, but that matter was dis
missed by Justice Siddons.
The point on which he set the
verdict aside was based on the
presence on the jury of Michael
Coakley, who, it appeared, had a
contract of insurance with the
Government.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
UPHOLDS
STOCK SUIT

Motion Of the New York Title
and Mortgage Company to dis
miss a bill brought by Miss Grace
Hutton and others to obtain a
recovery and accounting for
stock Of the Capital Title and
Guarantee Company, Of which it
is alleged the New York company
illegally acquired control. was
overruled by Justice Jesse c. Ad-
kins.
In the bill it was alleged that
the New York company acquired
1900 shares of stock in the Capt.
tai company without paying a
valid consideration for it. Al
though the Capital plant alleged
to have been acquired by the New
York concern was said TO have
been one Of the finest Of its kind,
according to q circular distributed
by the New York company, and
the stock was valued at $50 a
share, it is charged in the bill
that the New York company ac-
quired control Of the plant with
an expenditure Of approximately
$25, 900.
Justice Adkins held that the
bill stated a sufficient cause of
action to require the defendants
to answer.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
TH|RST|NGPONY.
FALLS IN WELL

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Jan.
3.-"Tiny," mischievous little pony
belonging to Raymond L. Scaggs,
will be careful in the future
where he searches for water when
thirsty.
Yesterday he found himself at
the bottom Of a 40-foot well at
the Peter. Pan kennels. near here,
and it took the combined efforts
of the State roads commission
staff to get him out.
Hearing a noise, willard
Vaughn and several others ran
to the we'll and saw Tiny at the
bottom neighing and kicking.
Hastily improVising a block and
tackle, the men finally brought
Tiny to the top.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
Panama Under Control
of Revolution Leaders

COLON. Panama, Jan. 3 GIN,
' S0.-The Republic of Panama to.
day was under complete control of
the provisional government head
ed by Harmodio Arias, following
the overthrow yesterday of the ad.
ministration of President Flor.
0ncio Arosemena by a group OF
young revolutionarieS.
The Accion Communal, patr1-
otic organization which sponsored
the coup, in which 16 lives were
lost, issued a manifesto proclaim
ing Senior Arias chief executive,
but in the meanwhile the Panama
supreme court sent a cable mes
sage to DR.. Ricardo j. Alfaro, min
!. lister to the United States, request
ing him to return and assume the
presidency.
B The supreme court based it's call
upon the assumption that deposed
President AroSemena and his first,
second and third vice presidents
came into office illegally two years
ago. Senior Alfaro was first vice
president in the preceding admin
iEtration.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
August 27 Suggested
Peace Pact HOLidau

LONDON, Jan. 3 QN.S.1.-Pro-
posals have been put forward by
DR.. Norwood. well-known Free
Church leader, for a universal
peace holiday to be celebrated
annually on August 81, the date
on which the Paris peace pact
was signed.
The peace pact renouncing war
as an instrument of national
policy was signed in Paris in 1928,
by the plenipotentiaries of IS
nations, and later adhered to by
38 more nations.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
SLOT MACHINE
CASE FAILS

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. 3.
Some one shook a slot machine
which was being held as evidence
by the police against T. B. Ruth
erford and as a result Mr.. Ruther-
ford was dismissed by Judge
Snow in police court today.
Mr.. Rutherford was arrested by
Policeman >McClary, who declared
that there were nickels in the
"jack pot" Of a slot machine in
Rutherford'S lunchroom. Other
officers who inspected the ma
chine also declared the coins
were in sight.
However, when the machine
was produced as evidence in
court someone had turned it over
and the Jack pot" was empty.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03

course the cooperage business
doesn't amount to much under
a prohibition regime, Kirchhoff
announced, but he predicted bar
rels would be in greater demand
after prohibition.
Madame Jeritza, clad in tights
as the youthful BoccacCio, dropped
the German text to sing an Eng
lish libretto inviting BodanSky,
the orchestra conductor, to come
up and play her role Of "Boccac-
clio" and offered to take his place.
VOlStead Is Remembered
Volstead came in for his share
of attention, and when one of
Suppes melodies was reminiscent
of Sweet Adeline," Gustav Schu-
etzendorff Gravely called the fact
to the audiences attention.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
FEDERAL TAXES
REVEAL LOSS
DURING 1880
Collections for December
Higher Than Was Expected;
Levy on Incomes Decreases

Final figures for 1880 income
and corporation taxes issued to-
day by the Treasury, showed q
total collection of $2,332, ,976 900,
a reduction of 100000 from
1929.
Collections during December,
heavier than anticipated, d,
amounted to $496, 200, a de-
crease of $2o,OOO,OOO from the
same month of 1929.
Expenditures Rise
For the first half of the 1881
fiscal year, ending December 81,
total receipts were $1,854, ,207, 300,
a reduction of $223, 100000" from
the same period of the 1880 fiscal
year.
Ordinary expenditures we're ST.
706, 10000 for the half year, an
increase Of $105, 100000.
Decreases in receipts in the
July-December period results from
losses in the three important
sources of revenue. Customs re-
ceipts Of $201 ,000, 900 showed a de-
crease Of $101.0OO, 900: income
taxes, totaling $1,107, 300, 900, de-
clined $78,000,000, and miscel-
laneous internal revenue of $685.
371 900 was $23, ,000, 900 lower.
Trade Slump Cause
Customs and miscellaneous In
ternal revenue declined because of
the business depression. Expendi-
lures of $80,556,700 by the Fed
eral Farm Board and an increase
of $59,000,000 in the cost Of
operating the Government depart
ments and bureaus, with a boost
Of $40, ,000, 900 in the postal deficit,
were chiefly responsible for the
gain in operating expenses.
Total governmental costs for
the half year, including operations
in the public debt, were $184, ,O00,-
600 less than the same period Of
the 1880 fiscal year, having
totaled $1,801, ,O82, 900.
The Washington times., 1931-01-03
Jeritza Jazzes Boccaccio
As Audience Whoops

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 Q.N.SD
The glittering diamond horseshoe
Of the Metropolitan Opera could
scarcely believe it's jewel-laden
ears last night when it heard
such words as ''Whoopee," Sweet
Adeline," and "Get That Feller"
punctuating the German Libretto
Of Suppe's "Boccaccio."
Mr.. Gatti- -Cazazza began the
New Year by permitting Madame
JeritZa and Herr Walter Kirch-
hoff the greatest liberties in add
ing 1881 sprightliness to the
comic opera.
Kirchhoff, as the Prince of
Palermo, announced he would
move the cooper to Palermo so
that he could continue his love
affair with the cooper's wife. OF