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Evening star., 1932-12-27
COMMITTEE GIVEN
BATTLEFIELD WORK
S. C. v. Group Will Develop
Manassas Area by Erect
ing Monuments.
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, December 27.-Wil-
liam r. Dancy, commander in chief Of
the Sons Of Confederate Veterans, Of
Savannah, Ga, has appointed a COM
mittee of 81 to take charge Of the work
OF developing the Manassas battlefield
during 1928.
Announcement Of the appointments
was made through Walter L. Hopkins Of
Richmond, adjutant in chief of the
S. c. v.
Will Develop Battlefield.
The duties of the committee. in brief,
the announcement said. will be to de-
velop the Manassas battlefield by erect
ing monuments thereon to Gems. jack
son, johnson, Beauregard, Bee, Barlow
and others; to mark the lines of battle
and the various historical spots on this
famous field.
Maj. Edmond R. Wiles Of Little Rock,
Ark, was named chairman of the COM
mittee. Maj Wiles, past commander
in chief of the s. C. w., is now devising
ways and means of carrying out the
project, which he will submit to his as
sociates soon.
Col. Rufus W. Pearson Of Washing
ton, D. c., was named vice chairman
and Mr. j. S. Utley of Little Rock,
Ark, was named executive secretary to
the chairman.
Other Appointments.
Others named were:
r. A. Willis, Birmingham, Ala; c. p.
Newton, Little Rock, Ark; Maj. T. ]. j.
Christian, Chicago, ILL.,: Capt. Henry W..
Edmonds, Washington; j. Stoddard
johnson, New York City, D. NJ. Low
cry, Tallahassee, Fla; MARITIME L.
Harmsen, Atlanta, Ca; Capt. J. E. Kel-
ler, Lexington, KY; Philip E. Chavanne,
Lake Charles, La; Judge Edwin r.
Holmes, Yazoo City, Miss; G. P. Hat
field, st. Louis, Mo-; Edmond Randolph
Preston, Charlotte, N. c.; DR.. George P.
Tabor, Oklahoma City, Okla; DR.. Baylis
H. Earle. Greenville, S. c.; DR.. P. l..
Henderson, Morristown. Tenn; Judge
Tom Simmons. Fort Worth, Tex; F. R.
Fravel, Ballston, Va. and Clarence Nc
Clung, LeWisburg, w. Va.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
BOARD IS PLANNING
/ APPOINT PROGRAM
Arlington Heads to Work for
Sewers, Bridge Approach
and Road Link.
By staff Correspondent Of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,
December 27.-The iour main objectives
of the County Board for the coming
year are a countrywide sewer system,
construction of the Wilson boulevard
approach to the Arlington Memorial
Bridge construction of the Lee boule-
ward approach to the same bridge, and
construction of connection between
the county and State highway systems
and the Mount Vernon Memorial High
way in the vicinity Of Four Mile Run,
1t was learned today from q member
of the board.
The board, it was said, is pushing
County Manager Roy S. Braden for
an early completion Of survey as to
the cost of countrywide sewer system
and expects at this time to be able to
submit the matter Of bond issue for
the project to the people during the
coming few months.
That sewer system cannot be con-
Structed without an increase in the
financial burden on the people is con-
sidered certain, whether the increase
be in the form of an additional levy or
a service charge. Members of the
board, however, backed by the Arling-
ton County Chamber of Commerce, the
Master Plumbers Association OF North
ern Virginia and other organizations,
believe that the entire future of the
county depends upon the installation OF
sewers and will attempt to SELL this
Idea to the people.
Another year having passed without
tdirect connection with the Arlington
Memorial Bridge, the board will at
tempt the construction of the Wilson
Boulevard connection with its own
ifunds if difficulties in obtaining the
necessary rights of way are overcome,
end will also make determined effort
/ to have the State extend the Lee Bou-
5levard to a point where traffic can
Rreach the bridge. The latter project
has been graded on 200-foot right OF
flor the past two years, but has never
been paved because of the inability of
the State to reach the bridge. The
county board recently acquired the
necessary rights of way to carry this
project to the military reservation. fol-
lowing the southern route, and will at
tempt to have the State accept the
route and build the road his year.
The board plans to revive efforts to
reach the Mount Vernon Memorial
Highway at the only point provided by
the Federal engineers. This point lies
almost directly in line with Frazier ave-
nue.. the principal east-west highway in
the southern part of the county and it
is the hope Of the board to have the
State Highway Commission negotiate
the necessary rights of way through the
r., F. g. P. Railroad property and con-
struct the connection. Engineers of tho
Bureau of Public Roads provided for a
single "clover leaf" between the High
way Bridge and Alexandria, but as yet
its development has not been possible.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
SWEDEN ASKED TO PROBE
SOVIET OIL Distributors
Malta Syndicate Accused OF Being
Center for Communist
Propaganda.

STOCKHOLM R-Charges that the
Malta Syndicate, the Soviet Unions OH
distributing firm in Sweden. Is being
used as a center for Communistic
propaganda and that Swedish employees
are being ousted in favor OF trained
propapandists have promoted the
Svenska Dagbladet to ask government
investigation.
The conservative newspaper Nya
Dalight Allehanda recently pupnsneo
letter from Swedish clerks protesting
against overtime work without pay de-
manded by the Malta Syndicate.
The same newspaper charged that the
Soviet firm, in taking over new offices.
made provision for special school for
children Of Russian employees.
The Malta Syndicate has been an
active competitor in the Swedish oil
market through its price policies and
has modern filling stations scattered
through most Of Sweden.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
CIGAR GIVEN BY GRANT
TO FRIEND HAD POWER
Gift to College Founder, and Kept
for Years, Explodes on
Being Smoked.

CHICAGO R-The cigar that Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant is supposed to have
given to Horace Norton, founder OF
Norton College of Williams Point, was
like the generals military thrusts. II
had power.
For years it had been kept in the
college museum, but after it was de-
cided that the school should, discon-
tinue. the alumni concluded that moth
ing could be more fit and proper than
to have the cigar smoked at their an
nual reunion.
And so it was that Winstead Norton,
grandson of the colleges founder, was
selected to do the honors, which were
appropriately done in a Loop hotel:
And when" said Norton, I light
this cigar, with trembling hand, 1t is
not aone a tribute to the spirit OF him
whom YOU call founder, but also to that
titan among statesmen who was never
too exalted to be friend"
It was a touching scene, as Norton
lifted his cigar lighter. 1t was more 80
when he began to puff. The first pun
was satisfactory, but on the second the
cigar exploded.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
PHONE AND ELECTRIC
RATE CUT IS SOUGHT
Maryland Utility Board Begins
Negotiations for Slash
in Baltimore.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, December 27-Negotia-
tions have been started between the
Public Service Commission and the Gas
s& Electric Co. and the Chesapeake g.
Potomac Telephone Co. for reduction
Gin the rates Of both in Baltimore early
in 1888.
Harold E. West, chairman Of the p.
s. c., said he plans series Of formal
conferences with the heads Of the two
utilities early in January to reach an
amicable agreement whereby rate re-
ductions may be effected without long
proceedings.
For the last few months the P.sS. C..
has been engaged in survey and re-
appraisal of the valuation of the prop
critics of the two companies. This re-
valuation was completed recently and
the figures submitted to the utilities
officials.
The rewaluation figures for the Gas
g. Electric Co., Mr. West said. show
that the present income is slightly more
than an per cent return. The p. S. G.
will endeavor to obtain downward re-
vision of the rates, which will bring
the company's revenue to figure be-
tween and 8 per cent on q revised
valuation
Evening star., 1932-12-27
WASHINGTON COUPLE
INJURED IN CAR CRASH
Car Collides With Machine Parked
in Takoma Park-Driver
Is Held.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
:. TAKOMA PARK, Nd, December 27
Two Washington motorists were
! slightly injured here last night when an
automobile In which they were riding
crashed into parked automobile owned
by Kenneth D. Richards of 9 Boyd ave-
nue.. Takoma Park.
Frederick C. Jarboe, Is, of 1908 Mon
tana avenue northeast. Washington.
was driving in the 100 block of Carroll
avenue when his machine struck Rich
ards car. Jarboe suffered two broken
teeth, cut lip and shock, while his
wife, Annie, %, escaped with slight cuts.
Jarboe was taken to the Washington
Sanitarium for treatment, and after
ward was arrested on a reckless driv-
ing charge, while his wife was given
first-aid treatment by her family ply
sician. Jarboe posted s27.50 collateral
for his release.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
INVESTIGATION BEGUN
i'm $4,000 BARN FIRE
Structure Near Kearneysville and
Contents Are Lost-Dozen
Fires Probed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, December
27.-An official inquiry was under way
here today in the Saturday night fire
that destroyed the barn of D. Lynn
Magruder near Kearneysville and its
contents, including the seasons crop
and 81 head Of cattle and eight horses.
Members of the Magruder family today
estimated the loss at $4,000, partially
covered by insurance.
Officials are studying the blaze in
connection with nearly dozen other
farm property fires during the past four
months with q total estimated loss of
approximately $4,000. The fires have
been scattered throughout the southern
end of Jefferson County. Representa-
tives of the State fire marshal's of1ce
have been called to assist in the in
Qutry.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
TWO FACING CHARGE
OF CHICKEN THEFTS
Washington Man and Woman Are
Arrested for Crimes in Har-
mony Area.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, December ~
Mrs. Daisy Ramsburg and Guy Baker,
both of Washington, are under arrest,
charged with wholesale chicken theft
in the Harmony, Md. section over
period of months. The woman was
rantured at the home of Welty Gross
nirkle. Harmony, and Baker at the
home Of his father. The woman was
found sitting in her automobile. in
the back of which were hidden eight
Baker, who is alleged to have been
with her when the thefts took place;
made his escape. but was captured
later. Mrs. Ramsburg, police said, ad-
nitted stealing the chickens.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
sC0RN PARENTS BOOKS
English Children More Sophisti-
Gated in Their Reading.

LONDON LP)-English children today
are more sophisticated in their reading
than past generations, says a report
by a children's book club.
"The Last of the Mohicans," Treas
ure Island" and other thrill-producers
of the eighties are scarcely wanted py
sons and daughters of earlier readers.
Bows and girls tastes run into the
same channels until the age OF 10.
Then girls become romantic and want
nothing but novels and the boys seek
mechanics rather than adventure.
Evening star., 1932-12-27

lous men among the leaders Of the
Chinese factions But they have come
to acknowledge new force in their
world, to allow for it in their opera
tions, and to render it, at the least, lip
service. That force is public opinion
And it is a hopeful sign.
tcopyrieht 1882. by North American News
paper Alliance, 1ncD
Evening star., 1932-12-27
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
TO BE NAMED BY C. OF C.
Kensington Chamber to Select
Group at Monthly Session
Tomorrow Night.
By STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star
KENSINGTON, Md. December 81
nominating committee will be Sc
lected by the Kensington Chamber OF
Commerce at its monthly meeting In
Kensington School tomorrow night to
recommend slate of candidates for the
annual election of officers in January.
A two-reel motion picture outlining
the development of the public park sys-
tenn in the District of Columbia, Mary
land and Virginia, which has been
loaned to the Climber Of Commerce by
the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, will be shown
Evening star., 1932-12-27
Separated by War,
Friends Reunited
At Capital Dinner
Italian Veterans Get Big
Surprise After II
Years.
Seventeen years ago Massimo Ferrari


who now lives at 1918 Orren street
northeast here, was in the fruit and
candy business in Martinsburg, W. Va.
Working for him was young Italian
boy Is years old named FRANK Gallo
Both had been born in Italy.
The times were troublous in Europe
and, as the menace Of Germany and
Austria Hungary daily became more
acute, together they watched to see
what their mother country would do.
Ferrari had served the customary period
for military training before he came to
this country. He began to wonder If
maybe he should 60 back home and get
into it on the side of Italy If she de-
clared war.
In 1915 Italy entered the fray. Ferrari
waited to get his business Strengthened
out a bit. and then one day he said to
his workman:
Prank. I think I viii go back and
fight for Italy"
Boss" said Gallo. 1T you 60. I will
go, too"
So the pair sailed from Baltimore and
reached Italy within two months after
she had made her formal declaration OF
war. At Naples they separated, each to
go to his native province for a visit and
to enlist
After that they never saw one an
other-untn recently, II years later.
when the Italian Veterans of the World
War, Washington division, gave ban
quet A delegation from the Philadel-
phia chapter was invited.
The out-of-town guests hardly had
entered the room when Gallo and
Ferrari saw each other. They ran to-
ward one another, embraced like
brothers." as Ferrari says, and sat
down to tell how they had both fought
through the war and had been wounded,
that Gallo had lost the use OF his
right arm from a wound, and all that
had happened to them since they came
back to this country again.
And that boy. that boy, only 18 years
old who went to war with me-" Ferrari
says, sis married now and has six chill
dren in Philadelphia-andn no job."
Evening star., 1932-12-27
Rit;np Cat Is Also News.

RALEIGH, N. G. UP.-Biting a cats
tail NAV be a funny incident to some
but Judge N. A. Sinclair doesn't see
much humor in 1t. He sentenced Leo
Hamilton to 80 days for biting the tail
'Alayful mood" when be did the biting.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
FARMER, so, IS SLAIN;
RELATIVE GIVES UP
Tennessee Man Had Been on Visit
to Mother-in- Laws Home
Near 0rlean.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WARRENTON, Va, December 27.-
Homer L. Rutherford, a farmer, was
shot and killed last night, at the home
OF his mother-in-law, Mrs Inman
Payne, near Orlean. Va Ernest Payne,
his brother-in-law, is said to have fired
the shot. Young Payne gave himself
up this mornings The Rutherfords
lived near Warrenton and were on a
visit to the Payne family Rutherford
was native of Tennessee and was
about so. Last year his own brother
shot at him and the bullet went
through his hat.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
TRAFFIC JARS ABBEY
Rubber Pavement Suggested to
Protect Building.

1IUtcCt O01fU1H6'
LONDON R).-Need for q pavement
of rubber blocks around Westminster
Abbey to forestall possible damage by
traffic vibration has been suggested in
Parliament.
The ministry Of transport was told by
Sir william Davison that probable dan
ger to the fabric of the famous shrine
has been emphasized by trafhc increases
which followed opening of the new Lam
beth Bridge.
Reports from Abbey authorities Is
being awaited by the ministry and the
City of Westminster before any action
Is taken.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
HYATTSVILLE GROCERY
is LOOTED BY THIEVES
Butter, Hams, Oranges, Eggs,
Flour and Cigars Taken in Rob-

- 01NSON GU = CSIC1 Udy.
BY staff Correspondent OF The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, December 81
Helping themselves to groceries on a
large scale. thieves ransacked a chain
grocery store on Arundel avenue here
Sunday, it was discovered yesterday.
County Policeman William E. Clifton.
who investigated, said it must have been
necessary to haul the loot away in a
truck.
Articles stolen included two crates of
butter, dozen hams, two baskets of
oranges. one-half case of eggs, several
bags of -four and a quantity of cigars,
according to the police reports.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
SLAVES AFTER 70 YEARS
Beard Started at 16 Kept Until
Man Is 66.

George H. Middleton of Walla Walla
Wash, started to grow beard at 10
when he went off to fight IN the
War Between the States.
Recently, after wearing the bearo
and "a moustache continuously for ~
wears, he shaved them of.
Evening star., 1932-12-27
Last of the War Lords

little pear-shaped head. always shaven
and polished" had q fancy taste in
raled dispisassa a0fs HIM ths he nesoTsed
"slicings. yattings, DRESSINGS. impale-
ments and beheadings." Fate was kinder
to him. for It took the form Of o bullet
Is he was boarding the Peiping express
writer and artist, who Is with the United
States Marines In Peiping, restores Big
Chang viyidly to life In the sketch which
Evening star., 1932-12-27
Chang Was Too Much.

The Chinese are q patient race, re-
garding poverty as their ordained lot
Evening star., 1932-12-27

There was not much fighting en-
tailed; the Chinese soldiers hardly ever
fight. But to the requisite bribery, in
trigue and betrayal he brought q
coolies cunning, and to the looting and
extortion which held his armies loyal
and his senior officers affectionate, the
sharp purpose Of q lustful man.
He was rewarded with the commits
sionership of the province of Kirin, on
the Siberian border in Manchuria, and
there he decided that Marshal Chang
Tso-lin was the coming man. In the
old marshal's service he recruited and
equipped q force Of White Russians,
broken soldiers from the disbanded I'm
perial Russian armies-for 1t was 1921,
and the world was getting on. This
brigade, operating in armored trains.
was the spearhead of the thrust the
old marshal presently made, through
the wall and to the South, when he
decided he would take China.
For while he held 1t. Chang Tsung-
chang was elevated to the dignity Of
field marshal, and in 1926 named Tupan
of Shantung, his native province
is to say, governor. In Shantung he
came to his full hOWer.
Chang Was Too Mach.
The Chinese are q patient race, re-
garding poverty as their ordained lot
Evening star., 1932-12-27

When once the narrative IS com.
mitted to paper in chapter form it
dreds of copies are dispatched to- off,
GERS who took part in the particular
action dealt with, and after their criti-
cisms and suggestions have been con-
sidered and, in many instances. adopt
ed. the chapters are forwarded to the
appropriate service department for re-
marks. In one instance a chapter was
submitted to 573 officers.
Evening star., 1932-09-27

Oklahoma Beach, Z miles north Of here.
Those missing are st. Clair Rogers,
20, advertising man and owner Of the
boat; Charles White. 27; James Curry,
1s, and George De May, Is, all Of this
city.
They set out late Sunday afternoon
from Bay View in Irondequoit Bay, for
the Rochester Yacht Club basin at the
port here. The run was designed to
test q new and powerful engine which
Rogers had installed. Shortly before
sundown q woman called the Coast
Guard station at Summerville and re-
ported hearing cries for help. ..
Two Coast Guard cutters searched
the area all night and yesterday with
out success.
Marine experts who examined the
abandoned speedboat said the motor
was too powerful for the boat. Under
such circumstances, they said, it would
Evening star., 1932-09-27

cottage, had visited Bengough earlier
in the day and returned at O'Clock
for . visit. He found the artist had
died from heart illness.
During the Spanish-Amertcan War
Bengough went to Cuba and his draw
ings OF life In the war zone were widely
published In the newspapers. After
the war he built his studio-camp here
and continued his work, drawing and
painting landscapes.
His wife, who was Eliza Armstrong
of Maryland, died here three years ago.
He will be buried beside Mrs. Bengough
in Rock Ridge Cemetery.
He was born in Toronto, where a
brother, Thomas Bengough, survives.
Evening star., 1932-09-27

day sermons on his heroism IN attend
ing the paralysis victims at the risk of
his own health Two Of the doctors
three children have been stricken by
the disease since he has been in charge
OF the paralysis ward at the hospital,
but they are recuperating and have not
suffered any permanent Ill effects.
Dr.. Stewart has been In charge of the
paralysis ward for the past two months,
ever since numerous cases developed in
the Philadelphia South Jersey area.
Thirty-two victims, stricken while visit
ing South Jersey shore resorts, were
isolated under his care.
Evening star., 1932-09-27
MEDIC, STRICKEN CARING
FOR PARALYTFCS, BETTER
Atlantic City Doctor Contracted In
fantils Paralysis Directing
War on Epidemic.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., September
27.-pr. Walter Blair Stewart, jr., the
pediatrician who contracted infantile
paralysis from his patients in the isola-
ton ward Of the Municipal Hospital for
CONTAGIOUS Diseases, continued to show
slight improvement last night at his
Chelsea home.
DR.. Stewart's illness became public
knowledge only in the past few days,
but several ministers based their Sun
Evening star., 1932-09-27
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Evening star., 1932-09-27
Will Talk to Children.

SILVER SPRING, Md. September a
(SpeciaD DIR. Viola Anderson Of WASH
ingtor, executive secretary of the Tu-
berculosis Association of the District OF
Columbia, will have charge of the meet
ing of the Child Study Group, which
will meet in the East Silver Spring Ele-
mentary School tomorrow afternoon at
1:30 O'Clock. 80 "-
Evening star., 1932-09-27
FOUR STILL MISSING
AFTER BOAT IS FOUND
Experts Believe Too Powerful En-
CINE Caused Sudden Lurch,
Throwing Men Out.
~ tho Associa.~ed Press.

Sy tho Associa I'd Press.
ROCHESTER, NJ Y. September 81
Hope for four persons who vanished
while cruising on Lake Ontario in a
speedboat has waned as the hours wore
on with no trace of the missing boat
men. Their 22-foot craft, the jolly
Roger, was found yesterday, stranded at
Evening star., 1932-09-27

be possible for the craft TO get out Of
control, and throw all overheard by q
sudden lurch: They said the, insiaca-
tions were the boat gave every tndiea-
ton of having run around full speed
with no one at the controls.
Evening star., 1932-09-27
WILLIAM BENGOUGH,
ARTIST, DEAD AT 65
Canadian Won Distinction With
Spanish-American War Drawings.
Wife Was From Maryland.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTICELLO. N. Y, September 81.
William Bengough, IS, Canadian
artist and newspaper man, was found
dead In bed at his studio-camp at
Kiamesha Lake, Monday night.
A friend, DR.. j. v. Bartlett of New
York City, who occupied an adjoining
Evening star., 1932-09-27

Caught fishing In prohibited waters Of
the Firth Of Forth, three men told the
Judge in Edinburgh, Scotland, that
catches were 50 poor In other waters
this season that they could not make q
Evening star., 1932-09-27

As result Of the cigar makers strike
in Havana, Cuba, most Of the manufac-
turers have moved their factories to in
terror points.
Evening star., 1932-09-27

Shoe and heather manufacture ranks
fourth In importance among all Bel
gian industries. ,..- '--