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Evening star., 1932-04-24

the Van Ness mansion. For awhile she lived
with Nine Iturbide as a daughter and gov
erneSs. She never divulged her reason for
changing her mind and leaving the convent,
and apparently no one but herself ever knew
Miss Wight, We are told, died of apoplexy
In Richmond, Va, November 49, 1867, at the
residence of Col Arthur Anderson. She IS
buried in Oak Hill Cemetery here in Wash
ington, and her last resting place is appro-
priately marked.
4 hRS. VAN NESS died in 1882, and shortly
IVI thereafter there came into the life of
Gen. Van Ness a Mrs. Connor, a widow, in
whom he took such great interest that we
are told he let her live in his fine house in
Reservation B, which was probably located
Missouri avenue between our-and-a-Hah and
Sixth streets, without charge, though he did
upon frequent occasions CALL when the neigh
bors-just like all good neghbors-wagged their
tongues rapidly and freely.
Time rolled on and conditions remained the
same, until one blustery day In March. 1846-
the 9Th to be exact-the National Intelligencer
printed the following death notice.
"Died on Saturday afternoon, the 7th In
slant, at half-past o'clock, Gen. John P. Van
Ness, in the seventy-seventh year of his age
His funeral will take place at his residence
Tuesday tomorrow afternoon, at O'Clock,
which his friends and acquaintance, and the
citizens generally, are invited to attend, with
out further notice.
Gen. Van Ness was one of the oldest and
most respected inhabitants of the city. He
was a native of New York, and elected to
Congress from that State during the first term
Of Mr. JefferSon's administration and he
shortly afterward married the only child Of
the late David Burnes, Esquire, one of the
original proprietors Of the land on which this
city was built and, having accepted from Mr..
Jefferson commission of major of the militia
in this District, it was deemed that by so doing
he had forfeited his right to his seat in the
House of Representatives. He then fixed his
permanent residence in this city, and has con-
tributed largely to the improvement of it.
When the Bank of the Metropolis was estab-
lshed in 1914, he became the president thereof
and continued to hold this Office to the time of
his death. He filled the Office Of mayor Of this
city, to which Office he was elected by his fellow
citizens; and he received many evidences of
the estimation in which he was held by the
several administrations of the general Govern
ment. His loss will be sensibly felt by a large
circle of acquaintances and by the community
in which he lived, as the large property which
he received with his wife enabled him to ex-
tend an elegant hospitality to his acquaintance
and to strangers visiting the city, and TO
patronize with great lberality all the public
improvements and charitable and religious
institutions in this city without respect to sect
or denomination"
in the tomb which then stood in down.
town Washington (on the south side of H
street between Ninth and Tenth streetS)
before trouble started over the disposition of
his estate. Mrs. Connor, otherwise known
Mrs Mary A. w. c. Van Ness, put in a claim
for her dover interest, claiming to be the law
Evening star., 1932-04-24
BY JOHN CLACETT PROCTOR.

RE we getting better or worse? In
deed, this is about as difficult q
Y question to answer as the one that
worried Hamlet so much-"To be
v or not to be?"
Iumninp at conclusions the old
Evening star., 1932-07-28
MILITIAMEN GUARD
ARKANSAS MINES
Protest Follows Release of Siz
Union Workers Trying to Stop
Use Of Non Union Labor.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
CLARKSVILLE, Ark, July 28.-
Militiamen guarded the johnson Coun-
ty coal fields today while operators con-
ferred with residents on how to handle
the situation created by efforts of union
miners to prevent non-union labor from
working until wage agreements are ef-
fected.
protest was voiced against release
on bond of six reputed leaders of the
union band which toured the field to
halt non-union work The six were
charged with inciting to riot. G.. E.
Mikel, representative of the United
Mine Workers of America and the lat
est Of those arrested. made $4,000 bond
yesterday.
The trouble started Monday when a
pit boss was beaten as he refused a
group admission to urge non-union
z, workers to organize.
Evening star., 1932-07-28
SOCIETY WOMAN GOES TO JAIL
IN PROTEST AT COURT METHODS
Charges Innocent Persons Are Railroaded
to Cells Without Fair Trials
in Milwaukee.

Mrs. Glen w Seely, Milwaukee club
woman and society matron, is serving a
ffRgHsI fions rather e than pay a SIS fine imposed
by Jqds Page fard 81 the st1 RstrSt If dTTpg GEar
her aTtomgoSie Telg bf at IS miles an hour
She maintained that she was innocent
! and that her case was railroaded through
| said hs'GfS that she would serve her term as
| protest. She tells her story here after
! three days in the institution.
| Special Dispatch to The Star.
| MILWAUKEE, Wis, July % (N.A.
NA.)-DarkneSs with only waning
moon making a pattern Of iron bars on
the floor CT my cell-quiet broken only
! by a cough or the sound of fellow
prisoner twisting in her narrow bed
my next-door neighbor a woman OF the
streets and in the cell opposite me sad
young girl found guilty of keeping a
SpeakeaSy-my bed is hard and there
are only the bars or the CHASTITY gray
walls to look at in the darkness-to-
morrow there will be oat meal for
breakfast, bread with sirup and coffee
with sugar and milk bciled in 1t.
1t will be like this for q more days.
Do I think that it was worth it? Am
sure that I can stand it?
My answer to both questions is
SJrOngly ana aILTIndUlVely yes.
Critical of Procedure.
I am here for a principle. If by
serving my time I can start even the
slightest reform in court that Is only
a mill where no one but the arresting
officer has q chance, I will feel amply
repaid. I know what happened to me
when the judge said, guilty or not
guilty"
said, mot guilty" and he said, "$25
and costs.'
I asked isn't my word as good as
this officers? Haven't 1 chance to
tell my story?" And the judge brushed
it all aside with next case"
Two weeks later, when had obtained
a months stay of execution, l went
back to the court room as an observer
with my fellow members of the Mil
waukee County Federation of Women's
Club, in which organization I am chair
man of the Safety Committee. I heard
uteS and ! resolved to do something
about 1t, no matter how little.
Rides in Patrol Wagon.
When my request for a further stay
of execution in order to finish some
household tasks and club affairs had
been denied. I was loaded into the
House of Correction patrol wagon with
nine men, vagrants, drunkards, and
alimony delinquents-and a colored
woman found guilty OF disorderly con-
Evening star., 1932-07-28
i. S. WHEAT AIDED
IN YANGTH WORK
Grain Helped Feed | 400, 900
Workers and Refugees
in Flood Area.

American wheat, sold to the Chinese
Government by the Federal Grain Cor
poration, played an important part in
the restoration of the flooded Yangtze
Valley, over which Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh and Mrs. Lindbergh few when
they visited China last Summer.
Sir John Hope Simpson, director of
China's flood relief program, who is
now in Canada on his way back to
England, had charge of the distribu-
ton Of this $4,000 tons of wheat and
@our to refugees who reconstructed
5000 miles of dikes along the Yangtze
River and its tributaries, from the
mouth of the Yangtze to HankoW
Four hundred and fifty thousand
workers employed in the rebuilding of
the main Yangtze River dikes were
paid entirely In wheat, or in the pro-
ceedS from the sale of wheat, while
half a million workers on subsidiary
Gikes received one-fourth of their pay
l.! wheat, say reports of the relief
commission.
Kept Prices Down.
But the American wheat played an
even more important role, in that it
0CPb hOhI1 blIC pl1CC VI oil 1OOOSIu11S
the devastated areas, and made it pos
Slble for the directors of the reconstruc-
ton to conciliate bandits, So-called Com
munists and diSgruntled elements which
would have hindered the relief work
ers' reconstruction program If it had
not been possible to supply them with
grain.
The dikes were built l meter higher
and from 3 to meters wider than they
were when destroyed last year By the
foods
In Hupeh province alone more than
100000 cubic meters Of earth and
other materials were moved in recon-
struct1on, practically all of it being
carried in baskets attached to a pole
balanced over the shoulder Of a laborer.
Cheaper Than Machinery.
Even foreign railroad builders work
Ing in China use this primitive method,
as the low-wage scale makes it cheaper
than steam shovels and other mechani-
cal devices.
The total number of laborers en-
ployed by the Flood Relief Committee
was 1,400 900, and flood refugees were
given preference on the work. In
Hupeh province 250,000 refugees were
employed.
Only a few foreign engineers were
engaged, Chinese engineers being used
for the most part. About 80 Chinese
engineers are being held by so-called
Communists, allegedly for ransom But
Sir John and members of his commit
tee believe the engineers are really be-
ing held to see whether the dikes with
stand the floods of this year and are
uneasy about their fate if the new work
goes down under this Summers rainy
season.
Evening star., 1932-07-28

! duct. The woman and I were locked
in cages separate from the men.
At the House of Correction I was
ticketed and tabulated, signing a slip
as to my age, complexion, religion, and
whether I could read or write, given
a bath and an examination and dressed
in the blue-calico uniform of the insti-
tuition.
Every morning I rise with the gong
at $50 and march into the dining
room with other women prisoners at
6:55. There I eat my breakfast, as
much of it as I can eat, drinking out
of metal cup and eating from plates
like crockery.
Shortly before am. go to the
sewing room, where help make the
women's uniforms or mend the man
prisoners shirts.
Games After Supper.
At noon we eat a simple lunch and
then back to the sewing room at pm.
to remain until pm. Then there is
supper and after that game OF cards
Evening star., 1932-07-28
DEMURRER UPHELD
IN OIL LITIGATION
Wampum Company Unable to
Force Accounting by Lago
Petroleum Corporation.

ny the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, July ga de-
n1urrer filed by the Lago Petroleum
Corporation, defendant in a suit brought
by the Wampum Oil Co., both Delaware
corporations with offices in New York
yesterday was sustained by Chancellor
Josiah o. Wolcott.
The suit was brought by the Wam-
PUN Oil Co., to compel an accounting,
among other things, of the cost of de-
velopment by the Lago Corporation Of
an oil concession in Venezuela con-
trolled by the complaining firm
The bill of complaint stated the Lago
Corporation obligated itself to operate
an existing well, and to drill and op-
crate four others. The Wampum Co.
was to pay costs plus 10 per cent.
Chancellor Wolcott declared SO far
as the bill of complaint shows, the
Wampum Co. never paid to the Lago
Corporation any of the costs of drilling
or operating Of the wells, as the con-
tract called for.
Evening star., 1932-07-28

neither refined nor intellectual. But
they interest me tremendously. Last
night I played rummy until bedtime
with a colored girl and I found it a
most enjoyable game.
My sentence expires August %. Until
that time I must stay here. If ac-
complish anything at all, it viii have
been worth it.
CCopyright, 1882. by North American News
paper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1932-07-28

pie for slight offenses, even If the per-
sons are guilty, which wasn't.
Aside from that, I'm not complaining
I don't sleep much at night-not
wink my first night here-but I know
one can't expect inner spring mat
tresses in the beds in penal institu-
tion. The food is neither fine nor
handsomely served, but I understand
that the menu is balanced perfectly by
dieticians, SO that no one will suffer
know that my companions are
Evening star., 1932-07-28
or reading until $40 when I begin my

or reading until $40 when ! begin my
preparations for bed.
Lights are out at O'Clock. 1t isn't
SO pleasant then, thinking of my hus-
band and my big boy, who was l8 on
Monday They didn't want me to come
here, but when I explained my purpose
to them they got busy and helped me
all they could
Don't make the mistake of thinking
I am complaining. I most certainly am
not. The House of Correction Is q
wonderful place for criminals. But that
brings me to the question-who are
criminals? I am tremendously inter-
ested in the girls here. I want to find
out whether they deserved the sem
tences they are serving. In most cases
I don't think they did. Judges and
jurieS should take more thought and
use more discretion in sentencing peo-
Evening star., 1932-07-28

La Rue, fled suit yesterday for divorce
from Albert Antonell, cosmetic mer-
chant, to whom she was married fiye
months ago. She charged cruelty.
Once, she said. he struck her uncon.
scious with his fist.
Evening star., 1932-07-28
Film Dancer Seeks Divorce.

LOS ANGELES, July % (P.-Ruth
Madonna Antonelli. who is a dancer In
the movies under the name Of Fontaine
Evening star., 1932-07-28
'Ivory For All
SoapPurposes''
Say Women Now
Stores Report Countrywide
Breaking Sales of
Ivory at New Low Prices
Especial Dispatch

CINCINNATI, O., July 90 Recent re-
duction of prices for Ivory Soap to the
1915 level has brought a food of letters
and kilograms from every state in the
Union to the Proctor & Gamble Offices
here, giving sensational evidence that
Ivory sales are beating all records.
From Syracuse comes word that
women are no longer buying Ivory one
or two cakes at a time, but by the dozen
and half dozen. New York says stores
with the largest stocks of Ivory two
weeks ago are pressing for new supplies.
In Omaha, Ivory Soap is beating every
previous record ten to one. A wire from
Boston says, Customers who formerly
used Ivory only for toilet and bath now
using it for all laundry work and dishes
because of it's economy at new low
prices" San Francisco sends word that
the use of Ivory for all soap purposes is
spreading up and down the coast.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02

Let your home be a real home.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02
Mexico an Old Country

Mexico is a land that was old
when Spain first came there in
search of gold in 1921; Mexico had
marble palaces while wigwams were
still in use in North America; paint
ing was taught in Mexico ninety-nine
years before the Pilgrim fathers
landed at Plymouth Rock; Mexico
bad n Christian church in 1925, and
the Mexico City of today was rising
from Montezuma's ruins ninety-three
years before the Dutch bought Man
haitian island. Mexico had books and
music printed in presses brought
from Spain just a century before
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02

MORE than three thousand
1V1 births without a single loss
of either mother or childl That is
the official Piatt County record of
DR.. w. B. Caldwell, in fifty years
family practise in Illinois.
No wonder mothers have such
entire confidence in giving little
ones DR.. Caldwelps Syrup Pepsinl
If you have a baby, you have
constant need of this wonderful
preparation of pure pepsin, active
senna, and fresh herbs. A child who
gets this gentle stimulant for the
stomach, liver and bowels is always
healthier. 1t keeps children's
delicate systems from clogging. 1t
will overcome the most stubborn
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02

Due to important, scientific de-
velopments in the world-famous
Bayer laboratories, almost IN
SLANT relief from headaches,
neuralgia and rheumatic pains is
being afforded millions.
Because of unique process in
making and tableting, Genuine
Bayer Aspirin is made to dissolve
almost INSTANTLY in the stom-
ach. Hence ii starts 10 work almost
instantly. And thus "takes hold'
of the average pain or headache in
as little as three or four minutes
after taking. The fastest. safe relief,
it is said, ever known for pain.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02

condition of constipation. 1t builds
them up, and is nothing like the
strong cathartics that sap their
strength and energy.
A coated tongue or bad breath is
the signal for a spoonful of Syrup
Pepsin. Children take it readily, for
it is really delicious in flavor. Taste
it'll Take Syrup Pepsin yourself,
when sluggish or bilious, or YOU
are troubled with sick headaches
and no appetite. Take some for
several days when rundown, and
see how it picks you up.
1t is a prescription preparation
which every drug store has ready;
in big bottles, just ask anywhere
for DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02
Because of Quick Dsofrg Property BAYER ASPIRIN Starts
"Taking HoLd'' or Minutes After Taking

Remember, it is Genuine Bayer
Aspirin which provides this unique,
quick-acting property. So be sure
you get the Real Article-GEN-
UINE BAYER Aspirin when you
buy. Naturally you want the fast
est, possible relief-and that's the
way to get it.
To identify the genuine, see that
any box or bottle of aspirin you buy
is clearly marked Genuine Bayer-
Aspirin" And that any tablet you
take is stamped clearly with the
name "Bayer" in the form of a
cross. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bayer
Aspirin cannot harm the heart.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02
Wired Cathedral

Modern science has entered somber'
old st. Paul's cathedral, London and
come to the rescue of speakers and
congregations. A microphone has
been placed in the pulpit just beneath
the choir galleries but quite con
cealed from the sight of the con&re
CATION. 1t is hoped to extend the
benefits of better hearing to the nave
in time.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02
Bit Forward

Her Father-YOung man, you've
been courting my daughter for six
years. What are you going to do
about It?
Youth-W-why? Ought l to ask
her for k-kiss?-Weekly Telegraph
(Sheffield).
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02
The Capitol in 1900
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

S THE time draws near for the final
session of the Seventy-second con-
gress of the United States to con-
vene in Washington, it is interesting
to recall that the American congress
met for the first time in the present
National Capital just 132 years ago
and there can be no more striking
evidence of the growth and progress
of this nation than a comparison Of
present-day Washington and the
present magnificent structure which
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02

the first English printing press was'
established at Cambridge.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02
ASPIRIN WITHOUT THIS CROSS
Copr. 1892, The Bayer Co., Inc.

Point of Density
"Just where is the population
densest?
"Just above the eyes"
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-02

We recognize the great mind aft
it has done it's work-frequentl"
long after.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
PORKERS SHOW
LITTLE CHANGE
AT CITY YARDS
Cattle and Calves Steady at
Previous Range;
Sheep Dull.

Hogs generally we're steady this
morning at the city yards, prices
showing no change from Friday s
closing quotations The bulk, 100
to $50 pounds, sold for s345 to 81;
early top holding at 81. Receipts
were estimated at 1000; followers
were 2O2.
Cattle we're mostly steady. Re-
ceiptS were TOO. Vealers showed no
change, the average selling steady
at $3.50 down. Calf receipts we're
500.
Little was done in the sheep mar
ket. Asking was around steady or
at $3.50 for clipped lambs. Receipts
numbered 400.
Hog market in Chicago this
morning moved into lower ground,
with no early sales and few scat
tered opening bids around to 10
cents lower than Saturdays aver
age, and mostly 10 to 20 cents be-
low Fridays range. The bulk, 100
to 200 pounds, was bid $685.; hest
kinds held above 81, while 200 to
240 pounds bid $3.50 to $50, and
heavier weights scaling 800 pounds
were bid at 1885. Receipts were
reported at $4,000, including $4,000
direct; holdovers. 1000. Cattle re-
ceipts, $4,000; calves. 1900; market
steady. Sheep receipts numbered
10000; market stationary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Chicago Grain Range
BIZ Times Special

CHICAGO. April 25.-Carlots: Wheat, 40;
corn, 143; oats. 81; rye, l and barley, Ia.
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sheep AND LAMBS
(ShOrn Basis)
RAoa;ufa Am. v.arIra4 efaa1u
Other Livestock
By United Press

80 900 including Is 900 direct Slow. 5aIoc
lower than lar Fridays average d gg 140-2lo lbs
s5 tq Bs So 2o2SS D r5s $685.
l40-160 lbs, good and choice, S3.7504;
lightweights, 10000 lbs, good and choice.
sS.So@4; medium weights, 20o-25o lbs. good
lbs. good and choice S325@370; packing
sows, 100000 lbs, medium and good, $3.50
ga slaughter pigs: 7o,,13o lbs, good and
calves. 1000; fed steers and yearlings pre-
dominated in run. unevenly steady to Csc
lower; mostly steady to weak on better
grades; early top yearllngs and welghty
very Slow; Shestock about Steady; Vealers
25@50c higher: slaughter cattle and veal
erS, steers. 6OO-9Oo lbs, good and choice,
S6.75@8; COOL 100 lbs. good and choice,
$s7s@s iSS I6 800 lbs good and choice
dunn, $4.705@6.75; heifers, 550-850 lbs.
good and choice, $5.50@7; common and
medium, $4@5.5o; COWS, good and choice
low cutter and cutter cows. SITS 275;
lbee). S36425 cutter to medium, $25O@
9; .yealers milk fed. good and choice.
mon $4,000: stocker and feeder cattle:
Stores, S00-1 $50 lbs. good and choice,
$5.2506; common and medium. S4@5.25
Sheep-Receipts, 10000; mostly. steady with
wooled lambs. $6@s25 0p asking Upward to
81 for choice kinds; fat ewes, S2@250;
choice native springers held at $86850;
down. good and choice, $6@7 10; medium
S5.25@6; 91-100-lb. medium OF choice, $50
Z: all weights, common, S3.7505.25; ewes
90-150-lb. medium to choice. S175@325; all
ing lambs, 50-75 lbs, good and choice, IS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Deaths

spinal meningitis.
Martha stratton 9, Methodist hospital
tuberculous meningitis.
Vivian Joan Farrow. DAYS Methodist
hospital, acute cardiac dilatstion.
William c. Yeager. r. 500 North Web
Ster hYpoStatic pneumonia
friedrich J. Grimm, IS, city hospital
diabetes mellitgs
John Foster Lombard. 70. 1877 Hoy
avenue, cerebral hemorrhage.
John Barber, Is, city hospital
Rebecca Evans. So. 1908 South Sheffield
cardio renal vascular disease.
Theodore F. Kramp. SIS. 1919 East New
York chronic myocarditis.
Alice Stone. IS. il09 Larch,. influenza.
Grover Hollingsworth, ~, city hospital
Nellie Gustin 81. 44o North Hamilton
cerebral hemorrhaEe 49,
carcinoma
Mary P Williams. 81. 1919 East Wash.
ington. pulmonary oedema.
James w. Myers. s. Dearborn and Wash.
Edward EbscS. 10. 1851 west wilkins
Charles E. Davidson. so, city hospital
bronchial pneumonia.
Mary s. Ludlow. So. 1871 North Capitol
Bernard snow, 81, city hospital, en-.
cephalitiS.
Mamie d. Douglas rs. 2s4S Indianapolis
pulmonary tuberculosis.
Roy Price. a. 2ois Highland place. pull
monary tuberculosis.
Plumber Brit s. ISL Edgsmont acute
cardiac dilatation.