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Evening star., 1932-08-10
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
oNTICELLo and the auctioneer

~ ONTICELLO and the auctioneer.
M The home of Thomas JEFF
N ferson on the mountain top
above Charlottesville once more
is threatened with the ignominy
of a public sale, and the memorial
foundation organized to preserve 1t has
sent out an emergency appeal.
1t is another act in an ancient trag-
edy. Monticello, symbolizing SO much
that most men secretly hate and hypo-
critically pretend to love. has had
hard struggle for survival. What ap-
proacheS a fundamental and irrecon-
cilable duality of nature Is bespoken
here as the claws of commerce clutch
again at the throat of the beautiful
mountain. 1t is the dualism OF thought
and action. of the reality of peace and
the illusions of striving, of philosophy
and affairs, of noise and silence, OF
solitude and society.
Part of Fathers Estate.
All his life Thomas Jefferson sought
to establish a home there, high over the
farmlands, on the shore Of a nmitless
ocean of forest and mountain. 1t was
a part of his fathers estate. When
he was a small child he roamed through
the dense woods on the rnounta1ns1de,
fearful of specterS which lurked In the
caves, in love with the teeming Wlld
life The spirit of the place possessed
him. When he was barely OF age, a
fatherless boy possessed of consider
able fortune and thrown on his own
resources, he started to establish there
a home which would be a secure re-
treat from the turmoil of life, place
of his own in the changing world which
would have something of the perma-
nence of the mountain itself. Jefferson
was essentially a thinker living in a
world of thoughts, recognizing that
world as more real and of greater worth
than anything the material world hao
to offer. But he recognized also thai
there was an everlasting hostility be-
tween the two worlds, that secure
retreat was necessary for one VINO
would treat conventions disrespectfully.
So Monticello was built as just such
a retreat, just such citadel of Ameri-
can thought. And its story has been
that of continually frustrated flight OF
idealism from the whips of materialism,
of the peace of nature from the tur-
moil of men and of permanence from
change. 1t was herculean effort. One
of the first steps necessary was to level
the mountaintop, cutting away 80 feet
of sharp peak to create plateau suffi-
cient in extent for his house and his
gardens. There he brought his bride
There his children were born. There,
in his old age, the author of the
Declaration of independence died, har-
assed by debt, after having offered his
home for the benefit of his creditors.
Another Convention Defiied.
After his death it was exchanged fol
a house in town and Charlottesville
doctor possessed the place for the vain
experiment of raising silkworms, an
other defiance of convention. Again
failure. The place was abandoned. a
Uriah Levy of the United. States Navy,
who owed his appointment to Jefferson
Evening star., 1932-08-10
COLORED AUTO VICTIM
DIES WITH PNEUMONIA
Injuries Received When Struck by
Taxi Followed by Fatal Ill
ness-Car Hits Child.

William Lewis, 65, colored, OF the 3oO
b1ock Third street. died in Gallinger
Hospital early today of pneumonia. said
tn have followed injuries received when
he was knocked down by taXicab In
the 700 block Pennsylvania avenue
May %.
Lewis hip was fractured when he was
struck by the cab which police said was
operated by George Kissal, 81, OF the
200 block of Cromwell terrace north
east. The colored man first was treated
at Emergency Hospital, from where he
was removed to Gallinger Hospital
Gerald Tomkins, 3. colored, OF the
1900 block Vermont avenue, was treated
at Garfield Hospital today for cuts on
the head, received when he was knocked
down by an automobile near his home.
His condition was said to be not serious.
Evening star., 1932-08-10
MAI. WETM0RE LEAVES
FOR POST IN FLORIDA
Sanitary Officer of Buildings and
Parks to Be Succeeded by
Capt. A. W. Splitter.

Maj. William o. wetmore, Medical
Corps, U. S. A, sanitary officer of the
Ofice of Public Buildings and Public
Parks and professor of military science
and tactics, George Washington Uni
versity, leaves Washington today for his
new assignment at Fort Barrancas, Fla.
His place in the Office of Public Build
ings and Public Parks is being taken by
Capt. August w. Splitter, Medical Corps.
U. S. A., who Is medical officer of the
10th Brigade here and Is likewise Army
recruiting officer for the District of Co.
lumbia.
Lieut.. Col. Thomas D. woodson, Med
ical Corps, u. S. A, has taken over the
post of professor of military science and
tactics at George Washington.
The major, who Is brother Of James
A. Wetmore. supervising architect Of
the Treasury, has been on duty In
Washington since June, 1929.
Evening star., 1932-08-10
CLUB HOLDS PICNIC
Business Women Honor Miss Clod
fetter, New President.

A get-together picnic supper In COM
pliment to Miss Gladys 1. Clodfetter,
newly elected president of the local
club of the National Federation OF
Business AND Professional Women s
Clubs, Inc, was held at Haines Point
last night. Miss Mae Murray, chair
man Of the Finance Committee, was
appointed delegate to the regional
conference of the southeastern di-
vision of the federation to be held at
rising vote Of thanks was rendered Miss
Murray for the unemployment relief
work for women accomplished by her
committee with the able assistance OF
Mrs. Agatha D. Ward State director
of employment for the District OF
Columbia.
Evening star., 1932-08-10
Inspects Telephone Exchanges.

John A. Remon, general manager Of
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co., accompanied by his department
heads, made an inspection tour of sew
eral large private branch exchanges in
Washington this morning. including the
telephone switchboards at Walter Reed
Hospital. National Geographic Society
and Chestnut Farms Dairy. In addition,
a visit was paid to the Silver Spring.
Shepherd central Office.
Evening star., 1932-08-10
FOOD THIEVES FINED
Two Accused of Stealing Milk and
Doughnuts Get $50 Each.

Charged with stealing quarts Of
milk and packages of doughnuts
from a chain grocery store two nights
ago, two colored youths were fined $50
each By Police Court Judge Ralph Given
yesterday.
The defendants, Milford Harris, 81.
and Eugene Simms, 10, both of the 1900
block of Union street southwest, told
the Judge they were jobless and hungry
when they took the food. A third man,
Charles w. Harris, colored, who was in
a car with the others at the time of the
arrest. was shot in the leg by Policeman
O. z. Allen when, he said, the youth
threatened him. He is now IN Gallinger
Hospital.
Evening star., 1932-08-10
THROWN DOWN STAIRS
Man Seriously Hurt in Fight in I
Street House.

During an alteration in house in
the 800 block of street, about 1890
O'Clock this morning, william Lake. coll
ored, IS, of the first block Of street,
was hurled down stairs from the second
to the first floor and suffered serious
head injuries and fractured wrist. He
was given first aid at Casualty Hospital
and later transferred TO Gallinger Hos
pital.
Police instituted search for his al
legged assailant.
Evening star., 1932-08-10

They agreed that whichever died first
would bring the body of the other there.
Jefferson performed this service for
Carr and laid out his own grave in
the same plot. There, one after an
other, the bodies, OF Jefferson's relatives
have been brought for q century.
The plot is surrounded with an iron
fence and the gate is locked. But still
smart lawyer might be able to recover
the graveyard for the Monticello es-
tate, and 1t would be o grand attraction
for o Summer hotel
Evening star., 1932-08-10
Baby Drinks Battery Acid.

Joseph Brown, 16 months old, of the
1900 block of Florida avenue northeast
was treated at Children's Hospital to-
day for severe burns to the mouth. said
to have been caused by acid contained
in an old automobile battery with which
he was playing near his home.
Evening star., 1932-08-10
TWO BOYS ESCAPE

Leave Industrial Home School in
Nightshirts.
Police today were seeking two IA
year-old boys reported to have escaped
from the Industrial Hcme School in
nightshirts early today
The boys are John Calmeras and
Herman Canon. The former is de-
scribed as. being four feet eight inches
tall, while Herman is said to be five
feet and four inches tall. Police ex-
pressed belief the boys may be hiding
in the woods.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
WAGNER DECLARED
OUT AS NOMINAT0R
Roosevelt Yields to Tammany Plea
to Name Another, New York
Paper Says.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June 18.-The Times
says Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt has de-
ferred to a request by John F. Curry,
leader of Tammany Hall, that some one
other than Senator Robert F. Wagner
of New York be selected to nominate
the Governor at the Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
Wagner, the newspaper says, incurred
the enmity of Tammany scme time ago,
the charge of the organization being
that he ran OUT on it when the leg
islative investigation of the city govern
ment was started. 1t was this inquiry
which eliminated in Samuel Seabury' S
conclusion that Mayor James J. Walker
is unfit contention which is now be-
fore Gov Roosevelt for action.
Curry and John H. McCooey,. Demo-
cratic leader in Brooklyn, conferred
with Gov. Roosevelt in Saratoga Thurs
day The Governor, the account con-
tinues, advanced the name Of Senator
Wagner, but deferred to Curry's request.
The Senator is not member Of the
New York State delegation to the con-
vention. but the Roosevelt forces had
planned to have Thomas F. Conway CT
Clinton County resign one of two places
he holds in the delegation and then
have the delegation elect the man who
Is to place Roosevelt in nomination.
Curry, McCooey and their upstate al
lies, the O'Connell brothers of Albany
and Joseph Murphy Of Troy, control a
majority Of the delegation, the Times
says, and the veto power over the
Roosevelt nominating speaker thus
rested in their hands,
Evening star., 1932-06-18
EXTORT|0N LINKED
|NL|NDBERGH CASE
Wealthy Society Woman Is
Threatened in Notes at
Wilmington, N. c.
By the Associated Press.
HIyII AHMGTOM NJ

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, N. c., June ia
series of extortion notes to Mrs. Jesse
keenan, Wise, wealthy society woman
of Wilmington and Northampton, Mass,
one indicating the eXtortionistS sought
to connect their activities with the
Lindbergh baby kidnapping, was being
probed today by police who kept their
movements shrouded in silence
The notes we're shown to newspaper
men by j. o. Carr. attorney for Mrs.
Wise shortly after John j. Furlong, sr.,
former Wilmington police chief and
county recorder was arrested and
charged with attempting "blackmail of
certain parties" by means of letters
threatening death if S25,000 were not
delivered to an intermediary. Furlong
Is under $4,000 bond.
In addition to Furlong, several COL
ored persons were arrested after it was
said they received package sup
posedly containing the money at fill
ing station seven miles south of here.
The first note revealed by Carr was
mailed here at $50 pm. May 80, and
was addressed to Mrs. j. K. Wise, l713
Market street. 1t bore six 2-cent
stamps, was marked special delvy'
and personal"
The letter ran three typewriter
pages. 1t said in part:
Read carefully-follow directions on
next page and all will be we'll with you
fail to do absolutely what we say and
it means you go on long ride. Re
member the Lindbergh baby-if he had
not called in the police, he would have
his baby today, but he thought he could
trap them (here the word us was xed
out and them typed below)-you
know the result
The note. after making other threats,
said the addressee had been watched
for weeks, that your wires are tapped"
and that every move you make will
be watched"
Evening star., 1932-06-18
THREE MEN CAUGHT
IN $4,000 ROBBERY
Suspects Identified as Men,
bers of Band That Held Up
Fort Scott, Kans., Bank.
Nv ti,e Associated Press.

NEVADA, Mo, June 1S.-Three men,
all heavily armed, were arrested near
here last night by officers. who later
said they had been identified positively
os three of the five robbers who looted
the citizens National Bank at Fort
Scott. Kans, yesterday Of more than
$4,000. o.
plans were made to institute search
early today for two other men believed
to be in hiding with the loot in this
section.
The three gave their names as George
Allen, 80, reared in Texas and living
anywhere: Jack Martin. %, Beggss,
Okla, and Bob Morgan, 33, Cleveland
Ohio.
officers said Morgan appeared to be
an Indian, and they expressed DOUBT
that Cleveland was his home. The men
refused to talk about the hold-up.
Frank Davis, Fort Scott insurance
man, who has Offices in the robbed
bank, said Allen drove the robbers au-
tomobile. He identified Morgan as the
man who compelled two women to &C
company the robbers for short dis
tance after the hold-up to prevent pos
sible firing on the car. Martin was said
by Davis to have been one OF the rob-
bers in the back seat.
The three were arrested in a car Sc
cluded in a gully near here. 1t bore an
Oklahoma license.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
WOMAN, FACING CHARGE
OF MURDER, COLLAPSES
Sobs at Trial When Prosecution
Reads One of Her Love Letters
to Slain Man.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, June 18.-Mrs. Elvira Do
lorS Barney, charged with the murder
of Thomas William Scott Stephen. who
was shot to death in her apartment on
May 81, collapsed today at her trial
when the prosecution read one of her
letters to the young bankers son.
My darling baby she had written.
even If this note were lost I should
not care, for love you. darling. have
not had lot of happiness in my life as
you have had, and I feel like suicide
when you are angry.
Sometimes when you are feeling fu-
rious do try to think of all I had to en-
dure with j. B. cher husband). Don't
be too jealous, because I suffered so
much over that with him. 1t leads to
all kinds of misery. I won't let you
down. All my love, Elvira."
While the attorney read the letter
Mrs. Barney sobbed bitterly. Later she
broke down again when the prosecution
produced the coat which Stephen wore
when he was killed and exhibited the
bullet hole.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
-FOUR HORSEMEN"
LEAD VANDERBILT
One e-0ver.0ne Players Earn
2,095-Point Lead in First
of Four Sessions.
BY the Associated Press.


DEAL. N. j.. June 18-P Hal Sims
-Four Horsemen' trotted to a 2,O9a-
point lead today on the first lap of
their four-lap race with the Cavendish
Club team headed by Harold S. Wander
bilt, the man who introduced con-
tract to America.
Forty boards were completed in a ses-
sion which began last night and ended
early today. There will be another ses-
sion this afternoon at the Deal Club.
Willard Karn and Sims, playing
against Vanderbilt and Baron Walde-
mar Zedtwitz. had plus score of $40.
while their partners. David Burnstine
and Howard Schenken, we're plus 155
points, playing against Raymond Balfe
and John Mattheys
The teams will meet in three more
sessions. using the total-points system
OF scoring.
Each Bids One Slam.
In the initial setto each team bid only
one siam. thing unusual in expert
play. Neither slam was made or in
deed, could be made, in the opinion of
experts. The baron and Vanderbilt bid
a grand slam on one hand where they
were doubled and set 500, four tricks.
Schenken and Burnstine bid a small
slam, and went down one. undoubled.
An interesting hand was 80:
Evening star., 1932-06-18
SCIENTIFIC BILLYGOAT Boards
WITCHES ON MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Fails to Change Into Man, Even Though
Psychic Researchers and a Maiden
Pure of Heart Intone Formula"

"One!' he continued booming until he
reached "Ten!'-wlth proper pauses.
While a hundred or SO spectators,
breathless silence. Miss Gordon, the
maiden pure in heart" jerked off the
white sheet.
But no handsome young man stepped
out TO greet her. Instead, there stood
the same besmeared billygoat, shivering
in the cold
The witches had failed, and every-
body applauded. for that is what they
set out to prove. AS DR.. Erich Bohn, a
German scholar interested in the ex-
pertinent, said:
Il is far from our expectation to sum-
mon witches and spirits. Nevertheless,
there is no reason why these ancient
recipes ard rituals should be merely
cast aside, for it is the business of SCI
ence to reject nothing SO long as the
method it employs is scientific one"
The scientists will beard the spirits
on the spot again tonight. But all the
debunking in the world won't change
the brocken" for its neighbors. When
omlnous blue-black clouds pour over
the top and the wind swoops down the
valleys in frenzy, uprooting mammoth
mrs ana screeching around the caves,
us creepy story time in the little tim
bered houses of the Harz Mountain
dwellers-and probably always will be.
tP. s. The billygoat was all right
this morning, but Gloria Gordon. the
maiden pure of heart" was confined
to her bed with severe cold, caught
in the raw night wind of the magic
mountain.
Gloria, a pretty blonde with wavy
bobbed hair. broke down and confessed
that she was really Urta Bohn. daugh-
ter Of Breslau attorney. dad wanted
to avoid publicity" she said
Several of the spectators at last
nights experiment were rubbing sore
eyes today from the fumes Of the pow
der flares, which. they said. were more
diabolical than any medieval witches
incense.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WERNIGERODE, Saxony, Germany,
June ia scrawny billy-goat, smeared
with blood and honey and the scrapings
of church bells, but still billy-goat,
bore mute evidence here today that
modern psychic research had won round
one against the witches on The
Brocken," Gernany's magic mountain.
At an eerie ceremony In the cold and
clammy fogs on typ of the mountain
last night, the billygoat failed to change
into a man, although modern British
and German psychic researchers faith
fully carried out the old witches form
ula supposed to achieve that result.
Round two will take place tonight,
however, in the same setting, made ia
nous in Goethe's Faust" and in Ger
man witchcraft lore.
What happened last nigth was this:
The experimenters. headed by Harry
Price, London psychic expert, trocpod
up the sides of The Brocken" leading
the billygoat and carrying an ancient
witches formula, in manuscript,
brought from the archives of the Ma
tional Laboratory of Psychical Research,
London.
With them was Miss Gloria Gordon
of England-for the formula called for
a maiden pure OF heart" and Miss Cor
don said she guessed she was las we'll
qualified as any girl nowadays for the
part.
Atop the mountain they anointed the
goat with the blood. the honey and the
scrapings of church bells. They used
the proper pine to light fire, described
a circle of the proper size and uttered
every one of the Latin incantations
stipulated.
The goat was then led into the circle
by a silver cord A white sheet was
thrown over him. More prescribed
abracadabra was intoned. Then, in a
weird monotone, expert Price doomed
Evening star., 1932-06-18
VERMONT DECLARED LOYAL.

RUTLAND, Va, June 1S (P.-Walter
Fenton, chairman of the Vermont dele
CATION to the recent Republican Ma
tional Convention, today issued for
NAL statement of comment on Nicholas
Murray Buffers plan to have the New
England States join in a reputation
of the prohibition plank in the party's
platform.
Fenton said:
Il have no authority to speak for
the Republicans of Vermont and I give
only my own views. While We were
much disappointed that the convention
inserted the majority plank in the plat
form, which We think unsatisfactory,
there is no question in my mind that
Vermont will go safely Republican re-
gardless of the plank. We will be in
terested in seeing DR.. Buffers proposal,
but Vermont has always gone Republic
an and she won't fail the party this
time"
Evening star., 1932-06-18
$25O,0D0,0OO MORE
LOAN AID PLANNED
Finance Corporation to Sell
New Issue to Treasury.
Dawes Goes Home.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton, minus Charles G. Dawes as presi-
dent. will shortly draw an additional
$3.50 100000 into its loan fund, selling
six-mcnth notes to the Treasury for
the money.
This sum will bring to ST 1000, 900 900
the amount extended for loans to banks,
railroads and other key lines of business
In the corporations job of promoting
economic recovery.
Through with public life for time
at least, Dawes set off for Chicago late
yesterday to resume active direction Of
his banking affairs He indicated Presi-
dent Hoover has made choice of his
successor, but@did not disclose whether
nomination would be sent to the
Senate before adjournment. likely to
come next week. He did say he expected
an announcement soon. however.
The reconstruction units new notes
will mature October 27, and will bear
interest of 31a per cent annually. They
Will be issued as needed. So far the cor
poration has used the $500 OOO, 900
| initially subscribed by the Treasury and
sold the Government $3.50, 900 issue
CT debentures. 1t has authority to issue
as much at $500 900 900 of securities.
but the amount probably will be greatly
increased by Congress to provide for
new private and public construction of
reproductive and self-sustaining char
acter.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

headquarters is in that section is ex-
pected to have considerable influence.
Duties Have Increased.
1t has been apparent for some time
the duties Of the Presidents Office and
the growing economic problems of the
country would keep Mr.. Hoover from
leaving Washington for any length of
timetine such as would be necessary if
he were to open the Olympic games and
then enjoy vacation at his home in
Palo Alto, Calf, as he had originally
contemplated
1t is expected. however, that Mr..
Hoover will find time to make frequent
visits to his Rapidan camp, if only for
a few days at time.
There is some impression he may
select his mountain camp as the scene
for his acceptance ceremonies. This
will be decided later
1t is expected that the President will
select soon the group of administration
associates to lead his campaign work
Prominent in this group will probably
be Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Sec
retary of War Hurley and Secretary of
Agriculture HyGe, all of whom are ex-
perlenced campaign speakers.
Newton Returns.
Walter H. Newton, one CT the Presi-
dents secretaries, arrived today from
Chicago, where he served as one OF
Mr.. HooVer's fed marshalS at the con-
vention. Mr.. Newton was closeted with
the President for some time and pre-
sumably gave his chief detailed account
of all that went on. Similar accounts
already have been given to the Presi-
dent by Secretary Mills and Lawrence
Richey, another Ct the Presidents secre-
tarieS.
Messages of congratulatory nature
which started pouring in on the White
House almost Immediately after the
Presidents denomination, continued tc
be received in generous amount today
With a view to having as few in
terruptionS as possible so he might
give his attention to the campaign ano
such Government affairs as required
his immediate attention, the President
made no engagements for the day
However. this morning he summoned
Chairman Norbeck of the Senate Bank
ing Committee to discuss with him the
prospects for the home loan bank bill
now pending in the Senate.
Senator Norbeck reported that he
anticipated passage of this legislation
He was unable, however, to make any
prediction when it would come up for
a vote. This bill, which provides for
establishment of system of credit
banks to aid home building and home
owners, already has passed the House.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening, at the bandstand, at
5 80 o'clock. John Zimmerman. band
master; Anton Pointner. assistant.
March, THE American Trumpeter,"
Lake
Overture, "Children's". .Quilter
Entra' Acte-
"Au Bord dun Ruissea u" Boisdeffre
"a Song of India" Rimsky- -Korsakow
Scenes from musical comedy, "The Blue
MaZurka' ..............Le .Lehar
Novelty, African Dreamland" .Atwater
Waltz suite, Dreams of Childhood"
Waldteufel
Finale, arms and Honor" .Grabel
1.-The Star Spangled Banner