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Evening star., 1932-08-04
OFFICIALS NAMED
FOR AIR HANDICAP
Atlantic Wing Take-off Will Be
August 21 From Washington
Hoover Airport.

Appointments by the National Air
Race Association to supervise the prep
aration and start of the Atlantic wing
of the Transcontinental Handicap Air
Derby were announced today by c. H.
Warrington, chairman of the Washing
ton Air Derby Committee, as follows
George Chapline, chairman; Aubrey
Kief, referee; James Wheeler, starter
John S. Wynne, chief judge; Jack Len
kard, assistant starter; Deed Levy. chief
of the Technical Committee; Clarence
Bell, scorer, and William Enyart. timer.
The officials will follow the Atlantic
wing over the course during the derby
The competing planes will take off from
Washington Hoover Airport Sunday
afternoon, August 81.
Mrs. Louise Thaden of Baltimore
winner of the first Transcontinental Air
Derby for Women in 1929, has been
named a member of the Contest Com
mittee for the National Air Races, and
will travel with the Transcontinental
Handicap Air Derby throughout its
circuit.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
WOMAN, &c, FACES
LIQUOR CHARGES
17-Year-0Id Grandson Held
Also for Trial After
Police Raid.

A total of eight charges of violating
the prohibition law were placed against
a 56-year-oId woman and her 17-year-
old grandchild in Police Court today as
the result of a raid yesterday on an
apartment house in the 1900 block ol
M street.
Rebecca Kushner, the grandmother
pleaded not guilty to charges OF sale
and second offense possession OF liquor
before Judge Ralph Given. She was
held under S1,500 bond for jury trial
August IT. The grandch1ld, Myer
Kushner. 1900 block of Ninth street
was charged with two counts OF trans
nortinp. two of sale and two of posses
Sion. He is scheduled for trial on the
same date.
Takes Marked Money.
Police said an informer made buy
from the youth on July 27, and that
he delivered the liquor to the agent
at a Georgia avenue address. Yesterday
a prohibition agent telephoneo kusnnel
and asked him to bring two plnts OF
LIQUOR to an appointed place on Newton
street near Fourteenth. The liquor was
delivered while police looked on. AFTER
the transaction. in which they SAID
Kushner had taken three marked pli4S'
the youth was placed under arrest,
Equipped with the name and NUMBER
Of a customer" which had been taken
from a card in young Kushner's pocket
the agent then telephoned the M street
apartment house. He obtained the
number of the apartment and informed
the girl who answered the phone ne
would come by for some liquor. ne
went to the place, and said he bought
two pints for SIS. Immediately after
the transaction police entered and ar
rested Mrs. Kushner, from whom the
agent said he had bought the liquor
Girl Returned Home.
The officers also took into custody a
13-vear-old girl, who was identified as
another grandchild of Mrs. Kushner
They said she was the one who an
swered the telephone and who helped
her grandmother look up the name anc
number, which police had given them
in their record book. -
The officers turned the young glr
over to her parents, who live In Iht
1900 block of Ninth street.
Assistant United States Attorney
Roger Robb represented the Govern
ment.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
NEW ROOSEVELT HIGH
TURNED OVER TO D. C.
Electric Fixture and Grading Con
tracts Still Left for Completion
Before Opening Next Month.

The new Roosevelt High School, to
take the place of the present Business
High School, was turned over to tha
District yesterday by the contractor
the National Construction & Engineer
ing Co.
Although the main contract Is com
pleted, there are two subsidiary con =
tracts left for completion, the installa-
ton Of electric light fixtures and grad
ing the ground. A stadium also re-
mains to be built.
The main school will be ready for
occupancy by pupils next month. i
was built at q cost of approXimateiIy
Sl,250,0O0. 1t is located on ThirteentL
street at Upshur.
Evening star., 1932-08-04

Among the unsung victims Of the
fires in the bonus camps week ago
are about 20 fine trees, on Third street,
Pennsylvania avenue and Maine ave-
nue.. scared by the flames which leaped
up from the rude shelters which were
put to the torch. About half Of them
are sycamores (Oriental planes and
the balance American elnlS. All are
fine old trees,
Fire, according to Clifford Lanham,
superintendent of trees and parkings,
is almost certain death to trees. There
are occasional trees which will put
forth leaves the year after they have
been severely burned, but such a case
is a rarity.
"Those trees are certainly blot on
the landscape now" he said sadly. 1--WE
Evening star., 1932-08-04
DR.. SIMON PRESTON
GETS RESEARCH CUP
National Association of Chiropo-
dists Makes Award at
Convention.

DR.. Simon Preston Of the Ohio Col
lege Of ChiroPody at Cleveland will re-
ceive the cup awarded annually to the
author of the best research thesis sub
mitted to the National Association Of
Chiropodists, it was announced today
at the twenty-first convention of that
organization now in progress at Ward
man Park Hotel.
The f1ve-day convention opened Mon
day, divided into business meetings and
social activities. Speakers today in
cluded DR.. Claude Morre and DR.. H. H
Hazen of Washington, DR.. Arthur K
Kurtz of Pennsylvania and E. K. Bur
nett of New York.
The golf tournament championship
was won yesterday for the third con-
secutive year by Dr. Stanley Lydecker
of st. Louis, with DR.. Louis Levy OF
New York and DR.. A. j. Thorman OF
Cincinnati second and third, re-
| spectively.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
COMDR. COURTS BURIED
AT ARLINGTON TODAY
Former Naval Attache in Toxic
Given Congressional Medal
for Vera Cruz Service.

Comdr. George Mccall Courts. U. S.
N. who died Monday at Newport, r. /,
was buried in Arlington National Gene
terry this afternoon with full military
honors. Funeral services were held IN
Newport yesterday. Honorary pallbear
ers were Capt. c. F. Russell, Comdr. H
c. Gearing, Comdr. J. H. Ingram
Comdr E A Lofquist. Comdr. G. T. Os-
burn and Comdr. F. D. Pryor.
Comdr. Courts formerly was naval at
tache at Toxic and held the Congress
sional Medal of Honor. He was the
youngest member of the class OF 1907
at the United States Naval ACADEMY
He was awarded the Congresslona
Medal for service with Admiral Fletchel
at Vera Cruz in 1914.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
S6, 100 JEWEL THEFT
REPORTED BY OFFICER
Apartment of Col. W. P. Wooten
Ransacked-Burglar Jimmied
Door During Afternoon.

Police today broadcast lookout for
an unidentified man in connection with
the looting yesterday of the apartment
of Col w. p. Wooten, U. S. A., at 254O
Massachusetts, avenue. Jewelry valued
at $500 was stolen.
Col. Wooten's apartment, directly
above that of District Commissioner
Herbert B. Crosby, was entered after
the door had been jimmied. Mrs. Woo
ten discovered the robbery when she re-
turned late in the afternoon following
a three-hour absence.
The stolen jewelry included a plati-
mum diamond bracelet worth $500, a
diamond and sapphire bracelet valued
at 81 900, and two diamond rings valued
at $1,000 each. The apartment was
ransacked, but, except for a small
amount Of cash, nothing else was taken.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
DIsMISSES SUIT ARISING
FROM WARE CAMPAIGN
Justice Luhring Files Opinion on
Claim Against Ex-Candidate
and Col. Frank E. Webb.

District Supreme Court Justice Oscar
r. Iuhring has filed a memorandum
opinion diSmissing a suit for manca-
tory injunction asked by Attorney Jonn
H. Connaughton, 1343 H street, against
Col. Frank E. Webb, presidential nom
inee of the Liberty party, and William
e Ware of Philadelphia. Connaughton
claimed he had done work for Ware IN
his attempt to gain a seat in the United tee
states Senate and was to get $l2,oOU,
of which only $4,000 was paid.
He told the court he had been 1T,
formed that the balance of the fee hao
been turned over to Col. Webb by ware
but no settlement had been made with
him. He sought to require Webb to pay
over the money.
Attorney Raymond Hudson appeared
for the lawyer, while Col. Webb was
represented by Attorney John J. STAT
/ terry.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
TEN MEN ARRESTED
BY "TRANSIENT GUARD
Seizure of Prisoners Fails to Re.
veal Any Bonus Marchers
in Number.

Evidently acting on orders of the
Commissioners to keep a vigilant watch
on transientS entering the District.
police arrested in the lexington yards
early today 10 men who had beaten
their way here on freight trains.
The prisoners were questioned by de-
tectives from the Crime Prevention
Bureau and released nine of them on
assurances that they were leaving town.
Police say there were no bonus marchers
among the men, most of whom came
here from Ohio. However, one man
said he came here to collect $65 due
on his bonus.
colored youth of 16. taken in GUS
today along with the others, was COM
mitted to the House of Detention, while
police sought to communicate with his
parents.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
Woman Sues for sos, 900.

jeanette Jones, Maryland Courts, to-
day filed suit in the District Supreme
Court to recover S25 900 damages iron
Emma I. Egly of the same address lol
alleged personal injuries said to nave
been sustained while a guest OF tht
defendant in her automobile June
when the machine was overturned or
the Baltimore re-Washington boulevard
She charges her hostess with negh'
gence in the operation of the machine
and declares her injuries have pre-
vented her from following her oceu
psticn as housekeeper Attorney Her
bert P. Leaman appears for the plain
ti6.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
CAMP MAY STAY OPEN

The Boys Club of Washington Is
planning to keep Camp Reeder open for
two weeks beyond the scheduled clos
ing date of August % if a large enough
enrolment is obtained by that time.
The extension, it was explained, is for
the convenience of boys kept in the city
BY Summer school
Evening star., 1932-08-04
Warrenton Marriage Licenses.

WARRENTON, Va, August 4 (Spe-
cial) Marriage licenses have been Is
sued here this week to the following:
Robert Franklin Rose, Upperville, va
and Miss Mary Barbara Alger, Rev. q.
T. Herndon; William Howard Caudle,
IS. soldier, Waiter Reed Hospital, and
Miss Ruth Alice Singleton OF this
county: Robert Mckinley Fields, Broao
Run, Va, and Mrs. Sadie Leppert Of
this county.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
BOY STRUCK BY AUTO
Thomas Norris, 5, Has Skull Frac-
ture and Broken Ribs.

Five-year old Thomas Norris. 1900
block of 1 street was in a serious con-
dition in Emergency Hospital today
from injuries received when he was
knocked down by an automobile near
his home Roy Dewitt Rhodes, l8,
driver of the car which struck him, was
arrested by First Precinct Police on a
charge of reckless driving.
At the hospital it was said the boy
has a fractured skull and broken ribs,
but 1t was thought he would recover.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
Lawn Party Planned.

MITCHELLVILLE, Md, August 4
(SpeciaD "A lawn party will be held
on the Mullikin School grounds August
l3, under the auspices Of the Mount
program will open at 8 o'clock with q
base ball game, horseshoe pitching ano
other attractions Special evening tea-
lures also have been arranged.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
ROBBER GETS 10 YEARS
Justice Proctor Sentences jenkins
Wielder of Razor.

Erasmus C.. jenkins, a young Wnlte
man, was sentenced to 10 years IN the
penitentiary by Justice James M Proc
tor today after he pleaded guilty In
Supreme Court to charge OF roboerg-
jenkins took $50 from Dudley l.
Hassan, 1928 Quebec street, threaten
ing his victim with a razor.
The prisoner admitted he had served
prison terms in Florida and California
for roberry.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
COUNTY OFFICIAL KILLS
SELF IN HIS GARAGE
Surveyor at Oakland, Calf, Found
Dead After Probe of Office
Is Voted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OAKLAND. Calf, August 4.-The
body of County Surveyor George A.
Posey, 49, was found in the garage Of
his home here yesterday. Police said
he had committed suicide by inhaling
the exhaust of his automobile.
Investigation of Posey's Office was
recommended Tuesday by nine mem
bers of Superior Court jury which
convicted three men of operating a
free lot" scheme. Testimony disclosed
Posey had received $4,000 or more for
subdividing the property of the three
Posey developed bigger and stronger
underwater vehicular tubes by pre-
casting concrete tunnel segments.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
COLORED MAN SHOT
Police Searching for Companion in
Argument"

Roy Anderson, SO, colored, of the first
block Of Eighteenth street southeast was
in a serious condition in Casualty Hos
pital today with bullet wound in the
abdomen, said to have been fired by a
man with whom he had an argument in
the 100 block Of Sixteenth street south
east last night.
Police broadcast lookout for Q 80
year-old colored man.
Evening star., 1932-08-04
INFANTRY COURSE OPEN
Quantico Glass to Prepare for Bri

enlisted men from the 9th Marine Re
serve Brigade was ordered TO report
yesterday at Quantico for a special
course of instruction ending August II.
This class. which will be familiarized
with new Infantry weapons, will in
Struct the 9th Brigade when it goes
to Virginia Beach for 16 days training,
beginning August 81.
Evening star., 1932-08-04

The first patent granted on the
American continent was issued to Sam
uel Winslow By the General Court OF
Massachusetts, for a novel method OF
making salt.
Evening star., 1932-08-04

Golfers In England are wearing neck.
ties bearing the emblem Of their club. },
Evening star., 1932-11-20

cseds through the acsdsuic grades and
at last receives o certificate Of MEM
bership in the higher priesthood Of In
stitutionahzed learning. That diploma
implies the completion sf an ordered
and regulated course OF study. Should
the scholar deviate from the prescribed
curriculum he In punished for his error
by the Withholding Of his degree. Thus
an arbitrary premium Is placed lpon
conformity, and the colleges and uni
versities are distinguished for the de-
ficiency Of originality in their gradu-
ates. All are alike, the product Of q
single mold, and all are isolated from
the unrefined millions not pressed In
that special mint.
In the instance OF the university r1an
who can afford to continue through the
Postgraduate establishment the de-
gree Of isolation is not only heightened,
but aggravated. He lives In an atmos-
phere so rarefied as to. be abnormal.
The more he knows of his fragment Of
learning, the more drastically Is he d.
vorced from all the other fragments,
large or small.
Thus, the tremendous gap" about
which Mr.. Martin complains Genes into
existence and is maintained. Probably,
there is nothing to be done about it.
Obviously, it is natural development.
50 long as culture Is estimated only for
its so-called practical use," there viii
be a chasm miles deep between those
who have too little Of 1t and those who
have too much. OF course. that con-
stitutes a contradiction Of the demo-
cratic theory Of civilization.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
A BETTER THANKSGIVING.
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN d. D. IL. D.,
Bishop of Washington

Repeatedly in the course OF human
history such admonitions unheeded have
brought havoc in their train. One who
has observed the trend Of events in
more recent years Is compelled to rec
ognize that We as people are being
called away from our selfish and 1nsu-
lar ways and practices to the more Sc
rious consideration of our responsibility
as fellow citizens of a great common
wealth. We are being compelled to rec
ognize that We are common sharers OF
national prosperity or adversely. If, on
this approaching Thanksgiving day, we
can highly resolve to assume our full
obligation to those who have suffered
misfortune as the victims of q calamity
Of national proportions, we shall do
much to dispel the shadows and make
our thanksgiving an occasion for graft
tude and praise to the Giver of every
good and perfect gift. No matter what
our individual situation or prosperity
may be, we are bound to acknowledge
that the bounty we share and upon
which our happiness and security de-
pend, is the gift Of Him in whose hands
are the issues of life. We may boast of
our genius, our mechanical skill and
those excelling gifts that characterize
US as a people, but when We seriously
reflect upon life's indispensables we re-
member that we are wholly dependent
upon an all-merciful and loving Father.
One Of old affirmed: I'm the time of
my trouble I sought the Lord" Mis-
fortune drove him to renewed trust in
God. 1t is this that we all may ex-
press in these stern and difficult days,
but renewed trust in God must be sup
plemented by finer exhibition OF
kindly and generous trust in one an
other. It must issue In a new demon
stration of that kind of charity that
blesses him who gives and him who
takes.
II our Thanksgiving day this year
can find us approaching more nearly
the ideal of a national brotherhood
where We recognize the perils of insu-
lar and selfish living; II as we meet in
family reunion, no matter what our
place or station, we can renew our vows
to live not only for ourselves, but for
others. We shall register a new advance
in our corporate life and insure to our
selves and those that are to follow us
new and better Thanksgiving days, when
want and distress shall give place to
satisfied and contented households and
America shall more Justly claim her
Christian heritage.
Evening star., 1932-11-20
u. s. Corn Growers Now
Outbidding Argentina
BY HARDEN COLFAx.

The fact that recent exports of corn
from the United States to Canada may
have set an all-time high record con-
ta1nS more significance than appears on
the face Of the figures. This week near
ly 1000, 900 bushels of corn were under
way to the Dominion, most of it, trade
authorities believe, not destined to re-
main there but to be shipped to the
Old World.
The significance in this Is that, for
the first time, our farmers In the corn
belt are able to compete with Argentine
prices in the worlds largest market for
corn-Germany. Our Government rep
resentatives in the Reich tell us that
prospects for selling American corn to
German buyers are excellent.
American corn has not figured much
in world trade in recent years. In 1890
we sent less than per cent Of our
corn abroad. Last year it was not much
more. We have q large crop this year,
estimated at about 2,o00, 600, 900 bushels,
or some 300, 100000 above the average
Corn is now being husked in all parts
Of the belt and prices decreased sub
stantially until this week, when there
was slight increase on export buying.
Most Of our enormous crop, however,
has usually gone to feed hogs and other
SCOck On the 1arm Wnere IL Is grown.
Corn has never been much of Q source
Of direct cash income to our farmers.
In the international market it has had
to compete with the products Of the
Balkan countries, Of Argentina and
South Africa. American corn. however,
Is generally recognized as of higher
quality than others, particularly for
stock feeding. Its kernels are larger
and feeding properties better The
corn of the other countries mentioned
has smaller kernels and Is drier, better
for feeding poultry than hogs.
This year, with corn selling ut Chi
cago under 80 cents q bushel, for the
first time in years our farmers are able
to outbid the corn growers of Argentina.
In that South American country corn is
practically never fed to live stock. Ar
gentine cattle and hogs Craze on the
plains. Argentine corn Is shipped
abroad.
Germany Is probably the largest
purchaser of corn in the world. She
buys usually from the Balkans and Ar
gentina, but prefers our quality when
she can afford our price. This year
Evening star., 1932-11-20

THANKSGIVING is our Nations family
day, possibly more so than any other
day In the year. 1t Is O day when we
are reminded that no man liveth unto
himself" It matters not what our sta
ton in life may be, what our prosperity
or adversely, this day emphasizes our
mutual interdependence and our re-
sponsibility one to another. Doubtless
there are many people throughout the
country today who, in their distress
and privation, feel that a day Of
Thanksgiving has no adequate place in
their life. It is easy to be thankful
where every condition favors us, where
the necessities of life are abundantly
supplied and health dwells at our fire.
side. To use the language Of an Amer
ican poet:
"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows along like song"
The homes where boards are plenti-
fully furnished have abundant cause
for thankfulness. In such happy situa-
tions an added responsibility Is laid
upon the recipients of such bounty. We
would have a new kind of Thanksgiv-
ing day and better one than we have
ever experienced, If in these dif1cult
DAYS we we're moved by finer sense
of mutual interdependence, II those who
have would, in reason, attempt to
share what they have with those who
have not.
1t has been repeatedly demonstrated
that In days of widespread prosperity
We tend to become insular and self
sufficient; 1t is only in days OF ad-
versity that We are compelled to realize
how intimate are the ties that bind
US together in q great national fellow
ship Again, it is In days Of prosperity
that we lose our sense Of dependence
upon God and with proud boasting lay
claim to our own sufflciency. In
an ancient day q great leader, speaking
to q proud and self-satisfied people,
said: Beware, lest when thou hast
eaten and are full, and hast built good
ly houses, and dwelt therein; and when
thy herds and thy 1ocks multiply, and
thy silver and thy gold Is multiplied,
and all that thou hast Is multiplied;
then thine heart be lifted up and thou
forget the Lord thy God" He con-
cludes this stern admonition with the
words: "It shall be, If thou forget the
Lord thy God, and walk after other
gods and serve them, and worship
them, I testify against you this day
that ye shall surely perish"