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Evening star., 1932-08-21

Dragons, its Cavalry post was the exact
territorial center of the entire United
States. At one time it was even con-
sidered as a possible Capital of the
Union. Later it became the worlds
leading mounted service school. And as
recently as 1912-just 20 years ago-it
was without a shadow of doubt the
greatest place on earth for an Army boy.
Two distinct posts-the Cavalry and the
Field Artillery Caissons and dust in the
latter-horses and sand in the former.
Two great parade grounds, each flanked
by stately cottonwood trees and rows of
officers quarters with the names and
rank of the occupants on the front steps.
Two band stands and two bands, both
incredibly blary. Two giant fiagpoles,
with swaying steel-rope ladders to
shiny" Two sunset guns which were
fired every evening at retreat" End
less rows of barracks-some harboring
soldiers with red-striped trousers, others
yellow striped.
THE kids from the Field Artillery post
knew what was good. They were al
ways over in the Cavalry post. Why not?
What was a lifeless caiSson or brace
OF Army mules to the soul-stirring charge
OF troop Of Cavalry? What was the
Evening star., 1932-08-21

airy of 20 years
ago-what a con-
traSt! Gears and
gasoline have wormed their
way into the affection of
the tickle War Depart
ment. Good-by to the
faithful horse!
Imagine a bow-legged
cavalryman, grizzled in the
service, mournfully riding
a tank! Picture his mind
as he shifts the noxious
vapors of the manifold
while lurching over the
terrain at five miles an
hour. Twenty years ago
he was a corporal in the
glorious 7th Cavalry at
Fort Riley, Kans. Tip-toe
in his stirrups, saber flash
ing in the sun, he was
screaming d o W n the
Pawnee flats hell for
leather astride a 5-year-old
that no button or gear on
earth could bring to a halt!
Look at him today: tin
kering clumsily W t h
spark plug and cylinder
head-he whose hands
ache to touch the brush
and curry comb. Suffer
with him as he muscles up
a f1ve-gallon tin of gasoline
to the tank-he whose
hands once lovingly pre-
pared the feedbag and felt
the reward of soft eyes and
the friendly muzzle Of a
velvet nose!
And while you are about
it, feel sorry for the Army
boy today. What, with the
rise Of thermo-dynamics
and the fall of glistening
launches, what with the
limitations of Army life
imposed by recent legisla-
tion, consider how colorless
the life compared to that
of 20 years ago!
Take Fort Riley, for ex-
ample. Once a frontier
station of the old 1St
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PAULDING, Miss, September 90
Fire has destroyed the 100-year-old
court house here and now the tale of a
troubled town can be told with ashes.
It was just half-hearted, lazy blaze,
yet it wrote an epitaph for Paulding.
one of Mississippi's historically famous
towns
The court house was all that remained
of the spendor that was Paulding's in
years when the fall of the Alamo was
news. Jasper County built it century
ago and this became one of the most
important towns in the South. Folks
came many miles to gaze at the court
houses two-story magnif1cence and
went back to their plantation flresides
and predicted that any city with courage
enough to build such a structure would
some day be a metropolis.
And it might have been but for one
of those tricks fate plays.
This was a typical Southern town
100 years ago-bigger than most, but
typical nevertheless. The men raced
fine horses, wagered their cotton and
fought duels over unimportant incidents.
The women spun fine cloth and sent
it to Mississippi boys who were fight
ing with Sam Houston in Texas.
Then came the Irish. A colony set
tied nearby. They were tough-fisted
buckets and wiped their lips with the
back of their hands. They were fear
less strangers in a land of aristocrats
who wouldn't drink mint julep if the
leaves were crushed or If the glass were
not frosted.
The Irish literally fought their way
to recognition, built little chapel and
a big cemetery and eventually were
accepted by the proud planters. To-
gether, they made Paulding busting
city.
Next came the railroad. but not
through Paulding. The city divided
on whether to grant right of way
and the company, anxious to lay its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
CENTURY-OLD BUILDING BURNS
IN RUINS OF SOUTHERN TOWN
Court House Was Last Survival of Splen-
dor for Which Paulding, Miss, Was
Known in Days of Alamo.

rails from Meridian to New Orleans,
lodged the town. So Paulding never
heard the grunt of a locomotive, her
mansions were never discolored by coal
smoke and it killed, her.
Families moved away in droves about
the beginning of the century. The
Irish were the last to leave.
Jasper County built another court
house at Bay Springs and maintained
two capitols until the fire ate the one
here.
Its destruction made Paulding as life
less as the big Irish cemetery. The
town was scarcely breathing when the
fire came. It's streets had long since
troughS where blooded horses once
drank. Its mansions had tumbled.
Scene Of War Drama.
A few colored people lived In the
kitchens of the big houses, cooked hoe
cakes on the hearths and shuf1ed a
jig on ball room floors where gallants
once waltzed with the bellies OF Ten
nessee, Alabama and Mississippi.
One of the real dramas of the war
between the States was enacted in the
old court house. Jasper County was
to instruct its delegate to the secession
convention. Jones County, its big neigh
Dor, was loyal to the Union, and all
Mississippi watched Jasper-and the
Nation watched Mississippi
The boys came in from the forks Of
the creeks, parked their muskets near
the gold-headed canes of the townsfolk
and they all talked it over. The men
who raised cotton and owned slaves
were ready to fight any time. Tradition
says the Irish held their tongues for a
long time. They had seen a lot of civil
war and they thought twice before they
finally voted for another fight and then
roared with the crowd, Jasper goes for
secession" The cry echoed against the
little chapel and across the big ceme-
terry, where so many were to sleep be-
cause of that days action,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
DR.. H|CKL|NG HURT
IN FALL TO CELLAR
Noted AIienist Forgets EIe-
vat0r Lift Was Being
Built in Closet.

Victim of habit of 80 years, DR.. D.
Percy Hickling, So, District alienist and
nationally known psychiatrist. lay In
Emergency Hospital today with several
broken bones in his body and head con-
tusions received last night in a fall
down an elevator shaft at his home,
1904 Rhode Island avenue.
Dr. Hickling fell IL feet to the base
ment floor when. forgetting he had
ordered his medicine closet cut out to
permit installation of the private lift,
he opened a door that formerly led to
the closet and stepped into the dark
shaft.
Warning Unheeded.
Members of his family saw Dr. Hick-
ling approach the elevator door, and
called a warning to him as he opened
1t. but he did not hear them in time to
avert the fall They rushed to his as
sistance and summoned the Fire Rescue
Squad, which hurried the injured man
20 the hospital.
His condition was at first termed
critical, but hospital officials said this
morning he showed marked improve
ment. He is believed to have sustained
a fractured collar bone, broken ribs and
possible Internal lIlJuIleS III duuitlou W
head Commissions.
DR.. Hickling dined about $50 last
night with his wife, Mrs. Harriet Hick
ling and his son and daughter-in-law.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Percy Kicking. jr.
Finishing his meal before the others, he
arose and started fer the medicine
closet which he had been in the habit
of going to. AS the doctor opened the
one-time closet door. his son said he
called to him, but he had already swung
back the door and stepped forward. his
hand probably reaching for the light
switch he was accustomed to find there.
Native of District
Dr. Hickling is a native of Washing
ton, a graduate of Columbian Univer-
sity, now George Washington Univer-
sity, and one of the outstanding spe-
cialists of the District. His career has
included more than 40 years of teach
ing at Georgetown University activity
as a police surgeon and official alienist
of the District. membership on the visit
ing staff at st. Elizabeth'S and affllia-
ton with numerous medical societies.
He was one of the alienists called in 70
determine the sanity of Harry K. Thaw
and was asked to appear at the Leopold
Loeb trial, but refused.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
RUSSIA FAvORs MANCHUKUO.

TOXIC, September 20 CP).-The at
titude of Soviet Russia toward the new
Manchurian state of Manchukuo is
friendly and there Is willingness to
cooperate in practically all matters of
joint concern, Ambassador Koki Hirota
reported from Moscow to the foreign
Office today, but he added Moscow was
finding the question of De Jure recogni-
ton difficult and formal action was not
likely soon.
This description Of the Soviets' policy
was given to the Ambassador on the
eve of his departure for Japan last
Saturday, he reported. Karakhan, he
said, gave him to understand that the
Soviet government was willing that a
Manchukuo consulate be opened at
Moscow in addition to the Siberian
cities where such conSulateS already
have been authorized, while Soviet con-
sulates would continue to function in
NJ" nchurian cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
HUGE WHEAT SALE
TO CHINA PLANNED
President and Officials Dis
CuSs Transaction to Inv
voIve 1900, 600 Bushels.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover and officials of in
terested Federal agencies are consider
ing ways of using Reconstruction Cor
poration funds to finance sales of
Northwestern wheat to China.
Such proposal, involving possibly
100000 bushels or more of privately
owned grain and an 100000 loan,
was discussed yesterday at White
House conference attended by Secre-
tary Hyde, corporation directors and
Farm Board officials.
No Direct Application Made.
Both China and the Farmers Ma
tional Grain Corporation were men
toned in the discussion with President
Hoover as possible recipients of the re-
construction loan, but corporation OIL
GERS said neither has made a direct
application for the fund.
George Minor, manager of the grain
corporation. has been negotiating with
China regarding large wheat sale.
Final arrangements have not been
made, however.
The grain involved in the proposal
would come from producers of the
Northwest on whom shipping costs
have borne heavily. The relief act au-
thorized the Reconstruction Corporation
to make loans for financing foreign
sales Of surplus agricultural products
where they cannot be financed in the
normal course Of commerce" and where
they will not affect adversely the
world markets for such products"
Officials were undecided whether the
act would permit direct loans to for
eign country and have asked legal opin-
ions on the subject.
Those attending the White House
conference included: Secretary Hyde, c..
B. Denman and Charles S. Wilson of
the Farm Board, Atlee Pomerene, chair
man of the Reconstruction Corporation,
and Jesse Jones, Gardner Cowles, Will
son Mccarthy and Harvey Couch, cor
poration directors.
Mills Sees Authority.
Secretary Mills. speaking as a direc-
tor of the Reconstruction Corporation,
said today he had no doubt Of the cor
poration'S power to lend directly to
China. He said the clause pertaining
to facilitating the export of surplus ag-
ricultural commodities was written with
foreign loans in mind.
Mills said he expected the Chinese
matter to be brought up before the cor
poration's directorate within the next
day or two.
He added that China had usually been
prompt in meeting financial obligations
to this country, citing the Boxer fund
and an earlier payment for 100000
bushels of Farm Board wheat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
DANV|[[E INDUSTRY
SHOWS PICK UP
Silk, Cotton, Knitting and
Overall Plants Show En-
pIoyment Gains.
Special DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, September 26-ln-
dustry in Danville has picked up con-
siderably and the unemployment, situa-
ton relieved greatly, in one case en-
ployment having shown an increase Of
400 per cent, survey disclosed.
The Dan City Silk Mills are employ
ing 400 operatives compared with so
in Midsummer, an increase of 400 per
cent. A full-time schedule is being
maintained, with sufficient orders on
hand to insure such schedule through
out the Winter.
Full Schedule Maintained.
The Riverside and Dan River Cotton
Mills list of employees has increased
from 3.710 as of August l to 4,423 last
week, representing an increase OF 20
per cent. A full and even overtime
schedule is being maintained due to
continued large orders, which are being
received.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
number of employees at the Danvllle
Knitting Mills is reported, the plant
now having ATS workers on the pay
roll
The.Blue Buckle Overall Co. is EN-
ploying a full force of $50 workers on
a full-time working schedule. The
Anderson Overall Co. reports 20 per
cent increase in employment. stepping
the number up from "a employed dur
ing the Summer.
Tobacco Seen as Aid.
The opening of the tobacco season
next month is also expected to further
relieve unemployment. With a pros
pect for better prices for tobacco and
keener competition and heavier buying,
tobacconists say employment in the in
dustry would probably show a con-
siderable increase.
Increase in employment is reflected
in a decline in requests for relief from
the Community Welfare Association,
according to Mrs Agnes Fulcrod, sec
rotary of the association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26

factory point with the present dendty
Of population" he wrote.
He suggested three partial solutions-
increased employment through new In
dustries, emigration on large scale or
a decrease in the birthrate. The gov
eminent, he said, has encouraged In
dustries. He suggested that other RENE
dies must be attempted.
The government collected more reve-
nue. thar ever before, to total exceed
ing $12,600,000. Commercial loans were
reduced IS per cent and the favorable
balance Of trade was more than $25,.
100000. In the calendar year 1881 the
island was the best customer Of the
United States south Of the Gulf Of
Mexico
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
HOLD HOUSEWARMlNG
Fairfax Firemen Hear Addresses
in New Engine House.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, September 26.-The
Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department Sat-
urday night held houSeWarming in its
new engine hall. Addresses were made
by George B. Robey, Wilson M. Farr,
Senator John w. Rust. President J. E.
Nickel. Mayor Thomas P. Chapman apd
j. H. Beattie, chief of the Mclean Fire
Department. and others. The program
dancing and refreshments served by
$he Ladies' Auxiliary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26

its crew, Steuart A. Reiss, pilot, and
John Runger, refueler.
Perfect weather conditions made pos
sible two of the smoothest refueling
contacts the now experienced crews Of
the Flying Boudoir and its nurse
plane" have made in all the scores of
contacts which were necessary to the
eight day flight which gave them the
womens record. A Photographic plane
and a tri-motored plane full of sight
seers accompanied the endurance plane
plane and its flying service station as
and its flying service station as
port and downtown Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
PUERTO RICO FACES
OVERPOPULATION
Yearly Increase Of 20.4 Per Thou
sand Pictured as Gravest Prob
lem in Gov. Beverley's Report.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, September
26.-In his first annual report to the
Secretary Of War, Gov. James r. Bever-
ley asserted today that Puerto Rico's
greatest problem is its excessive popu-
lation.
This year there was a net increase of
20.4 per thousand, bringing the total
population to l,599,l42, or 1855 to the
square mile.
Organization Of agriculture, encour-
agemerit of industries and vocational
training can help to alleviate the stu
alton, but they never will be sufficient to
raise the standard of living to a salts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
500 TO RESUME WORK.
Will Be Employed by Reynolds Spring
Company.

CHICAGO. September rs (P.-
Eight hundred employees will be put
back to work at the plants of the Rey-
nolds Spring Co. in Jackson, Mich,
between now and october Is, Charles
G. Mum, president announced today
Three hundred and fifty employees were
rehired during September. Since Au-
gust 26, the Reynolds Bakelite plant
has been operating seven days week
on a 24-hour basis each day, and the
company expects to continue this rate.
Increased operations are result of
introduction of a new line of products
manufactured in a wide variety of
forms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
WOMAN FLYERS REFUEL
PLANE OVER CAPITAL
Holders of Endurance Record
Demonstrate Method Before
Ending Four-Day Visit.

Bringing their four-day visit to the
National Capital to a close yesterday
afternoon with two demonstration re-
fueling contacts, perfectly MAIDS above
the heads of a crowd of more than
5000 spectators at Washington Hoover
Airport, Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis
and Mrs. Louise McPnetridge Thaden,
holders of the world refueling en-
durance record for women. left Wash
ington for Norfolk Va. They were &C
companied by their reTueling plane and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
THREE SEIZED IN CHASE

COLORADO SPRINGS, September
26 R.-Ofhcers last night chased and
captured three young alleged automo-
bile thieves suspected of stealing car
in Denver earlier in the evening
They gave their names as Donald
Mckenzie, Is, Detroit, Mich; Harold
Flarrance, Is, Binghamton, N. Y, and
Herman DietZ, 10, Kansas City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
FORMER OIL HEAD DIES
Samuel A. Megeath of Long Island
Native of Baltimore.

NEW YORK, September &c P).-
Samuel A. Megeath, So, former presi-
dent of the Galena Oil Co., died yester-
day at his Long Island home.
He is survived by his widow, the for
mer Adelaide Miller OF Franklin, Pa,
and five children, Mrs Francis j. Her
atty, wife of Capt Heraty, U. S. A.. sta
toned at Fort Benning, Ga; Mrs. Harry
Rogers. wife of Lieut.. Rogers, U. S. A..
of Madison. Wis; Mrs Paul STREET. wife
of Maj STREET, U. S. A., of Fort Leaven-
worth, Kans.. and Samuel A. Megeath.
jr., and Walden c. Megeath of New
York
Megeath was a native of Baltimore
and a former resident of Franklin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
TITULESCU LEAVES LEAGUE.
Rumanian Delegation Head Opposes
Russian Pact,

BUCHAREST, Rumania. September
Is (P)-It was officially confirmed to-
day that Nicholas Titulescu no longer
will head the Rumanian delegation to
the League of Nations.
Virgil Madgearu, minister of trade.
who left for Geneva today, will succeed
him.
The change followed the failure Of
efforts to reconcile his views with those
of the Valda-Voevod government on
the Russian pact of non-agSression. M.
Titulescu is convinced that the Kellogg
pact is sufficient; the government would
rather conclude a separate pact with
Russia similar to that recently initiated
by Russia and Poland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
Find Stolen Automobile.

BAILEYS CROSS ROADS, Va. Sep
temEl: 26 Especially Falls Church
police Saturday night found an auto
mobile, said to have been stolen a week
ago from Aaron S. Rippey of 116
Wooten avenue, Chevy Chase, Nd. in
the stone quarry of c. H. Powell here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
SENTENCED FOR THEFT
Youth Gets Six Months in Alexan-
dria for Snatching Purse.

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, September Go
Convicted of sratching a pocketbook
containing So from Mrs. Gladys CoombS.
$50 North Pitt street, while she was
standing in front of store on the 600
block King street Saturday night,
Joseph English, 49, of 500 block South
Patrick street, was sentenced to six
months in Jail by Judge William S.
Snow in Police Court this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
MAKES CAMPAIGN TRIP
Rockville Attorney Running for
House to Visit Garrett County.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, September 26-Harold
c. Smith, Rockville attorney. left last
night for Oakland to spend the entire
week campaigning in Garrett County in
his candidacy for the United States
House of Representatives to succeed
Representative David j. Lewis. He de-
voted last week to Allegany and WASH
ington Counties and reported Repub-
ucan prospects in both counties good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
French Paper Says League Must Be
Judge Of Japan.

TOULOUSE, France, September 26
R)-The newspaper La Depeche de
Toulouse, regarded as close to the gov
eminent, featured today an article by
Guglielmo Ferrero, Italian historian, de-
claring the League of Nations must face
its responsibilities and act as Judge of
whether Japan violated the League
Covenant in Manchuria.
THE League should decide" the arti-
Gle said, whether the world has en-
tered a period when there will be wars
which are not wars"
TITULESCU LEAVES LEAGUE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
Rallston Citizens to Meet.

BALLSTON, Va, September 26 (Spe-
ciaD The Rallston Citizens Associa-
ton will hold it's meeting at the fire
house tomorrow evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
HYDE TO RESUME TOUR
Secretary Has Tooth Removed and
Returns to Office.

Returns to Office.
Secretary Hyde, who Cancelled an ad-
dress in Ohio Saturday night because of
an infected tooth. hopes to be able to
resume tomorrow his Middle Western
tour in the interest of President Hoover
candidacy.
The tooth was extracted yesterday
and the Secretary of Agriculture re-
turned to his desk today. Unless some
complication arises, he expects to speak
tomorrow night at Portsmouth, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26

by a vote of A out Of SO. In his
address he said, although the interna-
tional sky was overcast, some CLEANS
of light could be observed.
must FACE RESPONSIBILITIES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-26
de VALERA TERMS
LEAGUE ON TRIAL
Execution of Obligations of
Covenant on Weak and
Strong Is Urged.

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