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Evening star., 1932-06-30
Skeletons Reveal
Volcanic Tragedy
Of10OO Years Ago
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
POMPEI, Italy, June 80. - A
tradegy of 1000 years ago has
been revealed by further excava-
tions of the House Of Menander
in the ruins of this ancient city.
In a bedroom lay two skeletons.
Beside one was a leather purse
containing 100 pieces Of money.
Evidently the master of the house,
seeing impending destruction by
the tide of lava, leaped from his
bed, called TO his wife to follow
and snatched his purse. But
both were overwhelmed.
Evening star., 1932-06-30

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Evening star., 1932-03-06

I'm studying the black pharmacopeia," he
remarked 1T is necessary to distinguish be-
tween those native medicines which are purely
magical and those which are real specifics for
diseases.
Lightning, for instance, is hardly consd-
cred by us as an ailment against which you
can get herb or a doctors prescription. Yet
the black people have various ccncoctions
which are prepared whenever it is thought
that the crops in danger. So, too, there
are medicines against hail. against the evil
eye against curses on the sites of buildings.
Such articles are witchcraft. pure and simple.
We collect them with the others, but our
Evening star., 1932-03-06
Matrices ofAfican Jung1es Reluctantly Dis
close Sources of Many Drugs That No70
Are Being Used Extensively in Science.
'Nediciue Men" Form Union to Protect
Their Interests.

| UNFORTUNATELY the Dingakas Conference
~ did not understand the purpose of the
white folks inquisitiveness, and the learned
professors have not yet succeeded in making
it clear to the sorcerers that they are not
potential competitors of theirs.
What. then, is the real object behind these
researches?
institutions of learning on the African Conti-
nent, the University of the Witwatersrand at
johannesburg, has Systematically gathered and
tested all the medical wisdom of the kraals.
Situated in the worlds greatest gold-mining
CITY, to which hundreds of thousands of ma
tives from the uttermost corners Of Africa
annually come to work, this university has
unique opportunities of seeing every kind OF
tribal custom of tracking down every kind of
medicine man and of collecting samples Of
innumerabe remedies.
American encouragement was in a consider
able degree responsible for the tackling of this
unique adventure.
officials at the Department Of Agriculture
in Washington D. c., and medical experts in
the United States drew the attention of the
scientists at Johannesburg to the fact that
they might establish a clearing house for the
juju lore for this part of the globe, a job
which could be undertaken nowhere else
And so it comes that today Americans buy
pills and other preparations at their drug
stores against kidney troubles, against dia-
betes. dysentery and malaria which were first
Evening star., 1932-03-06

interest therein is not great as In those
which profess to cure ills CT the flesh"
h lever was a more curious and difficult piece
of work undertaken than the collection
of the actual specimens.
Through various scientific bodies through
the newspapers and through government de-
partments, not only in this dominion but In
dozen neighboring territories all good citizens,
black as we'll as white, were invited to send In
any native remedies of which they had knowl-
edge.
Evening star., 1932-03-06

tried out before the dawn of history in the
kraalS of Africa.
Prof. J. M. Watt, who occupies the chair
of pharmacology at the University of the Wit
watersrand is the man responsible for the
collection of approximately 5000 tribal rem
edies, which would otherwise never have be-
come obtainable for the laboratories Of the
world. OF these about 1900 are cures for
various ailments, 500 are poisons and the re-
mainder are as yet unspecifed.
1 visited the professor, a wide-awake, jovial
Scotchman in one of the big buildings Of the
University Medical School.
Evening star., 1932-03-06
BY ERIC ROSENTHAL.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.

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Evening star., 1932-08-25
THREE GOVERNORS
INVITED TO PARADE
Roosevelt, Urged to Accom-
pany Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
Firemen, Unable to Accept.

While President Hoover and Gov.
Roosevelt of New York are not expect
ed to be in Washington to review the
annual flremen's parade here Labor
day, three Governors have been invited
to sit in the reviewing stand.
The three Governors. who have not
notified the Washington Board of
Trade, which Is sponsoring the parade,
whether they will be able to attend, are
Albert c. Ritchie of Maryland, who
was in the reviewing stand last year;
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and A.
Harry Moore Of New Jersey.
Roosevelt Not to Attend.
Gov Roosevelt, a member of the
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Fire Department,
has been invited by that organization
to accompany it to Washington for the
parade, but the Board of Trade has
received definite word that the New
York Governor will be unable to attend.
It is thought likely President Hoover
will be at his Rapidan camp over the
Labor day week end.
Marines Will Lead.
Poughkeepsie, according to word re-
ceived today, is sending its mayor and
200 of its firemen to take part in the
parade. 1t also was announced today
that the parade will be led by the full
strength of the 9Th Marine Reserve
Brigade of 1,500 men and its band.
The Junior Order, United American
Mechanics, will carry one of the largest
American flags in the world in the pa
rade. flag 1876 by 102 feet, with $50
members carrying 1t.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
Prosecution Near Completion
of Arlington County En-
bezzIement Case.
FALSIFICATION OF BOOKS
NOT LAID TO DEFENDANT
Auditors of Virginia Department
of Public Accounts Explains
Alleged Changes.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, August 25-The prosecu-
tion's case against former County Clerk
William H. Duncan, now being tried on
an embezzlement charge, was nearing
completion today as additional evidence
designed to prove alterations of records
in Duncan'S office was introduced.
The Commonwealth has introduced
evidence intended to show that the
records Of the clerks Office were altered
en- II occasions in 1890, reducing the
recorded receipts Of the office by 81 800.
1t is not charged that Duncan made
the alterations, but Assistant States
Attorney General Collins Denny, jr.,
said the other employees in the clerks
office would be placed on the witness
stand to testify that they had not
changed the record
Erased s1OO Figures.
M. L. Carnifax, an auditor attached
to the Virginia Department of Public
Accounts, said some one had changed
the records in Duncan's Office by eras-
ing the figure in the S100 column. He
said these changes were made in the
Waring System records, from which the
State auditS were made, but that a
corresponding alteration was not made
in the book of original entries. He said
this discrepancy in the two records was
the factor which resulted in his dis
covering the $4,000 shortage.
Carnifax said all the alterations of
this character were made in the rec
ord of payments of delinquent taxes
He explained the transactions as fol-
lows:
Let us assume that Mr.. Smith came
to the clerks Office and paid $3.50 in
back taxes. He was given a receipt for
this amount, and correct entry made
in the daily receipt book. For book
keeping purposes, however, all of the
receipts OF this character were copied
at the end of each day on a Waring
System record sheet, from which the
state audits were customarily made. At
some later date the Waring System
records were changed by the erasure
of the figure g., the result being that
the record showed only a payment of
$50. Whoever made the change did so
apparently to conceal the shortage, in
that instance. of $780,"
Charges II Alterations.
Carnifax said this was done in II
instances during the fiscal year of 1890
He said the total shortage concealed
in this manner was $4,000.
1t is expected that Commonwealth
Attorney Lawrence Douglas will close
the case after calling employees Of the
clerks Office in an effort to show that
they did not alter the records.
Defense Attorneys Leo P. Harlow and
Amos Crounse have not indicated
whether Duncan will take the stand
in his own defense. He Is charged with
embezzling $7,815 of State Highway
Commission funds entrusted to him
during the hearing of land condemna-
tion case
Evening star., 1932-08-25
PHONE HEARINGS
UP AGAIN MONDAY
Counsel of Utilities Commission
Given Time to Study
Valuation Figures.

Hearings by the Public Utilities Com
mission in the telephone rate case will
be resumed Monday.
The commission postponed the in
quiry late yesterday. after the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co. viz
tually completed presentation OF It's
testimony, to give William A. Roberts,
special counsel for the commission, time
to study the final and most important
company exhibit which lays claim to
a valuation of $36008,622.
Indications are the hearings will con-
clude the latter part of next week
When the inquiry is resumed the COM
mission plans to offer several corrected
exhibits and Roberts intends to subject
the company witnesses to cross-exam-
nation
The valuation claimed by the COM
pany is based on reproduction costs
new, less depreciation. The figure is
$4,000, 900 in excess Of the value placed
on the company property by Thomas r.
Tate, commission engineer, and other
commission witnesses. The wide margin
of difference is traceable chiefly to the
divergent methods of computing depre-
citation and going concern" value CT
S4,000,0 900 claimed by the COMPANY.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
WOMAN IS VICTIM
OF HEART ATTACK
Gen. Patrick'S Secretary Dies
in Apartment of
Earl v. Fisher.
Mrs. Margaret Mckinney Kay, sec

Mrs. Margaret Mckinney Kay, sec
retary to Maj. Gen. Mason M Patrick,
chairman of the Public Utilities Com
mission, died suddenly early today in
an apartment at 1901 Sixteenth street,
occupied by Earl V. Fisher, executive
secretary of the commission. Her body
was removed to the District Morgue
where an autopsy performed by DR..
Christopher j. Murphy, deputy coroner,
disclosed she had died Of natural causes,
specifically dilation of the heart.
Although Mrs. Kay appeared to be
in good health when she left the COM
mission yesterday afternoon, friends
pointed out she had been under treat
ment for heart trouble.
Fisher told Detective Sergt. Dennis
Murphy who investigated the case,
that Mrs. Kay was stricken about 1:15
o'clock this morning, and he imme-
diately called Emergency Hospital. She
died, however, before the arrival of the
ambulance with DR.. Thompson Of the
hospital staff.
District EmpIoye Seven Years.
When DR.. Thompson pronounced Mrs.
Kay dead, Fisher called the office OF
DR.. Joseph D. Rogers, District coroner.
he learned JIldL LII. TtOScio WdS away
on q vacation, and then called DR..
Murphy, who ordered the autopsy, a
customary procedure when person dies
without medical attention. DR.. Murphy
also notified the detective bureau. and
Detective Murphy of the homicide
squad was detailed to make an investi-
cation.
Mrs. Kay was SO years old, and at
one time she was private secretary to
Senator Gore of Oklahoma. She en-
tered the District employ in 1925 as
a clerk in the Office of William P. Rich
ards, tax assessor. Two years later
when the new Public Utilities Com
mission was created she became secre-
tary to John W. Childress, then chair
man of the commission. When Gen.
Patrick was appointed successor to
Childress he retained her as his
secretary.
Husband Died in 1880.
Mrs. Kay was a widow. her husband
having died in 1890 She was ma
tive of Washington and lived with her
mother, Mrs Helen c. Mckinney, at
1929 Ingleside terrace. Mrs. Mck1n-
ney is employed by the District.
In addition to her mother, Mrs Kay
is survived by two sons-John 9, and
Milton, 12-and two brothers-Sam Nc
Kinney, an attache of the American
embassy in London, and Charles Nc
Kinney of 1929 Ingleside terrace.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
OPERA SCHEDULED >
IN SYLVAN THEATER
Gilbert and Sullivan's n. NJ. S.
Pinafore" Will Be Sung
Tomorrow Night.

The first complete light opera to be
sung in the Sylvan Theater will be
presented there tomorrow night, when
the Estelle Wentworth opera group per-
forms Gilbert and Sullivan's H. M. S.
Pianofore. The program, ninth Of a
Summer series, will begin at o'clock.
While the Wentworth singers are to
be costumed appropriately for the per-
formance, no stage setting will be used.
Sponsors include Community Center
Department. the Office of Public Build
ings and Public Parks ana the National
Capital Civic Fund. Miss Wentworth
will direct the presentation and William
F. Baker will be in charge of stage
lighting.
The singers include Ira p. Mayer.
Elliott Button, Raymond Baine, Harry
Crow, Harry Yeide. Alma Harris. Vir-
ginia Weldon, Maxine De Silvia, Helen
Bache, Lucie Chaconas, Marguerite
Dreisel, Margaret Horn, Bessie Jones,
Helen Mark, Ella Neuland, Elizabeth
Thornberry, Margaret Vogt, Laura
Williams, Irene Woltz, Mary Bruton,
James Bussey, Russell Cordrey, Sidney
Dwight, r. r. Edwards, Carl Horn,
Edwin Ludwig, Josiah Lyman, Arthur
Lowe, Dick Massari, Saverio Pisciotta
Vincent Pisciotta, Walter Snellings.
Joseph Stapleton, Thomas zepp and
Emile Ludwig.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
HEALTH CAMP INSPECTED
BY DR.. REICHELDERFER
Mrs. Grant and DR.. Peabody Ac-
company Commissioner on
Visit.

DR.. Luther Reichelderfer, president
Of the Board Of Commissioners of the
District yesterday made a personal in
spection of the Chisdren's Health Camp
at Thirteenth and Upshur streets,
which Is operated by the Association for
the Prevention of tuberculosis, in or
der to see the type Of children who
may be cared for. at the Children's
Sanatorium now under construction
near Glendale, Md.
DR.. Reichelderfer was accompanied
by Mrs. Ernest r. Grant, president of
the tuberculosis Association, who as
chairman of the Children's Tuberculo-
sis Sanatorium Committee, was active
in obtaining the new sanatorium, and
also by Dr. j. Winthrop Peabody. super
intendent of the tuberculosis Hospital,
also one Of the members of the sana-
torium committee. The Commissioner
said that work on the new sanatorium
is progressing with all possible speed.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
TEXAS DESCENDANT DRIVES CAR
HERE OVER WASHINGTON'S TRAIL
Branch of First Presidents
Family Went West 122
Years Ago.
Swift, Pleasant Trip Made on
Route Once Through
Wilderness.

Travelling by motor car the trails his
ancestors laboriously conquered by OK
cart. w. o. Washington of Brownsville,
Tex, collateral descendant Of George
Washington, arrived here yesterday
after six-day journey which his
progenitors needed 35 years to complete.
One hundred and twenty-five years
ago his great-grandfather, Col. Thomas
Pratt Washington, son of Col. William
washington, who was cousin of the
first President. led his family, includ-
ing so servants, from their home near
Manassas, Va, into the Southwest.
Part of the family remained at
Athens, Ala, but after stopping there
for some years, the branch to which
the Districts visitor belongs, pushed on
to Texas.
Here to Make Speech.
Now, in celebration of the Bicen-
tennial of the birth of George Wash
ington, Mr.. Washington has back
tracked the route of his forefathers,
travelling in swift comfort the arid ways
they trod, and speeding through the
pleasant Southern States, then almost
primeval forest.
The primary purpose Of Mr. Wash
ington's trip East is to address the con-
vention of the National Rural Letter
Carriers Association in Baltimore today.
He is president of the county officials
division of the American Road Builders
Association, and it was in this capacity
that he was invited to speak at the
Baltimore meeting.
The trail followed by the Texas high
Evening star., 1932-08-25

way official took him through Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and
Virginia. Stops were made at various
points along the route where the Wash
ington family had settled from time to
time on the Westward journey.
Notices Difference Here.
"I suppose should not say So" Mr..
Washington declared, "but I was very
much impressed with the fact that the
farther East I came the more family
conscious 1 found my relatives.
Il learned that the Texas branch
of the Washington family was much
better known to those located in Ala
bama and Virginia than the latter were
to us. Out in a new country-I guess
that explains Tiny people did not
have much chance to keep track of
those they had left behind. Those
located back this way, however, knew
everything there was to know about
the entire family history, including our
branch of it."
Mr. Washington and his wife spent
yesterday in the Capital and will re-
turn here from Baltimore this evening.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
BANDIT VICTIMS TO SEE
EIGHT TAKEN IN RAIDS

Eight men taken into custody last
night by the police hold-up and rob-
berry squad, headed by Detective Sergt.
Larry ODea, in a raid on pool room
in the 400 block of Pennsylvania ave-
nue., are to be viswed by recent hold-up
and robbery victims in roundup at
police headquarters tonight, with a view
to possible identification.
The eight men were part of group
of 20 taken into custody. All the others
were released after questioning. The
raid and arrests were made in con-
nection with the policy of the squad
in attempting to rid the city Of "un-
desirables," believed to be responsible
for many petty offenses here. The men
held also are to be fingerprinted at
police headquarters as further means
Of possible Identification, Sergt. ODea
said.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
BOY FOUND WITH COVERINGS
AFTER 'KIDNAPING" ALARM
Police of Three Cities Given Stir When Melvin, Son of
D. c. Tneater Owner Takes Trip.

When Melvin Stiefel, 4, decides he
wants to travel, there are really very
few things that will stop him.
The son of a Washington theater
owner. Nathan Stiefel, 1881 Varnum
street, Melvin has been spending the
past few months at his parents Sum-
ner home, in Atlantic City. Yesterday
he decided he wanted to see his father,
who was in Washington. Before he was
through with the idea, police of three
cities were all tangled up in 1t.
Melvin and his governess. Mrs. Mary
McGuigan, suddenly were reported
missing from the Atlantic City resi-
dence yesterday afternoon. A kidnap-
ing alarm was broadcast at once. De-
scriptions of the child and nurse were
Evening star., 1932-08-25
GAS
RATE CUT ORDERED
M MaryIand Public Service
Commission Makes 8I2
Per Cent Slash.
Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, August 25.-Two
gas companies serving Montgomery
County yesterday were ordered by the
Public Service Commission to reduce
their rates 812 per cent.
The order. which affects the Wash
ington Gas Light Co. Of Montgomery
County, and the Georgetown Gas Light
Co. of Montgomery County follows a
similar one issued July 26 by the Public
Utilities Commission Of the District OF
Columbia, directing that an equivalent
reduction be made by the Washington
Gas Light Co. and the Georgetown Gas
Light Co. for the benefit of consumers
in Washington.
Controlled by Capital Firms.
The two Maryland companies are
controlled by the Washington concerns,
while the Georgetown company In
Washington is a subsidiary Of the WASH
ington Gas Light Co. of that city. .,
The Washington order was issued VIII
the consent of the companies affected
it was said by Frank Harper, executive
secretary of the Public Service Commits
sion, and was given pending valuation
proceedings of the gas companies under
taken by the District Of Columbia COM
mission.
The orders Of both commissions
which are effective from August l, 1882
to and including meter readings to be
taken in January, 1888. do not affect
the basic rates, but are In the nature OF
discount on all bills except as to au-
thorized minimum amounts.
Terms Rates Unfair.
The order issued yesterday sets out
that the gas furnished in Maryland
by the companies is, in many in
stances, from the same mains as that
furnished in Washington and declares
the rates in Maryland are unfair.
1t also points out that the higher
and abviously unduly discriminatory
rates charged for gas service IN the
State of Maryland by the two Mary
land companies have been the cause
of constant dissatisfaction and misun-
derstanding and frequent complaints to
the commission"
Prior to the imposition Of the dis
count in Washington, Mr.. Harper said,
the Washington rates were 81 per 1000
CUBIC lSSG Vi gas 1OI OlIC 1iioo AJooS
feet, 80 cents per 1000 for the next
1000 feet and 85 cents for 1000 for all
over 5000 feet The Maryland rates,
he said, were 81 20 per 1000 cubic feet
for the first $500 feet and 80 cents per
1000 for all over that.
The Public Service Commission, Mr.
Harper explained, has been trying for
some time to have this differential ad-
justed.
Suburb Residents Affected.
The discounts ordered by the COM
mission, Mr. Harper says, will affect
most Of the residents of Washington
suburbs as we'll as people living ir
Montgomery County.
The reduction ordered yesterda!
raise to five the number Of downward
revisions of utility rates brought about
in Maryland by the commission in the
last few months.
The other four involved electric
rates in Southern Maryland, in the
vicinity of Betterton, Lonaconing anc
in Hartford County.
Evening star., 1932-08-25

given to Atlantic City, New Jersey and
PHILADELPHIA police. State troopers
watched the highways for the pair,
while policemen searched everywhere.
The bows parents were reported rushing
from Washington to Philadelphia to
join IN the search.
Then some one recognized Melvin and
his nurse on a Philadelphia street car.
He notified police. Mrs. McGuigan ex-
planned that Melvin had cried for his
father until she concluded the only way
to pacify him was to take him on a
Journey of some sort, so she started for
Philadelphia to visit acquaintance.
She forgot, however, to mention her in
tention to members Of the family in
Atlantic City.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
PRESIDENT MODIFIES
OFFICERS SENTENCE
Six Years Imprisonment Eliminat.
ed in Case of Lieut.. F. J. Clark.
Dismissal Is Upheld.
By the Associated Press.


President Hoover has modified the
court-martial sentence imposed upon
First Lieut.. Francis j. Clark of the In
fantry through an order eliminating
the years of imprisonment. but con-
firming the dismissal Of Clark from
the Army.
The War Department issued a state
ment of the Presidents action today.
Lieut.. Clark was convicted at Denver
on March 8, 1882, on charges of crimi-
nal assault and being drunk and dis
orderly.
Upon reviewing the case the Presi-
dent held there had been improper ad-
mission of hearsay evidence in connec-
tion with the assault charge and stated
that because of Clark'S intoxicated con-
dition there was a reasonable doubt as
to whether he was capable of forming
the criminal intent charged in the
specifications.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
RIDERS WILL COMPETE

Thirty riders will csnpete for
loving cup shd the title of "sir knight"
at an oldfashioned tournament to be
held Saturday by Calvert Post, No. s5.
American Legion, at Seaside Park
CheS&peake Beach. 1t is planned Il
maR the tournament an annual af.
faX and the rider who wins the trophy
Kree times will gain permanent pos
Session.
The winner adjudged most skillful in
"riding at the rings" also will choose
the queen of the court ball to be held
Saturday night at the park ball room.
Russell Owings, commander of the post.
has invited numerous other posts to
attend.
A six-acre lot will be cleared at the
beach for. the tournament arena 4