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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-27
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r1 Your Hollywood correspondent reports that Baby LeRoy is Hollywood's youngest rancher. Raises turkeys chickens, ducks, goat and a COW Mar lene Dietrich is in for some busy moments when she dons that 5O-pound wedding gown designed for her in Catherine the Great" Jack LaRue and Alan Hale raced for sun-tan location and Jack won by a blister :. Sylvia Sidney has installed double barrelled movie projector in her new home theater Caudette Colbert has the natives groggy with her glasses She different colored pair every day match the particular dress she has on Ida Lupino stood for plenty of bbing" the 3Ofoo dive she has to make into net George Burns and Oracle AL len are still arguing whether MIRA is a good broadcasting system Charlotte Henry worked 59 days steadily on Aice in Wonderland" before she got vacation . Mary Roland is shopping for furni- ture for her home Dorothy Dell, blonde Broadway and the Miss Universe of 1880 is in Pic turiana with a Paramount contract {. George Raft returns to his first profession -dancing-in "Bolero, in which Carole Lombard Frances Drake and Sally (Fan-dance) Rand appear Kathleen Howard former Metropolitan Opera star has been added to the cast of Death Takes Holiday" It's Larry Crabbe now, instead of Buster The Larry has been added for dignity's sake . Lyda Robert once worked as waitress to earn enough money to get back to the United States. The troupe she with was strand ed in Shanghai When bows arrows, and spears used by Malay tribes demanded in Cecil B. Dele picture he supplies the real thing from his collection
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for, to use an old expire SION they were
tainly between the devil and the deep blue
sea-" for what damage was left undone by one
army was usually completed by the other and
the chickens there had to rooSt mighty high
from 1861 to 1865
When the battle of Bull Run, or Manassas, as
it i5 also called, took place on July 81 1861,
Mr. Merry, before referred to. WIS just 10 years
Old but his personal recCllectionS of the re-
treating Union troops as they passed near his
home, followed by the Confederates is well
worth repeating. He says:
After the first battle of Bull Run, when
citizens as well soldiers retreating in
the rain, there were many Union sympathizerS
with those retreating. Some CT them were in
top bugges with their children, some were in
wagons and others riding on hor-es and leading
other horses. This retreat continued all day
Monday. Tuesday was a day of suspenSe and
silence. On Wednesday about 10 O'Clock in
the morning the first cavalcade of Confederates
rode by. They formed a motley crowd Of men
and horses. Some wore uniforms some were
citizens clothes and some wore Yankee blue.
They were wearing hats OF any and all de-
scriptionS when they passed our home. One
of them had his hat cooked on cne side and
was whisting Dixie. Shortly after they re-
turned they halted in front of our house and
four Of them stopped for water which gladly
got for them. I was a little fellow, only 10
years of age. One Of the four asked where
my father was and I informed him that he
lost at a passenger the good ship
Central America. The soldier then asked for
my mother and tod her that he well remem-
bered the sinking cf the Central America and
that he had dear friend who went down with
the same ship The colder fine specimen
OF the Southern gentleman. He was dressed
in citizens clothes and was very courteous to
nv mother He told her how brave she was
to stay there with her little children. Her
answer was that she had no other place to go
and must stay there until driven away. He
told mother his name was Bonham and that
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Christ Church the first one at Alexandria, for
we find that November 27 1866 a vestry
meeting was held to discuss the matter of pro-
viding better accommodations for the parish
and it was agreed that two new churches
should be built to take the places of the old
ones at Alexandria and at the Falls of the
Potomac.
On January l. 1867, according to an old
account James Wren, said to be descendant
of Sir Christopher Wren the architect of ST.
Pauls Cathedral London, agreed to build the
church at the Falls, of brick for 500 pounds As
shillings and James Parsons the church in
Alexandria, also of brick for 600 pounds. The
latter failed to fulfill his contract in 1772, and
the veStry then contracted with Col John Car
lyle to complete the work for an additional
of 220 pounds. Christ Church for
mally delivered to the veStry February 81 1773
and Fails Church was undoubtedly completed
at an earlier date
wartime item printed in 1851 in referring
to this church says: "' This is the most
advanced post of our Army in Fairfax County
and has been the scene of several picket skir-
nlishes. Falls Church built in 1909, and
rebuilt, inscription the wall informs
US, by the late Lord Fairfax, whose son. the
present Lord Fairfax Is supposed to be serving
in the Confederate army. The title of lord,
we may observe. is still given to the representa-
tive of the family. The inscription on the old
church reads as follows:
Henry Fairfax, an accomplished gentleman,
an upright magistrate, sincere Christian. died
in command Of the Fairfax Volunteers at Sal
tillo, Mexico 1847. But for his munificence
this church might still have been a ruin.
Service was held in the old church two Sun
days since. Rev. DR.. Mines. chaplain of the
ID Maine Regiment, officiating. and most of the
troops in the neghborhood being present"
- ,nt nj nj
quiet little village. one scarcely i'm
agine what the people in this part Of Virginia
suffered throughout the period of the Civil War,
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he was in charge of the Southern troops in that
section, with headquarters in Vienna; that there
were bad men in all armies, but that he hoped
none would molest her home and that he would
do his best to protect her and her little children
while he in that vicinity.
The following morning picket post was
established with dozen men on our farm. two
of the picketS being placed in our yard. These
did not remain long as the fighting was
almost of daily occurrence. Our little flock was
often ordered into the cellar, though child'S
curiosity would not permit me to remain there.
I wanted to see what was going on. One night
I heard a noise at the well. spied around
only to find that men were going up and down
the well, like ants going into their holes. The
well was So feet Deep was walled with white
flint stone and very rough. The bucket and
rope were gone, so the men were going down
into the well after water They climbed down
the rough wall, cursing one another for tread
ing on fingers. 1t was very dark and the men
had no light.
when morning came I saw the toughest
lot of men I had ever beheld They were the
Louisiana Tigers composed of Mississippi River
boatmen Some of the men had only one
eye, some had only two fingers They were the
worst SCARED and weather beaten lot of men
have ever seen. They had been tearing up the
Ioudoun & Hampshire Railroad. They built
fires. using the ties for fuel. They would lay
the rails across the fires and when these were
hot would pick them up and walk around with
them
That day the Tigers had camped along
the turnpike near our home. We had several
bee stands at one end of our house. A big.
burly fellow rolled his sleeves up above his
elbows. tipped over one hive after another,
tore out the honey and passed it around In
chunks to his comrades He paid no more
attention to the stings of the bees than he
would TO flies. Those same little black bees.
imbued with the warlike spirit of the times.
made the rest of us sit up and take notice for
days after involuntary contact with them"
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Snakes Get Highly Specialized Care at National Zoo
BY Ira l.. Smith

movable bone in the forward part of the upper
jaw. The fangs of other species fold against
the roof of the mouth.
Paradoxically, Dr. Mann holds that the rep
tile house is no place for a brave person"
This declaration is based upon the attitude
that bravery leads TO carelesSness and that
carelessness is direct route to trouble.
Methods used in handling the snakes "be-
hind the scenes" indicate clearly how the rep
tile house activities have proceeded without any
recourse to the first-aid cabinet in which anti
toxins and equipment for treatment of bites
are located.
Exceptional opportunity to watch these
methods as they are practiced when newly
acquired snakes come to the Zoo was afforded
q recent day when small automobile
stopped In the rear of the reptile house. The
cars only visible passenger was the driver.
young man. It was well laden, however. with
wooden boxes. The contents of those boxes
were % snakes and l gila monster, the latter
being a venofnous lizard The collection rep
resented a portion of the assets of snake
show" which had been doing business at a
stand between Washington and Baltimore dur
ing the Summer and which was breaking up
with the advent Of cold weather.
The informal Reception Committee consisted
of DR.. Mann. William H. Blackbourne. veteran
AtduktcpcA, WIZ DStu d ultLlOeE u ttlc
Zoos staff during more than 40 years, and three
other keepers.
The boxes were unloaded and carried to an
elevator, by which they were hoisted to the
main floor of the reptile house and to position
in the working area which rests between the
rear doors of two rows of cages.
Two brooms, a butchers cleaver a wire
screen and Zoo-made contrivance dubbed q
SNAKE -gripper," comprise the equipment util-
izoI ~. tl,nr tI@o
cages.
From the boxes came a multitude of Kisses,
each a protest against jostling.
"The rattlers are in here" said the man
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OF all the problems which have formed
around these non-comnaunicative inhabitants
Of the reptile house to confront observant and
ingenious keepers, none is larger than the one
now centered in the cobra which Dr. Ditmars
brought from New York
Like all snakes, the cobra has transparent
film over its eyes. This film ordinarily IS dis
carded and is replaced with a new one each
time the reptile sheds its skin. Normal pro-
cedure of this type has gone awry in the case
Of the king" The skim shedding process has
been repeated many times. but with no accom-
panying changes of eye films. The result Is
that several layers now cover the snakes eyes.
Total blindness approaches.
Nowadays, the cobra, his patterned length in
two three loops, rests in diSmaying lack
of motion. Keepers. looking occasionally into
his ate-glass-fronted quarters hope necessity
for delicate and unprecedented operation may
be averted.
Should such an operation be required, the
hands which perform it will move uncomfort-
ably close to the mouth wherein are fangs
through which the reptile shoot approx
mately teaSpoc2ful of its amber-colored
venom when it strikes
h lot so very long ago a Sumatra cobra
sprayed its poison over the entire surface
of the glass shield which fits into the peep
hole" located IN the sheet-metal door at the
rear of its cage. DR.. William M. Mann. the
Zoos director, had dropped the shield which is
several inches square into its protective posi-
ton split-second before the serpent sent the
defensive poison squirting through its fangs.
The layrnan, willing to get his information
about venomous things through hearsay rather
than personal observation, learns from DR..
Mann that each fang is connected at its base
with q canal which extends back of the rep
tiles eyes and thence into an almond-shaped
gland which secretes the poison In some
species, the fangs are rigidly attached to
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who had brought the snakes, pointing to q box
larger than the others.
One keeper used the cleaver to loosen boards
forming the top of the box: another slipped
the wire screen beneath the loosened boards
pushing it ahead as they were lifted.
Then Mr.. Blackbourne came forward with
the snake -grpper 1t is broom-stick with
shovel handle attached to one end and semi
circular pieces Of metal fastened to the other
end. A wire connects the handle with the
metallic pieces in manner which enables the
operator to bring the latter close together by
pulling the handle away from the end of the
stick.
Mr.. Blackbourne pushed the business end OF
the gripper beneath the screen and into the
box With clear view Of the group Of rat
tiers, he able to move the gripper so as to
get of the snakes in its clutch.
Then with brooms thrust forward to guard
the opening against escape of the other snakes
in the box the gripper and its catch were with
drawn. Flopping around in mid-air. with both
ends free, the rattler was carried to the door
of one of the cages, there to be deposited and
released upon the sandy floor.
Soon the boxes were empty and the pOpula-
ton of the reptile house was increased by 78
forms
During the course of the entire transfer. only
two snakes struck" One of the keepers
placed emphasis upon this fact, citing it as
proof of his contention that the snakes are
not so strongly set against the rest of the
world as most folks believe
In fact. they have one habit which seems
alm-rt to offer convincing evidence that they
are mischievous. Invariably. upon being re-
leased in a cage. they move by the most d1-
rect route to the small pool situated near the
center of the sanded floor area. Drawing their
lengths through the water. they next wrigge
to the cages glass front, there to place large
Continued on Eighth Pace
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~ N the chill evening of February 26.
1881, a man in New York City.
i preparing for an overnight trip
to Washington, closed bulging
handbag He had just placed
note atop the bags contents en-
Joining any person who might come upon the
luggage by error to keep it where the tempera-
ture was above 70 degrees.
Nobody opening that piece Of baggage by
chance would have tarried to read, however.
A 14-foot snake was coled within the case
The reptile, of the deadly king cobra variety,
arrived at the National Capital the next morn
ing after having spent the night in its leathern
cage beneath blankets at the foot Of the berth
occupied by its custodian, DR.. Raymond l..
Dttmars curator at the New York Zoo. Since
that time it has been resident of the reotile
house at the National Geological Park. There
it Is safe from the touch of cold weather which
would prove fatal, occupying steam heated
quarters which are flooded with health-inv1ting
rays Of light from special equipment.
Care taken in transporting this reptile to
Washington and solicitude with which it now
is being watched while in the grip of strange
malady combine to reveal the unique character
Of work done by men who follow the vocation
OF catering to vipers. Dealing constantly with
q form of life which is at once deadly and frag-
lie, ana all tfle WILLIE mysterious, GIleSe uleu
move in little world far removed from the
commonplace.
Their charges drawn from many distant
places, require a wide variety of attention.
These are received by the reptiles with ut
ter lack of evident appreciation or affection
The creatures, in fact, are cold-blooded in the
fgurative as well as the literal sense They
eat, sleep, change their skins and stare in 81
lence. If they are pleased with the care they
FpcQ Qiyya oIo,If f~r jnfU
Disease may even take them on the road to
death without effecting a change in their wall
eyed and expressionless appearance.
In short they are living secrets
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N the chill evening Of February 26.
1881, a man in New York City.
preparing for an overnight trip
to Washington, closed a bulging
handbag. He had just placed a
note atom the bae'S contents en-
Evening star., 1933-10-29
R. F. c. GOLD PRICE
SCARS SIX CENTS
Administration Disregards
World Market Drop.
Margin Is $1.25.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Disregarding a drop In world gold
quotations, the administration again
yesterday pushed upward its fixed price
for the domestically mined metal.
While the London quotation was
falling from S3l1o Friday to $3o.57
yesterday, the price of R. F. c. pur-
chases rose from s3l76 to s31 .s2. Fri
day it stood at 66 cents above the world
level and yesterday at $l.2o.
The only apparent recognition OF the
decline on the London market lay in
the fact that the domestic increase was
at q smaller rate than in the last sew
eral days when the London quotation
was trending upward.
Rose Cents Yesterday.
As compared with the first price set
on Wednesday. Thursdays figure was
IS cents higher and Fridays % cents
above Thursday. The increase yester-
day was cents.
Economists studying the development
Of the Governments new monetary
policy were quick to draw the conclu-
sion that yesterdays rise, in the face
Of the foreign decline, was evidence Of
q determination by the administration
to run the domestic quotation well
above world levels.
The margin between the Washington
and London rates has grown steadily.
On Wednesday it was II cents, Thurs
day. 48; Friday. 66. and yesterday.
sl.25. At the same time the actual
London price. in British currency. has
risen and fallen Yesterdays figure
was below that Of Wednesday.
Miners Are Active.
Dispatches from Denver and San
Francisco reported tremendous out
burst of activity among the miners,
eager to take advantage of the new
price, and Of huge deliveries to the
mints In those cities.
Through raising and pegging the
price of gold, President Roosevelt hopes
to induce rise in the price of COM
modtttes. on the theory that gold and
commodity prices are closely related
and automatically adjust themselves to
each other.
Evening star., 1933-10-29
CRAWFORD MOTION
JUDGE IS CHANGED
Action to Quash Indictments
Causes Jurist to Ask
for Substitute.
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, October 2a.-Upon
the request Of Judge J. r. H. Alexander
to be relieved Of duty in the hearing
Gov. Pollard today appointed a new
judge to hear a motion to quash murder
indictments In the George Crawford
murder case.
The Governor appointed Judge James
L. McLemore Of Suffolk. after Judge
should not be called upon to pass upon
up the grand jury list prior to the in
with the Staying of Mrs Agnes Ilsley
and her maid, Nina Buckner.
The motion to quash the indictment
was filed at Leesburg Thursday by
Charles H. Houston colored attorney OF
the ground that colored persons were
unlawfully excluded from service on the
grand jury.
Crawford was returned to Virginia to-
day and lodged in the Alexandria Jail,
after lengthy litigation since his appre-
hension in Massachusetts,.
After his arrest in Massachusetts, and
extradition to Virginia was granted. the
procedure was Interrupted when Fed
eral Judge Lowell Of Boston granted a
writ Of habeas corpus on the ground
that the Negro was excluded from jury
service in Virginia The United States
Supreme Court overruled Judge Lowell
Crawford was taken to the Alexandria
Jail at the request Of Commonwealth
Attorney John Ganeher Of Loudoun
County, who said the prosecution was
ready for trial.
Evening star., 1933-10-29
FORD TRUCK TAKEN
BY U. S. ON LOW BID;
CONTROLLER TO RULE
Continued From First Page)

manufacturer had replied 70 the de-
mands Of striking workers for revised
working conditions.
The National Labor Board which has
kept an eye on the proceedings had ex-
pected to hear that a reply from Dear
born was in. Its observer 1T Edge
water reported nothing.
Edgewater Case Important.
The Edeewater case may furnish an
omen and shut decision on whether Ford
will deal with representatives OF MS
mer,ts of the industrial law for collec-
tive bargening when sought by the
workers.
On the other compliance question at
issue, the filing OF requested wage and
hour reports to the National Autozno-
bile Chamber Of Commerce, code con-
troll agency, It was too soon TO estab-
lish Ford's intentions. Johnson prom
Unofficial word at Dearborn Friday was
that he intended to f1le the data, and
statements Of Ford ofncisls were to the
erect that he was Observing the law.
Privately, many N. r. A. odlctals be-
lieved Ford meant to register his com
pliance In good time. They regretted
the statements Of Friday.
The fear yesterday was that Ford
would now feel so affronted as to choose
to fight right down the line. johnson
was committed not to compromise, lest
N. R. A. be publicly accused Of ''crack-
ing down" on unimportant little viola
tors. and letting q really big man get
away.
Evening star., 1933-10-29
JONES TO ADDRESS
FORUM AUDIENCE
R. F. c. Chairman Will Ex-
plain Federal Financial Pro-
gram in Radio Talk.

Latest financial moves Of the Fed
eral Government will be explained to
the American people Wednesday night
when Jesse H. Jones, chairman Of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
speaks in the National Radio Forum
arranged by The Washington Star and
broadcast over a coast-to-coast net
work of National Broadcasting Co. sta
tions from 1890 to II pm.
Among the subjects to be discussed
by the eminent speaker, who occupies
key post in administering the rapidly
developing financial policy Of the Gov
ernment, will be the gold program look
ing to a managed currency.
Mr. Jones, as head Of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, which is
making purchases Of gold for the Gov
eminent, has come into new prominence
in the national spotlight. 1t is within
his corporation also that the new de-
posit liability division has been formed
to speed the liquidation Of assets IN
closed banks, to put money into the
hands Of depositors as rapidly as pos
sible
The speaker thus will bring to tn,
American people In time when all are
wondering what will be the outgrowth
Of important moves at Washington. a
f1rst-hand and ofhcial exposition OF
what the financial program is designed
to do, and what progress is being made
toward the desired result.
The speech will be heard here over
Station WMAL.
Evening star., 1933-10-29
BENEFICIARY HELD
IN 4.DEATH PROBE
Mysterious Trail of Fatalities
Among Insurance Mans
Intimates Investigated.

LOS ANGELES, October 2s.-A trial
of deaths. originally ascribed in part to
heart ailments, was under investigation
today by the district attorneys Office In
man of Glendale. Calf.
Cline, arrested week ago, is being
held at San Bernardino on a charge Of
grand theft In connection with the rob-
berry of a Los Angeles man, Martin
Frame. 60, who said he had become
drugged after drinking a glass Of but
termilk given him by Cline.
Quantities CT a hypnotic drug and
also c. swift acting poison were found
In the possession { Cline when he was
arrested, San BernalG 10 County off,
GERS said.
Four Deaths Probed.
The deaths under investigation in
c-ude those of Cline's wife, Mrs. Bessie
Van Sickle Cline; her brother, Lucas
Brandt McCreery; the Rev. E. F. Jones,
English evangelist, and Mrs. Carrie May
Porter The death Of the latter at Reno,
New. two years ago was brought into
the investigation today.
The bodies of the wife and brother
in-law have been exhumed and are un-
der chemical analysis. The remains OF
the evangelist and Mrs. Porter were re-
ported to have been cremated.
In the deaths of Mrs Cline and the
evangelist, estates were left to Cline
as beneficiary, $4,000 by the former
and Sill 900 by the latter.
Mrs. Helen Fisher of Barstow told
investigators her brother, Lucas NC
Creery. had appeared in good health
and death occurred shortly after he had
partaken Of a glass Of buttermilk.
Heart Apparently Normal.
Mrs. Cline died last month, a ply
sicians certificate giving the cause Of
death as heart failure" A preliminary
examination Of the exhumed remains
here resulted In an official announce
ment that the heart appeared to have
been normal.
The death Of the evangelist occurred
in Bakersfield. Calf, in June. 1881.
while he was on motor trip with
Cline. TWO days before he had signed
a will at Paso Robles, Calf, bequeath-
ing his estate to Cline. In the crema-
ton order for the evangelist investi-
gators said, Cline had given a fictitious
address.
Reno. New. authorities today reported
that Mrs Porter had died in q hotel
there. from what a doctor believed to
be heart failure, on october l6, 1881.
This was four days after she had reg
istered at the hotel with a man giving
the name Of A. L. Cline.