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Evening star., 1933-08-31
STONES REPLACED
At WHITE HOUSE
Cornice Repair Under Public
Works Fund First of Kind
Since Erection.

The first repairs to the stone work
of the White House since that famous
structure was built were under way to-
day and Public Works funds were
financing them.
Arno B. Cammerer, director of the
Off1ce of National Parks, Buildings and
Reservations, announced that $4,000 is
being spent for replacement of two
great Indiana limestone cornice stones.
The stones themselves will cost ap-
proximately $1,000 each, and the re-
mainder of the money will be spent in
raking out defective mortar and re-
placing it with water-tight joining and
in repairing other defective stones.
The cornice of the White House on
the Pennsylvania avenue side has
crumbled and deteriorated from wealth.
ering, successive freezing and thawing.
until cracks have been opened ana
fragments of stone detached or loosened.
It is expected to have the work done
before the President and his family re-
turn to the White House, although
adverse weather conditions for the past
few days have delayed progress.
The work Is being done by employees
of the public buildings branch of the
Office of National Parks, Buildings and
Reservations, but it has been found
necessary also to employ some additional
union stone maSons to assist IN re.
pointing the stones.
Mr.. Cammerer said records had been
searched carefully to determine whether
any such work has been done hereto
fore, and there is no such record. a
fact which speaks well for the original
builderx
Evening star., 1933-08-31

here Immediately and made survey Of
the stricken area.
Davies obtained permission from ma
tional heaquarters Of the Red Cross in
Washington to aid the destitute resi-
dents ard clothing and an appropriation
for food was rushed to the island from
the Capital and turned over to the field
director for disbursement.
With the aid of officials OF the st.
Marys County Chapter Of the Red Cross,
Davies set up field headquarters in the
small frame structure that houses the
St. Georges Island Methodist Church
and issued credit slips on the islands
three stores for food and passed out the
wearing apparel among those whose
clothing was swept away by the storm
or ruined by the turbulent waters.
Relief in Progress.
The relief work is still in progress
and Davies said that the money con-
tributed to the fund which Red Cross
officials are raising among residents OF
the county will be used to supplement
the contribution from national head
quarters.
More than IS victims of the storm
have applied to the field headquarters
here for relief funds with which to
repair their homes, purchase food and
right the damage wrought to their
boats by the gale.
large portion Of the money. Davies
said, will be used to prepare the island
ers' boats for the impending oyster
season. for it is upon their success
in the oyster beds this Fall that the
chances of ST. Georges residents to
recover from the storm hinge.
The board of county commissioners
have come forward with a contribution
of $500 to clean up the debris left
by the storm and eliminate other un-
sanitary conditions caused by the gale,
while officials of the Health Depart
ment are inoculating the island resi-
dents to safeguard against the out
break of an epidemic of typhoid fever.
DR.. D. st. c. Campbell of La Plata,
health officer of Charles County, has
been assisting with this work.
Covered by Seas.
The entire island, with the exception
of two points, was covered by high seas
throughout the greater part of the gale
and the fact that the storm passed
without loss of life is looked upon by
St. George residents as a work Of
God"
In addition to the homes that were
Evening star., 1933-08-31
Class Transparent One Way
Patented by Frederic Delano
Motor Driven Toothbrush, 'Deflector" to
Clear Vision of Pilots and Drivers, and
Other Inventions Recognized.

tell the farmer just how much hay. oats,
etc. he should feed to any particular
cow to get the maximum quantity of
milk. It is well known, Woodward points
out in his description of the mechanism,
that the optimum amount of feed is
dependent rather precisely on the size,
energy and exercise of the animal and
on the quantity and composition of the
milk given.
Yet, he points out, very few of the
24,000,000 dairy cows in the United
States actually are fed in this way, but
by q hit-or miss method which may
result in too much or too little fodder.
This, he says, is due to the fact that
the farmer hasn't the time or patience
for the great amount of clerical work
His machine will work out' all the
necessary relationships, including the
nutritive value of the hay, silage, grain,
etc.. which are to be fed.
To George j. Musgrave of Washing
ton was issued a patent for cream
smoother-otherwise a "homogenizer. :"
Its purpose, as described, Is "for break
ing globules contained in the liquid
and thereafter subject the cream to a
molding action to impart higher Wis
costly and uniform texture"
10 VlCtO1 AOuSAtco VI WdSA1ielOiA
was issued . patent for a device to
control relative airflow above and
beneath airplane Wings to increase the
lift and reduce the drag on such wings"
Leo A. Dawson Of Washington was
awarded q patent for an improved type
of ultra violet cray lamp by which
physicians can give a measured dosage
in accordance with the recent findings
Of physicists.
Among the patents issued to in
Evening star., 1933-08-31

ventors outside of Washington was one
for a power-driven toothbrush. 1t is
a rotating brush. which is hitched up
to the wash bowl faucet and whirled
around by water power.
Doushnut Hole Protected.
Another inventor apparently has a
device which prevents for all time the
"a novel means for conveying formed
cooked therein and means for main
tanning the form of the doughnut and
for reforming the .doughnut in case
its form has been altered after being
shaped" Still another OBJ
ject is to provide a novel means for
guiding doughnut to definite point
in cooking medium wherefrom the
same may be advanced in a definite
path in order that it may be free
from contact with miscellaneous OBJ
jects. By the means which I have pro-
vided the danger of distortion to the
doughnut will be eliminated"
Even the most ultra conservative OF
objects. the grave-stone, Is apparently
open to improvement. One inventor
was awarded a patent on monument
to be cast in moulds and shipped in
sections, to be fitted together when 1t
is put in place. One advantage, ac-
cording to the description, is that the
name and epitaph can be cast at the
same time, thus eliminating the services
of the stone cutter.
Still another inventor has a novel
idea for pockets in bathing suits so
that the swimmer can keep his watch
snd money on his person while in the
water.
Another patent awarded was for q
ventilated seat cushion with vacuum
cups to prevent 1t from sliding around
and 80 constructed as to allow free
circulation of air therein and thus pro-
vide a cool and comfortable seat for
the occupant"
Evening star., 1933-08-31
INSURANCE SOUGHT
FOR WOMAN'S ESTATE
Attorneys Sue for $4,000 Policy
in Wimbley Murder
Case.

The $4,000 life insurance policy de-
scribed as the motive for the murder
of Mrs. Elizabeth T Wimbley, again
became the center of litigation in Dis
trict Supreme Court today
Mrs. Wimbley was drowned in the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Septem-
Der II. 1881, and her husband. Harry
C. Wimbley, and John NJ Crowder,
subsequently were tried and convicted
of second-degree murder in connection
with her death. The Government
charged at that time that Wimbley
drowned his wife so he might collect
on the insurance policy
The husband was named as bene-
hciary in the policy, but. because of
the conviction, he was unable to COL
lect the money Patrick Henry Tench,
administrator of the woman's estate,
today asked the court to compel the
insurance company to pay the money
over to her estate. The suit was filed
by Attorneys George D. Horning, jr.,
and Dozier De Vane.
Evening star., 1933-08-31

Washington inventors were awarded
patents for some notable inventions
during the last week
Outstanding among the patents issued
was one to Frederic A. Delano, chair
man of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, for one-way win
dow glass, through which a person on
the inside can see out, but person
on the outside cannot see in, but which
will admit light without any dimunition
in its intensity.
For the person looking the wrong
way through this corrugated trans
parent material objects on the other
side are distorted beyond recognition.
The patent was issued for bodies of
transparent material, such as glass,
with one surface plane and the other
irregular The. surfaces forming the
irregular surface are arranged at angles
to each other in such manner as to
scatter light rays passing through the
sheets in one direction, thus causing
objects to appear distorted"
To John A. McCrary of Seminary
Hill. Va, was awarded patent for q
"deflector," which will give "a clear
and unobstructed vision from the pilot
house of vessel, an airplane, train or
motor vehicle while in motion or stand
ing still. This object Is attained by
providing q high velocity stream Of air
being directed across the line of vision
in such way that rain, hail, snow,
sleet or high winds will be detected
from their course and in this way not
driven into the Observers face and
eyes,"
Thompson E. woodward Of College
Park, Nd, obtained patent for q new
kind Of calculating machine, which win
Evening star., 1933-08-31

and wife, and the residence of Hall
Poe's family of four were swept of the
island. while the bungalow in which
lived Richard Thompson. his wife and
five children. the youngest two years
old. was virtually demolished on its
foundation.
Home Nearly Wrecked.
The home of Mrs. Ruth Fenwick, q
44-year-old widow with one child, was
almost completely wrecked and all her
possessions were ruined or carried off
by the waves The structure cost ap-
proximately $4,000 to build and was
regarded as one of the most attractive
residences on st. George.
Mrs. Fenwick and Mrs. Drew L.
Staples, friend who is caretaker of the
St. Georges Inn, both suffered cuts
about the feet in fleeing over debris
to points of safety and were given in
jections by county health officials to
safeguard against lockjaw. They were
the only casualties reported here dur
ing the storm.
The work of repairing the State road
bridge has already begun and it is ex-
pected it will be opened to traffic again
in about month. Meanwhile. motor
boat, piloted by 13-year-old Donald
Rice. son of Noble Rice. one of the is
lands best liked fishermen, has been
rented by the State to ferry people back
and forth to the mainland
It is expected that additional boats
will be pressed into service by the
State to carry ST. Georges school child
rem to the mainland. where the coun-
tvs public schools are located, when
the new term opens next Thursday.
Thirty automobiles left stranded on
the island when the bridge was swept
away were transported to the main
land on scows Sunday afternoon.
Evening star., 1933-08-31

swept away and ruined the flooring Of
the State road bridge, constructed
several years ago between the mainland
and island at a cost Of $4,000, was
swept away, cutting off the island from
the mainland, and the State road lead
ing into the heart of the island was
torn up.
Veteran rivermen that they are, how
ever, the inhabitants of the island
living in the danger zone along the
shores recognized the signs of the i'm
pending storm before it struck and
evacuated their homes. moving to higher
ground. before the full force of the
gale and flood waters were felt.
The tide, according to Capt" John
Henderson, 73-year-old retired river
man. was six feet higher than normal
flood height, while eight-foot waves
the day.
Take Refuge in Church.
Nearly two score inhabitants took
refuge in the small frame building OF
the st. George Island Methodist Church
and remained there throughout the day
and night, leaving their place of refuge
only after the storm had subsidized the
following morning
Breakfast was prepared in the church
by refugees from food contributed by
those whose homes survived the gale
and storekeepers who voluntarily ex-
tended credit to the unfortunates. The
merchants are continuing their open
book" policy until the destitute can
start to work in the oyster beds and
again pay for their purchases.
One of the most pathetic cases on
the island is that of Capt Robert E.
Sayre, 64-year-old resident, who was
regarded as one of the foremost oyster
men and crabbers until he was disabled
by stroke Of paralysis several years
ago.
The storm in a few minutes washed
away the fruits of Capt Sayre's years
Of hard work on the river. tearing
down the home in which he lived with
his wife, two sons and a step-son and
carrying it off, together with his fam
ily's clothing and a large supply of
food which he had purchased and
stored away.
Two pillows and frame door were
all that was left on the site of the
Sayre homestead
A residence in which Mrs Emma
Sinclair, 58-year-old widow, lived
alone; the home of Charles Rich and
his family of six; the bungalow of
Melvin Barnes and his two children
Evening star., 1933-08-31
Labor Day Event to Climax
Three-Day Meeting
= of Firemen.
BENEFIT MIDNIGHT SHOW
AT GAYETY ARRANGED
Pilgrimage to Mount Vernon and
Arlington Will Open Convention
Saturday Morning.

Streets and buildings along the route
of the Firemen's Labor day parade
Monday were being decorated today as
plans for the annual spectacle neared
completion
The decorations are being put up
under guidance Of Fireman R. A. Bar
ton, chairman of decorations for the
parade, which is to wind up three
day meeting of the National Firemen's
Association here. Merchants along the
route OF the parade are cooperating
in agreeing to decorate their stores and
buildings.
The Evening Star has offered three
cash prizes of S25. SIS and $40 for the
best decorated buildings, and Judges to
be named soon will ride in the parade
to view them.
Midnight Show Arranged.
The Fox, Earle, Gayety and Howard
Theaters are cooperating in a mid
night performance Sunday night for
the benefit of the parade. The COM
bination benefit show will be held at
the Gayety. with the Mills Brothers
as one of the attractions and Jimmy
Lake as master of ceremonies. Reserva,
tlonS may be made at the Gayety, with
seats priced at so and IS cents and 81.
Saturday, opening day of the con-
vention, will be National Firemen's day,
opening with a pilgrimage of all visit
ing flremen and others to Mount Vef-
non and to Arlington National Gene
terry at 10 am. At Arlington a wreath
will be placed on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier, and at Mount Vernon
the tomb of Washington will be SINH
larly decorated.
Sundays program for the firemen Is
to open at pm. with a memorial
service at Sylvan Theater. at which
Representative John j. McSwain of
South Carolina will give the principal
address. The Marine Band will furnish
music for the occasion.
Medals to Be Presented.
At the memorial service medals will
be presented to the Districts police
and fire heroes by Gen. John A john
son, former District Commissioner.
Warren Dues, national fire hero, from
Flint, Mich. also will receive a medal.
Alfred L. Geiger, treasurer of the Ma
tional Firemens Association and mayor
of Kensington, Md. will preside.
Sunday night a business meeting of
the association will be held in Press
Hall. National Press Building
Mondays activities will begin with
bicycle and roller skating sweepstakes
on Pennsylvania Avenue at 1890 am,
followed by the parade proper, to start
from Second street and Constitution
avenue at IL am. At 2:30 pm. band
and drum corps contests will be held at
the base of Washington Monument.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
ATTEMPT TO EXTORT
$25,000 IS PROBED
Joe Puglisi, Grocery Proprietor.
Reports Threats to
Police.

A reported attempt to extort $25, 1000
from Joe Puglisi proprietor of grocery
at 73 H street. was under investigation
today by Detective Sergt. j. j. Tolson.
PIglisi told the detective he received
a telephone call last Thursday from q
man, who warned him he would be
put on the spot" If he did not pay the
money by Saturday
When the designated day came, he
said. he stayed away from his store.
An employe reported he received tele-
phone call, however, from a man, who
announced. We're coming down for
the money"
The employe locked the store, Puglisi
said and, few minutes later, the bell
rang. The employe ran to a third
story window, looked out and. according
to Puglisi, saw a short, heavyset man
standing in front Of the door. The
man stood there for about IS minutes,
then drove away in coupe, bearing
Maryland license plates, Puglisi added.
Puglisi did not report the affair to
the police until Sunday. Tolson was
assigned to the case by Inspector Frank
S. w. Burke, chief of detectives.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
BRICKLAYER WOUNDED:
SUICIDE ATTEMPT SEEN
Search Fails to Find Gun Said to
Have Been Thrown Under
House.

William B. Babbington, %, brick
layer, of 927 Fourth street northeast,
was reported in critical condition at
Casualty Hospital from bullet wound
in the right chest which. according to
police report, he inflicted shortly after
midnight while seated on the front
porch of neighbor's house.
Darlington was taken to the hospital
by residents of the vicinity who were
aroused by the shot Police were told
an unidentified person had thrown the
revolver with which Babbington al
legedly shot himself, under the house.
Police said at least score Of persons
were hunting for the gun when they
arrived on the scene. No trace of the
weapon could be found, however, and
the officers believed the weapon had
been stolen.
Babbington is expected to undergo
an operation later today for the removal
Of the bullet.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
BY JACK ALLEN.
Cfa6 6CorreSnopdent of The Star

Stan Correspondent OF Ihe star.
ut. GEORGE ISLAND, Md. Au-
gust 31.-Natives of this tiny is
land which rears its head out of
. the fork of the ST George. St.
Marys and Potomac Rivers are
confronted with task of such tre-
mendous proportions that a less cou-
rageous people than these hearty oyster
men and crabbers would be overcome
without a struggle.
For approximately 25 families. con-
stituting more than a third of the in
habitants of ST. George. it is task
of rebuilding homes that were torn to
pieces and washed away and repairing
residences that were virtually demol-
ished by the 52-mile gale that lashed
the island for "a hours without let-up
a week ago.
For those who escaped the wrath of
the storm, which has no parallel in
Southern Maryland's history. it Is task
of providing food and shelter for those
less fortunates who were left virtually
penniless when their homes, food and
clothing we're carried Off
In this they are being assisted by
national and county Red Cross workers
and residents from other sections of ST.
Marys County, who are contributing to-
day to public fund being raised to
help the destitute islanders.
Cared for by Relatives.
Six families. whose homes were bat
tered down and carried away by the
towering rollers that raced in on the
food tide from the three rivers encir-
cling the island, are being cared for at
the homes of relatives and friends
until they can raise money to rebuild on
the gaping foundations that remain as
mute evidence Of what was once their
happy homesteads.
Nearly a score of other families who
have boarded up their residences, which
were badly damaged and washed clean
of furnishings, food and wearing ap-
parel, until they can afford to make
permanent repairs, have been supplied
with clothing by neighbprs and Red
Cross workers and are being given food.
The relief work was begun immedi-
ately after the storm had subsided.
Word Of the plight of the island people
reached Harry J. Davies of Washington.
field director of the American Red
Cross, when he went to his Summer
cottage at Piney Point shortly after the
gale had spent its force and he came
Evening star., 1933-08-31
WILL. STUDY BRIDGE
D. c. Heads Will Consider Award
ing Of Contract Next Week.

Awarding of contract for construc-
tion Of the new bridge over Rock Greek
at P street will be taken up for con-
sideration by the Commissioners next
week. More than q score of bidders
submitted proposals for the project yes
terday, which is to be carried on out
of funds allotted by the Public Works
Administration.
Pecora -Gaskill Engineering & Con-
struction Corporation and A. T.
CarozZa of Baltimore This bid was
$171,347 for construction of the new
bridge, $4,000 for removal of the bridge
and $4,000 for a detour trestle, or an
aggregate Of $l99,347.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
SUES IN RENO

lehman E. Wellington Miller f1ied
suit for divorce in Reno YESTERDAY
against his wife. Mrs. Doris Emerson
Miller. 1900 block of Thirty fifth street
Charging cruelty, according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch.
The couple were married In Lebanon
N. IT.. in 1915 and have two chnoren.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
Delegate to Harrisburg Named.

Mrs. Jennie Trunnell will be the
representative at the an
nual meeting of the National Council
of the Sons and Daughters Of Liberty
at Harrisburg. Pa, September II. Her
alternate Is Mrs, Nell Prender.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
Drowning Report Believed False.

Police Of the harbor precinct dragged
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at the
foot Of Twenty-seventh street for sew
eral hours yesterday after receiving q
report that a 10-year-old boy had
drowned there. The water Is shallow
at this point and police convinced
themselves the report was erroneous.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
NATIONAL BENEFIT LIFE
LIQUIDATION ORDERED
Judge O'Donoghue Directs Receiv-
ers to Stop Payments and
Sell Property.

Liquidation Of the National Benefit
life Insurance Co.. Inc. was ordered
in District Supreme Court today by
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue.
He directed the receivers, Gilbert A.
Clarke and Frank B. Bryan, Jr.. to dis
continue the collection OF premiums on
policies and to discontinue all payment.
until further order OF the court. unoer
sii insurance policies With the COM
nanv The order also directed them to
sell the nroperty of the company with
The excention of its records as soon as
n~ecticaI The company has been in
teceiyership since February %, 1882.
Evening star., 1933-08-31
TERRIFIC GALE LEAVES RESIDENT


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Evening star., 1933-12-31
CONSTRUCTION GAINS
IN ATLANTA DISTRICT
Contract Awards at Highest Level
in More Than Three
Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, December 30.-Construc-
ton contract awards in the sixth Fed
eral Reserve district during November
were "at the highest level in more than
three years." the monthly review of
business conditions in the district, Is
sued by the Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta. said today.
The review said "the value Of con-
tract awards In the sixth district, indi-
Gated by statistics compiled by the F.
w. Dodge Corporation and divided into
district totals by the Federal Reserve
Boards division Of research and statis-
tics, was two and one-half times as
large in November as in October, nearly
Is times the low total for April, and the
largest total tor any month since Au-
gust, 1929. The large gain was due
principally to public works contracts in
Alabama and Tennessee. For the IL
months of 1888 total contracts in the
district were 363 per cent, residential
contracts were 1877 per cent. and other
contracts 402 per cent greater than in
that part of 1882. For this period State
totals for Alabama, Florida. Louisiana
and East Tennessee were also larger
than year ago.
Although department store sales in
the district declined from October to
November, "as they have always done" "
they were 1875 per cent greater in dollar
volume than in November, 1882.
Daily average production of pig iron
in Alabama declined 1873 per cent COM
pared with October, but was 63.5 per
cent greater than in November, 1892.