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Evening star., 1933-01-27

The Commerce Department announced
today it was prepared to turn over to
post ONCE inspectors a pearly mystery
which ofncials said has caused an un-
easiness around the Bureau Of Fish
cries for several days.
The bureau received letter signed
by s. p. Marion of Berkley, w. Va,
stating that it had been his fortune to
find 81 oyster pearls which he was pre-
pairing to send to- the bureau here for
examination as to their commercial
value.
e mer Higgins. chief Of the scientific
inquiry division CT the bureau. immedi-
ately wrote to Marion stating that the
bureau was not equipped for such re-
search, but before Higgins letter was
received in West Virginia, . registered
mail package was received here from
Marion with letter Of explanation
saying the package contained the a
pearls
Evening star., 1933-01-27
COL. GRANT MAY BE RELIEVED
AS PARK DIRECTOR IN SUMNER
Army Order Enabling Him to
Attend War College Ex-
pected Shortly.
Assignment to Course in
1929 Was Revoked at
Request of Hoover.

"A definite impression exists In Army
circles that Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant. Sd.
director Of Public Buildings and Public
PARKS, Will be relieved Of his present
outles this Summer so he may attend
the Army War College here in the Fall.
Formal orders for the coloneI's new
assignment have not vet been issued
by the War Department, but these are
expected shortly. when the list of the
new students for the War College will
pe publshed. No successor has been
named.
In February, 1929, an order was
issued by Me War Department, direct
ing Col. Grant to report to the com
mandant of the Army war College for
outy as student in the l929-3O course
This order, however. was later revoked
by order Of President Hoover. The
colonel had served as chairman of the
inaugural Committee for President
Hoover and the War Department ex-
plalned the revocation of the War Col
lege order by saying there had been
many requests for his retention here
as director Of Public Buildings and
Public Parks.
Rejected City Manager Post.
Col. Grant. the sgrandson of the ia
nous Civil War general, has been on
his present tour Of duty in Washington
since July, 1925. He came here fol-
lowing service as district engineer at
San Francisco, Calf, in charge CT
rivers and harbor work there Arriving
here as major. he was later promoted
to lieutenant colonel. serving as assist
ant to Lieut.. Col C. o. Sheriff., who
resigned to become city manager of
Cincinnati. Ohio. Col Grant on Jan
uary /, 1925, became director Of Public
Buildings and Public Parks. In addi-
ton, he Is executive officer of the Ar
Hngton Memorial Bridge Commission
and member Of the District Zoning
Commission. as well as vice chairman
and executive ofilcer Of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, in addition to other duties.
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"pEARLs,r FOUND TO BE ROCKS,
MAY BECOME MYSTERY FOR u. S.
Attempted Hoax or Theft Causes Fisheries Bureau to
Ask Postal Investigation.

When members Of the Higgins division
opened the package they said they
found 81 small tissue paper-wrapped
pellets On taking of the tissue paper,
they said, they found 81 common rocks
and one small lump Of COAL
The puzzled officials then wrote Mar
ion they had examined the specimens
of rock he had sent and found they
contained nothing Of commercial value
and asked him for an immediate reply
as to what dicpo-ition he wanted made
of his so-called pearls" So far no
en-wer hes been received from Marion.
In the meantime Higgins said he be-
came worried whether the package con-
tanned real pearls at the time it left
Berkley or a hoax was attempted. He
said he believed the case was worthy of
attention Of post office officials, and
early this afternoon the mysterious
package was sent to the Post once De-
partment with q request that an inves-
tigation be started
Evening star., 1933-01-27
THIEVES ROB NINE
HERE DURING NIGHT
Three HoId-ups and Six Rob-
berries Reported Two
Held by Police.

The police drive against hold-up men
and housebreakers continued today as
reports disclosed three rcbbcries ano
six burglaries had been committed over
night.
Two men, meanwhile, were being
detained after allegedly being appre-
hended In houses in the TOO block OF
N street and the 3400 block of Gar
field street. One, who gave his name
as John Tartatglia, 20, 1400 block
Jenifer street, was held at the third
precinct station for investigation, and
the other, who said he was Lester G.
jackson, 81, colored, was at the eighth
precinct station.
Among those who were held up last
night was Hugh w. Barr. 470l Connect
icut avenue, former vice president OF
the International Exchange Bank. He
vas robbed OF S1.36 and his automobile
by two bandits at Connecticut avenue
and Leroy place. The automobile was
recovered
Cab and Cash Taken.
Other hold-up victims were Charles
H. Clarkson, night manager OF a gaso-
line filling station at New Jersey and
Florida avenues, robbed Of SIS by two
armed men, and Eston Davis, 600 block
Of Callan street northeast, taxi driver,
robbed of 1910 and his cab by three
bandits.
Tartatglia was captured by Bradley
Peterson and Charles Waugh, both 81
after they allegedly had found him In
an apartment in the 1909 block Of N
street.
Jackson was said by police to have
been found in house in the 3400 block
of Garfield street by two officers.
DR.. Daniel M. Wiseman, Isl Thomas
street. reported $40 in cash and jew
elry, totaling 5000 in value, taken from
his home by thieves who forced open
a dining room window. Linens, towels
and glassware, valued at 5000, were
reported taken from vacant and
partly furnished house IN the 21O0
block Of Wyoming avenue and an un-
residence of Wilson G. Wilmot, 300l
Cathedral avenue.
Checks Up On Jewelry.
Mr.. Wilmot said Mrs. Wilmot is in
Cuba and he believes her jewelry OF
value which she didn't take with her
is in safe deposit vault. He said
he would complete a check today to
determine the value OF the missing
jewelry.
Other homes broken into were those
Of Samuel Goodacre, 2210 Cathedral
avenue; George w. Comfort. $500
block OF Cathedral avenue. and OF
Laura r. Parker, 3406 Garfield street.
Evening star., 1933-01-27
MEAT MARKET OWNER
ADMITS SHORT WEIGHT
Pleads Guilty in Police Court and
Will Appear for Sentence
February 8.

Charged with IL short-weight sales
of meat, Ellis Levy. proprietor OF
meat market at 1903 Seventh street.,
pleaded guilty when arraigned befcre
Judge Ralph Given in Police Court to-
day.
Sentence was reserved until Febru-
ary 8. The maximum penalty which
may be imposed Is fine of $500 and
six months imprisonment on each
count.
The prosecution resulted from an in
vestieation by the District Department
Of Weights and Measures following
complaints by customers.
Evening star., 1933-01-27
Early Date Denied.
FALL HURTS CARPENTER

Henry Bower, 46-year-old carpenter
of the 1900 block of Irving street. was
injured today when he fell from the
eighth to the seventh floor of the Labor
Building under construction at Four
teenth street and Ohio avenue.
Bower, who is employed by the Wash
ington Steel Point Co., was taken to
Emergency Hospital, where he was
found to be suffering from brain con-
cussion. X-rays were to be made to
determine If his skull is fractured, or
if other bones are broken.
Evening star., 1933-01-27
KIWANIS HONORS JEWELL
Desk Set Given Newspaper Man
at Farewell Party.

Edmund F. Jewell, retiring manager
of the Times-Herald Publishing Co.,
who is leaving Washington to become
associated with a New Hampshire news
paper, was given farewell party by the
Washington Kiwanis Club at its weekly
meeting yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Jewell was presented with a desk
set by Dewey Zirkin, president Of XII
wants, on behalf of the members OF the
club.
Evening star., 1933-01-27
WAMPLER REMOVAL
HEARING IS DELAYED
Leahy Gets Postponement Due to
Pressure of Business 1nclud-
ing Fight to Free Capone.

The hearing for removal of T. Morris
Wampler Washington attorney, who
was indicted recently by Federal grand
Jury in Baltimore on income tax eva
sion charges, was continued until Feb
ruary by United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage today.
The continuance was granted Attor-
ney William A. Leahy, counsel for
Wampler, when he explained to the
commissioner he had urgent business
in other courts, particularly in Atlanta,
where he is to renew an attempt to have
AL Capone re.ea-ed
Leahy said that 100 witnesses might
be summoned for the defense alcne in
the Wampler hearing.
Evening star., 1933-01-27

q Ody O4ACA oAASAAA
selves at IS; archi-
tects in order to
get a Government
commission W Ill
draw up all the
plans for a pros
pect and make the
water color sketch
free CT charge.
These are the more
fortunate on eS
Some men come in,
having been evicted
from their homes
and having had to
send their children
to State institu-
tions. A pathetic
letter came to q
Evening star., 1933-01-27

r e com m e n d ing
t h e m personally.
Many Of the appli-
cants think that
the more letters
they send, the more
powerful is their
appeal. Some ap-
parently start at
one end Of the
street and stop at
every drug store,
barber shop and
cafeteria, soliciting
written e n support.
This Is In addition
to let t ers they
r ou nd up from
members of their
Evening star., 1933-01-27

1uS SdLIlc OcIldtOA
recently took a
trip across the
continent. H | S
secretary saw him
off on the train
and gave him so
many letters to
sign that it took
most of Sc five
days of his trip on
the train to write
and write and write
his name. His
secretary says he
takes q massive
pile home with
him every day
from his Office.
After he has rested
his ripnt hand
Evening star., 1933-01-27
GEN. RICHARDS TO SPEAK
AT BOY SCOUT Meeting
Pageant and Buffet Supper In
cluded in Councils Pro-
gram Tuesday Night.

Brig. Gen. George Richards, q. s.
M. G. and J. Harold Williams, Provi-
dence, R. l., will address the annual
meeting next Tuesday night Of the
District of Columbia Council, Boy
Scouts of America, to be held in the
Willard Hotel at o'clock
A pageant, ''Mightier Than the
Sword" will be presented by Troop 8,
with a buffet supper concluding the
meeting George Hamilton is council
president, other officers including Dr.
Paul Bartsch, Julius Garflnckel, Sam
uel H. Kaufman, vice president, and
George Hewitt Myers, treasurer and
commissioner.
Evening star., 1933-01-27

three mOQt0S. HIS
secretary says that
the mail has in
creased q hundred
fold in two years.
Senator Barkley of
Kentucky, Senator
McKelia.' of Ten
nessee and Senator
Robinson of Ark
ansas send out be-
tween 100 and $50
letters daily, an
swering patronage
seekers alone. In
the Office of Sena-
tor Wagner of New
York, from 500 to
700 letters q day
come in. Senator
COpeland of New
Evening star., 1933-01-27
Job-Seekers Swamp Senate
One Member From Southern State answers 1000
Letters in Two Weeks-Tyd ydings Sounds
Appeal for Relief.

slider being White House guard or any
other such small Job.
There Is also a raft Of men and
women who want employment In the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
One applicant came in to see his Sena-
tor, and when asked what were his
qualifications as a financial expert he
said he had always been a plumber.
Besides the irritation and strain and
occasional humor of this flood, there Is
pitiful element involved. Lawyers
come in willing to take $40 week;
union bricklayers who used to get $l4
Evening star., 1933-01-27
TWO HURT IN CAR CRASH
Women Treated at Garfie1d-Po1ice
Hold Hit-Run Suspect.

Miss Ella F. Jennings, 43, and her
mother, Mrs. Hattie L. Jennings, II,
$50 Shepherd street, received cuts and
bruises last night when their automo-
bile was struck by a hit-and-run driver
ct Thirteenth and T streets. They were
treated at Garfield Hospital
Shortly afterward. police arrested a
man for investigation in connection
with leaving the scene after colliding.
Evening star., 1933-01-27
Young Democrats to Meet.

HYATTSVILLE, Nd, January q
(SpeciaD "A meeting Of the Executive
and Inaugural Committees Of the Young
Mems Democratic. Club of Prince
Georges County will be held tonight at
8 O'Clock in the home Of n. Wtnship
Wheatley. G, Avon avenue herA
Evening star., 1933-01-27
SIX DENY GUILT
IN ECKLUND DEATH
Four Accused of Pay Roll
Murder and Two Held as
Aides Are Arraigned.

The four men accused Of flrst-degree
murder in the Browning Painting Co.
pay roll killing pleaded not guilty today
when arraigned before Justice Daniel
w. ODonoghue in District Supreme
Court. Two alleged accomplices, charged
with being accessories, entered similar
pleas.
Trial Of the men charged with
murder ives set TO- February IA. No
cate set for trial of the others.
Two Held As Gunmen.
The men to be tried for murder are
Claude Myers, 20, colored. and Fewel
Workman, %, colored, alleged to have
done the actual shooting; Albert E.
Cash, 20, said to have driven the taxi
cab in which the gunner escaped, and
Everett Blackwell, %, accused of hav-
ing acted as ''tip-off" man during the
hold-up attempt that preceded the
shooting.
The men named as accessories are
Clyde E.. Templeton. 80, alleged to have
disposed of one of the guns, and Oscar
M. Cash, 25, said to have disposed Of
the other weapon.
Assistant United States Attorney Will
liam H. Collins asked that the murder
trial be held before the end CT the
month but James A. O'Shea, attorney
for Blackwell, Templeton and the Cash
brothers, objected.
Early Date Denied.
Justice O'Donoghue declined to set
such an early date for the trial because
counsel may have to be assigned by the
court to represent Myers and Workman.
Elmer r. Ecklund, so, paymaster for
the painting company, was shot to
death in the attempted hold-up and
his assistant, Harry Stumm, 48, was
seriouslv wounded.
Evening star., 1933-01-27
Firemen Will Install.

MOUNT RAINIER, Md, September
q (SpeciaD Officers Of the Mount
Rainier Volunteer Fire Department Will
be installed at banquet Tuesday eve
ming at the fire house at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1933-01-27
300 Answers q Day,

The Office of Senator Harrison OF
Mississippi has sent out between 200
and 300 letters a day during the last
Evening star., 1933-01-27
\rTY the plight Of the Senators
- and their secretaries. now that
the open season on patronage is

These once hearty men ana
women are becoming emaciated under
an inundation Of enough to fill
the dome of the Capitol If turned up
side down. Added to this is the stream
of aspirants for Government jobs who
come to the Senators Offices.
In the Office of a Democratic Senator
from one of the Southern States 1000
letters were answered in two weeks, yet
the secretarys desk was still piled high.
The Washington times., 1933-06-17

In London's "Zoo' the British have marvellous gorilla
house. interesting to those that understand goras extremely
interesting and important to those that foolish about the
common cold
In this gorilla house aleged cousins from Africa
kept behind plate glass; No human being breathe in their
faces has been found that humans coughing and sneeng
around monkey responsible for the early deaths Of
big apes, from ''flu' and consumption.
Lendons gorillas will be thoroughly protected well fed,
kindly treated and perhaps live long enough to show what
FULL GROWN giant gorilla looks like.
You cannot look with Indifference at the faces of these
two giant the upper picture the female older and
heavier than her mate.
There doubt that this strange different
from other animals
There something in that face that shows the effort
think fragment Of the power however feeble that is called
sintellect."
'Mok the male gorilla not particularly happy
he holds his giant hands folded his breast and permits
you to his profile The far up shows that there is
little brain space there As for forehead there practically
none-only a backward slant
The male gorilla, years DID, weighs IT pounds. The
female years DID, weighs 1873 pounds Gorlas have been
captured in equatorial Africa standing than feet
The Washington times., 1933-06-17

high and weighing four to five hundred pounds You
Imagine the power of gorilla three four times big
this female 'Moina."
Why these strange creatures MADE their blood
much like human beings totally unlike that of other animals
their skeletons reproducing every bone the human skeleton?
Were they separate creation did Cain and Abel know them
and play with them they did with other animals in the
Garden of Eden?
Haldane modern biologist of considerable fame selects
the ancestors of the important branches of the human
says the white descends from the chmpanze which
the most vicious by the way of the The Mongoan
race from the uang according him. the
African from the gorilla which is the amabe
trustworthy and powerful Of the great apes
Haldane that sick gorilla exactly the
position Of sick African that sick chimpanzee acts
like sick white man, and sick orangroutang like Mon
goian.
has probably occurred you that you faces
not unlike that OF the thoug ghtfu female gorilla Mona
In any case you will not have wasted your time looking
these pictures they impress you you should
keep your children away from those that have the socaed
common cold the germ of that cold sent out into the
air is enough kill gorilla of this sze what do you suppose
it can do to your small child?
The Washington times., 1933-06-17
Purge the Bench

Under the leadership of Sena-
tor Ashurst of Arizona, chair
man of the Senate Committee
on the Judiciary, and Repre-
sentative Summers of Texas,
chairman of the House Com
mittee on the Judiciary, a double
searchlight will be turned upon
every Federal judge against
whom complaint has been made
by reason of allegedly unfair
practices in cases involving re-
ceiverships.
There are a number of such
judges, some Of whom it has
not yet been possible to convict
by the cumbersome process Of
impeachment. Against others,
insufficient evidence has thur
far been found upon which to
base impeachment proceedings
But the double-barreled in
vestigation which Chairman
Ashurst and Chairman Sum-
ners are determined to make 10
expected to drag into the light
facts that will not only force
more than one Federal judge to
leave the bench but will also
compel the Congress to address
itself to the long-delayed task
of improving by simplifying the
process of impeachment.
Only in this way, Senators
and Representatives are coming
to believe, can the Federal jul
dietary be quickly purged Of
that small minority of its men,
bers who have no place in that
fellowship of character and
ability which has so long dis
tinguished this branch Of the
Federal Government.
Copyright, 1888. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-06-17

eve sit and grow bulky in
our charming mansions and a
plain, uncouth peasant steps
into the battle, under the eyes
of God, and succors the offtict-
ed and consoles the dying and
is himself afflicted in his turn
and dies upon the field of
honor"
These words-part Of Robert
Louis Stevenson's immortal de-
fense of Joseph Damien de
Veuster-leap before my eyes as
read the message from green
and grim peninsula of death,
the message that Father Peter
D'Orgueval had contracted
leprosy and has gone from the
mission house to live among the
lepers and to die among them.
Far out there in the Pacific
lies Molokai, the leper colony.
Only 80 miles away are the
palms, the sands and the uke-
leles of the beach of Waikiki.
But the narrow, palm fringed
peninsula of the lepers is iso-
lated completely by the sur
rounding ocean and two tower
ing walls of rock through which
there is but a single guarded
trail.
The Washington times., 1933-06-17
Fourth in Line

In a few years he was living
among the Trappist monks OF
Gethsemane, KY, that austere
order among whose ritual is
absolute silence and the turn
ing of a shovel of dirt by each
brother from the grave which
some day will hold him. He did
not join the order but as q
Roman Catholic layman found
his way to Molokai and there
joined Damien in 1886. The
priest had contracted the dis
ease the year before, to die OF
it in 1889 AZ the age of 48. 4
worthy successor was the Yam
kee soldier who had come tG
be known among these poO
wretched as Brother Joseph.
For As years Ira B. Dutton
labored in Molokai, binding ter
rible sores and consoling, what
was worse, the mental agony OF
those condemned to living
death.
He died only recently at the
fine age Of 81 and he went to
his reward saying:
"ThOugh always have had
a hearty respect for the Angel
of Death-a close ACQUAINTANCE
with him has caused a persona
affection"
Father D'Orgueval is the
fourth chaplain in line from
Father Damien and has been
eight years in the leper colony.
Before the war-he is 81 years
old now-he was a famous
preacher in Paris. Off to the
front he went, to be one OF
the first Frenchmen to receive
the decoration of the Legion OF
Honor, to receive six more deco
rations for gallantry in action
and u reach the rank OF cap,
tain. A throat ailment caused
by his being gassed prevented
his return to the pulpit, where
upon Father D'Orgueval Volin-
teered for work among the
lepers.
His utter disregard for sale
guards resulted in his contract
ing the disease, which IS noI
highly contagious and when m
frequently attacks a white per
son. 49,
The Molokai of Father Dor
gueval is much different than
the place which Damien ana
Dutton first knew. CottageS'
flowers, gardens and the raoio
are there now, with hoSpllaI9,
and doctors. Perhaps there WIZ
be some surcease in these. NO.
that they matter to him, Fot
these Damiens, buttons, u VI
guevals, Ashburys and LIVING
stons put to shame the heroes
of the sword and we laborers III
the vineyard who can look ol,
only in awe at the courage; anu
the faith which Surpass all un-
derstanding.
Copyright, 1888. KING Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-17
ONCE OVERS

Sensing responsibility as a
matter of trust, he gives of his
best in mental and physical
effort.
How have you reacted to re-
SponSibility which has been
yours, either assumed, or thrust
upon you?
Have you over-emphasized the
principle that the man at the
directing point should keep
himself free from any of the
lesser details or duties?
You have heard that the sue
ceSSful man does not bother
himself with anything but the
big things.
Perhaps you have carried this
to such an extent that you are
ignorant of how small matters
are carried out: thus you have
failed of desired success.
Copyright. 1888. King Features
SyndA8AtA. I1c.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-17
Hit Rackets

The other two Investigations
will start this summer and every
effort will be made to complete
them in time for the reports OF
the committees to be laid before
the next session Of the Con-
gress.
The inquiry into all sorts and
conditions of racketeering, pro
posed by Senator Copeland OF
New York, is designed to blaze
the way for Federal leadership
in a national warfare by sew
eral States and their counties
and municipalities that will rid
this country of rackets, rack
eteering and racketeers.
Under Federal leadership-the
President and the Congress and
the Judiciary cooperating-the
power of the several States can
be mobilized if their governors
will unite in carrying out the
program which the Senate Com