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Evening star., 1934-10-26

AS an orator Mr.. Farley is so at
tractive that he may succeed in
making the Office of Postmaster Gen.
eral even more prominent in popular
attention than that of Undersecretary
OF Agriculture.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

Gangsters have strange vanity
which loves the spotlight. Even the
Capital of the United States is chosen
as a field of operation.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Gratudinous Future. 4

Gratudinous Future.
For election we wait with beatitude
great,
It will lead to a more satisfactory
state.
We're surveying the future with conf
dence new
That Thanksgiving day is about to
come true.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

Foot ball is clean sport. Huey Long
may have made a mistake when he
tried to use it in questionable politics.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
The One Sure Way.

From the Los Angeles Times.
There is just one sure way to change
q woman's views-and that u to agree
with her.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Holding Fast.

From the Charlotte News.
Many a candidate is not only up
holding President Roosevelt's hands,
but also swinging onto his coattails.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Paradox.

From the Flint (Mich.) Journal.
The G. C. G. will be continued. An
other paradox-planting more trees to
get out Of the woods.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

Utopianistic.
"Can we keep finance out of poll
tics?"
Hardly" answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. "All we need is an outfit of men
who know how to handle money in
stead of being handled by it."
"Unruly children are worthy Of close
attention" said Hi Ho, the sage OF
Chinatown. They let you know pre-
cisely what their parents think Of
you.'
Rules Of Procedure.
Politicians today may indulge in fray
Which puzzles the average mind.
They are using their brains in q
marvellous way,
And fists, If they're that way
inclined.
A manual, not bad, may be readily
For culture of various schools.
To parliamentary text books they
add
The Marquis of Queensberry's rules.
"Dars a heap more folks tellin' me
what to do with money amt got. "
said Uncle Eben, "den dar In folks
tellin' me how to git It."
Evening star., 1934-10-26

Superabundant Guidance.
"Are you leading the people?"
ct am" answered Senator Sorghum.
where are you leading them?"
"I'm not sure. I feel like a man who
is at the steering wheel with hundreds
OF back-seat drivers"
Jud Tunkins says weather prophet
may foresee a tornado without being
smart enough to keep his own house
from being wrecked by it.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
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Evening star., 1934-10-26

@. How many people visited national
parks this last year?-T. N.
A. Almost 4,000.000 people had Wis
tied parks up to September 80.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

@. To what extent are American
dyes used in this country?-D. NJ. H.
A. The National Bureau of Stand
Evening star., 1934-10-26
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Evening star., 1934-10-26

@. What is the custom depicted in
the hanging of the crane?-J. L. M.
A. 1t was an old French custom to
place the now almost obsolete crane
in the kitchen chimney of a young
couple at their housewarming.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
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Evening star., 1934-10-26

@. What was the origin Of the sand
l0-cent store idea?-G. T.
A. F. w. Woolworth worked In a
dry goods store at a counter where S
and 10 cent articles were sold. He
evolved the idea OF starting such a
store, and opened the first one In 1879.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

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titled to the use for republication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not other
local news published herein. All rights of
publication OF special dispatches herein
are also reserved
Evening star., 1934-10-26
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Evening star., 1934-10-26

Q. How much rayon is produced
in the United States?-R. T.
A. Rayon production in the United
States established a record in 1888
Of 207, 900 pounds. or about one
third of the world production.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
DROWNING VICTIM
SOUGHT BY POLICE
Boyd Souder Lost When
Canoe CapSIzed Below
Chain Bridge.

Harhor police today were dragging
the Potomac River about half mile
below Chain Bridge for the body oil
Boyd Souder, 27, of 2O30 North Capt.
tol street, VINO was crowned last night
when q canoe in which he was riding
with two friends capsized. The officers
we're told that some one in the party
was rocking the boat shortly before
the accident occurred.
SOuder was accompanied by Miss
Oma Smith of Grafton, w. Va, who
had been visiting friends in the first
block of Rhode Island avenue. and
Eugene Bernard, %, of 81 Randolph
place
When the canoe tipped over, Ber-
nard anG the girl searched in vain
for Souder. said to have been unable
to swim, before striking out for shore
The two notified residents of the vicin-
ity who telephoned police
Officers from the harbOr precinct
began dragging the river last night
and returned TO the task this morn
ing. The accident occurred shortly
after 10 O'Clock.
Bernard today accompanied the po-
lice boat to point out the spot where
the canoe overturned. Dragging was
handicapped by the fact that the
river bottom is rocky and full of deep
holes where Souder vent down.
Souder is survived by three broth
ers. Raymond D., George H. and
Clinton SOuder. and a sister, Mrs
Margaret M. Rice.
Evening star., 1934-07-04

may be partially restored in the pub
lie works project which now centerS
around the old mill.
Much Work Seen.
There is much work to be done.
however, in restoring Pierce mill and
its site.
The stone dam which now stands
has no relation to the mill race. it
was said, and could not possibly run
the mill wheel 1t was built shortly
after 1901, when the original log
dam was destroyed by a flood. 1t
was built with no thought of running
the mill and consequently new dam
and mill race will have to be built.
A new wooden wheel also will be
built along the same lines as the old
wheel, which has deteriorated during
81 years of idleneSS. The wall and
floor timbers Of the mill will be re-
placed where they have become weak
ened to withstand the vibrations Of
future operations. Doors and win
dowS will be added in some places
and taken out in others. The porch,
which was not included in the mill
originally, probably will have to come
off to make way for the mill wheel.
Most Of the ancient mill machinery
Is in the old stone storehouse adjacent
to the mill. Much of it will have to
be replaced. Some of the large iron
gears have disappeared. There are
three of the original mill stones re-
naming but the fourth has disap-
peared. too.
Work will start on the restoration,
it was said, at an early date. Then
Washingtonians will have an oppor-
tunity to see the kind of mill familiar
10 their forefathers. There is George
Washington's historic mill a few miles
from Mount Vernon which has been
restored to its former state. But un-
like the proposal concerning Pierce
Mill, its huge wheel does not turn for
the benefit of visitors.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELMONT, Ohio, July 4.-Their
bodies twisted by mysterious malady
that already has claimed seven male
members of their families since 1868,
two brothers await death in their
home in the hills near here.
A clinic of so specialists once ex-
amined Glen W., 16, and John l..
Dietrich. II, but the experts were un-
able to diagnose the disease other than
to say it is a form of paralysis.
The malady, apparently strange
hereditary disease which af1icts only
the masculine members of the family.
always appears when its victims are
years old The seven previous VIC
tins died when they were ID.
Certain They Are Doomed.
DR.. D. w. Turner, the family doc
tor who has attended two paralyzed
youths since they were infants, said
today he didn't know why they were
afflicted with what he called creeping
paralysis" but said he was certain
they were doomed.
L knOW lldt tlle ulSehSe VI lucoC
bows is creeping paralysis, and ! do
not know why it strikes them at 5
years of age and kills hem at 49, DR..
Turner laid. Il do not know why
just the male offspring of the daugh-
ters of the house are affected and not
the other children"
1T is my opinion" he added, these
boys will not live more than a year.
The paralysis will likely strike the
Evening star., 1934-07-04
Hereditary Paralysis, Fatal
To7m Family, Dooms 2 More
Only Sons of Daughters of House Are
Affected-50 Physicians Unable
to Diagnose Malady.

brain any time now. That seems 10
be the history of the disease"
Hill-folk neighbors of the Dietrich
family gave the boys radio yesterday,
and for the first time they heard
music of dance halls and listened to
descriptions of a base ball game.
The first of the seven died shortly
after the Civil War. Since then, child
after child. male offsprings of the
daughters of the family have been
seized.
Each has become afflicted before
school age. AS the years pass their
condition has become worse. BY the
time they reach their early teens they
usually are paralyzed and their limbs
withered and brittle. At 18 the dis
ease strikes vital spot in the brain
and the boys die.
Develop Art Talent.
An artistic talent is possessed by
Glen and John Dietrich. AS they sit
on the floor giving no sign that they
know their death is near, they draw
and create pictures of neighbors, their
home, surroundings and playthings.
Neither has ever attended school.
Another brother, Samuel. died two
years ago
Neighbors have become so familiar
with the mysterious malady that they
are no longer curious.
Descendants Of the strain, dating
back to 1868, wait helplessly for the
black magic of heredity to claim its
eighth and ninth victims in three
generations
Evening star., 1934-07-04
TAXI FIRMS OFFICE
IS ROBBED OF $40
Three Men Are Arrested and Held
for Investigation-None
Identified.

An armed colored man robbed the
Offices of the Prudom Taxicab Co..
Tenth and U streets, of $40 early to-
day. after holding up Dorothy Jones,
colored, telephone operator.
After taking the money. the robber
told the operator to stand at the
window until I get out of sight"
AS soon as he left the building
police were called and three colored
men were arrested and held for in
vestigation. None was identified by
the operator. but police said they re-
covered some Sl3 of the allegedly
stolen money.
Two taXic9b drivers we're robbed last
night also. according TO police reports.
Robert Hudnell. 1403 Twelfth street.
said two colored men hired him to
drive to New Jersey avenue and L
street. where they held him up and
took $3.50 and his taxicab.
Clarence Mackall 1926 Twelfth
street reported he was awakened in
his cab by colored man picking his
pockets. Mackall said he remon-
strated with the man, who got slS,
only to receive a stab wound in the
right arm from the pickpocket.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
Head of Columbia Hospital
Dro,cned Wading IN Serern
DR.. S. b. R0gsdaIe Steps
Into Deep Hole While
Seeking Heat Relief.
Notiue Of alabama Had
Been Superintendent
for Past 5 Years.

DR.. S. B. Ragsdale, superintendent
# tha Columbia vospital fer Women.
croWnsd Ia:s Yesterday wnen he
atecoco into 9 dse1 ,oIe W lils w&ding
n tns Severn E.ivc. near mis- Summer
home at Sn=rWoot rorest. he was
49 years old.
DR.. RagSdale, his wife, Mrs. Mary
G. Ragsdale, and DR.. Conrad Acton,
q friend. had been seeking relief from
the heat on Robin Hood Beach, when
the hospital superintendent decided to
go into the water.
Suddenly Disappeared.
He waded out several hundred feet
and suddenly disappeared. The party
on shore thought he was joking and
did not become alarmed for several
minutes. When he did not reappear,
however. Mrs. Ragsdale screamed.
Her cries attracted the attention OF
three midshipmen. on leave from the
Naval Academy. who were canoeing
nearby, and one of them, George
Grider of the Navy water polo team,
dove in search of the body. After
about 20 minutes he located the body,
and brought 1t ashore.
The West Annapolis ambulance
crew applied artificial respiration for
two hours before DR.. Acton pro-
nounced his friend dead.
certificate of accidental drown
Evening star., 1934-07-04
BOTANIC GARDEN
PUT UNDER LYNN
Becomes Temporary OlreC-
tor Following Retirement
Of George Hess.

David Lynn. architect of the CAPITOL,
will take over the dictatorship of the
Botanic Garden tomorrow morning.
After a conference at the White
House yesterday Senator Barley,
Democrat, of Kentucky, chairman of
the Joint Committee on the Library,
announced temporary appointment of
Mr.. Lynn. During the recess OF
Congress the Senate members of the
Library Committee are in charge,
under the law The Botanic Garden
is one of the Government institutions
directly under Congress.
The Office Of director of the Botanic
Garden was vacated by the retire
ment of George W. Hess.
Mr.. Lynn. as architect of the Capt.
tol, was in charge of the erection of
the new conservatory for the Botanic
Garden and the new home for the
director in the relocated garden, south
of Independence avenue at First street
southwest.
This places Mr.. Lynn in charge Of
all of the Government buildings en-
circling the Capitol grounds. He is
not only custodian of the Capitol
itself. but also of the Senate and two
House Office Buildings the Library of
, Congress and new Supreme Court
Building Several other court houses
the District Supreme Court. the
Court of Claims and the Court of
Appeals-also come under his jurisdic-
| tion.
He is also custodian of the Columbia
Hospital and Lying in Asylum, a
member of the District Zoning Com
mission, of the commission on enlarg-
ing the Capitol grounds, of the COM
mission to acquire the site and con-
struct additional buildings for the
Library of Congress, and member OF
the United States Supreme Court
( Building Commission.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
MISSING SIX DAYS,
PASTOR BACK HOME
Police Say Nothing Was Learned
of Whereabouts of Rev. Joseph
A. McCambridge.

Rev. Joseph A. McCambridge, pastor
of the PentecoStal Church, who was
reported missing since last Thursday,
was back at his home at 1927 S street
southeast today.
Police had been asked by the clergy
mans wife, Mrs. Anna McCambridge,
to find the missing man. They said
today that they knew nothing of his
whereabouts while he was away
1t was learned, however, that the
pastor telephoned his 16-year-old son,
John, either late yesterday or early to-
day to meet him at downtown hotel.
In notifying police Of her husbands
absence, Mrs. McCambridge explained
yesterday that when last seen, the
clergyman had in his possession $500
which was to have been used as a
down payment on their house. When
he disappeared and no financial set
tlement was made with the owner of
the S street house, Mrs. McCambridge
and her three children we're threat
ened with eviction.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
STRANGER SLAIN
ENTERING ROOM
Of FRUIT VENDER
Henry |. Purtell, so, Sue
Cumbs to Shot as Cyril NJ.
Rousseau Is Held.
PRISONER DECLARES
i%VaSlny WAS StC0NO
AaoWa TO Tao1S&aGs SIS "L4ec-
cier"-Victim Was Connecti-
cut Avenue Resident.
PRISONER DECLARES

Henry L. Purtell, about so, was shot
10 death early today at the Paterson
Hotel, 1882 Pennsylvania avenue, by
Cyril Marcier Rousseau, Sc, fruit
huckster, when, according to the lat
ter, Purten entered Rousseau's room
and started to rush me-"
Rousseau, known to thousands of
Washingtonians as "Mercier," has sold
fruit and other edibles in front of the
State, War and Navy Building tor
several years. He has lived at the
Pennsylvania avenue hotel, at inter
walls, about three years.
About 4:30 am. he told police. he
saw the form of man in the door
way of his room, only partly clad.
He sat up, reached under his pillow
for his 32-cahber revolver, and said:
What do you want?'
Tries 10 Stop Man.
Instead of answering. he told po-
lice, the man started to rush him,
and he fired the gun once. The man
fed and Rousseau didn't know
whether he had struck him. He ran
TO the head of the stairs and called
Harry Kayian. night clerk, telling
him:
I've shot man; call the police.
When the police arrived, Purtell
was taken to Emergency Hospital,
where he died from a bullet wound
in the chest. Rousseau was arrested
and held at the third precinct pend
ing a coroner's inquest.
The huckster said he occupies the
only room on the top floor of the
rooming house, and during the hot
weather has slept with his door open.
Previously Disturbed.
He told police he had been dis
turbed on other occasions by knocks
on his door, when closed. and Said
that two weeks ago he awoke to see
a form in the open doorway. At that
time the man fled when he asked
What do you want?" and Rousseau
decided then he'd better get his gun
out of his trunk. he told police.
Purtell, who occupies an apartment
alone IN the $500 block of Connecti-
cut avenue, registered at the Pater-
son last night as B. H. White. Po-
lice said he has stopped there for
night or so at a time on previous
occasions.
Kayian said Purtell had obviously
been drinking when he registered last
night. Rousseau told police he had
never seen the man before.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
OLD POST OFFICE
TO QUARTER A. A. A.
Units Vacating Extensible Build
ing TO Make Room for Agri-
culture Forces.

Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration units are being moved into
the old Post Office Department, at
Twelfth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
officials of the National Park SerV-
ice explained that this is necessary
to relieve congestion and to afford
room for expansion during the grow
ing season, when checks are sent out
to the farmers who pillow their crops
under. The triple-A emergency or
ganization personnel Is vacating the
Extensible Building, which will be
used by the regular Department of
Agriculture forces. officials hope to
vacate Temporary Building c on the
Mall shortly so that war-built struc-
ture may be torn down this Sum-
mer by moving Department. of
Agriculture units into the ExtenSible
Building.
The old Post Office Department will
be shared by the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration and the General
Accounting Office. The job of moving
in the agricultural group will take
the balance of this week and probably
some of next, officials declared. The
shift was initiated the latter part of
last week.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
NAVY YARD EMPLOYE
IN AUTO COLLISION
Helmuth H. Bentien Must Appear
for Hearing in Death of
Chicago Resident.

Injured in a collision Saturday near
Clinton. Pa, with a car operated by
Helmuth H. Bentien, 40, of 327 Sixth
street southeast, John Krathkey, "a,
of Chicago. died in a Pittsburgh hos
pital yesterday. according to the Asso-
ciated Press
Krathkey was a passenger in a car
driven by George Paucek of Palatine,
ILL.,, which was struck by Bentien's
machine on the Lincoln Highway near
Clinton.
Bentien, Navy Yard employe, was
returning to Washington alone from a
vacation trip when the accident hap
pened He is at liberty here now on
bond for appearance before Pennsyl-
vania authorities in connection with
the case
Evening star., 1934-07-04
WOMEN SPONSOR PLAY

Scenes From Merchant of Venice
to Be Given.
Four scenes from THE Merchant
of Venice" will be presented Friday
evening in the garden of the head
quarters of the National Woman's
Party, under direction of Mildred
Curran, director and producer.
The Washington branch of the Or
ganization is sponsoring the perform
ance, which will start at 8:45 pm.
Miss Dorothy Lawrence, Miss Rather
inc Tomlinson and Ralph Fowler will
have leading roles.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
ELOQUENCE ENDS TIE
Man Saves Fine, but Loses Hab ber

Man Saves Fine, but Loses Ha ber-
dashery in Electric Fan.
LUDLOW. Mass. July (P).-Ellis
Goldberg's eloquence cost him a new
necktie, but may have saved him a
fire.
Accused of a traffic violation, Gold
berg made an eloquent plea for mercy
in Town Court. AS he Grated he
moved closer and closer to the bench.
At the climax of his appeal his neck
tie caught in an electric fan 1t was
whipped to ribbons. but a policeman
rescued Goldberg.
The judge placed the case on file.
Evening star., 1934-07-04

east, who told police he fired the shot
accidentally, is being held at the Ninth
Precinct Station pending the outcome
of young Stockdale's injuries.
Guntrow said he and Stockdale,
with several other boys, had been
shooting at frogs at pond in the
vicinity of Twenty-eighth and M
streets northeast just before Stock
dale was shot. The group had sepa-
rated and started for home, he said,
when he fired at a bird on a low
bush, then heard a scream.
Running in the direction from
which the noise came, he said. he
found that young Stockdale, out of
sight when he fired, had been struck.
Evening star., 1934-07-04

ing was issued by Acting Coroner
Thomas G. Basil of Annapolis.
Superintendent Since 1929.
DR.. Ragsdsle had been superin-
tendent of the Columbia Hospital,
Twenty-fifth and l. streets. since
March, 1929 He came here from
New York State, where he had been
superintendent of the Geneva General
Hospital Before that he was con-
nected with z hospital at Greenwich,
Conn.
A native of BeSsemer, Ala, DR..
Ragsdale was born in 1885. In ad-
dition to his widow, who is from
Portland, Me, he is survived by a
daughter, Mrs Hugh Malloy, ir, of
Washington and Lanham. Md, and
three brothers, DR.. Luney v. Rags
dale, Boston; Dr.. Clay Ragsdale.
BeSsemer, and Or. Velpeau Rags
dale, Pierce, Fla, and sister, Mrs.
Cal Norris. Birmingham. Ala.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
LOT OF PAY IS TOO MUCH

CLEVELAND. July (P.-The re-
gional N r. A Office has promised
to investigate this one:
My husband gets only $40 week,
wrote a Northern Ohio woman. "and
we have had to take cemetery lots
for the balance. We already have
10 lots and we surely don't need that
many for our family use"
Evening star., 1934-07-04
STORES WIN PRIZES

Woodward & Lothrop and Lans-
burgh Get Display Honors.
Two Washington department stores
received prizes for outstanding win
dow displays in connection with the
celebration of National Cotton week.
Woodward & Lothrop and Lans-
burgh & Bros, competing in the
large department stores group, each
received a third prize in the group in
which they competed. The window
displays featured home sewing acces-
sories.
The contest was conducted by the
Spool Cotton Co. Of New York.
Evening star., 1934-07-04
KNIGHTS OPEN MEETING
DR.. E. N. Ellison Represents
Washington at Toronto.

The annual convention of the
Loyal knights of the Round Table
was to get under way in Toronto to-
day to continue through Saturday
Convention headquarters is at the
Royal York Hotel.
Washington will be represented by
DR.. Everett N. Ellison, as delegate al
large. DR.. Ellison, a former interna.
tional president of the organization
is now an international director
Among guests will be a number OF
members of "The Order of the Eel
lowship of the knights of the Round
Table of King Arthur" from Tintagel,
England.
Evening star., 1934-07-04

yesterday after a
frog-shooting ex-
pedition in the
outskirts of the
city, was said to
be improving at
Casualty Hospital
today.
The boy was
struck in the side
by a % caliber
bullet W h i C h
/ o d g e d in his
liver.
George Cunt
row. Is, of the
1000 block Krae-
war cfraaf nn,.fh
Evening star., 1934-07-04
PLAN MOCK TRIAL
Y. w. C. A. Girl Reserves Will
Debate Peace Versus War.

A new approach to the peace prob
lem has been adopted by the Girl
Reserves Of the Y. w. C. A., who
will try the case of Peace VS.. War
this afternoon at Arlington Hall
School.
The mock trial will be held with
World" as judge, and the parts
Of the litigants, witnesses and jurors
being taken by members of the or
ganiZation.