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Evening star., 1934-03-30
Ne,U Traffic Light
Signal Turned On
Today Aids Horse
Permits Rock Greek Park
Riders to Cross Are.
nue. Without Danger.
The horse gets a "break"l

A new traffic demand signal, be-
lieved to be the only one of its kind
in the country and designed pri-
marily for horseback riders. was
turned on at 10 am. today by Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer.
The light is at the intersection OF
Massachusetts avenue and WaterSide
drive. Any rider coming up from
Rock Creek Park and wishing to cross
the avenue may reach up and pull
a chain erected on two wooden posts
at each side of the bride path. This
will cause the light on the avenue to
become red and the horseman or
horsewomen may proceed across in
safety.
A detector imbedded in the pave
ment causes the light to change for
motorists coming from the park.
There also is a push button to allow
pedestrians to cross. The light stays
red for 20 seconds on the avenue on
demand, otherwise remains green.
Another light exists to aid riders
in Rock Creek Park at Pierce Mill.
This, however, operates on a beam.
which causes the light to change when
a rider comes into its rays.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
PENNILESS, DIR. PURDY LEAVES
JAIL TO REBUILD HIS CAREER

Turning his back upon the wreckage
of a once brilliant career, DR.. Frank
LIE Roy Purdy, penniless and lonely
old man, left the District Jail today
intent upon forgetting the past in
rebuilding for the future.
He and his wife, Mrs. Mary E.
Purdy, once were welcomed in WASH
ingtons' fashionable homes, and prom
inent society matrons were frequent
visitors to their apartment in the
Shoreham Hotel.
Today DR.. Purdy stands charged as
a swindler and his wife is dead. hav-
ing succumbed to heart ailment in
the Jail while awaiting trial on the
same charge.
Their arrest several years ago fol-
lowed a complaint by Mrs. Florence
Means Kay that they had defrauded
her of $4,000 Mrs. Kay, widow OF
a Washington dentist, said Mrs. Prrdy
told her she had inherited a vast
estate in England and needed the
$4,000 to have a trunk of gold
shipped to New York.
The physician and his wife were in
dicted for false pretenses and released
on bond. They jumped bond. how
ever. and were hunted by Department
Evening star., 1934-03-30

of Justice agents from coast to coast,
finally being apprehended in Detroit.
They were brought back to Wash
ington for trial, but Mrs. Purdy's con-
dition was so serious the case was
never brought into court. One effort
to arraign the wife was made by
bringing her on a stretcher before
Justice Peyton Gordon, but he ordered
deputy marshals to take her back to
the jail hospital.
The Government engaged private
physicians to examine her and they
reported she was taking" A few
weeks later, she collapsed in the jail
and on March 16 she died.
DR.. Purdy had entered a plea OF
not guilty. He was released today
on his personal bond after United
States Attorney Leslie c. Garnett had
indicated the charge against him
would be dropped.
DR.. Purdy told friends he was
going to visit a son in Philadelphia
and another in New York Then, he
said, he intended to go to Buffalo,
where he started practicing medicine
40 years ago. At the age of 60, he
hopes to recapture his once lucrative
practice, which extended from Boston
to Warrington.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
WHOLESALERS CAUGHT
between LIQUOR LAWS

District officials learned today that
Federal agents have been insisting
wholesale liquor dealers here comply
with provision of the Federal alco-
hol law which is contrary to provi-
sion of the District liquor regulations.
The Federal officers informed
wholesalers they must post in their
establishments a visible sign stating
wholesale liquor dealer" The pur-
pose is to reveal publicly that such
dealers are engaged in the liquor
business and thus aid enforcement of
Federal tax provisions.
The District liquor regulations pro-
hibit the posting of signs advertising
the fact that they have liquor for
sale. This rule does not apply to
manufacturers.
District officials indicated they
would bow to higher authority and
make an exception from their rules
as to the wholesaler.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Dance of Death Associated
With Drama of Good Friday
TUiu COsmic Demons CauOrt to Doom,
as FlOOd.Tides of Life and Light
Rise to Engulf Them.

ond was about the same, only the
day was equivalent to 100000 years.
At the end of each day the tortured
souls died. only to be born again.
In the third hell men were given
animal bodies but kept their human
heads. They were switched perpet-
ually from mountaintop to noun
taintop by hordes Of devils. The
fourth was the hell of screams"
Its floor was covered with lotus
flowers which concealed sharp spikes
upon which the damned were flung,
over and over again for 100000
years. In the next hell the demons
pounded the sinners with great ham
mers after they fell on the spikes.
The damned were fastened on re-
voIving spits before the fire in the
sixth hell. As fast as they were well
roasted they were eaten by monster
dogs with iron teeth, only to be re-
born again. The seventh hell was
reserved for cruel kings. 1t was
like the sixth only the victims could
make an effort to escape by running
up a steep mountain, only to have
the wind blow them down into the
arms of the demon cooks again.
The eighth was the hell of un-
quenchable fire, so crowded that the
damned could not move and where
they must abide, with the crowding
becoming even greater, until the end
| of time.
Each of these major hells had 16
minor hells, for special classes Of
sinners. Such was the hell of thirst
| Through it ran a river OF salt water
whenever the damned threw them
selves into it they were fished out
by devils with red-hot hooks and
molten iron was poured down their
throats.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
100000 EXPECTED
TO VISIT CAPITAL
D. C. Preparing for Vast
ThrongS During Cherry
Blossom Festival.

With favorable weather. at least
100000 visitors from nearby States
will come to Washington this Spring
on vacation and to attend the cherry
blossom festival, it was estimated to-
day by Ernest N. Smith, executive
vice president of the American Auto
mobile Association.
Mr.. Smith based his views on scores
of reports from A. A. A. motor clubs
within 500-mile radius of Washing
ton, and on information received from
rail. bus, air and steamship lines.
Increasing interest in national af-
fairs, better economic conditions and
the widespread publicity given the
cherry blossom festival were among
the factors cited by Mr.. Smith as con-
tributing to the expected influx
Completing Festival Plans.
So far as the festival itself is con-
cerned, progress is being made all
along the line of arrangements, it
was reported last night at a dinner
meeting of the Festival Committee,
rendered in honor of Commissioner
Hazen at the Occidental Hotel by Fred
Buchholz, the owner.
Probability that the festival may
become a national fete day each
Spring rivalling such fetes as the
Philadelphia "Mummers Parade" each
New Years day or the New Orleans
"Mardi Gras," was visioned by Rep
resentative John J. Cochran of Mis-
souri,.
The Mayflower Hotel ball room will
be the scene of the Cherry Blossom
ball it was announced.
A water regatta is being planned
which may be part of the night
time display of the trees. Lighting
Of the trees at night, an innovation
this year. and a parade of water craft,
also decorated and lighted, would lend
a new atmosphere to the Spring cele-
bration, members agreed. In addition,
some members Of the committee be-
lieved that q parade of flotillas up
Pennsylvania avenue at night could
be arranged.
Dates for Festival
Dates of the festival have been set
for April 10, 20 and 81, when the
blossoms are certain to be in flower
The committee will continue its
plans and efforts to make this festival
an annual affair of national impor-
tance. members pledged last night.
A committee of two was named
last night by the Northeast Business
Mems Association to cooperate with
District officials in promoting the fes-
tival. They are r. w. Mccullough
and Courtland H. Smith.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
April Fool Pastry
Shipment Barred
As Plant Menace

A shipment of April fool
doughnuts and pretzels from
Japan has been barred from the
United States as "a potential
menace to plant life"
The fabricated "edibles" we're
stuffed with rice straw and cotton
which might have introduced new
fungi and insect pests to the
country, the Department of
Agriculture announced.
The departments plant quar-
antine inspectors held up the
shipment after it was brought to
their attention by a customs
inspector.
The usual victims of April fool
jokes can thank the department,
as they likely would have "bitten"
on the clever pastry limitations.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
FORFEITED BOND
Of $1,000 IS PAID
Alleged Purple Gang
Member Fled After
Arrest Here.
A professional bondsman today

A professional bondsman today
handed over to the Police Court flnan-
cial clerk a $1,000 bill, the price he
had to pay because an alleged MEM
Der OF the notorious Detroit Purple
Gang" arrested here for carrying a
knife and wanted in New York for
robbery, skipped" trial.
The bondsman, Hyman MendelSon,
paid the bond. criticizing police and
the action of the Police Court judge
who fixed it.
Charles Golden, "a, who has several
aliases, is the fugitive. He was ar
rested by headquarters detectives In a
Fourteenth street apartment January
8, charged with carrying a concealed
weapon, in this case long-bladed
knife. He was brought to Police
Court and the case was continued.
Assistant District Attorney Roger
Robb told Judge Ralph Given he had
information the man was a member
of the Detroit Purple gang" that he
had been acquitted on a murder
charge in the Michigan city and was
under indictment in New York in con-
lltCtlUu Will d Jt"tliy AOUOS4y' A'OS1
asked $4,000 bond.
However. the judge said he thought
$1,000 was sufficient bail in con-
cealed weapon case and overruled
Robb Mendelson posted the bond
and Golden went free. The defendant
appeared a few days later, but the
case again was continued. The trial
was definitely fixed for January "a,
but Golden was not among those 60
ing to court on that day.
Bondsman Mendelson was given
until today to get his man"
Golden, according to the record in
troduced by Robb, has been con-
victed three times in New York and
if found guilty on the jewelry rob-
berry indictment, would be sentenced
to life imprisonment under the
Baumes habitual criminal law. A
New York detective told Robb that
other men indicted Jointly with
Golden had been convicted.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
ROOSEVELT RECOVERING

John Roosevelt, youngest son of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, who
was operated upon for appendicitis
nearly two weeks ago at the Naval
Hospital, returned to the White House
yesterday and will remain there a few
days before resuming his studies at
Groton.
Mrs. Roosevelt went to the hospital
to get her son in a White House
limousine. His recovery had been
rapid. Capt. Ralph Mcdowell. chief
surgeon of the hospital, performed the
operatiou.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
TRAFFIC TIED UP
Street Cars Rear Wheels TAX e

Street Cars Rear Wheels TAX e
the Wrong Turn.
Downtown traffic was tied up for
nearly a half hour this morning due
to a freak accident.
Shortly before 9 o'clock. Rosslyn
street car, making a northwest turn
at Fifteenth street and New York
avenue found its rear wheels max
ing a northeast turn. The momentum
Of the car prevented any argument,
however, when it loosed one of the
rear wheels from the track.
Until it was pulled back into place
street cars were blocked from below
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue to Fifteenth street and New
York avenue and about the same dis
tance in the other direction.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

If the wind
blows on Good
Friday it will be
windy the rest Of
the year.
If bread is
baked on Good
Friday there will
either be a death
in the family or
the bread will
turn out bad the
rest of the year.
1t is a good
day for planting
anything that
grows down be-
cause it is hang
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Temporary Plan.

Capt. Clark said this was a tenn
porary expedient to await final action
by the Federal authorities on the
amounts of money to be allotted to the
District.
Meanwhile. the 5000 remaining en-
ployes will start to work Monday on
projects on which they now are en-
gagged under C. w. A status which
will be transferred to the status of
emergency works at that time.
New improvement projects which
have been approved by District au-
thorities for operation under the
emergency works program will not
be started until next Thursday, Capt.
Clark said. What projects will be
actually placed in operation will de-
pend to a large degree on the deci-
sion Of the Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administration on how how much
money is to be allotted. If the sum
is less than that which has been an
ticipated by the District, it appears
those projects for which there Is any
sizeable cost for materials will have
to be dropped or curtailed.
To assure work for the $500 work.
ers, who remain with the C. w. A. to
the last day, the District had given
approval to projects having a total
estimated cost of S1.71OOOO. Other
projects were to be added to provide
work for several thousand others for
merly employed on the c. w. A. pro-
grams who might be found eligible
for relief and therefore eligible for
employment under emergency works.
Capt. Clark announced members of
the Planning Committee for the Re-
lief Work Programs would meet this
afternoon to review the new program.
Heads of Government departments,
which have been conducting c. W. A
projects under District supervision
have been asked to meet at IL am.
tomorrow at the District Building for
further study of the problems.
Capt. Clark said that with the
initial grant of $150,00 the District
would proceed Monday with emer-
gency works programs as long as the
money holds out.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

1t is also a good day for men with
thin hair to get haircuts. The hail
will grow thick. Possibly this is as
sociated with the belief that mans
hair stands on end when he is about
to be hanged.
A wish made before pm. on Good
Friday will come true
If a hen is set on Good Friday
every egg will hatch a speckled
chicken.
Rain water collected on Good Fri
day is a specific for rheumatism and
sore eyes. 1t never spoils.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
GAS STATIONS HELD UP

Night managers of two gasoline sta
tionS were held up by two armed men
last night. Police believe the pair to
be the same which held up several
taxicab drivers recently
Harry Wright, 3237 Hiatt place,
manager of a gas station at Rhode
Island avenue and Fourth street
northeast, was robbed of $50 after
the bandits forced him into wash
room. Shortly after this robbery,
about $50 am, another occurred at
q Third street and Massachusetts,
avenue filling station. where Norman
Goodwin of 81 S street, the night
manager, was robbed of an unde-
termined sum.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
D. c. GETS $15O,00O
|. TO CONTINUE NEW
WORKS PROGRAM
$4,000 Was Requested.
Further Sums Are Ex-
pected Later.
NO GRANTS ARE MADE
FOR DIRECT RELIEF
Future Plans to Continue to
Care for Unemployed Are
in Doubt.

After considering a District request
for $4,000 for the new emergency
works program and direct relief, Fed
eral relief authorities today announced
they had placed $4,000 as an initial
allotment to the credit of the District.
AS a result, the extent to which
washington may proceed with its
emergency works program was thrown
into considerable doubt.
OF the requested S793,O 900, a sum of
$4,000 was asked for employment of
the emergency works forces during
April and $4,000 was requested for
materials needed for emergency works
projects. The item included q re-
quest for S225,0 900 for direct relief next
month and an item of $4,000 for re-
lief of transients
The s150,0O0 granted is solely for
emergency works projects.
announcement Of the initial grant
was made in a telegram from Harry
L. Hopkins. Federal Emergency Relief
administrator, to Capt. Howard F.
Clark, executive officer for the new
employment program here, which
succeeds the civil works program.
Hope for Further Funds.
Hope still is held by District officials
that adequate funds for proceeding
with programs sufficient to provide
employment for all actually in need
OF relief will be obtained.
The message from Hopkins called
for a further conference between
District and Federal officials to be
held some time next week at the
Federal relief headquarters. Further
allotments TO the District are 70 be
decided upon at that time, it was
stated.
If the initial grant of $3.50 900 is to
be regarded as the first weekly outlay,
and others of similar size are forth
coming weekly, there would not have
to be any drastic reduction in the
present number of persons who to-
day are serving for the last time as
c. w. A. workers. District officials
have not been informed. however. Of
what to expect in the way of monthly
drafts.
A total of $500 persons are all that
remain on the c. W. A. rolls of the
District which once totaled $4,000.
These workers tomorrow will receive
their last c. W. A. pay checks, ex-
pected to total about s225 900.
Capt. Clark announced, after receipt
OF the message from Hopkins, that
between 400 and 500 skilled workers.
who have been on the C. w. A. rolls.
will be let out Monday. 1t was de-
cided to drop the skilled workers
temporarily due to the higher scales
Of pay received by them than by
unskilled workers.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
CLUB IS INVITED

The Cosmopolitan Club meeting
yesterday in the Carlton Hotel was
invited to attend the district con.
vention a. Newport News, Va, in June
by George E. Hall, Richmond, gov
ernor of the Capital District Fedora
ton of Cosmopolitan Clubs.
Hall and H. r. Taylor of Newport
News, were guests at the luncheon.
A delegation of Is club members
headed by Thomas j. Groom and
Harry Hites will attend the "Civic
night" program to be staged next
Wednesday night by the Boys Club
of Washington.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

scythe is substi-
tuted the figure
of the court jest
er in his fools
cap pran c i n g
merrily over a
floor of skulls and
picking queen or
serving maid for
a partner as the
fancy strikes him.
This concept
probably arose di-
rectly from the
superstition of the
d a n ce of the
dead in church.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Many Superstitions
Associated With Day.

Many superstitions are associated
with Good Friday throughout Christ
endOm.
Here are some from Maryland, as
cleaned by the Maryland Folklore
Society:
Evening star., 1934-03-30
RESERVISTS PRAISED
Officers Iaud Men in Navy and
Marine Service.

Tribute was paid to Navy and
Marine Reservists by high-ranking
Navy officials last night in special
radio program over Station WJSV.
Capt. John Downes, director OF the
Naval Reserve Division; Rear Ad-
miral w. T. Cluverius, commandant
of the 9th naval district, at Chicago,
and Mai. E. C. Long, director of the
Marine Corps Reserve, were the
speakers. Each praised the untiring
work of the ReServiStS.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

More than 10000 foreign and coun-
terfeit coins were placed in telephone
boxes and automatic stamp machines
IN England last year.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

yards at the ghostly hour Of mid
night. Indirectly it may have arisen
from a far deeper source-an instinc-
tive recognition of the close geretic
association Of wit with cruelty. Death
was the supreme torturer who rev.
eled in human pain. The lords fool
also was the torturer. following his
laugh-making trade in a more So
cially acceptable fashion. He served
the same sadistic craving of man
kind that was served when painted
Iroquois danced and jested around
the defiant prisoner burning at the
stake, which is served by the tor
turing ridicule that schoolboys heap
upon a sensitive comrade, and which
is served in a milder way by the COL
lege fraternity initiation.
\ X
Terrible Torment
Envisioned for Lost Souls.
This is the day of the narrowing
Of hell" Strange and terrible have
been the places Of torment man has
envisioned for lost souls-from the
eternal ice of the Eskimos to the
birthstone pits. Truly a horrible place
was the hell Of the ancient Burmese
theologians, worthy a place in Good
Friday notebook.
They pictured, in fact, eight hells.
The first had a floor of molten iron
over which devils chased the sinners,
cutting them to pieces with sharp
swords only to have the winds blow
the parts together again. A day
there was a million years. The Sec
Evening star., 1934-03-30
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Day OF darkness.
The Good Friday scene in the spir-
itual drama of the year is the Valley
of the Shadow of Death. Tolline
bells. penitential prayers, draperies oi
mourning, the ''bugges at night" OF
the old English translator Of the
Psalmist-these are the trappings oi
Lent's tragic climax.
The twin cosmic demons, Darkness
and Death, dance together on Col
gotha's skull-strewn f1oor-dance to
their doom, for all around Spring
food-tides of life and light are ris-
ing to engulf them.
Family heard through the clashine
cymbals Of the Good Friday nocturne
are the songs of the dawn birds. Fa1
to the eastward, the sun of resurrec.
tion is projecting against the clouds
its dim. strange luminescence which
preSages morning. The weird illum.
ination of the dance of death is pro-
phetic Of its ending.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Dancing Death
Common Conception.

Dancing Death was a common con-
ception in the ecclesiastical art of
the Middle Ages. For the grim
reaper with his
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Union Mission Ready for Easter

FORTY BOYS AND GIRLS BASKETS, EGGS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-02
Y Camp Adds Many
 Newcomers To Staff
40 Counsellors to Supervise Boys at Smiths Pond
 This Summer-Latest Additions Are COltegians

John Lowis, member of the un. dorEradunte class of Rutgers uni- verH.ty and m accomplished ath' lete, will bo among the large group of college men who will bo added to the Y, NJ. C, A, boys camp committed for tho coming summer aenAOn, Tho now additions VIII swell tho total Of oounsoiorB to 70, tho largest in tho history of tho Watertown camp,
 Edwin Prescott. former director of the Middlor camp, will bo back ihia ycnr, Mir LawlH will bo con. nected with tho Junior camp and will auporviHe the nature program n for lads ranging from to II years. Ho received experience h this llno nt Camp Meaohum, tho Y oamp in Cincinnati, ohio. Ho Will also nHHIat in athletic work among tho 1unlorH, At Rutgers he roooiv.. cd his letter for two years of Iaoresse, one for crew and three for track. He sings bass and plays m accordion and hArmonich.
 Prescott, son of the pastor of the leading Baptist church in New. buryport, ia . graduate of Bates college. IIe iA at present study Ing nt the Central General hospital, Lewiston, Maine, Ho hpent two bon. sons with tho Waterbury camp, but was not on tho AtaR in 1883. Iio is well known for hlB activities in camp as sectional director and hh organizer of tho camp musical pros gram.
 Among tho other college mon who win be added to the camp Htnff this summer VIII be Arthur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-02
Christ. Science
CHRIsTrAN sCrENCE SERVICES
Sunday June z

ANCIENT AND MODERN NE- cKoMANCY, ALIAS MEBMEt- ISM AND HYPNOTfBM DE. NOUECED" will be tho subject of the Lesson Sermon.
 The Golden Text ia taken from Psalms 7:9: "Oh let the wicked ness of the wicked como to m end but establish tho just: for the righteous ood trieth the hearts and reiDs."
 Bible readings include the fol- lowing passage from Luke q; T: And Jesus answered and said unti him, Got thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God. and hiTn only shalt thou serve"
 Science textbook, "Scisnce and Health with Key 10 the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, include the following from page sSi:ie: We cannot bring out the practical proof of Christianity, which Jesus required, while error seems as potent and real to us as Truth, and while we mako personal devil and an snthropomoTpbic uod our starting. points, especially if we consider Satan as n being cocqual in power with Deity. if not superior to Him. Because such starfing- points are neither spiritual nor scisntific, they cannot work out the Bptrit-rule Of Christian healing. which proves the nothingness Of error, discord, by demonstrating the sII.inciusiveness Of harmonious Truth"