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Evening star., 1934-07-09
K|CK-bACK RULES
EXEMPTION SEEN
Contractors Signing Union
Agreements Not to Be
Closely Watched.

Contractors who have signed union
agreements with their workmen will
not be subjected to the same rigid
pay roll inspection as those who oper-
ate on an open shop" basis, under
new rules to be drafted by the Dis
trict's "kick-back board" Engineer
Commissioner John C. Gotwals an
nounced today
Where a contractor is operating
under union agreement. he said, the
pay rolls on the job will not be
checked nor will the pay envelopes
passed out to the men be inspected.
Maj. Gotwals said that the inspections
would not be necessary in the case
of closed shop jobs as the unions could
be relied upon to look after their men.
Maj. GotwalS said he believes this
would encourage the employment Of
Washington men, drawn from the
ranks of local organized labor in Dis
trict road, sewer, bridge and building
contracts. and placed emphasis on the
selection of local men rather than on
preference for those employed under
union agreements.
The board recently set up to guard
against repetition of the "dck-back"
racket is under fire from local organ
lied labor because of objections voiced
by the Washington Building Trades
Council to the nomination OF Assistant
Engineer Commissioner Howard F.
clark as chairman. Mai. Gotwals said
he would confer later today With John
Locher, secretary OF the Building
Trades Council, regarding the latter S
objections to Capt. Clark. He ap-
peared confident that the objection
would be overcome.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
MRS. HELEN F. RICE,
EDUCATOR, EXPIRES
Dean of Faculty of Potomac
School Founded Calvert School
in Baltimore.

Mrs. Helen Fisher Rice, 60, dean
of the faculty of the Potomac School,
2144 California street, died Saturday
at the residence of her niece, Miss
Jessie C. Fisher, 62l1 Thirty-first
street.
A native of Washington. Mrs Rice
was educated in the local public
schools. being a graduate of Gen.
tral High and Washington Normal
Schools.
After teaching in the public schools
for several years. Mrs. Rice founded
the Calvert School in Baltimore. She
continued TO live in Washington,
however.
Mrs. Rice resigned as head of the
Calvert School after operating that
institution for a number of years and
became afiliated with the Potomac
School, a private institution.
She is survived by her husband, J.
Stewart Rice
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at 8 pm. at the residence Of
her niece. Burial will be in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
NORTH CAR0LINIAN
GETS COM ERCE JOB
F. H. Rawls Named Head of
Foodstuff Division to Sue
ceed Montgomery.

Fletcher H. Rawls of Winston-Sa-
lem, N. c., today was appointed chief
of the Foodstuffs Division of the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, it was announced by DR.. Ciau-
dius T. Murchison, director. Rawls
succeeds E. G.. Montgomery, who for
some months had been doing special
research work with N. r. A.
Rawls, a native of Deer Park, Ala,
ioined the bureau after many years
of business experience in both foreign
and domestic food production and
distribution.
For nine years he was in Central
America and Cuba, in the production
and expectation of bananas, sugar and
other tropical food products. During
the period of Government control OF
sugar in 1888, he was associated
with the United States Sugar Equah-
zation Board, in New York City and
also conducted an investigation In
Northern Europe, including Russia
Immediately after the war. Since
1920 he has been engaged IN the
and distribution OF food
products in the South.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
ROBBERY AND H0L0-UP
SERIES REPORTED HERE

Several persons we're victimizeo IN
a series of petty robberies yesterday
and last night.
Clyde H. Pools of Silver Spring
Nd was robbed of SIT yesterday oy
two colored men at K and Four-ano-
a-haf street southwest.
Another colored pair held up George
Andlis OF e20 First street while the
Iatter was selling "snowballs" at
Massachusetts, avenue and SECOND
street last midnight. The oanolts
took Sc.
Falling asleep on a bench at In
coin road and r street YESTERDAY,
James Shea Of 1346 Euclid street
woke to find he had been robbed oi
his coat and a watch valued at $2o.
he told police. 4
Evening star., 1934-07-09
SlX-INCH KNIFE LANDS
MAN IN JAIL so DAYS
District Attorney Threatens to
Prosecute Dispensers of
Illegal Weapons.

A knife with a six-inch blade. which
he claimed TO have won in a claw
machine shortly before his arrest, to-
dav cost John Chefe, At. OF the 100
block OF Four and half street south
west. 90 davs in jail
CheGe was arrested on an intoxica-
ton charge, and the knife was found
in mis- pocket
ASSISTANT United States Attorney
David A Hart remarked after the
case had been heard that II was the
third or fourth case in which con-
cealed weapon defendants had claimed
10 have won knives Of illegal length
III claw machines.
Hart said that if he received evi-
dence that Illegal knives were dis
pensed in that manner, he expected to
prosecute the cases.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
A.Z.A. WILL HONOR
UNKNOWN SOLDIER
500 Delegates to Join in
Ceremony at Tomb Dur
ing Tour.

Five hundred members of Aleph
Zadik Aleph, junior order OF Bnai
Birth, in convention here, will par
ticipate in ceremonies of laying a
wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier in Arlington National Gem
etery late today. The rite will be in
cluded in a sightseeing tour to begin
at 4 pm. and include points of inter-
est in the city, Fort Myer and the
cemetery.
The convention, which Is meeting at
the Jewish Community Center, will
close tomorrow night.
Visit to White House.
This noon the delegates went to the
White House, where they posed with
Col. Marvin Mcintyre, presidential
secretary, for a photograph, before
returning to the Community Center
for luncheon. DR.. Joseph r. Sizoo-
pastor of New York Avenue PreSby-
terian Church, was to address the
luncheon.
This afternoon each delegate was to
receive a copy of Frederic Haskin's
DOCK on american GONSl LihCAN az
the convention session.
Nebraskan Oratory Winner.
Irving Hill, Lincoln, Nebr., won the
international oratorical contest spon-
sored by the convention last night.
Hill spoke on What 1t Means to Be
Jew" and, following the oratorical
contest, broadcast his speech over a
Nation wide radio hook-up.
The convention adopted a reso-
luton declaring unqualified abhor-
renee of war and complete indorse-
ment of the work of peace" Simon
Atlas Chapter, No. rs, OF this city, Is
host to the convention.
The resolution deplored increasing
evidences of international decline OF
democratic forms of government ana
the rise of the fungus growth OF ma
tionalist and dictatorial power.
other participants in the oratorical
contest won by HILL included Ronald
Freedman, Waukeegan, ILL.,; Austin II.
Perlow, McKeesport, Pa; Henry j:
Rubin, Hollywood, Calf; Raymond
Kerr, New orleans, La; David Gold
berg, Paterson, N. j.; Eugene A:
Blurr, Steubenville, Ohio, and Cecil
Oppenheim, Pueblo, Colo.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
25 Game Violators Arrested.

MARTTNSBURG, w. Va. July 9
Especially twenty-five persons have
been arrested for various violations of
the State game and fish laws since
the bass season opened July / by Dis
trict Game Protector TulI Whitacre
and assistants on patrol in the Eastern
Panhandle Counties. Trials have been
held before various magistrates.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
FORMER JUDGE DIES

RALEIGH, N. c., July GP-
Judge John w. Thompson, 84-year-
old former judge of the Cristobal
Court in the Panama Canal Zone,
died at his home here late last night
of a heart attack after an extended
illness.
Judge Thompson served in the
Panama court from 1918 to 1920 by
appointment Of President Woodrow
Wilson.
Surviving are his widow and three
daughters here and one son. Herbert
G. Thompson Of Atlantis. lGs.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
TWO HURT IN CRASH
Truck Driven by Colored Youth
Hits Parked Car.

Two persons we're slightly hurt to-
day when a truck crashed into a
parked automobile in the 1900 block
of Elliott place.
The injured are Thomas W. Brown.
So. 1917 Elliott place, who was seated
in the parked automobile. and Clar-
ence r. Blackwell, 10. colored, of the
1000 block of Thirtieth street, driver
Of the truck Both we're treated at
Georgetown University Hospital. Brown
for cuts on the head and the colored
youth for bruises. Police say the
trucks steering gear got out Of order,
causing the driYw TO lose control.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
PUPIL CHARACTER
STUDY OUTLINED
Conference on Experiment
to Be Tried in Fall Ends
Tomorrow.

The final conference of the Char
acter Education Institute, conducted
by District public school officials, will
be held tomorrow.
Due to intensive work, the char
acter education course for the prin-
cipals and administrators. which was
to have taken three weeks is being
completed in four days less than that
time.
The main work now ahead Is set
ting up the administrative force for
the character education experiment
which will be conducted in 10 schools
next Fall.
COunseI0rs to Be Named.
Twelve counselors will be selected
by principals of the various schools,
with the approval of Franklin School
officials and Miss BERTHE Backus, as
SiStant superintendent of schools, who
has charge of the character educa-
ton program. These counsels will be
trained under direction of Miss Backus
and in turn will direct activities of the
teachers in whose classes the char
acter education work will be done.
The experiment will be continued
throughout all next year in the fourth,
seventh and tenth grades of the select
ed schools. There will be two coun-
selorS assigned to each senior high
school, two to each Junior high school
and one 20 each elementary and vo-
catlonal school.
Cooperation Pledged.
Many organizations throughout the
city have offered their cooperation
to the schools in the experiment. In
cluded among these are the Parent
Teacher Associations, the police, the
Social Hygiene Society, the Juvenile
Court and the Community Center De-
partment.
Programs for cooperation of out
side agencies will be worked out be-
tween now and the beginning of the
Fall school term. 1t is planned to
line up the support of the entire COM
munity behind the character eduCa-
tion work. since it is felt that the
schools can play only a certain limited
part in developing citizenship.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
Jail Cell Protects
Man Who Picked
Tracks for Sleep

Amos &. Miller. 6S. was jailed
today for intoxication. but he was
lucky to be alive even to &C oe-
hind the bars. According TO the
testimony of Ofacer J. E ONeai.
who made the arrest. Miller was
found lying on the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks in southeast
Washington. his head resting
peacefully on the rails.
A train passing through the
Yards was able TO stop before hit
ting him and was held up until
some one came to remove Miller
from the rails.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
French Sculptor Dies.

PARIS, July Q H).-Francois ST.
card. 10. the sculptor. died yesterday.
A friend of Georges Clemenceau, war
time premier, Sicard made a statue
of The Tiger" and also executed the
statesman's death mask.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
Like U. S. Wood Best.

Builders In Australia have asked the
government to reduce customs tariffs
on Douglas f1r from America because
no satisfactory substitute can be found
at home.
Evening star., 1934-07-09
Spanish Missionary Preserves
Legend of God Chinigchini.
CuIprH Who Dared Enter Temple to
mroke Justice Vas Left Free by
Upper California Indians.

and this was done to make them
stronger and more robust In the
Summer time when the nettles are
in season and are fercest they took
some punches OF them and began to
whip the boys on their legs. thighs,
shoulders and arms After this. they
placed the patient on a nest Of fierce
ants, and another one was stirring
them up to make them still flercer.
They often caused fever.
A veritable holy-of-h HOLES was the
temple Of Chinigchinix, as described
by Boscana: None save the chiefs
or elders entered within it. The other
people remained outside the stakes
and the boys and girls did not even
approach 1t They did not speak IN
side 1t. except in a very low voice, and
also those who we're outside pre-
served silence. The immunity which
these temples possessed was so great
that whatever the crime. If the delln-
quent has the good fortune to take
refuge at the temple before his oppo-
nents encountered him, he was al
ready free and could go wherever he
pleased without being moleSted or the
least mention made of what had hap
pened. They merely told him II they
let him: You went to the God Chi
nigchinix and had you not gone we
would have slain you. but he will
punish you because you are wicked"
Evening star., 1934-07-09
Legend of Flood
Spread Through Tribe.

Father Boscana found here the ap-
parently worldwide legend of great
food.
They believe and say" he records,
that at a remote time the sea began
TO fill up so that it came in over the
valleys, and the water rose over the
mountains, and all the people and
animals died, except some who went
to very high mountain.
They have no fear because Ching
chinix does not wish there will be
another flood. There is no doubt that
all this has some correlation to the
universal deluge, and the promise that
God made to us that there would not
be another.
Regarding their treatment of
disease. he says: In internal diseases
such as feverS, what they did was to lie
down naked on top Of pile Of sand
or ashes, a little fire in front of them,
and a basket or pot of water at the
head of the person. They were also
accustomed to set for the person a
little basket of acorn mush, but the
sick person ate If he wanted and If
not he left it, without any one impor-
tuning him to take food, and it is to
be noted that he always had some one
at his side day and night And thus
he remained until either nature con-
quered or the disease conquered"
Evening star., 1934-07-09
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

When Father Jeronimo Boscana, q
Spanish Franciscan, was sent from
Mexico in 1912 as a missionary among
the Indians of Upper California. he
came upon the worship Of a strange
god, Chinigchinix.
John p. Harrington. Smithsonian
Institute ethnologist, has just recov-
cred and translated literally Boscans's
long manuscript in which he de-
scribed the ways OF Chinigchinix and
his worshipers-perhaps the earliest
chronological treatise on the Califor-
MIA aboriginals.
Boscana found himself among the
San Juan Capistran Indians who
lived in the San Luis Rey drainage. in
what is now San Diego County. Calf.
The Chinigchinix. whose memory he
preserved was one of the great New
World "redeemers." who lived among
the great elemental beings that occu-
pied the earth before man. 1t was
the redeemer who created man out of
the mud of a lake, and afterward as
cended into the sky where he re-
manned as judge and punisher of his
people.
Among the curious practices found
by the Franciscan missioner was that
Of the 'house of refuge" This was
temple containing an image of Chi
nigchiniX Once a man was In
this temple. he was exempt from all
human punishment-since he delib-
erately had chosen to subject himself
TO the punishment Of the god rather
than that of his fellows. 1t was q
court OF last resort and Chinigchinix
could be depended upon to punish the
guilty more effectively than man.
Wore Apron of
Feathers to Heaven.
They believed says Boscana, that
ChinigchiniX was everywhere present
and that he saw everything though it
were a dark night, but that no one
could see him; that he was a friend
Of the good and punished the wicked
much. They say that this Ching
chiniX went away dancing to heaven.
wearing a little skirt or apron of
feathers. adorned with feathers like a
crown on his head, and painted up"
Chinigchinix apparently was a quite
effective tribal god. Parents, Father
Boscana recorded. did not punish the
sins OF their children, but merely
harangued them daily on the wrath
of this supernatural figure-and be-
cause of dread of him, child offenses
were almost unknown.
s,{k
of the boy to manhood. as described
by the Franciscan. First. the brand
of his totem was burned on his arm
Then it was their custom to whip them
with nettles and to put ants on them.
Evening star., 1934-07-09

Miss Coffin will be in charge Of
women's relations.
This appointment is the only one
that is intended for the present, ac-
cording to August e. Giegengach, new
public printer. who said today that
he did not anticipate any changes in
the staff of the G.. =. o. before August
and perhaps not until Sc Se2tember, as
he was making a study of operations
there upon which to base any action
that will be taken.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Lumber Code Drastic

THE lumber code has given the Federal Gov
ernment the power to do by regulation what
it has not always been so successful in doing
by recommendation. Drastic rules for per-
petuating the forests are to be enforced under
the code. The questions of continued produc-
tion and fire control are paramount in the
lumber CODE
In safeguarding the forests for future pro-
duction the code limits the trees which may be
cut and requires protection Of the younger
trees in order that they may be left for future
numbering activities. Replanting to provide new
stock is urged but not required.
Under the head of fire protection the rules
are particularly stringent. The lumberman Is
required to dispose of all slash and brush re-
sulting from his operations. He must enforce
rules against smoking in the woods He must
install spark arresters on all locomotive and
other egines he uses. Last, but not least, he
must have his entire force equipped and ready
at all times to fight fires which may develop
in the woods.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Rodents Mjure Trees

ONE effect of the extreme weather of the
~ past Winter has been serious damage TO
apple trees by hungry rodents. Many trees
were found to have been completely girdled
by mice and other rodents which fed on the
bark
Unless bridge grating Is resorted to- many.
If not most, of the damaged trees will die.
Bridge grating is accomplished by placing
narrow strips of bark at frequent intervals
around the tree leading from the lower Sec
ton Of the bark to the upper, thus bridging
across the gap left by the feeding of the AMI
mails.
In effecting this grating It is necessary for
the green underbark Of the tree to come In
contact with the green underbark Of the
bridge" thus permitting the passage of sap
from the roots to the upper branches.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

Aqueduct Bridge and crossed over the cause
way. The fight commenced between IL and IL
O'Clock and only three rounds were fought. Dur
ing the first round Williams received a blow
over the right eye. which raised knot. but did
not blacken the eye. The second round was
well contested and lasted for some time, each
getting about equally punished. On the third
round Kessler was disabled by striking Williams
powerful blow on the shoulder and putting
three of his fingers out Of joint which ended
the fight in Williams favor"
Some time after this, the Columbia Athletic
Club obtained control of the island It installed
an extensive athletic outlay on the grounds. in
cluding ball fields, tennis courts running track,
grand stand and all the necessary paraphernalia
suitable for its purposes. Its membership then
numbered fully 1000 Of the finest men of the
best families of Washington. In 1892 the club
was compelled to give up the island, and the
last Spring games we're played there on June
4 Of that year. Since then, it has been an eye
sore. and, at least We are thankful that the
island has been purchased by the Roosevelt
Memorial Association, and no doubt the Ma.
ional Capital Park and Planning Commission
will soon convert it into a magnificent recrea-
tion center.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Cotton Exports DRIP

THE American cotton farmer enjoying hstter
u prices in the domestic market. has seen his
foreign market drop OF as the price has rAsen.
Indian cotton undersold American 80 per cent
last year. and Egyptian cotton also undes1oId
the American considerably, with the result that
much Of the foreign market particularly Eu-
ropean, went to the cotton from these two
countries.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

the Lists. being the same that appeared on the
10th ultimo with an addition of six COM
petitors.
THE following are the names of the
debutants: Knight Of Monaskon. S. s. Rind
knight Of Collington. j. A. Dodge: knight Of
Mattapony. w. Wheatley; Knight Of the Golden
Horseshoe, J. N. Brewer; Knight Of Petersburg.
S. Cooley, and Knight of Prince George, Thomas
Cropley The ring used on the occasion was
2 inches in diameter instead of 3 as previously.
The band of the 10th Regular Infantry was
present and well adapted its music to the
occasion.
The judges were Esau Pickren. l. Thomas
Davis. r. p. Dodge, DR.. H. Magruder, William
Matthews, DR.. Grafton Tyler, A. H. Pickrell,
c. P. Houghton. H. c. Noyes. E. BARLEY and r.
Downman
I'm the first trial the ring was taken by the
knights Of the Valley. Richmond, Senandoah.
Powhatan, Palmetto and Golden Horseshoe.
while at the final test only the Knights Of
Powhatan and Mattapony bore it of.
The contest was now between the remain
ing three sir knights. At the first trial only
the knight Of Palmetto took the ring: at the
second the knight of Richmond. and the re-
manning honor fell, of course, to the Knight Of
the Golden Horseshoe.
The knight Of Powhatan, entitled to the
first honors, received his award and crowned
Miss Bessie Dodge Queen of Love and Beauty;
Miss Laura WEIGH first maid of honor; the
knight of Richmond, Ed Legg, chose Miss Mar
Brewer second maid of honor, and the -.aIght
of the Golden Horseshoe, J. N. .,rewer, an
nounced Miss Hessie Boyle as his preference
for the third maid of honor"
I ATER on the island seems to have been
L almost deserted and rowdies made it their
rendezvous. Occasionally they settled their
grievances there in fistic way, as they did on
January 80. 1888. as announced by the press. as
follows:
"A prize fight between George Kessler, who
weighs about ITO pounds, and Ben j. Williams.
who weighs 1881 pounds came of yesterday
on Analostan Island and was witnessed by be-
tween rs and 100 persons, mostly idlers and
loungers of Foggy Bottom in the old first ward,
in which the combatants reside. Foggy Bottom
skirts the river front on the Washington side,
running from K Street Bridge toward Observa-
tory Hill and Easbys Wharf. The difficulty
between the contestants was about an overcoat
which Williams accused Kessler of stealing.
This engendered considerable bad feeling. and
finally they agreed to settle it by this fight.
Some 60 more spectators got over to the
island on the ice, and small boat to cross the
channel, while others walked around by the