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One Of the Siamese twins says they've
learned to shut off their minds from each
other. That's not so much Many people can
shut off their minds from themselves.
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The Message Center

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INIT them to $50 toords or less.J
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When the President talks on THE State
Of the Nation" you needn't puff out your
chest and think he's picked your own out of
the forty-eight.
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Daily Thought

In those days there was no king
in Israel; every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.
Judges, 21:25.
HEAVEN itself has ordained the
l. l. right.-Washington.
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So They Say

There are two things a fighter
can't do-play around and fight
James j. Jefries, former world
heavyweight champion.
We may have made a bad bargain
when we (Russia) sold Alaska for
100000, but I feel confident that
the precious relationships of amity
that existed in 1867 will last for
ever-AleXander A. Troyanovsky,
Soviet ambassador to United States.
Right now some Of the magi-
clans are trying to figure out how
to get q blue eagle in a hat. Get
ting it out won't be so very difficult.
Joseph G. Lightner, head of
magicians' association.
I know Of nothing that makes
people more suspicious Of those en-
gagged in the practice of medicine
than the expert witness.-Dr. Dean
Lewis, former president, American
Medical Association.
I never have known a sincere man
who did not have an overwhelming
sense of failure.-Dr. Richard E,
Sykes, president, st. Lawrence uni
versity.
Let our young men pass on from
their detestation OF war to a per-
sonaI crusade to strengthen every
international agency designed u
prevent it. - President Robert G
Clothier Of Rutgers.
Too many highballs and too much
baseball are bothering schools today.
Governor w. H. alfalfa Bill
Murray of Oklahoma.
Our conflict is not with individual
men. but with established systems,
entrenched customs, habitual atti-
tudes, vested interests, and false
standards Of life.-Dean Speight Of
Swarthmore college.
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There are two things a fighter
can't do-play around and fight
James j. JeTries, former world
heavyweight champion.
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WHY TARRY?

THURsDAY. JuLY y. lss4.
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I never have known a sincere man
who did not have an overwhelming
sense Of falure.-Dr Richard E,
Sykes, president, st. Lawrence uni
Versity.
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Too many highballs and too much
baseball are bothering schools today.
Governor w. H. alfalfa Bib
MURRAY Of Oklahoma.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
MINNESOTA SOCIETY
OFFICERS REELECTED

Miss Bede Johnson was reelected
to her eighth term as president of the
Minnesota State Society at meeting
of the group last night in the Wash
ington Club, Seventeenth and K
streets.
Henry Adams Bellows, vice presi-
dent, and the entire slate of officers
were reelected for another term.
Other officers include: DR.. c. N Rod
dun, treasurer; Mrs. Robert Merriam,
secretary; A. F. White, financial sec
retary, and Wilbur McNallan, record
ing secretary.
Keith Merrill of the State Depart
ment described United States en-
bassies and legations in foreign coun-
tries, and his recent trip to Russia
with Ambassador Bullitt. Mrs. Amy
Dustin, London, soprano, entertained
with a number of English songs. &C
companied by Miss Mildred Deane.
Mrs. Minnie Dillie, Minnesota State
regent of the D. A. r., was guest of
honor.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
How to Reveal
Skin Deep Beauty.

There must have been a strong
strain of maliciousness in Portals per-
sonality. He gave directions for some
dirty tricks a doubtful suitor might
use to find out whether a charmer's
rosy cheeks were natural or fresh out
of a paint box.
Chew saffron between your teeth"
he directs, 'and stand near to a
woman with your mouth. When you
talk with her your breath will foul
a painted face and make it yellowish.
Or burn birthstone in the room where
she is and if there be mercury sub
Innate on her face the smoke will
make her brown or black"
The meanest trick of all, if it could
be worked, according to Porta's di-
rections. was to put decoction of
chameleon into girls bath. 1t will
make her green-colored to stay so a
long time"
y
This in how one may get ride of
an unwelcome guest: Beat vitrlol
and gals in mortar and put them in
a narrow seive that the powder may
Evening star., 1934-04-17
DR.. |. S. LYON TAKES
POST WITH N. R. A.
Named Deputy Assistant in
Charge of Policies of
Trade Practices.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DR.. Leverett S. Lyon, executive vice
president of the Brookings Institution
has Joined N. r. A. as deputy assistant
administrator to have charge of pol
1cles governing trade practice prob
lens, price stabilization, costs and
consumer protection.
Lyon, widely known as an economist
and statistician, was long connected
with the University of Chicago. His
N. r. A. post was created by tie re-
cent administrative reorganization. His
immediate superior, an assistant ad-
ministrator for policy, has yet to be
named. The task of the latter and
his aides will be to make tie perma-
nent policy of N. R. A. on all code
questions, subject to the approval of
Hugh S. johnson and the advice of
specialists, and see that all codes are
written or applied in line with the
standards so established.
George S. Brady, previously N R. A.
deputy administrator in charge of ma
chinery codes, also was transferred to
the policy division to supervise ques-
tions dealing with code authority Or
ganjzation. conflict betwee codes, COL
lections of statistics, etc. A third
man is to be named to supervise labor
policy.
Evening star., 1934-04-17

him the towel to wipe himself And
when it is wet it will make his hands
and face as black as cole, that will
very hardly be washed out with many
WaShingS."
Porta had been told of trick to
save a host from guests with too
healthy appetites. They will not be
able to eat, he was informed, if the
host stick under the table privately
before supper a needle that hath often
sewed the winding sheet of the dead"
He tried it, however, and it did not
work.
X x **
The spouse who fingered too long
over his cups was as much problem
to the good wives of the Middle Ages
as to those of the twentieth century
Porta gave them an infallible receipt
for curing drunkenness:
There are many who, when they
have drunk much wine that is the
worst thing in the world for them,
fall sick and die of it. Now, if you
would have one refrain from and
abhor strong drink, let three or four
live eels, put in the wine, stay there
til they die. Let one drink of this
wine who is given to drunkenness and
he will loath wine and thereafter al
ways hate it. There is another way:
Wash a tortoise with wine good
while and give one of that wine to
drink. half a cupful every morning
for three days"
The anxious mother may make sure
her son will not grow up drunkard
if she ''see where an owl lay her eggs
and boyl her eggs rere, and give them
to your child to eat. For if the child
eat them before he drinks wine he
will always hate it and live sober
because his natural heat is made more
temperate"
Evening star., 1934-04-17

How to get long and black hair:
Take common green lizard and cut
ting off the head and tail, boyl it in
common oyl and anoynt your head
with it.
To grow hair: Wash the place with
the first water that distills from
honey by the fire.
To change the color of a child's
eyes, Anoynt the fore parts of the
head with the ashes of the shells Of
hazelnuts and oyl.
To get soft skin: Boyl two calls
feet in water, put in it one pound of
rice, and boyl it well. Let crums of
bread steep in asses milk or goats
milk, with ten whites of eggs bruised
with their shells. Distill it all at a
gentle tyre and put in the vessel two
naked pigeons.
To color the face: Distill straw
berries and wash your face in the
water. 1t will make your face red as
a rose. To remove the color: Take
purple violets, egg shells and campfire
mingled with water. Set the water
in the open air and wash the redneSs
Herewith,
Evening star., 1934-04-17
FOREMAN FATALLY
INJURED ON BRIDGE
Tony Shilback of Baltimore Is
Crushed by Shovel
Dipper.

Crushed by the dipper of a steam
shovel while working on the new p
street bridge, Tony Shiloack. As. a
foreman on the construction lob, was
fatally injured yesterday.
Shilback, who lived in Baltimore,
died in Emergency Hospital several
hours after the accident. He was in
jured internally, had broken leg and
head injuries.
Shilback was hurt while he and E.
A. Grim were trying to move the
steam shovel to a point where it would
not be flooded by the rising waters
of Rock Creek.
According to Grim, who witnessed
the accident, Shilback either stopped
or slipped while the steam shovel was
being shifted to higher ground and
was pinned beneath the scoop.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald Is
investigating the accident.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
CLAW MACHINE TEST
CASES SET FOR TRIAL
Action Will Determine Whether
Devices Are Games of Chance
or Skill.

Machinery was set in motion in
Police Court this morning to ascertain
whether the so-called "claw ma
chimes" operated in numerous District
stores and restaurants are games OF
chance or games of skill.
If they are games Of chance, they
will be banned, and proprietors OF
establishments wherein they are ope-
rated will be held for permitting
gaming, according to United States
Attorney Leslie c. Garnett, who Or
dered all the machines in the city
closed down yesterday until the two
test cases, which were brought to
court today, settle the machines
status.
Defendants in the two test cases
today were William w. Wakefield, 80,
900 block of F street and James S.
lavish, 43, of the 5000 block of
Georgia avenue, both of whom plead
ed not guilty before Judge Ralph
Given and demanded jury trials,
which were set for April "a.
The machines seized in the two
cases, of different design, are in the
Office of Assistant United States At
torney David A. Hart, who Is prose-
cutting the test cases, awaiting exhi-
bition as evidence when the cases
come to trial. Attorney Harry Whelan,
represents both defendants.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
DESCRIBES RELIEF WORK
Mrs. Goldsmith Discusses Jewish
Social Service Over Radio.

Work of the Jewish Social Service
Agency, member organization of the
Community Chest, was described in a
radio address over Station WMAL last
night by Mrs Charles A. Goldsmith,
president The talk was made on the
Community Forum period.
The agency has about $50 families
on its rolls constantly, Mrs. Goldsmith
said. About 65 of these need mon
etary aid, the other 85 receiving help
in home adjustments or other per-
sonal affairs which only a trained
social worker can supply.
Mrs. Goldsmith's topic was What
the Jewish Social Service Agency Is
Doing for the Community" She was
introduced by Elwood Street, Com
munity Chest director.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
DISTRICT FISCAL
BILL IS CALLED IN
HOUSE FOR DEBATE
Mrs. Norton to Stress Need
for Erection of New Tu-
bercuIosis Hospital.
MARKET AND BRIDGE
SURVEY TO BE URGED
Representative Otter Will Lead
Fight Against Legisla-
tive Riders.

The House today began general
debate on the 1885 District appro-
priation bill and expects to pass it
before the end of the week.
Representative Blanton, Democrat,
of Texas. an active member of the
Subcommittee on Appropriations
which framed the bill, called it up
for consideration in the absence of
Chairman Cannon, who has not re-
covered from a recent automobile ac-
cident. The Texan will have charge
of the bill on the floor until Cannons
return.
Majority Leader Byrns said there
would be no limit on debate. but he
believed the House would be ready
to consider the measure under the
flve-minute rule for amendments
Thursday.
While the debate will not be con-
fined to the bill, number of House
members have asked for time to dis
cuss the need tor municipal improve
mentS not provided in the measure.
THESE include Chairman Norton of the
House District Committee, Repre-
sentative Cochran, Democrat. of
Missouri and Representative Smith,
Democrat. of Virginia.
Hospital to Be Urged.
Mrs. Norton plans to stress the
need of an appropriation for the erec-
ton OF new tuberculosis sanitarium.
Funds for a sewage disposal plant will
be urged by Cochran, while Smith will
make a plea for appropriations for
improvement of the Southwest Farm
ers' Market and an engineering sur
vey looking toward replacement of
Chain Bridge
When the bill is considered for
amendments a score or more are ex-
pected to be offered by both Repub-
licans and Democratc. Points of or
der also are to be raised against GER
tain OF the legislative provisions in
the measure. one of which would make
mandatory a reduction in the tax
rate from $3.50 to S120.
Mrs. Norton said she would offer an
amendment to provide an appropria-
ton of s2,C00,000 for new tubercu-
losis sanitarium and the establishment
OF tuberculosis examination clinics in
various parts of the District. Amend
ments to provide $4,000 for improve
ment Of the Farmers Market and
$4,000 for an engineering survey to
determine a new location for Chain
Bridge will be introduced by Smith.
Cochran will seek s8,OOO,OO0 for a
sewage disposal plant
The fight for elimination of some of
the legislative riders will be lead by
Representative Otter. Republican, of
Pennsylvania. He also will offer an
amendment to restore the 40 per cent
reduction made in the personnel items
of the public utilities commission
which Acting Chairman Riley E. Elgen
has said would cripple the commits
sion and make its work impotent.
Although Otter is a member of the
Appropriations Subcommittee which
drew up the bill he is completely out
Of sympathy with some of its provi-
slons, especially the tax reduction
rider. He claims that a cut in the
tax rate would deny the District funds
for urgently needed Improvements in
the coming fiscal year.
Evening star., 1934-04-17

NOAAAS 49, N@A y
fine. With this
wipe the napkin
and shake it, that
what sticks not
may fall off
Then run it with
your h a n d S till
you find that ii
sticks very fast
then wiping and
shaking off what
sticks not there
on.
When the par
asite hath new
washed his hands
and fare caSt IN
Evening star., 1934-04-17
ELECTIONS HELD

Election of officers was held at the
regular business and social meeting
last night of the Ann Jackson class
at the First Baptist Church. The
next meeting will be held May IA.
Those elected were Gertrude Brooks.
president; Ena Allen, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Blanch Hicks, second vice
president; Mrs. Elizabeth Mundy,
third vice president; Jennie Ham
mond, recording secretary; Mrs. Herb
ert Holman, assistant secretary; Lari-
ana Speiden, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Grace Carter, treasurer, and Mrs.
E. v. Carr, press reporter.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
JOBLESS LIST CUT

The steady reduction of the re-
employment registers of the Civil
Service Commission is continuing. the
report for the week ended April IA
showing probational appointments;
2 temporary and IA listed as REIN
statements or transfers.
There were but three names added
during the week, one in Washington
and two from the outside, making the
total available from these lists, 1888.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Skit Planned Tomorrow.

A skit entitled Week End With the
Travellers Aid" will be given by Edna
Lenox and Ann Faba at the regular
monthly meeting of the Rooms Reg.
istry Committee tomorrow at II am
at Seventeenth and K streets. Mrs
william Lee Corbin is chairman oi
this committee and Virginia Garter
Wingheld Is the secretary.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
TRIAL OF $4,000
DIRT PILE DAMAGE
SUIT UNDER WAY
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman
.Testifles in Action Against
Raymond T. Baker.
DESCRIBES DETACHMENT
OF GROUNDS AT HOME
Says Yellow Earth Was Dumped
in Hollow Intended for
Sunken Garden.

Trial of the s25 900 damage suit
which Mrs. j. Borden Hartman
brought against Raymond T. Baker.
former director of the mint, and his
wife, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Baker, as
result of 'neighborly" controversy
over large dirt pile, began in Dis
trict Supreme Court today.
Mrs. Hartman, socially prominent
here and in New York, told a Jury of
the "trlghtful eyeSore" in the form of
4,5O0 cubic yards of raw yellow earth
she found dumped on the grounds of
her beautiful Ridge Road estate when
she returned home from Bermuda in
the Spring of 1881.
The suit seeks to recover damages
to compensate Mrs. Hartman for The
disagreement to the grounds of her
nome and the inconvenience caused
her by dumping of the dirt on her
property. She charges that it came
from the estate of Mr.. Baker, which
adjoins hers.
Found Dirt in Hollow.
She related to the jury how she re-
turned home on April %, 1881, to find
the great mass of dirt in a hollow
which was to have been converted into
sunken garden.
AS If that were not bad enough"
Mrs. Hartman testified, Il woke up at
7:30 O'Clock the next morning and
there were four enormous trucks dump
ing dirt right under my nose. called
the police"
The jury probably will be taken to
the Hartman home, 1900 Ridge road,
this afternoon to inspect the estate.
Mrs. Hartman said this morning
that nothing has grown on the dirt
that was dumped there.
She testified she purchased the
estate for $4,000 and spent $4,000
improving it.
Cherry Tree Damaged.
Mrs. J. J. A. van Kaathoven, who
lives at Sixteenth and NJ streets,
testified Mr.. Baker told her the dirt
would be dumped on Mrs. Harriman's
property because she was good
friend of his and would not mind.
In response to questioning, Mrs.
Hartman testified she threatened to
have any one arrested who came on
her property after discovering the dirt
there.
Not only did dirt mar the estate
by its presence, she testified, but also
seriously damaged cherry tree which
she described as the most beautiful
feature OF the grounds She said
she did not even feel like locking
out from the front Of the house be-
cause of the Disagreement to the
grounds
Besides the Bakers, defendants
named in the suit include William P.
Lipscomb, Inc; j. H. Small g. Sons,
Logan Pingree and Joseph P. Maher,
all employed in the landscaping of
the Baker estate.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
w. C. Lankford Hurt in Fall.

Former Representative William
Chester Lankford Of Georgia yester-
day received painful injuries in an
accidental fall in the Internal Rev.
enue Building. Constitution avenue.
He was alighting from an elevator
when he slipped on wet marble fiocr.
An X-ray examination disclosed a
dislocated wrist and other hurts to
his right arm and shoulder.
Mr.. Lankford is an attorney in the
internal revenue service. He repre-
sented the eighth Georgia district in
the Sixty-sixth to Seventy-f1rst Con-
crosses, inclusive.
Evening star., 1934-04-17

n II " y II ' yOQt
head and let it
abide so "a hours.
Then wash it
with lye made of
cabbage stalks,
ashes and barley
straw.
How grey hairs
are dyed black:
A n oy n t your
hair in the sun
with leeches that
have lain cor
rupt in the black
est wine sixty
daies and it will
b e c ON e We y
black.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Ohio Dance Friday,

The Washington Alumni Club Of
Ohio State University will hold its
annual dinner and dance at the
Admiral. Seventeenth street and
Rhode Island avenue, Friday at pm.
I. M. Foster, president of the club,
and j. F. Kendrick, secretary, have
charge of the ticket sale and arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
ENGINEERS ARE SEEKING
LICENSE REQUIREMENTS

Representatives Appear Before
Commissioners to Ask Support
of Enactment of Bill.
A delegation of more than 25 repre-
sentatives of organizations of engi-
neers appeared before the District
Commissioners today to ask them to
lend their support to the campaign
for enactment Of a bill to require all
professional engineers Of the District
to be licensed and registered.
The delegation, headed by Donal L.
Chamberlin, president of the Ameri-
can Association of Engineers, included
representatives of dozen organiza-
tlons of various kinds of professional
engineers.
Because the Commissioners we're
engaged in other conference sched-
ules for this morning, sufficient time
was not available for the engineers
presentation. A further hearing was
scheduled for next Friday at 10 am.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
LOSES RIGHT FOOT
Colored Youth Is Run Over by
Freight Train.

Run over by freight train he was
attempting to hop for ride to Phila-
delphia, a 19-year-old colored youth
had his right foot cut off today.
The accident happened just outside
the Benning freight yards, about
quarter of a mile from the bridge
crossing the Anacostia River. The
youth, Arthur Kirkland, and two COM
panions from Camden, S. c., were on
their way to Philadelphia to visit
Arthur'S relatives.
The rescue squad truck and an am
bulance, summoned to administer first
aid, became stuck in the mud Of
Anacostia flats trying to get to the
scene. The ambulance finally was ex-
tricated and took the youth to CAL
linger Hospital. The truck was SUNK
in mud to its axles and a wrecking
crew had to be summoned to tow
it out.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
D. c. FISCAL AFFAIRS
GUARDIANSHIP VACANT
Caused by Resignation of Repre-
sentative Clark to Go on
Rules Committee.

The resignation of Representative ].
Bayard Clark of North Carolina from
the House District Committee to sue
ceed the late Representative Pou of
North Carolina on the House Rules
Committee leaves vacant the chair
manShip of the District of Columbia
fiscal affairs subcommittee.
Representative Thomas J. O'Brien
Democrat, of Illinois, is in line for
this craftsmanship, if he prefers it to
his present position as chairman of
the subcommittee on public health,
hospitals and charities. If Mr.. O'Brien
resigns from the latter subcommittee
to head the fiscal affairs subcom-
mittee, Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Demo-
crat. of Indiana, is in line for the
Craftsmanship of the said Committee
on Public Health, Hospitals and Chari-
ties.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
PIT. A. Group Will Meet.

The Parent Teacher Association of
the Wendell Phillips School will hold
its regular meeting at 7:45 o'clock to-
night in the school auditorium on N
street between Twenty-seventh and
Twenty-eighth streets. The Choral
Club Of the school will give several
selections.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Mystic Lore Collection Here !
Marked by Weird Formulae
Thousands of Volumes and Pamphlets
Presented to Library of Congress
by Houdini Are Catalogued.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

CrucibleS of alchemistS, sabbaths Of
witch covens. haunted houses and
castles. lore of astrologers and mys-
tics
Here in Washington is the worlds
greatest depository of mystic lore
the rare book division of the Library
Of Congress. Its staff now has fin
ished cataloguing the thousands of VOL
umes and pamphlets bequeathed to
the national Library by the late Harry
Houdlni. Collection of these strange
volumes the world over was a life
time labor of love on the part of the
great magician.
1t is a great sea of weirdness. One
can only dip into it at randcm-to
find, perchance, such volumes as The
Anatomie of Natural Magike," by
John Baptista Porta. "Neapolitaine, Z"
first printed in 1855. 1t is an index
to the richness of the whole treasure.
Portals work was much more than
a handbook of magic. 1t was a prac-
tical guide to daily living. The au-
thor's interests ranged from the bou-
doir Of the alchemist to the medieval
equivalent of the beauty parlor."