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Evening star., 1934-09-13
CL0UDBURST HERE
SMASHES RECORD
Storm Damages Homes and
Autos-Potomac StiH
Normal.
fcontinued from first Pase.l

lawns and sl1rubbery and damaged au-
tomobiles viii cost residents Thousands
Of dollars.
The p Street Bridge, closed to traf-
nc yesterday when racing water en-
dangered its piers, still was closed to
street car traf1ic. Fire Department
bumpers, virtually all Of which were
in action yesterday pumping out
cellars and flooded low points, were
relieved within . few hours after
the storm, except at isolated points.
An engine company and crew still
were busy today pumping water out
of the new Archives Building, under
construction on the side Of old Gen.
ter Market.
Except for the cloudbursts here and
at Hagerstown, Md, only light rains
were reported in Eastern United
States.
The Capital Transit Co. today re-
ported all street railway trafic re-
stored to normal. The Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. also reported "all
clear" this morning. Flood waters
got into power stations at K street
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets and between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth and H and I streets. The
latter station for q time was IN dan
ger of serious explosion, it was re-
vealed today. Water got into the
high tension generators.
More Rain Forecast.
1r> uy...l n, < a..
termittent showers for today and to-
night and possibly tomorrow. The
total rainfall for the month so far
Is 9.58 inches. The heaviest Septem-
Der rainfall In the history of the
Weather Bureau was 1881 inches in
1876.
During the height OF the storm more
than 1000 calls for aid were received
through the Metropolitan Police De.
partment switchboard. while the Fire
Department handled 400 calls.
Fire apparatus was used to pump
water out Of the Powhatan, Shoreham,
Hamilton and Carlton Hotels, the
Franklin Laundry, sos Thirteenth
street; an adjoining drug store, the
Security Savings Bank, National Saw
ings & Trust Co. and many other
large buildings Fifty IRE companies
were pumping Easements at 10 O'Clock
last night.
Police have been unable to make an
estimate of the number of automobiles
put out of commission. At several
points in the city cars were reported
totally submerged.
Streets were under water at scores
Of points throughout the city, reach.
ing depths of as much as 10 feet at
Nineteenth and L streets. At several
points streets and sidewalks were un-
dermined. A beer truck and a fire
engine fell into cave-in at Twenty
sixth and X streets.
In the 2lO0 block of Columbia
road q 10-foot concrete wall collapsed
into the yard of Alvin T. Golden, car
rying down . telephone pole which
smashed through the roof Of his
house.
Street car tracks were undermined
when roadbeds washed out on the
Rockville line and on the Cabin John
line.
Evening star., 1934-09-13
PASS THROUGH CRISIS

CALLANDER, Ontario, September
IL R-The Dionne quintuplets have
passed through q CRITICAL period"
suffering from 9 mild attack Of
intestinal toxanemia during the Ast
% hours. their physician. Dr.. A. r.
Dafoe, aid at noon today.
Evening star., 1934-09-13
Elephants Garry Oil.

Elephants are being used TO carry
oil from wells TO retneries In the
Belgian Congo.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OssINING, N. Y, June IA
story tumblins from the lips Of .
condemned man even as the hour
set for his death was striking. has
saved Anna Antonio-for at least q
day-from the electric chair.
She's absolutely innocent Of the
murder of her husband" said Vincent
Saetta.
Warden Lawes, into whose ear as
they sat together last night in the
death house Saetta whispered his
story. telephoned Gov. Lehman at
Albany. For more than half an hour
they talked. Midnight had passed
when the Governor issued brief
statement:
Il have directed the warden Of
Sing Sing Prison to postpone the exc
cuticn of Mrs. Anna Antonio, Vincent
Saetta and Samuel Feraci until Friday
night, June 20, in order that ! may
have time to study and consider q
long statement made by Saetta."
Thus he postponed-though only
for a day-the execution of the wom-
an and two men she was convicted Of
hiring to kill her husband, Salvatore,
for his $4,000 insurance money.
Woman's Nerves Crack.
Whether Saetta's death-house state
ment was Just a gallant gesture to
save a woman's life or whether 1t was
Evening star., 1934-06-29
ALFRED BINGHAM
GETS JAIL TERM
Former Senator's Son Sen.
fenced TO 80 Days for
Picketing.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., June 90
Alfred Bingham, son Of former Sen
ator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut
who volunteered his services in the
American Civil Liberties Unions cam
paign for peaceful picketing here. was
sentenced to 80 days in the Hudson
County Jail yesterday. Notice of ap-
peal was filed.
The specific charges against Bing-
ham. who is editor of the magazine
Common Sense, were lettering in pub
lie places and obstructing trafic. He
was arrested last Friday while picket
ing the plant Of the Miller Parlor
Furniture Co.
Mrs. Rose Dickter a representative
OF the Furniture Workers Industrial
Union, Communicated left-wins
union which started the picketing a
month ago In protest against an al.
legged NJ r. A. violation on the cam
panys part, was found guilty on the
same charges and fined $25.
Bingham was questioned about his
magazines political faith, but Arthur
Garfield Hays, his attorney, protested
that Bingham's political beliefs were
irrelevant so far as the picketing was
concerned.
When the sentence was pronounced
Hays left court and went before Coun-
ty Judge Robert " Kinkead, who set
next Monday as the date for hearing
the appeal and fixed bail at $500 for
Bingham and $3.50 for Mrs. Dickter.
Both cases will be heard three days
before Corliss w. Lamont, 32-year-old
son of Thomas W. Lamont, partner
in ]. P. Morgan g. Co., goes on trial
on the same charges that brought
conviction for Bingham
Evening star., 1934-06-29
Death Hour Story Stays Chair,
Ciues Mother Chance for Life
Lehman Delays Execution a Day to
Study Confession of Doomed Man.
Fate Viii Be Kno,Un Tonight.

the solemn truth, spoken by a man
today. II he finds it false, the three
die tonight.
While the warden and the con-
demned Saetta were comforting the
frayed nerves of the woman cracked
She tainted, and was revived. Never
before, prison keepers said. had an
electrocution been so long delayed.
Neither Mrs. Antonio nor Feraci knew
what was causing the postponement
first of half an hour, then an hour,
then two hours.
New hope was born in the 28-year-
old woman today, the hope of execu-
tive clemency, the hope that she
would not be the first woman to die
in the electric chair here since the
execution of Ruth Brown Snyder with
Henry Judd Gray in 1928 for the
murder of Albert Snyder. She is the
mother Of three small children.
No Hope for Men
But for himself, Saetta left none
as he told his story of the staying Of
Salvatore Antonio:
1t was a story of SIS he lent to An
tonio-$75 that was not repaid. They
fought with fists over the money
made up, shook hands. But Feraci
told Saetta that Antonio had not for
gotten.
Two or three weeks went by and
used to see Sam Feraci once in a
while. And Feraci told me that An
tonic was going to take me for a ride
He also said that Antonio should
Evening star., 1934-06-29

be killed and that he would help me
kill him.
He said that is the only way to
do. because that fellow was going to
take me for ride. He said. Don't
say anything and said, 'Okeh.'"
Then the story was of drink half a
bottle of whisky, of putting a gun on
his hip, of going for a drive with
Feraci and Antonio, Of stopping near
Castleton.
Shot on Sudden Thought.
Sam Antonio was on the same side
with me. Sam Antonio was holding
the door for me.
"All of a sudden it came to my
mind and I fired at him. He went
down and Feraci rushed over and
wanted to know what happened.
Il said I don't know He reached
over in the pocket of the car and got
knife. Whatever he did I dom
know because it was dark.
Mrs. Antonio is absolutely innocent
Of this crime. I got $40 from her be-
fore the crime, but that didn't have
anything to do with it.
Afterwards I wanted to get away
as I was desperate, and I asked her
for $40 more. She was frightened and
gave it to me-"
1t was a different story from the
State's|a story that Mrs. Antonio
hired the two men to slay her hus-
band so that she might collect his
IS 900 insurance.
Both stories fitted one fact-that
Evening star., 1934-06-29
SURPLUS MATERIAL
TO BE GIVEN NEEDY
Tomato Plants From Lorton, Cot.
and Kitchen Equipment to
Be Transferred.

Some surplus materials and prod
ucts found in various District agencies
are being transferred to I'LL needs In
other departments and agencies en-
gagged in welfare operations, it was an
nounced yesterday by Elwood Street,
director of public welfare.
The District Reformatory at Lor-
ton. Va, has $4,000 tomato plants not
needed there and these are to be
given to the subsistence gardens oper-
ated by the District. The plants were
raised at the reformatory and the
crop this year proved extra large.
Cots needed for operation of the
nursery classes are to be provided by
the Transient Bureau, which finds it
now has more on hand than re-
quired for the unemployed.
Kitchen equipment will be loaned
to the Associated Charities for opera
tlon at Camp Pleasant and Camp
Good Will. These will come from
the school free-lunch system, which
has been abandoned for the Summer.
Evening star., 1934-06-29

Antonio was found dead Easter Sun
day, 1882, face down in the mud Of c
Castleton road, his body torn by bull
lets and stabbed repeatedly.
1t was for the Governor to decide
whether the State or Saetta was right;
whether Mrs. Antonio should die with
the others or live.
As he pondered, all three lived again
q last day on earth," awaited again
the coming of night and death.
The Governor had only said post
pone!"
Evening star., 1934-06-29
YS MEMS CLUB ELECTS
JAMES c. INGRAM HEAD
Director Of Camp Let's Again
Chosen President at Annual
Meeting at SholIs.


James c. Ingram, head OF the Y.
M. c. A. Boys Department and d.
rector Of Camp Let's, "Y" shore rem
devious for boys near Annapolis, was
reelected president Of the Us Mems
Club of Washington at the annual
election meeting yesterday at Sholl's
cafe.
James T. Lewis, jr.; Gilbert z.
Hyatt and Ray w. Smith were re-
elected vice presidents and Earl B.
Fuller was elected secretary-treasurer
to succeed c. E. Fleming.
The following members OF the board
of directors were chosen: r. Kelvin
Shivers, ]. Wallace Talley, Frank
Hoffman, Phillip Murray and Louis
B. Nichols.
The club, composed Of business and
professional men active in the Young
Mems Christian Association, will send
a delegate to the international con-
vention of the organization in st. Paul
in August.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
Esperanto Delegates to Leave.

The first group of Esperanto dele
gates who will attend the twenty
seventh annual Congress Of the Es-
peranto Association of North America
will leave tomorrow for Toronto, scene
of the convention. Jseph Leahy heads
the group, which includes Adriano
Kimayong and Miss Mabel g. Hamil-
Evening star., 1934-06-29
GUARANTEE PRICES
Furniture Manufacturers Post
Stahilization Notices in Chicago.


Sterilization Notices in Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 20 (R.-Guaran-
tees against declines in furniture
prices until November were posted
yesterday by nearly all the 500 manu-
facturers exhibiting at the American
Furniture mart, DR.. A. A. Haake,
managing director Of the National
Association OF Furniture Manufactur-
ers. said.
DR.. Haake said that while the guar
antees would tend to stabilize prices
the next few months, they did not
apply to prospective price advances
which the trade has been expecting to
come within 80 to so days because Of
rising labor and raw material costs.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
Czech Rayon Exported.

Although Czechoslovakia does not
produce sufficient rayon to supply do
mestic demand, nearly 800 tons Of the
product were exported last year.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
Prince Of Wales Qualities.

The Prince of Wales has Joined the
London-Welsh Golf Association, for
which condition Of membership Is
the ability TO speak Welsh.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
Worlds Richest Street,
Chandni Chowk in Delhi

What is the richest street in the
world? Without taking into account
the environs Of the Stock exchange
and Wall street, where unseen for
tunes change hands, the little-known
Chandni Chowk in Delhi has substan-
tial claims, says a writer in the Mont
real Herald. 1t has often been re-
ferred to as the richest street in Asia,
and, unlike other commercial thorough
fares, the greater part Of its wealth
is there for all to see.
But many are the treasures which
are hidden away in secret recesses of
the shops Of curio dealers and jewelers.
in that picturesque street. One of the
dealers, the walls Of whose establish
ment are covered with letters of ap-
pointment from Highnesses and Excel
lencies Of all descriptions, has manu-
featured countless wonderful golden
and jeweled embroideries for crowned
heads and ruling princes. He was re-
sponsible for the historic peacock
gown, costing no less than one thou
sand pounds, which the late Lady Cur
zon wore at the Durbar ball, attended
by four thousand guests in the Delhi
fort in 1908. Here also are all the
richest of the embroidery merchants
whose cloths and cloaks, scintillatine
with costly ornaments, are not only
intended for reigning princes, but fol
state elephants.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
Fogs Form Near Surface
of Earth From Moist Ain

Fogs are a special type Of cloud
which forms on or near the surface of
the earth from sudden condensation of
moisture-laden air which carries some
impurity on which the moisture can
condense, says an authority in the Chi
cago Tribune. An ideal condition for
the formation Of fogs exists at the
Banks Of Newfoundland. There the
warm air over the Gulf stream meets
the cold air that accompanies the cold
Arctic current coming past Greenland
The presence of salt spray in the all
adds the last condition needed for a
dense fog.
The infnitesimal drops of water that
compose fog vary from two twenty
five hundreds of an inch to one twen-
ty-five thousandth of an inch in diane
ter. Raindrops are much larger, but
never exceed one-fourth of an inch in
diameter. When they tend to grow
larger they are soon forced to break
up as they fall through the air. Rain
drops cannot fall through still air at
a speed greater than "a feet a second.
1t is fortunate for us that the size
and speed of raindrops are thus nat
urally limited, or we might be pelted
with buckets of water falling with the
great speed due to gravity and the
height Of the cloud above the earth.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
Notice To Creditors

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber of Montgomery
County has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery Coun-
ty, in Maryland, Letters of Admin
istration on the Personal Estate of
SAMUEL M. MONTGOMERY,
late of Montgomery County, deceased.
All persons resident and nonresident
having Claims against the said de-
ceased, are hereby warned to exhilsa
and file, the same, in said CouE
with vouchers thereof, on or before
the 18th day Of March next: they
may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit Of said Estate. All
persons indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate pay
ment.
Given under my hand this 25th
day Of September, in the year Of
our Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and thirty-four.
LOUISE C. r. MONTGOMERY.
Rockville. Maryland.
AGO Administrative.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
Notice To Creditors

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber, of Montgomery
County, has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, Maryland, Letters Testa-
mentary on the Personal Estate of
AGNES w. GROOMES
late of Montgomery County, de-
ceased. All persons having Claims
against the deceased, are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with
vouchers thereof, legally authenti
Gated to the subscriber on or before
the 9th day of April next: they may
otherwise by law be excluded from
all benefit of said Estate. All per-
sons indebted to said Estate are re-
uuested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 9th day
of October in the year of our Lord,
one thousand nine hundred and
" LEONARD w. GROOMES,
1719 Eye St., N. w.
479 Washington, d. C.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
Notice To Creditors

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the Subscribers of Montgomery
County and Howard County, have
obtained from the Orphans Court
of Montgomery County, in Maryland
Letters of Administration on the
Personal Estate of
THOMAS C. GRIFFITH
late of Montgomery County, deceased
All persons having Claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with vouchers
thereof, legally authenticated to the
subscriber on or before the 21st day
of February next: they may other
wise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said Estate. All persons
indebted to said Estate are requested
to make immediate payment.
Given under our hands this 21st
day of August, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and thirty
WASHINGTON w. WHITE,
WILLIAM S. HODGES,
Laytonsville, Maryland.
WILLIAM S. HODGES,
Ellicott City, Maryland.
421 Administrators
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
SURVEYORS NOTICE

By virtue of a Special Warrant
issued out of the Land Office of
Maryland on the 18th day of July,
1884, unto George B. Fiske, of
Arlington County, Virginia, for
about one acre Of vacant land being
an island in the Potomac River in
the Tenth Election District of Mont
gomery County, Maryland, and de-
scribed as follows: About so yards
north of Conn's Island and about zoo
d d from the Maryland Shore and
about Il of a mile north of the
government Dam. I hereby give
notice on said Island that l will be
on the Island on Monday, the End
gay Of December, 1894, and proceed
70 survey the same when and where
you are requested to be persent If
You so desire.
CHARLES ]. MADDOX,
Surveyor for Montgomery County,
Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
Notice To Creditors

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber of Montgomery
County, has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery Coun-
ty, in Maryland, Letters Testament
airy on the Personal Estate of
WILLIAM HOWARD
late of Montgomery County, deceased.
ALI persons having Claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with vouchers there
of, legally authenticated to the sub
scriber on or before the 30th day OF
April next; they may otherwise by law
be excluded from all benefit of said
Estate. All persons indebted to said
Estate are requested to make imme-
date payment.
Given under my hand this 30th
day of October in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-four.
FREDERIC L. THOMAS,
Sandy Spring, Maryland.
sol Executor
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
Ancients' Calendar Plan
Complicated Propositio,


Teliing the seasons in olden days
was complicated business. We tick
on the days and months with a pencil.
out the ancients calculated by the
moon, notes writer in the Montreal
Herald 1t Is said that Noah used the
early Egyptian calendar of the five
month year, thirty days to the month.
ana each month three weeks of ten
days. Sticks, tied in bundles, was the
lnvarlable way Of telling the day and
season with the greater part of the
ancient world, and today some Amer
lean Indians keep five bundles of thirty
SUCKS, pulling out one stick for each
day. The last bundle is repeated in
each half-year to level things up, and
the middle bundle is split in two to
Judge the approach of midsummer or
mid-winter.
In the South Sea islands the moon
STICK" Is used to determine the sea-
sons. A notch is cut in the stick after
each passing moon. Borneo uses cal
endar consisting Of various lengths Of
tattooed poles.
The Dyaks have a custom whereby
they tell the season by the length of
the suns shadow. Calendar-makers
tour the country in the season of SOW
ing and plant these colored poles on
the farms. By system Of queer cal
culation they adjust these poles to
certain length marked on the ground.
Invariably this shadow-marking proves
accurate, and in due time the calendar
maker again tours the farms to receive
his payment of part of the crop.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-11-08
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY AS
A COURT OF EQUITY.
Louis c. West, Plaintiff.
VS..
Helen E. West, Defendant.
No. 1929 Euuitv.
Order of Publication

The object of this bill is to procure
divorce of q vinculo mat4.iD.Onii NV
me plaintiff from the defendant. The
DILL states in substance as follows:
l.. That he is resident of Silver
Spring IN Montgomery County in
che State of Maryland and has been
a resident of said County and State
Tor more than two years Immediately
preceding the filing of this suit.
That the defendant is a nonresident
of said County and State and resides
at 1416 Euclid Street, N. W., in the
City of Washington in the District
of Columbia.
2. That he and the defendant were
lawfully married on the LIST. day of
december in the year 1921 in the
District of Columbia by a Catholic
Priest.
8. That there were no children
born as result of said marriage.
a. That he and the defendant
lived together as husband and wife
until ON or about the 9Th day of
November 1888 when the defendant
without any just cause or reason
abandoned and deserted him and thew
have not lived or cohabited together
since that time.
5. That your Orator is informed
and believes that the defendant has
committed the act of adultery ON
numerous occasions preceding the FL
ing of this suit with man by the
name of Lindsey Kilby in Montgom-
cry County in the State of Maryland
and elsewhere.
6. That your Orator has not lived
or cohabited with the defendant since
learning of her many acts of infidelity
nor has he connived or condoned the
same.
z. That your Orator was always
a kind, loving and dutiful husband.
1t is thereupon this 18th day of
October, in the year 1884, ordered
by the Circuit Court for Montgom-
cry County, as Court of Equity,
that the plaintiff by causing a copy
of this order to be inserted in some
newspaper printed and published in
Montgomery County, Maryland once
a week for four successive weeks be-
fore the 18th day of November, A. d.
1884 giving notice to the defendant
of the object and substance of this
bill, and warning her to be and
appear in this Court in person or
by solicitor on or before the 9th day
of December A. d. 1884 to show
cause if any she may have, why a
decree should not be passed as prayed.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland.
True Copy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS, Clerk.
KENNETH LYDDANE, Solicitor
for Plaintiff. 40