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Evening star., 1935-09-01
121ST ENGINEERS
END ENCAMPMENT
Col. John W. 0ehmann De-
scribes Camp Simms
Tour a Success.

Leaving behind more than 100 emer-
gency relief workers to continue the
work of making Camp Simms perma-
nent training site for the District Ma
tional Guard. the 121st Engineer Regi-
ment, 29th Military Police Company
and attached troops of the local Guard,
yesterday broke camp after two weeks
| under canvas.
The $50 officers and men set some
thing OF record for themselves in
clearing out of the camp site which
they hacked out of the wilderness two.
weeks ago. Within an hour after COL
John w. Oehmann, camp commander
and commander of the Engineer Regi-
ment, had given the order to break
camp yesterday morning, all the tents,
cots and other equipment had been
slowed in waterproof bags and trans
ferred by truck for storage in the new
brick and concrete warehouse at the
post.
Successful Encampment.
"This has been the most successful
encampment I can remember" Col.
Oehmann said.
BY next Summer, Col. Oehmann
said he expects to have Camp Simm5
in shape to accommodate full regi-
ment. He said there is no doubt the
local Guard will return to Simms next
Summer unless Maj. Gen. Milton A.
Record, commander of the local Ma
tional Guard division, should order
divisional or brigade concentrations
for training.
In any event, Col. Oehmann said,
work will begin on the rife range at
Simms next April, and this and other
forms of training will continue there
through the coming year.
Workers to Be Kept on Job.
More than 100 relief workers will
be kept on the job at SimmS at least
until Winter sets in, Col. Oehmann
believes. They will be employed in
building a mile and a half Of new
roads, in addition to the two and one
half miles of roads built or improved
this Summer. They also will COM
plete the grading and drainage of
the new parade grounds, clearing of
ground for Is new targets on the rife
range. providing a total of "a targets
and clearing a new camp site.
The regiment next year is to pitch
tents on a site south of that cleared
for this year. The new site, now COW
cred with jungle of brush and weeds,
is to be cleared and graded during
the next few months. Company
streets will be laid out and tent sites
prepared.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Star Staff Photo.

aboard the romantic old yawl, he
listened to all the wiseacres Of the
water front and his mind was un-
changed. His mother, Mrs. Nina AL
britton. SCOTS at the idea of her son
going to the South Seas, but Zelner
is going ahead with his preparations.
Soon he will take her to Solomons
Island, where she will be put in dry
dock to be made ready for the long
cruise.
The Argo, according to stories along
the water front, was given to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis by DR.. Fitz-
gerald after his son had lost his life
at sea while aboard. In the same
storm the Argo was lost for years.
This became known only when AL
britton bought her. In searching the
records, he found that in all her
years of service she had been an un-
registered ship. 1t seems that when
she was finally located and towed into
port, her recovery was not reported.
A copper plate in the Argo, COM
memorating the death of Dr. Fitz-
geralds son, was removed by Albrit-
ton and presented to the father.
And now, as soon as her sails have
been patched, her hull repaired and
painted and her maSts set more solidly,
she soon may sail again. OF to South
Seas and adventure
with all her bravery on and tackle
trim,
Sails flTd and stredmers Uduing."
Milton.
Evening star., 1935-09-01

-OR SO years-l3,870 days. 332,-
l. $50 hours - Washingtonians
and visitors within the gates
Il have looked up with confidence
to the broad, honest face of the old
Post Office clock and almost
always its hands have pointed to the
correct time.
The old timepiece, in the tower of
the old Post Office Building is in
just as good condition as it wes the
day it was installed in 1897 when
the building was constructed. Only
once each week does it require at
tention. That is when r. E. Roberts,
mechanic of the Internal Revenue
Department, goes to the high tower
to turn the giant key to wind it up.
The key is crank 2 feet long, like
the handle of hosting crane.
Pendulum Weighs 50 Pounds.
1t is all done with wires and wheels,
it is explained by Roberts, who has
been tending the old clock for the past
six years. There is nothing intri-
cate or complicated about the in
nards of Old Seth. There are only
a few wheels. pendulum that
weighs so pounds, a weight that
scales around 300 pounds and the
crank.
or those who are interested in
statistics, the face of the clock is "a
feet broad and its longest hand (the
minute hand) is II feet long FROM
stem to tip.
The timepiece is faithful to the
minute, almost, when it is wound on
time. Roberts must be prompt in
Evening star., 1935-09-01

In 1880 the Argos service to the
Navy ended, but again she sailed away
into new seas of adventure. This time
she was sold to the Boy Scouts of the
District of Columbia and younger
generation of sea dreamers trod her
decks and thrilled to her breeze filled
sails.
But the Argos search for the golden
fleece has not yet ended. She sunk to
the gunwhales in shame when she was
sold to Zelner Albritton. Georgetown
antique dealer. Old seamen along the
water front shook their heads. But
again the Argo raised her battered
prov above encroaching oblivion and
suddenly found herself in the hands of
ship lover.
Plans South Sea Trip.
Her new owner went over every
plank and upright in her. He in
spected the tall masts and prowled
through her musty hull from stem to
stern. He talked with old river men
and seamen along the water front.
Opinions differed. Some of them said
she was just as sound as the day she
was built. Others wagged their heads
knowingly and decreed she would go
to Davey Jones locker on her first con-
tact with running sea.
But Albritton, a husky young fell
low of 26, ard with the blood of vik-
ings in veils, announced that he
would sail away to the South Seas in
his new prize. Stanch in his deter
mination to sail away to adventure
Evening star., 1935-09-01

getting there on Friday, he says, be-
cause the clock will stop promptly
at l o'clock on Saturday if it is not
wound on time.
Praises Accuracy.
"There have been very few times
that the clock has been wrong since
1 have been taking care Of it," Rob-
erts said in defense Of his charge.
Sometimes it will vary as much as
two or three minutes, but have not
set it at all in the past six months. ="
Setting the clock means that, If
it is fast. it must be stopped until
time catches up with its hands. If
it is slow, then it has a trigger that
when touched moves the hands up
10 seconds at a time. Rot terts just
keeps on touching the trigger until
the hands catch up with time.
Only a few times in its nearly half
century of marking time has the old
clock stopped and that was only when
the elements stepped into the picture
and coated its long hands with ice.
Roberts explained that when the hands
become too heavy with ice to be
moved by the works" all he can do
is Just sit by and wait for the ice
to thaw. But he is always on hand
to put the hands right when the ice
is gone.
Slipped OFF to Wind Clock.
Before Roberts took charge of the
old clock, it was just anybody's
job" to wind it, he says. In his 10
years as engineer Of the Post Office,
however, he admits he used to slip
off to the tower of a Friday to turn
the crank.
The old Post Office Building is now
under the Internal Revenue Depart
ment since the new building was
erected across the street. 1t is super
vised by E. j. Little, who has charge
of more than 100000 square feet
of floor space in four Government
buildings in triangle group No. 2.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
ACCOUNT Of G|R[S'|
DEATHS CHECKED
Police Say Fathers Story
Is at Variance With
Evidence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. -
MIAMI, Fla, August 31.-State At
torney G. A. Worley tonight said the
death by fire of two of the three
daughters of H. G. Denmark, 36.
contains elements that require fur
ther explanation
THE appearance Of the house it
self-the flames plainly confined to the
girls bed rooms at variance with
Denmark's account" said Worley,
after he returned from the home Of
the bakery salesman.
Denmark, who said that through a
horrible mistake" he threw gasoline
instead of water on bed room flames
that yesterday killed Dorothy. 10, and
Frances, IL, remained in custody to-
day as the inquiry continued.
The condition Of the third girl,
Jewel, 8. was serious.
Poison. gas and fire figured into
what Worley called suspicious cir
cumstances," but Denmark, twice
married and divorced only a month
ago. had what one investigator said
were reasonable" explanations.
Denmark said he was away the
day the children found poison in
punch prepared for a party, and he
explained he believed the tablet had
been knocked into the bowl from a
shelf.
AS for the escaping gas about
which Dorothy purportedly wrote in
her diary, the salesman said pot of
heating clothes had boiled over, ex-
tinguishing the fame, on Wednesday
night.
Before they died, Dorothy and
Frances told investigators their father
was the best daddy in the world"
Evening star., 1935-09-01
FEDERAL WORKERS
MEET TOMORROW
Retirement and Merit Sys.
tenn important Issues on
Convention Agenda.
BY ], A. FOX.

With attention centering on pro-
posals for strengthening and extend
ing the merit system in Government
employment, the biennial convention
of the National Federation OF Fed
eral Employees opens tomorrow morn
ing in Old Faithful Inn. Yellowstone
National Park. The sessions will run
through Thursday or Friday.
The federation has been one OF
the severest critics of the. practice
that has grown up under the Demo-
cratic administration in creating new
agencies outside of civil service, and
undoubtedly will call for change,
pledging its members all over the
country to work toward this end.
Retirement to Be Aired.
The retirement question also will
be to the fore In the convention dis
cussions. The federation long has
advocated optional retirement after
80 years, and again will include this
in its legislative program. 1t also
is due to sponsor new departure in
retirement legislation for presentation
to the next Congress-the spreading
of annuities to cover the life of
surviving dependent of the annuitant,
as we'll as that of the annuitant.
Extension of classification to the
field, another long g-standing objec-
tive, also will come in for attention,
and in this connection the federation
will consider proposal for creation
Of a new schedule in the classification
act which would set a minimum wage
Of $500 yearly for every adult
worker.
Seeks Court of Appeals.
Establishment of a civil service
court of appeals. likewise an aim of
the federation for long time, Is due
to draw a reiterated support as a
major item in its program.
With more than 500 locals now
lined up, the convention attendance
this year is expected to be the larg-
est in the history of the federation.
1t will be it's thirteenth assembly and
the first to be held on a Federal res
ervation. National park employees.
organized in Lodge 465, are hosts.
Mitchell Will Speak.
At the Tuesday or Wednesday ses-
sion Harry B. Mitchell. president OF
the Civil Service Commission, will
speak.
The election of officers probably
will take place Wednesday, and all
the incumbents, headed Dy Luther C..
Steward, president, and Miss Ger
trude McNally, secretary-treasurer,
are expected to be returned.
The main body of delegates Is
reaching Yellowstone today.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
300 LUTHER LEAGUE
DELEGATES ARRIVE
Rev. John L. Deaton of Balti.
more Will Address Session
Today.

Approximately 300 delegates are In
Washington. attending the fourteenth
annual convention of the Luther
League of the synod, with members
of the Washington District League of
the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Maryland acting as hosts. The con-
vention began yesterday and will be
in session through tomorrow.
Convention headquarters are in the
Dodge Hotel, where the ree-day
meeting was officially opened last
night with fellowship supper.
Speakers at today's sessions will
be Rev. John L. Deaton of Baltimore,
who will speak on THE Light in Fam
lily Place." and Rev. Oscar Fisher
Blackwelder, pastor of the Church of
the Reformation, on THE Light in
Pleasure Circle" This afternoon a
religious drama will be presented un-
der the direction of Mrs. Paul Quay.
The annual banquet tomorrow night
will be the closing feature of the con-
vention. Rev. Joseph B. Baker will
speak on THE Light of the Future"
Evening star., 1935-09-01
SANTA CLAUS AIDE
MOURNED BY SCORES
Chicago Postal Official Who
Opened Christmas Mail Hon
ored at Funeral.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 31-The Chi
cago representative of Santa Claus
was ruried today, while hundreds of
children crowded around the church
where his funeral was held.
On Soller skates, shooters, bicycles
and afoot, they assembled near st.
Ignatius parish as the final rites were
administered for John T. McGrath,
postal official, who during the many
years of his service at the Chicago
post Office opened the mail addressed
to Kris Kringle.
Public officials and civic leaders
joined the children in paying homage
to the man whose efforts brought
Christmas happiness to many chill
dren VII otherwise would never have
known Christmas Most of his own
funds, they recalled, went to answer
requests made by poor children in
their letters to Santa Claus.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Is Keeping Pace
With Business in Recovery
Income of american Farmer for 1884
Crossed S7,3OO,OO 900, According
to Federal Figures.

, moditieS bought, taxes paid and inter-
est payments showed no change from
a year ago." the crop reporters of the
Department of Agriculture find.
Prices Cover Fixed Charges.
. "This is the index of prices paid by
farmers broadened to include fixed
charges, which has been designated
in the amended agricultural adjust
ment act as basis for the determi-
nation of parity prices of all basic
farm commodities. except where post
war price averages are utilized in the
computations. This index has stood
at 129 per cent of pre-war parity
since July Is this year. The general
level of prices paid, interest and taxes
also was 129 per cent of pre-war from
August Is, 1884, through January,
1885"
The farmer was suffering acute
economic distress long before October,
1929. and 1t seems reasonable that if
recovery in the pasture continues at
its present rate he will be better off
than ever before. This would be es-
pecially true if the export market
opens up, an evenuality which might
we'll come with an European war.
Exports Hit New Low.
While the New Deal gold policy was
keeping dollar value of exports at
fairly high level in 1884, the Depart
ment of Commerce reports in its
World Economic Review of 1884, vol
ume of agriculture exports dropped
to the lowest level since 1887-1888.
This decline was occasioned prin-
cipally by the sharp drop in our ex-
ports of cotton, as the index Of ex-
ports, excluding cotton, receded only
62 per cent from the 1910-1914 aver
age in 1888 to SO per cent in 1884.
Including cotton shipments, the index
shows a decline from IS in 1888 to
&c in 1884" the Review states. De-
spite this. the Review comments:
"The relative share of agriculture In
the national income, which had de-
clined by about one-third from 1929
to 1882, has increased to a point
where it is now only moderately be-
low the 1929 figure"
For the fiscal year ending July !,
1885, the Department of Agriculture
reveals these figures concerning the
farm export market Gin the index
used, 1918 equals 1907:
The index for cotton exports in
1934-35 was go, the lowest since 1922
%, when it was So. In 1933-34 the
cotton index stood at 81.
The export index for manufactured
tobacco is 95, the smallest since 1917
18, when it stood at IA. The 1933-34
index was 120.
For fruit, the index stands at 1877,
the lowest since 1s24-25, when it was
1874.
Wheat Figure Is IS.
The 1e34-35 export index for wheat,
including flour, is 81. the lowest since
1867-68, when it stood at "a. In 1888
S4 it was IS.
The index for exports in cured pork
in 1934-35 stands at %, the smallest
since 1901, while the lard index is
at 48, the lowest since 1928.
However, even without these mar
kets beyond the seas. many of which
have been lost through efforts to i'm
prove the domestic situation Of the
agriculturist. the index Of farm income
Evening star., 1935-09-01
BY GEORGE HURD.

BY GEORGE HURD.
THERE is little of romance In
the roughened hull of her as
she lies listlessly on the murky
Il waters of the Washington
Channel off the Yacht Club. Hell
wind and storm -yellowed sails are
furled and lashed tightly to her
creaky masts. She is weather-beaten
and worn by countless tides and winds
Rats scamper and squeal in her hold
From the shore she looks like dere-
lct resurrected from the Sargasse OF
Lost Ships.
For 43 years the old sailing yawl
has lived up to her name-the Argo
and her heyday was when she car
ried the pride of the Navy on her
fresh-scrubbed decks. Some Of her
most famous of present day naval
fighting men trained aboard her be-
tween 1905 and 1880.
Built in 1892.
The old Argo was built in 1892 and
presented to the United States Naval
Academy in 1905 by DR.. Charles G
Fitzgerald of Baltimore. For 25
years, she served as a training ship
and pleasure boat for midshipmen
and instructors.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

The American farmer, whose plight
brings tears at every election to the
eyes of politicians, is experiencing re-
covery with a speed equal to that o!
the business man, it was revealed to-
day. His income for 1884 crossed
S7,3OO, 100000, almost one billion
more than in the preceding year.
The farm comeback last year
brought the farmer $3,468, 100000 net
income, 1894, 100000 more than the
year before" according to the De-
partment of Commerce. AFTER allow
ing himself and his family the equiv
alent of hired hands wages for their
own labor, his operating net was
S882, 100000. This worked out to a
A per cent return on his investment.
It just about put Farmer g. Sons on
an earning parity with Business, Inc y
This has been accomplished in the
face of a decline in the agricultural
export market to 54 per cent of the
pre-war volume, the record low since
1s76-1877, when the average was so
per cent of the volume in 1910-1914.
The percentage for 1933-1934 was 80.
Advance Unprecedented.
The advance in farm income thus
far this year over 1884 has been un-
precedented. The Bureau OF Agri-
cultural Economics remarks on the
farm price index, which rose four
points to 106 during the month end
ing August Is:
Compared with one year ago. meat
animal prices we're 81 points higher
in mid-August this year; prices of
chickens and eggs were up rs points,
and dairy products were up one
point"
However, the other side of the pic
ture shows grain prices are down 10
points, cotton and cottonSeed down
10 points. fruit down IA points, truck
crops down 16 points and miscel-
laneous items down % points.
The New Deal has aided the farmer
to a greater extent than any admins
tration since the days of homestead
ing, when the United States was still
an agricultural Nation. The A. A. A.
has brought benefit payments and
higher prices for products through
curtailed production. The Farm
Credit Administration has supplied
credit against future marketings of
growing crops. The Commodity
Credit Corp. has made and is still
making loans to guarantee a market
price for cotton and corn. The Sur
plus Relief Corp. paid the drought
stricken farmer of crops and meat
animals which would have burned
and starved and brought the farmer
no return.
New Frazier -Lemke Law.
Now new Frazier-Lemke mort
gage moratorium act. supposedly kept
within the constitutional, limits de-
fined by the Supreme Court when it
found the first Frazier-Lemke act in
valid, has become law, and load is
lifted from the brow of the farmer
fearful of losing his farm and his
home to the mortgagor.
While the farm income goes up, of
course prices 60 up, but the real In
come Of the farmer, measured in pur-
chasing power, is secure and steady.
1.-THE combined mid-August index
Of prices paid by farmers for com.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
MAN QUIZZED HERE
IN BROOKLYN KILLING
New York Detective Talks to
Man Arrested by Local
Police.

John e. McMannis, %, arrested
here Friday, was questioned last night
by Brooklyn detective in connection
with the murder in New York last
May of Albert Bonjornia.
The youth was arrested for investi-
CATION on information obtained by
Washington detectives.
The murdered man was found
mutilated on a road near Brooklyn,
apparently having been cut with a
hatchet and stabbed. In his hand
he clutched a handful of hair which
police believe may prove an important
link In the solution of the murder.
A micro-analysis is to be made of
the hair, police said.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
U. S. STERILIZED 10000,
SCIENTIST TELLS BERLIN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 31-An address
prepared by Prof. Harry Hamilton
Laughlin of New York, and delivered
yesterday by Prof. Clarence Gordon
Campbell of New York, before the
Congress of the International Union
for Scientific Investigation of Popula-
ton Problems, stated that 10000 per-
sons have been sterilized in the United
States in the past 80 years.
But this number, in view Of unions
of vast population, is quiet insignifi-
cant as a national remedy for hered-
itary degeneracy," added the speaker,
to whom the audience, mostly Ger
man, listened attentively.
Illustrated charts were shown in
an explanation of sterilization laws
and practices in the United States un-
til January /, 1885.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
Boy Hits Cartridge
With BIB and Is Shot
In Eyeball in Return

BY the Associated Press.
NEW HARTFORD, Conn.,,
August 31.-George Kucza. IS,
accidentally wounded himself be-
cause he was too good a marks
man. -r...
The boy found a .22-caliber
cartridge, but couldn't use it in
his BIB rifle. He decided to use
it as a target.
His shot hit the cartridge. The
cartridge exploded and pierced
his right eyeball.
He was taken to q Winsted
hospital.
Evening star., 1935-09-01

at the end of 1884 was slightly
over 100.
Thirteen major indices show:
Farm income, los.
Farm production, ITO.
Department store sales (adjust-
ed, 80.
Wholesale prices, all commodities. IS.
Retail pay rolls. go.
Industrial production, IS.
Bank debts, outside New York
City, IS.
Retail prices, 80.
Cost of living, rs.
Freight car loadings, 81.
Retail sales of new automobiles, 90.
Construction contracts awarded, 80.
Commercial loans by Federal re-
serve member banks, So.
Evening star., 1935-09-01
STAR ENDS STRIKE
Myrna 10y En- Route to Studio
After Dispute.

After Dispute.
HOLLYWOOD, August 81 R.-
N.yrna 10y called of her "one-star
strike" with Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios Today.
Louis B. Mayer, production chief,
announced the red-haired actress,
whose salary had been stopped since
May IS in her dispute for an increase,
had left New York for Hollywood to
play in new M-G-M picture.
Details of how the actress demands
for a boost in salary from $500 to
$4,000 a week had been settled were
not disclosed.
Evening star., 1935-03-25

To stimulate interest in fine etchings by
leading American artists. we are showing
collection in our Sixth Floor Picture Cal
leries. offered at the very. very nominal
price of S. each. Each etching carries an
explanatory note as we'll as brief bio
graphical sketch of the artist. A few of
the best-kno artists are:
J. Knowles Hare Irwin Hoffman
Andrew Karoly Frank MAXWELL
Henry Zeisler Luigi Lucioni
Albert Hickman Robert Lawson
Gordon Grant and Others
PICTURE GALLERIES, SIXTH FLOOR.