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Evening star., 1935-11-24
THREE DIE IN TWO
CROSSING CRASHES
Toll of 853 for First Seven
Months of Year Boosted,
and 2,449 Hurt.
ny the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Three persons were crushed to
death in two smashed automobiles
on railroad tracks yesterday At the
same time the Interstate Commerce
Commission reported $50 persons were
killed and 2,449 injured in grade
crossing crashes during the first seven
months of this year.
In a third accident yesterday, an
onrushing freight train halted so feet
from another wrecked car in which
the sole occupant lay unconscious.
Crossing Under Guard.
At Wellsville, N. Y, American Le-
eion members guarded another cross
ing where four lives had been ground
out by locomotive wheels within the
month.
Miss Leona Messenger, 20. and her
brother, Norris, %, were killed at
Oneida. N. Y, by a speeding New
York Central train which plowed
through their car, which had careened
through a curve guard rail and
hurtled into the path of the train.
A third occupant of the car, Miss
Helen Pavelka. 18, crawled from the
wreckage to safety just before the
train struck.
Plunges Through Rail.
Harry Griffith, %, was killed in
stantly when the truck in which he
had hailed a ride plunged through
the rail of bridge over Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks near Philadelphia,
and catapulted him so feet. AS the
truck teetered on the edge of the
bridge witnesses formed human
chain and dragged the driver. Will
liam T. Mcclure, %, to safety.
At Lincoln, Mass. police summoned
by a witness tagged a freight train
to a stop so feet away from wrecked
car in which the driver had been
knocked unconscious when the car
ripped through a guard rail and
plunged to the tracks.
Evening star., 1935-11-24

moon. Another lies groaning and
mumplirg, My back is broken, !
think" We lift him as gently as pos
sible to the ambulance cot and hurry
to the hospital. He dies two hours
later, calling for Edith"
How did it happen? The report Is
they were trying to pass Car against
a too close oncoming car. What does
it matter! We go back for the dead
body and in the operating room under
the strong light We find that we have
job on hand trying to embalm this
poor thing, to put it back together
as best We can in an attempt to re-
lieve the terrible heartache of those
loved ones who will hasten to see
him What a mess! Ragged bones
sticking out through torn coat sleeves,
head crushed to pulp. Can We make
it look like a human being and re-
senble the fine, strong young man
that it was only an hour ago? 1t is
just our job and we're getting used
to 1t.
Does 1t make us gun-shy of this
Evening star., 1935-11-24

doubled up in the ditch nearby.
Jus: an old man walking along in
the dark on the wrong side of the
road, the car coming over the brow
of the hill, headlights shooting up.
Not a chance of escaping it.
Endurance vs.. Death.
Just three happy boys on their
way across the country to Detroit.
Constant driving day and night,
with a change at the wheel every
four hours, but endurance lost and
we pick them up on the side Of the
road where they have crashed a tele-
phone pole and overturned. Not an
easy thing to telephone the poor
father out On the coast and inform
him that the body Of his boy lies in
our mortuary
A wig that matches his hair. plastic
art and dermasurgery restore the body
to almost lifelike appearance, but we
cannot bring back that youthful smile
or happy laugh which he carried when
he left home. These are only men,
ories to his loved ones.
Dangerous Corners.
We natives all knew that was a
mean corner. properly marked with a
turn sign, but such sharp turn. To
take 1t at more than 20 miles was un-
safe. He must have been going so at
least. No one saw it happen. They
found him with the car overturned.
the sharp edge of the runningboard
where it joins the rear fender, resting
on his head. Why do they always
have their heads mashed up so? 1
wonder If this isn't the hope of every
embalmer when he receives an auto
accident call: Il hope the head is all
right" They usually are not.
Such a great big fine fellow in the
pink Of health and prime of life. And
his poor young wife We put her
to bed when she arrives and try to
make her comfortable until we can
finish our work. so she will never
know what he looked like when we
found him.
A babe to come soon, who will never
know father except by tales which
are told.
Dense Fog.
The lunch for school vas in the
back seat, the case of eggs for the
Evening star., 1935-11-24

grocer intact, but the beautiful life of
a little schoolgirl was gone forever.
A foggy morning, a narrow bridge.
The sharp, splintered end Of the bridge
rail drove through the windshield and
tore away one side Of her face.
Poor little brother, who had been
driving, how heartbroken and sor-
rowful. 1t was hard to see, and how
was he to know that he should have
pulled to the side of the road and
stopped until the fog lifted, even
though they we're late for school?
Loose Gravel.
Not much to do this time. The
whole thing was on fire when we
arrived. We could see his tracks
where he had come over the top of
the hill and hit the loose gravel.
The warning sign was up so the
highway department had fulfilled its
duty, but there it law where it had
Evening star., 1935-11-24

skidded and turned completely around
ard over. A twisted mass of burning
flesh and a few bones to tell the tale.
How will we prepare these remains
for burial? Well. how would you?
And so it goes, on and on. in this
small town of not quite 5000. Add
what befalls us here to the tragic toll
in metropolitan cities and the count
less towns larger than ours, and We
have very faint idea of what is hap
pening on our highways.
Over $4,000 killed this way last
year. Will it be more next year? And
will you be one of that number? Why
won't you?
Evening star., 1935-11-24

Two o'clock in the morning. Is that
the phone? There it goes again. l
grope my way sleepily to it, Hello
yes. I understand a wreck
on the highway 2 miles east :. Well
be right out ..
What a sight! One car, new one,
now a tangled heap of scrap of on
Evening star., 1935-11-24
The Aftermath of Sudden Death
BY A. ]. BRACKEN

After the sensation created g." And Sudden Death the
Readers Digest bombarded by pro6d toom-ups But
thought had said Then embaer the uage
Chappe Neb the tolowing emotional
sincerity impressive Photographic
the Sensitive
much OF The Star oUen reprint
Readers Dgets contribution the interests
Evening star., 1935-11-24
ICE INDUSTRIES MOVE
OFFICES TO CHICAGO
Taylor Will Direct New Program
for Industry From Middle
West.

Mount Taylor of Texas, new
executive secretary of the National
Association of Ice Industries, is closing
Offices maintained in the National
Press Building since the former Code
Authority was established, and is
moving the Offices to Chicago, from
which new program for the industry
will be directed.
Taylor. who was former chairman
of the Code Authority, continued Of
fees in the same suite here, after de-
cision OF the Supreme Court invalidated
codes. He was recently elected execu-
tive secretary of the national associa-
ton to succeed Leslie C. Smith, who
becomes honorary secretary.
Arrangements have been completed,
Taylor said, for a new program Of
national advertising Of ice by radio,
magazines and newspapers.
Evening star., 1935-11-24
Library Stolen.

Chota Kalia. Bengal, reports that its
complete public library. including
books, shelves and cupboards. has been
stolen.
Evening star., 1935-11-24

Clubs Popular.
Membership in the All Boys and
Girls Clubs has reached 100000.
Evening star., 1935-11-24
Safety

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1935-11-24

The lunch for school vas in the
back seat, the case of eggs for the
Evening star., 1935-07-10

Assemble a glamorous wardrobe
to carry you around the clock.
There are even q few exquisite
evening wraps in the group.
Chiffons, nets, sheers for travel,
distinctive styles for daytime,
afternoon and evening, each
garment possessed of that in
definable elegance that spells
"Saks individuality"
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
F. H. G|LLETT,
EX-SENATOR,
DIESAT 3

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July 81.
Frederick H. Gillett, SO, former
United States Senator and for
mer Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. died today in Spring
field Hospital. He had been
stricken with lukemia which was
aggravated by old age.
Mr.. Gillett. Republican, served
in the House for 80 years, the
last six of which he occupied the
Speakers chair, succeeding the
late Champ Clark. He vacated
this post to run for United States
Senator, a position which he held
for one term.
The former Speaker was a ma.
tive of Westfield, Mass. His
father, E. B. Gillett, was consid-
cred one of the ablest lawyers in
the Bay State. After receiving his
primary education in the schools
of his home town, Mr.. Gillett at
tended Amherst College, from
which he was graduated in 1874,
and Harvard Law School, where
he received his LIB in 1877. He
began the practice of law in
Springfield as a partner of the
then noted Judge E. B. Maynard
and almost Immediately interested
himself in politics.
He entered the State campaign
as an active wroker in 1873 and
was elected to Congress in 1892,
serving IA terms before his cleo.
ton to the Speakers office.
Mr.. Gillett, at the time of his
election as Speaker, possessed the
title of Father Of the House." e
name bestowed upon the member
who has served the longest mum
Der of consecutive terms, and was
one of the oldest men to be
elected to the position, being
slightly more than ST years of age
when he took the oath of office
He is particularly remembered
in Washington society as one-thir6
of the famous trio of Capital
bachelors" as they were called
Others in the group were Justica
William H. Moody, of the United
States Supreme Court, and Maj
Gen. William Crozier, a former
Chief of Ordnance. One by one
however, the trio which cut a
handsome figure in Capital so.
ciety, was captured" Mr.. Gillett
being the last to succumb. He
married Mrs. lockwood Hoar,
widow of a Massachusetts, repre-.
sentative and daughter-in-law of
Massachusetts distinguished Sen
ator Hoar.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
FALL OFF CAR
KILLSGIRL

wAYNESBORO, Pa, July 80.
Ethel R. Robinson, 20, died this
morning of a fracture of the
skull sustained when she fell
from the running board of an
automobile operated by Norbert
Sheldon, "a, Rouzerville. The &C.
cident ocucrred about midnight.
Sheldon told police that he and
John Bardoll, Rouzerville, had
picked up Miss Robinson and
four girl friends at Pen Mar
Park and were bringing them to
Waynesboro. Three of the girls
stood on the running board.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
MARY ROLAND
INBALM SUIT

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 81 Il.
N. Sill luck continued today
to follow Mary Boland, screen
actress, as she was made defend
ant in a $150,O00 alienation Of af-
fections suit brought by Elizabeth
Ross Hummer, wife Of George
Bernard Hummer, film studio en-
ploye and nephew of Miss Boland.
The actress is charged with en-
ticing Hummer away from his
wife's home last March. Up to
that time, Mrs. Hummer AYERS in
her complaint, she and Hummer
lived "blissfully" together.
The RUNNERS, who formerly
resided in Detroit, were brought
here, according to Miss Boland
80 that a home might be made
for my mother" The film star
added:
"Never have 1 had anything
, to do in the relations Of Mr..
and Mrs. Hummer, except at
their direct request. Needless to
say, this suit has grieved me
deeply. 1t is a masterpiece of
ingratitude. 1 intend to fight it
to the last ditch"
The actress bad luck started
in February of this year when she
was bitten by a black-widoW
spider, suffering serious illness
Next she suffered an attack Of
ptomaine poison which kept hel
bedridden for several weeks. This
was followed by a fire which
ENDANGERED her life.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
b PWA Chiefs Plan
To Speed Projects

} Taking off from Washington
Airport at a. m. were Col. Horatio
B. Hackett, assistant PWA admin
strator; Edward H. Foley, head Of
the legal department; Philip M.
Benton, finance director; E. K.
Burlew, director of personnel, and
M. w. Straus, public relations
chief and personal representative
Of Administrator Harold L. Ickes.
They were scheduled to be in
Columbus, Ohio, from l a. m. to
2 p. m, and at Indianapolis from
$3.50 p. m. for the rest of the day.
Tomorrow their schedule calls
for meetings at st. Louis, Topeka
and Oklahoma City.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
Motor Police Patrol
Street Robbery Area

Because Of the activities of so
many "strong-arm" robbers of late,
Bernard w. Thompson, assistant
chief of detectives, last night sent
out five cruising cars which were
assigned to the districts in which
recent street robberies have taken
place, with the purpose of putting
down this form of robbery as
Quickly as possible.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
Cant Pawn Gun,
So Man Kills Self

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July
31.-R. A. Bessent, IS, walked
into a pawnshop here today. laid
a revolver on the counter and
asked:
GLOW much for this gum"
The broker offered 81.
Cant sell for that"
So said Bessent as he pointed
the gun at his temple and pulled
the trigger. He died.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
International News Service

Five officials of the Public
Works Administration left today
on a flying transcontinental trip
that will take them into 81 cities
in ID days, and back to Washing
ton, in an effort to speed up the
Public Works program, tagging
behind the hurriedly-set-up Works
Progress Administrators work
relief program.
The officials will fly by Navy
plane to the Pacific coast and back
to confer with State PWA direc-
tors, gineers, lawyers and
finance officers, and with local
officials. on keying the Public
Works program to higher speed.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
do You Remember?
(AnsWerS to Questions on
PAGE b

(AnSWerS to Questions on
Page 81
Baby Charlotte was adopted
by Senator and Mrs. Charles
McNary, Of Oregon.
Miss Fahrney, patent medi-
cine heireSs, was sued for
$57. 500 attorneys fees.
Miss PaIey, half sister of
the Grand Duchess Marie,
embarked on a motion pic.
ture career.
The Rev. Guinnesse, q
former sea captain who gave
up the sea for the church,
resigned his pulpit to go back
to sea.
Father COnneally, distin-
guished West Coast cleric,
praised motion picture stars
as good, devout and kind
people"
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
It's Capt. Sweeney

Lieut.. E. A. Sweeney, District
Fire Department, was promoted to
captain yesterday to succeed j. B.
Lyon, recently made battalion
chief. Other promotions were
Sergt. N. S. Bradford to lieutenant
and Private z. 0. Law to sergeant.
The Washington times., 1935-07-31

was suffering from a general breakdown,
feminine weakness, loss of appetite and
weight it was DR.. Pierce'S Favorite Pre-
AT p that time sleep y" was impos sHe After
Gaking the Prescription all this trouble was
gone and was back to normal health and
strength"
New size, tablets so cts, liquid $780,
Write Dr. Pierce's Clinic, Buffalo, N. y.
eor free medical advice
The Washington times., 1935-07-31
4 Sc5 RUNDOWN, AILING?

IF your day begins
with frayed nerves,
backache, headache
or periodic pains,
you need the tonic
effect of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton. M RS. Willie
Troxler of S18 No.
Main ST., Danville,
Va, said: "When l
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like the same amusements, the
same people. But if the husband
won't give up his nice evening at
home, when the wife wants to
step out, clouds begin to appear.
During the engagement period,
the man is fascinated by the pretty
face, the piquant manner, and the
mystery of sex. But after he gets
used to all these, what then? If
the wife has stood by him through
storms, if she has toiled over his
kitchen stove, and scrubbed his
children, she has knit herself to
him by strong bonds. Most any
kind of marriage can be a success,
if the parties learn the lesson of
sacrifice and service.
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IDEAL MARRIAGES

An investigation is being made
by the Connecticut State College
psychologist and his assistant, as to
the conditions hat promote sue
cessful marriages. Under this
study, financed by the National
Research council; 500 engaged cou-
pies will be interviewed before and
after marriage. 1t may become pos
sible to determine what combina-
lions of personality make the most
successful unions.
Some people claim that marriages
Of people of opposite characterize
les are the most hopeful. They ar
que hat the deficiencies of one
party are made up by the other.
And many people say that married
people need similarity of tastes, SC
that their different desires will no,
keep jarring on each other.
What is this mysterious magne-
tism that draws two people. to-
gether? Sex appeal may be the prin-
cipal feature in it. Bat sex appea.
grows stale. What more perman-
ent feelings shall hold the tie firm
ly, when sex appeal fades out?
Probably the largest element in
the successful marriage is self sac
rifce. The husband and wife may
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. THANK YOU.

automobile is pretty nearly perfect
as a piece of mechanism. What
kills its victims is not the machin-
cry but the drivers. The weak spot
here, as in every other field of ac-
tivity, is the human factor.
future
The American Federation of La
Dor has just voted down the pro-
posal to reorganize on the basis of
instead of crafts. The
industrial union idea, however,, is
gaining ground.
I have a feeling that it will
not be many years before all the
in any given industry will
be organized into one big union,
regardless of whether they are car
penters, steam filters, machine
tenders, of night watchmen.
From hat it will be only a step
to the old IWW plan of zone big
union" to include all persons who
work for wages or salaries. And
the net result of that, it seems to
me, may easily be a new collectiv
organization of society, big enough
and broad enough to take in every
body. When hat comes, everybody
will have to justify his right to
eat by his willingness and ability
to perform useful service. And
that will be. getting back to first
principles.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1885
A CONVICTION NAILED
DOWN

There may be some folks who
still believe Bruno Hauptmann is
not guilty Of the kidnapping and
killing of the Lindbergh baby, ev-
en- though the High Court of APP
peals of New Jersey has affirmed
his conviction. Apparently in the
hope that the orderly processes of
law can be stayed in their course,
a great effort has been made and
still persists to create doubt.
One can hardly blame a man
under sentence of death for re-
sorting to any means to saw his
neck. But if there still were any
reasonable doubt of Hauptmann's
guilt, the last vestige of that doub,
seems to have been removed by the
disclosure that even the very nails
with which the kidnap ladder was
put together came from the iden-
teal key of nails he bought to
build his own garage.
The tracing of the wood from
which the ladder was made, to the
Aoorboards of Hauptmann's attic,
was a most remarkable feat of SCI
entihc detection. Now it appears
that this was matched by painstak-
ing work of another scientific in
vestigator, who found that all the
As nails in the ladder matched in
every detail the unused nails in a
key in the Hauptmann garage, bu,
also some rs nails which had beer
used in building the garage, ever
to minor imperfections.
There would seem to be no way
for a criminal to escape detection
if sufficient skill and patience i
devoted to his pursuit. Human be
ings may give false evidence, inten
tionally or by inadvertence, bu
boards and nails, tool-marks ant
fngerprints, tell nothing but tn
truth. They cannot lie.
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the various county races in tn,
40 Of % counties in which thu
voting is usually pretty close. Ht
is going to put in a lot of gooo
ticks and good words for the Dem
ocratic county tickets.
Mr.. Hoey was wearing his jim
swinger, a red rose, and his gray
fedora. He was in most jovial hui
NOR. If he is scared, he doesn't
indicate it. His friends here were
button-holing him on the street
and telling him they were going
to look out for him in their re-
spective communities. "You look
like a presiding elder, Brother
one delegate ventured.
They ought to give you a dis
"Well," replied Brother Hoey,
they are going to give me one.
I'm going to be the presiding elder
over North Carolina" He talked
like he meant it. And he was
for action, too. Yes, it's a
fact. He has had enough hair cut
off the back of his head to make
a mattress.
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observed by the church with reli-
gious ceremonies. But, as the result
of superstition. people began to
spread stories of spirits and ghosts,
hob-goblins and witches. Thus
Halloween became invested with
an atmosphere of mystery that
robbed it of its original meaning.
Just as the Druids lit huge fires
to keep wicked spirits away, the
ancient peasant folk of England
and Rome gathered around bon
fires built to keep away the ghosts
and witches.
Apples and nuts were easy to
carry with them and convenient t o
eat while watching for hobgoblins.
As a result certain legends and
superstitions developed around the
eating of nuts and apples on this
night.
It was believed that a maiden
who slept with an apple under her
would dream of her lover,
just as girls do now who cat
piece of wedding cake-that a girl
would see the reflection of her fu-
ture husband in a mirror if she
ate an apple at midnight while
standing before the mirror. Mid
night probably received its name
as the witching hour because the
festivals started then, and the sipr-
its were supposed to come forth at
that hour.
Some people avoid churchyards
at night on Halloween because
they are fearful of meeting spirits
face to face; they believe they'll
fall dead if they meet them.
Pumpkins are the symbol of har-
vest, while pumpkin lanterns
frighten the witches away.
Black cats are in evidence as
decorations because they are tradi-
tionally the companions of witches.
And the boyish pranks common
on Halloween trace their origins
to the customs and traditions that
resulted from the strange things
the spirits were supposed to in
in on All Hallow Even cen
turies ago.
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Rids Self OF
Long Silvery Locks

One of the biggest pieces Of
news to reports from the Western
North Carolina Methodist confer.
ence in session here last week wa.
this: Clyde R. Hoey has had q
haircut.
Mr.. Hoey, who is one of North
Cardinals biggest Democrats, is al
SO a big Methodist, and here for the
the opening of the conference he
shook hands with most of the bre-
thren and sisters and then slipped
away to Gates county to speak at
a big fall festival.
He hadn't been there more than
a few minutes before someone dis
covered that he had sacrificed his
long iron-gray locks. His hair has
been shingled up behind and no
longer does he sport the familiar
bob.
In fact, he has a feather-edge
now. But in front his hair is still
long and when he reaches the
heights of oratory in his forthcom-
ing campaign, he will still be able
to shake his name and let flow
those silvery phrases. that have put
him down over the years as De-
mocracy's chief advocate.
Mr.. Hoey wasn't talking politics
generally, though he couldn't exist
many moments without a little
political pow-wowing with his
closer political cronies. He vows he
is not worried in the least over
this Governors race business, and
says he hopes to settle the whole
affair in the first primary. He
thinks the candidacy of DR.. Ralph
W. Mcdonald, the Winston-Salem
pedagogue, will help his u and
will take the votes from Sandy
Graham's column. He declares, too
that he is very much interested
not only in his own race, but in
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STALK ABROAD IN CITY
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which they celebrated in honor of
This took place on No
vember l.. Pomona was goddess
of the fruit Of trees, and the festi-
val assumed the nature of a cele-
bration with fruit and nuts, roast
ed before bonfres.
In ancient Rome, and in Eng
land too, Halloween was also