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The Washington times., 1935-08-15
The Weather

District Of Columbia - Local
thunder-showers this afternoon or
early tonight; Friday partly cloudy
with some likelihood of a thunder
shower in the afternoon; con-
tinued warm; gentle variable
winds.
Maryland-Partly cloudy to-
night; Friday probably local
thunder-showers; not much change
in temperature.
Virginia-Partly cloudy tonight:
Friday probably local thunder
showers: not much change in tenn
perature.
The Washington times., 1935-08-15
Child Hurt by Fall

A five-year-old colored child,
Sterling Rothwell, was seriously
injured yesterday in falling from
a shed in the rear of his home in
the 800 block Fourth Street S. w.
At Casualty Hospital his condition
was said to be critical.
The Washington times., 1935-08-15

Departures From Normal
Accumulated excess Of tempera-
ture since January /, 1885, 800.
Excess of temperature since Au-
gust /, 1885, 46.
Accumulated deficiency of pre-
cipitation since January l, 1885,
1856.
Deficiency of precipitation since
August /, 1885, lit.
Tide Table
High tide today at 8:24 a. m.
and at $50 p. m.
Low tide today at 2:42 a. m. and
at 3:14 p. m.
High tide tomorrow at 9:13
a. m. and at 9:37 p. m.
Low tide tomorrow at 1874 a. m.
and at p. m.
The Sun and Moon
The sun rises today at $40 a. m.
and sets at 7:04 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at 5:21
a. m. and sets at 1903 p. m.
The moon rises today at 1885
D. m. and sets at 6:37 p. m.
The moon rises tomorrow at
sos o. m. and sets at 1883 a. m.
TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1935-08-15
New York Wool

NEW YORK. Aug. Is IN.S.D Wool
firm, Domestic fleece. unwashed. Ohio
and Pennsylvania. 23032c; domestic
pulled, secured basis, 65@S2c; domestic
Texas clean basis, Sc 675c: domestic
territory clean basis, 81 % TIC.
The Washington times., 1935-08-15
Naval Stores

NEW YORK, Aug. IS G.N.s).-Pe-
%roleum steady, crude Pennsylvania,
S1s2@1.35; linseed oil. per pound, 8."c,
car lots; turpentine steady. 42Ac; rosln
ntAadV common, $40.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-14

gun out of hollow cane, whittle
funny men and play all the ballads
she loved, on his fiddle.
Each day brought fun to Honey
Jane and Joe John. But most ex-
citing Of all was the part Honey
Jane played in ending the Nc
Creary-Oliver feud.
ONE DAY WITH TUKUTU, AN
ESKIMO BOY-Armstrong Sperry.
Tukutu is an Eskimo boy. He lives
in the Far North in a house made
of ice blocks. He dresses in warm
furs. Tukutu and his brother play
game together. They make seals
and nanokstor polarbears out of
ice, and shoot at them with their
bows and arrows.
Imagine how thrilled Tukutu was
when one day his father said he
was old enough to go on a real seal
hunt! Tukutu's adventures going
after seals in the dog sled, and how
he proved his courage in the face
of a real nanook, make most ex-
citing story.
LITTLE ONES-Dorothy Kun
hardt. Here they are-little, alive
baby animals. The laughing colt
who feels things with his nose.
Black scottie puppies with shut
eyes, breathing big breaths. Into
the barnyard we go. Here are
calves with wet, farm noses and
baby chicks-soft balls of feather
ed fluff. Farther away you see
baby pigeons. On the edge Of the
meadow, in a soft round nest made
of puffs of their mothers fur, are
six baby rabbits with pink eyes
and noses which wriggle.
On the door step in the sunshine
Is a kitten purring in soft rumbles
and inside the house is Baby Su-
san. All these baby creatures are
in the new book for Children's
book week-'Iittle Ones"
NIFTY AND MR.. SYRUP-Ruth
Holberg. NIFTY was a little girl just
six and half. Mitty's most priced
possession was Sarah Ann, a doll
with real yellow curls. Mr.. Syrup,
Mitty's friend, the milkman, was a
dreadful tease. my, wish I had
a doll like that at the farm" he
| would say. One day when NIFTY
came home, she found Sarah Ann
gone and where do you suppose
she found her?
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The class also wrote stories about
children from Lapland, Eskimo
Land, and Amazon Land. They
told of how they would live If they
were there; what they would wear,
eat, and do for shelter. The class
did very neat work.
HALLOWEEN
Miss Boehmkes room is all dec
Grated for Halloween. Last week
they had a very pleasant little Hal
lowe'en party.
BOOKS AND STORIES
Group I has begun "Munching
Peter and Other Stories" What
rabbit story wouldn't interest any
child!
The whole room has finished
Gates Readers and Workbooks
They are progressing very fast.
Miss Boehmke's class get a week
ly paper called weekly Readers"
She finds that the class enjoys
them very much.
MISS FESSENDEN
Some of the people are going to
give Greek play called 1.-THE
Contest" which is going to be held
in Miss Holden's and their own
room. This is being done for A
work. The following are participant
ing: Mabel Steege, Ellery Potter,
Ruth LUX, Vivian Rasmussen,
Charles Otto, Russell Houghton,
Ileen Ethien and Paul Keldahl. The
people are doing their own direct
ing so it ought to be good. They
are going to try to give it in cos
tunes and are hoping to have a
success. This finishes the work of
the Greeks and they will begin on
the study of the Romans. They are
finishing the lowlands in Geogra-
ply. In science they are beginning
the study of the migration of birds
and reports on the Winter Bird
Residences.
HISS HOLDEN
The following boys took part in
the play which was given as A
work in History called 1.-The Ath-
enia Youth Becomes a Citizen"
John Cotton, Gordon Hedine, Jun
ior Schmidt, and Bobby Rattle.
They were the members of the
council. Leon Veeder took the part
of clean and Athenian Youth. After
giving it in their own room they
went to Miss Fessenden's room.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-14
Book Reviews
By Miss Mwette Lindelof

HONEY JANE AND JOE JOHN
May Justus. Here are two new
friends-Honey Jane and Joe
John. They live in the Tennessee
mountains. When Honey James
father decided to move with his
family to the other side of Thunder
Mountain, and there to try to end
the family feud that had broken
out again, Honey Jane jumped for
joy. There would be Joe John to
play with-for Joe John lived with
Granny, too. He could do the most
amusing things+Honey Jane thot
like a bird, make a pop
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-14
Iowa's Hawkeyes-Minnesota's

Iowa's Hawkeyes-Minnesota's
Gophers-Simmons Thompson
and Beise-battering lines-final
in brief, is the story of that classic
football game in Iowa City last
Saturday, as the Gophers crushed
their most powerful opponent for
their 18th consecutive victory. the
fight was clean but bitter with
smashing tackles and brutal pun
ishment. Ozzie Simmons dominated
the first half, pulling the defense
apart paving the way for Hid to
score. This factor was pressing
that neither could score until the
others power had been broken.
Things looked dark for the Goph-
ers for the first half as the Iowa's
heavier line out charged the home
lads, and that colored lad SIM
mons ran wild. Even then Mime
sofa hopes were not blasted-they
had faith in that power and that
the old Maestro Bierman had few
more tricks to turn the tide Of bat
tie. Thompson and Beise finally
| IdIllcu up q oSolC oPiSSSt CD WV
small holes gradually became larg-
er ones, and the Minnesota power
came into it's own.
A dry field might have lead
to an earlier Gopher victory
and incidentally saved many q
Gopher heart attack. The Slip
perry turf gave a heavier Iowa
line a physical advantage which
finally after three quarters was
broken down.
Governors and Pigs-This corner
wishes to cast no disparaging re-
marks about the Governors, but
they brought it on themselves-be-
sides to Iowa and Minnesota gov
errors pigs are tokens of tradition
al rivalry. Following some re-
marks of Governor Herring-Gov-
ernor Olson decided he had been
misquoted and to give SAVIOR to the
game bet his finest Minnesota por-
ker against a fat representative
of Iowa that Minnesota would win.
Governor Herring owes Governor
Olson a pig now, and is searching
for an Iowa razorback that won't
be too rich for Minnesota stom-
achs. Minnesota pork may not be
so rich, but it evidently develops
the beef that stands up in the long
run.
So Minnesota finds itself still
indicated after humping Iowa
from that rOstrum. Notre Dame
tOppled Ohio State from her
mighty seat, and the North
western Wildcats overturned
the Irish In turn, and the river
Shannon nearly overlooked Its
banks. But what Is this queer
turn of fortune? Herr Doktor
Spears Badgers knocked off
Purdue. Well, well, the Doctor
finally wone one. Princeton and
North Carolina are still tops In
the national race with the Go
pliers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-14
SPORTS
OF THE WEEK
(Chuck Rathe)

Last week a preliminary get-in-
condition basketball practice got
under way for the boys who didn't
play football. Road work, and gen.
eral toughening exercises dominat-
ed the weeks workout for the IS
boys. This week the squad was en-
HANGED by about 20 Of the football
men bringing the squad up to a to-
tai of 40 to As men. From now I'M
til Thanksgiving the entire. squad
will be put through q rigorous: atia.
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shifting positions, trying new
plays, attempting new combina-
tions in an endeavor to bring out
the best. Following the holiday at
Thanksgiving, Coach Harvey will
whet the cutting knife and the in
itial cut will be made. The squad
to date doesn't look so prosperous
as it did last season at this time
But Coach Harvey isn't crying the
blues. He has that lanky center
Keldahl, and that fast little for.
ward, Decree, besides the excellen,
material of the second team in Ar.
Wig, Walker, Dubois and several
others who may work in. That sec
ond team last year cleaned up or
nearly everything, and at times out.
classed the first string in their bal
handling. The schedule, not quite
complete to date, has several new
rivals to be introduced this season
Benson is one of the early oppon
ents, and Appleton is to furnish
some lively entertainment. Other
snappy outfits are being approach
ed for scheduled games. 1t looks
like a great year in basketball cir
cles.
The Independents are going
on a business basis this year
and promise to give local fans
something real in the line of
basketball. Their practice will
start about December 1, and
their first tilt will be around
the latter part of that month.
Last seasons quint that trim
med lotta good teams Is back
with Pat Dubois, Jim O'Gara,
Vic Sieben, Bill Cook, and KOrf
and is strengthened by some of
last years high school stellar
lights in the persons of Brown,
Dubois, Scanlon, and possibly
a Carpenter or two. Those boys
are all ball players and it'll be
q fight to place on the first
string. There will be about
eight home games, two to be
played in conjunction with the
high school games. Anyhow,
what we're trying to get at is
the boys will pass among you
with season tickets good for at
least six games. Now the price
Is small. and the boys are eager
to give q good shOw.-Let's 60
athletic!
Alexandria, undefeated in confer
ence play, met st. Cloud, likewis.
with a clean slate, last Friday ev
ening for the playoff of the Contra
Eight high school league. Tecf
romped over them at will and stood
up the Black and Red 10 to 0. I
seems that Alex had one thing IL
mind-to stop Doane, flashy st
Cloud back. Well they stopped hin
with a broken nose, but they for
got about the other backs. While
Alex rubbed their hands in childist
glee, Tech sneaked away for three
touchdowns. Which just goes t.
show that there are still eleven mer
on a football team.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-14
Sank
Centre

Editor-Peggy Smith.
Sports-Tom Brown, Robert Ryd-
holm.
Sr. High-Dorothy Keldahl, Jarvis
Hansen.
Sr. High Teachers-Esther Pastian
Jr. High-Ruth Grindy, Mary
Wicks, Phoebe White.
Music-Lorraine Botz.
Library-Doris Christy.
Commercial-Mary M. Barron.
Home Ec.-Esther Connolly.
Teachers Training-Kathryn Ken
nedy.
Scouts and Classea-Catherine
Dahlem.
Health-Malvina Gritzmacher.
Industrial-Lillian Conkey.
Grade-Mae Huisman, Valeria
frisco, Eleanor Thull, Elemay
Burt, Alverna Peterson.
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bv E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

who was wandering about on the edge of the
cliffs saw them struggling for minute, and
| saw the body of one of them come down the
cliffs there. Dumping from ledge to ledge
something cruel was sitting in the boat here
and did see that
Ann shivered. She looked around to where
Colin was rebaiting his own hook.
He's quite right, Ann. That is the spot
where it happened. The poor fellow was
smashed to pieces"
rs that the bungalow behind?" she asked.
Colin nodded That's where we're going
this afternoon" he confded. II have the key
in my pocket"
II was near upon the only one who was
called" the man at the helm muttered, me
that they always called half-witty. Coming
down in the moonlight, | was, to look for
them little sand eels."
Hes telling the truth, he is" the other
boatman, who had been cleaning the fish, re-
marked, looking round from his task. mo
one thought he would be able to answer
simple question - Michael there. He was half
daft from the day he left school. He up and
spoke then, though; been extra broody, he
has, ever since"
did Desmond Rookie or Watson as he
was calling himself 49, live all alone up there?"
Ann asked. 1T seems a desolate place"
There was an elderly gentleman "a kind
of secretary-servant - who looked after him,
miss" the boatman told her, "a man near
upon his own age, should say. They favored
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one another so that could never tell the one
from the other He went away only two days
before He got passage on one of the French
fishing boats that put in.
Anyone lived in the bungalow since?"
Colin Rookie enquired.
The man shook his head doubtfuly. "Sark
folk are bit peculiar that way" he con-
fided. 1--WE don't have much in the way of
quarres and fighting on the island and a
killing like this is thing that has scarcely
ever been known. No one amt had no liking
for the bungalow. I'm fancying, if it suited
you, the Dame would not be particular about
the rent. Pretty clever of the police running
the man down what did it. Did you ever
read the case, sir?"
Yes, | read it, Colin admitted.
He would have hung sure enough. would
that man, but for Michael there" the boat
man went on.
How was that?" Colin asked curiously.
Why, when he gave his evidence" the
boatman recounted, "he spoke of seeing the
two sway about on the edge of the cliff and if
it was that sort of a quarrel why either Of
them might have lost his footing and there
was just enough of accident about it to make
it manslaughter the Doctor he fancied there
were signs of the man having been shot in the
head. There weren't much left of his head,
but when Michael here was asked the question
he said yes he tanCied he had heard a shot.
and then there was them in Court as had
know him since he was a boy and they all
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told the tale that Michael was stone deaf
They tried him in court, fired off a revolver
behind screen, and Michael he never
heard IT,
II could hear all right that night" Michae
mutt cred. Il can hear all right now"
"Harken to inn the other jeered ut
amt sense that you could hear one night and
not another. Anyway the Jurats didn't think
SO. A quarrel was a likely enough affair seeing
as the two had been together in business
Twenty years he got and that's enough for
most men - him being over forty. Shift
little more over towards they gulls Michael"
The man turned his helm obediently.
Our second cousin twice removed, or
as he stood with AIMS arm through his at
the edge of the grassy slope in front of the
bungalow, "had an eye for beauty"
1T S too marvellous" she murmured.
Behind them was a patchwork wilderness of
common still afush with yellow gorse and
deep patches of heather. Below, the sea was
booming into the caves and crevices and
drenChing the rocks with spray - deep blue,
white crested and heavy with swirl of the in
coming tide. The odor of it, strong and sweet,
came to them with an almost Intoxicating
twang. They stood there for a moment,
breat bless after their climb The guls foated
lazily about their heads. The loneliness of the
place was almost disturbing. Ann looked over
her shoulder with a sigh
1T S funny, Colin, she observed II rather
hate he idea of going inside that bungalow"
ut S ugly enough, he remarked carelessly.
$50 long as we're here, though we must have
a look inside Let's get it over"
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was surprised at the inertness OF the boatman
who was seated few feet away with the helm
under his arm She glanced at him. His pale,
vivid-blue eyes were fixed on the summit of
the rocky cliffs underneath which they were
passing.
Mechanically the boatman pulled at the
few remaining yards of line, unlocked the
mackerel. threw it into the bucket, rearranged
the bait and dropped the lead once more into
the water. Then he looked back to the cliffs.
This was the very spot" he recounted
softly. This is where did lie and see it all.
was sand ceiling. see the big man come out
of the bungalow and creep up to the other,
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED

"ooD FORTUNE smiled upon the five
4 n Rockies the day they first met in
~ lawyers Office; for they learned that
a relative whom they had never met -
Desmond Rookie - had died mysteriously
and left will which gave to them his millions,
simply because they bore his name.
Through the efforts of two of the Rookie
legatees, Colin and Ann, who were distantly
related. it was soon established that the late
Desmond Rookie, after retiring from business
and assuming the name of Watson, had been
pushed over a cliff by former business
partner. The murderer confessed to the crime
and was sentenced to twenty years in prison,
In this latest story concerning the Rookie
legatees, we find Ann and Colin visiting the
sceTie of the murder.
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Legacy of Adventure

uprising 4h The Man Who Loaned His Name the zote Agny
Gift of fge small learn the solution
Evening star., 1935-07-27
SueZ

Continued From First Page)
1905 tri-partite agreement. the BRAND
kellogg peace pact, the League OF
Nations Covenant and the 1928 treaty
OF friendship with Ethiopia.
The freedom of passage through
the canal is of vital importance to one
of the hypothetical belligerants," the
law journal says. Both are sigma
tories to the BRAND Kellogg pact and
if one declares war in violation of
that pact. she could not complain if
the protecting power closed the
canal"
Advocating a League mandate en-
powering Great Britain to bar Italy S
warships from the canal, the authori-
tative legal publication adds;
1T would place the canal and its
controllers in a new and honorable
role as guardians of the world S
peace"
1t is doubtful, however. according to
informed circles, that Great Britain
will seek such mandate at Geneva
except possibly as a last resort. Italy
has stated that it would view the
closing of the canal as an act of war
Meanwhile. an Italian official in
London said that it is the belief in
his countrys government circles that
Emperor Halle Selassie of Ethiopia is
planning to annex slice Of Italian
territory and extend his empire TO the
sea"
Evening star., 1935-07-27
THOMPSON BATTLES
SLAYING CONFESSION
Entered Into Evidence Over His
Protests. Howeve~Denies
Car Door Was Trap.

BY the Associated Press.
PEORIA. Ill. July 27- Gerald
Thompsons confession that he raw
ished and murdered pretty Mildred
Hallmark. 19, was admitted into evil
dence today over Thompson's protest
from the stand.
With the jury out of the room.
Thompson, a 25-year-old mechanic.
denied the right-hand door of his car
was so fixed that it could not be
opened as a trap for his girl victims.
They questioned me about girls in
my diary, and admitted the attacks
on them"
Il denied having picked up the girl y
he said. referring to Miss Hallmark
The police told me, We can get you
two or three consecutive sentences on
these rape charges but if you confess
to this you'll only get one sentence. "
Testifying calmly. addressing him
self to the judge. the muscular young
defendant said detectives told him:
You know. Jerry, if We book you
on murder charge this jail won't be
strong enough to hold you.
How would your poor old grand
mother like TO see you hanging from
a tree?"
Evening star., 1935-07-27
DIR. RUFUS CHOATE,
| SURGEON, EXPIRES
Native Washingtonian Be-
qan Career in Indian Wars.
Funeral to Be Monday.

DR. Rufus Choate, a native Of Wash
ington. who began the practice Of
medicine as an Army surgeon during
the Indian campaigns and continued
it here for almost half a century, died
Yesterday at his residence. l40l
Thirty third street. after an illness Of
several months. He wsS 88.
DR.. Choate was the grandson OF an
early resident of Washington. Solo
mon Drew. who came here from Eng
land in 1918, and a cousin of the late
Joseph H. Choate, former Ambassador
to Great Britain.
On leaving the Army. DR.. Choate
returned TO Washington and began a
practice here which he sustained for
As years.
DR.. Choate remained in surprising
health and vigor until few months
prior to his death.
He was convinced he was the victim
of a strange skin disease. although
doctors who attended him in his last
days said he suffered from a compli-
cation of hardening of the arteries.
DR.. Choate is survived by two nieces,
Mrs. Katherine Talbot and Elizabeth
Choate of Rockville, and a nephew,
Conrad Choate of Washington.
Funeral services will be held at II
m. Monday a. the Choate residence
and burial will be In Rockville Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1935-07-27

Continued From First Psge)
tentatively approved for application to
incomes of S150000 or more would
bring in ouly s20, 100000 a year,
whereas a drop to the S10o 900 class
would boost the revenue to S32, 900 600
As the committee Democrats dis
cuSsed this point they had put behind
them a number of other problems.
They had. for instance. decided tenta-
lively that to avoid evasions of the
levieS. the new taxes on gifts and in
heritances should become effective as
soon as the President signs the bill.
Fight on Charity Exemptions.
Meanwhile, major scrap was fore
cast with the disclosure that Demo-
cratic drafters of the tax bill had
agreed to retain the law which makes
corporations pay taxes on gifts to
charities.
Mr.. Roosevelt openly opposed any
change. Charitable organizations in
sisted that unless corporations were
allowed some sort Of deductions for
charitable donations the size OF the
donations would drop of.
simultaneously. there was talk
about a special caucus to bind Demo-
cratic members of the House to vote
for a graduated tax on corporation
incomes.
The broadest such tax that could
be wrangled out of Ways and Means
Committee Democrats was one rang
ing from 1874 to 14l4 per cent. in
stead of the present fat 1894. Some
committeeman feared the House
would reject even that.
At his press conference the Presi-
dent declined to comment on rate
schedules announced Thursday night.
explaining that If he did so it would
require comment every time the bill
changed form.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he had received
both protests and approval OF his
stand against permitting corporations
to make tax deductions on gifts to
charity
Evening star., 1935-07-27

MAJ. ROBERT G. GUYER,
Army Corps of Engineers, who yes
terday took over his duties as dis
trict engineer for the War Depart
ment for the Washington area.
First Lieut.. William J. MatteSon,
who has been acting as district en-
gineer for some months, will con-
tinue on duty in Washington as
the MAJORS assistant. Maj. Guyer
recently completed course of in
struction at the Army Command
and General staff School. Fort
Leavenworth, Kans.. and has been
on leave A native of Utah. where
he was born January 8, 1893, Maj.
Guyer became a second lieutenant
in the Corps Of Engineers in June.
1916. He has held the rank of
major since July. 1926.
Star staff Photo.