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Evening star., 1935-06-24
CENTERPROGRAM
CONFLICT WILL Be
LAID BEFORE QUIZ
Pension Office Additions
Would Interfere With Flu.
ture Court Building.
GARNETT WILL APPEAR
BEFORE SENATE HEARING
Suggestion Is Made That U. s.
Take Over Pennsylvania Ave.
nue. Frontage From District.

The Senate subcommittee which be.
gan hearings today on the second den-
cheney appropriation bill will have
brought to its attention the fact that
the remodeling and enlargement Of
the old Pension Once In Judiciary
Square, provided for in the House bill
would prevent the carrying out o1
plans to erect new District Supreme
Court Building on the Pension Once
site at some future time.
United States District Attorney Les
lie C. Garnett was waiting to discuss
the problem with the subcommittee
this morning, but his testimony was
postponed until tomorrow.
Bill Carries S4,700, 900.
The House bill authorizes $4,700,-
900, Of which $2,000,00 Is to be ap-
propriated at this time, to add two
wings to the old Pension once and
to cover the exterior with stone. The
General Accounting once. which oc-
cupies the building, Is in need OF
additional space.
Various agencies connected with the
development of the National Capital
have been working on plan under
which it was hoped future home for
the District Supreme Court could 60
on that site. The enlargement and
remodeling of the Pension Once
would preclude that possibility.
Another part of the plan was to
ask the Federal Government to take
over from the District the Pennsyl-
vania avenue frontage of the Munich.
pal Center site and use that for a
new General Accounting ONCE.
Congress Forced Purchase.
Congress, before the depression sci
in, required the District to purchase
four squares extending from Pennsyl.
vania avenue to Indiana avenue be-
tween Third and Sixth streets for 6
group of municipal buildings. 1t ha!
since been recognized that the Munich.
pal Center program was too elaborate
for the District Government to carry
out under present conditions, anc
Congress recently authorized the Com.
missioners to erect In Judiciary Squar,
three buildings for the Police, Juvenile
and Municipal Courts, If public
works loan can be obtained. The Pen.
sion once remodeling would not In
terfere with these small court build
ings, but would conflict with the plan
for future new Supreme Court build.
ing. The new Supreme Court building
would be a Federal structure.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
Right of Master
To Kiss His Dog
Upheld by Judge
Case Comes Up in Police
Court after Protests
by LandIady.

A mans right to kiss his own dog
was upheld by Judge Robert Z. Mat
tingly today in a case in Police Court.
Judge Mattingly took the place OF
Judge Gus A. Schuldt, who left today
for a two weeks vacation.
The case was that Of a colored
man who told the court he was
kissing his dog when the landlady
objected to the proceedings. Where
upon the landlady claims the former
said: This dogs mouth is just as
sanitary as yours" When the land
lady further objected, the roomer
knocked her down.
In dismissing the case, Judge Mat
tingly declared that a man has a
right to kiss his own dog even II its
mouth isn't sanitary.
Evening star., 1935-06-24

nue., Hyattsville, was critically in
jured when the car in which he was
riding ran of the Gaithersburg road,
near Emory Grove, and crashed into
a telephone pole. He was taken to
the home of q doctor, but later
transferred to Montgomery County
General Hospital by the Rockville
Fire Rescue Squad. Vincan told
police that a colored man was driv-
ing the car.
Harry Hines Of Clarksburg, Nd,
and Robert Mcdonald of Damascus,
Md, were cut about the face when the
car in which they were riding, said
to have been driven by Samuel r.
Neel, left the road and hit q telephone
pole near Shady Grove on the Gaith-
ersburg road. Neel was arrested by
State Patrolman J. R. Miller and
charged with operating car while
under the influence of liquor. He was
held in jail at Rockville in default OF
$500 bond.
Others hurt in accidents over the
week end include nine persons injured
in a triple automobile collision on the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Saturday night, i've others hurt when
their automobile ran into O Haduct
and some three others injured In ac-
cidents Saturday night, all listed In
Sundays Star.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
NAME CHANGE OPPOSED

The Society Of American Foresters,
with a membership Of 1850 profes-
sional foresters, yesterday opposed q
bill advocated by Secretary Ickes to
change the name of the Department
Of Interior to that Of Conservation
and Works.
Prof. H. H. Chapman Of Yale Uni
versity, president, outlined the So
ciety's position In q statement. He
said:
"The Society of American Foresters
holds that such proposed concentra-
ton and transfer Of conservation Of
forests, grazing, and wild life from
Agriculture to Interior, would be
against the public interest and would
tend to destroy the efficiency Of
existing agencies now operating
successfully in the Department Of
Agriculture.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
STATION MEASURE
GIVEN APPROVAL
House Committee Orders Favor.
able Report on Proposal to
Substitute Shelter.

The Public Utilities subcommittee
of the House District Committee to-
day ordered q favorable report on a
bill authorizing the Pennsylvania
Railroad to substitute an inclosed
shelter for its present station and
ticket ofice at Seventh and G streets
southwest. A similar measure Is on
the Senate calendar.
Action on the bill had been delayed
by the subcommittee pending reports
from the Commissioners and COM
muters from nearby Virginia who use
the railroad station.
Corporation Counsel e. Barrett
Prettyman reported the Commission
ers had approved the substitution
Eugene r. White. president OF the
Fairfax (va.) Chamber Of Commerce,
representing the commuters, also m
dorsed the. plan after being assured
by representatives of the railroad that
the incloSed waiting room would be
adequately heated at periods Of the
day when It is used.
Originally, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road had planned to abandon the sta
tiou but protests by commuters re-
suited In the compromise for substi-
tuition Of = waiting room.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
RESORT TRAGEDIES
TAKE TWO LIVES
One browns in Two Feet OF
Water-Pair Saved as
Boat Capsizes.

Two Washingtonians were drowned
at nearby resorts yesterday, while two
others narrowly escaped similar fate
when their outboard motor boat cap
sized and hurled them into Chesa-
peake Bay.
L. Allyn Shackelford, So, week end
ing with friends at his Summer cot
tage at Colonial Beach, Md, was
drowned in feet of water when he
suffered O heart attack Shackelford,
q pressman at the Government Print
ing Once and prominent in Masonic
activities, lived at 500 e street north
east. Efforts of friends to revive him
were futile He was a member OF
Lebanon Lodge, No. z, r. A. A NJ.
Surviving him are two brothers, J.
w. and Charles Shackelford, and q
sister, Mrs. Ida Sandy. all of this
city.
Wallace Timco. 25, of 1114 Penn
street northeast. drowned while swim.
ming alone of Woodland Beach, South
River, near Annapolis, Md. He was
apparently stricken with acute indi-
gestion as q result of eating heavily
before his swim.
His wife Ruby was one of many per-
sons ON shore who saw him sink after
yelling for help. Swimmers and ca
noeists rushed to his aid, but he had
disappeared in the water, which was
Is feet deep. Efforts to dive for him
were futile. His body was recovered
an hour and half later with grap-
pling irons by Annapolis police.
Hurled into choppy waters of Ches-
apeake Beach, Victor M. Eissnbeiss
"a. 207 Philadelphia avenue, Takoms
Park, Md, and George Clark, 26
Silver Spring, Md, escaped similar
fate. They were rescued By Capt
R. B. Mortimer, Seaside Park, Nd
and Edward Price, Cambridge, Md.
Rudolph C. Lubbert, %, of Bal
timore was drowned while swimming
in the Severn River yesterday. Vol
unteer flremen recovered his body,
Meanwhile, police were still search
ing for the body OF Horace Erskine
young employe Of the r. r. C. here
who was drowned after his canoe
overturned Saturday while trying to
shoot the rapids at Little Falls, above
Chain Bridge. Erskine lived at 1926
M street.
Police were unable to learn the
identity of two women companions
Of Erskine and France Fraze, 1922
Twelfth street, who were with him
at the time, but escaped to the shore.
Fraze attempted to pull Erskine to
shore after the canoe was smashed
on the rocks, but said he became ex-
hausted and had to swim to save him
self. Police were continuing their
search for the body today.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
DEFENDS REPEAL

william H. Stayton, chairman Of
Repeal Associates, said yesterday that
arrests for drunken driving were more
numerous during the last four typical
years" of national prohibition than
for the first full year under repeal.
Stayton, founder Of the Association
Against Prohibition Amendment, said
in statement that the average num-
Der of arrests for the four prohibition
years was 24,306, and the average for
the beer and repeal years, 20,s27.
1.-THE highest record Of arrests was
24,455 in 1928, which was 5,S05 in
excess Of the beer year Of 1888. and
1850 in excess of the repeal year Of
1884" he said.
Evening star., 1935-06-24

lived and practiced medicine in his
present home for As years and is being
attended by q nurse who was his
housekeeper more than 40 years ago.
Mrs. Emma Cook, before her mar
riage 81 years ago, was housekeeper
for DR.. Choate. She "up and got mar
ried," she said, and left the doctors
employ. Then came the breakup OF
the marriage and she took up nursing.
Now she is back, 81 years later, taking
care of her former employer.
DR.. Choate lives alone In the old
house since the death of his wife, Mrs.
Ellen Olivia, last March 26. They had
been married 81 years. He Is the
grandson Of Solomon Drew, who came
to Washington from Cromwell, Eng
land, only two years after the British
had burned the Capitol in 1914. Also
attending him is his cousin, Mrs. En-
ma F. Carroll of 1925 Vermont ave-
nue., who formerly was the attractive
Miss Emma Drew.
Vitality Is Marvel.
The writer was called to the Choate
home last night by a message that
the aged physician wanted to make a
death-bed statement.
Arriving at the bedside, the visitor
sat and listened and marveled at the
vitality of the man who Is being
skinned alive by death"
"I am being burned up outside, u
the man on the bed spoke clearly,
unfalteringly, but am perfectly cool
inside. Christ was crucified on the
cross, but I am undergoing crucifixion
on my bed and I am going to win
the battle, because life is stronger
than death and I shall prove it for
mankind"
And as the blackened body, for all
the world like a mummy in its tomb,
was bereft of another huge strip OF
skin, the story of the Persian prince
in the old legend came into mind. Like
the prince the aged DR.. Choate had,
doubtlessly, met death and was re-
buking him.
Practiced Until Last Monday.
DR.. Choate is a first cousin of the
famous Rufus Choate, who was widely
known for his court room wit years
ago, and Is second cousin of Joseph
Choate, who was at one time Ambas-
Sador to England.
Up to last Monday DR.. Choate was
going about his regular practice, which
involved the treatment of from 20
to Is patients day in his home. He
gave up bedside calling several years
ago, but carried on his work at home.
Although he has DR.. A. E. Craig, his
neighbor, at 1880 Thirtieth street, call
on him every day, DR.. Choate ex-
planned that it is more in the nature
of a social call, since he insists on
treating himself with his own medi-
cineS.
DR.. Craig says DR.. Choate is suffer
ing from a dermisitis which is break
ing down Of the skin tissues. II we
can keep his body built up inside
he will be able to overcome it and will
recover he said
Evening star., 1935-06-24
CLOSED BANK TO PAY
DEPOSITORS $500, 900
Frederick Institutions Third Dis
tribution Within Year Is
Announced.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md, June 24.-De-
positors Of the defunct Central Trust
Co. of Maryland will receive dis
tribution totaling 5000, 900 on August
9.
Plans for the distribution, the third
within a year. were announced by w.
Clinton McSherry, attorney for the
Peoples Liquidating Corp, which Is
liquidating the trust company. The
three distributions, only ones which
have been made to depositors, total
$1,000, ,240.44.
The company closed September 3,
1881. Emory L. Coblentz, its presi-
dent, was indicated In connection with
its failure and his latest case now Is
before the Court of Appeals.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
TWO MEN CAPTURED
IN COIN BOX THEFT
By stan Correspondent of The Star.

BETHESDA, Md, June 24.-At-
tracted by the sound of hammering
in a vacant lot near the intercestion
Of Oliver street and Kirkside drive,
Chevy Chase, Md, at $3.50 O'Clock
Sunday morning, Patrolman william
Crawford and Paul Burner surprised
two men attempting to open the coin
box Of a pay telephone which had
been torn from the wall Of an apart
ment house on Macomb street, Wash
ington, according to police.
The men, who gave their names as
Thomas McGrath Of 4l6 North
Charles street, Baltimore, and John
Holmes. alias Henry r. Milton. Of
3151 Mt. Pleasant street, Washington,
were caught after a chase In which
the policemen fred shots into the
ground TO halt them. They were
turned over To Washington police
this morning.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
Doctor, SO, Losing All Skin
By Degrees, Battles Death
Rufus ChOate Treats
Himself and Insists
He viii Recover.
Epidern,is Comes off in
Strips, Resembling
Severe Burn.
BY GEORGE HURD.

In a dimly-lit third-fioor room out
at 1401 Thirty-third street, death Is
gradually being defeated by an So
year-old physician, DR.. Rufus Choate,
who has practiced medicine in Wash
ington for 6S years and should be
qualified to recognize the spectre when
he meets it.
DR.. Choate, seemingly in full pos
session of his faculties, Is fast being
skinned alive" as he expresses it,
by what appears to be an epidermal
ailment which takes the appearance
of a severe case Of burning. DR..
Choate chooses to call it death and
be convincing about 1t, too.
According to the theory OF DR..
Choate, who has written numerous
books on the subjects Of death, life,
mathematical fractions, skin tissues
and mythology, death has laid siege
to his body through his skin.
Life Held Stronger.
1.-THE battle-ground between the op-
posing foes-life and death-lies be-
tween the skin and the internal
organs" DR.. Choate told a reporter
last night in weird. sepulchral voice.
Life is stronger than death in the
human body, because death must
enter from the outside, while life
already is there. There is nothing
wrong with my body. My strength is
at its best for my age and my heart
is pumping away as it did when
was on my feet, joshing my patients
about their ailments"
DIR. Choate proved his strength
when he asked the reporter to shake
hands with him.
Nov don't be afraid to grip my
hand" he said, II can take 1t. Do
you feel that grip?"
The writer did, painfully, despite
his comparative youth. The doctor
then asked the writer to turn his
hand over, trick practiced by playful
boys when they want to show on
their strength. The surprising strength
in the slender hand of the doctor
kept it from turning. He then asked
that his pulse be felt and it was
found to be beating strongly and
evenly.
Death Kept Outside.
IF death were touching me inside,
could my strength hold up and my
heart beat be practically normal after
such exertion"? the doctor asked, with
a slight chuckle.
IT have been living with death al
most at my fngertips for 68 years, !"
he continued, land should be able to
recognize it when see it, and tell
you now that I have no disease. 1t Is
merely that death has laid siege to me,
and that life Is so strong within me
that death is being stayed in my
outer body. I have been on a bed of
white-hot Goals for six days and have
been scorched. I am being skinned
alive, but life is stronger than death
and will win out, and I shall have
made a discovery beyond anything
ever imagined by man before"
While talking, DR.. Choate reached
up to his chest and pulled away a long
strip of his skin and held it up to
view. The place from which the strip
came was left unwrinkled and white,
standing out gruesomely in the almost
black parchment-appearing field Of
his mummy like body.
Was Born in Capital.
DR.. Choate was born In Washington
January 81, 1846, and has lived all his
life here, with the exception Of eight
years in the Army during the Civil
War and the Indian wars. He has
Evening star., 1935-06-24
BuniOr,s Threaten
ZOO's StOrk Unless
He Gets Some Mud
But 1t Has to Be From
Congo, Not Ordinary
Enerxdny Kind.

Mortimer, the new hammerheaded
stork at the Zoo, Is sadly In need
of some East African gumbo mud.
fresh from the swamp lands Of the
Kongo. Otherwise, Mortimer viii de-
velop bunions from standing around
on one foot resting on the hard, brit
tie, calloused clay Of the District
countryside.
DR.. william II. Mann, director OF
the Zoo, wants to know If anybody
in Washington has any Kongo mud.
If so, the mud should be delivered to
Mortimer.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
Mansfield to Give Talk.

HYATTSvnLE, Md, June "A (Spe-
cial) Richard II. Mansfield, captain
Of the Washington police and q car
toonist of The Evening Star, will give
q talk tonight at O'Clock before the
Mems Club of Pinkney Memorial Prot
estant Episcopal Church in the perish
hall Of the church. Alfred D. Eailey,
jr., of College Heights. Md, Govern
rnent oficial, win tell Of work on
Boulder Dam. Refreshments will be
served.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
Woman Hurt in Fall.

Mrs. Alice Kincaid, 10, Of 1868 Park
road, sustained q fractured hip last
night when she fell from street
car loading platform at Fifteenth
street and New York avenue. She
was taken to Emergency Hospital and
later transferred to Homeopathic
Hospital.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
$967,558 BELTSVILLE
FUND ASKED OF p. W. A.
Project Includes Construction of
Power Lines, Water System and
Fire HYdrants.

An application by the Department
Of Agriculture FOR $S67. .55S for neces-
sary general utilities at the Beltsyille,
Md, research center was filed today
with the Works Administration.
The project includes construction
of power lines, both overhead and
underground, water system, and in
stallation of FIRE MIGRANTS, roads and
bridges, overhead and underground
telephone lines, fences, gas mains and
storage facilities, sewer lines, exten-
sion Of propagation facilities fer the
nursery and grading and landscaping.
Evening star., 1935-06-24
Railroader-Poet Dies.

WELLINGTON, Kans., June "a up.
Oliver Griffith Crawford, train
dispatcher, who wrote suca good
poetry in his spare time that ma
tionally known magazines purchased
it, died yesterday at the age of go.
His pen name was Griff Crawford.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

Pattern 3O39-SPORTS FROCK.
Here Is a new version of the SUM-
back active sports frock, with a
separate short bolero jacket to
complete a costume equally suit
able for golf, tennis or for day
time wear on your favorite
boardwalk. The frock has a
high halter neck with round
collar band fastening with a
button at the back. and the
bodice is cut backless nearly to
the waist. The skirt has two
deep side pleatS. The model pic
tured is made of synthetic crepe.
Designed for sizes IL, 13, Is, IT
and 10. Size Is requires 3A
yards of 35-inch fabric, plus %
yard contrast for bolero and belt.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

Pattern 3049-MA-
IRONS FROCK. Tai
lored polka dot dresses
are the top in style
this season, and this
good looking and cas-
ily-made frock will be
ideal for daytime wear
throughout the Sum
mer. It is made of
colorfast sy n t h e tt C
crepe, with large cut
out dots of white ap-
pliqued around the
edge of the cape
sleeves. Or these dots
may be embroidered If
you wish. Pattern is
available in sizes 36,
SO, 40, AZ, "A, 46, 48. SO
and So. Size 38 requires
424 yards of 39-inch
fabric. plus Is yard
contrast.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

Pattern 1850 YOUTHFUL SUMMER
FROCK The distinction between a chic
frock and fuSSy one is brought out in this
cleverly simple one-piece crepe dress modelled
for you by Wendy Barrie of Paramount Films.
Departing entirely from furbelows and frillS,
it relies on a Shirred necklne and set-in
puffed sleeves for its charmingly youthful
accent. Available in sizes H. 49, 15 II and
l9. Size 13 REQUIRES yards of 39-inch fabric
Evening star., 1935-06-16

THE TIDE TURNS. Eng
liSh film studios are now
Turing American talent
across the sea, and here is
Madge Evans in the act of
deSerting Hollywood with a
British contract in her trunk.
@ Wide World Photos.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

Smart Frocks You May Make
Solve your Summer wardrobe problems by
using the easy-to-fOllOw patterns from which
these clever and serviceable styles were made.
Evening star., 1935-01-01

a density as great as 1t would be II
liquified, or even solidified, by cooling.
Some believe that the enormous pres
sure would actually solidify the per-
mentent cases.
Jupiter's Atmosphere.
The atmosphere of the nearest of
the great planets, Jupiter, DR.. Russell
believes to be composed. at least in its
upper layers, Of enormous quantities
Of frozen crystals Of ammonia. This
analysis OF the atmospheres Of the
great planets. he said, reveals for the
first time what so long has puzzled
astronomers-the fact that both
Uranus and Neptune appear green
when seen through the telescope
This is about the effect to be pre-
dicted from their predominantly
methane atmospheres. Both these
planets are so cold that the ammonia
must have been frozen out Of their
atmospheres. leaving them clear to
much greater depths.
The guilt OF the rat flea In causing
endemic typhus fever in man finally
has been proved by experiments in
the hygienic laboratory of the Public
Health Service. DR.. r. E. Dyer, assist
ant director, reported today. 1t has
been established, he said, not only
that this disease will be transmitted
from rats to men by these f1eas, but
that the seasonal incidence of the in
sects is identical with the various out
breaks.
He told Of experiments in Washing
ton which demonstrated THAI the
potency Of the virus in the boGles Of
the fleas increases at least a Elillion
times in the course of so days after
they have been infected. 1t was pos
sible, after two months, to transmit
the disease to guinea pig with a
solution containing one -millionth Of
one flea.
A report on the mechanism Of
tuberculin hypersensitiveneSs was pre-
sented today by DR.. John H. Hanks
of George Washington University.
Experiments at the Medical School
there, he said. have demonstra ted that
the well known phenomenon Of tuber-
culin hypersensitiveness is to be sought
in chemical fractions of bacteria
which, thus far, it has been impos-
sible to isolate
A proposal for the establishment Of
a national institution for meteoric re-
search was made before the associa-
ton today by DR.. H. H. Nininger Of
Denver. He urged organization Of a
Nationwide survey with the ultimate
object of making quantitative esti-
mates of the occurrence of meteorites
in the soil and subsoil, the frequency
of falls, the quantity of meteoric ma
terial in Arctic snow and ice and
numerous other matters shedding
light on the nature and behavior of
these arrivals from space.