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Evening star., 1935-07-04

Is a wild turtle speedier than a
domesticated one?
This question. which has been
agitating the boys at Camp Let's for
several weeks, will be settled this
afternoon when a group of restless,
rarin' togo shellbacks fresh from the
woods will compete with trained racing
turtles in the annual Fourth Of July
Tortoise derby at the Y. M. c. A. re-
sort for Washington boys on the
Rhode River.
Last-minute expeditions into the
forest vere made this morning by sew
eral campers, who hoped to obtain
wilder and faster dark horses" for
the big race-a highlight of the days
celebration. Boys who have attended
previous derbies claim the untamed
variety, do not keep their minds on
the business at hand. wandering in
circles instead of keeping to a true
course.
The untamed turtles will be turned
loose with the domesticated ones In
large circle, while the 125 campers
and IS counselors gather around to
cheer their favorite entrieS The first
animal to reach the circumference OF
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Turtles Rarin' for Derby Race
To Decide Camp Let's Honor

the circle will be declared 1885 turtle
derby champion of the camp.
The program for today began with
patriotic service in the Homer j.
Councillor Memorial Open-air Chapel
in a grove of trees near the shore.
The service was conducted by Earle
Hawkins, principal of the Bel Air,
Nd, High School, and Roy E. Le-
Moine, jr., of the Seabury- Western
Theological Seminary.
Counselors and campers will meet
this afternoon in the third game Of
their world SERIES" with the boys
favored to win, having beaten their
leaders in the earlier games by 6-5
and 1873 scores. Finals of the camp
doubles tennis tournament will be
played of. In the senior division,
Don Burrows and Paul Rogers will
meet Charles Waite and Roland
Rieve, while in the junior class Dick
Mullen and Junior Thorup will play
Roslyn Young and. Bobby Patterson.
There will be q special water front
program Of swimming and diving.
The celebration will end with fire.
works at 8:15 pm. Parents and
other relatives Of the boz viii attend.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
HUNT FOR DRIVER
FOLLOWS DEATH
CoIored Man Victim of Ac-
cident June 9-CapitaI
Toll Now 56.

Police today were seeking a colored
man wanted as the driver of the
automobile which on June struck
William H. Shields. 54. colored. of the
600 block of Fourth street southwest,
who died Monday in Gallinger Hos
pital.
Shields was treated for cuts at
Emergency Hospital shortly after the
accident and his condition was not
believed serious. Subsequently he was
transferred to Gallinger. Andrew l..
Mason. 81. colored. of the 700 block
of @ street. is the man sought by
police. The accident occurred at
Fourth and F streets southwest.
Shields death was officially reported
by police yesterday.
Toll Reaches Sc.
Meanwhile the number of traffic
deaths in the District since January
today stood at Sc, according to the
official police count This does not
include several persons fatally injured
on rail right of ways.
VIII yNoeSAdoy HoSoeAOAASo L.
year-old colored boy, whose bicycle
struck Kate Evans, a. colored. on
June Is. She died June 81 from
internal injuries. The woman re-
turned home after the accident, but
later was transferred to Gallinger.
No inquest dates have been set in
the deaths.
Two Others Injured.
A 60-year-old man and young girl
we're injured in traffic accidents late
yesterday. The man. Edwin B. Henry
of 1924 Nineteenth street, sustained
head cuts when struck by the rear
end of a street car making a turn
at the Union Station Plaza. He was
treated at Casualty Hospital.
Betty King, 7, of 1910 Seventeenth
street southeast, sustained bruises
when, police say, she ran into the
side of a motor truck in the 1900
block of Good Hope road southeast.
She was treated by private physician.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA. Va, July (Spe-
ciaD Republicans of this city will
meet Tuesday to nominate candi-
date for the November election for the
Alexandria seat in the Virginia House
of Delegates. The meeting will be
held at pm. in the Virginia Public
Service Auditorium.
Mrs. Ruby Belt, 38, wife of ]. r.
Belt, POI West Bellefonte avenue, died
this morning at the Alexandria Hos
pital, where she had been a patient
since May. Funeral arrangements are
not complete.
Shot in the head, back and shoulder,
Robert Eskridge, colored, was admitted
to the Alexandria Hospital last night.
Police arrested Willie Ware, colored,
as his assailant. Ware told Detective
Sergeant Edgar Sims that he shot
at" Eskridge when the man attempted
to break in his house.
During the past week a total OF
4,403 children attended the city's six
municipal Fairgrounds, Mrs. Virginia
w. Ryder. supervisor, reports. The
George Mason Playground, which will
sponsor a pet show at pm. tomor-
row, reported 1921 children for the
seven-day period.
The rescue squad of the Alexandria
Fire Department, headed by Capt. L.
B. snpble, Is competing In, drill
mattel B at oranoS today. -
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Officer, Crippled
On Duty, Dropped
FromCountyRoHs
Pay for Montgomery
Policeman Butts Is
Halted.
By staff Correspondent Of The Star

ROCKVILLE, Md. July 4-Herbert
Butts, young Montgomery County
policeman. today found himself cut
of the pay roll of the county, in whose
service he apparently was perma-
nently crippled 10 months ago.
Butts salary was halted on June 80
because no provision was made in
the new levy for funds to pay him.
Frank H. Karn, president of the
Board of County Commissioners, said.
Karn declared the board did not
vote on the matter, the young officer
being automatically dropped from the
roster because of the failure to pro-
vide for his salary in the new budget.
An accident near Etchison on June
Is, 1884, left Butts with a badly
crushed leg. and he has been receiv-
ing two-thirds of his salary from
the insurance company and one-third
from the country Whether the COM
pany's payments will continue in view
of the board dropping Butts is
problematical.
Butts is still undergoing bi-weekly
hospital treatments for the injury,
but his leg has failed to respond to
treatments as well as physicians
hoped. Butts was injured while rid
ing on the side of a police car re-
turning from a raid with a load Of
prisoners and confiscated still parts
The machine skidded into an en-
bankment and crushed his leg.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Stuart F. Reed, Ex.Legislator,
Succumbs to Long Illness
Vest Virginian Vas
Champion of Vote
for District.
Serred as Chairman of
House District Com.
nittee in I923.24.

Former Representative Stuart F.
Reed of West Virginia, for two years
chairman of the House District Com
mittee. died at Emergency Hospital
at 2:10 O'Clock this morning. He had
been in poor health for several years
as a result of kidney trouble. Yes
terday morning he became very i'll
and was removed to the hospital from
his home, at 1854 Irving street, where
he had lived since retiring from Con-
gresS, II years ago.
While in Congress Mr.. Reed cham
pioned the cause of representation for
the District and was author of bill
providing for local representation in
Congress. He also fought for adequate
school facilities for Washington and Is
credited with having initiated several
important Improvements in the local
school system. He was an advocate
of the local street railway merger
which finally came to pass a decade
after he relinquished his post as
mayor of Washington. He also was
vitality interested in local fiscal affairs.
PrOmlnent as Educator.
Mr.. Reed was prominent as an edu-
Gator for more than a quarter OF q
century and also was prominent in
West Virginia as a newspaper pub
Usher.
Born on a farm in Barbour County,
w. Va. the son of Maj. Milton D.
Reed. Stuart Reed began his career
as country school teacher. He went
through college with his savings from
his meager teachers salary, gradual
ing from the University of West Vir-
ginia with bachelor of law degree.
He then went to Salem College. where
he received the degree of doctor of
philosophy.
Mr.. Reed entered politics as State
Senator. serving for four years in the
upper branch of tine Legislature. He
served as Secretary of State for West
Virginia from 1909 to 1917 and in
1915 was elected president of the
Association of American Secretaries of
State.
For eight years Mr.. Reed was Ell
tor of the Clarksburg, W. Va. Tele-
gram. and was elected president of
the West Virginia Editorial Associa-
ton for three terms
Was Education Chairman.
While in the State Senate Mr.. Reed
served as chairman of the Committee
on Education. He was regent of the
University, of West Virginia and was
founder Of the School of Commerce
at the university and of the Athen-
aeum. the college journal.
He was member of the West Vir-
ginia Republican State Committee,
vice president of the National League
of Republican Clubs, a member of the
National Literary Bureau of the Re-
publican National Executive Commit
tee, and vice president of the National
Republican Editorial Association. with
offices in Washington, ir 1904
In 1905 Mr.. Reed declined an
appointment as consul general at
BUenos Aires.
He was active in fraternal affairs
and was eminent commander of the
Knights Templar in 1908 and was
member of the Shriners, Elks and
Modern Woodmen of America.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
WIFE EXONERATED
|NFATA[ STAbb|NG
"JustifiabIe Homicide" Is
Ruling Of Coroner'S Jury
in Marines Death.

Mrs. Esther E. Patterson, 35, was
eXonerated late yesterday by a coron-
er'S jury which heard testimony that
she stabbed her husband to death
after he had tried to break into her
room at 329 H street northeast after
knocking her down the steps on the
previous day.
The jury was told that the victim,
Frank B. Patterson, 40, a retired
Marine Corps mess sergeant, was
stabbed in the lung by Mrs. Patterson,
who reached through a broken panel
in the bed room door which Patterson
was splintering with club early yes
terday.
An eyewitness account of the "jus-
tifiable homicide" as the jury de-
scribe it, was given by the eldest of
the Patterson's four children. Ger
trude, IA. student at Stuart Junior
High School,
Father Awoke Girl.
Her father, Gertrude said, awoke
them early yesterday and shouted for
her to come out and return with him
to the single room at 2O8 F. street
where he was keeping the other
children, Bernard. IL; Richard, two
years younger, and Lucille. four.
Gertrude replied she wished to stay
with her mother, who was acting as
housekeeper for Walter Allen. a So
year-old widower, living at the H
street address. Mrs. Patterson had
met Allen when he was in charge of
charity work conducted at Quantico
by Marine officers and their wives.
Allen had testified he found Mrs. Pat
terson and the children abandoned
and destitute at the post several years
ago.
The schoolgirl. telling her story as
calmly as If she were reciting in a
class room, said that as her father
began to hammer on the bed room
door her mother ran to the kitchen
and secured a knife.
Saw Face Through Hole.
The girl said her father shouted If
she did not come out he would break
in the door and take them both away.
HE broke through the panel" Ger
trude continued, "and I saw his face
and hand with something heavy in
it. My mother hit at him through
the hole he broke in the door. know
she didn't mean to hit so hard.
MY father cried, You've stabbed
mel
YES my mother replied.
MY father went down the steps
and never saw him again."
Two women and man who accom-
panied Patterson to the H street ad-
dress in q taxicab said they had been
Evening star., 1935-07-04

drinking and that Patterson had
about four gin highballs prior to the
tragedy.
Mother Sobs in Relief.
Gertrude, it was testified, had
spent the previous night with her
father. He had admonished here not
to 60 near her mother, and when she
failed to return at midnight went to
the II street address to bring her
back.
Gertrude told the jury she wished
to live with her mother. The two
waited together for the verdict, and
left arm in arm after it was returned,
sobbing with relief.
Patterson was put into the taxicab
after the stabbing. The cab, however,
struck a street car en- route to the
hospital, and the injured man was
transferred to q delivery truck halted
by one of his friends. He died soon
after being admitted to Casualty Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
u. S. GETS SHIP MODEL

An 18-foot model of the Mauritania.
ocean liner recently retired at South
ampton, England, has been presented
to the Smithsonian Institution for per-
inanent exhibition in the United
States National Museum by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The model is
being set up in the watercraft division
beside similar model of the Leviathan.
~ The model, an exact miniature of
the ship, which represents the most
advanced type of shipbuilding Of the
first quarter of the twentieth century.
was presented to President Roosevelt
by the Cunard Line. During recent
years it has been shown at expositio0s
throughout the country.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
NEW DELAY FACES
HOUSE D. c. BILLS
T. V. A. Measure Expected
to Take Precedence at
Monday Session.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.


The District probably will lose its
scheduled day in the House Monday
because the administration wants
early action on the Tennessee Valley
Authority bill.
Speaker Byrns, 1t was learned today.
already has informed Chairman Nor
ton of the House District Committee
that there is little likelihood that the
District calendar will be called up Mon
day. He said another day might be
set aside later in the week, or that
Monday, July Is, might be given to the
District.
The prospective postponement will
delay action on Is District bills now
on the House calendar. These include
the Ellenbogen bill to revive the war
time rent commission. which already
has been passed over on two preceding
District days.
Small Loan Bill Pending.
Four of the other bills are designed
to change the Police Court jury sys-
tenn. Another would regulate the
small loan business and limit the in
terest rate to per cent month.
Postponement of District day to July
Is will make it possible to add several
other bills to the calendar. The Dis
trict Committee will meet Wednesday
and probably report out the measures
Mrs. Norton would like to have passed
before the close of the present session
Of Congress.
Reconsideration of the crime report.
however. will be the principal business
Wednesday, although efforts are to be
made by Representatives Carpenter,
Democrat, of Kansas. and Brewster,
Republican, of Maine. to get action on
a bill to nberalize the District divorce
laws.
The status of the divorce bill is in
doubt due to an unprecedented parlia-
mentary situation which will have to
be settled before the full committee
can consider it.
Fight Over Report Likely.
Carpenter and Brewster, members OF
the Judiciary Subcommittee which had
the measure under consideration,
ordered favorable report after Chair
man Palmisano abruptly adjourned a
hearing Tuesday in protest against
what he described as their attempt to
railroad it to the full committee.
PalmiSano insists the bill has not been
reported
A prolonged fight over the crime re-
port, which is likely, might even pre-
vent a discussion of the status of the
divorce bill Representative Randolph,
Democrat, of West Virginia, who
served as chairman of the Crime Com
mittee. is prepared to make vigorous
fight to prevent any change in the
report as it now stands. containing a
recommendation for removal of United
States Attorney Leslie c. Garnett.
Randolph is confident that if the
full membership of the committee at
tends the meeting he will be success
full, as the battle will end in lotto
10 deadlock. which would automatical-
ly sustain the previous action indors-
ing the report.
The principal fight will center on
the Garnett recommendation, since a
majority of the members of the COM
mittee are understood to agree with
many of the ether proposals for legis-
lation to improve the law enforcement
and prosecution machinery.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Sl,I75 Is Paid Out
For Lyddane Case
Expert Witnesses
d. e. Police Authority
Gets S475 and Treas.
ury Man 500.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, July 4.-Mont-
gomery County paid out S1175 yester-
day for expert witnesses called in a
futile effort to convict Mrs. Anne Lyd-
dane for conspiring to murder her
husband.
Ira N. Gullickson, typewriter and
handwriting expert for the Washing
ton Police Department. was paid s475,
while $700 went to Bert c. Farrar,
examiner of questioned documents for
the Treasury Department.
The bills were submitted by the two
witnesses for examinations of notes
alleged to have been exchanged be-
tween defendants in the case and for
testifying at Mrs. Lyddane's trial,
which ended two weeks ago with the
jury in deadlock.
Ira c. Whitacre, clerk to the COM
missioners, sent out the checks to
GullickSon and Farrar, and also paid
out $168.80 for board and lodging of
the jury which heard Mrs. Lyddane's
trial.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
BETHESDA ROTARY CLUB
SELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Curtis Walker Named President.
Committee Chairmen Also
Chosen.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
BETHESDA. Md. July 4-Officers
and committee chairmen of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club
were elected at meeting Tuesday at
the Columbia Country Club.
The officers are Curtis Walker,
president Harry WEIGH, vice presi-
dent; Claud Hyson, secretary; Leslie
B. Bell, treasurer, and Walter Kolb,
sergeant nt-at-arms.
Chairmen of the committees are
Thomas Lewis, Aims and Objects;
Earl Hampton, ClasSifications; Harry
WEIGH, program; Irving Ray, Friend
ship and Attendance; James B. Fitz-
gerald, Entertainment; Marshall Duff.
Vocational Service, and B. M. Osgood,
Publicity.
Evening star., 1935-07-04

Mr.. Reed served as member Of the
International Tax Conference. at
Louisville, KY. in 1909 He was
selected to deliver the address of
welcome at Savannah. Ga. upon the
return of the last of the officers and
men of the American Army of Occu-
patton rom the Rhine. He also de-
livered the memorial address on for
mer President Theodore Roosevelt at
the commemorative services at the
Capitol of Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Reed served in the United
States Congress for three terms. leav-
ing Office in 1924. Since that time
he had made his home here. AL
though a lawyer by profession, he
did not undertake the practice of law
here. and engaged in few business
affairs.
During his entire service in the
House, Mr. Reed served as MEM
ber of the House District Committee.
of which he was chairman in 1923
and 1924.
AS chairman Of the committee. Mr.
Reed sought to put through school
program providing a desk in full
time school for every child Of school
age; a living wage for school officials
and teachers, sufficient to insure the
best of teachers and the ablest direct
ing authorities: up-to-date school
books and modern equipment. He al
ways worked on the theory that the
local schools should be models for tn ,
country.
He also worked hard to bring about
moderniZation of the local water supply
system and for improvement of street
railway servicesthrough merging of the
lines.
Student of Fiscal Affairs.
Mr.. Reed made a special study of
local fiscal affairs and persistently op-
posed many measures which he con-
sidered not just for the local taxpayers
He opposed vigorously any departure
from the time -horored ''fifty-fifty
principle Of paying the expenses of the
Nations Capital. and it was not until
after he left Congress that the half
and-half method was broken down.
He virtually rewrote the Ball rent
act because he believed many of its
provisions were not in the interest Of
the Capitals growth and development.
He tried to make it fair both to the
men who owned property and those
who paid rent.
Mr.. Reed is survived only by his
widow, the former Miss Bonnie Belle
Smith of Clarksburg, W. Va, and a
married sister. who lives in Buckhan-
non, w. Va. Funeral arrangements
had not been completed today, but the
body probably will be taken tomorrow
to Clarksburg for services and burial.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
,175 ATTEND BANQUET
GIVEN FOR SHRINE CLUB
Thomas Chauncey of Alexandria
= Group Principal Speaker.
Dance Follows.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

0pSCldl DlSpdJCu 10 He SIdT.
HERNDON. Va. July 4.-More than
ITS persons attended the banquet and
dance given here last night for the
Shrine Club of Alexandria. Dr. Will
liam Meyer of Herndon served as
potentate at the banquet and intro
duced the speakers. Thomas Chaun-
cey, vice president of the Alexandria
club. was the principal speaker.
.ae Chauncey reviewed the work done
at the Shrine hospitals and urged
cooperation in pushing the hospital
program. Other speakers were Mayor
Allen H. Kirk of Herndon, Mrs. Anna
Nachman. worthy matron of the
Herndon Order of Eastern Star and
Mrs. Leonard Miller. wife OF the
president of the Shrine Club of Alex
andria. The banquet was served i'll
the Eastern Star Hall with the dane
ing in the HerndQn High School
auditorium.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
80 GIRLS REGISTERED
AT CAMP BLAIR OPENING
Glass Being Given in Nature,
First-Aid and Handicraft
Work.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch TO The star.
SILVER SPRING, Nd, July A.
Approximately 80 girls registered yes
terday at the opening Of Camp Blair,
which will be held every Wednesday
during the Summer at Jesup Blair
Community Center for Girl Scout
troops of district No. f.
Glasses are given in nature study.
first aid, handicraft and tennis. Mrs.
Edmund Graham and Mrs. Joseph
Kurz of Takoma Park are in charge
of two of the units and Mrs. Elizabeth
Vierling of Silver Spring is in charge
of third unit Mrs James L. Jordan
of Silver Spring and Mrs. Paul Vierick
of Takoma Park are chairmen of the
Camp Committee. The tennis instruc-
tion is in charge of Mrs. Betty Ben
nett of Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
SLEEPER FINED $40

Among large number of persons
arraigned before Judge Ralph Given
in Police Court today on charges of
intoxication was Derrick Manning,
who was arrested while asleep on
fire escape at the Fox Theater. He
was fined $40.
Police said they were called by off,
cials of the theater and had a hard
time getting Manning down and into
a safer sleeping place in the precinct
station house.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
c. c. c. MEN FIND JOBS

Approximately $4,000 members of
the Civilian Conservation Camps OBJ
tanned private employment in the five
months ending May 81. according to
Robert Fechner. director of emergency
conservation work.
In May, the greatest number-9,774
were placed, an increase Of 1853
over April.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Licensed to Marry.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, July 4
Especially Marriage licenses have
been issued here to the following:
Michael Won Derhler Morris. 81, Wash
ington, and Helen Robertson. 18, Seat
Pleasant, Md; Joseph Foster Madigar
"a, and Nettie Merando Luzansi. 49,
both of Washington; o. Milburn Live
say, %, Rogersville, Tenn. and Beulah
Sanders. %, Memphis. Tenn; Lane
Mitchell Smith. %, and Jeanne A.
Chapman. 20. both of Washington;
Carl Madison Taylor. 20, and Nancy
Emily Smith, al both Of Washington.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Dance to End Carnival.

Carnival activities at the st. Al
oysius Church we're closed Tuesday
night with a garden dance and the
announcement of prize winners by
the Rev. L. J. Kelly. pastor. Awards
were made to ]. r. Shanahan, r.
Scott, Mrs. James Fowler and Misses
M. E. Riordan and M. E. Carroll.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Former Slave, 112, Dies.

DEQUEEN, Ark, July @.-
Uncle" Caleb Banks, l12 years old,
Is dead. Reports received here told
of his death at his home. near Para
Iona, in Sewer County. A native of
Virginia, he was taken to Georgia
as a slave and came to Arkansas
Just before the Civil War.
Evening star., 1935-07-04
Psi Lambda Meets Tonight.

meeting of Psi Lambda Sorority
will be held this evening. at $50
o'clock, at the Raleigh Hotel.