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Evening star., 1935-01-11
DR.. SARAH FALCONER
DIES AT HOME HERE
Resident of Capital IS Years.
Practiced Medicine in
Middle West.

DR.. Sarah W. Falconer, rs, former
social worker in the Hamilton County
Jail, Cincinnati, Ohio, and a resident
of Washington for nearly IS years
died yesterday morning in Gallinger
Hospital after a brief illness. Her
home was at 81 H street.
DR.. Falconer was born in Fort
Smith, Ark, May 5, 1857, and edu-
Gated in private schools there She
later studied medicine at the Univer-
sity of Michigan where she was
graduated in 1892 She was house
physician in sanitarium in Palymyra
Wis, and later practiced medicine in
Chicago. She took part in social
service work in Chicago and through
her affiliations with such activities
was appointed physician and nlatron
in the Cincinnati prison. After her
retirement in 1919 she came to Wash
ington where she practiced nursing
for a short time.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs
Macha Moore, and a brother, Constant
Wilson, both of Fort Smith. Ark, and
niece, Mrs. Henri Mackle of 2409
Tenth street northeast.
Funeral services will be held at 10
am. tomorrow at w. w. Chambers
funeral parlors. After cremation at
Cedar Hill Cemetery, the ashes will
be shipped to Fort Smith for burial.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
CITY HEADS STUDY
NEW RELIEF PLANS
LoW-Cost Housing Scheme
Awaits Definite Switch
to Approved Policy.

Low-cost housing for the poor and
other projects which may be made a
part of the new type of relief program
outlined by President Roosevelt, are
being studied by District officials.
A definite scheme of works canno,
be adopted until the signal is given for
a change from the present program
but District officials are seeking tC
have arrangements made for a rapid
shift.
Commissioner George E. Allen, Dis.
trict relief administrator. conferred at
length late yesterday with officials OF
the relief and works divisions of the
District.
Low-cost housing, street improve.
ments, sewer and water main con-
struction, building of stadia and other
works were discussed.
Development of white collar projects
in which nurses and case workers may
be engaged in expansion of the service:
of the District Health Department also
was discussed. This matter will be
held up. however, until the new Dis.
trict health officer is selected, it was
said. 1t appears likely the new health
officer may be named next week, wher
Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan
returns to the city from his home in
Mississippi.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

I will never understand" DR.. Mann
told his friend, Alexander Woollcott,
as the Zoo director and author stood
watching Old Babe in the elephant
house.
"The young bully started at Old
Babe. head down, to ram her into the
wall and show her who was boss.
"Old Babe took one light slap at the
upstart with her trunk, light prac-
ticed slap that loosened tusk and
gave the youngster pause.
Then Old Babe trumpeted soft
command, rumble which issued from
deep within her body. 1t was ele-
phant talk, and it told the youngster
something she understood at once
Perhaps Old Babe is of jungle
royalty :. don't know. You'll have
to ask her newest subject. I've watched
them for several months now. and ]
know that Old Babe still rules
As for Old Babe, she stood in her
corner and rocked. head and shoul-
ders, in a curious, endless rolling
motion-the circus elephants method
of getting exercise on the picket line
Old Babe is circus queen-she
can't quit,
Evening star., 1935-01-11
GARNETT LAUNCHES
new DRIVE ON VICE
Seeks to Close Two Properties
Under Kenyon Red
Light Law.

Taking a new tack in his drive
against organized vice in the District,
United States Attorney Leslie c. Gar
nett today filed injunction proceedings
in District Supreme Court against two
establishments in Washington under
the Kenyon red-lght law
The suits were filed by Garnett and
two assistants, Roger Robb and Allen
j. Krouse, against the Capital Con-
struction Co. and Lewis M. Bartlett.
The construction company was sued
as owner of a house at 1889 U street
and Bartlett as owner of a house at
$40 o street. In both cases, the Gov
ernment charges, the buildings have
been used for purposes of commercial
vice. The petitions ask the court to
grant injunctions padlocking the
buildings for all purposes.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
FIRST SHIP ARRIVES
SINCE FOUR-DAY FOG
Vessel Here With Cargo of oys-
ters-District of Columbia
Still Aground.

To Capt. John Henry Evans, and his
first mate. Johnny Lard, Of the good
ship Lady Leach from Colonial
Beach, go the honors Of docking the
first craft at Water street since the
beginning Of the four-day fog. They
landed yesterday with q cargo Of
oysters.
Sixty miles down the river, near
Five-point Light, just abaft Matthias
Point, the District of Columbia-fag-
ship of the Norfolk & Washington
Steamboat Co.'S fleets still in the
mud.
Since Monday night at 1850 o'clock
the District of Columbia has been
out of commission, but officials of the
line expect to float the ship today.
The work of removing the boat from
the mudbank was handicapped by
bad weather.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

phant herd she was too accustomed to
company not to be lonely If confined
by herself.
But the only available companion
was bad actor" Peaches, a husky,
18-year-old hussy from the wilds
of the Malay Archipelago, one of those
natural-born bullies apt to make life
uncomfortable for an old lady.
The young elephant outveighed
Babe by several hundred pounds and
had acknowledged no master. DR..
Mann and Mr.. Blackburne knew that
Old Babe had bossed hundred un-
ruly young things in her time.
She had quieted mad stampedes,
when storms tore at the menagerie
tents and the lights went out, when
circus trains wrecked or riots started
among spectators. But Old Babe had
the weight of tradition behind her
then, a tangible thing among the ele-
plants who had known Babes heavy
trunk of old.
The Zoo officials considered all these
elements and finally decided to put
the pair together.
Then something happened which
Evening star., 1935-01-11
SIX FALSE-ALARM
SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Policemen Round Up Group Run
ming Down "Shootings," "Cut.
tings" and Fights"

After running down half a dozen
false telephone reports OF "shootings.
cuttings" and fights" early today,
police of No. precinct arrested six
colored men fer investigation in the
case.
The calls began coming in after
midnight. Most of them were from
Seaton street. near U street and Flor
ida avenue. They were answered by
Policemen William T. Taft and Harvey
A. Lord in a radio scout car.
After the sixth false alarm, the
officers found time during a iull to
scout about for the men vino were
telephoning. At Oregon avenue and
Eighteenth street they arrested five
suspects in an automobile and a sixth
some time later.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
LIQUOR REVENUES
TOTAL $1,297,148
Districts Income Boosted
by License Fees, Tax
and Fines.

District revenues during the past
year were increased by Sl,297, 1883
as a result of legalization of the sale
of alcoholic beverages last January,
according to q report today by the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
This money went into the general
revenues of the District.
Issuance Of licenses began last
February l. Up to January /, the
District collected license fees amount
ing to s56l l,045.69. Liquor taxes for
the period amounted to S729, ,05324
Fines collected in Police Court for in
fraction of the law or regulations to-
tailed S7,050.
Jerome E. Johnstone, chief inspec-
tor of the A. B. C. Board, reported
there were 113 violations recorded in
the past year and that licenses had
been revoked in Is instances. Nine
of the revocations we're for sales OF
drinks on Sunday.
The A. B. c. Board now Is flooded
with applications for licenses for the
year beginning February l. All pres.
ent license holders must cease the sale
of beverages February unless new
licenses are obtained. The number
of applications already on file is l,577
For the past year licenses of all classes
totaled 1870.
Two of the applications are for
licenses for the manufacture of beer
and wine. 20 are for wholesale han
ding Of all classes of beverages, 20 for
beer and wine wholesale merchandise
ing, 386 for the retail sale of bot
tied liquor, 494 for the retail sale OF
bottled beer and wine, 242 for sale
Of liquor by the drink, 404 for the
retail sale of beer and wine by the
drink and 9 for sale of liquor on
prescription by drug stores. The total
also included number Of applica-
tions for solicitors licenses.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
Retail Sales Jump
2O.9 Per Cent Here
During December

Retail sales in Washington de-
partment stores in December
scored an increase OF 20.9 per
cent over December. 1888, the
Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond announced today in a re-
port covering the fifth Reserve
district.
The Richmond Bank also re-
ported sales totals for the full
year 1884 which showed that
retail business in Washington
was 2o.5 per cent better than in
1893.
Washington stores made bet
ter gains in sales in December
than were recorded by any other
city in the fifth district and ex-
ceeded the average gain Of II per
cent attained by the entire 49
reporting stores in this trade
area.
Retail sales in the II Reserve
districts in the whole United
States in December were II per
cent better than in December.
1898, and for the full year were
l3 per cent above the 1888 mark,
today's report said.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
FIRE.P0LICE CHANGES
SOUGHT IN NEW BILLS
Representative Smith Would Per-
NIT Members to Live in
Nearby States.

Members of the Police and Fire
Departments would be permitted to
live in nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia under provisions of bills intro
duced in the House late yesterday
by Representative Smith, Democrat,
Of Virginia.
The bill governing riremen also
would grant them sick leave for 80
days, with a provision that an addi-
tional 80 days might be granted where
illness or injury is incurred in line
Of duty. Leave of absence over 20
days would be without pay.
Representative Mcmillan, Democrat,
of South Carolina, introduced a bill
providing for the erection of a monu-
ment in Washington in memory of
Robert Mills. architect, who designed
the washington Monument and other
public buildings.
Another measure, offered by Repre-
sentative McSwain, Democrat, of
South Carolina, would authorize the
Secretary Of War to acquire % acres
of land in the vicinity Of Walter Reed
Hospital for enlargement of the hos
pital reservation. The bill carries an
appropriation of 100000 for this
purpose.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

~ LID BABE, veteran circus
4 trouper who hit the tan bark
I trail before "the great
~ Barnum" came into his hey
day, has been queen OF the
picket line too long-She can't quit.
The supreme test Of Old Babes
royal mettle came late in life, after
her huge muscles had withered, after
her aged knees had grown too weak
for the long treks, the Furnishing
stands of the circus on tour.
Old Babe, as every school child
knows, went into retirement last
Spring, an honorable retirement, with
a lifetime berth in the elephant house
at the Washington Zoo, while the
circus caravan and its great herd of
Babes former subjects moved on to
other stands.
The trouper was left in care of old
friends-Headkeeper William Black
burn, himself former circus man,
who had been on circuit with Babe,
and DR.. William Mann. Zoo director,
and an ardent circus fan.
The two men were for a time wor-
ried about Babe.
After so years as boss of an ele-
Evening star., 1935-01-11
N0N.FEDERAL GRANT
MAY BE ABANDONED
Change in Works Projects Method
of Distributing Money Con.
sidered by President.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
An important change in the method
of distributing money for works prof.
ects would be made If a plan now
under consideration by President
Roosevelt were approved.
The usual custom of the Public
Works Administration, In dealing out
money to Federal projects under
taken by States and local governments,
has been to provide 70 per cent of the
amount in the form of a loan and 80
per cent as an outright grant to cover
part of the cost of labor and materials.
Now, Secretary IckeS discloses, the
President is considering the advis-
ability of doing away with the grants
on non-Federal projects in pressing
his proposed $4,000 100000 campaign
of works to get the unemployed of the
relief rolls.
Ickes made clear that no change
in allotments already made was con-
templated,
Evening star., 1935-01-11
Grocer Locked in Ice Box,
But Bandit Finally Relents

William H. Goldman, grocer, shivers
a bit every time he thinks Of the
bandit who held him up last night.
But it could have been a lot worse,
he admits, If the bandit had left
him locked in the ice box Of his
store at 827 Kennedy street.
Goldman was put in cold storage
while an armed white man rified the
cash register of $40. Before leaving
the bandit opened the ice box door
slightly and asked II Goldman had
Evening star., 1935-01-11

any more money. The grocer had
secreted about $50, but he gave up
IS of it and then pleaded to be re-
leased.
81 can't get out unless the door
is opened from the outside" said
Goldman between chattering teeth.
'Will you give me a break If I
release you?" the bandit bargained.
Goldman assured him he would,
so the bandit opened the ice box
door and hed.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
DIVORCES QUESTIONED

Attacking the validity Of divorces
obtained from two prior wives by
James Hull Patton, vice president Of
the Colonial Bond g. Share Corp, Bal
tinnore, Md, Mrs. Helen G. Patton, an
employe Of the Post ONCE Depart
ment, today filed annulment proceed
ings in District Supreme Court.
Through Attorney Raymond Neu-
decker, the third Mrs. Patton charges
her husband, before their marriage in
Hagerstown, Nd, last January. had
divorced wife No. in Reno and wife
No. 2. in Mexico. Both Of these di-
vorces, she contends, are invalid be-
cause the parties we're not residents OF
those Jurisdictions.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
Man Found Unconscious.

Efforts were being made by the
police today to determine how Ernest
l.. Redding, 43, Of 4l2 H street, re-
ceived severe injuries to his head
shortly before 10 last night. He was
found unconscious on the sidewalk at
the southwest corner of North Capt.
tol and streets. Redding was given
first aid at Casualty Hospital and later
taken to Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
Albert A. HYDE Dies.

WICHITA, Kans.. January IL [Pp.-
Albert A. Hyde, Sc, founder and chair
man of the board of the Mentholatum
Co., died at his home here last night
of a heart attack. He had been in
failing health for several years and
three days ago was confined to his
bed by illness.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
Births Reported.

Oliver and Virginia Corkran. girl,
William J. and Ruth z. Breads. boy.
James F. and Mildred F HOGAN. boy.
Edw. p. and Kathryn p. O'Connell, girl.
Paul B. and Edna Martin. girl.
Eugene C. and Cecil P. Carusi. girl.
Grover S. and Lettie T Helm. girl
Martin and Mary q. Burch, boy.
Orion J. and Viola NJ. Libert. boy.
Joseph P. and Ava N. Seutz., boy.
Thomas L. and Ruth C. Hume. girl.
Ernest L. and Myrtle c. Graham. girl.
Richard E. and Geneva Craig. girl.
George E. and Viola Ford. girl.
Henry and Minnie Saunders. boy.
Roland and Louise Grayson. boy.
Louis and Nellie Lee, girl.
Willie =. and Bessie u. Daniels, boy.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Bingo and card party, benefit st.
Francis de Sales Church, Twentieth
street and Rhode Island avenue north
east, $50 pm.
Meeting, installation of officers,
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent. No.
l, Daughters Of Union Veterans Of
the Civil War, $50 H street, 8 pm.
Buffet supper. Harvard Business
School, University Club, 8 pm.
Banquet, Cornell Club, Lafayette
Hotel 7:30 pm.
TOMORROW.
+ Dance, Sigma Epsilon Sorority,
Lafayette Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Local 140, National Fedora
ton Post ONCE Clerks, National Press
Club. 10 pm.
Dance. Ohio Girls Club, 1926 Mas
sachusetts avenue, 9 pm.
Dance, Zeta Chi Sorority, Beaver
Dam, 10 pm.
Meeting and dinner, Grand Chap
ter, o. E. S., Willard Hotel, 1880 and
II pm.
Dance, Iowa State Society, Willard
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Omega Mu Sorority, Broad
moor Hotel, 9 pm.
Meeting. installation of officers, Kit
Carson Woman's Relief Corps, 1908
Kearney street northeast, 8 pm.
Bingo party, benefit Potomac Coun-
Gil, No. 6, Sons and Daughters Of
Liberty, 900 street, $3.50 pm.
Bingo party, Masonic Temple. S23
Eighth street northeast, $3.50 pm.
Luncheon. Washington Alumni
Club of Agnes Scott College. 170l
Twentieth street, 1880 pm.
Bingo party, benefit knights Of
Columbus Kermess, 918 Tenth street,
8 pm.
Dance, Gaelic American Club, club
house, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
CODE RULING DELAYED
Justice Adkins to Hear Further
Arguments in Garment Suit.

Arguments in Garment Suit.
The expected decision in a suit
brought recently by a number of cot
ton garment manufacturers to restrain
enforcement of certain features of the
code for that industry was post
poned indefinitely today when District
Supreme Court Justice Jesse G. Adkins
reopened the case to hear further
arguments on the. question of fixing a
36-hour week in the industry. This
argument has been set for tomorrow
at 1880 pm, after which Justice
Adkins will renew his consideration of
the case.
Evening star., 1935-01-11
NAMED TO D. c. BODY
Representative McGehee of Mis-

sissippi Receives Post.
The House District Committee got
an unexpected new Democratic men,
Der yesterday in the person Of Repre-
sentative Dan r. McGehee, a bank
president and planter Of Mississippi
He replaces Representative Harlan Of
Ohio, who received an appointment as
a member Of the Rules Committee.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

Buffet supper. Harvard Bushes
School, University Club, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

Banquet, Cornell Club, Lafayette
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

Dance, Local 140, National Fedora
ton Post Oflce Clerks, National Press
Club, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

TOMORROW.
- Dance, Sigma Epsilon Sorority,
Lafayette Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

Meeting, installation Of officers,
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent. No.
l, Daughters Of Union Veterans Of
the Civil War, $50 H street, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

Bingo and card party, benefit st.
Francis de Sales Church, Twentieth
street and Rhode Island avenue north
east, $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1935-01-11

Dance. Ohio Girls Club, 1926 Mas
sachusetts avenue, pm.
, 1935-11-22
Tammany Again Slips in the
Back Way

When the gent over at the corner table gets too
noisy and starts splitting his beer. it is a simple matter
to take him by the neck and throw him out. Unfor-
%tunately, it often is much more Of a job to keep him
from %sneaking back in again a little later.
All this Is brought to mind BY a study Of the re-
cent city elections in New York. These indicate that
Tammany Hall, with its derby tilted down over its
left eye in the good old tradition. is on the verge Of
making a comeback - al the expense. as usual. ~ the
good citizens OF the town.
Tammany succeeded in capturing "A aldermanic
seats in this last election. That in itself may no.
mean SO much - Fiorelo LaGuardia never did have
the solid two-thirds majority that he needed on the
board Of aldermen but Il seems to indicate that
history. with the HELM Of the boys in the back room.
Is about to repeat itself.
For Tammany. which has been the horrible example
for American reformers ever since the days or mus
tache cups and high-wheeled bicycles. always does
come back. The indignant customers have tossed the
tiger out Of the joint about once every 20 years for
generations, and he always has come back for more
Like the Salvation Armys ret clients. he may be
down, but he Is never out.
Now all this is a pretty sad commentary on the fate
Of reform movements in American city politics. but
there is nothing IN the least mysterious about it. A
writer Of holy scripture some 20 centuries ago called
the turn when nc remarked that the sons Of this world
are frequently wiser than the children Of light. That
Is as true IN modern America as il was in ancient
Judea.
The secret or the whole thing Is that Tammanv. or
any other political machine, keeps working. Politics
is not a sanctified and emotional game, to the ma
chine: it is a job which has to be worked at dav in and
dav out.
The votes that elect city officials are cast BY living.
flesh-and-blood human beings. and the outfit that
corrals the most human beings gets the most votes
Cbarring undue shenanigans at the polling places.
This is the point that Tammany never foreets.
The man who wants 70 see his citv permanently
equipped with an honest and efficient government
could profitablv remember that point. It isn't enough
to get up on the stump once in four years and holler
about the misdceds or the rascals down al city hall.
II takes a continuing organization and continuing hard
work.
AS long as the people who are interested in good
government apply their interest only BIZ fits and starts
Tammanv and the other sclf-helD machines will con-
tinue 70 enjoy the eternal comeback.
, 1935-11-22

Diaboiism. or the Black Mass, was
the practice by organizations In the
middle centuries in Europe Of a form
Of worship which was the opposite
of the Christian worship, in that
the Devil was held as the Supreme
Being and orgies Of the most vio-
lent and obscene description took
place in his honor. During the 18TH
and 18TH centuries there was IN Eu-
rope also an outbreak OF rowdylsm
and bu%ffOonery connected with the
religious feaStS and holidays. In
France the Feast Of the ASS was n
travesty Of the Nativity and the
flight Of the Holy Family to Egypt.
Services were held in some OF the
churches in which a ribald conEre-
cation and mock priest conducted n
htany in which the responses consist
ed Of a series OF brays by the "wor-
shippers" The affair became so
s%candalous to decency that IL was
prohibited by law about 1900.
q. When II National Cotton Week?
j. A. I'd.
A. From May 6 to II.
, 1935-11-22
Relief Repaid

II Is probably true that the relief rolls contain the
names 81 many people who have not the slightest
sense Of gratitude to the taxpayers for keeping them
alive. But there are some relief clients who do have
a very lively realization Of what they owe their fellow
citizens. and it is heart-warming to read about them.
A Milwaukee woman, for instance, wrote to the
county board recently and asked permission to adopt
two dependent children. She related that she and
her husband had been on relief for a time and that
they felt indebted to the county.
Now her husband IS working, and she wants to pay
the debt by relieving the county Of the care Of a
couple Of orphans.
Here is a woman with a fine conception OF citizen
ship. It is a safe guess that any children adopted
BY her will 20 into a splendid home and viii grow up
to become useful, substantial men and women.