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Evening star., 1935-04-21
EGG-ROLLING CENTURIES AGO
TASTER egg rolling, now the
II sport of Washington's children
on the White House lawn, has
. venerable antiquity. In six

. venerable antiquity. In six
teenth century France, as
shown by wood cuts in books Of the
period, 1t was a game Of grown men.
This Is one Of the few ancient Easter
sports Monday ever has been
a day Of festivity throughout Chris
tendom-which has come down to the
present in any form. The sports in
France and England usually were
quite local.
The clearest account Of an ancient
egg rolling comes from County Down,
in Ireland, where 1t was known as q
"trundling." First eggs were hard
boiled and dyed different colors. The
sport Consists of throwing or trun-
ding them along the ground, es-
pecially down q declivity and gather
ing up the broken fragments to eat
them. It was usual for the women
and children to collect in large bodies
for this purpose. It is curious cir
cumstance that this sport Is prac-
ticed only by the Presbyterians.'
According to the same account OF
old Irish sports, ION Easter Monday
several hundreds Of young persons OF
the town gather dressed in their best,
the object being for the men to kiss
the women, without reserve, whether
married or single. This mode Of salu-
tation is quite q matter Of course. 1t
Is never taken amiss, nor with much
show of coyness. The female must be
very ordinary, indeed, who returns
home without having received at least
q dozen hearty kisses"
An Easter Monday sport which
seems to have been abandoned entirely
is that Of lifting" or "heaving."
Says the account in an old English
Book of Days: "On Easter Monday the
men lift the women and on Easter
Tuesday the women lift, or heave, the
men. The process Is performed by
two lusty men or girls joining their
hands across each others wrists; then,
making the person to be heaved sit
down on their arms, they lift him up
aloft two or three times and some
times carry him several yards along
street. Thus on Easter Monday Of
1890 several Of Queen Eleanora's
ladies unceremoniously invaded the
chamber of King Edward I and seiz-
ing their majestic master proceeded
to heave him In his chair until he was
glad to pay q fine Of II pounds to be
set at liberty"
Says q London newspaper Of 1857:
'The custom of rolling down Green
Wtch Hiu It Easter u q 1elic o8 old
Evening star., 1935-04-21
Horse Demand Seen.

DESPITE the fact that the number
of horses and mules used for work
purposes on farms is declining yearly.
there appears to be general feeling
that the demand may bring q revivai
of the use Of animals on the farms.
At any rate, there is a renewed IN
terest in the breeding of the animals.
On the lst of January there we're
11,827,000 horses in farm service. a
decrease over the preceding year of
10000, although that decrease was
materially less than the decrease the
year before.
Similarly, the mule population
showed a decrease Of 100000, down TO
a total of 4,795 900 head.
Experts in animal husbandry be-
heve, however, despite this trend that
the next few years will see a revival
of interest in work animals and that
this interest will create q demand
which may bring a much greater
animal population in the rural sections.
Evening star., 1935-04-21

Hart as president; w. ]. Kenderdine,
vice president; Edward T. Pettingill,
secretary and treasurer; william L.
Scribner, captain. and Herbert J.
Browne, lieutenant.
The Washington Cycle Club made its
appearance in 1885, when the officers
were: E. T. Pettengill, president; H.
H. Bliss, vice president; John H. Haw-
ley, secretary; William T. Fizer. treas
urer; F. w. Moulton, chronicler: l..
M. Kruger. captain: A. P. Crenshaw.
first lieutenant, and Lewis Flemer,
second lieutenant.
1t was this same year that the
League of American Wheelmen estab-
lished itself in Washington, with E.
T. Pettengill as chief consul; George
E. Emmons, representatives; j. c. v.
Smith, vice president; Lewis Flemer,
Evening star., 1935-04-21

Edison B. Olds, Henry w. Olds, DR..
E. B. .Olmsted, H. S. Owen. Francis
H. Parsons. Maurice Pechin, William
C. Prentiss, Charles F. Randall,
Charles D. Remsburg, C. E. Rice,
James @. Rice, ]. L. Ridgway, Otto
H. Rynex, Fred Schafhirt, DR.. Henry
M. Scholey, L. w. Seely, Percy L.
Seufferle. D. E. Sharretts, A. P. Smith,
George McC. Smith, Frank H. Ste
phens, Alexander S. Steuart, Samuel
T. Stott, Mont. Strickland, Thomas C..
Upton, Frederic w. Tower, Charles
c. Tyler, Edward r. Tyler. j. West
Wagner, T. H. Wentworth. jr.; Irving
Williamson. Ben F. wilkins, jr.: DR..
Lewes D. Wilson and H. B. Zevely.
RY 1884, another cycle club, called
- the Washington Bicycle Club,
made its appearance, with Amos A.
Evening star., 1935-04-21

Douglas Dyrenforth. Edward D. Eas-
ton, Howard o. Edmunds, c. r. Ed
monston, Joseph G. Falck, George E.
Fleming. Ed B. Forney. J. c. Fre-
mont, jr.:: Duan E. Fox, r. Won Glue
mer, Harry P. Goodwin, George H.
Graham, Benjamin S. Graves, Arthur
P. Greeley, William B. Greeley, Harry
w. Hamilton. Benjamin w. Hanna,
DR.. Charles M. B. Harris, Henry L.
Hayes, w. B. Hibbs, George r. Ide,
Frank E. Johnston, DR.. Gabriel F.
Johnston, Thomas j. Johnston, DR..
Edward s. Jones, Rudolph Kauff-
mann, William A. Kearon, George
Kennan, o. D. La Dow, r. v. La Dow,
DR.. Frank r. Lane, Joseph E. Leaning,
j. Hall Lewis, Samuel E. Lewis, J. r.
Littell, John T. Loomis, H. N. Low.
N. MacDaniel, Andrew J. Miller, T.
Pliny Moran, DR.. William F. Morsell,
Evening star., 1935-04-21
Huge Forest Purchases.

nURING March a million acres
were added to the national for
ests through purchase, This brings
to eight and a half million acres the
purchases Of the past "a months. a
Evening star., 1935-04-21

drill Arlington Hotel Vermont
between streets in 80s Top, Allen C.
District bicycle champion in 1897 right Washington
bicycles 1890 left Fred Schade in racing
The pedestrian caric 1919 invented by
Meridian Hill 1885.
when roughridg contest held by Washington cyclists Below
District competing bicycle Petersburg, Va Moran
striped sweater
Evening star., 1935-04-21

pERHAPS the father of all bicycles
was the Speed Maker" invented
by Baron Won Drais Of Mannheim,
on the Rhine, about 1916. Then, two
years later, came the Pedestrian Car
ricle," invented by Denis johnson of
England, and introduced into America
in 1919. But, we are told, Its popu-
larity waned as soon as Its novelty
wore OF, due to the physical effort
required to propel such cumber-
some machine, and It was not until
Evening star., 1935-11-27
STRIKE TIES UP
WORK ON ELEVATORS
Several New Buildings Affected.
Dispute Halts Group at
Archives.

The Elevator Constructors Union
has called out on strike about rs men
engaged in construction work on sew
eral buildings throughout the city, in
cluding the new Acacia Mutual Life
Insurance Building. as the climax to
a jurisdictional dispute with the Elec-
tricians' Union.
The dispute revolves around the
right to install certain signal devices
in elevators, both groups claiming the
work.
The only men on the job today
from the Constructors Union were
those engaged in maintenance or in
spection work.
Efforts are under way to settle
another strike of union labor on the
Archives Building, centering around a
dispute over which union group shall
install book stacks.
Howard T. Colvin, Labor Depart
ment conciliator, was in conference
today with union representatives and
contractors in an effort to solve the
dispute.
Evening star., 1935-11-27

Gas soon as I heard of the accident,
Mr.. Smallwood and went to the hos
pital and offered our blood. After we
waited a little while, they told us the
boy had died. God knows am sorry"
Young Smallwood quoted the older
lad saying after the stabbing:
I'm cut. Come on help me to the
hospital. shouldn't have been trying
to hurt you anyway" Then the in
jured youth staggered downstairs.
George H. Carter, a Capital Transit
Co. pit man, heard the youths cries,
and rushed him block or so away to
Georgetown Hospital. William died
shortly after admittance there.
Rayburn, red-haired and intelli-
gent looking. will appear before a
coroner's jury at an inquest set for
Friday at 1l:30 am.
The knifs was still missing today,
police said. Rayburn said he tossed
it away from him when he saw blood
on it.
"I could find it in the yard If they'd
let me look for it, I'm sure" he said.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
M'CAR[ RELEASES
S4OD,OD0 AID SUM
Sewing for $500 Women
and Lunches for Needy
Children Provided.

Operation Of sewing rooms for the
employment of about 2,5o0 women
now on relief rolls and the serving Of
free lunches for needy school chill
dren are insured with funds approved
yesterday by Controller General ]. r.
McCarl for six District work relief
projects.
McCarl ordered 100000 to be ad-
vanced immediately to the Commits
sioners to initiate the work, with au-
thority to draw upon the Treasury up
to $2,285, ,404 as funds are required to
carry on the work.
The allotment for the sewing rooms
was S1,960,645. while the school
lunches will entail an expenditure of
s167,006
Others Approved.
Other allotments were approved as
follows: S10,800 for continuance of
the students lodge of the Logan
Circle Relief; $51.256 for distribution
of surplus commodities; $4,000 for
improvement of the grounds for the
Home for the Aged and Infirm at
Blue Plains, and $72,697 for construc-
tion Of Fairgrounds and other i'm
provements at Glenn Dale, Md, the
Districts children's tuberculosis sani-
rorium.
The projects have all been approved
by President Roosevelt and with their
clearance by McCarl, nothing stands
in their way now.
The sewing rooms will take care of
nearly all women on relief rolls. They
will make and repair thousands of
garments for the needy of the city
and in this way help relieve the bur-
den now borne by various relief
agencies. While engaged in the work
the women will receive the stipulated
relief wages.
Employment for zoo.
Some 200 women also will be en-
ployed in connection with the serving
Of free school lunches. The funds
are sufficient, it was said, to provide
for this service during the remainder
of the school year. The women have
been working under temporary ar
rangements since the opening of the
school year, Commissioner George e.
Allen having started the lunch pro-
gram the week after the schools
opened.
It was important that milk and hot
food be served to hundreds Of NAL
nourished children as precaution
also against tuberculosis. The pro-
gram has the hearty approval of the
Board of Health.
AT Glenn Dale, in addition to play
grounds, a drainage system will be
installed and the grounds entirely
fenced. The funds for the students
lodge at Logan Circle, it was said, are
in lieu of relief contributions. Young
transients, living under conditions OF
are studying at the
relief station.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
Thanks for Peace to Mark
Services in City Tomorrow

America tomorrow gives thanks fol
peace at home and signs of returning
prosperity.
Government and business here will
be at a standstill. Churches generally
will hold Thanksgiving day services
Relief agencies have made special ar
rangements for cheer for those unfor-
tunates for whom the day otherwise
would mean only a scanty board.
Unlike the eve Of Christmas and
New Year, when half-holidays are the
accepted order in the Federal service.
there was no change generally in work.
ing hours today. though many EN-
ployes planned to take leave to get an
early start toward homes or elsewhere
to spend the day.
The question of half holiday was
put up to President Roosevelt at Warm
Springs yesterday, but he vetoed the
idea, emphasizing it was not customary
and he did not propose to set prece-
dent.
Unaware of this ban, Justice got
the afternoon off, but it was alone.
Rainy Day Forecast.
The weather outlook for tomorrow is
distinctly unfavorable, with rain and
colder forecast.
The church services will be city-wide.
At st. Patrick's will be the twenty
seventh annual Pan-American mass,
attended by representatives of this and
the other American governments.
The twenty-fourth Thanksgiving day
service of the Methodist Episcopal
churches will, as usual, be held in
Metropolitan Memorial, but for the first
time in the imposing new structure at
Nebraska and New Mexico avenues,
instead of the historic edifice in John
Marshall place.
Washington Cathedral will be the
scene of the principal Episcopal OBJ
servance, led by Right Rev. James e.
Freeman.
In some instances, churches of diff
ferent denominations are joining in
union services.
Mass to Begin at 1880.
In colorful setting of the flags Of
the 81 Pan-American nations, the
mass at ST. Patrick's will start at-10:30.
Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani, the apos-
tolic delegate, will pontificate.
After mass the governmental repre-
sentatives and other guests will be
entertained at lunch by Msgr. Cor
nelius r. Thomas, pastor of st. Pat
rick's. The usual schedule Of masses
will be followed at other Catholic
churches.
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, resi-
dent Bishop of Washington, will speak
at the Metropolitan Memorial service
at 1890 am, to which members Of
the cabinet and other Government
officials have been invitI-.
DR.. William Andrew Reese, the
newly installed minister, will be in
charge of the service, assisted by Rev.
DR.. Benjamin w. Meeks, District SUI
perintendent of the Washington dis
trict, and Rev. Joseph M. M. Gray,
chancellor Of American University.
Bishop Freeman to Speak.
The service of morning prayer, with
festival music, at which Bishop Free
man will speak, viii be held at Wash
ington Cathedral at II O'Clock. Thei
Evening star., 1935-11-27
Mattresses Oppose
Labor Pickets BY
March on Day Off
Complain, but
Girls Laugh and Keep
on Marching.

Labor union pickets In front Of an
Eleventh street restaurant met q new
form Of competition yesterday when
two mattresses joined the parade with
placards proclaiming their satisfaction
with employment under present wage
scales and working hours.
In sharp contrast to the pickets'
signs announcing: This restaurant is
unfair to organized labor" the an
nouncements exhibited by the girls
declared, This Is my day of. I am
l of 80 employed here. We are salts
fed"
Surprised labor agents flushed,
sputtered in protest and filed COM
plants with the District officials
claiming that the restaurant pro-
prietor was violating the law by allow
ing the mattresses to work in his In
terests on their day OF. The two
girls simply laughed and continued
their silent march to and fro. Spec.
tators paused, chuckled at the inno-
vation in anti-union tactics and
passed on.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
COL. ARTHUR HITCHCOCK
DIES IN MASSACHUSETTS
Infantry officer Began Service in
1917 in Reserve Corps-Was
Stationed at Boston.

Word has been received by the War
Department of the death of Lieut..
Col. Arthur B. Hitchcock, Infantry, at
Newton Center, Mass, last Saturday.
Funeral arrangements are to be an
nounced later.
Col. Hitchcock was born in Boston
on June ~, 1878. He entered the
Army as captain, Infantry section,
Officers' Reserve Corps, May 10, 1917,
and was placed on active duty.
He was promoted to major in the
National Army December 81, 1917, and
on July l, 1920, was appointed ma
jor of Infantry in the Regular Army
He was promoted to lieutenant colonel
August l., 1885. At the time of his
death Col. Hitchcock had been on
duty with the Gath Division, Organ
lied Reserves, at Boston. He was
graduated from the Command and
General Staff School, Boston, In 1925.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Marion H. Hitchcock of Newton
Center.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
Mothers Comfort Each Other
In Boys Stabbmg by Playmate
15.Year.Old Is Dead of
Wound Inflicted by
Friend, I3.
Tragedy Occurs in Try.
ing to RepuIse Attack,
Police Are Told.

Sobbing mothers of two young boys
involved in fatal tragedy when one
stabbed his companion comforted
each other this morning.
Fifteen-year-old William Suddath,
1921 Prospect avenue, is dead Of a
wound suffered when a neighborhood
playmate, Rayburn Smallwood, who
lived two houses away at 3617 Pros
pect avenue, plunged knife into his
chest.
In the reception room of the Re-
ceiving Home this morning young
Smallwood, dry-eyed but sad, said:
II had called william chew to-
bacco' earlier in the day and he was
trying to catch me for 1t. had a
board I had been cutting in one hand
and the penknife found that day in
the other. He rushed at me and hit
me. When tried to push him away
the knife stuck him."
Until late last night Mrs. Luther B
Smallwood, mother Of Rayburn, sat
UP with Mrs. Suddath. Ill with grippe
and weak at losing her son, who died
at Georgetown Hospital few minutes
after the stabbing. This morning Mrs.
Smallwood returned to sit with Mrs.
Suddath again.
What can they do to my boy?"
sobbed the distressed mother Of the
child held at the Receiving Home.
I'm afraid, because he's got heart
trouble. He couldn't have done it pur-
posely. He's such a good boy"
Rayburn ran to his mother last night
after the tragedy and clung to her
skirts as he cried:
Il didn't mean to cut him. He ran
into the blade as pushed him away
to keep him from hitting me-"
Weeping. Mrs. Smallwood said this
morning:
Evening star., 1935-11-27

Cathedral choir Of men and boys. d.
rected by Robert G. Barrow. will sins
the festival TIE Deum." written fol
King Georges jubilee by DR.. Mar
chant. organist and choirmaster Of st
Paul's Cathedral, London.
Holy communion will be celebrated
in Bethlehem Chapel at 7:30 am. anc
at $50 am, and evening prayer at 4
The Thanksgiving day offerings al
the Cathedral this year are being dis
tributed to needy unemployed by Rev
George w. Dow of the Episcopa
Church missions.
DR.. James Shera Montgomery
chaplain of the House, will preach al
the union service of Baptist churches
to be held at National Baptist Me.
mortal at 10:45. The offering of the
day will be for the Baptist Home in
Georgetown.
Hundreds Of poor will be fed by
charitable organizations, with roast
beef and pork the principal items on
the menus, accompanied by the usual
trimmings.
John S. Bennett, superintendent OF
Central Union Mission, 613 C street
expects 800 for dinner, starting at II
o'clock, and in addition to that the
mission is sending out $50 baskets to
families this afternoon.
An innovation will be broadcast OF
the dinner through VOL. Homer
Rodeheaver, for years with the late
Billy Sunday, will be in charge Of this
feature. For those not cared for at
dinner tomorrow, a dinner will be
served Friday at Jenner's Cafe, in the
Investment Building.
Bennett said today there had been
more calls for baskets than the mis-
sion could handle.
Volunteers to Feed Many.
Maj. H. M. Eroh, in charge Of the
Volunteers of America, expects to feed
from 1000 to $500 at dinner starting
at IL at All Pennsylvania avenue. The
Volunteers also are sending out more
than so baskets on what were called
extreme" cases. Where there are sick
in families, dinners are being sent to
them. Colored unfortunates are being
cared for by the Volunteers at Shiloh
Church, Ninth and p streets.
At the Gospel Mission, PA John
Marshall place, Harvey v. Prentice,
superintendent, said dinners would
be served to about 600 persons, start
ing at IL O'Clock. The Gospel Mis-
sion also has arranged some extras
for the 800 families who are its daily
charge. An innovation there this
year will be a Thanksgiving break
fast for the inmates who are in the
Mission over tonight.
The Salvation Army also provided
extras for approximately ITO families
for whom it is caring by adding some
thing to the regular checks this week.
At the District Jail the menu will
be roast pork, sweet potatoes, cram
berries, celery. apples, coffee and
bread. The population-4s4-is the
lowest in months, Supt. Rives said,
giving him something to be thank
full for.
The prisoners also will have visiting
hours both morning and afternoon.
For the sports-minded two foot ball
games are on tap, George Washington
playing North Dakota at Central Sta
dium and Catholic U. mixing with
North Carolina State at Griflth Sta
dunn. As usual, there will be racing
at Bowie.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
LAW REQUIREMENT
|SBOOSTED BY c. j.
College Degree Necessary
For Entrance After
September.

Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j., pres
ident of Georgetown University, to-
day announced that beginning next
September college degree will be re-
quired for admission to Georgetown
Law School.
Father O'Leary, at the formal ex-
ercises Of his installation as president
of the University last Saturday, de-
clared Georgetown is, and always has
been, committed to the advancement
of standards of education in all its
departments.
Moves Into Higher Class.
In abandoning its former two-year
pre-legal requirement, Georgetown
moves into the same class with Har-
ward, Yale, Northwestern, University
Of California, University of Pitts
burgh and the University of Penn
sylvania, the only colleges now re-
quiring a full college degree for ad-
mission to their law schools, accord
ing to the current Carnegie report.
Rev. Francis E. Lucey, S. j., regent
of the law school and professor of
jurisprudence, recommended that
graduation from college be required
for admission to the law school, and
this recommendation was unanimously
adopted at a meeting Of the law fac
ulty yesterday.
Some law schools require only q
high school diploma for admission,
while others admit students with two
or three years of college work or ad-
nit them with three years Of college
study to six-year combined course
in arts and law.
Georgetown Law School is men,
Der of the Association Of American
Law Schools, is approved by the Amer
ican Bar Association and Is listed as
an accredited law school by the New
York regents. No law school has a
higher official rating.
The group of schools approved by
these accrediting agencies includes
about IS of the 199 law schools in the
United States.
Under the rules of the Association
of American Law Schools, Georgetown
is permitted to enroll a limited num-
Der of special students, or those who
have less than two years Of college
work, but for the past seven or eight
years no such students have been en-
rolled. OF the $50 students enrolled
this year, two-thirds hold college de-
grees and lat colleges and universities
are represented in the student body by
graduates.
Building Renovated.
The entire Law School Building has
been completely renovated; the class
rooms and corridors have been paneled
in oak; additions have been made to
the law library, which now contains
over $1,000 volumes; new lighting fix
lures have been installed in the library,
and the school has added to its COL
lection of portraits and prints of
prominent alumni and other leading
judges and lawyers, including paint
irgs Of Chief Justice. Edward Douglas
White, Dean George E. Hamilton,
Justice Martin Morris, Ross Perry,
j. j. Darlington and others.
Established in 1870, the Law School
has trained many Of the post promi-
nent men in judicial and professional
life. There are over 1000 living
alumni in every section Of the country.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
Public Library Closes Tomorrow

Public Library Closes Tomorrow.
The central building and all
branches of the Public Library will be
closed all day Thanksgiving day. The
Library of Congress will be open to-
morrow from until 10 pm, the
holiday schedule.